{"id":15798,"date":"2013-11-29T10:22:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15798"},"modified":"2013-11-29T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T18:22:23","slug":"friday-links-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/friday-links-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bystander sees masked robber holding store clerk at gunpoint. Bystander pulls pistol and shouts, &#8220;Don&#8217;t move!&#8221; Robber turns. Bystander shoots. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/news\/local\/mobile-county\/suspects-family-angry-at-good-samaritan\" target=\"_blank\">Family member of this (chronic) robber whines<\/a>, &#8220;If his (the customer) life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him &#8212; what gives him the right to think that it&#8217;s okay to just shoot someone? You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.&#8221; As sick, depraved, cruel, irresponsible, and Snopes-clan inbred as that sounds, what&#8217;s even sicker is that <i>that&#8217;s precisely what anti-gunners would have us do<\/i>.\n<li>1000-yard rifle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guns.com\/2013\/11\/25\/thousand-yard-rifle-built-two-four-photosvideo\/\" target=\"_blank\">built on a 2&#215;4<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42 (H\/T T.)\n<li>Yes! It&#8217;s about time that the federal government found the courage and integrity to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303562904579224251626379422\" target=\"_blank\">go after those greedy monopolistic<\/a> &#8230; er, piano teachers.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbian.com\/news\/2013\/nov\/29\/lottery-scams-lose-life-savings-victims-duped\/\" target=\"_blank\">People who fall for lottery scams<\/a>. Some spend their whole life savings and still don&#8217;t believe they&#8217;ve been duped. Hm. Does that remind you of <del datetime=\"2013-11-29T18:06:59+00:00\">any good taxpaying citizens<\/del> anybody else you know?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphamsquarterly.org\/roundtable\/roundtable\/my-first-mistake.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;My First Mistake.&#8221;<\/a> Hint: It involves a corpse. And a drainpipe. And is a terrific, if weird, little read.\n<li>I was going to use this (and may still use it) in a Deep Thought blog. But for the sake of tab clearing and personal evaluation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/personal-health\/14-habits-highly-miserable-people?paging=off&#038;current_page=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People.&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bystander sees masked robber holding store clerk at gunpoint. Bystander pulls pistol and shouts, &#8220;Don&#8217;t move!&#8221; Robber turns. Bystander shoots. Family member of this (chronic) robber whines, &#8220;If his (the customer) life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up to him, if no one pointed a gun at him &#8212; what gives him the right to think that it&#8217;s okay to just shoot someone? You should have just left the store and went wherever you had to go in your car or whatever.&#8221; As sick, depraved, cruel, irresponsible, and Snopes-clan inbred as that sounds, what&#8217;s even&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/friday-links-17\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[12,16,18,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798","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=15798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}