{"id":40272,"date":"2018-12-19T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40272"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T19:10:01","slug":"midweek-links-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/midweek-links-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Dear once-and-future felons: The long-rumored bump-stock ban has become a reality. Turns out Trump is more successful at &#8220;gun control&#8221; than Obama was. Here&#8217;s the skinny <a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/12\/18\/the-unconstitutional-bump-stock-ban-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">and what some folks are doing about it<\/a>.\n<li>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/former-nasa-engineer-gets-revenge-on-porch-pirates-who-stole-two-packages\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> may be the best anti-theft monkeywrench ever &#8212; if you happen to be a NASA engineer with six months to spend on the project. Fabulous video, though. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Here&#8217;s some cheery news: 86% of all federal spending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/federal-spending-budget-deficits\/\" target=\"_blank\">is now on autopilot<\/a>, requiring no authorization from Congress. (Not that those miscreants ever try to cut spending even when annual budgeting requires it of them.)\n<li>And speaking of fedgov spending, those guys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/mobile\/products\/GAO-19-175\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t (or don&#8217;t want to) keep track of what they&#8217;re spending on weaponry<\/a> while they aim to frog-boil disarm the rest of us. (Tip o&#8217; hat to LS)\n<li>I seldom link to <em>Vox<\/em>, but this is impressive (as well as being a national scandal). Investigator Sara Kliff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/health-care\/2018\/12\/18\/18134825\/emergency-room-bills-health-care-costs-america\" target=\"_blank\">examined 1,182 emergency room bills<\/a> &#8230; and found madness.\n<li>An NYT opinion writer walked straight out of work and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/18\/opinion\/police-abuse-excessive-force.html\" target=\"_blank\">into abusive cop force<\/a>.\n<li>Not that &#8220;mandatory&#8221; is a good thing in education. But can you imagine U.S. government child prisons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/nov\/15\/armenia-chess-compulsory-schools\" target=\"_blank\">teaching chess<\/a> to every grade schooler? (H\/T Shel)\n<li>Kudos and good luck, city of Cambridge, MA, for <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/12\/city-of-cambridge-passes-ordinance-taking-on-surveillance-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">trying to curb your local surveillance state<\/a>.\n<li>Tiny house lost (stolen) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/missouri-woman-s-tiny-house-was-reported-stolen-then-found-n949866\" target=\"_blank\">and found<\/a>.\n<li>Construction has begun <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/12\/texas-bullion-depository-begins-construction\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the Texas Bullion Depository<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/funny-doormat1a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/funny-doormat1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"536\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/funny-doormat1a.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/funny-doormat1a-450x365.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/hilarious-doormat-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Dear once-and-future felons: The long-rumored bump-stock ban has become a reality. Turns out Trump is more successful at &#8220;gun control&#8221; than Obama was. Here&#8217;s the skinny <a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2018\/12\/18\/the-unconstitutional-bump-stock-ban-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">and what some folks are doing about it<\/a>.\n<li>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/former-nasa-engineer-gets-revenge-on-porch-pirates-who-stole-two-packages\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> may be the best anti-theft monkeywrench ever &#8212; if you happen to be a NASA engineer with six months to spend on the project. Fabulous video, though. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Here&#8217;s some cheery news: 86% of all federal spending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/federal-spending-budget-deficits\/\" target=\"_blank\">is now on autopilot<\/a>, requiring no authorization from Congress. (Not that those miscreants ever try to cut spending even when annual budgeting requires it of them.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/midweek-links-98\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,12,13,14,15,16,19,20,21,23,28,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-home-improvement","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-monkeywrenching","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-stupid-security","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40272","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=40272"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40290,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40272\/revisions\/40290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}