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A brief look back to resistance in South Africa, 1985, on this National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, via the archive of the Black Consciousness Movement at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. #O22 #blacklivesmatter
A brief look back to resistance in South Africa, 1985, on this National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality, via the archive of the Black Consciousness Movement at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. #O22 #blacklivesmatter
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Last fall I focused the introductory composition class I taught at CUNY's Lehman College on stop-and-frisk and racial profiling at large. The course received the 2014 Diana Colbert Innovative Teaching Prize, awarded annually by the CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in English. I post the materials I submitted here in the interest of open access: all of the following, except for my specific words, is free to use. If you've taught a similar class, let me know—perhaps we can build a site for such pedagogic and teaching materials. (Above image: "End Stop and Frisk" by sainthuck, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.)
Black and Latino young men are highly disproportionately stopped-and-frisked by New York City police officers, particularly in the Bronx and Brooklyn. (For representative New York Police Department data collected by the New York Civil Liberties Union, see here and here.) Although the stop-and-frisk program has been in place since at least 2002, debate over its propriety and effectiveness reached a peak last summer due to the city's mayoral election, the media attention to now-mayor Bill De Blasio's "mixed-race" family, and a federal court's finding that stop-and-frisk violated both the 4th and 14th Amendments. At the same time, the George Zimmerman trial, which concluded with Trayvon Martin's killer being found not guilty, amplified controversy about racial profiling and state power. So, too, did widely noted cultural representations such as Kanye West's Yeezus album, with songs such as "New Slaves" and "Blood on the Leaves," a re-working of the anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit," and Ryan Coogler's film Fruitvale Station, about 22-year-old Oscar Grant, slain by Oakland transit police in 2008.
Given these various cultural texts and discourses concerning racial violence, spanning—at a minimum—the white-supremacist terrorism of the "old South" and the everyday subjugation of black and Latino New Yorkers, it seemed an especially rich conjuncture to focus my English composition class at Lehman College on stop-and-frisk and the longer history of racial profiling in the United States. Indeed, given Lehman's Bronx location, the higher rate of stop-and-frisk in the borough (not to mention lingering grief over local teenager Ramarley Graham, killed by a cop in 2012), and the college's predominantly Latina/o and black students (see Lehman's data here), I knew that many, if not all, of my students would be affected by the program, whether the young men targeted or their family members and friends. I also knew they would have experienced racial profiling in its other forms, whether the school-to-prison pipeline in operation at New York City public schools, the general entrapment of the prison-industrial complex and its attendant political economy, or the surveillance of department-store staff and their collusion with police (as experienced by a CUNY student that fall in a high-profile incident).
My pedagogy centers on connecting with students on their terms in order to facilitate critical thinking and discussion about the links between their individual and collective experiences and larger political, social, and economic problematics at local, national, and global scales. This scrutiny extends to the classroom and university, marked by its ongoing exclusion of racialized students (see, for example, here), and disciplinary methods and knowledges (see, for example, Rod Ferguson's The Reorder of Things), including the very notions of "standard" English and normative academic writing that orient an introductory composition class (see Kevin Brown's "Rhetoric and the Stoning of Rachel Jeantel," the first assigned reading).
Indeed, the Zimmerman trial, for instance, in addition to showing the limits of the criminal-justice system for social justice, also highlighted the ongoing subjection of minoritized English speakers, as Martin's friend Rachel Jeantel was roundly mocked for her testimony. As such, the composition classroom is an ideal space to attend to the verbal dimensions of racial profiling at the same time as its other manifestations.
In this way, the first course readings (see below for full list) addressed the profiling of Jeantel's rhetoric, affect, and appearance in the context of the authors' personal experiences vis-a-vis profiling, thus framing the objectives of the course as a whole: a two-fold dynamic in which the students' own experiences could serve as the initial ground on which to contest hegemonic discourse on race.
This unit, which included Roots' drummer Questlove's viral Facebook post about his experiences being profiled, culminated in the first paper assignment, a descriptive/narrative essay in which students intervened in a particular debate over racial profiling using their lived experience as the primary form of evidence. Subsequent units, each tied to a different type of essay writing, focused on multi-modal comparative analysis of popular music and music videos, expository analyses of mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex, and various arguments opposing stop-and-frisk specifically and racialized security mechanisms generally. The final paper prompt connected the course's overall discussions to praxis, asking students to make an argument, supported by information from any two course readings, about what aspects of U.S. policing or prisons need to be changed.
Finally, although the oppositional capacity of social media was central to both class discussion and participation (students were required to submit reading responses via Tumblr), I also emphasized social media's citational limits—that is, the ease with which correct attribution can go awry. This risk was the subject of the first class meeting, in which I handed out copies of a Facebook post quoting "bell hooks on the Zimmerman trial" that went viral —except the quote, from hooks' 2001 book All About Love, does not specifically address the Zimmerman trial but rather white supremacy at large. Once again, though, it was a prime opportunity to discuss both racial profiling and composition practice.
Detailed Assignment
Per Lehman College English department requirements, English Composition I is not predominantly literature-based, but with this second paper assignment, I introduced literary elements in the form of the lyrics to "Strange Fruit," originally performed by Billie Holiday in 1939 and later covered by Nina Simone in the mid-1960s, and the lyrics to "Blood on the Leaves," the 2013 Kanye West track that features Simone singing the lyric "Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees / Blood on the leaves" for its chorus. The paper assignment was to compare and contrast the two songs, which offered the critical challenge of how "Strange Fruit," based on a poem by Bronx school teacher Abel Meeropol and recorded by Holiday in protest against lynching and revived by Simone at the height of the civil-rights struggle, related to the concerns West raises in his song, namely the complex intersections of romantic relationships and consumeristic bourgeois desires. As such, students had to think about both the literary aspects of each song's lyrics as well as the differing, but related, historical contexts—that is, the history of U.S. racial oppression in service to white economic power. This history was further emphasized when West performed "Blood on the Leaves" at the MTV Music Video Awards in silhouette against an image of a tree Steve McQueen photographed while making 12 Years a Slave—a performance that generated fresh attention to the song right at the beginning of the semester.
