{"id":1962,"date":"2010-07-19T18:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2010-07-19T18:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:17:33","slug":"monday-miscellany-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/monday-miscellany-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/subterranean-living-may-await-moon-and-mars-colonists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Where you might live<\/a> if you wait long enough, then leave the U.S. Okay &#8230; where your great grandkids might live. Not enough trees for me, though. Imported trees don&#8217;t count. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Pat.)\n<li>Poor, poor pot growers! They just barely, almost, kinda-sorta get their business legal and &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/onlineathens.com\/stories\/071910\/nat_677824702.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">governments start to Wal-Martize them<\/a> &#8212; that is, shut the little guys out and make alliances with monied  collaborators &#8212; license, tax, hand out exclusive deals &#8212; all the usual. And then the hapless growers might get ordered to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weed-legalization-poor-2010-7\" target=\"_blank\">give their valuable product to the poor<\/a>. Can&#8217;t win, can ya? Government&#8217;ll git you one way or another. If they can&#8217;t illegalize you to death, they&#8217;ll legalize you to death.\n<li>But &#8230; somehow, against all odds &#8230; gun owners do keep on winning. Exhibit A: Federal judge not only orders sheriff to issue a gun permit to a political hellraiser, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/article_b6b931ef-32dd-5743-9e72-2d6f23f4a3a6.html\" target=\"_blank\">sends said sheriff to a First-Amendment class<\/a>! (And no, I still theenk we don&#8217; need no steeenkin&#8217; permits.) Exhibit B: The ACLU &#8212; the ACLU! &#8212; sues to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/broward\/pompano-beach\/fl-aclu-sues-for-seized-weapons-20100715,0,3638661,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">sues to get an old man&#8217;s guns back<\/a>. Actually, I know that some state ACLU reps have been pro-gun for years; they&#8217;ve just been held back by national organization policies. Could it be that the ACLU will now actually stand up for the <i>whole<\/i> Bill of Rights???\n<li>No big surprise here: Small businesses in Massachusetts &#8212; the very model of an Obamacare state &#8212; are starting to drop their health-care coverage and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/health\/articles\/2010\/07\/18\/firms_cancel_health_coverage\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">urge their employees to sign up for government-subsidized plans<\/a>. I have an acquaintance in MA (who might just be reading this post) whose private insurance went up from a &#8220;mere&#8221; $11,000 per year to more than $20,000 per year, thanks to Massa-care. The word &#8220;ouch&#8221; hardly covers it. Ain&#8217;t that a glorious vision of your future?\n<li>Remember the Iroquois lacrosse team that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100718\/ap_on_re_us\/us_iroquois_lacrosse_sovereignty\" target=\"_blank\">wanted to travel on their tribal passports<\/a>? The U.S. government let &#8217;em. Gave &#8217;em a one-time exemption. Alas, the Brits wouldn&#8217;t let &#8217;em in for the tournament. (The article has more on tribal passport issues, identity, and sovereignty.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where you might live if you wait long enough, then leave the U.S. Okay &#8230; where your great grandkids might live. Not enough trees for me, though. Imported trees don&#8217;t count. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Pat.) Poor, poor pot growers! They just barely, almost, kinda-sorta get their business legal and &#8230; governments start to Wal-Martize them &#8212; that is, shut the little guys out and make alliances with monied collaborators &#8212; license, tax, hand out exclusive deals &#8212; all the usual. And then the hapless growers might get ordered to give their valuable product to the poor. Can&#8217;t win, can&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/monday-miscellany-14\/\">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":[11,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","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=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}