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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."
 
I can believe the playing music when people fall within a measurable distance but engaging in a chase around the squad car WITH the music still playing?

Naaaaah now you're being obtuse, article.
 
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Mich. Teacher Had Sex with 2 Students, Gave 1 of Them Xanax


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Mich. Teacher Had Sex with 2 Students, Gave 1 of Them Xanax

A former Michigan special education teacher has admitted to having sex with two students and giving one of them Xanax.
On Tuesday, Kathryn Houghtaling pleaded no contest to sex and drug charges, according to Oakland County Circuit Court records obtained by PEOPLE.

Houghtaling was arrested last January after having sex with one student in a car while other students watched. She also had sex with another student at his home in December 2018. She was caught after a parent found a video of a group of students partying with the teacher, the Detroit News, WWJ and the Oakland Press report.

Houghtaling, then 26, was a first-year special education teacher at Rochester High School at the time.

“The allegations are serious; they involve students. One was being taught by Ms. Houghtaling — that’s the allegation. They involve various sex acts in more than one location on more than one date through at least two months in the last year,” Judge Lisa Asadoorian said during Houghtaling’s arraignment hearing, WWJ reported at the time. “The court’s very concerned about the teacher-student relationship that’s alleged to have been involved in these allegations.”

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In an interview with detectives, Houghtaling admitted to having sexual contact with a 16-year-old male and a 17-year-old male student.

She befriended the students by drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana after school. At the time of her arraignment, Houghtaling’s attorney told the court that while one of the victims was her student, he had a reading impediment and was not disabled.

Houghtaling pleaded no contest to six counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of delivery of a controlled substance to a minor, according to the Press. She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 3.


This may have been posted before, but I couldn’t find it recently. Anyways, she slept with special ed students. She must’ve been desperate.
 
Mich. Teacher Had Sex with 2 Students, Gave 1 of Them Xanax


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Mich. Teacher Had Sex with 2 Students, Gave 1 of Them Xanax

A former Michigan special education teacher has admitted to having sex with two students and giving one of them Xanax.
On Tuesday, Kathryn Houghtaling pleaded no contest to sex and drug charges, according to Oakland County Circuit Court records obtained by PEOPLE.

Houghtaling was arrested last January after having sex with one student in a car while other students watched. She also had sex with another student at his home in December 2018. She was caught after a parent found a video of a group of students partying with the teacher, the Detroit News, WWJ and the Oakland Press report.

Houghtaling, then 26, was a first-year special education teacher at Rochester High School at the time.

“The allegations are serious; they involve students. One was being taught by Ms. Houghtaling — that’s the allegation. They involve various sex acts in more than one location on more than one date through at least two months in the last year,” Judge Lisa Asadoorian said during Houghtaling’s arraignment hearing, WWJ reported at the time. “The court’s very concerned about the teacher-student relationship that’s alleged to have been involved in these allegations.”

Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.

In an interview with detectives, Houghtaling admitted to having sexual contact with a 16-year-old male and a 17-year-old male student.

She befriended the students by drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana after school. At the time of her arraignment, Houghtaling’s attorney told the court that while one of the victims was her student, he had a reading impediment and was not disabled.

Houghtaling pleaded no contest to six counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of delivery of a controlled substance to a minor, according to the Press. She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 3.


This may have been posted before, but I couldn’t find it recently. Anyways, she slept with special ed students. She must’ve been desperate.

she needs the chair. disgusting rapist targeting special ed kids, if that was a male teacher it'd be plastered all over CNN with don lemon blaming trump for it
 
she needs the chair. disgusting rapist targeting special ed kids, if that was a male teacher it'd be plastered all over CNN with don lemon blaming trump for it
The article suggests that they mainly weren't her speds, and the one that was wasn't a downie but just the kind of young man who will grow up to have his attorney challenge his death penalty sentence on the basis of his IQ.
At the time of her arraignment, Houghtaling’s attorney told the court that while one of the victims was her student, he had a reading impediment and was not disabled.
 
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Anti-Trump worship leader pens 'hymn' to rebuke evangelical supporters

A worship pastor in South Bend, Ind., is getting attention for a song he wrote "calling out" evangelical supporters of President Trump.

Daniel Deitrich, the pastor for arts and worship at South Bend City Church, wrote "Hymn for the 81%," a reference to white evangelical Christian voters who helped secure Trump's victory 2016, as "a plea...to come home to the way of Jesus."