Preparatory class work for writing the paper included lectures by me on the particulars of lynching under Jim Crow, augmented by multi-modal texts available on the course Tumblr and shown in class; close readings of the lyrics and their contexts (aided especially by the annotations of "Blood on the Leaves" on RapGenius.com); and intensive comparative discussion across several class sessions, which yielded an in-class exercise I designed on the basis of the students' analysis to further hone the possible arguments that could be made (click on the following image for a clear view of the handout).
In the end, although some students remained resistant to seeing any connection between the two songs, everyone was able to see the historical continuum of black pain, on the one hand, and white economic gain, on the other. This lesson effectively set up subsequent class lessons on the continuance of racialized social control in the U.S., including current forms such as stop-and-frisk and mass incarceration. At times it was also entertaining, as all the students had an opinion of West, and they enjoyed discussing pop culture.
Course Readings for Each Unit
Unit 1: the narrative/descriptive essay
Unit 2: the compare/contrast essay
Unit 3: the expository essay
Unit 4: the argument essay
Supplemental readings/texts available on the course Tumblr.
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Following are the remarks I prepared for the closing plenary of the MLA Subconference last Thursday, on which I appeared, on behalf of the CUNY Adjunct Project, with Chris Newfield of the University of California–Santa Barbara, Kyle Shafer of Unite Here!, and Jimmy Casas Klausen of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Though I veered from these particular words—I'd quickly handwritten them, in my near illegible script—the views are the same as I expressed in person, as you'll see on the archived livestream (which you should check for the other panelists' remarks and subsequent discussion).
The photo above, by Lee Skallerup Bessette, shows an image, presented by Shafer, of hospitality workers in a vending machine—a specific depiction of how capitalism renders people in general: disposable. If we are to resist precarity, we must resist capitalism and its various deployments, as I try to show.
First of all, and again, I want to thank the organizers of this very generative convening. Thank you all for inviting the CUNY Adjunct Project to appear, and thank you for your generously donated labor. And, frankly, it shouldn't be our job, as graduate students, to change the university. We have enough other things to do—research, write, teach, attend conferences on money we don't have—the list goes on—that we don't have time, let alone resources, to solve all the problems facing higher education too. But since the people with available time and resources—tenured faculty and faculty unions, administrators, disciplinary organizations and other academic bodies—apparently have no interest, nor ability, to fix these issues, doing so must be our work as well. And so I thank everyone here in this newly formed collective, and I look forward to continuing this mobilization, in particular in coordinating actions across our various campuses between now and next year's gathering in Vancouver.
I also want to note my regret that Marc Bousquet can't be with us tonight as expected. Not only is he an alumnus of my very program at the CUNY Graduate Center, but his longstanding analyses of academic capitalism, particularly in How the University Works, have provided an important foundation for my own views on the political economy of U.S. higher education. Indeed, I love to quote his remark that the PhD holder is now the "waste product of graduate education," especially at department-wide meetings in which most attendees, professors and students alike, look at me like I'm crazy. But Marc is dead on about the expendability of laborers, who are eliminated, both symbolically and materially, under global capitalism. What is a prison, after all, except the housing of waste—of incapacitated workers deliberately left behind by the structural adjustment that has battered specific U.S. communities since Reagan? What is imperial war, of which the U.S. is the reigning arbiter, except the incapacitating of communities around the world?
Prison and war frame my remarks tonight not just because of their central relationships to U.S. governmentality and capital accumulation but also due to my institutional and geographic locations at the City University of New York, whose students are subjected to the whims of campus security when they're not being terrorized by the NYPD through its racist, violent stop-and-frisk program. Although the police target black and brown men, the costs of stop-and-frisk—and prisons at large—to individuals and neighborhoods are countless. And when youth of color make it to CUNY—that is, if they're not pushed out earlier by the school-to-prison pipeline or the brutal testing regime (both of which line the pockets of corporate executives and investors)—they are now offered a dubious stability in the form of military service, as CUNY has welcomed back ROTC after a 41-year absence—a military that has historically preyed upon the multiracial working class. Meanwhile, U.S. imperialism, safeguarded by the military, and the sturdy hegemony of the American dream continue to make New York City a hub for numerous diasporic communities. Indeed, the diversity of oppressed nationalities in the city led the American Enterprise Institute to recommend CUNY as a recruiting ground.
I was asked to speak tonight on one aspect of precarity, and how to resist it, and as this sketch of issues at CUNY indicates, I want to highlight the critical necessity of intersectional analysis and organizing. In other words, there can be no single-issue activism or research. At CUNY, the myriad intersecting issues—and I only briefly outlined a few—make it impossible to address change without also addressing the full complex of problems that jointly maintain the status quo. And this is the case across higher education, given the university's deep entanglement with processes and histories of colonialism, racialized social control, and oppression.
In practice, what this means for me, as an organizer for the CUNY Adjunct Project, is that I must also organize with and alongside organizers for racial and economic justice broadly, since academic labor, like labor at large, is shaped by structural forces that delimit not just equal opportunity but equal resources as well. It means I must collaborate with and stand beside organizers working to end stop-and-frisk, since that affects the students I teach as contingent faculty and the colleagues I work with inside and outside of class. It means I must work in concert with organizers demanding an end to the militarization of CUNY and its appointment of war-criminal David Petraeus, overseer of death squads and torture in Iraq and drones at the CIA. It means showing up at hearings and rallies for comrades disciplined by City College and turned over to the law on allegations of "almost" inciting a riot for protesting the seizure of the Morales/Shakur Community and Student Center, an autonomous space won by black and Puerto Rican people—students and residents of Harlem working together—in their—our—still-ongoing struggle to decolonize CUNY. It means demanding a parental-leave policy for Graduate Center student workers—currently none exists—so that they don't have to forfeit their teaching fellowships if they want to care for their newborn children. Again, the list goes on.
