{"id":25635,"date":"2016-06-22T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25635"},"modified":"2016-06-22T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T08:46:11","slug":"midweek-links-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/midweek-links-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/17\/opinion\/why-linkedin-will-make-you-hate-microsoft-word.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Linkedin will make you hate Microsoft.&#8221;<\/a> Wait. What? You don&#8217;t <i>already<\/i> hate Microsoft? But seriously, if they really do what this NYT article says they&#8217;re planning, we&#8217;re talking whole new levels.\n<li>Wow. Beer can, mama bear, and don&#8217;t-forget-the-dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/beta\/news\/canada\/north\/wolf-bear-bait-joanne-barnaby-nwt-1.3636604\" target=\"_blank\">save a woman<\/a> during a long ordeal. But note what she really wishes she hadn&#8217;t left at home.\n<li>Have you ever sensed that Snopes.com, the great All-Powerful Fact-Checker of the Intertubz, sometimes needs fact-checking itself &#8212; particularly on political issues? Turns our you&#8217;re quite right. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/06\/17\/fact-checking-snopes-websites-political-fact-checker-is-just-a-failed-liberal-blogger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Look who&#8217;s providing those political &#8220;facts&#8221;<\/a>. Makes me sad. Snopes has been a valuable resource and this is slowly destroying their credibility. (H\/T OdS)\n<li>Oh, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2016\/02\/25\/ex-calif-state-sen-leeland-yee-gun-control-champion-heading-to-prison-for-weapons-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\">poo, poo widdle antigun politician<\/a>. And of course he merely joins the ranks of <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/06\/18\/monica-lewinsky-ironically-freaked-out-that-bill-cheated-on-her\/\" target=\"_blank\">fellow hypocrites<\/a>. (That second article is actually about the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the Clintons turning the White House into &#8220;a brothel.&#8221; Quite gross, really. It mentions Hillary&#8217;s fondness for firearms only in passing.)\n<li>And speaking of non-hypocrites: <a href=\"http:\/\/listverse.com\/2009\/11\/13\/top-10-snipers-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">history&#8217;s top-10 snipers<\/a>. (H\/T DA)\n<li>And Nicki gives it good and hard to <a href=\"https:\/\/thelibertyzone.com\/2016\/06\/18\/what-americas-freedom-hating-hoplophobic-lying-financial-columnists-will-try-and-tell-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">an antigun ignoramus<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/06\/15\/482168066\/in-defense-bill-senate-approves-plan-for-women-to-register-for-draft\" target=\"_blank\">Registering women for the draft?<\/a> Sigh. I suppose it was only a matter of time. But if we <i>must<\/i> have the sort of bogus &#8220;equality&#8221; that puts women into combat, could we at least do away with the kind of bogus inequality that makes <i>any<\/i> young people, let alone all of them, slaves eligible for government disposal?\n<li>Wendy McElroy&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/28LvIuG\" target=\"_blank\">book on ending rape-culture hysteria<\/a> is finally out in print. Was only an ebook until now.\n<li>I know these rainbow #shootback posters (Gadsden style!) are old news now in Internet time since Shel put them into comments last week. But they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/6612\/west-hollywood-inundated-poster-rainbow-gadsen-hank-berrien\" target=\"_blank\">sooooo beautiful<\/a>. And so much wiser and more honest than the O-admin&#8217;s craven claim that censoring 911 transcripts from the latest murder-for-Mohammed was done <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/06\/20\/obama-admin-deletes-isis-references-from-orlando-911-calls\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;for the victims&#8221;<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why Linkedin will make you hate Microsoft.&#8221; Wait. What? You don&#8217;t already hate Microsoft? But seriously, if they really do what this NYT article says they&#8217;re planning, we&#8217;re talking whole new levels. Wow. Beer can, mama bear, and don&#8217;t-forget-the-dog save a woman during a long ordeal. But note what she really wishes she hadn&#8217;t left at home. Have you ever sensed that Snopes.com, the great All-Powerful Fact-Checker of the Intertubz, sometimes needs fact-checking itself &#8212; particularly on political issues? Turns our you&#8217;re quite right. Look who&#8217;s providing those political &#8220;facts&#8221;. Makes me sad. Snopes has been a valuable resource and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/22\/midweek-links-24\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,8,11,12,19,23,25,26,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635","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=25635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}