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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Murderer who decapitated teen with an axe and used his head as a bowling ball is deported from Australia
[DailyMail]
  • Christopher Clark Jones, 36, was sentenced to life in prison for murder in 2005

  • Found guilty of murdering 17-year-old homeless teenager Morgan Jay Shepherd

  • Jones and his co-accused James Patrick Roughan stabbed Morgan 133 times

  • They cut off his head and used it as a bowling ball and a puppet, witnesses said

  • After serving 15 years in prison Jones was released on Monday and sent to UK
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:34 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surely Australia should keep him?

This sounds like a scandal akin to the Windrush scandal in the UK.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/19/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Why not just execute him?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/19/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  that would be inhumane unlike his crimes
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  "After serving 15 years in prison..."

"Life" is short.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/19/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't a life sentence in eurineland like about 7 years?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#6  I think even the Russians got rid of the death penalty. But, yes, I think a life sentence is several months.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 06/19/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#7  London Calling.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/19/2020 19:06 Comments || Top||

#8  It's true that in Germany a "life sentence can mean parole after 15 years (ridiculous). The kind of murder described here would not qualify. And often "Sicherheitsverwahrung" may be decided.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/19/2020 21:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Feed him to the sharks
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 06/19/2020 22:38 Comments || Top||

#10  10 murcek
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 22:49 Comments || Top||


Man, 28, 'disemboweled after he is stabbed by a group of people in the Bronx because he asked why they were looking at him'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:20 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


White man is mercilessly beaten down in a Macy's after allegedly calling a black shopper the n-word while on the phone
[DailyMail]
  • The shocking video was filmed at the Macy's store at the Genesee Valley Center in Flint Township, Michigan and has circulated around social media

  • Local rapper FT Quay took to Facebook to share the video on Monday

  • Brief clip shows the black man punching the white man in the face for allegedly calling him a 'n*****'describing him as a n*****' to someone on his cell phone

  • The white man tells the black man he is sorry as the assailant punches him a few more times

  • Flint Township Lt. Brad Wangler said that they are investigating the incident but no one is currently in custody
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:15 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look forward to the rappers beating each other up for calling each other niggaz...

Otherwise this is a straight up racist attack.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/19/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Making another BLM supporter, one by one. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  n-word, please
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/19/2020 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  "Knock outs" and "Polar Bear Hunting" don't count evidently.
Posted by: Clem || 06/19/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  You wanna start chopping down trees, you better know where they gonna land.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/19/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||

#6  So Poindexter called someone obviously looking for trouble a name right to his face? But it didn't happen so fast a camera was on it? Does that make sense at all? Sure this isn't go beat a white guy until he apologizes for something?

And Quay, doing wonders with the black men are over violent and aggressive stereotype. Oh, rapper, the face man for the drug trade.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/19/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#7  From here onward this will be used to justify every single attack on a white person. Even with witnesses around. All one has to say is, “What did you just call me?” Then begin the attack. Bystanders will assume they missed the comment but will certainly tell the story of how the evil white oppressor made a racist comment to provoke the attack and thus deserved it. And the white people will fall all over themselves to claim that they heard it and denounce brutalized victim. Who is now the aggressor with the actual aggressor now the poor victim. This is 4th gen warfare. If you were wondering what the civil war would look like, you’re right in the middle of it.
Posted by: Lowspark || 06/19/2020 14:59 Comments || Top||

#8  "Even with witnesses around. All one has to say is, 'What did you just call me?'"

I believe that quote is on the cover of my "How to Start a Bar Fight" book.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/19/2020 21:51 Comments || Top||


Horrifying moment thug knocks a woman out by smacking her in the face with a SKATEBOARD in New York
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Black on black, so nothing will be done about it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Left has finally found a use case for violence against women that they can get behind.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||


Half brother of man found hanged in California killed during police encounter
[UPI] The half brother of Robert Fuller, one of two black men recently killed in hanging deaths under investigation in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, was fatally shot in a police encounter Wednesday.A lawyer for the Fuller family, Jamon Hicks, identified the man killed in the encounter with Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies Wednesday as Terron Jammal Boone.

