{"id":15026,"date":"2015-10-24T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15026"},"modified":"2015-10-24T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:14:26","slug":"inappropriate-thoughts-to-news-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/10\/24\/inappropriate-thoughts-to-news-items\/","title":{"rendered":"inappropriate thoughts to news items"},"content":{"rendered":"

Item number one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Palestinian teenagers who came one after another into the True Love gift and music shop on a recent afternoon all had the same request: nationalistic songs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the new ones.<\/em>
\nThe proprietor quickly handed over the CDs that he had just started keeping at the checkout counter, like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jerusalem Is Bleeding,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d featuring the track \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stab, stab\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with its ominous backbeat.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When I listen to these songs it makes me boil inside,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said one customer, Khader Abu Leil, 15, explaining that the thrumming score has helped pump him up for near-daily demonstrations where he hurls stones at Israeli soldiers.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stab the Zionist and say God is great,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d declares one, a reference to the spate of knife attacks since Oct. 1. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let the knives stab your enemy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says another. A third is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Continue the Intifada\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and comes with a YouTube warning \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the video shows the Palestinian woman who pulled a knife at an Afula bus station surrounded by Israeli soldiers pointing guns.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Resist and carry your guns,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the song urges. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Say hello to being a martyr.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Inappropriate Thought:\u00c2\u00a0 I think it would be neat if one of these artists were to do a cover of Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff”.<\/p>\n

Story Item Number Two<\/a>:<\/p>\n

New survey findings suggest that when asked how they feel during the school day, USA high school students consistently invoke three key feelings: “tired,” “stressed” and “bored.”<\/em>
\nThe researcher who led the study warns that such negative feelings can influence young people’s attention, memory, decision making, school performance and social lives<\/em>. […]<\/p>\n

Researchers distributed a brief online questionnaire that featured the question: “How do you currently feel in school?” Three blank spaces followed, with room for any answers they felt were appropriate.<\/em>
\nEight of the top 10 responses were negative.<\/em>
\n“Tired” was most often invoked \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 39% of students wrote that.<\/em>
\n“Stressed” came in second, at 29%. “Bored” was third, at 26%.<\/em>
\nBy contrast, the two most frequently invoked positive emotions were “happy” (22%) and “excited (4.7%).<\/em>
\nParents and educators should be alarmed by the findings, Brackett said<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Inappropriate Thought:\u00c2\u00a0 Aren’t kids supposed to be bored at school?\u00c2\u00a0 Also, isn’t that the only proper response to a steady diet of the stimuli — rich as it is in testing, testing, testing?<\/p>\n

New Yorker article, <\/a>backtrack on one famous school shooting:<\/p>\n

Kinkel was psychotic: he thought the Chinese were preparing to attack the United States, that Disney had plans for world domination<\/strong>, and that the government had placed a computer chip inside his head.<\/em><\/p>\n

He’s right about one out of three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Item number one: The Palestinian teenagers who came one after another into the True Love gift and music shop on a recent afternoon all had the same request: nationalistic songs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the new ones. The proprietor quickly handed over the CDs that he had just started keeping at the checkout counter, like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Jerusalem Is Bleeding,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15027,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/15027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}