{"id":21410,"date":"2015-06-16T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21410"},"modified":"2015-06-16T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T20:46:08","slug":"midweek-links-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/midweek-links-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Mike Vanderboegh <a href=\"http:\/\/sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/once-again-i-have-folks-asking-me-not.html\" target=\"_blank\">is on a roll<\/a> once again.\n<li>Anyone have change for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/breakingviews\/2015\/06\/12\/zimbabwes-15-digit-money-woe-is-mercifully-rare\/\" target=\"_blank\">a quadrillion dollar bill<\/a>?\n<li>One of those things they didn&#8217;t teach us in school: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/the_history_of_american_slavery\/2015\/06\/how_did_slavery_end_in_massachusetts_and_the_north.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Born Free and Equal.&#8221;<\/a> How a pair of Revolutionary War-era court cases helped end slavery in the north.\n<li>I&#8217;ve stayed away from the whole kerfluffle over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the rebellion that refused fast-track authority to Obama. To me, there&#8217;s only one issue: the TPP is <i>secret<\/i>. So at best there&#8217;s nothing (yet) to support or oppose and at worst, it&#8217;s an act of tyranny. Then how is it that so many business publications and supposed freedomista publications <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyunbound.com\/node\/1423\" target=\"_blank\">wail and lament<\/a> the (no doubt temporary) failure of TPP\/TPA? Just because somebody&#8217;s attached the words &#8220;free trade&#8221; to something doesn&#8217;t make it so. And c&#8217;mon. Does anybody really think Obama would want TPP if it were about <i>actual<\/i> free trade?\n<li>Oh well. Here&#8217;s a movingly strange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesidefiction.com\/issue19\/chapter\/tuesdays-with-molakesh-the-destroyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">SF story<\/a> for you.\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Xterra update (for those who care)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A repair on Friday fixed nothing while getting false hopes up. The mechanic then prevailed upon me to put the beast on a diagnostic scanner for a <i>third<\/i> time. <\/p>\n<p>As before, the only code the wretched four-wheeled monster throws is P1320 &#8212; distributor issues. Yes, if you&#8217;ve been counting, the distributor has already been replaced <i>twice<\/i> (three times if you include the fact that it was successfully replaced 40k miles ago). <\/p>\n<p>The guys who put the Xterra to the test were aware of the previous diagnostics and previous failures of new distributors to make one bit of difference. Certain vehicles, they concluded, simply require OEM distributors and nothing else will do.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s either just shy of $200 from a junkyard (and who can even be sure it&#8217;s really an OEM part or what condition it might be in) or nearly $400 for a new (or maybe it&#8217;s remanufactured), guaranteed Nissan part. But though it&#8217;s guaranteed, it&#8217;s also listed as non-returnable because it&#8217;s an electronic part. Which confuses me to the max.<\/p>\n<p>I spent hours researching but haven&#8217;t clicked to buy. I&#8217;ve lost all faith in the pronouncements of both diagnostic computers and &#8220;expert&#8221; mechanics. I can&#8217;t see spending that kind of money on yet another wild guess. Especially if the purchase might be irrevocable. <\/p>\n<p>But many other suggestions (thank you) have been checked and didn&#8217;t pan out. Or they still remain to be tried but will be resource-consuming shots in the dark. How many weeks or months? How much money? And how many shots in the dark will it take? Somebody who loves the challenges of machinery might think this is nothing. Me? All I want is a ride that actually <i>runs<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The only things I&#8217;m certain of are a) right now I&#8217;m inclined to <i>give<\/i> the Xterra away to any mechanically adept person who&#8217;ll take it off my hands and b) I&#8217;m going to take to drink. Very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Vanderboegh is on a roll once again. Anyone have change for a quadrillion dollar bill? One of those things they didn&#8217;t teach us in school: &#8220;Born Free and Equal.&#8221; How a pair of Revolutionary War-era court cases helped end slavery in the north. I&#8217;ve stayed away from the whole kerfluffle over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the rebellion that refused fast-track authority to Obama. To me, there&#8217;s only one issue: the TPP is secret. So at best there&#8217;s nothing (yet) to support or oppose and at worst, it&#8217;s an act of tyranny. Then how is it that so many&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/16\/midweek-links-15\/\">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":[12,19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410","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=21410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}