{"id":21366,"date":"2011-06-29T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-jun-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-06-29T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:30:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-29-jun-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-jun-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Jun-11 1130)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Former mayor Giuliani ignores gay pal’s calls to preside at his wedding now that same-sex marriage is legal – NYPOST.com<\/a> – Rudy is such<\/b> the exemplar of the sanctity of marriage.<\/li>\n
  2. Understanding the nature of a compromise<\/a> – “Dems are willing to accept concessions to strike a deal. Republicans are willing to not shoot their hostage in the head in exchange for Dems giving the GOP what it wants. The former is an example of a party negotiating in good faith. The latter is an example of reckless thugs pretending to be a political party.”<\/li>\n
  3. Joe Johnston: \u201cI\u2019d Love To Make a Sequel To The Rocketeer\u201d<\/a> – I’d love another Rocketeer.<\/li>\n
  4. Only Five Networked Cars For Every 1,000 Would End Traffic<\/a> – There’s a big difference between self-driving cars (no thanks, I work with too many computer systems that crash or lock up) and cars that intelligently report back on road conditions (an excellent idea).<\/li>\n
  5. Chinese government photoshop disaster goes viral – Boing Boing<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  6. Deadly cattle disease eradicated, UN declares – World – CBC News<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  7. YouTube – Terminator 2 – 20 years ( July 3 1991 – July 3 2011)<\/a> – Twenty years? TWENTY YEARS?! Holy crap.<\/li>\n
  8. YouTube – Brave Trailer<\/a> – This looks pretty darned awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Former mayor Giuliani ignores gay pal’s calls to preside at his wedding now that same-sex marriage is legal – NYPOST.com – Rudy is such the exemplar of the sanctity of marriage. Understanding the nature of a compromise – “Dems … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Jun-11 1130)”<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21366","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":33528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/bigotry-and-bipartisanship.html","url_meta":{"origin":21366,"position":0},"title":"Bigotry and Bipartisanship","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-May-13 11:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems the only thing the GOP is interested in fostering a bipartisan stance about is whose party is has been historically opposed to gay rights.\"First, I think we have to say, 200 hours ago, Hillary Clinton hadn\u2019t announced that she was for gay marriage. 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