Monday, July 23, 2012

Insane In The Bachmann!

Calling her out: Though John McCain (right) never mentioned her explicitly, he gave a seven-minute speech slamming a letter that Michelle Bachmann (left) wrote deriding one of Hillary Clinton's top aides
So f***king dumb,  Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. The controversial former presidential candidate once again put herself front in center over rhetoric that comes off as extremist.

Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee for president. He will take on President Barack Obama in the general election. The former Massachusetts governor has taken some lumps in the primaries. But he managed to outwit Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum in the race for the nomination. Now on the whims of the struggling economy, the Republicans feel like that got President Obama on the ropes and they could deliver a knock out blow to the incumbent.

But how could they get their act together if you got people who are key figures in the party screwing it up?

Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner was shamed out after a sex scandal. His wife Huma Abedin gotten death threats after Bachmann and conservative agitators accused her of being affiliated with terrorists.
This has been a rough week for the Republicans. President Barack Obama launched an aggressive campaign to paint Mitt Romney as an out-of-touch millionaire who would ship American jobs overseas. Some of the president's most aggressive campaign ads are in Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Colorado.

They seem to be working. The public is now interested in the former governor's tax returns from years ago. A theme that Mitt Romney wants to avoid. He wants to continue hammering the president on his "failed" record as job creator and economic wizard. Romney is also running aggressive ads in these swing states.

Less we haven't forgotten about those lovely supporters of Mitt Romney.

Former political rival, Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is likely going to have a talk radio program in the near future. Her rhetoric comes straight out of Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and Michael Savage's playbook.

Her comments recently about former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's wife and Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minneosta) are borderline Islamophobic.

Now I know it's likely the Republicans are going to distance themselves from her. Her rhetoric has outraged many and it's going to hurt Romney in the long term. Senator John McCain, a former presidential candidate from Arizona dismissed her rhetoric as out of bounds. Speaker of the House John Boehner the Ohio congressman in charge said that her comments are not endorsed by the Republican Party.
Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota)

According to The Daily Mail from the United Kingdom, Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin has been placed on close watch after being threatened by a New Jersey man.


The typically press shy Abedin made headlines last week after Bachmann claimed that her family had connections to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

Now police have been forced to place extra security around the wife of the disgraced former Congressman after a man, who is thought to be Muslim, threatened her.

Not only she gotten out hand with comments about Abedin, she goes after Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) because she thinks that he's got ties to the Muslim Brotherhood as well.

Ellison and Congressman Andre Carson (D-Indiana) are Sunni Muslims. Both are African American.

Ellison smacks down Bachmann's claims of him being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Eygptian elections this year gave the first democratically elected president. The right wing are upset over the Muslim Brotherhood winning the presidency. They believe that the politically conservative group will sever ties with Israel.

Bachmann comments come under fire back in 2008 when she declared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews that Barack Obama and his allies are anti-American.

Joe McCarthy would be proud! Right?

Courtesy of CBS News





Sunday, July 22, 2012

A Young Man's Life Ended On His Birthday!

Alex Sullivan was celebrating his 27th birthday when James Holmes took his life. At the prime of his life, this young man was going to celebrate his first year anniversary with his wife Cassandra. The Aurora shootings cost 12 lives and injured over 60 people. This is one of the most deadliest mass shootings in history.

This tragedy in Aurora, Colorado has cost 12 people their lives. We at Journal de la Reyna will continue to talk about this tragedy and share a few stories of heroism and paid homage to the lives of those lost on that day.

James Holmes, the 24 year old former medical student opened fired on moviegoers at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. He took the lives of men, women and one young girl. Some of the people were inspiring to pursue higher achievements. Some were thinking of marriage and children. Some celebrate events like anniversaries and birthdays. Others wanted to have an opportunity to see a movie that was slated to be a blockbuster.

President Barack Obama will make a trip out to Colorado to talk to the governor and the victims of Friday's mass shooting. Republican candidate Mitt Romney and the president suspended their campaigns in Colorado for now! They want to focus on the heeling process. President Barack Obama ordered all federal buildings to lower their American flags at half stance. Democratic governor John Hickenlooper has expressed outrage at the shooter. As a father of child, he took this incident very personal. He vows to put Holmes in a place where the sun doesn't shine.

Today, we talk about the young man who was going to celebrate his birthday and first year anniversary.

Alex Sullivan, was 27 at the time of death. His birthday.

Alex and a few of his co-workers (friends) were going to watch the blockbuster movie when the unthinkable happened.

He was employed at Red Robin, a national restaurant chain. Among his death, some of his co-workers were injured in the mass shooting.

Alex's birthday was on July 20. His anniversary on July 22. His wife Cassandra was out of town when the tragedy happened.

