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."Ask me, 'Should we be reuniting 2,000 kids with their families?' Ask me
that," he shot back. "Yes, we should. I don't care about fucking Sarah
Sanders. Reunite the fucking kids with their families, and then we'll
talk about Sarah Sanders and her fucking dinners."
This is NOT the way to get your point across. Why can't you speak like a man with manors? We were all embarrassed FOR YOU. No class at all. Wow, just wow.
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'Boys will be boys' sweatshirt pulled from stores after being accused of sending a 'sexist' message
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Australian sleepwear brand Peter Alexander has pulled a “boys
will be boys” children’s sweatshirt from its stores following backlash
from parents saying the slogan had sexist connotations.
Melbourne mother Bridie Harris noticed the boys’ gray pajama top
while out shopping last week and took to social media to complain.
“Boy won’t be boys,” she wrote on the
Peter Alexander Sleepwear Facebook page. “Boys will be held accountable for their actions.
“I
hate to see an Australian store, who makes such great PJs, put such a
sexist statement on a T-shirt intended for young boys. Excusing boys of
their behavior is not a step in the right direction. It’s 2018.”
She said the slogan promoted a culture that allows men “to get away with stuff” because of their gender.
“It gives them an excuse for inappropriate behavior,” Harris said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. “If a girl hurts someone or does something, you never hear someone that says girls will be girls.
“As kids, I get it’s little tiny things, like rough play, but it
sets [them] up for a culture where they can get way with anything. I
thought it was a long-resolved discussion.”
Harris’s views were echoed by many other people on social media who
agreed the children’s sweatshirt also struck them as offensive.
One woman called the top “cringe
worthy,” while another said she was “so disappointed that this is something that [the brand] would promote for children.”
However, many accused Harris of being overly sensitive and did not see a problem with the top.
“Omg why get rid of it!” one commenter wrote. “There is nothing wrong with a old saying. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.”
Another mother said she was disappointed she could not buy the top for her boys.
“I would like to buy the ‘boys will be boys’ PJs,” she wrote. “I have
two boys and would like them to know that’s it’s OK to be boys.”
“The
pajamas don’t say, ‘I’m a boy, I’ll go punch another boy or harass
someone and that is okay because I am a boy,’” read another comment.
“Boys WILL be boys!” one man wrote.
“Making boys feel like they can’t be boys anymore because apparently
it’s part of rape culture and they all turn into murderers and rapists
anyway.”
A Peter Alexander Sleepwear spokesperson responded to
the thread, confirming the brand’s decision to remove the item from its
stores.
“Hi Bridie. I just wanted to update you and
again thank you for taking the time to get in touch with us and
bringing this to our attention,” the post began. “We do
not tolerate the behavior that is being associated with this slogan. In
light of your feedback, we have decided to withdraw this item from
sale.”
Peter Alexander Sleepwear has been contacted for comment.
Yep....NOTHING bad happened to ANYONE. There, I did it...... it is all gone !!! Now everyone shut the hell up and start over. Sick and tired of whining but people who don't even know the facts. History is gone.... now act like an adult.
A division of the American Library
Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major
children's book award.
Should writers who wrote long ago, describing life in the past, be held to 21st
century standards of political correctness? The question has arisen
many times – most recently about Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was born in
1867 and died in 1957. She is best known for writing the “Little House
on the Prairie” children’s books, which became the basis for a popular
TV series that aired in the 1970s and 80s.
In recent years, the question of
judging past writing by today’s standards has come up dealing with Mark
Twain’s use of a racist term for black people in “The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn,” claims that Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”
was anti-Semitic, and hostility that Ernest Hemingway expressed toward
homosexuals. It also came up with many other examples of works of
literature that perpetuated negative stereotypes about women and just
about every minority group – stereotypes that many people find offensive
today.
The Association of Library Service to Children, a
division of the American Library Association, voted Saturday to rename
its Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. The award had previously “honored an
author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have
made, over a period of years, a significant and lasting contribution to
children's literature through books.” After Wilder’s name was removed
from the award the line “that demonstrate integrity and respect for all
children's lives and experiences” was added to that description.
