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

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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."
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Francis E. Dec Esc. said:
(In case you're wondering, the Pledge was penned by a socialist minister, Francis Bellamy, in 1892. President Eisenhower in 1954 asked Congress to include the words, “under God" as the fear of atheistic communism spread.)
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Wait until you find out what the original flag salute looked like before it was changed to your right hand over your heart, or what Bellamy said about immigrants.
 
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San Francisco School Board President Drops Pledge Of Allegiance, Replaces With Quotes From Black Authors, Gay Leaders

Stevon Young, the new president of the San Francisco School Board, abandoned the Pledge of Allegiance at the opening of the board's monthly meeting last week, instead opting to recite a quote from poet May Angelou.

Cook said he skipped the patriotic pledge at a time when the Trump administration "has been attacking our liberties," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

After roll was taken at the meeting, Cook read an excerpt from an Angelou poem: "When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

Cook later said he broke tradition because few people know where the Pledge of Allegiance came from, anyway. "If you ask 10 Americans who wrote it, or when it was implemented, or why it is how we start our meetings, a lot of us would be hard pressed" to answer, he said.

(In case you're wondering, the Pledge was penned by a socialist minister, Francis Bellamy, in 1892. President Eisenhower in 1954 asked Congress to include the words, “under God" as the fear of atheistic communism spread.)

Cook said the decision was personal. “We should stand for [the pledge] because those ideals are important to me,” he said. “To speak them is another thing. ...There are a lot of ways to express gratitude and appreciation for the country and its citizens," said Cook. "This is how I plan to do that."

"Cook said he plans to select quotes or the writings of a range of inspirational Americans, including writer Toni Morrison, gay rights icon Harvey tard cum and novelist James Baldwin," the Chronicle wrote.

Cook claimed he was not snubbing the Pledge for press (although the move garnered much from the liberal media).

“I'm not doing it as a way to seek attention,” he said. “I really think that these people are a great testament to our values and who we should aspire to be as Americans.”

“I’m no Colin Kaepernick,” he said, referring to the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who knelt during the national anthem before NFL games in 2016, setting off a trend.

“I’m Stevon Cook.”
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I can't get over the fact that his name is "Stevon". I'm sure they are running out of names to ghettofy, but surely there's still more out there to work with than tacking "-on" to the end of Steven in order to create a more ebonics-like sound.
 
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Last month, the mayor of Hallandale Beach, Keith London, bizarrely accused fellow commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub of profiting from bleaching her sphincter, causing public outrage and series of #MeToo posts on social media. Now, Lima-Taub is the one under fire for apparently comparing the mayor to Adolf Hitler during Wednesday night’s regularly scheduled commission meeting.

Both the mayor and Lima-Taub are Jewish, so did the commissioner really compare the mayor to Hitler? The vice mayor says yes. She and the mayor are offended. Lima-Taub says absolutely not.

Whatever the interpretation, the commissioner did throw out the names Hitler and Fidel Castro in her comments focused on London. Here’s what happened.

The first item on the Wednesday night agenda was a proclamation, sponsored by London, to make October 2018 Domestic Violence Awareness month in Hallandale Beach. During her opening comments, Lima-Taub called London “the biggest, most corrupt criminal to ever grace the city” and said the mayor’s domestic violence proclamation a was a “joke” before making the following statement:

“A man who sat here a month ago and dared to talk about my private parts, sponsoring a proclamation for domestic violence. Wow. That’s like Hitler having a proclamation for Jews. Or Fidel Castro having freedom day for Cubans.”


Moments later, Vice Mayor Michele Lazarow and Commissioner Mike Butler got up from the dais. That meant the commission no longer had a quorum and the meeting had to halt until they returned. Lazarow later called the commissioner’s comments “disgusting” and demanded a public apology.

“I know you don’t like the mayor, and I know that he has made inappropriate comments and remarks for which he has apologized. As a Jew, to listen to you sit here and compare anyone to Hitler makes me sick to my stomach,” Lazarow said toward the end of the meeting. “There was one Hitler. Only one. Hitler murdered millions of innocent people. Murdered millions of innocent people. No one is like Hitler. There is one Hitler. The worst in our society are not like Hitler.”

London remained silent Wednesday but admitted he was offended in a statement made to the Miami Herald on Thursday.


“Of course I’m offended, but more so for Holocaust survivors in our community who shouldn’t have their experiences trivialized for petty politics and personal attacks,” London wrote. “I’ve said controversial things from time to time. I’ve apologized for doing so. I hope Commissioner Taub will learn from my example and do the same.”