According to the Denver Post, he wrote on his Facebook page: "Just took the wife to DIA (Denver International Airport) going to be gone for 3 and a half weeks going to miss her a lot. I love you cassie."


While attending the movie, Alex posted: Alex Sullivan posted on his Facebook page: "#TheDarkKnightRises OMG COUNTING down till it start cant wait going to be the best birthday ever."
The famous picture of Alex Sullivan's father Tom showing the media who his son was and how they can inform him.

The morning of the shooting, Alex Sullivan's father, Tom, showed his picture around and asked if anybody had seen his son, an image that reminded some of 9/11 and grieving people amid that tragedy.

Friends on Saturday talked about the big-hearted, good-humored guy they knew.

Tom Sullivan has become the icon of the mass shooting. The grieving parent who was urging the public to find his son!

This tragedy has shifted the political debate to gun control. Many Americans are now calling for tougher regulations on purchasing ammunition. The National Rifle Association and the Republican Party are opposing any restrictions on firearms.


                 

In the wake of this tragedy, Alex's death as well as many others were innocent victims. For a callous person who had no life ahead of himself. Why on earth should James Holmes ever be allow to own that many firearms and ammunition?

We'll never know this answer.

Courtesy of The Denver Post

Saturday, July 21, 2012

"The Blacks" Did It!


The only wheels, Rene Betancourt using is the wheelchair. He hurt himself while skateboarding. He claimed that a group of "scary Black men" mugged him and knocked him unconscious.  The police aren't charging him for filing a false report. This gentleman and many others want to blame Black people for their own disruptive behavior.
A common theme among those conservative agitators and those white supremacists. An urban area is common for minorities. Most minorities live in the inner cities and suburbs while the White people migrate to the outer suburbs and rural areas. A Florida skateboarder literally hits the wall and he accuses the unknown Black male for his turmoils. 

Another racial based hoaxed concocted by an irrational White person. A White person who rather instead of admit guilt for his own crimes blames the Black guy for his turmoils.

The Republicans and their conservative allies are willing to make political hay over the so-called "Black thugs attacking innocent White person" theme.


An avid skateboarder who said "four to five unknown black males" mugged him in a parking lot actually smacked his head against a concrete wall, the Miami Herald reports. Rene Betancourt, 22, was found with a broken skull and hospitalized for two weeks in Miami while detectives searched for his assailants. In the end they found a parking lot surveillance video—of Betancourt knocking himself out cold while attempting a skateboarding move.

He lay there unconscious for a good five minutes. Eventually his parents found him and drove him to a hospital—where doctors removed a swelling, potentially fatal blood clot from his brain. “For the way that my son looked, it seemed like an assault,” his mother said. Betancourt was released this week but remains "cloudy" about the incident, she added. Miami police say they won't file charges against him "because of the severity of his head injuries."


Newser and The Miami Herald picked up on this story.

I remind myself about these extremists and their involuntary outrage online. Just think if this was sent to The Drudge Report, Breitbart, Michelle Malkin's Twitchy, or the White supremacists websites?

They would make this a political issue and inspire another an individual to commit a mass killing in the name of a controversial issue.

White males are more pessimistic than any other race or gender combined. They are the ones having trouble adapting to a changing society.

White people and this imaginary Black thug excuse is getting really old! I am tired of these people always committing disruptive behavior and always pinning it on the "scary Black guy!" 


In the mind of White conservatives and White supremacists, the Black male is naturally born a "criminal" without due process.

When you see a Black or a non-White person commit a crime, the conservatives make the case that the "liberal media" is so busy making the White man the "racist" while every other race is committing hate crimes.

Conservative White men hate Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They hate them with a passion. Every time an issue comes forth (say a tragic shooting of an unarmed teenager in Florida), conservatives hate when they get involved. The conservative White person thinks that Jackson and Sharpton agitate the issue to a higher level if there's a White person who committed an act on a Black person.

See there's reasons to keep Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton around! The person or the family of the victim usually contacts representatives of Jackson and Sharpton. They ask for their help when a criminal case gets looked over by law enforcement or the media! That's probably how they get involved. They're here to make sure the conservative media doesn't paint the victim as the bad guy!

Courtesy of CBS Miami


Victim Of Aurora Shooting Survived Earlier Tragedy!

Again we at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lost in the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

We learn a little bit about the victims of the Aurora shooting. Jessica Redfield-Ghawi was a Texan girl with a passion to cover sports and had an exciting life. That was tragically taken by James Holmes, a deranged shooter who managed to kill 12 people while watching the premiere of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

As the names are released, people are shocked about one in particular who survived an earlier tragedy. This  victim was a survivor of a Toronto mall shooting earlier this year. This young woman's death brings another painful reminder that life is innocent and this callous killer had no care for it.

