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Monday Reads: All the News that really isn’t fit to print and then some

Posted: April 14, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: American Gun Fetish, Gun Control, Journalism, morning reads, right wing hate grouups, The Media SUCKS |55 Comments

Good Morning!

newspaper-boyWe have another dreadful mass shooting. This time in a Kansas City suburb and with horrid anti-Semitic overtones.  Three people are dead and one more is in critical condition.   The shooter is one of those right wing racists who had been spewing right wing hate propaganda for an extensive period of time. He even has served time in jail. So, of course, he has easy access to guns because FREEDOM!!!

Three people died Sunday when a gunman opened fire outside the Jewish Community Center and a senior living facility in Johnson County.

Police arrested the suspected shooter, a man in his 70s with a beard, outside Valley Park Elementary nearby by 2:45 p.m. He smiled and reportedly made anti-Semitic statements as he was led away. Police said the man, who was not from Kansas, used a shotgun in the slayings at the Jewish Community Center. He also had a handgun when he was arrested.

“We are investigating it as a hate crime,” said Overland Park Police Chief, but investigators are not sure of the motive.

Media reports identified the gunman as Frasier Glenn Cross Jr., 73, of Aurora, Mo., a small town in Lawrence County, southwest of Springfield.

Public records show that Cross also uses the name Frasier Glenn Miller.

A dispatcher with the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department said Sunday night that officers were working with Johnson County authorities and the FBI. Another source close to the investigation acknowledged that Miller was the person of interest.

A woman who answered the phone at a number listed for Frasier Glenn Miller said she did not know where he was, and then began to cry.

Miller has a long history of anti-Semitic and racist statements. In 2010, as a self-proclaimed write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri, Miller purchased or tried to purchase advertising time on several Missouri radio stations, including at least one in Kansas City. The ads bitterly denounced Jews, the federal government and African-Americans.

“We’ve sat back and allowed the Jews to take over our government, our banks and our media,” one radio commercial said.

The ads were considered so offensive that the Missouri Broadcasters Association asked for permission to ban their use. In June the FCC said Miller wasn’t a bona fide candidate, and the ads need not be aired.

Two of the victims Sunday were 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood and his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who attended the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood.

Max Blumenthal–along with others–has been researching Miller’s background.  Miller is a well-known white supremist . “Miller’s goal was ‘southern lewis-hine-dont-smoke-visits-saloons-1910independence. The creation of an all-white nation within…mother Dixie'” 

 The White Patriot Party (WPP) was a paramilitary, Christian Identity faction of the Ku Klux Klan founded by Glenn Miller in 1980. WPP was extremely racist: they supported apartheid, and set up hotlines featuring telephone recordings of a black man being lynched. WPP won considerable support in North Carolina by blaming the bad economic climate for farmers on international Jewish bankers. Some estimates put the WPP’s peak membership at 3000. Miller’s goal was “southern independence. The creation of an all-white nation within the one million square miles of mother Dixie. We have no hope for Jew York City or San Fran-sissy-co and other areas that are dominated by Jews, perverts, and communists and non-white minorities and rectum-loving queers.” (Miller, quoted in Ridgeway, 119)

The Order gave some of the $3.6 million they stole to Miller and the WPP. Miller was subpoenaed to testify at The Order trial because Order member Bruce Pierce said that Miller received $300,000 from the Order. Miller testified that he had received $200,000.

He has been on the watch list of Southern Poverty Law Center for some time.  He is a former KKK Grand Dragon from the Carolinas and has published an extensive amount of hate material.  He hates women, any one that’s not white, and believes in every Jewish conspiracy theory Hitler and his droogies ever invented.

Frazier Glenn Miller, who went by Glenn Miller, is the former “grand dragon” of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which he founded and ran in the 1980s before being sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center for operating an illegal paramilitary organization and using intimidation tactics against African Americans. After subsequently forming another Klan group, the White Patriot Party, he was found in criminal contempt and sentenced to six months in prison for violating the court settlement. He went underground while his conviction was under appeal but was caught by the FBI with a weapons cache in Missouri. He served three years in federal prison after being indicted on weapons charges and for plotting robberies and the assassination of SPLC founder Morris Dees. As part of a plea bargain, testified against other Klan leaders in a 1988 sedition trial.

Criminal History:
In 1986, Miller was convicted on a federal contempt of court charge after violating the terms of a consent order that settled a lawsuit filed against him and his Klan group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was sentenced to a year in prison, with six months suspended. However, he disappeared while out on bond awaiting an appeal and was later caught in Missouri along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons.

