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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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‘Modern Family’ Star Sofia Vergara Credits Her ‘Giant Boobs’ for Her Rise to Fame: ‘Absurd to Deny’​


Actress Sofia Vergara, who catapulted to fame on the hit show Modern Family, has credited her “giant boobs” for her initial rising success.

Vergara made her rather frank comments during an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País wherein she said it would be “absurd” to deny the role her body played in rising to fame.

“It would be absurd to deny it or for that to make me feel bad,” she said. “On the contrary, I’m grateful for [my] life.”

“My giant boobs and my body opened doors for me; they were my passport to the world when I was 20 years old, when I started as a model, but today I’m 51 years old, and I’m still here,” she added.

Moving beyond the surface, Vergara credited her continued success at the age of 51 to hard work and personality.

“I am not afraid of [taking a] risk, I work harder than anyone, I have the personality, I have always been aware of what was outside, and I have not been afraid. There are women who are prettier, younger, who have bigger breasts and a better body than me, but I’m still around because I have demonstrated that I can stay,” she said.

“I don’t do brain surgery, it’s just entertainment, and the worst that can happen to me is that they can say I look ugly or that this jackass doesn’t know how to act. I can take it,” she added.

Since her role on Modern Family, in which she played Ed O’Neil’s trophy wife, Vergara’s career has seen a change in roles. Her Netflix series, Griselda, for instance, features her in the role of a Colombian drug lord.

“When I started on ‘Modern Family,’ 15 years ago, I still looked a lot more exaggerated than what you see now. I’m not saying there aren’t female scientists like that. But those roles are not for someone like me. When I heard about Griselda, I wanted to play her,” she said.

“Because she was Colombian, because she was a woman, because I experienced the drama of drug trafficking, because my brother Rafael was part of that business and they killed him in 1996. Because of all that, I knew I could do it. And I did do it when I got them to trust me to do it. I got them to give me the money because I had already been Gloria Pritchett,” she added.
 
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I guess Pamela Anderson might be jealous of Sofia Vergera. :story:

On a more serious tone, I saw that article about pharmacies.

January 26, 2024

Why are Thousands of Pharmacies Closing?​

By James Stansbury


About five years ago the only pharmacy in my small town in rural Virginia closed. A year or so later a second county drugstore failed. Soon the owner of the last remaining drugstore in the county was unable to make a profit and had to sell. (These last two managed to reopen at a later date.)
I was unaware the loss of our drugstores was a nationwide trend until reading an article by Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. She reported that mom-and-pop drugstores in rural areas were particularly hard hit, leaving about 630 rural communities with no pharmacy by 2018. Kerrigan reported that the big chains closed nearly 2,000 pharmacies between 2017 and 2020 with more planned. CNN Business reported CVS will be closing another 900 stores in 2024. Walgreens and Rite Aid are also in the process of closing hundreds. You know it’s serious if CNN reported it and is unable to blame Trump.

Competition and the upsurge in shoplifting in soft-on-crime big cities are not the main causes. Kerrigan placed most of the blame on third-party Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). “PBMs negotiate discounts from drugmakers [sic] on behalf of insurers. PBMs also administer reimbursements from the system’s payers -- insurers, federal and state governments, and corporations -- to providers, including pharmacies and clinics.” Kerrigan added that “PBMs have made the system increasingly complex, enabling them to extract outsized revenue from it while crowding out the small mom-and-pop drugstores.”

There are around 60 companies competing to provide PBM services with three controlling 80% of the market. In 2022 the global market share for PBMs was $495 billion ($315B in the U.S.) and that can buy a lot of political clout. Originally, PBMs were paid by insurance companies to manage drug costs and receive a share of the rebates from manufacturers. Nevertheless, mission creep apparently happened and four other primary income streams were added; pharmacy spread, PBM-owned companies, administrative fees, and direct and indirect remuneration fees.
PBMs have two other devious ways to generate revenue. First by charging a copay higher than the full price of the drug and then ‘claw back’ the overcharge from the pharmacy. Second is by inserting ‘gag clauses ’ in their contracts to prevent pharmacists from advising customers they could save money by not using insurance. It appears many PBMs have abused their power.
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Super-Chevy454 said:
On a more serious tone, I saw that article about pharmacies.
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I've heard the drug companies are doing shady shit like delaying payments to pharmacies to bleed them, then swooping in and offering to buy those same pharmacies to put them under their own control.
 
