She's a boxer; oh, yes' 'She's a boxer; oh, yes'
Gary Post Tribune, IN - 2 hours ago
... All those crying fits had to be in the back of grandma's mind one Sunday in 2004, when an elder in her congregation at Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall took her... 'It takes heart' But it takes more than hands to make it at the Gary Police Athletic League gym. The P.A.L. gym is a cinderblock cube that used to be the clubhouse for the nine-hole golf course for Gary's black folks. Segregation being what it was, it makes a great boxing gym. There's not a window that opens in the place, and the air conditioning quit maybe five years ago. There's a little boxing history there. Joe Louis golfed the Black Nine on a visit in the 1930s, and since John Taylor moved the P.A.L. into the box, three world champions have trained there. Keeping people out of the gym is as much a part of Taylor's job as keeping them inside. Taylor's fighters are mostly Gary kids, age 8 to 18, who have nowhere else to go. And plenty of the good ones will just as soon go nowhere. Maybe one out of 10 would-be fighters who come into the gym stick around long enough to try for a pro career. Taylor's little box is beset on all sides by temptation from gangs and drug dealers, or by apathy and Nintendo. The gang bangers, the pushers, the homeboys and even the girlfriends aren't even allowed inside. When the girls showed up on their own, Taylor assumed they were looking for boyfriends, and he told them to move on. Sometime in the 1990s, someone told him he'd get sued if he turned away girls just for being girls. Fine. They'd be just like everyone else, do what the men and the boys did -- and probably they'd quit even faster. Girls would break a sweat, or worse, break a nail, and go on home, he figured. Most of 'em did. "It takes heart. Kids now, they play football, they play that basketball. They don't come here like they did," Taylor said, and then his raspy voice raises an octave or two, as it does when he recites a coaching cliche or anything other statement that needs emphasis. "We don't 'play' boxing here. Ain't no play. We box." Mary McGee is there six days a week. She spars with boys, with men. Five days ago, she was there -- late -- but training for her first professional belt alongside Derrick "Superman" Findley, a middleweight who is Taylor's only other pro. Findley is Mary's best friend and favorite sparring partner. It was a Sunday, and Taylor opened the gym up special, just for them. Quit or move out About the hands, the beaters, the rep. Mary was angry. She was immature. She had a temper . . . but that's gone now, pounded at the gym and in the ring. Mostly. But Mary was a cheerleader, and to hear her and her friends tell it, they were part of the popular crowd at Roosevelt High School. Of course, at the 'Velt, that means there are plenty of people who don't like you, just because other people do. The girl Mary beat up (and her sister who Mary also beat up at the same time) singled Mary out after Mary stuck up for a friend after some jostling in the halls at school. Again, Mary was a cheerleader, only had been going to the P.A.L. gym for a few months at the time. She was leggy, slim, with a model's high cheekbones and a small wedge of a nose. Nice clothes she got from her doting grandma. Pretty. The smart money was on the bigger, louder girl, who was so bold she walked into a classroom, during class, to call Mary out. She probably didn't even know Mary boxed. The fight was several hours after school. Mary does not go into details. It was not boxing. "I walked away a winner." And that would've been that, except the girl's mama complained to the school. And the teacher had seen the challenge and had warned them not to fight. Mary was suspended for most of sophomore year. Idle hands were the problem. She had tried basketball, where you could have talent and practice all day and lose the game because your teammates couldn't make a shot. Cheerleading was a bunch of fussy girls, and Mary was a different kind of fussy. By the standards of Gary, Mary had it pretty good. She was raised by her grandma, who took her from her mother when she was just two weeks old. She wanted for nothing, never even had to do housework. But her mother wasn't there for her -- or her brothers. Her brothers turned mad, too. Both have served jail time. One is out and is coming to see Mary fight for the first time tonight. The other is serving out his sentence on a robbery charge in Colorado, where he has lived since grandma shipped him off to boys' camp. Mary wasn't that kind of bad. "But I was out all the time," said Mary, who flirts like a young Muhammad Ali. "And out ain't a good place to be around here." Little things, she can't even remember what they were, set her off. And stupid things. Freshman year, grandma took her to the shoe store with a generous budget of $90 for new sneakers. But Mary had to have the new Air Jordan XVII, $215. Grandma said no, and Mary fell out right in the store, had a tantrum. She walked away a winner, the shoes tucked inside the special stainless steel case. She never wore them. All those crying fits had to be in the back of grandma's mind one Sunday in 2004, when an elder in her congregation at Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall took her aside. Mary went out to the parking lot to pull the car