tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20504112808255817012024-03-12T20:47:26.965-04:00The PRBrown ReportAnalytical thinking outside the box.PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.comBlogger1128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-38199317404043779982018-05-02T08:27:00.000-04:002018-05-02T08:27:19.086-04:00Being A Slave Is Not A Choice, But Being A Fool Is<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps one of the most common things that I've noticed among rich black people is the fact that many of them have isolated themselves to the point where they lose touch with reality. Those with significant fame and notoriety are particularly sickening in their approach, logic, and thought process. Accolades, praise, money, and delusions of grandeur have boosted there egos, and created perverse supermen and women out of ordinary Negroes. Those once ordinary Negroes have now chosen to embrace the often heard conservative mantra, "pull yourself up by your boot straps". But the fact is. Many of the people that quote and repeat this nonsense have either forgotten their journey, or choose to ignore it. The fact is, anybody who has ever achieved anything in life has had help. Even Jesus had help and he was God in the flesh. But what most don't realize is that He gave His life on the cross to help us. He sacrificed His life so that we could live. Many of our African ancestors who were kidnapped and taken into slavery suffered so that future generations could live. That fact that Kanye West has the freedom and the right to express each and every dumb and idiotic thought that comes to his mind is because of the fact that some anonymous African slaves had the nerve to survive. Slavery wasn't a choice. Survival was their choice. But if you are someone who truly believes that you have the power and the prevailedge to to do anything and everything you please then you would foolishly think that everyone else can. Including enslaved Africans who were kidnapped, brought to America and subjected unparalleled crimes against humanity. I pray that Kanye gets the help that he needs because there is definitely a disconnect between him and reality.</span></i></div>
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PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-87164372431161924892018-02-03T21:04:00.000-05:002018-02-03T21:04:00.842-05:00"At Least I Know My Dad!" <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the winner of the second most ignorant white man on the planet is.....Spencer Brown. If you have to ask who the first is, I’ll give you a hint. He lives in big White House and has orange hair!</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spencer who is a tennis player, has been suspended after a black opponent tweeted that his on-court rival told him “at least I know my dad” during their weekend match at Appalachian State in Boone, North Carolina.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Appalachian State University issued a statement saying Brown who’s white, was suspended indefinitely after <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1881586701" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday’s</span></span> match with North Carolina A&T State University, a historically black college. Appalachian State apologized in its statement, calling the conduct “derogatory and offensive.”</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John Wilson, the black player who is also A&T’s senior class president, said Brown made other offensive comments during <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1881586702" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday’s</span></span> NCAA Division I match. The tweet included a photo of this jackass! </span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“After yesterday’s men’s tennis match, an Appalachian State student-athlete engaged in behavior that was derogatory and offensive,” Appalachian State said in a release. “This student-athlete has been suspended indefinitely from the team, effective immediately, for violating the student-athlete discipline policy.”</span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spencer’s comment doesn’t come as a surprise to me at all. Every now and then you get a glimpse into the minds of white folks when one of them “slips” and says something that is a common belief among the collective. It helps us maintain our perspective and realize that realize is not dead, it is just not politically to express those kinds of feelings. I love these stories and I treasure these moments because they help me stay WOKE.</span></i></b></div>
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PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-56449794014485728892017-07-23T12:04:00.001-04:002017-07-25T12:23:39.656-04:00Just When You Thought You Heard If All News 7-22-17<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMApcCw_j97pFLoEZcj8b5LGMhmsOrgQSDICd1OCKifNizSeiBHTmNVwFu4fNR7tCmusm7SQVpX9XeHyr6JyQatFsAxPgWAAmFRF0zSJniNab64Ndre-FnAOaS_mZLtnvBMhe1H7MGmo/s640/blogger-image-495574834.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMApcCw_j97pFLoEZcj8b5LGMhmsOrgQSDICd1OCKifNizSeiBHTmNVwFu4fNR7tCmusm7SQVpX9XeHyr6JyQatFsAxPgWAAmFRF0zSJniNab64Ndre-FnAOaS_mZLtnvBMhe1H7MGmo/s640/blogger-image-495574834.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hearing stories like this make me wonder is today’s youth is becoming colder and more insensitive than generations before.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Five soulless teens filmed and mocked a disabled man as he drowned in Florida….., but as disturbing as the footage is, it doesn’t appear that any laws were broken, according to officials.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jamel Dunn, 32, drowned in a retention pond July 9 as the group of teens reportedly watched and laughed in Cocoa, Florida. It was not until three days later that his body was discovered, according to Florida Today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Soon after Dunn’s body was recovered, a video surfaced on social media that depicted his final moments, authorities said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The horrifying footage recorded by one of the teens shows Dunn struggle as he screams for help in the water.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Police said that the teens told Dunn, who walked with a cane, not to go into the murky waters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“The kids were at the park that day smoking marijuana and apparently saw him walk into the water. He walked in on his own. They were watching him,” said Yvonne Martinez, Cocoa Police Department spokesperson.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No one called 911 when he started having trouble staying above water.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“He started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed,” Martinez said. “They didn’t call the police. They just laughed the whole time. He was just screaming … for someone to help him.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTtiMLZ0Mv4PwX1O7oXf-Pls8Vo8cbTDcveA6eL90o5h1N5HufhlKx6I_hcuCigvlCxad1usEoOAO-hVpHB-qFZVP4jV9QgHLybdbxyC-faXdhLelDml1VsZS03FzSv0-3pxu3BN8Ffs/s640/blogger-image-1744000449.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTtiMLZ0Mv4PwX1O7oXf-Pls8Vo8cbTDcveA6eL90o5h1N5HufhlKx6I_hcuCigvlCxad1usEoOAO-hVpHB-qFZVP4jV9QgHLybdbxyC-faXdhLelDml1VsZS03FzSv0-3pxu3BN8Ffs/s640/blogger-image-1744000449.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">London officials are apologizing after a group of enforcement officers punished a 5-year-old girl for setting up a lemonade stand last week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The girl was the daughter of André Spicer, a professor at the City University London’s business school. In an essay for The Telegraph published Thursday, Spicer detailed the moment four council enforcement officers “stormed up to her little table.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">An officer “read a lengthy legal statement ― the gist of which was that because my daughter didn’t have a trading permit, she would be fined [150 pounds],” Spicer wrote. In the U.S. that fine would amount to $194.93.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">His daughter was selling lemonade for 50 pence (.65 cents in American currency) for a small cup and 1 pound ($1.30) for large. Spicer said she was devastated after the officers handed down the fine. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">He wrote: “My daughter burst into tears, repeating again and again ‘have I done a bad thing?’”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After tweeting the incident to the Tower Hamlets council, Spicer decided to write a piece for the Telegraph to see if these types of fines are common for children.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I wonder if this has happened to other parents,” Spicer told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “So I wrote an opinion piece for a newspaper which has now triggered a bit of a media storm.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spicer said that, as a business professor, he should have known that a permit was required to sell things. But he saw the fine as problematic, explaining in the Telegraph that the world his daughter is growing up in is “radically different” than the one in which he was raised. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Kids are watched by parents around the clock,” he wrote. “Most are not allowed beyond the front gate of their house.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spicer said that children are now “too closely monitored, controlled and supervised” and encouraged parents to learn from experience rather than restricting what they can do, according to ABC.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Tower Hamlets council dropped the fine after news spread of Spicer’s lemonade stand controversy. The council also issued an apology: “We expect our enforcement officers to show common sense, and to use their powers sensibly,” a spokesperson said on Friday. “This clearly did not happen.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Since publishing his Telegraph essay, Spicer said in a tweet that “dozens of festivals, markets and businesses” have invited his daughter to set up her lemonade stand at their locations.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_bNJc1vOd6ufZuIeFNfrjXRT8LNrgZD-cbbqsPkNRVO1v0VRr9yGBIIhgkGpQYwdoaPDgnR4FjMATqSQg3CO2DQz9w8EpMeT5YbejYmLWPyC0agJM7n9lvU3qEP_OJDcI4e9_t1mtT8/s640/blogger-image--2006633138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_bNJc1vOd6ufZuIeFNfrjXRT8LNrgZD-cbbqsPkNRVO1v0VRr9yGBIIhgkGpQYwdoaPDgnR4FjMATqSQg3CO2DQz9w8EpMeT5YbejYmLWPyC0agJM7n9lvU3qEP_OJDcI4e9_t1mtT8/s640/blogger-image--2006633138.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Believe it or not there actually two words that are almost as bad as “president trump”. “Legal lean”…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A product marketed as liquid relaxation is upsetting some Durham parents and activists.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Legal Lean is sold as an alternative to the street version of Lean, which is an illegal combination of opioids, prescription pills, cough syrup mixed with soda-- also known in the hip-hop world as purple drank and sizzurp.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But the makers of Legal Lean, on its product website, say their product is for adults and is safe, with all-natural ingredients such as melatonin, vitamins and St. John's wort.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They use a catchy video to sell it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sandra Davis, a Durham mom to a 12-year-old, wants it off the shelves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"When I looked at the video, I was outraged because they were marketing it through hip-hop and what do our children listen to all day is Hip Hop." Davis said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Davis and Minister Paul Scott, a Durham activist, fear Legal Lean is targeting working-class neighborhoods, and could be used as a date-rape drug or become a gateway for youngsters to try illegal narcotics.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Legal Lean released a statement that says in part:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"I think before they want to demonize the product it's best for them to try it themselves and do some research on the ingredients and see that they are safe and are just natural relaxation ingredients."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We visited several convenience stores in Durham and could not find the product.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But we did find it in a couple of tobacco stores.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At 5 Star Tobacco and Vapors on Holloway Street, the store is selling the two ounce bottle for $14.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The clerk said the store was sold out, and wasn't sure when another shipment would arrive.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When ABC11 visited Tobacco Land on Fayetteville Street to inquiry about Legal Lean, the owner had the product removed from the shelves, and then asked us to leave.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Durham Police said they have not received any complaints or issues about the use of Legal Lean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-37158504921118250362017-07-14T12:17:00.001-04:002017-07-15T17:55:35.261-04:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX01DnlWjgkmZpSuBqvdDSS5ZkkwevlmrvQYMLNmPh5Ak4X-7XtYm586J6NaR695GBecX_2EPbENH0Omn0mZYDQTp780_bRjqhH_UivKnB9ZAb8gwWa7qoJdi5YjARuCHUeA_KbKigkls/s640/blogger-image--115350929.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX01DnlWjgkmZpSuBqvdDSS5ZkkwevlmrvQYMLNmPh5Ak4X-7XtYm586J6NaR695GBecX_2EPbENH0Omn0mZYDQTp780_bRjqhH_UivKnB9ZAb8gwWa7qoJdi5YjARuCHUeA_KbKigkls/s640/blogger-image--115350929.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No comment………</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">According to the Beaumont Police Department, 48-year old Henri Paul Johnson decided to take a nap on a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">While he was sleeping, another employee mistook him for the corpse of a 52-year old car accident victim and carried him to the crematory.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Before anyone could notice the mistake, he had already been exposed to temperatures ranging between 1400 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit and reduced to ashes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jenna Davis, one of Henri Johnson’s coworkers, says she heard him scream for about 15 seconds after the crematory was activated.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“At first, we didn’t understand where the sound was coming from. When we realised what was happening, it was too late. We shut down the heating system, but he was already dead.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ms. Davis claims that the young coworker who caused the accident was a new employee, and had forgotten to check for the toe tag to make sure he had the right body.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The police has opened an investigation to determine the exact circumstances surrounding Mr Johnson’s death.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Investigators have not ruled out the possibility of filing criminal charges against the employee who caused his death.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The young man could possibly be accused of criminal negligence causing death.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNnyzWW9QJBJjVrWEVJakWRQaNShxWUWqIKMgH-Bi0cAVlO8Ocy3MwLts6BaDmar_nRs5EYudFkFHh1NAA43lI0kbUF2AQvm_XKIAJ6L93s11lhyj2g6ykPgzasNjxvr5chsFLAXMnEig/s640/blogger-image-1767421791.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNnyzWW9QJBJjVrWEVJakWRQaNShxWUWqIKMgH-Bi0cAVlO8Ocy3MwLts6BaDmar_nRs5EYudFkFHh1NAA43lI0kbUF2AQvm_XKIAJ6L93s11lhyj2g6ykPgzasNjxvr5chsFLAXMnEig/s640/blogger-image-1767421791.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On this weeks episode of “Fools, Morons & Idiots”……….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Please help I'm stuck here," read the surreal note from the captive repairman.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Imagine going to an ATM to get some cash, and instead of a receipt, you get an eerie plea for help scrawled on a slip of paper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">That’s exactly what happened to customers at a Bank of America branch in Corpus Christi, Texas, Wednesday afternoon, after a repairman got stuck inside a room connected to the machine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Please Help Im stuck here and I don’t have my phone please call my boss,” the note read in part.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Apparently he left his cellphone and the swipe card he needed to get out of the room outside in his truck,” Corpus Christi police Lt. Chris Hooper told The Associated Press.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The trapped man was stuck for about two hours, according to CBS New York anchors who could barely contain their laughter (above) while describing the situation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Corpus Christi police officer Richard Olden told NBC affiliate KRIS TV that some people who saw the note initially thought it was a joke. Luckily for the repairman — a contract worker who has not been identified — someone took it seriously and called for help.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But even police weren’t totally convinced it was for real.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“We come out here, and sure enough we can hear a little voice coming from the machine,” Olden said. “So we are thinking this is a joke. It’s got to be a joke.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Police freed the repairman by kicking down the door to the room where he was trapped.