Jessica Redfield-Ghawi was a 24-year old inspiring sports writer who was living in Denver with her boyfriend and his friends to watch the premiere of the The Dark Night Rises, the final Batman movie featuring Christian Bale and directed by Christian Nolan.

Jessica was full of life according to some who knew her, and wanted to live her life to the fullest.

Her earlier brush with tragedy happened only six weeks ago in Toronto, Canada. There was a mall shooting in which a gunman managed to kill two and injure three.

She managed to blog about the tragedy on her personal blog and talked about the earlier tragedy on her Twitter page.



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According to the New York Daily News, Jessica was watching “The Dark Knight Rises” with a long-time friend when a gunman opened fire minutes into the midnight premiere.

She was shot twice, once in the head, her family said.

The young woman was attending the movie with a pal she had convinced to accompany her, Twitter posts show.
                       
“Never thought I’d have to coerce a guy into seeing the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises with me,” Ghawi wrote in the hours leading up to her death.



“Of course we’re seeing Dark Knight. Redheaded Texan spitfire, people should never argue with me. Maybe I should get in on those NHL talks...”


Her final post to a hockey writer pal reads: “MOVIE DOESN’T START FOR 20 MINUTES.”
MIKE LUPICA: ARMED MONSTERS MEAN NO ONE IS SAFE

She was employed at KDVR 31, a Fox affiliate based out of Denver.

The day unfolds and we continue to hear stories of bravery and tragedy. We will cover some and tell their tales and hope that justice will be served to the individual(s) responsible for the tragic death of these victims.



Chick-Fil-A Deep Fried In Controversy!

          

The legendary chicken restaurant is under fire for its founder's controversial stance towards the LGBT community.

Chick-Fil-A, is an Atlanta based company that serves peanut oiled chicken tenders, grilled chicken sandwiches, milkshakes and the legendary waffle fries.


S. Truett Cathy is the founder of the restaurant. He is a fundamental Christian activist who is strongly against the notion of gay marriage in America.


His company is known to serves its food everyday except on Sunday.


According to The Politico, many Republicans praised the company for standing forth. Many LGBT and liberal activists are planning on boycotting the company. Same-sex marriage opponents cheered the Georgia chain for standing its ground and continuing to hold conservative values despite pressure from liberals and the mainstream media, while some supporters of same-sex marriage say they won’t frequent the chain because of the company president’s public comments on the issue.

The fervor over the restaurant’s politics began when Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy said earlier this week that Chick-Fil-A is “guilty as charged” in support of “the biblical definition of the family unit.”

“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business and we are married to our first wives,” Cathy said in an interview with Baptist Press.

Chick-Fil-A’s Christian culture has been widely discussed and panned. The chain closes on Sundays – to the chagrin of many customers – because the founder, S. Truett Cathy wanted a day to attend church and spend time with his family.

The restaurant released its own statement, which appeared aimed at mitigating a brewing political firestorm, saying that “going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.”

“The Chick Fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender,” the statement said.

Online, Cathy’s comments sparked a frenzied between those who supported the owner’s comments and others, who support same-sex marriage rights and called for a boycott of the restaurant chain.

And in Boston, Cathy’s comments led the city’s mayor to go so far as to say he’d fight to keep the chain out of the city, as he believes it to be at odds with Boston’s values.

“Chick-Fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston,” Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald. “You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion.”

                    


When you're a restaurant operating to the needs of the consumer. The backlash may have an impact on the company. Chick-Fil-A is a good establishment. I don't support the views of the company's founder. He's entitled to his opinion. I won't boycott this industry because of a few harsh words. 


Eventually the tide will turn and people will finally awaken to the change of this country.


Hell, I adapted to the LGBT community. I have no problems with them. 

Friday, July 20, 2012

Blame Game: The Aurora Shooting Tragedy!

James Holmes
This is the photo of the Aurora shooter James Holmes. He is responsible for the tragic shooting at a Batman movie premiere.
UPDATES TO THIS STORY WILL CONTINUE AS THE STORY UNFOLDS. THERE WILL BE CHANGES TO THE STORY AS MORE INFORMATION IS GIVEN!


The tragedy in Aurora, Colorado has gotten the nation in mourning. At least over a dozen people were killed in apparent shooting at the premiere of Batman: The Dark Knight Rises. There are many causalities and the number can change without notice. We at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the families of those who were lost.

Also the nation in blaming!

Conservatives are going to figure out that the shooter, James Holmes was a "Democrat" or "liberal". As explained earlier, I went to the websites that agitated the tragedy. The Drudge Report, Michelle Malkin (and Twitchy), WorldNetDaily, Breitbart News and The Daily Caller have mentioned this story. President Barack Obama send his condolences to the people in Aurora, Colorado. When the conservative news agitators reported this story, their readers go completely batshit! They claim that the president was insincere about this tragedy. They boast of conspiracies of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder coming for their firearms. They have some of the most inflammatory comments saved for the shooter, but yet managed to take a dig at the president. Never a dull moment for the extreme!

