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FROM ASHEVILLE TO TRASHVILLE by Jim Goad

James Thaddeus Goad (born 1961) is an American author and publisher. Goad co-authored and published the zine ANSWER Me! and The Redneck Manifesto.He wrote this article about a beautiful town in Western North Carolina nestled at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains named Asheville.  Very interesting and far too close to home, as I'm a North Carolina Tarheel!

July 20, 2020

Photo credit: Wikimedia

For all the blathering we’ve heard over the past few months about how “systemic racism” is the nation’s biggest mortal threat, it’s become sparklingly clear that the real problem is systemic stupidity.

The country is currently in the throes of fatal conniptions over idea that there’s some solution to “inequality.” Not for a second has anyone paused to ponder that perhaps the true cause of inequality is the fact that people aren’t equal—never have been, never will be.

Tucked away in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville, NC would be a little slice of paradise if it weren’t infested with Marxist bluehairs transplanted from the Northeast who see it as their solemn moral obligation to carpetbag the local blacks into endless frothing fury about the supposed indignities of being black in America, as if it’s not measurably better than being black anywhere else on the planet.

Asheville’s mayor, Esther Manheimer, wasn’t even born in America. Despite the fact that the town is nearly 80% white, there is only one white male on its seven-member City Council. There are two blacks, and as is the wont of black politicians, their entire political world consists of endlessly announcing their blackness to startled passersby. But it only takes a brief glance at both of Asheville’s black City Council members to realize they’ve both been living off the fat of the land in ways that would be unimaginable back in the Motherland.

But unlike most modern white politicians, at least black politicians grasp that politics is the art of taking things from other people without having them kill you. And last Tuesday—a day after the U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsed the establishment of a commission to study exactly how much they think black Americans are “owed” for slavery, all seven members of Asheville’s City Council approved a “RESOLUTION SUPPORTING COMMUNITY REPARATIONS FOR BLACK ASHEVILLE.”

The resolution mentions slavery, segregation, incarceration, redlining, blockbusting, gentrification, discriminatory wages, “food deserts,” and even the idea that blacks are purposely being forced to live in environmentally toxic sites as part of some grand extermination scheme. It mentions “disproportionate…mortality rates,” ignoring the fact that black women live longer than white males do in America.

“It’s become sparklingly clear that America’s real problem is systemic stupidity.”And who pays? Would all black taxpayers be exempt, even if they’re descended from black slaveowners or northern blacks who were never enslaved? What if they’re part of the 10% or so of American blacks who weren’t even born in the USA? What if, like Barack Obama, they’re descended from slaveowners?

As is the fashion these days, it blames all black suffering on everything but black people.

It specifies that the “reparations” will not come in the form of direct cash payments to blacks but rather as “investments” in black communities, which is a nice way of saying more tax money gets diverted to Democratic political tokens whose jobs are symbolic at best. In fact, the Asheville City Council possesses no legislative power to divert revenue to black communities; it’s something they’d have to beg the State of North Carolina to do on their behalf.

Funny, innit, how this comes on the heels of a nonstop nationwide riot orgy based on the provably fraudulent notion that blacks are unfairly targeted for police brutality? My gut feeling is that the City of Asheville just took out a form of riot insurance, which is essentially what all welfare programs have been since the 1960s. Hell, people were talking about “Anti-Race Riot Insurance” at least as far back as 1943.

Since “justice” is a subjective thing, it’s impossible to put a price tag on it. But if people truly understood what the word “reparations” means, it would mean returning black Americans to the conditions they’d be “enjoying” if they’d never been sold into the West African slave markets. In other words, both their lifespan and their income would be severely curtailed.

Keith Young—who represents the obese black male population of Asheville, as opposed to Sheneika Smith, who was apparently voted into office to represent Asheville’s corpulent-black-female contingent—just HAD to mention all the black blood that’s supposedly being spilled by whites:

Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today. It is simply not enough to remove statutes. [sic] Black people in this country are dealing with issues that are systemic in nature.

