{"id":15418,"date":"2013-10-23T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15418"},"modified":"2013-10-23T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T19:21:14","slug":"wednesday-links-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/wednesday-links-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This has been making its way around the gunblogs. I wasn&#8217;t going to link it because I&#8217;ve never had reason to care what the head of Interpol thinks about anything. But reader L.A. tipped the balance. And really, it&#8217;s quite something when the honcho of a global police agency <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/exclusive-westgate-interpol-chief-ponders-armed-citizenry\/story?id=20637341\" target=\"_blank\">comes out in favor of a well-armed citizenry<\/a> &#8212; and recognizes that the only alternative is making us all &#8220;safe&#8221; via a lock-down security state.\n<li>2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303448104579149642030106938\" target=\"_blank\">Looking back on Obamacare<\/a>.\n<li>Seattle is using eminent domain to <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/646\/2379008\/Seattle-to-buy-land-103yearold-woman-doesnt-want-to-sell\" target=\"_blank\">seize a valuable property<\/a> from a 103-year-old lady. It&#8217;s currently a privately owned parking lot. The city feels they have a much better use for it: a <i>government owned<\/i> parking lot.\n<li>Yep, in any other era, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2013\/10\/23\/short_on_beer_money__look_to_obamacare_120427.html\" target=\"_blank\">this would have <i>had<\/i> to be satire<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of the Great(est) Obama Fiasco &#8230; the other day in comments blogfriend MJR, citizen of the Great Frozen North, compared Obamacare with the much-despised, horrendously over-costly, and now thoroughly defunct  Canadian gun registry. What I didn&#8217;t realize was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/10\/22\/Obamacare-Tech-Firm-Built-Canadian-Gun-Registry\" target=\"_blank\">the <i>same freakin&#8217; company<\/i><\/a> was the lead contractor for &#8230; guess what? Wow.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/9chickweedlane\/2013\/10\/23#.Um7Z0fmTjf0\" target=\"_blank\">Entertaining the NSA<\/a>. (H\/T Jim B. in comments)\n<li>Yes, much, much better to lose privacy altogether than to sully your Pure Progressive Soul by <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/better-not-to-protest-the-nsa-than-to-ho\" target=\"_blank\">joining forces with libertarians<\/a>. Even standing beside them at a rally might give you cooties. J.D. Tuccille delivers a well-deserved takedown.\n<li>Dogs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mesmerizing-high-speed-dog-shaking-gifs-2013-10\" target=\"_blank\">Shaking themselves.<\/a> More entertaining than you&#8217;d imagine. (And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062242644\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0062242644&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\">the book<\/a>. Any dog lovers on your Christmas list?)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been making its way around the gunblogs. I wasn&#8217;t going to link it because I&#8217;ve never had reason to care what the head of Interpol thinks about anything. But reader L.A. tipped the balance. And really, it&#8217;s quite something when the honcho of a global police agency comes out in favor of a well-armed citizenry &#8212; and recognizes that the only alternative is making us all &#8220;safe&#8221; via a lock-down security state. 2016: Looking back on Obamacare. Seattle is using eminent domain to seize a valuable property from a 103-year-old lady. It&#8217;s currently a privately owned parking lot.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/wednesday-links-15\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[6,12,13,16,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","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\/15418","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=15418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}