In 1987, he pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and to mailing a threat through the mail. He had been indicted along with four other white SHORPY_05413usupremacists for conspiring to acquire stolen military weapons, and for planning robberies and the assassination of SPLC founder Morris Dees. In an agreement with federal prosecutors, he received a five-year prison sentence in exchange for his testimony against 14 white supremacist leaders in a sedition trial. He served three years of that sentence.

In His Own Words:
“White men have become the biggest cowards ever to walk the earth. The world has never witnessed such yellow cowards. We’ve sat back and allowed the Jews to take over our government, our banks, and our media. We’ve allowed tens of millions of mud people to invade our country, steal our jobs and our women, and destroy our children’s futures. America is no longer ours. America belongs to the Jews who rule it and to the mud people who multiply in it.”
–  U.S. Senate radio ad, 2010

“Today, true statistics be told, we’re less than half. And we’re dropping fast, while the dark peoples multiply like rats all around us, and as more tens-of-millions of them invade our country from all over the world. Our race is drowning literally in seas of colored mongrels. Our people buy almost twice as many caskets as cradles. Your race is dying before your eyes.”
– “Attention White Youth!” Miller’s website, March 12, 2010

“That’s a sad commentary for our politicians in Washington. They’re all a bunch of whores for Israel. They’re all corrupted to the core. And they are traitors to America.”
–  Interview with Howard Stern, April 6, 2010

“Woman have always chosen cowardice and slavery over war and violence for the obvious reason they’re the weaker sex. And they have responded to White male cowardice in the only way they could. They kiss up to every male but White ones.”
–  “Cowardice is the White Man’s Survival Strategy!” Miller’s website

“Our forefathers were absolutely right to be racists and to discriminate in favor of themselves. That racism and discrimination insured racial security, prosperity, and racial survival and procreation. ZOG and the Jews-media tricked us and shamed us out of our racism shame that has weakened us and divided us as a people, therefore cowards, unwilling to resist Jewish enslavement and genocide.”
– “Cowardice is the White Man’s Survival Strategy!” Miller’s website

6yearstlouis1910sx3President and Michelle Obama have sent their condolences to the families of the victims.  The murders are being investigated as hate crimes.   I’d like to say we’ll hear more about the need to register and restrict gun ownership but I know that conversation will go no where outside of most of the population of the United States.

Right wing meme enabler Sharly Attkisson is embarrassing herself once again. What a better place to make an ass of oneself than on Fox News?

Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative reporter who recently resigned from her post at CBS News, took shots at both her former employer and the Obama administration on Media Buzz Sunday morning, accusing CBS News of being too compliant with the White House, and the White House of overtly trying to stifle reporting.

“I didn’t run into that same kind of sentiment [at CBS] as I did in the Obama administration when I covered the Bush administration very aggressively,” Attkisson said, adding that when CBS has a problem with a story, “It never runs. Or it dies the death of a thousand cuts, as some of us say. If it’s something they don’t want it will be changed and revised and shortened and altered so much that it’s a shadow of its former self if it does air.”

Attkisson distinguished herself through continued reporting on various Obama administration issues, from Fast and Furious to0, especially, Benghazi. She called the White House efforts to influence reporting a more intense version of what she encountered under previous administrations:

Now there’ve always been tensions, there have always been calls from the White House under any administration I assume, when they don’t like a particular story. But it is particularly aggressive under the Obama administration and I think it’s a campaign that’s very well organized, that’s designed to have sort of a chilling effect and to some degree has been somewhat successful in getting broadcast producers who don’t really want to deal with the headache of it — why put on these controversial stories that we’re going to have to fight people on, when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don’t ruffle the same feathers?

Attkisson said that efforts to paint her as a conservative journalist was “part of a strategy or campaign from people who don’t like what you’re doing.”

It’s good for a laugh at least.

Here are a few other headlines you may want to check out:SHORPY_03735u

           Idea of New Attention Disorder Spurs Research, and Debate

Utah Woman Allegedly Killed Seven Babies and Left Them in Her Garage

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad: war turning in regime’s favour 

Sebelius says she told Obama staying ‘wasn’t an option’

I really did try to warn you that the news wasn’t pretty today!  Anyway, what’s on your reading and blogging list today?

55 Comments on “Monday Reads: All the News that really isn’t fit to print and then some”

  1. Fannie's avatar Fannie says:
    April 14, 2014 at 9:25 am

    Good morning – It’s very clear that this right wing racist was allowed for years and years to spread his brand of hate, his emotional and verbal, and physical abuse upon this country. It’s the fundamentalist and the NRA, that have funneled money and guns and is the driving force behind groups like WPP.

