{"id":7216,"date":"2011-09-11T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2011-09-11T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T01:23:06","slug":"sunday-monday-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/sunday-monday-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday-Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>For a dose of strange beauty on this strange, ugly day: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/technology-blog\/nasa-cassini-orbiter-snaps-unbelievable-picture-saturn-144133480.html\" target=\"_blank\">the most amazing photo of Saturn<\/a>.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/technology-obituaries\/8750768\/Michael-Hart.html\" target=\"_blank\">eccentric geek<\/a> who gave the world the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.\n<li>Airport &#8220;security&#8221; from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TRAVEL\/09\/08\/muslim.travel.experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muslim woman&#8217;s perspective<\/a>.\n<li>It takes guts to say this these days: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/13.7\/2011\/09\/09\/140307282\/addiction-is-not-a-disease-of-the-brain\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Addiction is not a disease of the brain.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ferfal.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/socioeconomic-collapse-and-preparedness.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Socioeconomic collapse and preparedness timing.&#8221;<\/a> From a guy who&#8217;s been living it.\n<li>Fourteen thousand rounds missing? I wonder why they even bother to report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/14000-machine-gun-bullets-are-missing-from-fort-bragg-north-carolina-2011-9\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>? From what I&#8217;ve heard over the years from National Guardsmen, Army reservists, and other part-time military folk, this is just par for the course. Back in the Clinton gun-banning days, this much regularly disappeared out of armories and into the hands of militiamen without so much as a whisper.\n<li>When I first heard Mel Gibson was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/09\/10\/mel-gibson-jewish-movie-judah-maccabee-hero-writer-joe-eszterhas-2006-anti-semitic-tirade-dui-arrest-apology-jewish-community-jew-responsible-for-wars-in-the-world-warner-bros\/\" target=\"_blank\">going to star in a movie about Judah Maccabee<\/a>, I reacted like most everybody else. WTF? Isn&#8217;t that sort of like Alec Baldwin playing Ron Paul? Only after C^2 emailed me about it, did I realize that the very idea of a movie about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torah.org\/features\/holydays\/judahmaccabee.html\" target=\"_blank\">Judah Maccabee<\/a> could be an excellent freedomista notion, and Braveheart might be a pretty effective guy to play him.\n<li>I dunno. <i>Maybe<\/i> this has some excellent commercial or scientific purposes. But doesn&#8217;t this sound like a gigantic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/tech-company-to-build-science-ghost-town-in-nm-backer-says-project-will-be-economic-boost\/2011\/09\/06\/gIQA9tAH7J_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">government-funded boondoggle in the making<\/a> to you?\n<li>I stole this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>. Hey, Michael Dean! How come you didn&#8217;t tell me about it? This is too good to miss. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/2011\/09\/09\/citizens-against-too-much-freedom-radio-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\">A radio ad<\/a> from Citizens Against Too Much Freedom.\n<li>From Jim B. in a recent comment section: <a href=\"https:\/\/oldsalt1942.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/labs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Four labs<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a dose of strange beauty on this strange, ugly day: the most amazing photo of Saturn. The eccentric geek who gave the world the wonderful Project Gutenberg. Airport &#8220;security&#8221; from a Muslim woman&#8217;s perspective. It takes guts to say this these days: &#8220;Addiction is not a disease of the brain.&#8221; &#8220;Socioeconomic collapse and preparedness timing.&#8221; From a guy who&#8217;s been living it. Fourteen thousand rounds missing? I wonder why they even bother to report this? From what I&#8217;ve heard over the years from National Guardsmen, Army reservists, and other part-time military folk, this is just par for the course.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/11\/sunday-monday-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday-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":[2,4,8,11,12,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","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\/7216","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=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}