Bizarre headlines in the news II

[Go Bama]

Wasn’t sure where to put this.

Pastor Demolishes Barbie House With Baseball Bat for Some Ungodly Reason

The sermon was quite chaotic, a little bit scary, and probably traumatizing for children.

www.thedailybeast.com

Jackass

 

[TIDE-HSV]

This made only our local neighborhood Facebook group, but I thought it was in the spirit of the thread. Evening before last, a neighbor around the corner was walking his small dog when he saw a cougar, complete with long tail, so not a bobcat. The cat eyed him from about 50' and then ambled off. This has happened numerous times up here. We're technically in the city limits, but the mountaintop is surrounded by thousands of acres of protected lands and we have an abundant deer herd, so it's no surprise. However, what was unusual was that he woke up to find deer in his fenced backyard, bedded down close to the house. It started me thinking about how animals turn to humans for help. I've more than once had deer who were ill or wounded approach our back door, hoping for help...

 

[Go Bama]

This made only our local neighborhood Facebook group, but I thought it was in the spirit of the thread. Evening before last, a neighbor around the corner was walking his small dog when he saw a cougar, complete with long tail, so not a bobcat. The cat eyed him from about 50' and then ambled off. This has happened numerous times up here. We're technically in the city limits, but the mountaintop is surrounded by thousands of acres of protected lands and we have an abundant deer herd, so it's no surprise. However, what was unusual was that he woke up to find deer in his fenced backyard, bedded down close to the house. It started me thinking about how animals turn to humans for help. I've more than once had deer who were ill or wounded approach our back door, hoping for help...

Someone here in Gibson County has gotten several pictures of a cougar with a camera trap. I didn't realize they had made it that far east and south.

We have turkeys coming into our backyard almost daily. It's two hens, two juveniles, and two chicks. They go to a bird feeder that we have which is about 50 feet from the house. The wild birds sift through the seed so there is always seed on the ground that the squirrels usually eat, but the turkeys are so big the squirrels let them have first take.

 

[rolltide_21]

Wasn’t sure where to put this.

Pastor Demolishes Barbie House With Baseball Bat for Some Ungodly Reason

The sermon was quite chaotic, a little bit scary, and probably traumatizing for children.

www.thedailybeast.com

Same moron who made headlines during the Covid shut downs & vaccines in 2020-21. So this is par for the course for his lunacy. If I’m not mistaken he also threatened to release the names of “witches” in his congregation to expose their “works of darkness.”

Edit: Yep that’s him-

 

[Go Bama]

Same moron who made headlines during the Covid shut downs & vaccines in 2020-21. So this is par for the course for his lunacy. If I’m not mistaken he also threatened to release the names of “witches” in his congregation to expose their “works of darkness.”

Edit: Yep that’s him-

It's hard to imagine anyone sitting through that sermon. I suppose anyone who got up and walked out would be immediately branded a witch.

 

[mdb-tpet]

Who cares? I suspect the vast majority of trans people are genuine gender dysphoria. Those are the people I'm interested in seeing get the help they need.

I know several people who are trans, and that's just who they are through and through. I would expect it to be an extreme minority of people would want to go down that difficult path unless it's who they are deep down to their core. Every trans person I know loses friends, family, and support when they transition (not to mention the hate spewed by many), so that's probably one of the major causes of the high suicide rate.

 

[92tide]

I know several people who are trans, and that's just who they are through and through. I would expect it to be an extreme minority of people would want to go down that difficult path unless it's who they are deep down to their core. Every trans person I know loses friends, family, and support when they transition (not to mention the hate spewed by many), so that's probably one of the major causes of the high suicide rate.

people pretending that this sort of stuff is somehow "protecting" trans kids or adults are full of it.

 

[Go Bama]

I know several people who are trans, and that's just who they are through and through. I would expect it to be an extreme minority of people would want to go down that difficult path unless it's who they are deep down to their core. Every trans person I know loses friends, family, and support when they transition (not to mention the hate spewed by many), so that's probably one of the major causes of the high suicide rate.

I had dinner in Nashville earlier this month with two friends I graduated HS with. The girl is gay. She mentioned during the course of conversation that she was in a spectrum that didn't make it obvious what her sexuality was until she was in her 30's. She told her mother first; her mother was devastated but eventually came around to accepting it. Her mother told her father, and her father disowned her. Of course, my friend was heartbroken. Her father passed away without them ever reconciling. It was such a hard story to listen to. I suggested to her that no one would choose to go down that path unless that is who they truly were. "Oh, God no," was her response.

A lot of the problem is some people cannot accept LGBTQ for who they are. The irony is, they are the problem.

