{"id":23756,"date":"2015-12-04T01:54:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T09:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23756"},"modified":"2015-12-04T01:54:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T09:54:30","slug":"friday-links-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/04\/friday-links-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Jim Bovard tries to go home from making a speech and <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/wash-times-tsa-bombs-the-holidays\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets investigated<\/a> as a terrorist bomber.\n<li>Seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/12\/texas-bust-daughter-of-dea-chief-called-adorable-drug-kingpin\/\" target=\"_blank\">this adorable little drug &#8220;kingpin&#8221;<\/a> learned her trade from her rough, tough, posturing DEA daddy.\n<li>Yeah, I know there&#8217;s a difference between fantasizing and actually taking steps toward committing torture, murder, and cannibalism. But seems to me that when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-appeals-court-clears-cannibal-cop-2-years-after-a-jury-convicted-him-of-plotting-to-kill-and-eat-women-2015-12\" target=\"_blank\">use the power and tools of your profession<\/a> to choose and track specific victims, you&#8217;ve crossed that line. I&#8217;ll bet the appeals court would have seen that clearly had Gilberto Valle been anything other than a cop.\n<li>Washington, DC: 2161 pot busts in 2010; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2015\/12\/washington-dc-marijuana-arrests-plummet-over-90-embracing-the-new-normal\" target=\"_blank\">six &#8212; count &#8217;em, six<\/a> &#8212; as of early November this year.\n<li>You might be shocked to know just how rich the <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2015\/12\/the-wealthiest-dozen-americans-own-more-than-the-bottom-half.html\" target=\"_blank\">top dozen<\/a> are compared with We the Peasants. You won&#8217;t be surprised to hear that government policy helps keep them gaining over the rest of us.\n<li>Best commentary I&#8217;ve seen about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexepstein\/2015\/12\/02\/the-truth-about-mark-zuckerbergs-letter-to-his-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zuckerberg&#8217;s planned philanthropy<\/a>: It excludes the great and crucial value of <i>freedom<\/i>. And there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-12-02\/heres-why-philanthropic-mark-zuckerberg-will-place-facebook-shares-profit-llc\" target=\"_blank\">this, too<\/a>: it&#8217;s not about charity, it&#8217;s about influence. And oligarchy.\n<li>Nicki&#8217;s theory on the San Bernardino jihadis: a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=2555\" target=\"_blank\">premature detonation<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Bovard tries to go home from making a speech and gets investigated as a terrorist bomber. Seems this adorable little drug &#8220;kingpin&#8221; learned her trade from her rough, tough, posturing DEA daddy. Yeah, I know there&#8217;s a difference between fantasizing and actually taking steps toward committing torture, murder, and cannibalism. But seems to me that when you use the power and tools of your profession to choose and track specific victims, you&#8217;ve crossed that line. I&#8217;ll bet the appeals court would have seen that clearly had Gilberto Valle been anything other than a cop. Washington, DC: 2161 pot busts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/04\/friday-links-49\/\">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":[5,11,19,20,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/23756","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=23756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}