{"id":35963,"date":"2019-03-15T13:25:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35963"},"modified":"2019-03-17T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:52:13","slug":"a-not-so-fun-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/a-not-so-fun-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Not So Fun Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ADDENDUM<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I found two sites that have <em><strong>transcripts<\/strong><\/em> of <strong>Waleed Aly&#8217;s<\/strong> commentary:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/oceania\/the-most-dishonest-thing-would-be-to-say-that-i-m-shocked-20190316-p514q2.html<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Mjjn8nb6mJ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mothership.sg\/2019\/03\/waleed-aly-the-project-christchurch-shooting\/\">Australian Muslim TV host Waleed Aly presents striking response to Christchurch terrorist attacks<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/mothership.sg\/2019\/03\/waleed-aly-the-project-christchurch-shooting\/embed\/#?secret=Mjjn8nb6mJ\" data-secret=\"Mjjn8nb6mJ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Australian Muslim TV host Waleed Aly presents striking response to Christchurch terrorist attacks&#8221; &#8212; Mothership.SG\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(Hope just URL links work &#8211; otherwise, Copy\/Paste I guess)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For at least two reasons, it seems inappropriate to post a <em>&#8220;Friday Fun&#8221;<\/em> after the massacre of 49 of our brothers and sisters in New Zealand by a crazed white supremacist.<\/p>\n<p>Many moving words will be spoken (but certainly not by Twitler, who is totally tone deaf and lacking in any empathy), but I found these by a Muslim to be worth sharing.\u00a0 (And it&#8217;s one of those rare Tweets that comes w\/ CC.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou\u2019ll have to forgive me, these won\u2019t be my best words&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On this heartbreaking day, Waleed reflects and calls for unity. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheProjectTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheProjectTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mIOI0eGamb\">pic.twitter.com\/mIOI0eGamb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Project (@theprojecttv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theprojecttv\/status\/1106471346303754240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And on a personal level, I finally got an appointment to deal with an abscess of the deepest fang-bite from the little critter.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Day 27<\/strong><\/span> of antibiotics, and I started last week asking to be seen by the Wound Clinic.\u00a0 But all I got was an extension of my Augmentin.\u00a0 So I tried again this week, but learned my PCP is out of town.<\/p>\n<p>So I saw a Nurse Practitioner from the clinic this morning and she started draining the abscess, which she cultured.\u00a0 (Draining an abscess is something I would not sign up for as a Camp Activity.)\u00a0 And I had blood drawn and an X-ray of my hand.<\/p>\n<p>Then she had her nurse give me a shot of Ceftriaxone \u2026 in my bottom.\u00a0 (I asked her if she got Hazard Pay or a Bonus for <em>that<\/em> task.)\u00a0 I don&#8217;t EVER remember getting an antibiotic shot my entire life.<\/p>\n<p>And now I&#8217;m on Clindamycin.<\/p>\n<p>But I got an appointment w\/ the Wound Clinic this Monday.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m hopeful things will start turning around.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>ADDENDUM<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Lona<\/strong> mentions in her Comment that the right-wing author of comment in the Tweet is Australia&#8217;s Senator <em><strong>Anning<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; he got egged for his hate-mongering.\u00a0 Not condoning it, but the egger got roughed up pretty bad by Anning&#8217;s goons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FxHF5wW8Nw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDENDUM I found two sites that have transcripts of Waleed Aly&#8217;s commentary: https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/oceania\/the-most-dishonest-thing-would-be-to-say-that-i-m-shocked-20190316-p514q2.html Australian Muslim TV host Waleed Aly presents striking response to Christchurch terrorist attacks (Hope just URL links work &#8211; otherwise, Copy\/Paste I guess) For at least two reasons, it seems inappropriate to post a &#8220;Friday Fun&#8221; after the massacre of 49 of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/a-not-so-fun-friday\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}