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My Top 10 most viewed videos according to Youtube in their order #10 Darlene Love All Alone On Christmas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKDPsB8gJX8) Posted: Sept 20 2012 1,421 views and 0 Likes and 1 dislike Home Alone and Home Alone 2 made McCauley Culkin a star, 20 th Century FOX a lot of money and kids into sociopaths thinking what they could do should unfortunate thieves ever have the good fortune to break into their house. Darlene Love’s music is from the 2 nd movie where Kevin realizes he’s in New York…and continuing the McCallister Travel tradition. This is my favorite song in the whole soundtrack and makes me smile whenever that part comes along in the movie #9 One Sided Friendships Relationships ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20W9R3iH6rU ) Posted on June 10 2013 with 480 views 6 Likes and 0 dislikes I talk about how a friendship seemed one sided when I was willing to do things in their sph...

 I watched the 2012 version of Steel Magnolias and I liked it more than I thought I would’ve. I saw the personalities of women I grew up with who were tough, with gentle hearts, razor sharp wit and went through the loss of one of their own. They were a family that loved one another. They were as the title suggested tender yet strong.   I saw my sisters, cousins, Aunts, and even my nieces. These black women in my circle mean the world to me. They are a part of the man I grew up to be, they are irreplaceable. I walked away from the movie appreciative of the women I knew and grew up with, would call my friends and argue with like we were siblings. Then there is another movie playing in my head and I for the life of me want it to end. I want it to end because unlike Steel Magnolias it seems to be repeating constantly on a loop with different names and situations with the same result and the same refrain.   “If they didn’t” If Sandra Bland didn’t mouth off” “ If Rekia ...

Hello Readers!!!   The Battle of Iwo Jima was a bloody week, American and Japanese forces clashed like no other and thousands of people ended up dead. Americans were coming for the Japanese and they needed to do what was called Island hopping. The battle was fierce, bloody and relentless with the Americans proving triumphant. One picture, one picture captures the resolve of the American Army as they put up the American flag. After the soldiers came home, there were many other battles to fight, segregation as official policy was one, jobs, housing, soldiers who fought for democracy and freedom had to fight for it on our own shores once again. How could these soldiers fight for freedom and be denied it when they came home? That is one question that we are grappling with today as Republicans block Veterans Jobs & benefits bills. One thing that came a little later in the blurb of the American consciousness is gay rights. In 1969, the one that blew the lid off of...