{"id":21027,"date":"2011-05-12T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/unblogged-bits-thu-12-may-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-05-12T23:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T05:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-12-may-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/unblogged-bits-thu-12-may-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 12-May-11 2330)"},"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\/E-XUEfyJEh8\/\">As State Faces Deep Cuts, Texas Commits $250 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Auto Racing<\/a> &#8211; Fiscal responsibility at its finest!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/DL9WtvZRoQA\/\">Meghan McCain to Glenn Beck: Don\u2019t Call Me Fat &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a> &#8211; Glenn Beck: Asshat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/wegVPzeck98\/boykin-there-no-creativity-islam\">Boykin: &#8220;There Is No Creativity In Islam&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Riiiiiight.  And lovely fictitious note that any advances that Islamic nations are credited with (even where, ahem, they are credited to individuals by name) were actually from capture Christians.  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/E3VJ21-4FVY\/eagle-forum-un-using-environmentalism-remove-god-and-take-over-world\">Eagle Forum: UN Is Using Environmentalism To Remove God And Take Over The World<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The proposed UN treaty to give rights to &#8216;Mother Earth&#8217; as well as other environmental treaties are fatally flawed because they equate God with nature, and aim to supplant God&#8217;s directive to man to care for the earth with government dominion.&#8221; Eek!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/9ztEZE__Ihw\/afa-writer-condemns-christians-who-practice-yoga\">AFA Writer Condemns Christians Who Practice Yoga<\/a> &#8211; Obviously I&#8217;ve been going down the path to the Fiery Furnace ever since I took a quarter of yoga in college &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Sc-XUweBFj0\/5431176177\">scottpatrick: Super Heroes This is a lot of superheroes. Who&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Some fun JLU-style art, including of Marvel characters.  (But why Hal Jordan and not John Stewart?)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/NdKnFB_RpAo\/click.phdo\">The Chart That Should Accompany Every Discussion of Deficits<\/a> &#8211; Yup.  Both of &#8217;em, in fact.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/rnsNdB-PF10\/hobbes-and-bacon\">Pants Are Overrated \u00bb Hobbes And Bacon<\/a> &#8211; Most excellent.<\/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;. As State Faces Deep Cuts, Texas Commits $250 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Auto Racing &#8211; Fiscal responsibility at its finest! Meghan McCain to Glenn Beck: Don\u2019t Call Me Fat &#8211; The Daily Beast &#8211; Glenn Beck: Asshat. 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