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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

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It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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In San Francisco crime news, famous Netscape engineer/money losing nightclub owner ~jwz had a thief steal from his apartment lobby.
I just remembered that I ordered a bag of actual coal to use as runners-up prizes in the costume contest in our Nightmare Before Christmas sing-along and it never arrived. It seems it was delivered and stolen. (Mail theft is a problem in my building.)
Someone stole my COAL.

Definitely going on the naughty list.
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Man who set fires at Calgary city hall lost testicle during police standoff: watchdog​

Testicle lost in standoff​

The Canadian Press - Dec 12, 2024 / 10:54 am | Story: 522363
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Alberta's police watchdog says a man who set fire to Calgary city hall in 2022 ended up losing a testicle after police shot him in the groin nine times with anti-riot guns. Calgary Police Service attend a crime scene in Calgary, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Alberta's police watchdog says a machete-wielding man who set fire to Calgary city hall in 2022 ended up losing a testicle after police shot him nine times with anti-riot guns.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, or ASIRT, says officers responded to calls about an unknown man who broke into the building armed with a machete and set a number of fires.
Agency executive director Michael Ewenson says police tried to disarm the man with anti-riot guns, which shoot hard plastic bullets, injuring his genitals.
One of the man's testicles had to be surgically removed, while only a portion of the other could be saved.
Ewenson says the weapons caused significant injury, but their use was "reasonably necessary" and that the injury was an "unfortunate and unintended consequence" of a lawful use of force.
Calgary police have previously said the man may have been experiencing a mental health crisis.
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In 2022, a man went on a rampage on the Calgary city hall, gets shot in the groin by police with riot bullets 9 times, loses the berries.
 
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Sheep rescued from cliff runs off with rescue bag


Sheep rescued from cliff runs off with rescue bag

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A sheep rescued from a cliff in England attempted to run off afterwards with half of its body still inside the rescue bag.

The Beer Coastguard Rescue Team said on social media that personnel responded alongside the Devon Fire and Rescue Service's Plymouth-based Technical Rescue Team after the sheep fell from the top of a cliff near the scene of a recent landslide.



The Coastguard provided support while firefighters used a rescue bag to hoist the sheep back to the top of the cliff.

"The sheep did attempt to run to his mates before getting fully out of the rescue bag," the post said.

A photo included in the post shows the sheep attempting to run with the back half of its body still inside the red bag.
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Very trivial article, but I found it written in such a cute/funny way that I just had to translate it and share it with the rest of the class, aka you. Original article [A] by Danisch

Tomato ketchup​


Today, they got me.

Me in the supermarket today. The business with the shopping cart.

So I'm pushing it through the halls and occasionally put an item in there. As you do.

There, suddenly: Tomato ketchup.

On special offer.

Ah, I thought, that's splendid. I need some anyway.

But what does it say there? Maximum of two.

Ah, I thought, that's splendid. Then I'll go ahead and take two. It's long-lasting and doesn't need to be refrigerated.

After I was five, six meters [16, 20 ft] away, my brain suddenly started to argue with me. I don't like it when my organs start arguments, but it was right about it. Why I did that.

Well, idiot, I told my brain, because I like eating tomato ketchup, consume it anyway, and it can stand around unopened for a few months. So why not go and use the special offer. Also: Costs one euro something. You don't need to think long and hard about it. That's a no-brainer. Did you hear, brain? "No-brainer"! You're out. So shut your trap! (I'm sorry, trap, I wasn't talking about you.)

"However,..." came the brain sliming along, "how many bottles of that sugar dip would you have bought if it hadn't said 'maximum of two', if the special offer had been unlimited?" ... Uh... yeah ... then I would have bought one bottle. Because the number two wouldn't have crossed my mind. You read that little sign and somehow the number two is floating around your head. Two ... Two ... Two ... and two is more than one, otherwise it would have said one.

"You see, bonehead", my brain tells me, "they're putting up such a stupid little sign and you immediately fall for the suggestion and take two in order to not miss out on anything. So you don't end up thinking, ah, I could have gotten a second bottle for the super special price offer."

Mmmh.

What do I do?

The legs: "You don't seriously believe that I'm going to go back for one fifty..."

The stomach: "What's the issue, take it. You would've bought them even without the offer because you like eating ketchup. As do I."

The gall bladder: "Typical brain. In principle, it's right, but it talks nothing but nonsense, because if we only go buy ketchup when we need it, it's not on special offer. That pack of 30 last year was super worth it. We still got some of that and saved a lot of money."

