{"id":9204,"date":"2012-03-01T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2012-03-01T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:10:42","slug":"thursday-miscellany-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/thursday-miscellany-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Real world disaster preparedness. The other day in comments, clark posted this link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplacewithnoname.com\/blogs\/klessons\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Katrina survivor&#8217;s experience<\/a> and observations. Very much worth a read. I particularly liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplacewithnoname.com\/blogs\/klessons\/p\/0003.html\" target=\"_blank\">this page that sums it all up<\/a>.\n<li>Simple, clever experiment reveals why <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/29\/why-its-so-important-to-keep-moving\/\" target=\"_blank\">we need to keep moving<\/a> for health&#8217;s sake. One of the reasons, anyhow.\n<li>Murphy&#8217;s Law. Your chances of a screw-up <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew.triumf.ca\/cgi-bin\/murphy.html?U=8&#038;I=8&#038;C=1&#038;S=4&#038;F=1\" target=\"_blank\">can now be calculated<\/a>. Except &#8230; er &#8230; doesn&#8217;t Murphy&#8217;s Law ensure that the calculations are likely to be screwed up?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tirelessagorist.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/hijacking-general-welfare-clause.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hijacking the General Welfare Clause.&#8221;<\/a> Historical research from wonderful new blogger AgoristDon.\n<li>Better than a cop? <a href=\"http:\/\/networkedblogs.com\/uD7In\" target=\"_blank\">Deer saves woman from attacker<\/a>.\n<li>Of course Bank of America is entitled to raise revenues any way it deems fit. But really, after recent experience, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatest.slate.com\/posts\/2012\/03\/01\/bank_of_america_checking_account_fees_planned.html?from=rss\/&#038;wpisrc=newsletter_slatest\" target=\"_blank\">this is astoundingly tone deaf<\/a>.\n<li>Will stupid Fed policies bring us <a href=\"http:\/\/money.msn.com\/exchange-traded-fund\/will-fed-push-oil-to-200-dollars-a-barrel-mirhaydari.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">$200\/barrel oil<\/a>? Duh, we&#8217;ll be lucky if that&#8217;s all we get.\n<li>Great one from MJR: Meet the man who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/frankminiter\/2012\/02\/29\/meet-the-man-responsible-for-the-death-of-canadas-gun-registry\/\" target=\"_blank\">ended Canada&#8217;s gun registry<\/a>. Bonus points: He&#8217;s a legislator who <i>actually listened to his constituents and did his homework<\/i>.\n<li>The Monkees. Yes, the <a href=\"http:\/\/vault.fbi.gov\/the-monkees\" target=\"_blank\">FBI investigated<\/a> even that innocuous, TV-made crew of pop-tots.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the above already appeared on my Twitter feed. Apologies to anybody who got the same news from me twice, but I&#8217;m trying to strike a miscellany balance between the blog and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>And finally: The Three Little Pigs as covered in the modern mainstream and alternative media:<\/p>\n<p>(Speaking of Murphy&#8217;s Law, this is weird. On the preview of this post, I see the Three Little Pigs video. But when I post it, on my system at least, it turns into the One Happy Dog video I blogged the other day. I&#8217;m working on it, but if you see the wrong video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDGrfhJH1P4\" target=\"_blank\">just go here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vDGrfhJH1P4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real world disaster preparedness. The other day in comments, clark posted this link to a Katrina survivor&#8217;s experience and observations. Very much worth a read. I particularly liked this page that sums it all up. Simple, clever experiment reveals why we need to keep moving for health&#8217;s sake. One of the reasons, anyhow. Murphy&#8217;s Law. Your chances of a screw-up can now be calculated. Except &#8230; er &#8230; doesn&#8217;t Murphy&#8217;s Law ensure that the calculations are likely to be screwed up? &#8220;Hijacking the General Welfare Clause.&#8221; Historical research from wonderful new blogger AgoristDon. Better than a cop? Deer saves woman&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/01\/thursday-miscellany-20\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[11,12,13,16,20,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","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=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}