Happy Monday, Everyone. This week’s featured artist is Sheryl Crow.
lately, I’ve been spending a great deal of my time listening to my album collection.
Ms Crow is one of my favs for milling around the house, organizing, cleaning, sifting through the past, and making room for the present moments.
ENJOY!
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/12/german-newspaper-tallies-33293-dead-migrants/
BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABERASSOCIATED PRESS
Excerpt:
Beverly Young Nelson on #RoyMoore: “At some point he gave up. He then looked at me and said ‘You are a child.’ ‘I am the District Attorney of Etowah County. If you tell anyone about this, no one will believe you”
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PREDATOR preying on young girls…
https://twitter.com/Lawsonbulk/status/930182863751929856
The Authoritarians and White Supremacists in Waiting
Republicans take church politicking bill in a radical direction
11/13/17 12:53 PM
By Steve Benen
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Let’s unpack this a bit. Under current law, tax-exempt houses of worship that engage in partisan political activities risk losing their tax exemption. Under the initial Republican plan, the law would be changed to allow ministries to intervene in elections and keep their tax-exempt status anyway.
Under the latest GOP proposal, which passed the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday, all tax-exempt groups – houses of worship, universities and other educational organizations, charities, publications, etc. – could engage in partisan politicking without fear of punishment from the IRS.
In other words, every U.S. non-profit that is now, by law, non-partisan could start endorsing candidates, aligning with super PACs, contributing to political parties, etc.
Faced with a controversy over their efforts to repeal the Johnson Amendment, Republicans managed to make their effort quite a bit more radical.
And why should anyone care whether every tax-exempt entity starts getting involved in partisan politics? Because as we discussed over the summer, the consequences have the potential to be dramatic.
Imagine the campaign-finance mess that would exist if parties, candidates, and PACs could funnel campaign donations through tax-exempt entities, free of oversight.
For that matter, imagine if a foreign government, eager to secretly help put a specific candidate in power, decided to start funneling money to specific non-profit organizations – including churches – knowing that those entities would in turn use the resources to support that candidate. The 501(c)3 groups would never have to disclose any of this, and the public would be kept in the dark.
The GOP proposal fixes a problem that doesn’t exist. There’s no public demand for such a change, and there’s no reason to create this campaign-finance nightmare.
https://twitter.com/AlexSilverman/status/930159374781370368
#RoyMoore This mofo had the GALL to speak about NFL players having disrespect for the rule of law. This is how people like him get away with their crimes by saying…LOOK OVER THERE…. Those black people have a disrespect for the law. And white people fall for it.
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Straightforward from here:
1. McConnell endorses Sessions as write-in candidate for AL Sen.
2. Sessions quits as AG to run.
3. Sessions wins.
4. Trump appoints someone already in Senate-confirmed position as new AG.
5. New AG fires Mueller.
6. Sen Sessions votes to impeach Trump.
UH HUH
UH HUH
You would think they would try to hide their corruption better than that. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried a stunt like that.
Moore advisor Dean Young says:
“He’s going to run, he’s going to win and he’s going to be seated or there will be in trouble in this nation”
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/930167775850622976
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Roy Moore’s signature from that 1977 yearbook matches Roy Moore’s signature on his US Term Limits pledge this year.
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/930164286143565830
According to Beverly Young Nelson, #RoyMoore used his authority as District Attorney to frighten her into keeping her mouth shut. #Predator
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/930166636518281216
Moore disappeared to AUSTRALIA for a spell.
There’s a story there.
Go on WaPo…get the story on why Judge Pedophile ran all the way to Australia.
I made Chili last night! I sent Josh a big bowl and he texted me to say
“Chili too good. Thanks”.
🙌🏽
I know that it was good, and he knew he had to show appreciation :)
LOL Josh knows. Where’s my bowl, lady?
LOL! Josh always compliments me about my cooking…even when I think it may be missing something. I have plenty left. I made a big pot. Come on and eat.