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Jack Russell terrier who loves to surf makes a splash on beaches of Peoru​

Four-year-old dog named Efruz ‘loves the sea’, according to his owner, and often perches on a surfboard to ride waves

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Clad in a yellow vest, little Efruz balances himself on the front of the surfboard as waves foam around him and his companion as they skim over the Pacific waters off Peru.
Efruz is a four-year-old Jack Russell terrier and he is a common sight these hot days of the southern hemisphere summer.

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Efruz surfs a wave accompanied by his caretaker, Mauro Canella. Photograph: Martín Mejía/AP
Canella says they began surfing together about a year ago. And they are not the only dog-human duo surfing the waves off San Bartolo. A dozen or more can be seen during the weekends.
Although Efruz gets cold as the hours go by, he appears to enjoy his new sport, planting himself at the front of the board while Canella crosses the waves standing, kneeling or lying flat.
As happens to all surfers, dog and owner occasionally are tumbled into the water when they fail to negotiate a wave.
Sorry I'm a dog sperg but that is one cute little dog, wonder how they taught it to surf like that
 
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Rip Curl does a 360 Down Under, avoiding a barrel down the Budlight tubes.
January 30, 2024

Rip Curl does a 360, avoiding a barrel down the BudLight tubes​

By Monica Showalter

Has RipCurl done a 360?
The internationally popular surfing apparel company from Australia has just pulled its ad for a male surfer competing as a transgender woman named Sasha Lowerson from Instagram.
According to the Daily Mail:
Australians are calling for a national boycott of iconic surf brand Rip Curl for using a transgender woman in their social media accounts, as the brand moves to scrub any trace of the promotion.
Rip Curl came under fire for using Western Australian professional longboarder and transgender woman Sasha Lowerson in a promotion for women's surfing last week.
Lowerson, 44, featured on the Rip Curl Women Instagram page on Thursday as part of the company's Meet The Local Heroes of Western Australia campaign.
It comes just months after Rip Curl severed ties with pro-surfer and shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton - one of the world's most famous surfers - reportedly over her opposition to transgender people competing in women's sport.
The post featuring Lowerson has since been deleted from the Rip Curl Women Instagram page, but hundreds of Australians kept attacking the company on other posts across its social media platforms.
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Obviously, they hadn't been listening to their customers.
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Sorry for the double post but hate crime for destroying Satanic temple display?! WTF?!

A Mississippi man who admitted to destroying a statue of the pagan idol Baphomet at the Iowa Capitol has been charged with a hate crime.

The statue was part of a display organized by the Satanic Temple of Iowa under state rules allowing religious displays in the Iowa Capitol during the holidays. The installation drew strong criticism from state and national leaders, including Gov. Kim Reynolds and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. On Dec. 14, the centerpiece of the display, a figure depicting the horned deity Baphomet, was "destroyed beyond repair," according to the Satanic Temple of Iowa.
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3 dogs rescued from California canal


3 dogs rescued from California canal

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Firefighters and sheriff's deputies in California came to the rescue of three dogs found stranded in a canal with steep walls.

The Tulare County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded alongside Tulare County Fire personnel when three German shepherds were found trapped in the Friant Kern Canal near Avenue 128.



"The dogs tried to climb out on their own, but slid back down the steep walls," the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.

Employees from Brosamer & Wall were on the scene first and were able to keep the dogs from fleeing down the canal until rescuers arrived.

Two of the dogs were able to scale the steep walls of the canal while rescuers used ropes to help them. The third dog was too frightened to attempt the climb and was carried out by deputies.

The dogs, which appeared to be uninjured and in good health, were taken to the Tulare County Animal Control.
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Omfg that plane is not something I would fly, it reminds me of the $100 car you bought at 16, fender missing, engine blowing white smoke, gotta kick it 100x before it starts lol
 
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