"Authorities decided to rename Robert E. Lee Elementary and Internet trolls have hijacked the process. Thus far, the top recommendations for the future name of Robert E. Lee Elementary are Adolf Hitler, Adam Lanza, Donald Trump, and Harper Lee."
http://www.thespreadit.com/rename-robert-e-lee-elementary-71585/
Top 10 recommendations:
Donald J. Trump Elementary: 45 nominations
Robert E. Lee Elementary: 34 nominations
Russell Lee Elementary: 32 nominations
Harper Lee Elementary: 30 nominations
Elisabet Ney Elementary: 15 nominations
Lee Elementary: 13 nominations
Adolf Hitler School for Friendship and Tolerance: 8 nominations
Waller Creek Elementary: 8 nominations
Dr. Frances J. Nesmith Elementary School: 7 nominations
Guy Bizzell Elementary: 6 nominations
Does anyone have a link to the poll so I can vote?
>>40462
seconded
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/observers-do-nothing-to-help-dying-man-in-chicago-street/
CHICAGO --Surveillance video shows more than a dozen people doing nothing to help a Chicago bartender as he is attacked, left unconscious on the street and accidentally run over by a taxi.
Marques Gaines later died at a hospital.
The video his family released Wednesday shows a man outside a convenience store punching Gaines, who falls to the ground. The video shows people ignoring Gaines and walking by, then a taxi runs over his body.
CBS Chicago reports that at least one person seen on the video appears to steal his wallet before walking away.
>>40143
>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/observers-do-nothing-to-help-dying-man-in-chicago-street/
The studio newscaster looks like he's trying to look like Obama, like he went to his barber and said-
"Just tear my country apart on matters of healthcare reform, immigration, gun rights, and promote a racial divide"
Not suprising, places like Detroit and Chicago have nearly Chinese levels of apathy for their fellow man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5HZV7jaDZA
>knocked unconscious by one nigger
>robbed by an instant niggerswarm
>run over by a taxi
>nobody does anything to help
that fucking emergency call
>...is his chest going up and down?
>ok
>is his chest going up and down?
>ok
>sir, this is not an okay question. is his chest going up and down? yes or no?
>...
>okay he's breathing and he's bloody
>...
enter taxi
>oh my goodness. he's dead, I think
We will need a Trump wall around Chicago, too.
"Lessons learned from online engagement with 'Bernie Bros' during the Democratic primary will be applied to the rest of the primary season and general election — responding quickly and forcefully to negative attacks and false narratives," the group said. "Additionally, as the general election approaches, the task force will begin to push out information to Sanders supporters online, encouraging them to support Hillary Clinton."
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/04/22/PAC-spending-1-million-to-counter-Internet-attacks-on-Clinton/2511461348145/
Well that only means now if anyone says anything positive they will instantly disregarded as Hillary shills just as Bernouts are these days.
>>40116
>when your candidate is so weak you have to hire internet trolls
You can't make this shit up. Absolutely pathetic.
>>40162
There's another way to look at it. She's actually paying her internet trolls; we're doing it for free.;_;
Look bitches, if you want to keep posting on a free internet, we are going to have to change shit.
http://www.newsweek.com/why-libertarians-will-change-face-2016-election-450635
>>40181
I'm all for Mr. McAfeein for the Libertarians if Trump and Hillary are the nominees. A forceful character like his could distinguish the party from those statists. If it's Cruz for the Republicans then I'm more hesitant.
Yes, but Cruz would keep things as-is at best, which I for one am not happy with. Voting in another politician to fix the work of politicians is just silly if not insane. We need someone who understands the world as it is now, internet and all.
>>40189
Be realistic. No libertarian candidate has a chance at the office of the president in 2016, but under the right conditions the party could grow significantly, disrupt the shits, and force policy. MacAffee would exist as an incarnation of punishment. He would come off as petty if he went after someone that has close to the same politics without tedious esoterics.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d7_1458307612
allah ho akbar
>>40080
banned for racism
religion of peace
>American evangelicals in charge of saving the white race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/04/21/my-wife-and-i-are-white-evangelicals-heres-why-we-chose-to-give-birth-to-black-triplets/
>>39909
Congrats on breeding 3 blacks to prove how nice and totally not racist you are in a washington post article that we will all forget tomorrow.
God forbid of actually taking care of local orphans.
Do these people live solely to be praised for their "progresiveness"?
