{"id":1845,"date":"2010-07-05T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2010-07-05T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T20:31:44","slug":"monday-miscellany-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/monday-miscellany-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Common sense <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2010-07-05-grade-held-back_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">comes to a public school near you.<\/a> Can&#8217;t possibly last.\n<li>You heard the tut-tutting because more than a quarter of Americans recently polled didn&#8217;t know what country the famous forefathers won independence from. But what if <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/0703\/onequarter-gained-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\">respondents were just funnin&#8217;<\/a>? C&#8217;mon. Everybody knows it was the Soviet Union.\n<li>Which brings back fond memories of the witty (and now retired from writing) Patty Neill and her hysterical take on <a href=\"http:\/\/billstclair.com\/lodge\/N_Survey.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How We Got the Data for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse&#8221;<\/a> Old. But timeless.\n<li>On the more serious side, here&#8217;s an excellent <i>Forbes<\/i> piece from Michael Pento on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/06\/30\/greater-depression-still-ahead-personal-finance-economy.html?boxes=Homepagelighttop\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why the Greater Depression Still Lies Ahead.&#8221;<\/a> Good (but easy to digest) stats on conditions today vs. the 1930s.\n<li>And on the topics of debt and depression, DebtKid, whose own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debtkid.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">personal debt story<\/a> is pretty remarkable, offers some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debtkid.com\/7-health-problems-associated-with-debt#more-11551\" target=\"_blank\">quite alarming stats<\/a> on the physical and mental ills suffered by people who are under debt stress vs those who aren&#8217;t. Unfortunately, he doesn&#8217;t cite or link to the study his figures are drawn from. Would be interesting to know if his info is accurate and if so to know <i>why<\/i> people in debt trouble suffer so many ills. Is it because of debt-stress alone? Or are people who get into debt-wrecks already prone to lifestyles and attitudes that give them headaches, sleeplessness, back pain and the like?\n<li>I figure most readers of this blog are unusually wise about money and debt. But for any who still want to go broke in good old 2000s style, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mytwodollars.com\/2010\/07\/04\/ways-to-count-your-chickens-before-they-hatch\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ways-to-count-your-chickens-before-they-hatch\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ten Ways to Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch.&#8221;<\/a> \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Of course, if you run a police department, you don&#8217;t have to worry much about money. If you can&#8217;t get enough dough through red-light cameras, speed traps, bribery, and asset forfeiture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/07\/03\/strapped-police-turn-marijuana-busts-cash\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">just make more pot busts<\/a>. The feds will shower you with tax-paid wealth.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common sense comes to a public school near you. Can&#8217;t possibly last. You heard the tut-tutting because more than a quarter of Americans recently polled didn&#8217;t know what country the famous forefathers won independence from. But what if respondents were just funnin&#8217;? C&#8217;mon. Everybody knows it was the Soviet Union. Which brings back fond memories of the witty (and now retired from writing) Patty Neill and her hysterical take on &#8220;How We Got the Data for the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse&#8221; Old. But timeless. On the more serious side, here&#8217;s an excellent Forbes piece from Michael Pento on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/05\/monday-miscellany-12\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/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":[11,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","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\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}