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Only question I have... can she claim married on her taxes?

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Richard Spencer Supporters Charged In Florida Shooting

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Three men who traveled from Texas for white nationalist Richard Spencer's Thursday speech at the University of Florida were charged with attempted homicide for allegedly opening fire on protesters. The shooting took place during a confrontation following the Gainesville speech, which drew hundreds of protesters and a smaller group of Spencer fans, along with a massive deployment of police trying to prevent a repeat of the street violence that marked a Spencer-related rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. There was very little violence during Thursday's event in Florida, with one Spencer supporter getting pushed and punched by protesters. The shooting took place after the speech at a bus stop. No one was injured.

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Richard Spencer is a socialist moron, but he, though perhaps doesn't know it, shows the utter stupidty and complete insanity the left has, like Milo and Ben Shapiro, anyone conservative is a nazi or racist, regardless if they actually are.
They cry wolf over everything, nothing is believed anymore.
No one takes someone calling a nazi seriously because they'll call a gay jew a nazi because he said feminists are fat.

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New Zealand's new Prime Minister Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern, aged 37, born in Hamilton New Zealand, was raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but left the church in 2005 because it conflicted with her personal views, in particular her support for homosexual rights. She voted in favour of the marriage equality bill in 2013, and supports the liberalisation of abortion laws. In January 2017 stated she was now agnostic. Her partner is television presenter Clarke Gayford.

Jacinda Ardern’s left-leaning Labour party will form a coalition government with NZ First and the Green party. She has vowed to be a progressive leader.


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"Mexico’s Immigration Law:
- Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:

- Foreigners are admitted into Mexico “according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress.” (Article 32)

- Immigration officials must “ensure” that “immigrants will be useful elements for the country and that they have the necessary funds for their sustenance” and for their dependents. (Article 34)


- Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets “the equilibrium of the national demographics,” when foreigners are deemed detrimental to “economic or national interests,” when they do not behave like good citizens in their own country, when they have broken Mexican laws, and when “they are not found to be physically or mentally healthy.” (Article 37)

- The Secretary of Governance may “suspend or prohibit the admission of foreigners when he determines it to be in the national interest.” (Article 38)

- Mexican authorities must keep track of every single person in the country:

- Federal, local and municipal police must cooperate with federal immigration authorities upon request, i.e., to assist in the arrests of illegal immigrants. (Article 73)

- A National Population Registry keeps track of “every single individual who comprises the population of the country,” and verifies each individual’s identity. (Articles 85 and 86)

- A national Catalog of Foreigners tracks foreign tourists and immigrants (Article 87), and assigns each - - - - individual with a unique tracking number (Article 91).

- Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:

- Foreigners with fake immigration papers may be fined or imprisoned. (Article 116)

- Foreigners who sign government documents “with a signature that is false or different from that which he normally uses” are subject to fine and imprisonment. (Article 116)

- Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:

- Foreigners who fail to obey a deportation order are to be punished. (Article 117)
- Foreigners who are deported from Mexico and attempt to re-enter the country without authorization can be - imprisoned for up to 10 years. (Article 118)

- Foreigners who violate the terms of their visa may be sentenced to up to six years in prison (Articles 119, 120 and 121). Foreigners who misrepresent the terms of their visa while in Mexico — such as working without a permit — can also be imprisoned.

- Under Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony. The General Law on Population says,

- “A penalty of up to two years in prison and a fine of three hundred to five thousand pesos will be imposed on the foreigner who enters the country illegally.” (Article 123)

- Foreigners with legal immigration problems may be deported from Mexico instead of being imprisoned. (Article 125)

- Foreigners who “attempt against national sovereignty or security” will be deported. (Article 126)

- Mexicans who help illegal aliens enter the country are themselves considered criminals under the law:

- A Mexican who marries a foreigner with the sole objective of helping the foreigner live in the country is subject to up to five years in prison. (Article 127)"

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At around 3.40am just outside the township of Bourke NSW on the Kamilaroi Highway, on the right when leaving town, my son and I were watching the stars and galaxies when we noticed, and then witnessed and watched, two unidentified flying objects bright as stars with some flashing hint of red, moving sporadically. Stopping, starting, up, down, sideways, forwards, backwards. We watched for some time, and then to avoid a possible alien abduction, we thought it best to return to the motel rather than stay star gazing any longer. We were back in the motel at 4am.

