Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Howie Roary]

http://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/5651284992/h6F9DE6C9/

[Cream Soda]

Was hoping it was my local McDonalds, but it's not in St. Pete at all. It's in Pinellas park (One city over). People always call Pinellas Park st pete though idk why. Shit irritates me (just like when they say St. Pete Beach is part of st pete, when it's actually its own city

[Aksannyi]

Yeah that's right over by the Winn Dixie I always go to. I was tempted to go check out the damage but I'm trying not to eat fast food that much anymore, plus, there was a huge line at the drive thru and well fuck that.

That's not even that terrible of an area, either.

[hey]

People always call Pinellas Park st pete though idk why.

I love when i enter my address somewhere and it tries to "correct" it to the name of the next town over.

[Guitarman]

Pakistani baby charged with attempted murder goes into hiding

The family of a Pakistani baby charged with attempted murder say they have been forced into hiding after coming under intense pressure from the police, who are facing national humiliation over the incident.
One police officer has been suspended and an official inquiry has been ordered into how nine-month-old Musa Khan was booked in Lahore for supposedly taking part in a riot in one of the city's slums.
The country's media have highlighted the absurdity of the charge after the boy attended court last week, during which he cried while having his fingerprints recorded and had to be comforted with a milk bottle.
The episode has a shone an embarrassing light on Pakistan's shambolic criminal justice system, where underpaid and ill-trained police can be quick to lay false charges that can ensnare the innocent in years of legal troubles.
"We have had to move to a secret place because we are poor and the police are putting huge pressure on us to manipulate the case," said Muhammad Yasin, the boy's grandfather.
He rejected police claims reported in local media that the family had produced "the wrong baby" before the court in order to undermine the police case.
Musa was among five people identified in a police document known as a first information report (FIR) following disturbances in February in a slum area of Lahore when workers for a gas company came to try to disconnect houses that had not paid their bills.
According to the FIR, written by a now suspended assistant sub-inspector, Musa and his co-accused tried to kill the gas company workers and the policemen accompanying them by throwing stones.
The people living in the area maintain there was only ever a peaceful protest. "There were only women in the houses at daytime and they resisted this discontinuing of supply," Yasin said. "Later we blocked the road and raised slogans against police."
Lawyers say it is all too common for police to resort to collective punishment of entire families, often at the instigation of the complainant. "Most of the time people don't really want justice at the hands of the courts," said Sundas Hoorain, a lawyer who specialises in murder cases. "It is really all about taking revenge, and that means making the other party suffer as much as possible by putting whole families through hell."
It is a practice that often throws up legal absurdities. Hoorain said she worked on one case where men co-accused of murder submitted their passports to prove they were not even in the country at the time of the killing. "It's a practice that means the guilty go free because the credibility of the entire case is compromised," she said.
The charging of toddlers is relatively rare, although there are examples of young children being ensnared in the country's blasphemy laws, which have been much criticised by human rights groups.
Shahbaz Sharif, the powerful chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, has ordered an inquiry into the matter.
Irfan Sadiq Tarar, the family's lawyer, said the penal code made it impossible for children under the age of seven to be considered to have committed a criminal offence. "The case questions the efficiency of the Punjab police," he said.
The judge in the case, who granted Musa bail until the next hearing on Saturday, has demanded an explanation from the police.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-murder-hiding

[Aksannyi]

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/educa...texas/7507771/

Lumberton, Texas (KFDM) -- A substitute teacher in Texas has been suspended for being transgender.

The school district in Lumberton confirms they are looking into the matter and no one has been terminated yet.

CBS affiliate KFDM spoke with the teacher, who says she is a recent hire to the district and has been told she will find out if she gets to keep her job later this week.

Laura Jane Klug says she was subbing for a 5th grade teacher at Lumberton ISD last Thursday when she first found out there had been an issue with her being transgender.

Some concerned parents had come to KFDM, saying they were worried that their child had been supervised by a teacher who was transgender. They say they have no problem with the teacher herself, just that she might be confusing 11-year-olds regarding their own identities.

One parent whose son was in the class said he thinks the teacher would be fine filling in with older children, but not children who are so young.

