{"id":17609,"date":"2010-06-12T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/unblogged-bits-sat-12-jun-10-2001.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:51:09","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-12-jun-10-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/unblogged-bits-sat-12-jun-10-2001.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 12-Jun-10 2001)"},"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. Frank commission gives deficit hawks a hand<\/a> – “There’s little reason for optimism on this front; far too many policymakers consider the Pentagon budget entirely off-limits, despite the fact that the United States now spends about as much on defense as every other country on the planet combined. For a Congress so concerned about deficits that it’s willing to let unemployment benefits expire for struggling families, it’s hardly outrageous to think some budget savings can be found in the enormous Pentagon budget.”<\/li>\n
  2. The ideological hitch to the GOP’s spill criticism<\/a> – “Conservatives are dissatisfied with the president’s actions to date, but what they tend to downplay is that they’d be even more dissatisfied with the kind of steps that would have prevented the disaster in the first place.”<\/li>\n
  3. Iceland Legalizes Gay Marriage<\/a> – See?! God struck down the Icelanders for this AFFONT by ruining their economy IN ADVANCE of their sins! Repent! Repent!<\/li>\n
  4. An adobe photo-shop<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  5. Study: Overwhelming Number Of Kids’ Drinks & Snacks Contain Lead<\/a> – wow. That’s … disturbing. Of course, I expect Vehement Protest from the Industry if the FDA tries to actually do anything about it.<\/li>\n
  6. FDA Cracking Down on DNA-Test Providers<\/a> – I find it remarkable that this hadn’t happened previou — oh, right. Bush Administration and it’s “The Free Market will let consumers decide whether they are getting accurate results from their DNA Test Providers and choose a different one accordingly, while letting all companies profit massively, huzzah!”<\/li>\n
  7. Animatronic bed of 1883 features winking bronze statues of women<\/a> – It’s good to be the king.<\/li>\n
  8. Days After BP Denies Blocking The Media From Covering The Spill, Reporter Is Harrassed On A Public Beach<\/a> – BP, let’s be honest with each other — you really can only dig your PR hole so deep before the entire company implodes (or you have to rename your company — hey, it worked for Philip Morris!).<\/li>\n
  9. 10 Cases of Appropriate Technology<\/a> – These are all very cool. Innovations like these — and support for their purchase and promulgation — are the sort of things that can make real differences in lives.<\/li>\n
  10. BP and Revenge of the NerdsExperts [Mike the Mad Biologist]<\/a> – “BP Blow-out \/ Belted by Gamma Rays …”<\/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 …. Frank commission gives deficit hawks a hand – “There’s little reason for optimism on this front; far too many policymakers consider the Pentagon budget entirely off-limits, despite the fact that the United States now spends about as much on … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 12-Jun-10 2001)”<\/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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41178,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/reducing-the-us-military-budget-inconceivable.html","url_meta":{"origin":17609,"position":0},"title":"Reducing the US military budget? 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