{"id":12937,"date":"2012-05-27T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=12937"},"modified":"2012-05-27T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:15:23","slug":"linkswarm-for-may-27-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=12937","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for May 27, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up entirely too early this morning, so here&#8217;s a big old bag of randomness:<\/p>\n<li>Wisconsin Democratic recall candidate Tom Barrett <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/watchdog\/watchdogreports\/hundreds-of-assault-cases-misreported-by-milwaukee-police-department-v44ce4p-152862135.html\">manicuplated crime figures as Mayor of Milwaukee<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/campaign-spot\/300816\/tom-barretts-been-bragging-about-falsified-crime-reduction-figures\">Jim Geraghty.<\/a>) Shades of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=9160\">Tom Leppert<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004BZ5AFU?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B004BZ5AFU\">Tommy Carcetti<\/a>.\n<li>I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/gavon\/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama\">the &#8220;Choom Gang&#8221; VW Microbus<\/a> our 44th President and his friends used to habitually smoke pot in also had tools and rakes and implements of destruction in it.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/2012\/04\/uaw-lives-off-its-savings\/\">The UAW is broke.<\/a>\n<li>America is defying the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303610504577419972440500852.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">demographic doom<\/a> befalling other nations.\n<li>&#8220;Non-Partisan&#8221; redistricting commissions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2012\/22_2_redistricting.html\">aren&#8217;t<\/a>.\n<li>Do liberals actually expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/liberals-put-the-squeeze-to-justice-roberts\/2012\/05\/25\/gJQANa4hqU_story.html\">this patronizing, passive-aggressive condescension<\/a> toward Judge Roberts to work? I&#8217;d like to believe that treating the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America as though he&#8217;s as easy to manipulate as an insecure teenage girl would be counterproductive if it weren&#8217;t so transparently laughable.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/05\/26\/v-fullstory\/2819509\/florida-swindlers-77-million-cow.html\">Huge land swindle\/ponzi scam out near Manor.<\/a> And where was the <i>Statesman<\/i> for this huge story in its own backyard? &#8220;No results found for &#8220;Natalia Wolf&#8221; site:statesman.com.&#8221;\n<li>Today&#8217;s amusing hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23MovieswithObama\">#MovieswithObama<\/a>.\n<li>Remember when every car bomb in Lebanon was front page news? Now <a href=\" http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2012\/05\/yemen-supporters-of-sharia-claim-credit-for-murder-of-100-people-in-jihad-martyrdom-bombing.html\">a bomb that kills 100<\/a> isn&#8217;t.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up entirely too early this morning, so here&#8217;s a big old bag of randomness: Wisconsin Democratic recall candidate Tom Barrett manicuplated crime figures as Mayor of Milwaukee. (Hat tip: Jim Geraghty.) Shades of Tom Leppert. Or Tommy Carcetti. I wonder if the &#8220;Choom Gang&#8221; VW Microbus our 44th President and his friends used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102,17,31,11,1335,1,319],"tags":[2859,2872,2864,2867,1622,2880,1623,2877,740,591],"class_list":["post-12937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-crime","category-democrats","category-jihad","category-media-watch","category-obama-scandals","category-uncategorized","category-unions","tag-austin","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-jihad","tag-manor","tag-obama-scandals","tag-uaw","tag-unions","tag-wisconsin","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13075,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions\/13075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}