OKCupid Deliberately Trying To Break Couples Up!

Experiment goes wrong. Love website OKCupid angers supporters with its social test.

Online dating is kind of like high school. It's nothing but drama. Even though you may never have met the partner, that person probably knows a person that knows you.

You may have worked with this person. You may have seen this person once in your life. You may have never seen this person whether at school, a social gathering, or even online. However, you joining a social networking website that offers you a chance to date a partner.

I am single. I work two jobs. I am not looking for a relationship (for now). I am only looking for dating and hanging out. I am willing to date any woman. I am into girly girls. I am not into tomboys or obsessive phone/text messaging types. I don't normally be on the phone and I tend to be a reclusive person at times.

I keep a very small circle of friends and acquaintances. Nothing personal, but once you have a weakness, you let your guard down, everyone comes after it. Then of course, the high school mentality kicks in.

He said and she said. That's not the "real" you. Or my personal favorite, you're a nice person, but I just think of us as "friends" and nothing serious.

Been there, done that.

Interracial marriage is on the rise.

Now I have a profiles for Facebook, Blackplanet, POF (Plenty of Fish), Badoo, AYI (Are You Interested), Tagged, and OKCupid. Each opportunity a woman would see my profile and find interest in me.

OKCupid is one of the country's most popular social networking website for relationships. It's free to sign up but if you want stronger access you have to shelve out some dollars.

OKCupid gotten into some trouble this month. To finish out the month, here's a heartbreaker.

The New York Times reports that the users of OKCupid, one of the web’s most popular dating sites, that provide a window into how the company chase romantic partners in the digital age.

At the same time, the results offer yet another example of how websites like OKCupid are sometimes used as social science laboratories — often without telling their subjects.

In June, Facebook disclosed that it had tested to see if emotions were contagious, deliberately manipulating the emotional content of the news feeds for 700,000 people. After the disclosure led to an uproar by users, privacy regulators in Europe began looking into whether the social network had broken any local laws.

Despite the bad publicity faced by Facebook, OKCupid on Monday published results of three experiments it recently conducted on users. In one test, it obscured profile pictures. In another, the site hid profile text to see how it affected personality ratings. And in a third, it told some hopeful daters that they were a better or worse potential match with someone than the company’s software actually determined.

“If you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site,” Christian Rudder, president of OKCupid, wrote on the company’s blog. “That’s how websites work.”

LGBT couples were pleased that the OKCupid CEO put a ban on Firefox. The Firefox co-founder supported California's Proposition 8 ban.

The research found that if an OKCupid user was told that another user had a high compatibility score instead of a low one — the numbers are based on a mathematical formula created by the company — the user was slightly more likely to reach out with a message. Those who believed they were corresponding with a good match were almost twice as likely to send at least four messages compared with people who were told they were a low match.

The test also illustrates how easy it is for a website to manipulate users without their knowing. The small number of users who received changed compatibility scores, some to 90 percent from 30 percent, were not told about the change before the experiment began. After the test ended, OKCupid sent emails revealing the true compatibility scores.

“I understand that that experimentation is part of the process,” said Zaz Harris, 37, a user of the site from Redwood City, Calif. “But I do think that experiment is a lot more invasive than the others because it could affect outcomes in a meaningful way.”

Love is not an experiment.

She added: “I would probably never see someone that the site said was a 30 percent match when we were actually 90 percent, so that is not cool, really.”

Ms. Harris said, however, that her expectations for online dating were low regardless of percentages displayed. If the experiment was short-lived and produced better matchmaking, she said, “It’s not that big a deal.”

OKCupid’s user agreement says that when a person signs up for the site, personal data may be used in research and analysis.

“We told users something that wasn’t true. I’m definitely not hiding from that fact,” said Mr. Rudder, OKCupid’s president. But he said the tests were done to determine how people can get the most from the site. “People come to us because they want the website to work, and we want the website to work.”

The New York Times added that in the other two experiments described on Monday, OKCupid said users were more likely to equate “looks” with “personality,” even in profiles that featured attractive photos and little if any substantive profile information.

And, it said, when the site obscured all profile photos one day, users engaged in more meaningful conversations, exchanged more contact details and responded to first messages more often. They got to know each other. But when pictures were reintroduced on the site, many of those conversations stopped cold.

“It was like we’d turned on the bright lights at the bar at midnight,” Mr. Rudder wrote.

