{"id":38864,"date":"2018-09-24T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=38864"},"modified":"2018-09-23T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:03:24","slug":"monday-links-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/monday-links-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Solar panels replaced paving on several roadways. For the environment and the climate and all, you know. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/solar-panels-replaced-tarmac-on-a-motorway-here-are-the-results-103568\" target=\"_blank\">Results were predictably underwhelming<\/a>. Quite expensive, too.\n<li>Commander Zero, who knows whereof he speaks when it comes to preparedness, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=5612\" target=\"_blank\">Joel&#8217;s current experiment<\/a> in living off an Augason Farms emergency food kit won&#8217;t end happily. I&#8217;m pretty sure Joel would have agreed from day one.\n<li>Speaking of which, <em>Wired<\/em> says that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-science-behind-home-disaster-preparedness-kits-is-a-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">science behind disaster preparedness kits<\/a> is a disaster. They have suggestions some of us might not agree with (and might even laugh at), but the article&#8217;s interesting.\n<li>In the government-hates-competition department, the woman who led a team that rescued 27 dogs and cats from high water in Hurricane Florence <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/animals-rescued-animals-during-hurricane-florence\/\" target=\"_blank\">may face criminal charges<\/a>. (See the link to the petition defending her.)\n<li>Ecuador wanted to make Julian Assange a diplomat and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/09\/ecuador-wanted-to-make-julian-assange-a-diplomat-and-send-him-to-moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\"> send him to Moscow<\/a>. The UK, which controls Assange as a U.S. proxy, nixed the idea.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/economic-cleansing_21.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Codrea<\/a> calls PayPal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/439083-paypal-bans-infowars-agreement\/\" target=\"_blank\">banning of InfoWars<\/a> for vague, unspecified acts of &#8220;hate&#8221; economic cleansing. He&#8217;s right. The InfoWars folks may be purveyors of hysterical BS, but they&#8217;re only committing &#8220;hate&#8221; by the most extreme left standards. This is getting dangerous.\n<li>By those standards, &#8220;hate&#8221; is saying <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/headlines\/archives\/2018\/09\/student-editor-retweeted-women-dont-penises-story-fired-university-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\">women don&#8217;t have penises<\/a>. (I really want to believe this crap is the mania of a handful of over-privileged, over-educated, ivory-tower loons, but &#8230;)\n<li>A fourth supposed witness <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/09\/23\/fourth-supposed-witness-kavanaugh-accusers-alleged-assault-says-didnt-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\">says the Kavanaugh-Ford assault never happened<\/a> &#8212; and Charles Grassley nevertheless goes on collaborating with D-party delaying tactics.\n<li>Oh my lord. A congressional Kennedy &#8212; a Kennedy, mind you &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/columnists\/howie_carr\/2018\/09\/joe_kennedy_s_tweet_on_sexual_assault_insensitivity_is_a_bit_much\" target=\"_blank\">gets all indignant<\/a> about sexual assault and generally brutal treatment of women. But only when the allegations of brutality are against his political foes. Apparently crimes are all good when committed by his allies and family members.\n<li>How to <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/parenting\/how-christine-blasey-ford-proof-your-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Blasey Ford-proof<\/a> your son. (I don&#8217;t agree with it all, but a) I&#8217;m not a mother and b) ya gotta do something to build your boys into strong men in this mad world.)\n<li>John Deere just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/john-deere-farmers-right-to-repair\/\" target=\"_blank\">swindled farmers<\/a> out of their right to repair their own equipment &#8212; aided by the California Farm Bureau.\n<li>Just some <a href=\"https:\/\/cheezburger.com\/6779909\/just-15-of-the-funniest-doggo-memes-we-saw-this-week\" target=\"_blank\">cute dog memes<\/a>.\n<li>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/the-best-of-menswear-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Menswear Dog<\/a>, the most stylish pooch in the world.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Solar panels replaced paving on several roadways. For the environment and the climate and all, you know. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/solar-panels-replaced-tarmac-on-a-motorway-here-are-the-results-103568\" target=\"_blank\">Results were predictably underwhelming<\/a>. Quite expensive, too.\n<li>Commander Zero, who knows whereof he speaks when it comes to preparedness, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=5612\" target=\"_blank\">Joel&#8217;s current experiment<\/a> in living off an Augason Farms emergency food kit won&#8217;t end happily. I&#8217;m pretty sure Joel would have agreed from day one.\n<li>Speaking of which, <em>Wired<\/em> says that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-science-behind-home-disaster-preparedness-kits-is-a-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">science behind disaster preparedness kits<\/a> is a disaster. They have suggestions some of us might not agree with, but the article&#8217;s interesting.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/monday-links-136\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[6,7,8,11,16,19,20,27,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38864","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=38864"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38885,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38864\/revisions\/38885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}