#Mary Hutchins

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NM VS Alec Baldwin Trial

The defense was ready to rest. Then came, Mrs Kari T Morrissey, prosecutor in the Alec Baldwin trial, who absolutely wanted to appear as a witness to clear her name. The judge even explained to Kari that she was not required to be a witness and was trying the best way she could to tell her that. Because she knew that Kari was about to shoot herself in the foot, especially since the trial was…

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Alec Baldwin Presenta una Moción para desestimar el caso 'Rust' por Nuevas Pruebas Mientras se pone en marcha la Audiencia.

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[thesummernostalgia]

Joe Cobb, Allen Hoskins, Harry Spear, Jean Darling, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby Hutchins, Pete

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Golden Age of Hollywood Actors Born Before (And Including) 1936 Still Alive

This only includes actors that had at least one credited role in a Hollywood feature film or short up to 1959.

Elisabeth Waldo (b. 1918)

Caren Marsh Doll (b. 1919)

Patricia Wright (b. 1921)

Jacqueline White (b. 1922)

Annette Warren (b. 1922)

Ray Anthony (b. 1922)

Tommy Dix (b. 1923)

Eva Marie Saint (b. 1924)

Anne Vernon (b. 1924)

Maria Riva (b. 1924)

June Lockhart (b. 1925)

Lee Grant (b. 1925)

Peggy Webber (b. 1925)

Lise Bourdin (b. 1925)

Brigitte Auber (b. 1925)

Kerima (b. 1925)

Terry Kilburn (b. 1926) 

Marilyn Erskine (b. 1926)

Bambi Linn (b. 1926)

David Frankham (b. 1926)

Tommy Morton (b. 1926)

Jill Jarmyn (b. 1926)

Marilyn Knowlden (b. 1926)

Genevieve Page (b. 1927)

Donna Martell (b. 1927)

William Smithers (b. 1927)

Peter Walker (b. 1927)

H.M. Wynant (b. 1927)

Betty Harford (b. 1927)

Cora Sue Collins (b. 1927)

Marilyn Granas (b. 1927)

Ann Blyth (b. 1928)

Nancy Olson (b. 1928)

Peggy Dow (b. 1928)

Kathleen Hughes (b. 1928)

Colleen Townsend (b. 1928)

Marion Ross (b. 1928)

Gaby Rodgers (b. 1928)

Jan Shepard (b. 1928)

Walter Maslow (b. 1928)

Tom Troupe (b. 1928)

Sidney Kibrick (b. 1928)

Garry Watson (b. 1928)

Fay Chaldecott (b. 1928)

Mark Rydell (b. 1929)

Terry Moore (b. 1929)

Vera Miles (b. 1929)

Ann Robinson (b. 1929)

Liseotte Pulver (b. 1929)

James Hong (b. 1929)

Rachel Ames (b. 1929)

Olga James (b. 1929)

Michael Forest (b. 1929)

Vikki Dougan (b. 1929)

Steve Terrell (b. 1929)

Margaret Kerry (b. 1929)

James Congdon (b. 1929)

Betsy Gay (b. 1929)

Jack Betts (b. 1929)

Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)

Joanne Woodward (b. 1930)

Mara Corday (b. 1930)

Nita Talbot (b. 1930)

Taina Elg (b. 1930)

Robert Wagner (b. 1930)

John Astin (b. 1930)

Tommy Cook (b. 1930)

Mary Costa (b. 1930)

Lois Smith (b. 1930)

Will Hutchins (b. 1930)

Peggy King (b. 1930)

Lynn Hamilton (b. 1930)

Don Burnett (b. 1930)

Clark Burroughs (b. 1930)

Robert Hinkle (b. 1930)

Sheila Connolly (b. 1930)

Barbara Bestar (b. 1930)

Rita Moreno (b. 1931)

Leslie Caron (b. 1931)

Carroll Baker (b. 1931)

William Shatner (b. 1931)

Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931)

Robert Colbert (b. 1931)

Barbara Eden (b. 1931)

Angie Dickinson (b. 1931)

Claire Bloom (b. 1931)

Marianne Koch (b. 1931)

Sylvia Lewis (b. 1931)

Carmen De Lavallade (b. 1931)

Zohra Lampert (b. 1931)

Michael Dante (b. 1931)

Ann McCrea (b. 1931)

