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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."

 

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Russian Teenage Girl Dies in Waiting Area of Psychiatric Clinic
https://lenta.ru/news/2019/02/28/ad/
Angelina, age 15, was sent to Kaliningrad Psychiatric Clinic due to a "severe depression".

Her mother told the journalists the girl started having pain in the legs at the end of last year, but it was wrote off as a consequence of an earlier fracture. In Jan, 2019 she had weakness, sleepiness and nausea, in mid February she felt ill when she was outside and was sent to the neurosurgery department in an ambulance.

Two days after, her legs were numb. Tests (Ultrasound, MRI, gastroscopy) didn't show any abnormalities. The teenage girl lost 10 kg (about 20lbs) in one week, had a hard time using her arms and her neck muscles.

On Feb, 20, she said she lost hearing in one ear and could only whisper. Then she felt it was hard to breathe, but the only treatment she received was a glicin pill under the tongue. At this point doctors told mother her daughter has a severe depression, and they have to go to psychiatric clinic. They were not provided with a transportation, so mother took a taxi.

Before being admitted, family had to wait for hours in waiting area. There Angelina, by her mother's description, had a seizure, her face became yellow. The hospital staff tried to resuscitate her, the ambulance was called, but before it came, she was already dead.
On a death certificate the reason was "cardiomyopathy of left ventricle, origin unknown".


This is so sad - and the cardiomyopathy of unknown origin is basically just "we don't know what happend, maybe something with the heart".

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Bitch should learn to code.

This was written by someone who gets paid good money to write. They were so proud of it that they decide to make it public themselves.

Flattening why I think you’re dumb to a view I “don’t like” would not do your body of work justice.

If he writes English like this I'm not sure I'd want him writing code.

In the Netherlands, 60% of those who work live within 15km [9.3 miles] of their work and that is perfect for an e-bike."

Yup. 15km to and from work each day on a bike will keep you in passable cardiovascular fitness. 2*15km on an e-bike won't.

This is so sad - and the cardiomyopathy of unknown origin is basically just "we don't know what happend, maybe something with the heart".

Honestly I think this sort of thing is pretty common in countries where doctors don't worry about being sued, aka 'Pretty much anywhere but the US'. All they have to do is to say 'No idea mate. She just keeled over for no reason. Probably just one of those things' and there's fuck all anyone can do about it.

 

[Coolio55]

Palace denies latest report about Meghan and Harry's royal baby gender

The Palace has released a statement regarding a recent story about the gender of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal baby – see what it said

www.hellomagazine.com

What a shocker!
Vanity Fair talking shit? Unbelievable...

 

[sasazuka]

Police called to check on cardboard cutout of MyPillow CEO

JORDAN, Minn. (FOX 9)

- Police officers in Jordan, Minnesota were called to check on the welfare of a man standing motionless outside in the cold, wearing no coat and hugging a pillow. When officers arrived, they found the "man" was actually a cardboard cutout of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

“Those cardboard cutouts sure can look real from a distance and the caller certainly was not wanting to get too close thinking who is this deranged person standing outside in the cold hugging a pillow,” the Jordan Police Department shared in a Facebook post. “Always better to call the police.”

Lindell himself shared the police department’s post, calling it “Unreal!”


This cardboard CEO isn’t the only inanimate object getting cold weather welfare checks dueing this Minnesota winter. In front of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis lies a sculpture of a homeless Jesus. Visible right along Hennepin Avenue, the statue looks so real that people are calling 911 concerned for someone overexposed to this brutal cold.


“I have witnessed an ambulance pull up and people coming out and realizing it is a sculpture. Sometimes people call 911 when they drive by and see,” said Johan Van Parys, Director of Liturgy and Sacred Arts at the Basilica.

February 2019 was the fourth snowiest month on record in Minnesota. The month was also marked by extreme cold that forced many school districts to close or delay start times.

The article mentions people thinking those human-scale "homeless Jesus" statues are actually people freezing in the cold. There's one in Ottawa in front of St. Andrew's Church on Wellington at Lyon, across the street from the Canadian Supreme Court. I'd say it looks a little too much like a bronze sculpture for anyone to mistake it for a real homeless person, but I suppose if someone only glanced at it at night from a passing car they might not realize it's a statue.

