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Kiri Love

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Pierish G. Moze`

Pierish G. Moze`

Hey there, thank you for stopping by and listening to my show. Keep in touch and be blessed.

Tina Fortune

Tina Fortune

Okay...I just might to have to stay up for the MJ episode. LOL!

Tina Fortune

Tina Fortune

Kiri, you have an amazing viewpoint and I enjoy your show. Continue to tell it like it is without excuse!

Joy Keys

Joy Keys

Thanks for listening to the Living with Lupus show at www.blogtalkradio.com/joykeys. I appreciate your support and I am glad that is was helpful.

Tina Fortune

Tina Fortune

Listened to "Women subjects that are stereotypical..." and TRULY understand so much that you said about being used, making more than the man, etc. My ex-husband was a PRO at using me! I also believe that there are a surplus of men out there and good ones too. Keep up the great commentary!

Shri Sa Hetep

Shri Sa Hetep

Metrosexual Dads...Loved the topic and the show!!! I have been dealing with a dead-beat metrosexual baby-daddy for years now, so I truly have empathy. Thank you for sharing your experience. Peace-n-Blessings, Shri Sa Hetep

Black Conservative

Black Conservative

Thank you for listening in today to the Black Conservative Show. Please come and join us again at 10pm CST

don durant

don durant

Stay on the case Kiri-Love. What you are speaking about is widespread. I wrote a novel about this subject and predatory men, and in the real life story that my book was focused on, the young girl at ten years old was impregnated by a live-in boyfriend. He did ten years in prison, not enough. Don

Michele Hughes Show

Michele Hughes Show

Thanks for coming by the broadcast, please come back! Michele Hughes

TheSavvyJobseeker

TheSavvyJobseeker

Thanks Kiri for joining us for the Blog Action Day podcast on "Working Toward Poverty: Underemployment and Women." My mom was a single mother during my teen years so I truly understand the struggles families headed by single moms experience. It was important to me that the show shed light on the issues that they experience and provide practical information. Dr. Gatta was a great find. She truly gets it and she's out there trying to make life better for single moms and especially low-income women. Getting Kudos from the Psyche of the Single Parent let me know we nailed it. :-) Thank you for your kind words.

YourTimeNowUniv.

YourTimeNowUniv.

Heyy, stoppin by to say to you again-Thanks for your friendship:-) It's YOUR Time NOW! This Sat @ 10am est-Pt.6 of "Private-Pain w/my Guest Ms Spirit from ATL...awesome4YOU! I'll be talking also about how I'm promoting YOU on MY SHOW as well also with the V.I.P. Promo I have! (details in current show) Don't miss! Go see details of next show!

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Sarah Palin And Her Outrageous Rape Kit Policy By Bonnie Erbe Sep 18, 2008 E-Mail Story Print Story Sphere Share Text Size: A A A (US News) Mountains of controversy are swirling around Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's strange policy of forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits while she was mayor of the now-infamous town of Wasilla. The most interesting take I've found is posted by Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore who relates the following: I sat with a rape victim during the "harvesting of evidence". Mascara smeared eyes stared blankly out from a cave of shame. "We've got swimmers," announced the forensic tech in the lab next door. My friend didn't look surprised. In her 60's, she was still asked if she felt the need for emergency contraception. Surviving the process would have only been compounded and made worse with an itemized bill; victimized twice courtesy of Sarah Palin and the city of Wasilla. Much can be learned about the Palin Administration's family values from reviewing their spending priorities. Former Chief of Police Irl Stambaugh included forensic rape kits (up to $1,200 per kit) in his budget requests. He was fired by Palin in 1997. In her termination letter, Palin wrote, "...I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I intend to terminate your employment... " Staumbaugh headed the police department since it was created in 1993. Before that, he served 22 years with the Anchorage Police Department rising to the rank of captain. Sarah Palin hired Charlie Fannon as the new Wasilla Chief of Police and said it was one of her best decisions as mayor. Fannon eliminated the forensic rape kits from the budget. Though the number of rapes weren't reported, Fannon claimed it would save Wasilla taxpayers $5,000 to $14,000 a year. Palin supporters ought to be taking a much closer look at her record on these types of issues (charging rape victims for evidentiary examinations so their attackers can be brought to trial) than whether she can juggle five children and the vice presidency. This, more than anything, should push women, pro-life and pro-choice, away from the McCain-Palin ticket. It's one thing to oppose abortion on moral grounds. It's quite another to charge crime victims for their own forensic examinations. Such a policy is nothing short of outrageous.

