{"id":19117,"date":"2010-11-04T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T23:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/unblogged-bits-thu-4-nov-10-1730.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:48:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-4-nov-10-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/unblogged-bits-thu-4-nov-10-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu.  4-Nov-10 1730)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/nnrNJ_ltuRA\/\">Friendly Atheist \u00bb Trust Him; He\u2019s a Pastor<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t give this guy cab fare, let alone my bank accounting information to pull out stuff. Heck, I don&#8217;t like doing that for utility bills, let alone some guy in a sharp suit with a big multi-media screen up on the megachurch state. (Relying on social peer pressure is a pretty dickish move, too.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/seehDvJB2Bk\/dems_begin_making_case_that_go.html\">The Plum Line &#8211; Dem memo: GOP doesn&#8217;t have mandate for repeal<\/a> &#8211; Again, consider that Truman quote &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/rbgohYGqopo\/head-of-belgian-catholic-church-aids-is-justice-for-gays\">Head of Belgian Catholic church: AIDS is justice for gays<\/a> &#8211; So AIDS is &#8220;intrinsic justice&#8221; for &#8220;mistreating human love&#8221; through homosexuality. But elderly priests who &#8220;mistreated human love&#8221; through sexual abuse of children should get a pass from any sort of civil justice. Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/2w8PzDXuYTs\/sophisticated-smuggling-tunnel-containing-rail-system-oxygen-pumps-and-30-tons-of-marijuana-discovered\">Sophisticated Smuggling Tunnel Containing Rail System, Oxygen Pumps, And 30 Tons of Marijuana Discovered [Marijuana]<\/a> &#8211; And you don&#8217;t go to that effort (and transport 30 tons of pot at a time) if marijuana isn&#8217;t a major money-maker for the drug gangs. Too bad their market didn&#8217;t get legalized this week; it might have put a crimp in their profitability.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/LbpE9stNTCE\/best-television-adaptations-of-science-fiction-and-fantasy-novels\">Best television adaptations of science fiction and fantasy novels<\/a> &#8211; I love me some Tripods. (And the original books were some great YA SF, too. Hmmmm &#8230; need to pull those out for Kay.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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;. Friendly Atheist \u00bb Trust Him; He\u2019s a Pastor &#8211; Um &#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t give this guy cab fare, let alone my bank accounting information to pull out stuff. Heck, I don&#8217;t like doing that for utility bills, let alone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/unblogged-bits-thu-4-nov-10-1730.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Thu.  4-Nov-10 1730)&#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":"","_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":[36,81,25,16,27,40,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books","category-elections-2010","category-gay-stuff","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-media-tv","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18921,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/unblogged-bits-thu-14-oct-10-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":19117,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 14-Oct-10 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Oct-10 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... \u2018Are You Guys Eventually Going To Disclose?\u2019 Chamber Responds Bluntly, \u2018No!\u2019 - I'd very much welcome an investigation into this. It will be too late for this election cycle, but ... News Corporation Shareholders\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9799,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/31\/an_embarrassing_travel_in.html","url_meta":{"origin":19117,"position":1},"title":"An embarrassing travel incident that cannot be blamed on the TSA","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Oct-06 6:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't let this, um, happen to you. A woman who works at the Population Council went to an AIDS conference in Toronto. 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