{"id":16179,"date":"2009-11-12T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-12-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-12T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T00:00:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-12-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-12-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 12 November 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\/are-you-real-christian-better-ask-matt-barber\">Are You a Real Christian? Better Ask Matt Barber<\/a> &#8211; Because rather than considering how people of the same faith as you might believe different things, it&#8217;s far simpler to simply deny them their faith.  Idjit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/aVTq4NQyf1A\/unlock-hidden-windows-7-themes.ars\">Windows 7 themes: how to unlock them or create your own<\/a> &#8211; Margie just got her notification the free upgrade for her new machine is in the mail. Haven&#8217;t seen mine yet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/GcvIZqaIqqA\/racing-on-carbon-fiber-legs-how-abled-should-we-be\">Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be? [Aimee Mullins]<\/a> &#8211; This article on prosthetics, enhancements, and constitutes &#8220;fairness&#8221; in athletics is &#8230; fascinating.  And something that defies simplistic analysis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5402810\/you-can-make-your-own-liquid-tamiflu-at-home\">You Can Make Your Own Liquid Tamiflu At Home [Swine Flu]: Laura Northrup<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/11\/AR2009111116943_pf.html\">Catholic Church gives D.C. ultimatum on same-sex marriage issue<\/a> &#8211; If they really feel they cannot work in a place where they cannot discriminate in employment against people who don&#8217;t meet their moral standards, perhaps they actually shouldn&#8217;t be providing social services.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/12537\/are-gay-tourists-welcomed-vatican\">ETN Speaks With Bishop Janusz Kaleta Of Holy See Are gay tourists welcomed in the Vatican? &#8211; eTurboNews.com<\/a> &#8211; Because, don&#8217;tcha know, they spread TEH GAY KOOTIES!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/telling-secrets.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/religious-identity-back-to-garden.html\">Telling Secrets: Religious Identity: Back to The Garden<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s no great surprise that knowing something&#8217;s Name is usually considered deep magic &#8212; and being able grant, or deny, a Name is even deeper.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kuvaton.com\/kuvei\/stairslide.jpg\">stairslide.jpg<\/a> &#8211; I just figured out our next big home improvement project.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-literary-mind\/200911\/why-do-we-dream-five-modern-theories\">Why Do We Dream? Five Modern Theories.<\/a> &#8211; A nice survey of the ideas out there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/11\/11\/hp-to-acquire-3com-in-2-7-billion-deal\/\">HP to acquire 3Com in $2.7 billion deal<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s pretty big.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/bluegal\/maddow-big-business-and-child-labor-endors\">Maddow: Big Business and the &#8220;Child Labor Endorsing, Pro-Slavery Freaks&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Business groups are worried by the potential effects of provisions banning the import of all goods made with convict labor, forced labor or forced or indentured child labor that were included in a recent customs bill.&#8221; Disgusting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427345.100-common-cold-may-hold-off-swine-flu.html\">Common cold may hold off swine flu &#8211; health &#8211; 12 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Honey, great news! I have a cold!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/13\/technology\/companies\/13chip.html?_r=2&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=print\">Intel Pays A.M.D. $1.25 Billion to Settle Disputes &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;ll put a dent in the annual report.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18146-contact-lenses-to-get-builtin-virtual-graphics.html\">Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics &#8211; tech &#8211; 12 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Science fiction keeps getting less fictional &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatwouldjackdo.net\/2009\/11\/better-to-be-thought-a-fool-th-46.html\">Better to be thought a fool than to be&#8230;this guy<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d be curious as to how many supportive shout-outs this idjit got from his ignoramus fellow-travelers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatwouldjackdo.net\/2009\/11\/this-is-supposed-to-happen-som.html\">This is supposed to happen somewhere else&#8230;right??<\/a> &#8211; Wait! It was a Muslim that did it, right? Because only Muslims are homicidal maniacs who shoot people, acting out their anti-Christian religio-political craziness, right?  No Christian would ever start shooing people, right?  I mean, he&#8217;s got to have been a Muslim &#8212; Pat Robertson told me so!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/S9iVEh6SKME\/nation-us-funding-taliban.html\">The Nation: US funding the Taliban<\/a> &#8211; Yet another example of the mare&#8217;s nest that is Afghanistan.<\/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;. Are You a Real Christian? Better Ask Matt Barber &#8211; Because rather than considering how people of the same faith as you might believe different things, it&#8217;s far simpler to simply deny them their faith. Idjit. Windows 7 themes: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-12-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 12 November 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-16179","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":43312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/gops-faith-czar-only-good-christians-are-gop-christians.html","url_meta":{"origin":16179,"position":0},"title":"GOP&#39;s Faith Czar: only good Christians are GOP Christians","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Jul-14 11:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"And the only people of faith worth the party's outreach efforts are, apparently, the folk most likely voting GOP already.\ufeff GOP Faith Outreach Director Offended By Christians Who Vote Democratic The Republican National Committee recently launched a new outreach arm called GOP Faith to build \u201can army of activists to\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":137396,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/26\/our-faith-compels-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":16179,"position":1},"title":"&quot;Our faith compels us&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Oct-18 10:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's good to see Christians -- see coverage of Christians -- standing up for what Christ in the Bible spoke regarding caring for the poor and for one another, rather than the modern Christianist leadership doctrines of profit, nationalism, and control. 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