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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."
 
Man accused of killing couple claims Skyrim made him do it.

Police interrogation video played in case of man who testified about killing Vancouver couple

VANCOUVER -- Warning: disturbing content

In a video now being played in a Vancouver courtroom, accused killer Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam chats with a police officer about his life, family, and education, at some points laughing as he answers, and eats a sandwich provided by police.

In the same video, Kam acknowledges he knows he’s there in relation to a murder investigation. When he’s asked questions related to the killings of Dianna Mah-Jones and her husband Richard Jones, responds that he has nothing to say or he doesn’t want to talk about it.

At one point, the officer is heard asking him: “Why are you under arrest?”


He responds: “Because you think that I killed those people.”


In another exchange, the officer shows Kam a picture and asks if he knows this house. He responds: “I have nothing to say.”


Officer: “Have you been inside this house?”


Kam: “I don’t want to talk about it.”


The trial has heard the video runs eight hours long, and it has not yet been viewed in its entirety in court. The interview took place more than a month after Jones and Mah-Jones were found dead in their Marpole home in September 2017.


Kam is on trial, charged with first-degree murder in their deaths, and has pleaded not guilty.


The defence is arguing the video should be entered as evidence in the trial, telling the court it may show Kam behaving as though he’s in a video game, a belief they submit he also had at the time of the killings due to a mental disorder. Kam’s lawyer Glen Orris suggested his client may be dealing with the situation as if it wasn’t reality.


Orris told the court one of the games Kam used to play begins with a person accused of a crime he didn’t commit, who is being urged to confess. He said Kam spent 10 to 15 hours a day playing video games and reading fantasy comics.


Mr.Kam lives mostly in a fantasy world,” Orris said.


Several clips from another video game, Skyrim, were also played in court Wednesday, with defence lawyer Faisal Alamy showing recordings of his own game play, which included violent scenes where his character attacks other people with weapons and kills them. Kam testified he used to play Skyrim a lot while attending university in Calgary, before moving to Vancouver in the summer of 2017.


The Crown is arguing against the video’s admissibility, telling the court it doesn’t speak to Kam’s state of mind at the time of the killings, because the interview took place several weeks later. Prosecutor Jeff LaPorte added there’s nothing to indicate Kam was in an altered state.


“Throughout the … interview, Mr. Kam is coherent and rational,” LaPorte said.


Justice Laura Gerow decided the video would be viewed in court as part of a voir dire, or a trial within a trial, before she determines whether it will be entered as evidence.


Kam testified about killing Mah-Jones and Jones when he first took the stand on Tuesday, telling the court he forced his way into their home on the evening of Sept. 26, 2017. He testified he choked and stabbed Mah-Jones, and then stabbed Jones and struck him with a hatchet. He told the court he did not know the couple and had no reason to attack them.


Kam also identified himself as the person shown in a security video played earlier in the trial, buying a hatchet, gardening gloves, and a baseball hat at a Canadian Tire two weeks before the killings. The crown has argued those items were purchased with the intent to kill someone.
 
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In the same video, Kam acknowledges he knows he’s there in relation to a murder investigation. When he’s asked questions related to the killings of Dianna Mah-Jones and her husband Richard Jones, responds that he has nothing to say or he doesn’t want to talk about it.

So he thinks he's a Skyrim NPC?
 
Why wasn't Obama impeached for illegally targeting conservative groups and for selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels?

That's a good question Larry.

 
Why wasn't Obama impeached for illegally targeting conservative groups and for selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels?

That's a good question Larry.

2 Presidents, 16 years of war mongering, lies about WMDs, lies about connections to terrorists, half a million dead Iraqis, god knows how many thousands of deaths in the other theaters, thousands of American soldiers killed senselessly, trillions wasted, multiple foreign leaders toppled, fast and furious, the patriot act, weaponization of the IRS. And that's hardly an exhaustive list. No one in the political class bats an eye. No impeachments.

Then a political outsider is elected and dares to investigate a corrupt official. Impeached.