Progressives will figure out the shooter was member of the Tea Party or carried views that are considered right wing extremist. We don't know if the person was a Republican! Many people who live in the apartment complex say that he was not a "friendly neighbor". That gives progressives a thought that this person is locked in the bunker strapping up for the great culture war!

I've listened to the Stephanie Miller Show fill-in hosts Chris Lavoie and John Fugelsang talk about the tragedy. They talked about Michelle Malkin making political hay about the tragedy. I've listened to the Rush Limbaugh Show fill-in host Mark Steyn talk about it. I've listen to the Sean Hannity Show and heard Hannity talk about it. They were upset that ABC News reporter Brian Ross blaming a Colorado Tea Party leader for the tragedy. Ross claimed that James Holmes, a Colorado Tea Party leader was responsible for the tragedy. ABC News retracted his statement. That had conservatives upset. Overall each of them have a different take on this.

Each of them were willing to fault the political affiliations and overheated rhetoric for this tragedy.

Of course, we got to figure out that President Barack Obama and the Republicans will be blamed for this automatically. The public will either blame the president or the Republicans for not controlling the incident accordingly.

I know this will be the rally call for the National Rifle Association. They'll make it a fundraising issue. They will claim that President Barack Obama and his allies in the progressive movement are working behind the scenes to take away the freedom to own firearms. They'll rally conservative white males to donate to the Republican Party or their organization. The National Rifle Association has been a huge motivator in riling up gun owners and it will continue to do so, even in a tragedy.

President Barack Obama
I don't want to point fingers at the Republicans and their allies in the conservative movement. But the rhetoric they've expressed during the presidency of Barack Obama, has been the boiling point for the irrational individual.

Many state legislators have advocated laws that allow firearms in public establishments such as bars, restaurants, libraries and even the church.

As a concealed carry firearm owner, I express my opinion in a simple term of endearment: What we say, do, or even think could have consequences.

A bullet has no eyes and it will always hit a target. Whether its property, an animal, or a human being, it's going to hit. If you're a human being, it's a life altering experience.

There's nothing worse than having a family member informed that they've lost an individual to a gun.

Again, I don't want to say that this gentleman, 24 year old James Holmes is a Republican or Democrat. That's not important. What I can say about this gentleman is simple: His obsession with firearms should have triggered law enforcement.

We have to make a decision when it comes to owning firearms. When do you use it?

I am certain that the political aspects will be focused on gun control. But don't count on the Democratic Party nor the Republican Party to find compromise.

Republicans will never agree on firearm restrictions. Even the moderates in the Republican Party fear the outcome if the NRA gets voters motivated. Democrats are likely more fearful of the NRA. Conservative Democrats who own firearms will look the other way while their Republican allies sign away laws that loosen restrictions on firearms.

And I've said it before and I'll say it again!

GUN RIGHTS FOR WHITE MALES! GUN CONTROL FOR BLACKS, HISPANICS AND MUSLIMS!

These people scream at the top of their lungs wanting control over us, but never control over them.

This tragedy has an effect. The rise of extremism. Another White lone wolf domestic terrorist. It doesn't matter if he's a Democrat or Republican, if he was politically conservative, he harbored views that contributed to this tragedy.

President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney send their condolences to the families of these victims. The president demands the Justice Department and Homeland Security to investigate this tragedy.

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Barack Obama Punch Out!

Controversy ensues at the fair. Indiana Republicans are under fire for an offensive depiction of President Barack Obama.

Indiana went to Barack Obama in 2008. Ever since 1960s, the Midwestern state has trended likely Republican. This time it's likely a loss for the president.


Republicans once again show no respect for the office of the President of the United States, yet again.


Indiana Republicans at the Delaware County Fair in Muncie have displayed a Obama punching bag at one of their booths.


The Washington Post reports that the punching bag depicting President Barack Obama as a boxer with a black eye has been removed from the Republican Party tent at an Indiana fair after some fairgoers complained. 


Delaware County GOP spokesman Tom Bennington thinks the bag was placed outside the tent by party leaders. It was displayed at various times Monday through Wednesday at the fair in Muncie, about 50 miles northeast of Indianapolis.

He says the bag was “meant in fun” to illustrate that Republicans hope to defeat Obama in November. But says he found it “mildly offensive” because of how it portrayed the military’s commander in chief. It was removed after fair visitors — including at least one Republican — voiced concerns.


This once again gives the notion that extremism is on the rise, and the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative media advocate this type of nonsense in the name of these stupid culture wars!

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