Former U.S. Senator Kay Hagan passed away from a deadly infection from a tick bite.
Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina Kay Hagan died after a deadly infection from a tick bite.
She was a former banking executive and state lawmaker before she won in 2008 U.S. Senate race against Elizabeth Dole. She was the first Democrat in years to win a seat in years. She would lose her race to Thom Tillis, a former North Carolina state lawmaker in 2014.
Hagan died of encephalitis or a brain inflammation, caused by the Powassan virus. This virus is spread from ticks to humans and it causes a deadly infection that could attack the brain and motor skills. At the time of her death, she was wheelchaired and bed-ridden.
She could not speak anymore but she did communicate through her husband, Chip and her three children.
Hagan's last moments. She was wheelchair bound and couldn't speak anymore. Her husband Chip Hagan stood was by her side.
Hagan was born in Shelby, North Carolina in 1953. She earned her degree from Florida State University and Wake Forest University.
Hagan went on to work for NationsBank which soon became Bank of America. She was then a vice president and top executive for the estates and trust division. She was a state home mother for a brief period. She would soon become involved in politics. She would end up winning her seat in North Carolina's Senate in 1998.
She would end up beating the incumbent Senator Elizabeth Dole, the Republican wife of former Kansas Senator and 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole.
The White House was dealt a blow. The impeachment resolution goes live.
Based on the votes, the Democratic-led House of Representatives have approved the impeachment resolution into the actions of Donald J. Trump. This is a big issue. This is the beginning of formal investigation into Trump's actions as rhe President of the United States.
The vote went as expected on partisan lines.
The resolution formalizes the impeachment probe.
Trump, Mike Pence, the White House legal team, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were notified about the vote.
Pelosi warned Trump that obstruction will drive the impeachment inquiry further.
There were a few Democratic defections on a largely party line vote. Before the vote began, Democratic lawmakers predicted some would defect with the Republicans. Only two.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NY) and Rep. Colin Peterson (D-MN) voted no. Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) who left the Republican Party vote in favor. I was expecting Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to vote in favor but they decided to run with the Republicans.
The vote was 232 in favor with 196 voting no.
The working theory among Democrats is there will be another week or two of closed depositions — and that public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee could begin as soon as the second week in November.
Another tragic mass shooting. This time in California.
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers will heal the wounded or bring back the dead. Once again, another city becomes a moment in American history. Another city that had a mass shooting.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Every town in the United States had a mass shooting. I am being too broad in saying that. Let me rephrase that. Expect gun violence in every community in every state, every U.S. territory and the District of Columbia. Don't believe me?
Wait til it happens in your community!
Can you pray gun violence away? (Expect the dumbest answers and responses from far-right trolls who come to this blog to offer their "concerns").
As usual, Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and the 55 members of the U.S. House will offer the phony sympathy and condolences to the families who were lost to this senseless gun violence.
This event happened in Long Beach, California, a major exburb of the metro Los Angeles area.
This community of 435,000 citizens now deal with the death and callous actions of a terrorist.
This terrorist killed three and injured nearly a dozen people.
Authorities were sent to a home on a report of a shooting.
Paramedics declared a mass causality incident, reporting 12 individuals. Three men believed to be in their 20s were dead a the scene and nine others were transported to Los Angeles County hospitals.
There were three bodies immediately in the vicinity of the shooting.
The person(s) involved are on the loose and the FBI, California state authorities, Long Beach Police and the Los Angeles County Boys are combing the community for the terrorist.
Mass shooting in Long Beach, California. Another deadly moment in the United States.
Don't you just want to scream!?
Scream in the faces of these damn lawmakers whenever they offer their "thoughts and prayers" to every fucking mass shooting in the United States. They will offer their condolences and say a word vomit how they sympathize with the deceased. Some here will tell us that "now isn't the time to talk." Others will say that "the NRA has too much influence on gun laws."
We will talk about this for a few days and then we're off to another controversy. The next controversy would either be something done by Donald J. Trump, a politician, an entertainer or we will experience another mass shooting. The next mass shooting will be even worse than the last one.
I repeat myself over and over again! I use the same old copy and paste. I hear the same trolls saying that there's nothing we can do. I keep hearing "concern" trolls telling us that it's their own fault for their own deaths. I hear the same old talking points about "good guys with guns" and "god's given rights."
I am getting really tired of dealing with mass shootings.
People should not ever live like this.
If the terrorist was Black, Hispanic, Muslim or an immigrant, you would expect Donald J. Trump to tweet something offensive and call for more restrictions.
Now another city becomes a marker in history.
How many more will suffer at the hands of gun violence?
The website Officer Down is a memorial to those who were killed in the line of duty. Those who don't get their names mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the National Gun Violence Memorial also keeps record of the many individuals killed by gun violence.
