{"id":2955,"date":"2010-11-09T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2010-11-09T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T16:10:21","slug":"your-gummint-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/your-gummint-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Your gummint at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Somebody launched a missile. From the sea off California. Who? Who dunnit? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/11\/09\/national\/main7036716.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Ain&#8217;t nobody sayin&#8217;<\/a>. However, &#8220;It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine \u2026 to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that.&#8221; Uh huh. And they say us little gun owners are obsessed with making &#8220;phallic&#8221; statements. &#8220;Hey, China baby, take a look at my &#8230; er, projectile.&#8221; *\n<li>The IRS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2010\/11\/08\/in-which-the-irs-affirms-my-libertarianism\/\" target=\"_blank\">re-affirms Radley Balko&#8217;s libertarianism<\/a>.\n<li>And Politico &#8212; not known for its right-wing slant &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=29E5067E-EFA1-0AD0-9AC494FA064A0B1C\" target=\"_blank\">excoriates Obama in stronger-than-ever terms<\/a>. Appears that this is a White House insider attempt to wake the boss up. A pretty desperate attempt. If the man didn&#8217;t get A Clue after the election of Scott Brown &#8230; then still remained Clueless after last week&#8217;s national Dem debacle &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p>* UPDATE: Per DrillSgtK in the comments section, <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/11\/09\/mystery-missle-launch-off-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;missile&#8221; might not have been a missile at all.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody launched a missile. From the sea off California. Who? Who dunnit? Ain&#8217;t nobody sayin&#8217;. However, &#8220;It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine \u2026 to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that.&#8221; Uh huh. And they say us little gun owners are obsessed with making &#8220;phallic&#8221; statements. &#8220;Hey, China baby, take a look at my &#8230; er, projectile.&#8221; * The IRS re-affirms Radley Balko&#8217;s libertarianism. And Politico &#8212; not known for its right-wing slant &#8212; excoriates Obama in stronger-than-ever terms. Appears that this is a White House insider attempt to wake the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/your-gummint-at-work\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your gummint at work<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","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=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}