{"id":42125,"date":"2019-10-08T02:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=42125"},"modified":"2019-10-07T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T22:26:03","slug":"tuesday-links-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/tuesday-links-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Charles Hugh Smith: What happens when your <a href=\"https:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/so-sorry-your-karma-ran-over-your-dogma.html\" target=\"_blank\">karma runs over your dogma<\/a>\n<li>Why Bernie&#8217;s &#8220;billionaire&#8217;s wealth tax&#8221; would <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/why-a-billionaire-wealth-tax-would-hurt-the-working-poor-and-the-middle-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">hurt the poor and middle class<\/a>.\n<li>Len Savage: The ATF&#8217;s tactics are so bad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ar15.com\/forums\/General\/ATF-managed-to-creep-out-it-s-own-attorney-documents-inside-\/5-2260522\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">their own lawyer was creeped out<\/a>.\n<li>Florida shows us <a href=\"http:\/\/zelmanpartisans.com\/?p=26035\" target=\"_blank\">what we can expect<\/a> from red-flag laws. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/kids-as-young-as-8-have-been-issued-red-flag-gun-orders-in-florida\" target=\"_blank\">Kids as young as <em>eight years<\/em><\/a> are getting red flagged &#8220;to send a message.&#8221;\n<li>Last week&#8217;s best news was ex-cop Amber Guyger being convicted of murder. Then the media quickly changed the subject to the hug and forgiveness she received from her victim&#8217;s brother. In all the sentimentalizing, let&#8217;s not forget that the woman <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2019\/09\/27\/go-fast-kill-first-amber-guyger-reportedly-deleted-several-pins-making-light-of-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">is a real piece of work<\/a> who seemed to think the entire world was lucky she wasn&#8217;t killing people every day.\n<li>The whole Trump\/Ukraine &#8220;scandal&#8221; is too trivial and silly to believe. But the Joe-and-Hunter Biden\/Ukraine\/China scandal (what, the media hasn&#8217;t informed you about that one?) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2019\/10\/04\/schweizer_bidens_son_cashed_in_on_vp_being_point_man_for_obama_in_ukraine_and_china.html\" target=\"_blank\">is a lot more real and typical<\/a>.\n<li>And the terrific Matt Taibi of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> points out that the &#8220;whistleblower&#8221; &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/whistleblower-ukraine-trump-impeach-cia-spying-895529\/\" target=\"_blank\">probably isn&#8217;t one<\/a>. (If s\/he were a real whistleblower, s\/he&#8217;d be damned, not instantly believed and praised.)\n<li>Speaking of Bidenisms, Jacob Sullum asks, since old Joe plans to ban\/register &#8220;assault weapons,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/10\/02\/joe-biden-plans-to-ban-and-register-assault-weapons-but-wont-say-what-they-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">why won&#8217;t he define them?<\/a>\n<li>Why does the IRS audit the poor as often as the rich? Because it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/irs-sorry-but-its-just-easier-and-cheaper-to-audit-the-poor?\" target=\"_blank\">cheaper and easier<\/a>, naturally.\n<li>Looks as if F*c*b**k&#8217;s Libra cryptocurrency coalition <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/10\/04\/paypal-looks-is-the-first-company-to-drop-out-of-the-facebook-led-libra-association\/\" target=\"_blank\">may be coming apart<\/a> before it ever really launches.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/elites-against-western-civilization\" target=\"_blank\">Elites against Western civilization<\/a>.\n<li>Still in the experimental stages, but a quadraplegic man in France has walked with the aid of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/health\/a29368794\/paralyzed-man-walks-brain-controlled-exoskeleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">brain-controlled exoskeleton<\/a>.\n<li>The nation&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/longform\/cannabis-pot-weed-restaurant-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">cannabis restaurant opens<\/a>. In L.A., of course.\n<li>Is the ninth planet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/614441\/is-planet-9-actually-a-primordial-black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">actually a black hole<\/a>?\n<li>Wanna <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/10\/03\/the-college-of-new-rochelle-is-for-sale-and-comes-with-a-castle\/\" target=\"_blank\">buy a college<\/a>? No? But what if it comes complete with its own castle and a TV production studio? (I suspect defunct colleges will increasingly be coming on the market in the next decade or so.)\n<li>How a canny Outlaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/us-canada-island-dispute\" target=\"_blank\">became a defender<\/a> of an obscure, disputed island. (Take that, Canadians!)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Hugh Smith: What happens when your karma runs over your dogma Why Bernie&#8217;s &#8220;billionaire&#8217;s wealth tax&#8221; would hurt the poor and middle class. Len Savage: The ATF&#8217;s tactics are so bad, their own lawyer was creeped out. Florida shows us what we can expect from red-flag laws. Kids as young as eight years are getting red flagged &#8220;to send a message.&#8221; Last week&#8217;s best news was ex-cop Amber Guyger being convicted of murder. Then the media quickly changed the subject to the hug and forgiveness she received from her victim&#8217;s brother. In all the sentimentalizing, let&#8217;s not forget that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/tuesday-links-144\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[5,11,12,13,19,20,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-monkeywrenching","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125","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=42125"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42133,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42125\/revisions\/42133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}