{"id":3257,"date":"2010-12-09T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2010-12-09T07:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:59:24","slug":"thursday-miscellany-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/thursday-miscellany-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Uh oh. The Fibbies have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-bomb-plot-arrest-20101208,0,739343.story\" target=\"_blank\">done it again.<\/a>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1210\/46172.html\" target=\"_blank\">the R-party<\/a> will, too. Of course. But you&#8217;ve gotta admit, the rapidity with which they tap-dance around their own alleged principles is dazzling.\n<li>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/transparency-corruption-increased-2010-12\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s<\/a> a headline.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/finding-my-spending-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Finding My Spending Identity.<\/a> Because New Years is coming up and a lot of us are thinking about that sort of thing.\n<li>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&#038;pageId=237385\" target=\"_blank\">zero-intelligence<\/a> school policy on guns. This time the victim is an honor-roll girl. But this time the place is &#8230; urk! &#8212; <i>Montana???<\/i> (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.)\n<li>No surprise. All the serious thinking about Assange and WikiLeaks (and &#8220;CyberWar I&#8221;) is coming from <a href=\"http:\/\/c4ss.org\/content\/5286\" target=\"_blank\">free-market anarchists<\/a> and the noble remnant of the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/156909\/jefferson-assange\" target=\"_blank\">civil-rights, anti-war left<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;How much evidence should the U.S. government be obliged to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/blog\/assassin-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">show before it kills you<\/a>? None, according to the Obama administration.&#8221;\n<li>So where do we line up to get <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703493504576007982500939482.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">a little of that billionaire charity<\/a>? Some of the &#8220;causes&#8221; they put it to are &#8230; urk. More millions poured into public schools? More regimentation of health care? Um &#8230; no thanks. I actually <i>know<\/i> one of the 16 gazillionaire pledgers on the list. Haven&#8217;t seen him in years, but knew him uncomfortably well at one time. I&#8217;ve followed his career closely. And I can assure you that he never committed an altruistic deed in his life and never will. He&#8217;s a double-dyed bastard and a total narcissist who&#8217;d like to rule the world &#8212; and all the people in his world would be mere objects for his use. I suspect that&#8217;s true of the whole lot of them. &#8220;Charity&#8221; can be such a devious control mechanism.\n<li>Pay silver for a <i>Backwoods Home<\/i> subscription &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/BehindTheScenes\/2010\/12\/08\/daves-silver-offer-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">get a free copy of <i>Hardyville Tales<\/i><\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh oh. The Fibbies have done it again. And the R-party will, too. Of course. But you&#8217;ve gotta admit, the rapidity with which they tap-dance around their own alleged principles is dazzling. Now that&#8217;s a headline. &#8220;Finding My Spending Identity. Because New Years is coming up and a lot of us are thinking about that sort of thing. More zero-intelligence school policy on guns. This time the victim is an honor-roll girl. But this time the place is &#8230; urk! &#8212; Montana??? (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT.) No surprise. All the serious thinking about Assange and WikiLeaks (and &#8220;CyberWar I&#8221;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/thursday-miscellany-10\/\">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":[11,12,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}