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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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How many people still watch SNL this year? Lol.

Btw, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot with her idea of insurrection had inspired a meme. https://patriotpost.us/memes/88390-lori-lightfoot-2022-05-16
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The last I looked, a big snl community was on instagram, mostly teens/young adults stuck at home with only antenna tv and Kindle fires, it was extremely pathetic.
They also were really into summer filler shows like the one hosted by that old lesbian chick from “Glee”.
 
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Not surprising to see the networks ignoring the Durham trial. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/n...sive-durham-trial-bombshell-fake-trump-russia

The trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann took a shocking turn Friday when Clinton 2016 campaign manager Robby Mook revealed on the stand that Hillary Clinton herself greenlighted the leaking to a reporter of what they insisted was the possibility of ties between the Trump Organization and the Kremlin-friendly Alfa Bank.

And, as has been the case with the Sussmann case (and most of Durham’s probe), the broadcast network evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC completely ignored it.
The Fox News Channel’s Special Report provided extensive coverage to the tune of 10 minutes and 49 seconds over its hour-long runtime, including a two-minute-and-54-second news report from correspondent David Spunt.

Anchor Bret Baier teased the story at the top of the show before later explaining that Mook “[told] a federal court today that [Clinton] gave authorization to her campaign team to share with the media what turned out to be shoddy allegations linking candidate Trump's businesses to a Russian bank despite campaign officials not being, ‘totally confident’ in the story's legitimacy.”
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Too soon to said "Michael Sussmann didn't kill himself"?
 
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As Americans are still trying to gin up the idea of being anti-gun and anti-freedom while propping up dead children in Texas, this happened in Burkina Faso recently:

Armed assailants kill about 50 people in eastern Burkina Faso​

Armed assailants have killed about 50 people in a part of eastern Burkina Faso ravaged by Islamist violence, the region’s governor said on Thursday.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack on Wednesday against residents of the rural commune of Madjoari, said Colonel Hubert Yameogo, the governor of the East Region.

The victims were traveling to a town in the nearby commune of Pama, close to the borders with Benin and Togo, Yameogo said in a statement.

Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda and ISIS have overrun swathes of Burkina Faso in recent years, part of a wider insurgency across West Africa’s semi-arid Sahel region.

The violence has expanded and intensified in the past decade, killing thousands of civilians each year.

The conflict is now spilling over into coastal West African countries like Benin and Togo. Eight soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in northern Togo this month in what was likely the first deadly raid in Togo by Islamist militants.

Wednesday’s attack in Burkina Faso followed two others this month in Madjoari. One killed 17 civilians and another killed 11 soldiers.

Army officers angry about worsening militant attacks overthrew Burkina Faso’s president in January and vowed to improve security, but levels of violence have remained high.
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idk wtf is going on with schools in NY (Long Island specifically), but between yesterday and today there have been threats or arrests for threats in multiple schools

Yesterday:


This Morning:


And just now there's an alert for Division Avenue High School in Levittown
 
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I don't know on which thread I should post this but that might cheer up some of you to see how's Hollywood going this week, lol.
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Tough week for Hollywood, good week for America

Hollywood is wallowing in angst, and at least half of America couldn't be happier. It started with the release of Top Gun: Maverick. The film was a stunning success and was devoid of the typical wokeness that has slithered into just...
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June 3, 2022

Tough week for Hollywood, good week for America​

By Blaine L. Pardoe

Hollywood is wallowing in angst, and at least half of America couldn't be happier.
It started with the release of Top Gun: Maverick. The film was a stunning success and was devoid of the typical wokeness that has slithered into just about everything they have created in recent years. None of Hollywood's usual box-checking to fill the woke agenda was present. Worse yet, it is a pro-American movie, filled mostly with males doing military stuff.
The media's reaction? While bragging about the box office takes, they bemoaned the film as being a tribute to toxic masculinity. There were wails that it was not equitable for Tom Cruise to be in the movie and not Kelly McGillis, with some pundits calling her exclusion "age discrimination." The social justice warriors clearly had their collective underwear in a wad because the film was successful and it didn't smack at all of their woke ideals.

It put the industry and Paramount into a predicament. Do they do the kinds of movies that Americans want to watch, even if it doesn't fit their nasty woke criteria? Or do they continue to pander to the cancel culture crowd and make far less money?

The folks at Paramount were not the only ones chafing in the film industry. Disney found itself in front of yet another public relations debacle, one of its own making. Some clearly deranged morons threatened and used racial slurs against actress Moses Ingram from the series Obi-Wan on social media. Disney's response on Twitter: "We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Reva's story to unfold. If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist." They added, "There are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy, don't choose to be a racist."

