True, Or Just Too Good To Check?

Was a Wonder Woman lunch box really banned from a school because it depicted a violent character? Snopes says "unsubstantiated" and "dubious". Heidi MacDonald concludes that if we don't know it is true, it must be false. Really?

In a fine day for the "Macs", Jim MacQuarrie delivers more nuance, marvelling at the credulity of the internet world and the absence of any attempt at fact-checking by ostensibly professional outlets.

As to Snopes, one of their points is this:

Moreover, the Wonder Woman lunch box shown in the photograph is made of metal (a style of school lunch tote that has fallen out of favor). Unsubstantiated rumors hold that a metal lunch box ban has been in effect in schools since at least the 2000s; and while that may or may not be true in individual school districts, a browse of current lunch box offerings suggests that even plastic, hard-sided boxes have ceded market share to soft, zippered totes. By contrast, metal lunch boxes are primarily sold as collectibles or novelties in most retail markets.

Do tell. Meanwhile, I can find this very lunchbox online for $12-$27. Or sold out for $16, which reminds me of what ought to have been a Soviet era joke.

So, is this tale true or just morally uplifting catnip?

FOR MY MONEY: Wonder Woman's outfit probably violates most school's dress codes, not to mention that she is an idealized and sexualized Action Barbie. Totally unlike Thor and Superman, I might add, who are not only less scantily clad but are getting by on everything except their muscles and good looks.

NO REPORTING FOR OLD MEN: I ought to recycle this chestnut:

In "No Country For Old Men", Tommy Lee Jones told a parable meant to encourage a potential witness to cooperate. His success led to this exchange:

Carla Jean Moss: Sheriff, was that a true story about Charlie Walser?

Ed Tom Bell: Who's Charlie Walser? Oh! Well... uh... a true story? I couldn't swear to every detail but it's certainly true that it is a story.

It's true that it is a story.

Comments

[Janet]

Only boys dressed as Wonder Woman are allowed in schools.

[henry]

children are allowed to eat non-Mooch lunches at school? Has this been verified?

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

I'm sure their lunch boxes are inspected for proper contents when they're being strip searched at the entrance, henry.

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

What criminal statute was the Kentucky county clerk jailed under?

[narciso]

crimethink 101, I believe,

[narciso]

what ever happened to federalism?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/4/donald-trump-kim-davis-case-supreme-court-has-rule/

[DublinDaveForever]

Donald Trump "I can see the Quds from Trump tower"

[jimmyk on iPhone]

Carly hits a home run:

http://www.hughhewitt.com/carly-fiorina-on-gotcha-questions-and-the-rise-of-islamist-terrorism/

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

Like WeeDavey didn't think Quds was something cows chew before HH asked.

[Tom Maguire]

Re: "What criminal statute was the Kentucky county clerk jailed under?"

Contempt of court - she didn't follow a federal judge's order (lawful, since the Supreme Court declined to review it) so he ordered her to jail.

Of course, Dred Scott didn't end the Underground Railroad either.

[narciso]

for Aylan Kurdi of Kobani, it was a 'charlie gibson* moment ' as far as the president was
concerned,

*don't know who that is, better check the cables,

[GUS]

I believe Wonder Persons wardrobe is just the thing for CISNORMATIVE peeps.
Might even be required uni.

H/t IGNATZ.

[GUS]

Biden makes me want to puke. He's the phoniest mf'er on earth.

[rich@gmu]

this thread needs some mood music ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRFJoUBP54o

(nsfw)

[narciso]

heh it wasn't the 70s, but disco hadn't really hit it big,

[GUS]

John Mayer sings about "whatever happened to my lunch box".

Johnny, you're school banned it. Too sexy.

[kave]

Way OT-

Went to the Minnesota State Fair yesterday. Hot!!!!
At the Republican booth set up they were doing a straw poll (corn in 2 gallon jugs) of all the current republican candidates. Carly Fiorina's jug was just two inches from being full. Then Walker, Jindal, Kasich about 2/3 full, Cruz and Jeb jug was only 3 inches from bottom. The rest barely there. It really surprised me to see Carly in the lead.
Makes me feel better about Minnesota. Just moved here about 6 weeks ago from Ohio.
Oh and not much traffic at the Dem. booth (yay!)

[rse]

henry-can no longer bring in food from restaurants outside of school so the trick is to go somewhere like qdoba and ask them to put it just in foli but not container, like a quesadilla. They nod and say "going to a school". then you put the foil quesadilla under gym shorts and a t shirt. Take to school and give to child as the 'clothes' they forgot for after school.

At least this is what I have heard. Never break any bureaucratic rules myself.

[henry]

rse- I'm glad you know the details of what to not do.

[narciso]

just 'removing all doubt;

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2015/09/04/netanyahu-seeks-to-snatch-victory-from-jaws-of-defeat-on-iran-deal/

[narciso]

a word from audiosominex

http://therightscoop.com/cnns-gergen-says-hewitt-questions-to-trump-were-gotcha-questions/

[Jeff Dobbs]

Is that a burrito in your gym shorts, or are you just happy to see me? If it's a burrito, I'm happy to see you. I hope it's a burrito.