"This afternoon I had to notify the sisters of Robert Fuller that their half brother Terron Jammal Boone was killed by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies in Kern County," Hicks said in a statement. "At this time, until we receive all of the information, the family and their legal team [don't] have any further comment on this incident."

According to a sheriff's office statement on Wednesday's fatal shooting, the Major Crimes Bureau was searching for a kidnap domestic assault suspect at the time.

"The detectives observed and positively identified a male matching the suspect's description in a vehicle," the statement said. "Detectives followed the vehicle and attempted a traffic stop. The suspect opened the front passenger door of the vehicle and engaged the deputies by firing multiple rounds at them with a handgun. At the time, an officer involved shooting occurred during which the suspect was struck several times in the upper torso. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene."

A female driver was shot and taken to a local hospital where she was treated and released, the statement added. A 7-year-old girl in the vehicle was not injured. Deputies also were not injured and a handgun was recovered from the scene. Investigation is ongoing.

The Los Angeles Times reported that court records show that Boone was charged Tuesday with multiple criminal counts including criminal threats, assault, false imprisonment and domestic violence.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So does Blue Lives Matter come into play this time? When can we expect counter-riots?
Posted by: gorb || 06/19/2020 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene


DRT
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:23 Comments || Top||


Florida Man, 42, ‘used a crossbow to shoot a bicyclist in the head with an arrow' before cops caught him with the weapon
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's what happens when you don't use bike lanes.
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  In all fairness, I deplore but cannot condemn.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 2:32 Comments || Top||

#3  a local hospital where he suffered serious head injuries,

Arrest those doctors and nurses!! They had no call to injure his head!!



Ahh, the wonders of editing.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/19/2020 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I do have to say, hell of a shot with a crossbow.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/19/2020 12:53 Comments || Top||

#5  If most bicycle riders weren't pricks this would probably still happen. But because they are, it will probably happen more (full disclosure, I ride an original Stumpjumper on road and off since 1980)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 13:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Donald Trump's Tulsa rally could be cancelled after venue operator asked for 'written plan' to ensure safety of people amid rising spread of coronavirus in the city
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 06:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  sounds like someone is having some pressure applied to them
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, a lot of upset people if they do cancel?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/19/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#3  they already have a bunch of upset ppl over their bullshit. Reap what you sow.
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 22:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Latinos Getting COVID-19 At Higher Rates In San Diego County
Seems cultural rather than genetic proclivities?
[Patch] Latinos as a group make up 34% of the county's population, yet make up 67% of all known positive COVID-19 cases in the county, data shows.
Apparently the Chinese Scientists hate them more?
Multiple reports released Wednesday reveal that Latino, Black and Pacific Islander communities are more significantly impacted by both immediate health effects and economic effects due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to data from San Diego County, Latinos as a group make up 34% of the county's population, yet make up 67% of all known positive COVID-19 cases ‐ 5,517 of the 8,201 cases where data on race was available. Latinos are getting COVID-19 at a rate of 479.4 per 100,000 people, a rate more than four times higher than that of the white population, who are testing positive for the illness at a rate of 112.6 per 100,000.

Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders are testing nearly as high as Latinos, 455.4 cases per 100,000, but comprise 67 cases, or .8% of all cases in the county. The Black population is testing at 202.4 per 100,000 and the Asian demographic 142.8 per 100,000, 3.6% and 6.3% of all cases, respectively. White people testing positive for COVID-19 make up 20.9%, or 1,718 of all cases where racial demographics are known.

These numbers are also reflected in a study from the San Diego Association of Governments, "COVID-19 Impact on the San Diego Regional Economy: Black and Hispanic Communities Hardest Hit."
and women and children
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Have you looked at what goes on in Mexico?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  'They' don't wear masks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  vitamin D
Posted by: lord garth || 06/19/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  It's la familia. It's the old fashion three generation families living under one roof with the kids bunked to the ceiling. For them, its normal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 and #4
They do wear masks as much as anyone else as far as I can tell.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/19/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||

#6  They do wear masks as much as anyone else as far as I can tell.