An icon of Black comedy passed away. John Witherspoon died in Los Angeles.
Perhaps one of the funniest entertainers in Black cinema, John Witherspoon has passed away.
He is best known for the Friday trilogy, The Wayans Brothers, The Boondocks, Hollywood Shuffle and the voice of Warner Bros. mascot Michigan J. Frog.
He was a LEGEND.
"It it with deepest sorrow that we can confirm our beloved husband and father, John Witherspoon, one of the hardest working men in show business, died today at his home in Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles) at the age of 77," said the family in a statement to Deadline. "He is survived by his wife Angela, his sons, JD, Alexander and a large family. We are all in shock, please give us a minute for a moment in privacy and we will celebrate his life and his work together. John used to say, "I'm no big deal," but he was a huge deal to us."
He was born in Detroit as John Weatherspoon. He launched his comedy career in the 1970s and began acting around the 1980s. He was seen in movies like Boomerang, Vampire in Brooklyn, The Ladies Man, Hollywood Shuffle and Fakin' Da Funk.
He was remembered as the grumpy father of Ice Cube in the Friday series. He was featured in Friday, Next Friday and Friday After Next, and was expected to reprise his role in Last Friday.
He was also known as Robert Jebediah Freeman (known as Grandad) on the Adult Swim series The Boondocks. He was also known as Pops in the WB series The Wayans Bros.
He also did stints on The Tracey Morgan Show, The First Family and Black Jesus.
He was still active at time. He was on a comedy tour before his death. The family hasn't confirm the cause of death.
A true voice of being a Black father, a strong Black man and a great entertainer.
I’m devastated over the passing of John Witherspoon. Life won’t be as funny without him. pic.twitter.com/gtmiZiEppP
I’m sad. Broken. Hurt.. yet extremely grateful to God that i got to spend 5 years of my life working with one of the funniest sweetest wisest humblest loving man johnwitherspoon you were my tv dad and my mentor and… https://t.co/OymyEkrFSk
In tears this morning. You were always so nice to me and taught me a lot about boating, love you and will miss you. Rest well King.❤️❤️ #JohnWitherspoonpic.twitter.com/7m4y17JdIk
The Father has called home yet another soldier! RIP my brother! What a good man!! He made the world a funner place in which to be! #JohnWitherspoonpic.twitter.com/00X9KIWxNq
Woman tried to extort a man who slept with her. She was working online as an escort and wanted to force the man to pay up or face a public humiliation.
An Arizona woman tried to extort a married man of $15,000 after they had a tryst at a St. Louis area motel with another woman . She tried to reach out to the man demanding he pay up or she'll share a sex tape she made with the couple.
When he managed to pay her off a couple of times, the woman got angry. She warned if he didn't raise the rates, prepare for the embarrassment. He failed at doing it.
So she decided to put the sex tape on her social media and shared it with the man, his wife and their employers.
The couple would soon reach out to the FBI.
The woman was eventually caught and faces a laundry list of criminal charges. This federal sandwich could net her 10 years in federal time out.
According to documents obtained by The Daily Mail, a man from St. Louis County met the woman through a social media website called escortbabylon.net in August. He had sex with her and another woman at the Pear Tree Inn St. Louis Airport later that day.
Pretty stupid.
The woman made the surreptitious recording of the sexual encounter, and soon began calling, texting and sending Facebook messages to the man, identified as R.W., threatening to ruin his life by making the sex tape public unless he paid up.
The man wired $2,200 to the woman in three installments. She wasn't happy about the payments and decided to go ahead and put that shit online to his wife, his employer and her employer.
The man decided to head to the FBI and IC3 to discuss the woman's intention to extort him in a revenge porn scheme.
The next day, the law managed to be caught by the feds as she was going to her parents home with her child. They charged her with federal racketeering and extortion charges. She was originally charged on Aug. 26 and arrested that day in Tucson, Arizona, where she’d received two of the MoneyGram transfers at a Walmart. She was indicted Sept. 26.
The woman has a list of criminal charges in the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County. Some of the charges in local courts include theft, domestic violence and prostitution.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The suspect will have not have contact with the victim. The suspect could lose custody of her child. She could be restricted from posting on social media. She could be labeled a TIER II offender if she is convicted.
The United States and Canada are passing laws that could make it criminal if a person decides to publish embarrassing images of individuals online without their consent.