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">No one was harmed, but a few traumatized ATM users may think twice the next time they reach for the receipt slot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LXYhaAZUnJcV2CCQpfrOzsS-_25Zp56UGURzPK8vLJatYhJjg8uPHfKCJB6vu6Lh3mOtEI2urbccYO6pxmhozHHkiAPOhnEoa9_V2pigv5jsRN_hb8Brevu7vgV9Gidd9iu4Asnzym4/s640/blogger-image-1509587860.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LXYhaAZUnJcV2CCQpfrOzsS-_25Zp56UGURzPK8vLJatYhJjg8uPHfKCJB6vu6Lh3mOtEI2urbccYO6pxmhozHHkiAPOhnEoa9_V2pigv5jsRN_hb8Brevu7vgV9Gidd9iu4Asnzym4/s640/blogger-image-1509587860.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In the midst of the Flint water crisis, a group of students who dubbed themselves the “Dream Kings” from Frederick Douglass Academy in Detroit sought to ensure that the senior citizens of Flint were taken care of: by giving them 300 cases of clean water. The idea was actually thought up entirely by the students, which makes it even more special. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Dream Kings solicited donations of water for their project, and then drove the hour to Flint to deliver them to the residents of Flint Heights Terrace. The project was so successful that they plan to do it again next year, and hopefully make it an annual event.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 45 students came to the senior living facility, some wearing crowns. A few of of the residents were overcome with gratitude for their thoughtfulness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“The first resident was just overcome. She started crying and tearing up, and one of the students that was with our group, he got emotional as well,” said William Malcolm, the Detroit City Dream director for The Future Project, which partners up with the Frederick Douglass Academy to help with service projects.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Malcolm also says that he is incredibly proud of the students for recognizing that although they may not have everything themselves, they can still make a big impact.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Malcolm stated:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“A lot of times young people, they feel that in order to give back they have to be wealthy or they have to be in a certain position in life. The boys learned from the initiative that they can take an idea and they can impact someone else’s life for the better.” [1]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Dream Project also hopes that the service they do can help break stereotypes, showing that African-American men can provide wonderful service to their local communities in addition to being assets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-58642863917245977052017-07-09T16:54:00.001-04:002017-07-09T19:24:25.045-04:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpt5IEXE3vWbR-tP97jI3aDUbpheI1wq6WXcL_CVetHOz_I3yawufYwJJfi3QdONk_0UWI4pwpMQh61bFqtx8fNilrMyVAWkqsrGI06hqzBqaf04VAvMsQIKGtkTa4f6GTJ-ZhuLqvTs/s640/blogger-image--1485484510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKpt5IEXE3vWbR-tP97jI3aDUbpheI1wq6WXcL_CVetHOz_I3yawufYwJJfi3QdONk_0UWI4pwpMQh61bFqtx8fNilrMyVAWkqsrGI06hqzBqaf04VAvMsQIKGtkTa4f6GTJ-ZhuLqvTs/s640/blogger-image--1485484510.jpg"></a><div>Proverbs 17:16</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="top-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><span class="text Prov-17-16" id="en-HCSB-16890" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; display: block; position: absolute; left: -4.4em;">16 </span>Why does a fool have money in his hand</span></span><br><span class="text Prov-17-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; position: relative;">with no intention of buying wisdom?</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="text Prov-17-16" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; position: relative;"><br></span></span></div><div><div><div>Many people like to flash their cash in different ways – for instance, gold and diamond mouth grills. But to celebrate his recent jackpot win, this particular fool decided to take it to another level……..</div><div>Growing up in poverty as a child, Dustin Reiter became obsessed the 2002 movie comedy Goldmember—an Austin Powers parody of the Bond movie Goldfinger in which Powers is hunting a criminal mastermind who colors his victims' man parts in gold. Now working at Walmart, the closest this fed-up and overworked employee came to his dream was stocking chicken nuggets in the frozen isle.</div><div>Reiter's lucky golden streak began during a break from his night shift. While watching videos on his phone, he saw an advertisement for a casino app offering $80 in free spins. Never one to turn down anything free, Dustin decided to test the odds with this popular New Casino Slots game. By the end of his thirty minute lunch break, the unaffected young man hit the jackpot $528,429.00 - and suddenly had a much brighter outlook on life.</div><div>According to friends, after receiving a huge lump-sum of cash in his bank account, Dustin “immediately quit his job and headed straight to the local jewelers, blinging himself up with rings and chains. But even after getting his teeth capped in gold, he never felt complete."</div><div>Dustin started by painting his genitals with a lead-based paint, but quickly decided that a simple coloring wasn't enough: he needed to take it to the next level, he needed the real gold. To complete the makeshift operation, Reiter used a professional automotive gold plater that he borrowed from a garage. Unfortunately in the twelve hours following the procedure, Dusting encountered a series of health issues that ultimately led to his death.</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Hn7p0Tnaa5WUMTbovxKP3BR6gHW5t5yhR5uHX-zgHZMZ-aZZcjKnpIqOvXhjHl0InKALFm8NeDguClONLpjHZ2Ka6JjlcA6usTQL5Of7R_KlX097enJkM0tNcaTkisAeclrIi4mgfpc/s640/blogger-image-2030227523.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Hn7p0Tnaa5WUMTbovxKP3BR6gHW5t5yhR5uHX-zgHZMZ-aZZcjKnpIqOvXhjHl0InKALFm8NeDguClONLpjHZ2Ka6JjlcA6usTQL5Of7R_KlX097enJkM0tNcaTkisAeclrIi4mgfpc/s640/blogger-image-2030227523.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Drivers in Napa, California, over the Fourth of July weekend came across a surprising traffic sign warning people of “Asian drivers.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A motorist pulled over to film the illuminated sign, which read “caution asian drivers,” on Sunday night, according to CBS Sacramento.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Caltrans officials were alerted of the hacked sign late Sunday evening after a driver reported it to the Napa Police Department. Jacala said Caltrans immediately removed the sign once notified.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Caltrans policy is to always lock the sign control boards which also require a secret code to operate,” Jacala said. He warned that anyone who sees an altered highway sign should contact authorities immediately “as bogus information can be not only be a distraction but also create a safety hazard.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The prank in Napa over the weekend referred to a popular racist myth: that all Asian people are bad drivers.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFMpnTqsPkxCn_lgacL6ssWgHLweqVRTcbdKes0dSi-Wusw627_Du9OamoX75N5FWYZV95ADIiRjas5Ygd6SQm6cWwJoToSL7aILeIH2eXvHZTIuRq4MyOG8Fyamax9ZjUfFqcULyTUU/s640/blogger-image-1597425438.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFMpnTqsPkxCn_lgacL6ssWgHLweqVRTcbdKes0dSi-Wusw627_Du9OamoX75N5FWYZV95ADIiRjas5Ygd6SQm6cWwJoToSL7aILeIH2eXvHZTIuRq4MyOG8Fyamax9ZjUfFqcULyTUU/s640/blogger-image-1597425438.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Pittsburgh on Saturday were treated to an adorable surprise. Before takeoff, their captain took to the intercom and explained that a very important person was on board.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">“Today is a special day,” said Captain John Richie, a former Air Force pilot who said he’s been with Southwest for 22 years. “Ever since I started with Southwest, I’ve kept track of the passengers I’ve flown, and today I’m flying my one millionth passenger.”</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The cabin cheered. Richie strolled through the cabin and presented his millionth passenger with a bottle of Champagne, an autographed copy of her boarding card and an envelope of cash equaling the cost of her ticket.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">“I did a little bit of snooping, and I found out how much you paid for your ticket,” he said.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">PR</p></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-64111133201856948032017-06-21T12:02:00.005-04:002017-06-21T12:02:55.318-04:00The Real Enemy of The Black Community<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I've been a Black man in American for 46 years now, and needless to say, I have been a part of, seen and heard many conversations about what is wrong with the black community and how to fix it. The answers, and opinions range from the practical to the down right bizarre. But the one thing that the participants of such dialogues, monologues, or diatribes can all agree on is the fact that there is definitely something wrong in and perhaps even with our community. There has often been talk about who the enemy is, and I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the fact that there are many. Everything from cultural conditioning, to the police, to economics, high blood pressure and of course white people who perpetuate, and knowingly participate in a racist system designed to oppress those of us who are not white. But as far as I am concerned, none of these things are our worst enemy. The number one enemy of the black community is complacency.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Complacency is defined as: a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let me be clear. Many of us try and succeed and many us don't because we buy into a culture of defeat, and marginalization. This is why we relegate ourselves to low paying jobs, this is why we condemn ourselves to live in projects surviving in the shadows without actually living, and this is why some of us spend so much time in jail that it becomes a second home. I have no doubt that someone will read this and suggest that there are other factors that contribute to the plight of black people in this country like tougher sentencing laws, economic disparities, and flat out racism which is not only as American as apple pie, but is so ingrained within the fabric of the flag itself that a slave was forced to sew the original by hand. There are certain things that are just not up for debate. It is what it is. But unlike our enslaved African ancestors, there is nothing that is impossible for us unless we actually believe that it is. Maybe you've had a low paying job for years. If you truly believe that working at King Burger is the best that you can do or could do, that thought process will manifest itself into inaction because you have convinced yourself that you are not worth more more than minimum wage so why try. Maybe you're a third generation project dweller who has become accustomed to paying low rent in a place that you will never own because you feel like the bank will never "give" you a house. Guess what?! The bank will definitely never give you a house because you didn't try, and you're content with not trying. Don't get me wrong. Effort is not easy. That is one of the reasons why it's called effort. It requires that you do something more than live at someone else's mercy. For example. If you don't have a skill that makes you valuable in the workforce, you're at someone else's mercy because the skills that are required on most low paying jobs are a dime a dozen. If you don't put yourself in a position in which you cannot qualify for a home loan, when gentrification comes to your neighborhood you're at someone else's mercy. We can discuss disenfranchisement, displacement, and many other issues. But you must ask yourself if you are doing yourself a dis-service by "resting" on these issues. Succeeding in our community is only an anomaly if be believe that success is the exception instead of the rule. As individuals we must decide at some point that we will position ourselves to triumph despite what we see, and despite what we acknowledge .</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There is nothing wrong with being down. But there is everything wrong with staying down.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>PR</i></span>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-21589423218200560722017-06-06T06:36:00.001-04:002017-06-06T07:41:17.352-04:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVOiCycXQBAZ-VfJSgHSBVfTumuF01hllt6ksi2K2en-y4an7gx96hsVJwLlvo_3W6LANNDEzZDKMR1lQ9HvqK_nZhqPGECsfy-TD3mlE6QxfFwY-62aa4jpnesYwRW4hfIVhC5KG1pqk/s640/blogger-image-306438722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVOiCycXQBAZ-VfJSgHSBVfTumuF01hllt6ksi2K2en-y4an7gx96hsVJwLlvo_3W6LANNDEzZDKMR1lQ9HvqK_nZhqPGECsfy-TD3mlE6QxfFwY-62aa4jpnesYwRW4hfIVhC5KG1pqk/s640/blogger-image-306438722.jpg"></a><div><br><div><div>Myron Rolle’s NFL career didn’t last long, but he always made clear that he had higher priorities than playing football, and he’s just taken a major step in his real calling. Rolle, a 2010 sixth-round pick of the Titans who also spent time with the Steelers, has been chosen for a neurosurgery residency at Harvard after he completes his education at the Florida State University College of Medicine this spring.</div><div>“Seven years of neurosurgery is a big deal, something I wanted for a long time, really excited about it. Today is just great, it’s remarkable,” Rolle told WCTV.Rolle was a star player at Florida State who once arrived late to a game because he had an interview for a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent a year studying at Oxford between the end of his Florida State career and the start of his NFL career, and although he spent a couple years in the NFL, his primary goal was to become a doctor.</div><div>“Saving lives and helping people live a better life,” Rolle said, “that’s going to make life worth living.</div><div> “Seven years of neurosurgery is a big deal, something I wanted for a long time, really excited about it. Today is just great, it’s remarkable,” Rolle told WCTV.</div><div>Rolle was a star player at Florida State who once arrived late to a game because he had an interview for a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent a year studying at Oxford between the end of his Florida State career and the start of his NFL career, and although he spent a couple years in the NFL, his primary goal was to become a doctor.</div><div>“Saving lives and helping people live a better life,” Rolle said, “that’s going to make life worth living.”</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSeIfGOTdVtxwcb-K3-1D4Y30Bjw8VI0pu8pjhvc01NSOn2hQAiEudW3o0G9FH9blP4_mcshnN5EmozBcXO8kQEHq8-yrAdcQJeV1ZG2u9PjZbx6j5LDk-BXMtWyMNJy2wm7W0OjhU8xo/s640/blogger-image-676077229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSeIfGOTdVtxwcb-K3-1D4Y30Bjw8VI0pu8pjhvc01NSOn2hQAiEudW3o0G9FH9blP4_mcshnN5EmozBcXO8kQEHq8-yrAdcQJeV1ZG2u9PjZbx6j5LDk-BXMtWyMNJy2wm7W0OjhU8xo/s640/blogger-image-676077229.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here’s hoping the winds at least blew away the grass clippings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A breathtaking photo captured a Canadian man casually mowing his lawn as a massive tornado whirled around in the distance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cecilia Wessels said she was at her home in Three Hills, Alberta, on Friday when she snapped the now-viral photo of her determined husband.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“The tornado was about 2km (1.24 miles) from us moving eastwards. There was very little wind at our back yard and not even rain. It was just very hot,” she told HuffPost on Sunday by email. “It was a shocker to see something like this but my husband was calm, the whole street was out taking pictures and well, staying calm was the thing to do.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Wessels told Edmonton station Sonic 102.9 that she was taking a nap when the storm started blowing in, causing her 9-year-old daughter to panic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“She says, ‘Mommy, mommy, please wake up. There’s a thing in the sky, it looks like a tornado, and Daddy doesn’t want to come inside,’” she recalled. “We said to him, ‘Are you coming inside?’ And he’s like, ‘No, the wind turned. We’re fine!’”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Her husband, identified as Theunis Wessels, repeated this carefree attitude to the Canadian Press: “I was keeping an eye on it.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“It looks much closer if you look in the photo, but it was really far away. Well, not really far, far away, but it was far away from us,” he added.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Another angle of the tornado shows the twister spinning near a highway as cars continue to pass by.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ajF077uWUcoLq4095eyxsTh7yVwTfF3LLkJHXW1i4nMyGRl-EvzkRa5DmOjWJVEbxlqejKR8N2A8N9XqIBoJuICKzIqRCrTcrbRrWCa8Jrc-C3kJdhKs5c3Vkm_S2aFm5vaGnUTFDno/s640/blogger-image-1693691281.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ajF077uWUcoLq4095eyxsTh7yVwTfF3LLkJHXW1i4nMyGRl-EvzkRa5DmOjWJVEbxlqejKR8N2A8N9XqIBoJuICKzIqRCrTcrbRrWCa8Jrc-C3kJdhKs5c3Vkm_S2aFm5vaGnUTFDno/s640/blogger-image-1693691281.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Let this be a lesson for all of those who love social media. There is no such thing as anonymity!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Maybe they’ll learn from this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Harvard University revoked offers of acceptance from at least 10 potential freshmen after discovering they had posted memes in a Facebook messaging group mocking rape, the Holocaust and child sex abuse, The Harvard Crimson reported Sunday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">According to the campus newspaper, which had obtained screengrabs of the messaging group, some participants joked that abusing children was sexually gratifying. Others targeted ethnicity, race or nationality. One poster referred to the hanging of a Mexican child as “piñata time.” Two incoming students told the Crimson the group was at one point called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After discovering the messaging group ― which had split off from what one student called a “lighthearted” Facebook chat for admitted students ― administrators informed the offending applicants in April that the admission offers no longer stood, the Crimson noted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“We do not comment publicly on the admissions status of individual applicants,” a Harvard spokesperson told CBS Boston, which reported the video segment above.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Just last November, students already enrolled at Harvard paid the price for online postings clearly not meant to go public. The Ivy League school suspended its men’s soccer team after documents were discovered in which some players rated the sexual attractiveness of the women’s team.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-73922172781735376152017-05-28T11:12:00.001-04:002017-05-30T09:27:28.717-04:008th Graders Refuse To Take Pic With Paul Ryan and Student Gets Voted