A local black “activist” named Rob Thomas acted as if the bill was a legitimate attempt to arrive at a price tag for black suffering: “This many people died. This much money was taken out of the black community and it would equal this much today. We’re asking for people to do what is right.”

OK, then I’m going to ask people to do the math. I’m being generous, because I’m granting them the assumption that they’re capable of doing the math.

We are told that all of America’s wealth was built on black slavery. This “idea” fails to account for three crucial realities: 1) If that was remotely the case, the South would have won the Civil War without breaking a sweat; 2) Any wealth created by slavery was obliterated at the end of the Civil War; 3) If all blacks need to do in order to build economic superpowers was labor-intensive agricultural work, why have they proved incapable of recreating the Southern Miracle anywhere in sub-Saharan Africa?

Proponents of reparations for blacks argue that those who survived the Holocaust and Japanese internment camps during WWII received payments, but they’re referring to those who actually lived through the events rather than “inherited” their alleged “effects” six or seven generations later.

Is black American poverty proof of American racism or proof that blacks bring poverty with them wherever they go? Isn’t the fact that blacks live in more impoverished conditions when there are no white people around evidence that it’s actually beneficial for them to be around white folks?

I realize it’s hateful to ask questions, but these questions ask themselves.

Apparently the fact that around 550,000 white soldiers died in a war that reparations advocates insist was fought to end slavery doesn’t enter into their accounting of what’s supposedly owed. It matters not a whit that this tally of dead white bodies from the Civil War alone outnumbers the total number of black lynching victims by a factor of more than 100 to 1.

How the hell do you even tabulate the degree to which black people have been “exploited”? Why is it permitted—actually, it’s encouraged—to compare their conditions to American whites but never to African blacks? If you want to see how black people prosper when there aren’t any whites around to oppress them, take a gander at Haiti. And if you want to bring up a truth that’s so uncomfortable it will make their thighs chafe, remind them that blacks already benefit from slavery’s legacy merely by living in America. In the painfully truthful words of black writer Walter Williams:

Though it’s not politically correct to say, today’s blacks benefited immensely from the horrors suffered by our ancestors.…Had there not been slavery, and today’s blacks were born in Africa instead of the United States, we’d be living in the same poverty that today’s Africans live in and under the same brutal regimes.

We’re supposed to believe that all whites benefited tremendously from the black slave trade, despite the documented fact that not only did black slavery suppress wages and destroy opportunity for the vast majority of Southern whites, it was designed to do precisely that. And 150+ years after the fact, we’re expected to swallow the idea that the only way that modern low-income whites can atone is for them to pay taxes that will be funneled to blacks, even if the white taxpayer pumps gas for a living and the black beneficiary is a doctor.

Would all white taxpayers be forced to pay reparations, despite the fact that at the peak of slavery in 1860, only about 1.5% of white Americans owned slaves? How about the fact that since almost all historians agree that two-thirds of whites who came to the colonies arrived in some form of bondage, whites are far more likely to be descended from slaves than from slaveowners? What about the endless millions of whites whose ancestors came to America after 1865?

Where are all the calls for Arabs to pay reparations for enslaving at least as many African blacks as Europeans ever did? And since about 90% of Africans transported to the New World had initially been enslaved by other Africans, where are the calls to hold their African ancestors financially liable?

And exactly how much have they deluded themselves into thinking they’re owed? Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET, pegged the price tag at $14.7 trillion and is encouraging a one-time cash payment of $350,767 to each American black. A recent article in Review of Black Political Economy set the bar much, MUCH higher—a total of $6.2 quadrillion, which would result in cash payments of $151 million to each black American, at a cost of around $19 million to each taxpaying American.

To reiterate, all this nonsense is based on the lie that American blacks are STILL being economically exploited. But that’s not what the statistics say. In real dollars and cents, whites—the alleged exploiters—pay nearly $3,000 more per capita every year in taxes than they receive back in government benefits, whereas your average American black receives about $10,000 more per year in government benefits than they contribute in tax revenue. Every year, blacks take about $660 billion more from the public cookie jar than they contribute to it. When you factor THAT into your math, you might conclude that reparations have already been paid—with interest.

