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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."

 

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‘Distraught’ 25-year-old man takes suicidal leap off Yonkers building, lands on and kills 61-year-old man: cops​

Jeeze, talk about a random death.

 

[Dysnomia]

'Give me my food': Woman pulls gun while in line at Philadelphia Chipotle​

https://6abc.com/chipotle-gun-woman-pulls-firearm-cottman-avenue-philadelphia-guns/11038216/

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A woman was caught on video as she pulled a gun out of her purse while standing in line at a Chipotle in Philadelphia's Rhawnhurst section.

According to police, the incident happened on Saturday evening at the restaurant at 2337 Cottman Avenue.

It all unfolded when the cashier told customers they had to close the store due to a staffing shortage. The cashier told customers they had to order their food online.

The woman took the gun out of her bag and told the worker if someone didn't make her food, that there would be a problem, police said.

An employee made the woman's order in an effort to have her leave. After making the order, the woman displayed the gun again and stated "somebody better give me my food." The woman took the food and left the store in an unknown direction, police said.

Customers on Wednesday told Action News they were shocked by her behavior.

"That's still insane that somebody actually pulled a gun out because they couldn't get their food, that's actually unreal," said Richard Joa, from East Falls.

But frequent customers said they've recently noticed less employees working.

"I think if I can only order online, I'll go back to my car and just order, you know it's the pandemic," said Albert Brown, of Northeast Philadelphia.

"Definitely some staffing issues now, it's everything online and it takes forever to get your food, and you know, I like Chipotle, so I still come to it," said Joa.

Police said they have seen an increase in frustrated customers turning violent since the pandemic started as many establishments are short-staffed.

"It's going to take a little longer to get your fast food, it might not be as fast, but to pull guns on people is not the answer," said Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum.

If you have any information about the suspect or the incident, you are asked to contact police at 215-686-8477.

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At least no one was shot. Is Chipotle that good? I don't eat fast food so I don't know. I just remember the South Park episode.

By the way, this store is in what used to be a very nice Jewish neighborhood. It's now all black and hispanic and the mall is loaded with phone and discount stores. Even the old synagogues are converted into all manner of churches and daycare.

 

[Penis Drager]

It all unfolded when the cashier told customers they had to close the store due to a staffing shortage. The cashier told customers they had to order their food online.

How does this make any sense? The customer's already in the store, just ring their ass up and prepare the fucking food. Was there no one in the store capable of operating the fucking register? If they can make the food for mobile orders, they can ring the bitch up and send her on her way. Not to mention someone obviously had time to argue with this bitch.
I know this was more than likely a top-down order from corporate. Been there; done that. But I'm sure the corporate overlords would be just fine with it if they just rung rung her up to avoid conflict.

 

[neverendingmidi]

How does this make any sense? The customer's already in the store, just ring their ass up and prepare the fucking food. Was there no one in the store capable of operating the fucking register? If they can make the food for mobile orders, they can ring the bitch up and send her on her way. Not to mention someone obviously had time to argue with this bitch.
I know this was more than likely a top-down order from corporate. Been there; done that. But I'm sure the corporate overlords would be just fine with it if they just rung rung her up to avoid conflict.

Probably the cashier was leaving, which means they have to take their register with them and count it before they leave (at least I did way back when), and they didn’t have enough people, or qualified people, to put another on register. At least when I worked register in fast food, you were logged in and didn’t let anyone else use your register, because you’d be on the hook if it came up short. How many people were left in the store? Both working and customers? Ordering online keeps the payment out of their hair.

Otherwise the cashier would’ve had to stay for however long it took to ring up whoever was in the line.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

A Texas Monthly fluff piece on Beto O'Rourke as a potential challenger to Texas Governor Greg Abbott

Beto O’Rourke Is the Democrats’ Least Bad Option to Challenge Greg Abbott

The former congressman isn’t as strong a candidate in 2021 as he was in 2018, and the governor is a tougher opponent than Ted Cruz.

www.texasmonthly.com

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It’s a midterm election under a Democratic president, traditionally the low ebb of the fortunes of Texas Democrats. Republican Greg Abbott polls reasonably well, has a nice smile, and has accumulated enough coin in his campaign’s bank to swim in it like Scrooge McDuck. A rush of would-be asylum-seekers at the border ensures local TV news will be playing an endless stream of footage on the GOP’s favorite issue in the year before the election.

Democrats have some reason to think they might get traction, though. Their likely nominee is a national star, capable of raising large sums from big and small donors alike, all over the country. The Legislature’s recently passed abortion law, which has become the subject of a passionate nationwide debate, is far out of step with where Texans tell pollsters they are on the issue. And some polls show the Democrat within ten points and Abbott’s favorability south of 50 percent.