By Brian Duffy The first victims were found in 2009, and Anthony Sowell was convicted and sentenced to death in 2011. However, Sowell is not close to being put to death, and the tab for his continuous appeals continues to grow. Families of the victims await justice and they’ll continue to wait according to Cuyahoga County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Chris Schroeder, who says we are only about halfway through the appeal process. “These people have waited 10 years now for justice for a guy who had no defense, he had no claim that he didn’t do it, no doubt about guilt or innocence,” Schroeder said. Justice for the families of Sowell’s victims is the first priority, but this appeal process is also costing you, taxpayers, an incredible amount of money. “We’re paying for the appellate process that goes on, over and over and over again successive rounds of appeals so it does add up over time,” Schroeder said. Schroeder has heard the refrain that it would be cheaper to just put a convicted killer, like Sowell, in jail for life than to maneuver through the expensive death penalty appeal process. He’s not so sure that is true however. “I can’t give you a number on how much either of those things cost,” Schroeder said, “I think really the number one factor is the inmate’s medical issues, what kind of medical issues do they develop in prison because that can make their incarceration much more expensive over time.” Sowell is not in ideal health, he’s had a pacemaker installed. On Tuesday his lawyers will make the claim that Sowell had ineffective counsel at trial and that he should have had a scan that may have shown irregularities in his brain activity at the time of the murders. As this process drags on Schroeder has heard from the families of the victims. “They share my frustration and they mostly just have questions, wondering what is going on and why does it take so long and what’s this new appeal about,” Schroeder said.
Deadline. Trump is given a final warning. If he fails to comply to the impeachment inquiry, the House of Representatives will hold an impeachment vote.
It was revealed that former The Hill reporter John Solomon is attached to Donald J. Trump's lawyers Jay Sekulow, Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. Toensing and diGenova have represented Ukrainian gas baron and oligarch Dmitry Firtash. Solomon also may have ties to this guy as well.
Solomon's shady reporting on Joe Biden now has Trump's television lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two former clients Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas under federal watch. Fruman and Parnas were indicted by the federal courts for campaign fraud by accepting and distributing foreign donations to Republican causes. Solomon, Giuliani and White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney were engaging in trying to arrange the former Ukrainian prosecutor who dealt with corruption to admit that Biden's son Hunter was under investigation for corruption. A bombshell report came out back in late August and early September. A whistleblower documented a call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president. Trump demanded that Zelensky investigate Biden and the Democratic Party's former nominee Hillary Clinton. He was withholding military funds. He demanded that Ukraine admit that they had a hand in the meddling of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Trump continues to believe that his election victory wasn't tainted by Russian influences. This whistleblower's claims have triggered the Democratic-led House to file an impeachment inquiry.
The far-white agitators continue to defend Trump. They know that it's extremely hard to defend this but instead of making it about the inquiry, the far-white will say the issue is the inquiry being done behind "closed doors" and it's not being "transparent." A handful of Republicans tried to crash secretive committee gatherings to interfere in the witness testimonies.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have been vocal about the impeachment inquiry and have tried to interfere in the testimonies.
Also Democratic candidate for president, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have thrown Republican talking points while campaigning for the nomination. Critics of Gabbard including Clinton, believe that she's being peddled by the far-white and Russian backers. Her constant appearances on Fox News have Democrats questioning her motives.
So far, Trump's playing a game that's only going to end up with him losing. Yes, it's a polarizing event to impeach a sitting president. However, it's something that must be done to hold lawmakers to a standard.
Fake reporter John Solomon started whole mess with Trump. His crappy reporting led to Trump getting an impeachment inquiry.
No one is above the law.
Trump ordered all witnesses to not cooperate with the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry. Today the House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have issued a decree.
The House will hold a full-scale vote on televised impeachment hearings like Watergate on Thursday.
Trump was warned numerous times to stop impeding on the investigation. He constantly hit back at Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and many other Democrats who are conducting the inquiry. Trump claims that the California lawmaker is corrupt and has sicced his allies (i.e. Sean "Softball" Hannity) to attack Schiff and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) for the inquiry.
Pelosi said that Trump's incapability to cooperate in the investigation has left her no choice.
The Democrats are left with no choice. They told Trump that they will issue a vote on impeachment in the coming days.
They said that the documents and portions of the Robert Mueller report are being withheld by the White House. Trump and his allies claim this impeachment inquiry is "constitutionally invalid" and a refused to allow any other members testify under executive privilege.
This is high stakes now. The Democrats are signalling that this event will be a test of how strong the party is. Some of the members are cautious about this. They won in districts Trump won and the Republicans are seizing on the impact of the vote.
Polls say that Trump has abused power. A slim majority believe that Trump deserves to be impeached and removed from office.
Now if Trump is impeached, it is an indictment. The U.S. Senate must then hold a trial and have Chief Justice John Roberts oversee the event. If 2/3 of U.S. Senators (at least 67 members) vote in favor of removing Trump from office, Mike Pence would then become the 46th President of the United States and finish the term before running for a full-term if he chooses to run for reelection.
