{"id":8317,"date":"2011-12-19T02:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2011-12-19T02:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T09:50:35","slug":"monday-miscellany-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/monday-miscellany-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Trust him or not? That&#8217;s a good question. Me, I think Stephen Glass has more than earned a &#8220;trust, but verify&#8221; status. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/16\/justice\/stephen-glass\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>not honest enough to be a lawyer???<\/i><\/a>. Please tell me you&#8217;re joking.\n<li>Well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-food-lausd-20111218,0,2593733.story\" target=\"_blank\">That was predictable.<\/a> A black market in Cheetos.\n<li>I nearly tossed my Christmas cookies yesterday when, at the local general store, I ran across tree ornaments that said, &#8220;Police officers: Angels on earth.&#8221; Among other things, I had no idea angels were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/bonfiredesigns.335163654?CMP=CJ-CLICK-10463747&#038;cjpid=3158565&#038;PID=7532081&#038;utm_medium=affiliate&#038;utm_campaign=none&#038;utm_source=cj&#038;utm_term=2485971\" target=\"_blank\">prone to this<\/a> kind of blatant cronyism. (Of course, I&#8217;m sure those little tags, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/leoprocards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a>, will be used only for honest, civic-minded purposes.)\n<li>Haven&#8217;t seen too many angels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/18\/opinion\/sunday\/young-black-and-frisked-by-the-nypd.html?_r=1\" \"target=\"_blank\">doing this<\/a>, either. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2075886\/Latino-Army-veteran-brain-dead-use-excessive-force-jail-run-Americas-toughest-sheriff.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. But of course, if the &#8220;angels&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/justice-dept-says-seattle-police-department-used-excessive-force-and-violated-constitution\/2011\/12\/16\/gIQAYwYZyO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">were only better trained and supervised<\/a> everything would be heavenly. Tell me, do you routinely beat people up just because no government official has &#8220;trained or supervised&#8221; you not to? Hm. Didn&#8217;t think so.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/12\/18\/dea-raids-car-dealership-with-alleged-ties-to-terrorist-group-hezbollah\/?google_editors_picks=true\" target=\"_blank\"><i>the DEA?<\/a> What???<\/i> Did the so-called journalists even question any of this?\n<li>There&#8217;s some good news, though. Any <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/the-pirate-bay-dancing-add-on-kills-dns-and-ip-blockades-111130\/\" target=\"_blank\">MafiaaFire<\/a> users hereabouts? If so, care to give a report?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trust him or not? That&#8217;s a good question. Me, I think Stephen Glass has more than earned a &#8220;trust, but verify&#8221; status. But not honest enough to be a lawyer???. Please tell me you&#8217;re joking. Well That was predictable. A black market in Cheetos. I nearly tossed my Christmas cookies yesterday when, at the local general store, I ran across tree ornaments that said, &#8220;Police officers: Angels on earth.&#8221; Among other things, I had no idea angels were prone to this kind of blatant cronyism. (Of course, I&#8217;m sure those little tags, just like these, will be used only for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/monday-miscellany-52\/\">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":[6,11,13,19,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","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=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}