@TheFigen_ True but when did we get away from that? Shouldn't all adults be the example to the kids around them? When did so many become so selfish as adults? In this world kids need to see more of this selflessness.
@TweeetsOfDogs The dog in the back in Bob. We only had him a couple years b/c we adopted him as an older dog (never knew his history or true age). He was wonderful, kind, obedient & a great bridge between our Zoe that died at 13 & the new young pups we adopted later. He is missed.
I talked to the family yesterday. They spoke through tears as they shared how they haven't seen their daughter in 20 months
A just society would treat those who butcher children by surgically removing healthy body parts as the child abusers, not those who try to prevent it
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting after White inmate in a South Carolina jail run by a Black man just DIED OF THIRST on the floor of his cell... covered INCHES-DEEP IN FECES, with the water to his sink SHUT OFF.
He drank out of his OWN TOILET to stay alive.
He wrote letters to his father pleading for help because he was being tortured because he was White.
His name was Gary "Bubba" Blair, he was 43.
He was the caregiver for his own elderly father. He had two nephews he adored and a dog named Scrubby.
So why was he in jail?
In February, Bubba showed up at his sister's house wearing a sheriff's office golf shirt, a security badge, handcuffs, and pepper spray. Deputies arrested him for impersonating a police officer.
A judge found he wasn't mentally competent to stand trial and ORDERED the state to place him into treatment on June 3.
The South Carolina Office of Mental Health never followed through.
Bubba sat in that jail for 181 days waiting for a spot.
He passed away 51 days after a judge ordered them to get him help.
In April, he write a letter to his father:
"I've lost about 90 pounds so far. I'm starving to death in here; only two meals a day, that's it... you starve, and I also have to drink from my toilet and no mattress to sleep on, only a hard ground."
"I’ve been abused by staff and assaulted by everyone on the unit; I had to go 28 days without a shower... no help for a white man"
"The staff is very nasty to white inmates thanks to Troy Ellerbe and James Dixon."
Then in May, Bubba did something that will haunt me.
He wrote a letter to a CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE begging for help.
The letter had a bad address. It was returned. It never arrived.
Meanwhile, sources say the water to his sink was SHUT OFF. His cell floor and walls were covered in feces INCHES DEEP. He was alone. Never let out.
Other inmates, who got a few hours out of their cells, told the news they watched Bubba drink toilet water.
So they took an empty potato chip bag and filled it with water and pushed it through the food slot in his door!!!!!
Most of it spilled before it ever reached him.
On July 24th, jailers found him dead on the floor.
49 days later, the autopsy came back.
Cause of death: profound dehydration due to DEPRIVATION OF WATER.
Manner of death: HOMICIDE.
The report also found bed sores on his HEELS, consistent with a man lying on a concrete floor for days at a time.
Acute bronchial pneumonia.
Profound weight loss.
Physical evidence that he had been INGESTING TOILET WATER.
He had lost so much weigh and was in such poor condition, his sister and aunt went to the funeral home to see him... they did not recognize his body.
The sheriff fired the Black jail administrator 5 days after Bubba died, and refuses to say why.
Bubba Blair sang to old folks in nursing homes. He took care of his daddy.
He deserved so much better than dying of thirst on a concrete floor.
Say his name. Gary "Bubba" Blair.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
Here pretty early at Arkansas stadium walking the field and all of a sudden I see a “Skunk” just making his way around!!
Can’t Make this Up!! 😂😂
#Dawgs
"I don't want to lecture them."
Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik says politics has no place in his concerts, drawing a clear line on using the stage to tell fans what to believe.
Rzeznik says people come to shows to "escape" and enjoy the music, not to hear a political speech, as other artists increasingly use concerts to weigh in on divisive issues.
🗣️Alexander Zverev: "There is nobody in this sport that I respect more than Novak Djokovic. When I was struggling, I could always give him a call and he would be there for me. He helped me when I was mentally down and at my lowest point. I have a lot of love and respect for him."
I love Elena Rybakina. She is kind and humble. I am sorry that the US crowd was so disrespectful last night. She deserved better and I am ashamed my country acted that way.
Please join me in remembering Ken Beckman, a World War II veteran and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel who flew 48 missions during WWll as a navigator aboard B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers. He passed away this morning at age 103. 🇺🇸🫡
Even if they are here illegally, by the time they propagate, it’s too late to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube. Their birthrate is a juggernaut, and it is unbeatable. The Christian values on which our beloved nation was founded will be buried and long forgotten.