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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."

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Border Patrol Detains 3 Kids At O'Hare Airport For Hours

Spoiler

Border Patrol Detains 3 Kids At O'Hare Airport For Hours
CHICAGO, IL — Three minor children who are U.S. citizens are being held at O'Hare International Airport until their parents, who are undocumented immigrants, can pick them up. The incident started around 3 a.m. Thursday, when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol rejected the tourist visa of a cousin who was traveling with the children from Mexico, Anna Maran, organizing director at PASO, the West Suburban Action Project said.
Maran told Patch that the cousin's tourist visa was valid, but was denied, which left three children between the ages of 9 and 13 at O'Hare without an adult guardian.
According to Maran, Customs and Border Patrol contacted the children's parents to tell them they would have to pick them up. The parents then reached out to the Mexican Consulate because they were "afraid of being taken into custody or deported themselves if they went to the airport," Maran said.

PASO was contacted by the consulate, which arranged to get the parents' permission to release the children into the custody of PASO's immigration lawyer, Mony Ruiz-Velasco.
Just before 4 p.m., Maran told Patch that Customs and Border Patrol had been reviewing Ruiz-Velasco's request for over an hour.
"They said it would be 10 or 15 minutes," Maran said.
The incident brought dozens of protesters to O'Hare International Airport carrying signs that read "Free the Kids" and "Stop ICE." They were joined by public figures that included Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D, IL-9) and Anthony Clark, a Congressional candidate and local activist.
Clark shared a video of Schakowsky as she spoke out:
Schakowsky said, "I am to demand an explanation why they would waylay these two children," she said, referring to two girls and their cousin. "I'm going to go in and see why our government is acting this way to three minors that have every right to travel, three citizens of the United States of America."
Schakowsky added, "I feel that it's a kind of kidnapping of children by our government and I am very fed up with what we are doing."
She said she brought all her identification to talk to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol as a U.S. Congresswoman. "Let them try and keep me out," she said.

Apparently it's ICE's fault that three citizen children of illegal immigrants cannot travel, because they have no legal guardian.

All this does is make it clear that if you want to get away with illegal immigration you need to buy a kid and use them as a shield for all of your illegal activities.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

We talk of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing but some had decided to cover the 50th anniversary of Chappaquiddick.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/07/chappaquiddick-anniversary-kennedy-kopechne ( http://archive.fo/LwuSb )

“The Kennedy Machine Buried What Really Happened”: Revisiting Chappaquiddick, 50 Years Later

There aren’t many people alive who witnessed Chappaquiddick firsthand. Those who did recall how Ted Kennedy escaped punishment—and how Mary Jo Kopechne’s story was overshadowed.
BY
JOSH SANBURN
JULY 17, 2019

Fifty years ago, as men prepared to land on the moon and millions of those stuck on earth followed each staticky dispatch from space, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into a pond. The weekend of the Apollo 11 moon landing should have cemented the Kennedy family’s legacy of public service. Seven years earlier, Teddy’s brother President John F. Kennedy proposed putting an American on the lunar surface before the decade was out. And on the evening of July 18, 1969, Neil Armstrong was hours away from doing just that. But for the new patriarch of Camelot, the weekend instead was marked by a tragic accident at best, an unconscionable act at worst—one that ultimately killed a young woman, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne.

Looking back 50 years on, Chappaquiddick says much about its era, a time when a privileged, powerful man could manipulate a system to avoid prosecution while a young woman who had ascended in male-dominated Washington—when only 11 women were in Congress—had both her life and death engulfed by the senator’s political ambitions and America’s fascination with the Kennedys.
“She was always identified in the newspaper as blonde, ex-secretary to Bobby Kennedy,” says Elly Kluge, one of Kopechne’s friends. “The worst kind of myth to put forth about her.”

In the accident’s aftermath, Kennedy deftly managed to escape both his Oldsmobile Delmont 88 and the incident itself with little punishment. Numerous books, documentaries, and movies have been released over the years, including the full-length feature Chappaquiddick, in 2017, often meticulously focusing on the hours after the accident and those involved. But the people with firsthand knowledge of Chappaquiddick have rarely spoken. And even today, the truth still feels just out of reach.

 

[Rei is shit]

Brazilian priest says fat women wont get into heaven. That a fat woman pushes him off the stage

https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1151548569456914432

 

[Wallace]

Study finds transgender, non-binary autism link
Gender identity clinics should screen patients, says lead author of new paper

New research indicates that transgender and non-binary individuals are significantly more likely to have autism or display autistic traits than the wider population - a finding that has important implications for gender confirmation treatments.