Result:

Now I've got two bottles of ketchup and a brain that's in a sulk because I fell for the trick. And even though I recognized the trick, I didn't put back one bottle to be proud of myself for having spotted the trick to then pay 20 cents more for ketchup when I need it again.
 
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Man slices his arm open during a domestic violence incident. The woman, Aimee Murphy, filmed as her partner, Enrique Rodriguez, tried breaking into the house. “Aimee, please call the cops, please!” the frantic man shouted. According to Murphy, Rodriguez was rushed to the hospital. He survived the incident and was booked in jail. Murphy has since filed a restraining order.
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In aviation news a man at a Houston area airport decided that because his plane had electrical issues and a radio failure he was going to land no matter what and ended up hitting a landing cessna nearly killing several people and destroying both aircraft.


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N127SL Pilot Testimony to VASAviation: "I am the PIC of the Skylane that was hit by a NORDO Grumman on Wed, 12/11/24 at LVJ. I was struck from behind with only a few second’s warning by an aircraft that had an electrical failure and decided to land way, way too close to me. I can give you a more thorough write-up if you’d like, or I can describe the events of the accident over the phone if you’d like to learn more."
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N5450L Passenger Testimony on Youtube: "On Dec 11, 2024 was flying with a couple friends from Galveston to Pearland Regional Airport. I was in the right seat recording. Our plane, a 1973 Grumman, experienced electrical issues. First the headsets went out, then the radio, then the avionics (navigation). We knew we had to get down quickly and made an emergency landing behind another plane with no working instruments. Fortunately our skilled pilot was able to set us down. However with no way to communicate, the pilot ahead was unaware of our presence and stopped fast to make a left turn on the tarmac. With our flaps not operational, we couldn’t slow fast enough and plowed into his plane as he turned. The prop tore a hole in the left side of his fuselage and destroyed the side of his aircraft. Thankfully he had no passenger on the backseat or it would have been fatal. In our aircraft, the impact was devastating with aluminum crumpling and glass exploding everywhere. My shoulder pushed through the window and I sustained slight external injuries. But thankfully everyone was ok. The planes not so much, both are likely totaled."
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Bespoke translation by yours truly, original article [A] by Danisch

Faking an insult​


I guess you should better not do that.

I was just thinking if, for the coming general election [in Germany], you shouldn't just invent some [female] Green Party politician who doesn't exist, with a website, Twitter account, TikTok and so on, creating typical pictures using AI, flowers for the election, in the federal parliament, and so on, the usual drivel, climate, feminism, justice, antifascist, toxic masculinity, racism, what they all say.

And then go ahead and insult her really hard.

And then watch who presses charges against you and persecutes you, whether this escalates up to a criminal case.

I bet that would be a laugh.

But: Then they get you for § 145d Criminal Code, Misleading authorities about commission of offence.

Still, there remains the idea of creating a fictitious, made up party, with fictitious, made up politicians. "Any resemblance to actual people is purely coincidental."

And then let them blather these typical phrases, so that you can insult them as much as you like and without the threat of criminal prosecution.

But I bet they would find a way to prosecute, because you can't allow any criticism to happen.
 
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With our flaps not operational, we couldn’t slow fast enough and plowed into his plane as he turned.
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This seemed particularly dumb but I guess at least some models of the AA-5 have electrically operated flaps. God forbid this mong circle the airfield once or twice or just land in the grass though.
 
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That guy desserves a Darwin award.

Meanwhile, Derek Chauvin files state appeal.
December 18, 2024

Derek Chauvin Files State Appeal to Overturn Conviction​

By John Dale Dunn, M.D.

Conservatives do not doubt that Derek Chauvin was railroaded, a sacrifice at the BLM altar. However, his martyrdom—which almost ended with his death in prison—may finally end. Chauvin has appealed the judgment against him, and, in an excellent turn of events, he’s just been granted an order by Federal Judge Magnuson to be given blood for testing and heart tissue for examination from George Floyd’s autopsy. The blood tests and tissue examinations may help establish Floyd’s actual cause of death. But of course, the appeal is about much more than a single piece of evidence.

As a reminder of the events surrounding George Floyd’s death and the abuse prosecution that followed, Alpha News, a conservative internet news agency in deep blue Minneapolis, created two excellent films to show the basis for their condemnation, The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People.
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These "academics" are activists or retards or more likely both. One of the few things the IRS does right is keep confidential shit confidential. No link, since it is a proprietary newsletter. Just posting this because it pisses me off and I have nowhere else to vent about it.