Therone Shellman

Therone Shellman

Thanks for being a friend. Stop through and listen to July 29th show with authors Keisha Seignious and Caroline McGill as they give you a little insight into their world. Peace! Therone Shellman

Therone Shellman

Therone Shellman

Thanks for being a friend. Stop through and listen to July 29th show with authors Keisha Seignious and Caroline McGill as they give you a little insight into their world. Peace! Therone Shellman

Illuminations

Illuminations

Thank you dispelling the myths about black fathers, beautiful show. Thank you also for stopping by and listening, love to here your comments. Peace & Blessings, Tamara of Illuminations: Healthy Food for the Mind, Body, & Soul

SexAfterDark

SexAfterDark

Thanks for joining us tonight at Sex After Dark. Again, since our show is X-Rated, then BTR neither advertises nor display our upcoming erotic show topics, so be sure to save us as a "Favorite," to be kept in the loop. Sex After Dark broadcasts live every Friday night at 12 am midnight eastern standard time. We look forward to seeing you there again next week.

Wyldefyre

Wyldefyre

Hey Kiri, thanks for making me a favorite. I've changed up the show, check it out. The first show in the new format will air Saturday, 8/2, at midnight. I really thought I would be able to do a show purely for fun, but I feel compelled to bring something deeper to the masses at BTR. We'll see how it goes. www.blogtalkradio.com/Wyldefyre.

Earth Angels Radio

Earth Angels Radio

Hi Kiri, Thanks for the add. Please join me on Sunday at 10 AM MDT to finish Friday's show. My guest Carole Dean will be back with me. Have a great weekend and play love and light Carol

Our Perspective

Our Perspective

Peace and Blessings! We never got a chance to thank you 4 making us a favorite show! Thank you VERY much and keep in touch! Sincerely, Bro. Hank & T'Boogz! WWW.OURPERSPECTIVERADIO.COM

Kiri Love

Kiri Love

Thanks Zen for a relevant topic, I hope you will revisit it sometime in the future.

AWARR

AWARR

Thanks for coming thru Kiri. I wish you would've had a chance to put more of your commentary in the conversation coming from the stand point of a fellow parent. I got annoyed with the other callers pessimistic-oh well we shouldn't give a damn attitude-especially when they weren't even a parent. Though I'm cool with the other caller on a superficial level-I just feel if your not part of the solution your part of the problem. So, I added you to my favs and when you have a topic that touches on the subject I'ma come thru. Peace and Blessings. :-) ~Zen~

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Alan Roger Currie

Alan Roger Currie

What's up Kiri....

Sarah Newton

Sarah Newton

Thanks for listening to my show hope you enjoyed it keep up the good work! Sarah

XStreamNetworkLive

XStreamNetworkLive

Thanks for listenting and making us a favorite. Keep up the good work you are doing to impact your world. I love the topics! The Social Entrepreneur "sugar free approach to coaching"

PeopleCoach

PeopleCoach

Thanks for including me as a favourite Kiri! Kudos to you for building awareness and bridging knowledge to such a hot topic, opening eyes and ears. Awe-some.

