{"id":67697,"date":"2018-08-15T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67697"},"modified":"2018-08-14T21:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T02:17:38","slug":"doakes-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67697","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We need universal background checks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/08\/07\/burglars-ram-lakeville-gun-shop-with-suv-make-off-with-handguns\/\">keep guns out of the hands of criminals, like these<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When politicians are spending taxpayer dollars, they have a moral obligation to get the most value for their money.\u00a0 In olden days, that meant \u201ccheapest price\u201d but nowadays, it means \u201cpromotes social justice\u201d which is why they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/08\/07\/st-paul-public-schools-wants-to-hire-more-businesses-run-by-women-minorities\/\">quotas for minority-owned and female-owned businesses that can\u2019t compete on price<\/a>.\u00a0 Oddly, the school district is short of money, which couldn\u2019t possibly have anything to do with intentionally overpaying for goods and services, could it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/08\/07\/protesters-rally-against-st-paul-police-shooting\/\">I\u2019m confused by this protest at the police station<\/a>.\u00a0 What, specifically, is the solution they demand?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Police should prove the shooting was justified?\u00a0 They will, in good time.\u00a0 So why march today?<\/li>\n<li>It doesn\u2019t matter whether the police say the shooting was justified, shooting members of specific racial or tribal groups is never justified, ever, at any time for any reason, not even in self-defense!\u00a0 Okay, so why march at the police station today, why not lobby the legislature for new law exempting certain groups from being arrested when they shoot up apartment buildings?<\/li>\n<li>Police shouldn\u2019t shoot anybody, ever, at any time for any reason, not even in self-defense! \u00a0\u00a0Okay, so why march at the police station, why not lobby the Mayor and City Council to disarm all cops.\u00a0 Take guns out of officer\u2019s hands, no more officer-involved shootings.\u00a0 Simple.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I\u2019d love to get on board with the protest but I can\u2019t figure out what we\u2019re protesting for.\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t I know that before I hit the bricks?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pfft.\u00a0 All that matters is that you show up when told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: We need universal background checks to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, like these. &nbsp; *** &nbsp; When politicians are spending taxpayer dollars, they have a moral obligation to get the most value for their money.\u00a0 In olden days, that meant \u201ccheapest price\u201d but nowadays, it means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697","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=67697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67698,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697\/revisions\/67698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}