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Trump admiinistration cuts funding for health care sign-ups out of spite 2017-09-01 05:17:52 Post No.174014
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-The Trump administration is announcing sharp cuts in programs promoting health care enrollment under the Affordable Care Act for next year
-Health and Human Services officials say advertising will be cut to $10 million for the 2018 open enrollment season
>The Trump administration is announcing sharp cuts in programs promoting health care enrollment under the Affordable Care Act for next year.
>In a call with reporters, Health and Human Services officials say advertising will be cut to $10 million for the 2018 open enrollment season. That's down from $100 million for the 2017 sign-up season.
>Funding for consumer helpers called "navigators" will also be cut, from $62.5 million for 2017, to about $36 million for next year.
>Andy Slavitt, former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator under the Obama administration, said that the Trump administration's decision to cut funding for navigators will hit hardest in poor, rural communities where insurers may not fill in the gap on outreach.
>"These aren't budget decisions … these are all funds that come out of user fees paid by the insurance companies. This wouldn't cost the federal government a nickel," said Slavitt. "They're basically not going to not us the user fees ... it's hard to interpret this as anything other than being done out of spite."
>Administration officials say the government hasn't gotten much bang for its buck as far as ACA advertising and the navigator program, with some enrollment centers signing up very few customers.
>Democrats are likely to accuse the administration of trying to undermine the program, which President Donald Trump says is going to "implode."
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/31/trump-administration-cuts-funding-for-health-care-sign-ups.html
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>A number of states that operate their own insurance exchanges have extended the open enrollment period beyond the November 1 to December 15 period on the federal marketplace, healthcare.gov. California, Minnesota, Colorado and others have set January enrollment deadlines.
>CMS' decision to cut exchange advertising for next year comes just ahead of a September 5 deadline for insurers to submit final rate revisions for 2018. It underscores health insurers' continuing concerns about the Trump administration's commitment to promoting enrollment.
>"Effective education ensures that consumers understand their coverage options and encourages broader participation of healthy individuals," said Kristine Grow, spokeswoman for the Association of Health Insurance Plans, the industry's lobbying group. "Marketing, outreach, and education are critical to ensure that all consumers are aware of the upcoming open enrollment period, understand new timelines, and enroll by the deadline."
>Slavitt notes that, In addition to cutting funding for enrollment efforts, the Trump administration cut the enrollment period in half this year to just six weeks, compared to three months over the last few years.
>"I think it's their hope that at the end of the enrollment period that they can announce significantly lower enrollment. At least, that appears to be their hope. It that's their objective, I'm sure they can achieve it," Slavitt Said.
>Consumer advocacy group Protect Our Care denounced the Trump administration's move.
>"It's one thing to tweet about your opposition to a law, it's another to undermine it, sabotage it and refuse to do your duty," the group said in a statement Thursday.
>--The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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>out of spite
Actually probably more to do with trying to save money for the increasing amount of bailouts the program will need, since it continues to be an abysmal failure.
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>>174019
"these are all funds that come out of user fees paid by the insurance companies. This wouldn't cost the federal government a nickel"
the more folks who buy insurance, the more effective cost sharing is.
>increasing amount of bailouts the program will need
if you consider a transaction to be a bailout, then sure. The government is essentially saying, if you paid into the system while you had the ability to purchase insurance, then you'll be protected if you get sick and lose the ability to pay, because we'll pay the insurance company to keep you on board.
That's how insurance and cost-sharing works. Everyone has an obligation to pay at least when they can so that everyone knows a safety net exists for them.
As far as abysmal failure goes, healthcare costs grew much faster before the ACA was enacted even given the attempts by republican state legislatures and congresspeople to sabotage the law's implementation. If anything, we need much stronger cost controls but the democrats just did what they could manage given that Republicans promised never to work with Obama on any legislation.
