{"id":29523,"date":"2017-02-15T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29523"},"modified":"2017-02-14T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T03:31:57","slug":"midweek-links-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/midweek-links-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonfirearms.org\/vendetta\" target=\"_blank\">Convicted of self-defense<\/a> in a Portland court. Outrageous.\n<li>But there&#8217;s Portland and then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/02\/14\/oregon-counties-declare-sanctuary-status-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon<\/a> when it comes to gun rights.\n<li>Kit Perez <a href=\"http:\/\/libertynation.com\/silencing-our-voice-part-1-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">begins a three-part series<\/a> on how social media silences dissent.\n<li>Ugh. Looks like the NorthWET is <a href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/the-west-coast-will-face.html\" target=\"_blank\">in for another big drenching<\/a>. But we&#8217;re used to that. It&#8217;s California &#8212; the poor people below the Oroville Damn &#8212; getting the worst of it. They say <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/workers-racing-time-secure-oroville-dam-storms-hit\/story?id=45484962\" target=\"_blank\">the dam danger is much less now<\/a>. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/02\/14\/its-like-the-rock-was-melting-the-stunning-destruction-at-oroville-dam-and-the-work-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">I wonder<\/a>. I also wonder whose head is going to roll for this.\n<li>Why is the whole world suddenly debating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/13\/books\/review\/which-dystopian-novel-got-it-right-orwells-1984-or-huxleys-brave-new-world.html\" target=\"_blank\">whether Huxley or Orwell got dystopia<\/a> more accurately? This must be the third recent article on it.\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Claire-Wolfe-346166576304\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Wolfe (fan) page<\/a> at F*c*b**k recently, you might have fun taking a look. Good stuff being posted there. Thanks to C^2 for the reminder and to He-Knows-Who for doing such a good job with the page.\n<li>Can <a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2017\/02\/09\/can-the-swastika-ever-be-redeemed\/\" target=\"_blank\">the swastika be redeemed<\/a>? In western eyes. After what Hitler did to an age-old religious symbol?\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, I should have run this yesterday. But lookit the Valentine chocolates somebody got.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogValentineChocolates_021417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogValentineChocolates_021417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"742\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogValentineChocolates_021417.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogValentineChocolates_021417-450x445.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convicted of self-defense in a Portland court. Outrageous. But there&#8217;s Portland and then there&#8217;s Oregon when it comes to gun rights. Kit Perez begins a three-part series on how social media silences dissent. Ugh. Looks like the NorthWET is in for another big drenching. But we&#8217;re used to that. It&#8217;s California &#8212; the poor people below the Oroville Damn &#8212; getting the worst of it. They say the dam danger is much less now. But I wonder. I also wonder whose head is going to roll for this. Why is the whole world suddenly debating whether Huxley or Orwell got&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/midweek-links-40\/\">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":[4,8,9,11,12,16,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523","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=29523"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29534,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29523\/revisions\/29534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}