{"id":6678,"date":"2011-08-08T02:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2011-08-08T02:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T09:19:34","slug":"monday-miscellany-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/monday-miscellany-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eternityroad.info\/index.php\/weblog\/single\/thr\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Three deputies equals one SWAT team.&#8221;<\/a> A memory from reader \u039b\u0395\u039f\u039d\u0399\u0394\u0391\u03a3 (a former LEO) of a moment at the dawn of the &#8220;bad new days&#8221; of total militarization.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/05\/world\/europe\/05village.html?_r=4&#038;pagewanted=all?src=tp\" target=\"_blank\">Russian villagers defend their town.<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to Matt, another.)\n<li>A thorough history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/the-nixon-shock-08042011.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Nixon Shock:<\/a> How Nixon stopped backing the dollar with gold and changed global finance, a 40-year-old decision that still echoes in Greece, Ireland, and the U.S.&#8221; And a perfect example of how sloppily the most momentous decisions get made by Our Masters.\n<li>AntiSec. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2390582,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Revenge of the nerds.<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-survivors-20110805,0,178334,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">Raising a fist to death<\/a> in the Warsaw Ghetto.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lewrockwell.com\/shaffer\/shaffer241.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful.<\/a>\n<li>C^2, who found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-14434331\" target=\"_blank\">this news<\/a> deadpans, &#8220;Rumor has it Graner has taken a job as a trainer with the TSA.&#8221;\n<li>Thiel Grants. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/2011\/08\/06\/investor_pays_youths_to_quit_school_for_start_ups\/\" target=\"_blank\">An idea whose time has come.<\/a>\n<li>And to wrap up, here are two via <a href=\"http:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Mental Militia forums<\/a>: Docliberty finds the perfect weapon for our times &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Tar-and-feather-gun\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tar-and-feather gun.<\/a> And mouse &#8230; well, this one you just have to see:\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gnkMmUsi4Gc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which is a parody of this (but is darned funny even if like me you&#8217;d never seen the original):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wzPkhOofXVs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Three deputies equals one SWAT team.&#8221; A memory from reader \u039b\u0395\u039f\u039d\u0399\u0394\u0391\u03a3 (a former LEO) of a moment at the dawn of the &#8220;bad new days&#8221; of total militarization. Russian villagers defend their town. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Matt, another.) A thorough history of &#8220;The Nixon Shock: How Nixon stopped backing the dollar with gold and changed global finance, a 40-year-old decision that still echoes in Greece, Ireland, and the U.S.&#8221; And a perfect example of how sloppily the most momentous decisions get made by Our Masters. AntiSec. Revenge of the nerds. Raising a fist to death in the Warsaw Ghetto.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/08\/monday-miscellany-42\/\">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":[2,11,12,18,19,20,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","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=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}