But while appearance matters as a rule, there seem to be exceptions. When people went on truly blind dates that they set up using a companion app with no photos, their enjoyment of the dates was less influenced by looks.

In other words, maybe love can be blind, if you let it be.

Like with Facebook, the internet is a tool to connecting with people. But it's also a tool to driving wedges between families and friends. It's a damn shame that our social networks would disrespect our privacy.

Tamar Braxton And Tamara Mowry Host The Real!

The Real featuring Tamar Braxton, Tamara Mowry-Housley, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Adrienne Bailon will be a competitor to The View and The Talk.

Looks like another women's forum on the most controversial topics will appear on many syndication stations across the nation.

Tamara Mowry-Housley, Tamar Braxton,  Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Adrienne Bailon are looking forward to flex their muscle on women's talk. They will compete with The View and The Talk.

The Real is sponsored by Warner Bros and Telepictures and it will be on CW and Fox syndication stations.

It will debut this Summer and be in the major markets. Before you will see an actual Fall season, it will make it through a "test run" and hope to score big like Wendy Williams and Bethanny Frankel.

This is their premiere episode and it features Game as one of their guest.

Glenn Beck Does Have A Soul! Although Some Don't Believe He Had One In The First Place!

Conservatives believe the agitator is a traitor because he helped immigrants.

The controversial agitator and media mogul decides to be a "giver of grace!"

I don't believe the hype.

Outside his Dallas mansion, the conservative agitator will plan on assisting migrants who fled their countries to seek asylum in the United States.

He plans on bringing food and toys to the children that are in detention camps. That has struck a nerve with the agitators he claims are "allies" to his cause.

Republicans are determined to undermine the president. The president has a proposal to solving the problem, but it will face fierce resistance from the House and Senate Republicans. The Republicans are going to not assist in giving the president his $4 billion proposal to curb this problem.

The conservative agitator and many of his friends on the racist right are so pissed off at the president. They believe President Barack Obama allowed "backyard amnesty" to millions of migrants from the Southern border.

Instead of having compassion towards migrant children who fled from sex trafficking and the civil wars (drug cartels), many here in the states believe that these vermin are not welcomed.

Murrieta, California and parts of Texas have been hotbeds of White extremism. Some traveled from other towns to meet Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses at their docking stations. They threaten to stand in the way of migrants who illegally came to the country.

You Ain't Getting No Asylum Says American Bigots!

A bunch of White bigots meets a bus full of immigrants in a California city.

The controversy down at the border between the United States and Mexico heats up when a bus full of migrants were stopped on the line by angry White people who have strong ties to the far right militia.

Again, some Americans can't fathom immigrants coming to the country illegally. They believe these people are vermin and they want them to go back to their country.

Instead of having a heart, they have a gun and whole lot of racial slurs. Murrieta, California was the hub of the outrage by residents and those associated with the far right militia.

Republican mayor Alan Long told residents to meet the buses at the suburban Immigration and Customs Exchange facility and block their route.

So a bunch of White bigots come to the area and protest and wave around their Chinese made American flags. They tell the immigrants that they have no place in the United States and they had to go.

The insurgency continues to be a problem in America. They don't understand that this country is based on immigrants and the United States was originally owned by First Nations. The White man stole the land and claimed it for their own. They drew imaginary lines to say what's the United States and what's not.

Sad and pathetic.

Americans are entitled to be hateful bigots. But just think why those overseas hate us so much. It's this nonsense that drives the extremists to attack us. The inhumane actions by those who claim their "patriotic".

A bunch of White bigots is what I think of these people.

The Associated Press reports that Homeland Security buses carrying migrant children and families were rerouted Tuesday to a facility in San Diego after protesters blocked the group from reaching a suburban processing center.

The standoff in Murrieta came after Mayor Alan Long urged residents to complain to elected officials about the plan to transfer the Central American migrants to California to ease overcrowding of facilities along the Texas-Mexico border.

Many protesters held U.S. flags, while others held signs reading "stop illegal immigration," and "illegals out!"

"We can't start taking care of others if we can't take care of our own," protester Nancy Greyson, 60, of Murrieta, told the Desert Sun newspaper.

See the pictures of American hate.

Many of the immigrants were detained while fleeing violence and extortion from gangs in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

After the buses were blocked, federal authorities rerouted the vehicles to a freeway and then to a customs and border facility in San Diego within view of the Mexico border.

