{"id":24002,"date":"2015-12-18T06:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24002"},"modified":"2015-12-18T06:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T14:59:45","slug":"friday-links-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/friday-links-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Of the new Omni-bust budget deal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/12\/17\/budget-bill-leaves-no-boondoggle-behind-column\/77476422\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard sez:<\/a> &#8220;Republican congressional leaders are like a football coach who believes the secret to winning is to punt early and often.&#8221;\n<li>Rand Paul sez <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4154635\/rand-paul-paul-ryan-omnibus-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\">stop the bill<\/a> &#8212; and he has some fairly decent ideas for alternatives.\n<li>OTOH, Marijuana.com sez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/12\/congress-includes-cannabis-provisions-in-big-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">there are a couple<\/a> of decent provisions in the 2,000 page monster sellout.\n<li>On the other other hand, the USPS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/12\/postal-service-enacts-national-policy-on-marijuana-advertisements\/\" target=\"_blank\">announces a completely unsurprising<\/a> but curiously retro policy on carrying publications that contain &#8212; gasp! &#8212; ads for the dreaded Demon Weed. One wonders why they couldn&#8217;t have just kept their mouths shut and carried the mail, given that the times are changing.\n<li>FIJA-philes win another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_29262852\/denver-judge-dismisses-charges-against-jury-nullifcation-activists\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;jury tampering&#8221; case<\/a>. (H\/T jed)\n<li>This book sounds intriguing. Possibly futile, but maybe a good picker-upper for the freedomista remnant. And who knows? Millennials are showing a heartening interest in liberty; it might inform and encourage them, too. It&#8217;s Robert Curry&#8217;s <i>Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the power of the American idea<\/i>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2015\/12\/18\/book_review_robert_currys_common_sense_nation_101921.html\" target=\"_blank\">Review by John Tamny<\/a>. And of course &#8230; <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594038252\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1594038252&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=TNPRJW6736B3Y6E3\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon link<\/a>.\n<li>Ya really gotta wonder how people discover such stuff. Apparently you can break into Linux systems (with Grub2 bootloaders) by <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/you-can-break-into-a-linux-system-by-pressing-backspace-1748370796\" target=\"_blank\">pressing the backspace key<\/a> 28 times. A fix is already in the works. (H\/T MJR)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cabinporn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cabin Porn!<\/a> (via Kyle MacL in comments). Not yuppie tiny-house pretensions, but the real deal.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the new Omni-bust budget deal Jim Bovard sez: &#8220;Republican congressional leaders are like a football coach who believes the secret to winning is to punt early and often.&#8221; Rand Paul sez stop the bill &#8212; and he has some fairly decent ideas for alternatives. OTOH, Marijuana.com sez there are a couple of decent provisions in the 2,000 page monster sellout. On the other other hand, the USPS announces a completely unsurprising but curiously retro policy on carrying publications that contain &#8212; gasp! &#8212; ads for the dreaded Demon Weed. One wonders why they couldn&#8217;t have just kept their mouths&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/friday-links-50\/\">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":[4,5,6,9,11,17,19,20,22,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cannabis-legalization","category-computers-and-technology","category-free-speech","category-government","category-linux","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-off-grid","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002","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=24002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}