This is America

Sabika Sheikh (17 years old) would have returned home to Pakistan when her program ended in June. She was killed in the Texas school shooting May 19, 2018 in Santa Fe.

"Sabika was in the United States on the State Department-sponsored Youth Exchange and Study program, helping to build ties between the United States and her native Pakistan," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement." Sabika's death and that of the other victims is heartbreaking and will be mourned deeply both here in the United States, and in Pakistan."

WATCH: Sabika Sheikh made this video to express her feelings about being accepted into the YES program.

Read the story from Voice of America:
https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-girl-among-dead-in-texas-shooting/4401020.html

This is America...

Mouctar Diallo came to New York City from Guinea seeking a life “for the better.” Then he entered the bruising world of Sanitation Salvage. On Nov. 7, 2017, Diallo wound up crushed to death under the wheels of a Sanitation Salvage truck. The men he’d been helping lied to the police, saying their dead colleague was a homeless person who had come out of nowhere.

It has taken months for his family to find justice.

That's Mouctar on the right.

Read the whole story from Voice of America:
https://projects.voanews.com/treated-like-trash/

Childish DiVito

I strive to be curmudgeon...

cur·mudg·eon
kərˈməjən/
noun
noun: curmudgeon; plural noun: curmudgeons

    a bad-tempered or surly person.

Origin
late 16th century: of unknown origin.

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/danny-devito-is-a-curmudgeon-in-curmudgeons
https://vimeo.com/159449591

Danny DiVito rhymes with Childish Gambino.

Design Mistake

Can you name this car? 

Ridgewood Mountain Village

In Pinellas County in 1958, real estate developer Charles Cheezem opened one of Florida‘s first retirement communities, Ridgewood Groves. Selling retirement homes in the peninsular county, with its temperate winter weather and high number of sunny days, proved effortless in the postwar economy. The nearby city of St. Petersburg had long served as a haven for aging Americans. The addition of air-conditioning in postwar suburban housing allowed communities like Ridgewood Groves to flourish in the Sunshine State.

In a marketing brochure for Ridgewood Groves, images of active retirees appear alongside promises of ―five producing citrus trees with every home. The potential resident could choose from five floor plans, all named after orange varieties – the Mandarin, the Seville, the Tangelo, the Valencia, and the Duncan.

The need to connect the community to oranges pervaded so strongly that the photographer hand painted unripe green oranges the color orange before capturing the cover photo. This manipulation of nature by man conveyed a natural quality inherent to Florida, symbolized by the orange.

Ridgewood Groves was expanded in 1962 to the south creating Ridgewood Mountain Village with aggressive marketing to retirees.

Putin's history with elections

A (very) little history.
Why would Putin want Trump to be president? I did some research.
The story of Vladimir Putin's hatred of Hillary Clinton began in the russian 2011 elections (coincidence?).
Read REACTIONS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_legislative_election,_2011

For two years the russian people demonstrated in protest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932013_Russian_protests

Putin repeatedly accused Clinton, who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, of interfering in Russia's internal affairs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#Putin_and_Clinton

General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the Russian Federation, writes in the "Military-Industrial Kurier“ February 27, 2013:

The very “rules of war” have changed. The role of non-military means of achieving political and strategic goals has grown, and, in many cases, they have exceeded the power of force of weapons in their effectiveness. All this is supplemented by military means of a concealed character, including carrying out actions of informational conflict and the actions of special operations forces. Collective intelligence, dynamics of the crowd in participatory systems such as social media, have immense power to support a collective action – such as foment a political change.

Read the United States Army Combined Arms Center report on that strategy:
https://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20160228_art008.pdf

In secret, Vladimir has achieved a global victory.