{"id":28185,"date":"2016-11-16T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28185"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T18:51:42","slug":"midweek-links-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/midweek-links-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Did anybody here think the MSM really meant all those editorials about how they were going to be more politically unbiased from now on? Here&#8217;s <em>USA Today<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/twitter-suspends-alt-right-accounts\/93943194\/\" target=\"_blank\">defining the entire alt-right movement<\/a> as &#8220;espousing white nationalism.&#8221; And here&#8217;s Alan Dershowitz having to point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/jerusalem\/2016\/11\/15\/alan-dershowitz-steve-bannon-smears-not-legitimate-call-somebody-anti-semite-disagree-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Bannon is no anti-Semite<\/a>. I&#8217;m not fond of either the alt-right or Bannon. But get real, media. Get real. Your life depends on it.\n<li>And they ask &#8212; they seriously ask! &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/11\/donald-trump-steve-bannon-breitbart-pravda-214451\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Will America Now Have a Pravda?&#8221;<\/a> No, you willfully blind jackasses: America has had a <em>Pravda<\/em> and an <em>Izvestia<\/em> for many years now.\n<li>And all those <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/11\/commander-in-chief-donald-trump-will-have-terrifying-powers-thanks-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">dictatorial powers<\/a> the left loved so much when Obama wielded them? Yeah, not so smug about the imperial presidency now, are you?\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/drgo.us\/?p=4539\" target=\"_blank\">10 Commandments<\/a> of the Second Amendment.\n<li>AT&#038;T: still trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/376085\/att-nasa-drone-tracking\/\" target=\"_blank\">join the gov in ruling the world<\/a>. Okay, only monitoring every, single drone ever launched.\n<li>Uh oh. There&#8217;s now a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2016\/11\/meet-poisontap-the-5-tool-that-ransacks-password-protected-computers\/\" target=\"_blank\">simple USB device<\/a> that can break into your password-locked computer and install a backdoor. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/11\/wickedly-clever-usb-stick-installs-backdoor-locked-pcs\/\" target=\"_blank\">more detail<\/a> on this new thing called Poison Trap.\n<li>Let me get this straight. It&#8217;s evil and wicked and hurtful and unsafe and non-inclusive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavalierdaily.com\/article\/2016\/11\/professors-ask-sullivan-to-stop-quoting-jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">to quote Thomas Jefferson<\/a>. Because, you know, he didn&#8217;t behave like a twenty-first century man; therefore bad, evil, terrible, and down the memory hole with him. But it&#8217;s a-okay to take a nice, fat paycheck from a university he founded.\n<li>The big New Zealand quake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/11\/16\/new-zealand-quakes-strange-side-effect-what-are-earthquake-lights.html\" target=\"_blank\">featured those mysterious &#8220;earthquake lights,&#8221;<\/a> which scientists have previously not taken seriously (partly because their appearance is so inconsistent). Belatedly, scientists are noticing and asking questions.\n<li>A pollster <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/if-trump-gets-more-than-240-electoral.html\" target=\"_blank\">said he&#8217;d eat a bug<\/a> if Trump won &#8230;\n<li>In the nooz you can use department, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Complete-DIY-Raspberry-Pi-Weather-Station-with-Sof\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi-based weather station<\/a> you (and maybe you and your kids) can build at home. And a <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenclub.homedepot.com\/build-a-dehydrator\/\" target=\"_blank\">solar dehydrator<\/a>, too. (H\/T MJ)\n<\/ul>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"livifree07-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"My Amazon picks in rainwater harvesting\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"09c65bd0a4c961850d5c09f8093e9977\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B005U6E8A2,0977246434,B003E1RJVU,B002RS0VAC,B0013CJLI6,B00FWN9QK0,B005V3QVRM,1533001545\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Did anybody here think the MSM really meant all those editorials about how they were going to be more politically unbiased from now on? Here&#8217;s <em>USA Today<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/twitter-suspends-alt-right-accounts\/93943194\/\" target=\"_blank\">defining the entire alt-right movement<\/a> as &#8220;espousing white nationalism.&#8221; And here&#8217;s Alan Dershowitz having to point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/jerusalem\/2016\/11\/15\/alan-dershowitz-steve-bannon-smears-not-legitimate-call-somebody-anti-semite-disagree-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Bannon is no anti-Semite<\/a>. I&#8217;m not fond of either the alt-right or Bannon. But get real, media. Get real. Your life depends on it.\n<li>And they ask &#8212; they seriously ask! &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/11\/donald-trump-steve-bannon-breitbart-pravda-214451\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Will America Now Have a Pravda?&#8221;<\/a> No, you willfully blind jackasses: America has had a <em>Pravda<\/em> and an <em>Izvestia<\/em> for many years now.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/midweek-links-35\/\">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":[6,7,9,11,12,15,19,25,26,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","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\/28185","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=28185"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28200,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28185\/revisions\/28200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}