assault Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Zombie spiders are slaves to their manipulative wasp masters From Australia, naturally. Of course other species that do the same thing have been found elsewhere. Cygnia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Frogs equipped with venomous face stabbing face stabbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Frogs equipped with venomous face stabbing face stabbers And now we know the real reason behind Kermit & Piggy's break-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Frogs equipped with venomous face stabbing face stabbers I learned something new. You need 4,000 mice units of killy stuff (MUKS) to kill a single human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 No remorse in killing of "sorcerer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Aol.com's front page reports 91 year old woman thought she was having a tumor removed from her stomach. It was not a tumor. CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Aol.com's front page reports 91 year old woman thought she was having a tumor removed from her stomach. It was not a tumor. CES So what was it? A baby? An organ? If you're nor going to link the article at least finish the thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Calcified fetus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 That's ... rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Simple question to save a life. Ternaugh, Pattern Ghost, death tribble and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Well Done, Young Mr. Harrington. If I could buy you a Gatorade, I would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 James Holmes Gets Life In Prison One holdout juror could not vote for death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Real-life Game of Thrones: Lawyer seeks trial by combat to resolve lawsuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Poor snakes (and I say this as someone ophidiphobic). Mysterious fungus killing snakes in at least 9 states Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 James Holmes Gets Life In Prison One holdout juror could not vote for death. Good for him (or her). It is neither necessary or desirable to meet evil with evil. It is also costly, time-consuming, and almost always pointless to sentence a person to death as opposed to Life Without Parole. If you kill someone in my name, even if his deed is monstrous, you are trying to male me culpable and I do not want that. I do not want to be an executioner by association. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Opinions vary. I am not sure anything but execution is truly justice for such a heinous act. One thing I did not hear, I know his defense team claimed that his Mental illness should at the least bar him from execution, that somehow it caused the murders. The question under law, as I understand it(perhaps primarily for a Not Guilty by reason of insanity), is whether his mental ilness caused him to not realize it was wrong to commit the crime he is accused/convicted of. I Have seen nothing to indicate that he was suffering some delusion that he was killing aliens, defending the earth, or some such situation that might actually have left someone incapable of telling right from wrong. So how does the argument go? Schizophrenia caused him to murder all those people? It is very possible that I am more than usually obtuse today, Allergies have my head feeling like it is lined with cotton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 As far as we understand schizophrenia, it is a disease of mental dysfunction, like being drunk, or, perhaps, in a dream state. We don't attribute rationality because the ability to reason through circumstances isn't any more present than the ability to stop fidgeting. To the extent that schizophrenics present a rationale for their behaviour, it is of a piece with trying to rationalise "events" in a dream. Executing someone for a crime arising purely from schizophrenia is like executing a chloroformed sentry for dereliction of duty. Now, that being said, it is more than likely that mass-murdering schizophrenics have something else going on in there. I believe the current trend is a dual diagnosis. That is, a schizophrenic who is also suffering from manic depressive disorder is more likely to commit mass murder, although of course these are very rare events. Then you've got your triple diagnosis --either one of the rarer physically-rooted mental disorders, or one of the personality disorders that may be dysfunctional coping mechanisms. Its the last that make everyone queasy. We don't let alcoholics off on the grounds that their drinking is "self-medicating!" And, yet ...they are. If mental illness were easy to deal with --well, we wouldn't have things like the Aurora shooting to start with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Laws and rules relating to capital punishment vary from state to state, so without more familiarity with Colorado law I can't guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Opinions vary. I am not sure anything but execution is truly justice for such a heinous act. One thing I did not hear, I know his defense team claimed that his Mental illness should at the least bar him from execution, that somehow it caused the murders. The question under law, as I understand it(perhaps primarily for a Not Guilty by reason of insanity), is whether his mental ilness caused him to not realize it was wrong to commit the crime he is accused/convicted of. I Have seen nothing to indicate that he was suffering some delusion that he was killing aliens, defending the earth, or some such situation that might actually have left someone incapable of telling right from wrong. So how does the argument go? Schizophrenia caused him to murder all those people? It is very possible that I am more than usually obtuse today, Allergies have my head feeling like it is lined with cotton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_impulse Welcome to your next wiki-hole! The legal definition of insanity is almost nothing like the conventional or APA definition. It has a storied history of society wanting to kill people who have commit utterly irredeemable acts of violence. The trouble is, sane people don't do those things, almost by definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 The EPA just f***ed up the area of the country where I grew up. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/epa-mine-spill/ http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-mine-spill-toxic-wastewater-leak-far-exceeds-first-estimates-n407091 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/10/us-usa-colorado-spill-idUSKCN0QF01C20150810 http://www.newsweek.com/epa-causes-massive-colorado-spill-1-million-gallons-mining-waste-turns-river-361019 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/10/navajo-nation-epa-mine-wastewater-spill/31399517/ I saw one story about it on the news the day it happened and haven't seen anything since. Then a friend of mine who still lives in the area calls me up today and starts giving me more details, about how they can no longer drink the water and have to buy bottled water for everything, how two more dams are in danger of failing, how if that happens nothing will be left alive in the river, and how people are already finding dead fish. I grew up no more than a couple miles from the Animas River. It flows past the entrance to Dutchman's Hill, the subdivision started by my grandpa and whose water company was run by my parents for so many years. I've fished in the Animas and have even gone into it a few times although I can't swim. So this is extremely personal for me and I'm seriously cheesed off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 You should be cheesed off. That mine should have been cleaned up sometime between when it was closed in the twenties and now. The only reason people have been able to use the river is because the old mine built up a debris dam to hold in all the crap instead of constantly letting it wash downstream. It's only ironic that it was an EPA contractor that set off that ticking time bomb and not some vandal or prospector. The corporation that used to run the mine took their profits and disappeared decades ago, of course, so here we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Cat win's LA Animal Shelter's "Hero Dog" Award. (Warning the video does show some pretty gruesome bite wounds on a little boy that required stitches) I may have posted the original story earlier this year but this is the Award story so mildly different. Ternaugh and Cygnia 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Cat win's LA Animal Shelter's "Hero Dog" Award. (Warning the video does show some pretty gruesome bite wounds on a little boy that required stitches) I may have posted the original story earlier this year but this is the Award story so mildly different. "The word 'dog' was scratched out and replaced with 'cat'" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Fierce 80-Year-Old Woman Fights Off Young Attacker By Grabbing His Balls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 "The word 'dog' was scratched out and replaced with 'cat'" Well, it worked for Eric the Cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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