justice may finally be served
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 7th, 2011
On the Media: A small-town reporter’s big influence
A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel.
By James Rainey
April 1, 2011, 7:22 p.m.
Ferriday, La.
The Mississippi fairly glides through this old cotton country, nothing if not strong and serene. But look a little closer at the big river and you’ll notice an upwelling here and a dark eddy there. Something powerful, it appears, lurks beneath the surface.
In this hollowed-out little town of 3,511 people, a newspaperman named Stanley Nelson can be found most days clattering away on a decade-old Mac computer. He moves with a slow and purposeful calm. But he too has been roiling the waters.
Not long past New Year’s Day – after four years of painstaking shoe leather, deep document dives and endless interviews – Nelson published a front page exposé like none the weekly Concordia Sentinel had ever seen.
In the story, three people talked about how an alleged former Klansman, their relative by birth or marriage, told them he was one of those responsible for burning a black man to death 46 years ago in what is remembered as one of the ugliest killings in this region’s violent racial past.
Nelson’s work has reignited hope in relatives of the slain man, Frank Morris, that they will finally see justice. It has injected new energy into a nearly half-century-old FBI investigation. It has grabbed the attention of the grand jury in Concordia Parish, where Ferriday is the second-biggest town.
After about 150 stories on the Morris case and other unsolved crimes of the 1960s, the determinedly modest Nelson has arrived as a star among a small cadre of civil rights “cold case” reporters. He’s been embraced by the national media and a Canadian filmmaker. He gladdens the hearts of all journalists who still believe that one person with the right focus can change the world, if only a little.
Nelson, 55, will talk about all that if you ask him. But he would rather load you in his old silver Mercury Grand Marquis and drive you past the Shamrock Motel, the spot where a notoriously violent Klan set, the Silver Dollar Group, used to hatch its plans, or cruise the route sheriff’s deputies took out of town late the night of Dec. 10, 1964, strangely just before men would set Frank Morris’ shoe store ablaze.
When Nelson parks alongside the concrete slab where Morris’ modest shop used to stand, he wonders about a lot of things. Did the killers use a match? Or did they light a wick atop a jug of gasoline? Did Morris, a successful businessman who fixed shoes for both black and white, have any idea who had come after him? The journalist goes over it again and again.
“I can’t get it out of my mind. I cannot,” said Nelson. “How in God’s name can one human being do this to another?”
Nelson grew up in a neighboring parish. He was 9 at the time of the Morris killing. A child, the strife and anger of that time didn’t really enter his life. But some grown-ups, then and now, purposefully turned away.
“Sometimes folks don’t want to look in the mirror because they are scared to death of what they might see,” said Sam Hanna Jr., whose family took over the Sentinel not long after the Morris killing and has supported Nelson’s digging into the past.
As editor of the Sentinel and head of a news staff of three, Nelson for decades tended to local government, public works, historical features and business in a challenged community, where the healthiest-looking storefronts belong to Jo Jo’s Drive-Thru Daiquiris and the parish work release office.
Nelson had never been particularly political, though he had a vague notion he wanted to do something bigger. His time came in February 2007, when the FBI published a list of unsolved civil rights slayings. Morris’ killing was listed. So were other atrocities, like the death of Wharlest Jackson, his car bombed in 1967 after he had the audacity to take a supervisor’s job at the Armstrong Tire & Rubber plant across the river in Natchez.
“Sometimes something falls into your lap,” Nelson said, “and you realize how important it is and that it deserves your full attention.”
In more than 30 years working at Hanna newspapers, he had learned the local police knew “everything.” So he started with them, drawing up a list of 30 law enforcement officials, mostly retired. He began tracking them down, one by one. A lucky meeting with a Syracuse University law professor, who came to town writing a history, led to her getting the school to help root out archived records from the FBI and a key House committee.
Other reporting went in to tracking Klansmen and tracing a portrait of Frank Morris. He was not just anybody; he was one of the few African Americans who owned a thriving business in an economy dominated by whites. On Sundays, he had a gospel show on the radio. Years later, young men recalled Morris giving them their first jobs. In poor Ferriday, shoes had to last. Everyone went to Morris’.