Barbara McRae, MCC

Barbara McRae, MCC

Hi Kiri Love! I appreciate you adding Bridging the GAP radio show to your favorites!! Hope you enjoyed it. LOVE your niche and your passion for helping single parents. ATB, Barbara

S.M.I.L.E. 3E

S.M.I.L.E. 3E

Thank you Kiri for thought provocating shows; that with the help of GOD cause transformation in the heart, minds and lifes of listeners. I am In Love With JESUS CHRIST, Cecelia

S.M.I.L.E. 3E

S.M.I.L.E. 3E

Thank you Kiri for thought provocating shows; that with the help of GOD cause transformation in the heart, minds and lifes of listeners. I am In With Love JESUS CHRIST, Cecelia

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Daley: Supreme Court decision 'frightening' Mayor Richard Daley says he doesn't know if the Supreme Court decision striking down Washington's handgun ban will affect a similar law in Chicago. But the mayor calls the ruling "a very frightening decision." Speaking during a morning event at Navy Pier, Daley said any effort to strike down Chicago's handgun ban would likely increase taxes because of the increased need for police presence. He also says violence sparked by the end of the ban would also increase hospitalizations. The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns. Justices say it was incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment.

Dr. Angela S. King

Dr. Angela S. King

Thanks for your Friendship and Great Show!

TCP Live! Talk Radio

TCP Live! Talk Radio

Thanks for adding us one of your "Favorites."

one of many men

one of many men

thank you for your presents today on our show we hope to be able to collaborate both our efforts and meet somewhere in the middle of common ground regarding these issues that face our communities. thaxs sis. keep your head up!!!!!!!!! ur host Jeff Hodges 7000men talk radio

TRUTHH Min.

TRUTHH Min.

Thank you for stopping by T.R.U.T.H.H., and for that commanding comment. I agree our fathers that are not taking care of their responsibilities need to step up and take care of their kids. Plain and simple. I have a sister who is a single mother who raised a son who is now a millionaire. So with God all things are possible. I hope to get her on Blog Talk Radio with her story and testimony. If you get a chance you check out his testimony at the following YouTube link. http://youtube.com/watch?v=W9bDVSb_s7Q Thank you once again for listening to the Father’s Day message, and for the work you are doing. Thanks Again, Lady Sebrina E.

Kiri Love

Kiri Love

Thanks for your contributions on BTR. Let's not sweep single parenting topics and MALE RESPONSIBLITY under the rug. I realize that I am TAGGED as bitter and disgruntled, but what would that make men who walk away from their children? I thank you for continuing the labels on men who are not responsible. My child's father is trying to tell the world that he is NOT a deadbeat, NOT irresponsible, DID NOT walk away, DOES want to parent. You guys have helped me to make it evident that it is not what a man says, but what he does. Therefore his stereotypical label is befitting to him, no matter what he protests. MEN MUST BE PROACTIVE IN PRESERVING THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS AS A FATHER. I will continue to blog, discuss, and support women who want to talk about it. AMERICA is in denial & shame about SINGLE MOMS and fatherhood responsiblity. There's a movement in America by women to further remove men from the family, and teach young mothers to make a man give up his parental rights as an ultimatum. This is more damaging to our society than male castration. We have more conversations on how to date, than how to parent. IT IS NOT OK FOR A CHILD TO BE WITHOUT A FATHER. We know very well how to live without fathers, it is time to learn how to live with fathers. The children are hurting, obviously not the mothers. Thanks for taking this issue seriously. www.myspace.com/kirilove www.blogtalkradio.com/psycheofthesingleparent http://themakingofadeadbeat.blogspot.com

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CBC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT REMEMBERS THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ON THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH WASHINGTON – Elsie L. Scott, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), today reflected on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his death and the Foundation’s efforts to continue his good works. “There has been much progress in America since Dr. King’s untimely death – and yet our nation still has so far to go,” Dr. Scott said. “The progress is that we have many more African Americans who are in positions of power in public office, Corporate America, entertainment, etc. We also have many more African Americans in the middle class. However, the African-American poverty rate is still more than 20 percent. It is also important to remember that Dr. King’s focus at the time of his death was heavily on economic justice. He was in Memphis to support the rights of sanitation workers and he was planning the Poor Peoples Campaign for Washington, D.C. Sadly, that part of his dream has not been realized. Like Dr. King, the CBC Foundation’s mission and programs are aimed at reducing societal disparities. On this the 40th anniversary of his assassination, we want to remind everyone, especially the nation’s policymakers, that there is still an unfinished agenda.”