    JJ, it seems to be getting worst, and bigger problem. Just witness Cliven Bundy, and all the so called patriots armed to the max. Declaring they don’t have to pay taxes, or fees. They will stop at nothing for their “freedoms”.

  2. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 14, 2014 at 9:50 am

    I love the newsboy photos.

  3. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 14, 2014 at 11:36 am

    It appears that Vlad Putin is slowly but surely working on taking over all of Ukraine.

    BBC News: Ukraine crisis: Pro-Russian attack in Ukraine’s Horlivka

    Via Kyiv Post:

    The Daily Beast: Obama administration prepares new sanctions against Russia

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      April 14, 2014 at 3:23 pm

      HuffPost Politics ‏@HuffPostPol 55s
      RT @NSCPress: This afternoon the President spoke with President Putin of #Russia on the situation in #Ukraine. Readout forthcoming.

      • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
        April 14, 2014 at 4:05 pm

        Mark Knoller ‏@markknoller 7s
        Kremlin says Putin called upon Pres Obama “to use the American side’s capabilities to prevent the use of force and bloodshed” in E. Ukraine.

  4. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 14, 2014 at 11:46 am

    NYRB:

    Why We’re in a New Gilded Age, by Paul Krugman

    Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn’t a household name, although that may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. It has become a commonplace to say that we are living in a second Gilded Age—or, as Piketty likes to put it, a second Belle Époque—defined by the incredible rise of the “one percent.” But it has only become a commonplace thanks to Piketty’s work. In particular, he and a few colleagues (notably Anthony Atkinson at Oxford and Emmanuel Saez at Berkeley) have pioneered statistical techniques that make it possible to track the concentration of income and wealth deep into the past—back to the early twentieth century for America and Britain, and all the way to the late eighteenth century for France.

    The result has been a revolution in our understanding of long-term trends in inequality. Before this revolution, most discussions of economic disparity more or less ignored the very rich. Some economists (not to mention politicians) tried to shout down any mention of inequality at all: “Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution,” declared Robert Lucas Jr. of the University of Chicago, the most influential macroeconomist of his generation, in 2004. But even those willing to discuss inequality generally focused on the gap between the poor or the working class and the merely well-off, not the truly rich—on college graduates whose wage gains outpaced those of less-educated workers, or on the comparative good fortune of the top fifth of the population compared with the bottom four fifths, not on the rapidly rising incomes of executives and bankers.

    It therefore came as a revelation when Piketty and his colleagues showed that incomes of the now famous “one percent,” and of even narrower groups, are actually the big story in rising inequality.

    • NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
      April 14, 2014 at 2:47 pm

      I wish Congress and the POTUS were as riled up about economic inequality. I really don’t see how this can be reversed.

      • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
        April 14, 2014 at 3:06 pm

        I think that is why … it would take major systemic changes–both political and economic–to change it. They are too beholden to the current set up.

  5. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 14, 2014 at 11:55 am

    Glenn Greenwald’s The Intercept hasn’t published anything since April 4. Nothing else seems to be happening at Pierre Omidyar’s First Look either. They’ve hired oodles of people. What’s going on?

    Paul Carr at PandoDaily: Glenn, Intercepted: Pierre Omidyar’s quarter billion dollar journalism project seems to have stopped publishing

  6. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    Crooks and Liars ‏@crooksandliars 4m
    Won’t You Help Find Mitch McConnell His Forever Home? http://dlvr.it/5PFHSv

  7. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 12:32 pm

    Carville: If Republicans Lose 2016 Election, GOP ‘Will Be Extinct’

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/carville-if-republicans-lose-2016-election-gop-will-be-extinct/

  8. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    really beautiful story http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/nyregion/30-years-after-the-palm-sunday-massacre-christina-rivera-and-joanne-jaffe-tell-their-story.html?_r=0

  9. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    The Kansas City Shooter thinks Rand Paul is the only worthwhile politician … think that really says something about the damned neoconfederate Pauls.

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/frazier-glenn-miller-interview-tea-party-ron-paul-obama-kansas

  10. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ohio-pipeline-spill-041414

    Occasionally, as we consider the fate of our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel that will bring the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel through the heart of some of the richest farmland in the world, we should miss no opportunity to remind ourselves that pipelines leak, and that the people who own them do not care a great deal whether they do or not, because that’s just a sunk cost of doing the pipeline business. This is a rule so hard and fast that the fact that, when a pipeline leaks and does extensive damage, it doesn’t even qualify as a national news story any more.