The study, led by Dr Steven Stagg of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and published in the journal European Psychiatry, is one of the first pieces of research to focus on people who identify as non-binary.

It found that 14% of the transgender and non-binary group had a diagnosis of autism, while a further 28% of this group reached the cut off point for an autism diagnosis, suggesting a high number of potentially undiagnosed individuals.

These figures were primarily driven by high scoring amongst those whose assigned gender was female at birth, supporting recent evidence that there is a large population of undiagnosed women with an autism spectrum disorder.

The authors also found higher levels of systematising (a tendency to analyse, control and use rule-based systems) and lower levels of empathy amongst the transgender and non-binary group, characteristics often found in individuals with an autism spectrum disorder.

The study of 177 people reported an autism diagnosis of 4% for the cisgender group (those whose gender identity matches their gender at birth). This is higher than previously-reported estimates for the wider population and the authors believe self-selection for the study could be responsible.

Dr Stagg, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Anglia Ruskin (ARU), said: "We found that a significant proportion of the transgender and non-binary group either had a diagnosis of autism or displayed autistic traits, including a difficulty in empathising and an overreliance on systematic, rule-based reasoning.

"One of the striking findings was the number of individuals born female who met the cut off for autism spectrum disorder. This is particularly important given that individuals born female are twice as likely to be referred to gender identity clinics.

"Problems interpreting social signals, a literal understanding of language and difficulty recognising and interpreting one's own emotions could mean that individuals struggle with therapeutic interventions.

"People with autism are also more likely to seek unequivocal answers to the complex issues surrounding gender identity. Our study suggests it is important that gender identity clinics screen patients for autism spectrum disorders and adapt their consultation process and therapy accordingly."

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Study finds transgender, non-binary autism link
Gender identity clinics should screen patients, says lead author of new paper

Looking forward to seeing this replicated.

 

[AnOminous]

Looking forward to seeing this replicated.

More likely whoever did the study has their careers set on fire and burned as REEEEEing troons start a campaign of autistic screeching until it has to be withdrawn and its authors permanently labeled "transphobic" hate criminals.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

More likely whoever did the study has their careers set on fire and burned as REEEEEing troons start a campaign of autistic screeching until it has to be withdrawn and its authors permanently labeled "transphobic" hate criminals.

Good fucking God it's like a nationwide Stanford Prison Experiment

 

[CamelCursive]

Chris Pratt Is in Hot Water for This Controversial T-Shirt & the Internet Has Thoughts

In a surprising about-face from his normally positive public reception, there seems to be mounting criticism over Chris Pratt’s controversial American flag shirt. The Jurassic World star was spotted out-and-about earlier this week with new wife Katherine Schwarzenegger wearing an at-first-glance...

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Chris Pratt wears patriotic shirt.
Idiots flip out about his racism.

But telling folks to leave the super-nazi-racist-nation is also racism.

Only the modern left would believe they live in an oppressive fascist dictatorship, and then proceed to piss off literally everyone capable of fighting.

Ashley StClair 🇺🇸 on Twitter

“I went to the Aurora ICE facility where deranged leftists took down the U.S flag & raised a Mexican flag in its place These lunatics called me a white supremacist simply for supporting our flag and our troops. VC: @DC_Draino https://t.co/M284ygkXl7”

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I really hope they kick-start that revolution soon, these people need to be dealt with.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Fuck those goddamn anti smoking 'activists'. They make me want to start smoking again...

Those #Truth antismoking ads that were all over TV a few years ago were, and I say this without an ounce of hyperbole, more cancerous than chainsmoking a pack of unfilterds in the Chernobyl reactor core

Seriously, watch this and not want to light up just because you know it would piss off the people responsible for this war crime

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

We talk of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing but some had decided to cover the 50th anniversary of Chappaquiddick.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/07/chappaquiddick-anniversary-kennedy-kopechne ( http://archive.fo/LwuSb )

The Kennedy machine? Hahaha look at the MSM letting itself off the hook for covering for the kennedys. But I guess that money ran out

Ted Kennedy is lucky he didn't make it to metoo

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Last week, a journalist of Somalian origins wanted to show some positives images of Somalia and she got a bullet.

Journalist Who Promoted ‘Somali Positivity’ Killed In Terrorist Attack

A Somali-Canadian journalist went back to Somalia to share the positive sides of the country and was killed in a terrorist attack, the Washington Post reported.

