{"id":22646,"date":"2015-09-17T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22646"},"modified":"2015-09-17T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:27:47","slug":"thursday-links-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/thursday-links-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Elite&#8221; SWAT cops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20150916\/swat-unit-destroy-own-offices-with-a-chainsaw\" target=\"_blank\">petulently destroy<\/a> their own office.\n<li>So what do you suppose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/drunk-cowboy-horse-knows-the-way-home-\/\" target=\"_blank\">this guy<\/a> was ticketed for?\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure which is more remarkable: that three-year-olds are now getting type II diabetes or that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/three-year-old-girl-with-type-2-diabetes-recovers-from-condition-1442484988\" target=\"_blank\">this one recovered<\/a> with sensible lifestyle changes.\n<li>Your government at work &#8212; threatening, bombing, shooting, and otherwise terrorizing its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/real-estate\/us-air-force-threatens-to-destroy-property-next-door-to-area-51-after-owners-refuse-to-sell\/story-fncq3era-1227530415095\" target=\"_blank\">unwanted neighbors<\/a>. (Via Shel in comments)\n<li>Here&#8217;s a new thought (and a longish article on it): what if all those creeps who are aggregating and selling our personal data are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcleartechnology.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/15\/the_security_implications_of_data_brokers_1261.html\" target=\"_blank\">a national-security threat<\/a>? (Everything else is, so why not them?)\n<li>Americans (particularly those of means) continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2015\/09\/11\/expatriates-choosing-to-leave-the-us-rather-than-pay-taxes.html\" target=\"_blank\">surrender their citizenship<\/a> in record numbers. Small numbers, still. But growing thanks to punitive banking and tax laws.\n<li>Yep, Bob, you&#8217;re right. The hysteria over Ahmed&#8217;s clock is exactly in the same <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2015\/09\/16\/ahmeds-clock-and-the-hysteria-of-american-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">dishonorable tradition<\/a> as the nutzoid over-reaction to the notorious gun-shaped Pop-Tart.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Elite&#8221; SWAT cops petulently destroy their own office. So what do you suppose this guy was ticketed for? I&#8217;m not sure which is more remarkable: that three-year-olds are now getting type II diabetes or that this one recovered with sensible lifestyle changes. Your government at work &#8212; threatening, bombing, shooting, and otherwise terrorizing its unwanted neighbors. (Via Shel in comments) Here&#8217;s a new thought (and a longish article on it): what if all those creeps who are aggregating and selling our personal data are a national-security threat? (Everything else is, so why not them?) Americans (particularly those of means) continue&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/thursday-links-43\/\">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":[12,13,19,20,23,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22646","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=22646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}