A hundred years from now when everyone who was alive now is dead and people with no horse in the race are looking back at this time period, this shit will be so laughably transparent. Only a person completely mired in dogma could blind themselves to it.
 
2 Presidents, 16 years of war mongering, lies about WMDs, lies about connections to terrorists, half a million dead Iraqis, god knows how many thousands of deaths in the other theaters, thousands of American soldiers killed senselessly, trillions wasted, multiple foreign leaders toppled, fast and furious, the patriot act, weaponization of the IRS. And that's hardly an exhaustive list. No one in the political class bats an eye. No impeachments.

Then a political outsider is elected and dares to investigate a corrupt official. Impeached.

A hundred years from now when everyone who was alive now is dead and people with no horse in the race are looking back at this time period, this shit will be so laughably transparent. Only a person completely mired in dogma could blind themselves to it.
When's Trump going to actually do something about these corrupt officials though, hmm?

I mean, any reasonable person is supportive of Joe Biden being sent to Leavenworth. If a regular American commits three felonies a day, Biden could be taken out on far more. He'd just need to appoint people keen to take out the trash to the right positions.

Instead, Trump has appointed every single Bush-era washout who should be right in there with Biden. But for some reason he can't find a place for actual pro-American types like Kris Kobach. Isn't that interesting?
 
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The new documentary Feels Good Man delivers the final word on Pepe the Frog
The most important political film of 2020 is about a meme

Polygon’s entertainment team is on the ground at the
2020 Sundance Film Festival, bringing you first looks at what are sure to be some of the year’s best blockbuster-alternative offerings. Here’s what you need to know before these indie films make their way to theaters, streaming services, and the cinematic zeitgeist.

Logline: Matt Furie creates Pepe the Frog, the internet discovers Pepe the Frog, upset 4chaners meme Pepe the Frog, Trump supporters co-opt Pepe the Frog, Furie fights to save Pepe the Frog, and in 92 minutes, what Pepe the Frog represents becomes clearer than ever.

Longerline: In 2005, Furie, a cartoonist based in San Francisco, uploaded his first digital comic to Myspace. In the early Boy’s Club comics, Pepe the Frog was one of four unremarkable, anthropomorphic animals who drank, partied, and lounged their way through post-college malaise. But in one fateful panel, Pepe pulled down his pants to his ankles to pee and uttered the phrase “feels good, man.” The line inadvertently disrupted mass culture for well over the next decade.

As Illustrator, animator, and journalist Arthur Jones discovers in the new documentary Feels Good Man, the phenomenon of Pepe the Frog becoming an icon of white supremacy is both impossible to imagine, and completely explainable. Jones interviews Furie, his arty pals, meme scholars, psychologists, 4chan devotees, students of the occult, and even President Trump’s campaign data analyst to understand Pepe’s devolution into a grotesque pawn in the war against decency. As one interviewee notes, Furie’s vibrant drawings were simple and malleable enough to be redrawn by those who wanted to conjure nightmares. So that’s what the trolls made him: scraggly, disembodied from context, and occasionally covered in swastikas.

Jones started shooting his documentary early enough to catch Furie distancing himself from the Pepe explosion. Even after Pepe took root on 4chan, the cartoonist thought he had a hope of claiming ownership, and maybe selling a few T-shirts. But after the 2016 election, the Anti-Defamation League added the frog to their list of hate symbols, jolting Furie to take more serious action. He started a “#SavePepe” campaign, urging artists to reimagine Pepe with messages of peace. In response, alt-right voices and anonymous firebrands spewed more remixes of the character. Provoked, Furie eventually “killed” Pepe, hired a fleet of IP lawyers to stomp out the fire in whatever way possible, and went to battle with Alex Jones.

The quote that says it all: “It definitely sucks, but … nothing is forever, right?”

