{"id":16805,"date":"2010-02-25T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-25-feb-2010-548pm.html"},"modified":"2010-02-25T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:48:16","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thu-25-feb-2010-548pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-25-feb-2010-548pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thu, 25 Feb 2010, 5:48PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Parsing the meaning of the word ‘major’<\/a> – But if the GOP acknowledges that its idea are actually in the plan, then, somehow, the Democrats WIN … which is intolerable.<\/li>\n
  2. Opposing the ideas they support<\/a> – Because it’s not about idea, silly man — it’s about WINNING.<\/li>\n
  3. When Defending Lisa Miller, Facts Are Unnecessary<\/a> – Never let the facts interfere with the ideological point you want to hammer home!<\/li>\n
  4. Fischer: Sea World Death Due To West’s Failure to Follow Scripture<\/a> – Yeah — does Mr Fischer REALLY want to go back to a legal code in Exodus and Deuteronomy? REALLY?<\/li>\n
  5. Bob Marshall Doubles Down, Insisting He Never Said Exactly What He Said: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. How Can I Push You From Lurker To Participant?<\/a> – I wouldn’t mind more commenters on my blog by any means, but I enjoy the ones I do get.<\/li>\n
  7. Team USA Hockey GM honors his late gay son Brendan’s memory by becoming a gay rights advocate<\/a> – Good for him. Hopefully it will cause some changes in hockey, if not other pro sports.<\/li>\n
  8. NewsDaily: World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists<\/a> – But remember – it snowed on some Congressman somewhere, so it’s all a fake.<\/li>\n
  9. Newt Gingrich should not be allowed in polite company [Thoughts from Kansas]<\/a> – WHAT?! That is the most bat-shit insane thing I’ve read all day! (The racist imagery Newt “accidentally” uses in the full quote is just icing on the cake.)<\/li>\n
  10. Healthcare summit in a ‘toxic’ setting (OneNewsNow.com)<\/a> – (Snort.)<\/li>\n
  11. Obama\u2019s spiritual life takes more private turn – The Boston Globe<\/a> – It’s not clear to me why lack of overt, showy spirituality on Obama’s part should be anyone’s concern. Indeed, isn’t private spirituality that just the kind of praying that Jesus suggested (Matt. 6:5-8)?<\/li>\n
  12. Air Force Academy chaplain convinces Catholic League to end call for probe – The Denver Post<\/a> – I don’t think there was even the semblance of the need for an apology or reassurrance here. I guarantee that if someone left some sort of pagan (or Muslim, or Buddhist, or …) holy symbol or artifact in the AFA chapel, Donohue would be the first to be calling for some sort of investigation into the intolerance and anti-Christian harassment it represented.<\/li>\n
  13. A Short Play About This Poor Fool Doing Crunches<\/a> – The completely oblivious cat is the truly funny part of this.<\/li>\n
  14. GM brand of hulking SUVs faces fading into history after sale to Chinese company collapses – chicagotribune.com<\/a> – I will shed no tears.<\/li>\n
  15. HCR Summit: The Republican Reconciliation Gambit<\/a> – Already, “reconciliation” is being added to the GOP Buzz Words of Terror, along with “socialism,” “liberal,” and “ACORN.” Even though they are liars and hypocrites in doing so.<\/li>\n
  16. Frank Gaffney Posits That Missile Defense Logo Is Evidence of Obama\u2019s \u2018Submission To Shariah\u2019<\/a> – Money graf: “So according to Gaffney, Obama hates missile defense so much that he wants to change the Missile Defense Agency\u2019s logo to reflect his campaign symbol, as well as his secret Muslim identity?”<\/li>\n
  17. The Missile Defense Agency Logo Conspiracy Theory<\/a> – A nice take-down of the whole kerfuffle (esp. the note that it was introduced as far back as 2008). People are just seeing things that aren’t there (but that they want to be).<\/li>\n
  18. Denver parking meters get a new look – The Denver Post<\/a> – Noticed these the other day. Will make parking much more convenient, rather than fishing for quarters.<\/li>\n
  19. When Democrats take power, paranoia blooms – Salon.com<\/a> – Yes, in many ways the invective and paranoia and conspiracies from the Right remind me of the Clinton era’s UN Black Helicopters and slave labor camps built under Denver International Airport. Yeah, the Left can be paranoid when the GOP is in power (how many people did I read earnestly predicting that each of the elections from 2002-2008 was going to be called off by a declaration of martial law from the White House), but their response tends to be political activism, aburdly large puppets, and talk of moving to Canada. On the Right, it’s about stockpiling guns and revolution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Parsing the meaning of the word ‘major’ – But if the GOP acknowledges that its idea are actually in the plan, then, somehow, the Democrats WIN … which is intolerable. Opposing the ideas they support – Because it’s not … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Thu, 25 Feb 2010, 5:48PM”<\/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-16805","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":136307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/the-facts-of-the-facts-of-life.html","url_meta":{"origin":16805,"position":0},"title":"The Facts of the “Facts of Life”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-May-18 9:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18965459\/status\/993668935609298944 @mental_floss My favorite fact is that the front of the school in the FoL main titles was my college dorm (Harwood Court at @pomonacollege). https:\/\/t.co\/XL0MXh0tk9","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/facts-of-life-harwood.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22002,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/06\/book-review-the-facts-in-the-case-of-the-departure-of-miss-finch-by-neil-gaiman-and-michael-zulli.html","url_meta":{"origin":16805,"position":1},"title":"Book Review: “The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch” by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Aug-11 12:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch by Neil Gaiman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Adaptation of a bit of atmospheric trifle by Gaiman, abetted (though not as well as he could be) by Michael Zulli on the art. 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