{"id":24413,"date":"2016-01-14T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24413"},"modified":"2016-01-14T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:17:45","slug":"thursday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/thursday-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday news"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Will people now have to start watching their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score\/2016\/01\/10\/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;threat scores&#8221;<\/a> the way they have to watch their credit scores? Given the notoriously bad and biased information that goes into marking us as &#8220;threats,&#8221; that could be a real challenge.\n<li>Mental Floss tells the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/73451\/german-teens-who-rebelled-against-hitler\" target=\"_blank\">German teens who rebelled<\/a> against Hitler. Another fascinating, little-known bit of history.\n<li>To call it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/01\/13\/the-gun-issue-even-the-nra-won-t-touch.html\" target=\"_blank\">the gun issue even the NRA won&#8217;t touch<\/a> might be an exaggeration. But the problem of non-violent ex-felons being denied gun rights does hit blacks harder than the rest of us. (Thank you, War on Drugs.)\n<li>Funny timing. Last evening I started reading a 30-year-old tome by a naturalist\/environmentalist. He mentioned the then-dire ozone hole; you may remember the OH as the terror that was going to make livestock go blind and give us humans shocking rates of skin cancer. I&#8217;d forgotten all about it. Bet you had, too. Then I check my morning news and up pops a <i>Smithsonian<\/i> piece asking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/ozone-hole-was-super-scary-what-happened-it-180957775\/\" target=\"_blank\">whatever happened to the ozone hole<\/a>.\n<li>Ouch. Even if Ammon Bundy manages not to get himself Wacoed, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/01\/oregon-judge-plans-to-bill-ammon-bundy-up-to-70000-a-day-for-security-costs-to-county\/\" target=\"_blank\">faces financial oblivion<\/a> for the Oregon standoff (H\/T MJR). Meanwhile, Oath Keepers and III Percenters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oathkeepers.org\/9435-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">pay a call<\/a> on the FBI.\n<li>Too much suffering and struggle for freedomistas lately. Michael Werecat Dean details how he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfeens.com\/?p=10529\" target=\"_blank\">faces life-threatening health problems<\/a> while giving his all to Freedom Feens. The Feens audience is generally younger and hipper than most here at BHM, but the show is a wonderful outreach vehicle and MWD has always been a passionate supporter of other freedomistas, including me.\n<li>For people who complained that her <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1478734345\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1478734345&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkId=CU7VPWIAE6IJOZ2V\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Book of Barkley: Love and Life Through the Eyes of a Labrador Retriever<\/i><\/a> was more about humans than the dog, Brigid writes a brief &#8220;book&#8221; about her <a href=\"http:\/\/mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/life-in-dogs-eyes-true-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">dog Abby&#8217;s thoughts<\/a>. Hilarious. Because it&#8217;s so right.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will people now have to start watching their &#8220;threat scores&#8221; the way they have to watch their credit scores? Given the notoriously bad and biased information that goes into marking us as &#8220;threats,&#8221; that could be a real challenge. Mental Floss tells the story of German teens who rebelled against Hitler. Another fascinating, little-known bit of history. To call it the gun issue even the NRA won&#8217;t touch might be an exaggeration. But the problem of non-violent ex-felons being denied gun rights does hit blacks harder than the rest of us. (Thank you, War on Drugs.) Funny timing. Last evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/thursday-news\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday news<\/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":[8,12,13,16,19,20,23,28,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/24413","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=24413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}