Nope, not in the wild.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 16:29 Comments || Top||


#8  Skidmark, they wear masks in my part of North County San Diego.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/19/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#9  and East County San Diego
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2020 19:10 Comments || Top||

#10  The value of the masks seems subject to question.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/19/2020 20:23 Comments || Top||


Britain
Publishing Staff Threatens To Strike If Company Keeps J.K. Rowling's Book
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 00:55 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder how much money that Rowling made the company? I alsowonder how much money these woke shits made them?
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ^And how hard are they to replace?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  99.9999% of that publishing staff, first book they read was Harry Potter nonsense.

a smart publisher knows where their bread is buttered.

saying that, there aren't too many smart businesses these days
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/19/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Journalism and Communications Majors with no Minor Degrees, grom.

Just start trolling the area McDonald's and Starbucks. You'll find the fodder.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Rowlings post-Harry Potter books have not sold so well. Publishing companies routinely discard authors that don't sell super-well.

The fact that they are even listening to the staff suggests the Harry Potter back catalog isn't selling well or is no longer controlled by this company.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/19/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Rowling should just buy Hachette and fire the snowflakes.
Posted by: KBK || 06/19/2020 23:16 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia sends fighter jets to intercept two US B-52s off its east coast days after F-22 Raptors escorted nuclear-capable Tupolev bombers off Alaska
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:04 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Coordinating IFF transponders?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  So, everybody got a readiness exercise!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/19/2020 21:45 Comments || Top||

#3  The B-52s are head fakes. The Russians completely missed the B-2s skirting the border.
Posted by: Snoter Guelph1823 || 06/19/2020 21:48 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Australia PM reveals state-based cyber attack on Australia.
[The Australian] Australia is under mass cyber-attack from a foreign state targeting all levels of government, industry and business with cyber experts claiming the source of the attack could only have come from China.

Scott Morrison this morning revealed that Australian organisations were actively being targeted by a “state-based cyber actor” but would not name the country believed to be behind the “malicious” cyber raid.

“What I can confirm, with confidence, based on the advice, the technical advice that we have received, is that this is the action of a state-based actor with significant capabilities,” the Prime Minister said.

“There aren’t too many state-based actors who have those capabilities.”

Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Peter Jennings told The Australian it was “very clear” that China was behind the cyber attack on Australia, and that Mr Morrison was calling Beijing out.

The Prime Minister said in Canberra: “This activity is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of Government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure.

“We know it is a sophisticated state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting and the trade craft used.”

Video at link.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/19/2020 06:26 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies



China's public health reforms may not prevent next virus - experts
[YNet]- China's latest plans to overhaul its disease control system may not improve its ability to handle future virus outbreaks, according to some experts inside and outside the country.

The reforms, announced in late May, do not fix all the flaws exposed by the new coronavirus and do not tackle the issues of secrecy and censorship that many experts believe turned an isolated outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan into a pandemic.

"The biggest problem in China is (local governments) are afraid that epidemics can impact social stability," said Yang Gonghuan, a former deputy head of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing. "So they don't want reporters to speak and don't want people like Li Wenliang to speak."

Li, a doctor in Wuhan, was reprimanded by police for "spreading rumors" when he tried to raise the alarm about the disease, which he later died from.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 04:05 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies


North Korea troops taking position in vacant guard posts along the DMZ
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Why put targets in targeted towers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Note the rooftop food supply
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Pudgy clearly died when it was first suspected and a body double was shown to quell restive opportunists and sort out the new issues for his sister to be the Supreme Leader. Now she is showing how big her balls are to quell hardliners as she settles in for another decade of saber rattling.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/19/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||


Aussie cyberattack "1000 per cent" from China.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


North Korea: Sea of Fire is Back!
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Hey - can I call 'em or what?
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The good old days are here again!
Posted by: Maggie Poodle6767 || 06/19/2020 1:18 Comments || Top||

