{"id":23947,"date":"2015-12-15T07:41:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23947"},"modified":"2015-12-15T07:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:41:43","slug":"tuesday-links-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/tuesday-links-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Yes! We must ban guns. So that gangs of robbers will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20151214\/thieves-use-rocket-launcher-to-rob-money-truck\" target=\"_blank\">have to use alternatives<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/obamas-cynicism-racketeering\/\" target=\"_blank\">cynically decries cynicism<\/a>.\n<li>ISIS judge says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world\/kill-all-children-with-down-s-syndrome-isis-sharia-judge\/story-qWwH210IbqZN47CEBynKjM.html\" target=\"_blank\">kill all the &#8220;defective&#8221; children<\/a>. I guess Middle Eastern mommies and daddies should be glad it&#8217;s being done by &#8220;humane&#8221; methods rather than public beheadings or burning the infants alive in cages.\n<li>Patrick Buchanan asks whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2015\/12\/15\/will_elites_blow_up_the_gop_129043.html\" target=\"_blank\">elites will blow up the GOP<\/a>. He then proceeds to chronicle how the GOP has <i>already<\/i> been blown up. Interesting glimpse at history and (these days non) smoke-filled rooms, though.\n<li>It&#8217;s always hard to tell a real crisis from one that&#8217;s merely concocted to <del datetime=\"2015-12-15T15:29:38+00:00\">sell newspapers<\/del> get clicks. But between the continuing crackup of the commodities markets and the more sudden collapse of junk bonds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/macquarie-people-havent-been-this-freaked-out-since-the-financial-crisis-2015-12\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s talk of 2008<\/a> all over again.  Amid new worries about Europe. This time it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/italian-banking-system-in-serious-trouble-2015-12\" target=\"_blank\">Italian banks and bad bailouts<\/a>. A &#8220;Bear Stearnes moment&#8221; or a &#8220;Lehman moment&#8221;? Or just clickbait? I don&#8217;t know. But this financial house of cards is going to go <i>sometime<\/i>.\n<li>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/editorials\/2015\/12\/11\/moderate-muslims-reclaim-their-faith\/bneOHxssdBBIozElmb0S8J\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">moderate Muslims<\/a> reclaiming their religion from murdering fundamentalist theocratic a-holes. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/14\/middleeast\/islamic-coalition-isis-saudi-arabia\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumormillnews.com\/cgi-bin\/forum.cgi?noframes;read=35036\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Freeing Your Inner Outlaw.&#8221;<\/a> Somebody dug up this old piece the other day and posted it at Rumor Mill News. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard<\/a> found it for me and I thought it might be a good cheerer-upper.\n<li>While I generally try to avoid a whole bunch of ego-linking to my own writings, I do have a new one up at TZP on <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=2619\" target=\"_blank\">the loserhood of hoplophobic executive orders<\/a> and how a bunch of pols manage to be confused about exactly who they want to ban from what.\n<li>Just in case you need a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womansday.com\/life\/pet-care\/a52822\/dog-walks-11-miles-back-to-foster-mom\/\" target=\"_blank\">canine heart warming<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! We must ban guns. So that gangs of robbers will have to use alternatives. (H\/T MJR) Obama cynically decries cynicism. ISIS judge says kill all the &#8220;defective&#8221; children. I guess Middle Eastern mommies and daddies should be glad it&#8217;s being done by &#8220;humane&#8221; methods rather than public beheadings or burning the infants alive in cages. Patrick Buchanan asks whether elites will blow up the GOP. He then proceeds to chronicle how the GOP has already been blown up. Interesting glimpse at history and (these days non) smoke-filled rooms, though. It&#8217;s always hard to tell a real crisis from one&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/tuesday-links-63\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[8,12,18,19,20,23,25,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-religion","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947","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=23947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}