{"id":1306,"date":"2007-09-14T05:22:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T10:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2007-09-14T05:22:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T10:22:55","slug":"whacked-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"Whacked Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city’s North Side and Phillips neighborhoods are foetid cesspools of crime.<\/p>\n

Gangs prowl downtown, fighting and shooting and intimidating pretty much at will.<\/p>\n

The budget is a disaster.<\/p>\n

Their last fire chief was tossed for being a Lothario…er, Lotharia?<\/p>\n

But never let it be said Minneapolis’ City Council doesn’t have its priorities straight.\u00a0 They’re working on banning wild animals from Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

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Barry Hickethier writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Minneapolis City Council is considering amending an ordinance in a way that would ban any circus animals that are \u201cwild by nature\u201d (e.g. elephants, lions, tigers, etc.). This would in effect bring and end to the Minneapolis Zuhrah Shrine Circus. The amendment is sponsored by Cam Gordon and Ralph Remington. A .pdf of the ordinance with proposed amendment is here<\/a> or you can link to it from this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Shrine Circus raises tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for Shrine Children\u2019s Hospitals. Last year, over 80,000 attended the Zuhrah Shrine Circus. Shrine Hospitals are a leader in spinal and burn injury care and research. In 2006, Shrine Hospitals attended to the needs of over 128,000 patients all at no cost to the patient or their family. The hospitals rely solely on donations through member dues, donations and fundraisers such as the Zuhrah Shrine Circus. Outlawing the circus will lead to a reduction in funding, which means children going untreated, research being cut or both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never a group to let untrammeled PC get in the way of doing what’s right, it’ll be fun to see what the Green\/Looney dominated City Council ends up doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city’s North Side and Phillips neighborhoods are foetid cesspools of crime. Gangs prowl downtown, fighting and shooting and intimidating pretty much at will. The budget is a disaster. Their last fire chief was tossed for being a Lothario…er, Lotharia? But never let it be said Minneapolis’ City Council doesn’t have its priorities straight.\u00a0 They’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}