{"id":40166,"date":"2018-12-14T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40166"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T17:41:10","slug":"friday-links-126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/friday-links-126\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Another excellent piece from Ammo.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/ammo.com\/articles\/civil-asset-forfeiture-policing-for-profit\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement&#8221;<\/a>. Once again, there&#8217;s something here even for people who think they already know all about it. A good article to share.\n<li>The latest juvenile cant about socialism is that it leads to better sex. Jim Bovard &#8212; who ventured behind the Iron Curtain more than once &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/the-great-socialism-sex-charade\/\" target=\"_blank\">questions that manufactured reality<\/a>.\n<li>Still curious about those &#8220;let&#8217;s stop Trump&#8221; texts between the pair of illicit FBI lovers high up in the collusion investigation? Well, too bad. Because <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/12\/13\/doj-destroyed-missing-strzok-page-text-messages-before-ig-reviewed-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">the DoJ wiped them clean<\/a>, claiming they were of no significance. (If you or I pulled stunts like these, we&#8217;d be in jail sooooo fast &#8230;)\n<li>I doubt Maria Butina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/12\/13\/maria-butina-pleads-guilty-conspiracy\/2292276002\/\" target=\"_blank\">deserved this<\/a>. No doubt another coerced guilty plea by someone who knew what the feds would do to her if she didn&#8217;t cooperate.\n<li>It appears somebody or somebodies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/kevincollier\/feds-investigation-net-neutrality-comments\" target=\"_blank\">gamed the comments<\/a> to the FCC on net neutrality.\n<li>Gosh, how could any reasonable parent <a href=\"http:\/\/eagnews.org\/parents-object-to-elementary-schools-lunchroom-fingerprint-scanner\/\" target=\"_blank\">possibly object to their kiddies being fingerprint scanned<\/a> in order to qualify to eat lunch? (Government child prisons <em>have got to go!<\/em>)\n<li>&#8220;Science&#8221; now (srsly!) <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/reincarnation-transgender-science-has-really-gone-off-the-deep-end-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">conducts research into reincarnation<\/a> as a cause of gender dysphoria. At a major university, yet. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>Vitaminwater <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/technology\/vitaminwater-offering-$100k-to-ditch-your-smartphone-for-1-year\/4890540\/\" target=\"_blank\">offers a $100,000 grand prize<\/a> to one smart person who gives up his or her smartphone for a full year.\n<li>When I first heard that the University of Montana Western was requiring on-campus debate to be civil, I couldn&#8217;t see the problem. Civil is better than what we have now. But <a href=\"https:\/\/drudgenow.com\/article\/?n=0&#038;s=2&#038;c=1&#038;u=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ct\/thought-police-public-universitys-rules-now-prohibit-offensive-facial-expressions\/&#038;pn=Anonymous\" target=\"_blank\">of course there&#8217;s a catch<\/a>. &#8220;Civil&#8221; in campus terms means the thought police are watching &#8212; and you&#8217;d better not even make a grimace or a blink that some protected class might consider offensive. (H\/T MtK)\n<li>You&#8217;ve probably already heard about yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/cash-spill-on-new-jersey-highway-leads-to-multiple-crashes-chaos-during-morning-commute\" target=\"_blank\">money spill<\/a> on a New Jersey highway. Crashes and traffic jams all over the place.\n<li>I don&#8217;t usually link &#8220;inspirational&#8221; or &#8220;heartwarming&#8221; stories about overly adorable tots, pregnancies, or marriage proposals. But when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiremore.com\/laura-maurice-puppy-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposal features a pack of pups<\/a>, how can I resist?\n<li>The healing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/how-silence-balm-soul\" target=\"_blank\">sound of silence<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Winning-Christmas-650x641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Winning-Christmas-650x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"641\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Winning-Christmas-650x641.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Winning-Christmas-650x641-450x444.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another excellent piece from Ammo.com: &#8220;Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement&#8221;. Once again, there&#8217;s something here even for people who think they already know all about it. A good article to share. The latest juvenile cant about socialism is that it leads to better sex. Jim Bovard &#8212; who ventured behind the Iron Curtain more than once &#8212; questions that manufactured reality. Still curious about those &#8220;let&#8217;s stop Trump&#8221; texts between the pair of illicit FBI lovers high up in the collusion investigation? Well, too bad. Because the DoJ wiped them clean, claiming they&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/friday-links-126\/\">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":[6,8,9,11,12,13,16,18,19,23,28,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-travels","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40166","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=40166"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40190,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40166\/revisions\/40190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}