But his success may also have made him a target. Some resented his work for white women, regardless how innocent and fleeting their interactions. An informant would later tell the FBI that the virulently racist and brutal chief sheriff’s deputy, Frank DeLaughter, had complained the night before the fire that Morris would not fix his boots without advance payment. (Deputy DeLaughter had stiffed the shop owner previously.)
Morris slept in a tiny room at the back of his store that winter night. Later, he would recall that a couple of white men came to the door, smashed a window and apparently poured gasoline around. He could not get out in time, the flames exploding around him.
The fire burned the clothes right off Morris, 51, along with much of his skin. He lingered four days in the hospital. In a morphine haze, he gave a fitful description of what had happened. A dozen times he told doctors and authorities he didn’t know the arsonists.
Nelson has studied it from a lot of angles and believes Morris really didn’t know. Among other things, the Klan in those days tended to send “wrecking crews” from outside an area, making them less likely to be caught meting out the ugliest kind of retribution. “Frank was the kind of man, I think, he would have wanted something to happen to the people who did this to him,” the newsman said.
The big break in the case came late last spring. After about 20 interviews with former law enforcement figures, Nelson called on a former deputy, Bill Frasier. He asked Frasier if he had ever heard anything about the Frank Morris case. Frasier responded: “I had somebody tell me he did it.” Nelson told him: “You got my attention now.”
Frasier related how, decades before, he had been on a pipeline crew with his brother-in-law, a man named Leonard Spencer, who acknowledged attending Klan meetings in the 1960s. The former deputy asked the alleged former Klansman if he had ever killed anyone. Spencer allegedly replied: “We did accidentally one time.”
Spencer’s ex-wife and his son soon chimed in with similar information — tying not only Spencer but a ne’er-do-well Klansman and now deceased meth-head, O.C. “Coonie” Poissot, to the arson that night, according to the Sentinel article. The thugs allegedly planned to torch the store, learning only in the midst of the crime that Morris was inside.
Those revelations led the newspaperman, last summer, to Spencer’s front door. Spencer, still red-faced and burly at 71, agreed to answer questions. A video shows him swaying gently on a porch swing as Nelson politely asks about the most hideous things — wrecking crews, late-night “projects” of long ago and the 46-year-old killing.
Spencer admitted only some knowledge about the Klan. He said he had never heard of Frank Morris and certainly had nothing to do with his killing. First the FBI and then the Justice Department asked the Sentinel to hold off on the story, lest it complicate their investigation.
The feds would not give details, nor would the local officials, who would put any suspect on trial. When the story finally was published in January on the Sentinel’s front page, it carried a bold red headline: “A Suspect Revealed.”
“I told Stanley the other day he is the hub in this and everybody else is just a spoke,” said David Opperman, the assistant district attorney who is one of the prosecutors tending to the continuing grand jury proceedings. “He did the work that needed to be done.”
Now Stanley Nelson wins awards. The son of the South for the first time has traveled to Washington, New York and beyond. When he speaks at conferences, he spins out bigger ideas about justice and reconciliation. But mostly he talks about putting one foot in front of another, like any man might.
“Once you saw who Frank Morris was and what this story was,” he said, “it would have been almost immoral to walk away.”
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Readers: It’s people like Stanley Nelson, who don’t just sit around complaining about something, feeling sorry for themselves or feeling like it is no use, but they actually do something. If everyone just cared enough to do something for others or even just one person, the world would be quite different. I HOPE what Nelson began actually sees an end, and justice is served.
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April 7th, 2011 at 8:57 am
7 Surprising Ways to Boost Your Energy
Woodson Merrell, MD
As many as one of every five American adults has fatigue that is severe enough to interfere with daily activities.
Problem: Most of these people take the wrong steps when trying to regain their energy. For example, drinking popular “energy” drinks, which contain substantial amounts of caffeine, merely masks fatigue by stimulating the nervous system for only a few hours.
