{"id":21846,"date":"2015-07-15T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21846"},"modified":"2015-07-15T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T22:43:38","slug":"midweek-links-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/midweek-links-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/victim-in-metro-slaying-stabbed-repeatedly-during-robbery-on-train\/2015\/07\/07\/8dd09132-249b-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">public murder + mass act of cowardice<\/a> happened (in gun-free DC, no surprise) on July 4. I just heard about it. If this is how disarmed and &#8220;civilized&#8221; people behave, you can take your civilization and &#8230; ahem.\n<li>A social justice warrior <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/07\/13\/doubts-of-a-social-justice-warrior\/\" target=\"_blank\">has doubts about herself<\/a>.\n<li>I&#8217;m no Rand Paul fan. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jul\/14\/rand-paul-sues-obama-over-foreign-banking-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">suing to stop the horrible FATCA<\/a> law is a fine idea.\n<li>One good thing about the Greek crisis. If you&#8217;re in the market for a private island, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/greek-islands-for-sale-and-price-2015-7\" target=\"_blank\">you can now get a fire-sale price<\/a> on one. Relatively speaking.\n<li>Are these the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/technology\/businessinsider\/article\/A-popular-web-browser-just-fired-the-1st-shot-in-6383912.php\" target=\"_blank\">death throes<\/a> of Flash? (H\/T PT)\n<li>TZP has been hopping lately. Special attention to two very recent posts by Nicki. <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=1772\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Loopholes&#8221;<\/a> and the South Carolina church shooter. And quite literally a &#8220;no-brainer&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=1779\" target=\"_blank\">: a San Francisco supervisor<\/a> wants to punish the berg&#8217;s only gun store (and any others that might ever be so foolish as to locate in the city) for something it didn&#8217;t even remotely do.\n<li>Fascinating and mostly well-done <i>New Yorker<\/i> article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/07\/20\/the-really-big-one\" target=\"_blank\">the Big One<\/a> that will someday wallop the Pacific Northwest. (Via jed in comments)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This public murder + mass act of cowardice happened (in gun-free DC, no surprise) on July 4. I just heard about it. If this is how disarmed and &#8220;civilized&#8221; people behave, you can take your civilization and &#8230; ahem. A social justice warrior has doubts about herself. I&#8217;m no Rand Paul fan. But suing to stop the horrible FATCA law is a fine idea. One good thing about the Greek crisis. If you&#8217;re in the market for a private island, you can now get a fire-sale price on one. Relatively speaking. Are these the death throes of Flash? (H\/T PT)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/midweek-links-16\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,9,12,19,20,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-offshore","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846","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=21846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}