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[Irish#1]

Speaking of the moon landing and this being the 50th anniversary of it tomorrow, I was wondering if anyone else is old enough to remember it. I was 9 years old and very clearly remember sitting with my family in our den watching it on an old black & white TV. It always amazed me (still does) that in just my grandfather's lifetime (1899-1979) we went from the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to landing on the moon. What an incredible leap of progress & technology.

I was 16, but we had a color TV. IIRC, the video transmitted back was in B&W and the rest was color.

 

[IrishLax]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.na...axing-horror-show-peak-transgen-activism/amp/

This shit show is where the United States will be in less than 5 years if things continue on their current trajectory. Women being forced to fondle balls and dicks or lose their business.

 

[ulukinatme]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.na...axing-horror-show-peak-transgen-activism/amp/

This shit show is where the United States will be in less than 5 years if things continue on their current trajectory. Women being forced to fondle balls and dicks or lose their business.

At first I read this line and was like:

Then I read the article and was like:

 

[Irish YJ]

outrage....

people spend their time and emotion on the silliest of things. they should have put on the outer ring "i love that my curves have curves".....

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And you wonder why people hate their bodies. Cool <a href="https://twitter.com/Macys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Macys</a> so glad you can support a toxic body shaming culture. <a href="https://t.co/L7V4O6jaB9">https://t.co/L7V4O6jaB9</a></p>— Katina (@DansLesFromages) <a href="https://twitter.com/DansLesFromages/status/1153542326876327936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Legacy]

Having posted articles from Anchorage Daily News with ProPublica on sexual violence and policing in rural Alaska in this Culture thread, here is another of their articles.

Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in rural Alaska. Sometimes, they’re the only applicants.
In one village, every cop has been convicted of domestic violence within the past decade, including the chief. Only one has received formal law enforcement training of any kind.

STEBBINS — When Nimeron Mike applied to be a city police officer here last New Year’s Eve, he didn’t really expect to get the job.

Mike was a registered sex offender and had served six years behind bars in Alaska jails and prisons. He’d been convicted of assault, domestic violence, vehicle theft, groping a woman, hindering prosecution, reckless driving, drunken driving and choking a woman unconscious in an attempted sexual assault. Among other crimes.

“My record, I thought I had no chance of being a cop,” Mike, 43, said on a recent weekday evening, standing at his doorway in this Bering Strait village of 646 people.

He was wrong.

On the same day Mike filled out the application, the city of Stebbins hired him, handing him a policeman’s cellphone to answer calls for help.

“Am I a cop now?” he remembers thinking. “It’s like, that easy?”

It’s also a violation of state public safety regulations, yet it happens all the time.

In Stebbins alone, all seven of the police officers working as of July 1 have pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges within the past decade. Only one has received formal law enforcement training of any kind.

The current police chief pleaded guilty to throwing a teenage relative to the ground and threatening to kill her after drinking homebrew liquor in 2017. (Alcohol is illegal in the village.) He was hired a year later. He declined to answer questions in person and blocked a reporter on Facebook.

Two men who until recently were Stebbins police officers pleaded guilty to spitting in the faces of police officers; one was the subject of a 2017 sexual assault restraining order in which a mother said he exposed himself to her 12-year-old daughter. (The officer named in the restraining order said he was busy and hung up the phone when asked about his criminal history; the other officer admitted to the crime.)

The seven-man police force has served a combined six years in jails, prisons and halfway houses on dozens of criminal charges. That doesn’t include Mike, who was terminated on March 29, city records show. He says he wasn’t given a reason, but the city administrator said it was because he wasn’t responding to calls and didn’t get along with another officer.

ProPublica and the Anchorage Daily News reported in May that one in three Alaska communities has no local cops of any kind. In June, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr declared a “law enforcement emergency” in rural Alaska, announcing $10.5 million in Justice Department spending to support village police.

In the villages where there are cops, a different problem has emerged. A first-of-its-kind investigation by the Daily News and ProPublica has found that at least 14 cities in Alaska have employed police officers whose criminal records should have prevented them from being hired under Department of Public Safety regulations. The news organizations identified more than 34 officers who should have been ineligible for these jobs. In all but three cases, the police hires were never reported by the city governments to the state regulatory board, as required.

