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They do shudders too!

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Shutters, my man. Carry on...

Not sure if anyone else has been following this, but here is the deal:

Young man from Ocean Springs, football player at SW Miss Community College, goes missing while on a boat trip with friends out to Horn Island on the 4th of July. He was last seen on the west tip of Horn Island walking around, and has been missing since July 4th evening around 4:30 PM.

I go boating out there often and the boating community on Facebook had been spreading the word, and everyone from the police, the NPS and dozens of local volunteer boaters (and also the Cajun Navy) had been out there looking for him with boats, aircraft, and drones.

This morning they found his body in that area, floating in the water just off the northwest tip of the island. The family has positively ID'ed the body as him.

Here's the kicker. This is the guy and the friends he was with:


Yep, he was the black guy, and he couldn't swim.

So what has been the overwhelming reaction comments from people of color online (even before the body was found)?

Those white boys killed him.

This is not just a few. There are dozens and dozens of such comments:

Keandrea Taylor: Somethings telling me This guy did it

Twila Augustine: Keandrea Taylor same thing I said.

LaSheena Hill: The ring leader on the far right.. watch what I tell you.. it’s something about this picture.. they going to say he fell but if you look at it hard the guy on the left of him has his hand on his leg and the one on the right side has his hand around his back. The person who took the picture did the que to push him.! Watch….

Nyla Enroth: Molly Man , there's the Answer...humm something smells fishy ?? ?? Press those boys...js

Gary Hines --They stated a body was found. They need to arrest those friends. They know something and charge them with MURDER if he isn’t alive. This is so heartbreaking. Praying for family and friends.

Sauny Anglin -- Them people did something to him.

Diane Kelley -- Put those kids in an interrogation room for 48 hours and I guarantee one will talk and tell it all!!! They are behind it. Children your friends are not your friends!!!! They never have your best interest at heart. They secretly are jealous and never want to see you succeed!!! This generation isn't like ours where our friends were our friends to the end!!!

Freakin' disgusting, stupid commments. The fatigue is real...

Mainly knew about Cape Verde due to general geography, but learned a few years ago that the great modern jazz artist Horace Silver (one of my faves) was the son of an immigrant from Cape Verde. He wrote a famous modern jazz standard in honor of his dad, "Song for my Father":

That's his dad in the picture.

Fun fact no. 1, Steely Dan used the opening piano notes of that song to open their big hit, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".

Fun fact no. 2, when Portuguese explorers found the Cape Verde Islands, they not only were uninhabited, but had NEVER been inhabited.

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Jenny Agutter

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Many years later in the MCU (Captain America and the Winter Soldier):

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I'm told (by older siblings), that many of the men of the town grew out beards and marched in a parade as the founding fathers.

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Um, which founding fathers had beards?

Halftime commentary, time for Rob Stone to get another date wrong.

Pregame he referred to the US miracle on ice "at Lake Placid in 1984".??

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Yes. Also why we have a project to four-lane a highway from I-12 to Bush, LA.

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It's not just a project now, it's nearly complete:


Segments 2 and 3 are complete and open. Segment 1 has had the land cleared and grubbed and construction plans are 98% complete:

As I once posted,

"I watched Sinners last night for free on HBO.

I liked it better the first time I saw it... when it was called From Dusk till Dawn"

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"BitchFist" Really? That's her nickname?

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That's the name of her SHIP.

This was not in the books, made up for the TV series.

Very good.

Similarly, if I am driving in more rural parts of Louisiana (as I was this morning along River road in St. John Parish) I MUST put this on the stereo via my phone to create my own parallel soundtrack: