{"id":22655,"date":"2015-09-18T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22655"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:41:45","slug":"friday-links-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/friday-links-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/09\/16\/pilot-saves-dog\/#.oA4onFyT8kF\" target=\"_blank\">diverts an international flight<\/a> to save a dog traveling in cargo. (Yeah, I&#8217;ll bet that made some passengers mad, but &#8230;)\n<li>The busybodies and their puppets in poly-ticks who hope to control all human behavior (including human ingenuity), really ought to have another think: prisoner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwideweirdnews.com\/2015\/09\/16-Prison-inmate-cuts-iron-bar-thread-toothpaste.html\" target=\"_blank\">nearly escapes<\/a> using toothpaste and thread.\n<li>Director of the Nobel Institute at the time President Unicorn got his peace prize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.no\/20150916\/nobel-prize-director-awarding-obama-was-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">regrets the award<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of Obama, he&#8217;s just signed an executive order essentially allowing fedgov agencies to <a href=\"http:\/\/thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/new-executive-order-to-nudge-american.html\" target=\"_blank\">perform social &#8220;science&#8221; research<\/a> on us all. Naturally, the evil father of &#8220;libertarian paternalism (spit!),&#8221; Cass Sunstein, has a hand in this.\n<li>Yes, expat haven Panama is really, truly <a href=\"http:\/\/bearingarms.com\/noting-success-u-s-gun-culture-panama-reverses-gun-control-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\">lightening up its gun laws<\/a>. Not <i>enough<\/i>, mind you, but it&#8217;s a start and it&#8217;s not just a rumor. (H\/T jb)\n<li>Headline says it all: <a href=\"http:\/\/thefifthcolumnnews.com\/2015\/09\/two-of-the-nations-top-cops-will-be-responsible-for-the-next-targeted-killings\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Two of the nation&#8217;s top cops<\/a> will be responsible for the next targeted killings.&#8221; Okay, not directly responsible; that will lie on the heads of the killers. But these guys will have aided and abetted. So far, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/09\/17\/441196546\/is-there-a-war-on-police-the-statistics-say-no\" target=\"_blank\"><i>there is no &#8220;war on police.&#8221;<\/i><\/a>\n<li>How many cops does it take to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/09\/video-shows-nine-cops-arrest-crying-black-teen-for-jaywalking\/\" target=\"_blank\">deal with a jaywalking kid<\/a>? Even if he is showing some attitude (which, so far, seems unproven anyhow).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2015\/09\/18\/11-secrets-er-insiders-knowand-should-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">11 secrets<\/a> to a successful ER visit. (Sent by ML, who knows.)\n<li>Some techies have invented a system for making &#8220;anonymous&#8221; online surveys <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/new-crypto-tool-makes-anonymous-surveys-truly-anonymous\/\" target=\"_blank\">actually <i>anonymous<\/i><\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot diverts an international flight to save a dog traveling in cargo. (Yeah, I&#8217;ll bet that made some passengers mad, but &#8230;) The busybodies and their puppets in poly-ticks who hope to control all human behavior (including human ingenuity), really ought to have another think: prisoner nearly escapes using toothpaste and thread. Director of the Nobel Institute at the time President Unicorn got his peace prize regrets the award. Speaking of Obama, he&#8217;s just signed an executive order essentially allowing fedgov agencies to perform social &#8220;science&#8221; research on us all. Naturally, the evil father of &#8220;libertarian paternalism (spit!),&#8221; Cass Sunstein,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/friday-links-46\/\">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":[8,12,13,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/22655","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=22655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}