Presumably, Wilder had failed to demonstrate integrity
and respect for all children’s lives and experiences in her books
written about 19th century America.
Wilder’s name was stripped from the award because her
work contains “expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with
ALSC’s core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect, and
responsiveness,” the association said.
Do we want a revisionist history of
how groups were targeted for discrimination in the past? Or do want
literature that holds up a mirror to the past and reflects the reality
of the time – even when the reality was harsh and ugly?
Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” series of books
for children were about her upbringing on the frontier. The books tell a
story of a family’s survival in a new and harsh world. The Ingalls
family worried about having enough food. They buried children. They
spoke and acted like many other people did in the 1800s.
Wilder did not gloss over her family’s interactions
with Native Americans or African-Americans. Both these groups were the
victims of racism and racist stereotypes. Wilder described the world as
it was – just as Mark Twain described the racism of the time and the
horrors of slavery in “Huckleberry Finn.”
Do we want a revisionist history of how groups were
targeted for discrimination in the past? Or do want literature that
holds up a mirror to the past and reflects the reality of the time –
even when the reality was harsh and ugly?
Wilder’s books reflected reality.
Even the American Library Association acknowledges that
Wilder’s books were not at all controversial when she wrote them in the
1900s.
“Her works reflect mainstream, although certainly not
universal, cultural attitudes toward Indigenous people and people of
color during the times in which she lived and during the era in which
the award was established,” the association said of Wilder. But it added
that concern that her books “have been deeply painful to many readers”
is too great.
The only disadvantage the ALSC could find with changing
the name of the award was that in changing it, it would have to
publicly reference Wilder’s name, which might upset people.
“The disadvantage in changing the name is that the old
name (the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award), which has painful associations
for many, must continue to be referenced by ALSC in the interest of
communication and transparency regarding the change,” the association
said.
The association apparently never considered that it was
venturing on the slippery slope of redacting history. History is filled
with far greater monsters than Laura Ingalls Wilder. If the group can’t
even mention her name, what other names must the group erase from
history?
As Amelia Hamilton notes on the Red State website:
“It will now simply be called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award,
probably because every single person they could think of is problematic,
or will be at some point in the future.”
If we continue to impose our modern-day sensibilities
on historical figures we’ll eventually fail to celebrate any of them. No
one will be woke enough; everyone will need to be erased. Laura Ingalls
Wilder is just the latest to go.
Two Texas teenagers are accused of running over an elderly woman after her decomposing body was found inside her Houston garage.
Police said
they received a call on Friday that a strange smell was coming from
inside Clara Jeanne Barna’s garage. When they searched the home,
officials found the 75-year-old woman’s body decomposing, and her 2003
Buick LeSabre was missing.
A search for the missing vehicle led police to target David Paul
Jones and Teijhon “T.J.” Shannon, both 17, who they said took the car
while attempting to do a “dine and dash” at a local Denny’s restaurant.
According to police, on June 17 the teenagers were reportedly
confronted by owners of a stolen pickup truck at the parking lot of a
nearby fast food restaurant. After the owners accused the teens of
stealing the vehicle, they fled the eatery on foot.
The duo ran through nearby neighborhoods before spotting Barna near her vehicle.
Police said the woman got out to close her garage door when the
teenagers approached her, grabbed her and violently took her keys.
Shannon reportedly held down Barna while Jones backed out of the
driveway, running over Barna and Shannon in the process.
Barna suffered major injuries including a fractured skull and broken
back. Shannon suffered injuries to his legs, however, was able to help
pull Barna back into the garage before the teenagers fled in her car.
On June 20 – two days before police found Barna’s body – surveillance
video showed two males entering a Denny’s restaurant near the woman’s
home after parking a similar Buick at the eatery.
Employees told ABC 13
that the teens ordered about $50 worth of food and then tried to “dine
and dash.” The teenagers reportedly asked the manager not to call the
cops and tried to bribe him with a cellphone.