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"A majority of white Americans believe they face discrimination of one kind or another in contemporary America, according to a new poll.
A poll published this week by NPR specifically revealed that a 55 percent majority of white Americans feel that “there is discrimination against white people in America today.”
The poll also found that 19 percent of white Americans said they’d been subject to discrimination while applying for work, 13 percent said they had while pursuing promotions in the workplace, and 11 percent said they had while applying to or studying at college.
To be clear, any white (or Asian) American who’s lost out on a job opportunity or a chance to study at a college because of affirmative action has indeed been discriminated against — because institutional decisions based on an individual’s skin color are inherently discriminatory and racist.
Speaking with NPR about his own beliefs regarding the discrimination faced by whites, 50-year-old equipment operator Tim Musick, a white man, noted as well the implicit bigotry of claims that all white people are racist — a claim touted frequently by the liberal media.
“I think that you pretty much, because you’re white, you’re automatically thrown into that group as being a bigot and a racist and that somehow you perceive yourself as being more superior to everybody else, which is ridiculous,” he said. “I’m just a man that happens to have been born white.”
It can be reasonably argued that anti-white discrimination began rising dramatically during the administration of former President Barack Obama, who injected his radical, Alinskyite brand of identity politics into every issue.
From throwing his support behind Black Lives Matter to making premature judgments in the Michael Brown police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida, Obama governed from the perspective that black people are always the victims and whites always the oppressors.
This skewed, racist perspective seemed to metastasize across the nation during his tenure, to the point that we now see similar attitudes in Hollywood, in the liberal media and especially on college campuses.
We now have Latina students demanding white women stop wearing hoop hearings, college professors actively ranking prospective students on the basis of their race and minorities reportedly assaulting white students who engage in so-called “cultural appropriation.”
And don’t even get me started on the numerous colleges that have chosen to lecture white students on their alleged white privilege, or allow their minority students to make patently racist presentations on how, for instance, “White people are a Plague to the Planet.”
These are just a few examples. Honestly, it would take me days to compile a comprehensive list of the anti-white attitudes and behaviors commonly seen these days across the nation.
Let me just say, though, that as a minority, I agree with the 55 percent majority of white Americans who feel that “there is discrimination against white people in America today.” But I would take it further, in that I contend contemporary whites suffer bigotry, discrimination and racism.
You know, growing up, I was taught to judge individual people by their individual attitude, behavior and character. These days, however, I see kids being brainwashed by mainstream actors/actresses, mainstream newspapers/magazines and even college faculty into believing the exact opposite.
It’s a sad state of affairs, as well as a reason for why Martin Luther King Jr., a real civil rights activist who dedicated his life to genuine equality and racial harmony, must be rolling in his grave."


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Shelbyville white supremacists Get Trolled With Free Genetic Test Offer

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White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find

It was a strange moment of triumph against racism: The gun-slinging white supremacist Craig Cobb, dressed up for daytime TV in a dark suit and red tie, hearing that his DNA testing revealed his ancestry to be only “86 percent European, and … 14 percent Sub-Saharan African.” The studio audience whooped and laughed and cheered. And Cobb — who was, in 2013, charged with terrorizing people while trying to create an all-white enclave in North Dakota — reacted like a sore loser in the schoolyard.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, just wait a minute,” he said, trying to put on an all-knowing smile. “This is called statistical noise.”

Then, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, he took to the white nationalist website Stormfront to dispute those results. That’s not uncommon: With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, there’s a trend of white nationalists using these services to prove their racial identity, and then using online forums to discuss the results.

But like Cobb, many are disappointed to find out that their ancestry is not as “white” as they’d hoped. In a new study, sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan examined years’ worth of posts on Stormfront to see how members dealt with the news.

It’s striking, they say, that white nationalists would post these results online at all. After all, as Panofsky put it, “they will basically say if you want to be a member of Stormfront you have to be 100 percent white European, not Jewish.”

But instead of rejecting members who get contrary results, Donovan said, the conversations are “overwhelmingly” focused on helping the person to rethink the validity of the genetic test. And some of those critiques — while emerging from deep-seated racism — are close to scientists’ own qualms about commercial genetic ancestry testing.

