Weird News

[footfootfoot]

Bravo Lamplighter! I see it's not for nothing that "lamplighter" is your handle.
You bring light to the benighted and humor impaired.

I was merely thinking that a much simpler thing to do would be for the offended parents to remove their kid from school. There is a mix of homeschooling parent types we encounter: The fellow travelers and the insane religious or frightened of moral decay and those who are simply afraid of their anima and animus.

[TheMercenary]

Let me get this straight. So the school is going to send home a list, and the parents get to choose?

That is crazy. I know people who would mark every single word on any list and others that would be much more selective.

Who is in charge the parents or the teachers?

[ZenGum]

I admit it. I am a bad person for laughing at this.

[casimendocina]

Yes, you are.

[HungLikeJesus]

This occurred not too far from me. Here's an update:

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- Family members of the 29-year-old Australian twin sisters shot at the Cherry Creek State Park shooting range are flying to the United States to help identify which one died, the Melbourne Herald Sun reported Wednesday.Because the twins are identical, investigators have had trouble determining which sister was killed during the mysterious Monday shooting and which sister is in critical condition at a local hospital. Both sisters were shot in the head.Arapahoe County sheriff's investigators were at the coroner’s office Wednesday morning doing a fingerprint comparison, a coroner officials said...

The rest of the story is here.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Aussies, weren't used to being right side up.

[skysidhe]

House Democrats Keep Pelosi as Leader

House Democrats elected Nancy Pelosi to remain as their leader Wednesday despite massive party losses in this month's congressional elections that prompted some lawmakers to call for new leadership. Pelosi, the nation's first female House speaker, will become minority leader when Republicans assume the majority in the new Congress in January.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...#ixzz15b3CBfgV

Some people just land on their feet.

[classicman]

... sometimes in quicksand.

[skysidhe]

ok, You haven't seen anything yet.

Go to the bottom middle photo essay, >>>Obama's Indonesian look alike.

http://www.time.com/time/video/playe...031790,00.html

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by classicman

... sometimes in quicksand.

We shall see. Cat's always land on their feet, even fat ones. ( Fat Cats )

This is why I hold no high position. I would be feeling awful the American people voted me out, and decline?

Am I for real? I know I miss the big picture, but WOW.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

ok, You haven't seen anything yet.

Go to the bottom middle photo essay, >>>Obama's Indonesian look alike.

http://www.time.com/time/video/playe...031790,00.html

That is not a look alike, that is Obama and his Muslim family! I knew it!

[classicman]

I thought he was from Kenya!
Damn, been looking for his birth certificate in the wrong place all this time ...

[classicman]

Burger King's F#*# You Leads to Firings

A profanity laced receipt leads to a firing at a NorCal Burger King.
This receipt should have said a simple "thank you." Burger King corporate stepped in and fired two of its employees after a drive through receipt with some choice words made it on national television.

Sacramento resident Francisco Perez told KCRA TV after ordering food at the Sacramento restaurant, he noticed his receipt read "f--- you" in the area that would normally say "thank you." The four-letter profanity was spelled out not once, but twice.

One day after that story aired, a Burger King manager and an employee have been let go according to a company statement released Wednesday.

"Burger King Corp. (BKC) and the franchisee that owns and operates this restaurant deeply regret that this incident occurred," Burger King's Denise T. Wilson wrote. "The franchisee has taken immediate corrective action and both the manager and employee are being terminated. The franchisee will be reaching out to the guest directly."

Link

[Gravdigr]

Not weird, so much as just dumb...

from www.abc-7.com

[HungLikeJesus]

Here's the latest on Zen's story:

AURORA, Colo. -- Police have determined that the bizarre shooting at the shooting range on Monday was not a shootout or a failed murder-suicide but a suicide pact.

"Members of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Investigation Service Area have now met with the surviving sister, who has confirmed that they had planned to commit suicide together, and did in fact shoot themselves," the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday afternoon...