{"id":18078,"date":"2010-08-05T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/unblogged-bits-thu-5-aug-10-2001.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:50:59","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-5-aug-10-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/unblogged-bits-thu-5-aug-10-2001.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 5-Aug-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. From the Budget Commission<\/a> – Well, there’s a shocker.<\/li>\n
  2. #188 Wedding Ceremonies of the Near Future<\/a> – Ha! And why the heck not?<\/li>\n
  3. Prop 8 Ruling Could Lead to Marrying Your Dog Or Horse; End Of Democracy, Warn Pastors<\/a> – “No longer do we have a right to \u2018discriminate\u2019 based on equal protection.” Well, he got that one correct.<\/li>\n
  4. Kate Conway: Beck and Stossel imagine rosy world of private military contractors with no civilian deaths<\/a> – I’ve rarely seen a more ludicrous discussion of how war (and soldiers) are actually handled than this one. No surprise that it’s Beck.<\/li>\n
  5. Keyes: Slavery Was All About Guaranteed Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Jobs<\/a> – Yes, who’d have thought those plantation owners were really socialists at heart?<\/li>\n
  6. Fischer: Prop 8 Ruling Proof That “Homosexuals Should be Disqualified From Public Office”<\/a> – “A man who ignores time-honored standards of sexual behavior simply cannot be trusted with the power of public office.” Well, that certainly rules out quite a few members of Congress, I should think.<\/li>\n
  7. The Supreme Court will now have three women justices.<\/a> – Congratulations, Justice Kagan.<\/li>\n
  8. Target CEO apologizes to employees for donating to anti-gay candidate Tom Emmer.<\/a> – Now, see, that’s an apology.<\/li>\n
  9. Sarah Pavlus: Another Prop 8 case smear: Plaintiffs’ experts are dubious because “many or most are in same-sex relationships”<\/a> – I hope someone is writing these down, since they serve as textbook cases of the Ad Hominem Attack.<\/li>\n
  10. Jocelyn Fong: Drudge again launches bizarre (and false) attack on Napolitano over body scans<\/a> – While I’m glad to hear that DHS\/TSA are not storing the images (though solely by policy, not through inability to do so), the question needs to be asked why the Marshals Service is, and what can be done about it.<\/li>\n
  11. If You’re All White in America<\/a> – I’m glad a lot of commentators are picking up on the “if he’s gay, he shouldn’t rule on gay stuff” nonsense.<\/li>\n
  12. Heads they win, tails you lose<\/a> – “In other words, ‘I’m willing to compromise with you, unless it means you getting some of what you want, in which case, forget it.'” Which is kind of how McConnell has been handling stuff already. How is it that the Right can scream about “the will of the Majority” in California, yet blithely ignore the will of the folks who voted in a majority of 59 Senators in Washington?<\/li>\n
  13. Props On Prop. 8 Decision: In His Marriage Ruling, Judge Properly Divorced Church And State \u00ab The Wall of Separation<\/a> – As Judge Walker put it: “Civil authorities may permit religious leaders to solemnize marriages but not to determine who may enter or leave a civil marriage. Religious leaders may determine independently whether to recognize a civil marriage or divorce but that recognition or lack thereof has no effect on the relationship under state law.” Seems pretty straightforward to me. We don’t require folks to marry in a church — why should religious doctrine (even that of the majority) define whether folks can get married at the courthouse?<\/li>\n
  14. ‘I Feel Like I Don’t Live In America:’ The Best Worst Prop 8 Reactions | TPMMuckraker<\/a> – Thinking homosexuality is immoral — I can understand that (though I disagree). Getting your panties in a twist because of gay marriage, though … I mean, really, THAT is the most awful thing giving you the vapors, or making it seem like you don’t “live in America” any more? REALLY?<\/li>\n
  15. Church Carnival Sets Up Shooter Game With Obama As Target | TPMMuckraker<\/a> – “We’re not interpreting it as Obama.” Wow — disrespectful, violent, AND a liar — that’s like a whole Wingnut trifecta!<\/li>\n
  16. Me against them > ninja<\/a> – Ninja with STYLE!<\/li>\n
  17. In California, thousands celebrate as Proposition 8 overturned – Episcopal Life Online<\/a> – Well, at least one denomination isn’t in mourning over Judge Vaughn’s decision (though, of course, the law’s constitutionality, or lack thereof, isn’t a matter that any church can or should try to assert on religious grounds).<\/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 …. From the Budget Commission – Well, there’s a shocker. #188 Wedding Ceremonies of the Near Future – Ha! And why the heck not? Prop 8 Ruling Could Lead to Marrying Your Dog Or Horse; End Of Democracy, Warn Pastors … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 5-Aug-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-18078","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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46622,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078\/revisions\/46622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}