I am one of four phenotypically white, cisgender men on this panel tonight, an observation I make not to criticize but to think through critically. Indeed, this room is primarily white, and as such mirrors the prevailing whiteness of the academy, and marks how much work needs to be done to rectify the racial injustices of higher education. But we—and I mean those of us who are white, with all our racial privilege—need to be part of that work. Similar to how we want tenured faculty to use their privilege, and resources, to help us contingent faculty end the two-tier system of academic labor and concomitant exploitation—one of the many themes of this conference—those of us with the capital granted to us by white privilege must spend it—all of it—for the sake of racial justice. That is to say, we must work against our privilege, to undo it, akin to how my mentors at the Revolutionary Students Coordinating Committee, or RSCC—the rhyme with SNCC is deliberate—urge "class suicide" of the bourgeoisie, petit and grande. Only when whiteness is eliminated, and the capital it has accumulated by dispossession is returned, will there be an end to precarity.
In other words, we must fully reckon with the settler colonialism and chattel slavery on which the U.S. was founded and which destroyed communities—of people, of thought, of practice—all over the world. These paired legacies are alive at CUNY, as they are everywhere. As such, I believe we must reclaim the notion of contingency so that it names radical possibility as much as it does material vulnerability. The contingency I imagine would allow us to choose the labor we want to do, be with the people with whom we want to be, govern ourselves in the ways we want to be governed, travel to where we want to travel, and take care of one another in the manner in which we want to be taken care of. Legacies of such collective determination are also alive, even if they're often demoted to "cultural differences" by the dominant communities of the global metropole.
At the same time, we must also remember that the institutions that discipline us are precarious, as yesterday's presentation on private-bond-funded, tuition-backed campus construction showed. But when a protest can increase interest rates—and attendant debt-service payments that can run into the millions—it gives universities even more reason to crack down on dissent, as we have seen happen this last semester at CUNY, which is now codifying such repression.
Again, we must contend with militarization, and the capitalism it protects—and the communities harmed by both. To counter this violence, in the present and historically, we need to organize across divides and resist the colonial logic of separation. Only then will we be resisting precarity too.
(Cross-posted to the CUNY Adjunct Project website.)
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And then my phone ran out of juice as we walked down the above block, which I happen to live on. (Would that I could've gone up and gotten a fresh phone.) The march continued east on 12th Street, north on 1st Avenue, west on 23rd Street, north on 6th Avenue, west on 33rd Street, and north on 7th one block to 34th Street, where we were stopped. I peeled off at that point but the march continued west on 33rd and then, from what I heard, to Times Square. No justice, no peace.
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"You can't preserve everything," Florent Morellet, pioneering meat-market restaurateur, said Thursday night at a Historic Districts Council screening of the 2009 documentary about the rise and fall of his eponymous French diner. The stories of Morellet, his restaurant (which closed in '08), and the meat market have been well told over the years, but the Frenchman's rebirth as a quasi-anti-preservationist could be fresh narrative terrain: Now a member of the community board that serves the neighborhood, Soho, in which he lives, Morellet professed to have lost interest in the meatpacking district, having turned his attention instead to high-rises, urban density, and sustainability.
"It's not about the buildings, it's about the people," he ramblingly opined after the screening at the Tribeca Film Center. "That's what we as preservationists have to think about. High rise is the future, that's what's sustainable. We have to start leveling the suburbs and bringing them to the city, to the core, where there's transit. Apartment buildings of 100 stories! Going against that is immoral, because it's green."
Not exactly the talking points of New York's historic-preservation community, whose latest success is getting a distinctly low-rise section of the East Village landmarked, but that's part of Morellet's charm: he's unpredictable.
He's also, again, ahead of the trend. "There should be high rises on the avenues of the East Village," he said—and along the northern reaches of Third Avenue, there already are.
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*Or, Why I Like BLDG BLOK
Last night I participated in the inaugural public event of BLDG BLOK, a start-up housed at the DUMBO NYU-Poly incubator that's using mapping and other digital tools to rediscover urban history. My task was to respond creatively to a history of Tompkins Square by writer Francis Morrone; I had five minutes, or about 1200 words. Following is what I wrote and read.
When I think of Tompkins Square, I think of rats. Two summers ago, the square—or park, or gathering place, or historical site, or whatever you deem the most appropriate description of the space for your needs—was infested with rats, as local parents complained to media; their burrows—the rats' burrows, that is, not the parents' burrows, which are a different kind of burrow—ran adjacent to the playground on the square's west side. At night you could see the rats scrambling over the mulch, or venturing across the Avenue A sidewalk to pick through garbage. Rats are shy animals—they disappear if you get too close. But they need humans to survive.
During the rat infestation—I understand it's lessened now—I happened to live, just for a short time, on Seventh Street between A and B, which is the south side of Tompkins Square. Accordingly, I had many opportunities to observe the rats. I was interested in photographing them, I guess to capture them, to hold them in time for longer than a moment—that is, permanently. In one photograph I took, there were 22 pairs of rat eyes glinting in the dark. Stopped in the image, they seemed to look at me with the same mix of curiosity and fear with which I gazed at them.
Rats are as much a part of New York City history—of any city's history—as they are a part of my history in New York. Twelve years ago, shortly after I moved to this metropolis, I hit a rat with my foot as I crossed Broadway on Fourth Street. I didn't see the rat—I just felt a soft, semi-squishy thud. Immediately a high-pitched screech overcame the corner; I looked down and saw a furry oblong scurry away zig-zag-like. Passersby glared at me as I stood there, stunned, as if I'd been hit by a car—an unexpectedly traumatic collision. But I might as well have collided with history itself.
Rats, as we know, are ancient animals—so ancient that the zoological designation "Old World rats" for the black and brown rodents we live with in cities doesn't refer to the pre-modern era but to the pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-modern era: specifically, the Pleistocene epoch, which began more than two million years ago and ended eleven-thousand-and-seven-hundred years ago. At some point during this enormous span of time—scientists aren't sure when—the rats that now commingle with us and our refuse in Tompkins Square originated in the forests and scrublands of Asia. Our rats, of course, aren't a million years old (obviously)—their average life span is only a year. But their bodies carry within them a history of the world, both spatial and temporal. They're living documents of human civilization. Don't believe me? Ask the next rat you see. He'll tell you if he could.