In eight additional communities, local tribal governments have hired tribal police officers convicted of domestic violence or sex crimes.

All 42 of these tribal and city police officers have rap sheets that would prevent them from being hired by the Anchorage Police Department and its urban peers, as Alaska state troopers or even as private security guards most anywhere else in the United States. Many remain on the job today.
(continued)

 

[Irish#1]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.na...axing-horror-show-peak-transgen-activism/amp/

This shit show is where the United States will be in less than 5 years if things continue on their current trajectory. Women being forced to fondle balls and dicks or lose their business.

Having posted articles from Anchorage Daily News with ProPublica on sexual violence and policing in rural Alaska in this Culture thread, here is another of their articles.

Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in rural Alaska. Sometimes, they’re the only applicants.
In one village, every cop has been convicted of domestic violence within the past decade, including the chief. Only one has received formal law enforcement training of any kind.

Life is stranger than fiction!

 

[Legacy]

‘I made a change in my life’: Village police say they make a difference despite criminal records (Anchorage Daily News)

 

[Whiskeyjack]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.na...axing-horror-show-peak-transgen-activism/amp/

This shit show is where the United States will be in less than 5 years if things continue on their current trajectory. Women being forced to fondle balls and dicks or lose their business.

The "T"s in LGBTTQQIAAP are going to destroy the entire enterprise.

 

[Wild Bill]

The "T"s in LGBTTQQIAAP are going to destroy the entire enterprise.

I always assumed we'd have to be dragged down a bit further by adding another "P" to the mix before people said enough is enough.

This "drag kid" nonsense is pure filth, and that's obvious to anyone who has three brain cells and hasn't been completely programmed by the good folks in Hollywood.

 

[IrishLax]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.na...axing-horror-show-peak-transgen-activism/amp/

This shit show is where the United States will be in less than 5 years if things continue on their current trajectory. Women being forced to fondle balls and dicks or lose their business.

Total shocker to no one, but the demented male targeting minority women to wax his balls is also clearly a child predator -- <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The police have been called on "wax my balls" person Jessica Yaniv for possession of child pornography for sexually soliciting an underage girl. <a href="https://t.co/5wI81UTwSw">https://t.co/5wI81UTwSw</a></p>— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1154414934119219200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Possession of child porn, distribution of child porn, and tried to host a "topless" pool part for underage girls.

 

[Old Man Mike]

I'm making a poor effort at writing a novel, and one thing which is tough to crack is dealing with the worst of our scum. My, at this point, solution is creating a minimal survival area (all the super detention tech around an open 100s of acres area with some water source and gardening possibilities) called The Farm. (I'd split the males from the females.)

When the Justice system had clear evidences for conviction of these pieces of filth, they/we would just dump them in there to fend for themselves. Once the walls were made, and a standing military troop was deployed on the outside, little expense would be necessary other than an occasional seed dump or the like.

Most would just be slaughtered; but at least I could rationalize in my Catholic Soul that I didn't kill them, and gave them an (unlikely) period to reassess their sh!tty lives before meeting GOD.

 

[Irish#1]

Total shocker to no one, but the demented male targeting minority women to wax his balls is also clearly a child predator -- <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The police have been called on "wax my balls" person Jessica Yaniv for possession of child pornography for sexually soliciting an underage girl. <a href="https://t.co/5wI81UTwSw">https://t.co/5wI81UTwSw</a></p>— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1154414934119219200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Possession of child porn, distribution of child porn, and tried to host a "topless" pool part for underage girls.

He will be happy to know that in the not too distant future somebody will be waxing his balls. Just not some underage girl.

 

[Legacy]

A Sisterhood of Sorts (Notre Dame Magazine)

When the University of Notre Dame went coed in 1972, it did so on the crest of a wave that seemed poised to change everything for American women.

The Equal Rights Amendment had passed the U.S. Congress, leaving the nation just a ratification tour away from the constitutional prohibition of discrimination based on sex. Ms. magazine had recently hit newsstands for the first time. On the airwaves, Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman” was the song of the summer (and a Billboard No. 1 hit) with its era-defining opening salvo: “I am woman, hear me roar.”

