{"id":20376,"date":"2011-03-03T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/unblogged-bits-thu-3-mar-11-2231.html"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:31:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T05:31:18","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-3-mar-11-2231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/unblogged-bits-thu-3-mar-11-2231.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 3-Mar-11 2231)"},"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. Alabama Lawmaker Wants Ten Commandments Displays To Stop People “From Going Berserk or Killing Folks”<\/a> – I’d argue that it’s, itself, blasphemous to argue that the Ten Commandments are NOT “distinctly religious”. I mean … check out the first three or so, dude, and tell me that they are not distinctly religious. Really.<\/li>\n
  2. Another Pakistani Minister Murdered for Urging Reform to Blasphemy Laws<\/a> – Note to American Christian Conservatives: if you want to talk about “persecution” and “oppression” in the US … complain when this kind of (evil, indefensible) stuff happens.<\/li>\n
  3. House Threatened To Discipline Rep. Earl Bleumenauer For Telling The Truth<\/a> – I’m a big believer in decorum. But not for malicious purposes.<\/li>\n
  4. There is no normal<\/a> – Amazing world, ennit?<\/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 …. Alabama Lawmaker Wants Ten Commandments Displays To Stop People “From Going Berserk or Killing Folks” – I’d argue that it’s, itself, blasphemous to argue that the Ten Commandments are NOT “distinctly religious”. I mean … check out the first … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 3-Mar-11 2231)”<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20376","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":6888,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/09\/take_ten.html","url_meta":{"origin":20376,"position":0},"title":"Take Ten","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Dec-04 2:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Swell. 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This one, which has cleared a Senate committee in South Carolina, at least...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":380,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/take_two_tablet.html","url_meta":{"origin":20376,"position":3},"title":"Take two tablets","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Apr-03 11:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"I've done a similar analysis before, but Eugene Volokh makes the point as well that the Ten Commandments is a sketchy foundation for our civil law. 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Evidently we have to go through another \"again.\" At a ceremonial signing today of a bill that...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5105,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/31\/now_thats_scary.html","url_meta":{"origin":20376,"position":5},"title":"Now that’s scary","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Oct-03 3:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rich blogs on further developments in the shenanigans of the \"Reverend\" Fred Phelps and the city of Casper, Wyoming. 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