{"id":52188,"date":"2015-03-26T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52188"},"modified":"2015-03-22T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T15:11:09","slug":"currency-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52188","title":{"rendered":"Currency Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Women\u2019s group wants to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/295068111.html\" target=\"_blank\">replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill<\/a>.\u00a0 Time for more women on the money, and besides, he was Bad because he enforced the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Removal_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Removal law<\/a>\u00a0passed by Congress, which modern Liberals claim was genocide but which Conservative scholars claim averted genocide (if the Indians hadn\u2019t been relocated West, they\u2019d have been wiped out by Eastern Whites).<\/p>\n<p>The women recommend Rachel Carson instead, the \u201ca marine biologist who wrote the hugely influential environmental book \u2018Silent Spring.\u2019\u00a0 That was the book that urged the ban on DDT, the most effective way to kill tsetse flies.\u00a0\u00a0 Millions of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rachelwaswrong.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blacks now suffer from malaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or Margaret Sanger, who opened the first birth control clinic in America because\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgenocide.org\/sanger05.html\" target=\"_blank\">society needed to kill mentally ill and defective babies<\/a>.\u00a0 Which tended to come from families that lacked proper nutrition and health care.\u00a0 Mostly Black.<\/p>\n<p>Or Betty Friedan, who wrote \u201cThe Feminine Mystique\u201d to launch the modern feminist movement by ridiculing stay-at-home-motherhood, saying \u201c. . . housewives are mindless and thing-hungry . . . housework is particularly suited to the capabilities of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/2006\/02\/07\/different-look-at-betty-friedan-legacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">feeble-minded girls.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or is there a bit of elitism going on here?\u00a0 The $1 Susan B. and Saca-bucks aren\u2019t large enough denominations, gotta be $20?\u00a0 Maybe we can bring back the $1,000 after Hilary gets her email account sorted.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s all in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Women\u2019s group wants to\u00a0replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.\u00a0 Time for more women on the money, and besides, he was Bad because he enforced the\u00a0Indian Removal law\u00a0passed by Congress, which modern Liberals claim was genocide but which Conservative scholars claim averted genocide (if the Indians hadn\u2019t been relocated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188","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=52188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52190,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions\/52190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}