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( http://archive.fo/ELFmz )

A journalist who promoted “Somali positivity” died at the hands of terrorists in the country when militants attacked a hotel.
Hodan Nalayeh, raised in Canada, moved to Somalia to show aspects of the country that are often missed by media outlets, The Washington Post reported. She founded Integration TV, a channel that shared stories about Somalia and its people. The stories included citizens starting a new library and female business owners succeeding in a marketplace.

Nalayeh was killed in a terrorist attack in Kismayo, Somalia, on July 12 at the Asasey Hotel. The were at least 26 fatalities, including the 43-year-old journalist. Her husband was also killed and 56 people were wounded, WaPo reported. (RELATED: Here’s What People On The Right Think Of The ‘Send Her Back’ Chant)
Many of Nalayeh’s stories were tied together with one of her commonly used hashtags, “#SomaliPositivity,” according to WaPo. The YouTube channel for Integration TV has more than 70,000 followers.

Timcast vlogged about this.

One commenter remind us it was Omar's homeland.

Lohanna

By pointing out it is Omar's homeland, it puts her ingratitude in perspective.

To think there was a time when Mogadishu, like Tehran, wasn't a complete hellhole.
https://mogadishuimages.wordpress.com/category/time-periods/1960s-independence/ ( http://archive.fo/hwn2X )

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Brazilian priest says fat women wont get into heaven. That a fat woman pushes him off the stage

https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1151548569456914432

This is literally fake news.

He apparently said no such thing and the lady who pushed him is a schizo.

 

[Ahriman]

Mexican president calls El Chapo's life term 'inhumane'

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said sentences like the one for El Chapo - 'a sentence for life in a hostile jail, hard, inhumane' - made a life no longer worth living.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Cry me a river, dickface. His cartel is responsible for hundreds of vicious killings and rapings - look no further than the "funkytown" Zetas video to see what "inhumane" really means.
And now this fuckhead says the US is being "inhumane" towards him. Fuck off.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

More likely whoever did the study has their careers set on fire and burned as REEEEEing troons start a campaign of autistic screeching until it has to be withdrawn and its authors permanently labeled "transphobic" hate criminals.

From what I have seen on social media, Autism Moms and disability activists are embracing this as proof that autists and their "community" are just more open-minded and honest.

 

[AnOminous]

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Mexican president calls El Chapo's life term 'inhumane'

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said sentences like the one for El Chapo - 'a sentence for life in a hostile jail, hard, inhumane' - made a life no longer worth living.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Cry me a river, dickface. His cartel is responsible for hundreds of vicious killings and rapings - look no further than the "funkytown" Zetas video to see what "inhumane" really means.
And now this fuckhead says the US is being "inhumane" towards him. Fuck off.

If he didn't want to be in Supermax he shouldn't have repeatedly escaped. He could have done his time in Mexico and bribed the guards to live in luxury behind bars, but no. He had to escape.

He can suck a dick.

I generally think Supermax is inhumane and unnecessarily inflicted on people for relatively minor disciplinary violations that then ramp up until they're unfairly categorized as dangerous.

But there are some criminals, and this asshole is one, who justify having such prisons.

 

[Palpatine]

What do you guys think about this story on Ilhan Omar where her immigration fraud was not only limited to marrying her brother, but her original asylum application was using fake name and fake family ties (as in, she's not actually a Omar)?

David Steinberg: Tying up loose threads in the curious case

In four intensely reported investigative columns -- here (August 13, 2018), here (October 23, 2018), here (October 30, 2018), and here (November 5, 2018), -- David Steinberg has explored the evidence suggesting that Ilhan Omar entered into a sham marriage with her brother in 2009. This is his...

www.powerlineblog.com

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

What do you guys think about this story on Ilhan Omar where her immigration fraud was not only limited to marrying her brother, but her original asylum application was using fake name and fake family ties (as in, she's not actually a Omar)?

David Steinberg: Tying up loose threads in the curious case

In four intensely reported investigative columns -- here (August 13, 2018), here (October 23, 2018), here (October 30, 2018), and here (November 5, 2018), -- David Steinberg has explored the evidence suggesting that Ilhan Omar entered into a sham marriage with her brother in 2009. This is his...

www.powerlineblog.com

Omfg I know it's unlikely but could you imagine if it turns out she's here illegally and committing identity theft?

