Saturday, August 25, 2012

Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on moon, dead at 82


Neil Armstrong - First Moon Landing 1969


Neil Armstrong Passes Away!

Neil Armstrong has died after complications from heart surgery. The former astronaut was the first American to walk on the moon.
The first American astronaut to walk on the moon has died. The famed aviator has passed away according to multiple sources. Armstrong along with Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins have piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the Earth's moon. This pave the gateway for missions to the planet Mars and dwarf planet Pluto.

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney issued statements in regards to the death of a legendary hero of flight.

Hailed from the state of Ohio, Neil Armstrong was in the United States Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C variants, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker, and was one of eight elite pilots involved in the paraglider research vehicle program (Paresev). He graduated from Purdue University and the University of Southern California. He became an astronaut in the late 1960s.

Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, to Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel.

Armstrong is famed for saying the words: One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!


USA Today and the Associated press reported that he had undergone heart surgery August. 8, three days after his 82nd birthday. His family said that Armstrong had passed from post-surgery complications.

"We are heartbroken to share the news that Neil Armstrong has passed away following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures,'' the family said in a statement. "Neil was our loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend."


The lunar landing made him more popular than his hero, aviator Charles Lindberg , but Armstrong shunned the spotlight. After walking on the moon, he lived a mostly private life, buying a farm and teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati  until 1979.

When he appeared in Dayton, Ohio in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.

"Neil Armstrong was a pioneer of flight and that is how he would want to be remembered," says space historian John Logsdon , author of JFK  and the Race to the Moon. "In his mind he flew all kinds of vehicles that set record firsts, and one of them happened to be the first one on the moon."
Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins assisted Neil Armstrong in the Apollo 11 mission.
Armstrong basically saw himself as an aviator first and foremost, part of the long tradition of American pilots going back to the Wright Brothers, Logsdon says.

"For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request,'' his family said in a Saturday statement. "Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."

"He will be part of history forever," Logsdon said.

He had died in Columbus, Ohio today.

Mitt Romney: Can't You Take A [Birther] Joke?

I am glad you guys known I was born an American! The Romney Campaign denies that he cracked a dog whistle to the brither movement.
While stomping in Michigan, Mitt Romney the perennial candidate for president made a joke to dog whistle the extremist within the conservative movement.

What is apparent is this campaign and the president's campaign have focused on going hard on one another.

But how can the former governor of Massachusetts maintain a straight face and saying that?

He was talking about where he and his wife Ann Romney birthplace saying that Americans never questioned where he was born. That was apparently dig at President Barack Obama being constantly hounded about his birthplace.

Of course, the president was born in Hawaii. Conservatives aren't buying it. It generated a brief controversy when Donald Trump, the reality television star and businessman got into the issue of the president's birth certificate.

In late April 2011, the president released his long-form birth certificate. About a week later, he order the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.

Now that Romney rang the bell, the Obama campaign shot back. They believe that Mitt Romney is pandering to the birther movement to win voters.

Mitt Romney dismissed the claims and stated that it's a little bit of mild humor, get over it! Rush Limbaugh went on radio to praise the candidate for mentioning the birth certificate.


The Obama campaign released an ad is the latest in a string of responses from Romney's comment. First, a campaign spokesman slammed the Republican for "embrac[ing] the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them." Later, the president's official Twitter account followed with a barely veiled reference to the joke. The campaign also sent a fundraising email to supporters, with the subject line: "A new low for Mitt Romney."

Romney since insisted that he harbors no illusions about the president's birthplace, telling a reporter that, "there's no question about where he was born. He was born in the U.S."

"This was fun about us, and coming home," Romney went on to say.


Now that we're getting pass the Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Todd Akin scandal, we turn to the ridiculous birther wars.

Yet, Mitt Romney hasn't shown the public his 2011 tax returns and President Barack Obama hasn't released a video that inspires the magic he obtained in 2008.

Mitt Romney can't take questions that could embarrass him. Conservatives make a huge fuss about these so-called "gotcha questions." When a local station ask the candidate questions about how to fix the economy, his negative campaign, why he choose Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) as his running mate, and his tax returns, they dodge the questions or attack the station for going into that issue.

When President Barack Obama takes questions that are trying to embarrass him, the conservatives are thrilled. When they question his birthplace, on why he's being called a socialist, his race, topics about other political players comments about Mitt Romney, or misquotes about his policies, the president answers them and does get annoyed with the interviewer. But when conservatives get wind of it, they claim that the interviewer is fair and the president is hostile.

This birther nonsense is racism. The White angry male is likely to believe that the president isn't an American born citizen. They believe that his father is Frank Marshall Davis, a Hawaiian political activist. They believe he's either a Muslim, Kenyan born or Indonesian born citizen and he managed to outmaneuver the media by disclosing these "facts". They claim he's spent millions of dollars trying to hide this information.

Mitt Romney will say or do anything to appeal to the conservative base. They're shaky on him. He wasn't their first choice. They've rather dealt with either Herman Cain,  Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) or even Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) as potential candidates.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Tragedy At New York's Empire State Building!


                            
Again another mass shooting. Despite the concerns raised by the Southern Poverty Law Center, law enforcement and gun control advocates, right wing extremism is on the rise.