Lima-Taub did not apologize. Instead, after the meeting, she took to Facebook and doubled down on her comments.

“A man who has a history of abuse of women, firefighters and African-Americans, sponsoring a domestic violence proclamation (to deflect from his humiliating sexual inappropriate comments about my private parts) in an attempt to garner more votes is sickening,” Lima-Taub wrote. In the post, she called the mayor’s accusations about anal bleaching last month “abusive” and repeated both the Hitler and Castro comments almost verbatim.

Since the anal bleaching comment — possibly a reference to her mother’s med spa — Lima-Taub has continued to accuse London of what she calls abusive behavior, including unwanted touching of her rear-end.

Her late-night post ended with the following:

“I am incensed that this man tries to legitimize his actions via this proclamation. How disrespectful for every woman who has endured sexual, physical or mental abuse at the hands of men. When will people say enough is enough!!!!!”

A day, and much public criticism later, and Lima-Taub said she still does not think her comments were offensive.

“I think if you want to make it offensive to politicize it like the vice mayor, you can,” Lima-Taub said. “I didn’t compare him to Hitler. But I do compare him to every man who has ever sexually harassed a woman.”
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/australian-man-killed-in-the-philippines/10386916
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Australian businessman Reginald Hodgens has been shot and killed in a town in the northern Philippines.

Key points:
  • The 70-year-old was a building supervisor
  • He filed a legal case against a Filipino resident
  • DFAT is providing family consular assistance


Philippines police are investigating the killing of the 70-year-old after his body was found with a bullet wound in the head.

Police said Mr Hodgens was a building supervisor who moved to the northern town of Sinait in the province of Ilocos Sur after he filed a case against a Filipino from another town.

Revenge is being investigated as a possible motive for the killing, but police refused to give more details on the case.

They have also notified the Australian Embassy in Manila of the incident.

The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed it was providing consular assistance, "to the family of an Australian man who died in the Philippines".

Consular assistance can include guidance with funeral arrangements and repatriation of remains, but Australian embassies have no authority to intervene in local court cases.

"Owing to our privacy obligations we will not provide further comment," DFAT said in a statement.
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Recently found films show Japanese expatriates working in Western clothes and playing baseball in the Philippines in the prewar years. (Provided by the Matsui family)


Trading house Osaka Boeki’s shop holds a Christmas sale in what is believed to be Manila around October 1934. (Provided by the Matsui family)

OSAKA--Prewar films have been found showing Japanese living, working, playing sports and wearing Western clothes in the Philippines in the years before the Southeast Asian islands were turned into bloody battlefields.

Fifty 16-mm films, running 220 minutes in total, were discovered in the former residence of Seiei Matsui in Osaka Prefecture by his relatives.

Matsui was the general manager of Manila-based trading house Osaka Boeki Kaisha Ltd., which was known as Osaka Bazar until January 1934.

The films were shot between 1929 and 1939 when the Philippines was under U.S. colonial rule.

The footage shows not only the company’s outlets and employees but also daily scenes from numerous Philippine cities, including Manila, Davao and Cebu, where Osaka Boeki set up its business bases.

One film captures a crowd of shoppers inundating Osaka Boeki’s retail outlet for Christmas sales, along with a vehicle-filled boulevard and an urbanized cityscape.

Another film shows a bustling port as well as workers toiling at a noodle factory, sorting cargo at a warehouse or relaxing in a company dorm.

But it was not all work and no play in the Philippines in the prewar days. One film features people playing baseball and tennis, popular sports in the Philippines, and flickering neon signs of Western buildings at night in a downtown area.

Drawn to vibrant commercial activities, an estimated 20,000 Japanese worked in the Philippines during the 1930s.

Under the leadership of Americans living there, the U.S. colony regularly hosted the Far East championship, an athletics event featuring competitors from the Philippines, China and Japan from the 1910s to 1930s.

But things all changed after Japan went to war against the United States in December 1941.

More than 100,000 civilians were killed as collateral damage in a battle that erupted in Manila in February 1945, pitting U.S. and Philippine forces against Japanese troops.

Just before Japan’s surrender in 1945, Matsui, who served as a civilian worker for the Imperial Japanese Army, died in fighting on the island of Luzon.

Shinzo Hayase, a professor of modern Asian history at Waseda University who is knowledgeable about Philippine history, described the films as an “extremely precious discovery” because they show the way of life for Japanese expatriates in the prewar years.

