{"id":22382,"date":"2011-08-27T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/unblogged-bits-sat-27-aug-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:57:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:57:47","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-27-aug-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/unblogged-bits-sat-27-aug-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 27-Aug-11 1730)"},"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. deannaknippling.com \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb How to Edit Your Own Ebooks, Part 8: Let the commas begin<\/a> – Huzzah for the Oxford \/ Harvard \/ serial \/ series comma!<\/li>\n
  2. Opposing the \u2018climate-change\u2019 conspiracy \u2014 what can we do?<\/a> – YES! FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE ISLAMO-FASCIST BLACK-HELICOPTOR ANTI-LIGHT-BULB “CLIMATE CHANGE” GAEA-WORSHIPING COMMIES!<\/li>\n
  3. Lafferty Mocks “Islamists” Who Think DC Earthquake Was A Warning From Allah<\/a> – Foolish Islamists! Everyone knows it was Jehovah who launched a middlin-sized earthquake at Virginia, not Allah!<\/li>\n
  4. “It Is Dominion We Are After. World Conquest … And We Must Never Settle For Anything Less”<\/a> – “Now what do you do? What do all of us do? We get ready to take dominion! We get ready to take dominion! It is all going to be ours–I’m talking about all of it. Everything that you would say is a good part of the secular world. Every means of communication, the news, the television, the radio, the cinema, the arts, the government, the finance–it’s going to be ours! God’s going to give it to His people. We should prepare to reign and rule with Jesus Christ.” – Pat Robertson (who now, among others, claims ignorance of this whole “dominionism” thing is). You know, I’d have a lot more respect for the Dominionists if they were at least honest about it. That they’ve been saying one thing to their followers, but are now fleeing once coming to light to the general citizenry reeks of hypocrisy and lack of faith in the righteousness of their ideas.<\/li>\n
  5. Donohue Likens LGBT Rights Movement To Apartheid, Denies Ever Leading Pressure Campaigns<\/a> – “So remember, when LGBT rights and women\u2019s rights advocates ask companies to drop out of a service that directs money to right-wing political organizations, it\u2019s \u201ceconomic war,\u201d but when Religious Right groups lead boycotts and pressure campaigns against companies, they are simply standing up for their values.”<\/li>\n
  6. Daily Kos: The worst thing that Rick Perry\u00a0said\u00a0…<\/a> – It’s inconvenient science, so let me just whip out some unsubstantiated and disproven stories that garnered a lot of Fox News air time when they first came out but to cite as a basis for simply dismissing something that would cause my petroleum industry sponsors some heartburn. Next question!<\/li>\n
  7. Erakat: American Consul General Said U.S. Will Cut Off Aid To Palestinian Authority If U.N. Bid Proceeds: Zaid Jilani<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Flying While Black and Reading Antique Aviation Books lands folk musician in Security Theater Hell<\/a> – United, at least, is making the minimal proper customer service sounds (albeit fobbing it off on it being a United contract flight by Shuttle America) and is reaching out to Mr Gilbert. Still would love to hear what the frell was going on in those flight attendants’ heads.<\/li>\n
  9. Mentos rocket launch<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  10. One Of Your Childhood Dreams Has Come True<\/a> – Kill me now.<\/li>\n
  11. Texas lawmakers fighting to insert Christian language in funerals for non-Christian soldiers<\/a> – From the linked Fox News story: “They [volunteer Christian military support organizations] also allege they were banned from reciting prayers or using religious language during services unless families approved the text in advance.” Good Lord! Being forced to confirm in advance with the family whether Christian prayers are welcome during the burial ceremony? It’s positively anti-American!<\/li>\n
  12. Conservative Supreme Court Justice warned us about money as speech<\/a> – What an anti-American socialist Commie loon! Obviously he’d never get confirmed by the Senate GOP today!<\/li>\n
  13. Ring of the Day: Cogsworth<\/a> – Way fun … and prone to snagging clothes and requiring a full cleaning after every use. But fun.<\/li>\n
  14. Walking on a cube-shaped planet<\/a> – Cool. I’m sure Larry Niven has written a story about this, somewhere, sometime …<\/li>\n
  15. How Many Innocents Have To Die Before We Get Honest About The Death Penalty?<\/a> – “How many innocent people is it permissible to kill in order to exact vengeance on the guilty?” And for those who say that the much higher costs and longer times it takes for death penalty cases to be tried argue that we need to remove all those pesky legal roadblocks and automatic appeals … how many MORE innocent people are you willing to see killed in order to exact vengeance on the guilty?<\/li>\n
  16. How to Lose Readers (Without Even Trying)<\/a> – “You can declare the world\u2019s religions to be cesspools of confusion and bigotry, you can argue that all drugs should be made legal and that free will is an illusion. You can even write in defense of torture. But I assure you that nothing will rile and winnow your audience like the suggestion that billionaires should contribute more of their wealth to the good of society.”<\/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 …. deannaknippling.com \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb How to Edit Your Own Ebooks, Part 8: Let the commas begin – Huzzah for the Oxford \/ Harvard \/ serial \/ series comma! Opposing the \u2018climate-change\u2019 conspiracy \u2014 what can we do? – … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 27-Aug-11 1730)”<\/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":[715,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49187,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/je-suis-charlie.html","url_meta":{"origin":22382,"position":0},"title":"Je Suis Charlie","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Jan-15 12:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If this is in fact an attack by radical Islamists in retaliation for Charlie Hebdo having a long tradition of mocking comics of Muhammed (and pretty much everyone else they set their sites on), than all I can say is that the perpetrators demonstrate an appalling lack of personal faith\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":136887,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/welcome-to-california.html","url_meta":{"origin":22382,"position":1},"title":"Welcome to California!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Aug-18 11:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We arrived in SoCal this afternoon, delivering the boy to college. 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