{"id":29383,"date":"2017-02-02T11:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29383"},"modified":"2017-02-02T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:17:13","slug":"thursday-links-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/thursday-links-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Under Armour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2017\/01\/john-boch\/armour-dumps-hunters-reaps-whirlwind\/\" target=\"_blank\">learns the lesson<\/a> most companies should have memorized long since. You do NOT dis hunters and gun owners and expect to go on making money off them.\n<li>Oh, how times have changed. You can now buy weed &#8212; that is, WEED &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-02-01\/you-can-now-buy-and-sell-weed-on-the-toronto-stock-exchange\" target=\"_blank\">on the Toronto Stock Exchange<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/removeandreplace.com\/2013\/03\/03\/build-a-lamp-combo-usb-charger-easy-fun-diy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Build your own lamp\/electrical outlet\/USB charger<\/a> for fun. Extra points if you can make it a heck of a lot more attractive than the one shown. (Tip o&#8217; hat to MSJ)\n<li>I have a friend with a security-related job in D.C. (Really; strange world we live in.) That friend is freaking out, with cause, over some of the, shall we say <em>less sound<\/em> ways Trump is shaking up the world of international relations. But there are other agencies being shaken up that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/444415\/epa-meltdown-reform-junk-science-agency-causes-freakout\" target=\"_blank\">richly deserve to have their cages rattled<\/a>. Enjoy, EPA!\n<li>John Whitehead says, <a href=\"http:\/\/rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/rule_by_brute_force_the_true_nature_of_government_short\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t blame Trump.&#8221;<\/a> Rule by brute force has become the rule in DC. (H\/T CB)\n<li>People &#8212; that is prepper and survivalist types &#8212; often have a &#8220;thing&#8221; for clever ways of starting fires. Some go for the primitive, rubbing sticks together or striking sparks on dry moss. Others fancy the &#8230; well, fancy. Fine for them&#8217;s what like it, though in fact cigarette lighters and matches (perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2l1jNOp\" target=\"_blank\">waterproof variety with handy strikers<\/a>) tend to be more reliable. Still, there&#8217;s always a market for the &#8220;cool but flawed toy.&#8221; Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alloutdoor.com\/2017\/01\/26\/usts-tekfire-portable-rechargeable-fuel-free-fire-starter\/\" target=\"_blank\">the latest, via the SHOT Show<\/a>. Very innovative, really. Now tell me why this might not be the best firelighter in the universe, at least for emergencies. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2k5h2hq\" target=\"_blank\">more of that sort of thing<\/a> courtesy of Amazon.)\n<li>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/01\/thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">dogs are really thinking<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Under Armour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2017\/01\/john-boch\/armour-dumps-hunters-reaps-whirlwind\/\" target=\"_blank\">learns the lesson<\/a> most companies should have memorized long since. You do NOT dis hunters and gun owners and expect to go on making money off them.\n<li>Oh, how times have changed. You can now buy weed &#8212; that is, WEED &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-02-01\/you-can-now-buy-and-sell-weed-on-the-toronto-stock-exchange\" target=\"_blank\">on the Toronto Stock Exchange<\/a>. (H\/T MJR)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/removeandreplace.com\/2013\/03\/03\/build-a-lamp-combo-usb-charger-easy-fun-diy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Build your own lamp\/electrical outlet\/USB charger<\/a> for fun. Extra points if you can make it a heck of a lot more attractive than the one shown. (Tip o&#8217; hat to MSJ)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/thursday-links-64\/\">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":[5,8,11,12,14,16,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-home-improvement","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383","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=29383"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29395,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions\/29395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}