{"id":20393,"date":"2015-03-24T01:35:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T08:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2015-03-24T01:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T08:35:26","slug":"tuesday-links-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/tuesday-links-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Seymour Hersh revisits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/03\/30\/the-scene-of-the-crime\" target=\"_blank\">the ghosts of My Lai<\/a>.\n<li>Give a corporation the idea that it&#8217;s a government and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/03\/23\/montana-utility-lobbies-against-gun-rights-expansion-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">pretty soon it starts acting like one<\/a>. (H\/T PT)\n<li>What every well-prepared &#8230; um, prepper should have: the world&#8217;s first portable, grab-n-go <a href=\"http:\/\/xm42.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">flame thrower<\/a>. (I really can&#8217;t decide how far the tongue is in the cheek on this one.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR)\n<li>Bovard on the <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/food-security-charade\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;food security&#8221; charade<\/a>. That whole &#8220;food security&#8221; business has always grated with me (it&#8217;s so blatantly trumped up). But Bovard doesn&#8217;t just let it grate. He knows his stuff on this topic.\n<li>Are we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/mar\/23\/gold-in-faeces-worth-millions-save-environment\" target=\"_blank\">flushing gold down the toilet<\/a>?\n<li>Was this predictable, or what? Cops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/crime\/article\/Police-raid-Anchorage-marijuana-activist-s-club-6150304.php\" target=\"_blank\">raid the pot club<\/a> of Charlo Green, the former Alaska newscaster who announced on air, expletive included, that she was quitting TV for cannabis activism.\n<li>Scientists think they&#8217;ve found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-03-23\/worlds-largest-asteroid-impact-zone-found-in-central-australia\/6341408\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s largest asteroid-impact zone<\/a>. If so, will be fascinating as future researchers trace its relationship to extinctions, climate, and more.\n<li>Two great dog stories: Funny how even a dog that&#8217;s scared of people <a href=\"http:\/\/ktla.com\/2015\/03\/16\/hero-dog-leads-rescuers-to-mom-10-puppies-abandoned-in-frigid-weather-in-dallas-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">understands when (and how) to ask for human help<\/a>; and heres a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2015-03-20\/ecuadorian-stray-dog-named-arthur-finds-his-forever-home-sweden\" target=\"_blank\">story about an Ecuadorian-Swedish mutt<\/a> that&#8217;s just wonderful from scruffy beginning to happy ending. (H\/T Shel in comments)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seymour Hersh revisits the ghosts of My Lai. Give a corporation the idea that it&#8217;s a government and pretty soon it starts acting like one. (H\/T PT) What every well-prepared &#8230; um, prepper should have: the world&#8217;s first portable, grab-n-go flame thrower. (I really can&#8217;t decide how far the tongue is in the cheek on this one.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR) Bovard on the &#8220;food security&#8221; charade. That whole &#8220;food security&#8221; business has always grated with me (it&#8217;s so blatantly trumped up). But Bovard doesn&#8217;t just let it grate. He knows his stuff on this topic. Are we flushing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/tuesday-links-43\/\">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":[5,8,11,12,16,19,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","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=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}