{"id":24805,"date":"2016-02-16T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24805"},"modified":"2016-02-16T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:57:22","slug":"tuesday-links-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/tuesday-links-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In case Donald Trump wins, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/donald-trump-cape-breton-canada-rob-calabrese-americans-nova-scotia-1.3449987\" target=\"_blank\">roll out the red carpet<\/a> to Americans. No word on where we&#8217;ll go if anybody else wins, but to hell in a handbasket seems a likely option. (H\/T MJR)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/16\/nino_at_the_bridge_129678.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Nino at the Bridge.&#8221;<\/a> Quote: <i>You know your country has big trouble when the death of one man tosses your political reckonings, your expectations, your fundamental understandings into the briar patch &#8230;<\/i> (Yes, the author&#8217;s a bit more enamored of the Constitution that you probably are, but Scalia was a good man.)\n<li>Borepatch: <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/do-not-buy-samsung-smart-tv.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t buy a Samsung smart TV<\/a>. I think I&#8217;d make that don&#8217;t buy <i>any<\/i> smart TV unless you can easily take it offline. Big Brother will be listening.\n<li>There are good reasons Europe&#8217;s Jews are so nervous. And <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/great-debate\/2016\/02\/11\/there-are-good-reasons-why-europes-jews-are-so-worried\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> covers only the &#8220;right&#8221; half of them.\n<li>You mean Radio Flyer is still around? Here I thought they disappeared with coonskin caps and the original hula hoops. But boy, their little red wagons <a href=\"http:\/\/learnbonds.com\/126918\/tesla-motors-inc-tsla-teams-with-radio-flyer-to-build-cool-kid-sized-model-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">sure have changed<\/a>.\n<li>Since so many hereabouts are so fond of things that go boom, whoosh, and pow, I present Josh Bloom on <a href=\"http:\/\/acsh.org\/news\/2016\/02\/14\/fluorine-element-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\">fluorine: the element from hell<\/a>. Complete with videos!\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case Donald Trump wins, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, will roll out the red carpet to Americans. No word on where we&#8217;ll go if anybody else wins, but to hell in a handbasket seems a likely option. (H\/T MJR) &#8220;Nino at the Bridge.&#8221; Quote: You know your country has big trouble when the death of one man tosses your political reckonings, your expectations, your fundamental understandings into the briar patch &#8230; (Yes, the author&#8217;s a bit more enamored of the Constitution that you probably are, but Scalia was a good man.) Borepatch: Don&#8217;t buy a Samsung smart TV. I think&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/tuesday-links-67\/\">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":[7,19,25,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805","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=24805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}