{"id":19300,"date":"2010-11-22T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/unblogged-bits-mon-22-nov-10-1631.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:37:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-22-nov-10-1631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/unblogged-bits-mon-22-nov-10-1631.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 22-Nov-10 1631)"},"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. New parking near DIA aims to be the “greenest” – The Denver Post<\/a> – I need to make a note about some of the private DIA lots.<\/li>\n
  2. Rush to Judgment – Motor Trend Blog<\/a> – A lovely response from Motor Trend to Rush Limbaugh in response to his hack criticism of their naming the Chevy Volt Car of the Year.<\/li>\n
  3. The Plum Line – Bombing victims’ families support decision to try Ghailani in civilian court, spox says<\/a> – What?! Who let them in the room?! They’re messing up our punditification!<\/li>\n
  4. Gingrich Lies About Torture In Call For Holder’s Resignation | Political Correction<\/a> – “Gingrich is not merely ignoring the record (his own, as well as judicial precedents and the history of stronger sentences from civilian courts than from tribunals). He’s also ignoring the official Manual for Military Commissions, Rule 304 of which rules inadmissible any evidence gained through torture.” Of course, that doesn’t matter, because rhetorically the answer from the Right is: “They should just be locked up forever — if not just shot — because We Know They’re Bad Guys and that whole ‘due process’ thing is for wusses.”<\/li>\n
  5. Siding with ‘foreign central banks’<\/a> – It’s remarkable how, all of a sudden, the GOP is arguing that we should be obeying China and Germany, rather than thumbing our noses at them.<\/li>\n
  6. Barber: Religious Right Are The Only “Complete Conservatives”<\/a> – Actually, what’s interesting here is the “three legged stool” test for conservatives: fiscal, social, and<\/b> “defense.” It’s an interesting reaction from the ideas floated that if we have to cut the budget, the defense budget needs to be a part of that.<\/li>\n
  7. Radiation and the TSA\u2019s Body Scanners: Chris<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. It’s really happening: Warner Brothers reboots Buffy The Vampire Slayer without Joss Whedon<\/a> – Well … that’s going to over like a lead balloon amongst Buffy fans … unless there’s something VERY different about it (in which case, using the Buffy label is simply a way to jump-start interest). Feh.<\/li>\n
  9. Gregg Laughs At The \u2018Absurd\u2019 Notion Of Using CBO Calculations, After Urging People To Use CBO Calculations<\/a> – Perhaps, along with the ethics office, the GOP would like to shut down the CBO, so they can make up whatever numbers they want.<\/li>\n
  10. Two sponsors, one debate, no candidates, and plenty of complaints<\/a> – Stay classy, GOP candidates!<\/li>\n
  11. House GOP quietly eyeing ethics office for elimination<\/a> – “The party promised to change the way Congress operates, but voters may not have realized that meant making it easier for representatives to get away with ethics violations.”<\/li>\n
  12. Monetize It<\/a> – Some cool advice on self-epublishing.<\/li>\n
  13. Thirty Years Ago, a Louisiana Lake Turned Into a Swirling Pit of Destruction [Techversaries]<\/a> – “It might make your next workplace screwup seem a little less dire.”<\/li>\n
  14. Exclusive: TSA Says Body Scanners Saving Images ‘Impossible’ [Tsa]<\/a> – Or, y’know, someone could just use a cell phone camera. Actually, that raises an interesting question. Fred gets scanned, scan shows a gun, TSO in the Secret Booth flags the TSOs on the ground to search him. Lacking an image of the gun (since none can be stored), is the immediate search admissible in court? Is there “probable cause” based on a TSO’s unsubstantiated testimony?<\/li>\n
  15. Price Check by Amazon: Free iPhone App Compares Price Of In-Store Items With Amazon\u2019s Prices<\/a> – The existing Amazon app (on the Android, at least) already does this.<\/li>\n
  16. Documentary review: Waiting For Superman<\/a> – Are there problems in our educational system? Certainly. Are they easily solvable by getting rid of teachers unions and privatizing the school system? Highly doubtful.<\/li>\n
  17. Ridiculous Amounts Of Lead, Other Crap, Found On Decorative Glasses<\/a> – People actually drink from these things? Don’t they know you’re supposed to just wrap them up and store them in your parents’ garage so that some day you can retrieve them and sell them as collectors items?<\/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 …. New parking near DIA aims to be the “greenest” – The Denver Post – I need to make a note about some of the private DIA lots. Rush to Judgment – Motor Trend Blog – A lovely response from … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 22-Nov-10 1631)”<\/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":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1565,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/08\/and_for_todays.html","url_meta":{"origin":19300,"position":0},"title":"And for today’s good news …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Dec-01 10:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Denver has just about licked its carbon monoxide problems, a major component of dealing with its EPA air pollution problems. 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