{"id":28207,"date":"2016-11-17T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2016-11-17T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T16:03:24","slug":"thursday-links-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/thursday-links-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>More on the highly instructive government-caused chaos in India. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-16\/stunning-scenes-panic-gold-price-skyrockets-india-after-currency-ban\" target=\"_blank\">report from a freedomista on the scene<\/a> (H\/T BillT in comments). And will gold importation, as well as bills, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/news-analysis\/india-bans-cash-now-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">be banned<\/a>? India&#8217;s economy is lurching to a standstill. There is panic, despair, and real danger of death over an arbitrary decision whose consequences any sensible person could have seen. But now, with Modi having &#8220;broken Indians&#8217; legs,&#8221; the government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-india-modi-corruption-idUSKBN13C0DR?il=0\" target=\"_blank\">helpfully offering a crutch<\/a>.\n<li>American life expectancy <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstreetpit.com\/112289-american-life-expectancy-slipping\/\" target=\"_blank\">is falling<\/a> as Russia&#8217;s fell after the Soviet collapse &#8212; and for similar reasons. But the fedgov will not take one of the simplest, most rational steps to ease the suffering.\n<li><em>Reason<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2016\/11\/15\/the-detroit-police-department-is-running\" target=\"_blank\">investigates puppycide<\/a> &#8212; which in one jurisdiction (Detroit) seems to be reaching the proportions of dog-assassination squads.\n<li>I know we&#8217;re supposed to rejoice that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/16\/502314905\/minn-police-officer-who-killed-philando-castile-is-charged-with-manslaughter\" target=\"_blank\">the killer cop<\/a> who offed polite, cooperative legal gun owner Philando Castile is being charged with manslaughter. But seriously &#8212; <em>manslaughter<\/em>??? That wasn&#8217;t manslaughter. It was second-degree murder committed under color of law. Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Remember the name.\n<li>Oh lord. The irony. &#8220;Gun control&#8221; laws that prevent easy transfers between friends and family members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2016\/11\/16\/preventing-gun-suicides-may-require-changes-to-background-check-laws.html\" target=\"_blank\">may actually increase<\/a> suicides.\n<li>You already know this. But <a href=\"https:\/\/victorialsanders.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/12\/hate-didnt-elect-donald-trump-people-did\/\" target=\"_blank\">hate didn&#8217;t elect Donald Trump<\/a>.\n<li>Microsoft &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/16\/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\">joins the Linux Foundation<\/a>.\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 stuff for your truck\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"7a53b5f72d311abe55a9306dba371151\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B004I2A97A,B01DIMTWCS,B01C33ANJ4,B00UO6DDVS,B003EAAI0K,B00AZPS0PW,B005FWWUNS,B01HGIIQOA\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>More on the highly instructive government-caused chaos in India. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-16\/stunning-scenes-panic-gold-price-skyrockets-india-after-currency-ban\" target=\"_blank\">report from a freedomista on the scene<\/a> (H\/T BillT in comments). And will gold importation, as well as bills, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybell.com\/news-analysis\/india-bans-cash-now-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">be banned<\/a>? India&#8217;s economy is lurching to a standstill. There is panic, despair, and real danger of death over an arbitrary decision whose consequences any sensible person could have seen. But now, with Modi having &#8220;broken Indians&#8217; legs,&#8221; the government is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-india-modi-corruption-idUSKBN13C0DR?il=0\" target=\"_blank\">helpfully offering a crutch<\/a>.\n<li>American life expectancy <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstreetpit.com\/112289-american-life-expectancy-slipping\/\" target=\"_blank\">is falling<\/a> as Russia&#8217;s fell after the Soviet collapse &#8212; and for similar reasons. But the fedgov will not take one of the simplest, most rational steps to ease the suffering.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/thursday-links-60\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[6,7,8,13,17,19,20,23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-linux","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207","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=28207"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28218,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28207\/revisions\/28218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}