Phera

Phera

Hi Kiri Love - thanks for adding my show as a favorite - PHERA

Sassy Entertainment™

Sassy Entertainment™

Hi Kiri...love the "Rolling Stone" show...thanks for making WSER a favorite... Sassy

One Black Man

One Black Man

Hi Kiri, thanks for making me one of your favorites, I like your show also, hope to hear more from you.

FLY2BWI

FLY2BWI

Your show is ...........................OUT*STAND*ING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Virtuous1

Virtuous1

I loved your show my sister...so many children in the world don't have their father in their lives for one reason or another...Great topic and I loved how the young man gave his testimony. Keep doing what you are doing and God bless you

ilovenorm06

ilovenorm06

Hi Kiri! It's Crystal from MySpace! I am sooo excited for you! I hope to stay awake to listen in to your firs show! Good luck honey!

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bigvoice68

bigvoice68

Kiri: Thanks for adding the female perspective to today's show. All the best in the launch of your own show. Be blessed, and continue to be a blessing. Jeffery A. Faulkerson, host, "FIRM...but fair"

Living by Design

Living by Design

Welcome to BTR Kiri!

One Black Man

One Black Man

Hi and Welcome to the BTR Fam! Hope you have a wonderful first show!

Sassy Entertainment™

Sassy Entertainment™

Hi Kiri...thanks for the love and for checking out my Independent Women show...

Lillian Brummet

Lillian Brummet

Thank you for your comment and for listening the Conscious Discussions show! I do appreciate your thoughts. Upcoming shows: Thurs. May 15 featured guest's topic: fulfilling life; Sunday May 18: seed varieties, suppliers & natural amendments; May 20 featured guest's topic: Life's Purpose; May 22 featured guest's topic: world of writing in appreciation, Lillian www.brummet.ca www.myspace.com/canadianauthor

Phera

Phera

Hi Kiri- thanks for listening to my show! PHERA

Alan Roger Currie

Alan Roger Currie

Thank you for selecting my show as a BlogTalkRadio "favorite" ... much appreciated Kiri

Enchantress

Enchantress

I'm here, mama!!

Clay1313

Clay1313

Miss K., Keep on putting down for real,lady.Keep them in your crosshairs and don't back down.I know you won't so just keep on pushing.Know Peace`clay phillips(www.myspace.com/che_reborn)

Therone Shellman

Therone Shellman

Thanks for stopping by Kiri

PEAS IN THEIR PODS

PEAS IN THEIR PODS

Thank you dear. wwww.savingourchildren.bravehost.com

60 Min. with Glenn

60 Min. with Glenn

Hey Kiri, thank you for listening to my shows. Same time and same place every Monday. ;)

Psyche Of The Single Parent  

The recollection, memory, intention, desire, opinion, view, disposition, mood, mental qualities, intellectual abilities, wills, reasons, capabilities, consciousness, awareness, rationality, judgement, wisdom, and insight................OF THE SINGLE PARENT.

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    This is why I blog- Police piece together details in the Hudson case

    I started my myspace page almost 1 year ago. My friends and family were afraid this tragedy might happen to me, by Meek and his family. I live in the Chicago area where the murder rate in Chicago is over 440 persons for 2008, mostly black victims with a good number of them being women and children. I know Englewood very well, and I know the cut throats that the ghetto can possibly produce.


    It's hard being successful or being related to success without a pack of vultures following you, trying to scam you, trying to do harm.


    Meek had 1 child before mines, and had gave 5 women abortions before me. He has 15 sibling from the housing projects, all of which are single mothers and on welfare.