Most Likely To Be A Terrorist Other Weird News...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPk1ppW-bY2FdezvFuHPVa3QJv4ud40SFxj1E0d-JkV2QK40KT7ZTdfqTXNY4b3gur3b2TQFfMTmvpdRMw2z8flXPzvq0TOL6lZYoujUSMbvjuILh04aSdBX2msOL4xdCz0HFcELHLP0/s640/blogger-image--1207998668.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPk1ppW-bY2FdezvFuHPVa3QJv4ud40SFxj1E0d-JkV2QK40KT7ZTdfqTXNY4b3gur3b2TQFfMTmvpdRMw2z8flXPzvq0TOL6lZYoujUSMbvjuILh04aSdBX2msOL4xdCz0HFcELHLP0/s640/blogger-image--1207998668.jpg"></a><div><div><br></div><div>In Indianapolis, Indiana an entire town has no police officers after every single one walked off the job. The officers blame the Bunker Hill Town Council for the situation.</div><div>“We have had issues with the town board and there are some activities there where I felt like they were serving their own agenda,” said former Bunker Hill Town Marshall Michael Thomison.</div><div>served as Town Marshall for four years until Monday night when he and four other officers handed over resignation letters to the council, telling them they have had enough.</div><div>“They would not communicate with us or the officers and they kept scaling back,” said Thomison.</div><div>In their resignation letters, the officers accuse council members of asking them to “do illegal, unethical, and immoral things.”</div><div>They cited examples like asking police to run background checks on other town councilors to find their criminal history. The officers also claim they were threatened when they said no.</div><div>Another issue they brought up in the letter was their safety. The officers say they were all forced to share one set of body armor, putting their lives on the line while they were out making arrests and serving warrants.</div><div>“I did not want to send someone out there with bad body armor so I would take mine off and provide it to the other officers.</div><div>I told them we have to provide this, there is an IC code that explains that and says that the town has to provide that body armor,” said Thomison.</div><div>On top of all that, Thomison says his resignation was personal. He was diagnosed with cancer last year, but when he was ready to go back to work in May, Thomison says they would only allow him to work part time. He blames the town councilors and plans to file a lawsuit against them.</div><div>“They came at me and said it is costing the town way too much money because of my insurance and they said we are taking you down to part time,” said Thomison.</div><div>Thomison and the other officers say they did not want to step down, but feel they had to. For now, the town is relying on outside help as they search for new officers.</div><div>“I know that they are scrambling and have contacted some other officers that do not want the position,” said Thomison.</div><div>Town Council President Brock Speer says they will release a statement in the near future.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFObiqwqdkJDd0Uoyutc7WfozsqpV5FE2jDEFvuofQ6UKSdsY4HJi5euatnkK8_M5Cy5sFqjQUzqXbm8BRbPbxVoAvKXkXaZbho8YsZWSSclQEPlbk-yrOrK9rNoI7YTnzseNCzEQxpf0/s640/blogger-image--781719430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFObiqwqdkJDd0Uoyutc7WfozsqpV5FE2jDEFvuofQ6UKSdsY4HJi5euatnkK8_M5Cy5sFqjQUzqXbm8BRbPbxVoAvKXkXaZbho8YsZWSSclQEPlbk-yrOrK9rNoI7YTnzseNCzEQxpf0/s640/blogger-image--781719430.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> “I was shocked,” Lizeth Villanueva, a 13-year-old student at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Houston, said. “[The teacher] said, ‘Most likely to become a terrorist,’ and she said my name, and she gave me this.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lizeth received the award in an advanced learning program that’s supposed to help kids prepare for college. The teacher, who was not named, told the students the award was supposed to be funny, but Lizeth’s not laughing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“It was not a joke,” Lizeth was quoted as saying. “I do not feel comfortable with this.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Principal Eric Lathan released an apology on Twitter for “insensitive and offensive” awards, saying they were distributed after the school’s real awards ceremony had concluded. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“These award statements and ideals are not representative of the Aguirre vision, mission and educational goals for its students,” Lathan wrote. “An investigation will be launched into these events.” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lizeth’s mother told local CBS station KHOU that the principal apologized in person as well, but said she wants the teacher to face discipline. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Get fired, at least, or something,” Ena Hernandez said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“It doesn’t look good at all, especially coming from a teacher, a grown-up woman,” Hernandez said. “It doesn’t look good because everything that’s going on right now.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0gbLYvC_yxCPB2tNg-Htzi7wk4syM4cdyWvDu0T7WfhFL_YqZseBaYhxQY-onj2Wc16Gt4mTdMSmZLdt8kYSOI4SOYc3jtaAyPqOGHB97Um_BLq5efoXbPG5ahveFoDhQcYKgOa4Xws/s640/blogger-image-1279820940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0gbLYvC_yxCPB2tNg-Htzi7wk4syM4cdyWvDu0T7WfhFL_YqZseBaYhxQY-onj2Wc16Gt4mTdMSmZLdt8kYSOI4SOYc3jtaAyPqOGHB97Um_BLq5efoXbPG5ahveFoDhQcYKgOa4Xws/s640/blogger-image-1279820940.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This story is proof that children are far more savvy than we think.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Speaker Ryan is one of the most unpopular politicians in the country — and he's polling particularly poorly among one 8th grade class.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Eighth grade students from South Orange Middle School in South Orange, New Jersey were on a school trip to Washington D.C. on Friday when they were given a very special opportunity: a photo-op with Speaker Paul Ryan. Under normal circumstances, many students would leap for the chance to take a photo with the third most powerful politician in the country.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not these kids.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Close to 100 8th graders refused to take a photo with the Speaker and instead sat in a parking lot across the street. Speaker Ryan then took a photo with the remaining class and posted it to his Instagram.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"I can’t take a picture with someone who supports a budget that would destroy public education and would leave 23 million people without healthcare,” Matthew Malespina, a student at the school, told his local newspaper, The Village Green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Others grounded their decision in their aversion to Trump.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I didn’t want to be in [the picture] because he believes in most of what Trump believes in,” a fellow student, Louisa Maynard-Parisi, told The Village Green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Parents were torn about whether the kids should have sat out on the photo. Ryan was a "legitimately elected official," one parent wrote, and they would have been offended if conservative students had done the same thing to President Obama.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Matthew Malespina's mother, on the other hand, couldn't have been more proud/.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"I am proud of my son and all the other students who chose to respectfully not to participate in the photograph with Speaker Ryan,” she told The Village Green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Middle school #resistance is the best kind of resistance there is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-16145887688227525902017-05-12T12:25:00.000-04:002017-05-15T10:53:52.771-04:00Driving While Black Lessons...and other weird news.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For generations, African-American parents have borne a special burden in mentoring their teenage children as they begin driving, having to say, be calm and extra polite when stopped by the police, and do nothing unexpected that could get you killed. Such lessons are a unique but necessary part of being black in America.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s horrifying that any parent has to have that conversation. But racial profiling by the police is a reality. These days, repeated and sometimes fatal highway confrontations, captured by cellphone videos, make such warnings a matter of life and death.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Delegate Jeion Ward of the Virginia General Assembly is an African-American grandmother who has long heard her husband and three grown sons pass on sage guidance to the younger generation about what to do if stopped. When <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/drivers-ed-in-va-right-of-way-use-of-signals-and-now-how-to-behave-when-police-stop-you/2017/05/08/37bb5f96-340e-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.061584232782"><span style="color: black;">Ms. Ward heard</span></a> her 39-year-old son telling her 17-year-old grandson the facts of real life for traffic stops, her concern grew and it ultimately resulted in a simple bill that was enacted into law this week.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her measure requires that driver’s education courses for public schools specifically teach how to behave and interact with police officers in traffic stops. Illinois has enacted a similar measure, and Ms. Ward has heard from a half-dozen other states. The Illinois law requires police officers to treat drivers with “dignity and respect” and provide their names and badge numbers when requested. In North Carolina, where a similar driver’s ed bill is under consideration a police accountability group, SAFE Coalition NC, has called for a companion measure so “police officers can understand to control their emotions.” But that’s far from enough.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Pennsylvania MORON with a penchant for naming his children
after Nazi's has officially changed his surname to Hitler, a local news
site reported.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As of Monday,
the IDIOT formerly known as Isidore Heath Campbell can now legally identify
himself as Isidore Heath Hitler, an expression of his admiration for the Nazi
leader who was responsible for the mass genocide of German Jews and other
groups that he considered undesirable during World War II.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“It’s great.
My driver’s license is changed over, my insurance, my registration, all that I
needed is changed over,” Hitler said. “I’m the new Hitler.”</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In March, a
Superior Court judge in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, approved Hitler's name change request request, which he filed on Valentine’s Day. The
change took effect May 8, which was V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), marking Germany's surrender in 1935.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hitler’s
initials are now I.H.H., which he says represents “I hail Hitler,” according to local media sources.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The tattooed
neo-Nazi, who now lives in
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, stepped into the news spotlight in 2008 when a New
Jersey market refused to put his
then-3-year-old son’s name, Adolf Hitler, onto a birthday cake, according to <span class="skimlinks-unlinked"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">NJ.com</span></span>.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“I think
people need to take their heads out of the clouds they've been in and start focusing on
the future and not on the past,” Hitler, a former resident of Holland Township
in Hunterdon County, said at the time. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He has nine
children with at least four mothers but
now has custody over none of them, according to the Anti-Defamation League and <span class="skimlinks-unlinked"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">NewJersey.com</span></span>.
New Jersey authorities stripped of his parental rights for the three children in 2009 after
accusations of domestic violence and a determination that he did not have the
psychological capacity to care for the children, the ADL explained in
a 2013 blog post about the neo-Nazi.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He again
roused the attention of the media in 2013 when he showed up at a visitation
rights hearing wearing a full nazi uniform.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The names of Hitler's other children include JoyceLynn Aryan Nations, Honzlynn Hinler
Jeanie and Hons Henrich ― the latter two are apparent nods to the infamous Nazi
Party leader Heinrich Himmler, the ADL said in
the blog post.</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hitler was
featured in the 2014 Showtime documentary “Meet the Hitlers,”
about people who are named after the German leader or had changed their names
to Hitler. </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-58804207666651640492017-05-07T20:33:00.001-04:002017-05-10T15:33:26.840-04:00You find out that your chicken was fried in cocaine flour. What would
you do?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARONy7YNh1l9hq4bcyiI-7u7AlYoiwX711zsGivkM7srRM7o-Z-MZ_koQ2t-P-TSHQyj9fSLydKGq9_8zNkT8cadTNXoBPnDDeLZ6otCq4VwRGSbWX2oKkBi6Y9SuYAJLfiIQUmTPnvg/s640/blogger-image-1407897249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARONy7YNh1l9hq4bcyiI-7u7AlYoiwX711zsGivkM7srRM7o-Z-MZ_koQ2t-P-TSHQyj9fSLydKGq9_8zNkT8cadTNXoBPnDDeLZ6otCq4VwRGSbWX2oKkBi6Y9SuYAJLfiIQUmTPnvg/s640/blogger-image-1407897249.jpg"></a><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Popeyes’ in Brunswick, Ga (3319 Altama Avenue) is under investigation after a man alerted police that he got an euphoric high after eating dinner from the restaurant. The man stated after he ate dinner he was craving more and more food. Brunswick Police Department went to the Popeyes’ location and collected samples of the food and found numerous trace amounts of drugs: marijuana, heroin and crack cocaine. Many more arrest and details to come.</span></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhAduwl_W2ZvbAte5taFeuDpvfXt_715gi2pd91322gTs2cZVp1S0ISlzSX9PPdq2Q_FGx5GPdCMpsVhyphenhyphenR3xMjhdK1zRjktQegkdWlhtHefrNpHk7vsreVNpU_1CKWIOvLk2spnacW_g/s640/blogger-image--1393967433.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhAduwl_W2ZvbAte5taFeuDpvfXt_715gi2pd91322gTs2cZVp1S0ISlzSX9PPdq2Q_FGx5GPdCMpsVhyphenhyphenR3xMjhdK1zRjktQegkdWlhtHefrNpHk7vsreVNpU_1CKWIOvLk2spnacW_g/s640/blogger-image--1393967433.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Colgate University went on lockdown and students were ordered to shelter in place for four hours Monday night while police investigated reports of a gunman on the upstate New York campus. But the “threat” turned out to be a student using a glue gun for an art project.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The campus lockdown occurred after reports that someone had “entered the O’Connor Campus Center while carrying what witnesses believed was a weapon,” said a statement from university spokesman Daniel DeVries.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The precautions on the campus of the private liberal arts college took place on the same day that an attacker armed with a hunting knife stabbed four people, killing one, on the Austin campus of the University of Texas. Police arrested a student over the attack.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But some Colgate students expressed concerns about suspected overreactions to the incident on their campus because the student with the glue gun is African-American.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As police scoured buildings at Colgate, a university of 2,900 undergraduates located in Hamilton about 40 miles from Syracuse, students said rumors spread that there were two gunmen, and one had committed suicide — none of which was true.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Shortly after early reports about sightings concerning a weapon at Colgate around 8 p.m., university administrators tweeted, “There is an armed person at the Coop. Find a safe space and remain indoors. If you are off-campus, stay away.” The Coop is a dining hall on campus.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhkCAQoAT_oP_O0qHQTsb4MyOzPr1zU3H4qzW2R_C4Qc7rjB_HCggBaAyINSRotaUnMnUEKUKYs6k9F6GI4zHJnmoHNEkJ92hIc5APDi95YDn086G0VDawafIjT_IjFPKKMEzPyCBqYY/s640/blogger-image--884222516.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUhkCAQoAT_oP_O0qHQTsb4MyOzPr1zU3H4qzW2R_C4Qc7rjB_HCggBaAyINSRotaUnMnUEKUKYs6k9F6GI4zHJnmoHNEkJ92hIc5APDi95YDn086G0VDawafIjT_IjFPKKMEzPyCBqYY/s640/blogger-image--884222516.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cute chicks and fuzzy bunnies weren’t the only creatures that popped up on Easter morning. One South Carolina family got an alligator.