Repeat Offender?

If at first.....

If you're done serving a bid in the iron college and happen to be released after 15, what do you do?

I guess if you're the foolish Christopher Miller, you go back to the same store and rob it again.

In the stupid files, Christopher Miller is currently in Ocean County lockup for robbing a Stride Ride store that he apparently robbed almost a decade ago.

Police say he became a free man on Friday and celebrated by catching a bus to Toms River and, yes, robbing the same Stride Rite shoe store, reports the Star-Ledger. Though he had 15 years to stew over what went wrong the first time, authorities say this robbery didn't go so well, either. Two employees were so slow in handing over cash that the "agitated" robber grabbed the register drawer himself and fled on foot, reports the Ocean County Signal. (The employees refused to hand over their keys, scotching any hopes for a getaway vehicle.)

Miller took cellphones belonging to a 17-year-old boy and a 43-year-old woman before fleeing on foot.

"He was not armed but just made a verbal threat," police spokesman Ralph Stocco said. He said that Miller became agitated when the employees did not move as quickly as he liked.

They called the cops—the apparent plan was to tie them up in a storage room, as happened in the 1999 robbery, but the employees refused to go—and within minutes, a police K-9 unit tracked down Williams and recovered the stolen $389, reports the Daily Record. Miller is charged with robbery and is being held on $100,000 bond. The 40-year-old is from Tulsa, Okla., and police aren't sure what his connection is to Toms River, besides maybe nostalgia.

According to state Department of Corrections records and news accounts from the time, Miller was living in Toms River when he was convicted for theft in 1997.

Incarcerated at the Stokes Unit of the Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility in Montague, he escaped from a work detail in June of that year. He was apprehended a few days later to serve out that term.

Man Blames Mental Illness For His Racist Fatal Attack On A Chicago Father!

Joesph Firek is being charged with murder. He's also being charge by motivated felonious assault by hate.

A father died a hero trying to save his daughter from some crazed racist. This racist would beat down the father multiple times killing him. Now this man is blaming an "abusive" family as the reasons to why he's a cold blooded killer.

No amount of mental illness would merit for this jerk to kill an innocent human being.

The father is former boxer. He was trying his best to deescalate the problem as best as possible.

This attacker wanted nothing to do with it.

The New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune report that Michael Tingling, 59, had a pacemaker in his chest and died minutes after the vicious attack while his alleged attacker, Joseph Firek, 59, was charged with committing a hate crime and murder.

Michael Tingling was known to neighbors as the guy with a big heart. He would walk his only daughter to school almost everyday. The young girl would now be without a father. A man who punched her father is held in Cook County lockup.

"My dad was a very loving and devoted dad," Tingling’s only child, daughter Masharah, told the Chicago Tribune. "He was never the kind of person who bothered anyone. He loved giving."

The devout father had just picked up his daughter from school to take her to a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday when the duo decided to stop off and grab a doughnut, according to the Tribune.

That’s when they brushed past Firek, who leered at the teen and made inappropriate gestures.

Tingling ordered the man, who is white, to back down as he shielded Masharah from his stares. Firek began throwing punches and calling the black family “n-----s” and telling them to “go back to Africa,” DNAinfo reported.

Masharah was the rock to Michael Tingling's heart. She is totally devastated by the lost of her father. 

"My dad — being a boxer and having the temperament that he has — he wasn't going to just let that fly," Masharah told the news site of her father, a native of Belize. "He pushed the guy back, and [the guy] punched him directly in his chest. My dad has a pacemaker in his chest."

Tingling later collapsed and complained he wasn’t feeling well while Firek, who followed the duo after the fight, expressed some measure of remorse, saying “I hope he’s OK. I hope he didn’t kill him.”

The Rogers Park man died about 45 minutes of heart disease and from stress due to an altercation, according to the Cook County coroner.

Firek appeared to be drunk when arrested, police said, and was on parole after being released from prison in January. He had a string of arrests, many related to home break-ins, dating back to 1996.

Firek, who his attorney says has a psychiatric illness, is held in custody in lieu of $250,000 bail.

Meanwhile, friends, neighbors and family members remembered the big-hearted Tingling, whom they now need to bury.

The devoted, doting father would walk Masharah, described as his best friend, to school each day and pick her up. She’s scheduled to finish eighth grade this spring.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Michael Tingling.