Jack Grinnage (b. 1931)

Maralou Gray (b. 1931)

Billy Mindy (b. 1931)

Sugar Dawn (b. 1931)

Joanne Arnold (b. 1931)

Joel Grey (b. 1932)

George Chakiris (b. 1932)

Felicia Farr (b. 1932)

Abbe Lane (b. 1932)

Steve Rowland (b. 1932)

Jacqueline Beer (b. 1932)

Colleen Miller (b. 1932)

Joanne Gilbert (b. 1932)

Olive Moorefield (b. 1932)

Neile Adams (b. 1932)

Jacqueline Duval (b. 1932)

Edna May Wonnacott (b. 1932)

Richard Tyler (b. 1932)

Mickey Roth (b. 1932)

Leon Tyler (b. 1932)

Peggy McIntyre (b. 1932)

Christiane Martel (b. 1932)

Elsa Cardenas (b. 1932)

Claude Bessy (b. 1932)

Kim Novak (b. 1933)

Julie Newmar (b. 1933)

Debra Paget (b. 1933)

Constance Towers (b. 1933)

Joan Collins (b. 1933)

Kathleen Nolan (b. 1933)

Brett Halsey (b. 1933)

Robert Fuller (b. 1933)

Pat Crowley (b. 1933)

Barrie Chase (b. 1933)

Jackie Joseph (b. 1933)

Geoffrey Horne (b. 1933)

Tsai Chin (b. 1933)

Lita Milan (b. 1933)

Vera Day (b. 1933)

Diana Darrin (b. 1933)

Ziva Rodann (b. 1933)

Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)

Marti Stevens (b. 1933)

Annette Dionne (b. 1933)

Cecile Dionne (b. 1933)

Johnny Russell (b. 1933)

Patti Hale (b. 1933)

Gary Clarke (b. 1933)

Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) 

Sophia Loren (b. 1934)

Shirley Jones (b. 1934)

Russ Tamblyn (b. 1934)

Pat Boone (b. 1934)

Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)

Claude Jarman Jr. (b. 1934)

Tina Louise (b. 1934)

Karen Sharpe (b. 1934)

Joyce Van Patten (b. 1934)

May Britt (b. 1934)

Joby Baker (b. 1934)

Jamie Farr (b. 1934)

Myrna Hansen (b. 1934)

Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)

Aki Aeong (b. 1934)

Robert Fields (b. 1934)

Dani Crayne (b. 1934)

Donnie Dunagan (b. 1934)

Richard Hall (b. 1934)

Charles Bates (b. 1934)

Marilyn Horne (b. 1934)

Marilee Earle (b. 1934)

Rod Dana (b. 1935) 

Pippa Scott (b. 1935)

Ruta Lee (b. 1935)

Barbara Bostock (b. 1935)

Johnny Mathis (b. 1935)

Leslie Parrish (b. 1935)

Salome Jens (b. 1935)

Yvonne Lime (b. 1935)

Jean Moorehead (b. 1935)

Marco Lopez (b. 1935)

Joyce Meadows (b. 1935)

Christopher Severn (b. 1935)

Richard Nichols (b. 1935)

Carol Coombs (b. 1935)

Nino Tempo (b. 1935)

Patricia Prest (b. 1935)

Dawn Bender (b. 1935)

John Considine (b. 1935)

Jerry Farber (b. 1935)

Clyde Willson (b. 1935)

Bob Burns (b. 1935)

Susan Kohner (b. 1936)

Millie Perkins (b. 1936)

Burt Brickenhoff (b. 1936)

Mason Alan Dinehart (b. 1936)

Anna Maria Alberghetti (b. 1936)

Lisa Davis (b. 1936)

Joan O'Brien (b. 1936)

Richard Harrison (b. 1936)

Tommy Ivo (b. 1936)

John Wilder (b. 1936)

Gary Conway (b. 1936)

Michael Chapin (b. 1936)

Carol Morris (b. 1936)

Fernando Alvarado (b. 1936)

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A judge has rejected a request by Alec Baldwin to dismiss his criminal charge relating to the fatal shooting on the set of Rust. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer upheld an indictment charging Baldwin with one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, in 2021. The New Mexico judge rejected defence arguments that prosecutors flouted the rules of grand jury proceedings to divert attention away from exculpatory evidence and witnesses. Prosecutors denied the accusations and said Baldwin made "shameless" attempts to escape culpability, highlighting contradictions in his statements to law enforcement, to workplace safety regulators, and in a television interview.

