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

[Jolene Benoir]

U.S.’s biggest Christian charity reportedly channeled $56.1 million to purported hate groups

National Christian Foundation, which identifies itself as the largest Christian grant maker and one of the largest donor-advised funds in the nation, has served as a vehicle for individuals trying to anonymously send money.

Donor-advised funds allow individuals sending the tax deductible contributions to remain anonymous from the IRS and instruct where they want the payments to be sent. For those donating via NCF, this meant sending money to 23 organizations that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled hate groups. Most of the hate organizations that received money from the NCF opposed LGBT rights. The report also found that the NCF donated to anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant organizations.

Organizations receiving the most funds from NCF included the Alliance Defending Freedom, which has advocated for sterilizing transgender individuals, and the Family Research Council, which has advocated conversion therapy. Members of the Family Research Council including Tony Perkins, the organization's president, have sought to link pedophilia and homosexuality.

The NCF's website says it has "accepted over $12 billion in contributions and made over $10 billion in giver-recommended grants to more than 55,000 charities."[/quote[

 

[Kalel]

They can have as many hours of training as they want. Just waiting for the day some kid pushes the teacher too far..

Florida House Panel Approves School Bill Allowing Arming of Teachers

A Florida House committee has passed a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve.

www.nbcmiami.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

They can have as many hours of training as they want. Just waiting for the day some kid pushes the teacher too far..

Florida House Panel Approves School Bill Allowing Arming of Teachers

A Florida House committee has passed a broad school safety bill that would expand an existing guardian program to allow classroom teachers to volunteer to carry weapons on campus if local school boards approve.

www.nbcmiami.com

That especially violent kid reaches for it.
The class clown digs into the desk drawer where it's kept when the teacher's called away.
The really quiet kid the violent kid beats up every recess-

NoThInG cOuLd Go WrOnG.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

That especially violent kid reaches for it.
The class clown digs into the desk drawer where it's kept when the teacher's called away.
The really quiet kid the violent kid beats up every recess-

NoThInG cOuLd Go WrOnG.

I don't even know how I would feel as a kid, having to sit in a classroom where the teacher has a handgun strapped to his hip. I would feel perpetually threatened.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I don't even know how I would feel as a kid, having to sit in a classroom where the teacher has a handgun strapped to his hip. I would feel perpetually threatened.

Guns and classrooms absolutely do not mix. There is just far too much that could go horribly wrong, all on the off-chance some teacher is able to take out a mass shooter.

 

[Govi]

There is the chronic problem of what to do to separate the Good Guys from the Bad Guys if shooters have their guns out when the cops (also armed) arrive.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

There's a system in place.

White officer fatally shot black security guard, Chicago-area police chief says

Jemel Roberson, the security guard, was trying to detain a man following a shooting at a bar south of Chicago where he worked

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Who wants to read about a clown car show involving former Blackwater mercs and Navy Seals money laundering around in Haiti?

U.S. Mercenaries Arrested in Haiti Were Part of a Half-Baked Scheme to Move $80 Million for Embattled President

It was too good a deal for the band of semi-employed military veterans and security contractors to turn down.

theintercept.com

 

[Tigger]

This is everything you'd imagine from the headline:

CBP Detains 9-Year-Old US Citizen For 36 Hours, Accuses Her 14-Year-Old Brother Of Sex Trafficking

 

[Free]

Texas flight attendant detained by ICE released after month in custody

A College Station flight attendant who was detained by ICE after a flight back to the United States from Mexico was released Friday by authorities at a facility in Conroe, KBTX-TV in Bryan has confirmed.

Selene Saavedra Roman's husband, David Watkins, told KBTX his wife was released early Friday afternoon after her story began to circulate in the media.

Roman, a Texas A&M graduate and a flight attendant for Mesa Airlines, is also a DACA recipient.

She was detained in mid-February at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after returning from Mexico.

Over a month not knowing what's gonna happen to you. And now they can detain someone indefinitely. It makes me sick.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Georgia Senate Passes 'Heartbeat' Abortion Ban Bill

6 weeks. Many women don't even know they're pregnant yet at that point. They are seemingly winning the battle to overturn Roe v. Wade or negate it state by state.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

See also Instagram Is Full of Conspiracy Theories and Extremism

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Verizon exec: Despite our best efforts, people do not hate us enough. What else can we do to make people really despise this company?

Verizon Suspends Worker Who Rescued Cat Using His Work Equipment

Maurice German, a Verizon employee, was working in Port Richmond when he answered the distressed call of neighbors regarding their cat Princess Momma, who had been stuck on a telephone pole for the past 12 hours. However, what ended as a happy story for the cat ended with a job suspension for German.