#3  must be hungry
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's get some stomachs roasting!
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2020 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  NORK Christmas songs:

"Stomachs roasting on an open fire..."
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Waiting for my all time favorite “ running dog imperialist lackeys “!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/19/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#7  “ running dog imperialist lackeys “

Sung to the tune of 'Excellent Horse-like Lady'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Tree bark time around the corner.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/19/2020 21:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Right after Xi's arrival in Pyongyang. The master is siccing his corpulent dog on those who displease him.
Posted by: Snoter Guelph1823 || 06/19/2020 21:40 Comments || Top||


Underwater data cable linking the US to Hong Kong is set to be rejected by US government because of fears of Chinese national security threat
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  BLM furiously trying to find a racist angle here.
Posted by: gorb || 06/19/2020 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  The outer skin is black.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Project Veritas: Facebook Insider: Company Suspended My Account In H-1B Policy Doc Leak
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2020 02:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Global talks on how to tax digital giants such as Google and Facebook are halted by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after they reach an 'impasse'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Mnuchin told four European counterparts that talks were being suspended

  • He warned of US retaliation if Europe presses ahead with its own digital taxes

  • Deal is intended to make firms pay according to their activity in each country

  • The proposed deal is intended to make digital giants pay taxes according to their actual activity in each country, rather than shifting their profits to low-tax regimes such as Ireland or Luxembourg.

  • Mnuchin also took aim at the digital services taxes which some countries including Britain and France have imposed but which Washington sees as unfair to US firms.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe Europe should be taxed to directly pay for the American troops stationed there. They could always raise their own forces to take their place.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2020 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, right after matching their import tariffs (direct and indirect).
Posted by: Phusorong Platypus6384 || 06/19/2020 4:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe tax based on what the country does FOR those companies?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/19/2020 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  You'd think this would be useful leverage for Trump.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||


Amazon says spent three days fighting off largest denial of service cyber attack ever recorded
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • AWS Shield, designed to protect Amazon cloud accounts against DDoS attacks, says it safeguarded against the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded

  • The attack funneled 2.3 terabits of data per second at its target

  • Amazon says the the CLDAP (Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) was exploited

  • A previous record was set in 2018 with a max of 1.7 terabits per second

  • Amazon didn't name the target of the three day long attack in mid-February
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's like tearing down statutes. If the provocateurs and wreckers don't pay for what they're doing, they'll keep on doing it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/19/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Except for the gummint subsidies (cheap delivery via failing USPS) Amazon is as close to a pure capitalist play as you can find nowadays. Owner super rich. Workers at the bottom really just scraping by. If the cyber left was looking for a target appropriate to their beliefs, they picked the right one.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||


Europe
Where YOU can watch The Red Arrows and Patrouille de France as they swoop over the UK from 4.40pm after spectacular joint flypast for Emmanuel Macron's visit to the UK on 80th anniversary of De Gaulle's call to resist the Nazis in World War II
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Romania Passes Law Banning Gender Studies, Following Hungary and Poland
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 00:52 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
India Elelcted To UNSC
Fuckin' achievement... I know. But it gives the present Government great matter to feed the ignoramuses back home, and ride on the 'success' to another term. Also it's just in time when two countries are gearing up to fight us.
[EconomicTimes] India's term will begin from January 2021. Delhi's priorities include effective fight against terror and reformed multilateralism as its aims to boost its status as a major power.
More to posture as one in the domestic sphere, really.
NEW DELHI: India scored a major diplomatic victory to enter the non-permanent category of the UN Security Council when elections were held for the five non-permanent members on Wednesday. India won 184 votes out of 192 valid votes cast.
Skipping silly, embarrassing rhetoric.
India's approach will be guided by "Five Ss", as set out by the Prime Minister: Samman (Respect), Samvad (Dialogue), Sahyog (Cooperation), and Shanti (Peace), to create conditions for universal; and Samriddhi (Prosperity). India's overall objective during this tenure in the UN Security Council will be the achievement of N.O.R.M.S: a New Orientation for a Reformed Multilateral System.
Or just hand over everything to S.N.O.R.E.S, Somnolent Non-confrontational Obsessive Rear-Echelon Sissies.
Moved to Friday. In general, articles posted after 14:00 ET (or EDT in the summer) are to be published the next day. This gives our readers a full twenty-four hours to ponder and comment, and the possibility that the article will be chosen for the day’s Rantburg Defender-Scimitar and Times-Picayune (known affectionately, for some reason, as the Bloid).

