{"id":28654,"date":"2012-07-20T22:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T04:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=28654"},"modified":"2012-07-20T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T04:25:19","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-2012-07-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-2012-07-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google+Blog plugin is still borked. No response from plugin designer. Unsure what my options are at this point. \u00a0So, meanwhile, here are things I posted in Google Plus since yesterday, much of which is about the Colorado movie theater shooting:<\/p>\n

The shooting<\/p>\n

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  1. My\u00a0second<\/em>\u00a0thought on the Colorado theater shooting<\/a> – <\/strong>Which was about some people’s first thoughts.<\/li>\n
  2. “There will be other days for politics”<\/a>\u00a0– <\/strong>Obama and Romney were, as far as I heard, pretty class acts regarding the shooting. \u00a0Too many other politicians were not.<\/li>\n
  3. And, on cue, a tragedy becomes a talking point<\/a> – <\/strong>One of the first (but by no means last) automatic seizing of the \u00a0tragedy for use in pursuit of someone’s ideological goals. Stay classy, Gohmert (R-Texas)!<\/li>\n
  4. And here’s what a\u00a0positive<\/em>\u00a0response to tragedy looks like<\/a>\u00a0– <\/strong>The local blood bank organization is having to turn away walk-ins looking to donate.<\/li>\n
  5. Social media upsides and downsides during a tragedy<\/a> – <\/strong>Remarkably enough, not everyone with the same name as the alleged shooter is, in fact, that person.<\/li>\n
  6. Light a candle against the darkness<\/a> – <\/strong>The world is not all bad. It’s useful to remember that sometimes.<\/li>\n
  7. Sadly, “The Onion” Knows Exactly Too Much About Us<\/a>\u00a0– <\/strong>Sometimes, it’s scary.<\/li>\n
  8. This is why we can’t have nice things (Colorado Theater Killing Edition)<\/a>\u00a0– <\/strong>Because, of course, the response to a tragedy is to Do Something, to Pass a Law, or Impose a Restriction. \u00a0Even if it wouldn’t have avoided the tragedy, and isn’t likely to do much to avert future ones.<\/li>\n
  9. Silly\u00a0risk assessment, or audience-assuring security theater?<\/a>\u00a0–<\/strong> More knee-jerk reactions by movie theaters to the shooting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Other stuff:<\/p>\n

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    1. I’m not quite sure what they put in the water over in Japan …<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>Japanese music videos are often zany. This one is downright hallucinogenic.<\/li>\n
    2. A rose by any other name would be nom-nom-nom-nom!<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>Romantic\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0tasty!<\/li>\n
    3. I had no idea there was an actual girl from Ipanema<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>The song turns 50. It’s still fun.<\/li>\n
    4. An oldie but goodie<\/a>\u00a0–<\/strong> “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the official version.<\/li>\n
    5. We did it once. We can — and should — do it again<\/a> – <\/strong>The anniversary of Apollo 11.<\/li>\n
    6. Funding for the goose is funding for the gander<\/a> <\/strong>– Right-wing pol is shocked, shocked, to find that taxpayer money being given to religious schools might actually go to Muslims<\/em>.<\/li>\n
    7. Learning to live with the Dark Side of the Continent<\/a> <\/strong>– A religiously conservative woman moves to Canada, home of the evil nationalized health service that also funds abortions — and what she found there.<\/li>\n
    8. Remembering the Summer of 1972<\/a> – <\/strong>A moment of silence for the dead of the Munich Olympics, forty years ago, seems appropriate to me, but not to the IOC.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Google+Blog plugin is still borked. No response from plugin designer. Unsure what my options are at this point. \u00a0So, meanwhile, here are things I posted in Google Plus since yesterday, much of which is about the Colorado movie theater shooting: The shooting My\u00a0second\u00a0thought on the Colorado theater shooting – Which was about some people’s first … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-20”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[109,99,38,12,134,17,42,82,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","category-food-drink","category-fourth-estate","category-health-care","category-homeland-security","category-media-music","category-space","category-media-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28651,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/the-damned-blame-game-colorado-movie-theater-killing-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":28654,"position":0},"title":"The Damned Blame Game (Colorado Movie Theater Killing Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jul-12 4:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. It's been, what, 16 hours since a gunman opened up at the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, and we already have: Bryan Fischer, Dolt, saying it's all the fault of the ACLU and the Supreme Court, for having Banished God and Prayer from School (though, interestingly, the alleged killer may\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28657,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/tweets-from-2012-07-20.html","url_meta":{"origin":28654,"position":1},"title":"Tweets from 2012-07-20","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jul-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If your 1st reaction re Colorado theater shooting is political (what cause it helps\/hurts) there's something wrong w you. # FYI, as far as I know, nobody I know was at or near the Colorado theater last night. Just heard okay from Randy, who lives nearby. # Finished up Star\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51525,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/on-what-the-charleston-shooting-was-really-about.html","url_meta":{"origin":28654,"position":2},"title":"On what the Charleston shooting was REALLY about","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jun-15 10:06pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rick Perry referred to it was an \"accident\" and probably involved overuse of prescription drugs: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rick-perry-charleston-shooting-accident-due-drug-use-manipulated-obama-ban-gunsMichael Savage thought it might be drugs, too. Or maybe a government assassin: http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/michael-savage-maybe-charleston-shooter-was-set-loose-governmentBut Rick Santorum said it was all about attacks on religious liberty: http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/06\/18\/rick-santorum-reacting-to-charleston-shooting-denounces-assaults-on-our-religious-liberty\/Fox & Friends agreed, it might very well be part\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11265297_111398835859264_82145487461570196_o.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11265297_111398835859264_82145487461570196_o.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/11265297_111398835859264_82145487461570196_o.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28928,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/misusing-a-tragedy.html","url_meta":{"origin":28654,"position":3},"title":"Misusing a tragedy","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 10-Aug-12 8:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wouldn't it be nice if the Southern Baptists mobilized to support the Sikh community after the recent shooting ... just to be nice and loving neighbors? \u00a0Instead of doing it as an opportunity to convert them to Christianity?I mean, yeah, I understand there's that impulse, but, yeesh, I don't recall\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":40043,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/a-school-shooting-strikes-close-to-home.html","url_meta":{"origin":28654,"position":4},"title":"A school shooting strikes close to home","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Dec-13 5:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So ... 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I know he was deemed sane by various examining psychiatrists, but at some point how could someone's world view be so askew as to believe this mass murder was the right thing to do and still\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}