Key figure in the Catalan separatist movement, Oriol Soler, spotted coming out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after 4-hour meeting with @JulianAssange on November 9, El País reports.https://t.co/M4o57nOOf9 pic.twitter.com/VUF8klqPvB
— The Spain Report (@thespainreport) November 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/TPM/status/930153549341872133
https://twitter.com/Colorlines/status/930153657504620544
CITIZEN OF THE YEAR…..
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/930143660351676416
As he should be!
Provisional ballots to be counted today in close Virginia House of Delegates races https://t.co/9T78LM4viR
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) November 13, 2017
Reminder: just 215 individual votes spread over 3 districts are what separates VA Dems from the current 2-seat deficit to a 4-seat majority. https://t.co/TobgR2PnmN
— Taniel (@Taniel) November 13, 2017
Now that Roy Moore has been credibly accused of child molestation, the vast majority of Alabama evangelists say they are MORE likely to vote for him or don’t care. The right wing evangelical movement is dead. It has NO place discussing morality. One step from Satan worshippers.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) November 12, 2017
The Woman Standing Between The White House and the Mass Deportation of 450,000 People
By Heather Timmons Quartz
9:51 AM ET
https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2017/11/sammy-sosa-bleaching.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Luvvie+%28Awesomely+Luvvie%29
Hey….Where’s Shelby, the other Alabama Senator?
He’s been quiet as a church mouse pissing on cotton. :(
The person who should step aside is @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell. He has failed conservatives and must be replaced. #DrainTheSwamp— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 13, 2017
We Dems need to get buses down to Alabama now to knock on doors for @GDouglasJones. This is a winnable seat & policy game changer. Let’s organize this.— Debbie Mangeri (@DebbieMangeri) November 10, 2017
This is just what we do NOT need. Alabama is not a place to bring in a lot of Yankees to tell them what they need to do. Send Jones money!! https://t.co/rsT5pg36el— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) November 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/930085301657141249
https://twitter.com/GQMagazine/status/930120622604242944
Pharmaceutical Exec chosen to be next HHS Secretary.
Ode to joy.
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/930112463579828224
AGREED, & YOU SHOULD STEP ASIDE ALSO TOO, MCTURTLE!
Further MOORE” (pun intended), Mitch McConnell, if you’re not screaming to oust $#5 for grabbing pussy, STFU!
There was not much media attention given to McConnell’s obstruction of the President Obama’s appointees to the courts and now he continues the obstruction by the trashing the blue slips that Senators use to hold up judicial appointments https://t.co/Gq3cdejv5M
— Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) November 13, 201
And yet, this MOFO, MCTURTLE is asking the child molesting, predator Moore to step aside. BEWARE when he comes out of his shell and rears his ugly heard.
SHORT: Moore is messing with MCTURTLE & rest of the GOP rats’ agenda.
Like I say, put the lid on the barrel and let the rats eat.
The data ALWAYS leads to Kushner and The Mercers.
As Russia scandal unfolds, Cambridge Analytica draws new scrutiny
11/13/17 10:41 AM
By Steve Benen
There’s no shortage of relevant angles to Donald Trump’s Russia scandal, but it’s worth appreciating the significance of Cambridge Analytica’s role in this mess.
As you’ve probably seen Rachel mention on the show, Cambridge Analytica is the data firm the Trump campaign hired during last year’s presidential election. The firm took on added significance two weeks ago when the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump donor Rebekah Mercer asked Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix “whether the company could better organize the Hillary Clinton-related emails being released by WikiLeaks,” which allegedly received stolen documents from Russian hackers.
The WSJ added some additional details to the timeline late Friday, reporting that Cambridge Analytica initiated contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in “early June 2016.”
