For those who may need a reminder …

According to the detectives, Trails Carolina protocols dictated that the boy would have to sleep on the floor of the bunkhouse the first night. The records indicate the base layer of it is a heavy plastic that is cut approximately six feet and tied on each end with a string. On top is a sleeping bivy, which is a small tent. One side is collapsed, and the other side is held up with a flex pole. A sleeping bag is inside the bivy. On the zipper of the bivy is a small alarm that goes off when you exit. That device was seized along with other items.

Around midnight, the boy began to experience a panic attack. According to the detectives’ warrants, the two counselors stood along the wall. They told detectives the boy experienced panic and high anxiety but according to the warrants, “didn’t mention if they attempted to assist him.” The counselor did mention to detectives that the boy could exit the bivy at any time, but when he described it to detectives they kept stating, “‘we’ would open or close the bivy.” They claim the boy was checked at midnight, 3 a.m., and 6 a.m. and found dead at 7:45 a.m., and he was cold to the touch and stiff.

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Did you read the link I posted, cause if you had you would have found out there is little to no archeological evidence that Mecca’s current location matches its historical one.

Kids need love, acceptance and guidance from adults who are capable of that. If they don’t get that from those who should be giving it, they are open to abuse from those who will use and abuse them.

Those kids aren’t being recruited to murder anyone in the beginning. They’re being given the things they need, then they’re being manipulated to believe they owe their lives to the ones who gave it, and must do what they’re told to repay the debt.

Kids don’t have adult brains to think through the consequences of their choices. And the adults in charge of them, specifically politicians and other idjits who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about them most of the time, are failing those kids at every turn.

Not as big a difference as you think there is. Both are children needing love, acceptance, guidance and healing from massive traumas you can’t even begin to imagine.

There is some debate over where Mecca is currently situated and where it may have been located historically.

I agree with all except number 3. The aerospace manufacturing industry is not competitive at all. It is a market cornered by Boeing and Airbus, with a very few small players feeding specific components to the Big 2.

This is why hard core ‘Christians’ (and I use that term loosely) drive me bonkers.

And rarely have issues with inhumane treatment.

I have always admired the EU for its stance towards big business, ie: they are never more important than people are.

Not every nation follows America’s hardline view of kids and crime.

Recent research indicates that SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 progression may predispose recovered patients to cancer onset and accelerate cancer development.

Well that’s not good. :/

I’ve added an archive link to the summary.

Thanks for the head’s up.

The Last of Us crossed with Cronenberg’s Shivers.

The name of the source for the fun read (wonkette . com) is the icing on the cake here.

chef’s kiss

Yes, but the article clearly says …

The seas in the eastern Mediterranean have been choppier than expected …

Canadians get it. Many Americans, not so much.

They may have … because the planning was rushed … meaning, more importantly, they used historical weather patterning which is now unreliable (due to global warming).

Ofc I did. But I also didn’t realize I was doing it until it happened for the first time.

If it’s never happened to you, good. But it does happen to a lot of us.

He was complacent, believing because he’d done the route often enough he’d be safe.

I mean how could he get lost when he said he’d done it before? Because he was so familiar with it his mind wandered and he wasn’t paying attention.

The same thing has happened to me when I’ve been driving the same route home after a long day at work. All of a sudden I ‘wake up’ and realize I don’t remember the drive at all.

“Under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, tycoons like the Semples were tapped for advice and wielded greater influence outside the province,” said Enoch, director of the Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

“Their influence dropped off with the Trudeau government, but I think they’re keen to regain it with a Poilievre victory.”

Yeah, that’s what we need … Harper’s Con, Part Deux.