{"id":36204,"date":"2018-04-22T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=36204"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T19:38:35","slug":"sunday-monday-links-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/sunday-monday-links-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday-Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Today in history: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/on-the-anniversary-of-pat-tillmans-death-remember-it-was-the-government-who-lied-to-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Tillman died<\/a> for his country&#8217;s propaganda machine.\n<li>Today in history, part II: The fedgov <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez_affair\" target=\"_blank\">kindly rescued little Elian Gonzalez<\/a> to return him to Cuba. Photo of the heartwarming moment below.\n<li>It&#8217;s also Earth Day. So marvel at the accuracy of <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/04\/21\/18-examples-of-the-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-first-earth-day-in-1970\/\" target=\"_blank\">18 dire predictions<\/a> made for the original ED. That is, you can marvel if you&#8217;re one of the lucky survivors who haven&#8217;t starved to death, died in the food riots, or succumbed to toxic waste in your food, air, or soil.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/21\/opinion\/sunday\/hospitals-police-violence.html\" target=\"_blank\">What hospitals can teach the police<\/a> about de-escalating potentially violent situations.\n<li>OTOH, some cops simply <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2018\/04\/22\/when-welfare-check-costs-a-teenagers-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">find murder much, much more to their liking<\/a>. Never, ever call the cops for a &#8220;welfare check&#8221; on an emotionally distressed person! (Not unless you think he needs to die.)\n<li>Or they&#8217;re so convinced a teenager&#8217;s dying moments are a prank that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/04\/21\/body-camera-footage-shows-police-never-got-out-cruiser-to-check-for-ohio-teen-crushed-by-minivan-seat.html\" target=\"_blank\">they don&#8217;t bother to step out of their cruiser<\/a> to investigate.\n<li>The SPLC, under fire, quietly <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/22\/splc-removed-its-field-guide-to-anti-muslim-activists-which-included-maajid-nawaz-and-ayaan-hirsi-ali\/\" target=\"_blank\">removes its McCarthyesque list<\/a> of &#8220;anti-Muslim&#8221; activists. D&#8217;you think part of the reason might be that the list contained the names of several reputable Muslim reformers?\n<li>The real question isn&#8217;t whether that tenured prof in Fresno can be fired for speaking her mind. The question is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/04\/21\/fresno-state-prof-blasts-farmers-as-stupid-trump-supporters-in-video-rife-with-f-bombs.html\" target=\"_blank\">how on earth did such a foul, vulgar, stupid cow<\/a> get the job in the first place?\n<li>&#8220;The boy who came back from heaven&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/loweringthebar.net\/2018\/04\/boy-who-came-back-was-in-ohio.html\" target=\"_blank\">he never left Ohio<\/a>. Now he&#8217;d like some of the millions his father&#8217;s fraudulent book earned. He needs money for ongoing medical problems caused by dad&#8217;s reckless driving. (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TyndaleComa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">his lawsuit<\/a>.)\n<li>No FYI on my part. Just a reminder that if you want to &#8220;show your Freedom Outlaw colors&#8221; on a badge, cap, shirt, mug, pin, magnet, etc., Mac the Knife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/macknight999\/products\" target=\"_blank\">has a charming Zazzle store<\/a> for all you Ghosts, Agitators, and Moles.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, to warm the cockles of your little heart, here&#8217;s Elian being tenderly saved from life in the USA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/elian-gonzalez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/elian-gonzalez-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/elian-gonzalez-800x554.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/elian-gonzalez-450x312.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/elian-gonzalez-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/elian-gonzalez.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Today in history: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/on-the-anniversary-of-pat-tillmans-death-remember-it-was-the-government-who-lied-to-you\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Tillman died<\/a> for his country&#8217;s propaganda machine.\n<li>Today in history, part II: The fedgov <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez_affair\" target=\"_blank\">kindly rescued little Elian Gonzalez<\/a> to return him to Cuba. Photo of the heartwarming moment below.\n<li>It&#8217;s also Earth Day. So marvel at the accuracy of <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/04\/21\/18-examples-of-the-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-first-earth-day-in-1970\/\" target=\"_blank\">18 dire predictions<\/a> made for the original ED. That is, you can marvel if you&#8217;re one of the lucky survivors who haven&#8217;t starved to death, died in the food riots, or succumbed to toxic waste in your food, air, or soil.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/sunday-monday-links-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday-Monday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,18,19,23,29,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-religion","category-resistance","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36225,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions\/36225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}