    For example, Hamilton County, Ohio has been glopped up for almost a month from a spill that occurred in the middle of…wait for it…a wildlife refuge.

  11. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    April 14, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    esquire: Out Come The Crazies, The Consipiracies, And The Death Threats

    Lt COl Robert Bateman after writing gun control posts on Pierce’s blog.

  12. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 14, 2014 at 1:58 pm
  13. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 14, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Greenwald and Poitras just won the Pulitzer Prize. Nothing for Bernard Gellman this time.

    http://mashable.com/2014/04/14/pulitzer-greenwald-poitras-snowden/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

  14. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    April 14, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    balloon-juice: Latest CBO update — more covered at lower costs

    I expected the post Open Enrollment CBO estimates for coverage costs to show a significant increase over their February estimates:
    …
    I was really, really wrong!

    The new CBO report just was released and here are the highlights:

    Relative to their previous projections made in February 2014, CBO and JCT now estimate that the ACA’s coverage provisions will result in lower net costs to the federal government: The agencies currently project a net cost of $36 billion for 2014, $5 billion less than the previous projection for the year; and $1,383 billion for the 2015–2024 period, $104 billion less than the previous projections (see the figure below). …

    It’s almost like this thing is going to work at both increasing coverage and flattening the growth curve of healthcare spending.

    Richard Mayhew on a really good CBO report about the ACA.

  15. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/professor-explains-kansas-city-shooters-visit

    “One of the groups that students were pretty fascinated by and wanted more on was white supremacists,” Embree said. “One of the things I’ve found with many of these groups is that if I tell the story myself [the students] don’t believe me, they just think I’m trying to make them look bad.” So Embree invited three white supremacists — Miller, Kingdom Identity Ministries leader Mike Hallimore, and Dan Gayman, the Missouri-based leader of the Church of Israel — to come speak.
    Embree said that Miller was “over the top” and boasted about crimes he’d committed and his activities in the Klan, as well as calling the students names. “His big thing was the Jews — ‘the Jews did this, the Jews did that,’” Embree said.
    A Jewish girl in the class spoke up to Miller and criticized him, saying “you’re talking about my people,” Embree said.
    “He called her a kike,” Embree said.

    • NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
      April 14, 2014 at 2:56 pm

      Horrible. And this guy was in a “Christian Identity” group.

      His version of the bible must say that Jesus loved to shoot people.

    • Fannie's avatar Fannie says:
      April 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm

      This guy had freakin’ elements of schizophrenia for years and years. Richard Cohen (SPLC) was on Andrea Mitchell Reports, and he said Miller was increasingly angry, and explosive. The bible told him so, and he bust lose. Richard said no one could have predicted when or where he would have busted loose like he did. I’m telling you when some one uses emotional, verbal, and physical abuse, for decades, what the hell are we to expect? I mean, we aren’t talking about the salvation army band coming to play while all hell is busting lose.

      I must be singing out of tune, cause my brain tells me, he was coming, and he had a gun in his hand, and nobody could see him coming, nobody was running till they heard the shots flying all over hell.

  16. NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
    April 14, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    No exemptions for the football team here:

    French investigators began taking DNA samples Monday from 527 male students and staff at a high school — including boys as young as 14 — as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed campus.

    Testing began Monday at Fenelon-Notre Dame high school in western France. All those who received summonses last week were warned that any refusal could land them in police custody, and no one rejected the sweeping request to test the high school’s male population.

  17. NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
    April 14, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    What a great cure for the winter blues!

    Mirrors help dark Norway town

    RJUKAN, Norway — Yearning for sunlight has been a part of life in this quaint old factory town in central Norway for as long as anyone can remember. Here, the sun disappears behind a mountain for six months of the year.

    It is worse for newcomers, of course, like Martin Andersen, a conceptual artist who arrived here 12 years ago and would find himself walking and walking, searching for any last puddle of sunshine to stand in. It was on one of these walks that he had the idea of slapping some huge mirrors up against the mountain to the north of town and bouncing some rays down on Rjukan.

    The town eventually agreed to try, and last fall, three solar- and wind-powered mirrors that move in concert with the sun started training a beam of sunlight into the town square.

    Thousands of people turned out for the opening event, wearing sunglasses and dragging out their beach chairs. And afterward, many residents say, life changed.

