[DNAINFO] A reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... artist has finished a colorful mural of Michelle Obama that features the former first lady as an Egyptian queen, but the project is being criticized for not crediting the original artist who created the work the mural is based on.
The mural project, spearheaded by artist Chris Devins of Hyde Park, was completed Friday on the southeast corner of Chappel Avenue and 74th Street in South Shore. That's two blocks from the former first lady's childhood home at 7436 S. Euclid Ave. and across the street from Bouchet Elementary, which she attended when it was known as Bryn Mawr School.
"I wanted to present her as what I think she is, so she's clothed as an Egyptian queen. I thought that was appropriate," Devins said Friday evening.
The cheek of that cultural appropriator! Did he ask any real Egyptians what they thought of seeing an Obama dressed up in their ancient history? For shame!
Devins launched a GoFundMe campaign in November to create the mural on the outside of Bouchet School, but the mural was put on an apartment building instead.
"The purpose of this mural is to give today's children someone they can literally look up to and to celebrate Mrs. Obama's life and accomplishments during the last 8 years as First Lady of the United States," the GoFundMe stated.
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Can someone mod the 'African princess' .gif by pasting the moose's face on it?
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Better get private security for them the State Department might try and kidnap her and send her on a mission to Libya to woo the new leader out of something so a bunch of cluster fuck idiots can invade !
“In fact,” Call noted, “the majority of states where Trump supporters continue to wear their red “MAGA” (Make American Great Again) caps and give a solid thumbs up to the putrid dumpster fire of an administration he’s been running so far don’t contain a single town where a ‘radical Islamic terrorist’ would even stop to take a s**t in a Walmart bathroom, let alone one that a crazed North Korean leader would want to nuke into oblivion.“
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And how is that different than the harpy that ran against him?
Or Obumble and his delusions of grandeur?
Go eat a dick "experts". We don't need or want you.
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Grandma and Grandpa were watching a healing service on television.
The evangelist called to all who wanted to be healed to go to their television set, place one hand on the TV and the other hand on the body part they wanted to be healed.
Grandma got up and slowly hobbled to the television set, placed her right hand on the set and her left hand on her arthritic shoulder that was causing her great pain. Then Grandpa got up, went to the TV, placed his right hand on the set and his left hand on his crotch.
Grandma scowled at him and said, "The purpose of doing this is to heal the sick, not raise the dead." - Unknown
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Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
"A crime is a deviation from generally recognized standards of behavior frequently caused by mental disorder. Can there be diseases, nervous disorders among certain people in a Communist society? Evidently yes. If that is so, then there will also be offences, which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. Of those who might start calling for opposition to Communism on this basis, we can say that clearly their mental state is not normal." Nikita Khrushchev, May 24, 1959
There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric problem. It was called "psychopathological mechanisms" of dissent.
During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used to disable and remove from society political opponents ("dissidents") who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted the official dogma.[4][5] The term "philosophical intoxication", for instance, was widely applied to the mental disorders diagnosed when people disagreed with the country's Communist leaders and, by referring to the writings of the Founding Fathers of Marxism–Leninism—Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin—made them the target of criticism.
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#8 And that diagnosis is based on exactly what? Fake experts who use pseudo science to push an agenda. They are trying to cloak their dislike for Trump with a phony diagnosis based on something they read in the fake news.
Savage obtained a PhD in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine but somehow I have a little more trust in his diagnosis.
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The profession of psychiatry is currently conflicted about the Goldwater Rule, it appears, with some not wanting labelled as unethical that which they so desperately are driven to do:
Kroll J1, Pouncey C2.
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Section 7.3 of the code of ethics of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) cautions psychiatrists against making public statements about public figures whom they have not formally evaluated. The APA's concern is to safeguard the public perception of psychiatry as a scientific and credible profession. The ethic is that diagnostic terminology and theory should not be used for speculative or ad hominem attacks that promote the interests of the individual physician or for political and ideological causes. However, the Goldwater Rule presents conflicting problems. These include the right to speak one's conscience regarding concerns about the psychological stability of high office holders and competing considerations regarding one's role as a private citizen versus that as a professional figure. Furthermore, the APA's proscription on diagnosis without formal interview can be questioned, since third-party payers, expert witnesses in law cases, and historical psychobiographers make diagnoses without conducting formal interviews. Some third-party assessments are reckless, but do not negate legitimate reasons for providing thoughtful education to the public and voicing psychiatric concerns as acts of conscience. We conclude that the Goldwater Rule was an excessive organizational response to what was clearly an inflammatory and embarrassing moment for American psychiatry.
It seems to me that any psychiatrist in any capacity pronouncing on a subject's state of mind without having interviewed him is engaging in malpractice.
Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez became the first head of the party to demand ideological purity on abortion rights, promising Friday to support only Democratic candidates who back a woman's right to choose.
"Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health," Perez said in a statement. "That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state."
"At a time when women’s rights are under assault from the White House, the Republican Congress, and in states across the country," he added, "we must speak up for this principle as loudly as ever and with one voice."
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I have to assume this guy is a Republican sleeper agent of some sort.
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CONQUEST'S THIRD LAW:
"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."
I think it applies.
Mike
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Tom Perez, graduated from Canisius High School, an all-boys Catholic high school in Buffalo, New York.
Met his wife at a Jesuit volunteer corps.
His wife, Ann Marie Staudenmaier graduated from Pius XI High School, a private Catholic school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Judas was one of the twelve disciples who betrayed Jesus Christ.
[LawOfficer.com] Here are some of the items that the future victims of Providence Crime need to be aware of:
Traffic stops can no longer be used as probable cause to investigate further criminal activity.
Police may not ask for identification more than once including "police may not consider an individual’s lack of proof of identification or failure to respond to a request for identifying information as probable cause or reasonable suspicion of criminal activity."
Police may not photograph anyone below the age of 18 and if a photo (under certain guidelines) is allowed, it must be destroyed in 90 days.
"Police may not inquire about an individual’s immigration status."
There is an entire appeal process for anyone listed as a gang member to not be listed as a gang member.
"If an individual has no convictions within a two-year period after their name has been placed on the "gang list," and no new evidence meeting the criteria for inclusion on the "gang list" has been found, the name shall be removed and all related records destroyed."
And of course, the ordinance ends with an entire page on how police will be prosecuted and sued for any violation of anything in the ordinance of which must goes far and beyond any case law or practice that any agency in this country is currently doing. Actually, the piles of paperwork that the Act requires of a police officer after they stop someone is done in another city....Chicago. Hasn’t that worked out well there?
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I'll bet the police embrace this ordinance and the flood of criminals with open arms (sarc). What a moronic ordinance. These people must be smoking whacky weed.
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once: "Cianci was first elected mayor as the candidate of the Republican Party. While in office, he declared himself an independent and, as of 2009, he said that he had no party affiliation"
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State suicide on the installment plan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] Mental health experts say President is 'paranoid and delusional'