Related: Mexico, India, Ireland, Norway elected to UN Security Council
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All other things aside, it'll put a knot in China and Pakistan's knickers and that's a good thing.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/19/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  TW: Bloid - short for Tabloid
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Coronavirus pandemic reportedly hitting female workers hardest, study says
[YNet]-The shutdown of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic resulted in higher unemployment rates for women than for men, according to a report by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies.

"The study shows us how women in Israel are affected by job losses and the economic crisis," Liora Bowers, author of the report, said on Thursday.
I'm tearing up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/19/2020 01:38 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just say "women hardest hit" YNet, it's faster.
Posted by: charger || 06/19/2020 14:47 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
'You do not deserve to be in here': White resident of Florida gated community threatens to have 15-year-old black girl who lives there with her grandfather arrested
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 07:18 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Every species has their 'NumNutz'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2020 13:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Karen Gator says "Get out!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/19/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#3  I can't imagine why any white person would be concerned by the presence of black people where they live.
Posted by: charger || 06/19/2020 14:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Some of my best neighbors.

We're all suspicious of that one Jehovah's Witness family, though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Easy as saying "I have your license plate and pictures of you. I won't do anything with them unless the cops come around later.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 15:47 Comments || Top||


AMC says customers will not be forced to wear face masks when its theaters reopen because it wants to avoid 'political controversy'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 06:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Translation: "We are so desparate for customers that we will put up with anything."
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/19/2020 12:20 Comments || Top||


Cream of Wheat now reviewing mascot amid Black Lives Matter backlash
[NYPOST] Is Cream of Wheat next in line for a social-justice makeover?

Cream of Wheat is now re-evaluating its black mascot following announcements by Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s that they would overhaul their controversial imaging amid online criticism. The move comes in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the deaths of George Floyd and other black men while in police custody.

"We understand there are concerns regarding the Chef image," said B&G Foods in an emailed statement, adding that they "are initiating an immediate review" of the cereal brand’s packaging.

The Cream of Wheat parent company is referring to their 130-year-old beaming cook logo, which was based on Rastus, a black caricature that appeared in minstrel shows in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reports CNN. The stereotypical chef was portrayed in early Cream of Wheat ads as a slow-witted former slave, and the name Rastus still has racial connotations today.

Since then, the image has been updated to make it less offensive, however, experts claim that the racist undertones remain.
"Why aren't there any black mascots?"
"Oh, shuddup!"
"Racism, that's what it is!"

Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love Cream of Wheat; great winter food. This is beyond bullshit; the lefties complain about everything under the sun and major corporations are folding like cheap tents. Before long I'll have nothing left to boycott.
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Those dip$hits will probably look back someday soon and wonder what all the fuss was about.
Posted by: gorb || 06/19/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  And Cream of Wheat and Aunt Jemima had better not forget the reach-around to BLM while they service them.
Posted by: gorb || 06/19/2020 0:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Before long I'll have nothing left to boycott.

There's always ammo prices.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||

#5  i'm reviewing my interaction with any and all 'people of color'

i can't be sure they wouldn't be 'triggered' by any perceived slight, so it's better to just avoid the potential.

segregation: this generation's fight
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/19/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ "Avoidance." Hence, it would appear....the origins of apartheid.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  "Avoidance." Hence, it would appear....the origins of apartheid.

With the deconstruction of History, the errors of the past tend to repeat.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Banning black cultural icons in order to show sensitivity to blacks. Only the Left could come up with something so obviously asinine.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, you know who wants segregated living/cultural spaces in Colleges? It ain't whites...yet
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Frank, that would be racist.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/19/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11  you know who wants segregated living/cultural spaces in Colleges?