Panofsky and Donovan presented their findings at a sociology conference in Montreal on Monday. The timing of the talk — some 48 hours after the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. — was coincidental. But the analysis provides a useful, if frightening, window into how these extremist groups think about their genes.

Reckoning with results

Stormfront was launched in the mid-1990s by Don Black, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. His skills in computer programming were directly related to his criminal activities: He learned them while in prison for trying to invade the Caribbean island nation of Dominica in 1981, and then worked as a web developer after he got out. That means this website dates back to the early years of the internet, forming a kind of deep archive of online hate.

To find relevant comments in the 12 million posts written by over 300,000 members, the authors enlisted a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, to search for terms like “DNA test,” “haplotype,” “23andMe,” and “National Geographic.” Then the researchers combed through the posts they found, not to mention many others as background. Donovan, who has moved from UCLA to the Data & Society Research Institute, estimated that she spent some four hours a day reading Stormfront in 2016. The team winnowed their results down to 70 discussion threads in which 153 users posted their genetic ancestry test results, with over 3,000 individual posts.

About a third of the people posting their results were pleased with what they found. “Pretty damn pure blood,” said a user with the username Sloth. But the majority didn’t find themselves in that situation. Instead, the community often helped them reject the test, or argue with its results.

Some rejected the tests entirely, saying that an individual’s knowledge about his or her own genealogy is better than whatever a genetic test can reveal. “They will talk about the mirror test,” said Panofsky, who is a sociologist of science at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics. “They will say things like, ‘If you see a Jew in the mirror looking back at you, that’s a problem; if you don’t, you’re fine.'” Others, he said, responded to unwanted genetic results by saying that those kinds of tests don’t matter if you are truly committed to being a white nationalist. Yet others tried to discredit the genetic tests as a Jewish conspiracy “that is trying to confuse true white Americans about their ancestry,” Panofsky said.

But some took a more scientific angle in their critiques, calling into doubt the method by which these companies determine ancestry — specifically how companies pick those people whose genetic material will be considered the reference for a particular geographical group.

And that criticism, though motivated by very different ideas, is one that some researchers have made as well, even as other scientists have used similar data to better understand how populations move and change.

“There is a mainstream critical literature on genetic ancestry tests — geneticists and anthropologists and sociologists who have said precisely those things: that these tests give an illusion of certainty, but once you know how the sausage is made, you should be much more cautious about these results,” said Panofsky.

A community’s genetic rules

Companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe are meticulous in how they analyze your genetic material. As points of comparison, they use both preexisting datasets as well as some reference populations that they have recruited themselves. The protocol includes genetic material from thousands of individuals, and looks at thousands of genetic variations.

“When a 23andMe research participant tells us that they have four grandparents all born in the same country — and the country isn’t a colonial nation like the U.S., Canada, or Australia — that person becomes a candidate for inclusion in the reference data,” explained Jhulianna Cintron, a product specialist at 23andMe. Then, she went on, the company excludes close relatives, as that could distort the data, and removes outliers whose genetic data don’t seem to match with what they wrote on their survey.

But specialists both inside and outside these companies recognize that the geopolitical boundaries we use now are pretty new, and so consumers may be using imprecise categories when thinking about their own genetic ancestry within the sweeping history of human migration. And users’ ancestry results can change depending on the dataset to which their genetic material is being compared — a fact which some Stormfront users said they took advantage of, uploading their data to various sites to get a more “white” result.

J. Scott Roberts, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, who has studied consumer use of genetic tests and was not involved with the study, said the companies tend to be reliable at identifying genetic variants. Interpreting them in terms of health risk or ancestry, though, is another story. “The science is often murky in those areas and gives ambiguous information,” he said. “They try to give specific percentages from this region, or x percent disease risk, and my sense is that that is an artificially precise estimate.”

For the study authors, what was most interesting was to watch this online community negotiating its own boundaries, rethinking who counts as “white.” That involved plenty of contradictions. They saw people excluded for their genetic test results, often in very nasty (and unquotable) ways, but that tended to happen for newer members of the anonymous online community, Panofsky said, and not so much for longtime, trusted members. Others were told that they could remain part of white nationalist groups, in spite of the ancestry they revealed, as long as they didn’t “mate,” or only had children with certain ethnic groups. Still others used these test results to put forth a twisted notion of diversity, one “that allows them to say, ‘No, we’re really diverse and we don’t need non-white people to have a diverse society,'” said Panofsky.