 

[Jon]

I know several people who are trans, and that's just who they are through and through. I would expect it to be an extreme minority of people would want to go down that difficult path unless it's who they are deep down to their core. Every trans person I know loses friends, family, and support when they transition (not to mention the hate spewed by many), so that's probably one of the major causes of the high suicide rate.

I've mentioned my kids trans teacher here before. He had his house vandalized, had a pride flag pulled off their house and set on fire on their van, kids threatened and her partners ex husband turned them into CPS and filed for custody after he transitioned. No one wants this path.


Happy to say they moved and won in court so they are all doing well today but it cost them quite a lot, financially, physically, mentally, name it, it was rough.

 

[rolltide_21]

It's hard to imagine anyone sitting through that sermon. I suppose anyone who got up and walked out would be immediately branded a witch.

I’m tempted to show up one Sunday with my Harry Potter costume & a broom stick

Also imagine being a faithful congregant and you get an urgent call of nature? Would you be labeled a witch for having to go out ?

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Someone here in Gibson County has gotten several pictures of a cougar with a camera trap. I didn't realize they had made it that far east and south.

We have turkeys coming into our backyard almost daily. It's two hens, two juveniles, and two chicks. They go to a bird feeder that we have which is about 50 feet from the house. The wild birds sift through the seed so there is always seed on the ground that the squirrels usually eat, but the turkeys are so big the squirrels let them have first take.

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They're really not new up here. I measured a clear pug print on the McKay Hollow trail, about two-three blocks from my house, that was just under 4" across. That's no bobcat. That was 15-20 years ago. It, or successive generations have been seen around the mountaintop, mainly around the bluffs, for a long time. It's behavior is always the same - no fear whatsoever of humans...

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Moment customer shoots robber while holding a six-pack of light beer

This is the moment a hero customer stopped a man robbing a Michigan minimart by shooting the suspect, all while carrying a six-pack of Miller Lite beer.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Heh.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Moment customer shoots robber while holding a six-pack of light beer

This is the moment a hero customer stopped a man robbing a Michigan minimart by shooting the suspect, all while carrying a six-pack of Miller Lite beer.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Heh.

A real multitasker. They won't prosecute him, probably should give him a medal...

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Harris County judge allows convicted murderer to remain free on bond to get haircut

A Harris County judge let a man who plead guilty to murder free on bond so he could go get a haircut.

www.fox26houston.com

Then according to court documents, Cornelio allows Lane to remain free on bond until his sentencing, so he could get a haircut.

"I've not seen someone actually convicted of murder and then allowed to remain on bond pending sentencing," Kahan said. "This is a first."

We can confirm Lane did go to Mr. Dunns Barbershop for a haircut.

"He just told me this was the last time he was going to see me. I was like why are you moving," said barber Quinta Durgan who cut Lane's hair. "He said I've got to turn myself in, I murdered somebody."

 

[TexasBama]

Harris County judge allows convicted murderer to remain free on bond to get haircut

A Harris County judge let a man who plead guilty to murder free on bond so he could go get a haircut.

www.fox26houston.com

This judge is a lunatic. In another case, she let a guy out on a $25k bond for capital murder. Another where she reduced a bond, the guy made bond, then killed someone while out. The elections can't come soon enough. We have some bad judges here, but she's in class all her own.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

TV news crew in Chicago robbed at gunpoint while reporting on robberies

A television news crew was robbed at gunpoint this week in Chicago while reporting from the scene on a spate of robberies that took place across the city in recent days. A reporter and cameraman fo…

thehill.com

A television news crew was robbed at gunpoint this week in Chicago while reporting from the scene on a spate of robberies that took place across the city in recent days.

A reporter and cameraman for Spanish-language station Univision Chicago were reporting from Chicago’s west side early Monday morning when they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks.

You know, in journalism school one of the first things they teach you is to report on the story, not become the story.

 

[NationalTitles18]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2023/09/06/diarrhea-flight-delta-atlanta-spain-intl-cprog-vpx.cnn

Oh boy...

 

[92tide]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2023/09/06/diarrhea-flight-delta-atlanta-spain-intl-cprog-vpx.cnn

Oh boy...

 

[DzynKingRTR]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2023/09/06/diarrhea-flight-delta-atlanta-spain-intl-cprog-vpx.cnn

Oh boy...

What a crappy flight. The whole incident just stinks.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

The IRS misplaced millions of taxpayer records. Again.

The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.

reason.com

"The IRS was unable to locate any of the FY 2010 microfilm cartridges that should have been sent from the Fresno Tax Processing Center to the Kansas City Tax Processing Center," the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed in an August 8 report on the tax agency's data-handling practices. "As a result of the lack of adequate inventory controls, the IRS cannot account for thousands of microfilm cartridges containing millions of sensitive business and individual tax account records."