{"id":2491,"date":"2010-10-11T03:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2010-10-11T03:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:07:56","slug":"monday-miscellany-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/monday-miscellany-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/prepare\/msm.asp\" target=\"_blank\">debunk it<\/a>. And they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chicken-nuggets-pink-goop-2010-10\" target=\"_blank\">debunk it<\/a>. But no matter what they say, the story of the pink mystery goop remains as unappetizing as ever.\n<li>Wanna pay $50,000 for a place in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/News\/076715-2010-10-09-the-worlds-first-everything-proof-underground-luxury-community.htm\" target=\"_blank\">underground community<\/a>? (What&#8217;s up with this business of preparing to survive the end of the world, though? I mean, if it&#8217;s the <i>end<\/i>. Of the <i>world<\/i>. Well &#8230; uh, it&#8217;s THE END. Might as well spend your money on a big party instead of a dark hole in the ground.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/charles-hugh-smith-steps-to-economic-collapse\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;13 Steps That Would Guarantee the Next Economic Collapse.&#8221;<\/a> And guess who&#8217;s busy doing all 13?\n<li>Per LewRockwell.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/2010\/10\/06\/surviving-in-the-wild-19-common-edible-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\">19 common edible plants<\/a>. With helpful pictures. And some general tips on things to avoid.\n<li>I was saving up links late last week to write a rant on the latest developments in the foreclosure fiasco. Wow. This could be a death knell for some oh-so-deserving bankers &#8212; if Obama doesn&#8217;t pull a &#8220;pocket rescue&#8221; (per the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-latest-from-foreclosure-gate-obama-is-planning-to-accidentally-pass-hr-3808-2010-10\" target=\"_blank\">tinfoil hat theory<\/a>). I&#8217;m not going to have time to do a writeup. But OMG, the banks (and Congress) are hip deep in their own sh*t. So if you care &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2010\/10\/dc-waking-up-to-escalating-foreclosure-train-wreck-grayson-calls-for-fsoc-to-examine-foreclosure-fraud-as-systemic-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chris-whalens-foreclosure-crisis-2010-10\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/10\/president-obama-to-pocket-veto-bill-that-might-make-it-easier-to-foreclose-on-homes.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-why-obama-is-vetoing-hr-3808-2010-10\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/08\/business\/08frozen.html?_r=1&#038;hp\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonbanner.com\/nationworldnews\/ci_16283190\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>. There. Those articles give a pretty comprehensive look. And that&#8217;s aside from the fact that, with all that &#8220;mortgage securitization,&#8221; more than one institution may claim ownership of a given house. Whotta mess!\n<li>Some good discussion on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/smf\/index.php?topic=7707.0\" target=\"_blank\">Oath Keepers baby case<\/a>. It&#8217;s not <i>just<\/i> a matter of a newborn being seized by the state because of the parents&#8217; politics. But why should their politics be a factor <i>at all<\/i>? Scary. (But also nothing new. Years ago there was a famous case in which a judge ordered a child taken away from his father because the father was an atheist. And, if dim memory serves, an intellectual.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cagle.msnbc.com\/working\/101005\/plante.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Now they know what it feels like<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They debunk it. And they debunk it. But no matter what they say, the story of the pink mystery goop remains as unappetizing as ever. Wanna pay $50,000 for a place in an underground community? (What&#8217;s up with this business of preparing to survive the end of the world, though? I mean, if it&#8217;s the end. Of the world. Well &#8230; uh, it&#8217;s THE END. Might as well spend your money on a big party instead of a dark hole in the ground.) &#8220;13 Steps That Would Guarantee the Next Economic Collapse.&#8221; And guess who&#8217;s busy doing all 13? Per&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/monday-miscellany-18\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}