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Georgia police officer tells woman 'we only kill black people' on camera 2017-09-01 02:26:06 Post No.173953
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>A Georgia police officer was fired for telling a woman during a traffic stop that police “only kill black people.”
>Dash cam footage shows Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott standing outside of a vehicle during a DUI stop last year.
>The officer asked the nervous woman to grab her cellphone, but she said she was afraid to move her hands because she “just seen way too many videos of cops.”
>That’s when the 28-year police veteran interrupted her.
>“But you’re not black,” Abbott can be heard saying in the video. “Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people, right? All of the videos you’ve seen, have you seen the black people get killed? You have.”
>The incident happened in July 2016 but came to light Wednesday after a TV station in Atlanta requested the footage.
>Announcing his decision to fire Abbott on Thursday, Police Chief Mike Register remarked that “there’s really no place for these types of comments in law enforcement.”
>Speaking at a news conference, Register added, “I feel that no matter what context you try to take those comments in, the statements were inexcusable and inappropriate. They’re not indicative of the values that I’m trying to instill within the Cobb County police department and that I believe the county holds.”
>Register said he’s known Abbott for many years and has known him to be an honorable man. The report from the internal review indicates that Abbott was trying to be sarcastic and to address the situation as he perceived it, Register said.
>“He made a mistake,” Register said. “I don’t know what’s in his heart but I certainly know what came out of his mouth. It’s inexcusable.”
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>Abbott’s attorney, Lance LoRusso, says the officer’s comments must be viewed as a whole.
>“He was attempting to de-escalate a situation involving an uncooperative passenger,” LoRusso told The Washington Post. “In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger’s own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest.”
>An attorney who represented the driver in the DUI case called the video shocking.
>“I heard that, and I cringed,” said Suri Chadha Jimenez. “The reality is, to us minorities, there is a real fear when you’re pulled over. He thought it was a joke, but it’s not a joke to many people.”
>Several social media users took to Twitter to share similar thoughts.
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Woman express concern that following instructions might get her shot if the officer is not aware she will be reaching in her purse..
Officer diffuses tension with racist joke.
American right sees it as normal.
Literally baffling
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Robert Mueller is reportedly bringing an IRS financial crimes unit into the Russia investigation 2017-09-01 02:16:03 Post No.173951
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>Robert Mueller, the FBI's special counsel in charge of the investigation of the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, is now teaming up with a specialized financial crimes unit within the IRS, The Daily Beast reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the development.
>The IRS' Criminal Investigations unit is joining Mueller as the Russia probe focuses more closely on potential financial crimes possibly involving people within the Trump campaign. It was not immediately clear how many of the unit's 2,500 agents would take part in Mueller's investigation.
>Martin Sheil, a retired former agent of the unit, told The Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff that the unit's involvement is a sign Mueller is invested in beefing up a specific rank within his investigative team. Sheil told the publication that while the FBI has broad jurisdiction in counterintelligence and counterterror, "they simply don’t have the financial investigative expertise that the CI agents have."
>"When CI brings a case to a U.S. Attorney, it is done. It’s wrapped up with a ribbon and a bow. It’s just comprehensive," Sheil told Woodruff.
>The unit's agents have expertise in matters like tax evasion and money laundering and the partnership follows a developing trend within the broader Trump-Russia inquiry, which has also seen a closer focus on key players like former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who resigned from the campaign in August 2016 amid scrutiny over millions of dollars in undisclosed payments for work he performed on behalf of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.
>FBI agents raided one of Manafort's homes in Alexandria, Virginia, last month.
>Mueller also recently partnered with the New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman with a focus on Manafort's financial transactions.
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>The question of President Donald Trump's personal federal tax returns also comes back into focus with the IRS' reported cooperation with Mueller's team. Trump first delayed publishing his returns during the 2016 election, and later refused to reveal them at all, breaking a decades-long tradition in presidential politics and drawing closer scrutiny of his personal financial profile.
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It's time this fishing expedition ended. They will lucky to get manafort on anything much less the president of the united states.