Note: John Solomon and Sean "Softball" Hannity have failed to disclose their ties to Trump's lawyers. They work for Fox News and it's been a subject of criticism. How can they get away with this while others are fired out the cannon?
Giuliani, Sekulow, Toensing and diGenova are Softball Hannity's lawyers. Somehow, he continues to deny any ties to Trump's controversies but seems to have the same lawyers.
Conservative white people constantly try to out due themselves on the racism.
A white auto shop owner decided to do a political statement. He supports Donald J. Trump and is proud to express it. But in regards to attack his predecessor Barack Obama, that's where the racism comes up.
Obama was the first African American president and was really demonized by Trump and the far-white agitators who helped him.
The city of Fowlerville are not pleased with this
The effigy has Trump appearing to be holding Obama's severed head by a noose.
Fowlerville residents called the exhibition of a scarecrow featuring a Trump mask, and a rope with a mask of Obama, "racist," "vulgar," and "anti-American."
Some residents voiced frustration at the effigy.
"I am disgusted this is in my hometown. Way to display your ignorance. Democrat or Republican this is just wrong," said Kathy DeTroyer, a person who posted it on social media.
The owner facing backlash decided to take down the effigy and decided to place police tape with the words "PC-POLICE" on it.
Then of course, the owner decided to head down to Clintonville. He also had effigies of Bill and Hillary Clinton with their heads lobbed off too.
The owner David Huff of Quality Coatings said that he was not apologizing for the effigy. He said that he had to "twerk" it for children. He said the sight of progressives scares children. So he decided to make his effigy "great again."
The Trump effigy is now PC Police man.
In regards to the effigies. Many noted that Kathy Griffin suffered intense backlash when she displayed a foam head of Trump bloodied. The entertainer was fired out the cannon at CNN as color presentator for New Year's Eve, lost her Netflix gig and faced a blackballing from Hollywood.
Since then, Griffin has became an activist.
By the way, at Game 5 of the World Series, Trump, Melania Trump and a handful of Republicans were roundly booed during the game. Trump appeared on the jumbo screen praising armed forces and the crowd went to booing him and chanting "LOCK HIM UP" during a moment when he was seen on screen. The Houston Astros are facing the Washington Nationals. The Astros won three of the five games.
Those with the Trumps included, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA).
The Houston Astros are one game away from winning the World Series. Tuesday is the Game 6.
Despite Trump despite the U.S. successful capture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi still is extremely polaring. He still got booed by Americans who wanted to see a baseball game not a flagrant showboat who touts the death like it's a badge of honor.
John Conyers, one of the longest serving African Americans in Congress passed away in Detroit.
Former Democratic lawmaker John Conyers passed away at the age of 90. He was one of the longest serving African American lawmakers in Washington. He represented Detroit for over 50 years. Born John James Conyers, Jr., the former lawmaker had a passion to serve his community.
He resigned in disgrace after allegations of corruption, sexual harassment and numerous affairs.
Conyers, a champion of civil rights and the plight of his fellow man died of natural causes.
Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have chimed in on his passing. Conyers left in 2017 and a special election was held in 2018. Brenda Jones won the special election to fill the remaining term, Tlaib won the general election to start a full term.
I am more than saddened by the loss of a dear friend, colleague, & political pioneer. John Conyers spent a lifetime in public service dedicated to civil rights and justice for people of color in America. His legacy will continue to impact generations to come. #RestInPower🕊 pic.twitter.com/sf4GjubHQf
Our Congressman forever, John Conyers, Jr. He never once wavered in fighting for jobs, justice and peace. We always knew where he stood on issues of equality and civil rights in the fight for the people. Thank you Congressman Conyers for fighting for us for over 50 years.
Conyers became one of only six black House members when he was won his first election by just 108 votes in 1964. The race was the beginning of more than 50 years of election dominance: Conyers regularly won elections with more than 80 percent of the vote, even after his wife went to prison for taking a bribe.
He served for years as chair and ranking Democrat of the House Judiciary Committee.
But after a nearly 53-year career, he became the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job in the torrent of sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation's workplaces. A former staffer alleged she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances, and others said they'd witnessed Conyers inappropriately touching female staffers or requesting sexual favors.
Conyers denied the allegations but eventually stepped down, citing health reasons, saying his legacy couldn't be diminished after 53 years in office.
He unsuccessfully sought to have his son take his seat in 2017.
"My legacy can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now," Conyers told a Detroit radio station from a hospital where he'd been taken after complaining of lightheadedness in December 2017. "This, too, shall pass. My legacy will continue through my children."
