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Title: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on November 28, 2011, 08:30:29 PM
Every time I say the world can't get anymore screwed up, I'm proven wrong.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/28/french-father-reportedly-charged-after-3-year-old-son-killed-in-washing-machine/?test=latestnews
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tt11758 on November 28, 2011, 08:32:50 PM
You need a license to drive a car, carry a gun, even get married.  Yet any douchebag who can pop a stiffy can father a child.   :'(
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on November 29, 2011, 06:05:37 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/29/thief-allegedly-steals-disabled-philadelphia-boys-wheelchair/?test=latestnews

And it keeps getting worse!
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tt11758 on November 29, 2011, 07:52:42 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/29/thief-allegedly-steals-disabled-philadelphia-boys-wheelchair/?test=latestnews

And it keeps getting worse!

Hopefully the people of Philly will band together and scrape up the money for a new chair for this kid.  Then track down the asshat that stole the old one and beat him half to death.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: fightingquaker13 on November 29, 2011, 08:22:46 PM
Every time I say the world can't get anymore screwed up, I'm proven wrong.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/28/french-father-reportedly-charged-after-3-year-old-son-killed-in-washing-machine/?test=latestnews

Here's my question. How did neighbors report that Dad put his kid naked in the washing machine? I am no hero, but the only way someone is going to put a child in a washing machine is over my dead body. I don't mean to sound righteous, but some things are worth dieing for. Actually, screw that, lets try again. Somethings you HAVE to die for its not optional. Saving a a toddler from being drowned in a washing machine is one of them. Even if you know you'll lose you do it anyway, because we areall  going to die of something. I'd rather my stone read "He died doing right" than "He lived a few more years because he didn't do right, but here he is anyway.". >:(
Just sayin'
FQ13
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tt11758 on November 29, 2011, 09:41:47 PM
Here's my question. How did neighbors report that Dad put his kid naked in the washing machine? I am no hero, but the only way someone is going to put a child in a washing machine is over my dead body. I don't mean to sound righteous, but some things are worth dieing for. Actually, screw that, lets try again. Somethings you HAVE to die for its not optional. Saving a a toddler from being drowned in a washing machine is one of them. Even if you know you'll lose you do it anyway, because we areall  going to die of something. I'd rather my stone read "He died doing right" than "He lived a few more years because he didn't do right, but here he is anyway.". >:(
Just sayin'
FQ13


That falls under the category of:  "It's tough to shave when you can't look at yourself in the mirror".
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: r_w on November 29, 2011, 10:35:06 PM
But they were...  FRENCH.  Calling the authorities is what they are conditioned to do.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on November 29, 2011, 11:59:31 PM
Here's my question. How did neighbors report that Dad put his kid naked in the washing machine? I am no hero, but the only way someone is going to put a child in a washing machine is over my dead body. I don't mean to sound righteous, but some things are worth dieing for. Actually, screw that, lets try again. Somethings you HAVE to die for its not optional. Saving a a toddler from being drowned in a washing machine is one of them. Even if you know you'll lose you do it anyway, because we areall  going to die of something. I'd rather my stone read "He died doing right" than "He lived a few more years because he didn't do right, but here he is anyway.". >:(
Just sayin'
FQ13

This shows the wrong attitude, you should be thinking about what you'll tell the cops over his dead body.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on November 30, 2011, 04:54:10 AM
And the hits just keep on comin!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/30/man-arrested-for-allegedly-killing-grandmother-with-broom-handle/#ixzz1fAK6vvJm?test=latestnews
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: JC5123 on November 30, 2011, 08:36:29 AM
Bill, you should have retitled the thread:

Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tt11758 on December 01, 2011, 10:02:46 AM
Bill, you should have retitled the thread:

Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.