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The 9-foot-long gator gave the family a serious jolt after it broke into their upstairs porch in the wee hours of Sunday morning and then refused to leave.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Video taken from the Mount Pleasant family’s second-story porch shows the giant reptile lounging around with its jaws open wide.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“He was perfectly happy. He would have stayed for however long,” homeowner Steve Polston told the local station.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The unwelcome guest apparently managed to climb a 15-foot staircase to the porch. Once there, he broke through a screen door to gain access. Polston said his family heard a commotion and initially thought someone ― as in a human ― had broken into their home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For those keeping track, this could be yet another gators-love-golf-courses story. The Polstons’ house is located near a pond on a golf course.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Wildlife experts with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources were called to remove the giant animal. Unfortunately, it had to be euthanized right there because it couldn’t be persuaded to leave and was basically too big to be dragged out, The Post and Courier reported.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Nuisance-trapped alligators must be killed and may not be relocated under state law.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-50498750818381513252017-04-30T09:18:00.001-04:002017-05-01T03:44:57.527-04:00Smithfield's Employees Sing F The Police...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Bdl6MvM4dwSRyswlJxF6mF6KW0OrtwnniW8WVyT0OfHLbBMlpXNSOxOxf_OYFGbLFZyTfCOG4_zgbThDFA9jV6I4-LOjsLQu05WKKPpZAXnXWu5scXk2E5x0AuS7yBdLZncmQH2KF8o/s640/blogger-image-399423587.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Bdl6MvM4dwSRyswlJxF6mF6KW0OrtwnniW8WVyT0OfHLbBMlpXNSOxOxf_OYFGbLFZyTfCOG4_zgbThDFA9jV6I4-LOjsLQu05WKKPpZAXnXWu5scXk2E5x0AuS7yBdLZncmQH2KF8o/s640/blogger-image-399423587.jpg"></a><div><div> Most of us need jobs. We may not like what we do. But it's nice to know that we’re getting a paycheck every week or every two weeks. A job is a blessing. So, does it make sense to compromise a job based on principles? </div><div><br></div><div>Several members of law enforcement are disappointed and disturbed by what happened to police officers at a Garner restaurant.</div><div><br></div><div>On Jones Sausage Road, the message by the drive-thru at Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q says that it's "grateful to serve."</div><div><br></div><div>But Friday night, that service came with a side of disrespect.</div><div><br></div><div>A member of the Raleigh Police Protective Association (RPPA) took to the group's Facebook account to express their disgust. The post reads:</div><div><br></div><div>"Thank you Smithfield's Chicken & Barbeque Jones Sausage location for the class and professionalism as you sang "F the Police" as my brothers at Raleigh Police Department attempted to eat at your restaurant. The manager sang along as well. Do you really feel that was appropriate?"</div><div><br></div><div>The post claims employees of the restaurant were singing NWA's song "F--- the Police" as they ate.</div><div><br></div><div>The post has gone viral and has been shared more than 2,000 times.</div><div><br></div><div>"Police officers go out there every day and they risk their lives and to be treated with such disrespect is truly unfortunate," Rick Armstrong with RPPA said.</div><div><br></div><div>The union found out about the incident after a fellow police officer posted about it.</div><div><br></div><div>Officers are calling for the employees who dropped the F-bomb to be disciplined.</div><div><br></div><div>"Suspension and/or including termination," Armstrong said.</div><div><br></div><div>Within hours of the union's post, the franchise owner responded by saying: "We will do a thorough investigation and terminate anyone employed that doesn't share our respect of all law enforcement."</div><div><br></div><div>"We do appreciate his quick response and we're going to have to wait and see what he does, and hopefully, he follows up with appropriate action on these employees," Armstrong said.</div><div><br></div><div>Several police officers and members of the community are rallying around this incident.</div><div><br></div><div>Local media sources have reached out to the franchise owner for an update on his internal investigation but no comment has been made.</div><div><br></div><div>PR</div><div><br></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-80806522994615291562017-04-29T15:58:00.001-04:002017-04-29T16:43:45.666-04:00The Black Lives Matter Prom Dress & Other Weird News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGouH1C9Q-Lz0XpV_9kAojXRAzk35LyH7zJ_p4oQayyWtzP7pNajBHeBqPZmiw6iWq3UPFw-zV9KyS_-U7lCRkri8_EBK8pMErxG5na6TRwkCuZrI79ZymF6iU5HC00dIocjUo_fU06A/s640/blogger-image--564221684.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGouH1C9Q-Lz0XpV_9kAojXRAzk35LyH7zJ_p4oQayyWtzP7pNajBHeBqPZmiw6iWq3UPFw-zV9KyS_-U7lCRkri8_EBK8pMErxG5na6TRwkCuZrI79ZymF6iU5HC00dIocjUo_fU06A/s640/blogger-image--564221684.jpg"></a><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Milan Bolden-Morris was already a well-known basketball star at her West Palm Beach, Fla., high school, and will be taking her talents to Boston College later this year. But the 17-year-old became an Internet celebrity recently after she went viral for wearing a lavish prom dress that honored the Black Lives Matter movement.</span><br><div><div data-reactid="46" style="max-width: 100%;"><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">Morris, a senior player for the Cardinal Newman High School varsity squad, wore a black backless gown with lace sleeves and a large photo of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot to death in 2012, on the dress’s skirt. The flowing piece also featured black-and-white photos of Sandra Bland and other individuals who were killed during police interactions on the dress’s train.</p><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">Bolden-Morris shared images with her date on Instagram Friday, where it was immediately met with likes (more than 14,000 of them) and praise. “Beautiful concept and great all around message,” one commenter wrote. “This is amazing. So much emotion and power worn by a goddess,” Mariesha Desiray wrote. Another added, “Absolutely poignant, timely and … oh yes … Beautiful.”</p><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">However, while many are commending Bolden-Morris, she hardly takes any credit. “Honestly just the model for the dress. It was all my designer’s idea, Terrence Torrence, to convey this message and he asked if I wanted to help and of course I did,” she tells Yahoo Style. “The sole purpose was to convey his message, it was never about me or how I look in it, just the message.”</p><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">And although Bolden-Morris has received mostly positive feedback, she has still endured criticism for her statement. Still, she says, she doesn’t hold any ill will toward those who don’t approve of her fashion choice. “Many people have their opinions on the motives behind the dress, but all I can do is pray for them and know that our intentions were well,” she says. </p><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">She also adds that while the dress clearly depicts the images of fallen African-Americans, “all lives matter” and that the loss of life is especially tragic when it’s unnecessary.</p><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">The high school student, who accepted a full ride scholarship to play hoops for the Division 1 squad, hopes to continue being an inspiration to others. “I hope to inspire others and help others to be courageous and strong in the things that they believe in,” she says. Bolden-Morris credits her strong faith in God as the reason she’s been empowered and blessed to achieve over the years.</p><p type="text" content="Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">told <em>Essence</em></a> that it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,”&nbsp;he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”" data-reactid="51" style="max-width: 100%;">Torrence, who works between West Palm Beach and Atlanta, told Essencethat it took him four days to design the outfit and was pleased with the outcome. “It was powerful,” he said of his work. “It was art. It was surreal. It spoke volumes.”</p></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPvB_s9M6tAtHnb9x62KggXfKSy1EIo9FNvXJcAJu5M2rRwkJoDbnGyJ4DgtSay0GklwLTv2wk7UGAaDCmZagwGoHgvcJ4W5TTzpfXYrfb_s0NFsU8aZBO_TqYyn6JYt-TWuuia6gQyc/s640/blogger-image--1368408401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPvB_s9M6tAtHnb9x62KggXfKSy1EIo9FNvXJcAJu5M2rRwkJoDbnGyJ4DgtSay0GklwLTv2wk7UGAaDCmZagwGoHgvcJ4W5TTzpfXYrfb_s0NFsU8aZBO_TqYyn6JYt-TWuuia6gQyc/s640/blogger-image--1368408401.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A state prosecutor in North Carolina has declined to bring voter-fraud charges against a woman who cast a vote for Donald Trump in her recently deceased mother's name.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Charlotte Observer reports that District Attorney David Learner said in a statement Wednesday that it wasn't in the public's interest to charge the unidentified 67-year-old Catawba County woman with the felony offense.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Learner's office says the woman's 89-year-old mother was an ardent Trump supporter who told her to vote for the Republican candidate in the presidential election with her power of attorney before dying in October. The woman cast the vote at an early voting site and says it wasn't intended to be fraudulent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Learner, a Republican, says his decision was nonpartisan. Trump carried Catawba County with 70 percent of the vote.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcSFVbsU1IMQZmdxneFSYeP2-ivqvlGL0D0DfqfeFJRvhzfSRuwHxcIY04rC09vqtIhcvBygnMTzGbshK2-b_eenB1OUnnw3Y0MEHTUF8RNOagzIecZmbYYedQO3aXACtv1M-Xdp9tiw/s640/blogger-image-944692845.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcSFVbsU1IMQZmdxneFSYeP2-ivqvlGL0D0DfqfeFJRvhzfSRuwHxcIY04rC09vqtIhcvBygnMTzGbshK2-b_eenB1OUnnw3Y0MEHTUF8RNOagzIecZmbYYedQO3aXACtv1M-Xdp9tiw/s640/blogger-image-944692845.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Having a friend who mooches off you twice a day is usually annoying, but 81-year-old Mette Kvam doesn’t seem to mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Kvam lives alone in Aurland, Norway, and her friend is a wild deer named “Flippen.” He shows up at her doorstep twice a day looking for some grub, according to Inside Edition.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Flippen has been a daily visitor for the past three years and it’s not a one-sided friendship. In return for the goodies, he lets Kvam rub his head a little.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The friendship began in 2014, when Kvam saw the stag in her yard and offered him a cookie, according to the Good News Network. To her surprise, he cautiously accepted the snack.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Now he shows up for more food each day and family friend Britt Haugsevje Vangen couldn’t be happier.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“She says that they are so lucky for having each other,” Vangen told Caters News. “Mette has no kids and since her husband passed away she has no one ― she only has Flippen in her life now.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Typically, wildlife experts advise people not to feed wild deer. Some human foods, like corn, can be disastrous for deer, with the wrong foods leading to serious disease and even death. It can also lead to them becoming dependent on humans for food.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">However, in this case, the friendship appears to have paid off for Flippen. Local hunters who are aware of the friendship have made a point not to shoot the stag, according to Vangen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-56169454029449604712017-04-22T16:05:00.001-04:002017-04-22T16:22:30.192-04:00Would you kiss a car for 48 hours to get it for free? & other weird
news.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyI9oBXlYgkvCBzaaJY0hwAntJ908unemb9hDBAm_X3q4fUnv8SEWvv5UMtFNxaKl-aJhFs54BNc-mje5Dv9j0bCyMEgOTM0hvn3qRtfcoiUqTb1oq-jwiqEqO6-lI5U_NEWrUhHftfs/s640/blogger-image--2069270448.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZyI9oBXlYgkvCBzaaJY0hwAntJ908unemb9hDBAm_X3q4fUnv8SEWvv5UMtFNxaKl-aJhFs54BNc-mje5Dv9j0bCyMEgOTM0hvn3qRtfcoiUqTb1oq-jwiqEqO6-lI5U_NEWrUhHftfs/s640/blogger-image--2069270448.jpg"></a><div><div>A Massachusetts man has apparently reached a settlement with two Dunkin’ Donuts franchise owners after the chain reportedly served him a butter substitute instead of the real thing.</div><div>Jan Polanik filed a class action suit last month against the owners of more than 20 Dunkin’ Donuts locations in Boston, saying he asked for butter on his bagels but got an artificial spread instead, The Boston Globe reports</div><div>Polanik’s attorney, Thomas Shapiro, told the Globe the issue might seem like “a really minor thing,” but said his client sued for the sake of other consumers.</div><div>“The main point of the lawsuit is to stop the practice of representing one thing and selling a different thing,” Shapiro said. “It’s a minor thing, but at the same time, if somebody goes in and makes a point to order butter for the bagel ... they don’t want margarine or some other kind of chemical substitute.”</div><div>The details of the settlement were not revealed publicly.</div><div>Attorney Ryan Cunningham, who said he represents both Dunkin’ Donuts owners, declined to confirm the settlement or provide other details to The Huffington Post on Monday.</div><div>A corporate spokesman for Dunkin’ Donuts told HuffPost on Monday that the company is aware of the settlement and has different butter options in place.</div><div>“The majority of Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants in Massachusetts carry both individual whipped butter packets, and a butter-substitute vegetable spread,” the spokesman said by email.</div><div>Polanik’s attorney did not immediately return a request for comment. </div><div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKcCgxGsOtjL3zMh01hA3G-kHodOFtM3_03dxHR2CGKkp8lMKIhyphenhyphenXbNimdD5sNocFynlmXWO2WuPkbfUMuTfEg_TfBlcXKrqzpm-ZRx-b3gk0hmHaGoejyxFfHaWjTT-aDjiNI7YyU1w/s640/blogger-image--978575105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSKcCgxGsOtjL3zMh01hA3G-kHodOFtM3_03dxHR2CGKkp8lMKIhyphenhyphenXbNimdD5sNocFynlmXWO2WuPkbfUMuTfEg_TfBlcXKrqzpm-ZRx-b3gk0hmHaGoejyxFfHaWjTT-aDjiNI7YyU1w/s640/blogger-image--978575105.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;">What would you do for a free car? Would you kiss one for 48 hours?!</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">People are engaged in a bizarre kissing contest in Texas that will reward the last person slobbering on the vehicles with a free Kia.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Since 7 a.m. on Monday, contestants have been pressing their lips to two different cars inside of an Austin dealership as their marathon is broadcast to </p><p style="max-width: 100%;">The “Kiss a Kia” contest started with 20 people. By Tuesday afternoon that number was down to 11.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Different candidates left for “different reasons,” a representative for iHeart radio station 96.7 KISS FM, which is hosting the event, told The Huffington Post.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">“Some left voluntarily, some were called out for their lips coming off the car,” said iHeart Media Director Zachary Wellsandt. “Everyone has been in great spirits, even those called out have taken it well and talked to us on their way home to some well-earned sleep.”</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">Fortunately, there are 10-minute breaks each hour — not that it makes idly standing, bending or kneeling next to a car for hours on end a cake walk, especially when you consider they’re also fighting a lack of sleep.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">After each break, the participants must rotate places ― requiring a little wipedown of the car by their place taker. Those who were standing before the break will also have to sit in the next hour, and vice versa.</p><p style="max-width: 100%;">If after 50 hours there are people still hanging on, one of their names will be drawn at random to determine the winner, Wellsandt said.</p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvl4ZEJrR258s_YU3zuF0X4t-O0GctTaQRZta7TmhOhyphenhyphenocktOlw03QqkrLdo8FJsMeEwIOAcfl4Xdp9FHuMUMLonfk3YvqeZkt9-ZTGnWgLAcXaLyKfGTo7X6AqyJjZobuUZCGPFyNpsI/s640/blogger-image-395443510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvl4ZEJrR258s_YU3zuF0X4t-O0GctTaQRZta7TmhOhyphenhyphenocktOlw03QqkrLdo8FJsMeEwIOAcfl4Xdp9FHuMUMLonfk3YvqeZkt9-ZTGnWgLAcXaLyKfGTo7X6AqyJjZobuUZCGPFyNpsI/s640/blogger-image-395443510.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This is a prank that is only funny to a white teenager……..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As “promposals” go, this one was a bust, literally.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A police dash cam video posted on Facebook Friday shows a Georgia police officer stopping two teens in a white pickup truck in Peachtree City.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The video shows the officer explaining that he pulled the truck over because a decal was obstructing the tag. He also mentions the department has had “a little history on the truck” after a previous stop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Have you ever been stopped before in this truck,” the officer asks. “Do you have any siblings? Do you ever let friends drive the truck?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The officer asks the people in the truck to get out. The driver is a teenage boy and his passenger is a girl around the same age.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The officer asks and is given permission to search the vehicle. He returns and seems very angry.