{"id":42346,"date":"2019-12-14T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=42346"},"modified":"2019-12-14T18:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T02:44:03","slug":"saturday-links-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/saturday-links-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday links + joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Boris Johnson&#8217;s monumental victory in Britain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifezette.com\/2019\/12\/boris-johnsons-rout-leftists-lessons-americas-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">should remind U.S. Democrats<\/a> of an important thing or two. Britain&#8217;s Labour Party <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/12\/13\/britains-labour-party-got-woke-and-now-its-broke\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;got woke and went broke&#8221;<\/a> deserted en masse by working-class v*ters.\n<li><em>Time<\/em> magazine&#8217;s petulant brat of the year says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaselzippers.us\/439616-greta-thunberg-tells-cheering-crowd-we-will-make-sure-we-put-world-leaders-against-the-wall-if-they-do-not-tackle-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\">up against the wall<\/a> with leaders who don&#8217;t execute her climate agenda.\n<li>Seeing like <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2019\/11\/25\/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\">a finite state machine<\/a>.\n<li>Second amendment: Virginians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2019\/12\/virginia-will-not-comply-america-is-watching\/\" target=\"_blank\">stand their ground<\/a> on sanctuary counties while the nation watches. Frightened, arrogant anti-gun pols <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2019\/12\/running-scared-va-democrats-threaten-second-amendment-sanctuaries-counties\/\" target=\"_blank\">threaten &#8220;consequences&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; up to and including sending the National Guard in as an occupying force.\n<li>The greatest political miracle? Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/the-greatest-miracle-of-all-trump-has-completely-revamped-the-9th-circuit-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">revamped the 9th circuit court<\/a>. (For those who don&#8217;t follow court lore, the 9th has for decades been the most overturned in the nation and even more cavalier than usual with the Constitution.)\n<li>Cops ripped her baby out of her arms (in an act of brutality that went viral on video). Now she <a href=\u201chttps:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/mom-whose-baby-was-ripped-her-arms-officers-nyc-get-n1102226\" target=\"_blank\">wins $625k from NYC<\/a>. But once again, apparently not to be paid by the gang members themselves or the leaders who sent them.\n<li>Diabetes sufferers and their families <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/fed-up-with-clunky-diabetes-machines-do-it-yourselfers-re-engineer-devices-and-create-apps-and-software\/2019\/12\/13\/3f7c4e20-16c4-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">continue to take treatment into their own hands<\/a>, bypassing expensive and clunky industry options.\n<li>Three steps <a href=\"https:\/\/dariusforoux.com\/3-steps-to-personal-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">to personal freedom<\/a>.\n<li>She&#8217;d been in a shelter more than 400 days, but somehow the sweet dog was always ignored by potential adopters &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiremore.com\/scott-poore-queen-shelter-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">until a creative activist<\/a> moved into her cage to live until she found a forever home.\n<li>Most dogs are cute. But a few are <a href=\"https:\/\/katswenski.com\/comics\/behind-the-gifs\/ladies\" target=\"_blank\">handsome and debonnaire<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Joke, via reader AE (I had to read it twice before I got it):<\/p>\n<p>A husband and wife are doing a crossword puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Husband: Programs for mobile devices. 4 letters<\/p>\n<p>Wife: Apps<\/p>\n<p>Husband: Adolescent, 4 letters<\/p>\n<p>Wife: Teen<\/p>\n<p>Husband: Contraction meaning failed to perform, 5 letters<\/p>\n<p>Wife: Didn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>Husband: Take a life, 4 letters<\/p>\n<p>Wife: Kill<\/p>\n<p>Husband: Religious songs, 5 letters<\/p>\n<p>Wife: Hymns<\/p>\n<p>Husband: Santa&#8217;s little helper, 3 letters<\/p>\n<p>Wife: Elf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson&#8217;s monumental victory in Britain should remind U.S. Democrats of an important thing or two. Britain&#8217;s Labour Party &#8220;got woke and went broke&#8221; deserted en masse by working-class v*ters. Time magazine&#8217;s petulant brat of the year says up against the wall with leaders who don&#8217;t execute her climate agenda. Seeing like a finite state machine. Second amendment: Virginians stand their ground on sanctuary counties while the nation watches. Frightened, arrogant anti-gun pols threaten &#8220;consequences&#8221; &#8212; up to and including sending the National Guard in as an occupying force. The greatest political miracle? Trump has revamped the 9th circuit court.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/14\/saturday-links-joke\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday links + joke<\/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":[7,8,9,11,12,13,18,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-dogs-and-cats","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346","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=42346"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42360,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42346\/revisions\/42360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}