{"id":19359,"date":"2010-11-30T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/unblogged-bits-tue-30-nov-10-1630.html"},"modified":"2010-11-30T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T23:30:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-30-nov-10-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/unblogged-bits-tue-30-nov-10-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 30-Nov-10 1630)"},"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. Pentagon study dismisses risk of openly gay troops – The Denver Post<\/a> – As has been widely reported already. And which will almost certainly not change any of the existing opposition on Capitol Hill, because, ultimately, they’re not actually concerned about it because of the military.<\/li>\n
  2. Bush Speechwriter Marc Thiessen Suggests Invading U.S.-Allied Nations To Capture WikiLeaks Founder<\/a> – The “24” mentality continues.<\/li>\n
  3. Rep. Shadegg Scoffs At The Fact That Jobless Benefits Are A Benefit To The Economy: \u2018No, They\u2019re Not!\u2019<\/a> – Funny, I always learned that the economy was the spending of money — the demand that then encourages entrepreneurs to produce supply. The GOP’s message is that the only people who matter are the suppliers, who apparently will only hire people if their taxes are lowered, whether or not there’s anyone with enough money to spend on their goods.<\/li>\n
  4. Swastika-Branding Case First To Be Charged Under New Hate Crimes Law<\/a> – What? But … but … we were assured the only people to be prosecuted under this law — immediately, and by the thousands — were Christian ministers preaching [their rendition] of God’s Word about the gays! Nobody said our swastika-branding fun times would be at risk!<\/li>\n
  5. Rep. Mike Pence Suggests That The U.S. Return To The Gold Standard<\/a> – No 18th-19th Century scheme is too zany for today’s GOP.<\/li>\n
  6. Suspected Oregon Terror Act Yet Another Plot Foiled Because Of Intelligence Provided By A Muslim<\/a> – Obviously those EVIL MUSLIMS are lulling us into a false sense of security by ratting out all those other EVIL MUSLIMS …<\/li>\n
  7. McCain Dismisses Gates\u2019 Letter On DADT, Attacks Obama As \u2018Inexperienced\u2019 For Promising Repeal<\/a> – That McCain is now asserting there’s no problems with the DADT policy and that gays can serve with no difficulty as long as they aren’t asked and don’t talk about it, betrays either his utter unfamiliarity with the policy and its outcomes, or his disingenuous satisfaction with them.<\/li>\n
  8. Data visualization is cool<\/a> – This one’s for Margie.<\/li>\n
  9. Consumers Union Asks You To Say No To Comcast\/NBC Deal<\/a> – I see nothing that I will gain out of such an acquisition, and plenty that I will lose. Once we busted the vertical monopolies of movie studios owning movie chains. This is pretty much the same thing, except even moreso, and with typical service area monopolies, too.<\/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 …. Pentagon study dismisses risk of openly gay troops – The Denver Post – As has been widely reported already. And which will almost certainly not change any of the existing opposition on Capitol Hill, because, ultimately, they’re not actually … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 30-Nov-10 1630)”<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19359","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":13525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/running_out_of_gas.html","url_meta":{"origin":19359,"position":0},"title":"Running out of gas","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Nov-08 4:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not surprisingly, the Republican talking point answer seems to be: Unions (of course) Safety standards Economy standards I love the last. 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