Theris posted:

If it wasn't for high likelihood of his efforts wiping the phone or otherwise contaminating evidence, I'd like to see him try. If only because I'm super curious as to how one uses social engineering on a dead couple.

SubponticatePoster posted:

Incorrect. Golf owns if:

You either rented the clubs or didn't pay more than $50 for the set (bonus if they're completely the wrong size for you)
You've never taken a lesson and you play like the old couple in Caddyshack
You're drunk

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

Not enough to justify the ecological waste and inherent wealth inequality.

To the guillotines with ye!

Theris posted:

If it wasn't for high likelihood of his efforts wiping the phone or otherwise contaminating evidence, I'd like to see him try. If only because I'm super curious as to how one uses social engineering on a dead couple.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/700368610322206720

America.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/700368610322206720

America.

UV_Catastrophe posted:

It's almost like our constitution has some pretty serious bugs and defects, and the only reason we haven't had a greater number of constitutional crises in our history is sheer, dumb luck.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/700368610322206720

America.

foobardog posted:

I'd be fine with replacing the greens with turf or local vegetation for ecological reasons. Just make it a park, put up an area to keep kids from walking on the fairway, make it free or cheap.

Alternatively, nationalize all clubs, keep fees low, ban private clubs.

Golf is all about hitting white things into a little hole so you can bask in nature. Just let the ball represent capitalism and white supremacy.

The point, comrade, is not to destroy golf itself, but to share its blessings with the people. We must form a dictatorship of the gophers!

Chokes McGee posted:

John McAffee can't make AV software that isn't poo poo, I'm somehow unconcerned about that psychopath's credentials.

UV_Catastrophe posted:

It's almost like our constitution has some pretty serious bugs and defects, and the only reason we haven't had a greater number of constitutional crises in our history is sheer, dumb luck.

foobardog posted:

I'd be fine with replacing the greens with turf or local vegetation for ecological reasons. Just make it a park, put up an area to keep kids from walking on the fairway, make it free or cheap.

Alternatively, nationalize all clubs, keep fees low, ban private clubs.

Golf is all about hitting white things into a little hole so you can bask in nature. Just let the ball represent capitalism and white supremacy.

The point, comrade, is not to destroy golf itself, but to share its blessings with the people. We must form a dictatorship of the gophers!

zoux posted:

We may not have been wholly fair to Jeb if it turns out that Trump can even own the Pope on twitter.

Theris posted:

If it wasn't for high likelihood of his efforts wiping the phone or otherwise contaminating evidence, I'd like to see him try. If only because I'm super curious as to how one uses social engineering on a dead couple.

DemeaninDemon posted:

The Pope's entire thing is still "Hey fuckers quit being dicks to each other" right?

DemeaninDemon posted:

The Pope's entire thing is still "Hey fuckers quit being dicks to each other" right?

zoux posted:

weekly font posted:

Hell yeah. If you're not treating golf like it's the outdoor equivalent of going bowling, you're doing it very wrong.

DemeaninDemon posted:

The Pope's entire thing is still "Hey fuckers quit being dicks to each other" right?

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/700368610322206720

America.

KomradeX posted:

Well he did just have a joint statement with the Russian Patriarch condemning gay marriage

Poonerman posted:

I'm so excited for this election cycle to be over

computer parts posted:

https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/700374160686477312

FetusSlapper posted:

Actually playing golf seems like a societal cover charge for being drunk in public and puttering around in golf

Rubber Tucky posted:

Amazing comments from a Pope who sleeps every night in a building THAT HAS WALLS.

radical meme posted:

The second part of that headline is way more important but, will likely not be covered as much as the first.

Combed Thunderclap posted:

Gosh, I sure hope the old "Pope Is Mind-Controlling Catholics" meme doesn't reappear en masse just in time for election season.