The message was awkward at best — seeming to say Disney's fan base had been infiltrated by racists. Fans, even the left-leaning ones, pointed out that when The Force Awakens opened in China, Disney, at the behest of censors in that socialist nation, shrank the image of actor John Boyega on posters and other promotional media because he was black.
Furthermore conservatives were outraged that when Gina Carano was bullied and threatened online for her right-leaning views only a year earlier, Disney's response was to fire her. There was no puffing of chests in defense of that actress.

Disney's response on the Ingram threats backfired quickly. Leftists said it wasn't a fair comparison. After all, Ingram was black, but Ms. Carano was threatened, shamed, and bullied. Disney's patent and blatant lack of consistency, and bias against conservatives, was obvious. Once more, the House of the Mouse stepped in a big pile of poo.
Speaking of defecation, we move on to the conclusion of the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard trial. Amber latched onto the Me Too movement at its peak and used the court of popular opinion to take a figurative dump on Depp's career/bed. In the end, she lost in a significant way to Depp in a ruling that seemed to rekindle a sense that the court system can and does work.
Her reaction was to complain that she was being denied her right of free speech. The hosts of The View claimed that this was not a setback at all to the Me Too movement — they arbitrarily distanced Amber Heard from the movement. Their former poster child for the movement found out that the values and loyalties of the Progressives are subject to whims and change.

Hollywood, long a bastion of leftist ideology, got a well deserved kick in the crotch last week. Top Gun's sequel is a great film, gloriously pro-American, and people loved it. Conservatives are starting to speak up at companies like Disney, who treat their right-leaning talent with such open disregard. Disney's launch of a much anticipated series has become mired in mud of its own making. Amber Heard's near complete defeat in court signaled that more lawsuits would be coming by people targeted by the Me Too crowd. Despite their attempts to distance themselves from Heard, the Me Too folks know that their use of the media to ruin accused men's careers is greatly diminished.
The winner in all of this is mainstream America. Wokeness was hammered on many fronts, right in Hollywood, the hotbed of Progressive ideals. Conservatives always have had power, speaking with their money, and Top Gun: Maverick showed that. The courts and outcry from fans joined in on the dog pile. When Hollywood feels pressures like this, it is a good feeling for those who don't share its ideals, or lack thereof.
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Prophet Muhammad remarks embroil India in row with Gulf states

‘Insulting’ comments by spokespeople for ruling Bharatiya Janata party met with anger in Middle East
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Remarks on Prophet Mohammad: As criticism grows, India rejects OIC’s comments as ‘narrow-minded’

India also flayed Pakistan's statement on the issue as an 'absurdity', given its own record with minorities.
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Some Indian politician insulted Islam but I can't find what was actually said in the articles I checked.

Too lazy to do more research when I know we had an Indian user hanging around posting obscure Indian stuff a couple of weeks ago.
 
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The US has invited all country leaders from across the western hemisphere but Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua have been excluded. The White House says that these countries stand against democracy are dictatorships and as a result in an extraordinary challenge to president Biden, the Mexican President has decided to boycott the summit.

And a related one

 
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The SCOTUS will decide something big but it's not abortion, not guns either. https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-decision-bigger-than-guns-and.html

The press has focused on the Dobbs case because the Supreme Court will use it to sweep Roe v. Wade into the dustbin of history. The ruling will bring a lot of emotion from both sides, as 49 years of prayer finally are answered.

Likewise, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen will get a lot of attention because the association likely will succeed in ending New York's draconian restrictions on carrying a pistol to protect oneself.

But half the states now allow concealed carry without a permit. 'Tis a right that has been protected by the Constitution since 1791.

The Supreme Court case that matters the most this year is West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency.

Republican state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey challenged the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide, which is a nutrient not a pollutant. The decision will make Poca, West Virginia, the center of the universe for one news cycle because the John Amos Power Plant (named for a local politician, not the actor) serves as a backdrop to the Home of the Poca Dots.

The plant runs on coal. Morrisey is protecting the right of West Virginians to mine coal and burn it to make electricity.

The New Republic summed up the case through the lens of the hysterical left.

TNR said, "The justices heard oral arguments in March in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. At issue in that case is a phantasmal back-and-forth battle between the EPA, power plants, and red-state attorneys general over a defunct carbon emission rule drafted two presidencies ago.

"There are two big questions in the case. First, can the EPA regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act? The Supreme Court appears poised to say no, which could make it all but impossible for the U.S. to meet the international climate change commitments to which it has agreed.

"Second, how will the Supreme Court say no if it does? Some of the conservative justices have invoked something called the major-questions doctrine to rule that federal agencies are acting outside of their congressionally authorized mandates, which those justices happen to interpret pretty narrowly these days. If all of that sounds like a boring milestone in the conservatives’ campaign against federal regulatory agencies, then the good news is that it will all matter a lot less if Earth becomes uninhabitable in the next century."

