{"id":13213,"date":"2008-06-23T20:04:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T03:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/06\/23\/potpourri-for-the-beginning-of-a-looooong-week.html"},"modified":"2008-06-23T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T03:04:39","slug":"potpourri_for_the_beginni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/23\/potpourri_for_the_beginni.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for the beginning of a looooong week"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Some Thoughts on Executive Privilege\" href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/06\/some-thoughts-1.html\">Some Thoughts on Executive Privilege<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/\">Obsidian Wings<\/a><\/small> <br \/> &#8220;Executive Privilege&#8221; is yet another tool in the Bush Administration&#8217;s toolkit to justify not tellin&#8217; nobody nuthin&#8217;. But while there is a place &#8230; and even value &#8230; in a degree of such privilege, when it comes to congressionally-mandated agencies, it&#8217;s more than a stretch to claim it. Though that doesn&#8217;t keep the White House from doing so &#8230; at least for another seven months.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Is Torture Godly?\" href=\"http:\/\/frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/is-torture-godly.html\">Is Torture Godly?<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com\/\">Father Jake Stops the World<\/a><\/small> <br \/> <em>&#8220;Simply put, if we believe that God will ultimately enforce his will by forceful domination, and will eternally torture all who resist that domination, then torture and domination become not only permissible but in some way godly. The implication for, say, military policy (not to mention church politics) are not hard to imagine&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"US Religion Landscape Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/us-religion-landscape-survey.html\">US Religion Landscape Survey<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com\/\">Father Jake Stops the World<\/a> <br \/> <\/small><a title=\"U.S. Religious Landscape Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2008\/06\/23\/us-religious-landscape-survey\/\">U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\">Friendly Atheist<\/a><\/small> <br \/> Two different sources with interesting perspectives on the current Pew research. I seriously need to do some studying of the underlying material.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Nation's Gays Demand Right To Library Cards | The Onion - America's Finest News Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/nations_gays_demand_right_to&amp;no_cj_c=1\">Nation&#8217;s Gays Demand Right To Library Cards | The&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\">www.theonion.com<\/a><\/small> <br \/> <em>&#8216;&#8221;No one&#8217;s preventing gays from using libraries\u2014they&#8217;re fully welcome to walk into them, browse all they want, and sit down and flip through any book they choose, even in the reference section,&#8221; said Sen. Jim Bunning (R\u2013KY), one of several conservative legislators who has vowed to draft a constitutional amendment that would define library book-lending as a contract between a library and a heterosexual reader. &#8220;But to issue them the same library cards as a regular American citizen would demean what our nation&#8217;s library cards stand for.&#8221;&#8216;<\/em> <\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Switching To Trains?\" href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/switching_to_trains\/\">Switching To Trains?<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\">The J-Walk Blog<\/a><\/small> <br \/> Amtrak&#8217;s rolling stock is extremely limited &#8212; and as some research shows, it&#8217;s not a huge savings to take the train (vs flying or driving) &#8230; but it takes a lot longer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Thoughts on Executive Privilege&nbsp;from Obsidian Wings &#8220;Executive Privilege&#8221; is yet another tool in the Bush Administration&#8217;s toolkit to justify not tellin&#8217; nobody nuthin&#8217;. 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