As hopelessly stupid as it all seems, though, we must remember that intersectionality can be our friend. My dream scenario would be for Asheville’s recent reparations bill to cause a massive influx of money-lovin’ blacks into the city who slowly but inexorably drain the town of all economic vitality and livability.

Then, just when it seems as if Asheville will be consigned to the ash heap of history, some cunning Native American lawyers will swoop in and remind everyone that the city is built on Cherokee lands and that everyone who isn’t an Injun needs to evacuate by midnight.

THE ENEMY AMONGST US By Charles Krauthammer

Editor’s comments: Krauthammer is about the best and brightest journalist and political analyst we have ever had, in my opinion.  His words of warning in the message below should be taken seriously and spread throughout the country so as many of our citizens as possible are made aware of what is happening right under our noses.

Ever wonder how protests and demonstrations get started almost immediately after some announcement by the Trump administration?  How anti-gun marches get set up so quickly after a school shooting?  Huge marches on Washington DC are organized so quickly?  Read this and you'll know why...

The Enemy Amongst US!!

           By Charles Krauthammer

Oct 11, 2017 - An article from the New York Post:

I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called “Organizing for Action” (OFA).

OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do.  This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing.  It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago.  If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run.  What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?

If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country?  We are about to find out in America!

Our ex-president (Barack Obama) said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep.  He has moved many of his administration’s top dogs over to Organizing for Action.

OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.

OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for “progressive” change...  Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.

OFA members were propped up by the ex-president’s message from the shadows:  “Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished.  Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines.  Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond.”  OFA’s website says it obtained its “digital” assets from the ex-president’s re-election effort and that he inspired the movement.  In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.

Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”  Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide.

The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide.  The ex-president and his ‘wife’ will oversee the operation from their home/office in Washington DC.

Think about how this works.  For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows.  All of this happens from the ex-president’s signal that he is heartened by the protests.

If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.

If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.

So, do your part.  You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against  We are losing our country and we are so compliant.  We are becoming a “PERFECT TARGET” for our enemy!

SADLY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER DIED OF CANCER ON JUNE 21, 2018, AND SAID HIS LAST GOOD BYE ON TV TO THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED HIM FOR YEARS.  HE WROTE THIS IN 2017.

Comment from the author/editor of She's Right:  Every prior president throughout history has served their term(s), unless they died in office, and have ridden off into the sunset and allowed their successor to take over after their inaugural.  THAT IS CALLED CLASS!  Sadly our 44th President totally lacks even a modicum of class.  HE is the one who has been at the helm of all the efforts to take out a duly elected president.  

In my opinion, God saw this coming and gave us Donald Trump. 

THE BLACK DILEMMA

Note:  I got this from my sister-in-law.  Apparently it was an article in a couple of newspapers but I don't know for sure...I will be delighted to give credit if I can find the source...

For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites.

The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?

The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements. Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.

Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up. They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedmans Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball. Their new laws intruded into peoples lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable.

They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration. They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice-versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless hand wringing to close the achievement gap. To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race. They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to Celebrate Diversity! and Say No to Racism. Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.

Some thought that what W.E.B. DuBois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people. A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of.

There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists. But ten percent is not enough. For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability. That is what is missing.

Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them. Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence. And blacks never take responsibility for their failures. Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.

Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite would tell us that this doesn't mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.

But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue its a problem of culture, as if culture creates peoples' behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.

But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country's violent crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.

The experiment has failed. Not because of white culture, or white privilege, or white racism. The fundamental problem is that American black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime ridden mess. They do not want to change their culture or society, and expect others to tolerate their violence and amoral behavior. They have become socially incompatible with other races by their own design, not because of the racism of others - but by their own hatred of non-blacks.

Our leaders don't seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment. They don't understand that white people aren't out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity. The elites explain everything with racism, and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point."

TREY GOWDY TAKES CONTROL! AND YOU BETTER PAY ATTENTION!

Did you know that Trey Gowdy went to Baylor University and graduated in 1986?

