{"id":22442,"date":"2015-08-31T01:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2015-08-31T01:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:15:37","slug":"monday-links-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/monday-links-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;No Cupcake, there is no <a href=\"http:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2015\/08\/29\/no-cupcake-there-is-no-right-not-to-be-offended\/\" target=\"_blank\">right not to be offended<\/a>.&#8221; Nicki does it again.\n<li><del datetime=\"2015-08-31T12:57:35+00:00\">They ripped up their kitchen floor and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2015\/08\/406478-two-years-ago-found-code-ripping-kitchen-floor-found-safe\/\" target=\"_blank\">a secret code<\/a> + $50,000. Is that cool or what?<\/del> Commentariat member Stryder informs me this story is a hoax.\n<li>Wait. Why would they bust a TSA agent for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/tsa-agent-molested-college-student-laguardia-airport-article-1.2340658\" target=\"_blank\">doing this<\/a>? Isn&#8217;t molesting us their <i>job<\/i>?\n<li>Annalee Newitz <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-fembots-of-ashley-madison-1726670394\" target=\"_blank\">does a follow-up<\/a> to her expose on the lack of women at Ashley Madison and concludes that, yes, it was outright fraud by the company.\n<li>Despite hints of sentencing reform and lightening up of the drug war, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/30\/business\/prison-vendors-see-continued-signs-of-a-captive-market.html\" target=\"_blank\">prison vendors<\/a> see continued signs of (groan) a captive market.\n<li>The Obama administration&#8217;s fiat war on contracting is not only a foolish attempt to turn the clock back 40 years; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/obama-administration-declares-war-franchisors-subcontractors-staffing-firms\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s a dangerous business<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Boy lost in the wilderness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2015\/08\/405888-rescuers-find-missing-boy-remote-mountains-surprised-condition-hes\/\" target=\"_blank\">uses a survival trick<\/a> he learned from his dad. Good on you, kid and family.\n<li>Loooove them lobbyists. A cop lobby has gotten North Dakota to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/26\/first-state-legalizes-armed-drones-for-cops-thanks-to-a-lobbyist.html\" target=\"_blank\">legalize weaponized drones<\/a>. Will other states soon follow? (But of course, we&#8217;re not to worry; only &#8220;less than lethal&#8221; weapons are allowed and in the hands of those heroes in blue, if we&#8217;ve done nothing wrong, we have nothing to worry about, right?) (H\/T MJR)\n<\/ul>\n<p>And just for laughs &#8230; Mama said there&#8217;d be days like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/08\/31\/monday-links-61\/loungedog_083015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LoungeDog_083015.jpg\" alt=\"LoungeDog_083015\" width=\"267\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No Cupcake, there is no right not to be offended.&#8221; Nicki does it again. They ripped up their kitchen floor and found a secret code + $50,000. Is that cool or what? Commentariat member Stryder informs me this story is a hoax. Wait. Why would they bust a TSA agent for doing this? Isn&#8217;t molesting us their job? Annalee Newitz does a follow-up to her expose on the lack of women at Ashley Madison and concludes that, yes, it was outright fraud by the company. Despite hints of sentencing reform and lightening up of the drug war, prison vendors see&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/monday-links-61\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[7,8,9,16,18,19,20,23,27,28,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-rural-and-small-town-living","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\/22442","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=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}