{"id":25928,"date":"2016-07-20T13:33:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=25928"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:33:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:33:45","slug":"midweek-links-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/midweek-links-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m online more than expected this week &#8212; coordinating on the website-to-be, thanking wonderful donors, chasing rainbows, keeping ahead of runaway trucks. You know, the usual. So I figure you guys might as well benefit from some extra posting while I&#8217;m at it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three years &#8212; or more &#8212; for possession of an eeeeevil BB gun? Only in New Jersey. I hope this poor schmuck&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/middlesex\/index.ssf\/2016\/07\/nj_comedian_facing_gun_charges_to_appear_in_court.html\" target=\"_blank\">fight goes well<\/a>. (H\/T DB)\n<li>I&#8217;ve always admired Peter Theil. So libertarian. So out-of-the-box. So creatively cheeky. But I didn&#8217;t realize he was the founder and chief investor in the ghastly, government-sucking, privacy-raping, Tolkein-savaging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/this_could_be_the_most_interesting_speech_of_the_gop_convention.html\" target=\"_blank\">Palantir<\/a>. Ugh. Why would a supposed &#8220;libertarian&#8221; <i>do<\/i> such a thing to the rest of us???\n<li>Even these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/07\/25\/gary-johnson-the-third-party-candidate\" target=\"_blank\">mainstreamish political semi-libertarians<\/a> are better than that!\n<li>Speaking of doing it to us: the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55418-iris-scans-to-replace-fingerprints.html\" target=\"_blank\">nooz on iris scans<\/a>.\n<li>Oh yeah. That&#8217;s some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oathkeepers.org\/parroting-oath-keepers-hate-group-lie-betrays-newbostonposts-claimed-principles\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;hate group&#8221;<\/a> you got there. How long is it going to be before the dumbstream media wises up to the SPLC&#8217;s phony tactics?\n<li>I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it. But this is <a href=\"http:\/\/johnfmauldin.tumblr.com\/post\/147443009107\/gold-could-hit-5000-or-even-10000-in-a-few\" target=\"_blank\">one of the more interesting predictions<\/a> about rising gold prices.\n<li>So even if you&#8217;re a hermit in the woods, you now know that a game called Pokemon Go is The Most Important Thing Ever To Happen In America, Seriously EVAHHHH. What fewer people are talking about is how it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2016\/07\/14\/Scary-Way-Pok-mon-Go-Making-Money-You\" target=\"_blank\">makes money off players while savaging their privacy<\/a>. (Yes, even after its token well-publicized privacy corrections.)\n<li>Sit down, Science. We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/articles\/2016\/07\/19\/sit_down_science_we_need_to_talk_109691.html\" target=\"_blank\">need to talk<\/a>.\n<li>NSFW, but an absolute must for the too-bad-to-be-true category: <a href=\"http:\/\/news10live.com\/cinnamon-roll-can-explodes-inside-mans-butt-during-shoplifting-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\">Has this ever happened to you<\/a>? (Note: For those who didn&#8217;t catch too-bad-to-be-true, this is a <i>parody<\/i>)\n<li>No, darnit. I cannot find the iPhone. <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/07\/14\/can-you-find-the-iphone-that-a.html\" target=\"_blank\">Where the heck is it?<\/a> (H\/t Jim B. in comments)\n<li>Per jed in comments: Too funny. <a href=\"http:\/\/patrickat.tumblr.com\/post\/146659590523\/tastefullyoffensive-if-dogs-had-911-by\" target=\"_blank\">If dogs had 911<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m online more than expected this week &#8212; coordinating on the website-to-be, thanking wonderful donors, chasing rainbows, keeping ahead of runaway trucks. You know, the usual. So I figure you guys might as well benefit from some extra posting while I&#8217;m at it. Three years &#8212; or more &#8212; for possession of an eeeeevil BB gun? Only in New Jersey. I hope this poor schmuck&#8217;s fight goes well. (H\/T DB) I&#8217;ve always admired Peter Theil. So libertarian. So out-of-the-box. So creatively cheeky. But I didn&#8217;t realize he was the founder and chief investor in the ghastly, government-sucking, privacy-raping, Tolkein-savaging Palantir.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/20\/midweek-links-26\/\">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":[8,11,12,16,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","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\/25928","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=25928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}