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All this butt hert is delish
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>thats_kind_of_hot.jpg
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Meh. Needs more foreskin
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I read another article that kept referring to Lord of the Flies being about "toxic masculinity" and how the events of the book wouldn't happen if it was all girls.
Reminds me of that Dutch show where they had a all men's and all women's survivor-like competition and the men's island did outstanding and the woman's side did nothing. They had to transplant men to the island so that they could survive.
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HOUSTON MAYOR STATES CITY HAS 600,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RESIDENTS 2017-08-31 06:24:48 Post No.173710
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HOUSTON MAYOR SYLVESTER TURNER HAS PROMISED THE CITY’S NEARLY 600,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAT THEY WON’T BE TURNED OVER TO IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES IF THEY GO TO A SHELTER OR ASK FOR HELP DURING HARVEY.
Turner, a lawyer, even went a step further, saying he would personally represent any illegal immigrant who faces deportation for seeking shelter during the storm.
“I don’t care who you are, I don’t care what your status is,” Turner said Monday. “I do not want you to run the risk of losing your life or [that of] a family member because you’re concerned about (Senate Bill) 4 or anything else."
Texas Senate Bill 4 outlaws sanctuary cities in the state and allows state and local law enforcement officers to check immigration status. It takes effect Sept. 1.
Turner said with everyone trying to deal with Harvey, now was the time to put “the [immigration] law on the shelf.”
“It’s very important for him to deliver that message,” said Mary Moreno, communications director for the Houston-based Texas Organizing Project. “People were already afraid not only because of what [President] Trump is doing [about illegal immigration], but also because of SB-4, which ties the hands of police chiefs who prohibited their officers from asking immigration status.”
“SB-4 allows a police officer to take it upon himself to be an immigration agent, and that’s created a lot of fear, even though police were already assuring people that they should come forward for help” during the hurricane, she said.
“We don’t have any problem with his message when dealing with disaster that’s life and death, and where people are in a dire situation,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR. “It’s not the time for anyone to ask anyone about immigration status. It’s a time to help people.”
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SB4 was just overruled by a judge as well.
It's definitely a problem, they already don't call the police as it is out of fear, all this politicizing of the issue has made life worse for immigrants. Sad that they're also probably the most vulnerable.
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With the current shortage of construction labor
It's really not a good time to clamp down on undocumented workers
It's going to considerably more expensive and time consuming to try to rebuild Houston on legal labor alone
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Russia’s propaganda machine amplifies alt-right 2017-08-31 01:42:25 Post No.173630
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>Russia’s army of media influencers, social media bots and trolls has increasingly amplified alt-right and far-right narratives in the United States since the 2016 presidential election.
>Russia’s efforts to push propaganda and disinformation, experts say, are nothing new and extend beyond the U.S. to nations in Europe. But they have seemed to evolve in recent months, increasingly infiltrating and engaging with alt-right and far-right Americans online.
>Moscow’s aim is widely viewed as exploiting divides and sowing distrust of democratic institutions, the latter a conclusion reached by the U.S. intelligence community in its initial investigation of Russia’s interference in the presidential election, including overt efforts to push propaganda.
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>“Promoting content that is divisive – that is the ultimate goal here,” said Lee Foster, manager of information operations analysis at FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence.
>“It’s the same in Europe, but the specific themes change,” Foster said. “There, one of the most prominent themes is migration and the refugee crisis.”
>In some cases, it is pro-Russia personalities, trolls or automated accounts magnifying right-wing messages.
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>The latest example is the recent flood of negative coverage of President Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, which originated on right-wing media outlets like Breitbart News and has been picked up by prominent conservative personalities, including Sean Hannity.
>The campaign, coined #FireMcMaster, was also picked up by automated Twitter accounts—commonly known as “bots”—that are linked to Russia, according to Hamilton 68, a new dashboard developed to monitor fake news. Separately, researchers at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab identified Lee Stranahan, a host on Russian state-run outlet Sputnik, as one of the most prominent voices behind the anti-McMaster campaign.