Amen.  I've got a buddy (retired police chief) with a coffee mug emblazoned with that phrase.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on December 19, 2011, 02:30:50 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/17/new-york-woman-allegedly-burned-to-death-in-elevator/?test=latestnews

It just keeps getting worse.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Magoo541 on December 19, 2011, 11:55:52 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/17/new-york-woman-allegedly-burned-to-death-in-elevator/?test=latestnews

It just keeps getting worse.

Over a $2000 debt!  So instead he'll never see the light of day or the money!  Garden sprayer controls are on the horizon along with ID checks at the gas station. ::)
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 19, 2011, 03:52:35 PM
Turn about is fair play right ?
Check out the pictures at the link, real winners these 2


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/shoplifters-robbed-while-stealing-grocery-store-192530012.html

Two accused shoplifters got a taste of their own medicine when they sought to clear out of the crime--and found that a passing malefactor had broken into their own car.

Security personnel were in the process of questioning Korin Vanhouten, 47, and Eldon Alexander, 36, at an Ogden, Utah WinCo supermarket, accused of stealing makeup, energy bars and batteries. At the end of the interrogation, they left with a citation for attempted shoplifting.

However, they soon stumbled on to the scene of a successful carlifting, with the awkward discovery that while they were in the WinCo, someone--or several someones--had broken into their car.

And as it turned out, the ironies were just starting to multiply. For Vanhouten and Alexander proceeded to report the ransacking of their vehicle to the same officer who had issued them their shoplifting citation.

In the process of leaving the WinCo lot, the officer came upon "the two suspects trying to flag him down in the parking lot," as Ogden Police Lt. Eric Young characterized the surreal moment for the Deseret News. "And he goes over to their location and realizes that their vehicle has actually been burglarized. They ended up having their stereo and amplifier, a drum machine and some cigarettes stolen from their vehicle," Young said.

The car break-in reportedly happened while the police officer's car was parked nearby.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on December 19, 2011, 05:16:37 PM
(http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz50/billt460/TheseEyes.jpg)

Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: santahog on December 19, 2011, 07:15:42 PM
(http://i812.photobucket.com/albums/zz50/billt460/TheseEyes.jpg)



Bubba, there ain't enough tequila in the WORLD....
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 19, 2011, 07:21:51 PM
I think the cop fired his Tazer up her butt.  ;D
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Big Frank on December 19, 2011, 07:23:28 PM
Jeepers creepers. Where'd ya get those peepers?  ;D
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 19, 2011, 07:25:18 PM
Jeepers creepers. Where'd ya get those peepers?  ;D

She probably stole those too.   ;D
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on February 15, 2012, 05:28:53 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/14/preschoolers-homemade-lunch-replaced-with-nuggets/

And the total lunacy continues.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: blackwolfe on February 15, 2012, 06:47:59 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/09/ohio-dad-stuck-son-in-dryer-then-turned-it-on-police-say/?intcmp=obinsite
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on February 27, 2012, 04:45:40 PM
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/02/21/20120221man-guilty-kidnapping-rape-deer-skinning-device.html
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on March 20, 2012, 10:09:02 AM
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/03/19/20120319phoenix-dad-urinating-child.html

This one takes the cake !
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: PegLeg45 on March 20, 2012, 01:02:01 PM
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/03/19/20120319phoenix-dad-urinating-child.html

This one takes the cake !

It's hard to fathom what topic could trigger...and at what point in that argument, dictates urinating on a four month old baby.

I can only shake my head.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 02, 2012, 12:56:57 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/01/missing-11-year-old-starved-to-death-in-locked-bedroom-dallas-police-say/#ixzz1qqm3gOoc
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Big Frank on April 02, 2012, 03:35:11 PM
If the army puts you on bread and water I think it's only for 2 weeks, not all year. That kid really suffered until he died.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 02, 2012, 06:18:05 PM
If the army puts you on bread and water I think it's only for 2 weeks, not all year. That kid really suffered until he died.

