It's literally the epitome of a 7th grader playing on a 3rd grade sports team.
The folks at USA Powerlifting get that and have imposed a ban on all trans women trying to compete as women, you know because they're not women.
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It's literally the epitome of a 7th grader playing on a 3rd grade sports team.
The folks at USA Powerlifting get that and have imposed a ban on all trans women trying to compete as women, you know because they're not women.
Call it nerdy, but my best memories of high school are the ones of times spent with my running club. The Delaware Sports Club met twice a week at a local track, as well as on weekends for longer runs. This club was not exclusive, as we were a group of anywhere from 30 to 100 people depending on the night, ages ranging from 14 to 80. We ran a lot, we laughed a lot, but the best part was getting to know so many people who shared my love of running.
One of the advantages of running with the club was that I got to train with boys and men. Even though our coach divided us into groups according to ability, that did sometimes mean that boys and girls, women and men, would be grouped together.
When it got closer to important races, many times my coach would have me run a workout with the older guys in their twenties who were very good runners - he wanted me to be pushed harder than the other women could push me.
Mosque at Bayonne
Claude Sinké, who ran for local office in 2015 under the banner of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party, poured gasoline on a Bayonne mosque's front door and set it on fire Monday, ABC News reported.
"The suspect threw an incendiary device at the mosque and then drove away," local police union official Patrice Peyruqueou told The Telegraph. "He was apparently trying to set fire to the mosque when two worshipers intervened and he shot them."
The shooting victims were two men, 74 and 78. Sinké also allegedly poured gasoline on the younger victim's car and set it ablaze as he sat inside, according to ABC.
Both are hospitalized in serious but stable condition.
Comment: It's pretty much 'common knowledge' in France that radical Muslims torched Notre Dame. We're not saying we think that that was the case, but that it is what is commonly believed by people in France.
Shane McDaniel runs a charity on his own private property that collects downed trees from the local area and then cuts and splits it into firewood which is then delivered to those in need by volunteers. McDaniel has been doing this for years and was even featured on a local news show last year called Eric's Heroes which earned him the nickname "Robinwood."
McDaniel and his sons do most of the work and it takes them months of hard labor to get it all done.
"I couldn't even tell you (how much)," McDaniel said. "I've gone through more chainsaw blades than I have in a lifetime. But it took about 8-months of hard work; it's about 40 cords that we did, starting in March and finishing in September."
While Mikhaila has been vocal about her support for a thoroughly carnivorous diet, this book transcribes comments, interviews, and YouTube videos of the two Petersons and puts it together as a collection. It had no approval from either of the listed authors, no proceeds are heading their way, and fans have been fooled into buying the fake book with a horrendous, amateur photoshopped cover.
The guy who put the whole thing together is Johnny Rockermeier, a German YouTuber who has published one other book of Jordan Peterson transcriptions. His YouTube page is full of Peterson videos and interviews.
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Vegaphobia refers to meat-eating purveyors of hate, who dislike and fear vegans. Veganism loves to present itself as a brave progressive doctrine fighting off hordes of uneducated angry carnivores.
In reality, it is the ideology of veganism which promotes a religion of hate. Veganism is unashamedly intolerant. Anti-meat campaigners are not prepared to allow others to decide for themselves what they should eat. That is why activists upholding the ideology of veganism feel entitled to invade supermarkets and prevent people from gaining access to the meat counter. They are zealously intolerant towards people who choose to adopt a diet that is at variance with their ideology.
Veganism has become an unpleasant and sanctimonious ideology that directs its energies towards imposing its lifestyle on society. This is an ideology that is not confined to the objective of eliminating the consumption of meat! Veganism is inextricably connected to a wider project of social engineering. It dislikes consumerism and looks down on people who enjoy driving their cars and taking their family on overseas holidays.