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“If you lie to me, I run out of options, all right,” the officer says. “You work with me, I’ve done this a thousand times, I can normally work with folks but the thing I can’t work with is dishonesty.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When the male driver refuses to provide any further information, the officer places him in handcuffs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">At that point, the girl starts to look worried. Very worried. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then the officer comes back with bags of what he claims appears to be marijuana.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Both teens deny the drugs are theirs so the officer then hands a bag containing a small slip of paper to the girl and asks, “Does that look like weed to you?”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">After looking at the note, a large smile crosses her face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Oh my God, this is not funny,” she says laughing, the driver still in handcuffs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The boy then brings out a sign that says, “Prom? Say yes or you’re under arrest!”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Spoiler alert: She did say yes, though she still seemed freaked out by the elaborate charade.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Although this video seems to be a perfect example of how not to do a promposal, the Peachtree City Police Department said the parents of the teens gave the department permission to post it on its Facebook page.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As the video below shows, other teens have enlisted the police for promposal help, but the results weren’t as visually arresting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-78787445642282645862017-04-15T14:06:00.001-04:002017-04-17T15:41:21.155-04:00An 8 Year Old Drives To McDonalds & Other Weird News<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGHyuH3BOnAxp1FyMFByHRyrFSOgZ93_kr30O2x3RAFjN18MAmgS4RjGAEL4fA7_9LD1x594NdTUH-X7YureNxaFHYCAqy1HWNHOirHcVRX-TYpXEKHbjBKPQWyOWGSt0X1u2SOAoFJQ/s640/blogger-image--18826324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGHyuH3BOnAxp1FyMFByHRyrFSOgZ93_kr30O2x3RAFjN18MAmgS4RjGAEL4fA7_9LD1x594NdTUH-X7YureNxaFHYCAqy1HWNHOirHcVRX-TYpXEKHbjBKPQWyOWGSt0X1u2SOAoFJQ/s640/blogger-image--18826324.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>Ever crave something so badly you’ll do anything to get it?</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>An 8-year-old Ohio boy who learned to drive a car in minutes just so he could go to McDonald’s for a cheeseburger, the Weirton Daily Times reports.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>Police in East Palestine said the unidentified boy got a sudden urge for a Mickey D’s cheeseburger Sunday night around 8 p.m., but both of his parents had fallen asleep after a busy day. </b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>The boy had eaten dinner, but he was still jonesing for that cheeseburger.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>The kid apparently didn’t want to wake his parents in hopes they’d spring for a burger. Instead, he watched driving instruction videos on YouTube for a few minutes before putting his 4-year-old sister in his dad’s van so they could get their fix.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>The young driver managed to safely get through four intersections before getting to a McDonald’s drive-through about 1.5 miles from the house.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>Then it came time to order the food.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>“Whenever he pulled up to the first window, employees actually thought<a href="http://www.wilx.com/content/news/8-year-old-boy-drives-sister-to-McDonalds-for-a-cheeseburger-419365224.html" target="_blank" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"employees actually thought they were being pranked,”","mpid":2,"plid":"http://www.wilx.com/content/news/8-year-old-boy-drives-sister-to-McDonalds-for-a-cheeseburger-419365224.html"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"> </a>they were being pranked," Patrolman Jeff Koehler said.</b></i></span></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b><span style="max-width: 100%;">“The workers thought that the parents were in the back,<a href="http://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2017/04/8-year-old-hits-the-road-safely/" target="_blank" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"the parents were in the back,","mpid":3,"plid":"http://www.morningjournalnews.com/news/local-news/2017/04/8-year-old-hits-the-road-safely/"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"> </a>but obviously they weren’t,”</span><span style="max-width: 100%;"> Koehler explained to the Morning Journal News.</span></b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>Once the employees figured out the kids were on a joy ride by themselves, the police were called to the restaurant.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b><span style="max-width: 100%;">Koehler spoke to the boy, who admitted he had never driven before, but learned by watching YouTube. </span><span style="max-width: 100%;">He told Koehler he got the keys to his dad’s van by standing on his tip-toes, according to the paper.</span></b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>When the child suddenly realized that taking car keys in order to illegally drive was wrong, he burst into tears. However, he and his sis did get to eat their cheeseburgers while waiting for their grandparents to pick them up.</b></i></p></div><div data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i><b>No word on what punishment the young driver may face from his parents, butno criminal charges are being filed<a href="http://www.wfmj.com/story/35131203/east-palestine-police-8-year-old-drives-4-year-old-sister-to-get-cheeseburger" target="_blank" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"no criminal charges are being filed","mpid":4,"plid":"http://www.wfmj.com/story/35131203/east-palestine-police-8-year-old-drives-4-year-old-sister-to-get-cheeseburger"}}" data-beacon-parsed="true" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%;"> </a>against him, </b></i></p></div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1tMP8jllgORU5GclVS5bLZTg6-VCNyOkjnXGEyieQ_Fj3hFxVb_0gluL7oGpIXc30gHUZhNigBWddpWZvCB9JBZgjNH_Qv6lS_wJXsCG2ZZL15MRWEmqAQkSI2O3nkuQWUiEPDMoo4Y/s640/blogger-image--2131300769.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh1tMP8jllgORU5GclVS5bLZTg6-VCNyOkjnXGEyieQ_Fj3hFxVb_0gluL7oGpIXc30gHUZhNigBWddpWZvCB9JBZgjNH_Qv6lS_wJXsCG2ZZL15MRWEmqAQkSI2O3nkuQWUiEPDMoo4Y/s640/blogger-image--2131300769.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Chicago high school student was accepted into each of the 24 colleges she applied to and 23 of those schools are historically black colleges and universities.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Ariyana Davis, 18, applied to so many schools via the Common Black College Application, according to ABC News. It allows students to apply to up to 50 of the more than 100 HBCUs for a one-time fee of $35. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School student, who took college prep courses during lunch at her school, told the outlet that attending an HBCU was a priority for her. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“They are known for producing successful black professionals,” she said. “It was important for me to go to an institution that feels like home.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Davis shared on Twitter that she received acceptance letters from prestigious colleges including Howard University, Spelman College, Xavier University, Hampton University and Tuskegee University. The one predominately white institution she applied to and got accepted to was Eastern Illinois University. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkDQrfdIr4yBgA9TJxbUc7sIiUMDM_1SiRA_GweDpDnlbPmvSl8DjP47Q8tSApEVEh34kibR7YK7mKqbx_8RqHm2_ZwR7fa8O0i1XssC0huTu399hm-MR8tD2LxuI8aUupWBKpSwuln0/s640/blogger-image--1000189435.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirkDQrfdIr4yBgA9TJxbUc7sIiUMDM_1SiRA_GweDpDnlbPmvSl8DjP47Q8tSApEVEh34kibR7YK7mKqbx_8RqHm2_ZwR7fa8O0i1XssC0huTu399hm-MR8tD2LxuI8aUupWBKpSwuln0/s640/blogger-image--1000189435.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">#VERYSTUPID</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A Spanish dad gave traditional maternity photos what he thought was a hilarious spin with his own photo shoot.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Francisco Pérez, known to his friends as Paco, posed for some parody pregnancy photos on the outskirts of Málaga City in southern Spain………….</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The series was the brainchild of photographer Martyn Wilkes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“I had been recently doing lots of maternity work, and I wanted to do something different to break things up and have a bit of fun,” Wilkes said. “I have known Paco for four or five years and admittedly often jested about his rather large stomach, which resembled a pregnant mother.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The photographer came up with the outfit, painted stomach concept and flower accessories. He said his subject found the photo shoot hilarious and totally nailed the execution.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Both men are fathers and morons, Wilkes has a 5-year-old girl and 13-month-old boy, and Pérez has two daughters, 22-year-old Natalia and 26-year-old Virginia. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-49024221382335758452017-04-11T04:37:00.001-04:002017-04-11T04:54:56.095-04:00The Dirty South Gets Dirtier!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1he6W197hznU30ZWVNz7GVRYqXNUMjwaK1W4BYcGil86XigBgEMfw7PStNpLkr1MKL3YhyU5RH10Tn_w8sR_dLWnEk0W1YVHzsW2x4GtkIJ6SMxwPRICED785wwsSvGwR-EBiqjoPTDM/s640/blogger-image-669997285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1he6W197hznU30ZWVNz7GVRYqXNUMjwaK1W4BYcGil86XigBgEMfw7PStNpLkr1MKL3YhyU5RH10Tn_w8sR_dLWnEk0W1YVHzsW2x4GtkIJ6SMxwPRICED785wwsSvGwR-EBiqjoPTDM/s640/blogger-image-669997285.jpg"></a><div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Once again conservative “moral” republicans show their true colors….</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The implosion of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s political career has, even by the standards of Southern state government, moved at a snail’s pace. But nearly 13 months after a bitter ex-state employee announced to the world that the Republican had been having a long-term affair with an aide, Bentley’s slow-burning scandal has culminated with his resignation from office.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Hours after the Alabama House Judiciary Committee began hearings to consider Bentley’s impeachment from office on Monday, the two-term governor was fingerprinted at the Montgomery County jail after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges, part of a deal struck with state law enforcement to avoid impeachment and multiple felony charges in exchange for his resignation.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">After being booked on one count of failure to file campaign disclosures and one count of failure to disclose economic interest, Bentley made his way to the Old House Chamber of the Alabama state capitol and announced that he had ceded power to Lieutenant Governor Kay Ivey.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">“I’ve not always made the right choices, I’ve not always said the right thing. Though I have sometimes failed, I’ve always tried to live up to the high expectations that people place on the person who holds this esteemed office,” Bentley said. “There have been times that I’ve let you and our people down, and I’m sorry for that."</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">“I can no longer allow my family and my dear friends, my dedicated staff and cabinet, to be subjected to the consequences that my past actions have brought upon them,” Bentley continued. “The time has come for me to look at new ways to serve the good people of our great state. I have decided it is time for me to step down as Alabama’s governor.”</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Bentley's resignation comes three days after the committee’s special counsel released a 3,000-page report on Bentley’s relationship with his married chief adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason, and more than four years after the first stirrings of an illicit affair that ended the governor's marriage and his political career.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The 130-page summary of the committee’s investigation—which was comprehensive enough to have merited its own web domain reads more like a rejected Nancy Meyers script treatment than the result of a government investigation: texted professions of undying love, indiscreet assignations in the governor’s office, and accusations that the governor directed a bodyguard to break up with his mistress for him.....</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The last item, a result of what the committee characterized as “increasing obsession and paranoia,” has prompted allegations that Bentley used state resources to conduct—and, apparently, to break off—his affair. It was this charge, more than any moral opprobrium, that led to calls for the governor's impeachment. Especially given the fact that Alabama is one of the poorest states in the country.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The leadership of Alabama Republican Party said it couldn't support Bentley on Monday afternoon. "When situations arise that are in direct conflict with the betterment of our people, we will speak up regardless of political party," it said in a statement.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Bentley, in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary, denied that a “physical affair” took place for more than a year, but he has apologized for making “inappropriate remarks” to Mason.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The end of Bentley's two-decade political career may be the least of his worries, however. On April 5, a state ethics commission found probable cause to believe that Bentley had violated both the Alabama Ethics Act and the Fair Campaign Practices Act. Although the details of the specific allegations are sketchy, they are Class B felonies. Were Bentley to be charged by the Montgomery County district attorney and convicted, he faced 20 years in jail and a fine of up to $20,000 for each violation. The reported deal between Bentley and the Montgomery County district attorney, however, reduces those potential charges to the two misdemeanor charges.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The plea deal also stipulated Bentley's resignation from office—sparing the governor potential jail time in exchange for sparing the people of Alabama the specter of drawn-out impeachment proceedings against the state's chief executive.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">What Bentley may be most guilty of, though, is being really stupid.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Starting in 2013, according to Bentley’s now ex-wife, Dianne, Mason began staying overnight in the pool house of the governor’s mansion, an arrangement that raised eyebrows in Montgomery.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">At first, Dianne Bentley excused the frequent sleepovers, according to the report. Mason’s home with her husband, the head of the governor’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, was in Tuscaloosa, nearly a two-hour drive from the state capital. But the first lady of Alabama, a devout Christian who would write prayer requests for her husband on sticky notes that she kept in her personal devotional, was eventually informed by Heather Hannah, her chief of staff, that the governor and Mason would “jump” when interrupted by other members of his staff and that he had begun to return home from work with makeup on his shirts.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The governor’s wife and Hannah were among the more than 20 witnesses interviewed by the special counsel appointed by the Alabama House Judiciary Committee to investigate Bantley's relationship with mason. The report is based on their testimony, as well as a review of more than 10,000 pages of documents, text message transcripts, and audio recordings.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Other members of the governor’s staff began to notice Bentley’s increasingly close relationship with his chief adviser. According to the House committee’s report, Bentley would call Mason “baby” in meetings, and Ray Lewis, the leader of Bentley’s security detail, told the House committee that he had once observed Mason leaving the governor’s office with tousled hair, her outfit disheveled.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The governor’s apparent indiscretion in conducting the affair was matched only by his paranoia about the affair being publicly revealed. Hannah, Dianne Bentley’s chief of staff, testified to the House committee that the governor personally confronted her on multiple occasions about leaking information about the affair.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The confrontations featured open threats from the governor, Hannah told the House committee’s special counsel.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">“You will never work in the state of Alabama again if you tell anyone about this,” Hannah recalled Bentley telling her in the kitchen of the governor’s mansion, a finger pointed in her face.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">On another occasion, Hannah testified that Bentley warned her to “watch herself” because she “did not know what she was getting into,” and that his position as governor meant that the people of Alabama would “bow to his throne.”