Can't make this (stuff) up

[rstrong]

BBC: Housing Secretary Ben Carson calls poverty a 'state of mind'

US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson has sparked outrage after describing poverty as a "state of mind".
...
The interview was recorded as the White House touted its 2018 budget, which proposes cutting more than $6bn (£4.6bn) from the Housing and Urban Development department.
...
In March, he called African-American slaves "immigrants" and in 2013 he said Obamacare was the "worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery".

[Vrede too]

Hey, he's right! See y'all, I'm off on a round the world cruise with Scarlett Johansson (sorry, banni) on my new 150 foot yacht.

[homerfobe]

:gayhappy: :gayhappy: :gayhappy: :gayhappy:

I'm suspecting it was too hot in the arena; the snowflakes were beginning to melt.

(Corrected)
... Wingnut (Snowflake whiners' and queers) heads are popping like soap bubbles.

Led by the faggot on the front row
(you gotta love the boo's)

[billy.pilgrim]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/o ... he-us.html


Can you name the similarities

Arkansas, idaho, Kentucky

[Vrede too]

Thanks, I guess.

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Legal child rape
Date: Tue, May 30, 2017 12:25 pm
To: "Rep. Chuck McGrady" <Chuck.McGrady@ncleg.net>
"Sen. Chuck Edwards" <chuck.edwards@ncleg.net>
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Hi,

Re: 11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/o ... he-us.html

This is horrifying and obscene. With NC's efforts to move away from
automatically treating teens accused of crimes as adults, we should also
stop treating 14-year-old (almost always) girls as fodder for twisted and
predatory adult men. Our girls belong in school, not forced into marriages
when they can't yet comprehend what that really means to their lives.
Please work to raise the legal marriage age in NC, especially when there's
a significant age discrepancy between partners.

I await your reply.

cc: Gov. Cooper

Sincerely,
(Vrede too)

[billy.pilgrim]

Could have been in the fla thread if only about the poor little girl, but this seems to be more of a national problem.

Or a religion problem

[Vrede too]

Or "War on Women", or "Wingnutties out of control". Lots of disgusting overlap with something like this.

[billy.pilgrim]

Or "War on Women", or "Wingnutties out of control". Lots of disgusting overlap with something like this.

I didn't know this crap still went on outside of lds assholes.

What other church forces an 11 year old rape victim to marry the rapist to avoid - what? - bad press

[Vrede too]

Probably to avoid jail more than bad press.

[Vrede too]

Police: Two arrested after Texas woman calls 911 on herself for drunk driving

[JTA]

Police: Two arrested after Texas woman calls 911 on herself for drunk driving

Not many people know this because it's a cryptic rule that only lawyers and cops know about, but if you call the cops on yourself for doing something illegal you automatically get off with no consequences, since the good deed of catching the perpetrator and turning them in cancels out the bad deed of committing an illegal act. Closing the loop, so to speak. This is similar to the act of Hitler being responsible for stopping and putting an end to the reign of the most heinous, evil, despicable man in human history. By putting a bullet in his head, Hitler killed Hitler. And for this we thank and remember him with graciousness.

[Vrede too]

Do you get a reward if you also get your friend arrested?

[O Really]

I started to write, to take advantage of the "good guy" card, she probably should have parked somewhere other than "in the middle of 100 W Parkwood Ave." But it turns out "100 W Parkwood" is a shopping center, so she could have been parked in the lot. Cops should have just taken them home. I'm guessing, though, that the same mindset that gets a cop to shoot a 12-year old with a bb gun within less than a minute of arrival on scene probably doesn't allow for just helping the drunk girls out. So is anyone else around there now going to be willing to call the cops for help when drunk? Don't think so.

[Vrede too]

Might be better to get out of the car, lock it, then call the cops for help when drunk. Or, call a cab.

[O Really]

Or, call a cab.

That would have been best. Apparently the cops would have dinged them for "public drunkenness" even if they'd been out of the car, based on what they did with the friend. Now I understand why the police departments no longer use the "Protect and Serve" motto on their cars.

[homerfobe]

Now I understand why the police departments no longer use the "Protect and Serve" motto on their cars.

Because the tables have been turned. They now have to protect and serve themselves.

[Vrede too]

Woman's Body Found In Walmart Bathroom 3 Days After She Went Inside

... It's a sad story that became shocking after Sand Springs Police Capt. Todd Enzbrenner revealed that video shows Caraway entering the room at about 6 p.m. Friday.

The 29-year-old never emerged, and somehow the locked bathroom was overlooked by staff.

At some point over the weekend, authorities say store employees placed a sign on the door saying it was out of order, KOKI reports.

Enzbrenner says store employees assumed that because the door was locked, something in the bathroom needed to be fixed.

While the cause of death remains undetermined, officials say it is not believed to be suspicious....

Comments:

I think being in a Walmart bathroom is probably the cause of death.

The real price for all those savings.

Walmart bathrooms normally stink and are gross.. but after three days, the employees walking by outside were thinking: "I get paid minimum wage, whatever is going on in the women's bathroom is totally not my problem.."

I wonder how many people walked past, smelled the nasty smell and said "smells like somebody died in there."

They clearly need to add a column for body removal on that cleaning checklist they post on the bathroom wall.

[O Really]

"While the cause of death remains undetermined, officials say it is not believed to be suspicious"
Seriously? Like they have people just normally go into restrooms to die in Tulsa?
Oh wait - maybe they do.

[Vrede too]

IV opiate OD is my guess, partly because she chose a lockable single occupancy family bathroom. It's not "suspicious" if the works are still sticking in her arm.

[O Really]

I know cops have their own jargon, but does "suspicious" only mean homicide? It can't mean suicide accidental or intentionally?

Speaking of cop jargon, I love it when the news people report that a guy was found hanging upside down on a deer stand with two shots in the head and "police believe foul play may have been involved."
(True story out of Wisconsin a few years ago)