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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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I've put this in the "smaller stories" section since it seems no one outside of britbong land is talking about it and I've not seen it up on KF.

So in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal, every politician in the UK is getting ousted for any sexual shit they've ever done (vordrak clench your arsehole, you could be next).

In amongst those is Carl Sargeant the Welsh minister. Carl was accused of sexual misconduct but never told what the misconduct was.

So after vowing to clear his name, he felt it better to an hero himself.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...er-found-dead-home-kept-dark-sex-allegations/
 
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I (briefly) made a thread for this, but on reflection I don't think there's enough here. Someone with more vision than I, feel free to remake.

How will John Walker Flynt ever recover?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.5db6c747a38a

https://archive.is/fx6v2

"Antonio Olivio-WP" said:
Democrat Danica Roem ousted longtime incumbent Del. Robert G. Marshall (R) Tuesday, becoming the first openly transgender elected official in Virginia — and one of very few in the nation.

The race between Roem, 33, and Marshall, 73, focused on traffic and other local issues in Prince William County but also exposed the nation’s fault lines over gender identity. It pitted a local journalist who began her physical gender transition four years ago against an outspoken social conservative who has referred to himself as Virginia’s “chief homophobe” earlier this year introduced a “bathroom bill” that died in committee.
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Roem outraised Marshall 3-to-1, with nearly $500,000 in donations, much of it coming from LGBT advocates and other supporters across the country. She and her supporters executed an aggressive ground game, knocking on doors more than 75,000 times in a district with 52,471 registered voters, sitting for endless public appearances and interviews, and maintaining a steady social media presence.

Marshall, who was first elected in 1991, refused to debate Roem, kept his schedule private and declined most interview requests. But he also mounted a healthy ground game; his campaign said this week that they knocked on voters’ doors about 49,000 times this fall.
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While Roem campaigned mostly on local frustrations with traffic congestion along Route 28, she also talked about her gender identity when asked. The race took an ugly turnwhen Marshall and his supporters released ads highlighting Roem ’s transgender identity and referring to the Democrat with male pronouns.

It’s kind of like Barack winning the presidential election. I’m really proud of Virginia,” said Roem voter John Coughlin, 63, a Realtor in Manassas who said he has never voted for Marshall. “I don’t care about religious issues. I don’t care about items that are big on his agenda. He should be more mainstream.”
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But other voters were turned off by the historic nature of Roem’s candidacy.

“She’s never had menstrual cramps, and she’s never had a baby, and she never will be able to,” said Marshall voter Carol Fox, a community activist in the Heritage Hunt section of Prince William, where Roem campaigned repeatedly. “She can take all the estrogen she wants but she’ll never be a woman.”
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Roem’s moral judgment with brief footage from a five-year-old music video she appeared in with her band. A scene from the video, which did not appear fully in the ad, is suggestive of a group of people having oral sex.

A state Republican Party flier accused Roem of “wanting transgenderism taught to kindergartners” — a reference to a radio interview in which she supported the idea of addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender matters in schools “in an age-appropriate manner.”

Quentin Kidd, director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, said Marshall may have erred in making too much of Roem’s transgender identity while refusing to participate in public-policy debates.
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Ravi Perry, chairman of Virginia Commonwealth University’s political-science department, said the changing demographics make it likely that the district will remain blue in years to come, now that a long-term incumbent has been defeated.

“This is now a very diverse, pluralistic district,” Perry said. “Roem has a real opportunity. She can bring in younger voters and new voters.”
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So in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal, every politician in the UK is getting ousted for any sexual shit they've ever done (vordrak clench your arsehole, you could be next).
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Samuel Collingwood Smith is pretty unlikely to have any sex scandals, even involving children. Perhaps he raped a dog or a pig, but dogs and pigs do not have media contacts.
 
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British tabloids are reporting that some guy named Boriska claims he was a Martian in a past life and he's here on a mission to save Earth from becoming Mars 2.0.
 
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Bizarre naked kidnapping
The Canadian Press - Nov 8, 2017 / 6:40 am | Story: 211058
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Police say kidnapping charges are pending in a bizarre case just south of Edmonton involving a two-vehicle collision and suspects who were not wearing any clothes.

Investigators say a man, a woman and an infant were forced from a home in Leduc County into a vehicle against their will on Monday.

While the car was being driven, the man, who was in the trunk, managed to escape. The woman and her baby then managed to get away.

