umbertino Posted August 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2019 Toni Morrison remembered: ‘Her irreverence was godly’ The Nobel prize-winning novelist, arguably the greatest American writer of her time, has died at the age of 88. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute to her Tracy K Smith, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Bryan Stevenson and Jason Reynolds Sun 11 Aug 2019 09.00 BST Toni Morrison photographed in New York, 2012 Photograph: Caroll Taveras More pics https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/11/toni-morrison-tributes-leading-writers-tracy-k-smith 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 Pennsylvania fire: five children die in blaze at daycare centre Four of the victims were at the centre overnight because their parents were working, local media reported Associated Press Mon 12 Aug 2019 01.28 BST Fire investigators have been working to find the cause of the blaze at the Pennsylvania daycare centre that killed five children Photograph: Greg Wohlford/AP https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/12/pennsylvania-fire-five-children-die-in-fire-at-daycare-centre 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 How wonderful to watch Simone Biles' defiant joy in these dark times Biles has made history yet again – and has every reason to celebrate Wed 14 Aug 2019 11.00 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Aug 2019 14.24 BST Candice Frederick ‘Biles is a woman who has had to overcome insurmountable challenges.’ Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/14/simone-biles-defiant-joy-dark-times I watched her yesterday performing on TV ....What an AWESOME athlete she is Judge for yourselves 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markb57 Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 Dark times...? what a disgusting racist article but it is the Guardian so it's to be expected.... 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 Philadelphia: several officers injured in 'active' shooting situation, officials say Police sergeant tweeted at least one suspect was firing at officers, video shows a huge police presence Associated Press Wed 14 Aug 2019 22.44 BST First published on Wed 14 Aug 2019 22.34 BST https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/14/philadelphia-police-shooting-gunman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 Man dies after taco-eating contest in California Fresno Grizzlies ‘devastated to learn’ of Dana Hutchings’ death following event at minor-league baseball game Associated Press Thu 15 Aug 2019 01.46 BST Fans arrive at Chukchansi Park in Fresno for a minor-league baseball game in 2015 Photograph: Eric Paul Zamora/AP https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/14/taco-eating-contest-death-fresno-california 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 15, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 Quote How wonderful to watch Simone Biles' defiant joy in these dark times Biles has made history yet again – and has every reason to celebrate Wed 14 Aug 2019 11.00 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Aug 2019 14.24 BST Candice Frederick ‘Biles is a woman who has had to overcome insurmountable challenges.’ Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/14/simone-biles-defiant-joy-dark-times I watched her yesterday performing on TV ....What an AWESOME athlete she is Judge for yourselves 1 End Quote You anonymous coward negger are way beyond schizophrenic ( for which I'm sorry....The thing is indeed serious and deserves immediate medical attention)....Look at the articles you are negging !!!! WTF.....Incomprehensible in the least....Wishing you a speedy recovery but it's going to be long if you don't act immediately before it gets worse..... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waaa Posted August 16, 2019 Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 9 hours ago, umbertino said: You anonymous coward negger are way beyond schizophrenic ( for which I'm sorry....The thing is indeed serious and deserves immediate medical attention)....Look at the articles you are negging !!!! WTF.....Incomprehensible in the least....Wishing you a speedy recovery but it's going to be long if you don't act immediately before it gets worse.. Not the articles. THE SOURCE! you need higher quality news sources! even Yahoo rates WAY above the guardian! you stop bringing articles here from the guardian and i will stop negging you! in the topic i have only negged the Guardian sourced posts. it is an anti American rag on par with the enquirer quality. every thing else in that thread is (somewhat) interesting. you insist on putting multiple stories with most being of guardian source together, i assume to cut down on the number of neggs you get. quit posting guardian articles = no neggs! Jeez! are you stupid? if you hit your hand with a hammer and it hurts why do it again? you insist on posting what you want! so i insist on negging you for the anti American stories! suck it up buttercup. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 (edited) Quote You've chosen to ignore content by Waaa. End Quote It's with more than immense pain that I have to announce to you, Waa ( I had already told you so...No prob...I'll repeat it) I can't / don't want / am not interested to read your post(s) since I put you on ignore..... I still hope that you and the likes of you, meaning all those who don't like , don't agree ( fully legitimately) with my articles and posts for whatever reason ( including the anonymous coward negger) will have the courtesy and reciprocate by putting me in their ignore list....Fast, easy and painless..... I do confirm all I wrote in my previous posts because it's true and if one is intellectually honest with himself / herself will acknowledge just that ( if one is intellectually honest, I repeat...If not....it's his / her problem) Have a great weekend now Edited August 16, 2019 by umbertino 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 Quote You've chosen to ignore content by markb57. End Quote Take care....Bye 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2019 2 killed, 3 wounded in off-campus shooting near Alabama State University By Danielle Wallace | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/us/alabama-state-university-off-campus-shooting-two-killed-three-wounded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2019 Peter Fonda, celebrated actor known for Easy Rider, dies aged 79 Son of Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda died after battling lung cancer, family says Guardian staff and agencies Fri 16 Aug 2019 23.42 BST Fonda in Easy Rider Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock More pics https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/16/peter-fonda-actor-dead 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2019 The other main actor and director of " Easy Rider" Dennis Hopper died a few years ago........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2019 (edited) French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich', say witnesses Police open murder inquiry after customer attacked waiter at a pizzeria on the outskirts of Paris Agence France-Presse Sun 18 Aug 2019 03.18 BST Last modified on Sun 18 Aug 2019 15.11 BST Policemen stand in front of the eatery where a waiter was shot dead by a customer allegedly angry at having to wait for a sandwich, in the eastern Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand Photograph: Tiphaine Le Liboux/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/french-waiter-shot-dead-paris-too-slow-with-sandwich I'd guess that some / many French are wondeful People but some are indeed bizarre....I happened to visit Paris a few times during a period of roughly 20 years as it's a very beautiful city......While Parisiennes are ( in my own experience) many times unpredictable in the least Well ...Everytime I was there I had to argue / discuss with someone who usually had to deal with tourists ( in bars, restaurants, shops, even at the Airport a couple iof times) and if you deal with tourists you're supposed to be AT LEAST a sort of kind, gentle, understanding (at least in humane terms), more or less patient Individual..... Not in Paris......First...If you don't speak perfect French they already start getting nervous ( I had my little Italian-French dictionary with me but I do not speak French, sorry so I did try with English a lot of times)...Even ( my own experience being alone, with friends and once with my wife) if you are kind ( which should be the standard mode most time and esp if you are the one asking) in asking something, anything, you get ( often at least) a curt, blunt reply ( if at all, and in superfast French, so...)...Plus a lot of other things that happened also to a lot of friends and acquaintances of mine...... Point being probably ( me thinks, I might be wrong) that Paris is such a wonderful city that their reasoning is " Oh well, why bother and treat those People nicely and kindly...They'll come back anyway..."...I repeat...That's my own experience but confirmed by a lot of other Folks... I've been told that in other places in France, the situation is a lot better...In France I visited only Paris so far....... Edited August 18, 2019 by umbertino 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 18, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2019 Jada Pinkett Smith: 'The word "wife": it's a golden cage, swallow the key' She put her film career on hold and let husband Will Smith become a megastar. Now Jada Pinkett Smith’s candid chat show is opening up truthful conversations around kitchen tables everywhere Sun 18 Aug 2019 08.00 BST by Sophie Heawood https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/aug/18/jada-pinkett-smith-the-word-wife-its-a-golden-cage-swallow-the-key 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 Rio police takes down bus kidnapper with no hostages injured Source: Xinhua| 2019-08-20 22:04:48|Editor: ZX RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A man who had taken a bus full of passengers' hostage on a bridge in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was shot to death by a police sniper, local police said on Tuesday. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/20/c_138324132.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caz1104 Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 On 8/18/2019 at 11:38 AM, umbertino said: French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich', say witnesses Police open murder inquiry after customer attacked waiter at a pizzeria on the outskirts of Paris Agence France-Presse Sun 18 Aug 2019 03.18 BST Last modified on Sun 18 Aug 2019 15.11 BST Policemen stand in front of the eatery where a waiter was shot dead by a customer allegedly angry at having to wait for a sandwich, in the eastern Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand Photograph: Tiphaine Le Liboux/AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/french-waiter-shot-dead-paris-too-slow-with-sandwich I'd guess that some / many French are wondeful People but some are indeed bizarre....I happened to visit Paris a few times during