No, No, No, Judge Joe Brown!

Washed up isn't the only thing keeping Judge Joe down.

Shelby County lockup got the former TV judge for acting a fool while trial was in session.

In March 2014, Brown was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee and charged with five counts of contempt of court and getting "verbally abusive" during a child support case. He was sentenced to five days in jail, but was later released on his own recognizance.

In an interview with ABC News, Brown said that his arrest Monday, which he claimed never should have happened, has "reenergized" him, especially in his run for Shelby County D.A.

"I always used to be a hot shot about protecting people's rights," he said. "I was not happy to have my liberty detained even for 30 seconds. That's precious. It's not about the conditions of incarceration, it's about the loss of liberty."

Brown, 67, explained that the situation was "weird" because initially, he was just at the juvenile court to see how it was operating, as he's done with other courts in the area. However, when a woman approached him and asked him to take a look at her child support case, he said he felt obliged, due to a pledge he'd made to "protect womanhood and promote manhood."

"Then I almost felt nauseated looking at it," he said, adding that he believed the case never should have gone forward. "When I insisted that the woman's charges be dismissed. He started talking about, I'm not an attorney so-and-so. ... I said, 'You know it's wrong. ... You're better than this.'"


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Euro Paper Throws The Monkey At The Obamas!

Sad.

The racist right is over in Europe. I understand the president's popularity over in Europe isn't a good as it was in 2009, but however they really had to keep this nonsense to a minimum. 

The Huffington Post reports that a Belgian newspaper is under fire for an image it printed showing President Barack Obama and the First Lady as apes.

The progressive newspaper De Morgen is being accused of racism for the image along with an article it published just prior to Obama's visit to the Netherlands Monday morning.

The image clearly depicts the couple as two apes-- an editorial decision that has been slammed as "stale racist drivel."

The article was reportedly a satirical piece that also joked about Obama selling marijuana. The newspaper packaged the photos as if they had been submitted by Russian president Vladimir Putin, Metro said Sunday.

The picture was joined by a message reading, “Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia. He sent us this attachment at our request, and chose to send pictures instead of text 'because he doesn't have a lot of time',” the Independent said.

While the article has many readers outraged, there are also readers who have come to the newspapers defense. "It was a joke," one Reddit user said.

"In their defense, there are tons upon tons of pictures and t-shirts with Bush drawn as an ape," another user wrote.

@usembbrussels Today's De Morgen (a Belgian paper) has this photo of POTUS and Michelle as apes: pic.twitter.com/aAF2UAORgB
— chika unigwe (@chikaunigwe) March 22, 2014

@IjeomaOgud @demorgen it says "Putin was asked to write an article on Obama. Due to time constraints he sent these pictures" #notfunny
— chika unigwe (@chikaunigwe) March 22, 2014

De Morgen apologizes but Van Springel (the satirist) thinks that satire ought not to offend. He is shocked by the outrage #DeMorgen, #Obama
— chika unigwe (@chikaunigwe) March 24, 2014

De Morgen apologized for the image in its Monday edition, admitting it was guilty of "bad taste."

"When you consider the fragment apart from its context, which is a properly worked out satirical section, then you don't see the joke but just a picture evoking sheer racism," the newspaper said. "We wrongly assumed that racism is no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a joke."

Unigwe, who lives in Belgium, went on to tweet in depth about the controversial spread, noting that the fault lies with Belgian society moreso than De Morge.

A Real Love Sacrifice: Teen Killed By Train Saving Girlfriend!

Mateus Moore and his girlfriend Mickayla Friend were hit by a train. Mateus would push his girlfriend out of the way of the train. He would pay the ultimate sacrifice for his actions.

I understand that it's considered an easier way to get through the streets. It's so interesting to see where a train goes. It's kinda of cool that a train passes through a tunnel or over a bridge.

But why on earth would young teens continue to walk on railroad tracks?

It is extremely dangerous for anyone to walk on railroad tracks. No matter what the situation, a train can come and you wouldn't even know it. Many people paid the price for trespassing on the tracks.

It's a class A misdemeanor for anyone caught on the railroad tracks. The individual could be arrested for trespassing or impeding on the right-of-way of transit.

It's a CLASS THREE FELONY if you're caught putting something on the tracks to derail or impede on the transit of a train. You can go to the iron college if you put something on the tracks and cause a train to derail.

