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Guy mentions key lime pie and Cuban sandwiches as his first examples of things that make Florida awesome? I like him already.
I didn't actually know that that was the reason why the Florida Man stories are around, though. Not because I didn't know about the Sunshine law, but because I didn't know that other states didn't have an equivalent of it.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Teenager describes fatal beating at upstate New York church
Seriously. WTF.
It isn't Florida nor Texas that have a monopoly of crazies and religious nutbags.
Inter arma enim silent legesI don't think that anyone seriously tried to make that claim. Rather, the proportion of media stories about them tends to be higher in certain states.
edited 22nd Oct '15 6:19:28 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Six churches, five of them predominantly black, have burned in St. Louis in the past 2 weeks
There have been six fires since October 8, all within a few miles of each other around St. Louis. Five have been at predominantly black churches, while the sixth was at a mixed church. Each fire has been set at the door, and while most have done minimal damage—one pastor called them “amateur hour” arsons—one nearly destroyed a building.
The situation is not unlike the arsons that followed the massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston this summer. As The Atlantic pointed out at the time, there’s a long history of terrorism against black churches in America, one that begins in the era of slavery and continues up through Reconstruction, the civil-rights era, and into the 1990s. But unlike those burnings—and despite the intense focus on the St. Louis area since the August 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson—the recent arsons have been slow to get the same attention, either in the national media or even in the area.
If a series of attacks on churches is terrorizing, support from within the community and the nation is one comfort. Facing the attacks mostly alone seems to grate on some of the churches.
“People should be standing up and saying, ‘Hey I’m with you,’” the Revered Rodrick Burton, the pastor of one targeted church, told The Washington Post. “I’ve been surprised at the apathetic response. To me, it’s very telling, very disappointing.”
Burnings of black churches has often been a tactic for white supremacist groups. In 1995 and 1996, dozens of churches burned in the South. A special Justice Department task force eventually obtained hundreds of convictions, including Ku Klux Klan members who burned South Carolina churches. But as Emma Green pointed out in June, there are a stunning number of intentional fires at houses of worship each year—around 280 annually between 2007 and 2011—and the motives are sometimes hard to prove. Many are a result of racial animus. Some are simply set by firebugs. In some occasions, what looks initially like arson turns out to be accident. In July, during the summer arson spree, Mount Zion A.M.E. in Greeleyville, South Carolina, which had been burned in the 1990s arsons, again caught fire and was destroyed. But law-enforcement officials later determined that the Mount Zion’s fire wasn’t a crime.
It should be noted that accidental church fire are not the rarest thing, but 5 predominantly black churches burning within a few miles of each other, all less than half an hour by car from Ferguson, the site of massive racial struggle and unrest, seems like more than a coincidence. Hopefully it'll be nothing.
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Yes. Well. And I hope all these news I keep reading about war and refugees in the middle east are nothing but a very elaborate story and that things are actually ok but that would be sorta silly of me
If the fires are starting at the doors then they're not going to be anything but arson.
Now I wouldn't be surprised if they were ruled to have been accidents started by local young black men who keep suicidally lynching themselves. But that's because I have no faith in US local level law enforcement.
edited 22nd Oct '15 7:40:20 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAn American special forces member
was killed during a rescue mission that saved over 60 hostages from an ISIS prison.
Well, "The Needs of the Many" and all that - plus, that's the kind of act that's (justifiably) given glory to the military in the past, and it's good to see such acts receiving the attention they deserve.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"RE: Florida
I heard somebody argue once that the reason so many stories like that come out of Florida is because it's just as crazy as the rest of the south, but gets more out of state visitors, and that thusly, things that would go unremarked about in Mississippi end up making the news.
Of course that's probably not especially fair to the rest of the south, but I still find it amusing.
Ok deadbeatloser22 we wont.
Anyway if you know Texas didn't want to be the laughing stocks of the world they would you know stop being complete idiots and not pass stupid and crazy laws.
Texas:
- One must acknowledge a supreme being before being able to hold public office.
- It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
- The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.
- Up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos.
- Homosexual behavior is a misdemeanor offense.
- In Dallas it is illegal to possess realistic dildos.
edited 22nd Oct '15 3:16:44 PM by Memers