The same article added that Cambridge Analytica “collected close to $9 million from the campaign, including $6 million that was publicly disclosed and additional funds routed through Giles Parscale, a firm run by Trump digital director Brad Parscale, according to a person familiar with the payments – about 50% more than publicly reported.”
Trump World, true to form, has tried to downplay its connections with the firm. It’s an odd thing to lie about.
Trump’s trade policies backfire, leave U.S. more isolated
11/13/17 10:03 AM
By Steve Benen
On Donald Trump’s third day as president, he announced the formal demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which the Republican president claimed to hate for reasons he struggled to explain. By all appearances, Trump had no idea what the TPP was or what it entailed, but he was nevertheless certain he didn’t like it.
In January, the president assured Americans he’d replace the TPP with a “beautiful” alternative. It’s now mid-November and we’ve seen no such policy.
The issue, however, remains on his mind. A week ago, for example, Trump was in Tokyo, speaking to Japanese business leaders, many of whom backed the TPP. “We will have more trade than anybody ever thought of under TPP, that I can tell you,” the American president promised. “TPP was not the right idea. Probably some of you in this room disagree, but ultimately I’ll be proven to be right.”
The proof actually suggests he’s more confused than accurate. As Trump’s Asia-Pacific tour continues, his White House has some specific trade benefits in mind, each of which were already part of the TPP that this administration helped kill.
Making matters worse, as the New York Times reported, our former negotiating partners are moving on without us.
As the Washington Post’s report explained, “The decision to move ahead with the TPP agreement, minus the United States, reflects how Trump’s decision to withdraw from the deal created a vacuum other nations are now moving to fill, with or without the president.”
John Oliver compares the Trump presidency to being “murdered by a sloth” https://t.co/aSldVSeGCG
— TIME (@TIME) November 13, 2017
… “While those broken norms are frustrating, according to Oliver, there are three things that Trump does that could permanently harm American politics. He undermined the media by crying “fake news” and governs by trolling. According to Oliver, Trump also uses “whataboutism” or the practice of changing the subject to someone else’s perceived wrongdoing, which Oliver describes as an “old Soviet propaganda tool” of creating false moral equivalency.” …
http://time.com/5021063/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-season-finale-trump/?utm_campaign=time&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&xid=time_socialflow_twitter
This is how cowboys do it, folks! Watch and learn! LOL!
https://www.facebook.com/105punto3FM/videos/10152171676091443/?hc_ref=ARTn9a0s9IMAcsgJKWT44hNhUDPK7ga4wFScC60T_CMX65NNFsmB–ldq1WNfGu8tXI&pnref=story
Love this darling and talented cowboy! He is quite the dancer! Precious!
Too cute!
https://twitter.com/funder/status/930100577790459904
The people of Manila took to the streets to protest Trump.
I honestly fear for these people’s safety after the cameras are off.
They are risking their lives out of hatred for our President. pic.twitter.com/IGQC4EUWWN
— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) November 13, 2017
while FEMA can’t find these people….
Reporting from our @WCKitchen in Ponce with @ChefVentura who has cooked more than 36k meals to serve the often forgotten center of the island, Adjuntas, etc #ChefsForPuertoRico pic.twitter.com/LzTF8wqIve
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) November 13, 2017
Roy Moore: Acceptance of pedophilia in the South is a legacy of slavery
“While some people were surprised by the allegation that Alabama Republican Senatorial candidate Judge Roy Moore attempted to date a 14 year old girl in 1979 when he was 32, many more were shocked by how many of his Alabama supporters seemed to be willing to defend, or even accept, what is essentially a charge of pedophilia, or child sexual assault, in the candidate they hope will represent them in the Senate. To understand why many Southern whites find acceptable, behaviour which would be considered deviant and criminal in most parts of the United States, one must understand the role that Antebellum slavery played in cultivating a culture of sexual abuse and pedophilia in the South.
