Author: Blazingcatfur
What’s wrong with lingerie?
A progressive rebrand at Victoria’s Secret forgets one thing: sex
Victoria’s Secret has long been the embarrassing uncle of the underwear world, a dinosaur ambling across the lingerie landscape in a threadbare 1990s-style slip nightie, a relic of both a culture and a consumer model that no longer exist. Its catalogue, a boon to teen boys in the pre-digital age whose dads were too square to have a stash of Playboys, was discontinued in 2016. Its biggest attraction, a runway show that aired on cable TV and featured a stable of anatomically improbable models wearing prosthetic angel wings, was cancelled in 2019, after a multi-year ratings plummet. Its perfumed retail stores are shopperless tombs, anchored to decaying malls that nobody goes to anymore.
Hair Raising!
Wanna speak to the manager? Here she is 😂 pic.twitter.com/SD6mrcNUEh
— Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) June 24, 2021
Canada Needs a Life-Changing Vision – What if the media does not fulfill their role? What happens?
In Canada, we consistently keep finding ourselves on the amoral side of international human rights issues as of late. Human right abuses indirectly affect us all via various runoff factors, so ensuring that we remain on the correct side of history is a vital one, especially as a purported world leader in such matters.
This is from Hannah Banana on Twitter
Leftists Demand Journalists Stop Calling Criminals ‘Felon‘ and ‘Offender‘
The far-left group FWD.us believes it is time to remove the words “felon” and “offender” from criminal justice vocabulary, contending the terms “bias the public against criminal justice reform and make more freedom less possible.”
No good deed…
Sources: Good Samaritan killed in Arvada shooting was shot by police
‘War in the woods’: hundreds of anti-logging protesters arrested in Canada
Police in western Canada have arrested more than 270 people as a conflict over old growth logging in British Columbia’s ancient rainforests continues to grow.
At the protest blockades in the remote woodland, hundreds of activists have been chaining themselves to giant tripods made from the trunks of felled trees, suspending themselves in trees for days or more at a time, and even securing their arms inside devices called “sleeping dragons” cemented into the roadway.
The movement is an attempt to pressure the British Columbia government to halt the cutting of what activists and experts say is the last 3% of ancient trees left standing in the province.
‘IMPOSTER’: Tamir Rice’s Mom Tells Shaun King He Is ‘a White Man Acting Black’
On Tuesday, Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, condemned former Black Lives Matter leader Shaun King as a “white man” and an “imposter.” She accused him of trying to fundraise off of her son’s death and off of a call she had with him. She described the call as “very toxic and uncomfortable for me.”
Junk Science Week: This just in: Biological sex is a myth!
The editorial timing at Berkeley News — UC Berkley’s in-house media service — really couldn’t have been more perfect. There I was at my desk last Thursday, struggling to find a newsy intro for my Junk Science Week submission on sex-spectrum pseudoscience. And then, as if on cue, my news aggregator popped out the headline: Truly Changing Sex Is Possible, Says Berkeley Trans Scholar Grace Lavery.
Joy Reid shuts out critical race theory opponent during ‘debate’
So much for those “White Man Demands.”
After accepting Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo’s requests via Twitter to appear on her MSNBC show, host Joy Reid declined to engage in a debate on the topic of critical race theory — resorting instead to constant interruption and insults, insisting, “it’s my show … so it’s how I want to do it.”
Also – ‘The a** whooping of facts’: Christopher Rufo fact-checks Joy Reid on Critical Race Theory in must-read thread
Did a Chinese Spymaster Defect to the US?
Circumstantial evidence mounts that a top Chinese official may have switched his allegiance.
The head of counterintelligence for the Chinese Ministry of State Security may have taken a treasure trove of secrets and defected to America.
The facts sound like they come straight out of a John le Carré novel, but growing rumors suggest Dong Jingwei, who is China’s vice minister of state security, may have quietly switched sides back in February. Dong reportedly escaped China on a secret flight out of Hong Kong, along with his daughter, Dong Yang, and a cache of confidential documents.
Prosecutorial Indiscretion
Progressive district attorneys decline to pursue certain offenses, usurping the legislative role.
Baltimore is not prosecuting shoplifting or drug-possession crimes. Despite recent violent protests and occupations, St. Louis is not pursuing cases for looting and rioting, while Portland isn’t pursuing charges for trespassing. Philadelphia won’t allow prostitution charges. San Francisco is not prosecuting indecent exposure offenses. Chicago declines arrests for thefts of less than $1,000. Did a sudden decision from the Supreme Court invalidate these crimes? Are the police on strike? Are the prosecutors’ offices short-staffed? No: each office is not prosecuting these cases based on the discretion of the city’s chief prosecutor. Unfortunately, these officials misinterpret, misunderstand, and misapply the legal concept of prosecutorial discretion.
Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Releasing COVID-19 Infected Illegal Immigrants
The state of Texas and a group led by former Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller filed a lawsuit to stop the Biden administration’s catch-and-release border policy, claiming it is allowing COVID-19-infected illegal immigrants to enter the United States.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Miller’s America First Legal filed court papers (pdf) in a federal court against President Joe Biden, saying the policy would cost taxpayers millions of dollars while imperiling public safety.
Biden Never Learns: He Still Wants to Talk to China
President Joe Biden, according to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, wants to begin a new round of “engaging” China.
Call this another Biden debacle in the making.
On June 17, after the troubled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Sullivan told reporters that Biden “will look for opportunities to engage with President Xi going forward.”
FATAH: Saudi Arabia takes a step forward, as Iran moves backwards
When the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, challenged the fundamental precepts of Islamic Sharia in an interview on April 28, the tremors were so deep, they left most Muslims and their clerics in a state of silent shock.