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To: one_less who wrote (698372)	2/11/2013 12:56:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574974

2 killed, 2 wounded at Del. courthouse; gunman also dead

To: one_less who wrote (698372)	2/11/2013 1:01:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574974

It was your charge, so the onus of proof is on you. You lied and you know it now even if you were simply mistaken originally. Simple solution, provide a link or admit you lied. There is no link because as both of us know you lied. A simple apology would have gotten you off the hook. I knew you would try to cover it up. As always it isn't the mistake it is the attempt to cover it up that costs you. Link or lie... You said favorite rant. So either it is one that I have repeated often or that I have emphasised over and over again. The fact is I have never made any such rant and as you well know I have distanced myself from the extreme right wing. Even recently where I placed my support behind Brennan. Look. You posted over and over again.........how hard you've worked, homeschooling your kids, that you will work until you die..........like this is something unique to your particular peer group. Its not, kumquat. Its the life of most Americans. You are not special; you are not unique; you are not better than anyone else. And yes, you did say that crap in at least two of your posts to me over the past month. Until you recant your lie, you can count on me staying on top of this. Oh hell......now you're really scaring me. Get lost!

To: one_less who wrote (698372)	2/11/2013 1:03:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574974

There is a steely determination to Davis, a trait that has carried her a long way from her impoverished childhood growing up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to become a fêted Hollywood star with a reputed net worth of $3 million. ‘When I see myself as a little girl in a rat-infested, condemned building in Central Falls, rummaging for food, it’s absolutely unbelievable that I’ve come this far. 'I have achieved more than I could ever have dreamt. I feel like I really have a blessed life.’ Born on a plantation in South Carolina, where her grandmother worked in the tobacco and cotton fields, Davis moved north to Rhode Island when her father got a job as a horse groomer. They were the first black family to live in Central Falls and Davis experienced the trenchant racism of the time. ‘At school they would put us in a line to drink from the water fountain after recess and if I was first or second in line, then that was it. The whole line would refuse to drink. 'They’d wait for the teacher to walk away and it was, “I’m not going to drink from the same fountain as a n—,” and they would start pushing me. I was an angry kid anyway, so that didn’t help.’ Fiercely motivated, she threw herself into everything at school. ‘I was on the student government, the student newspaper, the drama club, every sport. Wherever there was a competition and I could win something, I would be involved.’ Although neither of her parents had had a high-school education, Davis was determined to make it to college. She majored in theatre and won a coveted place to the Juilliard School for performing arts in New York for four years. Arriving at the audition she was horrified to hear that they expected her to stay for two days. ‘I was already working in rep and I had a show back home that night. I never would have the courage to do this now, but I said, “Are you kidding me? I only have 45 minutes. You have to decide whether you want me or not at the end of this audition.”’ They did. ‘There was something in me that felt I was good. I was so passionate, so gung-ho, so hungry…' Davis is proud of her solid background in the profession. ‘The reason why I went to Juilliard, the reason why I got a degree in acting, is that I wanted people to understand that I could be technically proficient as an actor, that I’m not just up there flying by the seat of my pants. 'Anyone who goes to Juilliard for four years of 13-hour days, of being scourged and beaten to within an inch of your life – to get the proper standard American speech – that is a person who wants to be an actor and doesn’t just want to be a celebrity. Davis in The Help (2011) for which she was nominated for her second Oscar (REX FEATURES) telegraph.co.uk