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KIM Kardashian kept her 39th birthday celebrations going last night with a lavish family feast at her LA home.

The superstar's husband Kanye West and mum Kris Jenner hired Kim's favourite restaurant Carousel to cater for the family in Palm Springs.

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A huge dining table was decorated with a seriously impressive floral display including a copy of her famous torso fragrance bottle.

Her guests had sweet treats in the garden, with her children, nieces and nephews loving the churros.

Kanye answered the age old question: what do you get the person who has everything? By donating $1million to Cut 50 Buried Alive Project Equal Justice Initiative Anti-Recidivism Coalition, in her name.

It went down a treat, with Kim writing on Twitter this morning: "I got amazing gifts from my whole family and Kanye for me the most amazing bags. But he also donated $1 million to my favorite charities that work so hard on prison reform on my behalf from him and the kids. This makes my heart so happy!"

The reality star shared the certificate from the donation on her Instagram stories.

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Kim also had a dinner party followed by a game of Cards Against Humanity the previous day.

The reality star was joined by her nearest and dearest apart from her mum Kris, who skipped the bash in favour of Jennifer Lawrences wedding.

Kim gave fans an insight into the party with a series of videos, revealing her youngest sister Kylie did her make up for her.

There was another dinner party the night before, with letters that read Happy Kim Day and huge bunches of balloon adorning the table.

Each guest had a party hat and fun glasses to wear as well as various other fun props scattered around the table.

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Kim had some added treats including a necklace that said birthday babe and a hat that read birthday princess.

As the evening wore on the gang settled down for a game of Cards Against Humanity - a naughty game in players complete fill-in-the-blank statements using words or phrases typically deemed as offensive, risqu or politically incorrect printed on playing cards.

Kris meanwhile was attending Jennifer Lawrences star studded wedding in Rhode Island with her boyfriend Corey Gamble.

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Actress Jennifer, who is huge fan of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, has grown close with Kris over the years after striking up an unlikely friendship.

Kris was invited as a surprise guest to Jennifers 25th birthday party because she is such a super fan and they hit it off.

The pair famously got drunk together on martinis and Jennifer ended up naked in Kris closet.

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Alumni joked about censoring what they could say

School marching bands can be pretty politically incorrect.

Columbia University shut down its marching bands annual Orgo Night tradition because it made some students feel unsafe and triggered. Stanford University wrenched control of its band away from students because of its systemic cultural problem, sparking cries of benevolent sexism since female students were about to take the reins of the organization.

Black, Hispanic and Asian members of a Georgia high school marching band got in trouble for spelling out COON on the field.

But Harvard Universitys marching band is going a bold new direction: humorlessness.

More than 70 members left the room at its own centennial party Saturday, The Harvard Crimson reports. What offended them so much?

Jokes about the bands new sexual harassment policy, which provides band members with a formal disclosure system to report incidences of sexual misconduct:

At the banquet, former band member Richard Rich D. Horn 72 began his speech with a joke about the groups decision to implement the policy, which undergraduates distributed to alumni ahead of the reunion. As Horn continued to speak, roughly 75 attendees left the room, according to an emailed statement by the bands senior staff. Many of those who walked out did not return for the remainder of the event.

Its not exactly clear what Horn said, but he wasnt alone: A previous alumni speaker made a similar joke. Both apologized after. Horn grovelled profusely in an email that he was not questioning the policy but that I ought to have known better.Hopefully, I will do better in any future occasion.

Camaron OConnor Wynn, Harvard Band Foundation president, wrote in an email that the offending alumni were brief (not primary) speakers and their [a]ttempts at humor touched on the Bands sexual misconduct policy as a policy in the sense of the necessity of censoring ones own speech to fit with the new policy.

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The bands intolerance for jokes shows that Harvard is a new Puritan sect, a former Harvard band member and leader told The College Fix in an email, explaining in part why he did not attend the college reunion or bands centennial this weekend.

The former member suggested that the band had internalized the administration controls, including prior review of routines, that had been imposed on the band decades earlier. Prior review seemed legitimate insofar as we were guests of Harvard Athletics and the band had a reputation for raw content before then.

Another band alumnus, who said he was in the room during the walkout, emailed The Fix a week after the incident to question the band leadership for not reviewing the material of the alumni speaker.

I was perturbed because leadership had to have known the speaker gave a snarky speech five years earlier at a related celebration. They then walked out on their own chosen speaker, likely creating ill will among several hundred alumni guests.

The alum, who told The Fix he graduated in the 1980s, said the offended band members also shouted less-than-pleasantries at the speaker while others extended the middle-finger-of-welcome.

