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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."

 

[Sad Floof]

Hand holding and hugs are T-t-to lewd for society....
What is even happening lol

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Hand holding and hugs are T-t-to lewd for society....
What is even happening lol

It's like Demolition Man is becoming the real future.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The Royal Canadian Mint celebrate 50 years of LGBTQ progress. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/royal-canadian-mint-marks-50-150000105.html

TORONTO , April 23, 2019 /CNW/ - While Canadians' are known for their strongly held values of diversity, inclusion and equality, for many years, LGBTQ2 Canadians were not treated equally. Today, the Royal Canadian Mint is proud to launch a one-dollar circulation coin commemorating 50 years of progress in recognizing the rights of LGBTQ2 Canadians. It was a 1969 Act of Parliament that marked the initial milestone on the journey to equality for LGBTQ2 communities by decriminalizing homosexual acts between two consenting people of 21 years or older. The new coin, combining the words "EQUALITY-ÉGALITÉ" with the signature work of Vancouver artist Joe Average, starts circulating today. It was also launched through an official unveiling at the 519 Community Centre, in Toronto, Ontario .

One guy had already tweeted a meme based on that coin. https://twitter.com/the_eurasianist/status/1120831956441288705

 

[Cat Menagerie]

An interview on the local news today. It's a pretty great interview with a Vietnamese nail salon owner after he thwarted an attempted armed robbery.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

The Royal Canadian Mint celebrate 50 years of LGBTQ progress. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/royal-canadian-mint-marks-50-150000105.html


One guy had already tweeted a meme based on that coin. https://twitter.com/the_eurasianist/status/1120831956441288705

I look forward to saying to various clerks: "I don't want your faggot change."

 

[theshep]

Another victim of the daily grind.

"Observers at the wake found the menu of steak tartare and hamburgers to be tone deaf and insensitive."

 

[Super-Chevy454]

So much for "diversity" in Brunei.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

"Observers at the wake found the menu of steak tartare and hamburgers to be tone deaf and insensitive."

"Some felt the copious use of ketchup on the food simply added insult to injury."

 

[theshep]

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The New York Times really want to prove they're a bunch of clowns. Not a good idea to compare them to clowns, the clowns would feel insulted to be compared to them.

New York Times can't bring itself to apologize for its anti-Semitic cartoon

A lot of people are mistakenly claiming that in its announced withdrawal from its website of a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon, the New York Times “apologized.” See here (a right-leaning site), here (the left-leaning HuffPost) and here (th...

www.americanthinker.com

New York Times can't bring itself to apologize for its anti-Semitic cartoon
By Thomas Lifson
A lot of people are mistakenly claiming that in its announced withdrawal from its website of a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon, the New York Times “apologized.” See here (a right-leaning site), here (the left-leaning HuffPost) and here (the left-leaning Israel newspaper Haartez, which the NYT loves to quote when writing about Israeli public opinion).
But a close reading of what the Times tweeted out reveals that there is in fact no apology.
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1122143162506596354/photo/1

Photo credit: Tom Gross Media

I credit Scott Johnson of Powerline as the person who brought this to my attention in an update to John Hinderaker’s blog. John writes:

Scott points out that the Times retracted (deleted) the cartoon and said it shouldn’t have been published, but the paper’s statement doesn’t actually contain an apology. That is true: I suppose the Times couldn’t bring itself to apologize to either Netanyahu or Trump–that would have been more bitter than wormwood–but perhaps it could have apologized to Jews in general, or to, as it so often put, “whoever was offended.” For whatever reason, no such apology has yet been forthcoming.

 

[millais]

The New York Times really want to prove they're a bunch of clowns. Not a good idea to compare them to clowns, the clowns would feel insulted to be compared to them.

New York Times can't bring itself to apologize for its anti-Semitic cartoon

A lot of people are mistakenly claiming that in its announced withdrawal from its website of a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon, the New York Times “apologized.” See here (a right-leaning site), here (the left-leaning HuffPost) and here (th...

www.americanthinker.com

They should apologize for getting the cartoon wrong. It should show Bibi Netanyahu controlling Trump on a leash, not the other way around.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Rachel Maddow alias Rachel Madcow had improved the art of putting her own feet in her mouth.

That comment from commenter Indigo was worth to preserve.

So Alex Jones is conspiracy theory, but Rachel Maddow is...news?

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Appeal To Trace Missing Person: Fahmida Begum, Bradford | West Yorkshire Police

Thursday, 25 April 2019 Police are appealing for information about a woman who has not been seen for more than a month. Fahmida Begum, who is 52, was reported missing on 15 March after failing to attend an appointment.

www.westyorkshire.police.uk

Not sure if they're serious with that photo.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Appeal To Trace Missing Person: Fahmida Begum, Bradford | West Yorkshire Police

Thursday, 25 April 2019 Police are appealing for information about a woman who has not been seen for more than a month. Fahmida Begum, who is 52, was reported missing on 15 March after failing to attend an appointment.

www.westyorkshire.police.uk

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Not sure if they're serious with that photo.

