{"id":22889,"date":"2015-10-02T07:28:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22889"},"modified":"2015-10-02T07:28:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:28:25","slug":"friday-linkathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/friday-linkathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday linkathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/alexkasprak\/the-story-of-andy-weir\" target=\"_blank\">anxious space geek<\/a> makes good in Hollywood.\n<li>It&#8217;s just common sense that you should <a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/state-makes-it-legal-to-shoot-cops-in-self-defense-if-they-violate-your-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">be free to shoot<\/a> illegal home invaders. No matter who employs them.\n<li>Even when they are &#8220;legal&#8221; they are still sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/civil-liberties\/police-taser-and-beat-innocent-disabled-vet-hold-quadriplegic-wife-gunpoint-demand\" target=\"_blank\">scum who should not be welcomed<\/a> in anything that calls itself a civilization.\n<li>While it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KYXCCDQ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00KYXCCDQ&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=VS4TGY32OF2C3V2L\" target=\"_blank\">not as unique<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2015\/09\/29\/anevay_frontier_stove_plus_is_a_portable_wood_burning_stove_for_the_tiny.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> implies, the Anevay Frontier Stove looks like cool beans for preppers, campers, and small-house dwellers.\n<li>Doctor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/national\/view\/doctor-punches-patient-in-stomach-after-his-third-visit-to-er-in-one-night\" target=\"_blank\">punches out<\/a> pesky (and phony) ER patient. (I wonder if Japan has laws like ours that forbid doctors to turn anyone away from the ER.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/2-die-in-mexico-crash-cars-air-bag-replaced-with-cocaine_\" target=\"_blank\">Do not try this at home<\/a>.\n<li>Looks as if the Clinton machine may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/oct\/1\/human-abedin-commandeered-hillary-clintons-private\/\" target=\"_blank\">be setting up the ever-loyal Huma Abedin<\/a> to take the fall for the email scandal. Since when is it an &#8220;intrusion&#8221; or a &#8220;comandeering&#8221; (even in the <i>Washington Times<\/i>) when an aide answers emails for the boss?\n<li>Meanwhile, <i>Forbes<\/i> tries to discover where the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danalexander\/2015\/09\/29\/the-mystery-of-hillarys-missing-millions\/\" target=\"_blank\">missing Clinton millions<\/a> might be.\n<li>The lighter side to those new <a href=\"http:\/\/claytonecramer.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/and-you-didnt-know-there-was-such-comic.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICD-10 medical codes<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thescuttlefish.com\/2015\/09\/woman-thanks-bear-for-not-eating-her-kayak-pepper-sprays-bear-bear-has-change-of-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thank you, bear.<\/a>\n<li>Tribe to open <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7deadlymag.com\/kush\/native-american-tribe-to-open-first-marijuana-resort\/\" target=\"_blank\">a marijuana resort<\/a>.\n<li>Your fingerprints <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/09\/fingerprints-from-the-right-index-finger-can-reveal-your-ancestral-background-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">can tell a lot more<\/a> than whether you were at the scene of the crime.\n<li>The woman who dropped her newborn from a seventh-story window <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/dropped-newborn-prompts-review-of-2008-babys-death-1443640812\" target=\"_blank\">used to work for<\/a> child protective services.\n<li>Karma&#8217;s a you-know-what. Those &#8220;scientists&#8221; who urged the fedgov to prosecute those who disagree with them <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/09\/29\/mystery-scientists-remove-letter-asking-obama-to-prosecute-global-warming-skeptics\/\" target=\"_blank\">have pulled their letter<\/a> from the web (with lame excuses) after bloggers gave their lead guy&#8217;s finances a closer look.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/politics\/nsa-dea-fbi-snowden-doj-oig\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Parallel construction is a controversial investigative technique<\/a> that takes information gained from sources like the NSA&#8217;s mass surveillance, covers up or lies about the sources, and then utilizes them in criminal investigations inside the United States.&#8221; Your gummint at work.\n<li>Ted Cruz, attempting to be relevant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentpoliticalreport.com\/2015\/09\/ted-cruz-names-bob-barr-head-of-outreach-effort-to-ron-paul-supporters-and-libertarians\/\" target=\"_blank\">appoints that unconscionable<\/a> weasel and professional has-been, Bob Barr, to do outreach toward libertarians. (H\/T JB)\n<li>That $750 pill that gained so much notoriety recently is (you will not be surprised to learn) more a product of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/750-generic-pill-pure-artifact-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. regulatory system<\/a> than of some &#8220;greedy rogue&#8221; (however unsavory the rogue in question might actually be).\n<li>Dunno. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2015\/09\/30\/428927516\/cloning-your-dog-for-a-mere-100-000\" target=\"_blank\">Cloning pooches<\/a> still seems creepy to me. Amazing. But creepy. Also wish this NPR piece had gone into more detail about how cloned dogs can differ so much, even in basic characteristics like markings, from their source material.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anxious space geek makes good in Hollywood. It&#8217;s just common sense that you should be free to shoot illegal home invaders. No matter who employs them. Even when they are &#8220;legal&#8221; they are still sometimes scum who should not be welcomed in anything that calls itself a civilization. While it&#8217;s not as unique as this article implies, the Anevay Frontier Stove looks like cool beans for preppers, campers, and small-house dwellers. Doctor punches out pesky (and phony) ER patient. (I wonder if Japan has laws like ours that forbid doctors to turn anyone away from the ER.) Do not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/friday-linkathon\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday linkathon<\/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":[5,8,12,13,16,19,20,23,28,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","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\/22889","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=22889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}