Alumni might have thought they could joke about the policy because it had already sparked controversy in an alumni Facebook group.

Senior staff for the band told the Crimson that some alumni wrote in a chat that the policy stood in contrast to the spirit of the band that they had known in their time:

[M]uch has changed even within the past decade, they wrote. The jokes that were made may express discomfort in confronting this change; older alumni may have been surprised to see just how much the structure and nature of the Band have changed over time.

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UPDATE: Another band alumnus contacted The Fix after this post was published to share his thoughts and more detail on what happened during the walkout. His comments have been added.

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Kylin Hill and the Bulldogs fly to Arkansas next week, for a 3:00 kickoff on the SEC Network. (Photo: Matt Bush, USA TODAY Sports)

Mississippi States month of mostly road trips concludes next weekend at Arkansas. Now the Bulldogs know their game time on November 2.

Kickoff on Reynolds Razorback Stadium will be 3:00, as announced today by the Southeastern Conference. The Dogs and Hogs get to perform for the SEC Networks broadcasting pleasureor at least the pleasure of one fan base. It will be the fourth time this 2019 season that Mississippi State has played in one of the SECNs slots, though the first for the mid-afternoon game after three morning or noon local kickoffs.

This game will be opposite the leagues premier contest of November 2, with the annualif politically incorrect title nowWorlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party in Jacksonville between Georgia and Florida airing at 2:30central.

Bulldog fans have some recent reasons to make the trip to Fayetteville. After a long, long stretch of State football failing to find success in that state, whatever the venue, now MSU teams have taken three-straight wins within Arkansas boundaries. It began with the overtime victory in Little Rock in 2013, itself a first-ever such win for State.

In 2015 came an epic shootout with Dak Prescotts senior team and the Razorbacks swapping scores for four wild and frozen quarters in RRS. The game came down though to special teams, with linebacker Beniquez Brown blocking Arkansas field goal kick and preserving a 51-50 final.

Two years ago on the same field Nick Fitzgerald had to throw a touchdown in the final minute, and the defense make a mid-field stop, for a flat bunch of Bulldogs to escape upset by a 28-21 margin.

That game ends a stretch of State playing just once at home, and four conference contests, in a 35-day span. The Bulldogs will have an open date upon return home.

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Today, readers debate the funding and fashion of public art, and question if Adelaide needs so many local councils.

Commenting on the story: Unloved statue to call Adelaide home in 2020

The absurd debacle of the Terrance Plowright sculpture that has already become a perpetual headache for Adelaide highlights the need for greater transparency and public accountability in the practice of gifting cultural material of questionable merit to our major public institutions, in this case the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Did the gift provide a big tax deduction to the philanthropist who donated it?

Who determined the seemingly inflated value of $2 million for an unwanted public sculpture with a dubious political history and no apparent critical support for its merits?

Given the obvious practical liabilities of the gift, why did AGSA consider it an acceptable addition to its collection of Australian contemporary art, when the artist has almost no national reputation beyond his various projects for local councils and community organisations within his own region in NSW?

Australias scheme that provides generous tax incentives for gifts to public cultural institutions is exemplary in its intentions, but too often questionable in its execution.

The reliance on tax deductible donations has also allowed state governments like that in South Australia to avoid their responsibility to provide adequate funding for acquisitions.

In short, the practice needs a serious public review to ensure that proper standards of probity and cultural value are maintained. Bruce Adams

The recycling of unloved sculpture gives pause for thought.

I recall that the now-loved statue of Queen Victoria between the QVB and the Town Hall in Sydney came from an Irish rubbish dump, doubtless placed there when she became politically incorrect after 1921.

The Romans were more direct, usually re-cutting the facial features to those of someone more acceptable to the next generation or simply destroying the offending items in a process neatly called damnatio.

The Liberal party rooms in Canberra seem to preserve their images of past Prime Ministers, even those who were dumped by machination or, like John Howard, by his electorate at the ballot box. Dont they care?

Think of the fuss about portraits of Margaret Thatcher. And then what will happen to images of Trump? J R Green

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When I came from Queensland (where the Brisbane City Council is reasonably effective for the whole city ) I was shocked to see the number of small suburban councils in Adelaide.

I understand the argument for local representation, but surely in a city the size of Adelaide one united council can achieve lower costs and more strategic planning. Julanne Sweeney

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You know the world is twisted when a top Pakistani Twitter trend after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decision on Friday was #indiafailedatfatf, with everyone sharing interviews of loose-tongued Indian politicians.