[narciso]

the earlier lun, was a still from the ben affleck vehicle that features ms. hadol,

[Thomas Collins]

Let me take a wild guess. The Kentucky clerk is not a Mohammedan. If she were, you can bet your bottom or top dollar, or both, that an accommodation would have been made.

[narciso]

it would be interesting how Stay Puft's nominee to the superior court, a lawyer for Hamas, would rule,

[narciso]

take these folk for instance:

http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/09/04/group-with-radical-ties-erecting-pro-islam-billboards-in-cities-across-the-nation/

it seems to me that christianity is the only religion where we are not proscribed from proselytizing but show any evidence in our lives,

[lyle]

http://nypost.com/2015/09/03/inside-hillary-clintons-tinfoil-hat-brigade/

Here's a pleasant thought:

Clinton sought Blumenthal’s take on domestic politics, too — and it was just as odd. House Speaker John Boehner, he wrote, is “despised” by the conservative base because “He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle.” Perhaps conservatives think Boehner is unprincipled, but with “louche” and “alcoholic,” Blumenthal was projecting his own peculiarly personal (and irrelevant) dislike for Boehner onto others.

All this would be more entertaining if not for the clear lesson here: No matter what laws or procedures stand in the way, Hillary Clinton, if elected president, will be listening to Sidney Blumenthal.

The only question is: Would she wear her tinfoil hat when she takes the oath of office?

[narciso]

just blanc mange:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/04/msnbc-asks-hillary-clinton-if-she-wants-to-apologize-to-americans-for-email-scandal-heres-her-two-pronged-answer/

[henry]

The lights are on narciso, but the elevator odes reach past the first floor.

[henry]

odes=doesn't

[Beasts of England]

Awesome, rich!!

[Frau X-Bein]

There should be a "barf alert" to narciso's @1:11. Seeing Hillary! and Andrea playing footsie is terrible.

[Beasts of England]

Screw Hugh Hewitt. Why would Trump know the names of those people and why would it matter? It's not like those idiots are some quasi-stable monolith like Germany.

Trump, as an real-life executive knows how to delegate authority and rely on subject matter expertise. Way to go, Hugh. Give the other side some ammo, you fucking moron.

[Janet]

It wasn't the best choice?

Why did she think she even had a choice?
Was there nobody at State that sets up new people with the State Dept. email/computer system? Where are those people?

[Beasts of England]

I mean, there is finally a candidate who's energizing the base and a large amount of others outside the base - people we desperately need - and he wants to play gotcha? Heck of a job, Huey!! Keep up the good work!

[lyle]

You dont get a "choice," you traitorous bitch.

[glasater]

Thinking about Trump makes me smile. He sticks it to the MFM and I love it.

[James D]

Beasts, I'm with you.

Thing is, I can see Trump turning that kind of question into a winner for him in a debate.

"I'm sure President Obama knows the name of every man in ISIS' leadership, and the names of all their kids, too. Did it help him fight back against ISIS when they were crucifying people by the busload? Or beheading American citizes? Or the other thousand atrocities they've been getting up to?"

[lyle]

In case someone hasnt' put up the daily Wretchard:

http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2015/09/03/plain-omelette-no-potatoes-tomatoes-instead/#more-44742

Nor are the Europeans particularly dumb. Politicians only know how to do a limited number of things. Nicholas Kristoff, a columnist in the New York Times tweeted “I generally agree with Obama’s foreign policy, but he has badly mismanaged Syria, and the result is the tragedy and outflow of refugees.” So what does the president do? He goes to Alaska and renames a peak. He goes and stares down a glacier. He issues an emergency order to accept refugees from Yemen. It’s easy to rename rocks. It’s harder to change people.

[danoso]

I think it was Carson recently who made the point there's a difference between information and knowledge. The inside the beltway types put a premium on regurgitating information, like names of terrorist group leaders. Those folks know the names, the Trumps of the world know what to do with them. If they're hurting Americans, they die.

[Beasts of England]

That's a good point, James D. I just hate to see a person who has correctly identified the enemy having to fight both sides. Fox Butterfield approves this message.

[daddy]

Good Morning!

Just awoke in the hotel and turned on CNN. Some top Police type in Chicago was giving a press briefing on the 3 suspects on the run who shot dead the policeman a few days back. He mentioned that videos from various sites adjacent to the location of the killing had been shipped to Homeland Security for analysis, but something like after 3 days at Homeland Security they had still not been returned to the Chicago authorities so that the info on the videos could be acted upon.

At the end of the press conference CNN brought in their guest, a retired FBI Agent from the area. He said that what he heard in the briefing concerning Homeland Security having had various videos from locations for 3 days without returning them to agents in the field was incomprehensible. He said, very matter of factly, that 10 years previous in such a case when he was working that they would simply take the video, give it to a pilot or a courier on board a commercial jet leaving for DC, and 3 hours later the agents in Quantico would be going thru the tape and the info would have been processed and sent back to the agents in the field immediately. He was completely dismissive of Homeland Security, wondering why they are even involved and gumming up the works for 3 days so far, when this should have been completed immediately.

