{"id":13834,"date":"2013-05-02T01:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13834"},"modified":"2013-05-02T01:45:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T08:45:14","slug":"thursday-links-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/thursday-links-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>No fair!<\/i> How come the CIA <a href=\"http:\/\/world.time.com\/2013\/05\/01\/viewpoint-cash-for-karzai\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t deliver bags of cash to me<\/a>? I&#8217;m sure I could stay bought at least as well as the typical third-world puppet. (We all know those standards aren&#8217;t too high.) It&#8217;s a sure thing I could find some cronies to share the loot with. Heck, I&#8217;d probably have cronies crawling out of the woodwork as soon as they learned I was the source of buckets of untraceable dollars. I&#8217;ll bet I could even find a warlord or two to fund. So <i>why not me<\/i>? Why not <i>you<\/i>? But since it&#8217;s not us, I&#8217;d like to ask the CIA: Are you being sure to write suspicious activity reports (SARs) on yourself for sneaking all that secret dough out of the country? Are you going to arrest yourself and confiscate all your own assets any time soon? P.S. If you ever do start delivering to me, I prefer gold. Paper is so ticky-tacky. Thank you.\n<li>Ahem. In other news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvice.com\/2013-4-29\/first-dog-be-fitted-four-prosthetics-limbs\" target=\"_blank\">First dog to get four prosthetic limbs.<\/a> And he&#8217;s still got that troublemakin&#8217; cattledog grin.\n<li>Fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/rats-nosnitch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the anti-snitch book<\/a>: here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/truthalliance.net\/Archive\/News\/tabid\/67\/ID\/10509\/10-Tips-to-Make-Sure-Your-Activist-Group-Isnt-Set-Up-by-the-Feds.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">more good advice<\/a>, particularly if you&#8217;re involved in any group activism. (Thank you, Hobbit, for the link.)\n<li>Creepy. Weird. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/index.ssf\/2013\/04\/gunfire_and_moments_of_fear_as.html\" target=\"_blank\">Surprise school shooting scenario<\/a>. At least the teachers drew good rural western conclusions. Still creepy. Still weird. (H\/T MF from comments.)\n<li>Man spends (fortunately small) life savings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/05\/01\/man-spends-life-savings-on-carnival-game-wins-stuffed-banana-with-dreadlocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">On a carnival game.<\/a> Wins a stuffed banana. With dreadlocks. No doubt it was all the carnival operator&#8217;s fault. The <del datetime=\"2013-05-02T02:06:24+00:00\">idiot<\/del> victim will probably end up getting compensation and tax-paid counseling.\n<li>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_23147135\/pa-woman-who-disappeared-2002-found-fla\" target=\"_blank\"><i>not<\/i> a good way to go Outlaw<\/a>. Still, it&#8217;s pretty amazing this disappearing mom remained between the cracks so long even in the Surveillance Age.\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: Somehow, comments got turned off on this post. Links posts don&#8217;t usually get a lot of comment, anyhow. But I just caught the problem and turned that feature back on, in case anyone&#8217;s interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fair! How come the CIA doesn&#8217;t deliver bags of cash to me? I&#8217;m sure I could stay bought at least as well as the typical third-world puppet. (We all know those standards aren&#8217;t too high.) It&#8217;s a sure thing I could find some cronies to share the loot with. Heck, I&#8217;d probably have cronies crawling out of the woodwork as soon as they learned I was the source of buckets of untraceable dollars. I&#8217;ll bet I could even find a warlord or two to fund. So why not me? Why not you? But since it&#8217;s not us, I&#8217;d like&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/thursday-links-14\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[8,11,12,19,20,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-offshore","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834","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=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}