The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[WWWP]

Death toll from Camp Fire is rising.

Video contains dead bodies, or, skeletons rather, watch at your own risk.

[Lisnaholic]

Originally Posted by Frownland

I thought that gun control meant keeping your aim steady.

Originally Posted by Anteater

You take away the guns you'll just get people throwing acid on eachother's faces like they do over in the U.K.

^ Clearly it's Dark Humour Day on MB.

Yes, Anteater, that's a pretty grisly innovation in violent crime, courtesy of the Brits, but if this guy had been throwing acid out the hotel window, at least the death count would've been lower:-


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Originally Posted by Frownland

1. Blaming California's fires on Trump is about as scientific as Republicans rejecting climate change.

^ You' re right, it sounds like a real stretch and I'm not sure I'd make that exact claim, but:-

i) Trump is overseeing policies that exacerbate global warming, which is generally agreed to be a factor contributing to more frequent and more devastating forest fires.
ii) He's also responsible for removing $10 million* from FEMA's annual budget, thus impeding their ability to respond to natural disasters.

* The money has been reallocated to ICE, and in fact:

The transfer was a part of more than $200 million the Department of Homeland Security moved from the budgets of other agencies to ICE’s detention and removals.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/u...detention.html

[[MERIT]]

So, interviews from witnesses / survivors of the Thousand Oaks shooting claim that ~ 60 of them were also witnesses / survivors in the Las Vegas shooting. What bad luck they have.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by 66Sexy

DRI started out as a hardcore band with metal influences making almost no songs 2 minutes long, then they went straight thrash, got bloated, and lost a lot of their energy. You should totally check this out though. Right at the cusp of going thrash but with a total speed demon hardcore approach.

Listened to this at work today. ****ing dead on brilliant.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Interesting.

Guns are fun but I’d rather live in a world where they didn’t exist.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

So he's responsible for the fires because he's a partisan hack? Fretting over insensitive tweets ain't putting the fire out, that's for sure.

No. I’m just saying it’s a pretty nasty time to attack people who work in forestry and really crazy to say you’re going to cut funding when it’s needed most. I quoted you but I didn’t mean to draw a direct line there. I’m just saying that’s what he said and he often threatens California with pulling federal funding like with the sanctuary city ****. I think America needs California much more than California needs America and I would like y’all to a Calexit and have a break up of the union in general. I want America to die. Florida should Flexit.

[[MERIT]]

[OccultHawk]

Florida is crooked af

You’d have to be a conspiracy nut NOT to think this place corrupt top to bottom

[[MERIT]]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Florida is crooked af

You’d have to be a conspiracy nut NOT to think this place corrupt top to bottom

What do you think it is about Florida that makes it so susceptible to corruption?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

What do you think it is about Florida that makes it so susceptible to corruption?

Honest to god I have no ****ing idea.