{"id":14321,"date":"2013-06-23T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T01:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2013-06-23T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T01:17:58","slug":"sunday-monday-tab-clearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/sunday-monday-tab-clearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday-Monday tab clearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Might have been too busy to post. Not to busy to collect tabstuff. If I fail to credit sources it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve forgotten where some of it came from. Sigh.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billbonnersdiary.com\/articles\/inside-investing-062013.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How to disappear without a trace.&#8221;<\/a> Not in a good way, unfortunately &#8230;\n<li>Quietly, with almost no notice even in the financial press, <a href=\"http:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=33059.0\" target=\"_blank\">France has outlawed<\/a> <i>any<\/i> mailing of currency, coins, or precious metals &#8212; a ban that appears about to spread to other parts of Europe. What a coincidence that big, government-approved <del datetime=\"2013-06-23T20:40:42+00:00\">money launderers<\/del> banks and investors don&#8217;t use mail to ship their <del datetime=\"2013-06-23T20:40:42+00:00\">loot<\/del> resources. For the most part, only peasants do. (H\/T S.)\n<li>Haha. Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrstar.com\/blogs\/kevinhaas\/x1220218269\/Larry-Morrissey-will-pack-a-gun-once-concealed-carry-is-law#axzz2X3qVShJn\" target=\"_blank\">embarrassment for Bloomy&#8217;s anti-gunners<\/a>.\n<li>And something much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jacobfischler\/mayors-against-illegal-guns-website-is-hosted-on-nyc-governm\" target=\"_blank\">more than a mere embarrassment.<\/a>\n<li>Good phrase (right up there with &#8220;government supremacists&#8221;): <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kentforliberty.com\/2013\/06\/anti-liberty-bigots.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-liberty bigots<\/a>. The supremacists and bigots hate having their own favorite pejoratives thrown back at them.\n<li>How is it that people who make the laws and advocate for the laws (and who really ought to be familiar with how laws <i>work<\/i>) always seem to be the last ones to get that the laws <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323393804578557802237872788.html\" target=\"_blank\">will <i>always<\/i> be bent<\/a> for nefarious purposes? (Obamacare again. Of course.)\n<li>Um. Well, that&#8217;s &#8230; original. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/family\/pets\/stories\/spanish-town-sends-dog-poop-back-to-irresponsible-pet-owners\" target=\"_blank\">A tad Orwellian,<\/a> but certainly an original way to address the dog-poop problem.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/nsa-surveillance-may-be-legal--but-its-unconstitutional\/2013\/06\/21\/b9ddec20-d44d-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">article&#8217;s good<\/a>. But whoever wrote the headline ought to be kicked back to civics class. Hey, <i>Washington Post<\/i>: If it&#8217;s unconstitutional, it&#8217;s by definition <i>not legal<\/i>.\n<li>No, Mike. You are <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/i-am-expendable-why-colorado-why-me.html\" target=\"_blank\">not expendable<\/a>. Inspiring, gutsy, creative, and possessed of a huge pair of brass ones, yes. But not expendable.\n<li>Now the TSA &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/20\/transportation-security-doesnt-include-the-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s expendable<\/a>. In fact, it&#8217;s the very definition of expendable.\n<li>You may be a terrorist if &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20130621\/NEWS02\/306210110\/Official-Water-complaints-could-act-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\">you complain about the quality of your drinking water???<\/a>\n<li>And to end on a little good news, you&#8217;ve probably heard that Edward Snowden is on his way to (or by now already in) Ecuador, where (with the help of WikiLeaks and a special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/24\/world\/offering-snowden-aid-wikileaks-gets-back-in-the-game.html\" target=\"_blank\">refugee travel document<\/a> to replace his revoked passport) he is seeking asylum. Uber-authoritarian Schumer <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/23\/schumer-putin-aiding-and-abetting-snowdens-escape\/\" target=\"_blank\">has a hypocritical fit<\/a> of course. (&#8220;Allies should &#8230;&#8221; er, maybe not hack each other&#8217;s computers?). But best of all is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/china\/archive\/2013\/06\/what-hong-kongs-remarkable-statement-on-edward-snowden-says-about-the-territory\/277138\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong&#8217;s statement<\/a> on why they allowed Snowden to depart despite a U.S. extradition order. Whole statement must be read: it&#8217;s short and it amounts to a great big &#8220;FU, Big Bro.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Ragnar&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FreedomOutlaw\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom Outlaw F***b**k page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/06\/23\/sunday-monday-tab-clearing\/nsaobamaspying\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NSAObamaSpying.jpg\" alt=\"NSAObamaSpying\" width=\"424\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NSAObamaSpying.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NSAObamaSpying-177x300.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might have been too busy to post. Not to busy to collect tabstuff. If I fail to credit sources it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve forgotten where some of it came from. Sigh. &#8220;How to disappear without a trace.&#8221; Not in a good way, unfortunately &#8230; Quietly, with almost no notice even in the financial press, France has outlawed any mailing of currency, coins, or precious metals &#8212; a ban that appears about to spread to other parts of Europe. What a coincidence that big, government-approved money launderers banks and investors don&#8217;t use mail to ship their loot resources. For the most part,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/sunday-monday-tab-clearing\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday-Monday tab clearing<\/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":[8,11,12,13,16,18,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/14321","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=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}