Random Politics & Religion #07

So lots of people dead in Turkey.

I'll offer one brief moment of sympathy and prayer....

....before I then wonder how such an act of terrorism was capable in a country that already its citizens from owning semi automatic "assault style" weapons.

I hope, when I die, however I go, I hope someone running for office or posting on a gaming forum offers an insincere prayer prior to politicizing my death.

Guns and Turks go back like spinal cord and a car seat.

I.e there isn't a gun ban in Turkey.

Insincere prayers are the only prayers I make!

Mayor Sadiq Kahn of London has banned from public transportation advertisements that promote unhealthy body images. The mayor’s office announced the ban, which starts next month, on Tuesday.

Khan, who took office as the first Muslim mayor of the city in May, said that as the father of teenage daughters, he is worried about the impression advertisements can make on young women.

“I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising [,] which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end,” Khan is quoted in a press release.

Kahn also asked the Transportation for London network to establish a review board that will decide which of the Tube advertisements pressures people to “conform to unhealthy or unrealistic body images.”

Critics have widely attacked the decision, saying it is too vague to be implemented properly, it suppresses advertisers’ rights to free speech and it caters to easily-offended ‘social justice warriors.’

The commercial development director for TfL defended the ban, arguing the permanent nature of advertisements in the Tube makes the transportation system responsible for censoring messaging.

“Our customers cannot simply switch off or turn a page if an advertisement offends or upsets them and we have a duty to ensure the copy we carry reflects that unique environment,” Director Graeme Craig said. “We want to encourage great advertising that engages people and enhances the transport network.”

Last April, London was at the center of a controversy about a “body-shaming” advertisement featuring a weight-loss product, a model wearing a bikini, and the words, “Are you beach body ready?”

The ad caused an international uproar, with Tube patrons scribbling messages like “#everydaysexism” and “If my body is on a beach, then it is ready” on the posters and posing in swimsuits in front of the ads. The ads were eventually removed, but consumer support for the company generated more than $1.5 million in revenue in four days, Breitbart reported.

Academic research supports Khan’s claim that young women are influenced by advertisements’ idealized portrayals of beauty. A study from the American Academy of Pediatrics from 1999 found that “47% of the girls were influenced by magazine pictures to want to lose weight, but only 29% were actually overweight.”

Further, “Girls who were already dissatisfied with their bodies showed more dieting, anxiety, and bulimic symptoms after prolonged exposure to fashion and advertising images in a teen girl magazine.”

The question remains, however: should the mayor have taken this far-reaching action? Some have accused the mayor of applying the Muslim values of intense modesty to London. A transport official denied the claims, linking the ban to mental health considerations.

The mayor’s office has not named any criteria by which advertising content must abide. Are all pictures of models in swimsuits banned? What about pictures of thin models (how thin is too thin?), or advertisements about ice cream or cookies or potato chips? Can fast food restaurants run ads? Khan’s vague policy can quickly turn into a slippery slope of censorship.

TfL announced it will also publish an annual report reviewing all the advertising campaigns that run in public transport.

London's favorite mayor is enacting Sharia law in Britain's capital banning public images of women in Bikinis on Public transportation. This is just the beginning.

Istanbul airport attack: 36 dead, 147 injured, Turkish officials say

http://benghazi.house.gov/NewInfo


Ze reports official

Also, related:


Democrats can't even keep Trump out of a Benghazi report. You can't make this stuff up.

Keep in mind there are 3 versions of this report floating around.

The version from the Democrats: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2917673/Report-issued-by-Democrats-on-Benghazi-Committee.pdf


The version the majority of the Republicans agreed on: That's the link Flavin and I posted earlier.

A third version that was not signed off by the GoP members but was drafted by 2 "extremely conservative" is supposedly the most critical and condemning and I'm trying to find its link...

I'm just shocked anyone would care enough to read a report that isn't deemed homework !

I am still in shock that you read The Confessions of Saint Augustine

The article said he ordered it.

So do you and londoners accept Sharia Law in small doses ?

I wonder what's next beating women at public beaches for wearing Bikinis ? Oh wait that's already happening.

I am still in shock that you read The Confessions of Saint Augustine

" let's be honest, immigration without assimilation is not immigration. It's Invasion ".

So lots of people dead in Turkey.

I'll offer one brief moment of sympathy and prayer....

....before I then wonder how such an act of terrorism was capable in a country that already its citizens from owning semi automatic "assault style" weapons.

http://www.newsmax.com/MichaelShannon/earmark-federal-funding-Planned-Parenthood/2016/06/29/id/736192/

The stupid, it burns.

Assimilation doesn't happen overnight, or even over years.

or ever. if you don't want to be assimilated. (see: The Amish)

The most important part of the equation that was overlooked by, in one example, Bill Clinton in regards to the Somalis.

Is that a lot of them didn't want to come here and become americans.

And probably neither did the italian grandmother that never learned english in your story. But her son that brought her over here did and he raised his kids to be americans.

and despite their grandmother's desperate attempt to do that spitting through the fingers thing to ward off evil spirits the kids grew up to drink budwieser and act like douchebags (see: The Jersey Shore)

The time of allowing religious fundamentalists to push native americans off their land so these reluctant immigrants can come create little closed off societies from the rest of america is OVER.

It was a stupid idea from the jump and to continue it because "it's our tradition to do so" is even dumber.

There is a difference between religious freedom and Jim Jones level dumbass homicidal / suicidal ***. It's time to wake up and quit pussyfooting around death cults so as not to offend their delicate sensibilities.

Oh you belong to a Religious cult that believes in idiotic medieval practices like death punishment for all gay people and woman that get out of line, by stoning? oh yeah and you refuse to give them up?

ACCESS DENIED!

You're just a racist and a xenophobic bigot.

That's not a ban

What do you call banning semi automatic gun ownership then if not a "ban"?

<wait's patiently>