{"id":40294,"date":"2018-12-20T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=40294"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T20:23:15","slug":"thursday-friday-links-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/20\/thursday-friday-links-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday-Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve prolly heard about that <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> reporter who turned out to be the Jayson Blair of Germany. Well, here&#8217;s the real <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@micheleanderson\/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7\" target=\"_blank\">All-American story<\/a> that finally tripped him up when he made it up. You messed with the wrong small town, pal.\n<li>The NRA expresses disappointment (not really) with their historic role <a href=\"https:\/\/bearbussjaeger.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/20\/nra-spox-were-disappointed\/\" target=\"_blank\">in making the bump-stock ban possible<\/a> (Satire by Bear.)\n<li>Anti-gunners are always saying that 90% of Americans want this or that that&#8217;s on their agenda. Yet another survey hints perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyparkpress.com\/anti-gun-dems-take-note-gallup-says-guns-dont-worry-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;d better think again<\/a>.\n<li>What one documentarian learned when he began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/making-fire-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\">a project on the FIRE (financial independence\/retire early) movement<\/a>.\n<li>Michael Z. Williamson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelzwilliamson.com\/blog\/index.php?itemid=484\" target=\"_blank\">explains why the bump-stock ban is a disaster<\/a>, even for millions of people who&#8217;ve never owned any such device.\n<li>An out-of-state ccw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/12\/new-york-court-order-concludes-gun-permit-insufficient-cause-for-car-search\/\" target=\"_blank\">is insufficient cause for a car search<\/a>. You knew that. I knew that. How come cops don&#8217;t know that?&#8221;\n<li>You and I knew this, too. Parkland schools and police were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/broward\/parkland\/florida-school-shooting\/fl-ne-douglas-survivor-lawsuit-federal-judge-20181217-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">under no obligation whatsoever<\/a> to protect students. (Thank you Richard W. Stevens and Aaron Zelman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dial-911-Die-Garn-Turner\/dp\/0964230445\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">for revealing that<\/a> long ago.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2018\/12\/20\/675582639\/is-genocide-predictable-researchers-say-absolutely\" target=\"_blank\">A new way to predict genocide<\/a>. They leave out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=innocents+betrayed\" target=\"_blank\">one huge, but so un-PC, factor<\/a> that Zelman and Company also drummed very, very hard on.\n<li>The 50 states rated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-healthiest-and-unhealthiest-states-in-america-ranked-2018-12#9-washington-has-a-low-smoking-prevalence-and-the-lowest-rate-of-physical-inactivity-the-state-however-has-a-lower-percentage-of-high-school-graduates-9\"target=\"_blank\">on the health of their people<\/a>. Interesting, but some strange criteria used to determine health.\n<li>Christmas greetings from your local municipality: <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/local-government-says-merry-christmas-by-using-eminent-domain-to-take-small-business-owner-s-building\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We&#8217;re taking your building<\/a> and giving it to somebody we like better.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>On the lighter (or heavier) side: A couple&#8217;s kitty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/missing-cat-found-twice-original-7308842\" target=\"_blank\">comes home<\/a> after two years of hiding out in a cat-food warehouse.\n<li>For real? NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/nasa-space-mission-posters\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA creates space-nerd posters<\/a> for its missions. These are so bad they&#8217;re good. (H\/T MJR)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>You&#8217;ve prolly heard about that <em>Der Spiegel<\/em> reporter who turned out to be the Jayson Blair of Germany. Well, here&#8217;s the real <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@micheleanderson\/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7\" target=\"_blank\">All-American story<\/a> that finally tripped him up when he made it up. You messed with the wrong small town, pal.\n<li>The NRA expresses disappointment (not really) with their historic role <a href=\"https:\/\/bearbussjaeger.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/20\/nra-spox-were-disappointed\/\" target=\"_blank\">in making the bump-stock ban possible<\/a> (Satire by Bear.)\n<li>Anti-gunners are always saying that 90% of Americans want this or that that&#8217;s on their agenda. Yet another survey hints perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyparkpress.com\/anti-gun-dems-take-note-gallup-says-guns-dont-worry-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;d better think again<\/a>.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/20\/thursday-friday-links-6\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday-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":[4,8,11,12,13,15,19,20,23,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-homeschooling-and-free-families","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-resistance","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\/40294","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=40294"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40312,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40294\/revisions\/40312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}