weirdcritter

I could call you a suitable name but if I did I may get banned. So no.

Gee, THX must have woken up this morning and found some down votes wrapped in a bow under the tree, Better than coal, for sure.

I am so tempted to go into your daily routine, from Barack Obama waking you in the morning and dressing you to Adlai Stevenson making you go to bed, reading you a bedtime story then turning the light out promptly at 9 o'clock but I don't have the time or the interest to do it justice.

This story would have to be one of the biggest potential nightmares for anyone who is a parent. Some would blame Liberalism for this kid's decision to murder his parents and kid brothers. Some would blame Satan. The biggest contributor to Nicholas Browning's crime would probably be hormones and restlessness that comes with adolescence. But the only person I would blame for this horror is Nicholas Browning himself:
Oh, and Merry Christmas
Police say Maryland Boy Scout killed his family while they slept
Kasey Jones - Associated Press
Monday, February 4, 2008
COCKEYSVILLE, Md. -- Police say a 15-year-old Boy Scout charged with killing his parents and two younger brothers shot them as they slept, then returned a day later after spending time with friends to stage the discovery of their deaths.
Friends of the Browning family, many of whom held a candlelight vigil Sunday evening at the half-million dollar farmhouse-style home where authorities say the killings happened, said they were shocked. Someone hung a small, silver-colored crucifix on the mailbox.
The father, John Browning, was "beloved and well-revered. I'm told this is not the kind of family that this could happen to," said the Rev. Frances Dailey, pastor of Timonium United Methodist Church, where the Brownings' Troop 328 met in the suburban Balitmore community.
Officials believe the teen, Nicholas Browning, had shot his father, mother, and brothers with one of his father's guns Friday, then tossed the handgun in some bushes and left.
Authorities said friends dropped Nicholas off on Saturday, and soon after, he came out of the house to say he had found his father's body on the ground floor. He then called 911.
"A caller reported to 911 that a 45-year-old male was lying on the couch with blood coming out of his nose. He was not breathing," charging documents said.
Shortly before 5 p.m., officers found Nicholas' father dead in a ground-floor room and his mother and brothers' bodies in upstairs bedrooms. They also found the gun. The victims were John, 45; Tamara, 44; Gregory, 13, and Benjamin, 11.
Police said Nicholas confessed early Sunday and was charged as an adult with four counts of first-degree murder. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.
Nicholas had not been getting along with his father, police said in a news release, but investigators offered no other details. There was no sign of a confrontation Friday at the house, police said.
John Browning, a real estate lawyer, had worked in Baltimore County's oldest law firm for nearly 20 years. He was a scoutmaster and a church leader.
Nicholas, who was tall and gangly, was working toward becoming an Eagle Scout, and had built a prayer garden at his church to meet one of the requirements. His high school was one of the best in the county.
Browning led camping, rock climbing and whitewater expeditions for his Boy Scout troop. The family also hosted meetings for scouts' parents at their home.
"John was a wonderful man. He and his wife, Tammy, were very much in love. Together they were caring and loving parents to their children," Browning's law partners said in a statement. "John was also a man of much faith. And he so much enjoyed the outdoors."
Two of Nicholas Browning's schoolmates drove past the house Sunday afternoon. They wept when they were told Nicholas was charged in the killings.
"It's hard to believe someone could do this," said Brooke Kebaugh, 16.
Liz Lazlawbach, 17, said Browning complained about fighting with his father, but "not about anything violent."
Nicholas was formally arrested at 1:05 a.m. Sunday after admitting to the killings, Baltimore County Police spokesman Bill Toohey said. He was denied bail Sunday morning at a hearing. He was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson in a special section for juveniles.
His bail will be reviewed Monday in Towson, the county seat, six miles from the family's home.
The county had 37 homicides last year, compared with 282 in nearby Baltimore. Toohey said there had not been a similar incident in the area since 1995, when a man killed his wife and three children before killing himself.
Resident Mike Thomas said one of his sons had been in scouts with one of the Brownings' sons. The Brownings would go out of their way to help others, even stopping to pick up debris in the street, he said.
"These people would do anything in the world for you — just incredible people," he said.
Thomas said he recently sold John Browning a trailer that Browning planned to use for Boy Scout outings. It was parked Sunday in the family's driveway.

