{"id":38837,"date":"2018-09-21T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38837"},"modified":"2018-09-21T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T18:11:55","slug":"friday-links-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/friday-links-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Happy Paratus! Commander Zero, who invented this holiday for preparedness, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=5607\" target=\"_blank\">has celebration suggestions<\/a>.\n<li>That mysterious observatory closure? They claim it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/observatory-shut-down-fbi-child\/\" target=\"_blank\">because a janitor had kiddie porn on a computer<\/a>. Hm.\n<li>Sheesh. No wonder Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser <a href=\"https:\/\/cultofthe1st.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/why-christine-blasey-fords-high-school_19.html\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t remember any details<\/a>. Given the party-and-pickup culture of the pricey school she went to, it&#8217;s a wonder she can remember anything from her teens.\n<li>Cody Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/21\/business\/cody-wilson-arrested-taiwan-sexual-assault.html\" target=\"_blank\">has been arrested<\/a> in a country that has no extradition treaty with the U.S. and is being sent back to Texas. I suspect we&#8217;ll hear that the bust was based on the technicality of Wilson attempting to overstay his visa or some such. (H\/T Jim B. in comments)\n<li>He spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn&#8217;t commit. The case for his innocence was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/for-valentino-dixon-a-wrong-righted-murder-charge-vacated-by-court-after-serving-27-years-in-prison\" target=\"_blank\">spearheaded by a golf magazine<\/a>.\n<li>China&#8217;s social credit system is not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/china-s-dystopian-social-credit-system-science-fiction-black-mirror-mass-surveillance-digital-dictatorship\" target=\"_blank\">every bit as chilling as our worst imaginings<\/a>, but what do Chinese authorities imagine is going to become of all those &#8220;unpersons&#8221; they&#8217;re creating? (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy McElroy<\/a>)\n<li>In Venezuela, <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/wire\/socialist-venezuela-poor-starve-death-while-politically-powerful-feast\" target=\"_blank\">the politically powerful feast<\/a> while the peasants starve.\n<li>Funny how the tech gurus who are deliberately manipulating the rest of us <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/2018\/09\/tech-gurus-kids-smartphones\/\" target=\"_blank\">deny tech to their children<\/a> or rigorously monitor its use.\n<li>Two guys prank McDonalds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/nation-now\/2018\/09\/20\/mcdonalds-students-prank-fake-ad\/1367848002\/\" target=\"_blank\">McDonalds rewards them<\/a>.\n<li>The other day I was looking at buying some prep foods in #2.5 cans and I ran into <a href=\"https:\/\/thesurvivalmom.com\/food-storage-can-sizes-when-to-go-big-when-to-go-small\/\" target=\"_blank\">this guide from Survival Mom<\/a> on when to go big and when to go small. I don&#8217;t agree with all her conclusions, but this is good (pardon the pun) food for thought.\n<li><em>Militant Normals<\/em> by Kurt Schlichter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Militant-Normals-Americans-Rebelling-Democracy\/dp\/154608195X\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">Looks like an interesting book<\/a> for all us &#8220;deplorables&#8221; and &#8220;dregs of society.&#8221; (Now in pre-order.)\n<li>Octopi are very different than humans &#8212; in obvious ways and not so obvious ways (like the distributed structure of their brains). But give them MDMA &#8212; ecstasy &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-gave-mdma-to-octopuses-and-what-happened-was-1829191638\" target=\"_blank\">and they want hugs<\/a> just like we do.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/copspray.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/copspray.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/copspray.png 665w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/copspray-450x246.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Happy Paratus! Commander Zero, who invented this holiday for preparedness, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=5607\" target=\"_blank\">has celebration suggestions<\/a>.\n<li>That mysterious observatory closure? They claim it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/observatory-shut-down-fbi-child\/\" target=\"_blank\">because a janitor had kiddie porn on a computer<\/a>. Hm.\n<li>Sheesh. No wonder Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser <a href=\"https:\/\/cultofthe1st.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/why-christine-blasey-fords-high-school_19.html\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t remember any details<\/a>. Given the party-and-pickup culture of the pricey school she went to, it&#8217;s a wonder she can remember anything from her teens.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/21\/friday-links-119\/\">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":[4,6,12,13,16,19,20,21,23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-monkeywrenching","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","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\/38837","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=38837"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38856,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions\/38856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}