{"id":10258,"date":"2012-06-04T11:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:43:54","slug":"monday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/monday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from a good &#8212; but busy and tiring &#8212; weekend. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2012\/06\/03\/2726\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave says<\/a>, the Mother Earth News Fair was even bigger and better than last year. My friend and I were there only a few hours in a very full weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Some links and a couple of funnies for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/guns\/2012\/may\/23\/miller-iraq-vet-brutalized-over-guns-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part one<\/a> of a four-parter on how DC cops SWATTED a vet <i>because they thought he might have some unregistered guns<\/i>. (Several people sent me this one, thank you.)\n<li>The FBI and ATF <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/georgia-college-girl-arrested-alleged-pipe-bomb-hobby\/story?id=16475874\" target=\"_blank\">bust yet another harmless<\/a> but idiotically careless victim. Check out the middle name on that young lady! With a name like that how could she <i>not<\/i> be interested in things that go boom?\n<li>Well, it&#8217;s happened. A political activist has escaped America and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/rights-activist-julian-heicklen-flees-us-takes-refuge-israel\" target=\"_blank\">sought and was granted political asylum<\/a>. Not only that, it&#8217;s the famous and much-abused Julian Heicklen.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/03\/sunday-review\/lets-not-get-physicals.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s (not) get physicals.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>A community and its officials <a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.mobi\/ap\/db_6722\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=5lQQaRYP\" target=\"_blank\">butt heads over a free-range dog<\/a>.\n<li>Venezuela bans all private gun ownership. To &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-18288430\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;improve security&#8221;<\/a>. Unh huh. Yeahhhhhh &#8230;. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Want a really cool job? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/06\/03\/tomtom_map_paradise_project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Too bad about all that competition.<\/a> (This and the two below courtesy of C^2.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s unassailable proof (or what&#8217;s known in the trade as a &#8220;true fact&#8221;). The lack of pirates causes global warming:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/06\/04\/monday-links\/lackofpiratescausesglobalwarming\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/LackofPiratesCausesGlobalWarming-450x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LackofPiratesCausesGlobalWarming\" width=\"450\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a real fact:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/06\/04\/monday-links\/godanddogs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GodandDogs-450x146.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"GodandDogs\" width=\"450\" height=\"146\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from a good &#8212; but busy and tiring &#8212; weekend. As Dave says, the Mother Earth News Fair was even bigger and better than last year. My friend and I were there only a few hours in a very full weekend. Some links and a couple of funnies for you: Part one of a four-parter on how DC cops SWATTED a vet because they thought he might have some unregistered guns. (Several people sent me this one, thank you.) The FBI and ATF bust yet another harmless but idiotically careless victim. Check out the middle name on that young&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/monday-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,16,23,24,30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-resistance","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}