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The trial for "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is set to begin with jury selection next week.

In January 2023, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and actor Alec Baldwin were charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. In April 2023, the charges against the "30 Rock" actor were dropped without prejudice pending further investigation. However, the charges were refiled in January 2024.

In the summer of 2023, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was charged with tampering with evidence after prosecutors claimed that they found a witness who alleged that the armorer had transferred cocaine to another individual on the day that Hutchins was killed, thus impeding the police investigation into her death.

The rookie armorer has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Although her trial was initially scheduled for December 2023, it was postponed until February 2024. Alec Baldwin is not expected to be called as a witness in her trial, given his own legal troubles.

'Rust' Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's Legal Team Tries To Get Trial Thrown Out

On Wednesday, February 14, 2024, a judge in Santa Fe rejected a last-minute bid to throw out the case against "Rust" armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, despite repeated attempts by her legal team to get the case tossed.

Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer, Jason Bowles, had unsuccessfully argued that it was impossible for the armorer to receive a fair trial when the state turned over hundreds of attorney-client text messages to a key witness, as per Variety. However, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer refused to dismiss the case and did not find the disclosure prejudicial to her case.

The trial is now scheduled to begin on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. She has submitted a plea of not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence due to allegations of her drug use. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has been accused of being reckless on set in terms of firearm safety. Prosecutors have alleged that she not only brought live ammunition onto the movie set, but they have also claimed that she was the one who put the live bullet into a gun that Baldwin used for a scene inside a church.

It is worth noting that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was not inside the church when the gun went off, striking Halyna Hutchins and director Joel Souza, who was standing directly behind the cinematographer. Souza was hospitalized as a result of his injuries, but Hutchins did not survive.

It was actually first assistant director Dave Halls who had told Alec Baldwin that the gun was a "cold gun," meaning that it did not contain live rounds. Halls reached a plea deal with prosecutors and pled guilty to the negligent use of a firearm. He was given six months of probation.

Judge Declines To Throw Out Additional Drug Charges

On Wednesday, February 14, 2024, Judge Sommer dealt with several different motions ahead of next week's trial. Declining to dismiss the trial, Judge Sommer noted that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's attorney, Jason Bowles, had signed a consent form allowing law enforcement officials to search the armorer's phone. The consent form did not exclude attorney-client communications.

Judge Sommer also rejected a motion to sever the two counts to be heard at two separate trials. In the summer of 2023, special prosecutors alleged that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed gave someone on set a bag of cocaine after the shooting. Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey has claimed that the rookie armorer was attempting to conceal evidence that she was impaired during filming.

In court documents obtained by The Blast, Kari Morrissey quoted several text messages between Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and others that allegedly make references to cocaine and marijuana. However, the armorer's legal team has argued that the claims are speculative and felt that drug claims may raise the likelihood that potential jurors will convict her on the involuntary manslaughter charges she is also facing.

Although Judge Sommer declined to sever the two counts, she did ask prosecutors to limit the references to the armorer's drug and alcohol use at the trial, stating that some of the state’s proposed evidence would be “unfair to the defendant."

In addition to the drug charges, special prosecutor Kari Morrissey asked a judge to exclude a report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which blamed the production company for relaxed safety standards on set. Hannah Gutierrez-Reed's legal team is hoping to use the report during the trial in order to redirect blame from the armorer to the production company. In the end, Judge Summer decided that the OSHA report would be allowed into evidence during the trial.

However, Judge Sommer will not allow Jason Bowles to call an expert witness on safety standards in union productions, as this witness only came forward within the last ten days. When prosecutors argued that they had no time to prepare for this new witness, Jason Bowles proposed that the trial could be delayed.

However, Judge Sommer stayed firm that the trial, already delayed from December 2023, will begin on February 21, 2024, as planned.

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Wheezer, Mary Ann, Jackie Cooper, Farina, and Chubby, c. 1930.

