{"id":19797,"date":"2015-01-27T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19797"},"modified":"2015-01-27T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:55:22","slug":"midweek-links-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/midweek-links-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Surprise, surprise. Yet another fedgov agency is operating a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jan\/27\/millions-of-cars-tracked-across-us-in-massive-real-time-spying-program\" target=\"_blank\">vast, covert, random surveillance program<\/a>. Hm. Do they still sell those anti-cam sprays and films for our license plates?\n<li>Gottlieb&#8217;s CCRKBA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccrkba.org\/?p=4650\" target=\"_blank\">endorses Matt Shea&#8217;s bill<\/a> to repeal I-594. And note the ringing anti-background check language! (She says, rolling her eyes.)\n<li>I&#8217;m not linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/26\/opinion\/brown-obamacare-steven-brill\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">this CNN op-ed<\/a> because it&#8217;s brilliant. On the contrary, it&#8217;s an astonishingly logic-free defense of Obamacare. I&#8217;m linking to it because it may contain one of the single most bizarre <del datetime=\"2015-01-27T19:35:34+00:00\">justifications of tyranny<\/del> oxymorons ever to occupy the mind of a human being. To wit: &#8220;The ACA does not allow government to interfere in our lives; it compels government to keep us as safe and healthy as possible.&#8221; Admit it, the ability to hold both those thoughts in the same brain is an admirable feat.\n<li>Speaking of admirable, scientists say they&#8217;ve figured out how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designntrend.com\/articles\/36742\/20150127\/how-do-you-like-your-eggs-researchers-successfully-unboil-an-egg.htm\" target=\"_blank\">uncook an egg<\/a>.\n<li>Data point: not all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jan\/25\/boehner-mcconnell-retreat-in-obama-amnesty-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\">surrender monkeys<\/a> are cheese eaters.\n<li>Sweet firearms training story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckeyefirearms.org\/save-life-or-sneer-idiot-your-choice\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Save a life or sneer at an idiot &#8212; your choice.&#8221;<\/a> (Actually, though, I don&#8217;t know of too many people who would sneer at the woman in this tale. Lots would probably sneer at her firearm, though.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evylrobot.com\/?p=3573\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dear random, shirtless partygoer.&#8221;<\/a> You know those things you always think of saying only <i>after the fact<\/i>? The &#8216;Net lets you say them so well.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Deadlining the next couple of days. Entertain each other; you&#8217;re very good at that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, surprise. Yet another fedgov agency is operating a vast, covert, random surveillance program. Hm. Do they still sell those anti-cam sprays and films for our license plates? Gottlieb&#8217;s CCRKBA endorses Matt Shea&#8217;s bill to repeal I-594. And note the ringing anti-background check language! (She says, rolling her eyes.) I&#8217;m not linking to this CNN op-ed because it&#8217;s brilliant. On the contrary, it&#8217;s an astonishingly logic-free defense of Obamacare. I&#8217;m linking to it because it may contain one of the single most bizarre justifications of tyranny oxymorons ever to occupy the mind of a human being. To wit: &#8220;The ACA&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/midweek-links-11\/\">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":[11,12,13,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/19797","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=19797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}