Throughout his career, Conyers used his influence to push civil rights. After a 15-year fight, he won passage of legislation declaring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday, first celebrated in 1986. He regularly introduced a bill starting in 1989 to study the harm caused by slavery and the possibility of reparations for slaves' descendants. That bill never got past a House subcommittee.
His district office in Detroit employed civil rights legend Rosa Parks from 1965 until her retirement in 1988. In 2005, Conyers was among 11 people inducted to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame.
Conyers was born and grew up in Detroit, where his father, John Conyers Sr., was a union organizer in the automotive industry and an international representative with the United Auto Workers union. He insisted that his son, a jazz aficionado from an early age, not become a musician.
The younger Conyers heeded the advice, but jazz remained, he said, one of his "great pleasures." He sponsored legislation to forgive the $1.6 million tax debt of band leader Woody Herman's estate and once kept a standup bass in his Washington office.
Before heading to Washington, Conyers served in the National Guard and with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War supervising repairs of military aircraft. He earned his bachelor's and law degrees from Wayne State University in the late 1950s.
His political aspirations were honed while working as a legislative assistant from 1958 to 1961 to U.S. Rep. John Dingell, a fellow Michigan Democrat who, when he retired in 2014 at age 88, was Congress' longest-serving member. That mantle then was passed onto Conyers.
Soon after being elected to Congress, Conyers' leadership at home — in the segregated streets of Detroit — would be tested. Parts of the city were burned during riots in July 1967 that were sparked by hostilities between black residents and Detroit's mostly white police force, and by the cramped living conditions in black neighborhoods.
Conyers climbed onto a flatbed truck and appealed to black residents to return to their homes, but he was shouted down. His district office was gutted by fire the next day. But the plight of the nation's inner cities would remain his cause.
"In Detroit you've got high unemployment, a poverty rate of at least 30 percent, schools not in great shape, high illiteracy, poor families not safe from crime, without health insurance, problems with housing," he told The Associated Press in 2004. "You can't fix one problem by itself — they're all connected."
He was fiercely opposed to Detroit's finances being taken over by a state-appointed emergency manager as the city declared bankruptcy in 2013. Conyers, whose district included much of Detroit, sought a federal investigation and congressional hearings, arguing it was "difficult to identify a single instance" where such an arrangement, where local officials are stripped of most of their power, succeeds.
Conyers was the only House Judiciary Committee member to have sat in on two impeachment hearings: He supported a 1972 resolution recommending President Richard Nixon's impeachment for his conduct of the Vietnam War, but when the House clashed in 1998 over articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, Conyers said: "Impeachment was designed to rid this nation of traitors and tyrants, not attempts to cover up an extramarital affair."
Conyers also had scandals of his own.
In 2009, his wife Monica Conyers, a Detroit city councilwoman largely elected on the strength of her husband's last name, pleaded guilty to bribery. The case was related to a sludge hauling contract voted on by the City Council, and she spent nearly two years in prison.
Three years earlier, the House ethics committee closed a three-year investigation of allegations that Conyers' staff worked on political campaigns and was ordered to baby-sit for his two children and run his personal errands. He admitted to a "lack of clarity" with staffers and promised changes.
But he couldn't survive the last scandal. An ethics committee launched a review after a former longtime staffer said Conyers' office paid her more than $27,000 under a confidentiality agreement to settle a complaint in 2015. She alleged she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances, and other said they'd witnesses inappropriate behavior.
Conyers initially said he looked forward vindicating himself and his family, but he announced his immediate retirement in December 2017 after fellow Democrats called for his resignation. The chorus included Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the House's top Democrat.
Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when Democrats regained the House majority in 2006. He oversaw 2007 hearings into the White House's role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors and 2009 hearings on how the NFL dealt with head injuries to players.
Conyers frequently swam against the prevailing political currents during his time in Congress. He backed, for example, anti-terrorism legislation that was far less sweeping than a plan pushed by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
He was also an early supporter in 2007 of then-Sen. Barack Obama, who was expected by some in the Congressional Black Caucus to push public health insurance, sharp funding increases for urban development and other initiatives long blocked by Republicans.
"We want him to stand strong," Conyers said in 2009.
Conyers enjoyed his greatest support back home in Detroit — except when he tried to venture into local politics. Conyers took on 16-year incumbent Mayor Coleman A. Young in 1989, launching his bid with the statement: "Look out, Big Daddy, I'm home." But a poorly organized campaign helped him finish a mere third in the primary. He ran again for mayor when Young retired in 1993, and lost again.
Along with his wife, Conyers is survived by two sons, John III and Carl.
Revenge porn is illegal in some states. If you're publishing pictures of a person without their consent it could be a felony. You could be charged with a criminal act.