Like rats, architecture carries within it a spatial-temporal history of the world, only you can't stop a building—a design—in its tracks with your foot. As eminent architectural writer Francis Morrone reminds us in his chronological history, the area that's now Tompkins Square was once a swampy mass filled with birds of the snipe variety; Manhatten men of a certain stripe hunted them. The snipe hunt later became synonymous with the wild-goose chase, a madcap search for an ostensibly real but actually fictional object. Indeed, that meaning is so prevalent today that to use "snipe hunting" to refer to a kind of bird hunting would be archaic. And yet this seemingly outmoded definition is embedded in the phrase; it can't be separated out. Etymologies are not linear but coextensive—meanings are ever present.
When I think about architecture, I often find myself thinking of Orhan Pamuk's incredible novel Snow, in which the provenance and style of buildings are as important as any other theme. After years of living in exile in Germany, the novel's protagonist, a poet, returns to Turkey for his mother's funeral. Subsequently, he's offered a reporting assignment that takes him to the eastern city of Kars, a remote outpost of have's and have-not's—mostly have-not's. His first stop in town is the Snow Palace Hotel, an "elegant Baltic building…two stories high, with long narrow windows that looked out onto a courtyard and an arch that led out to the street. The arch was 110 years old and high enough for horse-drawn carriages to pass through with ease." When the poet-reporter walks under the arch, he feels "a shiver of excitement."
The novel takes place in the 1990s. A hundred-and-ten years before then—in the 1880s—Kars belonged to the Russian empire, and Turkey, as a nation, didn't yet exist. At the beginning of that same decade, Tompkins Square had become a public park—"one of the most attractive spots in the city," as the New-York Tribune hailed it. Within 60 years, however, the park was no longer attractive: as the New York Times noted—and these references are Morrone's, by the way—neglect was visible everywhere, the playground vandalized.
Kars—you may have sensed I was going here—suffered a similar degradation: "elegant Baltic buildings" turn out to be a rarity in the city as rendered by Pamuk in Snow. Instead, as the novel's poet-reporter walks through the snow, he finds "decrepit Russian buildings with stovepipes sticking out of every window," a "thousand-year-old Armenian church towering over the wood depots and the electric generators," and "a five-hundred-year-old stone bridge," where a "pack of dogs bark[ed] at every passerby." The forlorn scenes force our man to wonder if Kars is "a place that the whole world had forgotten, as if it were snowing at the end of the world."
I read this moment, fictional or not, as the end of history—the end of a progressive chronology of the world that relegates the past to the past—forgotten. In contrast to a chronological view of history, I propose a kairological perspective, in which the past is never forgotten but always insistently here. In this regard, I follow the great Italian theorist Giorgio Agamben, who declares: "Against the empty, continuous, quantified, infinite time of vulgar historicism must be set the full, broken, indivisible and perfect time of concrete human experience; instead of the chronological time of pseudo-history, the [k]airological time of authentic history; in place of the total social process of a dialectic lost in time, the interruption and immediacy of dialectic at a standstill."
Architecture can interrupt this dialectic of putative progress, as can rats. So can, perhaps ironically, the digital—or digitality, or technology, or invention, or whatever you want to call it—which makes visible simultaneous—kairological—historical experiences. This is what BLDG BLOK does, and this is why I like it.
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Moving west to east, the second building of the East 10th Street Historic District, number 295 (above), is part of the same set of houses that includes 293 and ends with 299. All built in a Greek Revival/Italianate style, they're attributed to the architect Joseph Trench. As before, this building incorporates Queen-Anne-style alterations, such as the cornice; the main entrance was also moved to the basement.
Previously: The East 10th Historic District—Photos
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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously this past January to elevate the north side of East 10th Street between Avenues A and B to the status of historic district. The district contains 26 buildings, most of which were built in the 1840s, '50s, and '60s, following the opening of Tompkins Square Park, which the buildings face, in 1834. A few of the buildings went up around the turn of the twentieth century, including the McKim, Mead, & White-designed public library at 331 East 10th.
These buildings, though not the library, have been altered greatly since their construction, and as such they're fascinating historical assemblages. I live near the block, and since I'm addicted to Instagram, I thought I'd photograph and post each of the 26 structures. Above is building one, on the northwest corner of the block: 293 East 10th. Originally built (circa 1846) in a Greek Revival/Italianate style, it was later updated with a Queen Anne-style cornice. (This information, and all subsequent information about these buildings, comes from the East 10th Street Historic District "designation report," prepared for the preservation commission.) Other alterations—they are numerous, as you can glean from the image—include moving the main entrance to the basement and removing the window lintels. The current occupant of the storefront is the Horus Cafe and hookah lounge, which has a sidewalk cafe.
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Among the people living in my building in 1940: stenographers, investigators (one for "N.Y.C. Social"), lawyers, waitresses, a hatmaker and a dressmaker, a hospital dietitian, and a "photographers" salesman. Though they mostly hailed from New York, quite a few were born in Russia, Austria, Poland, Germany, and Denmark, as well as New Jersey and Maine. Just a snapshot of what you can find on the 1940 Census site, which has been bombarded with more than 37 million "hits"—so cute, the Archives!—since nine a.m. Monday.
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God's Mission Matters: Check your bags toolkit - David Hudson's story
Hudson, Area Coordinator for Asia in Presbyterian World Mission, tells how when his family packed their bags for Pakistan, it became a metaphor for leaving our cultural baggage behind.
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Judy was born in Burlington WA back in 4/15/1963 and it snowed then too! Who would have thought all the way down here in Roseburg it would almost do it again! The flower basket with pansies and baby's breath is hanging in our vegatable garden... already up: potatoes, onions, lettuce, brocalli, and peas!
It snowed on my birthday back in 1963
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- July 22, 2014
A TOUR guide aimed a rifle at a hunter, then shot at a buffalo as it tossed the hunter around before goring him into the ground with its horns.
Craig Speerin was on a hunting trip near Tortilla Flats, about 80km southwest of Darwin, when he shot a buffalo but failed to kill it on July 3.
He admitted it was a poor shot and the buffalo then charged at him at an estimated 40km/h from 110m away.
The nearby tour guide had the gun pointed at Mr Speerin, who was between the buffalo and the guide.
"We were on the same (firing) line and he was asking me to step aside ever so cool to clear his line," Mr Speerin, 37, said on australianhunting.net forums.
