{"id":24355,"date":"2017-08-05T16:44:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24355"},"modified":"2018-02-01T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T00:59:35","slug":"why-is-the-white-house-silent-on-the-bloomington-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/why-is-the-white-house-silent-on-the-bloomington-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the White House silent on the Bloomington attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it because it wasn&#8217;t a very big attack, and no one was killed or injured? The FBI has determined that it was an explosive device that blew up at the Bloomington Islamic Center.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reminded of the attacks on Secretary Clinton, by the likes of Congressman Nunes, about ambiguity in the identification of an attack as &#8220;terrorist&#8221; during the very throes of the event. Will Nunes hold Trump to the same standard over Bloomington? Will Nunes even give Bloomington a second thought? A first thought?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Nunes (who is the guy who tried to derail the House investigation of Trumpskygate), has anyone ever figured out if his supposed Russian connection is for real? I remember it coming out from somewhat questionable sources, but at the time it was never really put down.  Probably nothing.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, pro tip for would be hate-crime committers and terrorists: Bloomington MN is the city most closely associated with the Minneapolis St Paul International Airport (MSP), and Bloomington is the home of the Mall of America. In this post-9\/11 world, you can bet that the Blomington Police are more than average equipped to deal with this sort of thing. You&#8217;ve got to be some kind of a dumb-ass to attack at site of any kind in Bloomington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it because it wasn&#8217;t a very big attack, and no one was killed or injured? The FBI has determined that it was an explosive device that blew up at the Bloomington Islamic Center. I&#8217;m reminded of the attacks on Secretary Clinton, by the likes of Congressman Nunes, about ambiguity in the identification of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/why-is-the-white-house-silent-on-the-bloomington-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why is the White House silent on the Bloomington attack?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026,5033],"tags":[1282,1283,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6kP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28802,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24355\/revisions\/28802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}