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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Missouri boys save 5-year-old girl from drowning in creek
2020-05-30
[DIRSN.com] Four young boys are being hailed as heroes after saving a 5-year-old girl from drowning in a creek near Jackson, Missouri.

Kinsley Stuart, 5, was playing in Hubble Creek on May 17, in an area of the creek popular with young children. She was near a bridge that has a drainage culvert beneath it. An abundance of recent rainfall had filled the creek past its normal level, creating a suction that dragged Stuart into the culvert.

A nearby group of boys had noticed the girl seemed to be missing when Aiden Kyle, 11, saw her hand grabbing the top of the bridge and dove down to grab hold of her. His friend Isaiah Randol saw that Kyle was being dragged down as well, so he and two other boys joined in the rescue effort.

The boys all pulled until Stuart was free. She remained unharmed.
Posted by:Besoeker

#21  The Dems are in a tough spot. It's extremely hard to win elections in this country with a doom and gloom message.

If they don't go hard left, many Sandersistas will stay home -- or even support a third-party far left challenger.

If they do go hard left, in the post-riot environment they will scare away swing-voter centrists and all those suburban moms they thought they'd lock up in the age of Genghis Mussolini.

Back to blathering their vague and all-purpose "chaos" narrative. Never mind who's causing and stoking the chaos -- it's all OrangeMan's fault.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-30 16:14  

#20  Hey, this world filter really works!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-30 16:12  

#19  You misunderstood Frank - think a bit.
Hint "mast@rbation" right direction, but no cigar yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-30 16:11  

#18  Catastrophe M@sturb@tion gets real old
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-30 16:04  

#17  Fuck your doom and gloom, g
Posted by: Frank G   2020-05-30 16:03  

#16  ^Totally finished. Time to get up, to put your pants on, and go home to your wife.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-30 16:02  

#15  US will not be "finished" (just as the UK was not "finished" after its empire dwindled away), but I just don't see things getting better any time soon. But, not only to all good things come to an end, so, too, do all bad things. Life is about cycles, and right now, we are in a bad one which will get worse in either five months or four years and five months. Counting those mail-in ballots should be fun.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-30 14:36  

#14  Actually charger you should amend this:

But in the longer run, the whole Clinton/Obama/BLM/AntiFa phase that we've been living through is the legacy of that time; and we're not done with it yet.

Pres. Bill Clinton was successful in pushing back against Sister Souljah and the BLM predecessor moment. It was Clinton who finally kicked the old Democratic pandering habit and supported the hiring of 100,000 (?) policemen with federal funds + the harsh sentencing laws which helped to finally broke the back of the crack cocaine & violent crime epidemic in this country.

For which (of course) Clinton was excoriated by the BLMers as a racist oppressor.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-30 14:31  

#13  I've lived through / lived in cities with a total of five major race-fueled riots now.

Seen unemployment reach 25%, mortgage rates hit 18%, inflation reach 13%, gas prices triple, meat prices soar.

Seen markets in which I operated melt down five times now.

Wish I had $1 for every time I've heard America's finished doom is nigh lions & tigers & COVID (oh my!)

We'll muddle through. Buy some gold.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-30 14:26  

#12  I hope you are right, Lex. But despite Vietnam, the 1960's, etc., I don't think the US was so politically divided as it is now. Even in the Clinton era, for example, his two Supreme Court nominees were almost unanimously confirmed by the Senate. No way in Hades you would see that today. I won't even mention how Justice Kavanaugh got treated when you compare. So much is polarized.

I wish I could share your optimism, Lex, but I do not.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-30 13:28  

#11  Toxic masculinity!

Looking forward to the movie where the boys are played by women, and the girl they rescued is played by Chris Hemsworth.


1968 was pretty rough, as were the '70s, and we rebounded.

For a while, yes.

But in the longer run, the whole Clinton/Obama/BLM/AntiFa phase that we've been living through is the legacy of that time; and we're not done with it yet.

Posted by: charger   2020-05-30 13:28  

#10  Maybe one of these proud young Missouri lads will become the next Josh Hawley
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-30 13:15  

#9  Not necessarily.
1968 was pretty rough, as were the '70s, and we rebounded.

Still cautiously optimistic here. This will be yet another blip, one of our periodic race riots followed by left-lib and NeverTrumper virtue-signaling bemoaning America's-Original-Sin, blah blah, maybe another Bipartisan Commission's Report.

And then back to the serious work of eliminating our dependence on China, finishing the border wall and curtailing the Deep State.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-30 13:14  

#8  Sadly, when they are grown up, this country, the way things are going, will probably be even worse off.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-30 13:07  

#7  Still plenty of good people with their heads on straight in this country. We'll muddle through, as always.
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-30 13:05  

#6  Where are their masks!?!? What about social distancing?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-30 12:26  

#5  Outstanding work.

Young men ready for action, don't have their heads stuck up their PEDs.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-05-30 10:05  

#4  /\ Yes, very likely. Shall we hold our collective breath while we await this splendid story to break at FOX or the other leftest 'news' outlets ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-30 07:47  

#3  If school was in session they'd probably all be suspended for "man-splaining".
Posted by: AlanC   2020-05-30 07:43  

#2  Bless them for their situational awareness, their courage, and their honour as young knights in shining armour.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-05-30 07:13  

#1  Memories and a photo they will all hold dear for a lifetime. No need to worry about these young fellows, they'll do fine, just fine.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-30 03:01  

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