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demmiblue's JournalCandidate for Georgia Governor is Giving Away Bump Stock Like One Used in Las Vegas Shooting
Source: Newsweek
A candidate for governor in Georgia is giving away a bump stock just weeks after a Las Vegas gunman killed 58 people after using a similar device to turn his semi-automatic rifle into an automatic weapon.
“Blaming guns or bump stocks for the actions of a lunatic, is the same as blaming McDonald’s for heart disease,” wrote Republican State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Michael Williams in a statement announcing the raffle Monday. “An attack on bump stocks is an attack on the Second Amendment.”
Bump stocks, which fit around the grip and stock of the gun, allow the recoil from the weapon to continuously pull the trigger, modifying semi-automatic weapons to become fully automatic.
Williams said he was holding the draw “in solidarity with gun owners across the nation.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/candidate-georgia-governor-giving-away-bump-stock-one-used-las-vegas-shooting-686475?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
Woodland teacher suspended after kneeling during national anthem at school rally
Source: The Sacramento Bee
A Woodland High School chemistry teacher was suspended Friday for kneeling while the national anthem was played at a school assembly.
Windy Pappas had posters reading “Black Lives Matter” and “It’s okay to disagree with any sign here!!!” as the national anthem played during Woodland High’s rally to kick off homecoming week on Friday morning. She was dressed in school colors – orange and black – and had her right hand over her heart as she kneeled, based on a photo circulating on social media.
The rally proceeded without incident, but administrators later came to her classroom and escorted her to the school parking lot, she told The Daily Democrat. She has since been indefinitely suspended.
Pappas declined to comment Monday, citing a pending investigation.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article179175046.html
Carrie Fisher Is Still a Hero
Source: Jezebel
Heather Ross is a screenwriter who was also a close friend of the late, great Carrie Fisher. The Blast reports that Ross called into 94.9 MixFM in Tucson and relayed a story to the hosts of The Morning Mix about how a Sony executive harassed her in 2000. At the time, Ross told Fisher about her harrowing experience, and Fisher decided to give the guy bothering her friend a little gift:
“About two weeks later, she sent me a message online and she said, ‘I just saw (blank) at Sony Studios. I knew he would probably be there, so I went to his office and personally delivered a Tiffany box wrapped with a white bow.’” Ross explained. “I asked her what was inside and she said, ‘It was a cow tongue from Jerry’s Famous Deli with a note that said, If you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be (clears throat) something of yours in a much smaller box!’”
https://jezebel.com/carrie-fisher-is-still-a-hero-1819505828
Trump: There is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore
Source: The Hill
Trump: "Obamacare is finished, it's dead, it's gone..You shouldn't even mention it. It's gone. There is no such thing as Obamacare anymore" pic.twitter.com/sAkylaXPlA
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) October 16, 2017
President Trump on Monday blasted ObamaCare, saying it is "dead" and "finished."
"ObamaCare is finished. It's dead. It's gone," Trump said Monday.
"You shouldn't even mention it, it's gone. There is no such thing as ObamaCare anymore. It is a — and I said this years ago — it's a concept that couldn't have worked."
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/355658-trump-there-is-no-such-thing-as-obamacare-anymore
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/919962883546591232
It is all on you now, arsehole!
Trump on Congress: "We're not getting the job done. And I'm not going to blame myself. (vid tweet).
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/919963327605944326Gravy train?! Fuck you. Also, what is up with his body language?
Unearthed footage shows Donald Trump squeezing and kissing a woman while talking about offering a...
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/919647323461787648He is such a pig.
Big Bang Theory's Mayim Bialik Publishes Irresponsible Essay on Sexism in Hollywood
Source: Newsweek
She has since responded to horrified critics by claiming they misunderstand her point, saying she's surprised at how "vicious" people have been. Ironically, there's not much more vicious than Bialik's takedown of Weinstein's victims—she's clearly disgusted with certain practices in Hollywood, including manicures, wearing make-up, getting elective plastic surgery, flirting, and she believes that avoiding all of these things can protect one from a man like Weinstein.
While many women in Hollywood have raised their voices in support of Weinstein's many victims, Bialik chose to write a strange and misguided essay about her own experiences as a "prominent-nosed, awkward, geeky" actress. She says Weinstein's actions don't surprise her, citing the poisonous pressure in Hollywood to objectify women, but then she follows a bizarre tangent, confessing she never felt "like one of the pretty girls". When she arrives at her inevitable conclusion, she damns every one of Weinstein's victims with an off-color joke. "And if—like me—you’re not a perfect 10, know that there are people out there who will find you stunning, irresistible and worthy of attention, respect and love," she condescends to other actresses. "The best part is you don’t have to go to a hotel room or a casting couch to find them."
Bialik's implication here is that Gwenyth Paltrow, Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, and Angelina Jolie went to Weinstein's hotel room because they were searching for validation and had some character flaw that she just doesn't have. By going on and on about how she never wears revealing clothing, Bialik generalizes about all of Weinstein's victims, suggesting that they would have been safe from sexual assault if only they had fought harder against Hollywood's image of a perfect woman. Let's not forget that Bialik has a history of publicizing her discomfort with other women's beauty; in 2014, she wrote a blog post decrying Ariana Grande's public image. "If she has a talent (is she a singer?)," Bialik writes, "then why does she have to sell herself in lingerie?" For the record, these are the billboards that so deeply disturbed Bialik.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/mayim-bialik-slut-shaming-nyt-essay-big-bang-theory-feminism-harvey-weinstein-685466?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
Trump Given A Subpoena For All Documents Relating To Assault Allegations
Source: BuzzFeed News
A high-stakes legal showdown is brewing for President Donald Trump, as a woman who said he groped her has subpoenaed all documents from his campaign pertaining to “any woman alleging that Donald J. Trump touched her inappropriately.”
The previously unreported subpoena was issued in March but entered into the court file last month. The White House did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Trump’s attorney.
Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice, accused Trump of kissing and grabbing her when she went to his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007 to discuss a possible job at the Trump Organization. After Zervos made the accusation last October, just weeks before the election, Trump denied her accusation and called it a lie.
She responded by suing him for defamation. As part of that suit, her lawyers served a subpoena on his campaign, asking that it preserve all documents it had about her.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/subpoena-orders-trump-to-turn-over-documents-from-assault?utm_term=.elLZwonMM6#.bcWXdzZllB
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