a period of roughly 20 years as it's a very beautiful city......While Parisiennes are ( in my own experience) many times unpredictable in the least Well ...Everytime I was there I had to argue / discuss with someone who usually had to deal with tourists ( in bars, restaurants, shops, even at the Airport a couple iof times) and if you deal with tourists you're supposed to be AT LEAST a sort of kind, gentle, understanding (at least in humane terms), more or less patient Individual..... Not in Paris......First...If you don't speak perfect French they already start getting nervous ( I had my little Italian-French dictionary with me but I do not speak French, sorry so I did try with English a lot of times)...Even ( my own experience being alone, with friends and once with my wife) if you are kind ( which should be the standard mode most time and esp if you are the one asking) in asking something, anything, you get ( often at least) a curt, blunt reply ( if at all, and in superfast French, so...)...Plus a lot of other things that happened also to a lot of friends and acquaintances of mine...... Point being probably ( me thinks, I might be wrong) that Paris is such a wonderful city that their reasoning is " Oh well, why bother and treat those People nicely and kindly...They'll come back anyway..."...I repeat...That's my own experience but confirmed by a lot of other Folks... I've been told that in other places in France, the situation is a lot better...In France I visited only Paris so far....... I wonder if sad gunman was banned from restaurant? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2019 No Hollywood ending: Los Angeles property listed for $1bn sells at $100,000 The 157-acre lot in the Hollywood Hills has been the subject of complex litigation over who actually owns the property Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Wed 21 Aug 2019 19.21 BST In Los Angeles, California, the 157-acre parcel known at the Mountain has sold for a mere $100,000 Photograph: Matthew Momberger https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/los-angeles-billion-dollar-lot-sold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2019 (edited) New blood test by scientists ‘predicts if you will die in next 10 years’ Study has found 14 biomarkers associated with death risk By Tim HanlonNews Reporter 17:42, 21 AUG 2019 https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/new-blood-test-scientists-predicts-18979302 Edited August 22, 2019 by umbertino 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 (edited) On 8/16/2019 at 6:28 AM, Waaa said: Not the articles. THE SOURCE! you need higher quality news sources! even Yahoo rates WAY above the guardian! you stop bringing articles here from the guardian and i will stop negging you! in the topic i have only negged the Guardian sourced posts. it is an anti American rag on par with the enquirer quality. every thing else in that thread is (somewhat) interesting. you insist on putting multiple stories with most being of guardian source together, i assume to cut down on the number of neggs you get. quit posting guardian articles = no neggs! Jeez! are you stupid? if you hit your hand with a hammer and it hurts why do it again? you insist on posting what you want! so i insist on negging you for the anti American stories! suck it up buttercup. Are you seriously reasoning like that?????? I can't believe it!...You're much much worse than I thought...... AN OBITUARY IS AN OBITUARY IN ANY ONLINE SITE / PAPER...A sport victory is a sport victory...A writer of world-wide fame obituary ( Toni Morrison) is a writer of world-wide fame obituary everywhere!!!!!! An accident is an accident...so why negging that? You infact should be formally forbidden / prevented from negging non-political stuff imo....It's only logical.... THAT'S ONLY S-T-U-P-I-D of you !!!!!!! You look like an idiot by negging non-political posts! don't you get it? even articles talking enthusiastically about US athletes victories or whatever ......You still neg...That's pure idiocy..... And most important of all....Who in in this world gives / gave you the authorization to decide / tell from which sources one can take and post articles??? Who gave you this authority and power for God's sake? You yourself gave that to you...which is typical of weirdos...But you can't do that!!!!! The head here is Mr.Montana...If he (and he only) tells me " Umbertino, don't post anymore articles from the Guardian" then I'll obey right away as he's the undisputed boss here ...Not you or anybody else...You are a zero, nothing, have zero power on me..You are less important to me then a bug's shht!!!!! You can't command me, nor order me anything! Ask / write Mr. Montana about that and see what he tells you! Do it! I do encourage you to! Let's see what he replies!!!!! You cannot and do not decide and will not ever decide who can post what here on DV...CAN YOU GET THAT IN YOUR KNUCKLE-HEAD? IS THAT SO DIFFICULT TO GRASP? Again...You have the option of skipping my articles and/ or put me on ignore .... God, I explained this elementary thing to this guy a thousand times by now... Will he ever get it????????? Nobody ever forced you to read my posts...Nobody..... Will he ever learn?????? I doubt it...... Edited August 25, 2019 by umbertino 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shedagal Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 @umbertino you know I have great respect for you even though we have opposing perspectives on many things. I definitely uphold your right to post as you wish (within forum rules). My question is "why?" I see people posting all day long on here (or facebook, etc.), and I think to myself, "don't they have anything better to do?" Surely your time is more valuable than this. Getting into strife with people you don't even know causes undue and unnecessary stress. Maybe shift your focus - just a thought. