{"id":29603,"date":"2017-02-23T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=29603"},"modified":"2017-02-23T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:52:20","slug":"thursday-links-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/thursday-links-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The FBI under Trump continues its proud history of fighting terrorism by <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/02\/22\/trumps-first-terror-arrest-a-broke-stoner-the-fbi-threatened-at-knifepoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">busting hapless losers<\/a> who couldn&#8217;t have done a thing without the encouragement, funds, and in this case bullying brutality by the fed agents themselves.\n<li>And let&#8217;s not forget our beloved ATF. Turns out it&#8217;s as <a href=\"http:\/\/elmtreeforge.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/this-is-what-happens-when-le-agency.html\" target=\"_blank\">corrupt on the &#8220;T&#8221; part of its name<\/a> as is is on the &#8220;F&#8221;ing part.\n<li>&#8220;Live free or live in Massachusetts,&#8221; as some wag must have said. Boston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_politics\/2017\/02\/glasses_may_get_banned_at_boston_bars_after_assaults\" target=\"_blank\">considers banning glassware<\/a> in bars because it can be used as a weapon. (Can we move Boston over to England? I think it would feel more at home there.)\n<li>But New Hampshire gets it right, becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/2017\/02\/dean-weingarten\/nh-governor-sununu-signs-constitutional-carry\/\" target=\"_blank\">the twelfth state to yield<\/a> to constitutional carry. So glad all those nay-sayers (including yours truly) were wrong.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2017\/02\/23\/hospitals-are-terrible\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hospitals are terrible<\/a>. You knew that, but perhaps didn&#8217;t know this particular detail.\n<li>Soda taxes: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/22\/with-sales-depressed-by-soda-tax-philly\" target=\"_blank\">more &#8220;unintended consequences&#8221;<\/a> that anybody but a govocrat could have predicted.\n<li>Must have been super uncomfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/chicken-egg-inside-of-an-egg\/\" target=\"_blank\">for the poor chicken<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of chickens &#8212; though not the literal kind &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/02\/23\/andrew-napolitano-chickens-have-come-home-to-roost.html\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Napolitano explains<\/a> how the chickens of the surveillance state are coming home to roost. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Pretty pit bull, abused and abandoned in a crack house, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/2067\/Pit-Bull-Rescued-From-Abandoned-Crack-House-Becomes-Firehouse-Dog\" target=\"_blank\">becomes a firehouse dog<\/a>.\n<li>Dogs that are stuck but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2017\/02\/stuck-dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">pretending to be totally cool with that<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogStuck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogStuck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogStuck.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DogStuck-450x338.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The FBI under Trump continues its proud history of fighting terrorism by <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/02\/22\/trumps-first-terror-arrest-a-broke-stoner-the-fbi-threatened-at-knifepoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">busting hapless losers<\/a> who couldn&#8217;t have done a thing without the encouragement, funds, and in this case bullying brutality by the fed agents themselves.\n<li>And let&#8217;s not forget our beloved ATF. Turns out it&#8217;s as <a href=\"http:\/\/elmtreeforge.blogspot.com\/2017\/02\/this-is-what-happens-when-le-agency.html\" target=\"_blank\">corrupt on the &#8220;T&#8221; part of its name<\/a> as is is on the &#8220;F&#8221;ing part.\n<li>&#8220;Live free or live in Massachusetts,&#8221; as some wag must have said. Boston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/local_politics\/2017\/02\/glasses_may_get_banned_at_boston_bars_after_assaults\" target=\"_blank\">considers banning glassware<\/a> in bars because it can be used as a weapon. (Can we move Boston over to England? I think it would feel more at home there.)\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/thursday-links-66\/\">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":[8,12,13,16,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/29603","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=29603"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29618,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29603\/revisions\/29618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}