{"id":17296,"date":"2014-05-27T01:42:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17296"},"modified":"2014-05-27T01:42:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:42:19","slug":"tuesday-links-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/tuesday-links-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Apparently neither the Fourth nor the Second Amendment apply when it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policestateusa.com\/2014\/sutterfield-vs-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\">for your own good<\/a>. (H\/T PB from comments.)\n<li>The <i>real<\/i> problem, of course, would be solved by getting rid of government schools and all their rigid one-size-fits-allism. Still, this short video is an interesting analysis of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4\" target=\"_blank\">what&#8217;s being done to boys<\/a>. And to society&#8217;s future. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Related to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/flyoverpress.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/22\/alpine-texas-bold-witness-to-alleged-abuse-by-federal-agents-comes-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gunny alerted us to<\/a> the other day, the intended target in that Texas case <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2014\/05\/22\/3440652\/judge-to-drug-defendant-you-cant-get-out-of-jail-unless-you-retract-statements-to-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been ordered to recant<\/a> her statements to the press. As a condition of parole. Can you spell &#8220;First amendment abuse&#8221;?\n<li>What if female bodies in classical paintings were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/feature\/2014\/05\/15\/famous-paintings-photoshopped-to-look-like-fashion-models\" target=\"_blank\">photoshopped as they are in modern ads<\/a>? Ugh! (Amusing, but still ugh. Also: naked lady alert. But it&#8217;s okay because it&#8217;s Art.)\n<li>So you think nobody&#8217;s manipulating the metals markets? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2014-05-23\/barclays-manipulated-gold-as-soon-as-it-stopped-manipulating-libor\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a known case<\/a> where Barclays (remember them from the Libor manipulation scandal?) deliberately screwed with the gold market to cheat one of their own customers out of $3.9 million. Braaaazen.\n<li>Oh, so <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> what that new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-goldberg-trigger-warnings-20140520-column.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;trigger warning&#8221; BS <\/a> is all about. Been hearing that phrase and wondered if it was some new antigunnery. Nope. Just more politically correct, infantilizing silliness from the crowd who believes their widdle feewings should never be hurt. No doubt, though, that anything more dangerous than a plastic spork will &#8220;trigger&#8221; some poor soul&#8217;s hysteria.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/americans-more-afraid-of-credit-card-fraud-than-terrorism-2014-5\" target=\"_blank\">What Americans are really afraid of<\/a>. Hint: It&#8217;s not terrorism. Anybody else notice that four of the top five and five of the top eight basically amount to the same thing? Or are at least as closely related as the Dionne Quints?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently neither the Fourth nor the Second Amendment apply when it&#8217;s for your own good. (H\/T PB from comments.) The real problem, of course, would be solved by getting rid of government schools and all their rigid one-size-fits-allism. Still, this short video is an interesting analysis of what&#8217;s being done to boys. And to society&#8217;s future. (H\/T MJR) Related to the story Gunny alerted us to the other day, the intended target in that Texas case has been ordered to recant her statements to the press. As a condition of parole. Can you spell &#8220;First amendment abuse&#8221;? What if female&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/tuesday-links-33\/\">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":[2,9,12,13,15,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296","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=17296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}