{"id":23384,"date":"2015-11-09T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23384"},"modified":"2015-11-09T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T14:15:05","slug":"monday-links-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/monday-links-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In case you&#8217;ve wondered how a jury could watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jP-xXO1vuaw\" target=\"_blank\">a video<\/a> of a cop executing a man in cold blood and still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2015\/11\/lisa_mearkle_verdict_jury_acqu.html\" target=\"_blank\">vote to acquit<\/a>, it&#8217;s because authoritarian mind-warping is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2015\/11\/mearkle_defense_had_a_plan_for.html\" target=\"_blank\">so very effective<\/a>. Lisa Mearkle. Remember the name. Lisa Mearkle.\n<li>Idaho deputies ask rancher to put down an injured bull. Before he can, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article43673037.html\" target=\"_blank\">put down the rancher<\/a>. The family tell their story. I wonder what the &#8220;official&#8221; story will be.\n<li>In all the news about local cops getting away with murder, Jim Bovard reminds us that their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/11\/09\/police-shootings-immunity-federal-state-prosecution-supremacy-column\/75213044\/\" target=\"_blank\">federal brothers and sisters<\/a> are still doing their share &#8212; and still untouchable.\n<li>Speaking of touching, root for Jim to <a href=\"http:\/\/view.email.reason.org\/?j=fe5d1c737d65047b7611&#038;m=fef61d71776302&#038;ls=fdf11c74736c077c77147873&#038;l=feee10757d6d03&#038;s=fdf915707d630c7f74167676&#038;jb=ffcf14&#038;ju=fdf616727262077873117070&#038;r=0\" target=\"_blank\">win that Bastiat Award<\/a> at the Reason Media Awards tomorrow. (If you click on his image, you&#8217;ll see what I mean about &#8220;touching.&#8221;)\n<li>Sorry for so much brutal linkage today. Want a little good news? Cannabis and &#8220;hippie beer&#8221; are helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/11\/07\/in-the-land-of-microbrews-and-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">small business startups<\/a> to rise again after 30 years of decline. (Weird, though, that the <i>WaPost<\/i> writer thinks <i>insufficient regulation<\/i> is a threat to them.)\n<li>And Maryland &#8212; hysterically anti-gun Maryland &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-bullet-casings-20151107-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">scraps its ballistic fingerprinting<\/a> database. After 15 years. Five million dollars. And not a single crime solved by it.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now for a few minutes forget it all and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fk9iJougDFE\" target=\"_blank\">have some funny dogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fk9iJougDFE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;ve wondered how a jury could watch a video of a cop executing a man in cold blood and still vote to acquit, it&#8217;s because authoritarian mind-warping is so very effective. Lisa Mearkle. Remember the name. Lisa Mearkle. Idaho deputies ask rancher to put down an injured bull. Before he can, they put down the rancher. The family tell their story. I wonder what the &#8220;official&#8221; story will be. In all the news about local cops getting away with murder, Jim Bovard reminds us that their federal brothers and sisters are still doing their share &#8212; and still&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/monday-links-68\/\">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":[5,8,12,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23384","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=23384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}