{"id":25531,"date":"2016-06-10T01:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25531"},"modified":"2016-06-10T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:07:46","slug":"friday-links-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/friday-links-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cops have a new machine that lets them grab money off your prepaid cards right at roadside. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/32168555\/ohp-uses-new-device-to-seize-money-used-during-the-commission-of-a-crime\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s not about the money.<\/a> Really it isn&#8217;t. Of course not! It&#8217;s about &#8230; um &#8230; erm, <i>identity theft!<\/i> Yeah, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s really about. The cops aren&#8217;t just getting more bold and efficient about stealing from you. They&#8217;re <i>protecting<\/i> you! (H\/T Fred in comments)\n<li>Oopsie. Looks as if that gun &#8220;documentary&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/katie-couric-accused-deceptive-editing-second-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\">wasn&#8217;t the only one<\/a> Couric and pals artfully edited to make their opponents look like dumbasses.\n<li>Great news for people who love both the Web and privacy: WWW creator, Tim Berners-Lee, has joined <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/08\/technology\/the-webs-creator-looks-to-reinvent-it.html\" target=\"_blank\">an effort to reinvent the online world<\/a>. (H\/T JG)\n<li>What is it that Yellowstone tourists don&#8217;t understand about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/person-falls-into-yellowstone-hot-spring_us_57575680e4b08f74f6c08b67\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;boiling water will reduce you to bones<\/a> &#8212; real quick&#8221;? Not the first young guy who&#8217;s died this way.\n<li>Unions have joined the effort to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/7\/11872180\/john-legend-unions-mass-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\">end mass incarceration<\/a> and its hope-killing (and employment-killing) after-effects.\n<li>Speaking of after-effects and just in case anyone needs to be reminded of what a dangerous person and what a whiny, lying, arrogant biotch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/436392\/hillary-clinton-legacy-lies-secrecy-arrogance-victimhood\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary has always been<\/a> &#8230;\n<li>Oh no. I knew that fellow gunblogger Northwest Freethinker (aka GayCynic) was very ill. But didn&#8217;t know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-minuteman.org\/2016\/06\/07\/saying-goodbye-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\">he was gone<\/a>. He saw to it that he departed in style, though.\n<li>Speaking of style: Former sportswriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/opinion\/20160605_My_Alzheimers_fight_Never_ever_quit.html\" target=\"_blank\">chronicles his own Alzheimers<\/a> journey.\n<li>Coming our way courtesy of central bankers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/fund-managers-fear-central-banks-will-create-next-lehman-moment-2016-06-08\" target=\"_blank\">the next Lehman Brothers moment<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-2238-why-are-cops-shooting-dogs-5-things-you-should-know.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why cops shoot dogs<\/a>. Do we even need to ask? (via Wendy and Brad&#8217;s place)\n<li>And in bittersweet dog news: <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/2016\/06\/07\/last-known-911-search-dog-dies-at-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">the last 911 search dog<\/a> dies &#8212; but after a good, long life. (Tip o&#8217; hat to LA)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cops have a new machine that lets them grab money off your prepaid cards right at roadside. But it&#8217;s not about the money. Really it isn&#8217;t. Of course not! It&#8217;s about &#8230; um &#8230; erm, identity theft! Yeah, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s really about. The cops aren&#8217;t just getting more bold and efficient about stealing from you. They&#8217;re protecting you! (H\/T Fred in comments) Oopsie. Looks as if that gun &#8220;documentary&#8221; wasn&#8217;t the only one Couric and pals artfully edited to make their opponents look like dumbasses. Great news for people who love both the Web and privacy: WWW creator, Tim&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/10\/friday-links-59\/\">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":[6,7,8,19,20,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531","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=25531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}