Solution: Try safe and effective natural strategies that help produce sustained energy.
Important: If you suffer from fatigue that interferes with your ability to complete your daily activities, see a doctor to rule out an undiagnosed condition — such as anemia, heart disease or hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid).
If your doctor finds no underlying cause, try the remedies below for several days. If you still feel fatigued, consider seeking additional medical guidance.
What you need to know about overcoming fatigue…
YOUR BODY’S ENERGY SOURCE
Your body’s real energy source is a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is constantly being produced by the thousands of mitochondria (tiny energy factories) in each of your body’s cells.
An important way to truly boost your energy is to properly nourish these ATP-producing powerhouses, while also reducing your body’s level of stress chemicals — one of the biggest energy drains in modern life.
FOR MORE “GET UP AND GO”
For starters, try well-known strategies, such as getting enough sleep, eating healthfully, exercising regularly and lowering stress.
Then supplement these strategies with the following steps — any one of them may give you an immediate boost. After seven days, you’ll likely begin to feel an even greater, more sustained level of energy…
1. Switch from coffee to green tea. Most people enjoy a caffeinated beverage, such as coffee, in the morning for a quick energy boost.
However, this approach can be counterproductive. Coffee, which contains an average of 120 mg of caffeine per cup, hypes up your nervous system temporarily, which can lead to an energy slump within hours.
For this reason, people who typically drink coffee or another highly caffeinated beverage in the morning should consider switching to green tea.
In addition to having less caffeine (just 10 mg to 30 mg per cup), green tea also contains theanine, a calming amino acid that moderates caffeine’s nervous system-stimulating effect for a gentle, steady boost.
Helpful: If you suffer withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, when giving up coffee, cut consumption of your usual morning drink in half and substitute green tea for each cup given up. Within a short time, you’ll be off coffee altogether.
If you find green tea to be bitter, try flavored green teas, such as peppermint or peach. Ultimately, it’s best to limit consumption of any caffeinated drink to two cups daily.
Also important: Stay hydrated. Without proper hydration, the body cannot supply nutrients to its energy-producing cells.
To avoid a mid-afternoon slump: Drink five to six cups of fluids (preferably water, juice, herbal tea or decaffeinated coffee) before 3 pm — this ensures that you’re hydrated during what are hours of peak activity for most people.
2. Eliminate wheat from your diet. About 1% of Americans have celiac disease (a condition that leads to digestive problems when gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, is consumed).
However, there’s a far more common condition, known as wheat intolerance, which causes a myriad of symptoms when wheat — but not barley or rye — is consumed.
About half of my patients have wheat intolerance by age 40, often leading to fatigue, and also to headache, indigestion and joint pain.
Likely reason: Modern wheat, which was one of the earliest foods to be grown in hybrid forms, contains newer proteins thought to trigger inflammatory responses with repeated exposure. Brown rice, quinoa and amaranth make great substitutes.
3. Take ayurvedic ashwaganda daily. Available in supplement form, this herb is an adaptogen that increases energy by reducing the effects of stress.
Ashwaganda stimulates energy production while calming the nervous system… helps the body more efficiently metabolize the stress hormone cortisol… and strengthens the immune system.
Good product: The “sensoril” variety of ashwaganda, such as that from Jarrow Formulas (310-204-6936, http://www.Jarrow.com)… and Natural Factors Nutritional Products, Inc. (800-322-8704, http://www.NaturalFactors.com).
Typical dose: 250 mg, twice daily. Consult your doctor before taking this or any other herbal remedy.
4. Take a sauna. Research suggests that saunas (steam or dry) have the potential to eliminate toxins from your body, including mercury, dioxin and PCBs — all commonly found in our environment and known to wreak havoc on one’s energy production system.
However, check with your doctor first — saunas are not recommended for some people, including those with heart disease, pregnant women or individuals taking certain medications, such as those prescribed for high blood pressure or depression.