California Democratic freshman congresswoman Katie Hill resigns amid a sex scandal and House ethics investigation. The Los Angeles area lawmaker is caught in a scandal involving her husband, her mistress and his mistress.
Hill who defeated Republican Steve Knight in 2018 took office this year. Her ten month escapade ends with disgrace. The Republicans see an easy pickup in a congressional district that once was Republican +4.
It is with a broken heart that today I announce my resignation from Congress. This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for my constituents, my community, and our country.
RedState published allegations that Hill was involved in an extramarital affair with her campaign finance manager. Hill at first denied the allegations, saying her husband, whom she described as an abuser, was doing everything he could to humiliate her. RedState also published nude photos of Hill and it lead to the U.S. Capitol Police do an investigation into who leaked information about a lawmaker without her consent.
The House Ethics Committee announced that they will conduct an investigation into Hill. On that same day, Hill sent an email to constituents in which she admits to having an affair with staffer before she became a lawmaker. She also admits that her husband Kenny Heslep are separating. She is openly bisexual.
Hill lives in Agua Dulce, California and had shared an apartment with Illinois Democratic congresswoman Lauren Underwood.
Governor Gavin Newsom will now have to make arrangements for a special election.
Conservatives who attacked Hill should be aware that many of their lawmakers, allies and Trump are engaged in sexual affairs. Matter of fact, this is a personal matter and it has nothing to do with her job as a lawmaker.
Now we're waiting for Republicans to seethe. Can't wait to hear a scandal involving a Republican!
Mass shooting in the United States. In the state of Texas a terrorist massacres two and injures 14.
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers will not heal the wounded or bring back the dead. It's a worthless platitude and we need to stop saying stuff like this. This is a man-made crisis. Our American leaders, the National Rifle Association and the junk food media are numb to gun violence.
Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Greg Abbott, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the 36 U.S. Representatives of Texas will do the usual "thoughts and prayers" and "hearts going out to" bullshit. They will say a few comfortable words and then move on to the next controversy.
Those who lost their lives will leave behind either a loved one or a child. They will talk about this shit for a few days and move on. If this was a mass shooting that affected a certain group, this will be wall-to-wall coverage. Mind you I am guessing that this was a Black event. So I can only guess the far-white will troll this blog or others trying to point out how "Black on whatever violence" is more of a threat than gun violence.
There was a mass shooting in Greenville, Texas. This was at a local party venue for students attending the Texas A&M University-Commerce. This was not a sanctioned school event.
The terrorist shot at dozens of people. He managed to kill two individuals and hurt 14.
Do you believe gun violence is a bigger problem than terrorism? (The dumbest answers and responses will come from trolls)
Partygoers and witnesses can't determine who the mass shooter is. The Hunt County sheriff was angry about the lack of cooperation from witnesses.
"It appalls me that, as many folks that were there, (they) have not been able to give us a better description of the shooter. Due to the many different descriptions being provided by those in attendance at that party, we unfortunately do not have any solid supsect information to provide at this time,: said Randy Meeks, sheriff of Hunt County.
Gun violence never takes a break.
Shortly after the shooting, shocking footage of the massacre emerges. They show bodies lying on the ground and people walking around like they're in a daze.
The shooting took place around midnight Saturday at what Meeks describes as a Halloween and homecoming party for Texas A&M University-Commerce. Meeks describe this a "complete chaos" and it had hundreds of people fleeing.
Two men were killed. The families of the deceased will be notified. The shooter is not a partygoer.
The Texas State Rangers, Greenville Police, Huntsville Police and the FBI will eventually bring the terrorist to justice.
Gun violence does not take a break in the United States. That is the biggest threat in the United States and we're not doing one damn thing to stop this from happening.
Donald J. Trump will exploit the death of the Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi for his desperate attempts to curry favor with dissatisfied voters.
He will tout this as his "greatest accomplishment" and try to trounce Democrats.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Islamic State's leader killed in U.S. Special Ops mission.
The leader of the Sunni Islamic group that claimed occupied territory in Syria and Iraq was killed in a joint operation sponsored by the United States. The Special Ops forces had displayed a major assualt on the Idlib province.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri al-Samariai) was the leader and spiritual advisor of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He wanted to create a country that practiced in majlis al-shura. They wanted to establish a caliph in the Northwest Syrian region as well as Iraq.
He was considered a foreign terrorist by the United Nations, United States and the European Union.
Donald J. Trump said Sunday that al-Baghdadi, perhaps the world's most wanted man, was killed during a special operations raid over the weekend.
"Last night the United States brought the world's No. 1 terrorist leader to justice," Trump said at the White House in an early morning televised address to the nation.
He apparently killed himself in a suicide bombing before the United States could apprehend him.
