{"id":21693,"date":"2011-07-23T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T05:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/unblogged-bits-sat-23-jul-11-2331.html"},"modified":"2011-07-23T23:31:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T05:31:17","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-23-jul-11-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/unblogged-bits-sat-23-jul-11-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 23-Jul-11 2331)"},"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. Barney Frank: ‘There are worse things than default’<\/a> – “I don’t want there to be a default but there are worse things than default. And worse things than default are wrenching the American government out of shape, losing the principle of majority rule that’s been such and important gift from America to the rest of the world, inflicting pain on the most vulnerable people in our society, continuing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize military budgets all over the world and cut back on people here.”<\/li>\n
  2. Funny How Knee-Jerk Reacton To Oslo Attacks Was To Blame Muslim Jihadists<\/a> – “Indeed, in many (though not all) media circles, discussion of the Oslo attack quickly morphed from this is Terrorism (when it was believed Muslims did it) to no, this isn\u2019t Terrorism, just extremism (once it became likely that Muslims didn\u2019t).”<\/li>\n
  3. Glazing looks<\/a> – I’ve no idea if public Google+ posts can be routed shared Google Reader like this (in particular for folks who may not be on Google+).<\/li>\n
  4. Marvel is bringing Hulk, sexy super-spies, and Luke Cage to your TV screens!<\/a> – Okay, sounds potentially promising — though I think Carol Danvers is going to have words with anyone who calls her “Miss” Marvel …<\/li>\n
  5. First 2 clips from the new ThunderCats cartoon include swordplay and feline cuteness<\/a> – Sweeeeet!<\/li>\n
  6. More than a corporation<\/a> – “What makes them different is not that they have a more conservative take on the world \u2013 that’s the fiction in which opponents and supporters join \u2013 but rather: news is not their first business. Wielding influence is.”<\/li>\n
  7. Debt ceiling: Pure politics?<\/a> – But … but … but … but now it’s an EMERGENCY!!!<\/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 …. Barney Frank: ‘There are worse things than default’ – “I don’t want there to be a default but there are worse things than default. And worse things than default are wrenching the American government out of shape, losing the … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 23-Jul-11 2331)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21693","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":39215,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/16\/the-easy-way-to-avoid-the-default.html","url_meta":{"origin":21693,"position":0},"title":"The "easy" way to avoid the "default"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Oct-13 9:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's simple. 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