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In his upcoming book 'What is at stake: The future of the global world,' Gorbachev describes what could have kept the Soviet republics as one, cohesive whole. The key, he says, would have been to restructure the union as a federation and give its members more autonomy - something he'd been trying to do before the USSR fell apart.
"My deep belief was that the way to the republics' political sovereignty, to their economic self-reliance, to the preservation of their identity, to the development of their culture, lay in the renewal of the union, in turning it into a democratic, real, effective federation, to which the republics would delegate part of their authority," Gorbachev says, in an excerpt from the book seen by Russian media.
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The incident happened even as the Japanese police were in search of a Marine who allegedly invaded a house. In the melee three US marines attacked the police cars, according to the Okinawa Times. Okinawa police took all the four US marines into custody.
Japan currently hosts a very large contingent of around 54,000 US troops in the country. The management of the US military bases in Japan have been a bone of contention between the two countries. The US troops are in Japan as part of a post-World War II agreement to offer security to Japan.
The post-war Japan chose not to have a fully functioning military. The deep scars of World War II pushed the Japanese to an anti-war stance. The Constitution drafted after the war limited the use of force only as a means of self defence. The essence of Japan's pacifist stance under the US occupation was that it will refrain from using force to resolve international conflicts. This policy ruled out military alliances and intervention in regional military conflicts.
Comment: The locals want U.S. troops out. Not only are they a nuisance, they're a criminal threat: U.S. troops regularly rape local women, for example. It's no wonder Japanese aren't the only ones who want them to just go home:
"Baghdadi was a figurehead".
After the Washington Post ludicrously described him as an "austere scholar," some U.S. media outlets are now downplaying the importance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an apparent effort to take credit away from President Trump for the ISIS leader being killed on his watch.
Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being pursued by US military dogs during a raid in north-west Syria.
The Washington Post's first reaction was to describe the terror leader as an "austere scholar" in its obituary of him, prompting widespread ridicule.
Comment: The Washington Post wasn't the only publication to attempt this public gas-lighting:
Social media poured scorn on the Washington Post for the headline's subtly laudatory tone. RT reports:
The Washington Post's bizarre decision to describe terror chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an "austere religious scholar" in an obituary has brought a storm of criticism on the paper, and spawned hundreds of #WaPoDeathNotices memes.Weak-sauce apology from WaPo Vice President, Communications General Manager Kristine Coratti:
The headline sparked a furious reaction on social media, with many struggling to comprehend why the Post had chosen to frame the story in this manner.
Others ridiculed the paper, posting fictional obituaries under the hashtag #WaPoDeathNotices. Would the paper have described serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer as an"unconventional romantic and avant-garde gastronomist," or Bonnie and Clyde as wealth re-distributors in the banking sector?"
The backlash was so great that it appears to have prompted another headline switcheroo, as the piece now describes al-Baghdadi as an "extremist leader." At the time of writing the headline reads: 'Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.'
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Protesters crowd the streets of Baghdad
Protesters crowd the streets of Baghdad
The curfew, in effect from midnight to 6am, was announced on Monday, according to Iraqi state television. As announcement was made, hundreds of protesters clogged Baghdad's Tahrir Square, in the fourth day of anti-government demonstrations.
The demonstrations saw more than 60 Iraqis killed over these four days, and counterterrorism troops deployed on Sunday. Reuters' sources said that the troops have been authorized to "use all necessary measures" to quell the unrest. Buildings have been torched across the country, in a nationwide show of rage against Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's government.
Comment: See also:
- Iraqi PM orders counterterrorist forces to Baghdad in response to ongoing protests
- US embassy's sordid role in stoking October protests in Iraq revealed in Lebanese paper
- Iraqi PM acknowledges 'righteous' demands of protesters as death toll surpasses 40 in nationwide demonstrations
- 'Hostile news policy': US-funded Arabic channel exposé unites Iraqi Sunni & Shia over foreign meddling
Comment: Nice that someone is still acknowledging the obvious.
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