Our Gang Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

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Norman “Chubby” Chaney   January 18, 1914 - May 30, 1936

with OUR GANG Pals Allen Hoskins, Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby Hutchins 1930

[fundieshaderoom]

Fundie Families and Adjacents I Follow: Duggar

James Lee Duggar "JL"- February 3, 1936, d. February 9 2009 (age 73)

Mary Leona Lester- May 26, 1941, d. June 9, 2019 (age 78)

They married at ages 23/24 and 18/19 in 1960. They shared 2 children, 1 daughter-in-law, 21 grandchildren, 12 grandchildren-in-law, and 34 greatgrandchildren. Mary died of accidental drowning and JL died of a brain tumor. Their life was mostly based in Arkansas.

1- Deanna Lee- July 8, 1963

2- James Robert "Jim Bob"- July 18, 1965

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Deanna Lee Duggar- July 8, 1962

Terry Wayne Jordan

Deanna and Terry had their only child and were on and off for years. They married on September 14, 2006 and divorced on December 21, 2015. They share a daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.

1- Amy Rachelle- September 30, 1986

Amy married Dillon Grey King (April 3, 1988) on September 6, 2015. She was 28 and he was 27. They currently share one son and are based in Arkansas.

1- Daxton Ryan- October 9, 2019

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James Robert Duggar "Jim Bob"- July 18, 1965

Michelle Annette Ruark- September 13, 1966

They married on July 21, 1984, at ages 19 and 17. The couple lives in Tontitown, Arkansas. They share 19 biological children, Michelle's adopted great-nephew, 11 children-in-law, and 36 grandchildren.

1- Joshua James "Josh"- March 3, 1988

Caleb Ryan- Miscarriage on January 23, 1989

2- Jana Marie- January 12, 1990

3- John-David "John"- January 12, 1990

4- Jill Michelle- May 17, 1991

5- Jessa Lauren- November 4, 1992

6- Jinger Nicole- December 21, 1993

7- Joseph Garrett "Joe"- January 20, 1995

8- Josiah Matthew "Siah"- August 28, 1996

9- Joy-Anna "Joy"- October 28, 1997

10- Jedidiah Robert "Jed"- December 30, 1998

11- Jeremiah Robert "Jer"- December 30, 1998

12- Jason Michael- April 21, 2000

13- James Andrew- July 7, 2001

14- Justin Samuel- November 15, 2002

15- Jackson Levi- May 23, 2004

16- Johannah Faith- October 11, 2005

17- Jennifer Danielle- August 2, 2007

18- Tyler Wayne Hutchins- February 10, 2008, in Duggar custody since 2016

19- Jordyn-Grace Makiya- December 18, 2009

20- Josie Brooklyn- December 11, 2011

Jubilee Shalom- stillborn on December 11, 2011

Josh married Anna Renee Keller (June 23, 1988) on September 26, 2008 when they were both 20. Anna and the kids now live in Arkansas and Josh lives in Seagoville, Texas. They now share 7 children. Josh was arrested on CSAM charges in April 2021. In January of 2022, he was sentenced to 12 years in January of 2022.

1- Mackynzie Renee- October 8, 2009

Miscarriage in 2010

2- Michael James- June 15, 2011

3- Marcus Anthony- June 2, 2013

4- Meredith Grace- July 16, 2015

5- Mason Garrett- September 12, 2017

6- Maryella Hope- November 27, 2019

7- Madyson Lily- October 23, 2021

Jana married Stephen Gerald Wissmann (July 15, 1993) on August 15, 2024.

John married Abbie Grace Burnett (April 16, 1992) on November 3, 2018. He was 28 and she was 26. They now share two children.

1- Grace Annette "Gracie"- January 7, 2020

2- Charlie- September 2022

Jill married Derick Michael Dillard (March 9, 1989) on June 21, 2014. She was 23 and he was 25. They now share 3 children and have a strained relationship with Jill's parents and some siblings.

1- Israel David- April 6, 2015

2- Samuel Scott- July 8, 2017

miscarriage- River Bliss- 2021

3- Frederick Michael- July 7, 2022

Jessa married Benjamin Michael Seewald "Ben" (May 19, 1995) on November 1, 2014 at age 22 and 19. They share 5 children.

1- Spurgeon Elliot- November 5, 2015

2- Henry Wilberforce- February 6, 2017

3- Ivy Jane- May 26, 2019

Miscarriage- Fall 2020

4- Fern Elliana- July 18, 2021

Miscarriage- December 2022

5- George Augustine- December 19, 2023

Jinger married Jeremy Joseph Vuolo (September 5, 1987) on November 5, 2016 at age 22 and 29. They now share 3 children.

