{"id":18143,"date":"2014-08-06T01:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18143"},"modified":"2017-04-17T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:31:12","slug":"wednesday-links-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/wednesday-links-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>David Codrea goes digging for the grass roots of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvcriminaldefense.com\/trail-shows-nevadans-background-checks-front-group-everytown\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest &#8220;local&#8221; anti-gun group<\/a> &#8230; and guess who he finds? Nice detective work, David. (ED NOTE 4\/17\/17: The original link became obsolete and I substituted a working one at the request of a reader. It reports the same story but does not appear to credit David Codrea.)\n<li>Salt Lake City police <a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2014\/08\/01\/salt-lake-city-officer-cleared-of-wrongdoing-after-shooting-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">investigate themselves<\/a> for the slaughter of a dog in its own backyard &#8230; and guess what <i>they<\/i> find?\n<li>But enough bad news about dogs. Here are a pair of good things. An IKEA store <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halopets.com\/freekibble\/donation173.html\" target=\"_blank\">puts life-size cutouts<\/a> of shelter dogs to show customers how well those needy dogs would go with their new IKEA furniture. And just for laughs: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SofaDogs\" target=\"_blank\">Sofa Dogs!<\/a>\n<li>And via naturegirl in comments: Valiant elderly dog, unwanted by two owners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/1394319\/heiress-adopts-lady-dog-who-walked-30-miles-home-gets-heiress-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets the home she deserves<\/a>.\n<li>Heartwarming: Long-lost brothers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/news\/editors-pick\/Brothers-reunited-after-70-years-270014081.html\" target=\"_blank\">find each other<\/a> after 70 years.\n<li>Heartbreaking: Ryochiji prepares to <a href=\"https:\/\/laptopandarifle.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/05\/fire-threatens-serenity-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\">say goodbye to his cabin<\/a> in Serenity Valley as fire threatens. Hoping for the best with those precautions you&#8217;ve taken, Ryochiji.\n<li>Have you taken your <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/08\/05\/have-you-taken-your-obama-loyalty-oath\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama loyalty oath<\/a> yet? It&#8217;s despicable that some of his pet senators are calling on him to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollcall.com\/wgdb\/durbin-reed-warren-seek-executive-action-to-combat-inversion\/\" target=\"_blank\">bypass our &#8220;representatives.&#8221;<\/a> Economic morons. Constitutional morons. Moral morons. And did I mention &#8230; morons?\n<li>Yes, you had to pass the bill so we could find out what was in it. Okay, so now we know. And the more we know <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/obamacare-and-the-public-the-more-they-know-the-less-they-like\/article\/2551656\" target=\"_blank\">the less we like<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Codrea goes digging for the grass roots of the latest &#8220;local&#8221; anti-gun group &#8230; and guess who he finds? Nice detective work, David. (ED NOTE 4\/17\/17: The original link became obsolete and I substituted a working one at the request of a reader. It reports the same story but does not appear to credit David Codrea.) Salt Lake City police investigate themselves for the slaughter of a dog in its own backyard &#8230; and guess what they find? But enough bad news about dogs. Here are a pair of good things. An IKEA store puts life-size cutouts of shelter&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/wednesday-links-21\/\">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":[8,12,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","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\/18143","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=18143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30413,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions\/30413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}