The Navy can put you on B&W for up to 2 weeks, but they have to give you a real meal every 3rd day.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 02, 2012, 06:25:04 PM
The Navy can put you on B&W for up to 2 weeks, but they have to give you a real meal every 3rd day.

Don't they give you vitamin supplements as well?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Timothy on April 02, 2012, 06:39:11 PM
The Navy can put you on B&W for up to 2 weeks, but they have to give you a real meal every 3rd day.

It's down to three days max these days...

http://www.ucmj.us/?s=bread+and+water
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 02, 2012, 08:55:29 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/30/florida-man-arrested-after-beating-infant-child-to-death/?intcmp=obinsite

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/30/michigan-grandpa-accused-giving-grandson-drugged-juice/?intcmp=obinsite
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Big Frank on April 02, 2012, 10:25:44 PM
Unbelievable. What's the heck is wrong with people these days?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: PegLeg45 on April 02, 2012, 10:29:57 PM
Unbelievable. What's the heck is wrong with people these days?

It's Bush's fault.....and the guns.....don't forget the guns. 
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 03, 2012, 06:36:08 AM
Unbelievable. What's the heck is wrong with people these days?

When I started this thread, I did so because I thought the story I linked to was unique. Now I'm finding out these seem to be weekly, if not daily occurrences all over the country. What is wrong with people indeed!
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Solus on April 03, 2012, 09:26:37 AM
When I started this thread, I did so because I thought the story I linked to was unique. Now I'm finding out these seem to be weekly, if not daily occurrences all over the country. What is wrong with people indeed!

I know what  you mean....but maybe we need a "study".

Might it be that these things happened just as often in the past, but we never heard about all the slimy stories in every back woods village in the nation.

It might be that this type of even is making it into big NEWS rooms more often than in the past....and that the NEWS reporting has more of a propensity to report this ugliness than before....and that might be because the audience has more of a propensity to want such stories.

It's like soft boiled eggs and rare steaks....many ate them and the dangers were know but they were not reported until "everyone" heard about it and everyone also became very much more interested.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on June 25, 2012, 06:52:52 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/19/naked-mom-found-eating-ice-cream-after-leaving-kids-in-wrecked-car/?intcmp=obnetwork
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 25, 2012, 07:12:00 PM
When I started this thread, I did so because I thought the story I linked to was unique. Now I'm finding out these seem to be weekly, if not daily occurrences all over the country. What is wrong with people indeed!

Bill, On the NRA website Cam Edwards used to have a 3 hour show daily .
One night he reported what he called, "The deal of the day" it was a news story about a ex convict with a lengthy criminal record who on being convicted of a murder, was sentenced to.......
Probation.
He thought it was unusual enough that he went looking.
"Deal of the Day" became a nightly feature, every night, career violent criminals committing awful crimes, rape, murder, aggravated assault, and being sentenced to .....
Probation, time served, community service, sometimes just a stern lecture.
People are animals.
And not particular likable animals at that.
That is why America's Constitution, with its rules and defined Powers and Rights lead America to the moon and Disney world,  while European "Humanism" lead to Dachau and the Gulag.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: santahog on June 25, 2012, 07:57:53 PM
Bill, On the NRA website Cam Edwards used to have a 3 hour show daily .
One night he reported what he called, "The deal of the day" it was a news story about a ex convict with a lengthy criminal record who on being convicted of a murder, was sentenced to.......
Probation.
It comes on in 3 minutes!!
The "Deal of the Day" is usually towards the beginning of the third hour..
http://www.nranews.com/#/nranews
 ;D
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 25, 2012, 08:20:08 PM
Thanks Santa, I haven't watched in years so I didn't know if he still did it.
And I don't have time for it tonight since I'm trying to get caught up on PJTV.
By the way, Bill Whittles "Afterburner" segments are available on You tube if PJTV has locked you out of one you want to see.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on June 27, 2012, 10:29:22 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/26/fed-up-mom-thrown-throws-two-sons-off-15th-floor-balcony/?intcmp=trending

This just keeps getting worse!
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 27, 2012, 12:07:39 PM
It's probably a good thing you "can't make this stuff up".
You'd have to be a very messed up SOB to do it.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Ichiban on June 27, 2012, 02:09:41 PM
It's probably a good thing you "can't make this stuff up".
You'd have to be a very messed up SOB to do it.

