Odd Things I've Read Lately...

I've been keeping an eye on the news lately, what with North Korea detonating nuclear warheads and President Obama causing conservative talking heads to explode with his supreme court nominee and speech in Cairo. I've seen a few things that made me shake my head in wonder and I would like to share them with you.

• Charles Manson has super powers. I know he was able to coerce people into killing for him but I didn't realize he had bona fide paranormal abilities until I read this on CNN..."Charles Manson used his hypnotic powers to direct Atkins and other “family” members to kill seven people, including the pregnant Tate, in a two-night rampage that terrorized the city of Los Angeles in August 1969. " You'd think he have been able to use those hypnotic powers on a guard and walk out of the prison he's been in for four decades but I guess they've got him locked in a kryptonite cell or something.


• Pork for crack. From Foxnews (I know but sometimes it isn't science fiction) the story of a man trying to buy crack with a pig. "Police say Colon paid half a pig and $10 for a $50 bag of crack. Veliz told police the pig was for a celebration for a relative being released from jail." It doesn't say if the man slaughtered the pig himself but you'd have to think anyone who has it together enough to do so would be able to scrape up fifty bucks. Oh, and someone stole the pig.
  


• Salvation with a bullet. A church in Louisville, KY is planning an Independence Day celebration on June 27th and asking worshipers to bring guns to church unloaded and in a secure holster (gotta be safe!). They will also be having a raffle for a handgun. "New Bethel Church Pastor Ken Pagano says the service and raffle June 27 would celebrate Independence Day and constitutional rights, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Friday."

That's all for now.