5. Undergo a relaxation-oriented acupuncture session. While most people associate acupuncture with its well-known ability to decrease pain and help heal inflamed tissue, it’s also great for reducing stress and boosting energy.
One 20-minute treatment is often enough to help balance the nervous system and neurotransmitters (such as endorphins and serotonin) and enhance energy levels for up to two days.
To find an acupuncturist, contact the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (866-455-7999, http://www.aaaomonline.org).
6. Do an “energy ball” exercise several times daily. This two-minute, beginner-level exercise is derived from the ancient Chinese system of energy movement known as Qi gong.
Similar to other martial arts derivatives, such as tai chi, Qi gong connects energy circuits through mind, muscle and breath control.
What to do: Stand with your knees slightly bent, your buttocks tucked under and arms at your sides. While taking slow, deep abdominal breaths, allow your arms to slowly float up, shoulder-width apart, while your palms roll inward then face you (as if holding a giant ball of energy). Bend your arms as if bringing the ball closer to you, then rotate your wrists so that your palms face outward.
“Push” the ball away from you until your arms are straight while stepping forward onto your left foot. Let your arms float apart to form the top of a “T,” then bring your arms gently down to your sides as you move your left foot back to its starting position.
Finally, “lift” the ball overhead and let it go, then let your arms float back down to your sides, palms facing inward. Repeat, stepping forward with your right foot.
7. Use a fatigue-fighting stress reducer each day. The following products are great for calming the nervous system so that less energy is wasted during the day. Each is available at health-food stores.
Bach Rescue Remedy (an extract that contains 38 flower essences) — use as directed on the label.
L-theanine amino acid — take 500-mg capsules, twice daily.
Lavender essential oil — massage into the skin or use as aroma therapy in a diffuser.
Try one of these stress reducers and see how it works for you. As with all supplements and herbal remedies, first check with your doctor.
Health interviewed Woodson Merrell, MD, visiting assistant professor, department of family and social medicine, at Beth Israel Medical Center, Manhattan campus of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and assistant clinical professor of medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, both in New York City.
He also maintains a private integrative medicine and acupuncture practice in New York City and is coauthor of Power Up — Unleash Your Natural Energy, Revitalize Your Heath, and Feel 10 Years Younger (Free Press), http://www.WoodsonMerrell.com.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Michelle:
I hope more of those animals are caught and brought to justice.
April 7th, 2011 at 9:08 am
That story is not true
April 7th, 2011 at 11:58 am
Anonymous3
You are saying “that story is not true.” What part of it is not true and how do you know that to be so. Don’t you think that it is a little ridiculous to just say “that story is not true,” and leave us hanging?
Jackie
April 7th, 2011 at 12:13 pm
This was great news to receive because it tells those of un on Guam that Guam so far is safe from the radiation fall out in Guam.
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by Sabrina Salas Matanane
Guam – Monitoring by the USEPA continues to show that there are no traces of isotopes consistent with those released from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan. According to Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo the island continues to be safe from radiological isotopes that have been discharged from damaged reactors in Japan.
She adds she will continue to work with the EPA to monitor air quality around Guam, and to ensure that our island receives consistent and accurate information as it becomes available.
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May Guam continue to be safe.
Hafa Adai
Anna
April 7th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
We are in the year 1864:
===============The isolation of a first-class railway carriage has its disadvantages: it provides a suitably quiet location for robbery and murder! On Sunday, July 9, 1864, 70-year-old Mr. Thomas Briggs travelled from his home in Hackney to south London, to pass the day with his daughter. On the same day, 25-year-old German tailor Franz Muller took the same route, for his regular appointment with a prostitute.
The two men returned home on the same train. Only Mr. Briggs never arrived. His body was found on the line between Wick and Bow. His money and watch had been stolen. There were signs of a struggle in his compartment, and left there was a peculiar silk top hat of a new short design. Mr. Briggs’s hat was missing. There was, however, an unfortunate delay before the hat was identified.
Then a cab driver reported having described the new model hat to Muller, who announced his intention of getting one, and did so.
