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20 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

The box of worms is that "emotional support animals" are protected by the Fair Housing Act: if you have a registered ESA, a landlord cannot deny you residence for having a pet, even in an otherwise pet-free apartment.

But they can bill the **** out of you for supposed damage done, etc. And if the dog is a nuisance

 

A friend of mine tried it. Landowner got on case so much that she moved out, he let her break lease early no penalty. Then !@#$ed her with damage to the place by the dog which was exaggerated but she didn't feel like fighting him and paid $1200 for it.

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Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville has agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by the school’s College Republicans chapter.

 

As previously reported by Campus Reform, conservative students at the university were confronted in September by a campus police officer, who told them that their free speech ball was “scaring” classmates and that they had failed to secure the proper permission to hold the demonstration.

 

When the students objected that they were simply exercising their First Amendment right to express themselves in a public place, the officer rejected their contention, arguing that the state university campus is not public.

 

 

 

 

 

This sort of thing is so clearly wrong, it shouldn’t even get qualified immunity.

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More PC Culture..............

 

 

"Our film should not have made light of Peter Rabbit’s archnemesis, Mr. McGregor, being allergic to blackberries, even in a cartoonish, slapstick way."

 
Apology of the day, from "Sony Apologizes After ‘Peter Rabbit’ Movie Exploits a Food Allergy, Upsetting Parents" (NYT). The rabbits attack a man by slingshooting a blackberry into a man's mouth. 
When the rabbits fire a blackberry into Mr. McGregor’s mouth, [said Kenneth Mendez, president and chief executive of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America], “there’s a close-up of his face, and it’s him holding his neck like he’s choking.” When Mr. McGregor collapses and appears to be dead for a moment, the rabbits cheer....
“Making light of this condition hurts our members because it encourages the public not to take the risk of allergic reactions seriously, and this cavalier attitude may make them act in ways that could put an allergic person in danger.” 
 
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18 minutes ago, B-Man said:

More PC Culture..............

 

 

"Our film should not have made light of Peter Rabbit’s archnemesis, Mr. McGregor, being allergic to blackberries, even in a cartoonish, slapstick way."

 
Apology of the day, from "Sony Apologizes After ‘Peter Rabbit’ Movie Exploits a Food Allergy, Upsetting Parents" (NYT). The rabbits attack a man by slingshooting a blackberry into a man's mouth. 
When the rabbits fire a blackberry into Mr. McGregor’s mouth, [said Kenneth Mendez, president and chief executive of the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America], “there’s a close-up of his face, and it’s him holding his neck like he’s choking.” When Mr. McGregor collapses and appears to be dead for a moment, the rabbits cheer....
“Making light of this condition hurts our members because it encourages the public not to take the risk of allergic reactions seriously, and this cavalier attitude may make them act in ways that could put an allergic person in danger.” 
 
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I do not understand this.  

 

Seriously.  Usually, I can see where, in the closed world-view these people have, these sorts of things proceed from the initial assumptions and lemmas via a self-consistent logic.  

 

But I do not understand the internal logic by which the AAFA criticizes animated rabbits.  

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1 minute ago, Azalin said:

 

Hey now, rabbits have been a menace to humanity since medieval days.....

 

 

 

 

The Anglo-American Association of Decapitated Knights to lodge a complaint in 3...2...1...

 

Cugalbanana to lodge a complaint with the AAADK for use of the term "Anglo-American" in 6...5...4...

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16 hours ago, DC Tom said:

As good a place as any:  people complain because whites don't portray an Egyptian queen as black.  :wallbash:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5558205/egypt-queen-nefertiti-face-race-row/

 

Back in 1984 Egypt complained about Hollywood casting a black actor (Louis Gossett Jr) to play Anwar Sadat

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/02/movies/upset-by-sadat-egypt-bars-columbia-films.html?pagewanted=all

 

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