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February 9, 2019
https://www.newsweek.com/bruce-mcarthur-life-sentence-toronto-gay-village-serial-killer-1325165
Justice
McMahon said: "All or most of the victims were vulnerable individuals who were lured to their death.
"The accused exploited his victims' vulnerabilities, whether they involved immigration concerns, mental health challenges, or people living a secretive double life."
McArthur’s victims were Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam and Soroush Mahmudi.
Two were homeless with addiction problems, one a refugee awaiting deportation, and others married men who had hidden their sexuality from their families.
Remains of seven of the men were found in garden planters in a Toronto home where McArthur had worked as a landscape gardener.
"The accused exploited his victims' vulnerabilities, whether they involved immigration concerns, mental health challenges, or people living a secretive double life."
McArthur’s victims were Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam and Soroush Mahmudi.
Two were homeless with addiction problems, one a refugee awaiting deportation, and others married men who had hidden their sexuality from their families.
Remains of seven of the men were found in garden planters in a Toronto home where McArthur had worked as a landscape gardener.
https://www.newsweek.com/bruce-mcarthur-life-sentence-toronto-gay-village-serial-killer-1325165
February 9, 2019
Rev. Sharpton, why do you have Amarosa on your show?
She is phony, she is a person that shamelessly wants power, no matter how she gets it. Please, do not elevate her and give her a platform. There are plenty of great African Americans that can speak out. She is not a nice person. She lives up to her name ...
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian amorosa, feminine of amoroso.
Noun
amorosa (plural amorosas)
(archaic) A wanton woman; a courtesan.
Borrowed from Italian amorosa, feminine of amoroso.
Noun
amorosa (plural amorosas)
(archaic) A wanton woman; a courtesan.
February 9, 2019
Show me yearbook from the South that does not have racist
shit ... pre-1990's, that is not an Historically African American College or school, and I will eat my hat
February 9, 2019
Getting old. Are we turning into a buffet?
Salt and pepper hair
Turkey neck
Muffin top hips
Beer belly
Cottage cheese thighs
Back brisket
melons - that once were
nuts - harder to find
Chiclets teeth
Swiss cheese memory
.... like a finely aged wine!
Did I forget anything?
February 9, 2019
Do you think that the donald is one of "The Boys from Brazil?"
February 8, 2019
Watched witaker, kept reaching for his water baba
I counted 6 pt. bottles (that is 1 gallon plus), at least. Hard to keep the fire of lies in one's belly quenched. I was waiting for him to combust into a pile of detritus (mythologically speaking). The ancient evil of his kind persist today.
February 8, 2019
''It was a phenomenal library,'' said Kathleen Cottay, A.M.I.'s chief librarian, standing at the single file drawer that holds the few hard-copy photos in the company's new offices, just across the highway from the old one. ''Everyone used to call us for stuff.''
Almost two years after a still-unidentified biological terrorist contaminated the company's headquarters with anthrax, killing a National Enquirer photo editor and provoking international dread, a developer has bought the star-crossed building on the condition that he destroy its contents. The new owner, David Rustine, bought it in April for $40,000, seemingly a steal considering that pre-anthrax, the newly renovated building was valued at $15 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/us/exclusive-it-s-doom-for-tabloid-archives.html
Remember National Enquirer and anthrax
So strange.
''It was a phenomenal library,'' said Kathleen Cottay, A.M.I.'s chief librarian, standing at the single file drawer that holds the few hard-copy photos in the company's new offices, just across the highway from the old one. ''Everyone used to call us for stuff.''
Almost two years after a still-unidentified biological terrorist contaminated the company's headquarters with anthrax, killing a National Enquirer photo editor and provoking international dread, a developer has bought the star-crossed building on the condition that he destroy its contents. The new owner, David Rustine, bought it in April for $40,000, seemingly a steal considering that pre-anthrax, the newly renovated building was valued at $15 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/21/us/exclusive-it-s-doom-for-tabloid-archives.html
February 8, 2019
https://www.alicenter.org/about-us/muhammad-ali/
Yet, another Hero of mine
MUHAMMAD ALI, CO-FOUNDER OF THE ALI CENTER
Over fifty years after he burst upon the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics, in Rome, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world.
As a boxer, Muhammad brought unprecedented speed and grace to his sport, while his charm and wit changed forever what the public expected a champion to be. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend. But there was always far more to Muhammad than what took place in a boxing ring.
Muhammad’s life and career played out as much on the front pages of national and international newspapers as on the inside sports pages. His early embrace of the Nation of Islam and his insistence on being called Muhammad Ali instead of his “slave name,” Cassius Clay, heralded a new era in black pride. His refusal to be inducted into the United States Army anticipated the growing antiwar movement of the 1960’s.
Traveling across continents, he hand-delivered food and medical supplies to such needy sites as the Harapan Kita Hospital for Children in Jakarta, Indonesia; the street children of Morocco; and Sister Beltran’s orphanage for Liberian refugees on the Ivory Coast, to name just a few.
Over fifty years after he burst upon the scene as a gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics, in Rome, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world.
As a boxer, Muhammad brought unprecedented speed and grace to his sport, while his charm and wit changed forever what the public expected a champion to be. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend. But there was always far more to Muhammad than what took place in a boxing ring.
Muhammad’s life and career played out as much on the front pages of national and international newspapers as on the inside sports pages. His early embrace of the Nation of Islam and his insistence on being called Muhammad Ali instead of his “slave name,” Cassius Clay, heralded a new era in black pride. His refusal to be inducted into the United States Army anticipated the growing antiwar movement of the 1960’s.
Traveling across continents, he hand-delivered food and medical supplies to such needy sites as the Harapan Kita Hospital for Children in Jakarta, Indonesia; the street children of Morocco; and Sister Beltran’s orphanage for Liberian refugees on the Ivory Coast, to name just a few.
https://www.alicenter.org/about-us/muhammad-ali/
February 8, 2019
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/maya-angelou
Another Hero of mine
Come on Liberals, Progressives, Democratic Socialists ... celebrate our legacy!
An acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. As a civil rights activist, Angelou worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. She was also an educator and served as the Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University. By 1975, wrote Carol E. Neubauer in Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, Angelou was recognized “as a spokesperson for… all people who are committed to raising the moral standards of living in the United States.” She served on two presidential committees, for Gerald Ford in 1975 and for Jimmy Carter in 1977. In 2000, Angelou was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton. In 2010, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S., by President Barack Obama. Angelou was awarded over 50 honorary degrees before her death
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/maya-angelou
February 7, 2019
Not perfect, another Hero, for me
Witty, irreverent, brilliant, POW, and so much more. People are complicated, life takes many twists and turns and tumbles ... the person that you become may be very different form the person you started out as
... we must never allow the imperfections to dim the goodness within ... when that goodness X10, out weights the badness
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html
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