What’s it trying to do? Weaving through the chronology, Jones’ film makes a case that Pepe isn’t so much a cautionary tale as a window into a larger, all-consuming digital dystopia. Today’s chaos agents use “negativity to brainwash men on the fringe,” and protect themselves through the protective bubble of irony. Feels Good Man suggests they might be impossible to combat. If people on the internet want to “warp reality” by electing the “personification of Pepe,” laissez-faire platforms help them organize and execute real-world plans. If they want to collectively destroy something, they will.
In one scene, Furie begs the Anti-Defamation League to remove Pepe from the hate-symbol list. The organization refuses — how could they? Pepe will forever be a hate symbol. Like many moments in the film, the point hangs in the air, weighing on the artist and the audience.

Does it get there? Feels Good Man instills viewers with a necessary sense of dread, but it isn’t nihilistic. Furie is a clear victim of radicalized irony and a nationalist movement that took full advantage of his work, and there may not be a way to protect idealists like him in the current moment. But Jones argues, through thoughtful interviews, that the men seemingly trapped in the online vortex, and their parents’ basements, are also victims who could be rescued.

One interviewee, who presents his trash-filled bedroom like he’s on Cribs, expresses the emotional journey that led him to a devout “NEET” life. His Pepe memes started as a game before raging out into a protest against women who embraced the frog’s sillier side (including Nicki Minaj). Self-flagellating himself as a “wagecuck,” the man wound up so far removed from his former self that he was praising mass shooters on 4chan. “We feel alone together,” he says of Pepe’s biggest fans. Jones documents these unjustifiable arguments for terror for the same reason a scientist engineers a vaccine out of a pathogen.

What does that get us? Possibly the most urgent and poignant political documentary of the year. With an election looming, it’s hard to watch Feels Good Man without feeling like we’ve run out of time. The grand experiment of the internet was a failure, but there’s no turning it off. In 2016, the cult of Pepe turned to the Egyptian frog god Kek in order to cripple Hillary Clinton with psychic energy. (And they think it worked.) Presumably 2020 will have its own meme-fueled, amateur technocracy pulling strings on a world that many believe stills works the way it did 50 years ago. Even if Hong Kong protestors manage to reshape Pepe’s image once again, there always seems to be something new lurking in the shadows.

There is a glimmer of hope in the doc: Maybe those same people might see this film, consider what’s under the surface of mainstream culture, and start remedying the problems through education. Maybe. But even if you’re heard every Pepe story, Jones’ film is the complete saga, with all the dots connected. It does feel good, man, but it had to be said in this way.

The most meme-able moment: Making a documentary about a meme that also has a meme-worthy moment is hard ask, but one early scene seems emblematic of every conversation about the internet we have today, and should be shown as a quick-bite video until the end of time.

“What do people get wrong when they draw Pepe?” Jones asks Furie.

“Maybe when they put him on the internet saying, ‘Kill Jews’?”

When can we see it? Feels Good Man is an independent production that premiered at Sundance, and it’s currently seeking distribution.


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Seems like a worthy entrant to movie night when somepony gets their hands on a pirated copy
 

Kalen Schlatter, left, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tess Richey, right.


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Undercover cops discussed Magic: The Gathering to convince accused killer to describe Tess Richey’s last hours, trial hears
Alyshah Hasham

By Alyshah HashamCourts Reporter
Wed., Feb. 5, 2020

Warning: This story contains graphic content and may be upsetting to some readers.

Kalen Schlatter told two undercover officers he was “pissed off” when Tess Richey refused to have sex with him but that when he left her in a Church Street stairwell in the early hours of Nov. 25, 2017, she was alive, court heard Wednesday.

“Mr. Schlatter said that when he left her, she was alive, so maybe she took her own life but he doesn’t know,” one of the Toronto police officers testified at Schlatter’s ongoing first-degree murder trial.

“Mr. Schlatter said he was drunk and something could have happened but he doesn’t remember and he doesn’t think he’s capable of doing it,” the officer recalled.
He testified that he and the other officer — their identities are covered by a publication ban — joined Schlatter in the holding cells of the 13 Division police station around 3 a.m. on Feb. 5, 2018, posing as two men who had been arrested. Schlatter had himself been arrested mere hours earlier, on the night of Feb. 4.

