{"id":40202,"date":"2018-12-15T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40202"},"modified":"2018-12-15T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:25:16","slug":"weekend-links-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/weekend-links-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Nobody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/12\/new-jersey-magazine-ban-goes-into-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\">is turning in standard-capacity mags<\/a> in New Jersey.\n<li>But good lord! Rob Pincus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2ao.org\/new-jersey-magazine-capacity-restriction-now-what\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks they should<\/a> obey, obey, obey. You&#8217;d think a man of his experience would know something about the Bill of Rights. Or <em>Marbury v Madison<\/em>.\n<li>The FIBbies were supposed to answer some congressional questions about their raid on that Clinton Foundation whistleblower. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-misses-deadline-to-provide-docs-to-judiciary-committee-probing-whistleblower-raid\" target=\"_blank\">They didn&#8217;t<\/a>. Those guys have been way too big for their britches since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, and getting worse. A perfect example of perfectly predictable &#8220;unintended consequences.&#8221;\n<li>Will it really be <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2018\/12\/federal-judge-kills-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">bye-bye Obamacare<\/a>? All of it? I&#8217;d be surprised if the Supreme Court let such a sweeping ruling stand. But meanwhile it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/rogerlsimon\/good-riddance-to-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">good riddance<\/a> and time to see if the R&#8217;s will step up while they still have control of both houses. (How likely is that?)\n<li>&#8216;Cause those incoming Householders are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/new-bill-banning-3d-printed-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">really, really toxic<\/a> to the point of downright evil.\n<li>Signal app to Australia: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/12\/signal-to-australia-good-luck-with-that-crypto-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lotsa luck with that crypto ban<\/a>. (And I say the same goes for <em>gun<\/em> banners everywhere, too.)\n<li>This story&#8217;s making the rounds. I spotted it first at Wendy&#8217;s place, then at Maggie&#8217;s Farm. But it&#8217;s too good not to repeat (especially with the dreadful state of U.S. colleges and universities). A Ph.D. candidate at a Swedish university was trapped in a war zone four years ago. His university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/20181213\/lund-professor-freed-student-from-islamic-state-warzone\" target=\"_blank\">hired mercenaries to pull him out<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of stories making the rounds, there&#8217;s still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/nearly-300-000-still-missing-armored-truck-n-j-highway-n948151\" target=\"_blank\">$300,000 missing<\/a> from that NJ highway money spill.\n<li>And speaking of money, the DoE is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/12\/14\/676755770\/the-education-department-is-canceling-150-million-of-student-loan-debt\" target=\"_blank\">canceling $150 million of student debt<\/a> for students whose colleges (mostly Corinthian) shut down in the last few years.\n<li>If it&#8217;s really true that Johnson &#038; Johnson knew for decades that it&#8217;s talcum powders sometimes contained asbestos and they aggressively tried to hide that knowledge, they&#8217;ll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/johnsonandjohnson-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\">deserve the fate that&#8217;s about to befall them<\/a>. I was among the doubters; now I&#8217;m not so sure.\n<li>One year ago, the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/one-year-ago-today-the-fcc-killed-the-in\" target=\"_blank\">FCC killed the Internet<\/a>. Funny thing; it&#8217;s not dead yet.\n<li>But let&#8217;s hope <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/14\/facebook-photo-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\">F*c*b**k soon keels over cold<\/a> under the weight of its own chronic malfeasance.\n<li>Keanu Reeves may not be the most expressive actor in Hollywood. But by damn, the more I learn about him, the more he seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/hollywood-superstar-keanu-reeves-has-secretly-been-financing-countless-childrens-hospitals_2739162.html\" target=\"_blank\">like one of the finest human beings<\/a> in the trade. (And he&#8217;s serious about his filmic gun handling, too.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking tomorrow off from blogging and from any technology more invasive than a microwave oven. I&#8217;ve already delivered Christmas presents to my local friends today and have nothing more on the weekend agenda. This will be me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dog_MorningMood.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Dog_MorningMood.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Nobody <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/12\/new-jersey-magazine-ban-goes-into-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\">is turning in standard-capacity mags<\/a> in New Jersey.\n<li>But good lord! Rob Pincus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2ao.org\/new-jersey-magazine-capacity-restriction-now-what\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks they should<\/a> obey, obey, obey. You&#8217;d think a man of his experience would know something about the Bill of Rights. Or <em>Marbury v Madison<\/em>.\n<li>The FIBbies were supposed to answer some congressional questions about their raid on that Clinton Foundation whistleblower. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fbi-misses-deadline-to-provide-docs-to-judiciary-committee-probing-whistleblower-raid\" target=\"_blank\">They didn&#8217;t<\/a>. Those guys have been way too big for their britches since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, and getting worse. A perfect example of perfectly predictable &#8220;unintended consequences.&#8221;\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/weekend-links-118\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[4,12,13,19,23,28,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40202","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=40202"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40217,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40202\/revisions\/40217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}