{"id":20945,"date":"2015-05-08T01:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20945"},"modified":"2015-05-08T01:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:08:30","slug":"friday-links-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/friday-links-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You know those famous electronic billboards in Times Square? LOL, the feds apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/feds-tell-nyc-to-remove-times-squares-giant-neon-signs-2015-5\" target=\"_blank\">demanded NYC take them all down.<\/a> &#8220;Highway beautification,&#8221; you know. Then just that quickly, they denied making the demand. But turns out the signs are in violation of fedlaw. Governing highways. To <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryloverspage.com\/poets\/kipling\/dane_geld.html\" target=\"_blank\">paraphrase Kipling<\/a>, &#8220;&#8230; if once you have <del datetime=\"2015-05-08T03:13:45+00:00\">paid him the<\/del> taken his Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.&#8221;\n<li>Like Pamela Geller or loathe her, she <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3847453\/pamela-geller-a-response-to-my-critics-this-is-a-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">has a point<\/a>. One might wish the current crop of liberal authoritarians <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/cnn-anchor-says-constitution-doesnt-prot#.uqanoa:Vm5h\" target=\"_blank\">had as good a grasp<\/a> on the meaning of free speech.\n<li>Sigh. Didja ever think you&#8217;d see the day when people would be moronic enough not only to v*te with their sex organs &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/will-vagina-voters-devour-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">boast about it<\/a>?\n<li>I saw a guy today in our little <i>tienda Mexicana<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00D0AY4LS\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00D0AY4LS&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=GVAZPTXER36ZRJFN\" target=\"_blank\">wearing this tee-shirt<\/a>. Got a big laugh &#8212; though I suppose my Irish ancestors didn&#8217;t.\n<li>Cody Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2015\/05\/06\/cody-wilson-sues-state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\">is suing the State Department<\/a> on First Amendment grounds for &#8220;preempting&#8221; him from posting Liberator pistol plans online. He&#8217;s got Alan Gura on his side. And SAF doing the only thing it&#8217;s actually good for.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/windypundit.com\/2015\/04\/kirsten-gillibrand-put-a-kitten-in-a-blender\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kirsten Gillibrand put a kitten in a blender<\/a>. No, seriously, you need to read this.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know those famous electronic billboards in Times Square? LOL, the feds apparently demanded NYC take them all down. &#8220;Highway beautification,&#8221; you know. Then just that quickly, they denied making the demand. But turns out the signs are in violation of fedlaw. Governing highways. To paraphrase Kipling, &#8220;&#8230; if once you have paid him the taken his Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.&#8221; Like Pamela Geller or loathe her, she has a point. One might wish the current crop of liberal authoritarians had as good a grasp on the meaning of free speech. Sigh. Didja ever think you&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/friday-links-38\/\">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":[9,12,16,19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20945","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=20945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}