1- Felicity Nicole- July 19, 2018

Halleli Grace- Miscarriage in November 2019

2- Evangeline Jo- November 22, 2020

3- Baby- March 2025

Joe married Kendra Renee Caldwell (August 11, 1998) on September 8, 2017 at age 22 and 19. They now share 4 children together.

1- Garrett David- June 8, 2018

2- Addison Renee- November 2, 2019

3- Brooklyn Praise- February 19, 2021

4- Justus- April/May/June 2022

Josiah married Lauren Milagro Swanson (May 18, 1999) on June 30, 2018 at age 21 and 19. They now share 3 children. They are based in Arkansas.

Asa Duggar- Miscarriage on October 4, 2018

1- Bella Milagro- November 8, 2019

2- Daisy- March/April/May 2022

3- Ezra- April/May 2023

Joy married Austin Martyn Forsyth (December 11, 1993) on May 26, 2017 at age 19 and 23. They now share 3 children.

1- Gideon Martyn- February 23, 2018

Annabell Elise- stillborn on July 1, 2019

2- Evelyn Mae- August 21, 2020

3- Gunner James- May 17, 2023

Jed married Katelyn Koryn Nakatsu "Katey" (July 29, 1998) on April 3, 2021 when they were both 22. They share 4 children.

1- Truett Oliver- May 2, 2022

2- Nora Kate- May 24, 2023

3- Baby Girl- 2024 or 2025

4- Baby Girl- 2024 or 2025

Jer married Hannah Marlys Wissmann (June 23, 1995) on March 26, 2022 at age 23 and 26. They share 2 daughters.

1- Brynley Noelle- December 25, 2022

2- Brielle Grace- February 2024

Jason is engaged to Maddie Grace Jones. They are planning an October wedding.

Justin married Claire Yvonne Spivey (February 27, 2001) on February 26, 2021 at age 18 and 19.

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Meet the OCs! Miscellaneous

Name: Willow Elizabeth Pride

Nickname(s): Will

Titles: Willa Parker (Alias), Special Agent Pride

Age: 26

Love interest: Christopher "Chris" LaSalle

Show: NCIS: New Orleans

Family: Dwayne "King" Pride (Father), Linda Pride (Mother), Laurel Pride (Younger Sister)

Fun facts/call backs: She's Laurel's older sister

Played by: Katherine McNamara

Name: Josette Lee Routledge

Nickname(s): Josie, Jo

Titles: Jessica Ryder (Alias)

Age: 15 (season 1)

Love interest: JJ Maybank

Family: John Routledge (Father), unnamed mother, John B Routledge (Twin Brother)

Show: Outer Banks

Fun facts/call backs: She's John B's twin sister

Played by: Kaylee Bryant

Name: Delilah Leigh Singer

Nickname(s): Lilah, Del, Blondie

Titles: Delaney Hutchins (Alias)

Age: 26 (Season 1)

Love interest: Dean Winchester

Family: Robert "Bobby" Singer (Father), Karen Singer (Mother, Deceased)

Show: Supernatural

Fun facts/call backs: She's the prophesized vessel of Lilith

Played by: Penelope Mitchell

Name: Harlow Penny Gibbs

Nickname(s): Har, Gibbs 2.0, Tiny Gibbs

Titles: Holly Greene (Alias), Special Agent Gibbs

Age: 26

Love interest: Timothy "Tim" McGee

Family: Shannon Gibbs (Mother, Deceased), Kelly Gibbs (Twin Sister, Deceased), Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Father)

Show: NCIS

Fun facts/call backs: She was Kelly's twin sister

Played by: Scarlett Byrne

Name: Evelyn Mary McCormack

Nickname(s): Evie

Age: 16

Love interest: Willard Hewitt

Family: Unnamed Mother, Unnamed Father, Ren McCormack (Twin Brother)

Movie: Footloose (2011)

Fun facts/call backs: She's Ren's twin

Played by: Danielle Rose Russell

Name: Harper Marie Stark

Nickname(s): Harp

Titles: Ember (super hero name), Harper Colt (Legal name before adoption), Stark girl

Age: 14 (in Captain America: Civil War)

