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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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about:blank said:
two black dudes curb stomping whitey doesn't ever make the news. Doesn't matter how many cameras there, the liberal media only supports race wars from the dark side.
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It's just practical, really. I mean, think about it: if the mainstream media started reporting black-on-white hate crimes, they'd barely have time to report on anything else.
 
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Literal SWASTIKAS... they everywhere. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife.
Pensioner buys £15 slippers from Amazon – only to find the soles are covered in SWASTIKAS
  • Sam Purdie outraged to receive slippers which seemed to feature the symbol
  • Retired engineer, 81, said navy slippers looked 'perfectly respectable' online
  • Wrote review to warn other customers but taken down because was 'abusive'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-online-covered-SWASTIKAS.html#ixzz4tF19zALQ html

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Fuck the Washington Post. This link locks up my browser and it refuses to show me the article and instead demands money.
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Oh FFS. Okay, here's the article text:

While Randy Potter’s family and friends were searching across states to find him for the past eight months, his body was decomposing in a truck at a nearby airport.

They organized search parties, scoured through local parks and enlisted the help of a private investigator. But the entire time, Potter was already dead, apparently by suicide, at a location where the family had previously searched for him, his wife, Carolina Potter, said.

“What kills me the most was I was there … he could’ve been found the first week,” Carolina told The Washington Post. She lives in Lenexa, Kan., about 35 minutes from the airport, without traffic.

Police found Potter’s body inside his work vehicle at the Kansas City International Airport Sept. 12 after they were alerted to a foul odor, the Kansas City Star reported.

demanding answers from local authorities, who they say let them down.

“The integrity of my father, his body … it just soiled because he sat in this vehicle for eight months. Through summer, cooking in the Midwestern heat, for eight months,” Potter’s daughter Nichole told The Post. “It’s disgusting. It’s a disgusting thought.”

Chris Hernandez, director of communications for the city of Kansas City, issued the following statement to local media following the discovery of Potter’s body:

“The City of Kansas City and its Aviation Department express our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Randy Potter. We wish them peace during this difficult time. We are working with all parties to determine the facts involved, including SP Plus, which manages the 25,000 parking spaces at Kansas City International Airport.”

The Kansas International Airport police and the Lenexa Police Department could not be reached for comment early Monday.

Carolina, who is a flight attendant, searched the airport parking lot within a week of her husband being reported missing and said authorities reassured her that, if he was in the parking lot, they would find him.

Carolina and others close to him gave a description of the vehicle — a white 2014 Dodge Ram — and his license plate number and were told that airport security checked the lots on a regular basis.

So the family continued searching elsewhere.

They enlisted the help of private investigator John Underhill, telling him not to waste his time at the airport because the airport personnel had it covered. The family did not go back to the airport either, Carolina said.

Potter, 53, was a project engineer at T-Mobile, Carolina said. The Potter’s attorney, John Picerno, and investigator Underhill told The Post they believe Potter, a Navy veteran, died the same day he was reported missing, meaning his body sat in his truck at the airport from January to September.

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A tearful Carolina Potter of Lenexa, Kan., speaks with FOX 4 about the eight-month search for her husband, Randy Potter. (Fox 4)
“Every single entity failed my husband. Every single one,” Carolina said.

Picerno said he is going to piece together what went wrong in the search for Potter. The family wants to make sure no one else goes through a similar ordeal, he said.

The family spoke at a news conference Friday because they think it’s important for people to know what happened to Potter, his daughter Nichole said.

“I want whatever changes to come about from all of this to be permanent,” Potter’s daughter Nichole said. “I don’t want for someone to have to sit there for as long as my dad did.”

Local media outlets covered Potter’s disappearance in January. Underhill logged 4,000 miles searching for Potter. Nichole carried a stack of fliers whenever she went out of town, even handing them out in downtown Denver on Father’s Day.

Carolina, Potter’s wife, headed search parties and tried to stay positive that he would be found one day. But she had a feeling something bad happened.

Investigator Underhill wishes he never trusted airport security. He passed the airport almost daily these past eight months and believes if he had searched the parking lots for Potter he would have found him sooner than authorities.

“They dropped the ball,” Underhill said of police. “If I would’ve checked that airport, I would’ve found him. That’s just the way I am.”

Potter’s family anguished over his disappearance for eight months and now they are grappling as well with knowing he was decomposing as they searched for him. Carolina said she was shocked to find out last week that his body withered away there “in plain sight.”

As Carolina described how her mind wanders to the days the heat was up in the 100 degrees and what her husband’s body must’ve smelled like, she started to cry.

“My heart breaks every time I think about that,” she said. “I feel awful for thinking about him inside of that truck.”
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Wasn't sure where else to put this, but god damn if it isn't one of the most erudite verbal bitch-slaps I have ever read.

An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates

I am saddened by your conviction that white people wield such a great deal of metaphysical power over the exercise of your own agency. In making an enemy of the Dream that is a constitutive feature of American identity, you have irrevocably alienated yourself from the redemptive hope, the inclusive unity, and the faith and charity that are necessary for America to move ever closer to achieving moral excellence. Sadder still, you have condemned the unyielding confidence in self that the Dream inspires.
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58-year-old nanny in Taiwan was dismissed from her job after she was allegedly caught for drinking her employer’s breast milk.

According to media reports from Taiwan, the employer, known only by her surname Lin, had confronted the nanny after finding that her infant daughter had been finishing an entire bottle of breast milk too fast.

Lin, who is from Kaohsiung City, had hired the nanny during her confinement period to help take care of the newborn.

But one day during that period, Lin saw the nanny with an empty milk bottle and asked where the milk was out of curiosity, before realising that the nanny had drank the milk that the infant could not finish.

Lin then told the nanny to feed the leftover milk to her older son in the future. However, Lin caught the nanny after her confinement period drinking the breast milk again.

When confronted, the nanny had denied the allegations initially. But CCTV footage showed that the nanny, after feeding Lin’s daughter, had looked up to the camera and walked to the kitchen with the bottle of breast milk. She then consumed the milk when she thought she was out of sight of the camera.

The footage of the incident has been uploaded onto YouTube.

The nanny eventually owned up, saying that she “had only drank a little bit”. She then posted on her social media that her previous employer had allowed her to take her breast milk if the baby did not finish it and “would not make a big deal about it”.

Lin eventually dismissed her. The nanny is now working at a kindergarten.

A report said the nanny was not fired from her agency, because drinking a mother’s milk is not considered a serious offence.

Other reports also said that the incident is now being investigated by the city’s Social Affairs Bureau.

Source: https://ph.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-nanny-fired-drinking-employers-breast-milk-reports-045323276.html
 
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