{"id":16645,"date":"2010-02-02T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-february-2010.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:03:56","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-february-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 02 February 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2010\/02\/when-the-power-runs-out-well-just-hide.html\">When the Power Runs Out, We&#8217;ll Just Hide<\/a> &#8211; My sole regret about this is for the few folks  I know who are down in the Springs.  The rest can go live in their happy libertarian Mad Max reality &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/02\/funding-lgbt-dc\/\">All the funding for anti-marriage equality campaign in the nation\u2019s capital  came from outside of D.C.<\/a> &#8211; Speaking of a &#8220;sinister agenda by outsiders trying to subvert the democratic process&#8221; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/HzG0tnr6Jys\/same-sex-marriage-is.html\">Same-sex marriage is bad, but Prop 8 lawyers don&#8217;t know why<\/a> &#8211; The excerpts are hysterical.  &#8220;This will happen! And this will happen! And then, maybe this!&#8221; &#8220;And that is bad because &#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Um &#8230; well &#8230; I can&#8217;t really say.&#8221;  The problem being that the argument against gay marriage is fundamentally a religious one, but you can&#8217;t argue Scriptural commandments in Court.  Thank Heaven.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/ARBzv10tOyY\/wade-davis-on-voodoo.html\">Wade Davis on voodoo, the Haiti quake, and Pat Robertson: David Pescovitz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/02\/conservatives-fearmonger-dadt\/\">Conservatives Fearmonger About Repealing DADT: It Will Lead To The Draft And  \u2018Mortally\u2019 Wound The Military<\/a> &#8211; Oh no!  Not BODY ART!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/scott-brown-may-be-another-arlene-specter\">&#8220;Scott Brown May Be Another Arlene [sic] Specter&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s hard to take too seriously the political acumen of someone who not only misspells Arlen Specter, but calls the previous Massachusetts senator &#8220;Joe Kennedy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/02\/adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-defends-flash\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29\">Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Defends Flash, Warns HTML5 Will Throw The Web \u201cBack To The Dark Ages Of Video\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Flash is an abomination and must be destroyed. [\/rant]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/holykaw.alltop.com\/rip-g-strings-and-thongs?\">R.I.P. G-strings and thongs &#8211; Holy Kaw!<\/a> &#8211; Yay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-one3.htm\">World Wide Words: One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb<\/a> &#8211; I love English.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/dkos-poll-shows-overwhelming-republican-opposition-gay-rights\">DKos Poll Shows Overwhelming Republican Opposition to Gay Rights<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  This is pretty discouraging.  Assuming it&#8217;s a representative sample, I&#8217;m appalled.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/poll-finds-dropping-health-care-plan-doesnt-help-dems-so-pass-the-bill\/\">Poll Finds Dropping Health Care Plan Doesn\u2019t Help Dems. So Pass The Bill!<\/a> &#8211; If the only reason the Dems aren&#8217;t doing this is because of (feh) fear, then, yeah, they might as well be hung for sheep as for lambs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/02\/mullen-dadt-2\/\">Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen: \u2018It is my personal belief\u2019 that  repealing DADT is \u2018the right thing to do.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; But why let doing what&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221; get in the way of fearmongering and bombast from the &#8220;Right&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pfaw.org\/content\/what-moderates\">What Moderates?<\/a> &#8211; There may be moderates in the GOP.  The GOP leadership, however, controls the caucus with an iron grip, and it has no interest in moderation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoikeafans.com\/2010\/02\/ikea-store-near-denver-colorado-construction-update-for-2010.html\/\">Ikea store near Denver, Colorado \u2013 Construction update for 2010 : Colorado IKEA Fans<\/a> &#8211; Neither good news nor bad news, but probably no Ikea shopping this year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/nfl-owns-who-dat.html\">NFL Claims To Own &#8220;Who Dat,&#8221; Pisses Off New Orleans<\/a> &#8211; Yeesh.  Good luck, too, NFL, in trying to claim that the fleur-de-lis is trademark of the NFL and the Saints.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news184310039.html\">Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s hype-eriffic, but if even half this stuff is true, it&#8217;s going to be big.  Though I have to wonder if adding silica\/glass particles\/dust to the atmosphere during its wearing away doesn&#8217;t have some potential health risks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/1979semifinalist.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/01\/lets-cast-the-walking-dead\/\">Let\u2019s Cast The Walking Dead!<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t know enough of the other actors to argue one way or the other, but Fillion would be fantastic (and it would be a great chance to demonstrate his tormented\/driven side again).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/01\/the-myth-of-the-permanent_n_444817.html\">The Myth Of The &#8216;Permanent Bailout Fund&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; Money quote: &#8220;the Republican strategy &#8216;is to lie through their teeth.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/terrorism\/white-house-all-gitmo-recividists-were-released-under-bush\/\">White House: All Gitmo Detainees Who Joined Extremist Activity Released  Under Bush<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll also note that the term &#8220;recidivist activity&#8221; implies that they were actually all proven terrorists \/ insurgents before they were sent to Gitmo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/02\/demint-demeo\/\">DeMint Blocks A Wise Lesbian Latina From Serving On The D.C. 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The rest can go live in their happy libertarian Mad Max reality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-february-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 02 February 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24019,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/the-marriage-equality-conspiracy-revealed.html","url_meta":{"origin":16645,"position":0},"title":"The Marriage Equality Conspiracy Revealed!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Nov-11 10:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, marriage equality is all a great conspiracy ... but not by all those gay men you see marching around out there in their leather and rainbow flags, but by the National Organization of Women who will establish \"feminist marriages\" where women will marry each other for tax breaks while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14417,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/marriage-equality-in-sweden-neither-fire-nor-brimstone-sighted.html","url_meta":{"origin":16645,"position":1},"title":"Marriage Equality in Sweden &#8212; neither fire nor brimstone sighted","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Apr-09 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nor earthquakes, pillars of fire, hails of frogs, nor any of the other dire warnings of what happens when God's Will is Thwarted. 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