EDIT: I mean the old canard that Catholics will obey the Pope over the President but the suggestion that the Pope literally mind-controls Catholics would also work

OxySnake posted:

You've been spraying the ball left, right, and missing every putt. But just once you pull out a seven iron and put the ball 5 inches from the pin and it's the coolest God drat feeling ever. Then you get to the next tee, buy a beer from the drink cart and put your next drive into a pond and who the gently caress cares did you see that shot I had?!?

radical meme posted:

The second part of that headline is way more important but, will likely not be covered as much as the first.

radical meme posted:

The second part of that headline is way more important but, will likely not be covered as much as the first.

Pixelboy posted:

I'm sure there may be very nice people there, but at this point our only option may be to fence this cesspool off - nobody in or out. Let them die off and start again.

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At night during the camp, according to two African-American parents, their children were made to act as slaves on the auction block while some teachers and camp instructors acted as slave masters, chasing them on real horsebacks.

The activity, called “Underground Railroad,” is dubbed by the YMCA as an educational experience. But for parent Tiffany Birchett, the slavery re-enactment last year traumatized her 10-year-old daughter, Makayla Birchett. The mother’s complaint reached the doors of the ACLU of Michigan this year, which wasted no time in forcing the YMCA to immediately halt the activity.
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Birchett said she sent an email to the school principal, William J. Murphy, on Dec. 11 detailing her daughter’s “racially insensitive experience” at the camp and that the child had since been “displaying bouts of sadness.”

She said in her email that “the slave masters (camp instructors and teachers) had certificates which allowed them to pay for the slaves, and the students were required to hold up the certificates when they were bought or sold.”

The email also noted: “As the mother of an African American son and daughter, I am dismayed that Pardee Elementary would authorize and condone such an extremely racially insensitive and damaging activity.”

Murphy, the principal, responded by underscoring the value of the Underground Railroad experience, stating: “As of this response, not one student has expressed to us that they felt that way about the UGRR (Underground Railroad activity).”

He also said, “As part of being in character, students/staff are reminded not to look any of the UGRR characters in the eyes while interacting with them. At that time in history it was considered ‘disrespectful’ to do so.”

Murphy forwarded Birchett’s concerns to Nancy Burger, director of Outdoor Environmental Education for the YMCA Storer Camps, who responded to the principal denying Birchett’s claims.

“In the evaluations at the end of the week, 54 of the students said that it was their favorite evening program, which is impressive as it shows the students truly learned something from the experience,” Burger told Murphy. When contacted by this writer and asked to explain the metrics of the evaluation and the racial makeup of the students, she declined to speak on the matter.

During an interview with Birchett, another parent, Regina Crutchfield, came forward to say her daughter Brooklyn Jones, a fifth-grader at Jane Addams Elementary in Redford, had gone through a similar experience in November at the Y’s Storer Camp.

“My daughter said she was scared. One of the guys (camp instructors) re-enacted killing a deputy. They should not do that in front of a 10-year-old, and not when kids are hundreds of miles away from home,” Crutchfield said. “If they want to teach black history, they should do that in the classroom.”

Mark Fancher, staff attorney for the Michigan ACLU Racial Justice Project, wrote a letter on Feb. 4 to Kevin Washington, president and CEO of the YMCA USA, demanding a halt to the program. Washington is an African-American.

“Not only is the Underground Railroad activity emotionally and intellectually harmful,” Fancher wrote, “it also creates a racially hostile environment that has legal implications both for the camp in its role as an educational institution or agent of an educational institution, and for the schools that send their students to the camp facility.”

The same day the ACLU letter was dispatched, Brad Toft, the president of the YMCA of Greater Toledo, which operates the YMCA Storer Camps, called Fancher to tell him they were ending the Underground Railroad project.

Rob Thomas, communication director for the YMCA of Greater Toledo, said the program had been in effect for 20 years and is held several times during the year. About 40 school districts, private and public, have participated in the camps, he said.

While denying a request for an interview, Thomas said: “The program was discontinued when we were recently informed of a child who felt unsafe during the experience.”

Fancher praised the decision to end the program.

“We applaud the YMCA’s mature and responsible decision to terminate the Underground Railroad activity. The activity presented a risk of trauma for children who identify with their enslaved ancestors,” Fancher said. “We encourage further efforts to educate children about slavery but without re-enactments and in consultation with experts.”