{"id":22480,"date":"2011-09-01T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-09-01T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T05:30:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 1-Sep-11 2330)"},"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. 9 Vital Points About The Public Relevance of Political Candidates\u2019 Religious Beliefs | Camels With Hammers<\/a> – Short version: to the extent that a candidate makes his\/her faith or religious beliefs a part of their campaign (“Vote for me, because I believe in Jesus!”), those beliefs become rational targets for examination and criticism. E.g, Perry and Bachmann both tout their pious conservative Christianity as informing their campaigns — which means questions about that pious conservative Christianity are absolutely fair game.<\/li>\n
  2. Ku Klux Klan\u2019s Washington Parades, 1925-26<\/a> – Things do get better. At least for a while.<\/li>\n
  3. The truth about health, safety and environmental regulations : The Pump Handle<\/a> – It seems to me that the GOP’s obsession with “jobs” (as in “-killing regulations” is actually much less about jobs as it is about profit impacts on keeping people safe from water, air, and land contamination.<\/li>\n
  4. Irene’s Floods Rage as U.S. Cuts Stream Tracking Program – NYTimes.com<\/a> – As we gradually slide into being a Third World Country …<\/li>\n
  5. 10 Actual Mistakes that Syfy Has Made Over the Years [Daily 10]<\/a> – I actually can’t remember the last time I watched something on Syfy … which, given my media predilections, is pretty sad.<\/li>\n
  6. U.S. Said to Be Ready to Sue Banks Over Mortgages – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Yes. This. Nail them to the wall.<\/li>\n
  7. Florida Republicans Fight To Keep \u2018Cohabitation\u2019 Of Unmarried Couples Illegal | ThinkProgress<\/a> – I don’t think pre-marital cohabitation is the bees knees, for a variety of reasons — but I don’t think the state should be insisting on making it an illegal act.<\/li>\n
  8. Justice League #1: Best foot forward for the reboot?<\/a> – A decent enough 1st issue start … but nothing to really grab a new reader looking for the Justice League.<\/li>\n
  9. No Nazi comparisons? Sounds like something Hitler would say!<\/a> – While taking Godwin’s Law to extremes isn’t healthy or honest, I think it’s a good guideline — not so much because it’s too easy to trivialize the Nazis (though that’s of value) but because extremes (like Nazis) can distort nuanced arguments. We tend to live (fortunately) in realms of grays.<\/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 …. 9 Vital Points About The Public Relevance of Political Candidates\u2019 Religious Beliefs | Camels With Hammers – Short version: to the extent that a candidate makes his\/her faith or religious beliefs a part of their campaign (“Vote for me, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 1-Sep-11 2330)”<\/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-22480","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":43316,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/02\/or-perhaps-a-kinder-gentler-religious-discrimination.html","url_meta":{"origin":22480,"position":0},"title":"Or perhaps a kinder, gentler religious discrimination","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Jul-14 9:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"It might be difficult for \"pious\" closely-held family corporations to out-and-out discriminate against hiring or retaining gay employees. 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