{"id":8035,"date":"2011-11-30T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2011-11-30T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:09:11","slug":"wednesday-miscellany-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/wednesday-miscellany-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Former Seattle police chief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-15929017\" target=\"_blank\">knows from experience<\/a>: cops are blowing it in their handling of OWS. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)\n<li>Family <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-santa-rosa-20111129,0,3043295.story?page=1&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;track=rss&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20MostEmailed%20%28L.A.%20Times%20-%20Most%20E-mailed%20Stories%29&#038;utm_source=feedburner\" target=\"_blank\">reluctantly surrenders its beloved island<\/a>. I give you one guess as to <i>why<\/i>. I know you can tell me without even clicking on the link.\n<li>My dogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/dog-show.htm\" target=\"_blank\">could do this<\/a>.\n<li>I&#8217;m two weeks late learning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/16\/technology\/ilya-zhitomirskiy-co-founder-of-social-network-dies-at-22.html?_r=2&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1322537121-Lwoxis9mVLwbyA3JXJqY1g\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. So sad. <a href=\"https:\/\/diasp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diaspora*<\/a> is a great and hopeful creation.\n<li>Now here&#8217;s a perfect example of how one man&#8217;s safe-haven is another person&#8217;s nightmare. Joel Skousen has named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesurvivalistblog.net\/redoubt-of-the-east\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee as the best retreat location<\/a> for people living east of the Mississippi. That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2011\/nov\/27\/tennessee-constables-arent-salaried-but-they-can\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Tennessee<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/033961_TSA_security_checkpoints.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Tennessee<\/a>. No thanks. Interesting article by Skousen, though.\n<li>The very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/11\/29\/kidnapper-sues-former-hostages-says-broke-promise\/\" target=\"_blank\">definition of chutzpah<\/a>.\n<li>The very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/pop\/Elvis-Costello-Buy-Louis-Armstrong-Music-Instead-Mine-37392.html\" target=\"_blank\">definition of integrity<\/a>. Not to mention panache.\n<li>How Jon Corzine&#8217;s liberal politics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/the_face_of_wall_street_arrogance_8XAZ7crBF3ZbQFUEr5SyPK\" target=\"_blank\">led to the MF Global downfall<\/a>.\n<li>Ferfal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ferfal.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/and-so-it-ends-for-argentina.html\" target=\"_blank\">heartfelt cry<\/a> from Argentina. (Tip o&#8217; hat to A.) But why do these things always end with a plea to vote for the right people? Sigh.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2011\/11\/23\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The degree to which you resist<\/a> is the degree to which you are free.&#8221; Take Ferfal&#8217;s stand and Utah Phillips&#8217; then go 90 degrees upward and you&#8217;re headed where freedom lies.\n<li>Finally, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a> linked to this cartoon a couple of weeks ago, but it&#8217;s been on my mind ever since. It just gets truer by the minute &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2011\/11\/30\/wednesday-miscellany-15\/endangeringpublicsafetycartoon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/EndangeringPublicSafetyCartoon-450x303.jpg\" alt=\"Heavily armed cop tells unarmed protesters they&#039;re endangering public safety\" title=\"EndangeringPublicSafetyCartoon\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8042\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Seattle police chief knows from experience: cops are blowing it in their handling of OWS. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.) Family reluctantly surrenders its beloved island. I give you one guess as to why. I know you can tell me without even clicking on the link. My dogs could do this. I&#8217;m two weeks late learning this. So sad. Diaspora* is a great and hopeful creation. Now here&#8217;s a perfect example of how one man&#8217;s safe-haven is another person&#8217;s nightmare. Joel Skousen has named Tennessee as the best retreat location for people living east of the Mississippi. That&#8217;s this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/30\/wednesday-miscellany-15\/\">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":[8,11,19,23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","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=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}