{"id":10408,"date":"2012-06-18T02:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T09:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10408"},"modified":"2012-06-18T02:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T09:30:58","slug":"monday-miscellany-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/monday-miscellany-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Proof positive. The Canadian government is as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/travel\/Listening%2Bequipment%2Bwill%2Brecord%2Bconversations%2BCanadian%2Bairports%2BCBSA\/6794642\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">filled with paranoid weirdos<\/a> as the U.S. fedgov. (H\/T MJR.)\n<li>Is it a good sign that even the mainstream media is starting to notice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/16\/us-dea-prescription-drugs-idUSBRE85F09220120616\" target=\"_blank\">the DEA&#8217;s war on pain patients<\/a> and their doctors?\n<li>Speaking of the war on freedom, here&#8217;s your question of the day. Eric Holder: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/definitive-proof-that-eric-holder-lied-t\" target=\"_blank\">Liar, incompetent or both?<\/a>\n<li>If you liked J.D. Tuccille&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/146644830X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=146644830X\" target=\"_blank\"><i>High Desert Barbecue<\/i><\/a>, you might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/freedombookclub.com\/vote.html\" target=\"_blank\">give it a v*te<\/a>.\n<li>How will the world end? <i>You<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/17\/how_will_the_world_end\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">get to help decide<\/a>.\n<li>Not exactly new, but a healthy reminder: Humans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2008\/05\/our-moral-interconnectedness.html\" target=\"_blank\">may not be the only animals with a moral sense<\/a>. Come to think of it, my dogs probably have a greater moral sense than anybody in Washington, DC.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of which &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?attachment_id=10414\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/transcendoggy_meditation.jpg\" alt=\"meditating dog\" title=\"transcendoggy_meditation\" width=\"430\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/transcendoggy_meditation.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/transcendoggy_meditation-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(BTW, the title of that one is Transcendoggy Meditation. It&#8217;s around the &#8216;Net a bit, but I&#8217;ve never seen a credit for who did that brilliant bit of photography and photoshopping. If you know, please tell me!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?attachment_id=10413\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/statism_illustrated-450x302.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"statism_illustrated\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof positive. The Canadian government is as filled with paranoid weirdos as the U.S. fedgov. (H\/T MJR.) Is it a good sign that even the mainstream media is starting to notice the DEA&#8217;s war on pain patients and their doctors? Speaking of the war on freedom, here&#8217;s your question of the day. Eric Holder: Liar, incompetent or both? If you liked J.D. Tuccille&#8217;s book, High Desert Barbecue, you might want to give it a v*te. How will the world end? You get to help decide. Not exactly new, but a healthy reminder: Humans may not be the only animals with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/monday-miscellany-63\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/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":[4,8,18,23,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-mind-and-spirit","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408","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=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}