{"id":19194,"date":"2010-11-14T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-nov-10-1630.html"},"modified":"2010-11-14T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:30:56","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-14-nov-10-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-nov-10-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-Nov-10 1630)"},"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. Bad move, A&E<\/a> – "Cable stations like A&E, TLC, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel were all set up with the noble goals of providing good educational\/informative programming, and they've all sold out to provide little more than dreck ala Psychics with Serious Mental Illnesses Hunting Hitler's Ghost While Driving A Big Truck with Their Freakish Family. It's cheap, it's easy, the 'talent' they hire are all boring nobodies with only their disturbed personalities as a selling point \u2014 these are modern freak shows, plain and simple \u2014 and audiences eat them up."<\/li>\n
  2. At a local Target store… [Respectful Insolence]<\/a> – Remember how we used to laugh at all those Old West snake oil recipes? Here’s your basic info on Oscillococcinum: “The preparation is derived from duck liver and heart, diluted to 200C \u2014 a ratio of one part duck offal to 100^^400 parts water. This is such a high dilution that the final product likely contains not even one molecule of the original liver. Homeopaths claim that the molecules leave an ‘imprint’ in the dilution that causes a healing effect on the body, although available evidence does not support efficacy beyond placebo.” The future is laughing at us.<\/li>\n
  3. A Visual Representation of Biblical Contradictions<\/a> – Considering the Bible as inerrant and without contradictions requires a huge level of cognitive dissonance and rules lawyering. It’s ultimately a losing proposition, because it’s trying to define truth by fiat, rather than teach what the lessons are you are trying to impart. Arguing over infallibility is (or should be) the least important thing.<\/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 …. Bad move, A&E – "Cable stations like A&E, TLC, the History Channel, and the Discovery Channel were all set up with the noble goals of providing good educational\/informative programming, and they've all sold out to provide little more than … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-Nov-10 1630)”<\/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-19194","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":128622,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/aliens-are-getting-rid-of-the-h2-channel.html","url_meta":{"origin":19194,"position":0},"title":"ALIENS ARE GETTING RID OF THE H2 CHANNEL!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Nov-15 3:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, wait, it's not Aliens, it's A&E. 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