{"id":18070,"date":"2014-08-01T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18070"},"modified":"2014-08-01T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:09:10","slug":"friday-links-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/friday-links-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Okay, I get why Americans abroad with a deadly disease (and their families) would <i>want<\/i> to be cared for in the U.S. I understand that the fedgov has some obligation to protect U.S. citizens in other countries (though that&#8217;s often more theory than practice). What I <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> get is why the CDC would go out of its way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/story\/26171115\/charlotte-missionary-samaritans-purse-doctor-with-ebola-coming-back-to-us\" target=\"_blank\">to bring an incurable infectious disease<\/a> to these shores. I don&#8217;t care how many &#8220;precautions&#8221; you take. We&#8217;ve seen how well &#8220;precautions&#8221; often work.\n<li>&#8220;The app I used to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/07\/keyme-let-me-break-in\/\" target=\"_blank\">break into my neighbor&#8217;s home<\/a>.&#8221; Covert key copying goes high tech.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/07\/30\/the-criminalization-of-parenthood-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">criminalization of parenthood<\/a>.\n<li>Forget those sell-by dates. Here&#8217;s a site that tells you how long <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stilltasty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">food really lasts<\/a>. (And IMHO, they&#8217;re still being conservative, particularly when it comes to less risky foods.)\n<li>Wendy McElroy on <a href=\"http:\/\/dollarvigilante.com\/blog\/2014\/7\/29\/the-nsa-nation-moves-to-the-next-level.html\" target=\"_blank\">the NSA and social control<\/a>.\n<li>Weird Al Yankovic, <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3051761\/why-weird-als-word-crimes-is-english-for-dummies\/\" target=\"_blank\">grammar maven<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget: JPFO is auctioning off Aaron Zelman&#8217;s shotgun <a href=\"http:\/\/jpfo.org\/articles-assd04\/athens-mossberg.htm\" target=\"_blank\">commemorating the Battle of Athens, Tennessee<\/a>. Very cool. One of a kind. Auction runs through August 12 at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I get why Americans abroad with a deadly disease (and their families) would want to be cared for in the U.S. I understand that the fedgov has some obligation to protect U.S. citizens in other countries (though that&#8217;s often more theory than practice). What I don&#8217;t get is why the CDC would go out of its way to bring an incurable infectious disease to these shores. I don&#8217;t care how many &#8220;precautions&#8221; you take. We&#8217;ve seen how well &#8220;precautions&#8221; often work. &#8220;The app I used to break into my neighbor&#8217;s home.&#8221; Covert key copying goes high tech. The criminalization&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/01\/friday-links-26\/\">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":[11,12,13,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070","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=18070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}