>“The long view of the Russian active measures program is chaos and disunity among the American government,” Clint Watts, a former FBI agent and cybersecurity expert who developed the Hamilton 68 dashboard, told NPR earlier this month.
>“The reason the #FireMcMaster topic is so potent is it's one of the key themes that you consistently will see the Russians push,” Watts said. “One is anti-EU. They want to see the EU break up. The other one is anti-NATO. And they want to see the U.S. back away from both of those alliances. McMaster's very much about staying engaged in those alliances, which is different from other people in the White House.”
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>In other cases, pro-Russian personalities and accounts will push narratives to their targeted audience, attempting to get American influencers to pick up a certain storyline.
>Such was the case during 2016 presidential election campaign, noted Foster, when accounts tweeted content copied from the WikiLeaks dumps of Democratic officials’ emails.
>“Up through the election, it was heavily anti-Clinton and steadily increased in the promotion of pro-Trump material,” Foster said. “It moved into this pro-Trump realm.” He noted that while these accounts continue to push anti-Democratic messaging, the balance has shifted toward pro-right-wing messages.
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Berkeley Mayor: We Should Classify Antifa ‘As A Gang’ 2017-08-29 08:15:12 Post No.173096
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BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Mayor of Berkeley Jesse Arreguin on Monday said it is time to confront the violent extremism on the left by treating black-clad Antifa protesters as a gang.
A large number of masked Antifa activists were seen jumping the barriers at a largely peaceful demonstration in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Civic Center Park on Sunday.
Some began attacking Trump supporters at the rally.
“I think we should classify them as a gang,” said Arreguin. “They come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons, almost like a militia and I think we need to think about that in terms of our law enforcement approach.”
Arreguin said that while he does not support the far right, it was time to draw the line on the left as well, especially on the black-clad activists who showed up in force and took over both the protests and the park, and played a part in Sunday’s violent clashes.
“I think we are going to have to think ‘big picture’ about what is the strategy for how we are going to deal with these violent elements on the left as well,” said the mayor.
The mayor said it was also time for the non-violent protesters to take a stand.
“We also need to hold accountable and encourage people not to associate with these extremists because it empowers them and gives them cover,” said Arreguin.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/08/28/berkeley-mayor-classify-antifa-as-a-gang/
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Fuck that sign is retard. Socialism is the exact opposite of liberty.
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>>173100
At least read the wiki page on socialism and stop making a fool of yourself.
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>>173109
You are going to hell Commie.
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College tells freshmen to masturbate so they won’t rape, using Winnie the Pooh character 2017-08-29 12:16:03 Post No.172904
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The Rochester Institute of Technology wanted to grab students’ attention when it comes to drinking and sex at freshmen orientation last week.
So campus officials used a Winnie the Pooh character to tell students to masturbate so they won’t be tempted to rape each other.
The image of Roo from a freshmen presentation was posted on the school’s Reddit page about 8:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. It told students to “Think of Roo!” and “RUB ONE OUT,” with an apparently miswritten caption that reads “because I would rather you rub run out.”
A Twitter user also posted an image with a different caption the next day: “Self-gratification can prevent sexual assault.”
Holy fuck, apparently my college revamped their freshman orientation to teach about how to not rape. I just, holy fuck pic.twitter.com/kp7iDnvLnD
— Peachum (@BunLordPeachum) August 24, 2017
The original Reddit poster said the image came from a “consent presentation,” and another poster named it specifically as the mandatory orientation presentation “Alcohol and Chill”:
Perhaps the presenters were trying too hard, but they did do a great job of making a fun yet serious presentation about something very important.
Another said: “We were encouraged to rub one out if our partner or a party didn’t wish to engage in intercourse (and related things). It was meant to be comedic more than anything and I don’t think it was particularly cringe [sic].”