The anti-Trump pastor's song has over 400,000 views on YouTube. The lyrics accuse Trump evangelicals of "putting kids in cages, ripping mothers from their babies" and "weaponiz[ing] religion."

Deitrich told Religion News Service he originally wrote the song's bridge as "an angry middle finger to the listener" and found it "cathartic," but he toned it down and plans on releasing more songs.

"There’s so much work to do to combat white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, sexism — all the ways in which people are treated as less than the children of God that they are," he told RNS.

Although he has received praise from many on the left, Faithwire editor Tré Goins-Phillips said it isn't exactly a worship song.

"Deitrich’s words are not elevating or edifying; they are divisive," Goins-Phillips writes. "Our worship and discipleship should be challenging, but it should be challenging in ways that call us back to Scripture, not to our anger at one another."

Anti-Trump evangelicals have been vocal in the last few weeks in opposition to the president and his supporters.

Former editor-in-chief Mark Galli wrote an op-ed in Christianity Today called "Trump Should be Removed from Office," and a group of "Never Trump" Republicans released an attack ad called "The MAGA Church," mocking Trump's character and evangelicals' support of him.

The two events surrounded the Trump 2020 campaign's launch of "Evangelicals for Trump," where more than 70 prominent pastors came out in support of Trump's re-election bid.
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South Bend is Buttgag's town.

Warning: Song drags and sometimes it's hard to understand anything the singer is saying.

 
Sanders Unveils Job-Training Program To Provide Meaningful Work To Low-Skilled Op-Ed Writers

Yeah, it's the Onion. Still made me laugh.

WASHINGTON—Explaining that as president he would ensure his policies didn’t leave any Americans behind, Senator Bernie Sanders reportedly unveiled plans Wednesday for a job-training program that would provide meaningful work to low-skilled op-ed writers. “I understand that if I win the presidency, many Americans are concerned about the effect that changing economic priorities will have on their jobs, which is why I’m committed to making sure that the nation’s unskilled columnists receive every opportunity to learn material skills that will enable them to find a rewarding position,” said Sanders, adding that his platform allocated hundreds of millions of dollars a year to ensure workers like opinion columnists who lacked qualifications for any skilled labor job would receive instruction in a career of their choice, such as nursing, childcare, or construction. “It’s true that not every industry makes sense for the world we need to build, whether it’s coal mining, private health insurance, or writing histrionic editorials with little factual basis in our nation’s newspapers. It pains me to see so many op-ed writers out there who have received so little training or education that they have no capacity to do viable work. But I believe that these op-ed writers and editorial board members want to be productive members of society, and my presidency will do everything it can to help them find work with dignity.” Sanders added that it was an unfortunate result of the U.S. economic system that so many Americans found themselves stuck in low-skilled op-ed writing jobs in the first place.
 


  • What is it with women keeping spooge-soaked dresses in their closets?
  • "A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male."

AP Exclusive: Woman who says Trump raped her seeks his DNA

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample on March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”

Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, then had the black wool coat-style dress tested. A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male.

Several other people were tested and eliminated as possible contributors to the mix, according to the lab report, which was obtained by The Associated Press. Their names are redacted.

While the notice is a demand, such demands often spur court fights requiring a judge to weigh in on whether they will be enforced.

The White House and Trump’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

Carroll accused Trump last summer of raping her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In a New York magazine piece in June and a book published the next month, Carroll said she and Trump met by chance, chatted and went to the lingerie department for Trump to pick out a gift for an unidentified woman. She said joking banter about trying on a bodysuit ended in a dressing room, where she said Trump reached under her black wool dress, pulled down her tights and raped her as she tried to fight him off, eventually escaping.

“The Donna Karan coatdress still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening,” she wrote. She donned it for a photo accompanying the magazine piece.

Trump said in June that Carroll was “totally lying” and he had “never met this person in my life.” While a 1987 photo shows them and their then-spouses at a social event, Trump dismissed it as a moment when he was “standing with my coat on in a line.”

“She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation,” he said in one of various statements on the matter, adding that the book “should be sold in the fiction section.”

Carroll sued Trump in November, saying he smeared her and hurt her career as a longtime Elle magazine advice columnist by calling her a liar. She is seeking unspecified damages and a retraction of Trump’s statements.

“Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character,” Carroll said in a statement Thursday.

Her lawyer, Kaplan, said it was “standard operating procedure” in a sexual assault investigation to request a DNA sample from the accused.

“As a result, we’ve requested a simple saliva sample from Mr. Trump to test his DNA, and there really is no valid basis for him to object,” she said.

