{"id":24297,"date":"2017-07-04T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24297"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:02:29","slug":"science-and-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/science-and-the-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science and The American Experiment<\/H2><\/p>\n

Click here to find out<\/a> how attacking science is attacking the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

Read this book to discover the link between science and democracy.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

We have Three Years to safeguard our climate<\/a>, and the world probably needs America to take part in that.<\/p>\n

From the Striving to Kill Civilization Department<\/H2><\/p>\n

Let’s maintain all those racist symbols in America’s national parks!<\/a><\/p>\n

A few hundred armed militia group members, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ku Klux Klaners, supporters of President Donald Trump, and other self-described patriots descended upon the Gettysburg battlefield Saturday to defend the site\u2019s Confederate symbols from phantom activists with the violent far-left group Antifa<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a related story, a group of yahoos supporting racist iconography in public parks met at Gettysburg. One of them had a gun in a holster, and the gun went off<\/a> randomly and shot him in the thigh. Later, when the police were trying to unload the firearm, the gun went off again. Pro tip: Don’t have a gun that fires itself whenever it feels like it. Pro tip #2: Don’t put racist iconography in public parks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, down in Florida, City Commissioners in Hollywood FL have voted to unname several streets after Confederate war generals. These streets are concentrated in black neighborhoods. Read all about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

South Park and other immaturities<\/H2>
\nSouth Park has decided to ignore Trump<\/a>.Fora culture-shaping anti-authoritian entity like South Part to ignore trump can only mean a couple of things. One of those tings is that the producers\/writers of South Park like Trump, the other is that Trump got to them. I’ll leave it to you’all to enter your alternative explanations in the comments below.<\/p>\n

When Trump tweets a doctored video of himself beating the crap out of journalist, this guy gets a hard-on:<\/p>\n

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Political Science<\/H2><\/p>\n

I know this is fake news, since it is from CNN, but still: Forty-four states have refused Kobach’s request for voter information<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Chris Christie Beach Meme:<\/p>\n

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