{"id":14755,"date":"2013-08-13T01:48:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14755"},"modified":"2013-08-13T01:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T08:48:36","slug":"tuesday-links-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/tuesday-links-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Most media outlets aren&#8217;t mentioning that those four people who found and reported that killer-kidnapper in Idaho <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20724825,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">were all armed<\/a>, men and women both. (They didn&#8217;t confront the creep because even though they felt something was wrong about the man and the nervous young girl they didn&#8217;t realize until they got home who the two were.)\n<li>First dog Bo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/barackobama\/10236302\/First-dog-Bo-is-airlifted-to-Obama-holiday-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">is so privileged<\/a> he may soon have to be named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Incitatus\" target=\"_blank\">Incitatus<\/a>. But even Caligula probably didn&#8217;t make Roman taxpayers fork over bux <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/TheWire\/bo-obama-dog-motorcade\/2013\/03\/11\/id\/494112\" target=\"_blank\">for his critter&#8217;s private progresses through the streets<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/minutemennews.com\/2013\/03\/obama-furloughs-fda-inspectors-keeps-100k-first-family-dog-walker\/\" target=\"_blank\">$100k per year handler<\/a>.\n<li>How Nixon ushered in an <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/nixons-resignation-the-era-of-lawless-presidents\/\" target=\"_blank\">era of lawless presidents<\/a>. Well, not that they were any too lawful even before that. But the early 1970s definitely brought us an acceleration of official evils.\n<li>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2013\/0811\/Miami-Taser-death-Are-police-relying-too-much-on-stun-guns\" target=\"_blank\">death by taser<\/a>. But of course, there was <i>absolutely NO police wrongdoing<\/i> as we all know. Because tasers, as we were so heartily assured when they first came into use, would <i>never<\/i> be used except as life-saving devices when guns would otherwise be drawn. <i>No<\/i> officer would ever use a taser as a mere &#8220;control device&#8221; or retaliatory measure. And the villainous young artist had committed <i>two<\/i> capital crimes &#8212; drawing graffiti and running from a cop.\n<li>Where were you when <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2013\/08\/09\/the-silence-of-the-race-hustlers\/\" target=\"_blank\">this happened<\/a>, Mssrs. Sharpton, Jackson, and Obama?\n<li>The U.S. now has a smarter-than-thou, 27-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/nudge_off_VIU0WQzeDw2DwAoy27T5HO\" target=\"_blank\">nudge czar<\/a>. Sigh. I&#8217;ve been wondering for a few years how long it would take for the godawful idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=405940\" target=\"_blank\">libertarian paternalism<\/a> to become the next <del datetime=\"2013-08-12T18:58:16+00:00\">good<\/del> bad-government fad.\n<li>I hate joining in the conspiracy theories. I really do. But I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s one chance in a thousand that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2013\/08\/christian-stork\/connections-between-michael-hastings-edward-snowden-and-barrett-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Hastings&#8217; death<\/a> was an accident. He had offended too many people in the UberGovernment and was about to offend a whole bunch more.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most media outlets aren&#8217;t mentioning that those four people who found and reported that killer-kidnapper in Idaho were all armed, men and women both. (They didn&#8217;t confront the creep because even though they felt something was wrong about the man and the nervous young girl they didn&#8217;t realize until they got home who the two were.) First dog Bo is so privileged he may soon have to be named Incitatus. But even Caligula probably didn&#8217;t make Roman taxpayers fork over bux for his critter&#8217;s private progresses through the streets or a $100k per year handler. How Nixon ushered in an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/tuesday-links-21\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[2,8,12,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755","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=14755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}