    From 1994-2000, as a federal prosecutor, Trey prosecuted the full range of federal crimes including narcotics trafficking, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, child pornography cases, and the murder of a federal witness. He was awarded the Postal Inspector’s Award for the successful prosecution of J. Mark Allen, one of “America’s Most Wanted” suspects. He also received the highest performance rating a federal prosecutor can receive – two years in a row.

  
    In 2000, he left the U.S. Attorney's office and became the District Attorney for the 7th Circuit of South Carolina.  In that capacity Trey led an office of 25 attorneys and 65 total employees. He started a Violence Against Women Task Force, a Worthless Check Program, enhanced and expanded Drug Court, and implemented a Drug Mother Protocol designed to assist expectant mothers to break the cycle of addiction.

    He has been recognized statewide for his commitment to victim’s rights and drunken driving enforcement and nationally for excellence in death penalty prosecutions of which he did seven.

   He served 4 terms in the U.S. Congress where he sponsored 11 major bills and was the one who first announced that Hillary had wiped her server clean of her subpoenaed emails.

    And he started that haircut after leaving Waco.

    
He recently warned the President and the U.S. Governors not to shut the economy down over the Corona Virus and published the following last week:

Trey Gowdy:

    "I'm not saying Covid-19 isn't real... But Pay attention folks, there's much more going on here than what meets the eye.

    Is it a coincidence that just when the economy is booming, the stock market is setting record highs, we are winning the trade wars, school shootings have stopped, our nation is at peace, the Democratic party is a disaster and so is their likely nominee? (Biden). He hasn't a chance in hell & they're not about to let an outsider (Bernie) destroy their scheme.

    It looks like Trump is a sure bet for reelection after fending off 3 years of investigations and impeachment, then all of a sudden world crisis pandemic. Stock market tumbles, companies are laying off employees, everything is closed and canceled, CEO's of giant companies are resigning and indictments are coming.

    Now they say there are a couple ways a President doesn't win reelection. Those are an unpopular war or a poor economy

    But there is something larger going on here driving this sudden outbreak right after Trump beats an impeachment. Especially the fact that it (Corona Virus) originated in China who we are in a global trade war with; brought on by Trump. Let's not forget Biden's back door deals with CHINA as well.

   China doesn't want 4 more years of Trump either. It all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election. Couldn't have hit at a more perfect time.

    With the Democrats running out of campaign talking points, in light of no school shootings, no migrant caravans at the southern border, fighting in Syria winding down, North Korea not firing missiles and Trump beating a sham impeachment. The Corona Virus gave them one last hail Mary to try and point fingers at Trump with the clock winding down in 2020.

    This is almost the perfect fascist playbook. Control the population with fear-mongering and panic, control the media, spread propaganda and the fan-favorite, disarm the population. Oh, and did anyone notice that while they are mad as hell at Trump for not sending aid to Ukraine, they THEMSELVES voted AGAINST giving ANY emergency aid to all Americans?

    Sorry but I don't think we are all going to die. Remember when Ebola was what was going to kill us all, and the media kept showing the piles of body bags that were prepared for the fallout. Then a month later it was totally forgotten.

    The common flu has killed more people this year already and the media is SILENT!

    A handful of deaths out of 320 million Americans and we are in panic tearing down our society and costing our economy billions in the wake. It all just seems fishy, a little too well-timed if you ask me".

Trey Gowdy

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. (P. J. O'Rourke)

Got this one from a friend, who - like me - thinks Trey Gowdy would be an amazing PRESIDENT! 

AMAZING MOTHER NATURE! UPDATE! UPDATE!

Here's a great change of pace from politics....

About six weeks ago my husband was mowing a grassy lot across from our boat ramp when he noticed a ‘wounded’ brown and white bird about 8’ from him.  He continued mowing and shortly he did a 180 and started back across the field when he noticed that the bird was gone… and they he saw her just plopped down where he had just mowed – just sitting on the grass…. As he approached again, she literally ran about 8’ away and started acting like she was wounded.  Being very curious now, he hopped off the mower and walked to the area where she ran from, and he discovered a small hole in the grass with FOUR SPECKLED BROWN AND WHITE EGGS IN IT!  He was totally shocked and more than happy that he had NOT run over or damaged the eggs.  The mama bird was freaking out so he got back on the mower and came home and got 4 red flags, the kind on wires about 18” long, and he went back and planted them at an imaginary four corners from the nest.  The mama was a few feet away watching and wondering what the heck he was doing, but when he walked back to the mower, she took off running back to her eggs….She was one lucky bird and to the best of our knowledge, she hatched the four eggs and all ended well.