By the time this information reached the police, Muller was traveling to America on the SS Victoria. As the vessel was still at sea, police officers raced to New York by a faster ship, and arrested Muller when he landed.
In his possession they found Mr. Briggs’s gold watch, and Mr. Briggs’s silk top hat, cut down about 2 inches at the brim and gummed together again to make it match Muller’s own hat.
He was brought back to London and convicted, confessing on the scaffold before a vast crowd at Newgate.
This sordid fellow has singularly influenced fashion. Young bucks are now adopting the “Muller cut-down” rather than the traditional “stovepipe” hat.
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I will later post a poem the sordid Muller penned before they hanged him.
AH
April 7th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
Some of the rebels in Libya have taken possession of hundreds of hand-held ground to air, heat seeking missiles.
Although some will be used against Gaddafi’s forces, most will be sold on the black market. I am afraid many will end up in the hands of Al-Qaeda.
Israel and America may be the targets of these weapons. I hope both nations will work together to intervene. I am sick of arab men who feel justified in killing innocents because an iman tells them that the Koran says that they should.
Whatever I have to do to end the reign of this evil cult called islam I will do. I am in possession of the names of some of the players and the new locations of some of the missiles.
Michelle, should I announce it here or do you prefer that I tell someone you suggest?
This is urgent as the missiles could be moved to another location soon.
Sar -e Pol
April 7th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Hafa adai
Hey guys here’s another reason to be proud to be from Guam, GUANG Airman Master Sgt. Quitugua Named Air National Guardsman of the Year.
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Guam – Master Sergeant Michael M. Quitugua, Jr., of the 254th Security Forces Squadron, Guam Air National Guard, was named the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year for the entire Air National Guard, in a recent announcement made by the National Guard Bureau.
Major General Benny Paulino received a call from Lieutenant General Harry M. Wyatt, Director of the Air National Guard, this morning informing him about the selection of MSgt Quitugua.
Quitugua said he was shocked when he was congratulated by Major General Paulino on the selection.
“I was informed by The Adjutant General which also added a level of heightened anxiety,” he said.
Quitugua also noted that his motivation to succeed came from a number of different people from both his professional and personal life.
“I attribute my motivation and successes in my career to my leaders who continue to challenge and mentor me, to my friends who support and encourage me in good and bad times, and finally to my wife, who I attribute my professional and personal success to. She is my biggest supporter and my harshest critic. Without her I can honestly say I would not be the person I am today,” he said.
MSgt Quitugua began his Air Force career in September 2000 when he enlisted with the Air Force Reserve as an Air Transportation Specialist. He completed Basic Military Training and Technical Training earning Distinguished Graduate honors.
In January 2005, he transferred to the Guam Air National Guard 254th Security Forces Squadron, taking on a variety of duties with the squadron. He deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom on April 2008 to the South Gate, Eskan Village Air Base, Saudi Arabia, as Security Forces NCOIC,
His wife, Technical Sergeant Maria Victoria R. Quitugua, 254th Security Forces Squadron, Guam Air National Guard, is no stranger to accomplishments herself. In 2007, she was Pacific Air Force (PACAF) Total Force Outstanding Airman of the Year, Air National Guard, and Air Force Security Forces Air Reserve Component Airman of the Year. She was also named the National Guard Bureau Security Forces Airman of the Year.
Quitugua said that for the short term, he is hoping to be accepted to attend the Senior NCO Academy and to receive an outstanding rating during the unit’s upcoming Compliance Inspection. For the long term, he plans to enroll in a graduate program, although he has yet to decide which masteral program he wants.
MSgt Quitugua was recognized as the Guam Air National Guard SNCO of the year during a banquet last February.
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I like it. Serving your country and being damn good at it.
Peter
April 7th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Michelle my name is Haru, I used to live in the town of Futaba in Fukushima prefecture in northeast Japan. But we had to evacuate when we heard the tsunami was coming.
I am presently living with relatives on Kyoto. I miss my home so much. We have been told that we may not be able to return to our home for years, if ever. It seems that the closest I will ever get will be Kazo, Saitama. The government has offered to relocate me and my family there.
