{"id":41910,"date":"2019-08-28T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=41910"},"modified":"2019-08-29T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T18:39:27","slug":"wednesday-links-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/wednesday-links-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In another instance of &#8220;it&#8217;s about damn time,&#8221; two Houston cops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2019\/08\/police-charged-with-murder-tampering-in-houston-no-knock-raid\/\" target=\"_blank\">have been charged with murder<\/a> and evidence tampering in the excruciatingly inexcusable raid that left a couple and their dog dead for no reason other than the state&#8217;s love of brute force and police corruption. (H\/T DB)\n<li>Couldn&#8217;t happen to a more deserving currency. The U.S. dollar&#8217;s days at the world&#8217;s reserve currency <a href=\"https:\/\/moneyweek.com\/513757\/the-us-dollars-days-as-the-worlds-most-important-currency-are-numbered-its-official\/\" target=\"_blank\">grow shorter and shorter<\/a>.\n<li>The next recession <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/08\/millennials-are-screwed-recession\/596728\/\" target=\"_blank\">will destroy millennials<\/a>.\n<li>Congressthing Ilhan Omar, already suspected of being married to her brother, is now embroiled in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/27\/my-husband-dumped-me-for-rep-ilhan-omar-dc-mom-says-in-divorce-filing\/\" target=\"_blank\">her lover&#8217;s lurid, tabloid-worthy divorce scandal<\/a>. Yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m just posting this one for the sheer schadenfreude of the thing. It&#8217;s trashy, I know.\n<li>Also in the schadenfreude department, Michael Mann &#8212; he of the famous &#8220;hockey stick&#8221; climate graph &#8212; sued a fellow climate scientist for being skeptical and saying so in a cleverly nasty way. Mann <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joehuffman.org\/2019\/08\/25\/the-end-of-the-climate-change-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">just lost in court<\/a>. To add insult to injury he&#8217;s been ordered to pay all costs (on a multi-million dollar case). And why did he lose? Because he refused, as he has always refused, to show his data and calculations.\n<li>I don&#8217;t often cover warmist climate nonsense. But here&#8217;s another big debunk: <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2017\/11\/08\/the-uscrn-revisited\/\" target=\"_blank\">There has been no warming in the U.S.<\/a> in the last 12 years.\n<li>Oh, and while we&#8217;re on the subject, David Harsanyi dissects <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/08\/27\/media-enables-ludicrous-destructive-climate-change-hysteria\/\" target=\"_blank\">how the media enables ludicrous climate hysteria<\/a> (and ludicrous hysteria of many types, really).\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2019\/08\/china_and_the_2020_election.html\" target=\"_blank\">China and the 2020 election<\/a>. (H\/T FM)\n<li>Clearly we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2019\/08\/bicycles-accidents-kill-more-children-than-guns-but-you-dont-see-calls-to-ban-bikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">need to ban bicycles<\/a>!\n<li>This is Florida-specific but highlights a growing national issue: Can you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/news\/20190822\/cox-will-feds-bust-nikki-fried-for-having-marijuana-card-and-concealed-carry-permit\" target=\"_blank\">a medical marijuana card and a concealed-carry permit<\/a>, too? (Of course you shouldn&#8217;t need no steenkin&#8217; permits for either, but &#8230;)\n<li>Ten <a href=\"https:\/\/listverse.com\/2019\/08\/25\/10-surprising-confederates\/\" target=\"_blank\">surprising Confederates<\/a>.\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/minda-zetlin\/grammar-bizarre-weird-rule-adjective-order-matthew-anderson-mark-forsyth-cambridge-dictionary.html?\" target=\"_blank\">most bizarre grammar rule<\/a> you&#8217;ve probably never heard of (but you follow correctly, anyhow).\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/katswenski.com\/comics\/behind-the-gifs\/klutz\" target=\"_blank\">Klutz puppy<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Did you like this post? How about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymeacoffee.com\/YXEIJpbPg\" target=\"_blank\">buying me a coffee<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Like the entire blog? You can give monthly support via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/freedomistaclaire\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon<\/a>, which enables contributions from $1 on up. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: I&#8217;m still trying to get SubscribeStar to work (for those who don&#8217;t want to use Patreon). Account approval seems to be hung up because I&#8217;m not on social media and therefore don&#8217;t exist. If I have no luck with them in the next day or two, I&#8217;ll give LiberaPay a try.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another instance of &#8220;it&#8217;s about damn time,&#8221; two Houston cops have been charged with murder and evidence tampering in the excruciatingly inexcusable raid that left a couple and their dog dead for no reason other than the state&#8217;s love of brute force and police corruption. (H\/T DB) Couldn&#8217;t happen to a more deserving currency. The U.S. dollar&#8217;s days at the world&#8217;s reserve currency grow shorter and shorter. The next recession will destroy millennials. Congressthing Ilhan Omar, already suspected of being married to her brother, is now embroiled in her lover&#8217;s lurid, tabloid-worthy divorce scandal. Yeah, yeah, I&#8217;m just posting&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/wednesday-links-56\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[5,8,9,12,13,16,19,20,23,25,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-war","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41910","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=41910"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41926,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41910\/revisions\/41926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}