Love interest: Peter Parker

Family: Anthony "Tony" Stark (Adoptive Father), Virginia "Pepper" Potts (Adoptive Mother), Morgan Stark (Adoptive Sister)

Movie: Multiple MCU movies

Fun facts/call backs: She's a mutant

Played by: Abigail Cowen

Name: Lydia Isabelle Gideon

Nickname(s): Lyds

Titles: Lauren Gates (Alias), SSA Gideon

Age: 23

Love interest: Spencer Reid

Family: Jason Gideon (Father), Jill Gideon (Mother), Stephen Gideon (Brother)

Show: Criminal Minds

Fun facts/callbacks: She's Gideon's daughter

Played by: Danielle Campbell

Name: Lara Jo Harding

Nickname(s): Harding

Titles: Human Barometer, Dr. Harding

Age: 27

Family: Dr. Jo Ann Harding (Mother), Bill Harding (Father)

Love interest: Tyler Owens

Played by: Phoebe Tonkin

Movie: Twisters (2024)

[pendragyn]

Take Out The Trash by Melva L. Gifford

Offloading misspent spells at a school of magic is a dirty and dangerous job. - felt like filler with nothing to do with dragons aside from a casual mention.

Burying Treasure by Alex Shvartsman

An emperor rumored to be a dragon has a plan to draw in tourists and twin sisters find a way to cash in. - not bad but pretty meh

Dragon In Distress by Mercedes Lackey and Elisabeth Waters

An unusual trio of adventurers are summoned from a far off land by dragon magic to rescue a princess from an overly enthusiastic prince. - I've read this one before and still love it.

Over all I'd give the book 5 stars, in spite of the misses, because the hits are that good.

Even the misses aren't particularly bad so much as just not to my taste. Like "Loyalties" which leaned in heavily on the "monster-type humanoids like orcs and goblins are always evil and awful" and "humans who side with monsters have become monsters too" tropes.

There are some scenarios that could be triggering; abduction, physical and emotional child abuse, death (some graphic details), implied torture (not graphic), sexual harassment, betrayal.

A Dragon And Her Girl review

A Game Of Stakes by Max Florshutz

The daughter of a famed mercenary captain hires a dragon "matchmaker" to challenge potential suitors - Loved it

Dragon Soap by M. K. Hutchins

Fantasy swamp bayou family dealing with poverty and an infestation of disease-ridden dragon-blood craving mosquitos - Very good, satisfying ending, love the inclusion of swamp dragons

Li Na and the Dragon by Scott R. Parkin

A mother makes a bargain to keep her daughter safe. - Sad.

High Noon At The Oasis by Jaleta Clegg

An amnesiac unicorn finds a djinn and a scholar in an oasis and discovers trouble is a-hoof. - fast paced and funny

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Neirin Gray Desai

Published: Feb 23, 2023

Black Panther communist Angela Davis - who teaches that U.S. was built by racist colonizers - faces calls to pay reparations after genealogy show reveals her white puritan ancestor arrived in America on the Mayflower

• Angela Davis, 79, learned that her ancestor came to the US on the Mayflower • The former Black Panther also discovered she had two white grandparents • She appeared on PBS's Finding Your Roots in an episode that aired on Tuesday

A famed Black Panther who's also a communist has faced calls to pay reparations after discovering her ancestors were white puritans who arrived in the US on the Mayflower.

Angela Davis, 79, was flabbergasted to discover both sides of her family were white, and that her mom's ancestors were slave owners, on PBS show Finding Your Roots.

And the stunning revelations sparked calls for the famously woke Marxist University of California professor to herself pay reparations, having previously called on whites to pony-up in the past. 

Sharing a tweet about the show, conservative pundit Matt Walsh wrote: 'It gets better. She's also descended from a slave owner. On her father's side is a pilgrim. On her mother's side is a slave owner. Looks like Angela Davis owes some reparations.' 

Another Twitter user called AK Kamara wrote: 'Angela Davis, the radical Marxist and former black panther, recently discovered she is also the ancestor of colonizers and slave owners. I guess she owes herself reparations. This timeline is hilarious.'

Davis became nationally known in 1970 when guns she owned were used in the holding up of a Marin County courtroom in California which left four dead, including the judge.

After the FBI issued a warrant for her arrest she went on the run and became listed as one of the department's 10 Most Wanted. After her eventual arrest she spent 16 months in jail before being found not guilty.

Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1944 during an era of segregation and violent racial division in the South.

While studying in West Germany in her youth she was drawn to far-left politics and upon returning to the US became involved with the Black Panthers and the Communist Party USA. 

She appeared shocked during the TV interview that aired this week in which Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. told her of her ancestry.

'No. I can't believe this. My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower,' she said - only to be later told that they did indeed arrive in the US aboard the famed pilgrim ship. 

The Mayflower was an English boat that brought white English families, known as the Pilgrims, to the American continent to permanently establish the New England colony in 1620.

'You are descended from the 101 people who sailed on the Mayflower,' reiterated Gates Jr., who is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

The one-hour show, in which public figures learn about their ancestry, outlined how William Brewster, who traveled aboard the boat with his wife Mary Wentworth Brewster, was Davis's 10th great-grandfather.

Mary was one of only five adult women from the Mayflower to have survived the first winter after arriving in the US and one of only four such to survive until the 'first Thanksgiving' in 1621, which she was said to have helped cook. 

The revelation caused many to point out the complexity of ancestry and on social media some suggested that by some logic Davis should pay black reparations.

The concept of reparations - an idea she has endorsed in the past - is that people with ancestors who were enslaved should be financially reimbursed by those whose ancestors enslaved them.

'This vividly illustrates the absurdity of reparations as a concept, among other things,' said one person on Twitter, in response to a clip of the revelation. 

'Before any talk about reparations everybody needs to take the ancestry DNA test. I think a lot of people would be shocked to to discover who they were descended from,' said another. 

Davis also made discoveries about her mother, Sallye Bell, who was found to be the daughter of a successful white Alabama lawyer who himself descended from a slave owner.

Bell was a school teacher and grew up in a foster home, never knowing either of her biological parents. Her mother had genetics that traced back to Africa but her father was John Austin Darden, who was also involved in politics, and was born in Rockford Coosa, Alabama, in 1879.

'He has my mother's lips,' Davis said as she was presented a photo of her grandfather. 'I can't get used to the fact this is my mother's father.'

A clipping from an old Alabama newspaper shone light on who Darden had been. 

'The former publisher of the Goodwater Enterprise, who served as both a representative and a senator at various times from 1914 to 1933, had practiced law here 40 years.' 

'Was he a member of the Ku Klux Klan or the white citizens council?' Davis asked. 'That's something I would also want to know. Because in those days in order to achieve that power one had to thoroughly embrace white supremacy.

'I'm both glad and I'm angry. I'm really, really angry,' she added. 

As Gates went back further in time things got murkier still. Stephen Darden, her fourth great grandfather, was born in colonial Virginia around 1750.

He was a patriot who played the drums during the Revolutionary War, according to a muster roll. Afterwards he moved from Virginia to Georgia, where he owned a farm and at least six slaves.

'I always imagine my ancestors as the people who were enslaved. My mind and my heart are swirling with all of these contradictory emotions,' said Davis.

'I'm glad on the one hand we've begun to solve this mystery, we have something we didn't have before, but at the same time I think it makes me even more committed to struggling for a better world.

'This world that could give rise to such a beautiful person as my mother was not the world I want to see in the future,' she added.

Davis's father Benjamin Frank Davis grew in up in Lyndon, Alabama. His mother was Mollie Spencer butm similarly, nothing was known about his father.

Alabama Census records indicated that for at least ten years Mollie lived next door to a white man named Murphy Jones. Records stated that he sold her two acres of land for two hundred dollars and that the two were likely relatively close.

Using genetic profiles of Murphy's known living relatives, researchers found multiple matches to Angela, indicating that Jones was her grandfather.

Mollie Spencer's father was named Isom Spencer and was listed as collateral on a loan document filed by a slave owner named William K. Pauling, who owned a plantation in Marengo, Alabama.  

'I assume that my ancestors lived on plantations as slaves, but of course I didn't know who they were and I didn't know who the slave owners were,' she said.

It transpired that Isom was a remarkable figure who marked the transition of her family from enslaved to free. Court records uncovered by PBS showed he even brought a complaint against the slaver over his nephews, who were being held in the plantation under 'apprenticeships'. 

'I'm happy to find there's a motif of resistance there because that is what I feel I've been trying to do since I was a teenager,' said Davis, reflecting on her grandfather's struggle.

