Six murders in Philadelphia first day of the year

[Aeson]

To tie the story into the thread topic even further, the woman half of the murdering couple was engaged to a Marine:

Tuesday, a tearful Mike Atwood said his daughter was engaged to be married to a soldier — a Marine returning from a tour in Afghanistan.

[SlowwHand]

If this thread should be tied, it should be in a burlap bag and tossed in a volcano as an appeasement to some uncivilized goat god.
The only thread that I can remember that was worse, other than the redundant "Southerners are slave owners", is Che's story of being physically accosted and his bicycle stolen.

[Thoth]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/br...mpid=124488429



Ridiculous. How many murders today in your city?

So there are another 6 good Philladelphians? good.

As per normal, there were no murders on New Years day in Brampton.


Civilized countries have low violent crime rates.

Maybe you should consider moving to one?

[Wezil]

As per normal, there were no murders on New Years day in Brampton.

Do honour killings count?

[Thoth]

Do honour killings count?

No.

[Dinner]

Of course not because clearly the slut deserved it.

[molly bloom]

Oh wait. gribbler has the brain of a woman and is using woman logic.

And you wonder why women aren't flocking to you. I doubt it's your choice of cologne.

....she is a force in British science, and she knows it. She is a professor of pharmacology at Oxford, which even in the *****y world of British academics counts for something.
She is also a baroness and a member of the House of Lords, one of the "people's peers" appointed by Tony Blair to put oomph into the upper chamber. She has launched three academic start-up companies, named Synaptica, BrainBoost and Neurodiagnostics, all of which are concerned with aspects of Alzheimer's disease.

To cap all that, she is director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, whose base is in Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, London. This is the laboratory founded by Count Rumford, the man who 200 years ago gave the world the coffee pot, the kitchen range and a proper theory of heat. Its first lecturer, Humphry Davy, started discovering elements seemingly at the rate of one a week. Thomas Young, another lecturer, overturned Newton's theory of light, developed a modulus of elasticity that engineers still use today, and started deciphering the Rosetta Stone. And a third, Michael Faraday, launched the modern world by demonstrating the power of electricity.

Like electricity, Lady Greenfield can be shocking, but also illuminating. She is a star turn on the lecture circuit, delivering rapid-fire commentary on the neurochemistry of the human brain, taking people through the mysteries of memory, cognition and perception while flashing up famous people and paintings and lurid images from favourite childhood comics such as the Beezer.

She steps up to the podium, petite and persuasive. She is funny and irreverent - quite often about about male scientists and the challenges that women face in science - and provoking. She also sends herself up, citing a poll which once described her as the 14th most influential woman in the world and then adding, after a perfectly judged pause: "Dolly Parton came ninth." She has a lot to say about science, and says it volubly, in books, on the radio, on television, at the literary festivals, at lectures.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/apr/30/science.highereducation

Another one who gets by on 'woman logic':

Mary Warnock
1924 -
Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge
Lectures
1992: Imagination and Understanding
Biography
Mary Warnock, philosopher, was born Helen Mary Wilson on 14 April 1924 in Winchester. Her father was a housemaster at Winchester, but died seven months before Mary was born; her mother never remarried. Mary was educated at St. Swithun’s, an Anglican school, where she concentrated on classics. She won a scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and began her studies there in 1942. One of her closest friends during this time was Charles de Gaulle’s daughter, Elisabeth. After leaving briefly to teach at Sherborne School for Girls, she returned to Lady Margaret Hall to earn her first degree in 1948; she was made Honorary Fellow in 1984.
Warnock taught philosophy at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1966 and was well regarded as a teacher. She became the first married Fellow of the college in 1959. Thanks to two books on existentialism, in the 1960s she became a regular philosophy commentator on BBC Radio 3. She served as headmistress of the Oxford High School from 1966 to 1972. She was a member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority from 1973 to 1983, and was considered as a possible chair of governors of the BBC in 1980; she chaired a commission of inquiry into laboratory animal experiments and sat on a Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Warnock was mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, from 1984 to 1991 and became a Life Peer in 1985 as ‘Baroness Warnock of Weeke’. In 2000 Warnock was a Visiting Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London.
In 1949 she married philosopher Geoffrey Warnock, and they had two sons and three daughters during the 1950s. Geoffrey, who late in his career served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford and principal of Hertford College, retired in 1988 and died of degenerative lung disease in 1995. She lives in a village in Savernake forest.
Mary Warnock is perhaps best known for chairing two national committees of inquiry for Great Britain, each of which published a significant report. The first (1974-78) reported on the education of handicapped children and young persons, and resulted in Special Educational Needs (1978). The second and most influential inquiry dealt with the ethics of embryos and human fertilisation, entitled A Question of Life: The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology (1984, reprinted 1985), which was published six years after the birth of the first test-tube baby. She returned to writing about issues related to the ethics of human reproduction in Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children? (2002).
Her other works include Ethics Since 1900 (1960; 3rd ed. 1978), Jean-Paul Sartre (1963), The Philosophy of Sartre (1965), Existentialist Ethics (1967), Existentialism (1970), and What Must We Teach? (1977, with Tim Devlin), on the aims and objectives of education. She also published Schools of Thought (1977), Memory (1987), The Uses of Philosophy (1992), Imagination and Time (1994), An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics (1998), and Nature and Morality: Recollections of a Philosopher in Public Life (2003). She edited several volumes, including Sartre: A Collection of Critical Essays (1971), Women Philosophers (1995), and Art for All?: Their Policies and Our Culture (2000, with Mark Wallinger). Her memoir, Mary Warnock: A Memoir—People and Places, was published in 2000.