Trump’s lawyer has tried to get the case thrown out. A Manhattan judge declined to do so earlier this month, saying the attorney hadn’t properly backed up his arguments that the case didn’t belong in a New York court.

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they come forward publicly.

Carroll said she didn’t do so for decades because she feared legal retribution from Trump and damage to her reputation, among other reasons. But when the #MeToo movement spurred reader requests for advice about sexual assault, she said, she decided she had to disclose her own account.

Trump, a Republican, isn’t the first president to face the prospect of a DNA test related to a woman’s dress.

Former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, underwent such a test during an independent counsel investigation into whether he had a sexual relationship with onetime White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then lied in denying it under oath.

After Clinton’s DNA was found on the dress, he acknowledged an “inappropriate intimate relationship” with Lewinsky.

Clinton was impeached by the House in December 1998 and later acquitted by the Senate.
 
^How the fuck do you get raped in a dressing room in the 90s? It was my understanding, the only concept of gender fluid back then was the lack of what is on her dress.
 


  • What is it with women keeping spooge-soaked dresses in their closets?
  • "A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male."

AP Exclusive: Woman who says Trump raped her seeks his DNA

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.

Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample on March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress.”

Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, then had the black wool coat-style dress tested. A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male.

Several other people were tested and eliminated as possible contributors to the mix, according to the lab report, which was obtained by The Associated Press. Their names are redacted.

While the notice is a demand, such demands often spur court fights requiring a judge to weigh in on whether they will be enforced.

The White House and Trump’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

Carroll accused Trump last summer of raping her in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In a New York magazine piece in June and a book published the next month, Carroll said she and Trump met by chance, chatted and went to the lingerie department for Trump to pick out a gift for an unidentified woman. She said joking banter about trying on a bodysuit ended in a dressing room, where she said Trump reached under her black wool dress, pulled down her tights and raped her as she tried to fight him off, eventually escaping.

“The Donna Karan coatdress still hangs on the back of my closet door, unworn and unlaundered since that evening,” she wrote. She donned it for a photo accompanying the magazine piece.

Trump said in June that Carroll was “totally lying” and he had “never met this person in my life.” While a 1987 photo shows them and their then-spouses at a social event, Trump dismissed it as a moment when he was “standing with my coat on in a line.”

“She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation,” he said in one of various statements on the matter, adding that the book “should be sold in the fiction section.”

Carroll sued Trump in November, saying he smeared her and hurt her career as a longtime Elle magazine advice columnist by calling her a liar. She is seeking unspecified damages and a retraction of Trump’s statements.

“Unidentified male DNA on the dress could prove that Donald Trump not only knows who I am, but also that he violently assaulted me in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman and then defamed me by lying about it and impugning my character,” Carroll said in a statement Thursday.

Her lawyer, Kaplan, said it was “standard operating procedure” in a sexual assault investigation to request a DNA sample from the accused.

“As a result, we’ve requested a simple saliva sample from Mr. Trump to test his DNA, and there really is no valid basis for him to object,” she said.

Trump’s lawyer has tried to get the case thrown out. A Manhattan judge declined to do so earlier this month, saying the attorney hadn’t properly backed up his arguments that the case didn’t belong in a New York court.

The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they come forward publicly.

Carroll said she didn’t do so for decades because she feared legal retribution from Trump and damage to her reputation, among other reasons. But when the #MeToo movement spurred reader requests for advice about sexual assault, she said, she decided she had to disclose her own account.

Trump, a Republican, isn’t the first president to face the prospect of a DNA test related to a woman’s dress.

Former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, underwent such a test during an independent counsel investigation into whether he had a sexual relationship with onetime White House intern Monica Lewinsky and then lied in denying it under oath.

After Clinton’s DNA was found on the dress, he acknowledged an “inappropriate intimate relationship” with Lewinsky.

Clinton was impeached by the House in December 1998 and later acquitted by the Senate.
Doesn't DNA degrade over time?
Wouldn't she already have it? I am calling bullshit.
When you do a DNA match, you're matching evidence against the accused. That's why if you're a suspect they take a spit swab, they can't just tell who owns the dna evidence, otherwise every crime ever would be solved immediately. It's like how a fingerprint at a crime is pretty much useless if the person hasn't already been fingerprinted, and then they have to go around and get every suspect's fingerprints.
 
