{"id":19433,"date":"2010-12-04T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/unblogged-bits-sat-4-dec-10-1630.html"},"modified":"2010-12-04T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T23:30:43","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-4-dec-10-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/04\/unblogged-bits-sat-4-dec-10-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 4-Dec-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. Pledge Now! – DORK TOWER, Friday, December 3, 2010<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. TV Shows<\/a> – This is why we never hear back from any alien civilizations via SETI … they’re keeping quiet, hoping we’ll just go away.<\/li>\n
  3. Clerical Abuse Watch: Breaking News: German Cover-up of Abuse Revealed in Church Report<\/a> – Yeah, this is looking particularly bad.<\/li>\n
  4. Schneier on Security: Full Body Scanners: What’s Next?<\/a> – “he truth is that exactly two things have made air travel safer since 9\/11: reinforcing cockpit doors and convincing passengers they need to fight back. The TSA should continue to screen checked luggage. They should start screening airport workers. And then they should return airport security to pre-9\/11 levels and let the rest of their budget be used for better purposes. Investigation and intelligence is how we’re going to prevent terrorism, on airplanes and elsewhere. It’s how we caught the liquid bombers. It’s how we found the Yemeni printer-cartridge bombs. And it’s our best chance at stopping the next serious plot.” A very good (and detailed) analysis of the security challenges and why event the current draconian methods are unlikely to work.<\/li>\n
  5. Nutri-Grain, Fake Color, and Why Do American Kids Deserve Less than Europeans?<\/a> – We deserve it because We’re Exceptional!<\/li>\n
  6. Berners Street Hoax – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Christ and Corruption<\/a> – I have little doubt that the state of Kentucky will take a bath on this, but that’s okay, because it’s FISCAL INCENTIVES FOR JESUS, right?<\/li>\n
  8. I Won\u2019t Ride a Bus with Atheist Advertising On It!<\/a> – Well, it’s certainly their prerogative to boycott the entire transit authority for having ads that they dislike. It makes them (in this case) look like oversensitive jerks, but what the hey? Everyone’s free to look like (and be mocked for being) an oversensitive jerk.<\/li>\n
  9. GE\u2019s 17-Year LED Bulb Now For Sale<\/a> – I think I can wait a year before replacing my CFLs, to let prices drop some.<\/li>\n
  10. Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables<\/a> – Wow. That’s awesome. The government is now warning people about reading stuff — not because it’s dangerous per se, but because it will damage their government jobs, existing or potential. This is freedom?<\/li>\n
  11. Stubborn Jobs Rate Pressures Unemployment Benefits<\/a> – No, no, no! I’m sure that, now that Unemployment Benefits have been blocked by the GOP, all those lazy Unemployed People will run out and find some jobs! It’s Trickle-Down Starvationomics!<\/li>\n
  12. Sarah Palin is wrong about John F. Kennedy, religion and politics<\/a> – An excellent take-down of Ms Palin, by JFK’s niece. Money quote: “To demand that citizens display their religious beliefs attacks the very foundation of our nation and undermines the precise reason that America is exceptional”<\/li>\n
  13. ThinkProgress \u00bb Scalia Mocks Sotomayor\u2019s Compassion For \u2018People Sitting in Their Feces for Days in a Dazed State\u2019<\/a> – Recalling that the Right has decided that “compassion” and “empathy” are now the enemy of good jurisprudence, I’m hardly surprised.<\/li>\n
  14. Ed Stein – December 3, 2010<\/a> – That’s just about a size of it. And you know, in most cases, what happens to the hostage anyway …<\/li>\n
  15. World running out of new places to fish: study<\/a> – That’s just swell.<\/li>\n
  16. Rush Limbaugh, racist pig and sterling representative of the modern Republican [Pharyngula]<\/a> – Rush Limbaugh is a troll. And I mean that in a whole variety of ways.<\/li>\n
  17. Watch: Animated Warner Bros. Short \u2018Coyote Falls,\u2019 and a Live-Action Short in the Road Runner Style<\/a> – I’m pretty sure I saw a different Road Runner CG cartoon in the past few months, but they were both awesome.<\/li>\n
  18. FO: EXTERMIKNIT! EXTERMIKNIT! \u00ab Feather and Fan<\/a> – Almost makes me wish I knit.<\/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 …. Pledge Now! – DORK TOWER, Friday, December 3, 2010 TV Shows – This is why we never hear back from any alien civilizations via SETI … they’re keeping quiet, hoping we’ll just go away. Clerical Abuse Watch: Breaking News: … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 4-Dec-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_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19433","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":129305,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/apparently-talking-about-police-abuse-doesnt-lead-to-more-crime-or-police-deaths.html","url_meta":{"origin":19433,"position":0},"title":"Apparently talking about police abuse doesn't lead to more crime or police deaths","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Dec-15 10:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, it doesn't seem to have done much to stem said abuse, given the number of noteworthy acquittals or refusals to file charges. 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