…..Well done Time….major props…..Jamal Khashoggi….a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi prince…..Mohammed bin Salman….was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in October…..Maria Ressa….is a veteran reporter on global terrorism and CEO of the Filipino news site Rappler…..and highly critical of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his violent drug war…..last month Maria was charged with multiple counts of tax fraud….or what she calls…. “Trumped-up charges”….meant to harass and intimidate her….she could be facing up to 10 years in prison….Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo…..were arrested in Myanmar for investigating a mass grave of Rohingya villagers….victims of what the United Nations has called “genocidal intent”….both of them were found guilty of illegally obtaining secret state documents…..even though a Myanmar police captain testified the two journalists had been framed…..The Capital Gazette…a Maryland media company lost five of their staff in a mass shooting….while we thank them for their accomplishments of telling the truth to the world…..let’s not also forget….the other journalists, camerapersons, photographers, film makers, innocent victims and more….who also put their lives on the line….to tell the truth….much respect goes out to all… “The Guardians and the war on truth.”
MISS UNIVERSE PAYS EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO ITS FIRST TRANSGENDER COMPETITOR……Miss Angela Ponce…..who was representing Spain, hoped to use the pageant as a platform to draw attention to LGBTQ issues….the rules of Miss Universe formerly prohibited transgender women from competing in the competition….but the regulations were changed in 2012 after Canadian model Jenna Talackova successfully sued Miss Universe for disqualifying her on discriminatory grounds…..sad to say, she didn’t make it to the top 20….but she had this to say: “My hope is for tomorrow, to be able to live in a world of equality for everyone, simply for us all to understand that we are human and we must make all our lives easier together. If I can give that to the world, I don’t need to win Miss Universe, I only need to be here.”
THIS IS WEIRD…..anyone know Peter Murphy?…..yeah, I forgot about him too….until I came across this article….and I was like,….ah yeah, I remember him…..he sucks…..anyway,…..Pete’s ex job was being the front man for the band…. “Bauhaus”….remember them?…..told ya…..sucks!……anyway,…dude’s 61-years-old and became very violent and uncontrollable….and started throwing bottles and stuff at the audience….and the Swedish police were very nice…..and yanked him off the stage….when he started acting stupid they restrained him….you see back home…..that’s how you do it….anyway,….these old bands doing I need some money tours are pretty bad and half of them are missing the original members…..except the Police Reunion Tour…..man I wish I’d had a ticket for that one….. yo, any of ya’ll know Sting?…..if you do, tell him to give Branford Marsalis and the boyz a call…..and come out with a fourth CD…..anyway,…..but this guys a jerk…..so, to get to my point….isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?….talking to the musicians now…..have you ever been on stage…and had someone throw something at you because you…or the band sucked?……I haven’t and I know many other musicians who haven’t…..BUT…..I’ve been to shows where people did throw crap at the band on stage…..anyway,…..they had to be the worse audience ever…..for a musician to throw shit at them…..or they were brutally honest…..and let him know…..he still sucks!
WOMAN IN VEGETATIVE STATE SUDDENLY GIVES BIRTH, SPARKING SEX ABUSE INVESTIGATION….. “YOU THINK SO!”…..the woman has been in the same condition for 14 years under 24-hour care….so that means many people working at the facility had access to her….time to breakout those DNA kits and find out who’s the daddy…because the kid was born on December 29th…..and since the birth, “NOW” the Hacienda Health Care adopted a policy requiring female employees to accompany male employees to female patient’s rooms….whatever you do….don’t put anyone into this place….they nearly lost its Medicare funding in 2013 after it was found out at least one staff member was abusive to multiple patients….and one staff member was fired for making repeated inappropriate sexual comments to a patient.
DID YOU KNOW BARBIE HAS A LAST NAME?…..I’m talking about the doll called Barbie…yep…her real name is…Barbara Millicent Roberts…her mommy and daddy are….George and Margaret Roberts….and they had seven kids….Barbara, Skipper, Anastasia, Todd, Chelsea, Kelly and Kristine….wow, you can’t get any more 1959 working middle class than that…..I wonder if they lived down the street from Wally and Beaver.
FLORIDA GOVERNOR PARDONS “GROVELAND FOUR” WRONGLY ACCUSED OF RAPE IN 1949…..And I am so sure Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Ernest Thomas…who were accuse of sexually assaulting Norma Padgett…in Groveland, Florida….which is about 30 miles west of Orlando…and two of them spent 70 years in prison….for a crime the courts recently found out…they did not commit….are very happy to hear this bit of news….Ms. Norma said her car broke down the night of July, 16th 1949….and four men stopped and raped her…..and these men were arrested…..we’re talking Jim Crow Era here folks…..three of them were tortured until the police got a confession from two of them….Ernst Thomas managed to escape….but they shot him down….Greenlee was sentenced to life in prison…..Shepherd and Irvin got the death penalty….and while being transported from county jail to their retrial….the sheriff shot them both and claimed self-defense….Shepherd died at the scene….Irvin survived by trying to play dead….but that didn’t fool anyone…his sentence was later commuted to life in prison….in reality….a pardon doesn’t mean a thing…..if the ones you want to pardon…..are dead.