{"id":7946,"date":"2011-08-05T17:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T22:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=7946"},"modified":"2011-08-05T17:01:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T22:01:25","slug":"linkswarm-for-friday-august-5-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=7946","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for Friday, August 5, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last six days of blogging have been pretty packed, so here’s a LinikSwarm for a lazy (and very hot<\/a>) Friday:<\/p>\n

  • Christopher Hitchens on Turkey<\/a>. He glosses over the fact (maybe he only had so many words) that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk could be quite a murderous bastard himself when it suited his interests…\n
  • Amazon isn’t the problem<\/a> in California. “How perverse is it when wanting to keep money that you’ve earned is considered being greedy?”\n
  • Either I missed this when it was announced, or the MSM didn’t cover it, but Mississippi NAACP executive Lessadolla Sowers was convicted of ten counts of voting fraud<\/a> in April.\n
  • Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated story<\/i>, Democrats continue to oppose Voter ID bills<\/a>, and even trotted out Bill Clinton to play the race card<\/a>.\n
  • Here’s a movie about an an Islamic punk band<\/a> with female and gay members who drink beer and smoke pot. Sadly, and predictably, it’s completely fictional.\n
  • Fannie Mae is back to what it does best, i.e. losing taxpayer money<\/a>.\n
  • You may remember my previous mention of the new definition of “flash mobs,” i.e. large groups of black youths that gather together to commit crimes and then disperse. Evidently they’re a big enough problem in Cleveland that they passed an ordinance<\/a> to crack down on the phenomena, which was vetoed. Alas, from the description, the Ohio ACLU is probably correct in calling it “both ineffective and unconstitutional.”\n
  • Flash mobs also seem to be a problem in Philadelphia<\/a>.\n
  • And Chicago<\/a>.\n
  • And just last week in Greensboro, NC<\/a>.\n
  • In fact, it’s a big enough issue that the National Retail Federation has issued guidelines on how to deal with it<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The last six days of blogging have been pretty packed, so here’s a LinikSwarm for a lazy (and very hot) Friday: Christopher Hitchens on Turkey. He glosses over the fact (maybe he only had so many words) that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk could be quite a murderous bastard himself when it suited his interests… Amazon isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,102,17,49,31,1],"tags":[7,441,1277,2867,484,1136,1081,1278,774,155],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-crime","category-democrats","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-clinton","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-flash-mob","tag-jihad","tag-linkswarm","tag-mississippi","tag-mustafa-kemal-ataturk","tag-naacp","tag-turkey","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","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=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7958,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions\/7958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}