August 6, 2015

UNSPEAKABLE, IMMORAL KITTY EXPLOITATION

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August 5, 2015

J.K. Rowling Caused Chaos Because She’s Having Her Bush Trimmed

On Thursday morning Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made headline news – because she’d reportedly caused four days of travel chaos while she was getting her bush trimmed.


And the headline alone sent the internet into meltdown.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/hairy-potter-and-the-danger-of-tree-cuts#.buPDVgRz36

August 5, 2015

A Turkish couple spent their wedding day feeding 4,000 refugees

A Turkish couple shared their wedding day with 4,000 Syrian refugees last week, opting out of a flashy reception to instead dish out hot meals to those in need.

The couple, Fethullah Üzümcüoğlu and Esra Polat, were married in the southern Turkish city of Kilis, located on the Syrian border, on July 30. The area is currently home to thousands of refugees who have fled Syria's bloody civil war.

See also: Syrian women tear off black garb as they flee ISIS territory

There is a refugee camp in the city, but thousands who don't live there are struggling to provide for their most basic needs.

The Turkish charity Kimse Yok Mu (KYM) has been providing hot meals for the refugees for years, and the couple reached out to cover a portion of the cost of the food on their wedding day. They then decided to come out to help distribute some of the food themselves; a video shows the pair dishing out meals to the refugees, while still dressed in wedding attire.

http://mashable.com/2015/08/05/turkish-couple-wedding-day-refugees/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

August 5, 2015

Mother....FUCKERS!

'Roots' author Alex Haley's grandmother's tombstone vandalized with racial graffiti



Vandals defaced the tombstone of "Roots" author Alex Haley's grandmother in Savannah, Tenn., spray-painting the phrase "White Lives Matter" on the marker, the Jackson Sun reports.

Gary Will, the police chief of Savannah, said the vandalism apparently occurred in the past few days and will be removed this week. The tombstone marks the grave of Queen Haley, who grew up in slavery, the daughter of a white plantation owner and his black slave.

Will said he didn't know why the vandals targeted Haley's grave. "This is a crime that should have never occurred," he said. "We’d like to know why, why they picked her gravestone. But it doesn't matter. It isn't right. ... Whether you're alive or deceased, your life mattered."

Queen Haley was the subject of Alex Haley's book "Queen: The Story of an American Family," which later was adapted into the miniseries "Alex Haley's Queen." The book was co-written by David Stevens, who finished writing the book after Alex Haley died in 1992.

The graffiti on Haley's grandmother's grave, "White Lives Matter," appears to be a reference to #BlackLivesMatter, a grassroots movement founded in 2012 by activists Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American teenager.

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-alex-haley-grandmother-tombstone-vandalized-20150805-story.html