{"id":27037,"date":"2016-09-13T14:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27037"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:26:16","slug":"midweek-links-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/midweek-links-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Unidentified tourists (or non-existent tourists invented by a politician or a reporter) get so upset by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/black-rifles-matter-sign-maine-tourist-town-draws-outrage-article-1.2790008\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;black guns matter&#8221;<\/a> sign that they cry, &#8220;Whaaaaa whaaaa!&#8221; and flee the town.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/spengler\/2016\/09\/12\/deplorably-trump-is-going-to-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">We the deplorables<\/a>. (Yeah, not v*ing for Trump, but the identification of who Hillary and nearly every other politician really finds deplorable is spot on.)\n<li>Two via Kit Perez: More evidence that the unaware and innocent are more likely to be harmed by omni-surveillance <a href=\"https:\/\/grugq.tumblr.com\/post\/150312259623\/isis-operational-security-has-adapted-to-western\" target=\"_blank\">than smart evil people are<\/a>; and yep, Commentariat member A.G. said it the other day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/09\/machine-learning-can-identify-pixelated-faces-researchers-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;they&#8221; can recognize<\/a> even blurred and pixelated faces. (Frankly, I remain skeptical of that claim, but who knows?)\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry your pretty little heads, girls. Just turn off your brain and v*te for Hillary. Sure. And that approach is <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/09\/11\/women-arent-hillary-clintons-sexist-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">turning off a lot of sensible women<\/a>.\n<li>Wendy McElroy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\/explore-freedom\/article\/revolution-rising-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Revolution of Rising Expectations&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Not exactly a surprise that gravity helps cause earthquakes. But gravity as in the tidal pull of the moon? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-37350839\" target=\"_blank\">That&#8217;s a new one<\/a>.\n<li>Also no surprise: brutal, corrupt, perverted slimeball cops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/11\/us\/whereabouts-of-cast-out-police-officers-other-cities-often-hire-them.html\" target=\"_blank\">have no trouble<\/a> getting new cop jobs.\n<li>And while we&#8217;re in the No Surprise department: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Analysis-War-on-terror-took-region-from-bad-to-worse-467413\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. intervention took the MidEast from bad to worse<\/a>.\n<li>Via Desertrat in comments: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2016\/01\/the-demographics-of-the-nra\/#axzz3y7Qp6JC3\" target=\"_blank\">demographics of the NRA<\/a>. Don&#8217;t really care much about the NRA, except that I&#8217;m guessing these impressively shifting demographics are typically of the entire U.S. gun-owning world. (From earlier this year but good intellectual ammo.)\n<li>While you&#8217;re websurfing, you should really check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?page_id=970\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Gear department<\/a> of The Zelman Partisans&#8217; store. In addition to the custom Kershaw spring-assist knives, the amazing little binoculars, and the earplugs in the custom care, you&#8217;ll now find classic Zippo lighters and a gen-u-wine Victorinox Swiss Army knife. Oh, and while you&#8217;re there, don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?page_id=3342\" target=\"_blank\">enter the rifle contest<\/a>, too. NFI on my part.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Unidentified tourists (or identified journalists and politicians speaking for non-existent tourists) get so upset by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/black-rifles-matter-sign-maine-tourist-town-draws-outrage-article-1.2790008\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;black guns matter&#8221;<\/a> sign that they cry, &#8220;Whaaaaa whaaaa!&#8221; and flee the town.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/spengler\/2016\/09\/12\/deplorably-trump-is-going-to-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">We the deplorables<\/a>. (Yeah, not v*ing for Trump, but the identification of who Hillary and nearly every other politician really finds deplorable is spot on.)\n<li>Two via Kit Perez: More evidence that the unaware and innocent are more likely to be harmed by omni-surveillance\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/midweek-links-30\/\">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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,19,23,25,28,30,31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-rural-and-small-town-living","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037","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=27037"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27053,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27037\/revisions\/27053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}