{"id":7900,"date":"2012-05-31T23:32:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2012-05-31T23:32:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:32:31","slug":"happy-82nd-birthday-clint-eastwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/05\/31\/happy-82nd-birthday-clint-eastwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 82nd birthday Clint Eastwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\u201cThe next one won\u2019t happen until December 10, 2117, so I\u2019m guessing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/05\/30\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-next-weeks-transit-of-venus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this will be the last time you\u2019ll be able to see it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cPastor Mack Wolford, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2012\/05\/snakes-pentecostal-pastor-killed-rattlesnake\/1#.T8bm778y9hE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the son of a snake-handling pastor who died from a rattler bite<\/a>, lived by faith and died on Sunday, like his father before him, from a serpent bite.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAnother way of saying this is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/05\/many-pro-life-americans-dont-want-outlaw-abortion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">most Americans are actually pro-choice even if they sometimes identify as pro-life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe real battle isn\u2019t India vs. Pakistan anymore, but <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/473306\/the-wonkette-geopoliticker-our-favorite-cold-war\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Each Side vs. the Unlivable Mountain<\/a>, with its hundred mile an hour winds and negative-50-degree temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cMobile-home residents who are fighting the ballot measure have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/oceanside\/oceanside-rent-control-supporters-outspent-by-those-want-to-end\/article_c2cde58b-2de2-5690-8400-716dbfe0e6b3.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">no way to match the money that Prop. E supporters have poured into the campaign<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cHe was <a href=\"http:\/\/opentabernacle.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/26\/my-friend-jesus-no-the-one-in-prison-awaiting-deportation\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">arrested and detained with no regard for his civil rights and the due process<\/a> which Americans used to hold as a sacred trust and was finally moved to the Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, owned and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe judge\u2019s ruling is apparently based on a fictitious \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/30\/us\/tennessee-mosque-controversy\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">heightened standard\u2019 for public notice when Muslims are involved<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWho are you going to side with \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/blue-texan\/allen-west-r-fl-brags-about-torturing-i\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Allen West or George Washington?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIf it should be declared that contraception is not evil in itself, then <a href=\"http:\/\/theimmoralminority.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/university-of-notre-dame-decides-to.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">we should have to concede frankly that the Holy Spirit had been on the side of the Protestant churches<\/a> in 1930.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThis is the equivalent of, in 1965, a claque of Baptists demanding their right not to serve black people in restaurants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/catholic-bishops-civil-rights-movement-9285037\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">because of their beliefs in the Biblical basis for white supremacy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cRepublican state legislators are cooking up their own solution to this problem of <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/473916\/nc-developers-working-hard-to-prevent-scientists-from-making-sea-level-forecasts\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">evil scientists trying to make predictions based on scientific models<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThis contrast \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/universal-reconciliation-and-new.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Is forgiveness actual or potential?<\/a> \u2014 goes to the heart of the debates of what is called the \u2018New Perspective\u2019 on Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2012\/05\/22\/i-sure-hope-the-bible-isnt-this-creepy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">If you have that kind of relationship with the Bible, you may need counseling<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cEach year in May, <a href=\"http:\/\/moralminoritybook.com\/2012\/05\/22\/love-your-enemy-week\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anabaptists commemorate the death of Dirk Willems<\/a>, who was burned at the stake in 1569.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stufffundieslike.com\/2012\/05\/picking-and-choosing\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">We have a higher standard<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/get-informed\/intelligence-report\/browse-all-issues\/2012\/summer\/30-to-watch\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/pm\/review\/158288-todd-snider-time-as-we-know-it-the-songs-of-jerry-jeff-walker\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a shambling, half-tossed study<\/a> of an artist who epitomized the shambling, half-tossed record, executed by a musician who has made his career out of shambling, half-tossed performances.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/2012\/05\/honk-if-you-would-do-this-if-someone-took-your-bumper-sticker-seriously.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">So I honked, and he flipped me off<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nAnnie Downs is a huge, huge fan of The Waltons. <a href=\"http:\/\/annieblogs.com\/2012\/05\/23\/john-boy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Especially John-Boy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/unfuckyourhabitat.tumblr.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">UFYH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe next one won\u2019t happen until December 10, 2117, so I\u2019m guessing this will be the last time you\u2019ll be able to see it.\u201d \u201cPastor Mack Wolford, the son of a snake-handling pastor who died from a rattler bite, lived by faith and died on Sunday, like his father before him, from a serpent 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