The three were then picked up by a passerby in a truck, which was then rammed by another vehicle and ended up in a ditch.

RCMP arrested five suspects, a man, two women and two female youths, who were all naked when they were taken into custody.

"Of the five subjects arrested, three adults remain in police custody," Mounties said Tuesday in a release.

"Two of the subjects arrested were youths, and have been released with no charges."

Police say the three people forced into the vehicle were not injured
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It is -11c in Edmonton. Why this kidnapping gang was naked is beyond me.

ETA update:

Naked kidnappers charged
The Canadian Press - Nov 9, 2017 / 6:53 am
Derek Scott was driving to a job site south of Edmonton when he got a call about an accident involving one of his work trucks, a stolen baby and some naked people.

It was something he had to see to believe.

The managing partner at LPH Industrial arrived minutes later in Nisku, Alta., to find his company truck had been rammed by what looked like a brand new BMW.

Inside the truck, Scott said, was a man, his daughter and her six-week old baby who had been allegedly kidnapped.

And from the car he saw police and firefighters pull out five people in the buff.

"The guy had to do the walk of shame in front of everybody, then two more women did the walk of shame in front of everybody ... then the one lady was the last to be removed — she put up the biggest fight," Scott said.

"It was a pretty wild fight. It took five people to get her out."

He said the suspects all had their hands cuffed behind their backs.

"There was no covering."

Mounties have charged three people in the bizarre case but have not released many details, including why the people in the car were not wearing any clothes.

A 27-year-old man and two women, 35 and 30, are to appear Thursday in Leduc court on charges of kidnapping and resisting arrest. Two teenage girls were released without charges.

Four of the five were taken to hospital for "various reasons," said police, adding drugs and/or alcohol are considered factors in the case and that the suspects and victims all know each other.
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Japan's Ministry of Defense Discusses Gundam Realization Projects After 10 Years


Many Gundam fans anticipated that a real Gundam would come as the next step after the Guntank II in the government's projects to realize technology from the Gundam universe. However, the representative from the Ministry of Defense dispelled those rumors. He explained that a member of the former Technical Research and Development Institute had attached the name "Gundam" to the "Advanced Personal Equipment System" (seen left) in order to make the project accessible and easy to understand for citizens.

The representative explained that the "Advanced Personal Equipment System" project is finished, but current technology research is developing powered suits that can enhance soldiers' mobility and maintain balance on uneven terrain.

Giant humanoid robots like those seen in Gundam may be an eternal dream, and Japan's Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency confirmed that there is currently no research underway to make humanoid robots to take the place of soldiers. But autonomous unmanned devices have become mainstream weapons, and the development of powered suits could eventually lead to the advancement of technology reminiscent of that seen in the Gundam.

Yoshiyuki Tomino already drew inspiration from the humanoid powered suits of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers when he created the Gundam franchise. However, the mobile suit robots of Gundam are about ten times the size of humans. Even if giant humanoid robots remain fantasy, the world of science fiction will likely continue to inspire developments in real-world science and technology.

Many Gundam fans anticipated that a real Gundam would come as the next step after the Guntank II in the government's projects to realize technology from the Gundam universe. However, the representative from the Ministry of Defense dispelled those rumors. He explained that a member of the former Technical Research and Development Institute had attached the name "Gundam" to the "Advanced Personal Equipment System" (seen left) in order to make the project accessible and easy to understand for citizens.

The representative explained that the "Advanced Personal Equipment System" project is finished, but current technology research is developing powered suits that can enhance soldiers' mobility and maintain balance on uneven terrain.

Giant humanoid robots like those seen in Gundam may be an eternal dream, and Japan's Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency confirmed that there is currently no research underway to make humanoid robots to take the place of soldiers. But autonomous unmanned devices have become mainstream weapons, and the development of powered suits could eventually lead to the advancement of technology reminiscent of that seen in the Gundam.

Yoshiyuki Tomino already drew inspiration from the humanoid powered suits of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers when he created the Gundam franchise. However, the mobile suit robots of Gundam are about ten times the size of humans. Even if giant humanoid robots remain fantasy, the world of science fiction will likely continue to inspire developments in real-world science and technology.
 
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Meh, that's like saying the Space Shuttle Enterprise was to be the a step toward the USS Enterprise. All Japan is doing is something like its Future Soldier programme, the American counterpart of which ultimately was the inspiration for the CryNet Nanosuit.
 
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