{"id":23155,"date":"2015-10-22T01:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23155"},"modified":"2015-10-22T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T08:27:28","slug":"thursday-links-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/thursday-links-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Funny; <a href=\"http:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/offbeat\/md-police-officer-accused-of-biting-mans-testicle-no-longer-on-force\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;job stress&#8221;<\/a> never caused me to get drunk and bite anybody&#8217;s you-know-whats. A bad day at work ever had that effect on you? A bad year? (H\/T jed in comments)\n<li>Speaking of the you-know-whats: Nicki gives a &#8220;gun owner who favors gun control&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=2319\" target=\"_blank\">a kick in his<\/a>.\n<li>Medical costs going up-up-up? Well, we all know they have been. But more recently, if these stats are correct, medical costs have stabilized. <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcalculations.blogspot.com\/2015\/10\/obamacare-bending-cost-curve-upward.html#.VibZlxCrTVo\" target=\"_blank\">Medical <i>insurance<\/i> costs<\/a>, OTOH &#8230;\n<li>Be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/us-department-of-transportation-will-require-drone-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\">register that drone<\/a> you get for Christmas. Did Congress pass a law about this? Article fails to mention such. <b>ADDED:<\/b> Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2015\/10\/one_major_problem_with_the_faa_drone_registry_diy_drones.html\" target=\"_blank\">major problems<\/a> with drone registration.\n<li>Nobody needs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioshownotes.com\/2015\/10\/windows-are-killing-babies-in-new-york.html\" target=\"_blank\">high-capacity window<\/a>!\n<li>Fedgov <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegasnow.com\/news\/government-takes-familys-land-near-area-51\" target=\"_blank\">seizes that land near Area 51<\/a> that&#8217;s been owned, worked, and lived on by one family since Abe Lincoln&#8217;s day. Looks like they&#8217;ll be allowed to cheat the family on price even worse than they&#8217;d previously intended. (Sad h\/t to Jim B.)\n<li>Detroit pastor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/10\/19\/pastor-shoots-brick-wielding-man-in-detroit-cops-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoots brick-wielding attacker<\/a>.\n<li>But in Chicago they still fantasize that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chicago-is-going-to-pay-gun-owners-100-each-to-turn-in-their-guns-2015-10\" target=\"_blank\">2,500 &#8220;guns off the streets&#8221;<\/a> will save 2,500 pure, innocent lives.\n<li>What Jennifer Lawrence tells us about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/18\/opinions\/burns-jennifer-lawrence-women-pay\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">women and unequal pay<\/a>. It&#8217;s not the other guy&#8217;s prejudice as much as it is our poor negotiating.\n<li>Strictly for you guys in the Pacific Northwest: Ways <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2015\/10\/ducks_vs_huskies_11_reasons_wh.html#\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon beats Washington<\/a>. Ways <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/article\/Washington-beats-Oregon-maybe-even-at-football-6573486.php\" target=\"_blank\">Washington beats Oregon<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny; &#8220;job stress&#8221; never caused me to get drunk and bite anybody&#8217;s you-know-whats. A bad day at work ever had that effect on you? A bad year? (H\/T jed in comments) Speaking of the you-know-whats: Nicki gives a &#8220;gun owner who favors gun control&#8221; a kick in his. Medical costs going up-up-up? Well, we all know they have been. But more recently, if these stats are correct, medical costs have stabilized. Medical insurance costs, OTOH &#8230; Be sure to register that drone you get for Christmas. Did Congress pass a law about this? Article fails to mention such. ADDED: Some&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/thursday-links-45\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[11,12,13,19,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23155","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-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\/23155","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=23155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}