>>39915
>he thinks the conservative evangelicals are "progressive" just for having black babies
Nope.
http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/paris-agreement-signing-earth-day
By presidental treaty the US is officially obligating itself to the Paris Accord today. On the condition that a sufficient number of other nations do the same in the coming weeks the treaty will go in full effect. Once in effect it will be locked in through the first term of the next president.
>>40086
There is no such thing as a "presidential treaty". The Constitution of the US states that only The US Senate has the specific power to ratify all treaties. Obviously there is no way Mitch McConnell as head of the US Senate right now is ever going to bring this up, much less let it pass, so I can understand why Obama is doing what he's doing, but it isn't legally binding. When whomever the next president is comes in they can just overturn whatever Obama did here with their own executive order, or, The SCOTUS can find it unconstitutional before then (if they didn't tie 4-4 that is).
>>40112
>In order to "join" the agreement, national governments have to show the United Nations the piece of domestic paperwork—a law, executive order, or some other legal document—in which the government consents to be bound by the terms of the agreement.
>Obama is expected to join using an executive agreement, which will allow him to avoid sending the deal to Congress. (Executive agreements account for the vast majority of US foreign commitments.)
>He's able to do this because the United States says it can fulfill its Paris promises without any changes to domestic laws; instead, the Obama administration is holding up its end of the bargain by imposing new EPA regulations on emissions from power plants.
>Unlike a treaty, an executive agreement does not require ratification by the Senate. It's not bulletproof; a future president could unilaterally abandon the deal. But for Obama, there's a clear incentive for pushing to reach those 55 countries and the 55 percent thresholds as quickly as possible: Once the agreement goes into force, it requires a four-year waiting period before a country can withdraw.
>In other words, in the event that either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump—both vociferous climate change deniers—succeeds Obama in the White House, they wouldn't be able to back out of the agreement until their (*shudder*) second term.
Oh they're not changing law, they're just changing how and what the EPA regulates. It's completely different.
I really hate how pleased the author of this sounds.
As bizarre as it sounds, smoking scorpions is not unheard of in South Asian countries, but according to regional media, the practice has recently been gaining popularity in several parts of Pakistan. The scorpion venom can apparently put the smoker on an intense high, becoming highly addictive with time.
So how does one smoke a scorpion, anyway? It’s a simple yet effective process – a dead scorpion is dried in sunlight for several hours or a live one is burnt on coal until it dies. The dried carcass is then lit on fire and the smoke is inhaled. Since it’s the tail that contains the poison addicts seek, some smokers prefer to crush the dried tail and mix it with hashish and tobacco, smoking it in the form of a cigarette.
In his 2007 book Drugs in Afghanistan, sociologist David MacDonald provides the account of a friend who witnessed first-hand the effects of scorpion smoke on an addict. “The effect was instantaneous with the man’s face and eyes becoming very red, much more than a hashish smoker. He also seemed very intoxicated but awake and alert, although he stumbled and fell over when he tried to rise from a sitting position … the smoke tasted “sweeter” than that of hashish, although … it smelled foul, and the intoxicating effect lasted much longer,” the book suggested.
The high, it seems, lasts for as long as 10 hours. The first six are said to be painful as the body adjusts to the substance, but the feeling slowly eases into enjoyment and later, intense pleasure. “Everything appears like it is dancing,” recalled Sohbat Khan, a 74-year-old former scorpion smoker. “The roads, the vehicles, everything in front of me.”
Sohbat was addicted to scorpion smoke as a young man in his 20s – he would purchase the arachnid for one or two rupees apiece from a vendor, who got his stash from Peshawar’s Matani area, rich in scorpions because of the hot weather.
http://www.odditycentral.com/news/smoking-scorpions-in-south-asia-a-dangerous-addiction.html
At the height of his addiction, he would scour the land of his village, hunting for scorpions to smoke. When the need was overwhelming and there were none to be found, he would actually travel all the way to Peshawar, in Afghanistan, to get some. “It was the worst form of addiction,” he said.
Experts agree that scorpion venom is highly dangerous for the human brain, far more so than other drugs, especially when inhaled. “Scorpion smoking causes short and long term memory loss,” explained Dr. Azaz Jamal, a medical officer at the Khyber Teaching Hospital. “Smoking causes hallucination, the state where people have perception of something which is not present.” He added that prolonged exposure to scorpion smoke could cause sleep and appetite disorders, and eventually lead to permanent delusion.
