{"id":14877,"date":"2013-08-30T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14877"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:59:32","slug":"friday-links-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/friday-links-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>We were all probably hoping and thinking that Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda weren&#8217;t behaving stupidly while sending\/transporting Snowden documents over international borders. Alas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/crime\/10276460\/David-Miranda-was-carrying-password-for-secret-files-on-piece-of-paper.html\" target=\"_blank\">perhaps they were<\/a>.\n<li>Even if you&#8217;re in major anti-news mode, you&#8217;ve probably heard about or seen Miley Cyrus&#8217; grotesque &#8220;twerking&#8221; performance a few days back. The &#8216;Net has been full of tsking about the way &#8220;Hannah Montana&#8221; turned on her little-girl fans with her crude display of sexuality. But everybody&#8217;s missing the point, you see. It&#8217;s not that Cyrus&#8217; performance was over-sexualized. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/anne-theriault-\/miley-cyrus-vma-performance_b_3819177.html\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s that it was <i>racist<\/i>!<\/a> Yes. Seriously. Racist. I think this sets a new low, not only for crude televised performances, but for what the left can twist into &#8220;racism.&#8221;\n<li>Speaking of racism, in all the hopped-up fooraw about this week&#8217;s 50th anniversary of the &#8220;Dream&#8221; march on Washington (and if you listen to NPR, as I do, it&#8217;s been &#8220;all March all the time&#8221; lately), what&#8217;s with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2013\/08\/concealing_charlton_heston_denying_mlk.html\" target=\"_blank\">editing Charlton Heston out<\/a> of the coverage? Yes, folks, gun-owning white guys can be for civil liberties, too.\n<li>Oh yes, America&#8217;s secret UberGovernment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pentagon-vs-mexican-drug-cartels-2013-8\" target=\"_blank\">has been busy, busy, busy<\/a>.\n<li>It&#8217;s good news that Holder has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattletimes.com\/today\/2013\/08\/washingtons-pot-law-wont-get-federal-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">decreed he won&#8217;t whack Washington and Colorado<\/a> for legalizing cannabis. Great news for <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonstatewire.com\/blog\/states-first-big-marijuana-grow-operation-is-announced-at-a-public-port\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of Washington&#8217;s most beaten-down little communities<\/a>, which has been hanging in suspense for months. But there are so many ifs, ands, buts, and potential catches.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were all probably hoping and thinking that Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda weren&#8217;t behaving stupidly while sending\/transporting Snowden documents over international borders. Alas, perhaps they were. Even if you&#8217;re in major anti-news mode, you&#8217;ve probably heard about or seen Miley Cyrus&#8217; grotesque &#8220;twerking&#8221; performance a few days back. The &#8216;Net has been full of tsking about the way &#8220;Hannah Montana&#8221; turned on her little-girl fans with her crude display of sexuality. But everybody&#8217;s missing the point, you see. It&#8217;s not that Cyrus&#8217; performance was over-sexualized. It&#8217;s that it was racist! Yes. Seriously. Racist. I think this sets&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/friday-links-16\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[6,11,12,19,28,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877","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=14877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}