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Ben Carson ranted about 'big, hairy men' invading women's shelters in meeting with staff: report
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development unleashed an anti-transgender rant to staffers, complaining that "big, hairy men" are trying to infiltrate women's shelters in America.The remarks come after Carson suggested that...
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On Thursday, the Washington Postreported that President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development unleashed an anti-transgender rant to staffers, complaining that “big, hairy men” are trying to infiltrate women’s shelters in America.
The remarks come after Carson suggested that society no longer understands the difference between women and men while visiting HUD’s office in San Francisco, California.
Carson has a history of virulently anti-LGBTQ remarks, once claiming that being gay is a choice because people often switch after going to prison.
Since taking office, his administration has sought to weaken federal rules that allow transgender housing recipients to be assigned as the gender they identify with.
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I always knew that Sleepy Ben was based. I honestly wish he had won the nomination instead of Trump; he'd be much harder to attack and probably would have gotten more done.Ben Carson ranted about 'big, hairy men' invading women's shelters in meeting with staff: report
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development unleashed an anti-transgender rant to staffers, complaining that "big, hairy men" are trying to infiltrate women's shelters in America.The remarks come after Carson suggested that...
On Thursday, the Washington Postreported that President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development unleashed an anti-transgender rant to staffers, complaining that “big, hairy men” are trying to infiltrate women’s shelters in America.
The remarks come after Carson suggested that society no longer understands the difference between women and men while visiting HUD’s office in San Francisco, California.
Carson has a history of virulently anti-LGBTQ remarks, once claiming that being gay is a choice because people often switch after going to prison.
Since taking office, his administration has sought to weaken federal rules that allow transgender housing recipients to be assigned as the gender they identify with.
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Not very new anymore, but just discovered this: https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/...slanders-marshall-islands-government-agencies
'Bikini Atoll' beer from Dallas brewery upsets Pacific Islanders, Marshall Islands government agencies
By Michael Bartiromo | Fox News
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands isn’t too thrilled with the latest offering from a Dallas brewery.
The beer, named after Bikini Atoll, was re-released earlier this year by the Manhattan Project Beer Company after first debuting years ago on a much smaller scale. Its latest incarnation, however, is now drawing the ire of critics on social media, as well as the National Nuclear Commission of the Marshall Islands, which slammed the brewery for its “frivolous use of Bikini’s name” while ignoring the “devastation, injuries and damages associated with U.S. Government activities on Bikini Atoll.”
Manhattan Project Beer Company, which takes its name from the nuclear weapons development project during World War II, announced the impending return of its Bikini Atoll beer in March. It wasn’t until earlier this month, however, that the backlash appeared to have begun.
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Last week, the Manhattan Project Beer Company claimed to have received “significant harassment and death threats,” but insisted the beer’s name was not intended to cause controversy.
“Our beer named Bikini Atoll was not created to mock or trivialize the nuclear testing that took place in the Marshall Islands,” the brewery wrote on its social media accounts. “Through our brand and naming, we are creating awareness of the wider impacts and implications of the United States’s nuclear research programs and the pivotal moment in world history that is often forgotten.”
Amid the controversy, the National Nuclear Commission (NNC) reportedly released its aforementioned press release on the subject, claiming that the Marshallese people are upset with the brewery taking the name of their ancestral homeland, which they cannot return to today “because of lingering radiation from U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted on the islands during the Cold War.”
The NCC also asked for the brewery to “Engage in dialogue with the people of Bikini” to hear their concerns, and also called on Manhattan Project to use its resources to help in “public education efforts” to increase awareness of the state of Bikini Atoll.
The brewery, however, had said in its statement last week that it would be taking “no further action” after what the company said was its one and only statement on the matter. A representative for the brewery declined to comment further for Fox News.
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Jack Niedenthal, the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the Marshall Islands, had shared the NNC’s statement on his Facebook account last week, asking followers to “share with impunity.”
He also claimed the beer “makes fun of a horrific situation in the Marshall Islands — a situation, that I promise you is still ongoing — to make money for your company," according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
A Change.org petition was organized to implore Whole Foods to stop carrying the beer, and has so far garnered the nearly 5,000 signatures it was seeking to “stop the sale” of the brew.
“Nuclear testing is not something to joke about for Pacific Islanders,” the petition reads.
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Some of the Marshall Islands, situated between Hawaii and Australia, are still uninhabited as a result of 67 nuclear tests being conducted by the U.S. between 1946 and 1958, including the largest, known as “Castle Bravo.” Radioactive fallout spread more than 6,800 square miles; traces of radioactive material were found in Australia, India, Japan, the U.S. and as far away as Europe, according to the CTBTO Preparatory Commission.
As a result, the radiation levels in parts of the Marshall Islands are said to be "higher than Chernobyl,” per studies published in 2019.
Fox News' Chris Ciaccia contributed to this report.
By Michael Bartiromo | Fox News
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Scientists developing hangover-free beerVideo
Scientists developing hangover-free beer
Is drink a good idea?
The Republic of the Marshall Islands isn’t too thrilled with the latest offering from a Dallas brewery.
The beer, named after Bikini Atoll, was re-released earlier this year by the Manhattan Project Beer Company after first debuting years ago on a much smaller scale. Its latest incarnation, however, is now drawing the ire of critics on social media, as well as the National Nuclear Commission of the Marshall Islands, which slammed the brewery for its “frivolous use of Bikini’s name” while ignoring the “devastation, injuries and damages associated with U.S. Government activities on Bikini Atoll.”
Manhattan Project Beer Company, which takes its name from the nuclear weapons development project during World War II, announced the impending return of its Bikini Atoll beer in March. It wasn’t until earlier this month, however, that the backlash appeared to have begun.