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nstoolman1 Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 Ours is not to reason Why, Ours is to read or ignore. I don't do FB and I do skip or ignore a lot of post because of title content. I believe life on this forum would be less agrivating if people would do the same. Don't read the posts of people that irritate you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 Quote I watched her yesterday performing on TV ....What an AWESOME athlete she is Judge for yourselves 2 End Quote Ok....2 anti-American awesome athlete neggers ...Is it beacause she's black?...LET ME THINK...fASCIST, RACIST...yEAH...mAKES SENSE... bUT YOU ALSO NEGGED ARTICLES ABOUT THE US SOCCER FEMALE TEAM WORLD CUP VICTORY.... You're giving to the terms "weird", "weirdo", "illogical", " senseless" a new meaning most definitely...... But...If that makes you happy.......So be it..... After all, Nero was the Emperor of Rome for a while ( and then burned the whole city) and he also elected a horse as one of his Senators......?????? Some people, Man?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted August 25, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, Shedagal said: @umbertino you know I have great respect for you even though we have opposing perspectives on many things. I definitely uphold your right to post as you wish (within forum rules). My question is "why?" I see people posting all day long on here (or facebook, etc.), and I think to myself, "don't they have anything better to do?" Surely your time is more valuable than this. Getting into strife with people you don't even know causes undue and unnecessary stress. Maybe shift your focus - just a thought. Thanks and I do respect you a lot as well...Mine is a simple Principle and Logic thing and concept and I know that about this issue I'm right...Since it's strictly logical..... I already recognized and acknowledged the right of everybody ( even if I do no not share it) to have political posts of mine negged as if there's no tomorrow as Politics inflames Folks ( including me) so I do accept being negged ( even if I'd never do it to others, but we are all different) on political articles ... But why negging non-political articles????...That's dead wrong and should be stigmatized by the PTB here and also from right-wing folks ( granted they are, as I know , many are) intellectually honest.....I t already happened In the past and I always have appreciated that.... Why should I accept the UNMOTIVATED HATE without fighting it? My point is that it is simply wrong and only dictated by HATE to neg ANY type of NON-POLITICAL posts....Esp when one ( and it's not a little detail, come to think of it) is not obliged to read anything I post, can skip my articles and can put me on ignore ...... I repeat that this HATE-campaign ( that's what it is ....Likely based on my political stances, I'd imagine) against me is wrong and has zero reasons to be... I revenge the right to post whatever ( and I repeat we're again talking about NON-POLITICAL articles) without having the feeling to be continuously assaulted / attacked just for HATE I do revenge that right and will always...It's just a matter of Justice Edited August 25, 2019 by umbertino 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shedagal Posted August 25, 2019 Report Share Posted August 25, 2019 10 hours ago, nstoolman1 said: Ours is not to reason Why, Ours is to read or ignore. I don't do FB and I do skip or ignore a lot of post because of title content. I believe life on this forum would be less agrivating if people would do the same. Don't read the posts of people that irritate you. 5 minutes ago, umbertino said: Thanks and I do respect you a lot as well...Mine is a simple Principle and Logic thing and concept and I know that about this issue I'm right...Since it's strictly logical..... I already recognized and acknowledged the right of everybody ( even if I do no not share it) to have political posts of mine negged as if there's no tomorrow as Politics inflames Folks ( including me) so I do accept being negged ( even if I'd never do it to others, but we are all different) on political articles ... But why negging non-political articles????...That's dead wrong and should be stigmatized by the PTB here and also from right-wing folks ( granted they are, as I know , many are) intellectually honest.....I t already happened In the past and I always have appreciated that.... Why should I accept the UNMOTIVATED HATE without fighting it? My point is that it is simply wrong and only dictated by HATE to neg ANY type of NON-POLITICAL posts....Esp when one ( and it's not a little detail, come to think of it) is not obliged to read anything I post, can skip my articles and can put me on ignore ...... I repeat that this HATE-campaign ( that's what it is ....Likely based on my political stances, I'd imagine) against me is wrong and has zero reasons to be... I revenge the right to post whatever ( and I repeat we're again talking about NON-POLITICAL articles) without having the feeling to be continuously assaulted / attacked just for HATE I do revenge that right and will always...It's just a matter of Justice I think you both missed my point. But it's okay. Live and let live. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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