Before the Civil War, forcing frequent and casual sex on young girl slaves was a prized white privilege of the Southern culture they built on the backs of their slaves. It’s no accident that the age of consent is only 16 in all the former Confederate states but Louisiana, Florida, Virginia and Tennessee. Before the women’s movement forced a change around 1920, it had been 12 or even 10 in the former Confederate states.
Slavery made sex with children easy for the masters of the old Dominion. There were no rules. A UK national archives report on the childhood of slaves states:
The trauma of sexual abuse is also a difficult subject to quantify. Sensibilities of the time and the fact that abolition was often associated with religious organisations means that sexual abuse of girls was often only alluded to in veiled terms and sexual abuse of boys was almost never mentioned. The dangers of sexual exploitation are only too obvious with slave children being seen as chattels with no legal protection. The fact that sexuality appears to have rarely discussed also left slave children ignorant and vulnerable to abuse. If the issue of forced marriage of slaves is included in this category along with coercion into sexual activity for preferential treatment, it is easy to see how sexual abuse could be seen as endemic in slave children’s lives.
When the struggle to raise the age of consent finally erupted in the 1920’s, some whites argued that it should be lower for the South, saying African American women ‘matured earlier.’ This was a common myth about non-white people. Some even had the audacity to stretch the bunk science to the point where they claimed that white girls living in sub-tropical climates ‘ripened’ into women earlier.”
Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Imploding
A Democratic member is suing his colleagues, alleging they’re violating federal law.
By Mark Joseph Stern
New Document Shows Inner Workings Of Trump’s Voter Fraud Probe
A former Justice Department official says the new revelations “raise serious concerns.”
By Sam Levine
President Donald Trump’s opaque voter fraud probe released the most comprehensive look at its inner workings to date in court documents Friday, providing a clearer sense of how it plans to use the voter data it has collected and raising new questions about its scope and goals.
The commission’s work so far has been unclear; even some commissioners have said they’re not exactly sure what the panel is working on. Friday’s disclosure is significant because it shows officials on the probe have contacted officials with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Social Security Administration ― which suggests the commission may be proceeding with a plan to compare the voter data it’s collected against federal databases.
The commission is declining to release the email exchanges themselves, saying they are either administrative in nature or constitute individual research. Spokespeople for the commission, as well as for DOJ and the SSA, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“The information released by the so-called Commission on Election Integrity as a result of our lawsuit paints an incomplete but alarming record about the Commission’s work and intentions,” Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/930092771293220864
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/930091934869348352
Trump and Tillerson Are Gutting the State Department for No Good Reason
by David Atkins
November 12, 2017
One of the many problems with the constant daily hair-raising outrages of Donald Trump and Republicans like Roy Moore, is the number of serious scandals and malfeasances that slip by almost unnoticed.
Such is the story mostly buried this weekend of Trump and Secretary of State Tillerson’s decimation of the State Department. It is a move that makes no sense, is not desired even by the extremist Republican Congress, and won’t even save any money. It is an action of ignorance, spite and stupidity that harm American interests and the cause of democracy worldwide.
From the New York Times:
And why? Because Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” and level massive cuts across all non-defense departments without the foggiest clue what they do or why.
Both Republicans and Democrats in Congress wholly rejected the proposed budget cuts, choosing to fund the State Department at mostly the same level as in previous years. But much to their consternation, Tillerson is going ahead with the pointless and counterproductive exercise nonetheless. Donald Trump doesn’t care: he literally doesn’t think the State Department does much of anything at all, and recently said in the fashion of the Sun King’s that he was the only one that mattered. If Tillerson knows better, he’s not giving any indication of it.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/930017876966338561
Yes. It’s an Entire Culture of Sanctioned Sexual Abuse.
by David Atkins November 12, 2017
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These are admittedly controversial positions. But they’re also hard to refute after today’s polling shows that 37% of Alabama evangelicals are actually more likely to vote for Roy Moore after hearing the allegations against him, and 34 percent said it would make no difference:
These numbers cannot be attributed to pure political tribalism. It is quite simply a culture of abuse.