"Trust me, I looked down that .375's barrel and saw the guide's cool demeanour as he had the rifle pointed at me.
"I was the first man he had ever pointed a loaded firearm at, and he wants it to be the last."
But the guide was unable to take a clean shot and instead let the animal hit Mr Speerin.
"Unfortunately, and fortunately, he never took that shot ... and that awful feeling of being collected (by the buffalo) followed shortly thereafter," he said on australianhunting.net forums.
"The animal had me on his rack, on my back, for 20m tossing me from horn to horn.
"Then tossed me in the air and spun around and hooked in again goring and crushing me into the ground.
"He definitely moved me effortlessly.
"(The) guide saved my life at this point, with two well-placed ... rounds from one foot (away).
"When it came to the second dig he had at me, and tumbling like a tumble weed as he unloaded at will, I would not have wished to have another man backing me up."
The buffalo died, but it was an experience all involved wanted to forget.
"Whilst conscious the whole time, some parts are a blur," he said on australianhunting.net forums.
"I never even heard the final barks of the .375."
The hunting party met St John Ambulance at Acacia Store before transfer to Royal Darwin Hospital.
Mr Speerin spent two days in hospital for surgery to two deep gore wounds, multiple lacerations, grazes, crush injures, and torn muscles.
"I really did get off lightly," he said on australianhunting.net forums.
"My inexperience and lack of intestinal fortitude was the major causes.
"The animal was hit well and dying but just didn't know it.
"What he did know, was who was causing the pain."
He said he was back in work, but was still recovering from physical and mental trauma.
"I am certainly a different man for the experience," he said.
"The physical injuries I am told should be all good in two months but some may be permanent or require further medical attention.
"I got my money's worth you could say and some deepening respect for every animal I hunt.
He did not blame the guide for failing to take the first shot, and said he would hunt buffalo in the future.
"I'll have a go again, albeit with someone who hunts them day-in, day-out," he said.
"The head is not a trophy to me but rather a reminder of the animal who beat me and near took my life.
"He'll sit on my garage wall in front of my hunting ute so I'll be reminded of many things prior to every hunt from here on."
* NT News has used quotes from the website. Mr Speerin was contacted but failed to respond.
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sledgemeister of Tasmania Posted at 6:46 PM July 24, 2014
@ Greg of Karma, and the Cane Toad eats bugs other than Cane Beetles whats your point. If the Buffalo was such a wanted animal then why do National Parks and Wildlife want them gone, why do the indigenous land owners want them removed? Obviously the two organisations that run a lot of the top end have it wrong, perhaps you should write a submission and tell them so. @William of Aragon, I hope you was not referring to my post in calling for humanity that was not my point, the point if missed was that of you and your fellow pro animal lot being hyprocrits, I would have thought you would not want harm to come to any living thing, obviously that is not true, is it? Because its ok to wish harm on another human. One also assumes people like your self do not wear leather belts, eat meat, use items made from animals or by-products there of, because we all know that the animals that these items come from over seas are treated with the utmost respect again the word hyprocrit comes to mind.
Greg of Karama of Karama Posted at 11:35 AM July 24, 2014
@sledgemeister of Tasmania. If you bothered to find out about the NT before commenting, you would know that before the BTEC campaign the buffalo kept at least two introduced weeds in check. These weeds have run rampant since the demise of the buffalo, choking flood plains and billabongs. A bit more to this than you think.
William of Aragon Posted at 7:32 AM July 24, 2014
I see the pro-gun lobby is out in force on this article, calling for others to show some "humanity". When it comes to slaughtering defenceless beasts with a rifle for sport, humanity is the first thing that is discarded.


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One of the most prescribed pieces of advice when trying to choose a college is to visit the college itself in order to get an idea what the campus, dorms, and programs are like.
This is fine for local colleges or even colleges within the state. But it becomes much more of a problem when visiting colleges across the country – in my case, from Connecticut to California.
The allure of California colleges is much more than the warm weather.
Schools such as the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California have some of the best film programs in the country. With a huge interest in being a film major, it was imperative that I visited both.
About a month in advance, planning for the trip began.
Tour reservations had to be made for the schools I was going to visit: USC, UCLA, and the California Institute of the Arts (another major film school in California).
Expenses limited the trip to a four-day affair with travel time, so a one-school-per-day schedule was adopted.
Time constraints also limited how far apart the colleges I was going to visit could be.
Thankfully, USC, UCLA, and CalArts are each about half an hour driving distance from each other as long as the traffic isn't horrendous.
Anticipating bad traffic conditions, reservations at three different hotels – the closest ones to each campus – were made to minimize the traveling distance on the way there for tours. Plane tickets also had to be purchased and boarding passes printed out.
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Scouting Report: Toronto Raptors
Two teams headed in opposite directions clash in what is an important Eastern Conference matchup for playoff standings going into the All-Star break.
The Toronto Raptors have been one of the hottest teams in the conference since trading Rudy Gay to Sacramento earlier this season. A big part of that has been athletic wingman Terrence Ross, who has filled in nicely as Toronto's starting small forward. Ross has brought energy on both sides of the floor and is a difficult cover because of his ability to do it all on the offensive end. He can shoot (40% from three this season) and can also get to the rim and finish because of his length and size. Many thought the Raptors would take a tumble with him instead of Gay, but it's been the opposite.
The Raptors' backcourt is what makes the engine go, led by All-Star DeMar DeRozan's 22 points per game. Like Ross, DeRozan can beat you in a number of ways offensively. He hasn't been as good of an outside shooter, so the key is to make him get his points by taking contested perimeter shots rather than driving to get inside baskets or free throws.
Kyle Lowry, who had a good case for being an All-Star himself, has been one of the most improved point guards in basketball this season. He's averaging almost 17 points and eight assists while starting all 51 games for Toronto, and he had a 19-point, 12-assist night in Monday's win over New Orleans. The backcourt definitely does the scoring for this team, so that's where the focus will have to start defensively for Atlanta.
One lineup note: Amir Johnson, Toronto's regular starting power forward, sat out Monday because of an ankle injury. If he can't go, Patrick Patterson, who the Raptors got as part of the Gay trade, will start.