</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Meanwhile, the once-close Bentley marriage was collapsing. During a ritzy National Governors Association dinner in Washington, D.C., the governor texted Mason—seated across the table—in full view of his wife, who was sitting next to him.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The text, Dianne Bentley later testified, read: “I can’t take my eyes off of you.”</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Other members of the governor’s family became aware of the affair, according to the report, after perusing a state-issued iPad that Bentley had given to his wife. The 74-year-old governor was apparently ignorant of the fact that the tablet was logged into the same iCloud messaging account that he used to text sweet nothings to Mason.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Bentley’s four adult sons were apparently so worried that they came to suspect that the affair was the result of “dementia,” according to the report. The Bentley children went so far as to attempt to have the governor evaluated by medical specialists, although no such evaluation ever took place.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Meanwhile, the governor’s wife began taking screenshots of the governor’s texts with Mason that appeared on her iPad—conversations that eventually became crucial and cringeworthy evidence in the impeachment case against Bentley.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Perhaps the most egregious moment in the Bentley-Mason affair came when the governor, as cheating husbands have done since text messaging was invented, accidentally texted “I love you Rebekah” to his wife.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">To Bentley’s credit, he followed up 17 hours later by texting “I love you Dianne” with an emoji of a rose.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">On Aug. 28, 2015, the governor’s wife filed for divorce.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Cheating on one’s spouse isn’t against the law, even in Alabama. So many “family values” Republicans have turned out to be guilty of sexual impropriety that Bentley’s worst mistake might just have been unoriginality.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">But it was the governor’s alleged use of state employees to facilitate and cover up his affair—and the eventual firing of the state’s top law enforcement official—that turned a tale of political peccadilloes into threats of impeachment and possible jail time.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">According to the House committee’s report, Bentley directed Lewis, his security chief, to confront office staff whom he believed to be gossiping about the affair, as well as to convince one of his adult sons to turn over surreptitious recordings his wife had made of him and Mason.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The governor allegedly even used Lewis as a go-between to finally end his relationship with Mason, according to the committee’s report. After Lewis confronted the governor about the affair, the report alleges, Bentley “asked Lewis to go upstairs to meet with Mason and end the relationship.”</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">After the hour-long breakup meeting in a conference room at the state capitol in which Lewis conveyed the governor’s wishes, Bentley entered the room and placed a hand on Mason’s shoulder. “It’s all right, baby,” Lewis later testified that Bentley said. “It’s going to be all right.”</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">But although the affair was over, the report alleges, the cover-up continued.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Bentley apparently became suspicious that Spencer Collier, the head of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, was in possession of some of the recordings containing evidence that he had been engaged in an affair with Mason. After attempting to sideline Collier by placing him on medical leave, Collier alleges, the governor fired him on March 22, 2016, alleging misuse of state funds by the agency Collier oversaw. (Collier has since been cleared of any wrongdoing.)</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">That same day, Collier told AL.com that he had seen text messages and heard audio recordings showing that Bentley had been conducting an affair, igniting the public scandal that has finally lead to the demise of the once-popular governor’s political career</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAFmytaMvZAtRckkER63JCMktPsyz-mptOmwHHzdhDwJQw_VOsEP1Wgywfo2BhF4jD9gqYbx4qqbCCwQM_s-56Kh2WsN99WTY5HNS_uJ_fNn2-d03vHuXEXtHMmaiGU7y0Q2BPcI1tbY/s640/blogger-image--1000645796.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAFmytaMvZAtRckkER63JCMktPsyz-mptOmwHHzdhDwJQw_VOsEP1Wgywfo2BhF4jD9gqYbx4qqbCCwQM_s-56Kh2WsN99WTY5HNS_uJ_fNn2-d03vHuXEXtHMmaiGU7y0Q2BPcI1tbY/s640/blogger-image--1000645796.jpg"></a></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-44591379204651239942017-04-09T16:29:00.001-04:002017-04-10T10:20:11.239-04:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUv00WKAQ9KkP5yzxVu2JZiA4wjERn-F8T9w9J_nr4qmHmbKSfd_bVi-eJ8ARvF9m_-QnJOmIg2bAvDsXp1Yocrf4rpcyMLWKWaBpQ9WtASeeYi5HZgGmgSA9iOKMNbccCMfpPOeXD-7w/s640/blogger-image--183738497.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUv00WKAQ9KkP5yzxVu2JZiA4wjERn-F8T9w9J_nr4qmHmbKSfd_bVi-eJ8ARvF9m_-QnJOmIg2bAvDsXp1Yocrf4rpcyMLWKWaBpQ9WtASeeYi5HZgGmgSA9iOKMNbccCMfpPOeXD-7w/s640/blogger-image--183738497.jpg"></a><div><div>There's a fine line between love and stupidity, guess which side of the line this guy fell on.</div><div>She said “yes” and cops read him his rights.</div><div>An Ohio boyfriend probably thought he was being super-romantic when he spray-painted a proposal to his girl on a shopping-center wall. Cops, however, thought he was breaking the law.</div><div>Kyle Stump, 23, painted: “Michelle Marry Me. I Love You” (with a heart) in huge red letters on the side of a building in the city-owned mall at Lake Sheffield. His proposal consumed 30 feet of wall space.</div><div>Disappointingly, love-of-his-life Michelle Astorino, 21, failed to notice the proposal until Stump took her to the building one night with a flashlight to point it out to her, the determined beau told “Inside Edition.”</div><div>He got a “yes” — and a criminal mischief charge from police. Investigators tracked Stump based on a tip and matched the handwriting on the graffiti to a form Stump had filled out in 2012.</div><div>Stump pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief earlier this week. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined $500, but the magistrate suspended the jail term and all but $200 of the fine. Stump also will have to pay $332 to sandblast his proposal, and will have to perform 80 hours of community service. He’ll likely spend it painting town fire hydrants, the Chronicle-Telegram reported.</div><div>“One of the things I told him was that I may be old-fashioned and I prefer a more traditional way of proposing with getting down on one knee with the ring,” Magistrate Kreig Brusnahan told the newspaper.</div><div>“They don’t have to be so hard on me,” Stump complained.</div><div>He said he and his fiancee are trying to stay focused on the positive. But the legal setback means he’ll have to buy an engagement ring on an installment plan.</div><div>“We’ve basically just brushed it off and are excited about our engagement,” Astorino told “Inside Edition.” “It’s still a crime, we understand that, but, I mean, it’s not that serious.”</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgrXjFeh-OlOX1Gk5783GlZ51DR-1QYSUZ1aMcUNJdTWKs4WlfJRldNeOXzoQIqyKxz6nKhQ6mEmztAOsx0zY-gx5KMFV_6gTuPFAx8EsH_vrGe_csmOKcliViN_dgEB_IqhE7WAgmDE/s640/blogger-image--1333318267.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGgrXjFeh-OlOX1Gk5783GlZ51DR-1QYSUZ1aMcUNJdTWKs4WlfJRldNeOXzoQIqyKxz6nKhQ6mEmztAOsx0zY-gx5KMFV_6gTuPFAx8EsH_vrGe_csmOKcliViN_dgEB_IqhE7WAgmDE/s640/blogger-image--1333318267.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CVS has now decided it won’t press charges against a homeless man who employees at a Trenton, Michigan, store accidentally locked inside the establishment. Even though it was all their fault.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Multiple outlets reported this week that Henry Brettschneider, 56, faced charges for eating some snacks after he found himself locked inside the pharmacy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Brettschneider told police that he had fallen asleep by the blood pressure machine last week. He awoke around 1 a.m. to find himself locked in the store, according to local reports. He snacked on some Fig Newtons, chocolate milk and grabbed a bottle of soda. Brettschneider also took what he thought was a watch but turned out to be a heart rate monitor. After an alarm was set off, police were called to the area and arrested him. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Local media sources reported that the pharmacy faced intense backlash on social media once the story went viral.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A CVS spokesman said in a statement, “CVS has researched this more extensively and based on extenuating circumstances we are not going to press charges.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">In a statement provided to CBS Detroit, the pharmacy said, “CVS is not charging him. Once the police were looking at his criminal record there were other things to take care of, so CVS is not pursuing it.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Brettschneider reportedly has misdemeanor warrants out for his arrest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAMpO6htJpqJcYZqw5E7CcpmKR79SIgKpx4YuI_K0Y2PiR7oKm393PVBJpojZUOlWw56vdzRtvdat5w0i5RMg3ykT1eYu9C4Iyp9rSy4-elbpjM-iIwd9NyCjE8kciDaSgiCvGd5wLMM/s640/blogger-image--351444227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAMpO6htJpqJcYZqw5E7CcpmKR79SIgKpx4YuI_K0Y2PiR7oKm393PVBJpojZUOlWw56vdzRtvdat5w0i5RMg3ykT1eYu9C4Iyp9rSy4-elbpjM-iIwd9NyCjE8kciDaSgiCvGd5wLMM/s640/blogger-image--351444227.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand, so a man trying to buy a bag had the meltdown instead.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">https://youtu.be/7v3NboV2hNM</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Police in Santa Ana, California, are looking for a suspect who was caught on surveillance camera going on a rampage in a 7-11 after his card was declined.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A newly released surveillance video taken Feb. 11 shows a white male who appears to be in his 30s attempting to buy a 75-cent bag of almond M&Ms.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When the card is declined, the man lunges towards the cashier, hitting him on the noggin, shoving the register off the counter and then pushing everything else he sees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As he walks towards the door, he throws a handful of bananas at the other clerk’s head and knocks over another terminal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The complete surveillance video can be seen here, but you can see the highlights via the magic of “GIFarama.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Santa Ana Police Dept. Cpl. Anthony Bertagna thinks the suspect may have overreacted a tad.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“Based on his actions over a 75 cent-bag of M&M’s, I’m not sure what his reaction would be to something that’s really serious,” Bertagna told KTLA TV.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The suspect’s actions caused an estimated $700 in damage, he said.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Authorities believe the man was with another customer in the store. However, since the card was declined, the store only has the last four digits, so tracking him down hasn’t been easily. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“How do we know the card wasn’t stolen? We don’t at this point. I mean it wasn’t reported,” Bertagna told NBC Los Angeles. “It just came up that it was non-sufficient funds to buy a 75 cent bag of M&M’s.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The suspect is described as a white male in his 30s, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing around 180 pounds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call <a dir="ltr" href="tel:(714)%20245-8647" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">(714) 245-8647</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">As wild as this incident was, the brother of the man who owns the 7-11 thinks it’s part of a bigger problem.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">“The country’s polarized right now,” the man told KTTV. “You have a bunch of high-profile people acting out. It doesn’t surprise me this happened.” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">PR</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-90707045347063755902017-04-02T20:21:00.001-04:002017-04-04T21:44:27.888-04:00Just When You Thought Yo Heard It All News<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0j6vYDDVH-_8bkkdYDqESu19e7FqBRVM_o-b7K2lu0at1LO7mCK902KWeuT6dApL9GmfWx0SzgQrTEi3YZBSYDcTac69gtQlGtz60y81gQLCUQeqU5eC4AupCjaXLyZ4o3p36-Pi72g/s640/blogger-image--60695997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE0j6vYDDVH-_8bkkdYDqESu19e7FqBRVM_o-b7K2lu0at1LO7mCK902KWeuT6dApL9GmfWx0SzgQrTEi3YZBSYDcTac69gtQlGtz60y81gQLCUQeqU5eC4AupCjaXLyZ4o3p36-Pi72g/s640/blogger-image--60695997.jpg"></a><div><div class="separator" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; clear: both;"><i><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are words that only apply to a special breed of people. The word moron is one of them. These people are a danger to each and every one of us especially themselves. </b></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;">A man who must have been snorting bath salt, was prowling on the fenced campus of an elementary school in Tucson, Arizona, when he got his</span><u style="text-align: left;"> </u><span style="text-align: left;">baggy pants stuck on a spiked gate</span><span style="text-align: start;"> as he tried to flee. Here’s the upside-down, pants-less result.</span></b></i></div><i style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><b><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The man was apparently spooked on the grounds of Miles Elementary School by a locksmith, who reportedly said he saw the man trying to break into classrooms on Friday, a school official said. School was not in session at the time.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police rushed to the school “two cars deep.” Witnesses sat that they saw the man cuffed in the back seat of a squad car.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A police spokeswoman says that cops talked to the man, but she had no other information.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Corey Greenhill, general manager of the nearby Welcome Diner, says that he saw the man acting erratically before he got snagged on the fence. The man walked into the restaurant, borrowed the cordless telephone and walked out with it, Greenhill said. 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More from OpposingViews.com:</span></font></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the teacher continued pushing the matter and asked who exactly considers it a courtesy, Turner reportedly shot back, "My pastor." Turner posted about the incident on Facebook, explaining that her teacher "yelled at me and said, 'we do not do Godly speaking in my class!' That is when I stood up and said, 'My pastor said I have a constitutional right - 1st amendment freedom of speech.'" In response, the teacher allegedly said, "Not in my class you don't."</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The teacher sent Turner to see a school administrator and Turner says she spent the rest of the period at in-school suspension, according to reports. UPI.com reports Turner's classmates cheered her actions, to the point that assistant principal Lynn Garner had to be called in to control them.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Garner says that the issue had nothing to do with the religious persecution claimed by Turner. Turner's family met with school leaders Tuesday. They say the teacher claimed Turner was being disruptive and aggressive and shouted "bless you" from across the room.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some classmates showed support by wearing hand made bless you shirts, according to local media reports.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Turner said she doesn't want trouble for her teacher but says she'll stand up for her faith.</span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It's alright to defend God and it's our constitutional right because we have a freedom of religion and freedom of speech," said Turner.</span></p></div></b></i></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWTux17xHfRsA3XjzMzZBoe4-SQIw1Q4IaCDLFek22KJ15E703dexARQ1advbkdEIKJEXCFKyppLko22rgJVv85q7qk1W8CyWjtTwWGfl3TNcEmMMQo3g3dZADxp5PjOUcKZWmvWI7W4/s640/blogger-image--418615847.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSWTux17xHfRsA3XjzMzZBoe4-SQIw1Q4IaCDLFek22KJ15E703dexARQ1advbkdEIKJEXCFKyppLko22rgJVv85q7qk1W8CyWjtTwWGfl3TNcEmMMQo3g3dZADxp5PjOUcKZWmvWI7W4/s640/blogger-image--418615847.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Atlanta couple Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk named their daughter “ZalyKha Graceful Lorraina Allah” but have been unable to get a birth certificate for her. The child will be two next month but doesn’t have a legal name.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><ins data-ad-client="ca-pub-1640454207815831" data-ad-slot="8680148463" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><ins style="max-width: 100%;"></ins></ins></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The reason? It appears that the Georgia Department of Public Health believes that young ZalyKha’s last name of “Allah” doesn’t fit the state’s naming conventions. The state says that the child’s name should either be “Handy,” “Walk,” or some combination instead of “Allah.” The thing here is that the couple has a child name Masterful Allah........, just let that sink in for a minute, with a birth certificate.