{"id":6567,"date":"2011-08-01T02:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2011-08-01T02:21:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T09:21:58","slug":"monday-miscellany-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/monday-miscellany-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castanet.net\/news\/Offbeat\/62184\/Pitbull-vs-kitten\" target=\"_blank\">Pitbull vs kitten.<\/a> Oooooh, you can only <i>imagine<\/i> the carnage!\n<li>These people are so cheery and <a href=\"http:\/\/workingtheworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/ugly-gifts-too.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">upbeat<\/a> I want to smack &#8217;em. But <a href=\"http:\/\/workingtheworld.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">what they&#8217;re doing<\/a> is wonderful. Now there&#8217;s the power of creative risk taking! (Sad irony, though, that they felt a need to include a question in their <a href=\"http:\/\/workingtheworld.blogspot.com\/p\/faqs.html\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ<\/a> about whether their children are getting a proper education. How could anybody assume that sitting in a classroom could be a better education than they&#8217;re getting in this adventure?)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erroluys.com\/WeaverDial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Was Out to See America.&#8221;<\/a> Riding the rails in the Great Depression. (Via Old Printer who points out that the cops in those days may have been shakedown artists &#8212; but they most likely wouldn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/25\/darrin-ring-beating_n_908986.html\" target=\"_blank\">kick your ribs in<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2019225\/Police-beat-taser-gentle-mentally-ill-homeless-man-Kelly-Thomas-37-death.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\">beat harmless people to death. In public.<\/a> With cameras running.)\n<li>Yes, when they do it, it&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2011\/07\/28\/house-panel-approves-bill-forcing-isps-to-log-users-web-history\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>forrrrr the chilllllldrrrrrrren<\/i><\/a>. So we&#8217;re not all mere criminals now in the twisted minds of Our Glorious Leaders. We&#8217;re child pornographers. Or will be if this law passes.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oathkeepers.org\/oath\/2011\/07\/28\/quartzsite\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Gems in the Rough at Quartzsite, Arizona.&#8221;<\/a> Old friend Elias Alias of Oathkeepers gives his unique perspective on cops who rose up against their masters.\n<li>Okay, I know this gag was already hoary when I used a version of it back in <i>101 Things to Do &#8216;Til the Revolution<\/i> (that version said the best survival kit was a rifle and a directory of the nearest Mormon ward). But it&#8217;s still a classic, not to mention a good reminder. So (via J. and a &#8220;rat&#8221;):\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/08\/01\/monday-miscellany-41\/dilbert_110731\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6573\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dilbert_110731.gif\" alt=\"Dilbert cartoon on TEOTWAWKI\" title=\"Dilbert_110731\" width=\"560\" height=\"252\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6573\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitbull vs kitten. Oooooh, you can only imagine the carnage! These people are so cheery and upbeat I want to smack &#8217;em. But what they&#8217;re doing is wonderful. Now there&#8217;s the power of creative risk taking! (Sad irony, though, that they felt a need to include a question in their FAQ about whether their children are getting a proper education. How could anybody assume that sitting in a classroom could be a better education than they&#8217;re getting in this adventure?) &#8220;I Was Out to See America.&#8221; Riding the rails in the Great Depression. (Via Old Printer who points out that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/monday-miscellany-41\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[8,16,18,19,23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","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=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}