{"id":17058,"date":"2010-04-07T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-wed-7-apr-2010-800pm.html"},"modified":"2010-04-07T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:00:45","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wed-7-apr-2010-800pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-wed-7-apr-2010-800pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wed, 7 Apr 2010, 8:00PM"},"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. Both Mississippi And Georgia Have Confederate History Proclamations Without Any Mention of Slavery<\/a> – To assert that the Civil War was not primarily about slavery — and the right of the federal government to restrict states from holding slaves (so, yes, there was a states rights dimension to it) would be laughable were not not so vile. That we still have states officially proclaiming heritage months in memory and admiration of a regime found explicitly to protect the (slave-holding) property rights of the states founded it is disgusting.<\/li>\n
  2. The death of a maverick: John McCain backtracks on nuclear policy.<\/a> – Shameless. Is there any issue McCain hasn’t backtracked on in the last year?<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cUp from Slavery\u201d: Eugene Volokh<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. But you’d think they’d be proud! [Pharyngula]<\/a> – Transparency is important. Those who are involved with the public but resist transparency as to how should not be surprised when people wonder what they’re hiding, and why.<\/li>\n
  5. Confederate ‘Heritage’ and the Suppression of Truth: Bob Mackey<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. WI Prosecutor Threatens Teachers With Arrest If They Follow State’s New Sex Ed Curriculum<\/a> – Someone’s off his meds again …<\/li>\n
  7. In The Cycle Of Violence, The Right Only Cares About The Christian Victims<\/a> – Money grafs: “It would make sense of Donohue and others were hosting a rally calling for an end to the cycle of religious violence that has killed thousands of people over the last decade. But that is not what they are doing; they are merely protesting the violence against Christians. Apparently, the related slaughter of Muslims by Christians is perfectly okay.”<\/li>\n
  8. Don Blankenship\u2019s Record Of Profits Over Safety: \u2018Coal Pays The Bills\u2019<\/a> – There is so much WRONG here, it’s hard to know where to begin. From callous disregard of human lives in favor of profit, to cronyism and corruption of government regulation in favor of political contributions, this tale is dirtier than one of Blankenship’s coal mines.<\/li>\n
  9. Conservatives Falsely Claim New Obama Nuke Policy Prevents Nuclear Retaliation Against Chem\/Bio Attack<\/a> – Not only is the accusation false, but, as Gibbs pointed out the other day, it’s not like we don’t have pretty damned devastating conventional weaponry to strike back with, even if we declined to use nukes in a particular circumstance.<\/li>\n
  10. The New \u2018Death Panels\u2019: Gingrich Says GOP Should Campaign Against Nonexistent IRS \u2018Health Gestapo\u2019<\/a> – It’s the Big Lie, Part XLVII! Thanks, Newt!<\/li>\n
  11. My Way News – Military can’t find its copy of Iraq killing video<\/a> – What, their damned dog ate it? Jeez.<\/li>\n
  12. McDonnell: Slavery Wasn\u2019t \u2018Significant\u2019 Enough To Be Included In My Proclamation Honoring The Confederacy<\/a> – Yeah, I guess we know which voters McDonnell considers “significant” enough, too.<\/li>\n
  13. Lost Time Does Not Equal Lost Lives<\/a> – So you claim that you’re virtuous because, despite a slew of safety violations and fines, fewer hours of work have been “lost” due to workplace injuries than “most companies”? Wow — that’s positively Christ-like.<\/li>\n
  14. Portland Catholics Mostly Ignore Archbishop\u2019s Demand They Cancel Newspaper Subscriptions<\/a> – Keep trying, Archbishop, to remember who are the real victims here.<\/li>\n
  15. Vanishing history at Arlington Cemetery – Arlington National Cemetery Investigation – Salon.com<\/a> – Scandalous.<\/li>\n
  16. Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com<\/a> – It’s clear that, in the arena of homeland security, Obama and his administration are no better than Bush et al. were. This is simply wrong.<\/li>\n
  17. Find the latest WordPress hack<\/a> – For my MySQL I had to tweak the punctuation (and get rid of some curly quotes): [[SELECT * FROM wp_options where option_name like “rss%” ORDER BY ‘wp_options’, ‘option_name’ ASC]]. Regardless, all’s clear so far.<\/li>\n
  18. Publishers + Ebooks = Epic Fail : A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing<\/a> – The market continues to change. What publishers will change with it and potentially survive the next few decades?<\/li>\n
  19. AskOxford: Frequently Asked Questions<\/a> – FAQs from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary. Cool!<\/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 …. Both Mississippi And Georgia Have Confederate History Proclamations Without Any Mention of Slavery – To assert that the Civil War was not primarily about slavery — and the right of the federal government to restrict states from holding slaves … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Wed, 7 Apr 2010, 8:00PM”<\/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-17058","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":135590,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/post-1791-constitutional-amendments-just-ruining-country.html","url_meta":{"origin":17058,"position":0},"title":"All those post-1791 constitutional amendments are just ruining this country","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Dec-17 11:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And in another fun bit of Roy Moore trivia, in a 2011 appearance on a whackadoodle conservative radio show, he opined that getting rid of all those amendments to the Constitution beyond the first Ten would \"eliminate many problems.\" His spokesfolk have come out and declared that, no, he really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/roy-moore-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21159,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/09\/david-barton-is-a-dolt-unfounded-fathers-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":17058,"position":1},"title":"David Barton is a Dolt (Unfounded Fathers Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Jun-11 2:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Right Wing Watch highlights two bits of historic revisionism by pseudo-historian preacher David Barton, in which he informs us (a) the Founding Fathers were all anti-evolution, and (b) the Founding Fathers were so anti-slavery that was the reason they declared independence. 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