 

[BScCollateral]

Police called to check on cardboard cutout of MyPillow CEO

I can relate. There's a boat rental place that has a stuffed puma in a tiny cage to attract attention. I'll bet the cops are sick of explaining it to people who drive by.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

5 year old boy destroys a kindergarten classroom for 45 minutes and gets the school officer sent to him. Mother doesn't get why they did it.

Upland school calls police on 5-year-old boy

An Upland mother is wondering why her 5-year-old son's elementary school called the police when he acted out and destroyed a classroom instead of contacting her first.

www.yahoo.com

SoCal school calls police on 5-year-old boy

An Upland mother is wondering why her 5-year-old son's elementary school called the police when he acted out and destroyed a classroom instead of contacting her first.

abc7news.com

How does a five year old kid destroy that much? The mom should blame herself since it's her fault.

"Kyler" fucking kill me

Russian Teenage Girl Dies in Waiting Area of Psychiatric Clinic
https://lenta.ru/news/2019/02/28/ad/
Angelina, age 15, was sent to Kaliningrad Psychiatric Clinic due to a "severe depression".

Her mother told the journalists the girl started having pain in the legs at the end of last year, but it was wrote off as a consequence of an earlier fracture. In Jan, 2019 she had weakness, sleepiness and nausea, in mid February she felt ill when she was outside and was sent to the neurosurgery department in an ambulance.

Two days after, her legs were numb. Tests (Ultrasound, MRI, gastroscopy) didn't show any abnormalities. The teenage girl lost 10 kg (about 20lbs) in one week, had a hard time using her arms and her neck muscles.

On Feb, 20, she said she lost hearing in one ear and could only whisper. Then she felt it was hard to breathe, but the only treatment she received was a glicin pill under the tongue. At this point doctors told mother her daughter has a severe depression, and they have to go to psychiatric clinic. They were not provided with a transportation, so mother took a taxi.

Before being admitted, family had to wait for hours in waiting area. There Angelina, by her mother's description, had a seizure, her face became yellow. The hospital staff tried to resuscitate her, the ambulance was called, but before it came, she was already dead.
On a death certificate the reason was "cardiomyopathy of left ventricle, origin unknown".


This is so sad - and the cardiomyopathy of unknown origin is basically just "we don't know what happend, maybe something with the heart".

I'm so fucking confused. Tests showed nothing yet this is clearly a brain tumor or some shit but they send her to a psychiatrist? By a "severe depression" I assumed they meant the kind where your ribs and diaphragm won't expand like they're supposed to, leaving you suffocating. What's a psychiatrist supposed to do when you can't feel your legs or breathe? Was this a huge miscommunication between the doctor and mom, or is the Russian to English translation re.tarded?

 

[BScCollateral]

Tests showed nothing yet this is clearly a brain tumor or some shit but they send her to a psychiatrist?

This is why I hate this sort of story. Barring feedback from an actual doctor, I don't know if this is a "Oh, God, I have nightmares about making the same call..." or is it a "are those guys fucking exceptional?"

I could imagine that the girl had mental issues, kept coming back to the doctor, and they missed it when she finally did have something. But who knows?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Looks like college will have a more harder time to control free speech from what I read on the article along with a vlog from lolcow Styx.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-sign-executive-order-requiring-free-speech-190554773.html ( http://archive.is/Oo2LL )

Trump vows executive order requiring 'free speech' at colleges

By David Shepardson and Katanga Johnson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would soon sign an executive order requiring American universities and colleges to maintain "free speech" on campuses and threatened that schools not complying could lose federal research funds.
Trump made his remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference after bringing to the stage Hayden Williams, a conservative activist who was punched at the University of California, Berkeley, last month while recruiting students for a conservative group.

"Today, I am proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research funds," Trump said.
If universities do not comply "it will be very costly," he said. The U.S. government awards universities more than $30 billion annually in research funds.
The White House did not immediately respond a request for comment on details of the order.

Freedom of speech is enshrined in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
It is not the first time that Trump, who has repeatedly lashed out at the media with cries of "fake news" and has called current defamation laws "a sham and a disgrace," has threatened retaliatory action related to free speech. Last September, he suggested in a tweet that the license of television networks could be at risk, though he offered no specifics in his tweet, which singled out NBC.

