{"id":18145,"date":"2010-08-17T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/unblogged-bits-tue-17-aug-10-1800.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:45:53","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-17-aug-10-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/unblogged-bits-tue-17-aug-10-1800.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 17-Aug-10 1800)"},"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. Even The “Religious Freedom Coalition” Opposes Park 51?<\/a> – In their own words, “The Religious Freedom Coalition maintains that Religious Freedom is the ‘first liberty’ and wherever Religious Freedom is suppressed there is no true freedom of assembly, press or speech.” Except, of course, when it’s THE EVIL MUSLIMS!<\/li>\n
  2. Glenn Beck Attacks Imam Rauf For Understanding Failed Policies Radicalize Muslims, Despite Saying So Himself: Zaid Jilani<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Spectacular 3D sculptures made of steel wire<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  4. 18 Things I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was 18<\/a> – While it gets a bit Overly-Inspirational at times, this isn’t a bad list.<\/li>\n
  5. My Thoughts on Oracle v Google<\/a> – More on the Java suit than you probably wanted to know, but it’s interesting reading (for some values of “interesting”).<\/li>\n
  6. 10 Weirdest Reasons To Get Fired – Oddee.com<\/a> – I wouldn’t call the weird reasons — in at least half the cases they’re fairly outrageous reasons.<\/li>\n
  7. Dropping an already-thin pretense<\/a> – Fox News: Fairly Improving the GOP’s Cash Balance<\/li>\n
  8. Glenn Beck Outrages The Right By Saying Gay Marriage Poses No Threat<\/a> – Even Glenn isn’t immune to the Robespierres of the Right. Why does he hate the children so?<\/li>\n
  9. 30 Fun and Fantastic Wedding Invitations<\/a> – Some very nice design work here. Though I’m not sure I’d want people walking on my face with the flipflops one.<\/li>\n
  10. Seventies Japanese Subway Etiquette Posters<\/a> – These (and a lot of the others when you click through on the posters) are a ton of fun.<\/li>\n
  11. The Escapist : News : US Snatches Pokemon World Championship from Japan<\/a> – Ha!<\/li>\n
  12. A gut reaction to moral transgressions<\/a> – I.e., “The Ick Factor.”<\/li>\n
  13. The Ground Zero Mosque<\/a> – Two solid thought experiments. Unfortunately, too many of the folks involved are knee-jerking, not thinking. Or else they’re thinking of how to exploit the situation.<\/li>\n
  14. Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations<\/a> – These are extremely cool.<\/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 …. Even The “Religious Freedom Coalition” Opposes Park 51? – In their own words, “The Religious Freedom Coalition maintains that Religious Freedom is the ‘first liberty’ and wherever Religious Freedom is suppressed there is no true freedom of assembly, press … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 17-Aug-10 1800)”<\/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":"","_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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41251,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/freedom-for-the-goose-is-freedom-for-the-gander.html","url_meta":{"origin":18145,"position":0},"title":"Freedom for the Goose is Freedom for the Gander","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Mar-14 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Part of me objects to these sorts of examples as drumming up fear about \"those crazy Muslims\" and how they would \"abuse\" religious freedom-to-discriminate laws by \"bringing Sharia Law\" to our blessed shores, etc., etc., etc. Because, really, the last thing we need is more people fearmongering about \"the Muslims.\"On\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129113,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/the-founding-fathers-and-islam.html","url_meta":{"origin":18145,"position":1},"title":"The Founding Fathers and Islam","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Dec-15 12:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Islam and how proposals of religious freedom for the young America would affect Muslims (and other outr\u00e9 non-mainstream-Protestant believers like Jews and Catholics) came up repeatedly during the debates around the Constitution. Islam was a particularly interesting edge case for discussing religious freedom; there were few (acknowledge) Muslims in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137869,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/oh-you-mean-religious-freedom-means-people-can-discriminate-against-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":18145,"position":2},"title":"Oh, you mean "religious freedom" means people can discriminate against ME?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Feb-19 10:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, lots of people love pounding the \"religious freedom\" drum -- \"I shouldn't have to associate with \/ offer services to \/ dispense medicine for \/ accept customers who are those types of people\" -- when they think that they're part of \"Us,\" not one of \"Them.\"So there are certainly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41862,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/religious-freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee-north-carolina-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":18145,"position":3},"title":"Religious freedom for me, but not for thee (North Carolina Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Apr-14 5:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have absolutely no doubt that all of those conservatives who have been so gung-ho about religious freedom such as to call requiring a secular employer to include birth control in insurances policies religious persecution, or to consider baking a cake a personal religious act ...... will be all over\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/religious-freedom-for-me-but-not-for-thee-from-russia-with-love-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":18145,"position":4},"title":"Religious Freedom for Me but Not for Thee (From Russia with Love Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Apr-17 10:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years, even through to the present, Vladimir Putin has been a poster child for elements of evangelical Christianity in the US. \"He's standing up to gays!\" they shout. \"He's standing up to Muslims! He's making the official church of Russia strong!\"Whether or not persecuting gays and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26893,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/but-some-religions-are-more-equal-than-others.html","url_meta":{"origin":18145,"position":5},"title":"But some religions are more equal than others","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Mar-12 6:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Shorter version: Focus on the Family wants conservative Christian churches and individuals to be able to do whatever the hell they damn want -- hire, fire, build, tear down, discriminate, slander, isolate, bully, whatever -- and use their \"sincerely held religious belief\" as a shield to be allowed to do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","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=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46612,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions\/46612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}