Category Archives: Viva!
DNC’s 102-year-old delegate thrilled to see woman nominated – video | US news | The Guardian
Jerry Emmett, 102, was just six years old when women were given the right to vote. She said that was very much on her mind when she helped cast a ballot to nominate Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday. Emmett, the honorary chairwoman of the Arizona Democratic delegation, said despite her flagging energy levels, she was thrilled to be at the convention
Source: DNC’s 102-year-old delegate thrilled to see woman nominated – video | US news | The Guardian
El Roto | In English | EL PAÍS
The worst part isn’t the abusive contract or the job insecurity. The worst part is that they make us wear this uniform.
Source: El Roto | In English | EL PAÍS
Bernie Sanders’ Former Staffer: “No One Stole the Election From Us” | Mother Jones
But after Sanders’ attempt to rally support for Clinton this morning led to boos and protests, Sanders’ former national press secretary, Symone D. Sanders, took to Twitter to reject notions that the senator had been cheated. “I worked there,” she tweeted. “No one stole the election from us.”
Source: Bernie Sanders’ Former Staffer: “No One Stole the Election From Us” | Mother Jones
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Humans of New York
“My father was a fascist. He was trained to be a terrorist in Mussolini’s army. He was anti-everybody. The Irish were ‘micks,’ black people were ‘niggers,’ and Jewish people were ‘kikes.’ His main weapon was pain. He raped me, locked me in closets, beat me with broom handles. He sent me to the hospital many times. He’d threaten to blow my brains out in the middle of the street. I absorbed a lot of his emotional energy. Sometimes his voice still comes out of me. When I’m really angry, and cussing myself out, I sound just like him. It’s him inside me, speaking to me. But I didn’t become him. My grandfather saved me. My grandmother was a fascist like my father. She counted her rosary beads and condemned the world, but my grandfather was a simple man. He lived with us. He always told me: ‘Your father is a nut.’ He hugged me and kissed me. I swung between two extremes: the love of my grandfather and the hate of my father. My grandfather knew how to love. My father couldn’t love because he was too filled with terror. He didn’t have the tools to love. Once when I was fifteen, I walked over to my father and gave him a big hug. He kept his arms stiff by his side. I said ‘I love you Dad,’ and his body started trembling. There was a terrified child inside of him. He wanted to love. And he wanted to be loved. He just didn’t know how.”
Source: Humans of New York
Mimi Writes…….: Monday Mimisms ~ I Need An Ocean and A Long Strong Kiss


But I am having a good hair life this year (unlike a few real candidates) and I haven’t lost any emails (that I know of) and the ONLY reason I know that my bloglegs are returning as we blogspeak is that I continue to use unnecessary and annoying parentheses and run-on sentences galore while adjusting my wrinkled couch skirt in public. Yes. Finally.
Source: Mimi Writes…….: Monday Mimisms ~ I Need An Ocean and A Long Strong Kiss
Unit 4 Exam – Lydia Francis
Egyptian Aak 2016- Week 28 (July 11- 17)
good reads and coverage on Egypt
Top Headlines
- Word “fire” is heard on voice recorder of doomed Egypt Air
- Egypt orders Muslim preachers to deliver identical weekly sermons
- Sisi will participate in Beijing G20 summit in September
- Egypt’s Sisi extends state of emergency in parts of North Sinai
- Foreign Ministry denies Egypt blocked UN Security Council statement on Turkey
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt orders Muslim preachers to deliver identical weekly sermons
- Turkish deputy PM: Turkey has not taken any steps yet on normalizing ties with Egypt
- Egyptian workers abducted in Libya returned back to Egypt
- Egyptian FM briefed the Palestinian president Abbas over his visit to Israel
Tuesday
- Egypt’s central bank keeps EGP stable against US dollar stable against US dollar in FX auction
- Sisi will participate in Beijing G20 summit in September
- Two Egyptian policemen were killed by roadside bomb in North Sinai
- Arab nations seek to block Middle East quartet report at…
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Obama at D.N.C.: Character Witness and Prominent Clinton Convert – The New York Times
Mr. Obama is well positioned to be a character witness for Mrs. Clinton, his advisers argue, because of his popularity — 53 percent of Americans approve of his job performance, according to this month’s New York Times/CBS News poll — and because he is a prominent convert to her cause, a once-bitter campaign rival who came to trust and respect her.In the interview on Sunday, Mr. Obama said he had become friends with Mrs. Clinton, but the two are not “bosom buddies.” The president said he was “cleareyed” about her strengths and weaknesses.“This is somebody who knows as much about domestic and foreign policy as anybody; is tough as nails; is motivated by what’s best for America and ordinary people; understands that, in this democracy that we have, things don’t always happen as fast as we’d like, and it requires compromise and grinding it out,” Mr. Obama said. “She’s not always flashy — and there are better speechmakers — but she knows her stuff.”
Source: Obama at D.N.C.: Character Witness and Prominent Clinton Convert – The New York Times














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