I could call you a suitable name but if I did I may get banned. So no.

Whaaa! Did they run out of thumb down votes THX? Gee didn't know they were rationed.

FedUp: Speaking of cities, it is nice of you to try and make Reynoldsville such a hot bed of legal precedence .I highly doubt that your little town is setting the tone of justice in America. Maybe your little town is just following along.
Because of you I am going to do something I never thought possible. Defend that boring stupid town of Reynoldsville. I used to climb to the top of the hill where the water towers are and look down at the town imagining it being destroyed and then salted under like ancient Carthage. I hated it that much because it was so boring. Nothing to offer a nerdy imaginative kid like me. Then I would go home and read books and watch TV where I could at least have fun of enjoying interesting lives vicariously. And that is the appeal small towns have for people. Nothing happens there. They are safe. Not a big police force because a big one is not and was not needed. If you want your kid to roam the woods,maybe hunting and fishing, going camping, playing lots of youth sports and maybe as teens having beer parties out in the woods, then Reynoldsville and many such small towns are for you. I never found those activities in the least appealing. I knew Chief Milliron through his daughter. I once complained to him that nothing ever happens in Reynoldsville. He replied that's the way he wants to keep it.
What my father did was done behind closed doors. Most men anywhere do not beat their wives or torture their babies. That kind of crime is an anomaly. Not any kind of a trend. Just a sad blip on the social radar, sometimes fatal. Kids in the Florida town you live in now are being abused. It isn't a trend. It is just something sadly horrible that happens and one can only hope the authorities can intervene before anything very bad happens. 

Just occurred to me: Tough law and order mayors of big cities  try to turn their cities into something like small towns. But small town living is what city dwellers want to avoid. Which is why these mayors don't have much traction in the long run.

But hey, keep those cows coming fed. More beef and milk.

And just to be sure people know where I stand: Big cities have always had a crime problem and there isn't very much that can be done about it. This has been true since the days of ancient Egypt. I find it amazing that people who choose to live in small towns, who wouldn't want to stay overnight in a metropolitan area, would obsess over them so much.

To save anybody the trouble of publishing more statistics to convince me of whatever, I have the same attitude toward statistics that Disraeli did: There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics.

Yes crime is due to something other than Liberalism. It is due to the actions of the criminals. And many of these criminals are proud of their murder and mayhem. Doesnt matter if they are a crip or a neonazi. Going to prison even getting the death penalty is a badge of honor to these people. And Liberal run big cities tend to be crime ridden because they are big! They are very difficult to manage! You could put a tough law-and-order administration like Rizzo in Philadelphia or Guiliani in NYC and they will not make much of a dent in crime. Why? Because they are so big! Yet young people flock to live in these cities and it isn't because they have a big crime problem. Why? They are so big and have much to offer ambitious young people. And then the tough law-and-order mayors go to far fighting crime and ruin some of the things that attract people to cities and that people who live in cities enjoy. Remember how the Guiliana-era ACDC song "I Feel Safe in New York City" end? "I feel safe in a cage!" Living in a municipality ridden with crime is part of the price of enjoying big city life. Those who don't like it are free to move somewhere else. 

Many family members are trapped in hideous circumstances with a violent member.  There are so many complications to leaving a bad relationship that it takes a good plan and all the help you can get.  If you want out, then GO!!  No one will ever blame you, and if they do, give them the keys to the house so they can go live with the offender!  Just get the kids away if nothing else.