Stephen King?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: lhprop1 on June 27, 2012, 02:48:06 PM
21 years old with 4 kids, from 2-7 years old.  Something tells me she has probably made a lot of poor life choices.  http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/06/13/charges-woman-left-4-children-inside-hot-vehicle-nearly-30-minutes/
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on June 27, 2012, 03:34:47 PM
Stephen King?

Notice he hasn't had a really good book since he quit drinking ?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on October 25, 2012, 05:37:29 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/25/nyc-police-officer-arrested-for-alleged-cannibal-plot/

New York's finest?? I've heard of "eating" women, but come on!
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on November 22, 2012, 07:40:48 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/22/california-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-wife-cooking-her-body-and-freezing/%20?test=latestnews

I wonder if this guy's related to the New York Cop? Both seem to have the same "taste" in women.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 03, 2012, 01:24:26 PM
Thought about posting this in Tom's "Are you on drugs" thread.........

A STORY ABOUT POOP, WEED & A NAKED OLD DUDE
Quote
Man leads police on 100 mph chase

Shoppers and employees at the local Walmart store got more than just after Thanksgiving bargains earlier this week when a South Padre Island man allegedly exposed himself in the middle of the store and ultimately led police on an approximate 100 mile-per-hour chase across the Queen Isabella Causeway.
Walter Thomas Ellison, age 69, of South Padre Island, was apprehended by Port Isabel police and booked on one charge of indecent exposure, one charge of driving while intoxicated, one charge of causing an accident involving damage and possession of marijuana – each a Class B Misdemeanor.

---------------------

According to Chief Gonzales, the entire episode began when Ellison allegedly soiled his shorts and proceeded to drop them in the middle of the Walmart men’s department in exchange for a pair off the rack, exposing himself in the processes. When approached by a store employee, Ellison fled, jumped into his car, and allegedly struck the victim’s car as he left the parking lot.



http://portisabelsouthpadre.com/?p=6410

Just for sh!ts & giggles, I guess.........
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 18, 2014, 07:16:56 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/04/17/rapper-cuts-off-penis-reattach-fails/?cmpid=NL_fntop

It's good to see there is so much intelligence in the hip hop industry. Perhaps using the ladies room from now on will give him a more sympathetic and respectable look at the female species, and stop calling them "hoes".
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 18, 2014, 08:56:29 AM
I saw that this AM, I just read the headline and assumed he died .

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/wu-tang-linked-rapper-cut-off-penis-and-leapt-off-balcony-say-reports
I'm guessing that's what he intended.
Oh well, the best laid (which he will not be ) plans of mice and eunuchs etc.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 18, 2014, 09:03:52 AM
Hell, if you're going to do yourself in by jumping off a balcony, why the slice job before hand?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 18, 2014, 09:14:10 AM
Maybe he was hoping to bleed to death on the way down .
Maybe there is a rational explanation, perhaps he had an accident while slicing veggies naked and realizing what he'd done threw himself out the window .
Probably not.
I remember reading somewhere that the "Wu Tang" was the oldest surviving example of the samurai style sword, the design being brought to Japan by the early Buddhist monks, I can't find a link confirming that though so I'm not sure of the accuracy .
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 18, 2014, 11:40:07 AM
Perhaps Lorena Bobbitt turned him down for a date?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Big Frank on April 18, 2014, 02:57:13 PM
If you want to kill yourself by jumping you need to go higher than the second story.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 18, 2014, 03:05:19 PM
If you want to kill yourself by jumping you need to go higher than the second story.

