{"id":19668,"date":"2010-12-24T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/unblogged-bits-fri-24-dec-10-1630.html"},"modified":"2010-12-24T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T23:30:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-24-dec-10-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/unblogged-bits-fri-24-dec-10-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 24-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. Madonna and entourage released from grounded Virgin flight two hours ahead of mere mortals<\/a> – I’m sure someone did the mental calculus of what Madonna et al. spends on Virgin Atlantic each year, and decided it exceeded the unlikely case that being treated this way would cause some of the other folks to take their custom elsewhere.<\/li>\n
  2. Let the Protests Continue \u2013 Round 2<\/a> – I’m not quite sure what bastion of morality and virtue and Christian Tea Parties and evangelical quilting bees these folks think the armed forces are, but I don’t think that resembles what military life is really like, open gays or not.<\/li>\n
  3. UN to investigate Bradley Manning claims of mistreatment<\/a> – Cue bluster and outrage from the Right about the UN in 5 … 4 … 3 …<\/li>\n
  4. Browns’ front office tells off a complaining fan in a 1974 letter<\/a> – HA!<\/li>\n
  5. Perspective<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Interior reverses Bush-era wilderness policy – The Denver Post<\/a> – Good. These are areas that, once developed and “gone” are “lost” for decades or centuries.<\/li>\n
  7. Time to quench landscape’s thirst on Colorado’s dry Front Range – The Denver Post<\/a> – Seriously need to water the trees when we get back home. Ran out of time before we left.<\/li>\n
  8. Colfax streetcar study gets $2 million grant – The Denver Post<\/a> – Seems like a reasonable place to run one. There's a lot of traffic up and down that corridor. I suspect Broadway down to the I25 P&R would be another good corridor that would help pedestrians and the local businesses.<\/li>\n
  9. Electromagnetic railgun launches fighter jet for the first time | DVICE<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  10. How The Government Is Monitoring You<\/a> – Remember — this isn’t monitoring of “radicals” or “criminals.” This is monitoring of anyone who anyone has ever reported as doing anything that they considered “suspicious.” Am I on someone’s list because I was “publicly” reading the Qur’an on the train one week? Who knows? But at what point might I find myself in possible trouble for something else, and have some anonymous report in The Database pulled out as additional “reason” to hold me? “We have met the enemy, and it is us”<\/li>\n
  11. BBC News – Flash-mob singers spark California mall evacuation<\/a> – Now that’s one powerful chorus!<\/li>\n
  12. Stephen Colbert on Jesus and Our Christian Nation<\/a> – Unfortunately, to the extent that they are willing to address the question, too weasel out both points by arguing that it would be wrong and liberty-stifling and salvation-starving to actually force people (who don’t want to to help the poor) to, as members of society, do so.<\/li>\n
  13. Tom Tancredo just asks whether military can “segregate in their own ranks” after repeal of DADT<\/a> – My former US Represntative (and I am so pleased it’s FORMER).<\/li>\n
  14. From The Rome, Georgia News-Tribune<\/a> – Yeah, nice moral high ground there, sir.<\/li>\n
  15. Sessions Puts His Lab Coat Back On<\/a> – What an asinine diatribe by Sen. Sessions. “Using the courts to advance an agenda” — because that’s something that you can only see from the Left (coughRobertsCourtcough). And, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU, not because I like all of their clients or their clients causes, but because the act for civil liberties for ALL Americans … including asshats like Sen. Sessions.<\/li>\n
  16. Homeland Security’s Domain Seizures On Unsound Footing – First Amendment violations and systemic incompetence<\/a> – I think it should go without saying that seizure laws — especially those that are able to be executed quickly and with minimum judicial oversight\/interference — will inevitably lead to (a) abuse and (b) misuse. Duh. And yet, the most conservative of legislators will eagerly seize (so to speak) such authoritarian measures, even while muttering about prying of guns from dead, cold fingers. And the most beneficent of liberals will support them, too, even while talking about the need for reining in the police state.<\/li>\n
  17. Giant Slides Should be Obligatory In Every University and School Building [Architecture]<\/a> – Yes, t’hell with the new elevator controls — I want a giant slide down from the 23rd floor to the ground level! Um … for safety!<\/li>\n
  18. Socialists Tell Americans to Eat Their Veggies<\/a> – MY MOM IS A SOCIALIST! EEEEEK!<\/li>\n
  19. Facts FTW<\/a> – Don’t bother me with the facts! I’m basking in the faithful glow of unreal science!<\/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 …. Madonna and entourage released from grounded Virgin flight two hours ahead of mere mortals – I’m sure someone did the mental calculus of what Madonna et al. spends on Virgin Atlantic each year, and decided it exceeded the unlikely … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 24-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":"","_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-19668","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":1029,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/23\/music_maestro_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":19668,"position":0},"title":"Music, maestro","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-01 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"CDs sitting on my desk. 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