But the addiction is hard to fight on a national level in Pakistan, mainly because there are no official statistics and very little research available on the subject. A few reports suggest that the habit is gaining popularity in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunwala (KP) region, where it is certainly not just a rare indulgence. “We need laws in place to stop the killing of scorpions,” said Azeemullah, a former official at KP’s narcotics control department, pointing out that their use needs to be regulated because scorpion addiction hinders the availability of the arachnid for medical research and therapy.
While scorpion smoking is still rare on a global level, it serves as a cheap, easy thrill among the youth of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and some parts of India. “Because of our successful drives against the sellers and addicts of alcohol, opium, cough syrup, and heroin in urban areas, young people are flocking on the highways to try the new craze of scorpion stings,” a police officer in the city of Bharuch said.
Meanwhile, Umer Gul, a young man who threw his life away to scorpion smoking, wanders aimlessly on the streets of Karak in KP, often stopping to stare at nothing while mumbling to himself. “Umer used to be a clerk in the army,” his brother Mohammed Younas said. “He would smoke a little hashish now and then with his friends, but I never thought that it was a big deal.” But he soon started smoking scorpions and lost his mental health to the habit. “He left his job and started indulging in unusual habits. Scorpions are highly toxic. That is why my brother is like this. He spends most of his time aimlessly walking around.”
In some parts of India, addicts prefer a much more direct and more painful method to get their scorpion fix – they get stung, paying anywhere between 100 and 150 Indian rupees per sting. Others turn to the common house lizard for their daily fix, roasting it and grinding it to a fine powder, and mixing it with opium to use as a drug. The powdered lizard is believed to improve the sedating effects of opium, leading to superior intoxication.
Who's the first person who thought this would be a good idea?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/celebrity-threesome-injunction-identities-could-be-revealed-toda/ any one know who the celebrity is who has been screwing around
>>39978
Elton John's lover cheated on him while on vacation in America
Over here in America it's barely newsworthy. Celebrities do this kind of thing all the time, even British celebs. I think the only reason it's a big story in Britain is because of the draconian libel laws there just make the Streisand effect even worse.
Serious feck with a male couple or a man and wife ?
>>39978
Daniel Laurence, enjoy my British friends.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2645974/david-furnish-elton-john-sex-scandal-british-media-forbidden-from-covering-couple/
Hang in there! Kuwait strike.
It should pay appropriate wages to workers.
Wealth is equally! Allah is great!
IS should attack the oil facility of monopolize the wealth.
http://potato.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/bizplus/1461048491/
Linking to a non-English source should be bannable
The following is the google translated text of the Huffpo.jp story our nipponese brethren are linking to here:
>Oil production of Kuwait, according to OPEC is so has been reduced from 3.12 million barrels per day to 110 million barrels / day. Oil production of Kuwait state-owned upstream company, KOC (Kuwait Oil Company) has done.
>By the way, we share that Kuwait occupies the crude oil production of the world is 3.6% at the time of 2014, was the world's seventh place.
>Also refinery output of Kuwait has been reduced from the usual 93 million barrels / day to 520,000 barrels / day. Petroleum refining of Kuwait is doing state-owned downstream companies, KNPC (Kuwait National Petroleum Company) is.
>For KOC and KNPC maintenance of production calling the veteran retired, as well as the refinery is, but we try to prevent that to stop, operation of oil production and refinery which require high skills, to continue operations I think that's pretty difficult.
>In addition many of the oil-producing countries are facing in the same, or more of the financial crisis in Kuwait is facing, truncated measures, such as the country is laid out has been advocated must be introduced in other countries.
>Then stop of oil production such as this is, probably the scenario that may occur in other countries.
For example
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/19/kuwait-strike-halts-oil-downspin--but-will-it-last.html
and so on.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36094575
>>39903
What did he do?
>>39936
Read the article and find out.
>>39937
Ah, he killed 69 people
>UnitedHealth Group, America’s largest health insurer, announced today that it would be abandoning Obamacare’s insurance exchanges, after absorbing hundreds of millions in losses. While the exchanges can continue to function without United, United’s departure could represent the “canary in the coal mine”: a signal that other insurers will not be able to remain in these highly unstable markets.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2016/04/19/abandon-ship-unitedhealth-to-exit-unsustainable-obamacare-exchanges-in-34-states/#3cc5e3d58652
>>39651
Wait...
...health insurance companies aren't required by law to participate? If that's the case, why did they do it to begin with? In fact, why did any?
>>39659
Aren't they given massive fines if they don't?