Got to make do with what you've got .  ;D
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: GASPASSERDELUXE on April 18, 2014, 03:26:52 PM
If it is the 2nd floor just go head first, problem solved, unless you have an extremly hard head.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: TAB on April 18, 2014, 03:51:46 PM
Got to make do with what you've got .  ;D
  why do I think drugs are envolved.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 19, 2014, 06:55:59 AM
  why do I think drugs are envolved.

Because you have a nasty, and suspicious mind that always suspects drugs or booze ?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 19, 2014, 07:40:27 AM
Because you have a nasty, and suspicious mind that always suspects drugs or booze ?

Or....Perhaps because of the self surgery involved, he feels a pain killer was desperately needed?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on April 28, 2014, 08:07:20 AM
https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/galesburg-high-school-carri-harding-purse-ban-feminine-products-principal-roy-van-meter-224309094.html

Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Big Frank on April 28, 2014, 12:08:57 PM
Shut up and sit there bleeding all day. Yeah, that's how to handle the situation.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on April 28, 2014, 02:57:04 PM
The thought that comes to my mind is , Is the country worth saving ?
Or should the few who still have a clue just take over Porta Rico and let the dumbasses get what they deserve ?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: JC5123 on April 28, 2014, 03:24:31 PM
They call it creepy, I call it a fixer upper. But here we go:


http://www.weather.com/video/creepy-island-for-sale-47209
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tt11758 on April 30, 2014, 12:22:14 PM
http://kiwaradio.com/local-news/sapp-pleads-not-guilty-in-day-care-murder-case/ (http://kiwaradio.com/local-news/sapp-pleads-not-guilty-in-day-care-murder-case/)
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Magoo541 on May 02, 2014, 10:58:49 AM
The thought that comes to my mind is , Is the country worth saving ?
Or should the few who still have a clue just take over Porta Rico and let the dumbasses get what they deserve ?
I just keep fighting the war, I know who and what I am fighting for and it's worth it to me.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: kmitch200 on May 26, 2014, 05:14:24 PM
Another dumbazz of the day....

Man holding breath in Oregon tunnel causes crash

MANNING, Ore. –  A 19-year-old man caused a three-car crash when he fainted while holding his breath as he drove through a tunnel northwest of Portland, Oregon State Police said.

Daniel J. Calhon, of Snohomish, Washington, told investigators he fainted Sunday afternoon while holding his breath in the Highway 26 tunnel near the community of Manning, according to a news release. His car, a 1990 Toyota Camry, drifted across the centerline and crashed head-on with a Ford Explorer.
Both vehicles struck the tunnel walls before a pickup hit the Camry.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/26/police-man-holding-breath-while-driving-through-oregon-tunnel-faints-causes-3/
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Big Frank on May 26, 2014, 10:11:43 PM
Who faints while holding their breath for 10 seconds? Besides this idiot that is. And why?
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on May 27, 2014, 05:30:45 AM
Who faints while holding their breath for 10 seconds? Besides this idiot that is. And why?

My guess is he's around 450 on the hoof, 85% blockage in at least 3 arteries, and smokes 2 packs a day. A lot for a growing boy to handle.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Solus on May 27, 2014, 09:55:22 AM
Who faints while holding their breath for 10 seconds? Besides this idiot that is. And why?

Why?  Everybody knows bad things can happen to you if you breathe the pollution laden air inside a automotive tunnel....

It also might be noted that with mental facilities functioning like that, he was near unconscious to start with.
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: Solus on May 27, 2014, 12:30:11 PM
This one is a little different in that it does not involve an individual but a government agency instead.

I know, I know.  Doing stupid things is SOP for most government agencies...but this one just seemed double stupid to me.

One government agency has decided that the results of employee ratings are too discriminatory, and eliminated the process entirely. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Monday that it will now award all employees the highest rating regardless of performance reviews.

http://cowboybyte.com/30714/employee-ratings-avoid-discrimination/


After posting this I got to thinking that I could not imagine ANY agency being dumb enough to publish a statement like this and am starting to see if I can fact check it.