We’re talking, of course, about 2014, when state senator Wendy Davis, nationally famous for a filibuster over an abortion law, took up the Democratic party’s baton against Abbott. She then tripped over a succession of lawn rakes, losing by more than twenty percentage points—a fate Democrats hope to avoid this year, in a race with similar fundamentals. This time, it’s Beto O’Rourke’s turn. The former congressman hasn’t announced his candidacy, but is expected to do so in October. The hope of the state’s many remaining Beto-heads is that this race will look less like Davis’s 2014 drubbing and more like O’Rourke’s wild 2018 campaign, in which he came within 2.6 points of beating Senator Ted Cruz.
O’Rourke, like Davis, deserves credit for throwing his name in the ring in a way many Democrats are not willing to do. It’s surely better for the party to have a serious candidate to run—which they shockingly did not have until now, one year before a race that will require immense effort to even make close. But the 2018 race will be a tough one to re-create. In this campaign, O’Rourke will face a more popular opponent than Cruz, with the added disadvantage that he’ll be running under a Democratic president whose popularity is sinking. Not to mention that O’Rourke enters this race after a quixotic, failed bid for the presidency, in which he put on record many positions that are far to the left of what Democrats can typically get away with in Texas—not least his comment, in a televised debate, that his message to Texas owners of semiautomatic weapons would be, “Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15.” In one recent poll from the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler, O’Rourke was projected to lose a head-to-head matchup with Abbott by five percentage points, while the actor and occasional voter Matthew McConaughey, who has hinted the he might run, was projected to win by nine.

Texas Democrats often get stuck in what you might call a confidence trap. They need to believe they can accomplish impossible things in order to get up in the morning and go to work, but it’s easy for that willfulness to curdle into a kind of blind faith in messaging and strategies that they have been pursuing for years without success. O’Rourke exuded that kind of willfulness in 2018. No other Democrats thought it worth taking a shot at Cruz, and on paper it wasn’t. But O’Rourke did it, and it almost worked. A risk of an O’Rourke candidacy now, though, is that it becomes a kind of cargo cult attempt to rerun 2018 without addressing the more serious obstacles that stand in his way today.

Here’s one obstacle. In 2018, Cruz got 215,000 more votes than O’Rourke. But Abbott got 1.1 million more votes than Lupe Valdez, a former Dallas County sheriff who was a sort of placeholder Democratic candidate. Hundreds of thousands of Texans, in other words, voted for both O’Rourke and Abbott. If we can broadly categorize these as “center right” voters, who disdained Cruz’s squirreliness and congenital dishonesty but wanted Abbott to keep their taxes low, O’Rourke may not be well equipped to speak to them. And even if he is, he needs to win basically all of them and then find a few hundred thousand voters somewhere else.

That’s a tall task. Abbott is indeed in hot water right now, with his approval rating falling below 50 percent because of lingering anger over the winter power grid collapse and his handling of the pandemic—which has angered both the left and far right. But it’s far from assured that such anger will last until November of next year. It’s possible the power grid collapses again this winter or next summer, bringing that crisis back to the forefront of voters’ minds. But entirely different issues—such as the border crisis—are likely to predominate.

Still, O’Rourke provides the Democratic party the best shot it’s got. His farcical presidential campaign has led a lot of folks to forget that what he accomplished in 2018 was unexpected and extremely impressive. He went from a long shot few in the state had ever heard of to set the two-decade high-water mark for Democratic performance in a statewide race. Retroactively, politicos in the state have decided he screwed it up and that they could have done better. In Quorum Report, Harvey Kronberg describes the (fairly common) feeling among Democrats that O’Rourke’s arrogance in previous campaigns “drowned out legitimately good advice from people who had won victories for Democrats decades ago in this state.”
But the available evidence suggests that nobody in the Democratic establishment knows how to win in this state, and those insisting they do sound like Donald Trump predicting that Robert E. Lee would have won the war in Afghanistan. In 2018, O’Rourke came close in part because the sensation around his campaign and his person helped him transcend the either/or choices that divide the Democratic left and independent voters in the state: There was always a certain fuzziness about what O’Rourke stood for, and what kind of leader he’d be. That was a big asset in a state that has never had a cohesive Democratic opposition.

His campaign for president provided a sharper image, one that he probably already regrets. President O’Rourke would have confiscated your guns, ended tax-exempt status for churches and charities that opposed gay marriage, and perhaps stood every day on the Resolute desk. He can help erase that part of his legacy in the minds of Texans next year, or it can sink him. The choice may not be up to him anymore.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A woman was caught on video as she pulled a gun out of her purse while standing in line at a Chipotle in Philadelphia's Rhawnhurst section.​

It all unfolded when the cashier told customers they had to close the store due to a staffing shortage. The cashier told customers they had to order their food online.

An employee made the woman's order in an effort to have her leave. After making the order, the woman displayed the gun again and stated "somebody better give me my food." The woman took the food and left the store in an unknown direction, police said.

