WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Govi]

A rapist appointing another rapist to our highest court is not the occasion for a call to civility.

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[Free]

I just saw this. Amazing.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Surprisingly, to me anyway, Time has the whole cover story, not just the cover on their website.

October 15th, 2018 | Vol. 192, No. 15 | U.S.

 

[Free]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Important thread.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Fox Headline:
Over 120 children rescued following Michigan human trafficking sting

What the reality was:
New USMS Child Recovery Unit Recovers 123 Children During 1-Day Operation

Most kids reported missing found at home, might have stayed over at a friend's and no one followed up until law enforcement set aside a day to do some followup on their backlog. Number who might have actually been involved in trafficking, like, had a pimp or something, 3. Still awful. Fox headline still basically bollocks.

Maybe some of those kids stayed over with a friend and played D&D. And listened to Alice Cooper. Backwards.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

New USMS Child Recovery Unit Recovers 123 Children During 1-Day Operation

Participating officers were given the case files and began investigating their whereabouts by visiting last known addresses, friend’s homes and schools in hopes of finding them in a safe place.

I'm not a cop or anything, but I kinda get this feeling a lot of the cases could've been closed a whole lot sooner if they'd, maybe, checked those places when the kids were first reported missing?

 

[Tigar]

Out of 301 files of missing children, 123 were identified and recovered safely during the operation. All 123 children were physically located and interviewed

178 children are still missing.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'm not a cop or anything, but I kinda get this feeling a lot of the cases could've been closed a whole lot sooner if they'd, maybe, checked those places when the kids were first reported missing?

Yeah, that's part of what I was getting at. Police backlog, and Fox headline response calling it a 'sting', it wasn't. No idea why the police batched up the files like that, but that headline was bollocks front to back.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

AP: Migrant children may be adopted after parents are deported | TheHill

Adoption fees in the USA from $5-40K, I think I found the child traffickers.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Okay imagine this for a minute. There's a 19-year-old girl who's living with her aunt and cousin. Lately she's been inviting strangers off of Facebook to come visit her at her aunt's house without the aunt's permission, and of course the aunt didn't like that and said so. So the girl got mad blocked her aunt on Facebook. In order to be able to continue keeping tabs on what her niece was doing on Facebook, the aunt created a fake account pretending to be a boy around the niece's age and friended her. The very first day they made contact, the niece told the "boy" he could come over and have sex with her if he paid her cell phone bill.

So what do you think about this situation? An overreach by the aunt? Invasion of privacy, perhaps. After all, a 19-year-old is an adult, right - who cares who she's doing whatever with for whatever reason? Does the owner of a house have a right to forbid another adult who's living there from inviting people over, whether to boink or otherwise? Maybe, maybe not.

Now what if I told you that a couple of days into their friendship, the niece suddenly asked her new Facebook "friend" to do her a favor by coming and taking her away from her aunt's house...after killing the rest of her aunt's family? Yup, that happened.

Her plans reportedly got increasingly intricate and sinister as time passed. According to the court files, she told the fictional man how to get into her aunt's bedroom so he could kill her and the woman's fiance first, then she asked him to shoot her cousin and the family dog on the way out. Williams allegedly planned to pack her things in his car while 'Tre' murdered her family.

So, the niece is in jail now.

 

[danielravennest]

> Does the owner of a house have a right to forbid another adult who's living there from inviting people over, whether to boink or otherwise? Maybe, maybe not.

Yes they do. That's what ownership means: control over what happens to a piece of property. If the aunt had a written agreement with the niece, that could modify the general right of an owner to do whatever they want with their property. But absent that, the law is "my house, my rules".

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A Kansas GOP committeeman has resigned in the wake of a Facebook post in which he declared that Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids, a Native American, would be "sent back to the reservation".

Johnson County Republican Party chairman Mike Jones confirmed that Michael Kalny of Shawnee resigned his post Wednesday in the aftermath of the Facebook message becoming public earlier this week.

“He reflected an apologetic attitude and didn’t want to bring negative attention on the party or candidates running in this area,” Jones said.

Kalny’s Facebook message was sent to Anne Pritchett, president of the Johnson County Democratic Women’s north chapter, on Monday.

“Little Ms. Pritchett — you and your comrades stealth attack on Yoder is going to blow up in your leftist face,” Kalny wrote. “The REAL REPUBLICANS will remember what the scum DEMONRATS tried to do to Kavanaugh in November. Your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian will be sent back packing to the reservation.” Roughly 50 exclamation points followed the end of the message.

Davids is running against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder for the hotly contested 3rd congressional district seat.

If she wins in November, Davids, a lawyer and amateur mixed-martial arts fighter, would become the first ever openly gay member of the Kansas congressional delegation, as well as the first female Native American lawmaker in Washington.

Jim Joice, the executive director of the Kansas GOP, criticized the local official.

“This is the same type of rhetoric we condemn the left for,” Joice said. “We must be better than this.”

(I had to include that last line because it's so precious)

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

A Kansas GOP committeeman has resigned in the wake of a Facebook post in which he declared that Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids, a Native American, would be "sent back to the reservation".



(I had to include that last line because it's so precious)

I'm impressed that there's any capacity for shame left at all.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Crucifix represents Christian values but isn't a religious symbol, Quebec's incoming premier says | CBC News

 

[Free]

Of course the crucifix isn't religious. It's all about criminal punishment.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Graphic representations of political executions is totally appropriate for kids.

 

[Sid]

11 infant bodies found in ceiling of former Detroit funeral home.

Construction workers stumbled upon the remains at 5:27 p.m. Friday inside the Cantrell Funeral Home on Mack Avenue while working on rehabbing the building. They then notified Detroit police.

Hidden in the ceiling, eight bodies were found in a cardboard box, three others were in separate trash bags in a single small casket, police said.

State officials shut down the funeral home in April after inspectors found decomposing remains and "deplorable conditions" on its site.

Is the owners name by any chance Frankenstein?

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should all be outraged.

You may have to use incognito mode because WAPO. This is unbelievable. For some people in prison, it might well be the first time they actually receive an education. Can't have that. It might also lead to them learning the law, in relation to their cases, leading to appeals. Can't have that. Reading leads to self-improvement. Can't have that. They also make $1/hr if they are lucky, so there will be the haves and the have -nots regarding this device, not to mention they will be forcing them to buy the books, as well. This is what happens when we privatize prisons or aspects of life within prison.

But as of last month, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) has decided to make such rehabilitation much harder. Going forward, books and publications, including legal primers and prison newsletters, cannot be sent directly to incarcerated Pennsylvanians. Instead, if they want access to a book, they must first come up with $147 to purchase a tablet and then pay a private company for electronic versions of their reading material — but only if it’s available among the 8,500 titles offered to them through this new e-book system.

In case you forgot: Incarcerated people are paid less than $1 per hour, and the criminal-justice system disproportionately locks up low-income individuals. Adding insult to injury, most of the e-books available to them for purchase would be available free from Project Gutenberg. And nonpublic domain books in Pennsylvania’s e-book system are more expensive than on other e-book markets.