{"id":2707,"date":"2010-10-21T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2010-10-21T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:11:02","slug":"thursday-miscellany-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/thursday-miscellany-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collected stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/21\/us\/politics\/21ad.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> when it hits YouTube. (<i>NY Times<\/i> free subscription link.)\n<li>Juan Williams was &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=130712737\" target=\"_blank\"><i>was<\/i><\/a> &#8212; one of the best on NPR.\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\" target=\"_blank\">LewRockwell.com<\/a> (see, I credit you guys, even if you don&#8217;t credit me), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketoracle.co.uk\/Article23629.html\" target=\"_blank\">the clearest explanation<\/a> you&#8217;re ever likely to get about how the foreclosure mess developed. And &#8212; surprise, surprise! &#8212; government&#8217;s in it every step of the way.\n<li>I&#8217;m glad to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TRAVEL\/10\/20\/pilot.refuses.body.scan\/\" target=\"_blank\">the actions of this principled and gutsy pilot<\/a> have left the ghetto of political blogs and are hitting the mainstream. May he start a movement.\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalreview.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News<\/a> and David Codrea, the sad tale of a gun owner who bent over backwards to do everything legally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/how-can-new-jersey-imprison-a-gun-owner-who-broke-no-laws\" target=\"_blank\">and got screwed anyhow<\/a>.\n<li>Two things about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/10\/20\/nebraska-girl-kicked-cheerleading-team-shaking-booty\/\" target=\"_blank\">this news<\/a>: Why should an 11 year old be pressured to &#8220;shake her booty&#8221;? And why should it be national news when she refuses?\n<li>News you can use: My Two Dollars is giving away <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mytwodollars.com\/2010\/10\/21\/be-thrifty-how-to-live-better-with-less-book-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">what sounds like a pretty good book<\/a> on thrifty living. The method for winning it is pretty cool, in itself.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally another word about book orders: It&#8217;s turning out that a lot of my order confirmations ended up in people&#8217;s spam filters. So if you&#8217;re missing your confirmation, please check spam. (I&#8217;m not spamming you; really I&#8217;m  not.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collected stuff: I want to see this when it hits YouTube. (NY Times free subscription link.) Juan Williams was &#8212; was &#8212; one of the best on NPR. Via LewRockwell.com (see, I credit you guys, even if you don&#8217;t credit me), the clearest explanation you&#8217;re ever likely to get about how the foreclosure mess developed. And &#8212; surprise, surprise! &#8212; government&#8217;s in it every step of the way. I&#8217;m glad to see that the actions of this principled and gutsy pilot have left the ghetto of political blogs and are hitting the mainstream. May he start a movement. Via Rational&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/thursday-miscellany-6\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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-2707","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\/2707","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=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}