Police say the manager wrote down the license plate, which they
described as a “valuable clue” in connecting the teenagers to Barna’s
death, the Houston Chronicle reported. The newspaper said it’s unclear whether the manager called the cops.
Jones was arrested by police on Saturday, June 23 and Shannon was
arrested on Monday. The two teenagers reportedly confessed their roles
in Barna’s murder. They were both charged with capital murder.
Charles Dogan in bond court (June 25, 2018/FOX Carolina)
PIEDMONT, SC (FOX Carolina) -
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office said they
have charged two men in connection with human remains found at a home
last week.
Deputies recovered the remains in an investigation into
the disappearance of Stacy Davidson Carmack, who was last seen on
Oakvale Drive between May 28 and 29.
Investigators with the
Greenville County Violent Crimes Unit said they have reason to think
foul play is involved in her disappearance. Carmack is a resident of
Anderson County, but she was last seen in Greenville County so the case
is under Greenville County deputies' jurisdiction.
On Friday, the
Greenville County Coroner's Office was called to a home on Oakvale Drive
in relation to the case. The coroner said human remains were discovered
at the address.
The Greenville County Sheriff's Office also said forensic evidence was being collected at the home.
The
Greenville County Coroner's Office confirmed the remains belong to
45-year-old Stacy Carmack, however her cause and manner of death are
still pending investigation.
Deputies announced Monday that
60-year-old Charles Alexander Dogan was charged in connection with the
case. Dogan is accused of burning Carmack's body at the home he shares
with his brother, Tony Nolan Dogan.
According to arrest warrants,
Charles Dogan is accused of also lying and providing misleading
statements to investigators. The warrant states the remains were moved
from the home to an unknown location to conceal the death.
Charles
Dogan is charged with desecration of human remains, criminal conspiracy
and obstruction of justice. He has been taken into custody at the
Greenville County Detention Center.
Tony Dogan has been charged
with criminal conspiracy and obstruction. He was arrested later on
Monday. At a hearing Monday night, Tony Dogan's bond was set at $15,000
for the charges. Dogan will be under house arrest and have a GPS ankle
monitor as a condition of his bond.
The death remains under investigation and the human remains are being examined by the medical examiner.
FAYETTEVILLE, NC (AP) -
A North Carolina woman has been arrested and is
accused of trying to poison her two sons with cream soda laced with
lighter fluid.
The Fayetteville Observer reports 34-year-old
Octavia Latosh Robinson of Fayetteville has been charged with two counts
each of distributing food containing noxious or deleterious material
and misdemeanor child abuse.
At a court appearance Tuesday,
Robinson asked a judge to terminate her parental rights. The newspaper
reports she later began yelling and cursing during the hearing in the
Cumberland County jail.
Judge Beth Keever said it was too soon to
decide on parental rights and asked that the public defender's office
represent the woman. Keever also ordered a psychiatric evaluation.
She's
accused of giving the poisoned soda to her 6-year-old and 10-year-old
sons Sunday. One of the boys tasted it and they went to a neighbor, who
called police. The boys were released from a hospital.
Information from: The Fayetteville Observer, http://www.fayobserver.com
A woman said that pretty soon blacks are going to start lynching white people. She said the tables have turned and the white people will become their slaves.
Oscar "The Big O" Robertson poses in
the press room with the lifetime achievement award at the NBA Awards.
(Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
NBA legend Oscar Robertson received
the Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday night during the NBA Awards
show in California and used his platform to praise players for their
social activism.
Robertson, 79, said he was happy to
see LeBron James and other NBA stars take a stance on societal issues
and called on white athletes to follow in their footsteps, according to ESPN.
“I think that as people evolve, and things are changing so much
in the world with social media and whatnot, these people are young
people who have families," Robertson said. "They've seen some injustice
in the streets or wherever it might be, it might be almost anywhere, and
they're stepping up. But the only thing that really bothers me is
‘where are the white athletes’ when this is happening?”
