{"id":7958,"date":"2011-11-23T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2011-11-23T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:48:00","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/wednesday-miscellany-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Life in prison for <a href=\"http:\/\/slatest.slate.com\/posts\/2011\/10\/07\/amish_feud_sam_mullet_led_group_attacks_relatives_by_cutting_off.html?from=rss\/&#038;wpisrc=newsletter_slatest\" target=\"_blank\">cutting off beards<\/a>? Ridiculous law gets more ridiculous by the minute.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/slatest.slate.com\/posts\/2011\/11\/21\/mercedes_benz_executive_arrested_under_alabama_immigration_law.html?from=rss\/&#038;wpisrc=newsletter_slatest\" target=\"_blank\">not only in Feddieland<\/a>. (Money quote is in the final paragraph.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/nyregion\/for-jose-pimentel-bomb-plot-suspect-an-online-trail.html?_r=3\" target=\"_blank\">Terrorist entrapments<\/a> are getting pretty desperate, too.\n<li>But get the gummint out of the way and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halopets.com\/freekibble\/donation33.php\" target=\"_blank\">people still do amazingly cool things<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of dogs, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jCnAjel02lM\" target=\"_blank\">another awwwww moment<\/a>.\n<li>The tidbit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tales-of-hyperinflation-heres-what-germanys-so-freaked-out-about-2011-11\" target=\"_blank\">about the crucifix chain<\/a> is what&#8217;s interesting here. Hm. Might hit the pawnshops and second-hand stores for that little bit of preparedness.\n<li>What George Orwell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2011\/11\/what-george-orwell-can-teach-us-about-ows-and-police-brutality\/248797\/?google_editors_picks=true\" target=\"_blank\">can teach us about police brutality<\/a>.\n<li>Polar Pure water treatment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2011\/11\/23\/another-glorious-drug-war-victory-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">and the drug war<\/a>. I agree with Radley Balko; the Polar Pure guy sounds like a cool, crusty old character. But doesn&#8217;t it just make you wince when some victim of the feds protests, &#8220;I&#8217;m all in favor of regulation, BUT &#8230;&#8221;? Oh, the total not-getting-it-ness!\n<li>Finally, two on MF Global that both go far beyond MF Global. The first nails it on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/other_people_money_bnv7Yjd8IAli3dAJfSbK7M\" target=\"_blank\">big government and big gamblers-with-other-peoples&#8217;-money<\/a> are so much alike. The second? Well, salutes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/entire-system-has-been-utterly-destroyed-mf-global-collapse-presenting-first-mf-global-casualty\" target=\"_blank\">to the few who still have integrity.<\/a> Too bad that having integrity in that business means going <i>out<\/i> of business.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in prison for cutting off beards? Ridiculous law gets more ridiculous by the minute. And not only in Feddieland. (Money quote is in the final paragraph.) Terrorist entrapments are getting pretty desperate, too. But get the gummint out of the way and people still do amazingly cool things. Speaking of dogs, here&#8217;s another awwwww moment. The tidbit about the crucifix chain is what&#8217;s interesting here. Hm. Might hit the pawnshops and second-hand stores for that little bit of preparedness. What George Orwell can teach us about police brutality. Polar Pure water treatment and the drug war. I agree with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/wednesday-miscellany-14\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[8,19,20,23,27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958","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=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}