If you're stuck on the tracks call the police or the rail company to inform the operator of the train.

A train can't stop like a car and semi-truck. It could take up to a full mile to come to a complete stop.

California teen paid the ultimate price. He died a hero trying to save his girlfriend.

They were walking on the tracks in Maysville. They were heading to a school dance when they hear a train was approaching. Upon the impact of a train, the teen Mateus Moore pushed his girlfriend, Mickayla Friend out of the way. He was hit and immediately killed.

Friend barely survived. She is in the local hospital in critical condition.


The train hit them both, but Mateus died, while Mickayla is alive in the ICU. Despite Mickayla's serious injuries, her mom says the 16-year-old told her, "I remember Mateus turning and looking back. I remember him pushing me out of the way of the train." A witness says he saw the same thing: "They would have both been underneath that train if he didn't push her out of the way at the last second." Mateus' dad says he's proud of his son.

Eric Stark, an 11-year-old who was at the nearby Little League field when the impact occurred, said Moore pushed Friend out of the way at the last second.

"I heard the train, and it was honking a lot, and it didn't stop honking," Stark told News 10. "Right when they turned around, it was too late, and then the guy, he pushed the girl out of the way, but she still got hit by the train. And it sucked him in sort of and ran him over."

Stark's father, Shawn Stark, also saw the incident and believes that Moore's actions saved the girl. "They would have both been underneath that train if he didn't push her out of the way at the last second," he told KCRA.

Family devastated. How could their teens choose to walk the tracks instead of the streets.

The girl's family says Moore was "amazing."

"He loved her more than anyone," Friend's sister, Alithya Friend, told News 10.

Officials say the train's emergency brake system was initiated, but the train was unable to stop in time. Officials also say there is no evidence that either teen was intoxicated or wearing headphones.

Earlier this month a teen was killed after she tried to retrieve her iPhone off the tracks and misjudged the train's impact. Jenna Betti was killed when she and her boyfriend were walking on active tracks.

She would at first avoid the train but she dropped her phone. She got caught off guard by the train's speed and was hit on impact.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the families Mateus Moore and Jenna Betti.

We also send our prayers to the family of Mickayla Friend.

Texas Town: Please Disinvite Yourself Ted!

The Motor City Madman isn't getting the Texan longhorn treatment.

Controversial rocker Ted Nugent got served yet again. He's too embarrassing for a Texas town.

The city of Longview, Texas is not interested in the conservative agitator performing at their Fourth Of July event this year. They even paid him over $16,000 to keep him as far away from this event.

The city had reached a verbal agreement with Nugent, scheduling the rocker as the headliner who would play inside the Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Center during the town's Independence Day celebration. To break that agreement, the town paid Nugent half of his guaranteed performance fee of $32,000 from Maude Cobb's annual budget.

The move comes amid criticism of comments Nugent made about President Barack Obama in January 2014, calling him a "subhuman mongrel." Nugent, who campaigned with Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott amid the controversy, apologized for those comments in February.

Abbott said he was moving on from the controversy over Nugent in late February, but his ties to the rocker remain a prominent talking point of both sides of the governor's race. Abbott's rival, Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D), called the Attorney General's embrace of Nugent an "insult," while former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) cited the rocker in her endorsement of Abbott.

"If he is good enough for Ted Nugent, he is good enough for me!" Palin wrote on her Facebook page.

The situation with Longview is not unique. Nugent was removed from a concert lineup at a prominent military base in 2012 after saying he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama were re-elected that year.

Nate Silver: Smile Republicans!

The famed statistician and sports commentator calls the Midterms for the Republicans.

The famed stats man got the goods on the U.S. Midterms. He strongly believes that the Republican Party despite it's hateful and yet unaccomplished agenda will have a chance to take full control of the Congress.

With that being said, it's possible that the Southern Democrats in the House and Senate are doomed or at least in danger of being doomed.

Silver, who just launched his own site, FiveThirtyEight, under the ESPN banner, spoke to ABC’s Jon Karl in a segment on This Week With George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning. There he said his best prediction saw the GOP taking six seats, the exact number they’d need to have a one-vote majority. However, that prediction was +/- five seats, meaning the Senate could relatively unchanged, or the GOP could win big in November.

So do you believe the Republicans have a chance to win despite being a totally useless party?

After all Silver did call the election for President Barack Obama long before he got through the first debates.