{"id":1077,"date":"2010-04-12T03:02:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2010-04-12T03:02:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:02:21","slug":"monday-miscellany-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/monday-miscellany-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Liberty&#8217;s friend Stewart Rhodes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/236202\" target=\"_blank\">gets the opening paragraph<\/a> of a <i>Newsweek<\/i> article. Too darned bad it&#8217;s an article titled &#8220;Hate&#8221; and filled with all the usual MSM bigotry toward everybody who isn&#8217;t a government supremacist. They also give Stewart the closing paragraph &#8212; while quoting &#8220;words of wisdom&#8221; from Bill O&#8217;Reilly that are neither wise nor historically accurate. Guess neither Mr. O&#8217;R nor the <i>Newsweek<\/i> screed writer understand the coup the Supremes pulled in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marbury_v_Madison\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Marbury v Madison<\/i><\/a>.\n<li>Can&#8217;t say I like the term &#8220;sheeple.&#8221; But Philalethes is correct: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xdtalk.com\/gallery\/data\/500\/sheeple.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this picture<\/a> is worth a thousand words.\n<li>Yeah, as Joel says, <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/its-not-really-about-guns.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s not really about guns<\/a>.\n<li>Hey, <i>Time<\/i> magazine. Why weren&#8217;t you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1978760,00.html?xid=rss-topstories\" target=\"_blank\">editorializing like this<\/a> <i>before<\/i> ObamaCare passed?\n<li>And how come we&#8217;re just finding out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/Five-things-we-learned-about-Obamacare-after-it-passed-90029262.html\" target=\"_blank\">all this stuff<\/a> <i>now<\/i>?\n<li>In case I don&#8217;t think to mention it later this week (or in case you need a few days to drum up the money), April 15 is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buyagunday.net\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buy a Gun Day<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Pat, who dropped that link into a recent comments section.) (NOTE: Link was good last night, but is yielding a 503 error this morning. I&#8217;ll leave it a while &#038; see what happens.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304364904575166581279549318.html\" target=\"_blank\">One more reason<\/a> not to watch TV.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weburbanist.com\/2008\/01\/30\/3-more-awesome-approaches-to-portable-living-from-garbage-trucks-to-portable-living-rooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Awesome approaches to portable living.<\/a> I just love stuff like this.\n<li>Finally, a personal message. <i>Hey, Big Web Site. You know who you are &#8212; you&#8217;re the one that visits this blog every day to mine my links. I don&#8217;t care that you do it. They&#8217;re not really <i>my<\/i> links, after all. I got them from someplace else. And it&#8217;s good to see certain items get the much, much wider circulation you can give. But when you pick something up off a blog, a hat tip and a link back are &#8230; well, just plain good netiquette. And when a Great Big Site like you mines links from l&#8217;il ole me here in the backwoods &#8230; well, c&#8217;mon, tip your friendly server with a link back. Please?<\/i><br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty&#8217;s friend Stewart Rhodes gets the opening paragraph of a Newsweek article. Too darned bad it&#8217;s an article titled &#8220;Hate&#8221; and filled with all the usual MSM bigotry toward everybody who isn&#8217;t a government supremacist. They also give Stewart the closing paragraph &#8212; while quoting &#8220;words of wisdom&#8221; from Bill O&#8217;Reilly that are neither wise nor historically accurate. Guess neither Mr. O&#8217;R nor the Newsweek screed writer understand the coup the Supremes pulled in Marbury v Madison. Can&#8217;t say I like the term &#8220;sheeple.&#8221; But Philalethes is correct: this picture is worth a thousand words. Yeah, as Joel says, it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/monday-miscellany-6\/\">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":[12,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","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=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}