{"id":7474,"date":"2011-10-06T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2011-10-06T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:39:58","slug":"afternoon-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/afternoon-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So much for &#8220;democracy.&#8221; Farewell transparency (we hardly knew ye). Welcome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/05\/us-cia-killlist-idUSTRE79475C20111005\" target=\"_blank\">murder.gov<\/a>. (The Al-Awlaki assassination was even worse than we thought.)\n<li>If Bank of America wants to charge new fees, that&#8217;s their business. If customers don&#8217;t want to put up with it, that&#8217;s their business. (Of course, the fees are yet another predictable unintended consequence of gummint, but that&#8217;s another story.) But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bank-of-america-pr-lobby-5-fee-2011\" target=\"_blank\">look what BofA does<\/a> to sell the idea. Does it go to the customers? To the markets? Nooooooooo. Another Sign of Our Times.\n<li>The DoJ and the WH are <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/10\/04\/cbs-reporter-white-house-doj-yelled-and-screamed-at-her-over-fast-and-furious-scandal\/?utm_source=MadMimi&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=TheDC+Morning&#038;utm_campaign=The+DC+Morning+&#038;utm_term=4__29+_27Not+so+fast_2C_27+cries+furious+White+House\" target=\"_blank\">furiously scared<\/a> of the Fast &#038; Furious truth coming out.\n<li>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/healthfreedoms.org\/2011\/09\/24\/the-lemon-tree-lady-speaks-out-about-usda-threats-over-tree\/\" target=\"_blank\">whole story<\/a> of &#8220;the Lemon Tree Lady.&#8221; Tragedy and farce in one.\n<li>Popehat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2011\/10\/06\/the-third-wave-cnc-stereolithography-and-the-end-of-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">does a James Burke<\/a> on the end of gun control. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Fred.)\n<li>Oath Keepers and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayseermanifesto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wayseekers<\/a> join in an <a href=\"http:\/\/oathkeepers.org\/oath\/2011\/10\/05\/oath-keepers-and-the-wayseers-to-occupy-the-occupation\/\" target=\"_blank\">effort to occupy Occupy Wall Street<\/a>.\n<li>Another scientific paradigm shift. Oliver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/OliverDelSignore\/2011\/10\/06\/could-looking-at-something-differently-change-our-lives-for-the-better\/\" target=\"_blank\">has an excellent take<\/a> on its implications &#8212; not the scientific ones, but the implications of being open to new ways of seeing things.<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much for &#8220;democracy.&#8221; Farewell transparency (we hardly knew ye). Welcome murder.gov. (The Al-Awlaki assassination was even worse than we thought.) If Bank of America wants to charge new fees, that&#8217;s their business. If customers don&#8217;t want to put up with it, that&#8217;s their business. (Of course, the fees are yet another predictable unintended consequence of gummint, but that&#8217;s another story.) But look what BofA does to sell the idea. Does it go to the customers? To the markets? Nooooooooo. Another Sign of Our Times. The DoJ and the WH are furiously scared of the Fast &#038; Furious truth coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/afternoon-roundup\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afternoon roundup<\/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":[11,12,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","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\/7474","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=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}