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The situation has resulted in the couple being unable to get a birth certificate. This means things such as getting insurance and assistance will be a hassle if not impossible.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Enter the ACLU’s Georgia branch. Executive Director Andrea Young says that the Department of Health is overreaching in its refusal to give the couple a birth certificate for ZalyKha. Handy and Walk reached out to the ACLU to help them exercise their rights in this case.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We don’t want to go through that process again,” Handy says. She is six months along with their third child.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So maybe they should try naming their next child something that might help them get a job like like, Sarah, Michael, or Jennifer....</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The lawsuit lists the department’s commissioner, Brenda Fitzgerald, and the state registrar and director of vital records Donna L. Moore. The department’s general counsel Sidney Barrett says that the couple could put in a “valid” birth certificate and change the name via a superior court petition.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This means more time and money put into a legal exercise that could be avoided if the couple were allowed to name their daughter as they pleased in the first place.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bilal Walk says that the couple has a process they go into when naming their children. “It is nothing that we want to go into detail about because it is not important,” he says. “What is important is the language of the statute and our rights as parents.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elizabeth Handy says they are still thinking of a name for their third child. “We are still in the process of coming up with a name, and we don’t even know if it will be a girl or a boy,” she says. “But the child will definitely have a noble title. Something to live up to.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can read the original story <a href="http://www.myajc.com/news/atlanta-family-battling-state-over-right-name-daughter-allah/E6us5J5Qa9XR771wkJ0UTM/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">here</a>, but I suggest caution when venturing into the comments section.</span></p></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-33493322221907481242017-03-28T21:31:00.001-04:002017-03-28T21:34:34.769-04:00Epic FAIL.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTyedFEd5-1zSDsHiOkry9bT9-7pUlIW88fJPBs-mQVEP-G1Xyrbj-5ln8rqW1nMZeyVhkAaS4I5FR0_HRj9JQAC_X_4y3WGivbdADe5gQrq6v2KRdYyrg48h-CVLEqyRMFenp8jWMcs/s640/blogger-image-496985112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmTyedFEd5-1zSDsHiOkry9bT9-7pUlIW88fJPBs-mQVEP-G1Xyrbj-5ln8rqW1nMZeyVhkAaS4I5FR0_HRj9JQAC_X_4y3WGivbdADe5gQrq6v2KRdYyrg48h-CVLEqyRMFenp8jWMcs/s640/blogger-image-496985112.jpg"></a><div><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; max-width: 100%;">I have a question for all of you Trump supporters. Just to be clear this is not a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious as to what your reasoning could possibly be. Here goes. How can you continue support a "president" who not only failed to deliver on his key promise, but had no idea how he was going to do so? Yes! I'm talking about Obama Care or the Affordable Health Care Act. Trump promised his constituents that he would repeal Obama Care because it was "terrible" and it would put a strain on the economy. Playing on the innate hatred of the average American racist to invalidate an idea that the Black president conceived and put into motion. Trump did not offer a solution, a better idea, an alternative or an improvement. Unless you count <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a health care plan that would have stripped 24 million Americans of basic care and would drastically hike premiums for people over 60, a solution, a better idea, or an improvement. But of course, no sane person would. The fact that this bill failed is not surprising in the least given the fact that House Speaker Paul Ryan has absolutely no concept of how insurance works. Then again maybe he actually does and chose to present old facts as new horrendous ideas. Ryan said that under Obama Care young people would have to pay for older people. In other words, everyone would contribute to a "pool" that would benefit each other when needed. But that is how insurance does and has always worked. So, at best Ryan is spelling it out and making it sound worse than it is, and it worse he's preying on those who are uneducated and or ignorant. Either way it is a gross misrepresentation of the facts. An "alternative truth" as they say. But here is the truth. There was never any real GOP interest in a viable option in regards to healthcare for the American people. The primary goal of the Republican Party is and perhaps always will be to destroy the Obama legacy even if some of their poor constituents suffer. I imagine by now that many who cast their ballots for Trump are beginning to realize that the enemy of their enemy is not their friend. He is actually everybody's enemy.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; max-width: 100%;">PR</p></div><div><br></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-55208800571965350872017-03-18T13:04:00.001-04:002017-03-18T13:39:10.405-04:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News (3-18-2017)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxhd0Vti_w-aaO7Rg4bZ_qyx8hhbe0oBF_nBWgKVEJh0B2VxwrsHlB9mtOMsrUHXNwVziElH9WFVQ3_VRX-W23GUB3_-ggKjAsJghhwa0XCZ9936gBMUjiuMBrFTLAeQkGXpuhB13PoA/s640/blogger-image-314013770.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxhd0Vti_w-aaO7Rg4bZ_qyx8hhbe0oBF_nBWgKVEJh0B2VxwrsHlB9mtOMsrUHXNwVziElH9WFVQ3_VRX-W23GUB3_-ggKjAsJghhwa0XCZ9936gBMUjiuMBrFTLAeQkGXpuhB13PoA/s640/blogger-image-314013770.jpg" /></i></b></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: large;"><b><i>If you enjoy the gentle nuzzle from a soft, tiny kitten, we’ve got good news. Demeter Fragrance Library, a New York-based company that develops fragrances based on everyday scents, has developed a new perfume that will bring memories of a dozen kitten cuddles.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: large;"><b><i>“Now after 15 years of effort, Demeter has captured the olfactory essence of the warmth and comfort of that purrfect spot, just behind kitten’s neck,” the company wrote on its website. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: large;"><b><i>The scent of “Kitten Fur” is being sold in several Demeter<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation","mpid":2,"plid":"http://demeterfragrance.com/kitten-fur.html","lnid":"several Demeter products"}}" href="http://demeterfragrance.com/kitten-fur.html" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> </a>products, including cologne, roll-on perfume oil, body lotion, shower gel and a diffuser oil, in case you wanted an entire room to smell like one giant kitten.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: large;"><b><i>Prices range from $6 for a half-ounce of cologne to $39.95 for four ounces of cologne.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Police in Lexington County, South Carolina, said Judith Elizabeth Richards-Gartee was allegedly so intoxicated during class on Friday that she reportedly vomited on the classroom floor.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Administrators at Brookland-Cayce High School in Cayce called police around 9:45 a.m. after noticing Richards-Gartee allegedly acting in a manner that suggested she might be under the influence of alcohol.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Besides the alleged vomiting, Richards-Gartee was reportedly unable to stand. School officials removed her from the classroom in a wheelchair and sent her to a school resource officer, according to TheState.com.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A deputy from the Lexington County Sheriff’s Office reported seeing a box of wine in her purse. Students in the class told the officer Richards-Gartee was allegedly consuming the wine during class.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>“On Friday, March 10, 2017, it was reported to the Administration of Brookland-Cayce School that a substitute teacher was behaving erratically and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol. This substitute is not an employee of the District, but works for Kelly Services. Kelly contracts with the District to provide substitute teachers.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The Administration responded immediately, removing the substitute from the classroom and sending her to the School Resource Officer. The District has been advised that law enforcement has filed criminal charges against the Kelly employee.” </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-size: large; max-width: 100%;"><b><i>People 21 and over can legally possess up to 1<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"citation","mpid":6,"plid":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/marijuana-recreational-washington-state-how-much","lnid":"legally possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana"}}" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/marijuana-recreational-washington-state-how-much" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> </a>ounce of marijuana in the state. Cops said this haul will be destroyed, however, as legal marijuana must come from a licensed producer and seller.</i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here we go again! Every now and then some white elected official becomes emboldened enough to expose their own personal brand of idioticy. Their opinions are usually very racist, extremely stupid, and based on nothing but paranoia.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>King, a Republican, obviously, was on the radio responding to a question about Univision anchor Jorge Ramos' comment to Tucker Carlson on Fox News that whites would become a majority-minority demographic in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> by 2044, a point Ramos used to make the argument that it is a multiracial country.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>"Jorge Ramos' stock in trade is identifying and trying to drive wedges between race," King told <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Iowa</st1:state></st1:place> radio host Jan Mickelson on 1040 WHO. "Race and ethnicity, I should say to be more correct. When you start accentuating the differences, then you start ending up with people that are at each other's throats.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>It is easy to talk about the dangers of “accentuating the differences” when you belong to a demographic that is in jeopardy of loses it’s strangle hold on society.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>King then goes on to say. “And he's adding up Hispanics and blacks into what he predicts will be in greater number than whites in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I will predict that Hispanics and the blacks will be fighting each other before that happens."<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>King's prediction comes on the heels of a controversy the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Iowa</st1:state></st1:place> congressman spurred when he tweeted Sunday, "We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Those comments were praised by white nationalist and former KKK grand wizard David Duke and condemned by civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis, as "bigoted and racist."<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What King and those of his ilk often choose to ignore is the fact that most of the U.S. population is made up of people whose ancestors came here from other countries. Some were kidnapped, and brought here in chains, and others were immigrants. But the fact of the matter is, none of us are really Native American's, and no matter how often King and people like him seek to confuse the American people with alternative facts, the truth is still the truth.</span></i></b><br />
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PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-12275326109380653602017-03-04T18:53:00.001-05:002017-03-04T19:13:51.283-05:00Moron's Threaten Black Children At Birthday Party<div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZT0t9tevPyw68TAlQ0FrcYeSAWdAULGJWHrtpnQGKCH4AopziMNHIuuEmHfBR3TPUGuU5WKMEf1aLH-XogVK_lLw4RAkM2dsPGOZN-IPtpBTt6OoziZAzWi2oRU6pCycN2uRmpu0RQE/s640/blogger-image-275409161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZT0t9tevPyw68TAlQ0FrcYeSAWdAULGJWHrtpnQGKCH4AopziMNHIuuEmHfBR3TPUGuU5WKMEf1aLH-XogVK_lLw4RAkM2dsPGOZN-IPtpBTt6OoziZAzWi2oRU6pCycN2uRmpu0RQE/s640/blogger-image-275409161.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Douglaston, Georgia, a sick white man and a sick white woman who were among a large group of people waving Confederate flags and threatening violence at a black child’s birthday party in 2015 have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jose Ismael Torres, 26, and Kayla Rae Norton, 25, were part of a group of 15 people who disrupted the 8-year-old’s party in Douglasville in July 2015, less than a month after white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine African-Americans at a historic black church in South Carolina.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Roof brandished Confederate flags in several photographs that came to light soon after his arrest and had said he intended to start a race war with the killings.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Torres and Norton were found guilty Monday of yelling racial slurs and threatening to kill partygoers, even the kids. At one point, Torres aimed a shotgun at the party, prosecutors said.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Torres was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Norton received six years, according to local media sources.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They were among four people in the group charged with felonies. The other two pleaded guilty and are serving shorter prison sentences.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Torres and Norton cried like babies as the sentences were handed down.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Their actions were motivated by racial hatred,” said Superior Court Judge William McClain.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The judge ordered the two permanently banished from Douglas County once they are released.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is behavior that even supporters of the Confederate battle flag can agree is criminal and shouldn’t be allowed,” Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner said in a statement.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Norton was sentenced on one count of violating Georgia’s street gang act and one count of making terroristic threats. Torres was sentenced on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of terroristic threats and one count of violating the street gang act.</i></b></p><p class="paragraph" style="width: 337.5px; margin: 0px auto 20px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PR</i></b></p></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><br></i></b></span></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-59464841865178252572017-02-25T15:54:00.001-05:002017-02-25T16:05:43.603-05:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News: The Black History Edition<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhyphenhyphenceCsEXguPgb2AjWGCcPBCVu7mKZeVVieAxt2UfdcGox3JLBi7s4ySmrfGeAInBLX2WdhUJI7kJAhlbb6hDVgzMrpjrPDnfUQmFYzi9Nbm-0KKMzb_fAyaVt0D43rZnx2OxGZ0RFe0/s640/blogger-image--1325186255.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhyphenhyphenceCsEXguPgb2AjWGCcPBCVu7mKZeVVieAxt2UfdcGox3JLBi7s4ySmrfGeAInBLX2WdhUJI7kJAhlbb6hDVgzMrpjrPDnfUQmFYzi9Nbm-0KKMzb_fAyaVt0D43rZnx2OxGZ0RFe0/s640/blogger-image--1325186255.jpg"></i></b></a><div><b><i>This story blew my mind, and made my day!<br></i></b><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>In 1886, Ex-slave, Amanda Eubanks, was left millions in the will of her former master. In June of that year, the Georgia State Supreme Court sustained the will of the late David Dickson, making Amanda Eubanks the wealthiest Negro in America. Mr. Dickson, a former slaveholder, willed more than half a million dollars to Ms. Eubanks. White relatives of his had contested the will, on the grounds that it was illegal for a white man to leave property to his black illegitimate children.</i></b></span></div></div><b><i><br></i></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZHR-g2F8a361Svyv2Timxx9gU-GblHOz92YsRuEcHBwGYxkHIGwnC4JCmdRp9BlsuxNuuVhOoT46DL84N_MwvSIL4_BhsfN6hv47glbT1wnP94V_Ryh61WGUBMDY-GhniAxSU8pYmSQ/s640/blogger-image-983483602.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZHR-g2F8a361Svyv2Timxx9gU-GblHOz92YsRuEcHBwGYxkHIGwnC4JCmdRp9BlsuxNuuVhOoT46DL84N_MwvSIL4_BhsfN6hv47glbT1wnP94V_Ryh61WGUBMDY-GhniAxSU8pYmSQ/s640/blogger-image-983483602.jpg"></i></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>The iconic cartoon character Betty Boop was inspired by a Black jazz singer in Harlem. Introduced by cartoonist Max Fleischer in 1930, the caricature of the jazz age flapper was the first and most famous sex symbol in animation. Betty Boop is best known for her revealing dress, curvaceous figure, and signature vocals “Boop Oop A Doop!” While there has been controversy over the years, the inspiration has been traced back to Esther Jones who was known as “Baby Esther” and performed regularly in the Cotton Club during the 1920s.</i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Baby Esther’s trademark vocal style of using “boops” and other childlike scat sounds attracted the attention of actress Helen Kane during a performance in the late 1920s. After seeing Baby Esther, Helen Kane adopted her style and began using “boops” in her songs as well. Finding fame early on, Helen Kane often included this “baby style” into her music. When Betty Boop was introduced, Kane promptly sued Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corporation stating they were using her image and style. However video evidence came to light of Baby Esther performing in a nightclub and the courts ruled against Helen Kane stating she did not have exclusive rights to the “booping” style or image, and that the style, in fact, pre-dated her.