Robertson added that injustices in the world weren’t
just a “black athlete problem” and that there appears to be a “system
where you don’t want players to say anything at all.”
Robertson, a 12-time All-Star point guard and former
MVP, grew up in a segregated housing project in Indianapolis. He said
during his playing time players couldn’t speak out like they could now.
“But now I hope they all, the whites and the blacks get
together. Even with the football. What do you think is going to happen
when the union gets involved with the owners?” he
A division of the American Library
Association has voted to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from a major
children's book award.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to
be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were
raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of
certain races in the early-to-mid 20th century.
The Association of Library Service to Children's (ALSC) board voted unanimously on Saturday to rename the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Award" as the "Children’s Literature Legacy Award."
A LIBRARY WITHOUT BOOKS? UNIVERSITIES PURGING DUSTY VOLUMES
The association, which took the vote at its board
meeting in New Orleans, said the vote "was greeted by a standing ovation
by the audience in attendance."
Wilder is best known for her "Little House on the
Prairie" novels, which the ALSC has stated "includes expressions of
stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values" based on
Wilder's portrayal of black people and Native Americans.
The first award was given to Wilder in 1954. The ALSC,
which is based in Chicago, says her work continues to be published and
read but her "legacy is complex" and "not universally embraced." The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Kimberly Jordan was accused of
declaring, “I hate white people” before attacking two passengers on a
bus in Maryland on Monday, July 18, 2018.
(Montgomery County Police
Department )
A black woman proclaimed “I hate
white people” before attacking two fellow passengers on a bus on Monday
in Maryland, police said.
Kimberly Jordan, 24, of Silver
Spring, Md., was charged with “racial harassment, obstructing and
second-degree assault due to her alleged offensive and physically
painful antics,” WJLA reported.
Jordan was on the Ride On bus, Montgomery County’s public
transportation system, when she allegedly stared at two passengers and
said, “I hate white people.” She then reportedly struck a white female
passenger in her face before smacking a white male passenger in his
face, police said.
The female passenger suffered scratches on her palms while the male had a “long cut” to his nose.
Jordan fled the scene but officers were able to catch
up with her about a quarter of a mile away. She told authorities the
female passenger hit first but the bus’ surveillance video showed a
different story.
Jordan said she had not taken her medication before the incident but police told her that was not an excuse for her behavior.
“I know,” Jordan responded.
The driver of the bus told officers he saw the incident and heard Jordan say, “I hate white people.”
Jordan has a lengthy arrest record which included
theft, destruction of property, domestic violence, assault and burglary
charges, according to court documents.
She was slated to appear in court on July 12 for a preliminary hearing.
Dennis Madaris heard
her in distress and left his home to discover her being beaten, Madaris
told the news station. “One of them turned around and had a gun in his
hand," Madaris said, referring to one of the suspects.
The woman, who’s eight months pregnant, was delivering a pizza Wednesday night,
WXIA reported. But no one was at the house when she got there. Then
three suspects came behind her — and one of them was armed with a
handgun, she told police, the news station reported.
Atlanta Officer Jarius Daugherty says the armed teen began to strike the victim
with the weapon and demanded the keys to her car, reported the Atlanta
Journal Constitution. She tried unsuccessfully to get away from the
suspects by running to a nearby home, police said. The suspects kept
assaulting her, authorities said, reported AJC.
That’s when Madaris jumped into action, he said — and the gun didn’t scare him off because he had his own.
"I told them, ‘Drop the gun or I’ll drop you,’ and they threw the gun down and all three of them took off,” Madaris told WSB-TV.
Police say a boy and a
girl, both 16, were later caught and arrested on charges of criminal
attempt to commit robbery and other offenses. The boy is also charged
with having a firearm during the attempted robbery, authorities said,
AJC reported. Police are looking for a third suspect, according to WXIA.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article213623974.html#storylink=cpy
Over 500 guns found at convicted felon's California home, officials say
By Ayana Archie and Michelle Rice, CNN
Updated 1:09 PM ET, Wed June 20, 2018
www. c n n .c o m
Officials confiscated guns, ammunition, computers and other evidence.