around, and waited. "She was in there forever," Mary recalls. "I said, 'What took you so long.' She said, 'You. You and your boxing.' " Turns out, those nights Mary and her grandfather watched boxing on television were illicit under the strict doctrines of Witnesses. So too was training at the P.A.L. gym, and shadow boxing, for hours at a time, in the back yard. Mary had just won the Chicago Golden Gloves, one of the premier amateur boxing contests in the country, and members of the congregation read about it in the local papers. Participating in boxing or another martial art is grounds for the Witnesses' version of excommunication,called disfellowship. Mary had to quit boxing or move out. She cried and she yelled. She agreed to quit. But she was 17, and she did what teenagers do when they want to do what they want to do. She trained in secret, and told her grandmother she was staying late at school. In secret she went with the P.A.L. team to a fight in Indianapolis. "My auntie lived down there and she saw me on TV and called my grandma. She didn't know I wasn't supposed to be fighting," Mary said. "When I got home, I was out." A pro boxer It would be hard enough to box if that were all you had to do. A professional boxer has to run three miles a day and train, five, six days per week in a gym, and another fodays a week in a gym that has weights. An unranked boxer fights maybe once a month, for $100 a round mostly for a four- or six-round bouts against somebody whose manager hired you to get beat. [email protected] Send your letter to editor
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NEWS-DFed for seeking ATHLETIC CAREER
by DannyHaszard inshe's a boxer; oh, yes' 'she's a boxer; oh, yes'.
gary post tribune, in - 2 hours ago.
... all those crying fits had to be in the back of grandma's mind one sunday in 2004, when an elder in her congregation at jehovah's witness kingdom hall took her... 'it takes heart' but it takes more than hands to make it at the gary police athletic league gym.
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WBTS..Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
by DannyHaszard inchristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations.
nonprofits not shy about cashing in on real estate gemscomment box go the new york sun - 2 hours, 43 minutes agochristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations that are seizing the opportunity of cashing in on the sale of real estate assets.
"with the extraordinary run up in values we've experienced over the past couple of years all non-profits and religious organizations are, by necessity, carefully examining their portfolios to cash in on unprecedented profit opportunities," the executive vice partial excerpt below........last month, the st. david's school sold a parcel of land it owned at 212-214 east 95th st. for $10.75 million.
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Little children deserve to die at Armageddon
by jambon1 infor the life of me, i cannot work this one out.
it disturbed me when i was a jw and it now just makes me plain angry.. here are some comments from ministerial servants & elders on this subject, which i heard when i was in:.
"you know, a while ago, people used to object to the idea of children dying at armageddon but nowadays there is a spirit in kids (massive generalisation), which just seems to make them fit for destruction.
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The history channel topic is playing on TV at this moment on the cult of radical islam instigating WW 3 Now how is the Watchtower cult any better? COC Ray Franz overheard his uncle Watchtower top leader Fred Franz describe the Billion(s) of children rendered 'bird food' at armageddon as [quote] "..well little nits they grow up to be big nits"[unquote]
Many times returning to the vehicle after being rejected by a 'goat' my elder dad would say;"well i like that home after armageddon we will rake out their bones and move in" I was indoctrinated with this hard core supremacist shit from birth,it is truly a triumph of human spirit that i was able to turn it all around.-Danny Haszard "..there 'R seven birds for every human." Circa 1967 my Father Kenneth Haszard congregation servant at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses Bridgewater Massachusetts visited the Quincy Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses with wife Mary Ann Haszard and 3 children Danny,Timothy and Darlene Haszard to give the "Armageddon" public talk and featured a 2' X 4' black and white version of this above ghastly image as his obedient family sat in the front row center. I am witness of all this Watchtower demented & demonic supremacist shit footnote-Oh,get this the #1 theme of the Rockland cong was not who's out there proclaiming the warning message but who was the f**king most cool yuppie cat with the most toys -
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When Someone You Love Is An Abuser . . .
by Madame Quixote inwhat strategies work to help them find alternatives?
i have little nephews whose lives could be improved, but i feel powerless, impotent (because of the shunning) to really help in any way.
i know that my sister and even my crazy parents want what's best for the kids, but they don't seem competent to figure out what's best and i doubt i could prove my opinion in court.
