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

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

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."

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

Video game pulled in China over meme mocking President Xi

'Xi Jinping Winnie-the-Pooh moron,' a hidden poster in the game states

www.independent.co.uk

taiwan game devs crumbled under the weigth of the chinese market boycotting their game because their limp-wristed small-peened president cant take a fucking joke.

 

[XYZpdq]

Woman, 27, left 'infertile' after having 17 abortions in six years - …

archived 25 Feb 2019 16:04:04 UTC

archive.vn

Isn't this basically what happened to the chick in Gundam Unicorn?

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Isn't this basically what happened to the chick in Gundam Unicorn?

Didn't she think after the third or fourth abortion that it was time to try birth control and condoms?

 

[XYZpdq]

Didn't she think after the third or fourth abortion that it was time to try birth control and condoms?

In the cartoon it was because she was in a brothel since her teenage years and condoms wouldn't be edgy enough.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Florida man shoots at police live on Instagram

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
Deputies shot at a man after a confrontation with a woman at a home on Citra Circle in Orange County.

Authorities said they were called a little before 8 p.m. Wednesday to the Citra at Windermere apartment complex after receiving reports of a confrontation between a man and a woman.

When they arrived, they found the man and woman in an open garage and asked them to come out.

Sheriff John Mina said the pair did not comply at first, but eventually the woman walked out.

Officials said the man, identified as Laforest Duron Gray Jr., 23, was armed with a gun.

Deputies said Gray was beating the woman and dragging her into the road by her hair before they arrived.

In video of the incident, which Gray live streamed on Instagram, he can be heard yelling at the woman to "come here."

When deputies arrived, they said Gray was barricaded behind a car in an open garage and refused to come out and show his hands or follow any of their commands.

During the video Gray can be heard cursing at deputies while they were yelling commands at him. At one point in the video, Gray turns the camera toward him and speaks to people watching. "Y'all finna see this [expletive] live, bro. I'll take one for the team, yo," he said.

Three deputies fired at Gray, and Mina said an investigation into why the deputies fired is still ongoing.

At some point, Gray was bitten by a K-9 and had to be taken to a hospital. Mina said it does not appear Gray was struck by gunfire. Gray was treated for injuries related to the bite and booked into the Orange County Jail early Thursday.

Authorities said all deputies were wearing body cameras at the time.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate.

Breakdown video from Donut using the Instagram video and bodycam footage.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

It's fun to see Hillary and Bernie arguing each other. However, if they want to fight each other in mud wrestling, I don't want to imagine how they'll look.

Is she running? Hillary and Bernie now attacking each other

Too bad McCain and Romney didn't attack Obama the way Bernie and Hillary attack each other.

www.americanthinker.com

February 27, 2019
Is she running? Hillary and Bernie now attacking each other
By J. Marsolo
What is more entertaining and revealing than a fight between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton over money and the use of private jets? Even better, both will likely run for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president for the chance to be beaten by President Trump.
Bernie Sanders, the socialist who like private jets, and Hillary Clinton, the pretend socialist who is a multi-millionaire, are arguing over Bernie's use of a private Gulfstream jet that cost Hillary over $100,000 during the 2016 campaign. Hillary is upset about the cost of Bernie's travels even though Bernie was using the private jet to campaign for Hillary.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Netanyahu lost his moral compass years ago, but his electoral deal with Israel's most extreme racists is a moment of crisis, and a test, for American Jews. Don't fail it

Benjamin Netanyahu faced media criticism this week for hosting the right-wing prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary who have been accused of being anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic. But in response, Likud MK Anat Berko epitomized Netanyahu’s politics in a single sentence: "They might be anti-Semites, but they’re on our side."

Netanyahu lost his moral compass years ago, but in this election cycle - a chronicle of a victory foretold - he no longer cares about appearing as the fascist-enabling Pied Piper who will lead Israel into oblivion and isolation only to keep himself in power.

Netanyahu has been working hard in the last few weeks to help create a coalition between Jewish Home, the latest incarnation of the Mafdal, a venerable religious Zionist party, and a party called Otzma Yehudit, which could be called the Jewish National Front, a radical far right party whose members, like its former leader, Baruch Marzel, were followers of Meir Kahane’s Kach Party. Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 24 Palestinians at prayer in Hebron in 1994, was a Kach member at that time.

On February 11th Netanyahu tweeted:

The Jewish home, Jewish Power, Eli Yishai, and the National Union must unite to save 6-8 seats to the right-wing bloc. We must not lose these votes because the split on the right will lead to a loss in the elections and the establishment of a leftist government. None of them alone does pass the threshold, uniting them will bring at least 6-8 seats.

Just over a week later, his efforts proved successful. The Jewish Home and Otzma Yehudit agreed to run together in Israel's upcoming elections in exchange for Netanyahu promising Jewish Home two ministerial positions in the next government and a slot on the Likud party list.

