{"id":15127,"date":"2009-07-03T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:04:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 03 July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/sbc-become-openly-anti-gay-or-get-out\">SBC: Become Openly Anti-Gay or Get Out<\/a> &#8211; You&#8217;re either with us or with the enemy, I guess.  Money graf:  &#8220;The moral legalism inherent in the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s decision indicates the spiritual disease infecting and destroying our Baptist body today. Instead of focusing our energies of love on a lonely and hurting world, we are obsessed with endlessly parsing out arcane legalities designed to assert our own moral purity and superiority.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/mat-staver-your-best-friend-protecting-religious-libertiesbut-only-if-you-pick-right-religio\">Mat Staver is Your Best Friend in Protecting Religious Liberties&#8230;But Only  If You Pick the Right Religion<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Rights for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktuu.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=10641495\">Gov. Sarah Palin to resign her office &#8211; KTUU.com | Alaska&#8217;s news and information source |<\/a> &#8211; Yikes!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/in_depth\/8133964.stm\">Palin &#8216;rules out Alaska re-run&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;You won&#8217;t have Sarah Palin to kick around any more.&#8221;  Yeah &#8230; remember how that worked out last time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/faith\/ci_12734621?source=rss\">Church-state divide looms for Episcopalians on gay marriage &#8211; Salt Lake Tribune<\/a> &#8211; No new news here &#8212; though, honestly, I doubt there are many remaining in TEC that would leave if the General Convention decides on allowing same-sex rites.  The &#8220;riting&#8221; has been on wall for a while.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/X-XTvPtVTFE\/phoenix-lander-observed-snow-falling-on-mars.ars\">Snowfall on Mars? NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Lander recorded it<\/a> &#8211; Martian coolness!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/090703\/p1#a090703p1\">Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam (Laurie  Sullivan\/MediaPost)<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; I don&#8217;t go to Twitter for pornography, spam, <b>or<\/b> your marketing. Bugger off.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/K5pvbr0iS4g\/scientists-tour-the.html\">Scientists tour the Creationism Museum: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/happy-hour-discurso_02.html\">En Tequila Es Verdad: Happy Hour Discurso<\/a> &#8211; Love is unconditional acceptance of another, despite their flaws.  It&#8217;s not ignoring the flaws, telling them the flaws don&#8217;t exist, or not helping them overcome those flaws.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/02\/AR2009070202771.html?wprss=rss_print\">DHS Cybersecurity Plan Will Involve NSA, Telecoms &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure how else they could do it &#8230; but it still strikes me as problematic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ICanHasCheezburger\/~3\/jzKPYz-pc2E\/\">Noooooooooo Mommy!<\/a> &#8211; Oh, yes.  A universal reaction from all the cats we&#8217;ve owned.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/59395\">2K &#8216;Huge&#8217; Steam Pack Bundles 20 Games for $54<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  If I were interested in more computer games to suck up my life, I&#8217;d be all over this deal like a cheap suit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AtheistMedia\/~3\/4MYieFSciuk\/was-earth-designed-for-life.html\">Was The Earth Designed For Life?<\/a> &#8211; Very nicely done.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/0NVYco5VTsc\/shoot-better-nighttime-pictures\">Shoot Better Nighttime Pictures [Photos]<\/a> &#8211; Some good photography advice here, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/b7TB-SwRFhM\/snafu-truck-you-detroit-o_b_225201.html\">Reese Schonfeld: SNAFU: Truck You, Detroit, or Tanks for Nuttin&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not fond of sweet deals, nor do I think Detroit was <b>entitled<\/b> to Pentagon contracts &#8230; nor, for that matter, do I think it unlikely that, had they received the contract, they&#8217;d have still (a) bilked the DoD out of zillions and (b) potentially needed bailing out because of their craptastic response to customer needs.  That said, it sounds like the Pentagon didn&#8217;t even try, and instead responded more to pressure from certain Congresscritters to pump up stuff in their own districts.  What a lost opportunity all around &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/FrN22_BvOCU\/sen-grassley-if-you-want_n_225258.html\">Chuck Grassley: If You Want Good Health Insurance, Work For The Government (VIDEO)<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Let them eat cake [from the public trough, like me].&#8221;  The amazing, probably-unaware arrogance of power and entitlement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. SBC: Become Openly Anti-Gay or Get Out &#8211; You&#8217;re either with us or with the enemy, I guess. Money graf: &#8220;The moral legalism inherent in the Southern Baptist Convention&#8217;s decision indicates the spiritual disease infecting and destroying our Baptist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 03 July 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29114,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/dadt-repeal-leads-to-attack-on-religious-freedom.html","url_meta":{"origin":15127,"position":0},"title":"DADT repeal leads to attack on religious freedom!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Aug-12 8:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, it's true, just as conservative Christian groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention warned, the repeal of Don't Ask \/ Don't Tell in the military has led to military chaplains facing pressure to obey orders and being disciplined for not going along\u00a0what they are now told is the \"moral\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22780,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/albert-mohler-is-a-dolt-death-is-life-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":15127,"position":1},"title":"Albert Mohler is a Dolt (Death is Life Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Sep-11 12:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Albert Mohler is the President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a board member of Focus on the Family, and a major figure in Baptist \/ Evangelical \/ Fundamentalist theology. \u00a0Which is why this sort of thing so seriously chaps my hide. \u00a0Because people read this, and say, \"Hey, here's the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime &amp; Punishment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime &amp; Punishment","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/crime-punishment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/dore-crucifixionofjesus.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6719,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/28\/your_religious.html","url_meta":{"origin":15127,"position":2},"title":"Your religious joke for today","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jul-04 6:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A strong Baptist family decided to buy a home and make everything in the house Baptist. 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