{"id":18415,"date":"2014-08-21T06:46:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18415"},"modified":"2014-08-21T06:46:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:46:59","slug":"thursday-links-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/thursday-links-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Eric Holder, <del datetime=\"2014-08-21T13:28:42+00:00\">peacemaker<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2014\/08\/20\/ferguson-holder-investigation-police-shooting-column\/14332185\/\" target=\"_blank\">patron saint of violent cops<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timesfreepress.com\/news\/2014\/aug\/20\/us-mission-rescue-hostages-syria-failed\/?breakingnews\" target=\"_blank\">Failed rescue of Foley<\/a>. Seems Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/hostage-rescue-mission-ends-in-disaster\" target=\"_blank\">even more like Carter<\/a> than it appeared.\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/08\/19\/the-ayn-rand-dollar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ayn Rand dollar<\/a>?\n<li>Smart homes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/119136\/smart-home-technology-getting-more-pointless\" target=\"_blank\">are stupid<\/a>. Maybe it&#8217;s only because the tech is new and just developing. Maybe &#8230; some of it&#8217;s actually stupid. (Not to mention intrusive and insanely insecure.)\n<li>I have no idea whether the cop in the Ferguson shooting was justified or not. <i>This<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ferguson-police-officer-threatens-livestreamer-2014-8\" target=\"_blank\">cop in Ferguson<\/a> should be busted below the level of janitor. UPDATE: He has at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.com\/national\/2014\/08\/aclu-says-officer-who-threatened-to-fcking-kill-ferguson-protesters-taken-off-duty\/378877\/\" target=\"_blank\">been taken off duty<\/a>. It&#8217;s a start.\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimorepostexaminer.com\/maryland-judge-robert-nalley-ordered-officer-shock-defendant-court\/2014\/08\/18\" target=\"_blank\">authoritarian creepazoid judge<\/a> in Maryland, too.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/police-officer-if-you-dont-want-to-get-s\" target=\"_blank\">beware of this guy<\/a> and his thousands of thinkalikes.\n<li>But here&#8217;s some good cheer about everyday wonders from Cornered Cat: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corneredcat.com\/illuminating\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Illuminating.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>It&#8217;s also encouraging that the <a href=\"http:\/\/gogetfunding.com\/project\/shaneen-allen-legal-defense-fund\" target=\"_blank\">Shaneen Allen defense fund<\/a> is doing very, very well. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/freedominourtime.blogspot.com\/2014\/08\/furious-about-ferguson-work-to-free.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> by Will Grigg)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Holder, peacemaker patron saint of violent cops. Failed rescue of Foley. Seems Obama is even more like Carter than it appeared. An Ayn Rand dollar? Smart homes are stupid. Maybe it&#8217;s only because the tech is new and just developing. Maybe &#8230; some of it&#8217;s actually stupid. (Not to mention intrusive and insanely insecure.) I have no idea whether the cop in the Ferguson shooting was justified or not. This cop in Ferguson should be busted below the level of janitor. UPDATE: He has at least been taken off duty. It&#8217;s a start. This authoritarian creepazoid judge in Maryland,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/thursday-links-27\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[11,12,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/18415","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=18415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}