This may seem like a political puppet show, or familiar political horse-trading. But it isn't.

It shows how far to the right the Israeli right has gone.

Betzalel Smotrich, an MK for Jewish Home who famously organized the "Beast Parade" as protest to the Pride Parade in Jerusalem and has declared his support for segregating Jews and Arabs, not only in settlements, but also in hospitals, tweeting, "It is natural that my wife would not want to lay down next to someone who just gave birth to a baby that might want to murder her baby in another 20 years," could be the post-election minister of education.

Moti Yogev, another Jewish Home MK, said that Israel's Supreme Court should be razed with a bulldozer. And now, Jewish Home has merged with Otzma Yehudit - who are even more extreme.

Yes, there have always been extremist elements in the Israeli political sphere, but they have always been outcasts. When Meir Kahane got elected, MP tried to impeach him, and when he spoke at the Knesset, MKs would leave the plenum in protest.

These days, Netanyahu isn’t only failing to condemn right-wing extremism; he is working to strengthen it, to endorse it taking its place in the halls of the Knesset, to let its members incite there. Netanyahu is effectively providing the most violent elements in the Israeli society political immunity.

It’s not that the extreme, religious right has gotten closer to Netanyahu, but Netanyahu has become the face of the extreme right. Netanyahu likes to be compared to Churchill, but a comparison to an early Slobodan Milosevic is more appropriate.

In his early years, Milosevic wasn’t considered extreme, but he gave free reign for extreme movements in Serbia for his own cynical reasons, until he identified a moment of crisis and propelled one of the twentieth century's most brutal regimes.

This is a moment of crisis for Israel as a liberal democracy, but it is just as much a moment of crisis, and a test, for American Jews.

How can there be so much discussion of "Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism" when Israel’s prime minister invites anti-Semites to dinner?

How can U.S. Jews stand up against Trump and for human rights when they support an Israeli government that is actively supporting racism, segregation, intolerance, and bigotry, against its Arab population and all who uphold liberal values?

Will U.S. Jews keep inviting and respecting a prime minister who advocates for the inclusion of fascists and racists within his government, and annoints their hatred as acceptable political speech?

Will American Jews embrace a government against which they would stand up with all their might if it was their government?

Sometimes, we are defined by what we reject. Let this be that moment.

Etan Nechin is an Israeli-born journalist, author, and online editor for The Bare Life Review, a journal of immigrant and refugee literature. Twitter: @Etanetan23

use the entire google url provided here so you can view the entire article.

Link - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjjp_249trgAhWInOAKHfBeAmAQqQIIKSgAMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fus-news%2F.premium-u-s-jews-netanyahu-has-now-endorsed-jewish-fascism-cut-your-ties-with-him-now-1.6957970&usg=AOvVaw00X2i80jhIx9MvWnI5R0bX

 

[Niggernerd]

Oy vey anuddah shoah but by Jew's.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Why shouldn't (((he)))? The same (((group of people))) hate them both.

 

[The Nameless One]

Gas the Gentiles, race war now

 

[The Last Stand]

Somebody being anti-Semetic? News at 11.

 

[Splendid]

Israeli politics are very conservative.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Why shouldn't (((he)))? The same (((group of people))) hate them both.

As BiBi's son posted

 

[Gus]

Anyone who didn't see this coming years ago can't see the green in grass. I wouldn't lose much sleep over it.

 

[Judge Holden]

As BiBi's son posted

I seem to recall seeing this while drunk back when it was first posted and having a mild existential crisis over the fact that the prime minister of Israel's son was shitposting fucking Happy Merchant memes. I mean jesus fuck the absolute state of this accursed beautiful timeline....

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Just like the great socialist state of the PRC

Florida man shoots at police live on Instagram

Breakdown video from Donut using the Instagram video and bodycam footage.

Laforest Duron? Lol. That's either a Song of Ice and Fire character a stepping of a low-end Intel processor from the early 00s.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

This is pretty dumb...it's like telling Italians who live in the USA to distance themselves from the president of Italy because he said something racist.

 

[JULAY]

Netanyahu now endorses Jewish fascism. U.S. Jews, cut your ties with him now | Opinion

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www.haaretz.com

Here's a shorter link.

Also, I love how they colored his hair to look like a yarmulke.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

hosting the right-wing prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia

The PMs of Czech Republic and Slovakia are anything but right wing, unless of course you're one of those people who think anyone to the right of Chairman Mao is right wing. Fucking hell, the Slovak PM is a literal social democrat. The name of his party is Smer-SD; guess what the SD means.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

"They might be anti-Semites, but they’re on our side." - Benjamin Netanyahu



lol goy antisemitism is real oy vey stamp out hate speech.