Society & Culture – Page 97 – Effects of Anxiety

Networks call South Carolina for Hillary within seconds

Entrance and exit polls predicted that Hillary Clinton would win South Carolina by a wide margin, and the news networks weren’t about to disagree, calling the race for Clinton literally the second the polls officially closed.

That African American vote is a major focus of the pundits looking at exit poll data.

We’ll post some actual vote totals as they come in.

Literally Every Bigfoot Show…

RISE!!!

‘Gotta be satire’! Guess why U. of Oregon SJWs wanted to ditch this MLK quote

This is not a drill. Repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

From Mediaite:

Student leaders atthe University of Oregon debated removing a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. from its student center, arguing that the quote was not inclusive enough for modern understandings of diversity.

Oregons Erb Memorial Union, which is currently under renovation, had the following famous King quote on the wall:I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream

You might be asking yourself what’s so backward about what King said. Well, here’s your answer:

Diversity is somuch more than race, said one sophomore architecture major. Obviously race still plays a big role. But there are people whoidentify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that.

It’s official: Everything is terrible.

Team USA shooter Amanda Furrer throws Corey Cogdell under the bus? Updated

http://twitter.com/#!/Amanda_Furrer/status/230976637313888257

Furrer posted that tweet just after anti-hunting activists began their vicious attacks on Corey Cogdell — a story brought to you exclusively by Twitchy.

Since the controversy began, Furrer has not tweeted a single word in support of Cogdell.

Fortunately, many Americans have stepped up to the plate to voice their support for a U.S. Olympic shooter facing unhinged death wishes.

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Previous Twitchy coverage:

Corey Cogdell receives outpouring of support after being threatened by anti-hunting mob

Anti-hunting mob urges Team USA shooter Corey Cogdell to shoot herself, advocates violence against family

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Update: Furrer has deleted the tweet featured at the top of this post and stated unequivocally that she stands by Cogdell:

I am in full support of my teammates and their decisions to participate in the hunting sports. Prior comments on hunting from me were in…

— Amanda Furrer (@Amanda_Furrer) August 8, 2012

…response to threatening messages I received from people ignorant to facts. I am very close with my teammates and stand by them.

— Amanda Furrer (@Amanda_Furrer) August 8, 2012

It sounds like Furrer may have received threatening messages from anti-hunting activists. We have asked her for clarification and will update if/when we hear back.

Confirmed:

@TwitchyTeam that is correct. My previous statement was misconstrued and taken out of context of the situation I was put in.

— Amanda Furrer (@Amanda_Furrer) August 8, 2012

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Update: Gold medal winner Kim Rhode, who was sharing a root beer with Cogdell this afternoon, retweeted Furrer’s supportive tweets.

Twitter user schools Nick Kristof on Lake Chad and ‘climate change’

http://twitter.com/#!/NickKristof/status/354864926214463488

Nick Kristof, the man responsible for the crappiest New York Times column ever, has produced one of the crappiest tweets in recent memory.

He implies that the shrinkage of Lake Chad, once the eighth-largest lake in the world, constitutes clear-cut evidence of “climate change,” by which he means global warming caused by rising man-made carbon dioxide emissions.

According to this report by Worldlakes.org, however, Lake Chad “completely dried up four times between 1400 and 1910″ a period of time that largely preceded increases in industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

The Lake started to dry up again by the end of the 1960s, due to drought: “Within a decade the lake had shrunk to about one-tenth of its normal area.” This was in the 1970s, when some people were more worried about global cooling than global warming.

As Twitter user @VictorB123 notes, inefficient irrigation projects contributed to the lake’s shrinkage:

http://twitter.com/#!/VictorB123/status/354870197821251584

Even Kristof had to admit “all that’s true” but he continued to blame changes in the local climate:

http://twitter.com/#!/NickKristof/status/354870502122201088

Of course, climate changes. Always has, always will.

http://twitter.com/#!/VictorB123/status/354870816053264385 http://twitter.com/#!/VictorB123/status/354871058811191296 http://twitter.com/#!/VictorB123/status/354871269054877696

Kristof’s got two Pulitzer prizes, but @VictorB123 has got facts and logic on his side. It was no contest.

(Hat tip: Sooper Mexican.)