Muslim? She'll turn up. Possibly in pieces in a suitcase from attempting to divorce her husband, but she'll turn up.

 

[CWCissey]

Appeal To Trace Missing Person: Fahmida Begum, Bradford | West Yorkshire Police

Thursday, 25 April 2019 Police are appealing for information about a woman who has not been seen for more than a month. Fahmida Begum, who is 52, was reported missing on 15 March after failing to attend an appointment.

www.westyorkshire.police.uk

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Not sure if they're serious with that photo.

I've seen her, she was wearing red though.

 

[LordofTendons]

https://www.insideedition.com/passenger-freaks-out-private-jet-flight-heads-will-be-chopped-49950

Passenger Freaks Out on Private Jet Flight: 'Heads Will Be Chopped Off!'

Spoiler: There's more than corn in Nebraska

Video has emerged of a DJ freaking out on a private plane, allegedly threatening to kill the passengers by beheading them.

Footage of the September incident, obtained by CNBC, was shot on board a 12-passenger Gulfstream jet, flying from Las Vegas to New York. The passenger freaking out was DJ Maurice Paola, 23.

He reportedly threw cups and other objects at the other passengers on board.

A co-pilot tried in vain to calm him down. Court documents say the lone flight attendant on board "armed herself with an oxygen bottle and the aircrew barricaded themselves in the cockpit while declaring an emergency. The doors to the cockpit ... are not fortified, and could easily have been breached by Paola."

The plane made an emergency landing in Nebraska, and police Tasered Paola before they could get him under control.

He was charged with making terrorist threats but was later declared "mentally incompetent and unable to stand trial."

The Sept. 3 incident occurred on JetSmarter, which is known as the “Uber for private jets,” according to reports.

 

[CWCchange]

^The guy's Twitter indicates he's a nobody with unwarranted self-importance, with thousands of tweets nobody gives a shit about.

Also, that article is almost five months old.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Appeal To Trace Missing Person: Fahmida Begum, Bradford | West Yorkshire Police

Thursday, 25 April 2019 Police are appealing for information about a woman who has not been seen for more than a month. Fahmida Begum, who is 52, was reported missing on 15 March after failing to attend an appointment.

www.westyorkshire.police.uk

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Not sure if they're serious with that photo.

Rate me late, but she's the victim of a honour crime.

In other interesting news, AntiFa is claiming responsibility for flooding out an ICE office -
https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-ice-legal-office-flooded/
http://archive.fo/Rori9

Meanwhile, the Mayor of Portland continues to not call out AntiFa, and Cuomo in on CNN making a "there's good people in the group" claims about AntiFa - https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1123115265137340416

Edit - Idiot SJW "gender studies prof" demands inequality in the name of equality - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...82d3f3d96d5_story.html?utm_term=.b9ce2668bbd8

Archive - http://archive.fo/2hkFs

Peace is War.
Screaming is Silence.
Thought is Crime.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

 

[Muncie Anderson]

Detroit disc jockey Russ Gibb dies at 87.

In 1969, Gibb helped fuel the rumors that Paul McCartney had died and had been replaced by a lookalike in the Beatles, citing "clues" on album covers and in songs. So, you now know who to blame.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I wonder if this guy like Haiti a lot? https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...of_america_in_tedx_talk_to_highschoolers.html

Black National Teacher of the Year spewed hatred of America in TEDx talk to high-schoolers
By M. Catharine Evans
On November 17, 2018, Rodney Robinson, who was just named 2019 National Teacher of the Year, spoke at a TEDx youth conference in Richmond, Virginia. Robinson, a black social studies and history teacher at a Richmond juvenile detention center, opened his remarks with a lead-in to his main topic: a racist America. If, as Sean Hannity says, "journalism is dead," after listening to Robinson, we can safely add, "Public education is dead."
From YouTube:

There is one phrase I hate more than any other phrase in America, and I'm sure a lot of the young people in this room can relate to this phrase, and that phrase is "back in the day."

Why does the 40-year-old teacher of the year "hate" this phrase? Well, it has to do with those obnoxious parents and grandparents — you know, the ones who fought wars, raised families, went to church, and slogged off to work every day. They are full of baloney, according to Robinson, whose grade school–level prattle belies his achievement of a master’s degree. "Back in the day," Robinson jokes, they tell their kids and grandkids we didn't have "Mybook or Snapgram," and "we had to be in before the streetlights came on."
When I think of "back in the day," Robinson told the young people, "I think of a time when black people were lynched for violating the various rules and regulations upholding white supremacy."
Robinson was born almost 15 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and well after the initiation of affirmative action policies, which makes his memories of "back in the day" lynchings ludicrous. Moreover, it does not occur to the "best teacher" in the United States, out of 1.5 million, that the phrase he "hates" serves him well when he reminds the young people that the greatest nation on Earth was and is nothing but a hotbed of white supremacy, racism, bigotry, and injustice toward oppressed groups. "Back in the day" is okay as long as Robinson is trashing the United States.