{"id":7084,"date":"2011-09-05T02:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T09:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2011-09-05T02:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T09:35:35","slug":"monday-miscellany-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/monday-miscellany-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Qaddafi: Our Mortal Enemy. Yeah, I guess he must have been, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/american-intelligence-agents-worked-closely-with-qaddafi-interrogating-suspects-2011-9\" target=\"_blank\">given the company he kept<\/a>.\n<li>Ooooh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbt.com\/news\/chi-man-reports-finding-150k-in-his-garden-20110831,0,4075841.story\" target=\"_blank\">What would you do?<\/a>\n<li>How come with them it&#8217;s always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixiq.com\/article\/rochester-police-to-undergo-new-training\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;a training issue&#8221;<\/a>? That is, when it&#8217;s not a non-disclosable &#8220;personnel matter&#8221;? Or, (via <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/carlbussjaeger.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carl<\/a>) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/carousel\/x549434878\/Harless-hearing-postponed-police-union-cites-stress\" target=\"_blank\">result of stress<\/a>? I dunno about you, but I know lots of people with PTSD who don&#8217;t routinely threaten to assassinate their fellow humans. (Carl also asks an excellent question about cops and military service <a href=\"http:\/\/carlbussjaeger.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)\n<li>The freelance revolution. This is either an attempt to put lipstick on the unemployment pig or it&#8217;s the MSM discovering 20 years late that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/08\/the-freelance-surge-is-the-industrial-revolution-of-our-time\/244229\/\" target=\"_blank\">the workplace is changing<\/a>. Love this line: &#8220;Washington can&#8217;t fix what it can&#8217;t count.&#8221; Yeah. \ud83d\ude42 (The author never says why she believe freelancers need to be &#8220;fixed&#8221;; but the IRS has been trying to neuter us for decades.)\n<li>Best-ever rant on <a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecurmudgeon.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/03\/it-really-happened-guitar-attack\/#more-5006\" target=\"_blank\">the Gibson guitar raid<\/a>.\n<li>Peter Schiff has the best <i>economic<\/i> take on the Gibson fiasco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/greatspeculations\/2011\/09\/02\/obama-looking-like-job-killer-in-chief\/\" target=\"_blank\">among other job-killers<\/a>.\n<li>And speaking of federal job killing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2011\/09\/01\/the_nlrbs_gift_of_job_loss_99228.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/1\/obamas-anti-jobs-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Hm. Maybe all these efforts to destroy business ought to be unified under a Department of Homeland Insecurity. A Department of Regulations and Raids? A War on Jobs? Well, maybe not the latter. Given the &#8220;success&#8221; of all the other &#8220;Wars On,&#8221; a War on Jobs might result in an unprecedented employment boom &#8212; which is clearly not that rulers of regulatory fiefdoms want.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qaddafi: Our Mortal Enemy. Yeah, I guess he must have been, given the company he kept. Ooooh. What would you do? How come with them it&#8217;s always &#8220;a training issue&#8221;? That is, when it&#8217;s not a non-disclosable &#8220;personnel matter&#8221;? Or, (via Joel and Carl) the result of stress? I dunno about you, but I know lots of people with PTSD who don&#8217;t routinely threaten to assassinate their fellow humans. (Carl also asks an excellent question about cops and military service here.) The freelance revolution. This is either an attempt to put lipstick on the unemployment pig or it&#8217;s the MSM&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/monday-miscellany-45\/\">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":[11,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","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\/7084","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=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}