That’s a far cry from the message of reconciliation that genetic ancestry testing companies hope to promote.

“Sweetheart, you have a little black in you,” the talk show host Trisha Goddard told Craig Cobb on that day in 2013. But that didn’t stop him from redoing the test with a different company, trying to alter or parse the data until it matched his racist worldview.

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I was contacted on Facebook by a guy in Liberia who wanted me to ship him electronic devices. Instead I gave him something better: a job. This is the story of how I turned an internet scam into a humanitarian mission.

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"Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
Earlier this year, a final settlement was reached in the war on the NYPD’s counterterrorist Islamic surveillance. The Manhattan courtroom where the lawfare effort to dismantle the NYPD’s ability to stop terrorist attacks was heard is blocks away from the site of the latest Islamic terrorist attack in New York.
Walk two blocks down to City Hall. And then head down Chambers to the West Side Highway. That’s where the terrorist attack that killed eight people ended when an NYPD officer shot the terrorist. If he had kept going down the West Side Highway, instead of crashing into a school bus, he would have eventually been within attack range of the 9/11 Memorial. And maybe that was his original plan.
But his message was very clear. He shouted it as he left the truck with which he murdered 8 people.
“Allahu Akbar”. These were the last words on the Flight 93 flight recorder. Mohamed Atta had advised his fellow 9/11 hijackers to, “Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because it strikes fear in the hearts of the infidels.”
Sayfullo Saipov, the Muslim terrorist who carried out the latest attack, was just listening to Atta’s advice. The 16th anniversary of the attacks has passed, but the hatred of Allah’s killers burns as hot as ever.
And the attack carried clear echoes of 9/11.
Saipov had listed an address in Paterson, NJ. Paterson, known to the locals as ‘Paterstine’ for its sizable Islamic community, is where the PLO terror flag flies over City Hall and where Islamic terrorist sympathisers celebrated after their compatriots murdered thousands on 9/11.
Paterson is also where 6 of the 9/11 hijackers lived.
The terrorist reportedly rented the truck used in the attack in Jersey City. That’s where the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center rented the van they used in the attack. And Jersey City was where some of the terrorists lived. And it’s where Muslims were caught celebrating the September 11 attacks.
The attack by the Muslim settler from Uzbekistan was almost identical to previous Car Jihad attacks in Europe. Right down to using a fake firearm. But New York City had avoided the non-stop terror wave that engulfed Paris and other European cities thanks to the hard work of the NYPD.
But every time the NYPD broke up an Islamic terror plot, the media and its leftist allies would howl that the racist police had entrapped another innocent mentally ill Muslim. When the Newburgh Four plotted to bomb synagogues in the Bronx, the media was in their corner. HBO even aired The Newburgh Sting, a piece of propaganda whitewashing the terrorists. The revisionist documentary played at the Tribeca Film Festival. And Tribeca is the site of the latest Islamic terrorist attack.
Linda Sarsour, the leading Islamic activist on the left, defended Ahmed Ferhani, who had also plotted to blow up a synagogue, and Shahawar Matin Siraj, who was convicted of plotting to blow up a Manhattan subway station, as victims of NYPD entrapment.
But it’s hard to think of a NYPD or FBI terror bust in New York that the media didn’t undermine. The Nation and the Guardian led the lynch mob. But soon CBS, The Atlantic and the New York Times joined in. All the Muslim terrorists that the NYPD had stopped were really immature and easily manipulated young men. The plots had been invented by paid informants. And it didn’t stop there.