(CNN)The
first time the sheriff's department searched one convicted felon's
home, they say they found 432 firearms. When they went back a day later,
they found another 91 guns hidden in the residence.
The
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in Palmdale responded to a tip
from a neighbor of Agua Dulce resident Manuel Fernandez, 60.
Some of the guns found in Agua Dulce.
"This
case is a testament to the community's involvement in reducing crime
and taking guns out of the hands of criminals," said Sheriff Jim
McDonnell.
Fernandez was arrested
on charges including being a felon in possession of firearms,
possession of an assault rifle, being a felon in possession of
ammunition and possession of large capacity magazines, gun accessories
that are used to hold up to 100 rounds of ammunition. In California, any
magazine that holds more than 10 rounds is considered "large capacity."
Because
of Fernandez's criminal record, he should not have been allowed to buy
guns, and officials said it is unclear how he acquired the weapons. An
investigation has begun that includes the sheriff's department, the
California Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, which will track where the guns were purchased.
Officials
said all the weapons belonged to Fernandez. Detectives also seized
computers, cell phones and hard drives they said Fernandez may have used
to conduct transactions for the firearms.
Authorities
said they also found 30 guns at the home of a female associate of
Fernandez. The woman was not at the residence and has not yet been
found.
Fernandez is free on bond with a court date scheduled for July.
CNN has reached out to Fernandez's attorney for comment.
The American Civil Liberties Union is a nonprofit organization
whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights
and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the
Constitution and laws of the United States."
Music's
most famous couple Beyonce and Jay-Z pulled a surprise by releasing a
joint album, a long-rumored collaboration that celebrates their marital
passionand black identity.
As a kid growing up in Stockton, California, a little extra money would've meant the world to Michael Tubbs' family.
Tubbs' mother worked long hours as a cashier at a Discovery Zone and
still had to borrow from check cashing places to get by. "If we had $300
a month, life would be less stressful, or we could move into another
neighborhood," Tubbs says. "Maybe she would've been able to go back to
school and get her BA, or pursue a passion."
Today, Tubbs is Stockton's 27-year-old
mayor. Last week, he announced the launch of an experimental program
that will give people like his mom about $500 a month, with no strings
attached.
Stockton will likely become the first city in the
nation to test out a version of universal basic income, an economic
system that would regularly provide all residents enough money to cover
basic expenses, with no conditions or restrictions.
Stockton hopes to launch its program next year and enroll several
hundred of the city's residents for at least a couple of years,
depending on the availability of funding.
The concept of universal basic income — or UBI — has been around for
decades. Martin Luther King advocated for it in 1967 to create a minimum
standard of living. Up until recently, it has mostly been a subject of discussion among academics.
But universal basic income has started to gain traction as poverty has
grown and fears of automation killing jobs have mounted.
Large-scale trials began this year in Finland and Canada to test whether the program improves outcomes like health and employment.
In the U.S., the movement's epicenter is Silicon Valley, where
inequality is stark and labor-saving technologies like self-driving cars
seem just around the corner. Tech leaders, from Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg to Tesla's Elon Musk, have endorsed the idea as insurance
against a jobless future.
Now, some of them are putting serious
money behind it. YCombinator, the tech incubator known for minting
high-profile startups, is hosting academics who'll research the idea using a control group and a random selection of approximately 3,000 participants in Oakland, California starting next year.
Meanwhile, a recently launched non-profit called the Economic Security Project has committed $1 million to the Stockton effort, with funding from donors that include Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
"There was not significant money in the space before" these groups got involved,says longtime advocate Jim Pugh, a robotics PhD who runs a tech and analytics firm that serves progressive causes. "It was definitely a significant uptick."
