{"id":19759,"date":"2015-01-23T06:33:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19759"},"modified":"2015-01-23T06:33:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T14:33:50","slug":"friday-links-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/friday-links-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I agree with Brian Keith&#8217;s fine <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2015\/01\/22\/carrots-versus-sticks\/\" target=\"_blank\">analysis of the &#8220;carrots&#8221; and the &#8220;sticks&#8221;<\/a> in the gun-rights movement. Except, of course, when one of the &#8220;carrots&#8221; actually goes over to the other side, pretends he can prevent what <a href=\"http:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/01\/22\/florida-is-now-an-official-target-for-ubc-shannon-watts-lets-it-slip\/\" target=\"_blanK\">the enemy really wants<\/a>, and collaborates by helping write tyrannical legislation.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/01\/30\/oyster-shell-game-300225.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Oyster Shell Game.&#8221;<\/a> The fedgov uses pseudoscience, lies, etc. to destroy a small business.\n<li>From Ellendra in comments: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stretcher.com\/stories\/15\/15jan19c.cfm?FPThu\" target=\"_blank\">have a &#8220;go to zero&#8221; month<\/a>. (Kinda what I&#8217;ve been doing this month, except this family went much farther than I would. Maybe another month this summer &#8230;)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2015\/01\/22\/my_dead_old_drunk_self.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;My Old Dead Drunk Self.&#8221;<\/a> Breaking dependency not only on substances but on the conventions of &#8220;recovery.&#8221;\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickhenrysociety.com\/an-open-letter-to-the-washington-state-patrol\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;sticks&#8221; will be converging<\/a> in Olympia again on February 7.\n<li>George Will on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-will-the-harm-incurred-by-a-mushrooming-welfare-state\/2015\/01\/21\/d8cd15ae-a0d2-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the harm inflicted<\/a> by the growing welfare state.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Brian Keith&#8217;s fine analysis of the &#8220;carrots&#8221; and the &#8220;sticks&#8221; in the gun-rights movement. Except, of course, when one of the &#8220;carrots&#8221; actually goes over to the other side, pretends he can prevent what the enemy really wants, and collaborates by helping write tyrannical legislation. &#8220;The Oyster Shell Game.&#8221; The fedgov uses pseudoscience, lies, etc. to destroy a small business. From Ellendra in comments: have a &#8220;go to zero&#8221; month. (Kinda what I&#8217;ve been doing this month, except this family went much farther than I would. Maybe another month this summer &#8230;) &#8220;My Old Dead Drunk Self.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/friday-links-31\/\">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":[12,18,19,20,23,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19759","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=19759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}