{"id":16532,"date":"2010-01-13T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-13-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T04:48:47","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-13-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-13-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 13 January 2010"},"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:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2103-memo-sent-by-who-framed-roger-rabbit-director\">PHOTO: Memo sent by &#8220;Who Framed Roger Rabbit?&#8221; director: Matt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/79901_118410_ENG_HTM.htm\">Haiti struck by devastating earthquake; diocese suffers heavy damage &#8211; Episcopal Life Online<\/a> &#8211; Haiti&#8217;s Anglicans are part of the US Episcopal Church.  I know our diocese in Colorado is has many contacts with Haiti, and we&#8217;ve sent a number of medical missions down there in the past (we regularly collect vitamins for folks in the countryside).  I&#8217;ll be making a donation via the ERD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2010\/01\/gmail-takes-lead-email-security\">Gmail takes the lead on email security: pde<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2010\/01\/13\/offensive-oath-overture-iowa-proposal-deserves-to-be-ignored\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AUblog+%28The+Wall+of+Separation%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Offensive Oath Overture: Iowa Proposal Deserves To Be Ignored | The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; Typical.  &#8220;It offends me that people aren&#8217;t forced to be the way I want them to be, so let&#8217;s put it to a vote.&#8221;  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/its-dhs-deja-vu-all-over-again\">It&#8217;s DHS Deja Vu All Over Again<\/a> &#8211; It is either hyper-sensitivity or intentional disingenuity (as well as bad grammar) to turn &#8220;most domestic terrorists are white supremicists, anti-government, anti-abortion, survivalist, Christian Identity&#8221; types into &#8220;pro-lifers pose one of our nations greatest security risks.&#8221;  It&#8217;s like changing &#8220;most pro-lifers are Christian&#8221; into &#8220;most Christians are pro-life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/13\/marriage-china\/\">Chinese state press highlights China\u2019s first public same-sex \u2018marriage.\u2019: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/13\/soldier-mom-charged\/\">Army prosecutes single mother for refusing to deploy and put her son in  foster care.<\/a> &#8211; The last paragraph sounds reasonable &#8212; but it seems to conflict with everything that comes above it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/13\/robertson-haiti\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Pat Robertson Cites Haiti\u2019s Earthquake As What Happens When You \u2018Swear A Pact To The Devil\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Pat Robertson is an ass.  I don&#8217;t want to be part of any religion he&#8217;s part of. And I&#8217;m not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinawards.com\/\">The Darwin Awards for 2009<\/a> &#8211; Always good for a wry laugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/2010\/01\/too-much-faith-will-make-you-crazy-end-of-the-world-edition\/\">Too Much Faith Will Make You Crazy: End of the World edition.<\/a> &#8211; What&#8217;s impressive here is not only that God reveals His Will through every single word of the Bible, but that he makes use of one particular ENGLISH translation of the Bible to do so &#8230; plus one REVISED solar calendar system to do math with &#8230;. You&#8217;d think, for an engineer, he&#8217;d understand significant figures and limits of measurement and detectability.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/19\/dora-the-explorers-makeover-gwen-and-i-saw-it-comin\/\">DORA THE EXPLORER\u2019S MAKEOVER: GWEN AND I SAW IT COMIN\u2019 \u00bb Sociological Images<\/a> &#8211; I managed to miss this a year ago.  A shame &#8212; as much as Dora sometimes drove me up the wall, it was good, clean, adventuresome fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2010\/01\/and-another-one-takedown-hall-shame-peabody-energy\">More Silly Trademark Claims:  Peabody Energy Threatens \u201cClean Coal\u201d Spoof Site: corynne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2010\/01\/if-bin-laden-said-jump-would-you-ask-how-high.html\">If Bin Laden Said, &#8220;Jump&#8221; Would You Ask, &#8220;How High&#8221;?<\/a> &#8211; If you run around IN TERROR, then the &#8220;terrorists have won.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=1758\">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal &#8211; January 12, 2010<\/a> &#8211; LOL! Cats!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Pvponline\/~3\/lEeP8b2KyYg\/\">For the love of God, Montresor<\/a> &#8211; Why a liberal arts education is important &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2010\/01\/11\/lone-star-scrape-texas-hearings-on-social-studies-curriculum-may-get-heated\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AUblog+%28The+Wall+of+Separation%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Lone Star Scrape: Texas Hearings On Social Studies Curriculum May Get Heated | The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; The sad thing is, by driving a political agenda these yahoos discredit everything they are saying from an educational standpoint.  E.g., historians <strong>have<\/strong> argued effectively that the Great Awakening in the early 1700s played a role in the move for American Independence, and the Mayflower Compact is a perfectly legit document to study in history.  The conclusion that this all means the Founders wanted this to be an explicitly &#8220;Christian Nation&#8221; is, however, goofy and partisan and political, and really has no place in elementary social studies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/13\/house-senate-pain-ass\/\">Senior House Democrat: \u2018The Senate is just a pain in the ass to everybody in the world as far as I can tell.\u2019: Matt Corley<\/a><\/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;. PHOTO: Memo sent by &#8220;Who Framed Roger Rabbit?&#8221; director: Matt Haiti struck by devastating earthquake; diocese suffers heavy damage &#8211; Episcopal Life Online &#8211; Haiti&#8217;s Anglicans are part of the US Episcopal Church. I know our diocese in Colorado &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/13\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-13-january-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 13 January 2010&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-16532","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":9260,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/as_long_as_they.html","url_meta":{"origin":16532,"position":0},"title":"As long as they don&#8217;t rename my parish, I&#8217;m cool with it","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Jul-06 3:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So when I started getting into the Episcopal Church thang, there was this undercurrent of distress amongst some of the assembled viz the \"proper\" shortname or acronym for the church....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12022,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/schism.html","url_meta":{"origin":16532,"position":1},"title":"Schism","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Dec-07 10:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So the\u00a0Episcopal\u00a0Diocese of San Joaquin (in California) has seceded (due to all that nassssty gay stuff) \u00a0from the Episcopal Church, instead choosing to be aligned under the Anglican\u00a0Province of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/episcshield_15_188.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11290,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/episcotrivia_on_a_wednesd.html","url_meta":{"origin":16532,"position":2},"title":"Episcotrivia on a Wednesday afternoon","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Oct-07 12:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So at what point does the national church actually step in and start taking disciplinary action against bishops -- and priests -- who decide that they are pulling up...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/episcshield_15_188.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11168,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/secession.html","url_meta":{"origin":16532,"position":3},"title":"Secession","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Mar-07 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Grace and St Stephen's, the largest parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado (after the Cathedral) has voted (in its vestry) to secede from the diocese. 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