{"id":30607,"date":"2017-04-28T02:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T09:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=30607"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:10:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T13:10:02","slug":"friday-links-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/friday-links-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The anti-fascist fascists may have reached a new low. They used threats of violence successfully to cancel a long-time traditional parade in Portland, Oregon. Why? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/04\/a-chilling-threat-of-political-violence-in-portland\/524334\/\" target=\"_blank\">Because Republicans were participating<\/a>. (H\/T M)\n<li>And once again &#8212; as is the usual these days &#8212; police are doing nothing to stop mob rule. Just happened again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447067\/ann-coulter-berkeley-speech-canceled-leftist-mob-wins-again\" target=\"_blank\">in Berkeley<\/a>. Mind you, I think it&#8217;s naive to <em>expect<\/em> cops to protect free speech; they&#8217;ve rarely ever been in favor of it. But as a general rule, cops have at least enjoyed whacking left-wing demonstrators over the head. Now they&#8217;re not even doing that.\n<li>Sigh. Only NASA could <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/05e426ced7fb44d8a40395ceca8aacf0\/NASA-spacewalking-suits-in-short-supply,-report-finds\" target=\"_blank\">be running out of space suits<\/a> while hardly putting anybody into space. What a sad commentary.\n<li>Hey, while we&#8217;re whining about oppression and inequality, how &#8217;bout having better racial integration <a href=\"https:\/\/theundefeated.com\/features\/the-nfls-racial-divide\/\" target=\"_blank\">in the NFL<\/a>? After all, it&#8217;s only fair, right?\n<li>Maybe United <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/dr-gridlock\/wp\/2017\/04\/27\/united-dragging-report-our-review-shows-that-many-things-went-wrong-that-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">really means it this time<\/a>. Could happen.\n<li>But I don&#8217;t think the Trumpists really mean it when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/trump-to-unveil-proposal-for-massive-tax-cut\/2017\/04\/26\/2097fe42-2a94-11e7-be51-b3fc6ff7faee_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">talk about tax reform<\/a>. Not that their plan is all bad. There&#8217;s plenty of good in it. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s all crony. Ain&#8217;t nothin&#8217; there that&#8217;ll help lift the burden from the middle and working classes. Oh yeah, trickle down. I forgot trickle down. That&#8217;s worked so well for Joe Average for the last 30-some years.\n<li>I do worry about North Korea aiming for a reachable mainland U.S. target &#8212; i.e. Seattle. Actually, I worry even more that they&#8217;ll aim for Seattle or Portland &#8230; and miss. But saner heads say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/is-seattle-a-target-for-a-north-korean-nuclear-attack-well-not-quite-yet-insiders-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle&#8217;s not all that likely<\/a> to be the next to be nukes.\n<li>Yeah, gotta agree with Joel on this one. That <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/gun-carriers-would-you-like-a-99-99999-chance-of-not-getting-shotkilled-by-the-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">concealed carry badge<\/a> isn&#8217;t going to be a hit with cops anywhere.\n<li>Surprise. Dogs prefer to take advice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/canine-corner\/201704\/dogs-prefer-advice-people-who-actually-have-the-answers\" target=\"_blank\">from people who actually know what they&#8217;re doing<\/a>.\n<li>And here&#8217;s your <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/1945861\/this-husky-saved-a-tiny-stray-cats-life-and-now-theyre-best-friends\" target=\"_blank\">awwwwwww story<\/a> for the day. You&#8217;ll have to click to see, but it&#8217;s got both a cute kitten and beautiful kind-hearted dogs.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>The anti-fascist fascists may have reached a new low. They used threats of violence successfully to cancel a long-time traditional parade in Portland, Oregon. Why? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/04\/a-chilling-threat-of-political-violence-in-portland\/524334\/\" target=\"_blank\">Because Republicans were participating<\/a>. (H\/T M)\n<li>And once again &#8212; as is the usual these days &#8212; police are doing nothing to stop mob rule. Just happened again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/447067\/ann-coulter-berkeley-speech-canceled-leftist-mob-wins-again\" target=\"_blank\">in Berkeley<\/a>. Mind you, I think it&#8217;s naive to <em>expect<\/em> cops to protect free speech; they&#8217;ve rarely ever been in favor of it. But as a general rule, cops have at least enjoyed whacking left-wing demonstrators over the head. Now they&#8217;re not even doing that.\n<li>Sigh. Only NASA could <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/05e426ced7fb44d8a40395ceca8aacf0\/NASA-spacewalking-suits-in-short-supply,-report-finds\" target=\"_blank\">be running out of space suits<\/a> while hardly putting anybody into space. What a sad commentary.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/28\/friday-links-81\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[2,7,8,9,12,19,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607","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=30607"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30622,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30607\/revisions\/30622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}