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Couldn't happen to a better bigger race-baiter. It's even better than the time Henry Rogers blew up his entire schtick with one tweet. It's kind of like David Duke finding out he's the descendant of African slaves. They should do Nikole Hannah-Jones next.

It will be interesting to see how much - or, more likely, how little - integrity she has in the face of this information. Will she reconsider the fraudulent scholarship she's injected into her bogus academic domain, of which she's now on the other side? Or will she adhere to it and admit to the same inherited complicity, benefit and guilt in colonialism and slavery, not to mention the racism her ideology (and historical revisionism) claims is the founding principle and primary inheritance of the USA?

[kwebtv]

The Stranger - ABC (Aus) - April 26, 1964 - July 25, 1965

Science Fiction (12 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Ron Haddrick as Adam Suisse / "The Stranger"

Janice Dinnen as Jean Walsh

Bill Levis as Bernard Walsh

Michael Thomas as Peter Cannon

John Faassen as Mr. Walsh

Jessica Noad as Mrs. Walsh

Owen Weingott as Professor Mayer

Reg Livermore as Varossa

Supporting cast

Mary Mackay as the female Soshun

Ben Gabriel as the male Soshun

Grant Taylor as Detective Inspector Chisolm

Jeffrey Hodgson as Detective Howell

Ivor Bromley as Colonel Nash

Ronne Arnold as Dr. Kamutsa

Bernie Baia as Dr. Matoula

Alex Cann as Rudolph Lindenberger

Dennis Carroll as Edward Mayer

Chips Rafferty as the Prime Minister

Reg Livermore as Varossa

Henry Gilbert as Hutchins

[reidio-silence]

When news of the 1903 Kishinev massacre and subsequent pogroms in Russia reached New York, 100,000 paraded the streets, and emotion was deep well beyond the boundaries of the Jewish ghetto. The Friends of Russian Freedom, a section of the Narodnaya Volya (the Socialist-Revolutionary Party), was already active in the area, and when its most famous militant, Catherine "Babushka" Breshkoskaya, arrived in New York, a meeting was called at the Cooper Union to welcome her. Shortly after, news of the 1905 Russian Revolution arrived, and again the Lower East Side 'lived in a delirium, spending almost all of its time at monster meetings and brought into close comradeship by the glorious events happening in the fatherland' [Emma Goldman]. And when Bloody Sunday followed, and revolution was crushed in terror and repression, such a virulent anti-Russian sentiment developed in the neighborhood that the Orleneff Theatre on East 3rd Street, performing mainly Russian plays, had to close down. The first anniversary of the 1905 Revolution was celebrated in Union Square, with "Mother" Jones and Jack London among the speakers. Meanwhile, the veritable semi-civil war raging in the Western coal-mining regions was being followed with great passion, and the attempt to frame Western Federation of Miners's officials William "Big Bill" Haywood, Charles Moyer, and George A. Pettibone again stirred the neighborhood into action. "Mother" Jones, the miners' beloved activist, was asked to speak on several occasions, while, after the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905 and above all during the 1913 Paterson strike, "Big Bill" often spent time on the Lower East Side, staying at Emma Goldman's place at 210 East 13th Street (the 'home of lost dogs', as it was termed by writer and bohemian Hutchins Hapgood). And Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a young IWW militant who played a major rôle in the 1912 Lawrence strike, came to be well-known for her eloquent and passionate street-corner speeches. Anger once again exploded, this time in 1914, when miners and their families were shot and burned to death in Ludlow (Colorado) by the Rockefeller Company's private police. Stormy meetings were held at the Cooper Union, and several demonstrations at Union Square broke into violent rioting. Militants from nearby IWW headquarters on East 4th Street called for action and left for the West by bumming rides on freight-trains. "Sweet" Marie Ganz even tried to reach and shoot John D. Rockefeller in his office. The whole Lower East Side was literally seething with revolt. The prospects of a war with Mexico, the news of the February and October revolutions in Russia (with the emotion they provoked among such exiled revolutionaries as Leon Trotzky, who was in New York at the time), and the United States's entry into World War I — all were occasions of great turmoil.

— Mario Maffi, Gateway to the Promised Land (1995)

[gregarnott]

Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Jackie Cooper and Pete the Pup photographed during the production of THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS, 1930