{"id":33321,"date":"2017-10-11T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=33321"},"modified":"2017-10-12T09:27:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:27:16","slug":"midweek-links-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/midweek-links-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Michelle Malkin&#8217;s FOURTH post-Obamacare policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/11\/obama_lied_my_fourth_health_plan_died_135231.html\" target=\"_blank\">has just died<\/a>. Got anything to say about now, Mr. Obama, about how we&#8217;ll be able to keep our doctors and our insurance plans? Not to mention that &#8220;save $2,500 a year&#8221; business.\n<li>Amazon is trying to beat Walmart in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2017\/10\/10\/amazon-exploring-ways-deliver-items-your-car-trunk-and-inside-your-home\/751361001\/\" target=\"_blank\">really stupid &#8220;smart&#8221; delivery<\/a> race. What kind of moron would go for this?\n<li>Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2017\/10\/10\/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247\/\" target=\"_blank\">this kind<\/a> of overeager tech consumer.\n<li>Chicago&#8217;s soft drink &#8220;sin tax&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2017\/10\/10\/why-chicagos-soda-tax-fizzled-after-two-months-and-what-it-means-for-the-anti-soda-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">fizzles after two months<\/a>. Even the WaPo, which clearly loved the tax, can&#8217;t completely deny that it was killed by a consumer revolt.\n<li>Eeew. Ick. Talk about disgusting. A judge <a href=\"http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/court-give-pedophile-rape-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\">grants parental and visitation rights<\/a> to a violent rapist whose crime produced a child.\n<li>Japan&#8217;s Kobe Steel has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-10-10\/kobe-steel-untraded-amid-deluge-of-sell-orders-on-data-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">has been fudging figures<\/a> on the quality of its copper and aluminum. Kobe metal products are found in Hondas, Toyotas, and Subarus.\n<li>A reader reports that Paladin&#8217;s going-out-of-business sale hasn&#8217;t started yet. I&#8217;ll check with them and report back on when it&#8217;s scheduled to begin. Better be soon. Because we&#8217;re all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2017\/09\/26\/doomsayer-david-meade-now-claims-oct-15-will-be-the-most-important-date-of-this-century-or-millennium\" target=\"_blank\">supposed to be dead by October 15<\/a> according to the same guy who previously predicted September 23 as the end of the world.\n<li>&#8220;Smart&#8221; devices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2017\/10\/smart-devices-are-snitching-on-owners-and-rewriting-the-criminal-justice-system.html\" target=\"_blank\">have helped solve some crimes<\/a>. But lordy, the long-term potential is horrifying on so many counts.\n<li>Academia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2017\/10\/11\/short-take-the-happy-warriors-of-the-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\">wimpy little swat<\/a> at the Godzilla of campus intolerance.\n<li>Your obscure triviabit for the day: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozy.com\/flashback\/how-charlie-chaplins-wife-saved-his-backyard-fortune\/81065\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Chaplin had a million dollars<\/a> buried in his backyard.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Michelle Malkin&#8217;s FOURTH post-Obamacare policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/11\/obama_lied_my_fourth_health_plan_died_135231.html\" target=\"_blank\">has just died<\/a>. Got anything to say about now, Mr. Obama, about how we&#8217;ll be able to keep our doctors and our insurance plans? Not to mention that &#8220;save $2,500 a year&#8221; business.\n<li>Amazon is trying to beat Walmart in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2017\/10\/10\/amazon-exploring-ways-deliver-items-your-car-trunk-and-inside-your-home\/751361001\/\" target=\"_blank\">really stupid &#8220;smart&#8221; delivery<\/a> race. What kind of moron would go for this?\n<li>Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2017\/10\/10\/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247\/\" target=\"_blank\">this kind<\/a> of overeager tech consumer.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/midweek-links-59\/\">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":[6,7,13,19,20,23,28,29,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-stupid-security","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321","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=33321"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33353,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions\/33353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}