Found a more elaborate story at American Banker...which I will deem an unbiased source.  A bit more explanation for the statement, but very little more justification.

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/179_96/cfpb-employee-rating-disparities-go-beyond-just-race-agency-says-1067575-1.html



Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 27, 2014, 02:58:32 PM
http://www.wtam.com/onair/mike-trivisonno-2339/flyer-tells-parents-that-urge-to-12384813

Flyer Tells Parents That Urge To Win And Athletic Ability Should Be Kept To Minimum. On Field Day.


The site Progressives Today has the story.

"The purpose of the day is for our school to get together for an enjoyable two hours of activities and provide an opportunity for students, teachers and parents to interact cooperatively. Since we believe that all of our children are winners, the need for athletic ability and the competitive “urge to win” will be kept to a minimum. The real reward will be the enjoyment and good feelings of participation."

 

Progressives Today ?
Should be called "Breeding for mediocrity".
Title: Re: I Swear You Can't Make This Stuff Up !
Post by: billt on May 27, 2014, 03:46:09 PM
The government doesn't want employee efficiency or quality rated, any more than teachers unions do.
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Post by: tombogan03884 on May 27, 2014, 04:15:55 PM
They are training, and breeding sheep who will not think or act for themselves.
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Post by: Big Frank on May 27, 2014, 04:45:55 PM
"The real reward will be the enjoyment and good feelings of participation." Well there's the problem. 
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Post by: kmitch200 on May 27, 2014, 09:30:02 PM
http://www.wtam.com/onair/mike-trivisonno-2339/flyer-tells-parents-that-urge-to-12384813

"Since we believe that all of our children are winners, the need for athletic ability and the competitive “urge to win” will be kept to a minimum."

Should be called "Breeding for mediocrity".

It's more fun to win a competition than lose one.
Not all children are winners. Some are downright losers....then they grow up to be employed by schools.

Yep.

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Post by: tombogan03884 on May 28, 2014, 09:58:36 AM
"All men are created equally" was intended to mean in the eyes of the law.
Otherwise it is one of the dumbest and easily disproved statements ever uttered.
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Post by: TAB on May 28, 2014, 01:41:31 PM
"All men are created equally" was intended to mean in the eyes of the law.
Otherwise it is one of the dumbest and easily disproved statements ever uttered.
  even in the eyes of the law its full of shit.
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Post by: jaybet on June 07, 2014, 06:48:06 AM
Sad, isn't it? This is why anti-gunners feel so empowered.
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Post by: kmitch200 on June 09, 2014, 05:01:46 PM
35 really stupid things...
Read for a laugh!! (or cry at the stupidity and knowing they breed)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/we-cant-have-nice-things
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Post by: Big Frank on June 09, 2014, 07:06:04 PM
Oh           my          God!
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Post by: Solus on June 09, 2014, 07:46:26 PM
I'll keep that link for the next time someone tells me good grammar isn't that important.

Come to think of it...

    Lack toast and tolerant/lactose intolerant   you know what I mean.
   
    Clip/Magazine    you know what I mean    :D

             
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Post by: lhprop1 on June 10, 2014, 09:48:44 AM
I'll keep that link for the next time someone tells me good grammar isn't that important.     

