{"id":24426,"date":"2015-08-21T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24426"},"modified":"2015-08-21T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:11:26","slug":"linkswarm-for-august-21-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24426","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for August 21, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Small LinkSwarm this time. <\/p>\n

  • “Hillary Clinton is the contemporary poster child for special privileges for the rich and powerful<\/a>.”\n
  • Latest Iran deal revelation: Iran gets to self-inspect their own nuclear site<\/a>. But Kerry did get them to agree to pinky swear they’re telling the truth…\n
  • Obama and his party<\/a>. “No president in modern times has presided over so disastrous a stretch for his party, at almost every level of politics.” Caveat the first: Although I think the phrase “there\u2019s neither a Great Depression nor a criminal conspiracy in the White House to explain what has happened” is probably false on both counts. Caveat the second: Notice how the article carefully omits any mention of the specific Obama policies<\/i> that have made his party so unpopular…\n
  • From back in June: Karl Rove lied about Ted Cruz<\/a>. (Hat tip (tangentially): Perry vs. World<\/a>, where Evan seems to have woken from his summer slumber…)\n
  • I really want to believe this Atlantic<\/i> piece on how Russia is losing in Ukraine<\/a>, but I just don’t. This one sentence has so much wrong with it I have trouble trusting the rest of the article: “Shale, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and renewables\u2014three areas where Russia is extremely weak\u2014are ascendant and are dramatically altering the market.” Shale’s a solid play if you’ve already tapped out more easily-extracted hydrocarbons (I doubt Russia has), LNG is a profitable byproduct if you’re already extracting oil, but at today’s market prices (which have sucked since 2009) it’s not worth pursuing on its own, and renewables? Hippie, please<\/i>…\n
  • Muslim beats wife in front of police, saying they can’t arrest him because she’s his property<\/a>.\n
  • Slovakia to the EU: Screw you<\/a>, we’re not taking any Muslim refugees. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch<\/a>.)\n
  • Movement in Spain tries to erase Salvador Dali from history<\/a>. You’ll get my Salvador Dali from me when you pry the melting clocks out of my burning hands!\n
  • Could Google rig the next election?<\/a>\n
  • It’s a Goldman-Sachs world<\/a>. We just live in it…\n
  • Three students at the “Homestead Job Corps” murder a fourth<\/a>. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that program isn’t working…\n
  • Missed this from earlier in the year: Arkansas cops attempt to plant malware on a lawyer’s computer<\/a>, fail miserably.\n
  • Joe Straus is backing Jeb Bush.<\/a> I don’t imagine that this will come as a shock to anyone…\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Small LinkSwarm this time. “Hillary Clinton is the contemporary poster child for special privileges for the rich and powerful.” Latest Iran deal revelation: Iran gets to self-inspect their own nuclear site. But Kerry did get them to agree to pinky swear they’re telling the truth… Obama and his party. “No president in modern times has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,17,13,49,31,11,24,1],"tags":[1980,2091,2872,2864,2862,2870,1431,779,2718,2853,54,30,1873,2867,825,47,2850,131,2852,2851,220,950],"class_list":["post-24426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-democrats","category-elections","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-media-watch","category-obamacare","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-election","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-elections","tag-foreign-policy","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-hillary-clinton-scandals","tag-homestead-job-corps","tag-iran","tag-islam","tag-jeb-bush","tag-jihad","tag-joe-straus","tag-karl-rove","tag-lng","tag-russia","tag-salvador-dali","tag-slovakia","tag-spain","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426","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=24426"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24483,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426\/revisions\/24483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}