{"id":16011,"date":"2009-10-14T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-14-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:18:51","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-14-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-14-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 14 October 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:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/places\/wayfarers-chapel\">Wayfarers Chapel<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s lovely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/ethos_water\/\">Ethos Water: charity profiteering: George<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/fixing_the_game\/\">Fixing the game<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t like baseball.  I like this ad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheDisneyBlog\/~3\/ed4sgY-0kZA\/\">Disney Stores to launch with new concept<\/a> &#8211; It would be pretty cool if the Disney Stores were a special place to visit, not just somewhere to shop.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/10\/sarah_jane_has_a_doctors_appointment.php\">Sarah Jane Has a Doctor&#8217;s Appointment<\/a> &#8211; Trailer for (I presume) Series 3 of SJA.  Series 2 will be out on DVD in the States in November (rubs hands in eager anticipation).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/10\/thundercats_hoe.php\">Thundercats, Hoe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/10\/october_2nd_was_stan_lee_day.php\">October 2nd Was Stan Lee Day<\/a> &#8211; Excelsior!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/republican-party\/poll-only-28-of-republicans-believe-american-health-care-best-in-world\/\">Poll: Only 28% Of Republicans Believe American Health Care Best In World: Greg Sargent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/14\/boehner-markets-obama\/\">After Previously Blaming Obama For Slumping Markets, Boehner Now Downplays Surging Dow: Ben Armbruster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/14\/stewart-fox-gay-march\/\">Jon Stewart hits Fox for ignoring gay rights march after aggressively  promoting 9\/12 March.<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;We report. You deride.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/14\/steele-blog-change\/\">\u2018What Up?\u2019 RNC changes the name of widely mocked blog to \u2018Change the Game,\u2019  ditches floating Steele character.<\/a> &#8211; Okay, okay, give &#8217;em a break.  Web site startups are always a bit rocky &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/celebrate-halloween-good-old-fashioned-book-burning\">Celebrate Halloween With A Good Old Fashioned Book Burning<\/a> &#8211; I distinctly remember Jesus ordering his disciples to burn books.  Or maybe that was in one of those Satanic mistranslations that isn&#8217;t the King James Version.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/religion-immutable-characteristic-sexual-orientation-not\">Religion is an &#8220;Immutable Characteristic,&#8221; Sexual Orientation is Not<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure there are those who would say, &#8220;Of course it is!  It&#8217;s God-given, after all, and God is unchanging and everlasting, just like it says in the Bible!  And anyone who would change their religion to something else is a heathen who deserves to be struck down &#8212; unless it&#8217;s to my religion, in which case it&#8217;s where he&#8217;s always supposed to have been in the first place, by God&#8217;s immutable grace.  So there!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SociologicalImagesSeeingIsBelieving\/~3\/2nAzrFVNO5U\/\">The Skinny on the Catwalk (Trigger Warning)<\/a> &#8211; Wow. The Modelistas think I want women so skinny their ribs stick out.  Really.  Jeez.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SociologicalImagesSeeingIsBelieving\/~3\/HTu_EJk1e2s\/\">Christian is not a Religion<\/a> &#8211; Exactly. In American society (and too many individuals), it&#8217;s simply the default setting, the assumed value.  That&#8217;s neither good for society nor, I would argue, is it good for Christianity (Justice Scalia notwithstanding).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/go_watch_hubbles_amazing_rescue\/\">Go watch Hubble\u2019s Amazing Rescue.: Les<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheMudflats\/~3\/vwB-SLW888A\/\">Tiffany Tosses Pebble<\/a> &#8211; See &#8212; the profit motive AND social conscience can live together.  It&#8217;s a not always comfortable to do, but it&#8217;s good to see it when it does. Good on them.<\/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;. Wayfarers Chapel &#8211; That&#8217;s lovely. Ethos Water: charity profiteering: George Fixing the game &#8211; I don&#8217;t like baseball. I like this ad. Disney Stores to launch with new concept &#8211; It would be pretty cool if the Disney Stores &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-14-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 14 October 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1140,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/11\/i_havent_posted.html","url_meta":{"origin":16011,"position":0},"title":"I haven&#8217;t posted something today","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Oct-01 7:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I had some fun. 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