{"id":15723,"date":"2013-11-21T04:47:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15723"},"modified":"2013-11-21T04:47:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T12:47:03","slug":"thursday-links-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/21\/thursday-links-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Nother reason to eat a nuts-n-berries diet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/health\/2013\/11\/20\/eating-nuts-tied-lower-risk-death\/fjLgfUeYwi7y37CSAQ7dKL\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Or at least nuts, anyhow.<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outthere.bangordailynews.com\/2013\/11\/19\/hunting\/beaver-steals-hunters-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beaver steals gun.<\/a> Chortle.\n<li>One more v*te for shutting down Obamacare. This one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cyber-experts-to-congress-shut-down-the-obamacare-website-until-its-secure-2013-11\" target=\"_blank\">cybersecurity mavens<\/a>.\n<li>In the meantime, assuming you can buy insurance at all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/04\/business\/under-health-care-act-millions-eligible-for-free-policies.html\" target=\"_blank\">maybe you can get it for free!<\/a> It seems that the U.S. is developing a kind of ideal income level where you can a) live reasonably well while b) maximizing your tax-provided benefits. Millions more will surely aim for this welfare-state version of &#8220;success.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/06\/11\/about-those-cockapoos\/\" taraget=\"_blank\">Cockapoo nation<\/a>!\n<li>But some proud traditionalists will <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303531204579207724152219590\" target=\"_blank\">not go happily<\/a> into that EZ future.\n<li>Anybody could have predicted that the so-called Consumer Finance Protection Bureau would end up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/20\/yet_another_government_agency_is_keeping_tabs_on_you_100747.html\" target=\"_blank\">as yet another spy agency<\/a>. But who would have been cynical enough to think that would be among its main missions from the get-go? Uh. Well. Only people with a brain.\n<li>Uh oh. The old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/andygreenberg\/2013\/11\/18\/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins\/\" target=\"_blank\">assassination market<\/a> idea gets new life in the age of TOR and bitcoin. Somehow, I don&#8217;t think this is going to go any better than it went for Jim Bell.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/local\/A-Hillsboro-man-has-a-new-dog---from-Spain-232657191.html\" target=\"_blank\">Awwwwww &#8230;<\/a> (H\/T jc2k from comments)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Nother reason to eat a nuts-n-berries diet. Or at least nuts, anyhow. Beaver steals gun. Chortle. One more v*te for shutting down Obamacare. This one from cybersecurity mavens. In the meantime, assuming you can buy insurance at all, maybe you can get it for free! It seems that the U.S. is developing a kind of ideal income level where you can a) live reasonably well while b) maximizing your tax-provided benefits. Millions more will surely aim for this welfare-state version of &#8220;success.&#8221; Cockapoo nation! But some proud traditionalists will not go happily into that EZ future. Anybody could have predicted&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/21\/thursday-links-20\/\">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":[8,12,13,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","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\/15723","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=15723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}