    When I became pregnant by Meek, (Larry), I was targeted, cursed out, with over 50 phone calls being made to me for asking Meek to pay $64 for my garbage bill when I was taking maternity leave, and later when I asked him to buy baby things and help out with babysitting....


    ...This is after I wouldn't give him one of my trucks that I let him drive for 4 months/8,000 miles FOR FREE while I paid the insurances, after I loaned him hundreds of dollars during my pregnacy, after he ate the food I bought regualrly that I didn't think any thing of it to spend $64 on him. The retaliation started three weeks after I took back my truck, and house keys.


    I was threatened, my child was threatened, then kidnapped by his sisters who tried to get her placed in DCFS because I didn't agree to divide a $246 child support check among the 7 of them who claimed to render child care services while she was visiting her father,, I had to call the police. I was told to press charges and get them all arrested, but I decided not to.


    Before (and after) child support court, I was continuing to carry on sexually with Meek, and except his OCCASIONAL $80 child support here and there, that he cursed me out FIRST before he would give that to me. This is a man who earns $75,000 per year as a union journeyman Electrician Foreman, by the way.


    He went on to tell people that I was "stalking him, harrassing him, bitter and angry because he didn't want me, and he slept with me 1 time in life, and I wont let go". This was after a 4 year sexual affair, and hundreds of communications between him and I over time. Of course I never erase messages or phone logs because I'm lazy, so when the authorities heard HIS messages and seen the emails and IM log, they believed I was being set up for murder.


    ALL THIS BECAUSE I OWN A BIG HOUSE IN AN AFFLUENT SUBURB, OWN MULTIPLE VEHICLES, HAVE A CAREER, INSTEAD OF WELFARE....him and his family thought I was rich, and would not leave me alone UNTIL I STARTED BLOGGING AND TELLING MY STORY ON MYSPACE. Meek is the financially irresponsible type that buys raggedy car after raggedy car, pimping them out, and spending $1,000 per month to keep them running. Needing to borrow gas money every Monday morning to get to work. Spending an entire paycheck on the latest eletronic gadget, buying gold jewelry, that he filed bankruptcy for while I was pregnant, while renting an apartment in a low income building because his credit was too bad to live anywhere else...you get the picture?

    I stiil can not express the disgust I feel for people who try to extort, and harass, intimidate, and retaliate against a person who they think can do something for them.


    On November 1st of 2007, Meek filed a court case to get FULL custody, for a child he refused to take care of, provide for, or even visit, unless I sleep with him, stop child support, and give him a truck. He was a NO SHOW of course.



    OURAGEOUS to say the least! So do believe the so called baby mama drama, will be televised. Most perpetrators of intimate homicides are jealous, envious, people who were romantically involved.

    I think I have made my point, that Meek have NO INTEREST in his child, but enjoy the drama with me.

    I continue to keep my head above water, so I'm not DOWN AND OUT ENOUGH to Meek YET. You all will know what happens in these types of relationships, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you feel to hear it.


    ~kiri love~

     

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    What police thinks what happen with the Hudson case

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    Date: Oct 28, 2008 7:30 AM

     

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    Lynnette and John Louden talk to reporters about how their chihuahua, "Lil' Man" led them to the SUV parked in their Chicago neighborhood this morning. A child's body was found in the vehicle in the 1300 block of South Kolin Avenue around 8 a.m. It is the same vehicle police were looking for in their search for 7-year-old Julian King, the missing nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.

     

    Academy Award-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson stood again in the Cook County medical examiner's office, clutching the hands of loved ones as they identified the body of yet another slain relative -- her 7-year-old nephew, Julian King.

    Even before family members arrived at the morgue Monday, they had been told that the three-day search for the 2nd grader had ended when his body was found slumped in the back seat of a sport-utility vehicle parked on a West Side street.

    Amid visibly shaken family members in the medical examiner's office, Hudson bowed her head as if in prayer, then looked up.

    "Yes, that's him," she told medical examiner officials as the family stood with her in an adjoining room and looked at a video monitor showing the boy's face.