Oh good gravy.

I likely will not inhabit the Earth when the new century begins in 2100 but it won't be due to carbon dioxide. It will be due to celebrating my 146th birthday in 2099.
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(The stupidity of this broke my brain.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed that an insurance company must pay a $5.2 million settlement granted to a Jackson County woman who claimed she unwittingly caught a sexually transmitted disease from her former romantic partner in his car.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...-insurance-to-pay-out-2452-million/ar-AAYcmV3
*******************************************************************************Why stop there? Sue the city/HOA for the street they parked on. The electric company providing the romantic lighting outside. The bar or alcohol manufacturer for providing the booze. The radio station playing on the radio AND the artist playing during coitus. The auto maker too!
 
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(The stupidity of this broke my brain.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed that an insurance company must pay a $5.2 million settlement granted to a Jackson County woman who claimed she unwittingly caught a sexually transmitted disease from her former romantic partner in his car.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...-insurance-to-pay-out-2452-million/ar-AAYcmV3
*******************************************************************************Why stop there? Sue the city/HOA for the street they parked on. The electric company providing the romantic lighting outside. The bar or alcohol manufacturer for providing the booze. The radio station playing on the radio AND the artist playing during coitus. The auto maker too!
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This wasn't even a jury or a court decision. They lost an arbitration before their own hand picked arbitrator that they forced the plaintiff to go along with.

Also they even turned down a settlement offer and insisted on arbitration instead. They fuck so many people in arbitration who get nothing that I seriously don't care if their own hired help screwed them instead for a change.
 
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A California animal shelter announced that it would refuse to grant adoptions to people who feel the " 2nd amendment gives them the right to buy assault weapons ."

"If your beliefs are not in line with ours, we will not adopt a pet to you," the Shelter Hope Pet Shop said in a statement posted to its website in May.

"Our community of Thousand Oaks became part of all the other cities in America, now scarred with the reputation of a mass killing. The shooter that killed 12 innocent humans at The Borderline Bar, came to our shop for community service hours. We believe he had scouted many locations and we were one of them. We changed our policy about volunteering after that incident, but now we feel confident to go even further than that."

The Borderline Bar & Grill shooting occurred in 2018, according to a report.

All those who wish to adopt from the shelter will be required to submit to a pre-screening process and hourlong interview to determine their sentiments on gun control.

"If you lie about being a NRA supporter, make no mistake, we will sue you for fraud. If you believe that it is our responsibility to protect ourselves in public places and arm ourselves with a gun — do not come to us to adopt a dog. We have a choice of who we work with," the statement read.

The United States supports guns and not communities, according to the shelter, and prospective pet owners must be willing to put their community first.

"If we ask you 'do you care about children being gunned down in our schools?' If you hesitate, because your core belief is that you believe teachers need to carry firearms, then you will not get approved to adopt from us," the statement read. "If you foster for us and believe in guns, please bring our dogs and/or cats back, or we will arrange to have them picked up."

Additional requirements for adoption include being at least 25 years old, having a current driver's license, and submitting to a physical home inspection, according to the shelter.

The National Rifle Association called the anti-gun requirement ludicrous, according to a report

"Having this asinine political litmus test comes at the expense of needy and homeless dogs and cats," NRA spokeswoman Amy Hunter said.
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Last time I got a cat from a shelter I only got asked few basic questions about my lifestyle in so that I didn't take completely unsuitable individual home. Rest were just making sure I knew how take care of a cat and that I had everything needed.

Wiedly no questions about my policy on anything. I had of course a power point ready about benefits of mandatory homosexuality and how USA sucks being the most important issue here in Finland but none of that came up.
 
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Amber the Hedgehog said:
Last time I got a cat from a shelter I only got asked few basic questions about my lifestyle in so that I didn't take completely unsuitable individual home. Rest were just making sure I knew how take care of a cat and that I had everything needed.

Wiedly no questions about my policy on anything. I had of course a power point ready about benefits of mandatory homosexuality and how USA sucks being the most important issue here in Finland but none of that came up.
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Yeah, the most "intense" shelter experience I've had was adopting a semi-feral animal and even then it was just some extra paperwork acknowleding that the animal in question was best suited to barn work and not being a pet-pet.
 
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Last time I got a cat from a shelter I only got asked few basic questions about my lifestyle in so that I didn't take completely unsuitable individual home. Rest were just making sure I knew how take care of a cat and that I had everything needed.
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The only time I had an insane application and interview for a cat was when I went through an organization of fosters that worked with shelters and I was sent to an insane cat lady who had several litters of kittens of various ages in her living room. The organization wanted copies of all vet visits and for me to answer to them when it came to any decision regarding the animal. It was insane and after I ended up rescuing a tiny singleton from a storm drain I figured it was a sign to stop communicating with the crazies.
 
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