</i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Baby Esther’s “baby style” did little to bring her mainstream fame and she died in relative obscurity but a piece of her lives on in the iconic character Betty Boop. </i></b></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL56Uzf4fxrhDObC1QytpyrILlNpz7Xw-q2d0NdOap4mJcpdqxe1C5G2ROxew01L-7Au2RfgM_82kTSU2KtkoAmc8o5aOhdFL_JfRPPluW9KMrsQsqgAPBfxyu9vnCE6cviT8-313nhHk/s640/blogger-image-1136347842.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL56Uzf4fxrhDObC1QytpyrILlNpz7Xw-q2d0NdOap4mJcpdqxe1C5G2ROxew01L-7Au2RfgM_82kTSU2KtkoAmc8o5aOhdFL_JfRPPluW9KMrsQsqgAPBfxyu9vnCE6cviT8-313nhHk/s640/blogger-image-1136347842.jpg"></i></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>The first licensed African American Female pilot was named Bessie Coleman.</i></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Born in Atlanta, Texas in 1892, Bessie Coleman grew up in a world of harsh poverty, discrimination and segregation. She moved to Chicago at 23 to seek her fortune, but found little opportunity there as well. Wild tales of flying exploits from returning WWI soldiers first inspired her to explore aviation, but she faced a double stigma in that dream being both African American and a woman.</i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>She set her sights on France in order to reach her dreams and began studying French. In 1920, Coleman crossed the ocean with all of her savings and the financial support of Robert Abbott, one of the first African American millionaires. Over the next seven months, she learned to fly and in June of 1921, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale awarded her an international pilot's license. Wildly celebrated upon her return to the United States, reporters turned out in droves to greet her.</i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Coleman performed at numerous airshows over the next five years, performing heart thrilling stunts, encouraging other African Americans to pursue flying, and refusing to perform where Blacks were not admitted. When she tragically died in a plane accident in 1926, famous writer and equal rights advocate Ida B. Wells presided over her funeral. An editorial in the "Dallas Express" stated, "There is reason to believe that the general public did not completely sense the size of her contribution to the achievements of the race as such." </i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><br></i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.5px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>PR</i></b></span></p></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-86705099295117390442017-02-18T15:37:00.001-05:002017-02-18T15:41:06.936-05:00Little Cesar's Founder Paid Rosa Parks Rent<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_27-rBSsOHvMFFmbliqqX71UhjJePiHqVeU9aouCyJ93F-1_IjKJGF0jnASdh4wycG5cD7trGa98tCYB21HcVr3iW0aFskEO42ddFdR2t1IDhn9mLpAwn_0Koe2OARGMA5p9HGpx1Y9c/s640/blogger-image-1896129608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_27-rBSsOHvMFFmbliqqX71UhjJePiHqVeU9aouCyJ93F-1_IjKJGF0jnASdh4wycG5cD7trGa98tCYB21HcVr3iW0aFskEO42ddFdR2t1IDhn9mLpAwn_0Koe2OARGMA5p9HGpx1Y9c/s640/blogger-image-1896129608.jpg"></a><div><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is truly a "just when you thought you heard it all news" story. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Perhaps the most sincere form of benevolence is that which is not made known. No gifts for glory, and no charity for recognition. Just giving to those who deserve to be given to. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/us/mike-ilitch-little-caesars-founder-obit/" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none;"> </a>last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents, and on the sports community.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ilitch also had an impact on the daily life of one of the most iconic figures from the civil rights movement.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For more than a decade, Ilitch had quietly paid for Rosa Parks' apartment in downtown Detroit.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That story came to light thanks to Damon Keith, a Detroit native and federal judge</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"They don't go around saying it, but I want to, at this point, let them know, how much the Ilitches not only meant to the city, but they meant so much for Rosa Parks, who was the mother of the civil rights movement," Keith told WXYZ.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shortly after her famed defiance of segregation sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, Parks moved to Detroit and became an important presence in the<a href="http://www.rosaparks.org/biography/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"> </a>city for years afterward.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But in 1994, Parks was robbed and<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/31/us/rosa-parks-robbed-and-beaten.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"> </a>assaulted in her home at the age of 81.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keith, himself an important legal figure in the civil rights movement, worked to find Parks a new, safer apartment at the Riverfront Apartments in Detroit</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ilitch read the story in the newspaper and called Keith, offering to pay for Parks' housing indefinitely. With no fanfare, Ilitch continued paying for the apartment until Parks died in 2005, Keith said.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The entire episode was made public in 2014. Keith even showed the reporter a copy of a 1994 check for $2,000 from Little Caesars Enterprises to Riverfront Apartments.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It has taken on a new life in light of<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/us/mike-ilitch-little-caesars-founder-obit/" target="_top" style="text-decoration: none;"> </a>Litches death last week.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michigan Lt. Gov. Brian Calley posted on Facebook a link to an article on the subject on Friday. "It will give you a sense of the kind of man Mike Ilitch was," he wrote.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Parks' donation further shows Ilitch's commitment to Detroit, where he was born and raised. Ilitch established Little Caesars headquarters there, owned the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings, and helped usher in a new era for the city.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PR</span></p></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-28864200882166533622017-02-11T12:40:00.001-05:002017-02-11T21:53:20.310-05:00Just When You Thought You Heard It All News (2-11-2017)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhZDO7afBQqsEyyrm83LmfZycb0dgUd0Yi1pQoUoLYfmaVEWlEFpTOgDhRPgUi2NYqC9r4O0vgUIlgyjOqYHaDNFpIuWf28yiwMIQ_NOjP3zVlXbI_qAXPOtDGR7a3bq8tnCY-LEAP08/s640/blogger-image--1820899321.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhZDO7afBQqsEyyrm83LmfZycb0dgUd0Yi1pQoUoLYfmaVEWlEFpTOgDhRPgUi2NYqC9r4O0vgUIlgyjOqYHaDNFpIuWf28yiwMIQ_NOjP3zVlXbI_qAXPOtDGR7a3bq8tnCY-LEAP08/s640/blogger-image--1820899321.jpg"></i></b></a><div><div class="dateline" style="margin: 0px 0.2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; float: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><b><i>A little girl in Georgia called 911 to report her father as a drunk driver.</i></b></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><br>The dispatcher tried to get the location of the girl and her father, but the 9-year-old was so upset she had trouble communicating.</i></b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">Dispatcher:</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"> "Are you in the car with him?"</span><br><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">Little girl:</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;">"Yes, and he's driving really (fast), and I think I'm going to get into a wreck and kill myself."</span></i></b></span></div><div><div><b><i>The girl and her father eventually ended up at her grandparents' home, and police followed.</i></b></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div><b><i>Authorities said her father "hacked" his breathalyzer device installed in his car in order to drive. He was arrested.</i></b></div></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVx3ku491KOX2tSvr1WAMIgI2pyt-m0RsI_z4OYiK6d9RpXo6cFHSCdqLjxJKDxd0tDZ87i6cVLQQ_ckpjc33TK5-mSitkgOmJGMmbAKM6l5jq9bzfyMuyBt7n9lvnoqLRFKiLL_njT9E/s640/blogger-image-571238909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVx3ku491KOX2tSvr1WAMIgI2pyt-m0RsI_z4OYiK6d9RpXo6cFHSCdqLjxJKDxd0tDZ87i6cVLQQ_ckpjc33TK5-mSitkgOmJGMmbAKM6l5jq9bzfyMuyBt7n9lvnoqLRFKiLL_njT9E/s640/blogger-image-571238909.jpg"></i></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>A mother is hoping police press charges against a daycare worker she says was caught on surveillance video breastfeeding her child without her permission.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Kaycee Oxendine recorded video from the security footage inside Carrboro Early School on Friday that shows a woman adjusting her top and bringing Oxendine's 3-month-old son to her chest to breastfeed him.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Oxendine works at the daycare as a pre-kindergarten teacher. On Friday, she said her son's teacher told her he was constipated. When another woman working in the nursery that day asked Oxendine if she could breastfeed the boy to see whether it would help, Oxendine told her no, twice.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">"She said that she had a son and did I want her to put my child to her breast and breastfeed?" Oxendine recalled. "And I said no, that's nasty. We don't do things like that."</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Oxendine said moments after she left the room, video shows the daycare worker picking up her baby and breastfeeding him for several seconds. The woman stopped when another worker who was in the room at the time, stood up to leave.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">"As a mom, you've taken something from me, because I wasn't able to defend my child," Oxendine said. "I wasn't there."<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">The daycare director, Daron Council, told ABC11 that an employee reported what happened and that the worker who did the breastfeeding is no longer there. He said she usually worked at the Orange Chatham Early School, was licensed, and had been working in childcare for more than a decade.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Oxendine said the woman was fired on Friday, but she wants her to face criminal charges.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Later Friday evening, Oxendine rushed her baby to UNC Hospital because she said he became ill and was throwing up.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Her son was born prematurely, is lactose intolerant and can't have any milk products.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">"To me, a criminal act was committed against him," she said. "Not only did you put your breast to my son, you also made my son sick because he's lactose intolerant. So you've put something in his body that his body can't digest."<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Records show the North Carolina Dept. Of Health and Human Services inspected both Carrboro and Orange Chatham Early Schools in October and November of last year. Both facilities received superior classifications.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Council said nothing like this had ever happened in one of the facilities. He said as soon as he found out what happened Friday, he reported it to DHHS and informed parents of the children who were under the woman's care that day.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">"He's done everything in his power that he can do so I'm not angry at the director," Oxendine said. "I'm not angry at the childcare center. I'm very angry at the employee. I do hope that there's justice for my son."<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;">Carrboro police said they were investigating the incident as misdemeanor child abuse. So far, no charges have been filed.<br style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;"><br></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1Kvh9H5o2NyRUD7CawhBK5_UYXrBHTBTpi8l9yvUfJtS5IZnhMfVxWIdv56wOm5bA7e-rnMjUaXttqS0vU5tzZqluCRc0oyLhvliFdtCsKNbTl1jxhZ2T0A0fPgumii3OVJCv1oZlZw/s640/blogger-image-1592109541.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1Kvh9H5o2NyRUD7CawhBK5_UYXrBHTBTpi8l9yvUfJtS5IZnhMfVxWIdv56wOm5bA7e-rnMjUaXttqS0vU5tzZqluCRc0oyLhvliFdtCsKNbTl1jxhZ2T0A0fPgumii3OVJCv1oZlZw/s640/blogger-image-1592109541.jpg"></i></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>A psycho Boston-area man wanted a world record and, by gosh, he nailed it by pounding 38 nails into a board with his skull in under two minutes.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Scratching your head at how Ferraro is able to do that? His skull is more than twice as thick as the average human’s 16 millimeters in thickness compared to an average of 6.5, according to the Daily Mail.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>Ferraro discovered he was thickheaded when he was a kid and went head-first through a wooden door while chasing his brother, according to Guinness.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>When Ferraro isn’t banging his head against nails for glory, he works as a professional wrestler under the name “Gino Martino.”</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i>PR</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><i><br></i></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050411280825581701.post-72037288829878035922017-02-06T06:57:00.001-05:002017-02-07T04:20:37.510-05:00Coal Miners Supported Trump. But Want To Keep Obama Care!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQQmgbXTl4dP3YwRYwVN22uytTJJQlWzPDGjOd72PF2Rtf2k2qJ7wm-cOoP5-zL0kVqkiJT5Pfhgio9hBtAyXVZ-uwuEXVUvIXwgkc1PcRpekJhlkE8aCoP8H-PT66-4OoOhYXXYHkvA/s640/blogger-image-1261194191.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQQmgbXTl4dP3YwRYwVN22uytTJJQlWzPDGjOd72PF2Rtf2k2qJ7wm-cOoP5-zL0kVqkiJT5Pfhgio9hBtAyXVZ-uwuEXVUvIXwgkc1PcRpekJhlkE8aCoP8H-PT66-4OoOhYXXYHkvA/s640/blogger-image-1261194191.jpg"></a><div><div>Those of us with our feet firmly rooted in reality have no doubt that those who voted and or supported Trump were doing so against their best interest. The vast majority of these people, excluding a few misguided African-Americans actually believe that an inept, classist billionaire actually had their best interests at heart. That is until their great white hope hit them where it hurt the most, their wallets.</div><div>“All these guys heard was “coal-mining jobs” and they were on Trump’s heels in support. Well now, black lung has them coughing another tune since Donald’s planning on getting rid of the Affordable Care Act”.</div><div>— Coal Country, USA</div><div>During Donald Trump’s campaign, people didn’t care what he was talking about. They didn’t care what he was actually saying he’d take away. All they heard was “Make America Great Again” after every other statement and they were so thirsty for change that they drank the kool aid.</div><div>As far as some miners are concerned America might be getting ready to go back into the “Great” depression. Which is ironic given the fact that they blindly followed this clown into office.</div><div>According to a provision of the ACA called “miscellaneous provisions,” the black lung illness was covered. Before then, it was like pulling teeth trying to get companies to pay benefits for respiratory disabilities which occurred during years of mining.</div><div>However, mining Trump supporters couldn’t see that. It was more important to take America “back to the good ol’ days.”</div><div>But, without “Obamacare” backing them, these Trump-supporting miners will have to just have to live with “black lungs”.</div><div>Neil Yonts, a Democrat and coal miner for 35 years initially supported Hillary Clinton, but ended up voting for Trump.</div><div>“May be a mistake,” says Yonts, “but, I heard him say he’d bring coal back.”</div><div>Maybe a mistake?! </div><div>Yonts began reconsidering his votes after being diagnosed with black lung disease.</div><div>“When they eliminate the Obamacare they may just eliminate all the black lung program,” says Yonts. “It may all be gone. Don’t matter how many years you got.”</div><div>According to the source, black lung is an ever-advancing respiratory disease. Meaning, without proper treatment, it will only get worse over time.</div><div>Before Obamacare miners with respiratory problems had to prove their claim to the company before the company would ever pay out money.</div><div>It’s kind of similar to military veterans dealing with the Department of Veteran Affairs. You have to prove that your illness was acquired while in service. If you can’t prove it, they won’t cover it.</div><div>It’s the same thing with these mining companies. However, Obamacare made it so that, after so many years of mining if they had respiratory issues, it was up to the company to prove they didn’t get it from years worked. If the company couldn’t prove it happened elsewhere, they had to pay up.</div><div>Now, Trump steps in as “Lord and Savior”…only for them to find out he was the coal-mining “Anti-Christ.”</div><div>And, in that day, many will be deceived.</div><div>It’s a sad day for these miners as well as the rest of lower and middle-class Americans who voted for Donald.</div><div>They really should’ve known better than to vote Donald Trump as president. But what is done is done. I guess some people just didn't realize that making America great again was not an all inclusive proposition.</div><div><br></div><div>PR</div><div><br></div></div>PRBrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02725112254729660425noreply@blogger.com0