Rather than a research paper,Stockton
is planning a media campaign featuring program participants talking
about their experiences. "Alongside the data, we need stories," says
Natalie Foster, a co-founder of the Economic Security Project.
Backers hope larger cities and states will eventually adopt universal
basic income programs, much like they've passed higher minimum wages and
paid family leave laws while federal action has stalled. The hope is
that, pressure would build to take the program nationwide.
There are some wrinkles in this plan, however.
In its purest form, every American would receive a basic income, which
some estimates peg at about $10,000 per year. In the aggregate, that
would add trillions to the budget annually.
Policymakers could
lighten the burden by scrapping the rest of the U.S.'s targeted
anti-poverty programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (known as food stamps) and Medicaid Related: Global unemployment to hit 200 million as wages stagnate
That approach has attracted support from libertarians, who see a
single-payment safety net as less bureaucratic and more market-friendly
than the current alphabet soup of governmentprograms.
Conservative political scientist Charles Murray, known for his "bell
curve" theory about the relationship between intelligence and income, is
among UBI's leading proponents.
But many on the left see the idea as a Trojan horse for eliminating
benefits that currently lift millions of people out of poverty.
"The risk is high that under any UBI that could conceivably gain
traction politically, tens of millions of poor people would likely end
up worse off," wrote Robert Greenstein, the president of the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, in a blog post last month.
Left-leaning supporters insist that universal basic income should be an
add-on to the existing safety net, not a replacement. But that
assurance hasn't firmed up support across the aisle.
Joe Biden, former Obama Council of Economic Advisors chair Jason Furman, and Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden
have all opposed the idea for another reason: They say giving people
enough money to live on will drive them out of the workforce, and that
having a job is essential for emotional health and social status.
Basic income proponents disagree.
"That seems to rest on a thin theory of how one develops a work ethic —
that it takes either hunger or suffering or poverty or fear," says
political scientist and Economic Security Project co-founder Dorian
Warren. A recent review of decades of research on basic income-like
programs in the U.S. and Canada found that, in most cases, participants
reduce their work hours only slightly.
Within a couple of years, the Stockton experiment may shed more light
on that question. Tubbs thinks that participants might use the extra
income to take a break from work in order to advance their careers
through education, or invest in their kids.
"My constituents in
Stockton are incredibly resourceful, intelligent and hardworking," he
says. "And oftentimes all they need is an opportunity."
CNNMoney (New York) First published October 27, 2017: 6:47 AM ET
Teens beat down bus driver after he refused to let them on for free: cops
New York Post15 hours ago
A group of teenagers attacked and beat a bus driver in the Bronx when he
refused to allow them to ride for free, a video released by cops shows.
The teens boarded at the intersection of Conner Street and Boston Road
in the Bronx at about 5:28 p.m. on Saturday and tried to scoot by
without paying. The driver told the kids to pay, and they responded by
telling him to “just drive the f—king bus.” They started punching and
kicking him and then fled. The public bus, operated by the private
company Liberty Lines, goes between the Bronx and Westchester County.
The driver, 38, suffered minor injuries and declined to go to the
hospital. Union officials called the attack unacceptable and called on
Westchester ...
A group of teenagers attacked and beat a bus driver in the
Bronx when he refused to allow them to ride for free, a video released
by cops shows.
The teens boarded at the intersection of Conner Street and Boston
Road in the Bronx at about 5:28 p.m. on Saturday and tried to scoot by
without paying. The driver told the kids to pay, and they responded by
telling him to “just drive the f—king bus.” They started punching and
kicking him and then fled.
The public bus, operated by the private company Liberty Lines, goes between the Bronx and Westchester County.
The driver, 38, suffered minor injuries and declined to go to the hospital.
Union officials called the attack unacceptable and called on
Westchester County officials to install partitions in the buses that
protect the drivers from passengers.
“This attack is absolutely unacceptable, and we urge anyone who
recognizes these individuals to contact the police,” said Transport
Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano. “This attack also vividly
highlights why Liberty Lines buses need partitions installed.”
Cops are still searching for the teens.