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WBTS..Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
by DannyHaszard inchristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations.
nonprofits not shy about cashing in on real estate gemscomment box go the new york sun - 2 hours, 43 minutes agochristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations that are seizing the opportunity of cashing in on the sale of real estate assets.
"with the extraordinary run up in values we've experienced over the past couple of years all non-profits and religious organizations are, by necessity, carefully examining their portfolios to cash in on unprecedented profit opportunities," the executive vice partial excerpt below........last month, the st. david's school sold a parcel of land it owned at 212-214 east 95th st. for $10.75 million.
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Watchtower Real Estate in Brooklyn, New York
Watchtower Real Estate -- Brooklyn, New York as of 10/25/06. SOURCE by Alpheta. I've been reading through old posts under "Friends" (part of my program to ...
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WBTS..Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
by DannyHaszard inchristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations.
nonprofits not shy about cashing in on real estate gemscomment box go the new york sun - 2 hours, 43 minutes agochristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations that are seizing the opportunity of cashing in on the sale of real estate assets.
"with the extraordinary run up in values we've experienced over the past couple of years all non-profits and religious organizations are, by necessity, carefully examining their portfolios to cash in on unprecedented profit opportunities," the executive vice partial excerpt below........last month, the st. david's school sold a parcel of land it owned at 212-214 east 95th st. for $10.75 million.
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What ignorance
by Norm inlook at this quote from the watchtower society website:.
does any religion meet these standards?
the book holocaust politics, published in 2001, says: if more people practiced versions of what the jehovahs witnesses preach and practice, the holocaust could have been prevented and genocide would scourge the world no more.. wow!
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JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES COOPERATED WITH THE NAZI'S.
From a letter written by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society to the German Reichkanzler dated 6/25/1933: "It (Christianity) fights against the Jewish-materialistic spirit inside and outside of United States..."""The Watchtower" and "Bible Student" were the only magazines in America which refused to engage in anti-German propaganda...in America during the war.""It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American Empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations.""The present government of Germany has declared emphatically against big business oppressors and in opposition to the wrongful religious influence in the political affairs of the nation. Such is exactly our position..." Watchtower Yearbook 1939 p.134 "It is falsely charged by our enemies that we have received financial support for our work from the Jews. Nothing is farther from the truth. Up to this hour there never has been the slightest bit of money contributed to our work by Jews. We are the faithful followers of Christ Jesus and believe upon Him as the Savior of the world, whereas the Jews entirely reject Jesus Christ and emphatically deny that he is the Savior of the world sent of God for man's good. This of itself should be sufficient proof to show that we receive no support from Jews and that therefore the charges against us are maliciously false and could proceed only from Satan, our great enemy. The greatest and the most oppressive empire on earth is the Anglo-American empire. By that is meant the British Empire, of which the United States of America forms a part. It has been the commercial Jews of the British-American empire that have built up and carried on Big Business as a means of exploiting and oppressing the peoples of many nations. This fact particularly applies to the cities of London and New York, the stronghold of Big Business. This fact is so manifest in America that there is a proverb concerning the city of New York which says: The Jews own it, the Irish Catholics rule it, and the Americans pay the bills." p.135 "The present government of Germany has declared emphatically against Big Business oppressors and in opposition to the wrongful religious influence in the political affairs of the nations. Such is exactly our position." p.136 "Instead of being against the principles advocated by the government of Germany, we stand squarely for such principles, and point out that Jehovah God through Christ Jesus will bring about the full realization of these principles and will give to the people peace and prosperity and the greatest desire of every honest heart" p.137 "A careful examination of our books and literature will disclose the fact that the very high ideals held and promulgated by the present national government are set forth in and endorsed and strongly emphasized in our publications and show that Jehovah God will see to it that these high ideals in due time will be attained by all persons who love righteousness[...]" p.138 "Let us remind the government and the people of Germany, that it was the League of Nations compact that laid upon the shoulders of the German people the great unjust and unbearable burdens. That the League of Nations compact was not brought forth by the friends of Germany." ---- Danny Haszard comment: Hitler double-crossed the 'pact he had with the blowhard Watchtower dictator Joseph Rutherford so Rutherford then turned on Hitler and let his fellow Jehovah's Witnesses perish in the death camps. -
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WBTS..Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
by DannyHaszard inchristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations.
