{"id":19581,"date":"2010-12-15T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/unblogged-bits-wed-15-dec-10-1630.html"},"modified":"2010-12-15T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:30:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-15-dec-10-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/15\/unblogged-bits-wed-15-dec-10-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 15-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. Poll Results – Who Will Be TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year? – TIME<\/a> – Evidently TIME’s editors disagreed all the way down to 10th Place. Curious, that. How does that compare to other years?<\/li>\n
  2. Justin Berrier: Is Fox defecting on the “War on Christmas”?<\/a> – WHY DOES FOX NEWS HATE BABY JESUS??!!<\/li>\n
  3. The Hymnal Revision Feasibility Study<\/a> – So begins the anticipated wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst Episcopalians regarding (a) favorite hymns being cut from the new hymn book and (b) least favorite hymns being retained in the new hymn book.<\/li>\n
  4. Eric Schroeck: HotAir crops Michelle Obama’s comment to attack her — and claims she’s being disingenuous<\/a> – Elided elipses … jerks.<\/li>\n
  5. EFF Location Privacy Victory at Third Circuit Stands, With Implications Far Beyond Your Cell Phone: bankston<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Working after Christmas–WWJD?<\/a> – Are you listening, Senators Kyl and DeMint?<\/li>\n
  7. School year change might affect 2011 theme park attendance<\/a> – Interesting. I was very surprised when we moved to Colorado and discovered that major delta in start\/end dates for the school year. One advantage the California model had was allowing for one last vacation fling around Labor Day. Ah, well.<\/li>\n
  8. Apple Embroiled in Huge Gay Rights Fight<\/a> – “Have fun playing moral traffic cop, Apple.”<\/li>\n
  9. Abnormal Use: Views of 2011 From 1931<\/a> – A fascinating look forward from quite some time ago.<\/li>\n
  10. FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science | Media Matters for America<\/a> – Fox News: Fairly Unbalanced.<\/li>\n
  11. Kyl’s concern for his Christmas vacation<\/a> – Guess what, Sen. Kyl — I’m looking forward to taking vacation around Christmas, too. Of course, if work demands it, I’ll be working (and I won’t be huffing and puffing about my company “disrespecting” Christianity). And I’ll be spending vacation days that I don’t get to use some other time (in other words, I don’t have some “entitled” multi-week break from work). And I can guarantee that if I was screwing around on the job this week, my boss would have no compunction about insisting I get my assignments done, planned vacation or not. Sen. Kyl, man up.<\/li>\n
  12. A year of sleeping dangerously<\/a> – While there were indeed some sleepless (or, more properly, sleep-interrupted) nights with Katherine, they were manageable, largely by dividing duty (who’s turn is it deal with the baby, leavened with flexibility and mutual compassion). It seems a lot longer when it’s happening than it really turns out to be in retrospect.<\/li>\n
  13. Marine Commandant Suggests Presence Of Gays Would Endanger The Lives Of Straight Marines<\/a> – You mean to tell me, Gen. Amos, that your Marines are so undisciplined that they are prone to being distracted in combat by worries that the person serving next to them is gay? Really? That doesn’t reflect very well on your troops’ discipline and training and focus.<\/li>\n
  14. Jan Brewer: \u2018If People Are So Worried\u2019 About My Medicaid Cuts, Ask Washington To Send Me More Money<\/a> – “While such dismissive treatment of those in need paints this Republican in a miserable light, Smith notes that Brewer\u2019s position does help the GOP out in one notable way. In their interminable search for proof of health care ‘death panels,’ right-wing Republicans need look no further than Arizona. “<\/li>\n
  15. ThinkProgress \u00bb Why George Washington would disagree with the right wing about health care\u2019s constitutionality.<\/a> – The “every citizen” included “each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years”. Um, yeah, the government can force you to buy something. It can force you to pay taxes, too, and I’ve yet to get something other than a semantic argument as to why “you have to buy insurance” is any different from “you have to pay a tax to get insurance services.”<\/li>\n
  16. Birther Army Doc Who Refused To Serve Pleads Guilty, Faces Up To Three Years In Prison<\/a> – Good.<\/li>\n
  17. While Kyl Demands Vacation, DeMint Will Obtruct Senate Consideration Of START By Forcing Clerk To Read It<\/a> – More asshattery by GOP Senators — forcing maximum delays, then whining about how “Christians” are being “disrespected” by Senators having to work the week before Christmas. Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  18. This Great eBay Scam Will Warm Your Heart [EBay]<\/a> – There is, occasionally, poetic justice.<\/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 …. Poll Results – Who Will Be TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year? – TIME – Evidently TIME’s editors disagreed all the way down to 10th Place. Curious, that. How does that compare to other years? Justin Berrier: Is Fox … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 15-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_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-19581","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":12182,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/weekend_in_review_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":19581,"position":0},"title":"Weekend in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-07 11:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"I had separate posts for all of this, but time's a-wastin' ... 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Police departments harassed over 'In God We Trust' motto[http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/legal-courts\/2015\/08\/24\/police-departments-harassed-over-in-god-we-trust-motto\/]The Freedom from Religion Foundation has complained to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Rome-Christians-and-wild-beasts-1wubuy75B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Rome-Christians-and-wild-beasts-1wubuy75B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Rome-Christians-and-wild-beasts-1wubuy75B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5741,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/23\/books_reviewed.html","url_meta":{"origin":19581,"position":3},"title":"Books reviewed","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Jul-04 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Been finally getting some books finished during lunch hours. 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