Academics Urge Biden to Commute Sentence of IRS Data Leaker

By Tim Shaw, Checkpoint

Participating in a new grassroots campaign, a group of law professors joined calls for President Biden to commute the sentence of a former IRS contractor who leaked federal income tax records of wealthy individuals to the press.

Background. A former Booz Allen employee who performed contract work for the IRS, Charles E. Littlejohn, used his access to sensitive taxpayer information protected under Code Sec. 6103 to first send tax return information about current President-elect Donald Trump to the New York Times in 2019.

The next year, Littlejohn disclosed a tranche of private tax data on thousands of wealthy individuals to ProPublica. Both media outlets published articles based on the information Littlejohn shared. ProPublica ran a series of more than 50 articles compiled to demonstrate how billionaires pay little to no federal taxes.

According to the Department of Justice, Littlejohn used "broad search parameters" on an IRS database to avoid suspicion and circumvented security protocols to save tax returns on multiple personal storage devices.

Littlejohn was charged on September 29, 2023, with one count of unlawfully disclosing tax return information without authorization. The case went to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Littlejohn pleaded guilty to the single count, and Judge Ana C. Reyes sentenced him on January 29, 2024, to five years in prison, the maximum penalty under Code Sec. 7213.

Before Littlejohn's sentencing, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) led a group of Republicans calling for Littlejohn to receive the maximum sentence. Smith went on to sponsor legislation raising the maximum to 10 years and the monetary penalty from $5,000 to $250,000. The bill, titled the Taxpayer Data Protection Act (H.R. 8292), passed the House on September 17 but stalled in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

The IRS issued an apology for the leaks and settled a lawsuit by a hedge fund manager whose information was disclosed.

New campaign. Advocacy organizations Patriotic Millionaires and the Revolving Door Project launched a grassroots letter campaign to convince President Biden to reduce Littlejohn's sentence, which a December 17 press release argues was "six times over the four to ten months" recommended by federal sentencing guidelines.

Patriotic Millionaires Senior Vice President for Tax Policy Bob Lord said in a statement that Judge Reyes believes Littlejohn's actions "constituted a greater threat to American democracy than those of the January 6th Capitol insurrectionists." Acknowledging Littlejohn committed a crime, Lord argued that "he actually did the country a great service by exposing the full degree to which our tax code privileges the wealthy and well-connected."

Kenny Stancil, a senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project, explained that the purpose of the campaign is to persuade Biden that Littlejohn's sentence "was a gross miscarriage of justice." The hope is that Biden will "use the precious little time that he has left in office" to "deliver justice to Charles Littlejohn before it's too late."

Central to the campaign is the belief that Littlejohn's crime was for the greater good and rightfully enabled journalists to "expose the massive scale of tax avoidance by ultra-rich Americans."

Professors' letter. Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, professor of law at the University of Michigan; David Gamage, professor of tax law and policy at the University of Missouri School of Law; Goldburn P. Maynard Jr., assistant professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University; and Alex Zhang, assistant professor of law at Emory University, penned a joint letter dated December 13 and circulated last Monday.

In their letter, the professors disagreed with Reyes' intention to deter other would-be tax leakers. Such deterrence isn't necessary, they wrote, because "IRS workers almost never leak tax information" since they know they "will likely be caught" and "do not value the public's right to know over their own personal freedom."

The letter cites examples of "many cases that involve massive tax evasion" but resulted in shorter sentences than five years or no criminal indictments at all. Tax evaders "should be punished more severely than leakers," the professors reasoned, because leaks do not lose the government any revenue.

Punishing tax evaders "bolsters public perception that the system is fair and therefore that they should pay their taxes," the letter continued. "Going after Mr. Littlejohn, on the other hand, creates the perception that the system protects the interests of the super-rich taxpayers whose returns he leaked."



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Thirty-one persons were injured after a mini bus lost control which caused it to fall on its sidealong a portion of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) in San Fernando, Pampanga Philippines on the morning of Christmas Eve.

According to Jonathan Andal’s report in 24 Oras on Tuesday, NLEX’s initial investigation showed the mini bus and an Asian Utility Vehicle were both traveling along the inner lane when the former suddenly lost control. It spun around, hit the AUV behind it and suddenly fell on its side.
 
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