The three buses were trailed by a half-dozen news crews during the two-hour trip. People near the San Diego facility were surprised by the caravan.

Juan Silva, 27, a welder in Chula Vista, said he thought officials were transporting drug traffickers. Then he heard the buses were carrying migrant families.

"I don't think people in that town should be against little kids," he said about the protesters in Murrieta. "We're not talking about rapists. We're talking about human beings. How would they feel if it was their kids?"

After the migrants are processed, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will decide who can be released while awaiting deportation proceedings.

Earlier in the day, a chartered plane landed in San Diego with 136 migrants on board, according to a federal Department of Homeland Security official who was not authorized to be named when speaking on the issue.

This is the insurgency of the Republican Party.

It was the first flight planned for California under the federal government's effort to ease the crunch in the Rio Grande Valley and deal with the flood of Central American children and families fleeing to the United States.

The government is also planning to fly migrants to Texas cities and another site in California, and it has already taken some migrants to Arizona.

More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained after crossing the Texas-Mexico border since October in what President Barack Obama has called a humanitarian crisis. Many of the migrants are under the impression that they will receive leniency from U.S. authorities.

Another flight was expected to take 140 migrants to a facility in El Centro, California, on Wednesday, said Lombardo Amaya, president of the El Centro chapter of the Border Patrol union. The Border Patrol would not confirm that arrival date.

Failed Porn Gig Led To Woman Killing Herself!

A young woman pulls the trigger on herself after she failed to get a XXX-deal.

The Atlanta Constitution-Journal reports that a Las Vegas woman managed to pull the trigger on herself after she couldn't score a gig in the porn industry. I mean how desperation turned to a death sentence.

You're beautiful and because of a rejection this young woman would kill herself.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Alyssa Funke.

Beautiful and young, Alyssa Funke went to Las Vegas and “auditioned” for a porn movie via a website.

After the video went public, the former straight-A student's old classmates in Stillwater, Minnesota, began sending her messages.

Some were surprised, some negative, and others supportive. She answered a few with social media posts of her own, including “Pornstar status” and “FAMOUS for dayzzzzz.”

However, it all took a toll, and the young woman bought a shotgun and drove to her family’s boat, where she killed herself.

KMSP-TV reports Funke’s family confirmed she had a history of depression. Her father is in prison, and her mother has been charged with dealing drugs. They say Alyssa also had struggles with money.

Funke's family blame her death, in part, on online bullying. But the sheriff’s office said the messages she was sent did not amount to criminal harassment.

Alyssa’s family said they are talking about her death now because they want to keep other girls from making the same mistake. They want young women to understand the pressure that comes from social media and the stigma porn carries.

They also said they would like to bring attention to bullying and the effect it can have on somebody.

Under the name Stella Ann, she would have sex with a man. The former students of Stillwater High School in Minnesota were taunting her and sending harassing comments. This took a toll.

The cyberbullying drove her to death.

Once you post something online that could be embarrassing, it's there forever!

With cyberbullying, I want to make this clear: MEN ARE LIKELY THE ONES WHO ENGAGE IN THIS BEHAVIOR!

The cyberbully/cyberstalker creates emotional distress. The individual can ruin your reputation and cost you your job. Having someone posting your personal address and phone number in a fake profile is the ultimate insult. The cyberbully/cyberstalker invite problems by harassing you with personal threats and unwanted advances.

It's only funny, until someone gets hurt. And believe me it's getting worse.

We Will Survive The Challenges Ahead!

Ohio Republican governor John Kasich cheers on the Cleveland kidnapping survivors, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight (now Lily Rose Lee).

Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry had overcome the odds.

A year ago in Cleveland on a quiet street, the yells of a young woman. Local neighbors were startled by a young woman and her child pleading for them to call the police. The young woman would tell the tales of being held captive in the house and tells the world that she's Amanda Berry.

Amanda Berry was kidnapped in 2003. She was leaving her job at Burger King when out of nowhere she would disappear. Her disappearance sparked national coverage.

She would tell the neighbors that two other women were in the home of this crazy man named Ariel Castro.

The other women were Michelle Knight, a young mother who ran away and Gina DeJesus, then a teenager who was walking home from school and was abducted in 2004.

Three women were held captive in a Cleveland area home. They spent nearly a decade in an old Seymour Avenue home being enslaved by Castro.