Moore is and has always been one of their own. His offenses against the law, his bigotries, his lack basic compassion are their own. And yes, his (alleged) active predation on teenage girls is part of it, too. It’s culturally expected. And if it went just a little too far, well, Moore is a man of God who has almost certainly been forgiven by the Lord, so all is well in the land of the Duggars and Duck Dynasty.
And it’s time that all of us started calling it exactly what it is: a culture of explicitly sanctioned sexual abuse.
Rikyrah, Ametia
What’s the temp up there?
Tee hee hee 28 degrees right now.
It was 32 when I caught the bus this morning to the train. Winter coat is out…Eskimo coat still in storage…
Republicans Are in a No-Win Situation with Moore
by David Atkins November 12, 2017
Reeling from allegations of child molestation and sexual conduct with teenagers by Senate candidate Roy Moore, the Alabama GOP is reportedly seeking ways to postpone the election:
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Predictably and appropriately, Democrats are crying foul. The fact that Republicans have nominated such an offensive candidate so close to the election is their own fault. It’s not as if Moore didn’t already have a checkered and objectionable history before the latest allegations. It’s just that the GOP base didn’t care, and now they’re stuck with the consequences. Republicans have a number of unpalatable options now:
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/930085382846341120
Just a coffee boy, right…….
AM Joy 11/12/17
Papadopoulos’ real role during Trump campaign questioned
New details about the roles George Papadopoulos and Carter Page played during the Trump campaign emerge as the FBI’s Russia probe continues. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
Interesting segment:
AM Joy 11/12/17
President Duterte and Trump Meet during Asia Tour
Trump visits the Philippines on the final stop of his Asia tour and meets President Rodrigo Duterte, who is surrounded by speculation of human rights abuses. Joy Reid and her panel discuss
Hadn’t seen anyone interview him, so, good for Joy.
AM Joy 11/12/17
Justin Fairfax discusses his historic win in Virginia
Joy Reid goes one on one with Virginia Lieutenant governor-elect Justin Fairfax, who became the second African American ever elected to Virginia statewide office on Tuesday
These AM Joy segments on Moore are ON FIRE!!!
AM Joy 11/11/17
Roy Moore responds to sexual misconduct allegations
Roy Moore makes his first public appearance amid a fury of allegations of sexual misconduct. Moore again denied reports of sexual misconduct, calling it ‘fake news.’ Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
AM Joy 11/11/17
Roy Moore denies sexual misconduct allegations
With a swarm of sexual misconduct allegations surrounding Alabama senatorial candidate Roy Moore, Joy Reid and her panel discuss the potential impact it could have on evangelical voters.
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell 11/10/17
Lawrence on Moore: “I don’t recall” is not good enough
Roy Moore denies molesting a 14-year-old when he was 32, but when pressed about other encounters he may have had with teenage girls, he says he doesn’t remember. Lawrence O’Donnell says that defense is not good enough and asks what GOP leadership will do about it.
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell 11/10/17
Where will the excuses end for the GOP?
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post says the Republicans must stop making excuses for bad and even criminal behavior just because it is done by Republicans. Jennifer Rubin, David Frum and former prosecutor Barbara McQuade join Lawrence O’Donnell.
For those interested in the GOP Tax Scam.
I live in one of the top 10 Tax states.
I told you, the GOPers around here are part of the IGMFY crowd.
Lo and behold, what do I see in the big headline of the Conservative Local Newspaper this morning – right there, big letters, above the fold;
SENATE BILL WOULD ELIMINATE LOCAL TAX DEDUCTION
The GOP Reps here are part of the 50 GOP Reps from high tax states.
You don’t think that folks read this on their way to work, and have forwarded it to their neighbors.?
I told you….these folks will not be distracted by the little Baby Jesus, or abortion, or guns…
They know that their lifestyles are funded by those taxes, and will not have kind words for those who tell them that THEIR taxes should go up so that the Koch Brothers can get billions.