Investigators knew Schlatter, then 21, enjoyed board games from a photograph of his bedroom taken during a search warrant, the officer testified, explaining how he tried to get the suspected killer to open up by mentioning he and his co-accused were going to miss an appointment to learn about the fantasy card trading game “Magic: The Gathering.”
At this, the officer testified, Schlatter sat up off his bed and said he had a high ranking in the game. The conversation then turned to his sexual exploits, in which he described how he picked up women at gay bars and said, “sometimes you have to push the boundaries with women” to see where it goes. When the undercover officer asked why Schlatter had been arrested, he said he told him police were saying he’d killed Tess Richey, a 22-year-old aspiring flight attendant.

Schlatter has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in her death. The Crown is arguing he sexually assaulted and strangled Richey before leaving her body in the stairwell of a house on Church Street where it was discovered four days later by her mother and a friend.

The conversation between Schlatter and the undercover officers was not recorded. The officer, who introduced himself to Schlatter as “Mike” and his co-accused as “Jesse,” testified he did a “brain dump” onto a notepad about three hours later. Only some parts of the conversation were Schlatter’s actual words, the officer said.

Schlatter told the officers he met Richey at the Crews and Tangos bar in the Gay Village. He said he met her at the club and that he was “dancing with her and kissing her and grinding with her,” the undercover officer said. Schlatter said he lost her inside the bar, but saw her with a friend outside the club and they continued to flirt while they were both very drunk. He said her friend then had to go and got on a streetcar, the officer said.

In its opening address, the Crown told the jury that security video from the bar shows no interaction between Schlatter and Richey that night inside or outside the club. The Crown also said there was no evidence Richey had any physical contact with Schlatter or displayed any signs of affection towards him around 4 a.m., as Richey’s friend Ryley Simard left.
On Tuesday, Simard testified that she gave Schlatter a kiss before she left.

The undercover officer testified that Schlatter said he saw an alleyway by a big house under renovation and took Richey in there so they could “hook up.” He said they went to the landing at the bottom of the stairwell for more privacy while they were “making out and grinding.” Schlatter explained that this made him ejaculate in his brown Eddie Bauer pants, and that the wet stain got onto her pants, the officer said, an explanation for how his DNA got on her clothing.


Schlatter said he wanted to have sex with her but she said she was on her period, the officer testified. Schlatter continued that Richey would not let him finger her, and said she was “falling over drunk,” the officer said. When they stopped kissing, Schlatter said Richey told him she wanted to stay at the bottom of the stairs but he wanted to leave. He said he asked her if he should stay and she said she didn’t want him to. He then said he left, the undercover officer testified.

Schlatter said he wouldn’t have taken Richey into the alley if he’d known there were cameras because he wanted privacy, the officer said. He also told the undercover officers that Richey’s mother found her at the bottom of the stairs, not the police and that the “police screwed up the search,” the officer said.
Two Toronto police officers are facing professional misconduct charges for allegedly failing to properly investigate Richey’s disappearance. Their hearing has been put off until Schlatter’s criminal trial is over.

Schlatter repeatedly said his lawyer had told him not to speak to anyone and that he had been silent when questioned by detectives, the undercover officer said. But he said trusted the two men whom he considered his brothers, and said they couldn’t tell anyone what he said or he’d be “screwed,” the undercover officer testified. The officer said he assured Schlatter he wouldn’t say anything.

Schlatter said the detectives showed him pictures “of the dead girl and it didn’t faze him at all ... they were trying to get a reaction out of him,” the undercover officer said. Schlatter said he pretended to cry but really felt nothing at all, the officer said.

Schlatter cried in court Tuesday when photos of Richey’s body were shown to the jury for the first time.
The officer said Schlatter said he’d win at trial. He also said that if you rolled the dice it was “50-50” that he’d spend the rest of his life in jail because he was the last person to see Richey alive, and there was video of them going into the alley and him coming out. The jury has not yet seen this security video.