It is only a marginal concern that FATF has retained Pakistan in the grey list, issuing a set of withering criticisms that should throw up red flags all over Pakistan. The roadmap is clear after February 2020, when Pakistans current reprieve expires, it would face a series of actions that are currently used only against Iran.

Look at the FATF kicker in the last line of its post-plenary statement, where it excoriates Pakistan for barely comprehending the enormity of its actions or lack thereof: should significant and sustainable progress not be made across the full range of its action plan by the next Plenary, the FATF will take action, which could include the FATF calling on its members and urging all jurisdictions to advise their financial institutions to give special attention to business relations and transactions with Pakistan.

This language is uncannily similar to what has been used against Iran, which, along with North Korea, are the only two in the blacklist.

Pakistan did not escape the FATF blacklist because China, Malaysia and Turkey stood by it, though that played a part. Almost all countries at the FATF plenary used this argument: throwing Pakistan off the cliff would crash its economy and whatever government-army cocktail is in charge there would come under increasing pressure.

The issue of terror-funding would not be addressed, terrorist groups would continue to be able to access funds, launder money, etc, and basically become bigger monsters than they are already. And lets not forget the nukes.

Its a familiar argument and used for Pakistan by a world that continues to need it for several things. It brought many of the countries together in Paris this past week. With FATF holding three plenaries and therefore six reviews in a year, Pakistan will have its nose to the grindstone regarding increased compliance.

Increasingly too, a new tactic is discernible Pakistan may not be placed formally on the blacklist, but FATF is unobtrusively but surely tightening the screws.

The warning to financial institutions on transactions in Pakistan is a red flag that it can ignore at its own peril. But the army-Imran Khan combo are more likely to believe that since Pakistan gets regular billion-dollar lifelines from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and China, they can ride this through. Pakistan may not be on the blacklist, but they are not getting out of the grey list for a long time to come.

Meanwhile, in India, a sense of unrealism pervades. Nobody seriously following this issue in government ever thought Pakistan would get into the blacklist. But between ministers who should know better and mindless mavens on TV, public opinion was whipped up into a frenzy about supposed colour shades at the FATF grey, light grey, dark grey, purple, black, jet black and what have you. None of which exists, by the way. FATF does not put anybody on a blacklist, a usage deemed politically incorrect since 2012.

A public statement has replaced the blacklist, as in the case of Iran, and proactive counter measures have replaced what used to be the jet black grade, as in the case of North Korea. India, however, has been the most assiduous in collecting and analysing information regarding Pakistans egregious actions on terror funding, among others, and this goes a long way in being able to nail Pakistans lies.

So, no, Indian FATF diplomacy has not failed, but our diplomacy would be much better served if spinmeisters actually knew what they were shouting about. Once again, highlighting the growing convergence between India and the US, both countries had coordinated their positions last week, despite the fact that the US State Department remains, as ever, in awe of Pakistan actually arresting a couple of terror leaders days before the FATF plenary. It was Chinas first plenary as head of FATF, and, by all accounts, Xiangmin Liu acquitted himself rather well.

Will the continued pressure on Pakistan prevent it from openly exporting terrorism into India? You would think so, right? You would also, as always when it comes to Pakistan, be wrong.

Their desperation and pressure from the jihadi ecosystem is apparently proving too much for them. The security establishment in India has detected a quantum jump in terrorist infiltration into Kashmir in the past couple of months (and September figures arent out yet). Terror threat levels in the Kashmir valley are at an all-time high. The worry is the increased possibility of terror attacks in other parts of India as well.

The removal of Article 370 robbed Pakistan of a fundamental pillar of its domestic, international and security policy. Its not going to give up without a fight. India has to expect that Pakistan will exploit every tool that it can remotely lay its hands on. But we can also expect Pakistan to overplay its hand, as its loyalists in the US recently did, by feeding that countrys lawmakers that the Indian government was playing piped Hindu music in the Valley to indoctrinate Muslims. Mamata Banerjee has been playing piped Rabindra Sangeet on Kolkatas crossings for years. By now, the rest of the country should be singing, too.

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FATF Actions: Pakistan is under severe international pressure that India has helped mount - Economic Times

The left is becoming more unapologetically totalitarian every day. Every freedom-loving American should be alarmed.

From hounding conservatives out of restaurants to spitting on Trump supporters at rallies, from firing employees for politically incorrect statements to fining people for misgendering a person, the left is on a path toward absolutism.

Even some former and current leftists have recognized this intolerant trend and broken from their colleagues, lamenting their intolerance of opposing ideas and disturbing mission to suppress dissenting opinion.

Just the other day, three incidents typifying the lefts authoritarianism popped out at me as I was surveying the morning news.

