{"id":9823,"date":"2012-04-23T02:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2012-04-23T02:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:16:05","slug":"monday-miscellany-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/monday-miscellany-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Of course! This is exactly what the U.S. needs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/22\/opinion\/sunday\/friedman-down-with-everything.html\" target=\"_blank\">a federal government that can <i>do<\/i> more<\/a>. Now why didn&#8217;t we think of that?\n<li>How exactly does a &#8220;civil servant&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/04\/19\/illinois-city-official-accused-stealing-30m-from-taxpayers\/\" target=\"_blank\">steal $30 million from a town of 12,000<\/a>?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonet.ca\/auto-news\/automotive-industry-news\/2012\/04\/17\/10-completely-ridiculous-road-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ten completely ridiculous (and not necessarily SFW) road signs<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.)\n<li>SOPA is dead. <a href=\"http:\/\/youranonnews.tumblr.com\/post\/21314689010\/come-together-to-stop-cispa-what-is-cispa-the\" target=\"_blank\">Long live CISPA!<\/a> Or maybe we should say SOPA is dead; will somebody fer cryin&#8217; out loud put a stake in its heart and bury it at the crossroads???\n<li>Does that take-away-your-passport-if-you-haven&#8217;t-paid-your-taxes law that&#8217;s making its way through Congress also <a href=\"http:\/\/beforeitsnews.com\/story\/2044\/875\/Bill_Gives_The_IRS_Power_To:_Authorize_The_Removal_Of_The_Right_To_Own_A_Firearm_-_Video.html\" target=\"_blank\">give the IRS the authority to seize our firearms<\/a>? I&#8217;m not convinced of that. But this is certainly how they like to do things. (H\/T to MWD.)\n<li>So the Barefoot Bandit is <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-04-20\/news\/31375061_1_colton-harris-moore-john-henry-browne-solitary-confinement\" target=\"_blank\">getting the supermax treatment<\/a> <i>for his own good<\/i>. Uh huh. Sure.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/20\/nyregion\/indictment-against-julian-heicklen-jury-nullification-advocate-is-dismissed.html\" target=\"_blank\">Heicklen wins.<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 And on good grounds, too. Now he should sue the bejabbers out of the &#8220;authorities&#8221; who repeatedly arrested, abused, and even subjected him to involuntary psychiatric treatment. (<i>NYTimes<\/i> free registration required.)\n<li>Why you don&#8217;t want the state to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2012\/apr\/05\/us-sexual-humiliation-political-control\/print\" target=\"_blank\">have the power to see you nekkid<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/survivalblog.com\/2012\/04\/preparing-to-prepare-a-financial-primer-by-just-scott.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Preparing to Prepare: A Financial Primer.&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>And now, on the lighter side &#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go ahead. <a href=\"http:\/\/biggeekdad.com\/2012\/04\/push-the-button\/\" target=\"_blank\">Push the red button<\/a>. (H\/T BW.)\n<li>Strictly for you film buffs: What if the artsy-depressing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogme_95\" target=\"_blank\">Dogme 95<\/a> filmmakers decided to make a movie <a href=\"http:\/\/coilhouse.net\/2012\/04\/donald-duck-via-dogme-95\/\" target=\"_blank\">about &#8230; Donald Duck<\/a>?\n<li>The rise of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6107945984?siteId=7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Geeko sapiens<\/i><\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Awwwwwwwww. The things you run into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooborns.com\/zooborns\/2009\/06\/a-prickly-bundle-of-porcupine-joy.html\" target=\"_blank\">while looking for pictures of dogs that got quilled<\/a>.\n<li>Thirteen pets who are clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/freddiecampion\/in-celebration-of-earth-day-13-pets-who-look-like-5vii\" target=\"_blank\">plotting to take over the world<\/a>. (Just because you need all the smiles you can get on a Monday morning.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course! This is exactly what the U.S. needs: a federal government that can do more. Now why didn&#8217;t we think of that? How exactly does a &#8220;civil servant&#8221; steal $30 million from a town of 12,000? Ten completely ridiculous (and not necessarily SFW) road signs. (Tip o&#8217; hat to C^2.) SOPA is dead. Long live CISPA! Or maybe we should say SOPA is dead; will somebody fer cryin&#8217; out loud put a stake in its heart and bury it at the crossroads??? Does that take-away-your-passport-if-you-haven&#8217;t-paid-your-taxes law that&#8217;s making its way through Congress also give the IRS the authority to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/monday-miscellany-60\/\">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":[4,8,11,12,16,19,20,23,26,27,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","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=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}