{"id":9005,"date":"2012-02-13T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2012-02-13T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:00:22","slug":"monday-miscellany-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/monday-miscellany-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Shy? Grieving? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2012\/02\/09\/shyness-illness-in-dangerous-health-book-experts-say\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">You sicko, you.<\/a> (Tip o&#8217; hat to P.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/warren-buffetts-net-worth-jumps-154m-thanks-to-mortgage-settlement\/\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> came from D. with the disgruntled comment, &#8220;Most of the people I know who got medals got <i>shot<\/i>.&#8221; It&#8217;s so much tidier being in the elite.\n<li>Too bad <a href=\"http:\/\/wvgazette.com\/News\/201202070284\" target=\"_blank\">hackers had to do this<\/a>. Should be standard procedure. (Tip o&#8217; hat to M.)\n<li>Remember the cop who got fired for hanging and kicking his K9 partner? Well, it seems that the firing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeone.com\/police-jobs\/articles\/5048505-Court-Trooper-who-kicked-K-9-wrongly-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\">was a problem<\/a>; the hanging and pummeling were just as the trooper always claimed &#8212; yes, standard procedure. (H\/T to Fred.)\n<li>A 12-year-old boy <a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/wisconsin-boy-saves-grandmas-house-foreclosure-185349531--abc-news.html\" target=\"_blank\">saves his grandma&#8217;s house<\/a> &#8212; using an online charity he established years earlier. How&#8217;s that for individual initiative?\n<li>And speaking of initiative: Iran bans a filmmaker from creating a documentary. So he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/wireless\/articles\/20120210\/01082817724\/iranian-filmmaker-banned-filmmaking-makes-documentary-via-his-iphone-about-his-plight.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">makes a film about his plight<\/a>. On a smart phone.\n<li>The media reports that Romney won the Maine caucuses 39% to Ron Paul&#8217;s 36%. Nothing to see here; just move on. That &#8220;win&#8221; hinges on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicpolicyjournal.com\/2012\/02\/maine-prevents-ron-paul-victory-because.html\" target=\"_blank\">very fishy postponement<\/a> of one caucus. As with Iowa, we may see a reversal. Even as things stand, RealClearPolitics reports the Maine delegate count: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2012\/president\/republican_delegate_count.html\" target=\"_blank\">Romney, 8; Paul, 7<\/a>. Not bad for a &#8220;fringoid nutjob,&#8221; eh?\n<li>Ummm &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/stopthestate.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/is-it-lawmakers-or-law-enforcers-who.html\" target=\"_blank\">Both?<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/workplace\/story\/2012-02-11\/dogs-in-workplace\/53031798\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Dogs in the workplace?<\/a> Well of course! (H\/T PT.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/03\/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy\/8873\/?single_page=true\" target=\"_blank\">Now, cats, on the other hand &#8230;<\/a> (Stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a>.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/azerbaijan-tower-worlds-tallest-tower-2012-2\" target=\"_blank\">Sure sign<\/a> the current depression is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/daily\/3038\" target=\"_blank\">get waaaaaay deeper<\/a>.\n<li>But in the good news department, the <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalvelcraft.org\/2012\/02\/08\/new-mexico-sheriffs-threaten-to-arrest-obama-federal-agents-if-they-continue-to-violate-the-u-s-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\">revolt of the sheriffs<\/a> continues to grow. (Thank you, JS, for the day-brightener.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shy? Grieving? You sicko, you. (Tip o&#8217; hat to P.) This came from D. with the disgruntled comment, &#8220;Most of the people I know who got medals got shot.&#8221; It&#8217;s so much tidier being in the elite. Too bad hackers had to do this. Should be standard procedure. (Tip o&#8217; hat to M.) Remember the cop who got fired for hanging and kicking his K9 partner? Well, it seems that the firing was a problem; the hanging and pummeling were just as the trooper always claimed &#8212; yes, standard procedure. (H\/T to Fred.) A 12-year-old boy saves his grandma&#8217;s house&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/monday-miscellany-56\/\">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":[8,13,20,23,25,26,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005","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=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}