[FAGGOT.txt "I think if I can only order online, I'll go back to my car and just order, you know it's the pandemic," said Albert Brown, of Northeast Philadelphia.[/FAGGOT.txt]

[FAGGOT.txt]"Definitely some staffing issues now, it's everything online and it takes forever to get your food, and you know, I like Chipotle, so I still come to it," said Joa.[/FAGGOT.txt]

"It's going to take a little longer to get your fast food, it might not be as fast, but to pull guns on people is not the answer," said Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum [I'm NOTICING, specifically I'm noticing more jews in white shirt/officer positions in law enforcement that used to be virtually devoid of them - ed].

I hate this story so thanks, I guess. It's the details that really make it though - the gunwoman, most likely a black, made the system work for her. She shit all over the corporation, it's employees, and every other fag in that store, including those quoted. Those quoted are disgusting slavish subhumans, who both enjoy the taste of shit and like a good assfucking from some enormous company. "Please fuck me again, refried vomit manufacturer, I'll come back I swear! I love you and you fill my voids! It doesn't matter that I drove 45 minutes to get here through traffic, can't you see we're in a PANDEMIC".

I gotta take a shit so that's all I'm good for but really if this isn't a microcosm in anarcho-tyranny and the "new normal" that we're gonna have to deal with until it gets worse (better? prolly not). Get ready to start demanding service at gunpoint if you don't wanna get steamrolled.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Earlier this week, there was a shooter in a Kroger supermarket at Collierville, near Memphis and sadly for the MSM and the anti-gun crowd, the shooter wasn't a while male.

FIRST PHOTO — Kroger mass shooter identified as sushi chef Uk Thang…

29-year-old Uk Thang was fired a few hours before the rampage Thang, a ‘third-party vendor’ at the Collierville Kroger, shot ten Kroger employees and four customers. Thang shot a…

citizenfreepress.com

 

[Brahma]

Archaeologists find oldest known human footprints in the Americas

Archaeologists conducting research in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico has identified the oldest known human footprints in the Americas. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

www.heritagedaily.com

Archaeologists conducting research in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico has identified the oldest known human footprints in the Americas.
The findings provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas from over 23,000 years ago, a period during the height of the last glacial cycle, known as the Last Glacial Maximum.

Archaeologists have debated for decades when the first people arrived in the Americas, but Vance T. Holliday from the UArizona School of Anthropology and Department of Geosciences said: “Few archaeologists see reliable evidence for sites older than about 16,000 years. Some think the arrival was later, no more than 13,000 years ago by makers of artefacts called Clovis points. The White Sands tracks provide a much earlier date. There are multiple layers of well-dated human tracks in streambeds where water flowed into an ancient lake. This was 10,000 years before Clovis people.”

The team used radiocarbon dating of seed layers above and below the footprints to determine their age, which showed human presence at the site lasting two millennia, and the oldest track dating back 23,000 years.

Kathleen Springer from the U.S. Geological Survey said: “Our dates on the seeds are tightly clustered and maintain stratigraphic order above and below multiple footprint horizons – this was a remarkable outcome”.


An analysis on the size of the human footprints suggests that they were mainly teenagers and younger children, whilst other tracks indicate that they were left by mammoths, giant ground sloths, dire wolves, and birds.

“It is an important site because all of the trackways we’ve found there show an interaction of humans in the landscape alongside extinct animals, like mammoths and giant sloths.” said Sally Reynolds of Bournemouth University. “We can see the co-existence between humans and animals on the site as a whole, and by being able to accurately date these footprints, we’re building a greater picture of the landscape.”

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

What will happen now

 

[Strix454]

New York TImes on how 401ks are inappropriate for people of color

From the Sunday 9/26/2021 New York Times. 401ks are inappopriate for Blacks and Latinos. They also don't work to build wealth. They interview a black doorman in manhattan who finds mutual funds too complicated for his brain. But stock-picking on his own outside a retirement account is the better way to go according to the Times.

“If you’re trying to build wealth and you don’t already have a significant asset base, it’s hard to do that using mutual funds and E.T.F.s,” Mr. Alozie said. “Particularly with people of color, they want to build something they can pass down.” While the article says that they are too stupid to understand mutual funds and ETFs, they describe investing in crypto and options.

They talk to a poor black immigrant from Haiti (Carl Napoleon) who had no assets and no wealth. But somehow lost $350,000 from his "family business" during COVID.

Generally the article is set up to pitch the idea that 401ks and other self-contributed retirement schemes don't work except for the damn white man. That investing after-tax money in the most complicated ways is the better approach for the POCs. The article concludes with a call for different forms of government programs to close the "wealth gap". There was a story about the need for reparations about two pages before this story.