This is a big game for the Hawks for a number of reasons. They've slipped to fifth in the standings and are now chasing down Toronto and Chicago to try to get home court positioning back. Having lost four in a row, it would be nice to get an important win to get back on track going into the All-Star break.
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A special section in the Reporter-News profiles the 45 high school juniors chosen as Star Students this year.
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Brianna Bond, ATEMS
Lucas Broussard, Early HS
Hailey Burden, Cooper HS
John Coffee, Eastland HS
Caroline Cooke, Abilene HS
Mary Dolan, Wylie HS
Avery Endsley, Abilene HS
Emilea English, Aspermont HS
Emily Fouts, Haskell HS
Kimery Hankins, Cooper HS
Lauren Harral, Ballinger HS
Andrew Barrett Lewis, Abilene HS
John Houston Martinez, Abilene HS
Madison Pamplin, Abilene Christian HS
Silver students
Allie Aguirre, Abilene HS
Shaila Bishop, Coleman HS
Deverice Brown, Wylie HS
Reuben Byrd, Abilene Christian HS
Vivienne Dagalea, Anson HS
Kierstyn Evans, Anson HS
Denver Gravitt, Cooper HS
Anthony Daniel Guerra, ATEMS
Aspen McConathy, Coleman HS
Kali Myers, Cooper HS
Sara Myers, Hawley HS
Lorenzo Ramirez, Roby HS
Presli Rock, Eula HS
Johnna Smith, Hawley HS
Cade Watson, Clyde HS
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Katie Brokovich, Cooper HS
Trisha Burnett, Clyde HS
Alexandra Campbell, Abilene Christian HS
Sydney Dankworth, Ballinger HS
Sam Harrison, ATEMS
Leo Lai, Abilene Christian HS
Leddy McBride, Jim Ned HS
Haley Pichler, Breckenridge HS
Madeleine Stokes, Abilene HS
Wyatt Thompson, Cooper HS
Marysa Travieso, Abilene Christian HS
Bailey Turner, Wylie HS
Dominick Ussery, ATEMS
Nathan Von Roeder, Snyder HS
Forty-five high school juniors, including 17 from the Big Country, were pleasantly surprised when Abilene Christian University's president, via a video message at the Reporter-News Star Student Award banquet, offered students scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $3,000.
"Surprises are cool, aren't they?" asked Reporter-News president and publisher Dave Hedge after ACU President Phil Schubert's announcement.
The students were being honored at the Hunter Welcome Center at ACU.
Along with the Reporter-News, other sponsors for the event were ACU, First Financial Bank, Lawrence Hall Chevrolet, United Way and Hendrick Health System.
Last year's inaugural event limited the recognition to schools in Taylor County. This year's event expanded the competition to the surrounding area and the response almost doubled, said Hedge and Ben Jennings, director of marketing for the Reporter-News.
"It's very humbling," said Hedge about reading the applications of the 130 students who competed. "It's a humbling experience."
Jennings said one of the most rewarding parts of the process was seeing how the students, heavily involved in academic and extracurricular activities, still found time to volunteer.
"I told Dave, 'These kids get it. They're not only successful. They give back.'"
Students were honored in three categories — bronze, silver and gold. A panel awarded points based on academic achievement, school activities, volunteer work and family situations.
"I think the more we can do for these students, the better," he said.
Kevin Washington, who works for the Fellowship of Christian and is a strength coach for the ACU basketball team, was keynote speaker. Diamond Lawson, a Star Student from 2012, received a $1,000 scholarship for winning an essay contest.
"Show the world what we're made of," said Lawson, a senior at Cooper. "It is up to us to change and preserve the world we live in."
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Choose the Road Less Unhappy. ~ Jennifer Moore
Every day—every moment—we choose how we experience our life.
Yesterday I picked Atticus up after school. All day he had hoped for a playdate with friends, but it just didn't work out. When I delivered the news, he cried and protested as we stood outside the school. I walked him to the car and enthusiastically shared our plans for the evening. Atticus continued to cry and protest.
When we arrived at the restaurant, I reminded him that only he could change how he felt. It was obvious he wasn't ready to stop carrying the disappointment. When we sat down at the table, he put his head down.
Quiety, I whispered, "I am going to enjoy this visit with our friends. You can choose to be unhappy about what didn't happen or choose to enjoy what is. It is all up to you. I love you; whatever you choose." Eventually he chose to enjoy the meal and move forward, but not until he was ready.
I realized three things in that moment:
1. Parenting requires patience and compassion, this we know, but it also requires us to let our children suffer (a bit) if they choose. I didn't shame or threaten him, I just coached and let him choose. He chose wisely…for himself.
2. I chose wisely, too. At times we suffer with others, and miss an opportunity to be present and enjoy the moment. When we choose to not be unhappy, others may do the same. And it they don't, we still have saved ourselves unnecessary suffering.
3. The more we choose the Road Less Unhappy, the easier it becomes to make this choice.
Why choose to not be unhappy (a double negative no-no in the world of editing)? Why not choose happiness?
Chasing happiness is like chasing the wind, we run in all directions as our perceptions constantly shift and change. What we perceive will make us happy at one moment, may not in another. Unhappiness is easier to pin down. Unhappiness is immediate. Unhappiness is focussing on what is not, rather than what is.
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Watch what comes.
Like Atticus, I am constantly working towards choosing wisely every moment.
Some days, I am the teacher; some days he is.
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4 Responses to "Choose the Road Less Unhappy. ~ Jennifer Moore"
Jennifer….going through a rather difficult situation with my teenage son. Makes me sad and unhappy often. Yesterday had a similar thought process….if I wait for all my external factors to line up to make me happy I am giving away my power to chose happiness!
Deb, thank you for your comments. It is difficult to watch our children suffer. My yoga and meditation practice help me keep my perspective broad, so I don't focus on only one aspect of every situation. Choosing the Road Less Unhappy doesn't mean unhappiness doesn't come. It may come. But we recognize we are stronger when we are thoughtful and aware; when we avoid being reactive. Breathe. In the womb and after birth, babies respond to the breathing patterns of the mother. Use your breath. As a mother, we need to care for ourselves so we can be strong and balanced to care for our children. I wish you peace and strength.