Without proper punctuation and capitalization, the phrase "I helped my uncle, Jack, off his horse." takes on an entirely new meaning.
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Post by: billt on December 20, 2014, 02:51:22 AM
https://gma.yahoo.com/school-takes-away-blind-boys-cane-punishment-acting-063600522--abc-news-topstories.html

Why didn't they kick him too? Unbelievable.
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Post by: TAB on December 20, 2014, 11:57:22 AM
having been around a lot of blind people. I have a feeling he was doing a lot more then what was being stated.


trust me, they know where you are and know just how much it hurts to get wacked with a cane and will do it.
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Post by: Big Frank on December 20, 2014, 01:10:48 PM
Being blind doesn't make him a saint. If he was whacking people with his cane he deserved to be punished. If not then why did they take it away?
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Post by: TAB on December 20, 2014, 02:03:50 PM
Being blind doesn't make him a saint. If he was whacking people with his cane he deserved to be punished. If not then why did they take it away?

exactly,  I have been around more blind people then you can shake a stick at( pun intended)  I would say they have a slightly more ass hole to good person raito then the rest of the population. while many are great people and a joy to be around, there are many that are the worst kind of people I have ever met.  they play the blind card a lot and in very scummy ways.
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Post by: tombogan03884 on December 20, 2014, 03:29:30 PM
Are those the ones that make you want to rearrange the furniture ?
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Post by: TAB on December 20, 2014, 03:46:52 PM
more like pore out boxes of 16 penny nails.  4 out of the 5 worst people I have met are blind  and 2 of the 5 best people.   I would say its about 1 in 5 is a good person.     which is about half as many of the average public.  its really sad actually.
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Post by: Solus on December 20, 2014, 03:52:44 PM
Are those the ones that make you want to rearrange the furniture ?

I learned something when I was a teenager coming home a bit late when the house was asleep.

My room was at the end of an L shaped uncarpeted  hallway.  My sisters room then  my parents room at the elbow, and my room and the bathroom at the end.

What I found out was that I sub-consciously knew which doors were open in that dark hallway with my first few steps into it.  I realized I knew when I noticed I would slow and walk softlier as I approached my parents room when the door was open and not when it was closed.  I also "knew" to reach for the bathroom door nob when the door was closed but not when it was open.

Didn't know I knew that stuff till I noticed I was acting on that information.

I'd bet blind folks can tell the "sounds" in a room are different if stuff has been moved around.

I think part of their tapping with the cane is to create echos for navigation.
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Post by: TAB on December 20, 2014, 03:58:02 PM
the super hearing thing is bull shit.  it does not happen, they just pay more attention.

infact just about ever single popular belief about the blind is BS.
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Post by: Solus on December 21, 2014, 12:41:16 PM
the super hearing thing is bull shit.  it does not happen, they just pay more attention.

infact just about ever single popular belief about the blind is BS.

No...wasn't saying super hearing, just that the information from hearing is us used by the blind more readily.

My hearing isn't super..but I had that information when I had a need for it.
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Post by: TAB on December 21, 2014, 10:35:11 PM
http://yubasutter.craigslist.org/cto/4773059651.html


(http://images.craigslist.org/01515_kNAUA9n5flJ_600x450.jpg)
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Post by: PegLeg45 on December 26, 2014, 09:18:15 PM
See Colorado....this is what legalizing dope can cause.........
(nothing about drugs in the story, just my humor-based speculation)

 ;)

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/26/a-christmas-crime-story-so-bizarre-its-hard-to-choose-where-to-begin/


Quote
Carrie Carley, 42, had been noticing that her 18-year-old husband, Jeremy Lewallen, was taking walks in their Colorado Springs, Colorado, neighborhood in the middle of night, usually around 2 or 3 a.m.

Each time after he returned, she told KKTV-TV, she couldn’t help noticing a growing collection of Christmas decorations in their front yard.

“I didn’t know exactly where it all came from,” Carley told the station.

Things became clearer Dec. 19, when the couple was arrested.

(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/decorations-stolen-2-e1419623139273.jpg)


According to the arrest affidavit obtained by 11 News, a neighbor who had his decorations stolen was driving around his neighborhood when he spotted a very familiar looking Christmas display in the suspects’ front yard. Police served a search warrant there and allegedly found, in the words of one of the theft victims, “a decoration graveyard.”

