{"id":15170,"date":"2009-07-10T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-07-10T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T00:00:27","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 10 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:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/10\/gop-bill-ipcc\/\">GOP Rep. Introduces Bill To Deny U.S. Funding For Nobel Winning IPCC Because  Of Its \u2018Junk Science\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Anti-UN <b>and<\/b> anti-science, all in one neat, GOP package.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/DYd8lTQOXa4\/microbiology_and_abortion.php\">Microbiology and Abortion [erv]<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, if you&#8217;re going to blame the Wrath of God, it&#8217;s a good idea to get your facts straight first.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/UYYmfLIRSYg\/dave-carroll-says-no-to-guitar-hush-money-from-united\">Dave Carroll Says No To Guitar Hush Money From United [Follow Ups]: Chris Walters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/F47kYiV-AwQ\/hampton_religious_buddies_drove_ensign_to_fedex_to.php\">Hampton: Religious Buddies Drove Ensign To FedEx To Mail Letter To Cindy<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Presidential material indeed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/katharine-zaleski\/i-was-treated-to-a-foreig_b_228242.html\">Katharine Zaleski: I Was Treated to a Foreign First World Public Health Care System<\/a> &#8211; I had a similarly positive experience with the NHS two decades ago while on vacation there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/askfactcheck\/is_it_true_that_persons_older_than.html\">FactCheck.org: Is it true that persons older than 59 can&#8217;t get heart surgery in England?<\/a> &#8211; Lie. Lie. Lie. Lie. Partial &#8212; no, that&#8217;s a lie, too.  Lie. Lie.  Gosh, there must be a pony in there somewhere!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/ldfLM9UNh-o\/that-flushing-sound-you-hear-is.html\">That Flushing Sound You Hear Is America&#8217;s Moral Authority Going Down the  Toilet<\/a> &#8211; Not that these places would be models of human rights if the US had been a moral paragon, nor would they suddenly catch a sense of conscience if we hadn&#8217;t made ourselves such easy targets of hypocritical moralizing.  But we&#8217;d be in a much more persuasive and useful position if we hadn&#8217;t handed these countries a gold-plated diamond-encrusted bacon-wrapped way to put off any criticisms of indefinite detention or torture &#8212; by pointing at where we&#8217;ve done it.  Thank you for making the world safer, guys.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2009\/07\/08\/oldest-known-bible-goes-online\/\">Oldest Known Bible Goes Online<\/a> &#8211; Very cool. Too many people think the Bible was mimeographed (in King James English) by the four apostles in AD 50.  Whereas the &#8220;final&#8221; list and order of books wasn&#8217;t set (Protestant\/Catholic disagreement over the Apocrypha asdie) until, ultimately, Trent in the 16th Century AD.  And let&#8217;s not get into differing translations and edits &#8230;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2009\/07\/09\/the-sexual-orthodoxy-conference\/\">The \u201cSexual Orthodoxy\u201d Conference<\/a> &#8211; IT&#8217;S ALL ABOUT TEH EVIL SEXXXXX!!!! AND TEH GIRLZZZ!!!  AND TEH GAYZZZ!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/d8K-QXMRqC8\/petmd-supplies-pet-health-information-in-a-pinch\">PetMD Supplies Pet Health Information in a Pinch [Pets]<\/a> &#8211; Flagging for potential future need &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/07\/o-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave.html\">O, What A Tangled Web We Weave<\/a> &#8211; Ah, the party of Family Values &#8230; and generous Family Values to boot!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/bVP-Gp7tnX8\/happy-hour-discurso_10.html\">Happy Hour Discurso<\/a> &#8211; It does seem, some days, that&#8217;s it just not worth chewing through the leather straps &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commentsfromleftfield.com\/2009\/07\/obama-is-like-hitler-and-us-is-like-nazi-germany-which-is-like-venezuela-under-chavez\">Obama Is Like Hitler, and U.S. Is Like Nazi Germany, Which Is Like Venezuela  Under Chavez<\/a> &#8211; As blithering as the initial statement, the responses to it are definitely worth reading.  All of them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/agswnmjul09\/\">Ain\u2019t gonna study war no more\u2026<\/a> &#8211; Wouldn&#8217;t it be loverly?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/09\/food-human-right\/\">Right winger\u2019s argument against a right to health care: \u2018Should food be a  basic human right?\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t see it as a &#8220;right,&#8221; but as a societal obligation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/07\/09\/bill-oreilly-caught-in-another-lie\/\">Bill O\u2019Reilly Caught in Another Lie<\/a> &#8211; To many Christians, Christianity is the presumed background.  &#8220;No specific religion&#8221; usually means &#8220;inter-denominational.&#8221;  Which makes a sort of sense, when you consider how bitter were the Christian inter-denominational wars (literal and figurative) around the founding of this country.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealnews.com\/307279.html\">Upcoming free Slurpee from 7-Eleven<\/a> &#8211; Those who like this sort of thing will find it the sort of thing they like.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/hW8OUbe2ovU\/treat-your-pets-arthritis-with-lead\">Treat Your Pet&#8217;s Arthritis With Lead [Pets]<\/a> &#8211; Yeesh.  Why it&#8217;s a good idea to look at supplements specifically recommended by your vet &#8230; assuming your vet knows this info any better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/09\/fox-follows-right-wing-blogs\/\">Wonk Room \u00bb Right Wing Concocts False Claim That Obama Is Steering Stimulus Money To Areas That Backed Him<\/a> &#8211; Not only is correlation not causation in this point, it&#8217;s actually reverse causation.  Not that the nuance would occur (or be noted) by Fox News.<\/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;. GOP Rep. Introduces Bill To Deny U.S. Funding For Nobel Winning IPCC Because Of Its \u2018Junk Science\u2019 &#8211; Anti-UN and anti-science, all in one neat, GOP package. Microbiology and Abortion [erv] &#8211; Yeah, if you&#8217;re going to blame the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 10 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":{"_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-15170","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":24297,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/because-being-anti-science-is-a-winning-position-for-someone.html","url_meta":{"origin":15170,"position":0},"title":"Because being anti-science is a winning position &#8230; for someone","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 8:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A lengthy article from the National Journal on the (d)evolution in the GOP into a monolith that is -- outwardly at least -- silent at best and skeptical at worst over client change science. 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