That’s not new. An American-born Chinese girl and I spent some weeks in the designated-black dorm when we first moved on campus while our housing was sorted out, and boy did the Black girls there resent being temporarily integrated. Completely unlike the Black kids who lived on integrated floors. This was in 1980.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Thanks to BHO race relations have deteriorated at an alarming rate. If you are honest are you as comfortable around blacks now as you were 15 years ago?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/19/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#13  The Black dominance of breakfast foods industry is in jeopardy...
They'll be coming for the mythical beings and monsters next.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/19/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||


University of Florida ends 'gator bait' cheer due to its 'horrific historic racist imagery' involving African-American children being used to lure alligators
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Real life being... Too. Damn. Stupid. ...to be a Bee parody. (Today's "Florida Man" category contest winner?)
Posted by: magpie || 06/19/2020 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  jesus christ, I hate the ppl more and more bringing this shit on. And I'm a GA bulldog through an through.
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 1:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The greatest racist of them all.

She was released from federal prison on April 22, because of the Wuhan virus scare. She served a little over 2 years of her 5 year sentence for corruption.
Posted by: Phusorong Platypus6384 || 06/19/2020 2:14 Comments || Top||

#4  If we are banning all insensitive historical references, can we ban mentions of slavery itself?
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#5  'Gator Bait' also used to be in reference to the cute (and willing) young ladies that helped Florida's Athletic Department during High School recruitment events.

Also known as 'Gator Getters'.

But that was a loooong time ago.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#6  I will never forget this horrific Florida Gator imagery with its implication of sub-average black intelligence:


Posted by: charger || 06/19/2020 14:54 Comments || Top||

#7  there was a 1973 movie called Gater Bait and a sequel in 1988

both completely forgettable except for the prettiness of the lead actresses
Posted by: lord garth || 06/19/2020 17:17 Comments || Top||


'Nooses' in Oakland park were exercise aids, man says
[ABCNEWS.GO] Oakland’s mayor says five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident says he put them up simply for exercse
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:



Man fired after being accused of making ‘white supremacist’ hand gesture. He says he was cracking his knuckles
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Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Saved from the dreaded and debilitating keyboardist antagonist Osteoarthritis.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Sue the pants off 'em.
Posted by: jpal || 06/19/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  “white supremacist” hand gesture.

Best 4chan hoax ever! And you stupid (INSULTING EXPLETIVE REDACTED) fell for it. Repeatedly.

This should get interesting. Employment in Cali is at-will, I believe, but likely this guy is under a union contract. Let the legal festivities begin!
Posted by: SteveS || 06/19/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Gang signs though are A-OK (see what I did there?)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||

#5  AOK isn't racist it stands for all our kids. Suck my tits if you don't like it.

Posted by: jpal || 06/19/2020 19:02 Comments || Top||


Duluth pushes to remove 'chief' from job titles, calling it offensive to indigenous people
[STARTRIBUNE] DULUTH — City leaders are making a push to remove the word "chief" from job titles, calling the term offensive to indigenous people.

At a news conference Wednesday, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson implored City Council members to vote to approve the change next week "so that we have more inclusive leadership and less language that is rooted in hurt and offensive, intentional marginalization."

The measure, slated to go before the council Monday night, would change Chief Administrative Officer Noah Schuchman’s title to city administrator and Chief Financial Officer Wayne Parson’s title to finance director.

