{"id":23152,"date":"2011-10-23T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-sun-23-oct-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-10-23T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-23-oct-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-sun-23-oct-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 23-Oct-11 1130)"},"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\/bxyF1yLF7XU\/religious-right-erupts-following-herman-cains-incoherent-position-abortion\">Religious Right Erupts Following Herman Cain&#8217;s Incoherent Position On Abortion<\/a> &#8211; What&#8217;s remarkable here is that the Right is unable to distinguish, even among their own, between <b>pro-choice<\/b> and <b>pro-abortion<\/b>. You can argue that abortion is wrong but not something the government should be making decisions about, while still not being a shill of the abortion industry (to use another term the Right loves to use). That they can&#8217;t see that says more about them than about Cain.  Of course, it&#8217;s also true that Cain may be incoherent on this issue, but it&#8217;s remarkable the knee-jerk furor he&#8217;s managed to stir up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/th3AHXvhe5E\/\">World\u2019s Most Expensive Campervan Up For Sale<\/a> &#8211; Cool. Not sure, if I had $3MM to burn on this kind of thing that this is the sort of thing I&#8217;d burn it on, but &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/hcgblOxJCJo\/get-a-free-one+hour-email-address-with-guerrilla-mail\">Get a Free One-Hour Email Address with Guerrilla Mail [Email]<\/a> &#8211; Not a bad little tool to use for privacy with vendors who insist on knowing your email address, but from whom you really don&#8217;t want any more email.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/QquZP07op4o\/\">Rick Perry Goes Birther: After Meeting With Trump, &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Know&#8217; If Obama&#8217;s Birth Certificate Is Real | ThinkProgress<\/a> &#8211; Desperation time!<\/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;. Religious Right Erupts Following Herman Cain&#8217;s Incoherent Position On Abortion &#8211; What&#8217;s remarkable here is that the Right is unable to distinguish, even among their own, between pro-choice and pro-abortion. You can argue that abortion is wrong but not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-sun-23-oct-11-1130.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun. 23-Oct-11 1130)&#8221;<\/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-23152","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":23381,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/bye-bye-birth-control.html","url_meta":{"origin":23152,"position":0},"title":"Bye-bye, Birth Control","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Nov-11 9:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"There's long been folks in the pro-Choice movement who've suggested that anti-abortion folks were interested not just in ending abortion, but birth control as well. This has been denied by most mainstream anti-abortion organizations and proponents, but the current \"personhood\" law movement demonstrates that, at least in the anti-abortion fringe,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51220,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/when-abortion-gets-personal.html","url_meta":{"origin":23152,"position":1},"title":"When abortion gets personal","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-May-15 7:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"When the abstract becomes the personal, principles sometimes get ... flexible.That said, it's not just hypocrisy, and it's not just from the Pro-Life side (though that's galling in its own way). As http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/06\/upshot\/candidates-disagree-on-abortion-but-public-is-in-surprising-harmony.html noted just a few weeks ago, when you get beyond high-level \"Is abortion right or wrong,\" and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49006,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/who-can-take-credit-for-the-decline-in-the-us-abortion-rate.html","url_meta":{"origin":23152,"position":2},"title":"Who can take credit for the decline in the US abortion rate","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Dec-14 4:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It doesn't seem to be the people waving around pictures of aborted fetuses. It so happens that birth rates are down, too, and the overall answer seems to be an increase in the of contraception by the most at-risk-of-pregnancy groups of women.I don't imagine that will get pro-life groups actively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/whats-in-a-related-to-abortion-name-said-shakespeare.html","url_meta":{"origin":23152,"position":3},"title":"What&#39;s in a (related to abortion) name, said Shakespeare?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Aug-12 11:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interestingly enough, it seems that the labels \"pro-life\" and \"pro-choice\" are more totemic than accurate, as a substantial number of \"pro-life\" people indicate that they think that decisions about abortions should be made by women and their families and doctors, not by the government.Which says to me that a lot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45928,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/on-abortion-and-the-bible.html","url_meta":{"origin":23152,"position":4},"title":"On abortion and the Bible","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Oct-14 9:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Whether or not Biblical teaching should be the be-all and end-all of the abortion debate (my answer: no), it's important to realize that the Bible itself does not send a clear, consistent, unarguable message about abortion within its pages. 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