Schlatter told the undercover officer he’d had a few drinks the night he was arrested because he’d gone to watch the Superbowl with his family at a movie theatre. The officer said there was no indication that Schlatter was drunk, though he could not see Schlatter because of the cell wall between them.
The officer’s testimony is expected to continue Thursday.
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Wild monkeys with deadly strain of herpes are spreading across Florida, wildlife group warns

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Rhesus macaques are the type of monkey that was exposed to the bacteria: AP
Diseased, wild monkeys are spreading north-east through Florida - and their numbers are set to double within two years.

The species at the centre of a new warning from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWC) is the non-native Rhesus Macaque, which was first introduced to the Silver Springs area in the 1930s.


The monkeys - usually found in south, central and southeast Asia - have been quickly spreading north over the past year and their population in Silver Springs State Park alone is expected to have doubled from 300 in 2018 to 600 in 2022.
If people see them, they’re warned to avoid them as they carry threat of diseases, including the potentially fatal herpes B. If bitten or scratched by a wild monkey, the FFWC recommends the individual seek out medical attention and follow US Centers for Disease Control guidelines for treating herpes B.
According to a 2018 CDC report, approximately 30 percent of the monkeys are said to carry herpes B.
Feeding wild monkeys is a misdemeanour in Florida and punishable with a fine of up to $500 and 60 days in jail. The monkeys are not a protected species in Florida outside of anti-cruelty laws.
Local Floridians had mixed views on the monkeys.
“No, we love it. It’s awesome. I think they’re just visiting,” Florida resident Serena Durden said.
Meanwhile Mikayla Schreuin said she was fishing and spotted one of the monkeys in a nearby tree.
“I started hearing this squawking and screaming along the shoreline and these large oak trees, several of the trees started shaking,” Ms Schrein said. “I thought, ‘Wow, Florida really is wild.’ I was just glad I was in a boat. When I found out they have herpes I was glad I was not anywhere near them."
The monkeys were first introduced into the region as part of a jungle boat tour attraction in the 1930’s on Silver Spring island in central Florida’s Silver Springs State Park. A tour boat operator known as “Colonel Tooey” released six of the monkeys onto Silver Spring island, but the monkeys swam off the island into the surrounding woods. Rather than learning from the lesson, the man brought six more to replace them - which also escaped and began to breed.

Of course Florida has diseased monkeys.
 
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We can only hope that Florida herpes monkeys don't get together with the Kenyan sex creep monkeys.

Just an excerpt, this was already posted earlier.
Nachu's women have tried wearing their husbands' clothes in an attempt to trick the monkeys into thinking they are men - but this has failed, they say.

"When we come to chase the monkeys away, we are dressed in trousers and hats, so that we look like men," resident Lucy Njeri told the BBC News website

"But the monkeys can tell the difference and they don't run away from us and point at our breasts. They just ignore us and continue to steal the crops."

In addition to stealing their crops, the monkeys also make sexually explicit gestures at the women, they claim.

"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us," said Mrs Njeri.
 
Wild monkeys with deadly strain of herpes are spreading across Florida, wildlife group warns



Of course Florida has diseased monkeys.
It's mostly contained in some forest, and could be taken care of within a week if it wasn't for faggot animal rights tards who think monkeys are our brothers and sisters, yet won't budge when it comes to the countless endangered apes still being poached in Africa.

The biggest thing to worry about isn't bears, coyotes, or AIDS monkeys, rather fucking feral pigs.
 
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Florida has wild monkeys?

Huh. Well if an invasive species gives you shit, kill 'em all. Have the DNR sell special tags and make money off it if you want. Problem solved. It's frustrating that wildlife management agencies are so beholden to retarded environmental groups and their idiotic whims.
 
Florida has wild monkeys?

Huh. Well if an invasive species gives you shit, kill 'em all. Have the DNR sell special tags and make money off it if you want. Problem solved. It's frustrating that wildlife management agencies are so beholden to exceptional environmental groups and their idiotic whims.
Animal rights, not environmental groups. For the most part, most actual environmental groups oppose invasive species, and support their removal. And they fight animal rights groups about this.
 
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