There’s lots of awful in this story. One aspect of awful: a man hunting mushrooms stumbled across a suitcase and found a dead five-year-old in it. That’s gotta leave a mark.
“Lil feller.” This guy, a pretty good replica of Wilford Brimley, seems like a good man.
The kid was killed by his mother who believed him to be a demon. We *really* need to start mass producing loony bins and crazy buckets.
Yeah… no. It seems that whole swathes of LA have been turned into the Third World. This was not a sad inevitability; this was a result of intentional choices by those in charge of the city, county and state.
Yeeeeeeesh.
You can’t have vast numbers of homeless like this and justify open borders.
A male is more likely to have autism (and a few other “neurodivergences”) than females. There is now a genetic explanation for at least part of this bias.
One possible explanation is that boys, who typically have only one X chromosome, cannot compensate for an altered copy of an X-chromosome gene in the same way that girls, who have two X chromosomes, can.
This might also kinda explain why females with autism often seem less autistic than males with autism… the XX chromosomes can compensate for the issue more effectively than the XY chromosomes.
So, antiAmerican American Brittney Griner was arrested a long time ago trying to bring illegal substances into Russia. This is not really a debatable point; Griner admitted it. You can argue whether or not its appropriate that hash oil should be illegal or not, but in Russia, it is. And it’s not a profoundly stupid law, like “no wearing purple on Tuesdays” or some such; prohibitions on drugs are virtually universal though the specifics vary. I believe it’s illegal to simply transport it across state lines *within* the United States, so taking it internationally was either profoundly stupid, or profoundly arrogant in the “those laws don’t apply to me, I’m too important” form. Well, she was arrested, put on trial, convicted, sentenced to nine years and just had her appeal denied. So, sucks for her, but at least she doesn’t need to worry about being subjected to the US National Anthem for a while. So that’s nice for her.
Listen to the news piece below. One thing I’ve noticed in the coverage of Griner over the past couple years is you don’t hear her speak too often. Gee… I wonder why.
Huh.
I’d be fascinated to see a breakdown of majors represented here:
There’s something wrong with people that full of irrational hate, and I love to see them driven to apoplexy by someone simply showing up. Now to start pressing charges.
Well, here it is…
“If the current trends hold up, Republicans are likely to take over at least the House and quite possibly the Senate, too, along with many state offices. This is how democracies die, both at home and abroad.”
Translation: if the election doesn’t go my way, that means democracy has failed.
If the current trends hold up, Republicans are likely to take over at least the House and quite possibly the Senate, too, along with many state offices.
This is how democracies die, both at home and abroad. https://t.co/L19xGFbC7x
— Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@MaxBoot) October 24, 2022
By the way, here’s failed Presidential candidate and inadequate human imposter Hillary! Clinton denying the 2024 election. It wasn;t enough that she and her ilk denied the 2016 election… now they’re denying stuff that hasn’t even happened yet:
So @iamwesmoore is hosting an event this evening with this conspiracy theorist.
Can’t make this stuff up…pic.twitter.com/Ll9G0DQnXG
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) October 25, 2022
Some people are fine. And some… some people just plain suck.
Covid should not get all the blame. There is blame enough to share with the politicians and bureaucrats.
And on the subject of getting dumber:
A guy shot and murdered two nurses. That’s bad enough, but where this goes from a news story about “crazy” and “crime” to one about “stupidity” is this:
Nestor Hernandez was granted leave to be with his “significant other” at Methodist Dallas Medical Center during her delivery Saturday, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said he’d been sentenced to prison for aggravated robbery and was released on parole last October, but did not provide additional details on the circumstances of the shooting.
According to THIS STORY, in 2015 he assaulted, injured and robbed a woman, leading to a meager 8-year sentence. that means he should still be in prison, not to be released until 2023 sometime. But someone thought this absolute *winner* should be allowed out and about, and he was released on parole in October (presumably 2021, since it says “last” October). Had he still been in prison, not only would these two nurses still be alive, but there would have been no birth to attend to. Now the state will be saddled with this guys offspring, with every likelihood that the kid will end up just as bad.
Hey, here’s a thought: keep criminals locked up. Especially violent ones And more especially the ones with tattoos that proudly proclaim “I will never be a benefit to society.”
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Bad day for someone… but not as bad as it could have been. And probably not as bad as he had set out to make it for someone else. Interesting how cleanly the vertical stabilizer came off.
UPDATE: This incident seems to have occurred in June, well inside Russia, after hitting a power line (note that the vertical stabilizer seems to have been cleanly sliced off).
“The Line” is a planned 170-kilometer long dystopian nightmare. It will cost Saudi Arabia a *vast* amount of money and will almost certainly fail; those who invest in it will lose their shirts, those who move in will come to regret it. It’s a way to punish rich morons… including the Saudi monarchy.
The Saudis *could* use their trillions in wealth to build a space program and colonize the universe, cementing their culture as the permanently dominant form of humanity until the heat death of the universe. Instead… this.
Good.