The Federalist reported that venues in three North American cities Toronto, Brooklyn and Portland canceled screenings of a movie about Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson because of leftist criticism. Peterson exploded onto the scene in recent years with his no-nonsense, brilliant and clear-eyed critique of insane cultural trends, especially those concerning gender.

Petersons book 12 Rules for Life is wildly popular, and there are countless viral videos featuring his encounters with various leftist interviewers, panelists and audience members who have tried and failed to entrap him on a number of issues, and been reduced in every case to blundering, ineffectual bullies. If you havent partaken of these videos, you owe it to yourself to witness one arrogant leftist after another being gobsmacked by the simple weapon of unadulterated logic. These videos are irresistibly contagious and imminently satisfying for those longing to see intellectually defenseless, virtue-signaling finger waggers brought to their knees through the medium of polite debate.

Peterson, you see, wont kowtow to the leftists demand that we embrace the tenets of gender ideology, which teaches that gender is less about biology and more about personal identification. He refuses to support laws that criminalize ones failure to use a persons preferred pronouns, such as they instead of she.

Peterson has the temerity to say that men and women are biologically different, and that gender is not a fluid, human construct. That doesnt sit well with the left, who not only insists that we accept its cockeyed ideas as normal but also advocates imposing them on us by force of law.

Can you get your mind around the irony of the left banning a movie about Peterson because hes dangerous? Who is more dangerous: a person who peaceably expresses an opinion that happens to be supported by thousands of years of human experience and common sense, or those who try to ban his voice or even a movie about it? This is 1984-level scary, and its getting worse by the hour.

On what possible grounds is the left arguing that Petersons views are dangerous? He doesnt advocate violence; he isnt a rabble-rouser or revolutionary. He simply states his opinion instead of genuflecting to the despotic left.

But they claim that if Petersons views are openly expressed, he might convince other people that hes right, and that could lead to the proliferation of conservative thought. Petersons conservative perspectives on feminism and gender, according to an opinion piece in The New York Times, are very popular among young men and often are a path to more extreme content and ideologies. Think about this. Conservative speech is dangerous because it is a slippery slope to the adoption of conservative ideas? This must be satire. Do these clueless cranks know how ridiculous they sound?

Again, who is more extreme and dangerous: Jordan Peterson, who advocates the silencing of no one and expresses mainstream opinions, or leftists, who are actively trying to censor Peterson?

Please dont make the reckless mistake of dismissing this crusade against Peterson as exceptional. This is the lefts pattern, and it is becoming more aggressive all the time.

The second and third incidents I came across are further proof that the left is increasingly Stalinist. In the most recent Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Kamala Harris pushed for the suspension of President Trumps Twitter, speciously alleging that he is trying to obstruct justice and intimidate and threaten witnesses. You see, the left always has some urgent rationale to smother conservative speech whether its to prevent the incitement of violence or obstruction of justice. But it just wants to shut us up.

Those who would silence the other side are the very definition of dangerous. Dont take Harris musings lightly, even if she is mostly posturing to gin up more support from the Trump-hating Democratic base. It is instructive that efforts to muzzle speech almost always come from the left, not the right, because the left is insecure about the popularity of its kooky ideas.

The third incident involved demagogue and former Rep. Beto ORourke, who said in a CNN forum on LGBT issues that churches and religious organizations should lose their tax-exempt status if they oppose same-sex marriage. If I have to explain how outrageous this is, the country is in even greater danger than I imagined.

I found these examples in 15 minutes of reading this week. They are everywhere. America was founded on the idea of claiming and preserving our God-given liberties. The illiberal left, which believes our rights and freedoms come from government, is hell-bent on destroying our liberties and forcibly imposing its thoughts and ideas on all of us.

God save us.

David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is Jesus Is Risen: Paul and the Early Church. Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at http://www.davidlimbaugh.com. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at http://www.creators.com.

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"Welcome to Thanksgiving" - Dave and Gemma host a memorable Thanksgiving in their new home when Dave's politically incorrect mother, Paula (Marilu Henner), visits from out of town and meets Calvin, Tina and the rest of the Butler family for the first time, on a rebroadcast of THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Monday, Nov. 11 (8:00-8:30 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. (Originally broadcast 11/19/18.)

THE NEIGHBORHOOD stars Cedric the Entertainer in a comedy about what happens when the friendliest guy in the Midwest moves his family to a neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone looks like him or appreciates his extreme neighborliness.

