{"id":17270,"date":"2010-05-04T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/unblogged-bits-tue-4-may-10-1400.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:16:26","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-4-may-10-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/unblogged-bits-tue-4-may-10-1400.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 4-May-10 1400)"},"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. Maybe Aang Was the Second-to-Last Airbender<\/a> – Holy … wow. I don’t know whether to be appalled, or ecstatic. A lot depends on who the underlying creative team is.<\/li>\n
  2. Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition: Miss Cellania<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Conservatives Want To Deny U.S. Citizen Faisal Shahzad Miranda Rights, Ensuring He Won\u2019t Be Convicted<\/a> – Oh, Good Lord — I actually agree with something Glenn Beck had to say? Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  4. LU Cancels Classes for Lynchburg City Council Election<\/a> – Have to wonder what the Right would say if it were, say, a union calling a work stoppage to bus everyone to the local polls.<\/li>\n
  5. Quote of the Day<\/a> – I realize the “law & order” types have never been fond of the Miranda ruling (rubber hoses and the third degree, anyone?), but the current harping that nobody accused of terror — or at least nobody “foreign” (even if a US citizen) — should be Mirandized because it’s more important to just beat the truth out of ’em and then shove ’em before a firing squad, rather than shilly-shally about with “rights” and “trials” seems particularly despicable (and, may I say, anti-American).<\/li>\n
  6. DORK TOWER, Monday, May 3, 2010<\/a> – Oh, Lord — how this describes so many games I have been in. (It’s not necessarily a bad thing, unless you’re looking to actually get gaming<\/b> done ….)<\/li>\n
  7. AFA’s Fischer: Any Muslim Unwilling to Renounce Islam Ought to be Denied Entry to the US<\/a> – I think a look at crime statistics in the US, as well as a review of Western history, will indicate that Christians are guilty of most murders. I think we should force all Christians to renounce their religion or face deportation. (Just kidding, of course, but, yeesh.)<\/li>\n
  8. The United and Continental Airline Mashup<\/a> – What I note most about the (ugly) logo change is that it finally drops any of the “United [States]” red-white-and-blue imagery. Which may well make sense from a global standpoint, but is still sort of sad. As well as (as noted) ugly.<\/li>\n
  9. Captcha Advertising<\/a> – I’m appalled, but I have to applaud the guy who came up with the concept.<\/li>\n
  10. Cuccinelli ditches censored lapel pins, blames the media for making them a \u2018distraction.\u2019: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. SBOE dare not say his name: \u201cObama\u201d<\/a> – Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  12. Right on cue, McCain starts complaining<\/a> – So is McCain’s standard now that folks who are likely to face capital crimes should not be Mirandized until they’ve been compelled to state everything they know. Is he actually listening to his own words? Jeez — what lessons did he really learn from the North Vietnamese?<\/li>\n
  13. The GOP’s emergency-room argument lives<\/a> – Money graf: “Sue Lowden’s campaign and its Republican brethren oppose health care reform, but they’ve endorsed the most inefficient system of socialized medicine ever devised.”<\/li>\n
  14. Report: FBI Opens Criminal Probe Of Massey Energy | TPMMuckraker<\/a> – Good. Nice to see some investigation into (if not, yet, accountability for) this sort of tragedy.<\/li>\n
  15. Wash. Nuns Investigated By Vatican<\/a> – Investigated for sexual abuse? Nah. Investigated for “feminism and activism.” Glad the Vatican has its priorities straight.<\/li>\n
  16. US citizen from Pakistan nabbed on Dubai-bound plane in Times Square case, to appear in court – chicagotribune.com<\/a> – Okay, now<\/b> we’re in a relatively informed place to start talking about this case (on the presumption that the Feds have the right guy).<\/li>\n
  17. The American Family\u2019s Financial Turmoil |<\/a> – Scary Infographic. And, yes, I’m doing better than “average,” but it worries me a lot, as a society and an economy, that this is what the “average” is.<\/li>\n
  18. Is Walt Disney World feeling nervous about the arrival of Harry Potter?<\/a> – I agree. While it may impact some folks going exclusively to WDW, if it draws additional visitors to Orlando it’s likely to add some attendees to WDW, too.<\/li>\n
  19. AT&T asks government to create national censorwall and system for disconnecting accused infringers<\/a> – Oh, that pesky “civil trial” stuff — I mean, if we can bypass it for terrorists, why not bypass it for important<\/b> stuff, like people who download a song they don’t actually own?<\/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 …. Maybe Aang Was the Second-to-Last Airbender – Holy … wow. I don’t know whether to be appalled, or ecstatic. A lot depends on who the underlying creative team is. Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition: Miss … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 4-May-10 1400)”<\/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":"","_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":[529,3,350,80,263,528,77,81,63,22,527,134,20,17,79,16,378,110,347,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatarairbenderkorra","category-blogging","category-civil-liberties","category-media-commercial","category-disney","category-economic-justice","category-economy","category-elections-2010","category-environment","category-gaming","category-harry-potter","category-health-care","category-hi-tech","category-homeland-security","category-media-intellectual-property","category-potpourri","category-intolerance-persecution","category-religious-zanies","category-voting-rights","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137211,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/do-we-actually-need-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html","url_meta":{"origin":17270,"position":0},"title":"Do we actually NEED a live-action "Avatar: The Last Airbender"?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Sep-18 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not so far as I can tell. 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