What's in the news?

[Lustful Bride]

IS Members are now surrendering en masse to coalition forces.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isis-fighters-having-pledged-to-fight-or-die-surrender-en-masse/ar-AAt4LxY?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[Lustful Bride]

San Diego is having a bad Hepatitis A outbreak.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-san-diego-hepatitis-a-outbreak-became-the-worst-the-us-has-seen-in-decades/ar-AAt5uoG?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[Sara Nilsson]

http://thehill.com/latino/354561-white-house-lets-jones-act-waiver-expire-for-puerto-rico

The White House has let a 10-day shipping waiver expire for Puerto Rico, meaning foreign ships can no longer bring aid to the hurricane-ravaged island from U.S. ports.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Monday that the Jones Act waiver, which expired on Sunday, will not be extended.

[Sara Nilsson]

http://www.koco.com/article/man-who-raped-woman-when-she-was-12-now-awarded-joint-custody-of-her-child/12806186

A man who raped a girl when she was 12-years-old has now been awarded joint custody of her child, despite being convicted of rape and sexual assault of another child.

Words cannot describe how angry I am right now. How in the everloving FUCK can this be ok?!?!

[Lustful Bride]

http://www.koco.com/article/man-who-raped-woman-when-she-was-12-now-awarded-joint-custody-of-her-child/12806186

Words cannot describe how angry I am right now. How in the everloving FUCK can this be ok?!?!

What? how? Whoever decided on this should be fired!

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In other news, South Korea confirms that their military network was hacked and large amounts of military data was stolen, likely by the North.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/n-korea-hacked-seouls-war-plan-report/ar-AAteYZc?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[gaggedLouise]

http://www.koco.com/article/man-who-raped-woman-when-she-was-12-now-awarded-joint-custody-of-her-child/12806186

Words cannot describe how angry I am right now. How in the everloving FUCK can this be ok?!?!

There are so many points gone wrong in that case, that I seriously wonder what the judges and jury had been smoking before they dug into these repeated rape cases (the man was handed just one year in jail for raping an underage girl and making her pregnant?? and served just half of that?)  >:( And then the custody thing, of course.

OT: All of Europe waiting to see whether the Catalan cabinet will go for declaring independence, and what might happen next if they do? (personally, I hope they don't - it would likely be a destructive move and ut's far from clear that they would have a majority behind them even in Catalonia)

[Lustful Bride]

Vampire scare in Malawi leads to angry mobs and evacuation of UN staff

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare#ampshare=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare

[Lustful Bride]

School District puts the blame on 3rd graders for 'allowing themselves to be molested' in court documents.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-school-district-blamed-third-graders-who-were-molested/ar-AAtjDFn?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15


I need to go scream into a pillow...this is so disgusting.

[RedRose]

11 year old girl said to have been consenting as she didn't protest. Asshole is 28. I don't even understand how that can be so. Age of consent is 15. Marriage age was switched from 16 to 18 (barring exceptions) to avoid forced marriages. Topless is banned except from such beaches. But then there's this?! That reminds me of going to the police station due to a stalker and been told that, age and look wise, I should just get a less exposed job, which FTR was absolutely normal, think hairdresser or waitress.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4925422/French-court-rules-girl-11-consented-sex-man-28.html

[Deamonbane]

The US will withdraw from UNESCO, claiming anti-Israel Bias.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/12/u-s-withdraws-from-unesco-the-u-n-s-cultural-organization-citing-anti-israel-bias/?utm_term=.e3a9bbbca02b

[Lustful Bride]

North Korean Nuclear Tests seem to have actually damaged their testing site.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/latest-nkorea-earthquake-a-sign-of-instability-at-nuclear-test-site-experts/ar-AAtn1kd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[Beorning]

Decapitated band members formally charged with rape:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/13/all-four-members-of-polish-death-metal-band-decapitated-charged-with-rape-of-fan-6997399/

[TheGlyphstone]

Decapitated band members formally charged with rape:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/13/all-four-members-of-polish-death-metal-band-decapitated-charged-with-rape-of-fan-6997399/

I'll admit that had me do a double take, before I realized Decapitated was the name of the band and not a description of its members.

[Missy]

I'll admit that had me do a double take, before I realized Decapitated was the name of the band and not a description of its members.

Indeed I too anticipated a more bizarre plot twist.

[TheGlyphstone]

I also wouldn't put it past Poland's current authorities to have dead people posthumously charged with crimes somehow, especially a death metal band. So it was a plausible double take.

[Oniya]

I also wouldn't put it past Poland's current authorities to have dead people posthumously charged with crimes somehow, especially a death metal band. So it was a plausible double take.

If I recall the original incident, they were in the U.S. when the crime occurred, so it's U.S. authorities that are involved.  (But Beorning's headline would have been perfect Jay Leno material.)

[RedRose]

I was imagining some vigilante crime.

[Yukina]

I was imagining some vigilante crime.

"The Axecutioner patrols the night..."

[Avis habilis]

Axe Cop!

[Beorning]

I was imagining some vigilante crime.

Now that would be a story!

[Lustful Bride]

Family recently freed from Taliban imprisonment, stats that the Taliban killed one of their children. :(

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/freed-family-reaches-canada-says-kidnappers-killed-1-child/ar-AAtngI2?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15


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California declares state of emergency over Hepatitis A outbreak.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/calif-declares-state-of-emergency-over-deadly-hepatitis-a-outbreak/ar-AAtptAP?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15

[WindFish]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41582074/youtube-star-jake-paul-sued-by-victim-of-car-horn-prank

It's about time someone went after one of these assholes. There's nothing funny about these so-called "social media pranksters". They're just assholes who make money off of hurting and humiliating innocent people. It's boggles the mind that people work into their seventies just to get by, while privileged douchebags like this guy can make a comfortable living doing these videos. The fact that shit like this passes as comedy these days has me really worried about the next generation. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I fail to see what's so funny about this. Hopefully the judge throws the book at him to discourage other assholes from making these videos. Actions have consequences.

[Lustful Bride]

Civil War Reenactors go on reenacting famous battles despite threats of bodily harm and even a pipe bomb being found on the field where they put on their show.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/%e2%80%98we-wanted-to-send-a-message%e2%80%99-reenactors-stage-civil-war-battle-despite-threat/ar-AAtx2Me?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=HPCOMMDHP15


I have to admit, I admire their courage and dedication to history.

[gaggedLouise]

I'll admit that had me do a double take, before I realized Decapitated was the name of the band and not a description of its members.

Suggestive headline... :) I remember reading that in soen languages (like Arabic and Russian) some verbs that denote a finished and irrevocable action at somebody - kill, hang, burn etc - can be used in the past tense for an actiion yet to come: The Bishop got his head cut off, but he is still alive.  :P

[gaggedLouise]

The capital of ISIS/Daesh, Raqqa, is practically liberated: there are only a few disconnected pockets of pitnumbered resistance left.

It doesn't spell the end of ISIS, of course - they'll go underground - but it's a major milestone. :)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/world/middleeast/isis-syria-raqqa.html