The context of the slide was that if a likely sex partner had provided several consecutive “go ahead” signals for sex, “and then suddenly tells you ‘No,'” the sexually frustrated partner should “go back to your room and Rub One Out,” according to a self-identified freshman:
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A picture of roo was shown without the acronym explained at all. There was a pause – and then a collective moan and groan from the audience as the implication slowly washed over everyone, including those teaching it. It was fucking hilarious. Then the acronym was revealed one at a time:
RUB.
ONE.
OUT.
Everyone lost it.
The poster said the presentation also featured vicarious toe-sucking.
Yet another said “several interpreters awkwardly signed RUB ONE OUT” for hard-of-hearing students.
#Newyork #Nyc #Reddit #Livebroadcasting RIT Uses "Roo" Character To Urge Freshman To "Rub One Out" Instead of Rape…
— Ching Geob (@PhilcamChing) August 24, 2017
Rochester radio station 95.1 also posted an sex-ed flyer from RIT’s Center for Women & Gender for April’s sexual-assault awareness month. It shows a cartoon tiger twerking. It reads: “Don’t have sex with a drunk twerking tiger. Only a sober tiger can give consent!” (The school mascot is a tiger.)
In a statement that does not appear to be linked from any other university page, and was not shared on its social-media channels, Rochester Institute of Technology did not describe the Roo slide except to say it has “sparked controversy.”
It is simply titled “A response from the Senior Vice President for Student Affairs,” Sandra Johnson, and said the Roo slide was part of a 77-slide presentation.
Johnson said the sexual-misconduct program “Alcohol and Chill” was developed by Student Counseling and Psychological Services, the Center for Student Conduct and Conflict Mediation, Center for Women and Gender and its Title IX coordinator’s office:
The format of the program was more of a “straight talk” approach, weaving in humor along with important facts and identifying resources for students. The overarching goal was to increase awareness and promote discussion about the ways we together can prevent instances of sexual misconduct on our campus.
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The Roo slide was “taken out of context,” she continued:
In my opinion, this serves to underscore the complexity involved in addressing this issue. In our experience, telling students what “not to do” without talking about specific situations that are difficult to navigate is irresponsible; we addressed the subject from a place and context that students could understand. …
While some may think the program on Wednesday evening missed the mark, we’ve had positive feedback from many of the students, both new and returning, in attendance. These are difficult conversations that can be awkward and uncomfortable, and we apologize if we unintentionally offended anyone.
Johnson’s statement does not explain how a baby kangaroo from a children’s book is an effective vehicle for teaching college students about sexual misconduct.
The controversy distracted from the orientation-week message pushed by RIT’s new president, David Munson. He told students the same day as the “Alcohol and Chill” presentation that freshmen should “be open to learning and growing” and “learn how to discuss sensitive topics honestly and respectfully.”
The College Fix has asked the administration why its statement does not appear to have been communicated outside of a single webpage that is not linked elsewhere, why it fails to describe the slide’s content, and which persons and offices developed or oversaw the Roo slide.
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how is this offensive?
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150 treated in hospital after unknown chemical 'mist' drifts over popular British beach 2017-08-28 09:54:25 Post No.172825
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About 150 people have been treated in hospital and hundreds more affected by an unknown gas which hit the East Sussex coast.
Birling Gap beach was evacuated on Sunday after people reported breathing difficulties, stinging eyes and vomiting when a "mist" appeared.
Sussex Police said on Monday morning the gas cloud appeared to have cleared.
Agencies are investigating the cause and have not ruled out either on-shore or off-shore locations.
In the past, chemicals have drifted across from European industrial units, but Sussex Police said: "Weather models suggest that an onshore source in northern France is very unlikely."
The Coastguard said it was working with its French counterparts and looking into vessels that were in the area at the time.
East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said it was "extremely unlikely" the substance involved was chlorine.
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What the fuck?
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Could be a fuel discharge from a passing ship. If it was hot enough it could have evaporated along the coastline and drifted onshore.