Time to mix up Cabbage Rolls or something else than takes forever to bake in the oven!  Boiling water on top of the stove helps too.
I pity the poor line workers who have to go out and climb around in this treacherous weather.  I know they choose it as their job, but still they are in serious danger while working on the lines in this weather.  Remember them with thoughts or prayer tonight as we sleep tucked in our beds and they struggle outdoors, in the bitter cold, in the ice, in the wind, in the snow and sleet, in the air or up a pole, all while working with electric.  They deserve our thanks.

We should get a 5 dollar rebate on our electric bills for every hour the power is out. 
They'd probably move a bit faster. 😂

I do want to add: though I consider sports to be a waste of time, I have no problem with anyone playing or watching them as long as I am not compelled to do so. Freedom, ya know?

BTW: Growing up I as often called a sissy because I had no interest in wasting my time playing sports, which I do consider a waste of time, or hunting. I preferred to spend my time reading books and studying. Well, do you know what the opposite of trans is? Straight and gay men who accept their identity as men are considered cis, which is probably adopted from chemistry. Thus straight guys like me, Fed up, Pennstater, Titan, Illiterate, Gator, etc. are...(drum roll)...
Cissies!  

While waiting for my ride just inside the Medical Arts building a couple weeks ago, I overheard a young woman talking with someone who I couldn't clearly identify as male or female. The reason came clear as the conversation proceeded and this person told her about (I will "z" pronouns since they are more easily handled than "they" pronouns) zis upcoming sex change operation. I was fine that. Ze was in zis early twenties, so ze was old enough to decide what to do with zis own body, (I'm grinning as I type this. Aren't pronouns fun? Seriously, aren't they?) Ze was not forcing me to do anything. What I care about at that moment was catching the bus and getting home. This person was not preventing me from doing that. So I fail to see how force is even an issue. 
I also have a great-trans-nephew living outside Cleveland Ohio.  I am perfectly fine with him, or zim. 
In The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I would argue that my trans-nephew and this person talking to zis friend have the right to live their Life as they wish. They have the Liberty to change their sex and gender if they so chose. And they have the right to Pursue Happiness in whatever body or identity they wish.
As for chromosomes and genetics, there are forms are deafness and blindness caused by genetic defects. Sometimes these forms of deafness can be corrected by surgery-or mutilation as some could call it. There are promising techniques being developed to treat blindness too. On a genetic basis these people would still be considered deaf or blind. Some would even argue that Nature or God meant for them to be deaf or blind. I would argue that they have the right of Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness to choose not to be deaf or blind. Furthermore, those who are born with an XY chromosome who want to be XX may have a chromosonal defect that they want either lifestyle or surgery to correct. Same with those born XX who want be be XY. As long as said surgery takes place when they are adults, I'm find with that. If they come to regret that decision for whatever reason, many people regret getting married, becoming parents, taking a high paying job that leaves you depressed and unfulfilled. Join the club. Regret is part of life. It is not up to any agency to protect us from regrets.
One person I thought would come to regret his decisions is Erik Sprague, the Lizardman. Apparently he doesn't have any regrets. I'm find with that too. Do I think he has some kind of mental problem? Yeppers. Would I want to do what he did? Absolutely not. Do I think he should be locked up of denied his rights to get his procedures? Absolutely not. As long as he isn't forcing anyone to join him in Lizarddom I am fine with the choices he made. To me this country is not based on making money or getting cheap goods or following traditions. It is based on the Right of every Life to be lived in Liberty and to Pursue Happiness however that person chooses. 
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/lizardman-scale-tattoos-implants-split-27237084
 
 
 

BTW: Growing up I as often called a sissy because I had no interest in wasting my time playing sports, which I do consider a waste of time, or hunting. I preferred to spend my time reading books and studying. Well, do you know what the opposite of trans is? Straight and gay men who accept their identity as men are considered cis, which is probably adopted from chemistry. Thus straight guys like me, Fed up, Pennstater, Titan, Illiterate, Gator, etc. are...(drum roll)...
Cissies!