I didn't know him, but he seemed like a Joe Friday-'No Nonsense' sort, and he convinced me that Homeland Security is just another incompetent behemoth of a bureaucracy, screwing up the works that in the past could be done in a jiffy.

[Janet]

Thinking about Trump makes me smile. He sticks it to the MFM and I love it.

Me too.

[Pieirrot]

.

[Pieirrot]

Test

[henry]

yeah daddy, that is not good. Fox Lake is just south of the border. The three perps could have walked anywhere, say follow the river north to my area (25 miles roughly). DHS just slows things down, from law enforcement to air travel. Our Chitown lurker's opinion is:

You can tell daddy that those tapes (hope they weren't the only set) were sent to DC for political cleansing. The "Real" copies will be returned after a quick spin dry.

Political cleansing means making sure the "whites" can't be ID'd as dreamers or Syrian refuges.

[Rick Ballard]

"who's energizing the base"

Beasts,

75% of Americans disapprove of Congress, 64% believe the country is on the wrong track. The actual audience for the Trump Show is much greater than the GOP base of around 30% but I would not characterize applause for the bleeding obvious as evidence of people being "energized". Carson and Fiorina are both reaping plaudits for the same reason Trump is, general disgust at the quality of hookers employed in the Parliament of Whores.

I stopped paying attention to Hewitt when he became a champion for Sir Goldilocks as the answer. He's just banging pots for attention now and his antics are not even amusing anymore.

I really don't know how much farther Trump can go with his sticking his thumbs in his ears and blowing raspberries responses. Carson and Fiorina may be at the top of the bill rather shortly.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Hewitt was a big Romney supporter. As Tammy Bruce would say, he's used to candidates with no dicks.

[rse]

Beasts,

Having met Hugh and sat next to him at an OC hearing where we both testified, he is both GOPe and very condescending. Apparently used to being idolized by his Chapman La students.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

So we should all bow down to judicial tyranny over laws enacted by legislative bodies? Sounds kind of despotic.

[narciso]

Men without chests is how cs Lewis would put it

[DebinNC]

The line of inquiry Trump labels as “gotcha” questions is no different from what Hewitt has been asking the entertainer-turned-candidate and other presidential contenders throughout the year. For instance, Hewitt asked Trump in February if he’d read The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright’s masterful book on the roots of Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks. It’s a question Hewitt asks nearly everyone who appears on the show, including Jeb Bush, who appeared the same February afternoon as Trump. Neither man had read it. During those February interviews, Hewitt also asked both Trump and Bush about funding the Ohio Class nuclear submarines, a topic that’s known among journalists as another of the host’s obsessions. [HuffPo]

Thank goodness Hugh Hewitt's there to ask the burning questions America wants answered. Along with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, Hewitt will be offering similar gotchas at the next Republican debate too.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

narc and I have read The Looming Tower; vote for us!

[Cispigmented Heteronormative Microagressive Vulgarian Ignatz]

--As Tammy Bruce would say, he's used to candidates with no dicks.-

Interesting imagery, considering the source.

[DebinNC]

Rush explains why Hewitt's pop-quiz won't hurt Trump. Bottom line people are sick of people, who know the names, know the evil they do, but do nothing about them.

[narciso]

Exactly it's as if we had to know that Hitler and Mussolini were still in charge in 1955

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Iggy, she uses that term a lot which I likewise find amusing.

[narciso]

What exactly has the Medici been doing, seems he earns a dunce cap from wolfowitz

[DebinNC]

MD Sen. Cardin says NO to BOzo's Iran giveaway.
To avoid all that [Boxo having to veto], Obama’s supporters need four of the six remaining undeclared Senate Democrats to come out in favor of the Iran nuclear deal. WaPo on the uncommitted Dems:

"The undeclared are a variegated set. There’s Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who says the deal is far from perfect — but also agrees with Obama, that no deal could be. He is coming under intense pressure from anti-deal groups, especially because he is the last undecided Jewish Senate Democrat. There’s also Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who has praised the administration’s diplomatic efforts, but has stayed mum on how he will vote. Both have left themselves enough room to be potential support votes on Iran. Then there’s Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who is up for reelection next year, and Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), who have been keeping such a low profile that it’s difficult to know what they’re thinking. Peters was an original co-sponsor of the Kirk-Menendez sanctions bill on Iran, which was ultimately set aside. And finally there’s Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who has spoken about how skeptical he is that the deal.

Sen. Bennet (CO) is supposedly the most endangered Dem in 2016.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Have any of the NYC JOMers noticed the increase in homeless people in Mr DeBolshevik's neighborhood that Weasel Zippers features?

[Jane]

How fun Kave! Thanks for the report. Hope you like Minnesota.

[Jane]

Carly knew the answers to Hewitt's questions.

Just saying.

(I would not have)

[Stephanie]

Trump's point (which I agree with) is that as we drone and as they behead each other, the top players are in constant flux and cutting off the head won't stop the rest of the barbarians. Who needs to know who to 'deal with?' Blanket carpet bombing and some Warthogs will deal with them in the only language they know. You don't 'deal with' or have diplomatic dialog with barbarians. Bottom line, who gives a f@ck what their names are... kill em all.