I hope we learn something from this disaster about the insanity of using nuclear power to produce electricity.
Haru
April 7th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
If anyone doubts the stuff Roberts writes about white boys How about this
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Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that Beck will “transition off of his daily program” later this year.
From the news release:
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck’s production company, are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties. Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year.
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“the third highest rated in all of cable news,” how many ignorant racist white boys have to be watching that moron to achieve that figure? We are in trouble America.
Brown
April 7th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Social Butter Fly (love it too)
My point is we wouldn’t to be spinning our wheels writing letters to those republicans who are staving people with their new laws if the bigots hadn’t put them into office in the first place.
I also feel some of those starving people could have made their way to the polls and helped to keep those republicans out of office.
As they didn’t but sat on their asses and waited for others to do all the work, I see no reason to aid that kind of apathy. I repeat. Let the lazy bastards starve.
I personally will do nothing to feed a one of them.
John
April 7th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
I just want to add my comments to those of a few others who wrote in a few days ago to talk about my experience as a native american on one of those “reservations.” I worked in the office that dealt with the US attorneys that specialized in American Indian Land Law.
The government’s policy in the Pacific Northwest towards the native americans was to create a “reservation,” (concentration camp) and then later if a rich white boy discovered something valuable on the land, he would get the government to swoop in and move the Indians to another concentration camp.
My assignment was to work with those US attorneys whose specialty was to use the law to let the government swoop in and take it back for the rich white boy’s exploration.
You may not choose to believe in me as a person, but you can check history and you will discover many instances in which what I have said occurred. And let me assure you that the pain and suffering that each member of my tribe suffered was very real.
As Robert has so often pointed out the white boy was the only Affirmative Action Beneficiary then and is today the chief Affirmative Action Beneficiary of the American government.
Being called a white boy hardly compares to being called a savage and when you add that the calling came with the full weight of the local, state, and federal government backing the white boy while he robbed, raped, and murdered any of my people he wished, I fail to see the equality in terms or feelings.
And if you feel that all this does is to give us(me) an opportunity to rant, then you are as phony as you claim us(me) to be. I for one resent your dismissal of the OTW’s complaint as “you people ranting.”
Why not just be an honest bigot and say “f**k you _______________(insert the perforative word of your choice), just get over it,” like the rest of your racist ilk utters when feeling uncomfortable about being reminded of their evil past doings.
While I feel Al was just being flip, I believe, as someone else wrote in, you are one of those who sit in the background and wait for your opportunity to bait the air with hatred.
I am 83 years old, but my memory is very clear. We were a nation that was murdered and scattered to the winds. I teach the young ones to use the tools of the white man to help make what is left tolerable until the Great Spirit returns to make them pay for their evil. I can no longer see well, but I still have my memory.
It is not aways a blessing.
Ela
April 7th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Misch, great article. Although, that last sentence ‘it would’ve been almost immoral to walk away’ there’s no almost about it, it would’ve been. Now, there’s someone showing humanity, thanks for that example.
john, I understand your point. I kind of feel that way, too. Dems had a chance to snag the mid-term elections and instead they intellectually talked a good game, but chose to sit it out (why?!) and let every rethug in the vicinity matter more than the issues at hand. I would ask, how dare they act that way, but facts are facts, they didn’t do it, they did not vote. Baffling, I know…now we’re going to spend time writing letters – I do understand, I debate the matter about where my time would be best spent myself…
http://getyourlifebalanced.com/2011/04/how-to-lose-one-pound-today/ that’s the headliner bc my SEO specialist said so, I’m going to fix that bastard when I see him : ) check it out, start that weight loss and new life attitude today : ) and there’s a new pic of me (with da pig).
Caio, Luv, Zen Lill
April 7th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Zen Lill:
I loved your blog. It is so elegant. I didn’t leave a reply because I didn’t want to leave my email address. I jealously guard my privacy.