The article suggests that they mainly weren't her speds, and the one that was wasn't a downie but just the kind of young man who will grow up to have his attorney challenge his death penalty sentence on the basis of his IQ.
There was a special ed class in my school that was basically for the kind of fucktards on ritalin and were just dumb thugs but not rėtarded, basically the modern version of the Sweathogs from Welcome Back Kotter. Several of them could have been Beavis and Buttheads cousins.
None of them were fuckable I'd say. One kid thought the episode of "Saved by the Bell" where they were a pop group was real and kept asking where he could buy the album and another thought Wrestling was real.
Unfortunately none of them are on social media, though one guy married a 65 year old woman and was making out with her at my moms bingo game.
 
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DNA has a half life of 521 years. It's probably OK.
Yeah, I suppose. But still, who keeps a crusty cum stained dress as evidence for a rape and only comes forward 30 years later, when the supposed perp has been elected potus? I mean, call me cynical, but even through the #metoo era, powerful people can still shove all kinds of shit under the rug.
 
Yeah, I suppose. But still, who keeps a crusty cum stained dress as evidence for a rape and only comes forward 30 years later, when the supposed perp has been elected potus? I mean, call me cynical, but even through the #metoo era, powerful people can still shove all kinds of shit under the rug.

Well it seems to have been all the rage in the 90s.
 

Fiona the hippo attempts to make Super Bowl pick, vomits on Kansas City
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Updated: 3:12 PM EST Jan 30, 2020

CINCINNATI —
The world's favorite hippo has made her Super Bowl pick. Or at least she attempted to Thursday afternoon at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Fiona the Nile hippopotamus, now 3 years old, attempted to pick between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.

The portly princess was placed in front of two enrichment items, each emblazoned with the logo of a Super Bowl team. The 1,200-pound toddler was expected to press her snout to one of the items, indicating her favorite to win -- a feat that was sure to influence oddsmakers across the globe.
But fate had other plans, as Fiona had just eaten lunch. The hippo heartthrob instead vomited freshly chewed veggies atop the Kansas City logo.
We're sure there's some hidden meaning there, but the hippo refused to clarify.
Fiona's accuracy rate has so far been 50 percent. She accurately projected the underdog Philadelphia Eagles to beat the New England Patriots in 2018, but bet against the Pats, instead going with the Los Angeles Rams, in 2019.
Cincinnati's beloved Fiona celebrated her third birthday on Jan. 24.
She now weighs well over a half ton. It's a big deal for her, considering she weighed a fifth of what a normal baby hippo should weigh when she was born Jan. 24, 2017. Fiona weighed 29 pounds when she was born, which is about 25 pounds lighter than the lowest recorded birth weight for this species. The normal range is 55 to 120 pounds.
Through her amazing survival, Fiona become an ambassador for her species and a great example of why zoos exist. She survived because of her animal care team's tireless efforts to save her and has inspired many to care about her species and wildlife, which is Cincinnati Zoo's mission.
 

Fiona the hippo attempts to make Super Bowl pick, vomits on Kansas City
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Updated: 3:12 PM EST Jan 30, 2020

CINCINNATI —
The world's favorite hippo has made her Super Bowl pick. Or at least she attempted to Thursday afternoon at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Fiona the Nile hippopotamus, now 3 years old, attempted to pick between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.

The portly princess was placed in front of two enrichment items, each emblazoned with the logo of a Super Bowl team. The 1,200-pound toddler was expected to press her snout to one of the items, indicating her favorite to win -- a feat that was sure to influence oddsmakers across the globe.
But fate had other plans, as Fiona had just eaten lunch. The hippo heartthrob instead vomited freshly chewed veggies atop the Kansas City logo.
We're sure there's some hidden meaning there, but the hippo refused to clarify.
Fiona's accuracy rate has so far been 50 percent. She accurately projected the underdog Philadelphia Eagles to beat the New England Patriots in 2018, but bet against the Pats, instead going with the Los Angeles Rams, in 2019.
Cincinnati's beloved Fiona celebrated her third birthday on Jan. 24.
She now weighs well over a half ton. It's a big deal for her, considering she weighed a fifth of what a normal baby hippo should weigh when she was born Jan. 24, 2017. Fiona weighed 29 pounds when she was born, which is about 25 pounds lighter than the lowest recorded birth weight for this species. The normal range is 55 to 120 pounds.
Through her amazing survival, Fiona become an ambassador for her species and a great example of why zoos exist. She survived because of her animal care team's tireless efforts to save her and has inspired many to care about her species and wildlife, which is Cincinnati Zoo's mission.

Still a better show than Star Trek Discovery
 
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