{"id":28753,"date":"2012-08-03T06:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=28753"},"modified":"2012-08-03T06:56:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T12:56:51","slug":"bits-and-bobs-for-2012-08-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/bits-and-bobs-for-2012-08-03.html","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Bobs for 2012-08-03"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Not quite enough to break into their own grouping posts.<\/p>\n

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  1. DADT repeal leads to attack on religious freedom!<\/a> – The religious conservatives warned us about how military chaplains would be\u00a0harassed\u00a0if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed. \u00a0What they didn’t tell us was that they were going to be doing the harassing.<\/li>\n
  2. Taped-up athletes<\/a> – What’s up with the funky taping all over various athletes bodies at the Olympics? Here’s the answer.<\/li>\n
  3. Christopher Eccleston as Malekith the Accursed – Fantastic!<\/a> – Excellent idea both for a villain and for casting. Plus, we’ve already seen the Casket of Eternal Winters …<\/li>\n
  4. A Pearl Harbor witness calls Kelly on his crappy metaphor<\/a> – No, free birth control is not like Pearl Harbor. Nor like 9\/11. Dolt.<\/li>\n
  5. Some People<\/a> – No man is an island.<\/li>\n
  6. The Ingestible Sensor<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  7. Yeah, no hate here<\/a> – Some selected tweets from Chick-fil-A supporters during the big chicken-o-thon.<\/li>\n
  8. Today’s writing exercise<\/a> – More 15-minute fun.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Not quite enough to break into their own grouping posts. DADT repeal leads to attack on religious freedom! – The religious conservatives warned us about how military chaplains would be\u00a0harassed\u00a0if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed. \u00a0What they didn’t tell us was that they were going to be doing the harassing. Taped-up athletes – What’s … Continue reading “Bits and Bobs for 2012-08-03”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28754,"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":[45,109,134,20,25,67,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-church-state","category-health-care","category-hi-tech","category-gay-stuff","category-media-sports","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/junk-drawer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127834,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/so-whats-the-anti-christian-bigotry-news-for-the-week.html","url_meta":{"origin":28753,"position":0},"title":"So what's the "Anti-Christian Bigotry" news for the week?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Aug-15 4:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of the zanies at OneNewsNow, we present their weekly top four ways that Christians are being persecuted, persecuted I tell you, just for being worshipers of Christ in this Christian nation of ours.1. 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