For the last four years, the ACLU and other pro-terror groups had waged an effective lawfare campaign to cripple the NYPD’s counterterrorism. And they succeeded. The NYPD’s ability to send informants into mosques was handicapped. New York cops were now required to consider the “impact” of informants on mosques after Islamist groups claimed that their presence discouraged mosque attendance. The approvals required made it much harder to use one of the more effective terror prevention tools.
The Demographics Unit, one of the most important big picture intel tools for the NYPD, was shut down. But that wasn’t enough. Even when the NYPD agreed to a settlement, Judge Charles S. Haight Jr. insisted that it didn’t go far enough to protect “law-abiding Muslims and believers in Islam who live, move and have their being in this city.”
Sayfullo Saipov moved his being and the truck it was in over the bodies of New Yorkers leaving tire tracks over corpses. The Manhattan attack, like every Islamic attack before it, could have been stopped. But the NYPD’s hands had been tied. And the left had done the tying. It defended every Islamic terrorist that the NYPD had arrested. And prevented the NYPD from investigating mosques and radicalisation.
Now it has what it really wanted. Dead Americans. And it has their blood on its manicured fingers.
The Uzbeki Islamic terrorist had listed an address in Paterson, New Jersey. The NYPD had come under attack for conducting surveillance in New Jersey. One of the targets was a mosque in Paterson. Other targets were in Jersey City. That was where Saipov allegedly rented the truck used in the attack. The Uzbeki Muslim terrorist also links back to Florida. The media has largely ignored or tried to cover up the string of Islamic terrorist attacks linked to Florida, from the Pulse Massacre in Orlando, to the latest Islamic terrorist plot to bomb the Dolphin Mall on Black Friday.
Sayfullo Saipov had come here in 2010. In that short amount of time he managed to amass criminal records in Pennsylvania and Missouri for traffic offenses. After stints in at least three other states, he went on a killing spree that took eight lives and wounded as well as traumatised countless others.
Dem leaders in New York are already rolling out the standard messages urging everyone to go back to life as usual. Mayor Bill de Blasio called the attack “cowardly”. But the attack wasn’t cowardly. It was vicious and murderous. It’s Bill de Blasio and the other politicians who crippled the NYPD because they were afraid of political pressure from Linda Sarsour and CAIR who are the real cowards.
They are cowards with blood on their hands.
The New York media’s first response after the attack was to try and blame road rage. Before long, you will see it running the standardised “Muslims fear backlash” stories that are a staple of every effort to sweep the latest Islamic terrorist attack under the rug along with the blood and the bodies.
Islamic terrorists like Sayfullo Saipov are able to do what they do because they have a long list of collaborators like the ACLU, Democrat politicians, Federal judges and the mainstream media.
While law enforcement fights a desperate battle to stop the next Saipov, the men and women tracking the terrorists know that if they get their man, the media will make them the villains. Just ask the good people who brought down Ahmed Ferhani, James Cromitie, Shahawar Matin Siraj and so many others.
Sane societies celebrate those who risk their lives to keep them safe. The leftist culture machine does everything it can to destroy them and to aid the Islamic butchers who run over pedestrians for Allah.
The way to stop the next Saipov is to untie the NYPD’s hands.
After every shooting, the left insists that anyone who opposes gun control wants people to die. But guns don’t hop off the shelf and shoot people. And trucks don’t run over pedestrians on their own.
Islamic terrorists drive them into crowds, over pedestrians and cyclists, in London, Nice, in Berlin, in Jerusalem and in New York City. And leftists who refuse to stop them might as well be behind the wheel.
Leftists who would rather control the police than the Islamic terrorists want people to die.”


