{"id":11360,"date":"2012-09-19T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2012-09-19T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:32:20","slug":"wednesday-links-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/wednesday-links-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>Great<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/great-anti-drone-poster-from-the-nyclu\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-drone ad<\/a> from the New York Civil Liberties Union.\n<li>And speaking of the (many) reasons not to give trust or power to police &#8230; if the eye-witness account is true (something that might be confirmed by a necropsy on the dead dog), <a href=\"http:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/section\/eyewitness-officer-used-baton-boot-on-injured-dog\/article_607b82ee-f160-11e1-9215-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">this cop<\/a> should never walk among civilized beings again. This really deserves a blog post of its own, but I couldn&#8217;t stand to write it. Beware: this makes the standard cop-puppycide case look loving by comparison. (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a>)\n<li>Let&#8217;s change the subject and do some badly needed lightening up. Here&#8217;s a quiz for you: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooseintheyard.com\/2012\/09\/a-short-quiz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Which politicians made which statements?<\/a>\n<li>This is also a case of dog abuse. People abuse, too. But I&#8217;m sorry, I almost laugh when I picture it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/florida-man-accused-of-being-girlfriend-with-her-own-dog\" target=\"_blank\">man beats girlfriend with her own dog<\/a>. People are very strange. Fortunately nobody was badly hurt.\n<li>And while we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/misanthropic777.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/10\/i-dont-care-who-you-are-thats-funny-right-there\/\" target=\"_blank\">looking at black humor<\/a> (and a great barb against anti-gun fools) &#8230;\n<li>Yay! Porno-cancer scanners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2204422\/Controversial-naked-airport-body-scanners-scrapped-failing-receive-European-approval.html\" target=\"_blank\">get banned in Europe<\/a>.\n<li>That new TV series, <i>Revolution<\/i>? So far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/s204\/revolution\/recaps\/a406580\/revolution-review-does-jj-abramss-new-sci-fi-drama-burn-bright.html\" target=\"_blank\">not so good<\/a>.\n<li>Here&#8217;s some clever expansion on the &#8220;week-in-a-bucket&#8221; preparedness idea that BusyPoorDad brought to the comments the other day. This is <a href=\"http:\/\/bisonrma.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/win-some-silver-one-bucket-per-month.html\" target=\"_blank\">month-in-a-bucket<\/a> from bare bones to high end. (Thank you, Chief Instructor!)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great anti-drone ad from the New York Civil Liberties Union. And speaking of the (many) reasons not to give trust or power to police &#8230; if the eye-witness account is true (something that might be confirmed by a necropsy on the dead dog), this cop should never walk among civilized beings again. This really deserves a blog post of its own, but I couldn&#8217;t stand to write it. Beware: this makes the standard cop-puppycide case look loving by comparison. (H\/T Wendy McElroy) Let&#8217;s change the subject and do some badly needed lightening up. Here&#8217;s a quiz for you: Which politicians&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/19\/wednesday-links-8\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday links<\/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":[4,8,12,23,27,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","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=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}