Comments on: Science and the Fourth of July https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:02:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Layzej https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-453827 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 16:37:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24297#comment-453827 NPR tweeted the declaration of independence. Triggered Trump supporters presumed they were trolling the president:

Best response: “there’s nothing more american than getting pissed because you think the declaration of independence is shitting on the president”

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-453826 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:19:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24297#comment-453826 [Cue apopletic response to “… all for…”]

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-453825 Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:18:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24297#comment-453825 From an outsider’s perspective it is extraordinary that US citizens, and especially the libertarian ones, are not revolting in the streets at being excluded from a public space, all for the benefit of an indolent whale of a govenor. And the fact that six families that have decades-long property rights to the beach and were still ecvicted with nary a whimper from the libertarians, even after the great unwashed were turned away and the beach was desolate, is even more unfathomable. It’s as if the entire country is lining up in a great long row and dropping their trousers whilst they grasp their ankles, and exhort the 1% to give it to them as hard as they can.

For what it’s worth, the rest of the world now regards the USA as a laughing stock, and a basket case. The nation has almost NO international reputation remaining for “great[ness]” – and any pretence to the same is regarded merely as bluster. And for any Murikans who don’t get the mathematics, that’s 93% of planetary surface rea laughing at you, and 96% of the global population.

I weep for my rational US friends, in the rational minority, who have to watch the slow-motion demise of their once-laudible nation.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-453824 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 23:11:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24297#comment-453824 Actually, what the council in Hollywood FL has voted on is to vote on giving the streets dual names (new and existing) when they return in August.

]]> By: Magma https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-453823 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:59:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24297#comment-453823 The Hollywood FL town council voted to rename streets that are _currently_ named after Confederate generals. The phrasing in this post gives the impression it’s the other way around.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/07/04/science-and-the-fourth-of-july/#comment-453822 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:21:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=24297#comment-453822 There was a story out of New Jersey today that six families who had beach from cottages along the same beach as Christie (they were grandfathered in many years ago) had been told they could be in their cottages this weekend.

Christie showed up and hard park police order the others out under threat of arrest.

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