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"The Supreme Court will hear arguments in early December on a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex “wedding,” citing religious objections. But this case is much bigger than a cake.
In 2012, two homosexuals visited Masterpiece Cake Shop in the Denver area to order a wedding cake. Shop owner Jack Phillips said he couldn’t provide that cake, a decision that led to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and state courts ruling the baker violated state law by discriminating against the homosexuals. After a series of appeals, the case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. Arguments will be heard December 5.
“The question before the Court is whether the Constitution provides a constitutional right to discriminate based either on religion or on artistic freedom, in violation of long-standing laws that apply to businesses that are open to the public,” said James Esseks of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a media call Monday.

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But Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, argues this case is about free speech.
“This is government coercion at its worst,” he says. “This is the government trying to force an individual to use their artistic and expressive talents to promote a message with which, in this case, Jack Phillips disagrees based on sincerely held religious convictions.”

Staver recalls that the Supreme Court once ruled against the Jehovah’s Witnesses and their objections to saluting the U.S. flag.
“As a result, different kinds of temples and places of meeting were burned,” he continues. “Then the Supreme Court, embarrassed by its decision, came back a couple years later and found that the government cannot coerce a message with which the person disagrees; and therefore allowed them to opt-out of the mandatory Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of class time in the public schools.”

Jack Phillips (Colo. baker)Staver believes that was the correct decision – and the same decision that the Supreme Court should reach in the case involving Jack Philips and Masterpiece Cake Shop.
“The government should not force any individual, whether they’re an artistic cake baker, florist, or any other person engaging in speech – that’s what the issue is here – to present a message that is contrary to their values and their conscience and, in this case, their religious convictions,” the attorney concludes.

More than just a cake
Friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed on behalf of the LGBT community and Jack Phillips. Among those filing in support of Phillips are Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in Arizona and the Memphis-based Center for Religious Expression (CRE).

Scruggs
“There’s no license to discriminate going on because Jack doesn’t discriminate at all,” states ADF attorney Jonathan Scruggs. “He welcomes all people of all different statuses, of all different characteristics. He serves all people, including people from the LGBT community. He just can’t promote a message that violates his faith.”
As a way of comparison, the attorney suggests that a web-design studio owned by lesbians shouldn’t be forced to create a website criticizing same-sex marriage. “So we’re all seeking a kind of neutral playing field in this respect,” he adds. “Ironically, it’s the ACLU and groups like this who are really seeking to single out and compel people to go against the core of what they believe and who they are.”
CRE attorney M. Anthony Mangini explains why the case is much bigger than a cake.
“There’s been a suggestion that it’s just a cake, that it doesn’t really express a message – and in fact, the ACLU kind of suggests that the message couldn’t really be the reason that Jack Phillips denied them because the gay couple hadn’t yet explained what message they wanted on the cake,” he says.
“But the fact of the matter is it was a wedding cake for a gay wedding,” Mangini points out, “and the entire reason that people seek out designers to custom-design wedding cakes – rather than going out and buying one from Costco – is because [designers] put their artistic talent in it and show that the wedding that it’s celebrating is worthy of celebration, that it’s something valuable. And that’s just not something that Jack can necessarily promote with his artistic talent.”
Just as minority and civil rights organisations have spoken out against Phillips, some two dozen minority and civil rights organizations have voiced support for the Colorado baker. “They recognise the fact that the right to speak, the right to exercise your religion really is a fundamental right in the American experience,” says ADF attorney Scruggs.
In September, the U.S. Justice Department filed a brief in support of Phillips; and last week, Trump administration attorneys asked the high court for permission to argue on behalf of Phillips."

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"Some American slaveowners and abolitionists started a movement in 1816 and founded American Colonization Society. Some white southerners were uncomfortable with having freed blacks in their areas because it would upset the social balancing act that it took to keep slave submissive. Some freed slaves were willing to take on a new life in the motherland so they volunteered to board the ships to start the resettlement along the Pepper Coast, or modern day Liberia. The people who choose to emigrate were mostly mulatto, protestant Christians. They imagined making a western style life in their colonies. They intermarried amongst each other and became an ethnic group referred to as Americo-Liberians. Because of their higher education level, they looked down on the native tribes in their territories and even had some violent confrontations with them. They started colonies like Mississippi-in-Africa, Edina, and Maryland. These colonies became counties when in 1847 Liberia gained its independence from the US, becoming the first independent republic in Africa, and the only country at the time to be run by blacks. They struggled to mix with the locals as the various town chiefs across the territories felt their power and authority being usurped by these newcomers. Many of the freed slaves who went to Liberia were not able to take the intense monsoon and the diseases like malaria. So some died while others adapted. However, the Americo-Liberians held the reins of the political power in the country, forming a tightly knit elite. There were also some Caribbean settlers who arrived, especially after a recruitment mission to the island of Barbados. Eventually, all the colonies and annexed territories were integrated into Liberia, and it took on the shape that we now see it in today. Although the native tribes that lived in Liberian territory were 95% of the population, they didn't become birthright citizens until 1904. They had been following the U.S.' lead on the majority of their political issues, even basing their constitution and flag off that of the U.S."

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Re: THAT's LIFE...

Post by Elizabeth »

Sweden is becoming a war zone with twelve bombings in twenty-four days

In a couple of decades, we'll be looking at an Islamic Caliphate in Western Europe.

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