"Within an hour of them being exposed or dealing with this, there's a few issues here. I think these kids are too young for this issue, so that's our main focus is, if it happens in older grades, high school, OK... but too young for this," says Roger Bread, a 5th grade dad.

Other parents say there is nothing complicated about explaining what a transgender person is. They say the teacher has never been an issue before and don't see why it is now.

"My son knows who he is and I don't think any outside influence is going to change that. I'm more concerned about straight predatory teachers, rather than I am [of] someone who lives an alternative, private, alternate lifestyle. I don't worry about my son," Jammie Marcantel, a 5th grade parent says.

The district says it cannot comment on the matter, but no one has been fired.

Klug says some people will gather at the school board meeting Thursday night at 7 to speak during a public forum. She says the board will then vote about the teacher's employment.

Texas state law does not protect employees based on their sexual orientation or identity.

Sigh ... fifth graders probably are more accepting and less likely to to even care about someone being trans than their stupid parents give them credit for.

[Fievel]

Don't let a trans near your kids, they may get infected with trans themselves.

[hey]

Sigh ... fifth graders probably are more accepting and less likely to to even care about someone being trans than their stupid parents give them credit for.

Honestly, i'm not so sure about that. Kids are pretty fucking awful.

[Nephlite]

Honestly, i'm not so sure about that. Kids are pretty fucking awful.

This. However, do they really know the teacher is transgender? Is it a situation that awareness isn't even called in to question until someone brings it up? i.e. in this case, supposedly mature and responsible adults who question it and not the students?

[Blubbartron]

This. However, do they really know the teacher is transgender? Is it a situation that awareness isn't even called in to question until someone brings it up? i.e. in this case, supposedly mature and responsible adults who question it and not the students?

Preschool and kindergarteners might not realize anything is different about the person, but a 5th grader should be aware enough and have seen enough people to know something is immediately "off". They might not be able to articulate it or put their finger on it precisely, however. Whether that actually matters to them is an entirely different issue.

[hey]

Preschool and kindergarteners might not realize anything is different about the person, but a 5th grader should be aware enough and have seen enough people to know something is immediately "off". They might not be able to articulate it or put their finger on it precisely, however. Whether that actually matters to them is an entirely different issue.

Uh, not necessarily. Plenty of trans people don't really look any different. It totally varies from person to person. Sometimes it's easy to identify that someone is trans, other times it's nearly impossible.

[Blubbartron]

Uh, not necessarily. Plenty of trans people don't really look any different. It totally varies from person to person. Sometimes it's easy to identify that someone is trans, other times it's nearly impossible.

That usually depends on early (and I do mean early) access to hormone therapy. Prepubescent, ideally. Obviously it varies, but the "able to immediately tell" case is vastly more common right now than the "holy shit never would've guessed" case. Perhaps in the future that will change, but this is largely a result of trans people not being able to start hormone therapies during their adolescence due to families being conservative assholes.

[Aksannyi]

I don't know, I think that kids before puberty are far more forgiving than kids once they start puberty. Fifth grade for me wasn't that bad, everyone was still kind of okay to each other, then sixth grade came around and the whole fucking class hated each other.

I could be wrong, but I have seen several instances where parents were much more bigoted than their kids and the only reasons their kids grew to be wary of the person at all was because their parents gave off a bad vibe toward them. Way to teach your kids acceptance.

[notorious bum]

Nah, fifth grade was the first and only time I ever got a referral, my first fisticuffs(unrelated to referral), and where teacher heckling/berating first appeared. I was laid-back and cool as fuck, but they saw me as goody-good and I hated every one of those little dickwads. lol

[BaneTheBrawler]

you guys just had shitty schools.

[AoE]

Only time I got a referral was getting punched in the face in 8th grade by a dude for no reason.

[Brill Weave]

Only time I got a referral was getting punched in the face in 8th grade by a dude for no reason.

You must have missed a proc.

[Mazmaz]

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Mercilessly Destroys Youth Soccer Player in Penalty Kicks

[Cream Soda]

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Mercilessly Destroys Youth Soccer Player in Penalty Kicks

That was so satisfying to watch

[Brill Weave]

I love that guy lol.