The couple’s front and back yards were filled with stolen lawn ornaments and Christmas decorations, officers said — about $2,000 worth.

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“I guess he still thinks it’s a game,” she told the station. “He doesn’t seem to care really one way or another. …I asked him, and he was like, ‘Well, this is my job.’ And I’m like, ‘Taking from unassuming people is your job?’”






(http://i.imgur.com/iWKad22.jpg)
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Post by: billt on December 27, 2014, 07:04:20 AM
Can you imagine the outcome when those two breed? This country is finished. I'm officially retired. When I'm gone will the last guy out get the lights?
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Post by: PegLeg45 on December 27, 2014, 09:32:32 AM
Can you imagine the outcome when those two breed? This country is finished. I'm officially retired. When I'm gone will the last guy out get the lights?

First thought was, "Somewhere there's a bubble that ain't even close to being 'tween the lines."

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Post by: billt on January 17, 2015, 10:01:34 AM
Doesn't this produce babies with 3 heads?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/17/woman-plans-to-marry-her-father-after-two-years-dating/?intcmp=latestnews
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Post by: TAB on January 17, 2015, 11:01:33 AM
Um, yuck.
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Post by: PegLeg45 on January 17, 2015, 12:16:29 PM
Doesn't this produce babies with 3 heads?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/17/woman-plans-to-marry-her-father-after-two-years-dating/?intcmp=latestnews

Bill, we need to buy lottery tickets today...... I just read this article and logged in to post it to this very thread when lo and behold, it was here....  ;D


As to the story, I don't know what is more disturbing...... the fact that the father/daughter are having sex and planning to marry, or the last sentence outlining their plan to move to New Jersey after the wedding because ADULT INCEST IS LEGAL there......to repeat: ADULT INCEST IS LEGAL.

WTBH??
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Post by: tombogan03884 on January 17, 2015, 12:58:08 PM
If society can not limit marriage to one man and one woman, then they can not limit it to one, they can not limit it to unrelated, they can not even limit it to 2 humans.
And yes, inbreeding reinforces genetic flaws, maybe not 3 heads but things like hemophilia and idiocy are fairly common.

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Post by: billt on January 17, 2015, 02:09:30 PM
And yes, inbreeding reinforces genetic flaws, maybe not 3 heads but things like hemophilia and idiocy are fairly common.

I always wondered if that kid playing the banjo in "Deliverance" was related to any liberal politicians.
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Post by: Big Frank on January 17, 2015, 03:20:44 PM
That's not just disgusting it's illegal here and I imagine most other states too. It should be illegal everywhere.
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Post by: tombogan03884 on January 18, 2015, 06:14:47 AM
That's not just disgusting it's illegal here and I imagine most other states too. It should be illegal everywhere.

Like I posted above, when you knock down moral standards you open the door to all kinds of consequences. Most states had their "morals" laws knocked down by SCOTUS decrees defending homosexuality. If these people had more money they would not have to move as they could use the same arguments as the gays to get the local law overturned. They could probably collect damages on top of it.
It started out as "Quit beating up the queers", but now it has evolved into issues of gay marriage, and adult incest. Next comes legitimized pedophilia and bestiality.

How screwed up does a culture have to be when PETA is a guardian of the last vestiges of morality ?
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Post by: kmitch200 on January 18, 2015, 12:56:33 PM
I always wondered if that kid playing the banjo in "Deliverance" was related to any liberal politicians.

You mean that wasn't Harry Reid??   ;)
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Post by: tombogan03884 on January 19, 2015, 06:08:30 AM
No relation to Harry Reid.  ;D


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Redden
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Post by: kmitch200 on January 19, 2015, 11:05:25 AM
No relation to Harry Reid.  ;D

I shoulda known. No jackass tail coming out of his forehead!
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Post by: billt on January 19, 2015, 11:38:46 AM
No relation to Harry Reid.  ;D


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Redden

The guy sorta looks like Robin Williams.