 

[AnOminous]

Was this a huge miscommunication between the doctor and mom, or is the Russian to English translation re.tarded?

It's Russia.

That's all I need to know.

 

[CWCissey]

Man arrested for egging Jeremy Corbyn.

Man arrested for egging Jeremy Corbyn

The Labour leader was visiting a mosque in north London when the egg was thrown at him on Sunday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Ahriman]

Peer charged with attempted rapes of girl

Former Labour peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham is also accused of indecently assaulting a boy under 13.

www.bbc.com

It
Keeps
Happening!!!

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The regressive left goes on rampage against Terry Crews because he defended fathers. https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/03/terry-crews-children-need-fathers/ ( http://archive.is/MjxDs )

Actor Terry Crews chimed in with his thoughts on fatherhood, family values and the the women’s rights movement during a lengthy series of tweets over the weekend.
The “Everybody Hates Chris” star initially said that children who grow up in single-parent households are “malnourished,” something he later apologized for, saying that his initial tweet was “poorly worded.”
However, Crews continued to drive home his point about the importance of fatherhood while fighting back against charges of homophobia and transphobia. (RELATED: Terry Crews Responds With Total Class After Rapper 50 Cent Mocks His Sexual Assault Claim [VIDEO])

Timcast posted a vlog about it.

And he apologized but I think it might be the worst strategy for Terry Crews. https://etcanada.com/news/426302/te...-or-single-parents-are-severely-malnourished/ ( http://archive.fo/tITBr )

Terry Crews is facing a major backlash on social media after the “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star tweeted his belief that a child raised by a single parent or two same-sex parents would be “severely malnourished” when compared to children raised by a mother and father.
According to NewsHub, Crews’ controversial comment came as he tried to explain an earlier controversial remark, when he tweeted about a New York Times op-ed about how young African-American boys are being molded into successful men by pointing out it was written by “a WOMAN,” adding, “How would she know?”

Another thing that bothers me is that this OP-ED was written by a WOMAN about how how boys should be taught to grow into successful young men.
How would she know?
MEN NEED TO HOLD OTHER MEN ACCOUNTABLE.
— terry crews (@terrycrews) February 24, 2019

When Twitter users fired back by pointing out Crews’ comment was misogynistic, he dug himself in even deeper when he responded to a critic with the following exchange (which Crews subsequently deleted).

 

[ForgedBlades]

World’s top-ranked bridge player suspended for doping

https://apnews.com/05f4d571526841e48a58cf01900ea322

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The World Bridge Federation says the world’s No. 1 bridge player has been suspended after failing a drug test.

The federation said on its website Friday that Geir Helgemo, who is Norwegian but represents Monaco in bridge events, tested positive for synthetic testosterone and female fertility drug clomifene at a World Bridge Series event in Orlando, Florida last September.

After accepting he had breached anti-doping rules, Helgemo was suspended by the WBF until Nov. 20. He also had all titles, medals and points from the 2018 World Bridge Series revoked.

Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were “not performance enhancing.”

In a statement on the federation’s website, she said: “Geir Helgemo...has previously played for the Norwegian national team and is our biggest star. Many within the bridge community know Geir and respect him.

“It is his responsibility not to take substances that are on the doping list, even though in this instance they are not performance enhancing in bridge. I feel for Geir in this situation and hope he will come back stronger ... when his ban ends.”

The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and abides by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

 

[AnOminous]

Why would he do that? Is he trooning?

 

[neverendingmidi]

World’s top-ranked bridge player suspended for doping

https://apnews.com/05f4d571526841e48a58cf01900ea322

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The World Bridge Federation says the world’s No. 1 bridge player has been suspended after failing a drug test.

The federation said on its website Friday that Geir Helgemo, who is Norwegian but represents Monaco in bridge events, tested positive for synthetic testosterone and female fertility drug clomifene at a World Bridge Series event in Orlando, Florida last September.

After accepting he had breached anti-doping rules, Helgemo was suspended by the WBF until Nov. 20. He also had all titles, medals and points from the 2018 World Bridge Series revoked.