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My guess: probably just a naturally occurring gas from decomposition. I used to live on a lake in Minnesota. Right after the ice melted, this same thing would happen in the morning for a few days at sunrise; exact same symptoms. Never bad enough to go to the hospital, but made it unpleasant for about an hour. I'm thinking it's something to do with decomposition in an anaerobic environment making ammonia or something like that.
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Alisa Norris, a well-known cosplayer, also known as Alisa Kiss turned na 2017-08-20 06:30:06 Post No.170052
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Alisa Norris, a well-known cosplayer, also known as Alisa Kiss, who has appeared in costume at many comic con-style events over the years, as many characters — though Supergirl appears more than others — and has a strong following on social media. She has extended that appeal into other areas of her business.
But then she talked about going to Charlottesville for the marches the other day. Nothing unusual about that, many people have. But it seems she wasn’t on the side one might expect to find Supergirl.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/08/18/supergirl-cosplayer-went-charlottesville-guess-whose-side/
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I have all the videos from her now dead site. I'm thinking of uploading them to /t/.
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>>170056
Please do.
As to the article, it just shows how hateful and spiteful liberals are towards white people that feel threatened in their own country.
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>>170062
There's nothing to feel threatened about unless you're retarded and subscribe to the idea of "le white extinction XD" "muh freedumbs" or whatever the hell else there is to feel threatened by due to a combination if being naive and clever yellow journalism
Stay woke faggots
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WOMAN WINS ART PRIZE FOR INSEMINATING HERSELF WITH DOG SPERM 2017-08-10 02:07:26 Post No.166546
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The Slovenian artist Maja Smrekar was awarded the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz for the controversial project "ARTE_mis".
What's the matter? In the project, an artist's egg was "gutted" by experts in a laboratory and a body cell of her dog was inserted into it. The result is a new cell, which could theoretically create a mixture of humans and dogs. The survival chances of this being would be higher than ours, "said the Ars Electronica Center (AEC) in a press release," because this mix would treat its environment more humane than we do. "
Prohibited, but allowed
The FPÖ National Councilors Walter Rosenkranz, Werner Neubauer and a further member of parliament now submitted a parliamentary question to Thomas Drozda (SPÖ), Federal Minister for Art and Culture, "regarding strange art understanding at the Prix Ars Electronica".
The deputies want to know from Drozda, among other things, why such projects are forbidden in research, but are allowed in art. Furthermore, they asked whether the winning project had been funded with public funds and the criteria selected by the jury.
Political responsibility
"This project clearly exceeded the boundaries of morality and ethics," says Neubauer in a conversation with "Heute". He criticizes the responsible persons: "The fact that the politically responsible Linz councilor Lang-Mayerhofer and the representatives of the religious communities have not spoken up to now is unbelievable." In any case, he would also deal with the Bioethics Commission.
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>fascists trying to say this is "prohibited" or "forbidden"
this woman should come to Canada where making love to animals is perfectly legal.
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She should be executed.
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Only if the animal is entering you on its own, no coercing or coaxing. Straight men cant just put their dicks in dogs, thatd be immoral
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An Architectural Mystery In Our Basements 2017-09-02 03:22:35 Post No.174197
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Ted Zellers has knocked on doors from the West End to the North Side to Polish Hill and beyond, all to ask people if he can have a look in their basements.
“I’ve been surprised about how positive the reactions of people have been,” he said. “I was really worried when I started this that a lot of people would think I was a weirdo for wanting to do this.”
The Lawrenceville resident and amateur photographer is compiling photographs of those lone basement toilets. He said he’s hoping to one day share them in some kind of coffee table book, or eventually a gallery show.
“Everybody recognizes that, yes, toilets are a part of all of our lives,” he said.
It’s a part of life that a lot of people don’t really think a lot about. Basement toilets can come in handy, especially if there are multiple people living in an older house with only one finished bathroom. But Pittsburgh’s basement toilets often lack any accompanying sinks, showers or, more notably, walls.