    The town became more social. Leaving church on Sundays, people would linger in the square, talking, laughing and drinking in the sun, trying not to look up directly into the mountain mirrors.

    Pity it wouldn’t work in Seattle. You’ve got to have sunlight first before you can reflect it.

  18. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    April 14, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    crooks&liars: Rick Perry’s Lawyered Up

    Well, lookie who is lawyering up! Rick Perry, that’s who.

    Gov. Rick Perry has retained a high-profile Austin defense lawyer to represent him in a criminal investigation into whether he illegally withheld money from the Travis County district attorney’s office, the American-Statesman and KVUE-TV confirmed Sunday.

    Rick, Darlin’, Matlock couldn’t get you off. …

    Grand jury could kick off as early as today.

    • RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
      April 14, 2014 at 3:12 pm

      The hiring comes as a special Travis County grand jury is set to be seated Monday to hear evidence into whether Perry broke state laws concerning bribery, coercion and abuse of authority.

  19. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    ah, yes, the efficiency of the unfettered private sector!!!

    No corporate tweet will ever be worse than US Airways’ tweet of a 777 crashing into a vagina http://thewi.re/1qAc8UR

    • RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
      April 14, 2014 at 7:01 pm

      That supposed to be an alternate ending to LOST or something? I presume they are looking for a PR replacement.

  20. dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
    April 14, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    Poor PBJ! He just doesn’t have an original thought ever! and every one thought he was so smart and wonky!

    Andrew Tuozzolo ‏@ATuozzolo 50s
    So, @BobbyJindal basically just copied @FLOTUS #LetsMove campaign as major new initiative. Innovative! http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/subhome/36 … #lalege

  21. NW Luna's avatar NW Luna says:
    April 14, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Thank you to Rachel Carson, who died 50 years ago today, not long after sounding the alarm about #DDT. She died of #metastaticbreastcancer.
    Breast Cancer Action

    • Boo Radly's avatar Boo Radly says:
      April 14, 2014 at 5:28 pm

      Her clarion call regarding pesticides, “Public Health Services”, with her book ‘Silent Spring’ woke me up as a child. Not much has changed. Now bees are dying. People should really do their own research before making wild accusations – something besides studies done by “Public Health”.

  22. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    April 14, 2014 at 9:26 pm

    https://twitter.com/Chernynkaya/status/455849492378443776

  23. minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
    April 15, 2014 at 12:51 am

    I am so fucking worried, look:

    The Indiana State Police at Lowell advises you to AVOID I-65 north and south bound at the 227 mm (that is three miles south of the Roselawn exit in Jasper County) due to a semi tanker roll over.

    A semi tanker filled with nitric acid has rolled over and is leaking near the 227 mm has closed I-65 and will require a detour of traffic for an unknown amount of time. It is suggested using an alternate route of travel until clean up of the spill and crash are completed.

    Bebe has been stuck right in front of this accident since it happened. they cannot turn around and don’t know when they can start moving again. Anyone know how bad that kind of spill is? she says she can see the lights and vehicles from her bus…

    They have only one bus driver too, and that bus driver has been driving them around all day today, fucking shit…

    • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
      April 15, 2014 at 12:54 am

      Hope she has a book to read or can sleep. These things happen. As long as it is only a delay it is nothing!

      • minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
        April 15, 2014 at 1:08 am

        Is that a poisonous thing? They are up close to it. She is sleeping off and on…the 911 operator told the chorus teacher that they are not expected to open the road until tomorrow morning sometime. another accident happened just down the road a couple miles from the spill about an hour ago. it is a mess

        • dakinikat's avatar dakinikat says:
          April 15, 2014 at 1:10 am

          Did you Google it? I think it is do not touch thing.

          • minkoffminx's avatar JJ Lopez Minkoff says:
            April 15, 2014 at 1:18 am

            Nitric acid spill leads to explosion at Rolls Royce plant, 8 taken to hospital

            Nitric acid is a strong, colorless to yellow and odorless acid that can cause severe burns to eyes, skin, respiratory track and gastrointestinal tract. It is corrosive and can react explosively with other materials. Inhalation, ingestion or contact can result in injury, burns or death.

            “[If inhaled], those vapors will react with the water that’s in your lungs and burn your lungs,” said Dr. Anne Miller, a chemistry professor at Butler University. “A lot of of it because of the heat and acid that’s involved.”

  24. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    April 15, 2014 at 11:45 am

    JJ,

    Just saw this. I have been posting up above from your Facebook. Thinking of you and Bebe.

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