{"id":22301,"date":"2015-01-05T12:54:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=22301"},"modified":"2015-01-05T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:54:24","slug":"linkswarm-for-january-5-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=22301","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for January 5, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time waits for no man, so here&#8217;s your first LinkSwarm of the new year: <\/p>\n<li>ObamaCare&#8217;s terrible, horrible, no good, <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2014\/12\/30\/obamacares-annus-horribilis\/\">very bad year<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;Democrats are grappling with the reality that the Obama presidency is nearing its end, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2015\/01\/obama-ratings-2015-dilemma-113945.html\">they don\u2019t know what to say about it<\/a>.&#8221;\n<li>Pricks in the Democratic party continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/the-nudge-and-prick.html\">prick people to donate<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/30\/are_facts_obsolete_125098.html\">Grand juries that examine hard facts<\/a> live in a different world from mobs who listen to rhetoric and politicians who cater to the mobs.&#8221;\n<li>Thanks to The Magic Power of Socialism, Venezuela ice cream shop closes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2014\/12\/30\/in-venezuela-screaming-over-ice-cream\/\">due to lack of milk<\/a>.\n<li>Just as everyone who wasn&#8217;t a socialist predicted, France&#8217;s 75% tax on the rich has been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/frances-75-supertax-quietly-dies-few-mourners-055006058.html;_ylt=AwrBEiE3aqlUb2wAiajQtDMD\">a miserable failure<\/a>. &#8220;Even by its own standards, the tax was largely a failure &#8212; the watered-down version brought in minimal revenue and did little to tackle wealth inequalities.&#8221; But it did succeed in driving Gerard Depardieu to Russia and Johnny Depp to England.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2015\/01\/01\/the-10-most-important-jihad-stories-of-2014\/?singlepage=true\">top ten Jihad news stories of 2014<\/a>. Though personally I would have found room for the Peshawar school attack&#8230;\n<li>ISIS executed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2014\/12\/islamic-state-executed-nearly-2000-people-in-six-months\">nearly 2,000 people over the last six months<\/a>.\n<li>&#8220;The mobs in New York, Ferguson, and elsewhere are not calling for metaphorical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/395263\/what-causes-american-murders-kevin-d-williamson\">murders of policemen<\/a>, but literal ones.&#8221;\n<li>If you want to &#8220;young black men to stop being shot,&#8221; perhaps they should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/395456\/moral-missouri-dont-point-guns-cops-deroy-murdock\">refrain from aiming guns at cops<\/a>.\n<li>Evidence suggests that the &#8220;Trayvon Martin Organizing Committee&#8221; was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/12\/23\/who-started-new-york-s-dead-cops-chant.html\">behind the &#8220;Dead Cops&#8221; chant<\/a>.\n<li>Teacher&#8217;s unions are very upset that home schooling has allowed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/05\/education\/home-schooling-more-pupils-less-regulation.html?smid=pl-share\">children to escape their clutches<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/31\/us-russia-vodka-idUSBREA0U01120140131\">Excess vodka consumption killing Russian men<\/a>. Stop the freaking presses! But aren&#8217;t the deaths of thousands of Russian men a small price to pay for unlimited quantities of amusing YouTube fail videos? (NSFW)\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8nW4pgaZ6fs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li>You know who fought &#8220;rape culture&#8221; in the 19th and 20th centuries? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/newsite\/article\/the-war-on-rape-the-logic-of-the-lynch-mob-returns\/16349#.VKrDjCvF98E\">The KKK.<\/a> (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/200576\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)\n<li>&#8220;Lying for a good cause doesn\u2019t mean that you care; <a href=\"http:\/\/no-pasaran.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/tokens-of-feminist-mythology-endless.html\">It means you\u2019re a liar<\/a>.&#8221;\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time waits for no man, so here&#8217;s your first LinkSwarm of the new year: ObamaCare&#8217;s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. &#8220;Democrats are grappling with the reality that the Obama presidency is nearing its end, and they don\u2019t know what to say about it.&#8221; Pricks in the Democratic party continue to prick people 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":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,102,17,49,31,24,411],"tags":[2864,2561,2870,987,2596,2361,2867,2597,484,1002,2598,2866,2881,2122],"class_list":["post-22301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-crime","category-democrats","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-obamacare","category-video","tag-democrats","tag-ferguson","tag-foreign-policy","tag-france","tag-gerard-depardieu","tag-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-syria","tag-jihad","tag-johnny-depp","tag-linkswarm","tag-new-york-city","tag-nsfw","tag-obamacare","tag-social-justice-warriors","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301","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=22301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22318,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22301\/revisions\/22318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}