Feminists — a decreasingly dirty word — were on the cusp of achieving their goal: The freedom for all women to determine their own futures, whether that future entailed motherhood, education, a career or all of the above.

Nearly half a century later, things have unquestionably gotten even better — a shift exemplified at Notre Dame.

From the 325 women who entered that fall as freshmen or transfer students, the University has grown into a place where men and women perform on equal ground. In 2019, women were chosen to serve as student body president, valedictorian and salutatorian, and, for the first time, a woman earned a spot as one of the three leprechaun mascots. The most famous athletic persona on campus, one could argue, is Muffet McGraw, the women’s basketball coach who made her seventh national championship appearance earlier this year.

Yet as McGraw herself pointed out during a Final Four press conference this past April, the strides women have made do not yet mean equality. ...

 

[Irish#1]

Scream louder and continue to scream so you win. Another sad example of what is evolving.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/20...storic-mural-san-francisco-smerconish-vpx.cnn

 

[BGIF]

I'm making a poor effort at writing a novel, and one thing which is tough to crack is dealing with the worst of our scum. My, at this point, solution is creating a minimal survival area (all the super detention tech around an open 100s of acres area with some water source and gardening possibilities) called The Farm. (I'd split the males from the females.)

When the Justice system had clear evidences for conviction of these pieces of filth, they/we would just dump them in there to fend for themselves. Once the walls were made, and a standing military troop was deployed on the outside, little expense would be necessary other than an occasional seed dump or the like.

Most would just be slaughtered; but at least I could rationalize in my Catholic Soul that I didn't kill them, and gave them an (unlikely) period to reassess their sh!tty lives before meeting GOD.

You might want to use the isle of Manhattan for your Farm. Build a 50 foot tall wall (and have Mexico's drug cartel pay for it), and mine the brides and tunnels. You can add terrorists taking over Air Force One and POTUS escaping in a capsule only to make landfall in ... Manhattan. THIS POTUS does time rather than twisting in the wind of impeachment innuendo. You could get some surly dude to rescue POTUS single handed ... in the nick of time for his impeachment hearing.

Bill de Blasio could be cast as Warden or any the Mayors of L.A., S.F., Portland, Chicago, Detroit, or Baltimore who are accustomed to people sleeping and defecating on the sidewalks. No needed for some old white man like Redford to appropriate a role he's never experienced in real life. This project needs a person who was demonstrated they can run a prison like a Third World city.

A catchy title would help sales, something like, say ... "Escape From New York".

 

[Old Man Mike]

BGIF in the role of Snake Pliskin

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Suddenly Plissken:

 

[BGIF]

Now in 8 States w/18 more in the works.

Now in 8 States w/18 more in the works.

The list is predominately Blue States. Preparing for a Trump re-election?


New Jersey will allow terminally ill patients to end their lives starting today
By Taylor Romine, CNN

Updated 5:09 AM ET, Thu August 1, 2019

(CNN)Terminally ill adults in New Jersey will now be able to ask for medical help to end their lives.

In April, Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. It goes into effect Thursday.
It allows adults with a prognosis of six months or less to live to get a prescription for life-ending medication.
Other jurisdictions that allow physician-assisted suicide are: California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, Hawaii, Montana and the District of Columbia.
The law requires either a psychiatrist or psychologist determine that the patient has the mental capacity to make the decision. The prescription is a series of self-administered pills that can be taken at home.
"Allowing residents with terminal illnesses to make end-of-life choices for themselves is the right thing to do," Murphy said in a statement.
The bill narrowly passed in the Senate, and some who voted against it are apprehensive about its effects.
"The bill has lasting ramifications and lots of loopholes," said Republican Sen. Robert Singer. "We are so concerned about opioids, and not trusting doctors with opioids. But now we are willing to trust them with this."
New Jersey legislators have tried passing versions of this bill since 2014, but this was the first time the bill went to a vote in the Senate.
At least 19 other states are considering physician-assisted suicide bills.

 

[Irish#1]

What am I missing here? People want any statues, flags or other memorabilia removed because it reminds them of the time when slavery was abundant, but they are paying homage to the anniversary of slave trade in America?


