{"id":6404,"date":"2014-07-02T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2014-07-02T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T03:21:40","slug":"things-heard-e307v1n2n3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6404","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e307v1n2n3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\">So, after midnight last night, power was restored (Monday my hometown had tornadoes which didn&#8217;t touch down pass over &#8230; much tree damage and power outages resulted). Now the Hurricane Sandy\/Katrina survivors are not impressed by 30 hours (but with fresh water and gas) as something to note, and it wasn&#8217;t that bad, but &#8230; it is nice to have power again nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Links?<\/p>\n<ol style=\"color: #444444;\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2014\/07\/02\/i-disagree-with-you-so-shut-up-is-not-an-argument-its-tyranny\/\" target=\"_blank\">Something liberal school administrators<\/a>\u00a0(and politicians) have trouble understanding.<\/li>\n<li>Case\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/07\/02\/high-school-student-disciplined-for-participating-in-national-day-of-silence-pro-gay-rights-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">in point<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A weak defense of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/196451\/hillary-clintons-ethics-challenged\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ms Clinton&#8217;s rape defense case<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mike-hollingsheads-hail-storm-damage-images-2014-7\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pipeline.corante.com\/archives\/2014\/07\/02\/all_natural_and_chemical_free.php\" target=\"_blank\">Two lists<\/a>, one with everything not that is not a empty hard vacuum and the other list has everything else. Not very useful, eh?<\/li>\n<li>And then &#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/07\/monica-lewinsky-national-geographic-interview-108477.html\" target=\"_blank\">I met Mr Clinton<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So, I&#8217;m going to not remark overmuch on the Hobby Lobby decision which brought a big explosion of stupid from the left (e.g., &#8220;this mean if I have a religious call to kill this decision allows that&#8221; (Chicago Tribune columnist &#8230; hint: no it doesn&#8217;t) or Gosh why do companies like Hobby Lobby not object to viagra (<a href=\"http:\/\/feministphilosophers.wordpress.com\/2014\/06\/30\/scotus-does-it-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pheminist Filosopher<\/a>s &#8230; hint: a closely held company could &#8230; but consider what you&#8217;re asking about &#8230; d&#8217;ya think you can find a real religion worshiped in this country by any plurality that doesn&#8217;t favor fertility and family over killing children and fetus? Theology and life vs death, very little theology prefers the latter. Not actually so very hard to imagine.)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leiterreports.typepad.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/a-bit-more-on-hobby-lobby.html\" target=\"_blank\">This post<\/a>, is the closest to an intelligent response from the left, but strikes out on point 5, in which he somehow forgets the reasoning that was allowed sort of in point 2 &#8230; that is the court found that the burdening of beliefs was not tenable (for closely held corps) when non-burdened alternatives exist, which they did as it was allowed already for others. Or in other words, see the first itemized point\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/06\/30\/the-hobby-lobby-majority-summarized-in-relatively-plain-english\/\" target=\"_blank\">in this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/196300\/yes-the-irs-probably-did-lose-those-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s someone who believes\u00a0<\/a>the IRS &#8220;lost&#8221; all those emails by 6 independent computers all &#8220;happened&#8221; to be eaten by their respective dogs. The point is moot, as the most reasonable response is to allow that the matters\u00a0which these emails where\u00a0to have &#8220;cleared up&#8221; is, on failure to produce the requested data, that it means the accusation is deemed to have been found true.<\/li>\n<li>So, if true, the IRS under Obama has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2014\/06\/irs-admits-leaking-personal-information-in-prop-8-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\">totally corrupted by partisan bias<\/a>. Welcome to the new world, in which the left has decided a partisan IRS is a good thing. Wonder if they&#8217;ll still feel that way the next time we have President from the right. After all, everyone does agree that turnabout is fair play &#8230; that&#8217;s axiomatic, right?<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eb-misfit.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/the-anti-vaxxer-body-count.html\" target=\"_blank\">statistic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/glory2godforallthings.com\/2014\/06\/28\/harlots-and-drunkards-at-the-last-banquet-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">This point might also be recalled\u00a0<\/a>during homosexuality is sin discussions.<\/li>\n<li>On the poverty\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/196291\/cartoon-poor-hillary\/\" target=\"_blank\">and Ms Clinton affair<\/a>. I also read Mr Clinton has offered that &#8220;we were 7 million in debt&#8221; &#8230; ahem. Mr Clinton, I&#8217;m pretty sure your debts were all covered (off the books, IRS-wise) by selling pardons in your last week or so in office.<\/li>\n<li>I disagree\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neoneocon.com\/2014\/06\/30\/more-scotus-public-sector-union-dues\/\" target=\"_blank\">with this SCOTUS ruling<\/a>. I&#8217;d offer that no union should be able to collect &#8220;dues&#8221; from any non-members. Ever. Under any conditions. Not one penny. That&#8217;s just wrong.<\/li>\n<li>My interest has waxed &#8230; we&#8217;re\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ordinary-gentlemen.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/01\/round-of-16-ends\" target=\"_blank\">getting closer to the finals<\/a>. For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;m rooting for the Netherlands (mostly because they skated so well in the winter Olympics).<\/li>\n<li>A fellow blogger\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2014\/07\/01\/solidarity-from-ankara-for-alexander-sodiqovs-release\/\" target=\"_blank\">under duress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/06\/30\/massachusetts-supreme-court-says-it-can-order-you-to-decrypt-you\/?ncid=rss_truncated\" target=\"_blank\">can order<\/a>. It cannot compel.<\/li>\n<li>If this is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isegoria.net\/2014\/07\/poes-law-hoaxes-and-gullibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">news for you<\/a>. I&#8217;ve got more &#8230; kindergarten is over. Grow up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after midnight last night, power was restored (Monday my hometown had tornadoes which didn&#8217;t touch down pass over &#8230; much tree damage and power outages resulted). Now the Hurricane Sandy\/Katrina survivors are not impressed by 30 hours (but with fresh water and gas) as something to note, and it wasn&#8217;t that bad, but &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}