{"id":28231,"date":"2016-11-19T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=28231"},"modified":"2016-11-19T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T15:22:15","slug":"weekend-links-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/weekend-links-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>OMG. Someone&#8217;s planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1733117980\/airselfie\" target=\"_blank\">a flying selfie camera<\/a>. None of us will be safe from Other People&#8217;s Idiocy. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>True, Glenn Greenwald. And <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/18\/the-stark-contrast-between-the-gops-self-criticism-in-2012-and-the-democrats-blame-everyone-else-posture-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">very well observed<\/a>. Now, if the R-party had actually have <em>done<\/em> anything about all its noble self-criticism &#8230;\n<li>Sigh. We&#8217;d probably <em>still<\/em> end up with a CIA director who <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/11\/trumps-pick-for-cia-director-has-called-for-snowdens-execution\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants Edward Snowden dead<\/a> and an AG who <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/jeff-sessions-and-donald-trump-both-back-a-tough-gun-prosecutions-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks anti-gun Project Exile is the bee&#8217;s knees<\/a>.\n<li>OTOH, while Steve Bannon may be an ass, he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-18\/steve-bannon-interviewed-issue-now-about-americans-looking-not-get-f%E2%80%94ed-over\" target=\"_blank\">not as bad an ass<\/a> as the MSM paints him.\n<li>And yet another member of some &#8220;anti-violence&#8221; or &#8220;anti-bullying&#8221; group <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/11\/11\/black-lives-matter-anti-bullying-activist-arrested-for-assaulting-74-year-old-man-at-trump-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\">shows her true colors<\/a>.\n<li>At TZP, Sheila writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=3959\" target=\"_blank\">the Peshmerga<\/a> (with some relief after listening to our own native whiners).\n<li>I wrote the other day about AT&#038;T wanting to co-rule the world (with the fedgov). Heh. <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/16\/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maybe they already do<\/a>. Which would be kind of amusing, in a bleak, black way, to those who remember <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2faHiBz\" target=\"_blank\">that old James Coburn movie<\/a>.\n<li>Well, since yesterday&#8217;s heartwarming story about a dog and a polar bear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/polar-bear-dog-video-churchill-manitoba-1.3855128\" target=\"_blank\">turned out to be a bust<\/a>, have a kind, brave Russian man <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/83675137\/video-russian-man-saves-dog-from-icy-water\" target=\"_blank\">saving a dog<\/a> from icy water.\n<li>What the heck. The day seems to require some extra cheer. So have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/h2\/vflt\/katangus\/i-am-technically-not-on-the-couch\" target=\"_blank\">17 dogs just barely following the rules<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The following ad contains products chosen by Amazon, not by me. And these ads can morph in weird ways depending on what I blog or what people link to in comments. It was full of Snowden-related stuff 15 minutes ago. Now sports gear and creepy spy gadgets. There&#8217;s just no telling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US&#038;storeId=livifree07-20&#038;adInstanceId=28ca459a-0448-491e-99ce-7cff2c15e02a\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>OMG. Someone&#8217;s planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1733117980\/airselfie\" target=\"_blank\">a flying selfie camera<\/a>. None of us will be safe from Other People&#8217;s Idiocy. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>True, Glenn Greenwald. And <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/18\/the-stark-contrast-between-the-gops-self-criticism-in-2012-and-the-democrats-blame-everyone-else-posture-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">very well observed<\/a>. Now, if the R-party had actually have <em>done<\/em> anything about all its noble self-criticism &#8230;\n<li>Sigh. We&#8217;d probably <em>still<\/em> end up with a CIA director who <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/11\/trumps-pick-for-cia-director-has-called-for-snowdens-execution\/\" target=\"_blank\">wants Edward Snowden dead<\/a> and an AG who <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/jeff-sessions-and-donald-trump-both-back-a-tough-gun-prosecutions-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks anti-gun Project Exile is the bee&#8217;s knees<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/19\/weekend-links-51\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[4,8,12,19,23,25,28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231","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=28231"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}