{"id":18324,"date":"2014-08-16T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2014-08-16T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T17:51:36","slug":"weekend-links-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/16\/weekend-links-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Oh rats. Device <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/gear-and-gadgets\/device-sniffs-out-smuggled-money-140815.htm\" target=\"_blank\">sniffs out smuggled money<\/a>.\n<li>Irony. While Obama asks Ferguson, MO, police to quit attacking journalists, press-freedom advocates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/articles\/2014\/08\/14\/obama-asks-cops-to-lay-off-reporters-press-advocates-ask-same-of-him\" target=\"_blank\">ask Obama to do the same<\/a>.\n<li>In the &#8220;decline of civilization and common sense&#8221; department, two women are so terrified of an angry cat that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/11035895\/Angry-cat-holds-women-hostage-in-California-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">they call 911<\/a>. And this was <i>their own cat<\/i>, not some potentially rabid stranger. (H\/T SC)\n<li>&#8220;The Soros Put.&#8221; The savvy, super-connected billionaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-08-15\/soros-put-rises-record-billionaire-investor-betting-market-crash\" target=\"_blank\">bets $2.2 billion<\/a> (17% of his assets under management) on a coming stock market crash. H\/T to Silver, <a href=\"http:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=34379.0\" target=\"_blank\">who also comments<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/385518\/who-lost-cities-kevin-d-williamson\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Who lost the cities?&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Hint: Their close cousins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/16\/secular_stagnation_is_a_cover-up_101231.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost the whole darned economy<\/a>.\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/columns\/bill-mcclellan\/mcclellan-memo-to-the-world-we-re-fine\/article_2572f7a5-d177-52da-8797-e6ae072c5d69.html\" target=\"_blank\">perspective on Ferguson<\/a> from a local.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh rats. Device sniffs out smuggled money. Irony. While Obama asks Ferguson, MO, police to quit attacking journalists, press-freedom advocates ask Obama to do the same. In the &#8220;decline of civilization and common sense&#8221; department, two women are so terrified of an angry cat that they call 911. And this was their own cat, not some potentially rabid stranger. (H\/T SC) &#8220;The Soros Put.&#8221; The savvy, super-connected billionaire bets $2.2 billion (17% of his assets under management) on a coming stock market crash. H\/T to Silver, who also comments. &#8220;Who lost the cities?&#8221; Hint: Their close cousins lost the whole&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/16\/weekend-links-11\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[8,9,11,19,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324","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=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}