The cat owners were distraught and said they had attempted to contact the animal rescue, the fire department, and other organizations for help but had been unsuccessful. Thankfully for them, German accepted the challenge and was recorded in a video from CBS Philly reporter Steve Lindsay, rescuing the animal with the help of his company equipment. Well, it turns out that Verizon does not have a soft spot for kitty rescue videos and responded by suspending the worker.

 

[Grandma Bates]

The full scope of the resignations are not yet clear, but it appears that the director and all of the women on the staff of a magazine for women sponsored by the Vatican have quit:
Vatican women's magazine staff quit, citing 'climate of mistrust'

 

[Ellie]

A sad & cautionary article.
The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties

 

[Free]

Engineer loses appeal against 'bully boss' who 'farted on him six times a day'

David Hingst, 56, accused Greg Short of coming into his office and deliberately farting ‘five or six times a day’ during his time at Melbourne company Construction Engineering.

He sought £980,000 in damages but last year the Supreme Court of Victoria ruled that flatulence did not necessarily constitute bullying.

I thought we could use a fart story.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Alex Jones: "psychosis" made me call Sandy Hook a hoax

This week, Jones acknowledged the shooting was real during a sworn deposition he made as part of a defamation case brought against him by Sandy Hook victims' families.

"And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I've now learned a lot of times things aren't staged," he said. "So I think as a pundit, someone giving an opinion, that, you know, my opinions have been wrong, but they were never wrong consciously to hurt people."

He said it was the "trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much" that caused him to distrust everything, "kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again."

"So long before these lawsuits I said that in the past I thought everything was a conspiracy and I would kind of get into that mass group think of the communities that were out saying that," he said. "And so now I see that it's more in the middle... so that's where I stand."

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A sad & cautionary article.
The Insidious Reasons Doctors Are Botching Labiaplasties

One reason labiaplasties get botched is that OB-GYNs don’t have an adequate understanding of the labia or clitoris, says Goodman. “OB-GYNs are both ’women’s surgeons’ and supposedly experts in vulvar and vaginal anatomy. They are trained to perform ulvovaginal procedures but receive absolutely no training in plastic procedures on the vulva,” he explains.

“While a board-certified plastic surgeon will not dare to perform a labiaplasty unless his or her residency program includes labiaplasty and genital anatomy in their training program, an (untrained in plastics) OB-GYN will think, ‘Well . . . how hard can it be? I am an expert in the vulva! Just cut it off and sew it up.’” Much of the issue could be solved through proper training in medical school and residencies, he says.

Paul Pin, MD, Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center, often trains residents who’ve been taught nothing about clitoral anatomy, and he’s never seen clitoral anatomy in plastic surgery journals. This means that many doctors who perform labiaplasties don’t even understand the body parts they’re operating on. Jessica’s doctor had only performed two labiaplasties and received no training in them.

Vulvar anatomy is also woefully absent in textbooks. After poring through medical books, Jessica has only been able to find the nerves and vasculature of the clitoris illustrated in two—Williams Gynecology and Williams Obstetrics—and even these didn’t have accompanying descriptions. Anatomy books include “very little detail about clitoral anatomy—certainly less than the penis,” confirms Paul Pin. “The real nerve supply to the clitoris is almost universally absent in textbooks.”

How the frack is this even possible???? Why on earth do vulva-doctors not have to know about the anatomy of the freaking all of what, six square inches of the exterior of the human body that is the only freaking part of it they're getting paid to know anything about?

Or - wait, do OB-GYNs also handle breast cancer, or is that oncologists? Maybe - you know what, I don't care, it doesn't matter.

It's not like vulvas are made out of freaking magical phlogiston. It's skin! Blood vessels and nerves - the same damn thing everything else in the body is made out of so how can actual certified doctors not know about it? Doctors, not GOP congressmen!

And I don't buy that the information just isn't available, sorry. If actual plastic surgeons are able to get training in genital anatomy during their residencies, the knowledge clearly exists and is available to the medical establishment....so why the heck are cosmetic surgeons getting more training on genital anatomy than genital specialists? We're talking an additional 3 to 6 years of training specifically in lady-parts (and homologous topics) on top of the original 8 years of med school, plus another four years' residency before they can actually hang out a shingle so what the heck are they learning in all that time if it's not the actual anatomy of the body parts they're going to spend their career dealing with?

This is SOOOOO stupid. Just...stupid, that's the only word.

I don't know why I'm so upset about this. For some reason it just totally blew my mind.

 

[Free]

I don't know why I'm so upset about this. For some reason it just totally blew my mind.

It's amazing how gender bias pops up in all sorts of places you might not expect it to, huh?