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Defiant wrote:

A contributor to the Huffington Post and notable male feminist has claimed Sen. Ted Cruz ‘s awkward effort to hug and kiss his uninterested daughter isn’t simply an odd campaign moment, but actually an example of “rape culture.”

Cruz suffered some embarrassment Sunday when video surfaced of him attempting to hug and kiss his 7-year-old daughter Caroline while out on the Iowa campaign trail. Caroline was not terribly interested, creating a strange scene.

A contributor to the Huffington Post and notable male feminist has claimed Sen. Ted Cruz ‘s awkward effort to hug and kiss his uninterested daughter isn’t simply an odd campaign moment, but actually an example of “rape culture.”

A contributor to the Huffington Post and notable male feminist has claimed Sen. Ted Cruz ‘s awkward effort to hug and kiss his uninterested daughter isn’t simply an odd campaign moment, but actually an example of “overbearing parent culture.”

Holman wrote:
I assume that even Ted Cruz's kids love their dad.

ImLawBoy wrote:

A contributor to the Huffington Post and notable male feminist has claimed Sen. Ted Cruz ‘s awkward effort to hug and kiss his uninterested daughter isn’t simply an odd campaign moment, but actually an example of “rape culture.”

I'm no fan of Ted Cruz, but if I can't mortify my children in public by trying to kiss them when they want nothing to do with me, then the terrorists have won.

Holman wrote:Those per-capita costs have to do with post-1970 legal requirements (e.g. Title I, the ADA, etc) to educate even those with various deficits and disabilities, many of whom require specialist assistance and special facilities. Before the increases mapped in that chart, such kids were usually just washed out, kept home, ignored, or institutionalized.

Kraken wrote:

Holman wrote:Those per-capita costs have to do with post-1970 legal requirements (e.g. Title I, the ADA, etc) to educate even those with various deficits and disabilities, many of whom require specialist assistance and special facilities. Before the increases mapped in that chart, such kids were usually just washed out, kept home, ignored, or institutionalized.

So what we really need is better children.

hitbyambulance wrote:

Kraken wrote:So what we really need is better children.

Eugenics shows the way!

Holman wrote:Wellll... I think that little meme crosses the line into making fun of the candidate's children, or something. It's an unfortunate private moment grabbed and repurposed for political points. (It's not like he was using her in an ad to ask Jesus to carpet bomb Muslims.)

I assume that even Ted Cruz's kids love their dad.

Kraken wrote:

Holman wrote:Those per-capita costs have to do with post-1970 legal requirements (e.g. Title I, the ADA, etc) to educate even those with various deficits and disabilities, many of whom require specialist assistance and special facilities. Before the increases mapped in that chart, such kids were usually just washed out, kept home, ignored, or institutionalized.

So what we really need is better children.

The final chapter of Mario Woods’ life began when he slashed a stranger for no apparent reason and ended with him staring at the barrel of a San Francisco police officer’s gun and saying, “You better squeeze that ... and kill me.”

That’s the account provided by officers who were on the scene of an incident that has caused an uproar in the city and shaken both the Police Department and Mayor Ed Lee’s administration.

Within minutes of when he first defied police efforts to arrest him, Woods, 26, lay dead on a Bayview district sidewalk, shot by as many as 15 rounds fired by five officers.
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The first beanbag round, shot from a 12-gauge weapon, “had no effect,” August’s partner wrote. Police then hit Woods with two more rounds, including one that struck his leg, causing the limp that Woods displayed in the videos of the police confrontation. Still, Woods wouldn’t drop the knife.

When a fourth beanbag was fired using a more powerful 40mm gun, the officer said, “The subject appeared to be stunned and crouched to one knee but still refused to drop his knife. ... (He) quickly regained his balance and stood back up.”

At that point, another officer tried to subdue Woods using pepper spray. He didn’t appear to react, the police accounts say.

“I then noticed a large crowd of people behind me,” said August’s partner. “I walked toward the crowd to advise them to back up when I saw the subject with the knife still in hand begin to walk toward the crowd.”

As Woods headed toward the bystanders, August tried to cut him off, police accounts say. In the videos of the shooting, he can be seen stepping into Woods’ path.

“I yelled, ‘Back up!’ as loud as I could at the crowd when I heard multiple gunshots,” August’s partner said. It was the sound of August and four other officers — Winson Seto, Antonio Santos, Nicholas Cuevas and Scott Phillips — firing their weapons.

The U.S. Department of Justice said it will conduct a review of the department in wake of the killing.

GreenGoo wrote:I can't read that.

Setsomething for Hillary.

Moliere wrote:

Taking advantage of their Super Bowl on air time.