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07-21-2017, 07:33 AM
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Drowning Lives Dont Matter To Blacks
Five teenagers who filmed themselves mocking a disabled man as he drowned in Florida will not face charges, according to The New York Post.
The outlet states that, “as disturbing as the footage is, it doesn’t appear that any laws were broken, according to officials.”
According to Florida Today, 32-year-old Jamel Dunn drowned in a Cocoa, Florida pond on July 9. His “badly-decomposed” body was reportedly discovered days later.
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Five teenagers who filmed themselves mocking a disabled man as he drowned in Florida will not face charges, according to The New York Post.
The outlet states that, “as disturbing as the footage is, it doesn’t appear that any laws were broken, according to officials.”
According to Florida Today, 32-year-old Jamel Dunn drowned in a Cocoa, Florida pond on July 9. His “badly-decomposed” body was reportedly discovered days later.
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07-21-2017, 07:51 AM
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how to fake news:
Here is Cillizza’s blatant fake news lie right on CNN’s website:
Here is Cillizza’s blatant fake news lie right on CNN’s website:
No media outlet reported anything about a “secret dinner.” No one is making the dinner look “sinister.” And, no one is suggesting that the media was unaware that the dinner was taking place.
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07-21-2017, 08:33 AM
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only the right needs hard facts:
According to MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s approval of the sale of uranium to Russia in exchange for Clinton Foundation donations is “an entirely made up conspiracy theory” pinned on the right.
To be fair, when your sole contribution to society is peddling as many conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump and his administration as humanly possible, it can be awfully tough to have time for much else.
We can certainly place MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid in that category.
This beacon of truth has never met a Trump conspiracy theory she didn’t like, but she simply doesn’t have time to give much mind to stories that may be far more important.
For example, when Reid recently welcomed Herb London, President of the London Center for Policy Research, he committed the mortal sin of bringing up a widely disseminated allegation that has been leveled against the Clinton Foundation and Reid had none of it.
London made reference to widespread allegations that during her time as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton approved the sale of a uranium production company to Russia, which powerful figures in the country responded to by increasing Clinton Foundation donations significantly.
As The Daily Caller points out, that’s a bunch of malarkey as far as Reid is concerned.
She explained that it’s “an entirely made up conspiracy theory” that has been made up by the right.
To bolster her argument, Reid pointed to the venerable (read: left-wing) fact-checking website Snopes, which confusingly refers to the claim as both “false” and “unsubstantiated.”
How damning!
In reality, both left and right-leaning media outlets have raised their eyebrows at Clinton’s approval of the Uranium deal.
“Such awkward collisions between Bill’s fundraising activities and Hillary’s public service have raised concerns not just among those who might be dismissed as part of a vast rightwing conspiracy,” reported The Guardian in 2015.
NPR got in on the action too in a 2015 report.
“The New York Times reports today on certain donations to the Foundation, and also a half-a-million-dollar speaking fee to former President Bill Clinton back in 2005,” NPR’s Robert Siegel stated in a podcast, featuring one of The Times’ writers behind the report, at the time.
“And the report links those payments to parties with an interest in getting the U.S. government to approve foreign ownership of some American uranium mines.”However, as The Daily Caller points out, “there’s no hard evidence of quid pro quo between Secretary Clinton and Uranium One investors.”
The outlet goes on to cite a report from Politifact on the matter stating, “while the connections between the Clinton Foundation and the Russian deal may appear fishy, there’s simply no proof of any quid pro quo.”
“While unsubstantiated, the allegation of a quid pro quo exchange is not ‘an entirely made up conspiracy theory,'” The Daily Caller concludes.
To be fair, when your sole contribution to society is peddling as many conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump and his administration as humanly possible, it can be awfully tough to have time for much else.
We can certainly place MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid in that category.
This beacon of truth has never met a Trump conspiracy theory she didn’t like, but she simply doesn’t have time to give much mind to stories that may be far more important.
For example, when Reid recently welcomed Herb London, President of the London Center for Policy Research, he committed the mortal sin of bringing up a widely disseminated allegation that has been leveled against the Clinton Foundation and Reid had none of it.
London made reference to widespread allegations that during her time as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton approved the sale of a uranium production company to Russia, which powerful figures in the country responded to by increasing Clinton Foundation donations significantly.