April 7th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I got a laugh out of ZL blog I just read. Under Food Hints she recommends quinoa … and then admits she doesn’t know what it is. :)
Still I like her upbeat kind of ditzy/rambly style.
She is sharing some common sense tips. I like to prepare food/snacks ahead of time in portion control sizes too. It helps to stay on track when your food is ready when it’s time to eat – I like every 3 hours – otherwise it’s a decision n it’s easy to make bad food choices under pressure.
Your a very pretty woman ZL. Nice picture
April 7th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
BTW I’m not saying your a ditz and my assessment of your writing style comes more from reading this blog not so much what I read on yours. Your writing is cheery. Thanks.
April 7th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Zen Lill
You are one fine thing. Just love that rack!. The fabulous smile and hint of an incredible sexual experience awaiting the lucky guy.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Anon 14, just checked what you pointed out about the email, I will correct that, thank you for bringing that to my attention, thought it was handled by my computer guy.
Girl reader, thanks, here’s what I wrote (don’t know what quinoa is…stay tuned and I’ll get to it or google it!) I guess I should’ve put a ? after the ‘don’t know what quinoa is’ that’s funny that I wouldn’t know what it is and tell everyone about it.
Boy (and girl) reader, thanks for the compliment(s). I can’t wait to shoot video – cameraman coming over here on Sunday. I’ve got some adult surprises coming up, too ; ) all in good time, but I’m not revealing details until it’s on. Oh yes, I’m full of those good ideas…
Gotta go tweet now : ) Luv, Zen Lill
April 7th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Lamentation of Franz Muller:
Within a dark and dreary dungeon,
In grief and anguish now I lie,
For a base and dreadful murder,
In youth and vigor I must die.
Far from home, and far from kindred,
In grief and sorrow I deplore,
An unhappy man in a foreign land,
I die at the age of twenty-four.
When I had done that dreadful murder,
I sailed across the raging main;
Justice followed poor Franz Muller,
for the murder in the railway train.
That fatal night I was determined,
Poor Thomas Briggs to rob and slay,
And in the fatal railway carriage,
that night I took his life away.
His crimson gore did stain the carriage,
I threw him down the same of alack!
I on the subway left him bleeding,
I robbed him of his watch and hat.
When I Thomas Briggs did murder,
I went across the briny sea,
And I was fully then determined,
To reach New York in America.
My guilty sole was filled with anguished,
When the stormy winds did roar,
And justice ready was to seize me,
Before I reached Columbia’s shore.
Poor Briggs’s goods was found upon me,
Sufficient evidence, you see,
To bring me to the bar of Newgate,
And hang me on the fatal tree:
Oh! There was ever such excitement,
will there ever be again,
As there has been with Franz Muller
For the murder in the railway train.
My noble counsel pleaded for me,
And done their best my life to save,
A British jury found me guilty,
I must lie in a murderer’s grave:
Numbers thought they’d not convict me,
When at the bar they did me try,
Oh! God above, look down in pity,
My fate is sealed, I must die.
Oh! I must die a malefactor,
In front of Newgate’s dismal door,
In the midst of health and vigor,
Aged only twenty-four.
I never thought the law would take me away,
When I sailed o’er the raging main,
All my courage did forsake me.-
A murderer in the railway train.
Swift the moments are approaching,
On the gallows, I must die,
The cruel hangman, stands before me,
Oh the wretched tree so nigh,
I am full of grief and anguish,
Full of sorrow care and pain,-
A warning take by poor Franz Muller,
The murderer in the railway train.
April 7th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
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April 7th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
AH:
Why publish a poem from an admitted murderer?
April 7th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Abhay, I was told to find your name on this place. You left without notice to me or my parents. We put money for your leaving, You needed to sign that you would pay us back. You left without picking up the things we got and you did not sign for paying us back for them.
Dhananjay
April 11th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Michelle,
Thank you for posting my article on John Thompson’s false imprisonment at your site. Your interest in this case, and your committment to exposing injustice generally, is much appreciated. Given the current inclination of the Supreme Court’s majority, there is much work to do.
Elijah Sweete
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