http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=240

You're so effortlessly offensive and stupid.

[Al B. Sure!]

yawn... women logic in this context is not the same as the logic used in scientific realms nor does it exclude the possibility of outliers. I'm talking average typical women in social situations. They make no ****ing sense and every man knows this.

The funny thing about women's logic is they always exclude themselves. I can go and talk about women logic and a crapload of women will agree with me but be so sure of themselves that it's other women who do it.

[giblets]

Every man is a sexist? Wow, what a sweeping generalization. Of course people from Philly are all retarded and if someone cites Benjamin Franklin as a counterexample, well, of course there are outliers but I'm still right.

[Al B. Sure!]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/womans-logic

[Ming]

And Alby wonders why he can't get laid...

[molly bloom]

yawn... women logic in this context is not the same as the logic used in scientific realms nor does it exclude the possibility of outliers. I'm talking average typical women in social situations. They make no ****ing sense and every man knows this.

Yes, you've had such extensive experience with women you clearly are an expert on their thought processes.

Have you ever heard the expression 'c0ckstruck' ? It describes a certain state of mind for some men.

Consider too that video we saw of the gun attack on a bus in Philadelphia.

What (superior) distinctively male logic was involved, one wonders ?

How about the man who killed another parent at a hockey game ?

Maybe, sometime in the past, the Burbank Ice Arena was a place you could take your kid to learn the better lessons of sports—teamwork, discipline, the thrill of victory, grace in defeat. But since July 5, 2000, Burbank also teaches a darker lesson. After that day, "I was uncomfortable about coming back," says Peggy Quinn, a mother who takes her daughter Caitlin, 4, to skating lessons at the Reading, Mass., rink. "I told her there had been an accident there. I didn't tell her there was a murder."

By any name, what happened at Burbank was ugly. On Jan. 11, after an eight-day trial in Middlesex County superior court, a jury of nine women and three men found truck driver Thomas Junta, 44, guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the beating death of Michael Costin, 40. Eighteen months earlier the part-time painter and carpet layer had been supervising Junta's 12-year-old son Quinlan in a hockey scrimmage when the two men came to blows. Junta, a 6'1", 270-lb. Tony Soprano lookalike who outweighed Costin by 114 lbs., will likely get three to five years when he is sentenced Jan. 25.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20136284,00.html

Men. They make no ****ing sense and every human knows this.

[Dinner]

Now we have a Darwin award contender. A Navy SEAL in San Diego ended up accidently shooting himself in the head (a wound he died from several days later) while trying to impress a girl he had picked up at a bar. Getting drunk and playing with guns is ****ing stupid; forgeting the gun is loaded then putting it to your head and pulling the trigger as a drunken joke... That's Darwin Award material.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/navy-seal-dies-in-san-diego-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-while-playing-with-gun/2012/01/07/gIQAyXHuhP_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop

[MikeH]

Military intelligence.

[MikeH]

Seriously how can a member of one of your most elite teams be that ill disciplined? Shameful.