{"id":16211,"date":"2009-11-17T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-17T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:00:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 17 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:\/\/blog.au.org\/2009\/11\/17\/prevaricating-pastors-mendacious-ministers-prove-its-still-legal-to-be-bigots\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AUblog+%28The+Wall+of+Separation%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Prevaricating Pastors: Mendacious Ministers Prove It\u2019s Still Legal To Be Bigots | The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;They proved that pastors can spout all of the anti-gay stuff they want and not get arrested. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been saying all along, and I appreciate them proving my point.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/mr-and-mr-name-hyphen-name.html\">Mr. And Mr. Name Hyphen Name<\/a> &#8211; Another note for all of you &#8220;there&#8217;s no harm in not letting them Officially Federally Marry&#8221; folks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/christian-right-holds-massively-ignored.html\">Christian Right Holds Massively Ignored Hate Rally At Department Of Justice: Joe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/liars-tell-more-lying-lies.html\">Liars Tell More Lying Lies<\/a> &#8211; Now, now, now, it&#8217;s always okay to lie if you&#8217;re doing it for GOD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/georgia-teacher-arrested-for-putting.html\">Georgia Teacher Arrested For Putting Hit On Student He Accused Of Being Gay: Joe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/17\/oreilly-trials-constitution\/\">O\u2019Reilly Upset Over 9\/11 Trials: \u2018I Don\u2019t Care About The Constitution!\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Bill O&#8217;Reilly doesn&#8217;t care about the Constitution?  Yeah, not a big surprise there.  That&#8217;s one of those &#8220;technicalities&#8221; the Right is always railing against.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/17\/shields-manly-man-krauthamme\/\">A retraction, and an apology to Mark Shields.<\/a> &#8211; Consider this my own retraction, as I redirected the TP story.  I pass the amused glare over at Mr Krauthammer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/an_iconic_lion_for_an_iconic_institution.php\">An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution<\/a> &#8211; But &#8230; which of the Lions is it? Patience or Fortitude?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/IntoMobile\/~3\/7TifffdOtyM\/texas-man-grabs-for-cellphone-drives-1m-bugatti-veyron-into-salt-marsh.html\">Texas man grabs for cellphone, drives $1M Bugatti Veyron into salt marsh<\/a> &#8211; In case you still don&#8217;t believe that cell phones in the car can be a costly distraction.  No blood and guts here, but plenty of tears.  (Bonus: someone was actually taking a video of the car when it happened.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/17\/palin-lies-oprah\/\">Sarah Palin Lies To Oprah<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s interesting that electronic &#8220;paper&#8221; trails are providing such increasing fact checks on politicians&#8217; later (though in this case not that much later) tales.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/valleywag\/full\/~3\/YoofQjr-gfM\/google-search-box-suggestions-allow-us-to-peer-into-the-internets-dark-disturbing-id\">Google Search Box Suggestions Allow Us to Peer into the Internet&#8217;s Dark,  Disturbing Id<\/a> &#8211; I confess that sometimes odd questions come to my mind &#8212; but I don&#8217;t usually ask Google about them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/parentingbeyondbelief.com\/blog\/?p=3241\">The Joy of Giving Up \/ CYHMN? 8<\/a> &#8211; The question becomes, what is the most useful level of engagement.  Walking away from everyone who disagrees with you arguably makes problems worse.  Doing a rhetorical cost-benefit analysis (and giving the benefit side a bit of the benefit of the doubt) is probably a useful approach.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/h8sOys93yyw\/video-bomb+proof-wallpaper-vs-wrecking-ball\">Video: Bomb-Proof Wallpaper vs Wrecking Ball [Home Decor]<\/a> &#8211; Interesting.  And, makes sense how it would work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ICanHasCheezburger\/~3\/qO_ybSTUBwY\/\">Some \u201cinteresting\u201d sites you visit, here.: Cheezburger Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fstdt.net\/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=67654\">Admzaa, Rapture Forums<\/a> &#8211; For context, FSTDT clip particularly noteworthy (for their laugh\/goggle factor) bits from fundamentalist forums.  In this case, the number of fundamental (so to speak) misapprehensions in just the first few paragraphs is so staggering that it&#8217;s depressingly difficult to imagine how this person could be brought back in alignment with reality.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/failblog\/~3\/IPFtTXEfu7U\/\">Facebook Bet Fail<\/a> &#8211; Natural selection at work &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5406536\/american-airlines-fires-web-designer-for-helping-customer\">American Airlines Fires Web Designer For Helping Customer [American  Airlines]<\/a> &#8211; While I sympathize with Mr X (and generally despise American Airlines), his reaching out to the someone and telling apologetic tales out of school about how his company&#8217;s web site design process is maddening and disjointed, while on his company&#8217;s email system, was extremely ill-advised (esp. if he&#8217;s actually signed an NDA).  I hope he finds a good job elsewhere, for a better company, but has also learned something in the process.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/speaking.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Speaking<\/a> &#8211; Being able to communicate is invaluable.  It will get you in the door, it will make your work relationships better, it will make your customer relationships better &#8230; it&#8217;s all win.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427346.700-computational-cameras-perfect-your-photos-for-you.html?full=true\">Computational cameras perfect your photos for you &#8211; tech &#8211; 17 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Some very cool innovations here &#8212; but, yes, they need to be simple to use (and simple to override), otherwise, they&#8217;ll just be a waste of money for most people.<\/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;. Prevaricating Pastors: Mendacious Ministers Prove It\u2019s Still Legal To Be Bigots | The Wall of Separation &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;They proved that pastors can spout all of the anti-gay stuff they want and not get arrested. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 17 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-16211","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":1288,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/01\/save_your_soul.html","url_meta":{"origin":16211,"position":0},"title":"Save your soul!  Skip church!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 1-Feb-02 11:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Members of the Reformed church -- which includes about two million Americans in the Dutch Reformed and certain Baptist and Presbyterian congregations -- are being advised to stop going to...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fourth Estate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41352,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/christian-pastors-being-arrested-by-the-police-for-their-faith.html","url_meta":{"origin":16211,"position":1},"title":"Christian pastors being arrested by the police for their faith!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Mar-14 3:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Except that it's all a fake. For a video. To be thrown out on the Internet without any sort of note that it was staged, as a means of demonstrating what the police arresting pastors would look like. Which the local sheriff's office oddly went along with, and is now\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":30323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/preaching-political-candidates.html","url_meta":{"origin":16211,"position":2},"title":"Preaching political candidates","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Sep-12 1:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe it's time to simply do away with tax exemptions for churches. 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