“What I always liked about them was, they were obviously placed in unexpected spots,” said WQED host Rick Sebak. “So there’s no rhyme or reason as to where they’d be in the basement. Sometimes right in the middle, sometimes in a corner, which seems to make more sense.”
In 2007, Sebak hosted a special called "Underground Pittsburgh." It partly explored the region’s basements -- including Pittsburgh potties.
“I know that various people have accommodated it, you know, either put a curtain around it or, at my house, in the basement, somebody put cinder blocks, so it’s still open at the one end," he said. "It’s kind of a stall.”
But when and why Pittsburgh toilets originated is more difficult to pinpoint.
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“People say that mill workers came home, they were super dirty, they didn’t want to dirty the house, so they went in through the basement, showered in the basement and did their bathing in the basement and then came upstairs where the house was clean,” said Stephen Cummings, a realtor with RE/MAX in Pittsburgh who primarily works in the East End.
While that answer is accepted locally, there are few experts -- if any -- who can confirm that theory. Multiple local historians declined to verify the authenticity of the mill worker claim, since they didn’t specialize in basement, or toilet, history.
Cummings, who said he's sold or helped sell more than 600 houses in his eight years as a realtor, said Pittsburgh potties tend to show up in houses built between 1880 and 1910. Some showed up in houses in the ‘20s, less in the ‘30s and even fewer built in the ‘40s, he said, with them petering out after World War II.
But the 1880s were also a time when wealthier Pittsburghers might have had servants living in their houses. And with basement toilets in some of the city’s larger houses, Cummings has another idea.
A semi-enclosed Pittsburgh toilet in the basement of a home being remodeled in Crafton Heights.
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“Some really large, older houses I’ve seen all over the city, if they’re large enough, they have signs of what was possibly even a kitchen in the basement, as well,” he said. “And I think that could show that they had servants living in the basement or using the basement as living quarters.”
But ultimately, the Pittsburgh potty evokes a sense of nostalgia for many locals. Sebak remembers them from his childhood.
“I can remember my grandmothers both had one in their basements and, you know, as a kid, it was kind of easier,” he said. “Just run down and use the toilet in the basement.”
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That nostalgia and uniqueness is something Zellers is hoping to capture with his photo project.
“Culture comes big and small, public and private,” he said. “And the Pittsburgh toilet is...one that has almost no documentation associated with it, despite the fact that there is an incredible amount of variety and personalization in these toilets that people have put in over the years.
"I think that these are worth seeing. They’re worth sharing.”
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i founs the dumbest lookin people in the world 2017-09-02 02:49:48 Post No.174192
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i founs the dumbest lookin people in the world
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Two Maryland men chose the wrong bar to try and rob when they unexpectedly discovered it was full of police officers.
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Trumptards BTFO!
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>House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday gave a major boost to legislative efforts to preserve protections for young undocumented immigrants -- and urged President Donald Trump to not tear up the program.
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Why doesn't he just run as a Democrat?
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I hope this guy hangs for his treason.
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boycott israel
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Nurse ruffed up by police for protection of rights of a patient 2017-09-01 03:09:58 Post No.174083
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I do not post much. I'm very upset at the video of a Utah head nurse (former Olympic skier) ruffed up and arrested for not doing a blood test on a suspect (not under arrest and no warrant) 2006 Supreme Court ruled unlawful blood test can not be done. The video of the nurse pleading and asking what's going on with her boss on the speaker phone telling the officer he is making a big mistake. Officer knocks phone out of her hand, throws her into wall, handcuffs her, slings her around and puts her in a unmarked unit. SOMEONE POST THAT SHIT! Video Much Respect...AnonSteveE
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It was a 2016 ruling by suprem court not 2006.
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I've very upset you didn't bother to look and see this is already an active /news/ topic
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Must be posted on Anon News