 

[Strix454]

New York Times story about weird black group stealing houses

A group called the "Al Moroccan Empire" in New Jersey (sometimes known as the Moors) sends people weird letters claiming that they own their houses based on 18th century treaties. One of the members broke into a Black Woman's home in Newark, changed the locks and flew a green/red flag out the window. Eventually they had to call in the SWAT time to get him out. It also seems somewhat related to the trend in "the community" to either not drive with license plates or make your own license plates. Apparently the group is on the upswing due to internet or something.

 

[AnOminous]

A group called the "Al Moroccan Empire" in New Jersey (sometimes known as the Moors) sends people weird letters claiming that they own their houses based on 18th century treaties.

They're basically sovereign citizens but black. Most of their legal arguments are directly from sovcits, but their lore is pure Kangz sheeit.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Looks like Anthony Bourdain had left some hidden skeletons in his closet. https://nypost.com/2021/09/28/anthony-bourdain-friends-reveal-all-sex-drugs-tanning/

A few months after Anthony Bourdain’s death in June 2018 at age 61, his longtime assistant Laurie Woolever started interviewing his friends and family. Woolever first met Bourdain in 2002 when he hired her to help him write a cookbook. After working with him for so long, she thought she knew pretty much all there was to know about him.

But she quickly learned she was wrong.

There were “stories I’d never heard and insights and observations that were new to me,” Woolever told The Post. “I learned something new from every single person that I spoke with.”

Those emotional, sometimes shocking anecdotes and remembrances form her new book, “Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography” (Ecco, Sept. 2. Some 91 people, from journalist Christiane Amanpour to restaurateur David Chang, shared their thoughts on the late writer, whose dark final days were recently recounted in the documentary “Roadrunner.” The revelations include never-before-shared memories and disturbing common themes.

One surprising thread that kept popping up over and over, Woolever said, was that many of Tony’s friends had the experience of wanting more — and not being able to get close enough to him.

“They always had the sense that he was on his way somewhere,” she said.

 

[Strix454]

Looks like Anthony Bourdain had left some hidden skeletons in his closet. https://nypost.com/2021/09/28/anthony-bourdain-friends-reveal-all-sex-drugs-tanning/

"One surprising thread that kept popping up over and over, Woolever said, was that many of Tony’s friends had the experience of wanting more — and not being able to get close enough to him. "
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“Every time I was with him, I wanted it to go longer,” says Anderson Cooper,

In the old days of the New York Post, that kind of writing was usually a blatant hint of something.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

Florida man accused of killing, burying girlfriend tries choking deputy during arrest: sheriff

A Florida man is accused of killing and burying his girlfriend and attacking a sheriff’s deputy during a chaotic arrest over the weekend, authorities said Monday.

www.nydailynews.com

A deputy went to the couple’s mobile home Saturday night to question the suspect, but the man tried giving a false name and date of birth in an attempt to evade arrest, authorities said. The deputy, who had seen Robinson’s photo before going to the home, did not buy it and tried placing him into custody.
That’s when the accused killer launched a violent attack, grabbing the deputy’s radio and Taser and trying to choke the unidentified officer, according to the sheriff’s office. Two witnesses who saw the struggle decided to intervene and helped the deputy control and handcuff the suspect, who sustained injuries to his face.

Looks like they subdued the shit outta him. Get a load of that shiner.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

A School Bus company on Long Island just peaced the fuck out. Canceled contracts and everything on such short notice. School district now has less than 36 hours to find another way to get kids to school and is asking Albany for help.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Article: https://longisland.news12.com/hyund...turn-signal-that-can-flash-in-wrong-direction
Archive: https://archive.is/75b3P
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Hyundai-Kia recalls 550K cars, minivans due to turn signal that can flash in wrong direction

Hyundai and Kia are recalling more than 550,000 cars and minivans in the U.S. because the turn signals can flash in the opposite direction of what the driver intended.

The recall covers Hyundai's Sonata midsize car from the 2015 through 2017 model years, and Sonata gas-electric hybrids from 2016 and 2017. Kia's Sedona minivan from 2015 through 2017 also is affected.

Hyundai says software in a junction box may not properly interpreting signals. The Korean automaker says it doesn't know of any crashes or injuries from the problem.

Dealers will update the software at no cost to owners. Hyundai will begin mailing notification letters to customers on Nov. 19, while letters will go to Kia owners starting Nov. 12
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[NoReturn]

A School Bus company on Long Island just peaced the fuck out. Canceled contracts and everything on such short notice. School district now has less than 36 hours to find another way to get kids to school and is asking Albany for help.
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The article says "because of COVID", is this a vaccine-strike or a "We're scared of coof" thing?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

The article says "because of COVID", is this a vaccine-strike or a "We're scared of coof" thing?

it's a driver shortage thing. They ain't makin any money, so the bus company will close down for good.

Apparently this was so devistating that even the new governor of NY stepped in to try to get another bus company to fill in.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

So what now