"I think that there are other titles that we have the opportunity to use to steer away from language that may put people down based off their race or culture," said Alicia Kozlowski, Duluth’s community relations officer and member of the Grand Portage and Fond du Lac Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Kozlowski said "chief" is used as "a racial epithet, and it turns into a microaggression." She added that the city is trying to be proactive by addressing the issue before residents ask.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next up - the NFL's Kansas City ______.
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Really? Show me the data. Never heard of this before. I'll bet native Americans haven't, either.
Posted by: gorb || 06/19/2020 0:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Etymology of Chief
from Old French chief "leader, ruler, head" of something, "capital city" (10c., Modern French chef), from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput "head," also "leader, chief person; summit; capital city"

These are anti-European and anti-Latin bigots.
Posted by: Phusorong Platypus6384 || 06/19/2020 4:18 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think replacing Chief with Master is gonna work.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Kozlowski, from the Gdansk Chippewa.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/19/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Hope the Navy top enlisted don't get sucked into this wordplay...
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/19/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Living in Oklahoma I guarantee that calling a random American Indian "Chief" is really not a great idea (unless you want to start a brawl). But. This. Is. Stupidity. On. Steroids.
Posted by: magpie || 06/19/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Can we remove Chief Justice Roberts in the bargain?
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  Well known way to get ignored by the bartender - snap your fingers and loudly say "Yo, chief!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 13:15 Comments || Top||

#10  They should also flatten the city org chart since hierarchies are inherently patriarchal and oppressive. Then everyone can have the job title of "Citizen".
Posted by: SteveS || 06/19/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||


University of Virginia changes its athletics logo for the second time in two months
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The University of Virginia changed its athletics logo after that last one which debuted about two months ago had connotations to slavery on campus

  • A new logo introduced Tuesday lacks the curls added to the handles of the sabers which have come to represent the school's Cavaliers athletics

  • The school's athletics director Carla Williams says she did not realize at the time the previous logo had a 'negative connotation' to the school's past links to slaves

  • The curls recall the serpentine walls that the school used going back to the 1820s to mask slaves that lived and worked there, drawing criticism

  • The walls have since come down because of space issues, but shorter ones erected in the 1950s remain on campus

  • Anyone who purchased university clothing with the old logo is being offered exchanges by the school
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shouldn't the UV logo be a sharpened screwdriver to pry open doors and windows for looting and shanking anyone in their way?
Posted by: Phusorong Platypus6384 || 06/19/2020 4:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is it racist?

Shut up. Whatever we say is racist is racist.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/19/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||


Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup says it will review branding due to racial bias concerns
Yesterday it was Aunt Jemima. This is mass hysteria.
[MIAMIHERALD] Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup says it will review its brand and packaging after two other popular products announced changes to their products due to racial bias concerns.

"The Mrs. Butterworth’s brand, including its syrup packaging, is intended to evoke the images of a loving grandmother," the company said in a news release Wednesday. "We stand in solidarity with our Black and Brown communities and we can see that our packaging may be interpreted in a way that is wholly inconsistent with our values."

Conagra Brands said it has "begun a complete brand and packaging review on Mrs. Butterworth’s."

"It’s heartbreaking and unacceptable that racism and racial injustices exist around the world," the company said. "We will be part of the solution. Let’s work together to progress toward change."
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The fuckin' bottle's brown - ain't that enough for you guys?
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  .0004 % of ppl bitch and yallgive in. I might be drunk, but I'm about ready for the left to get what they been asking for.
Posted by: Chris || 06/19/2020 1:26 Comments || Top||

#3  "wholly inconsistent with our values."

...and these values were where last year ?????
Posted by: crazyhorse || 06/19/2020 2:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Replace all the black mascots with white ones. Remind them every time they eat where the food really come from.
Posted by: Phusorong Platypus6384 || 06/19/2020 2:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Soon to be 'Mrs. Buttorface'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes black products should represent the history of famine in Africa and not actually have anything in them.


Africans are culturally appropriating the west when they have sufficient food.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/19/2020 6:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Replace it with a Canadian lumberjack.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#8  That won't fly, Iblis - hyper-masculine white guy & all that.
Posted by: Raj || 06/19/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Exactly why I suggested it :-)
Posted by: Iblis || 06/19/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Mr. Butt-gig slippery syrup. Yeah, that'll go over big.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/19/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Is anyone else reminded of the Salem Witch Trials?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/19/2020 13:46 Comments || Top||

#12  Up next - Betty Crocker.
Posted by: Javitch Borgia1206 || 06/19/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#13  How about Betty "Cracker."
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 06/19/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||



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