{"id":13981,"date":"2013-05-21T01:53:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13981"},"modified":"2013-05-21T01:53:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T08:53:04","slug":"tuesday-links-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/tuesday-links-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/science.time.com\/2013\/05\/19\/lessons-from-the-singing-spaceman-what-governments-can-learn-from-chris-hadfield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lessons from the singing spaceman<\/a> (and a reminder of how only NASA could ever have made outer space so darned <i>dull<\/i>).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrconservative.com\/2013\/05\/16797-beretta-leaving-maryland-after-gov-mandates-strict-gun-control-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beretta says bye-bye Maryland<\/a>.\n<li>The Lulz Liberator. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2013\/05\/20\/25-gun-created-with-cheap-3d-printer-fires-nine-shots-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>This<\/i> one<\/a> was made on a cheaper printer, fired multiple shots, and has a rifled barrel. Nope, you really can&#8217;t stop the signal.\n<li>&#8220;We\u2019ve comforted ourselves in all of this with the belief that, while government might potentially have all of this power, it would rarely use it or that, when it did, its use would be well-intentioned and circumscribed. Plus we had rules and systems to stop any abuse: The Bill of Rights, the due process clause, oversight by the media and courts, the two-party system, and strong procedural requirements.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2013\/05\/18\/the-overreaching-power-government\/0NVX3NAI5nEmUguKhp5Q0J\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ha ha ha ha ha.<\/a>\n<li>&#8220;Even billionaires keep their mouths shut.&#8221; John Kass recalls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/ct-met-kass-0519-20130519,0,2797334,full.column\" target=\"_blank\">how he learned about Chicago-style politics<\/a>. (We&#8217;re all living in Chicago now.)\n<li>Gold markets rigged? This time, even respectable <i>Barrons<\/i> admits <a href=\"http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB50001424052748704551504578481043764806974.html\" target=\"_blank\">gold bugs have a point<\/a>.\n<li>Yeah, what Kent said on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2013\/05\/the-kokesh-armed-march.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kokesh&#8217;s armed march<\/a>. And on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2013\/05\/adam-kokeshs-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kokesh&#8217;s kidnapping-by-cop&#8221;<\/a>.\n<li>I do find it odd, though, that in all this flapdoodle about Kokesh&#8217;s proposed armed march on DC, not one person has mentioned that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linda_Thompson_%28attorney%29#Proposed_march_on_Washington\" target=\"_blank\">the same thing was tried<\/a> not so long ago in even more radical form. Big hoo-hah over it then, too. But that was in the Fidonet days when hoo-hahs didn&#8217;t make so much noise in the wider world. Linda Thompson. Ms &#8220;Acting Adjutant General&#8221; indeed &#8230;\n<li>ADDED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/High+School+Student+Creates+20Second+Cell+Phone+Charger\/article31580.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Awesome.<\/a> And a high school girl did it.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons from the singing spaceman (and a reminder of how only NASA could ever have made outer space so darned dull). Beretta says bye-bye Maryland. The Lulz Liberator. This one was made on a cheaper printer, fired multiple shots, and has a rifled barrel. Nope, you really can&#8217;t stop the signal. &#8220;We\u2019ve comforted ourselves in all of this with the belief that, while government might potentially have all of this power, it would rarely use it or that, when it did, its use would be well-intentioned and circumscribed. Plus we had rules and systems to stop any abuse: The Bill&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/tuesday-links-18\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[11,12,19,20,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","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=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}