Dave Johnson is a good-natured, professional conflict negotiator. When his wife, Gemma, gets a job as a school principal in L.A., they move from Michigan with their young son, Grover, unfazed that their new dream home is located in a community quite different from their small town. Their opinionated next-door neighbor, Calvin Butler, is wary of the newcomers, certain that the Johnsons will disrupt the culture on the block. However, Calvin's gracious wife, Tina, rolls out the welcome wagon; their chipper younger son, Marty, thinks the Johnsons could be good for the community; and their unemployed older son, Malcolm, finds Dave may finally be someone who understands him.

Dave realizes that fitting into their new community is more complex than he expected, but if he can find a way to connect with Calvin, they have an excellent chance of making their new neighborhood their home.

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The greatest and oldest democracies are the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America. The UK, in the early period, and the US, in the present one, acted and act as propagators and supporters of democratic movements across the world. However, all democratic political entities evolve, and in the process strain the relationship between the electorate and their democratically elected rulers. What is surprising is that the UK and the US are simultaneously in major constitutional crises.

The issue in the UK was increasing dominance of the European Union, of which it is a member. The growing operations of European institutions override the power and authority of national institutions of the member states. What precipitated the crisis was the EUs decision to allow entry of millions of refugees from Muslim countries in the Middle East. This move worsened the existing problem of legal migration to the UK from the poorer central and eastern EU member-states.

When jobs and livelihoods were at stake, and cultural issues became prominent, the electorate began to assert its rights. To settle the matter, the UK Parliament decided to seek the sovereign will of the people through the direct referendum of June 2106. While the majority was in favour of Leave, a significant section voted to Remain.

The map illustrates the results by geographical spread. Scotland in the far north voted to Remain, but its population was much smaller and counted for less. In the region around the international and metropolitan city of London, the population voted to Remain. The United Kingdom was clearly not united on this issue.

This result stunned the EU and the political, economic, judicial and other state organs in the UK, including the mass media. For nearly three years the government has been negotiating with the EU to reach agreement for orderly withdrawal.

None of the agreements approved by the UK cabinet and the EU was acceptable to the UK Parliament. As a result, after an election, a new government took over determined to leave the EU with or without an agreement.

This strategy triggered open opposition within the ruling and opposition party MPs, the media, the judiciary and the bureaucracy, which were anyway opposed to leaving the EU. This situation in the UK has resulted in unseemly conduct in Parliament, judicial interference in parliamentary affairs, and an incredibly graceless, rude and violent discourse across the country.

In the United States of America, there is an almost similar situation. The general economic, political and social crisis for a large proportion of the American people largely working-class and lower-middle-class sections and living mostly in the middle of the country had come to a tipping point.

The presidential election of November 2016, instead of resolving the issue, seemed to have complicated it further. The Democratic Partys candidate was a veteran politician, former secretary of state and former senator as well as wife of a previous president. Her gender also made her attractive to the female electorate.

An unusual candidate stepped in and secured the nomination of the Republican Party. He was a seasoned and veteran businessman and had a major media presence in the entertainment sector. Over his long career, he had made an enormous fortune, lost much of it, regained most of that, and was still a billionaire. As a result, his name was well-known to the American people. His style and forthrightness of speech, as well as his robust, politically incorrect views on the problems besetting the US and his unusual and unprecedented solutions appealed to the electorate.

He secured a massive win in the Electoral College, which is the constitutional body that elects the president. But he did not get a clear majority of the popular vote. The geographical spread and population are illustrated in the maps below red for Republican and blue for Democratic. The geographical spread of the presidents support was massive, but the heavy concentrations of the population on the two coastal fringes voted against him. The United States was clearly not united.

The opposition Democratic Party did not accept the loss with grace. The economic, political, judicial and bureaucratic elite and the mass media control the levers of power, authority and opinion in the US. The new president threatened to overturn established policies in trade, immigration, foreign policy, employment, health, and education. These had been built up over the past decades under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

The president had an unorthodox way of speaking and acting. The permanent state bureaucracy, especially the CIA and FBIintelligence agencies, were against his continuation. This opposition sees his presidency as a threat not only to the existing cultural, political and economic traditions but also to the livelihood, positions and income of those who managed the US government in the past.

The opposition effort has been to try and remove the president by impeachment. The president is now an unpredictable and formidable force domestically and internationally. The extraordinary success of his tenure in promoting economic growth and employment both for the majority and also for minorities and women may ensure his re-election in 2020.

In democratic politics, the people choose their rulers in periodic elections and the losing side accepts the results. The state apparatus has to be neutral between the political parties and implement the policies of the elected government.

Currently, in these two democracies, this principle does not hold and has led to sharp and vicious divisions between their regions, voters, and even families. Hopefully, better sense will prevail and they will be again united as their names suggest.

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