Mitt Romney and the Republican Party will not acknowledge the growing anger within the conservative movement. They are allowing people like Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh continue their charade of rabble rousing people who take politics too far.

Expect President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, New York Democratic Senators Kristen Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to make statements on the situation.

And in this case the tragedy in New York appears to be an apparent workplace shooting. The New York Police Department is one of the finest and most controversial law enforcement agency in the country.

According to multiple news sources, the shooter Jeffery Johnson was apparently fired from his job over a year ago and he decided to take revenge on those who fired him.

Over multiple causalities and two confirmed dead. We will keep you updated on the situation as it develops.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those who were lost in this senseless tragedy.

Brother No !!!!!!!

LA Porn Star Started A Syphilis Outbreak!


Syphilis admission: Porn star Mr Marcus has admitted he continued to work after contracting the bacterial infection on set which has led to the shut down of the adult film industry in Los Angeles
Black porn star has confessed to starting a dangerous outbreak of the STD known as syphilis. He not only put his life at risk, but gave guaranteed assurance of riling up conservatives and White supremacists. In turn, they'll use this as an excuse to blame President Barack Obama and the Black community for something.
The adult entertainment industry is rattled by a member's confession that he's obtained a dangerous disease.

Mr. Marcus (Marcus Spencer, age 41) is an African American porn star comes out of the shadows admitting that he has put thousands of  people's lives at risk of syphilis.

Once again, I stress this story is NSFW (Not Safe For Work). This story will rile up conservatives and White supremacists. They already have a negative opinion about the Black community and President Barack Obama. They are going to paint Black males as sex crazy lunatics. They're going to tie the president to this individual.

As a porn star, many in the adult industry perform sex acts on women, men, and transexuals. Sometimes when they perform sex acts, they are not wearing condoms. They are required to have mandatory STD and HIV-testing.

Mr. Marcus' selfish act of altering his test results has rocked the industry.

According to the Huffington Post and AVN (Adult Video News), he believes he contracted the STD on set but admits that he altered his syphilis-positive test so that he could keep performing. His altered test was what started the scare and initiated the industry's self-imposed 10-day moratorium while actors are tested and treated for syphilis.

"I tried to cover it up… Because I said it was like the scarlet letter. It’s the word. Syphilis, whoa," Marcus said to XBiz. "Mr. Marcus, syphilis? Mr. Marcus, the one I worked with? The one that everybody works with? The one that’s been in this industry forever?"

In an emotional interview that brought the 18-year veteran actor to tears, Marcus said that he only altered the test because his doctor told him he would not be contagious 10 days after taking a shot of penicillin. “I have to live with this, no one else does,” he said. “I’m very sorry. I did not think that this would come out like this."

The porn actor was diagnosed with syphilis on July 12, received a penicillin shot on July 13 and returned to work 11 days later, on July 24, AVN reports. However, he still had the STD. Perhaps most disturbing, the producer of the shoot didn't ask for a paper or digital copy of Marcus' STD test. Instead, the actor showed a copy of the test on his cell phone so that the syphilis portion wasn't visible.

For a subsequent porn shoot, Marcus said he folded his test covering the syphilis portion and photocopied it.

However, a producer noticed this time that the numbers were missing and called Marcus out on it.


As many as nine syphilis cases have been identified among porn performers, and more are expected, according to the Associated Press. Marcus said that the three women he performed with after his diagnosis have all tested negative for syphilis.


You can be disappointed, but don't throw stones. Some of you are living in glass houses.


Speculation it came from Hungary: Porn star Aletta Ocean said on Tuesday that she contracted syphilis in Hungary leading to speculation that the outbreak came from there
Hungarian porn star Aletta Ocean contracted the disease. 
The porn moratorium comes days after the California Department of Public Health released a report finding that syphilis cases in the Golden State have jumped by 18 percent from 2010 to 2011. Men had a vastly higher rate as it largely affects men who have sex with men. The STD also affected African Americans at a higher rate than any other racial demographic.

Los Angeles County officials have approved a ballot initiative that will ask voters to decide whether porn actors should be required to wear condoms in sex scenes.

According to The Daily Mail, Porn star Aletta Ocean, 24, said on Tuesday that she contracted syphilis while shooting movies in Budapest, Hungary.
Her revelation led to speculation that the outbreak of the disease came from Hungary.


According to porn industry blog LukeIsBack.com she tweeted: 'F****** siphilis problem… In Budapest many people got it..Me too…’

Sex workers are supposed to undergo regular blood tests to ensure they are free of sexually transmitted disease.

It was reported that one of the labs frequented by porn stars does not test for syphilis.

Syphilis is a treatable bacterial infection that can be spread by both bodily fluids and contact with infected skin.

Its causes skin lesions and rashes. If left untreated, it can permanently alter and damage internal organs and brain function.

The number of syphilis cases in California has jumped 18 per cent according to a recent report from the California Department of Public Health.

The results showed a much higher rate of men had contracted the infection and that African Americans were affected more than any other racial demographic.

The outbreak is likely to bolster a ballot issue in November that aims to force all porn performers to wear condoms during pornography shoots.

Condom use has become of political issue in Los Angeles since a 2010 AIDS outbreak, which infected one performer.



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