{"id":15941,"date":"2013-12-14T06:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2013-12-14T06:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T14:57:15","slug":"saturday-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/saturday-links-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/366326\/acing-background-check-mark-steyn\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Acing the background check.&#8221;<\/a> Bazillions for &#8220;security,&#8221; entourages, cavalcades, vast theaters of protective deception &#8230; and they stick Obama 18 inches away from a crazy accused murderer. (If you&#8217;re thinking what I think some of you may be thinking, please don&#8217;t say it out loud. It wouldn&#8217;t have helped a bit.)\n<li>Tax people for working. Subsidize them for not working. And anybody less &#8220;brilliant&#8221; than Obama (or any typical congressthing) understands that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/briandomitrovic\/2013\/12\/10\/stop-raising-taxes-on-the-poor-president-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">you turn working poor into non-working poor<\/a>.\n<li>Forgive me for not remembering who deserves the hat tip for this, but it&#8217;s one of those stories a dog lover must read: <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2013\/12\/11\/dog-helps-save-owner-who-was-hit-by-car-in-dorchester\/\" target=\"_blank\">Injured dog saves even more badly injured human<\/a> after they&#8217;re both hit by a car.\n<li>While on the subject of dogs (and I suspect this dog may not be in the world any more), this is a beautifully written expression of love: <a href=\"http:\/\/kellybarnhill.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/13\/regarding-my-1000-year-old-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Regarding my 1000-year-old dog.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T MLS, a champion for canines and other critters, herself.)\n<li>I usually don&#8217;t post anything by Charles Krauthammer. I think he&#8217;s an elitist, <a href=\"http:\/\/tomwoods.com\/blog\/neocon-tv-personality-disarm-the-citizenry\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-gun suck<\/a> who represents the worst of alleged &#8220;conservatism.&#8221; But he hits the nail bang on in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/charles-krauthammer-obama-the-oblivious\/2013\/12\/12\/67acc91c-6363-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">assessment of &#8220;Obama the Oblivious.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Kevin D. Williamson is becoming quite a freedomista voice for a mainstreamer. His latest is about the NSA (etc.) vs us: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/365986\/spooks-leash-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Spooks off the leash.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Finally old friend Jim Bovard asks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2013\/12\/12\/wheres-the-body-count-from-shootings-by-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Where&#8217;s the body count from shootings by the police?&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Acing the background check.&#8221; Bazillions for &#8220;security,&#8221; entourages, cavalcades, vast theaters of protective deception &#8230; and they stick Obama 18 inches away from a crazy accused murderer. (If you&#8217;re thinking what I think some of you may be thinking, please don&#8217;t say it out loud. It wouldn&#8217;t have helped a bit.) Tax people for working. Subsidize them for not working. And anybody less &#8220;brilliant&#8221; than Obama (or any typical congressthing) understands that you turn working poor into non-working poor. Forgive me for not remembering who deserves the hat tip for this, but it&#8217;s one of those stories a dog lover&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/14\/saturday-links-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday 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":[8,11,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","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\/15941","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=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}