Kari-Anne Opsal, president of the Norwegian Bridge Federation, said the drugs were “not performance enhancing.”

In a statement on the federation’s website, she said: “Geir Helgemo...has previously played for the Norwegian national team and is our biggest star. Many within the bridge community know Geir and respect him.

“It is his responsibility not to take substances that are on the doping list, even though in this instance they are not performance enhancing in bridge. I feel for Geir in this situation and hope he will come back stronger ... when his ban ends.”

The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and abides by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.

Why would he do that? Is he trooning?

Seriously. It’s a card game. I could kind of see amphetamines for long games, but what doess testosterone and female fertility drugs do?

Honestly with that combo I wonder what age he is and if he and his wife are doing IVF or if older taking supplements due to that. I know topical steroids can be transferred by family members, I don’t know if estrogen products can do the same.

 

[CWCchange]

This guy's gonna be pretty hard to dethrone for most genetically effed up monarch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain

It only took 300 years for him to be dethroned by a tard quadroon.

 

[sasazuka]

'That's Canada for you': Shoppers leave cash, IOUs at unlocked grocery store

Presented with an unlocked and unstaffed supermarket, a group of Ontario shoppers chose to leave cash and IOUs instead of loot the grocery store last month.

Some of the downtown Kingston shoppers walked in, realized it wasn’t meant to be open during the Family Day holiday on Feb. 18 and promptly exited. One elderly woman who left empty handed even wrote a note for the manager: she just needed flour and eggs to make a cake.

“My first thought was ‘Oh no,’” said Food Basics District Manager Mark Woudwyk. Police arrived after a call about customers inside without employees, but Woudwyk never reported any stolen goods. “I realized to my delight that nobody took anything out of the store,” said Woudwyk.

The incident left Kingston police impressed, said Const. Ash Gutheinz. “It’s rare anywhere. We’re pretty impressed with our citizens that they would be so honourable, honest, so as to leave a bunch of money for the groceries that they were taking,” he said.

Customers on Thursday took the incident as a representative of the country’s spirit. “That’s Canada for you,” said shopper Bernard White. “Wouldn’t happen anywhere else, would it?”

“You always think of the worst, then sometimes people surprise you and it’s the best of humanity,” said Janice McGaw, another shopper.

The Food Basics said it will provide a gift card to the elderly woman in need of flour of and eggs for a cake.

Considering it's a Food Basics (a discount supermarket that caters heavily to certain ethnic populations), I'm surprised those giant $10 boxes of Jamaican Patties that they sell were left untouched.

 

[ICametoLurk]

the full glory of the military industrial complex

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

"Kyler" fucking kill me


I'm so fucking confused. Tests showed nothing yet this is clearly a brain tumor or some shit but they send her to a psychiatrist? By a "severe depression" I assumed they meant the kind where your ribs and diaphragm won't expand like they're supposed to, leaving you suffocating. What's a psychiatrist supposed to do when you can't feel your legs or breathe? Was this a huge miscommunication between the doctor and mom, or is the Russian to English translation re.tarded?

As bad as Kyler is, it could be worse: was recently introduced to a Miangel.

 

[Friendly_AI]

I'm so fucking confused. Tests showed nothing yet this is clearly a brain tumor or some shit but they send her to a psychiatrist? By a "severe depression" I assumed they meant the kind where your ribs and diaphragm won't expand like they're supposed to, leaving you suffocating. What's a psychiatrist supposed to do when you can't feel your legs or breathe? Was this a huge miscommunication between the doctor and mom, or is the Russian to English translation re.tarded?

The story surely is confusing, and there is not enough info to find out what exactly happened. If you don't trust the translation, feel free to check it with google. In the comments to all the articles about this incident, people are as puzzled by this as you are.

In other articles it was also mentioned the girl was previously diagnosed with some kind of developmental delay, though she did fine at school. She planned to go to an art college in Moscow and become an animation artist.
(https://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/...-v-bolnitse-15-letney-devochki-iz-guseva.html)

Right now the hospital where the death occured is under investigation.
(https://www.newkaliningrad.ru/news/...olnitse-kaliningrada-nakazanie-posleduet.html)