As The Daily Caller points out, that’s a bunch of malarkey as far as Reid is concerned.
She explained that it’s “an entirely made up conspiracy theory” that has been made up by the right.
To bolster her argument, Reid pointed to the venerable (read: left-wing) fact-checking website Snopes, which confusingly refers to the claim as both “false” and “unsubstantiated.”
How damning!
In reality, both left and right-leaning media outlets have raised their eyebrows at Clinton’s approval of the Uranium deal.
“Such awkward collisions between Bill’s fundraising activities and Hillary’s public service have raised concerns not just among those who might be dismissed as part of a vast rightwing conspiracy,” reported The Guardian in 2015.
NPR got in on the action too in a 2015 report.
“The New York Times reports today on certain donations to the Foundation, and also a half-a-million-dollar speaking fee to former President Bill Clinton back in 2005,” NPR’s Robert Siegel stated in a podcast, featuring one of The Times’ writers behind the report, at the time.
“And the report links those payments to parties with an interest in getting the U.S. government to approve foreign ownership of some American uranium mines.”However, as The Daily Caller points out, “there’s no hard evidence of quid pro quo between Secretary Clinton and Uranium One investors.”
The outlet goes on to cite a report from Politifact on the matter stating, “while the connections between the Clinton Foundation and the Russian deal may appear fishy, there’s simply no proof of any quid pro quo.”
“While unsubstantiated, the allegation of a quid pro quo exchange is not ‘an entirely made up conspiracy theory,'” The Daily Caller concludes.
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07-27-2017, 03:14 PM
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F-35 can't believe how much the military spends on transgender troops
An F-35 fighter jet can’t believe how much transgender troops cost the military, after it looked up the figures following tweets from President Donald Trump saying they should no longer serve due to the price tag.
“They spend how much on transgender medical services? $8.4 million? My God that’s like four screws and a couple of bolts on my ejection seat,” the F-35 told reporters, in between sips of cognac during its lunch break. “I’m so glad Trump is ending this disgraceful waste of military spending.”
Trump on Wednesday announced a change in policy for transgender service members in the traditional method of past presidents, by tweeting out his guidance following extensive inter-agency policy discussions on the issue with himself. The Pentagon referred all questions back to the White House since so many people in the building were discussing the change and have been busy doing so for the past 10 minutes.
The F-35, for its part, supported the president’s announced ban on transgender service members, since it would save the Pentagon a huge amount of money that it could spend elsewhere in meaningful ways, like continuing to lose the war in Afghanistan.
“I can’t believe they’re going to pay $140,000 just for some guy to get his dick chopped off, when they could use that money to keep me in the air for 10 whole seconds,” the F-35 said.
Spc. Jason Binghamton, a soldier stationed overseas in Afghanistan that’s costing the Pentagon about $1 million annually, was also shocked by the budget-busting figure of transgender medical services.
“Doesn’t the DoD have better things to spend its money on? With this money going to transgender people we could get like two bombs to drop on the Taliban that would have no strategic impact.”
An F-35 fighter jet can’t believe how much transgender troops cost the military, after it looked up the figures following tweets from President Donald Trump saying they should no longer serve due to the price tag.
“They spend how much on transgender medical services? $8.4 million? My God that’s like four screws and a couple of bolts on my ejection seat,” the F-35 told reporters, in between sips of cognac during its lunch break. “I’m so glad Trump is ending this disgraceful waste of military spending.”
Trump on Wednesday announced a change in policy for transgender service members in the traditional method of past presidents, by tweeting out his guidance following extensive inter-agency policy discussions on the issue with himself. The Pentagon referred all questions back to the White House since so many people in the building were discussing the change and have been busy doing so for the past 10 minutes.
The F-35, for its part, supported the president’s announced ban on transgender service members, since it would save the Pentagon a huge amount of money that it could spend elsewhere in meaningful ways, like continuing to lose the war in Afghanistan.
“I can’t believe they’re going to pay $140,000 just for some guy to get his dick chopped off, when they could use that money to keep me in the air for 10 whole seconds,” the F-35 said.
Spc. Jason Binghamton, a soldier stationed overseas in Afghanistan that’s costing the Pentagon about $1 million annually, was also shocked by the budget-busting figure of transgender medical services.