I strongly doubt it, bit sometimes clown world delivers. Honk honk motherfuckers.

 

[CWCissey]

US man scales high rise to save mother from fire

He said he had to check on his 65-year-old mother despite fracturing his hip earlier in the day.

www.bbc.co.uk

So which one do you think this was? I'm going with Mac myself...

 

[Psyduck]

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Mexican president calls El Chapo's life term 'inhumane'

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said sentences like the one for El Chapo - 'a sentence for life in a hostile jail, hard, inhumane' - made a life no longer worth living.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Cry me a river, dickface. His cartel is responsible for hundreds of vicious killings and rapings - look no further than the "funkytown" Zetas video to see what "inhumane" really means.
And now this fuckhead says the US is being "inhumane" towards him. Fuck off.

Yo let me tell you somethin

People in here both hate the goverment so much that they glorify pieces of shit like El Chapo into some sort of folk hero ala Robin Hood.

The even bigger shitmouth we have as a president runs in this "For the people!" charade, so he most likely thought it was a good pandering idea.

Can America just invade us already?

And to El Chaputo, i hope you shat yourself in those last hours of freedom you had sneaking between tunnels like a sewer rat. Good riddance.

Be funny if they used his cash to fund the wall too.

 

[Sīn the Moon Daddy]

Meghan McCain erupts after she gets called out for whining that her GOP friends are ‘very upset’ about Trump

"The View" erupted into a shouting match over President Donald Trump's racist smears of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and other Democratic congresswomen, even though all the panelists seemed to agree his remarks were abhorrent.Co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin blasted "self-righteous hypocrite"...

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Meghan McCain erupts after she gets called out for whining that her GOP friends are ‘very upset’ about Trump

“The View” erupted into a shouting match over President Donald Trump’s racist smears of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and other Democratic congresswomen, even though all the panelists seemed to agree his remarks were abhorrent.

Co-hosts Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin blasted “self-righteous hypocrite” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for defending the president’s comments, and Meghan McCain challenged Democrats to defeat Trump for re-election.

“This is so bad,” McCain said. “It’s like nothing I have ever seen, and I don’t think anyone in this room has ever seen before, and if you can’t beat this, this blatant racism, what does this say about your party?”

Co-host Joy Behar pushed back, saying Trump had campaign as a blatant racist in 2016 and won the Republican nomination and then Electoral College, and then McCain commented on Navarro’s emotional response to Rubio’s dismissal of concerns about the president’s bigotry.

“Look at her — she has real, raw emotions right now,” McCain said. “Her hands are shaking. You’re not the first person I’ve seen like this this week. A lot of people, a lot of hardcore conservatives I know are very, very, very upset.”

Behar jumped in with a quick burn.

“I’m so sorry to hear that,” Behar said. “Why don’t they open their mouths?”

The crowd hooted and applauded, and McCain struggled to be heard.

“Because some of them — you know what, Joy?” McCain said. “Because some of them are private citizens and friends of mine who don’t have the kind of platforms we do.”

Behar said she wasn’t talking about those friends, but instead was referring to the late Sen. John McCain’s friend, Sen. Lindsey Graham, or former senator Rick Santorum, but McCain called out one of her friends’ name.

“I’m sorry my friend Sara in Scottsdale doesn’t have the same kind of platform I do,” she said.

Navarro said she didn’t care what McCain’s personal friends thought about Trump, and instead called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to speak out, but McCain said rank-and-file Republicans were suffering from Trump’s racism.

“If you’re a normal Republican walking around the streets of New York City, like you and I are, or wherever, and you are tagged with this right now,” McCain said. “It is humiliating. It’s embarrassing. It’s — I don’t know what to do about it anymore.”

“I have said this all week,” she added, “and the fact that we are tainted with this as Republicans and conservatives, yes, it’s cowardice on the other side. I don’t know what else I can do, other than we are calling it out as loud as we can with the platform that we have.”

McCain called on Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the president on his racism, and Navarro offered a more practical course of action for outraged Republicans.

“I want to tell you what we can do about it,” Navarro said. “We do not vote for this guy. I don’t care about the Supreme Court justice, I don’t care about the tax bill, I don’t care about anything else. We cannot justify voting for a racist.”

McCain, who has said she would not even vote for family friend Joe Biden because he’s a Democrat, then offered an excuse for Republican leadership standing by Trump.

“It’s obviously about power,” she said. “I’m sorry, this is not a complicated question. It’s about political power — as it should be.”