Hmm. This is a big issue for me right now. For the most part I completely agree, however, I have been (through therapy this past year, after a major life altering event) really questioning my old go-to strategy. "You choose your mood" was the number one philosophical statement shaping my childhood. I took it really seriously. I became really really good at it. And the choosing is definitely "supposed" to result in not choosing to be upset or irritated or holding grudges. I mastered it. And I know I've repeated this style of parenting to my own children. What's wrong with this? Nothing inherently. It's a good technique for the most part, but I took it so seriously that I grew into an adult who was pretty unable to really get in touch with feelings of disappointment, hurt, rejection, and sadness. Now I've got a lot of work to do. I'm doing it, and I'm also trying to be more aware of how I respond to my children's emotions so that I don't teach them to sweep hurt feelings under the rug. It's all about balance isn't it?
Thank you for your thoughtful comments IGB. Good, bad and our feelings of disappointment, hurt and sadness are often relative; meaning something that makes us happy at one moment, may not in another. As a parent, I never deny my son's feelings or tell him they aren't real or he shouldn't feel them. I do coach him (and myself) on how long he wants to carry the disappointment and sadness. The longer we carry feelings and emotions from the past, the more we miss what is going on right now. Anything swept under the rug will need to be cleaned up later. So yes, you are right! It is about balance. It is also about empowerment. We can not control what others do (and often what happens around us) but we do have control over how we respond. We commit to do our best. That is all. Thank you for sharing.


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By now, if you're kind of person who'd be interested in seeing it, chances are you've seen it.
Because Mad Max is back. And, baby... is he ever.
The trailer for Fury Road was released at Comic Con, which is that annual nerd bash in San Diego that has completely legitimized North America's nerd community to the point that I feel genuinely both guilty and envious for even using that word as if it's a knock, or compliment, or neither. It's just a description.
But in the seats of a theatre where Mad Max has returned after 30 years in the Outback, we're all nerds. We're all gushing geeks. And it looks perfect.
Not perfect in the way The English Patient was perfect for some people, like Peterman. But perfect in the way that it looks to be, from the outset, exactly what anyone who loves Mad Max would want it – or need it – to be. Because Tom Hardy is a perfect pick. And Charlize Theron is a perfect pick. And that group of angels who keep reappearing in the trailer – the ones you've already IMDB'd are named Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Courtney Eaton – are as intriguing as the thugs and leather-robed villains driving the chariots of fire.
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I purchased a 2002 f350 w/7.3 about six months ago and everything was good for the first few months but has gotten bad lately. There is a long story here that is still unfolding as I plan to do some under-valve-cover testing this weekend, but the short version of the story is that I possibly have low compression in number 8 causing a miss and causing the engine to blow white smoke out of the tailpipe. It is possible that I have a dusted engine. The engine still has plenty of power and i can live with the miss, but what I dont like is how I smoke people out at stoplights. The smell from the smoke is not a pleasant thing and i feel bad for the people around me. I have had some people tell me that since it still has good power that I should just drive it till it dies (which could be many miles down the road) and I am inclined to follow their advice to try and get some moneys worth out of the truck before I spend thousands on a rebuild. What I need to know is if I can disable the number 8 injector without causing any major problems. That way I wont be dumping fuel into a cylinder that isnt fireing. And if i can disable it without messing up my engine, then what is the best way to go about doing it? Can you disable it in the computer system using something like the AE tool. Can you just unplug it underneath the valve cover without causing any problems? Or clip the wire on the outside of the valve cover? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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I think I may have just gotten the answer to my question. Just got done talking to a diesel mechanic and he informed me that the fuel also acts as a lubricant for the top of the piston so disabling the injector would cause that cylinder to burn up fairly quickly. Bummer for me and the people around me at stoplights!
Try running a quart of dextron tranny fluid in the tank to relube things up the gas now days has no additives to help the lubrication of things... Just an idea 3 dollars couldn't hurt
Ill definitely give that a try. Thanks for the advice! Do I put one quart into a full tank? Ive got a 38 gal tank.
Ya one full quart dextron3 sometimes it says dectron3/mercron ... it might smoke a little more but it will not hurt a thing make sure u do it with a full tank!! Let me know what happens..
Great! I will throw a quart in on my next fill-up and let ya know! It will probably be after the new year before I get a chance to try it. The truck wont be driven much with the holidays coming up. Like you say, its definitely worth a try at $3. Thanks again!
Have you done a compression check? On the cylinders
Just did one this weekend. Only did the drivers side because when I had a contribution test done, it showed the #8 as being the problem cylinder. The compression test showed the 2,4, and 6 at 400 psi and the number 8 at 150. Ouch. Someone said it could be stuck rings so I am trying some engine treatment that is supposed to help stuck rings if that is the problem. The number eight is the source of my miss and smoke though. At that low of compression, i am sure I am sending a ton of unburnt fuel down the tailpipe. While I had the valve cover off I unplugged the #8 injector and started the engine and no smoke. Then plugged it back in and started it and the smoke was back. I just bought this truck six months ago and cringe at the thought of having to rebuild this motor or put a new motor in, so I plan on just driving this engine till it quits. It still has plenty of power, my main concern is the smoke when I come to a stop. I just dont like smoking people out at stoplights. Just trying to figure out how to make it smoke less. Someone said that it might help if I install a catalytic converter in the exhaust as this truck did not come with one. He says it might help burn off some of what is getting through.
You can't disable a single injector but you can disable the IDM for an individual injector and prevent it from firing. You should ONLY do that for diagnostic purposes, though. If you are going to add any additive, I would suggest Rev-X. It may not help much, but MANY 6.0 guys swear by it. I know you have a 7.3, but it has done wonders for injector stiction on the 6.0 injectors where tolerances are MUCH tighter.
