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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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Richard Dawkins has "strong objections to doctors injecting minor children or performing surgeries on them to change their sex". He also worries about a "memetic epidemic" of transsexualism spreading among adults. Snippet of the interview.
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OH NOW HE DECIDES TO SAY SOMETHING.
This was it, huh, Dick? This is where you decide to say something? What happened? Someone finally troon out in your social circle?
If Hitchens were still alive he'd hit you upside the head.
 
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Baby deer rescued from water treatment tank in Massachusetts

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Firefighters in Massachusetts rescued of a baby deer found swimming in a 15-foot-deep tank at a water treatment plant.

Brockton Animal Control and Brockton Fire and Life Safety responded Monday when the fawn, estimated to be under 2 months old, was seen struggling in a tank at the Brockton water treatment plant.



Animal control officers were able to coax the deer into a shallower area of the tank while awaiting firefighters.

A firefighter was then lowered into the tank and was able to lasso the deer so it could be lifted out of the water.
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Here a small news about the convicted Oath Keepers members. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/politics/doj-appeals-oath-keepers-sentences/index.html

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The Justice Department is appealing the sentences that eight convicted defendants tied to the Oath Keepers received for seditious conspiracy or other conspiracy charges related to their roles in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Federal prosecutors working on the cases of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and others filed court papers Wednesday saying they are appealing the sentences set by a judge in late May. Some of the Oath Keepers who were sentenced had already filed their own appeals....

... Mehta told Rhodes the offense was “among the most serious crimes an American can commit” and that his and others’ actions amounted to domestic terrorism.
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Serious crimes....I won't be surprised if they said then Darrell Brooks' crime is less serious than what the Oath Keepers did.
 
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Hundreds of golden retrievers gather in Scotland for breed's anniversary


Hundreds of golden retrievers gathered in Scotland with their owners to celebrate the 155th anniversary of the breed.

The Golden Retriever Club of Scotland said Thursday's gathering at Guisachan House in Glen Affric included humans and canines from more than 12 countries, including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Czech Republic, Italy, Croatia and Estonia.



The event marked the 155th anniversary of the first golden retriever litter being born at Guisachan House in 1868.

Dudley Marjoribanks bred a Tweed water spaniel with a yellow wavy-coated retriever in an attempt to create a breed of gun dog well-suited to the Scottish highlands.

Golden retrievers were officially recognized as a breed by Britain's The Kennel Club in 1913.
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Firefighters and animal control officers responded to a California home to rescue four baby raccoons stuck in the chimney.

San Bernardino County Fire said in a news release that a crew from Upland Fire Station 161 responded alongside animal control officers when an Upland resident discovered the raccoon family in their chimney.

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Firefighters looked down the chimney from the roof and confirmed the presence of the mother raccoon and four babies.

Officials said all four babies were removed from the chimney after about two hours. They were taken to a wildlife rescue facility to be examined by a veterinarian.

"The mother raccoon proved to be less cooperative. As a result, a plan was developed to encourage the mother to exit the chimney voluntarily, aiming to reunite her with her babies in the evening," the news release said.

The mother exited the chimney, but attempts to reunite the family were foiled when rescuers were unable to locate her later in the evening or on subsequent days.

"The babies were transferred to a facility that will care for them until they are old enough to survive on their own before being released in the hills near the location of the incident," fire officials wrote.
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Sailor and dog amazingly survive on rainwater, raw fish while adrift for two months​

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An Australian man has been rescued in the Pacific after surviving for two months on rainwater and raw fish in what has been likened to the film “Cast Away” — but his companion was a dog, not a hand-printed volleyball.

Sydney resident Tim Shaddock, a 51-year-old cancer survivor, and his pooch Bella set off from La Paz, Mexico, in April on a catamaran journey to French Polynesia, but their vessel was damaged in a storm several weeks later, Australia’s 9News reported.

The pair survived by drinking rainwater and eating raw fish as they waited for a miracle while adrift in the Pacific.

On Wednesday, a helicopter conducting surveillance for a tuna trawler spotted the tiny catamaran bobbing in the middle of the vast ocean.
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It's been a decade then Detroit declared bankruptcy and the guys of Reason wondered if Detroit is getting better?

If there is a lesson from Detroit's 2013 bankruptcy, it's that going broke can only take a city so far. Municipal bankruptcy is a process that gets a city out of debts that it can't pay. But city residents don't get better services when those debts are canceled.

There are some things that ought to surprise people about city finances. When Detroit filed for bankruptcy in July 2013, residents found out that the group the city owed the most money to was not banks or bondholders or city contractors—it was the city's pensioners. Former city employees accidentally became Detroit's largest creditors because the city didn't have enough money to pay them what they were owed.

This should not be. When governments promise to pay their employees pensions, they should set aside enough money to pay for them. This keeps the cost of pensions on current taxpayers and doesn't push the costs into the future.

Michigan has a constitutional requirement that public officials properly pre-fund pensions, but that did not happen in Detroit. This wasn't a simple mistake. Multiple Detroit pension officers and advisers were sent to prison for bribery.

So Detroit retirees got their pensions cut in bankruptcy. The city no longer pays for retiree health insurance. Retirees instead rely on coverage from the Obamacare exchanges and any subsidies they may be eligible for there, plus Medicare when eligible. Pensioners would have gotten a better deal had the people managing their investments not been corrupt and exploited their positions to benefit themselves.
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It's been a decade then Detroit declared bankruptcy and the guys of Reason wondered if Detroit is getting better?
https://reason.com/2023/07/18/a-decade-after-bankruptcy-is-detroit-better/ https://archive.ph/0p8Tu
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They should just go walk around downtown Detroit and ask the fine upstanding African gentlemen who dwell there whether it is getting better.

I'd advise they leave their finer attire, jewelry, electronics, etc. at home unless they plan on "donating" them.
 
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