{"id":16364,"date":"2014-02-05T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2014-02-05T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T22:10:24","slug":"midweek-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/midweek-links-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ten reasons <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2014\/02\/03\/10-reasons-to-stop-working-so-hard\/?iid=biz-main-mostpop1\" target=\"_blank\">to quit working so hard<\/a>.\n<li>Does the new CBO report <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/02\/04\/5-devastating-obamacare-facts-from-cbos-latest-economic-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">put the final nail<\/a> in the Obamacare coffin? That might be a tad optimistic. But the report just ain&#8217;t pretty, no matter how Big O&#8217;s flappers try to spin it.\n<li>MWD, who sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freespeechme.org\/freespeechme-the-open-source-anti-censorship-anti-hijacking-dot-bit-plug-in-for-windows-and-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\">this development<\/a> thinks it&#8217;s a world-altering change. Welllll &#8230; In any case, it&#8217;s a hopeful sign for privacy.\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Haribo-Gummy-Candy-Sugarless-5-Pound\/product-reviews\/B000EVQWKC\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;showViewpoints=0&#038;sortBy=byRankDescending&#038;tag=livifree07-20\">&#8220;I am sending a bag of these to every member of Congress to show my deepest gratitude.&#8221;<\/a> (Hilariously scatological reviews from Amazon customers on a product that may just be slightly defective. Courtesy of MamaLiberty.)\n<li>Also from Amazon: Just what every survival shelter and humble hermit home <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CMEN95U\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00CMEN95U&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">should have<\/a>. (Tks, A.) (Yeah, and I put one of my Amazon links on it, even though you&#8217;ll buy one shortly after you open that ice cream stand in Hades. But hey, it <i>does<\/i> have free shipping!) (P.S. Don&#8217;t miss the reviews on this one, either!)\n<li>Why do <a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/\/blog\/stuartbramhall\/2014\/02\/02\/progressives_who_oppose_gun_control\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;progressives&#8221; favor gun control<\/a>? (Well, because they&#8217;re control-freaking authoritarians, that&#8217;s why. Still, it&#8217;s a pretty interesting article.)\n<li>Why does any place on earth want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-feifer-sochi-putin-corruption-20140202,0,155239.story#axzz2sQAep2MB\" target=\"_blank\">to host an Olympics<\/a>? And if that place is Sochi, why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sochi-hotel-photos-2014-2\" target=\"_blank\">would anyone want to go<\/a>? Whoof. What photos.\n<li>Speaking of the Olympics &#8230; Oh, so <a href=\"http:\/\/nonoriginalrants.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/olympics-white-elephant.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>that&#8217;s<\/i> where the term<\/a> &#8220;white elephant&#8221; comes from!\n<li>Priceless. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2014\/01\/30\/crook-busts-cop-for-speeding-at-140-mph\/?intcmp=obnetwork\" target=\"_blank\">Crook busts cop<\/a> for going 140 mph. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ma-rooned.com\/2014\/02\/license-to-derp.html\" target=\"_blank\">MArooned<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten reasons to quit working so hard. Does the new CBO report put the final nail in the Obamacare coffin? That might be a tad optimistic. But the report just ain&#8217;t pretty, no matter how Big O&#8217;s flappers try to spin it. MWD, who sent this development thinks it&#8217;s a world-altering change. Welllll &#8230; In any case, it&#8217;s a hopeful sign for privacy. &#8220;I am sending a bag of these to every member of Congress to show my deepest gratitude.&#8221; (Hilariously scatological reviews from Amazon customers on a product that may just be slightly defective. Courtesy of MamaLiberty.) Also from&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/midweek-links-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,12,13,16,17,19,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-linux","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","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\/16364","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=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}