The raid was launched based on a CIA Special Activities Division's intelligence effort that located the leader of the Islamic State. The operations was conducted during the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northeastern Syria.
Several officials commented that this operation was possible of presence on the ground in Syria allowing for the development of intelligence networks.
The Syrian Democratic Forces provided a direct and extensive support to the operation.
Trump made his remarks.
Uh, I am going to be serious with you. It's a word vomit. I mean it's total bragging and bullshit.
Trump told the world that he was in the Situation Room watching the entire ordeal went down.
Trump said he died after running from a house into a dead-end tunnel while being chased by United States Special Operations commandos in Northwest Syria. Al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest that killed him as well as three of his children, Trump said.
"He died like a dog," Trump said. "He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place." "He was a sick and depraved man, and now he's gone," Trump said.
Trump, Mike Pence and his national security team watching the raid.
Al-Baghdadi is the highest-ranking terrorist to be killed or captured since the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011.
United States Special Operations commandos made the raid late Saturday in northwestern Syria, Trump said. News reports said the raid targeted al-Baghdadi, who was located with the assistance of the CIA.
No U.S. personnel were killed in the raid, Trump said.
The “dangerous and daring nighttime raid” was carried out on Saturday and the U.S. personnel “accomplished their mission in grand style,” Trump said.
The raid took place for about two hours, and U.S. forces seized "highly sensitive information" from the raid including ISIS origins and future plans.
Al-Baghdadi’s body was “mutilated by the blast” and the tunnel had caved in due to the explosion, Trump said. Officials did an on-site DNA test to confirm his identification, removing rubble to get to the body.
The test results "gave immediate and total identification," Trump said.
Eleven children were uninjured and were moved out of the house, Trump said.. It was unclear who the children belonged to, Trump said, but he said some fighters at the scene were taken and imprisoned.
Al-Baghdadi spent his “last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him," Trump said.
Trump said he and Vice President Mike Pence watched much of the mission from the White House Situation Room. Al-Baghdad spent his final moments “whimpering and crying and screaming all the way," he said.
Trump did not confirm how many people were killed in the mission, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had earlier reported at least eight deaths.
Two women, who Trump described as wives of al-Baghdadi, were found wearing vests that had not been detonated. Both women were killed in the operation.
The announcement of Baghdadi's death came three weeks after Trump abruptly announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops from northern Syria, allowing Turkey to sweep into the area and attack Kuridsh rivals. That decision drew bipartisan criticism that Trump had abandoned a former ally that fought alongside U.S. forces against ISIS.
The renewed fighting in the region also led to the release of an unknown number of ISIS fighters who had been imprisoned by the Kurds. Russian forces also moved into the region as a fragile ceasefire along the Turkey-Syria border took hold.
Both the Kurds and the Turks said they provided assistance to the U.S. raid that targeted al-Baghdadi.
Mazloum Abdi, the commanding general of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, said on the organization's official Twitter account: "Successful & historical operation due to a joint intelligence work with the United States of America."
In another tweet, the Turkey Ministry of National Defense said: "Prior to the US Operation in Idlib Province of Syria last night, information exchange and coordination between the military authorities of both countries took place,"
Trump signaled the news Saturday night with an enigmatic tweet saying that "something very big has just happened!" Trump said he sent the tweet right after U.S. forces landed in the area.
About 90 minutes later, the White House announced that Trump would make "a major statement" from the White House on Sunday morning.
Officials also said that Defense Secretary Mark Esper would appear on Sunday morning new programs to discuss developments in Syria.
As the leader of a self-proclaimed caliphate, the charismatic and vicious al-Baghdadi urged followers to carry out attacks against the United States and other western countries.
Many complied. Islamic State adherents included the woman and her husband who killed 14 people at a 2015 holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif.
There have been many previous reports of al-Baghdadi's death that did not pan out, and the U.S. put a $25 million bounty on his head.
Al-Baghdadi appeared in an ISIS video in late April, his first public appearance in nearly five years, praising Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka against Catholic churches and high-end hotels that killed more than 250 people, including at least four Americans.
Trump critics took issue with Trump's television drama-like rollout of the news about al-Baghdadi.
"So Trump has to Trump even the apparent killing of al-Baghdadi," tweeted Robert E Kelly, professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea. "He had to leak on Twitter to create hype & suspense and grab the news cycle. He can never rise to the moment. Maybe the announcement will finally display some gravitas, not gloating, but who really expects that now?"
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors events in that country, said the attack was "carried out by a squadron of 8 helicopters escorted by an International Coalition warplane," and killed "about 10 persons."
Black woman was violently arrested by Oregon cops.
A Black student at Oregon State University was violently arrested because she was cycling on the wrong side of the road and refused to show identification.
