{"id":23375,"date":"2015-04-27T08:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23375"},"modified":"2015-04-27T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:24:05","slug":"linkswarm-for-april-26-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23375","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for April 26, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2015\/04\/26\/cnn-no-baltimore-riot-news-when-most-powerful-man-in-the-world-is-telling-jokes\/\">the riots in Baltimore on Saturday<\/a>? You know, the ones <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/cnn-wont-cut-away-from-white-house-corre\">CNN and other media outlets<\/a> didn&#8217;t cover because they were too busy covering the White House Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner? Because mere rioting by the uncouth peasantry must wait while the overclass is engaged in glad-handing celebration of itself.<\/p>\n<p>In other news: <\/p>\n<li>This was a big story last week: Wisconsin Democratic prosecutors raid houses of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/417155\/wisconsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french\">those accused of Republicanism<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/417295\/wisconsins-shame-no-left-not-going-stop-trying-criminalize-free-speech-david-french\">more on the same theme<\/a>.\n<li>Q: What do you call a 13-year who was the victim of a Muslim pedophile sex ring? A: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-3051258\/Groomed-sex-slave-branded-racist-bringing-sex-abusers-justice-One-woman-reveals-horrific-ordeal-tell-book.html\">&#8220;Racist.&#8221;<\/a> (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2015\/04\/texas-muslims-murder-woman-for-helping-convert-their-daughter-to-christianity\">Jihad Watch<\/a>.)\n<li>Lutfur Rahman, the corrupt muslim Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/comment\/lutfur-rahman-played-the-islamophobia-card-to-silence-his-critics-and-too-many-on-the-left-fell-for-it-10199238.html\">convicted of election fraud<\/a>. The Labour crew behind Tower Hamlets became so notorious for rigging elections and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/jul\/01\/tower-hamlets-election-poll-count-poorly-resourced\">turning in results late<\/a> that they became a running joke in UK political circles. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2015\/04\/uk-muslim-mayor-rigged-elections-charged-foes-with-islamophobia\">Ditto<\/a>.)\n<li>Three Muslims charged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/3-family-members-charged-in-texas-honor-killing-of-iranian-activist\/\">killing a woman in Houston<\/a> because she helped convert a relative to Christianity.\n<li>Boko Haram is now <a href=\"http:\/\/pulse.ng\/local\/boko-haram-terrorist-group-changes-name-to-islamic-state-in-west-africa-id3691451.html\">the Islamic State in West Africa<\/a>.\n<li>\u201cI would describe today\u2019s meeting as a complete breakdown in communication with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/apr\/25\/what-if-greece-cant-pay-debts-to-eu-imf-eurozone-crisis\">Greece<\/a>.\u201d Oh, I think Greece is communicating loud and clear: They&#8217;re completely broke, and they demand the right to continue spending other people&#8217;s money indefinitely without reforming their welfare state. What&#8217;s unclear?\n<li>And Greeks themselves are not so happy about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-20\/stunned-greeks-react-initial-capital-controls-and-decree-confiscate-reserves-and-the\">capital controls<\/a>. Well, Greeks voted for a government dedicated to the idea that the welfare state is far more sacred than the capitalism that underpins it, and now they&#8217;re starting to reap the rewards of that choice&#8230;\n<li>Tech stock growth: Positive or negative? Depends on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-04-24\/fate-tech-bubble-hands-just-one-company\">whether you include Apple or not<\/a>.\n<li>The Comcast\/Time Warner merger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dorothypomerantz\/2015\/04\/23\/comcast-time-warner-cable-deal-appears-to-be-dead\/\">is officially dead<\/a>. Good. Perhaps both of them should consider offering customer service that ranks higher than &#8220;abysmal&#8221; now&#8230;\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/article\/under-the-black-flag\/\">Michael Totten<\/a> reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1941393578\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1941393578&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkId=XMHJZ3MY7D22TRPD\"><b>ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror<\/b><\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2428920-hangin-with-dwight-howard-a-changed-man-entertaining-host-and-snake-charmer\">Dwight Howard, gun collector<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/articles\/2015\/4\/16\/building-an-affordable-survival-rifle\/?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=insider&#038;utm_campaign=0415\">Building an affordable survival rifle<\/a>.\n<li>Actors <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/andrewklavan\/2015\/04\/24\/actors-quit-ferguson-because-truth-is-subjective\/\">quit play about Ferguson<\/a> because the objective truth of the screenplay (based on the actual grand jury testimony) conflicts with their preexisting beliefs. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/205802\/\">Instapundit<\/a>.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/15\/dining\/theres-no-mayonnaise-like-my-mayonnaise.html?_r=2\">Mayonnaise loyalty<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadanduseless.com\/2015\/04\/pets-looking-at-food\/\">Pets looking at food.<\/a> (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/pets-looking-at-food.html\">Borepatch<\/a>.)\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss the riots in Baltimore on Saturday? You know, the ones CNN and other media outlets didn&#8217;t cover because they were too busy covering the White House Correspondent&#8217;s Dinner? Because mere rioting by the uncouth peasantry must wait while the overclass is engaged in glad-handing celebration of itself. In other news: This was [&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,17,49,38,31,11],"tags":[219,2720,1966,2722,2561,444,2361,2867,2451,633,2860,498,2442,2723,2721,778,740],"class_list":["post-23375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-democrats","category-foreign-policy","category-guns","category-jihad","category-media-watch","tag-apple-computer","tag-baltimore","tag-boko-haram","tag-comcast","tag-ferguson","tag-houston","tag-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-syria","tag-jihad","tag-labour","tag-lutfur-rahman","tag-media-watch","tag-rape","tag-rotherham","tag-time-warner","tag-tower-hamlets","tag-uk","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375","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=23375"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}