“A wealthy class in the Philippines back then was more affluent than the Japanese elite,” he said. “The footage of Japanese running Western-style outlets and enjoying sports shows the influence of their host community.”

Part of the films will be shown at the Daiwa House Nobuo Ishibashi memorial hall at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo Campus from 6 p.m. on Oct. 19.

Admission is free, but attendance will be limited to the first 125 people in line.
 
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Marvin said:
I'm crying laughing. random.txt please.

Also, oh shit, discord is changing their TOS to require binding arbitration in lieu of being able to sue them. @AnOminous Is this as shitty as it sounds?
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Yes. It's also as generic as it sounds.

Why the fuck does anyone use Discord? You were already agreeing to be raped without lube by using this shitty platform.
 
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From the Irish Post:

SCOTTISH police officers have been issued a list of flags that could be considered a criminal offence to wave and lead to five years in prison.

According to The Herald, a “restricted” document has been issued to officers which included a list of flags that could be a criminal offence if waved in “a provocative manner”.

As a result, officers may charge those judged to be in breach of the peace under Section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing Scotland Act 2010.

If convicted, offenders could face up to five years in prison.

Amongst the list of offending flags is the Irish tricolour, as well as the ‘Sunburst, which is closely associated with Irish nationalism and the ‘Starry Plough’, which was originally adopted by the Irish Citizen Army.

Also on the list are the Leinster flag, the four provinces flag, the Orange Order flag, the Red’ Hand’ of Ulster flag and the Ulster Independence flag.

The Israeli and Palestinian flags are also on it, as well as the Catalan and Basque flags.

Much of the flags on the list display symbols associated with republican and loyalist groups, and are often waved at parades and Scottish football games.

The restricted police document was obtained by the Scottish newspaper under the Freedom of Information legislation, and reads: “Whilst the display of the following flags is not an offence, in itself, if flown or displayed in a provocative manner or altered, constitute a common law Breach of the Peace or an offence under Section 38 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2000.

“If they are altered to contain a reference to a proscribed organisation they may constitute an offence under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

“Irrespective of the above, the possession of these flags within a football ground may constitute a breach of ground regulations. As such, if these flags are seen, the stadium control room should be contacted; they will liaise with the football club and advise officers as to the appropriate course of action.”

Underneath each flag listed is a brief description of its significance.

For the Irish Tricolour, it reads: “The green represents the Gaelic tradition of Ireland and the orange represents the followers of William of Orange in Ireland, with white representing peace, or a truce, between them.

For The Sunburst, it says: “This flag is associated with early Irish nationalism, and more recently, youth wings of Irish republican groups such as Fianna na hEireann. The symbol can be seen on some republican murals and indicative of the dawn of a new era.”

Next to The Starry Plough, it reads: “This flag was originally used by The Irish Citizen Army, a socialist, republican movement; James Connolly, co-founder of the movement, said the significance of the banner was that a free Ireland would control its own destiny from the plough to the stars. The flag was flown by The Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising.

The Herald notes that the Irish embassy declined to comment on the matter.
 
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Fuck these "I love science!" nutjobs. Fuck BBC for encouraging these "I love science" nutjobs.
Quantum physics is not a "sect" of physics, unlike troons.
And no one ever say that "the particle goes through both holes at the same time" regarding the double slit experiment, although "going both holes at the same time" doubtless has an appeal to certain demographics...
 
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A pony-tailed commissioner-turned-appointed-mayor, London has a history of inappropriate remarks. In 2017, he told Broward investigators that a fellow commissioner was a “migrant worker.” He wasn’t. Earlier this year, London was recorded asking a city employee if he “sucked d---” while in prison.
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UK Home Secretary (the government minister in charge of all policing) Sajid Javid recently tweeted his support for the conviction of the Pakistani child grooming gang in Huddersfield.

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Naturally, some people have a problem with this.

Sajid Javid lambasted for 'Asian paedophiles' tweet

I guess Labour is more interested in being politically correct than stopping human traffickers of child sex slaves.
 
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UK Home Secretary (the government minister in charge of all policing) Sajid Javid recently tweeted his support for the conviction of the Pakistani child grooming gang in Huddersfield.

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Naturally, some people have a problem with this.

Sajid Javid lambasted for 'Asian paedophiles' tweet

I guess Labour is more interested in being politically correct than stopping human traffickers of child sex slaves.
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A Conservative Paki and Muslim atheist telling it how is, even in a relatively politically correct manner? He must be an Uncle Khan and a Nazi.
 
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