Genesis Hensen, 21 was stopped by Oregon State Police trooper Kelly Katsikis on October 13 as she was traveling down a local street in Corvallis, Oregon.
The trooper stopped Hansen because she was riding her bicycle in the wrong way. He asked for her identification and tried to issue a citation for the offense.
Police released body cam footage of the arrest in which Hanens being arrested on the ground and the trooper along with Corvallis Police officer Donald Sheldon claiming she was not cooperating.
The refusal of showing her identification led to an escalation in which the trooper threatened arrest.
"I need you to either give me your identification now or you are going to be under arrest. Do you understand that?"
Henson responded with the fifth. "I don't answer questions." (Basically: I don't consent to giving my information).
The cops then tried to place her arms behind her back and Hansen stepped backward and fell to the ground. Both officers are then seen holding Henson down as they place handcuffs around her wrists.
There were several witnesses nearby and one woman yelled: "She's a young woman, you do not need to be on top of her. She is not resisting. You are so much bigger than her. This type of force is not necessary."
The officers would soon get Hensen on her feet and place her into a cruiser.
The arrest made national headlines.
She was charged on interfering with an officer and resisting arrest.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Following the incident, Oregon State University released a statement.
"We remained concerned about what was portrayed occuring in the video. And we have asked that law enforcement policies and practices by Oregon State Police --- and other local law enforcement agencies --- be examined for evidence of implicit or explicit bias."
The university said it has also offered support services to Hensen.
The incident attracted outrage from the NAACP.
"As the nation's oldest civil rights organization, we view this civil rights violation by state and local law enforcement as another example of racial inequality and excessive use of force imposed on communities of color by law enforcement."
The Oregon State Police released a statement.
"As an agency that is committed to eliminating racial profiling and implicit bias in policing, these allegations are being meticulously reviewed and we are compiling as much information possible. The agency understands the importance of vigorously investigating these allegations and is taking a serious look at the incident."
Those involved are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Most states require individuals that are tested and confirmed to have HIV to notify their partners. If they knowingly infect anyone with HIV, they could be arrested and convicted of a fourth degree felony. They could be a member of Offender U under TIER III, if convicted.
HIV is known as the human immunodeficiency viruses.
It is two species of Lentivirus that causes the HIV infection. If not treated it could led to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The virus can be spread through sexual contact (oral, vaginal and anal). It could be spread through needle-sharing with intravenous drug use. It is rare that HIV can be contracted through blood transfusions.
South Carolina predator preyed on Black women and deliberately gave HIV.
HIV has no cure. However, there is treatment that can suppress the virus and folks can live a normal life without fear of spreading the disease. Most infected will not show known symptoms. However, many will develop flu-like symptoms, night sweats, unusual weight loss, swollen glands, nausea, persistent diarrhea, loss of appetite and sores/rashes in pubic areas.
LeReyna talked about this South Carolina local DJ and concert promoter allegedly raping women of color. He may have given a few of his victims the HIV disease.
I won't mention his name. I am done giving credence to name dropping criminality.
This threat to the community is accused of sex-trafficking nearly 700 Black girls. This predator is being held without a "get out free card." He could face LIFE in the iron college if convicted.
Florida man knowingly spread HIV to his ex-girlfriend and other women.
This DJ is a white man and you notice you're not hearing any comments from that far-white agitator Colin Flaherty. I only call him the asshat who obsesses with Black on whatever crime.
He might want to look into the actions of his own kind.
Guess the state?
Yes, Florida.
This man is accused of having sex with multiple women without telling them he was HIV-positive, which is illegal under Florida law. The women and his ex-girlfriend pressed charges against this guy after he was trying to meet up with another woman.
Social media scattered with pictures of this predator with women.
This jackass had infected women in the Orlando/Sanford/Kissimmee/Daytona Beach area. So he may have infected countless women. Who knows how many? Four at least came forward to make sure this asshole's pleasure seeking stops right now.
Three women said that they had unprotected sex with him and one got the HIV virus in 2016.
Predator has no shame in what he's done.
The ex-girlfriend contracted the disease in 2013 when she dated him.
The victims attempted to contact other women who were dating this guy in attempt to warn them.
One victim provided the names of the women he allegedly slept with and others he possibly infected.
In a statement, the law agencies have to confirm the medical records of this predator. They have to confirmed that he was tested positive. He was confirmed in January 2014. His social media is littered with alleged victims.
He is being held in the Volusia County lockup without a "get out free" card.
Under Florida law, it is illegal for anyone who knows they have any of several sexually transmitted diseases to have sex with another person without informing them of having HIV.
Other reportable diseases include, gonorrhea, genital herpes simplex, chlamdia, nongonococcal urethritis (NGU), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)/acute salpingitis and syphilis.