Good luck with selling that.
Rev. Al had on Mary-Pat Hector on his show, but I can’t find the clip on hit website.
Spelman and Morehouse students hunger strike to change school policy
By Rosie Manins
Nov 3, 2017
A group of Spelman and Morehouse College students are on a hunger strike, in an attempt to change school policy and allow the donation of campus meals to the needy.
About 25 students from the single-sex liberal arts universities in downtown Atlanta started hunger striking on Nov. 2.
Mary-Pat Hector and Lillian Thomas, Spelman juniors, are among them.
Their aim: to get the colleges and their campus food provider Aramark to set up a way for students with paid college meal plans to donate unused meals to needy students who can’t afford the plans.
It is happening at universities elsewhere, spearheaded by the Swipe Out Hunger program that started at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009, and which partners with colleges and campus food providers nationwide.
Programs vary depending on the institutions involved, but at their core they allow students to donate from their paid meal plans to needy students or homeless community members.
“By introducing a Swipe Out Hunger program at Spelman and Morehouse, we would directly impact student hunger and raise the awareness on issues impacting our fellow students experiencing hunger and homelessness while in college,” Hector, 19, said Nov. 2.
Spelman’s director of marketing and communications, Joyce Davis, said the hunger strikers raised a “very concerning” issue, of widespread hunger insecurity on campus, and the college administration will set a time to meet with strikers to discuss the issue.
“In the meantime, we are engaging our vice president of student affairs, Darnita Killian, to determine the extent of the problem on Spelman’s campus,” Davis said Nov. 2.
“No student should go hungry. We look forward to working with Aramark as we continue to explore the extent of the problem,” she said.
Davis said Spelman has already made use of support from Publix and Mimi’s Pantry, on the Clark Atlanta University campus, to address the food insecurity issues that have been brought to the college’s attention.
Morehouse has yet to respond to a request for comment.
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Thomas, a 20-year-old vegan who doesn’t eat any animal products including meat, dairy and eggs, is living in a Spelman dorm and paying for the mandatory meal plan, but because of her specific diet she can’t eat most of the campus meals.
Thomas, like other hunger strikers, doesn’t want those paid meals to go to waste.
“Out of the 21 meals I get per week I might use about 5, so it would be easy for me to donate my unused swipes to Spelman students who are actually in need of the food,” she said.
Ripoff from beginning to end. They need to follow the money. Who has offshore bank accounts associated with this project?
The GOP Tax Plan Breaks All the Rules
No, really, it does not comply with the rules. Here’s how Republicans will get around that.
By Jim Newell
https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/930081409024262144
https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/930074000377643008
Another tidbit about the GOP Tax Scam, found at another blog:
https://twitter.com/KevinAGray/status/930059052670955520
UH HUH
UH HUH
Roy Moore’s alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles
Such good “Christians”, huh?
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in 2027, Joint Tax Committee says, one-third of taxpayers earning between $40-50K get tax HIKE or cut of less than $100. millionaires get tax cuts that, on average, equal the entire annual income of those $40-50K taxpapers
I hear these cases and just get enraged.
PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton 11/5/17
Locked up for 40 years was he the wrong man?
Rev. Al Sharpton has Kevin Brinkley on, a man wrongfully convicted for a crime as a juvenile who after 40 years has finally been released. Hear his story alongside his uncle Greg Brinkley.
Thread on the resignation of the Lebanese Prime Minister
https://mobile.twitter.com/emile_hokayem/status/930047361417609216
Watched AM Joy on Sunday. She had a journalist who specializes in the ME.
She said that the vernacular of the resignation was off. It didn’t sound Lebanese.
The example that she used was if the Prime Minister of Great Britain resigned, and it was written by someone from Texas.
Happy Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg!
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Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah.
Wishing you and everyone a super day!