{"id":16792,"date":"2010-02-23T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-feb-2010-700pm.html"},"modified":"2010-02-23T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T00:00:59","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-feb-2010-700pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-feb-2010-700pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tue, 23 Feb 2010,  7:00PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/_Qa1K77Pu_A\/idUSTRE61M6LW20100223\">Pentagon to lift ban on women in submarines | Reuters<\/a> &#8211; But teh Gayz are far too scary.  YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHEN THEY ARE PEEKING LUSTFULLY AT YOU!! Eek!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/6lHJkadzW_s\/\">Kim Jong-il&#8217;s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. &#8211; By Christopher Hitchens &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Morlocks &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/W-XTOcijnK8\/022552.php\">What Roberts knew and when he knew it<\/a> &#8211; That there was complicity in Congress (mostly GOP, but including some Dems in some occasions) with Bush&#8217;s tactics has been patently obvious.  Here are signs of a particularly foul smoking gun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/49C-JsYF2TM\/022549.php\">Quote of the Day<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;Reid&#8217;s remarks today, then, were a reminder for reporters who may have forgotten &#8212; Republicans have used reconciliation plenty of times, on plenty of bills. GOP officials who whine about this should, at a minimum, be asked why Dems can&#8217;t use the same legislative tools Republicans have used.&#8221;  Just wait until the GOP one day reassumes the majority in the Senate and the Dems threaten a filibuster &#8212; you&#8217;ll think the sky is falling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/54dEbbb5Fs8\/022543.php\">Steele&#8217;s champagne wishes and caviar dreams<\/a> &#8211; Actually, sounds like he exemplifies the Grand Old Party just fine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/7hnBm4ZdhIM\/move-along-nothing-see-here\">Move Along, Nothing To See Here<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;It seems that even Gary Bauer doesn&#8217;t seem to know what to make of the fact that the conservative movement appears as if it is being taken over by right-wing fringe activists.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/-L553QkevGc\/conservatives-sounding-lot-like.html\">Conservatives, sounding a lot like Teabaggers, turn venomous on Scott Brown over his vote for Jobs bill<\/a> &#8211; The hatred is palpable, and unnerving.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/guyAEklMvcQ\/ci_5447358\">Coloradan or Coloradoan? &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a> &#8211; Huh.  Having first lived in the state in Ft Collins, I&#8217;ve always preferred &#8220;-oan,&#8221; but I guess now I know better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/8YsB1RHUFnk\/ci_14451599\">Greene: Wyoming school district bans Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s anti-hate banners &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a> &#8211; Apparently the school board thinks it <b>is<\/b> &#8220;a place to hate.&#8221; &#8220;We don&#8217;t need people coming in here promoting premarital sex, extramarital sex, and all other kinds of belief systems.&#8221;  Right.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Pentagon to lift ban on women in submarines | Reuters &#8211; But teh Gayz are far too scary. YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHEN THEY ARE PEEKING LUSTFULLY AT YOU!! Eek! Kim Jong-il&#8217;s regime is even weirder and more despicable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-feb-2010-700pm.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tue, 23 Feb 2010,  7:00PM&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7104,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/parts_is_parts.html","url_meta":{"origin":16792,"position":0},"title":"Parts is parts","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Oct-04 9:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I found it amusing, as we were watching The Mirror Crack'd this evening, that I knew him as Blofeld, and Margie knew him as The Criminologist. 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