    The toll was inescapable: Hudson had lost her mother, her brother and now her nephew to a murderous rampage.


    Even as the family gathered to answer one painful question, police searched the Chevrolet Suburban to answer others.

    Officers questioned William Balfour, 27, the estranged husband of Julian's mother, on Friday night, but he stopped talking when police suggested he take a polygraph test, law-enforcement sources said. Balfour has not been charged in the slayings.

    Although the sources say Balfour remains the focus of the investigation, the motive remains murky. Police say there have been ongoing disputes between him and his estranged wife, Julia Hudson, and her family.

    Hudson's mother and brother had thrown him out of their Englewood house in the past, sources said. Julia Hudson also told police that Balfour had threatened the family. A source said Balfour told Julia Hudson he would kill her if he found out she had a boyfriend, despite the fact that he had other girlfriends.

    In another incident, sources said, Julia Hudson arrived Friday morning at Sunrise Bus Co. on payday and discovered her wages had been garnished because of unpaid car payments. Sources said Balfour had taken her car months earlier but promised to make the payments on the vehicle. After seeing her pay stub, Julia Hudson called Balfour to complain about the unpaid bills, sources said.

    Police believe that Balfour went to the Hudson family home Friday and shot through the front door, striking Hudson's brother, Jason. Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, came into the living room, screaming, and Balfour shot her as well, sources said. Shell casings were also found in the child's room, but there were no bullet holes or other signs of violence there. Much of the account of what police believe happened that day came from an interview with a girlfriend of Balfour's, sources said.

    The sources also said Balfour's girlfriend contradicted his alibi and told police that he was involved in the slayings.

    Police have not ruled out the possibility that more than one person was involved, though Supt. Jody Weis said Monday that Balfour was currently their only "person of interest".

    On Sunday morning, officials transferred Balfour to Stateville Correctional Center, saying that because he was a suspect in the slayings, he violated conditions of parole for a 1999 conviction for attempted murder.

    Over the weekend, the city scoured the area near the first shooting scene and a grid east of where the boy eventually was found. Officers and volunteers taped missing-person posters up in area shops, and vigils were held in Englewood.

    But Julian was found Monday morning on the West Side after a tiny dog named Li'l Man howled and barked at an unfamiliar white SUV parked in the 1300 block of South Kolin Avenue.

    The Chihuahua's reaction drew the attention of his owner, John Louden. The SUV matched the description of one police had sought in the killings since Friday. It remains unclear if police had canvassed the block, but some neighbors say they had seen the SUV since Friday. But no one called police before Monday.

    Louden, 75, went inside and told his wife, Lynnette. Neighbors said the pace of drug dealing nearby often brought strange cars to the block. But when the Loudens saw the Suburban's license-plate number appear on television, Lynnette Louden called 911.

    "The first thing I thought was," she said, " 'Lord, don't let the baby be in there."

    But he was.

    Julian was found slumped over in the back seat of the Suburban, shot in the head. A bullet was found lodged in the vehicle, leading detectives to believe he had been shot in the vehicle. Police don't know precisely when he was killed, saying they are waiting for more information from the medical examiner's office. Police are hoping to find physical evidence at the two crime scenes that breaks the case.

    A prayer service was held for the three slain family members in Pleasant Gift Missionary Baptist Church, where one of Hudson's cousins is a minister.

    And on the block where the shootings happened near 70th Street and Yale Avenue, about 100 friends and strangers gathered for a candlelight vigil of song and prayer Monday evening.

    Surrounded by stuffed animals, balloons and posters that had grown throughout the day, the crowd sang Jennifer Hudson's song "Spotlight."


    On behalf of the Hudson family, the Pleasant Gift Missionary Baptist Church announced establishment of the Hudson-King Domestic Violence Prevention Fund, c/o Seaway Bank and Trust Co., P.O. Box 19522, Chicago, Ill., 60619.


    Angela Rozas, David Heinzmann and Robert Mitchum, Chicago Tribune

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