nonprofits not shy about cashing in on real estate gemscomment box go the new york sun - 2 hours, 43 minutes agochristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations that are seizing the opportunity of cashing in on the sale of real estate assets.
"with the extraordinary run up in values we've experienced over the past couple of years all non-profits and religious organizations are, by necessity, carefully examining their portfolios to cash in on unprecedented profit opportunities," the executive vice partial excerpt below........last month, the st. david's school sold a parcel of land it owned at 212-214 east 95th st. for $10.75 million.
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Nonprofits Not Shy About Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
New York Sun, NY - 5 minutes ago
... for $10.75 million. In Brooklyn, the Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower Bible & Tract Co. of New York sold a building at 89 Hicks St. to Brooklyn Law School. ... -
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WBTS..Cashing In on Real Estate Gems
by DannyHaszard inchristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations.
nonprofits not shy about cashing in on real estate gemscomment box go the new york sun - 2 hours, 43 minutes agochristmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations that are seizing the opportunity of cashing in on the sale of real estate assets.
"with the extraordinary run up in values we've experienced over the past couple of years all non-profits and religious organizations are, by necessity, carefully examining their portfolios to cash in on unprecedented profit opportunities," the executive vice partial excerpt below........last month, the st. david's school sold a parcel of land it owned at 212-214 east 95th st. for $10.75 million.
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Christmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations Nonprofits Not Shy About Cashing In on Real Estate GemsCOMMENT BOX GO The New York Sun - 2 hours, 43 minutes ago Christmas is arriving early for nonprofit organizations that are seizing the opportunity of cashing in on the sale of real estate assets. "With the extraordinary run up in values we've experienced over the past couple of years all non-profits and religious organizations are, by necessity, carefully examining their portfolios to cash in on unprecedented profit opportunities," the executive vice Partial excerpt below ........ Last month, the St. David's School sold a parcel of land it owned at 212-214 East 95th St. for $10.75 million. In Brooklyn, the Jehovah's Witnesses' Watchtower Bible & Tract Co. of New York sold a building at 89 Hicks St. to Brooklyn Law School . A few months ago it sold a 48-unit elevator apartment building for $14 million. "Nonprofits are usually users for their space, so rarely have they been sellers," the director of Eastern Consolidated Properties, Alan Miller , said. "This unprecedented sellers market which we are in the midst of has accelerated some nonprofits plans and the pricing that they can achieve for their underutilized real estate has promoted them to dispose of their assets and find alternative locations which better serve them." I have to concur with Mr. Miller when he said, "Many nonprofits are not aware of the incredible pricing achievable in today's marketplace. In some cases hidden value can be achieved that can be explained to them will behoove the non profit to sell and redeploy their funds in a more efficient manner." ---- [email protected] reporter
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CNN - Anderson Cooper in Trouble with Blogs re: Watchtower Society
by Amazing inanderson cooper of cnn made supportive comments of the film "knocking" and jehovah's witnesses in general.
evidently blogs are not letting him get by with it.
check out this story on world forum ... they really did a good job of hitting on the pedophile issue, taking note of recent legal decisions against the watchtower society:.
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Anderson Cooper Supports Pedophile-Harboring Organization | TPMCafe
It's been reported on the Jehovah's Witness Discussion Board that CNN's grey-haired ... The Legal Department lawyers of Jehovah's Witnesses have fought with ...
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