I have just pulled my #8 on my 01. I had it and the ICM (injector control module) replaced not too long ago at a FORD dealership. $2300 It was smoking white smoke that smelled like unburned diesel when I brought it in. Short version is it started doing it again last week after changing the oil. (went to R.T. synthetic) I am sure the dealership is going to try to say I caused it somehow. This is the very short version. I have paid them over $2000 in just labor since I got the truck in September. The injector was $450 for a reman. I am not going to bring it back to them. I am going to ask for a replacement injector since I have it out. I was curious if they had actually done it or put in a regular one where this one is supposed to be a long lead. It was LL. Whether it is the problem or not is yet to be known. I checked all of the connections and they appear to be making good contact. I started it with the injector in and it was squirting oil into the valve cover at a pretty good rate. I figured it was an o-ring and pulled it. The o-rings seem fine but they do not look like they have only been in a couple months. I have worked on gasoline engines for 30 years, this is my first diesel. I am beginning to think I have made a big mistake purchasing this truck. It is an xl single cab work truck. As of now I have around 12k in it and I am getting close to calling it quits. The odometer is showing 148k, I bought it from a lot that has been around for a few years(no warranty) The other part of the story is the dealership has already put a trans and tourque converter in it because it started slipping after I had done all of the paperwork and was on the way home. I guess there is some kind of lesson here for me. I have always liked Fords and have owned several that have been good, dependable vehicles. I may end up selling this one and taking a loss I'm sure if things don't stop going wrong with it. I didn't want to have to work on it all the time and shell out a lot of money continually. It is a great truck when its running.....
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Britney Spears Kicks Off Femme Fatale Tour (Photos)
Britney Spears kicked off her Femme Fatale tour at the Power Balance Pavilion in Sacremento, Calif. last night and from the looks of it, her first night back on stage was definitely a spectacle.
No guitar too small, no bikini top too glittery for the pop princess. She pranced around the stage and danced with scantily clad men, straddled a gigantic guitar and rode a motorcycle all while belting out some of her most famous tunes.
The sold out crowd was in for a real treat. The 29-year-old singer chatted with Entertainment Tonight last week and divulged just a little about what fans could expect.
"I'm really excited," she said. "I'm probably going to be extra nervous the day before but we've been working hard for two months now, and everything is coming together."
With the tour finally under way, fans can breathe a sigh of relief as it has been anything but a smooth ride to opening night. Spears' mental state is constantly scrutinized by critics and after the controversy over opening acts, Enrique Iglesias quitting the tour and Nicki Minaj filling his spot, it seems that things have finally settled down.
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- Friday 17 JuneBy Bob
Is that a little flab hanging over the top of the shorts??
- Friday 17 JuneBy J.B.W.
No talent,fading looks.Save your money britney for early retirement!
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- Friday 17 JuneBy Roger
Does she not notice the flab rolling over the top of her shorts? What was this, a pig party?
- Friday 17 JuneBy arc23con
They only look tiny, because she is so fat.
- Friday 17 JuneBy tony
yeah,but ill bet she can spell.
- Friday 17 JuneBy Debbie
YOU GO GIRL....29 is FAR from "older" uless you are 2.
I think she is beutiful and so do many others, and they WANT to see her or no one would be buying tickets!!!!!!!!
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Singer? I hardly think so. If anything you could probably tag her as a performance artist. But hardly a singer. Lip syncing is NOT singing. Heck anyone can do that.
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This girl has shown us everything she has many times so her outfit looks like a big cover up. She does not look good, and the fact she does not know it tells us alot about her.
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What a bunch of haters. She has put her life back together and appears to be a good mother. How easy for you to put down other people's acheivements. She is laughing at you all the way to the bank.
- Friday 17 June
This poor girl! She looks HUGE in those outfits. Her money grubbing father and "boyfriend" should let her just "be."
She is a puppet that Disney used first. With adequate talent she was lucky that her suggestive school girl video set her career on fire. (Pervs that put her in that position to begin with)
She is having to support a TON of people by taking her clothes off and pretending to singing (it's either auto-tune or a back up that's singing that you hear, professional musicians can tell - Brit out grw of her voice when she was 16.)
No WONDER she has mental problems. I feel awful for her. Anyone who knows the music business will be able to confirm that she herself (Britt) doesn't make millions upon millions after everything is said and done. The songwriters make more than she does! Yeah, yeah, she's added to her name to songs, but it's in her contract - her hasn't never written a song. - EVER. Nice girl, just not a songwriter or singer. She should be in Vegas to entertain and try to remain stable.
I hope her father and mother both rot in hell for what they've done to that girl. I would bet a ton of money that she kills herself within 10 years out of shame - that OTHER PEOPLE made her feel.
and your source of this information is what???? You are talking out of your huge bung hole sweetie!
- Friday 17 JuneBy k
Yes! I agree! Let's leave her alone... hopefully she'll go away. ;o)
- Friday 17 JuneBy k
By the way... don't you think she would be a great match up for Jesse James? hahahaha
She looks HOT! I love a little belly on a hot woman. She's def a MILF! You haters that think she has to look tight and well toned are so misinformed. Today's media creates this illusion that women have to be tight and muscular to be sexy..sorry, but I love women that are soft and sexy. Just for the record...MANY of you gym rats will one day look like s**t. I've been around long enough to have seen some of the best bodies trashed thru pregnancy, married life, age, etc. When you point your finger at someone there are three fingers pointing back at you my darlings!!!!! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE..LOL!!!!!!
- Friday 17 JuneBy Dave
You think you saw everything until this, midriff rolls Spears might as well be naked singing some songs for the older men while working a pole at a strip club.
one thing for sure toolboy..she won't be workin your pole anytime soon!
- Friday 17 JuneBy theron moore
To Britney: It ain't workin' girl. If its a choice between you, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kesha, not picking you, thats for sure. They're more entertaining than you have ever been, except when you were drunk and showing us yr junk. you're not even a hot mess. white trash is one level above you. you're about as relevant and real as pro wrestling. Gene Simmons is more real than you are and that's saying A LOT.
- Friday 17 June
Now let's talk about something that's really important...The direction this country is heading, not someones tummy and thighs!!
Then why are YOU reading and responding to this crap??? Sorry..I know you want to tell me to go F myself.....BTW Princess Janice???? WTF? GOOOOOONY!!!!!
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The Isabella County Sheriff says that a vehicle had stopped on M-20 with its hazard lights on. That driver called 911 to report a dead deer in the roadway. Jaremy Todd Stiles, 37, pulled up to the vehicle to see if the driver needed any assistance. He turned off his lights and walked up to the driver.
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