(CNN)Rep. Ilhan Omar posted a photo Thursday of herself and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Ghana, saying Pelosi "didn't just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me" two weeks after the crowd at a Trump rally erupted in cheers of "send her back."

"So grateful for the honor to return to Mother Africa," Omar tweeted of the trip. She and Pelosi are visiting as part of a trip that several members of the Congressional Black Caucus took to pay homage to the 400th anniversary of American slave trade.

 

[ACamp1900]

What am I missing here? People want any statues, flags or other memorabilia removed because it reminds them of the time when slavery was abundant, but they are paying homage to the anniversary of slave trade in America?


(CNN)Rep. Ilhan Omar posted a photo Thursday of herself and Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Ghana, saying Pelosi "didn't just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me" two weeks after the crowd at a Trump rally erupted in cheers of "send her back."

"So grateful for the honor to return to Mother Africa," Omar tweeted of the trip. She and Pelosi are visiting as part of a trip that several members of the Congressional Black Caucus took to pay homage to the 400th anniversary of American slave trade.

Always interests me that we focus so hard on the AMERICAN slave trade. Not any other nations that actually started, perfected it or perpetuated it for FAR longer. AMERICA ended the slave trade just a couple decades after it became a nation and ended slavery altogether within ~fifty years of that. Shouldn't it be the Spanish/ English slave trade? The European slave trade? or just the African slave trade? Shouldn't THOSE parties be responsible for reparations discussions? Dead serious... it's very telling that the focus is so often shifted to AMERICA by those who clearly want to wholesale change it.

 

[Legacy]

Portland is girding itself for another march near the waterfront by right wing extremist groups with counterprotest by the local anti-fa. Portland can't deny the permit and has a long tradition of free speech in spite of both groups clashing violently in the past. Infowars staffer Joe Biggs, who has told followers to bring guns and who's posted "Death to Antifa" is involved. In the past, Infowars Alex Jones has attended.

A large police presence is expected. In fact,

“We’ve been sitting on a powder keg and everything is kind of coming to a head at this point,” Police Chief Danielle Outlaw said in an interview this week. “Not just because of what’s happening locally, but nationally.”

Numerous downtown businesses will close. Milk shaking has occurred in the past. Caramel, I believe.

Portland protests Aug. 17: What you need to know

Why Portland? The city presents a unique mix of past and present white nationalism; policing that enables the far right; weak political leaders; and a legacy of antifascist organizing. Combined, these elements allow the far right to stage violent spectacles with few legal consequences against their ideological enemies — antifa, liberals, so-called PC culture, cities — while using social media to glorify the violence as a recruiting tool and proof of their racial and masculine virility.

IT STARTS WITH Oregon’s history. The state was envisioned as a white utopia and barred black people from residency until 1926. To this day, Portland is the whitest big city in America, with a population that is 77 percent white and less then 6 percent black, and that racial homogeneity has proved for decades to be fertile recruiting ground for racist hate groups.

Joseph Lowndes, associate professor of political science at University of Oregon and co-author of “Producers, Parasites, Producers: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity,” said that “in the 1980s, for groups like Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance, Portland was a choice spot for their ‘10 percent strategy.’ That meant if the city was 10 percent or less people of color, the far right could organize working-class whites there as they believed they wouldn’t meet much resistance.”

Oregon currently has a disproportionate number of hate groups and militias, while in the broader Pacific Northwest, many far-right groups participated in and were energized by the Bundy family’s armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon in early 2016.

Speaking of the massive brawls in Portland, Lowndes said, “There is another legacy of the anti-authoritarian left, anarchists, and anti-fascists who also since the 1980s have been a militant street-oriented left.”

(Source)

 

[loomis41973]

Burn it down

 

[Irish YJ]

Love how Legacy only tags the right wing groups as extremist. I guess Antifa is just a bunch of peace loving moderates.

Put both groups on an island with a bunch of automatic weapons.

 

[phork]

Love how Legacy only tags the right wing groups as extremist. I guess Antifa is just a bunch of peace loving moderates.

Put both groups on an island with a bunch of automatic weapons.

The American dream.

