{"id":25371,"date":"2016-05-20T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25371"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:02:08","slug":"friday-links-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/20\/friday-links-57\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The barefoot one <a href=\"http:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/295393\/barefoot-bandit-says-he-raised-enough-money-to-freeze-mother-but-project-failed\/\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t manage to freeze Mama<\/a>. Reading this article, I&#8217;m not sure whether Colton Harris-Moore is a naive young kid or a crass hustler who&#8217;s going to head right straight for trouble again when they release him from prison this summer.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/435572\/budweiser-craft-beer-buds-you-america\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;This Bud&#8217;s for you, America.&#8221;<\/a> Another one to read mainly because it&#8217;s by George Will, who writes like a barbed angel. The whole business with Budweiser&#8217;s temporary name change is as pathetic as it is cynical.\n<li>Why are house prices soaring across this Great Land of Budweiser? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/will-these-new-rules-kill-the-housing-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">One guess.<\/a>\n<li>When headlines lie: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/american-airlines-tsa-2016-5\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;American Airlines is fed up with the TSA and taking matters into its own hands.&#8221;<\/a> Don&#8217;t we wish? But no, American Airlines is scared of losing money and having its service and employees reviled because of the TSA&#8217;s bad behavior. So it&#8217;s <i>enabling<\/i> the TSA in exactly the same sense a co-dependent enables an alcoholic.\n<li>Anybody up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/opinion\/op_ed\/2016\/05\/parker_viral_video_shows_years_of_hillary_s_lyin_ways\" target=\"_blank\">13 solid minutes<\/a> of Hillary Clinton lies? No? Me, neither. Twenty years of them is enough, already. But for you who have stronger stomachs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-dY77j6uBHI\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the video<\/a>.\n<li>The bigotry continues. House v*tes to ban Confederate flags at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/20\/confederate-flag-loses-more-hallowed-ground-as-us-house-votes-to-ban-flag-in-va-cemeteries.html\" target=\"_blank\">V.A. cemeteries<\/a>. Presumably even on the graves of men who fought for the Confederacy.\n<li>Not news to most here. But it&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/going-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">downhill since Jefferson wrote those famous words<\/a>. Downhill as a nation, anyhow. As a government. But <i>not<\/i> all downhill for individuals determined to remain free.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The barefoot one didn&#8217;t manage to freeze Mama. Reading this article, I&#8217;m not sure whether Colton Harris-Moore is a naive young kid or a crass hustler who&#8217;s going to head right straight for trouble again when they release him from prison this summer. &#8220;This Bud&#8217;s for you, America.&#8221; Another one to read mainly because it&#8217;s by George Will, who writes like a barbed angel. The whole business with Budweiser&#8217;s temporary name change is as pathetic as it is cynical. Why are house prices soaring across this Great Land of Budweiser? One guess. When headlines lie: &#8220;American Airlines is fed up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/20\/friday-links-57\/\">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":[11,18,19,20,23,25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371","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=25371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}