{"id":8678,"date":"2012-01-16T02:51:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T09:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2012-01-16T02:51:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T09:51:46","slug":"monday-miscelleny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/monday-miscelleny\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscelleny"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Not that I think jail is a sensible solution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/14\/us-michigan-bridge-idUSTRE80B21F20120114\" target=\"_blank\">for anything here.<\/a> But imagine if every <i>government<\/i> VIP whose projects went wrong were treated like this.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-classic-liberal.com\/does-america-qualify-police-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Does America Now Qualify as a Police State?&#8221;<\/a> Well now, there&#8217;s a no-brainer &#8230;\n<li>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/mu-2012-01-13\" target=\"_blank\">inventiveness never ceases<\/a> to amaze.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2012\/01\/13\/3369419\/spanish-judge-reopens-guantanamo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bush war crimes under investigation.<\/a> Not in the U.S., of course.\n<li>Even &#8220;Raging Grannies&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120113\/11044317401\/raging-grannies-come-out-against-sopapipa.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">are against SOPA<\/a> now. Its House and Senate (PIPA) sponsors <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/01\/14\/lamar-smith-and-patrick-leahy.html\" target=\"_blank\">have blinked<\/a>. Not good enough, still. But progress.\n<li>Hey, what about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/geodog-gps-dog-finder-collar\/21095\/\" target=\"_blank\">poor dog&#8217;s privacy<\/a>? (Tip o&#8217; hat to JB.)\n<li>Ron Paul money bomb for South Carolina <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.ronpaul2012.com\/?sr=31-0114a\" target=\"_blank\">still going strong<\/a>. The big Ron Paul organizer in our area held meetings today. I tell you, anarchist or no, and snow or no (we had quite the weather going), I was pretty tempted to drop in. I hope Ms. Organizer&#8217;s not reading this; she knows where I live.\n<li>You remember the old expression, &#8220;If we told you, then we&#8217;d have to kill you?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/national-security\/fbi-if-we-told-you-you-might-sue-1\" target=\"_blank\">Well, times have changed&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;ve all had one of those days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2012\/01\/16\/monday-miscelleny\/bulldog-oneofthosedays\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Bulldog-OneofThoseDays-450x450.jpg\" alt=\"bulldog sulking in a corner\" title=\"Bulldog-OneofThoseDays\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8686\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Several tips o&#8217; hat to M.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I think jail is a sensible solution for anything here. But imagine if every government VIP whose projects went wrong were treated like this. &#8220;Does America Now Qualify as a Police State?&#8221; Well now, there&#8217;s a no-brainer &#8230; But inventiveness never ceases to amaze. Bush war crimes under investigation. Not in the U.S., of course. Even &#8220;Raging Grannies&#8221; are against SOPA now. Its House and Senate (PIPA) sponsors have blinked. Not good enough, still. But progress. Hey, what about the poor dog&#8217;s privacy? (Tip o&#8217; hat to JB.) Ron Paul money bomb for South Carolina still going strong.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/16\/monday-miscelleny\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscelleny<\/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":[8,11,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/8678","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=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}