{"id":3468,"date":"2010-06-23T20:22:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T01:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2010-06-23T20:22:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T01:22:30","slug":"rusty-nails-sco-v-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Nails (SCO v. 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You can please some of the people, some of the time, but&#8230; <\/strong> Evidently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/articles\/2010\/06\/23\/news\/new_haven\/aa1_nediploma062310.txt\" target=\"_blank\">the city of New Haven has removed the words<\/a> &#8220;in the year of our Lord&#8221; from its high school diplomas, this year (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/06\/23\/im-surprised-it-took-this-long\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Things<\/a>). From the school superintendent,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m surprised it took this long for someone to notice it. We certainly  don\u2019t want to offend anyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, actually, you are offending someone &#8211; me! I think what you really should  say is that you don&#8217;t want to offend <em>secularists<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>And here I thought they were communists.<\/strong> China is predicted, for next year, <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/blog\/g\/a0517600-ab5b-412f-aa4e-a2a0673c1a40\" target=\"_blank\">to surpass the U.S.<\/a> in manufacturing output. Could there be a profit motive there?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who&#8217;s going where?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/06\/04\/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html?preload=12086\" target=\"_blank\">Interactive map, from Forbes<\/a>, showing the numbers of people moving to and from various counties in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you outlaw guns&#8230;<\/strong> Over the weekend, in Chicago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/metro\/2415428,weekend-shooting-roundup-062110.article\" target=\"_blank\">54 people were shot<\/a>, with 10 of them being killed. Chicago has, since 1982, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_%28by_state%29#Illinois\" target=\"_blank\">had a ban on new handgun registrations<\/a>. Imagine how many people would have been shot had there been no handgun ban for almost the last 30 years. Oh no, wait &#8211; imagine how many people would have been able to defend themselves, if there had been no handgun ban at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can please some of the people, some of the time, but&#8230; Evidently, the city of New Haven has removed the words &#8220;in the year of our Lord&#8221; from its high school diplomas, this year (HT: First Things). From the school superintendent, I\u2019m surprised it took this long for someone to notice it. We certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,66,60,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative","category-culture","category-education","category-links","category-rusty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}