{"id":3370,"date":"2010-12-14T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2010-12-14T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T10:30:09","slug":"tuesday-miscellany-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/tuesday-miscellany-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Geez, they could at least have shouted, &#8220;Drop that hose nozzle, m******f*****!!!&#8221; before they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iLiB8h9f_6rOAIA-lURpPD9sNx-Q?docId=efe3c238ddef483ea17edc1bcb8b551f\" target=\"_blank\">shot the guy.<\/a> Dontcha think?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/detroit-garbage-pickup-bankruptcy-2010-12\" target=\"_blank\">Abandoning a city.<\/a> Now, will we see Mad Max in America? Or will the abandoned residents develop their own voluntary institutions? Oh. Wait. We&#8217;re talking about Detroit. It&#8217;s <i>already<\/i> Mad Max in America.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international-business\/A-secretive-banking-elite-rules-trade-in-derivatives\/articleshow\/7090611.cms\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is pure skulduggery. And it&#8217;s brought to you by Dodd-Frank financial &#8220;reform.&#8221; Like, don&#8217;t faint from surprise or anything.\n<li>Privacy alert, courtesy of Bigjack who posted a link about web photo geotags while commenting on my Christmas tree post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldtechnologies.com\/stop-gps-data-recorded-in-photos-from-revealing-where-you-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">Your camera might be revealing your location.<\/a> Not <i>my<\/i> camera, fortunately. Mine&#8217;s just a plain old dumb machine (though at times I consider that it may be smarter than I). But you guys who have GPS on your oh-so-intelligent cameras, here&#8217;s a heads-up, along with tips on disabling the &#8220;feature.&#8221;\n<li>So tell me: Why is it a-okay to honor John Moses Browning, but horrifyingly wrong to name a Browning design as  your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/opinion\/50827724-82\/state-gun-browning-utah.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\">state gun<\/a>? (H\/T Jim B.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rapfix.mtv.com\/2010\/12\/13\/ja-rule-ti-jail-gun-violence-protest-in-the-face-of-weapons-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\">The perfect spokesman against &#8220;gun violence.&#8221;<\/a> Uh huh. Riiiiight.\n<li>2011: The year of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/von-mises-prophecy-2010-12\" target=\"_blank\">von Mises prophesy<\/a>?\n<li>No individual mandate? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/federal-court-declares-obamacares-individual-mandate-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\">If it stands, that ruling<\/a> will send Obamacare crashing into a wall. Can&#8217;t force the healthy unwilling to pay for everybody else? Boom! Not counting on the ruling holding up, tho&#8217; &#8230;\n<li>Finally, some inspiration: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703296604576005193516575586.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">The man who said no to Hitler.<\/a> And the price he paid. Not a fatal price this time, but the kind of price a lot of people pay for prizing their integrity.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geez, they could at least have shouted, &#8220;Drop that hose nozzle, m******f*****!!!&#8221; before they shot the guy. Dontcha think? Abandoning a city. Now, will we see Mad Max in America? Or will the abandoned residents develop their own voluntary institutions? Oh. Wait. We&#8217;re talking about Detroit. It&#8217;s already Mad Max in America. This is pure skulduggery. And it&#8217;s brought to you by Dodd-Frank financial &#8220;reform.&#8221; Like, don&#8217;t faint from surprise or anything. Privacy alert, courtesy of Bigjack who posted a link about web photo geotags while commenting on my Christmas tree post: Your camera might be revealing your location. Not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/14\/tuesday-miscellany-9\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[12,18,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","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=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}