SEE IT: BUSCH SAYS ITS 17-PERCENT ABV PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE SELTZER WAS A JOKE
Last week, the Manhattan Project Beer Company claimed to have received “significant harassment and death threats,” but insisted the beer’s name was not intended to cause controversy.
“Our beer named Bikini Atoll was not created to mock or trivialize the nuclear testing that took place in the Marshall Islands,” the brewery wrote on its social media accounts. “Through our brand and naming, we are creating awareness of the wider impacts and implications of the United States’s nuclear research programs and the pivotal moment in world history that is often forgotten.”
Amid the controversy, the National Nuclear Commission (NNC) reportedly released its aforementioned press release on the subject, claiming that the Marshallese people are upset with the brewery taking the name of their ancestral homeland, which they cannot return to today “because of lingering radiation from U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted on the islands during the Cold War.”
The NCC also asked for the brewery to “Engage in dialogue with the people of Bikini” to hear their concerns, and also called on Manhattan Project to use its resources to help in “public education efforts” to increase awareness of the state of Bikini Atoll.
The brewery, however, had said in its statement last week that it would be taking “no further action” after what the company said was its one and only statement on the matter. A representative for the brewery declined to comment further for Fox News.
FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS
Jack Niedenthal, the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the Marshall Islands, had shared the NNC’s statement on his Facebook account last week, asking followers to “share with impunity.”
He also claimed the beer “makes fun of a horrific situation in the Marshall Islands — a situation, that I promise you is still ongoing — to make money for your company," according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
A Change.org petition was organized to implore Whole Foods to stop carrying the beer, and has so far garnered the nearly 5,000 signatures it was seeking to “stop the sale” of the brew.
“Nuclear testing is not something to joke about for Pacific Islanders,” the petition reads.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Some of the Marshall Islands, situated between Hawaii and Australia, are still uninhabited as a result of 67 nuclear tests being conducted by the U.S. between 1946 and 1958, including the largest, known as “Castle Bravo.” Radioactive fallout spread more than 6,800 square miles; traces of radioactive material were found in Australia, India, Japan, the U.S. and as far away as Europe, according to the CTBTO Preparatory Commission.
As a result, the radiation levels in parts of the Marshall Islands are said to be "higher than Chernobyl,” per studies published in 2019.
Fox News' Chris Ciaccia contributed to this report.
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Kingston woman acquitted in BDSM child case
A judge has acquitted a Kingston woman, who was formerly a man, of allegations that she sexually abused the teenage daughter of a BDSM sex partner.“I am not satisfied beyond a reasonable doub…
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Not a free speech platform: Facebook declares it’s a ‘publisher’ & can censor whomever it wants, walking into legal trap
Facebook has invoked its free speech right as a publisher, insisting its ability to smear users as extremists is protected, but its legal immunity thus far has rested on a law which protects platforms, not publishers. Which is it?
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Facebook just declared themselves a Publisher, not a Platform. @Null, how badly does this fuck them over re: CDA 230?
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I thought the CDA protected platforms, not publishers?
Drat, I got it completely backwards.
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You're thinking of editors. I don't know what the legal distinction would be between a "platform" and a "publisher".
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Instances like these are exactly why lynch mobs were formed.
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Hm. I think I see where the confusion is. The EFF quotes 230 as "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"
So them claiming to be a publisher seems to be them rejecting the 230 protections? Or at least that one line.
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r/LegalAdviceUK - Wife did not report notifiable disease, what offence is this, will PF prosecute her due to lack of evidence (Scotland)?
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r/bestoflegaladvice - Legaladviceuk Op: "I may have reintroduced BSE back into the UK for money. Is this a problem or am I okay because I'm married to my Wife who actually did it, I merely helped with the coverup?"
6,291 votes and 979 comments so far on Reddit
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Well UK Kiwis, don't eat beef for the next couple of weeks/months/etc!
Some fuckers, including a vet, okayed mad-cow infested bovines into the UK for under the table cash.
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Gonna need some actual sauce. Reddit is literally a site where people make up shit for attention and upboats.r/LegalAdviceUK - Wife did not report notifiable disease, what offence is this, will PF prosecute her due to lack of evidence (Scotland)?
1,577 votes and 7 comments so far on Reddit
r/bestoflegaladvice - Legaladviceuk Op: "I may have reintroduced BSE back into the UK for money. Is this a problem or am I okay because I'm married to my Wife who actually did it, I merely helped with the coverup?"
6,291 votes and 979 comments so far on Reddit
Well UK Kiwis, don't eat beef for the next couple of weeks/months/etc!
Some fuckers, including a vet, okayed mad-cow infested bovines into the UK for under the table cash.
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I thoroughly believe that this should be its own Deep Thoughts thread due to its sheer academic importance. Unfortunately, I'm sure the mods would disagree with me on that. Regardless, I present, for your consideration, a full 10,000 essay on the geopolitics of Spongebob Squarepants.
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I lost a bet, so here’s a 10,000 word essay on the geo-politics of Spongebob Squarepants
No bamboozle.
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I thoroughly believe that this should be its own Deep Thoughts thread due to its sheer academic importance. Unfortunately, I'm sure the mods would disagree with me on that. Regardless, I present, for your consideration, a full 10,000 essay on the geopolitics of Spongebob Squarepants.
I lost a bet, so here’s a 10,000 word essay on the geo-politics of Spongebob Squarepants
No bamboozle.
There needs to be a new internet rule.
"There is always someone more autistic."
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Florida man found with 43 turtles inside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle backpack
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Somehwere, there's a guy with 43 doses of mutagen on the lam, glad he noticed the feds before they caught him.
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The alligator in the pants gets me every time.Florida man found with 43 turtles inside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle backpack
Florida man found with 43 turtles inside Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle …
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