I can't remember how it works
Non-Forbes source for those who use adblock: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-united-health-group-profit-20160419-story.html
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39405776&nid=148&title=utah-becomes-1st-state-to-declare-pornography-a-public-health-crisis
>SALT LAKE CITY — Utah became the first state in the country to declare pornography a public health crisis, and called on the industry and businesses Tuesday to help keep "evil, degrading, addictive" materials away from children.
>Gov. Gary Herbert signed a resolution the state Legislature unanimously passed earlier this year calling for education, prevention, research and policy changes to address the pornography "epidemic."
>"We realize this is a bold assertion," the governor said, acknowledging some would disagree that it has become a health crisis. "It is, in fact, the full-fledged truth."
Meanwhile, Utah has the highest rate of people who pay for porn.
Also later in the article.
> Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation in Washington, D.C., called the bill signing a watershed moment in protecting dignity and a turning of the tide against pornography.
>"Pornography with its raw, debasing, violent and hate-filled scenes are the sex education for our children," she said.
Perhaps they should give out better sex education.
>>39671
What changes with this declaration.
>>39673
More whining over the pulpits but I doubt very much will change in reality.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton's face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday.
Lew announced last summer that he was considering redesigning the $10 bill to include the portrait of a woman. The decision to make the historic change at the expense of Hamilton drew angry rebukes from fans of the former Treasury Secretary. The pro-Hamilton movement gained steam after the smash success of the hip-hop Broadway musical about his life this year.
Those pressures led Lew to determine that Hamilton should remain on the front of the bill. Instead, a mural-style depiction of the women's suffrage movement -- including images of leaders such as Susan B. Anthony -- will be featured on the back of the bill.
A Treasury spokesman declined to comment on the pending changes. But Lew hinted that a decision could come this week.
"When we started this conversation not quite a year ago, it wasn't clear to me that millions of Americans were going to weigh in with their ideas," he told CNBC. "We're not just talking about one bill. We're talking about the $5, the $10, and the $20. We're not just talking about one picture on one bill. We're talking about using the front and the back of the bill to tell an exciting set of stories."
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/16/news/economy/jack-lew-hamilton-10-bill/index.html
Along those lines, Lew also plans to announce this week that Andrew Jackson -- a less beloved former president whose face graces the front of the $20 bill -- will be removed in favor of a female representing the struggle for racial equality, according to the government source.
That decision would place a female on one of the most widely circulated bills in the world. But the historic change placing a female on the front of the $20 note won't come for more than a decade, the source said, since the process for changing the design of that note is still in the early stages.
"The soonest that a new $20 note will be issued is 2030," the source said, citing a lengthy process convened by the Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence steering committee, which includes representatives from the U.S. Secret Service, the Treasury, and the Federal Reserve.
That process isn't likely to be sped up by the Federal Reserve, which issues the currency, given the work that goes into designing secure technology to thwart counterfeiters.
"The blue security ribbon on the $100 note took over 15 years to develop," the source said. "This level of technology is why our counterfeiting remains at less than .01% of currency in circulation. We should not expedite the issuance of any currency for political purposes."
Future Treasury Secretaries -- of which there will be several -- could reverse or alter the decision regarding the $20, making Lew's announcement far less of a clear-cut victory for the movement pushing to place a woman on American currency.
The $5 bill will retain Abraham Lincoln on the front, with plans to change the back to include a mural of prominent activities that have taken place at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
The idea of including women in a mural on the back of a bill has been called into question.
"It will take a microscope to see who those individuals are, and we'll be left with another decade or more of woefully inadequate representation of women and their worth," wrote the group Women on 20s in an open letter to Lew, published by Time.
"Nobody looks at the back of the bill, and that's not likely to change," the group wrote. "A vignette without a woman's portrait on the front of the bill (even if she must share with Hamilton) will be seen as a token gesture and an affront to Americans of all ages who are expecting you to reveal your choice of a singular woman based on their input. As a friend of ours put it, relegating women to the back of the bill is akin to sending them to the back of the bus. The Rosa Parks analogies are inevitable."
I like the Sacajawea dollar coins from 10 years ago tbh, but I'm probably the only one.
The Ohio governor hinted Sundaythe only reason he ate a slice with a fork was to get media to pay some attention to his long-shot presidential bid.
> http://nypost.com/2016/04/17/kasichs-pizza-blunder-may-have-been-a-cry-for-attention/
His evil scheme WORKED since we're talking about it...
>>39349
You might be I'm not.
>>39354
Too late!
It's America eat the fucking pizza how you want.