“Doesn’t the DoD have better things to spend its money on? With this money going to transgender people we could get like two bombs to drop on the Taliban that would have no strategic impact.”
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07-27-2017, 04:30 PM
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That all fun and games until the military is the new way to get a sex-change for free. I'm not sure how it works in the real world with what insurance will and won't cover, but ALL OF YOU WHO PAY TAXES are well on the way to paying for anybody in the military who wants one to get one for free. And considering the numbers I've read of people who've completed the change and still been totally fucked in the head, I'm not counting on many transgender people to be combat multipliers.
That all fun and games until the military is the new way to get a sex-change for free. I'm not sure how it works in the real world with what insurance will and won't cover, but ALL OF YOU WHO PAY TAXES are well on the way to paying for anybody in the military who wants one to get one for free. And considering the numbers I've read of people who've completed the change and still been totally fucked in the head, I'm not counting on many transgender people to be combat multipliers.
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07-27-2017, 04:49 PM
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Liberals Betrayed: Trans Man Reveals Brutal Truth on Trump's Ban
In a piece published by The Daily Signal, a man named Walt Heyer wrote, “I think he made the right decision—and as someone who lived as trans-female for several years, I should know.”
“When I discovered Congress voted earlier this month to not block funding for transgender-related hormone therapies and sex change surgeries, I wondered if it considered how devastating this will be to the fitness, readiness, and morale of our combat-ready troops,” Heyer continued.
“Paying for transition-related surgeries for military service members and their families is beyond comprehensible,” he added...“Perhaps they have forgotten that our military was forged to be the world’s strongest fighting force, not a government-funded, politically correct, medical sex change clinic for people with gender dysphoria,” stated Heyer.
“Gender dysphoria, the common diagnosis for one who feels at odds with his or her birth gender, develops from prolonged anxiety and depression. People are not born that way,” he wrote, adding that it is largely based on strong feelings, while noting that feelings can change over time.
“The military is expected to prepare its members in warfare: to kill, destroy, and break our enemies,” he continued. “The most important factors in preparing a strong military are not hormone therapy, surgical sex changes, or politically correct education.
... On top of the high cost of gender transition — Heyer put the cost at up to $130,000, not even counting the costs of a sex-change reversal that some will inevitably seek — he pointed out that the change from being a man to a woman or vice-versa is only “cosmetic” and can lead to countless other psychological problems, is often regretted by some of those who go through the process and sadly ends in suicide attempts for roughly 40 percent of the transgender population.
In a piece published by The Daily Signal, a man named Walt Heyer wrote, “I think he made the right decision—and as someone who lived as trans-female for several years, I should know.”
“When I discovered Congress voted earlier this month to not block funding for transgender-related hormone therapies and sex change surgeries, I wondered if it considered how devastating this will be to the fitness, readiness, and morale of our combat-ready troops,” Heyer continued.
“Paying for transition-related surgeries for military service members and their families is beyond comprehensible,” he added...“Perhaps they have forgotten that our military was forged to be the world’s strongest fighting force, not a government-funded, politically correct, medical sex change clinic for people with gender dysphoria,” stated Heyer.
“Gender dysphoria, the common diagnosis for one who feels at odds with his or her birth gender, develops from prolonged anxiety and depression. People are not born that way,” he wrote, adding that it is largely based on strong feelings, while noting that feelings can change over time.
“The military is expected to prepare its members in warfare: to kill, destroy, and break our enemies,” he continued. “The most important factors in preparing a strong military are not hormone therapy, surgical sex changes, or politically correct education.
... On top of the high cost of gender transition — Heyer put the cost at up to $130,000, not even counting the costs of a sex-change reversal that some will inevitably seek — he pointed out that the change from being a man to a woman or vice-versa is only “cosmetic” and can lead to countless other psychological problems, is often regretted by some of those who go through the process and sadly ends in suicide attempts for roughly 40 percent of the transgender population.
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07-28-2017, 10:56 AM
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Why isn't the National Diabetes Association up in arms about being denied into the service?
Hormone-based therapies seem similar, no?
IE, the possibility that you not be able to maintain access to the necessary medicine.
Hormone-based therapies seem similar, no?
IE, the possibility that you not be able to maintain access to the necessary medicine.
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