{"id":15992,"date":"2013-12-20T01:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2013-12-20T01:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T09:34:26","slug":"friday-links-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/friday-links-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Soooo, what are the chances the Obama administration (or any other) will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/12\/18\/nsa-report-at-a-glance\/4116173\/\" target=\"_blank\">enact all these proposed restrictions<\/a> on the NSA?\n<li>Not likely, ya think? And could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/programs-never-terrorism-theyre-economic-spying-social-control-diplomatic-manipulation-theyre-power.html\" target=\"_blank\">this be the reason why<\/a>?\n<li>Obamacare (again). It&#8217;s as if they figured out everything that would make insurance and health care better, then did the exact opposite. Localizing coverage even further instead of enabling insurance companies to sell across state lines was one of those things. That&#8217;s gotten some mention, thanks to the cancer patients it&#8217;s going to kill. But in all the other hand-wringing, I don&#8217;t think most pundits have yet figured out <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials-obama-care\/121813-683475-obamacare-interferes-with-residential-and-travel-liberties.htm#ixzz2nt5oKeR8\" target=\"_blank\">some of the more far-reaching impacts<\/a> of this huge step backwards. This one&#8217;s ominous, as well. (H\/T H 4 2.)\n<li>But the O-care follies get stranger yet. Be glad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/12\/19\/think-your-state-has-obamacare-problems-theyre-nothing-compared-to-guam\/\" target=\"_blank\">you don&#8217;t live in a U.S. territory<\/a>. Their troubles make the most egregious state catastrophes look &#8230; well, like glitches. (You remember October&#8217;s &#8220;glitches,&#8221; yes?)\n<li>Per jed in comments: <a href=\"http:\/\/distractify.com\/fun\/fails\/dogs-who-are-shamelessly-proud-of-what-they-just-did\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 35 naughtiest dogs on the planet<\/a>. (Very funny, but Distractify.com really ought to note a little more clearly that all those come from the fabulous site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogshaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dogshaming.com<\/a>, which has given me a year of laughs since friend A. sent me their URL.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soooo, what are the chances the Obama administration (or any other) will enact all these proposed restrictions on the NSA? Not likely, ya think? And could this be the reason why? Obamacare (again). It&#8217;s as if they figured out everything that would make insurance and health care better, then did the exact opposite. Localizing coverage even further instead of enabling insurance companies to sell across state lines was one of those things. That&#8217;s gotten some mention, thanks to the cancer patients it&#8217;s going to kill. But in all the other hand-wringing, I don&#8217;t think most pundits have yet figured out&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/friday-links-18\/\">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":[8,11,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992","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=15992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}