So far, so good….Yesterday as we headed down our GRAVEL road to a 4^th of July party at a neighbor’s home, we heard this awful squawking, and looked back, and there was another brown and white ‘mama’ bird raising holy hell at us.  We got out of the golf cart and walked slowly back in her direction as she ran across the road and started flopping around and acting like she had a broken wing. 

Alerted to this game, we got back in the golf cart and just sat there and in a few minutes she hustled back across the road and ‘sat down’ about 3’ from the edge of the road….we again started walking to her because NOW we had her number.  Off she ran but WE walked to where she HAD been sitting.  Low and behold, we found four eggs sitting in the road gravel and if we had not known what to look for we would never have found those eggs!  The camouflage was incredible.  We drove back to the house and got our last two little red flags and marked the road about 2’ on each side of them.

 

Went on to the cookout and had a fun evening, complete with awesome fireworks.  On the way home we swung way over to the right side of the road and there was mama bird, just sitting in what appeared to be gravel.

This morning before church, we put a sawhorse on the road to keep vehicles and golf carts away, and of course, she did her little ‘lame bird show’ for us.  Off to 9:00 church in town and when we got home, I tied some hot pink plastic tape to each end of the sawhorse.  She didn’t take off quite as far and she kept looking at what I was doing…. And when I walked away, she came right back and plopped down on her EGGS. 

The neighbor, whose home the bird and the sawhorse were in front of, google this mama and we found out it is called a KILLDEER.  They lay their eggs in a small indention they scoop out in whatever place strikes their fancy.  Eggs hatch in 24-28 days (geez!!!) and then mama feeds them and teaches them the ways of the world.

I went out to try to take a picture without disturbing her but my camera is lousy.  However, found that the papa killdeer is nearby – on the other side of the gravel road!  How cool is that!

I hope to update this post if I can keep track of this mama bird as she hatches and raises her babies!

If you will look in front of the sawhorse leg on the right you MAY be able to see mama bird.... a white chest with two black horizontal stripes!

THIS IS TOTALLY UNREAL!

Went outside this morning to say hello to my little bird.... and she was gone!  And her eggs were gone!!!  And there were pieces of eggshell on the road!  I was devastated!  I immediately decided that one of the feral cats that shows up here had eaten the eggs, or maybe it was one of the dogs that run loose.... so sad!

My neighbor came out (she and her husband live in Raleigh but come down often for a 5-7 day stay) and she told me that when they were down for Father's Day, she was trying to plant some flowers out by the road, and that a bird kept screeching at her and acting like it was wounded!  She never saw the nest in the road, but the bird hung around all day and screeched at her.  

FAST FORWARD:  My neighbor came out and we scouted around for clues, and that's when she said that the bird - later discovered to be a KILLDEER - was there Father's Day and HAD to be sitting on a nest, the nest I discovered on Saturday with the mama on it.  BTW - I have never ever seen better camouflage anywhere.  I gathered up my sawhorse and two flags and put everything in the garage.  

An hour ago, my same neighbor sent me something she discovered on line about this particular bird and I wanted to jump up and down I was so happy!

Very interesting....When Kildeer chicks hatch, they can immediately see and are off running as SOON AS THEIR FEATHERS DRY!!!!  There is little evidence remaining in the nest that there were birds there.  Once the eggs hatch, the parents (and we watched the male yesterday hanging out not far from the nest) will immediately remove the eggshells from the vicinity, a behavior seen in many shorebird species.  Even though the outsides of the eggs are well camoflaged, the bright white interior of the shells can attract predators!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!  Seems like there are four new little Kildeer birds in the 'hood!  Makes my eyes fill with tears!