{"id":17817,"date":"2010-07-08T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-thu-8-jul-10-0200.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:28:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:28:49","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-8-jul-10-0200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-thu-8-jul-10-0200.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 8-Jul-10 0200)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar<\/a> – This is very interesting — both in terms of language theory and as something that writers (literary, technical, instructional) need to consider.<\/li>\n
  2. The Religious Right’s Bizarre Understanding of the Establishment Clause<\/a> – Summary of the argument: If you aren’t for us, you’re against us! And since the Constitution doesn’t allow you to be against us, you have to be for us!<\/li>\n
  3. CNN Caves To Right Wing Neocons By Firing Its Mideast Reporter Octavia Nasr<\/a> – Actually, I’d think “simplistic comments” would be just up the neocons’ alley.<\/li>\n
  4. Next up from M Night Shyamalan – DORK TOWER, Wednesday, June 7<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. This is not your Mom’s Girl Scouts<\/a> – Not a bad logo\/identity redesign. Need to be sure my Mother-in-Law sees this.<\/li>\n
  6. Helping the climate, cutting the deficit: Steve Benen<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. What’s bad for the coffers is good for the reputation<\/a> – Lacking donations from Big Finance causes logistical difficulties, but the Dems do have a solid opportunity to exploit that as an electoral advantage.<\/li>\n
  8. Obama cuts short nonsense on CMS nominee<\/a> – I don’t care for recess appointments, but when that’s the ONLY way to get appointees past the pseudo-majority GOP …<\/li>\n
  9. Glenn Beck Is Leading Christians to Hell<\/a> – If he is, it’s not for the reasons Mr. Keller thinks …<\/li>\n
  10. Who Is Trying To Shut Down Chris Rodda’s Videos Exposing the Lies of Beck and Barton?<\/a> – There’s a special place in Hell for people who make up quotations by famous or influential people in order to “win” an argument through deceit.<\/li>\n
  11. Christian Coalition Wants “Twilight” Books Banned<\/a> – Actual quote: “These Twilight books are very disturbing books for family values. Teen marriage is not the standard, but the part that is more troubling is the vampire. It’s just not normal for young people to idolize a vampire.”<\/li>\n
  12. Legislature-Passed Civil Unions Bill Not Democratic Enough, Says Hawaii Governor<\/a> – If it’s mandated by the judiciary, then it’s undemocratic because the legislature didn’t do it. When it’s passed by the legislature, then it’s undemocratic because it wasn’t done by popular vote. When it’s done by popular vote then it’s an oppression of minority religious rights, which the judiciary needs to mandate …<\/li>\n
  13. Insurer revoked leukemia patient\u2019s coverage because it claimed she underpaid her premium by a penny.<\/a> – Hey, you gotta understand the poor insurance company’s position! I mean, after a while, all those pennies add up!!<\/li>\n
  14. Hannity: \u2018I Don\u2019t Hear America Being Praised Enough By The Muslim World\u2019<\/a> – Only the weak and insecure complain that they are not praised enough.<\/li>\n
  15. The Last Airbender – Kiss the Curb One Minute Movie Reviews<\/a> – More proof it’s confusing and muddled even if (especially if?) you’ve never seen the TV show.<\/li>\n
  16. Jindal Signs \u2018Gun-In-Church\u2019 Bill, Allowing Congregants To Bring Concealed Weapons To Worship<\/a> – I disagree with the theology, and the dancing around coming up with the “church security” excuse — but if we are going to allow concealed carry permits, I don’t understand why churches would be off limits.<\/li>\n
  17. MN GOP Gov. Candidate\u2019s Idea For Economic Growth: Cut The Minimum Wage Of Bartenders And Waiters<\/a> – Gee, can we pass a new law that politician who reduces the minimum wage has to take a similar percentage wage cut? I mean, think of taxpayer savings and deficit reduction!<\/li>\n
  18. America’s Weird “We-Must-Be-Nice-to-Rich-People” Doctrine: Brad Reed<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Workaround<\/a> – (No comment.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Many English speakers cannot understand basic grammar – This is very interesting — both in terms of language theory and as something that writers (literary, technical, instructional) need to consider. The Religious Right’s Bizarre Understanding of the Establishment Clause … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 8-Jul-10 0200)”<\/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":[529,718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatarairbenderkorra","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42725,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions\/42725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}