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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."

 

[Zeorus]

Considering American Christians that would flee be a majority of fundamentalist protestants, wouldn't Orthodox Christianity be against them since it could come off like Catholicism?

I think a lot of these folks would assume that Russians are Catholic since Orthodoxy has such little visibility in the US (by comparison to other Christian sects). Not as if the average Baptist knows the difference between Ecclesiastical Latin and Old Church Slavonic when they hear it.

 

[Ti-99/4A]

People have been saying that the sitting President is going to cancel the elections since at least 2000 when Clinton was about to leave office.

 

[AnOminous]

People have been saying that the sitting President is going to cancel the elections since at least 2000 when Clinton was about to leave office.

I think it goes as far back as JFK, when Birchers and the like were saying JFK was going to declare martial law and take over for the Pope.

 

[sugoi-chan]

People have been saying that the sitting President is going to cancel the elections since at least 2000 when Clinton was about to leave office.

In Bush 2's day, it was when he signed the the Defense budget for 2006 that the left-leaning side of the web swore that this was the first step towards a military dictatoriship with Bush at the head.

 

[Trapped_Fairy]

The head's volunteer actually suffers from a spinal atrophy type of disorder and either has or is facing complete paralysis, not sure on the stage of his disease. I say he should go ahead and do this if that's what he really wants. He's willing to die for a chance to help people in the same boat he's in, and no matter the result of this, it'll definitely help further the research. Honestly, I think it's pretty noble of him to step forward and be the guinea pig for this experiment. His quality of life is pretty shit to begin with, so even if he dies, it won't be that bad of an outcome for him.

 

[TowinKarz]

http://www.epictimes.com/2015/09/whataburger-refuses-to-serve-police-officers-in-texas/

The employee in question has since been disciplined (fired) , but coming on the heels of the story from a couple weeks back where the same thing happened to another officer at an Arby's (linked in the article) which was national Twitter-fodder as well, I have to wonder, do these incidents represent self-professed SJW's taking it upon themselves to "fight back" against police for the high-profile shootings that's led to the hot topic of the summer of law enforcement race relations?

It's just a theory, nobody in these stories has gone further and interviewed any of the fired workers and asked them why they behaved the way they did (and there certainly was no corporate policy they were following, they took it on themselves or possibly were directed to by managers also acting "rogue" if you will)

Some people just plain don't like cops, but, I have to wonder if I'm onto something or reading too much into basic assholism.

Thoughts?

 

[XYZpdq]

https://archive.is/cfN8j
because nobody should ever click on a name as stupid as "epictimes"

 

[TaterBot]

I want them to release the name and picture of the Whataburger perp.
The parody videos already released are hilarious.


In the meantime, for the funny stuff

Spoiler

http://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Wris...2425769&sr=8-1&keywords=police&tag=epic0b7-20

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

At this point, you might as well b lame everything wrong in the world today on "Social Justice" twits. That's what I do.

 

[caffeinated_wench]

Did you know Obama is going to cancel the elections for unspecified reasons? Because Ben Carson sure thinks so.

What.

I don't know about you, but I really needed a laugh today. This whole thing is so ridiculous I'm inclined to believe it's from a news parody site.

 

[Apocalypso]

 

[K>C]

Heh, I'd like them to try to go a country where actual Stalinists get twenty percent of vote. A country where a part of it enforces Sharia, and where 1/7 of it is Muslim.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzan_Kadyrov


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Russia

 

[Pikimon]

Highschool? Unless yours had a neurology class or i was too preoccupied enough too miss this your guess is a good as mine. I'm 23, yourself?

You don't have to take a neurology class to know that "cutting off head = bad".

 

[Surtur]

No, that's actually the biggest problem. You have to remember, your brain is physically hardwired to suit YOUR body. Your body is so complex and it's different from every other body there is despite the vast similarities to other people's bodies. Remember, all your genes and cells are physically different from everyone else's. So of course your brain isn't made to keep those certain things that make you YOU function properly if it doesn't have the same cells to send messages to. That's why I said earlier that the most, if at all, this man will get out of the donor body is basic stimuli responses. With animals they are much less complex creatures than we are. Their bodies are much more simplified and are programmed to not have the variety that we have. That's why their bodies, such as the dogs, were able to live so long. Their brains do not require the same power as ours, or any primate's, to function.

With the monkeys they were successful in the sense that they were able to function on the most basic of levels. However, primates being the complex group of animals that they are, their brain was not able to fully assimilate with the body provided because it had to rewire such a complex system. Much different than a simple dog's. When you get to humans, we are the most complex of primates. We are literally the most complex of any animal species on this earth. We have so many layers to us that even our own brains are still a mystery to us and how we function. We are such a complex species that we can't even figure out why certain members of our society work the way they do, or at least certain traits any one of us exhibit exist the way they do.

So then we take a human's brain, with all its intricacies physically hardwired to adhere to a single person, and put it in a body just as complex and different as its own, it does not know what to do. The brain cannot just adhere to all of these differences at once when transplanted. It's not the connections with the arteries and veins scientists are worried about. It's the brain itself that none of us can control and help adjust.

I'm sorry if I jumble up my wording too much. I hope this makes sense.

More or less. If by some chance he survives, he will probably go insane.

I just don't get why people think they can get away with shit like this. Like, what the fuck was this dumbass thinking? The company puts "In God We Trust" on their fucking windows, of course these fuckers are Pro-Cop.

 

[Pikimon]

They would have to do the transplant really quickly too, the moment you sever the spinal cord the Central Nervous System's astrocytes and microglia start eating the damaged nerve cells immediately and starts forming scar tissue.

 

[Too Many Crooks]

Brutal and obscene

 

[Johnny Bravo]

The Spanish-language La Nación newspaper reported that Oviedo even forced his son to eat animal food and drink fuel, which police found in the cage with him.

I just want to know what he was trying to accomplish with that.

I have only one thing to say to this guy.

 

[MasterDisaster]

So gotta ask...we talking Kibbles N Bits or Alpo? Oats? Friskies? I mean it could have been canned stuff, maybe he was going all out on it. Fancy Feast?

 

[Trapped_Fairy]

Reattaching the medulla will also prove to be quite the challenge, seeing as it controls heartbeat, breathing, swallowing, and most reflex movements. Though since the severing will be under their control, they may prove to be the first to successfully have someone survive it.

I'd really love to see the surgical plans here.

 

[XYZpdq]

I just want to know what he was trying to accomplish with that.

If he drank enough fuel he could go fast. And he's gotta go fast.

Price, author of "The End of America"

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