{"id":16860,"date":"2010-03-07T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T00:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-7-mar-2010-705pm.html"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T00:05:47","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sun-7-mar-2010-705pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-7-mar-2010-705pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sun, 7 Mar 2010, 7:05PM"},"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. Obama’s subtle message to congressional Dems<\/a> – It’s not too subtle if they have ears to hear it. In fact, it’s just the message they should be welcoming.<\/li>\n
  2. Mitt Romney Claims That President Obama\u2019s Words \u2018Support\u2019 911 Truthers Abroad<\/a> – Don’t let the facts get in the way of your truth, Mitt.<\/li>\n
  3. Humanist Arrested for Anti-Islam Book : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> – The faint echoes from folks in this country who claim that criticism of Christianity is offensive, hateful, and violates their<\/b> freedom of religion, is a bit chilling. The difference between democracy and freedom is what restraints the democracy is willing to put on itself in order to assure the freedom of the minority against the tyranny of the majority. Which tyranny, in India, is here demonstrated.<\/li>\n
  4. SWAT Team Serves Drug Warrant : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> – Money quote: “So smoking pot = ‘child endangerment.’ Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone’s safety.”<\/li>\n
  5. ‘What kind of man is Parker Griffith?’<\/a> – The GOP continues to find new depths to sink as the party of opportunistic hypocrisy. The word almost loses meaning, so often is it applicable to their shenanigans.<\/li>\n
  6. Gregg completes the transition to buffoon<\/a> – The Constitution, of course, says nothing about a super-majority, saying only that a majority of the Senate constitutes a quorum. The rules regarding a super-majority are solely internal to the Senate, not defined by law. The first filibuster in the Senate didn’t occur until 1837; rules for cloture votes were set up in 1917. The House had the same problem, but wisely set up rules to limit debate in 1842.<\/li>\n
  7. Abortion and the Catholic Church: Randall Terry Leads Delegation to Vatican from March 17-24 – Christian Newswire<\/a> – It will be interesting to see who, if anyone, at the Vatican agrees to meet with Terry. And, if they do, whether the Vatican will appreciate being pushed in this fashion.<\/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 …. Obama’s subtle message to congressional Dems – It’s not too subtle if they have ears to hear it. In fact, it’s just the message they should be welcoming. Mitt Romney Claims That President Obama\u2019s Words \u2018Support\u2019 911 Truthers Abroad … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Sun, 7 Mar 2010, 7:05PM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-16860","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":26160,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/mitt-romney-hypocrite-or-political-hack.html","url_meta":{"origin":16860,"position":0},"title":"Mitt Romney: Hypocrite, or Political Hack?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Feb-12 2:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Or maybe just both.Somehow this stirring, noble, profound insurance \/ birth control \/ religious freedom cause didn't bug him at all a decade ago when he was running for, and then serving as governor of Massachusetts. 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