 

[Legacy]

AP Explains: A look at rallies, recent tension in Portland

Excerpt:

WHAT IS PORTLAND’S HISTORY WITH EXTREMISM?

Randy Blazak, a leading expert on the history of hate groups in Oregon, said many of today’s anti-fascists trace their activist heritage to a group that fought with neo-Nazis in Portland’s streets decades ago, and they feel this is the same struggle in a new era.

White supremacists killed an Ethiopian man in 1988 in Portland. By the 1990s, Portland was being referred to as “Skinhead City” because it was the home base of Volksfront, one of the most active neo-Nazi groups in the U.S. at the time. As recently as 2007, neo-Nazis attempted to gather in Portland for a three-day festival.

WHAT DO PORTLAND RESIDENTS THINK?

The rallies and counterprotests have frustrated many Portland residents, who feel their city has been co-opted by political forces beyond their control.

While Portland is known as a liberal touchstone with a history of protest, many residents don’t agree with violence from either the far-right or the far-left and would like things to return to normal.

Mayor Wheeler held a large rally in support of Portland and its residents earlier this week that drew dozens of civic leaders, politicians, educators, civil rights groups and unions.

More than a half-dozen events are planned Saturday — including a juggling contest, a Buddhist meditation and a dance party with people wearing giant banana costumes — to thwart potential violence and defuse any problems that could arise.

Events in the area have been moved. In addition to businesses in the area closing, a main street, a bridge, buses and streetcars into downtown have been closed. Wheeler acknowledges Portland’s protest tradition as a robust form of political expression, but he believes it’s been co-opted lately by people more interested in simply causing trouble than having any cogent discourse. In picking a fight with antifa, they’ll get one. Sign of the times where right-wing hate groups have become more vocal, stoked by rhetoric on national platforms, and looking for confrontation to fuel their racist goals. Charleston, Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, El Paso, and New Zealand are just extensions of those extremist views. The Patriot Prayer leader and perpetrators of violence including a murder have recently been arrested. Oregon law states that a person can be charged with the crime of riot “if while participating with five or more other persons the person engages in tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby intentionally or recklessly creates a grave risk of causing public alarm.” The alt-right group Proud Boys has a presence in Canada, Australia and the U.K.

“I think they come to Portland because it gives them a platform,” Wheeler said. “They know that if they come here conflict is almost guaranteed.”

 

[Legacy]

Trump tweets:

"Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an “ORGANIZATION OF TERROR.” Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!"

Trump tweeted in July.

"Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others). Would make it easier for police to do their job!"

The antifa gird themselves in body armor, helmets and masks and look for violence when the right wing hate groups come to Portland to march and tell their members to bring guns. The FBI has identified white supremacists as a major threat and pursued them as domestic terrorists.

Are the Proud Boys Done or Are They Just Getting Started?

 

[Irish YJ]

Millennials care less about patriotism, religion and family than previous generations, WSJ study says
https://www.foxnews.com/us/young-am...d-family-than-previous-generations-study-says

 

[ACamp1900]

Millennials care less about patriotism, religion and family than previous generations, WSJ study says
https://www.foxnews.com/us/young-am...d-family-than-previous-generations-study-says

Well they have also had it drilled into their minds by some that these things are, in order, hateful and ignorant, oppressive and uneducated, completely unimportant and patriarchal,... so yeah... not surprising.

 

[Old Man Mike]

They've also been treated to an ongoing series of bad public examples. "Prominent Americans in the media" is a real sh!t show. I can't imagine how ANY "cultured" imagery will exist.

 

[Legacy]

5 facts about Millennial households (Sept 6, 2017)
- More live in poverty, they dominate the ranks of renters, number cohabitating, single mothers, multiracial

Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
- analysis of Employment, Education, Income and Wealth, Housing, Family, Voting, Population Change and Future

One excerpt:

The financial well-being of Millennials is complicated. The individual earnings for young workers have remained mostly flat over the past 50 years. But this belies a notably large gap in earnings between Millennials who have a college education and those who don’t. Similarly, the household income trends for young adults markedly diverge by education. As far as household wealth, Millennials appear to have accumulated slightly less than older generations had at the same age.

Economic well-being - or the prospect for - is always a factor in attitudes towards social institutions.