{"id":4961,"date":"2011-03-28T03:03:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2011-03-28T03:03:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T10:03:55","slug":"monday-morning-data-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/monday-morning-data-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday morning data dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff I&#8217;ve been saving up &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704425804576220612714039084.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s bible.<\/a> I used to have a copy of that. Might still be in the bookcase of my ex-Significant Sweetie.\n<li>Mmmmm. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/recipe-spicy-pickled-carrots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pickled carrots.<\/a> Another of my favorite things, but usually too expensive to buy at a store. Must try that recipe.\n<li>A so-far neglected <a href=\"https:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=28329.0\" target=\"_blank\">discussion thread started by Rarick<\/a> over at The Mental Militia forums has some definitely odd links &#8220;for the bored prepper.&#8221; Or non prepper. Definitely for gearheads. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotulas.com\/deals\/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10602&#038;storeId=10152&#038;productId=25057&#038;langId=-1&#038;parent_category_rn=&#038;top_category=\">This one<\/a> is supposed to repel dogs. But I think at least one of mine would think it was a dandy playtoy. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotulas.com\/deals\/bar-and-grill\/kitchen-gadgets\/the-ex-knife-set-gives-cutting-edge-a-whole-new-meaning\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a>? Urk! But if you&#8217;re recently divorced and have money to spare, it might be for you.\n<li>Been meaning to blog the latest from the Gunowners&#8217; Friend Chuckie Schumer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/OliverDelSignore\/2011\/03\/27\/he-loves-me-he-loves-me-not-and-denying-guns-to-innocents\/\" target=\"_blank\">But Oliver beat me to it.<\/a>\n<li>Still, it&#8217;s fun thinking how much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/26\/radio-shack-gun-giveaway-dish-purchase_n_841083.html\" target=\"_blank\">stuff like this<\/a> must upset poor, petulant little Chuckie.\n<li>And speaking of authoritarians &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/42283362\/ns\/politics-more_politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geraldine Ferraro bites the dust.<\/a> The MSM wants us to remember her for two related things: being a pioneering woman in politics and being the first woman ever to get an electoral college vote. The latter claim &#8212; even though it appears in some textbooks &#8212; ain&#8217;t so. That honor (if such it is) belongs to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Tonie_Nathan\" target=\"_blank\">Libertarian Party VP candidate Tonie Nathan<\/a>, a full 12 years before Ferraro&#8217;s run. My memory of Ferraro is something different. While listening to her giving her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PpiG9_vzp8w\" target=\"_blank\">acceptance speech<\/a> I realized the Dem party had moved away from its last vestiges of classic liberality. She was a plain old law-n-order control freaking authoritarian (the lawnorder part occurs in the last minute, and listen to the crowd roar in approval). Philosophical auntie to HRH Hillary. And the party ate it up &#8212; and still does.\n<li>Just in case you need <i>even more<\/i> news about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/26\/business\/media\/26privacy.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">how your cellphone might be tracking you<\/a>. (NY Times free subscription link.)\n<li>Signs say <a href=\"http:\/\/gwdtoday.com\/signs-say-cops-not-welcome-at-local-restaurants-p24535-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cops keep out.<\/a> Bit complicated, though.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldsteel.com\/honeycomb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Honey Comb.<\/a> Extremely cool personal grooming-and-security product. (Tip o&#8217; hat to T.)\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff I&#8217;ve been saving up &#8230; Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s bible. I used to have a copy of that. Might still be in the bookcase of my ex-Significant Sweetie. Mmmmm. Pickled carrots. Another of my favorite things, but usually too expensive to buy at a store. Must try that recipe. A so-far neglected discussion thread started by Rarick over at The Mental Militia forums has some definitely odd links &#8220;for the bored prepper.&#8221; Or non prepper. Definitely for gearheads. This one is supposed to repel dogs. But I think at least one of mine would think it was a dandy playtoy. And&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/monday-morning-data-dump\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday morning data dump<\/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":[4,12,19,23,25,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","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=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}