Castro, a former school bus driver and local musician held these women against their will. He would torture them, rape them and cause them miscarriages.

Castro would rape Amanda and father a child by her. He would beat Gina and Michelle when they couldn't bore his children. They would sit in a separate room in a well secured home.

Castro was a divorced father of four. He divorced his wife after he abused her. According to the law, Castro would have a sexual fetish. The man would troll the stroll for hookers and occasionally meet women on social networks. Castro feared rejection.

Castro groomed a distraught Michelle after she lost custody of her son. She would be the first victim of the horrors.

On May 6, Castro and his brothers would leave to take care of an errand. Amanda would find a portion of his home that had a broken door. She would use that broken door to escape.

Cleveland Police, the FBI and Cuyahoga County Sheriff would gather around the Seymour Avenue home grabbing evidence and reveal to the junk food media about this home being a "place of horrors".

Deep inside Castro's home was hidden rooms. Those hidden rooms and his basement were padlocked.

Castro's four grown children would be advised not to stroll around his home too much. He would regularly attend church, have relationships with women and troll for hookers. When he was done, he would go back home and have his three.

Castro's arrest ended the horror. When interviewed by the law, he would tell them that he "let his guard down" and he was thankful for allowing the law to catch him. When he was to go to trial, he wanted to plea not guilty knowing that if he was found guilty he would be given the gas chamber. So he copped a plea. That plea meant for him to give up his home, his assets would go to the victims, he would have no contact with his family or the victims, and he would spend the rest of his life in the iron college with no parole.

He took the deal. And off he goes to Orient Lockup. After a few months in the iron college, Castro would hang himself. The law knew he was suicidal, but somehow two correction guards got the pinkslip after Castro put the blankets around a bar and let his neck slide between them.

As a year passes by, I've read that the three women were award a victim's compensation and are trying to adjust to their lives.

They still live in the Cleveland area. Michelle Knight, 33 year old has distanced herself from the events. She no longer talks to Amanda Berry or Gina DeJesus. She would change her name to Lily Rose Lee, got tattooed and pierced. She reunited with her family and her son. She is attending a cooking school.

Gina DeJesus, 24 and Amanda Berry, 27 are going to be Washington, DC this week to meet with the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children. They will accept an award for their bravery and speak to national speakers including Elizabeth Smart, a survivor of a kidnapping in the 1990s.

Amanda and Michelle are mothers of children.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish those three young women the very best. Personally, I wish each woman well. They've survived a madman's horror. They are truly loved and blessed.

We love you Michelle (Lily), Amanda and Gina! We hope that you can move forward in your lives.

Chris Hayes Takes On Bundy Supporter!

Right wing rancher threatens armed assault on the federal government. In his mind, he didn't violate the federal lands. So he kept on allowing his cattle graze on the land. When the government grabbed the cattle, the rancher and his supporters stood in the way with firearms in toll.

A Nevada legislator is a supporter of right wing activist Cliven Bundy. She goes to All In With Chris Hayes to spar with the liberal agitator over the controversy involving Bundy and the federal government's round up of his cattle.

Cliven Bundy is Nevada rancher who constantly kept violating the United States Bureau of Land Management's order to keep his cattle off the land. He refused to pay bills to the US government for his cattle grazing on federal lands near Bunkerville, Nevada. Bundy was eventually prohibited from grazing his cattle on the land by an order issued in 1998 by the United States District Court for the District of Nevada in United States v. Bundy.

After years of repeated violations of multiple court orders, in early April 2014 the BLM began rounding up Bundy's cattle that were trespassing on the land, confronted by protesters and armed supporters of Bundy.

Michele Fiore shows her pistol and beauty.

Media personalities have weighed in on the confrontations. During the stand-off Bundy was interviewed (via remote link) by television host That Guy Who Helped Obama Win.

That asshole stated that some fear events could wind up mirroring the Waco siege and Ruby Ridge and asked how far Bundy was willing to take his cause, he replied "my statement to the American people (is), I’ll do whatever it takes to gain our liberties and freedom back."

Talk radio show host, Tea Party activist, and former Illinois Representative Joe Walsh also supported the protesters.

Walsh, who traveled to the area and stood by Cliven Bundy as the BLM released the cattle, described the outcome as "talk radio, social media, grassroots activists, and boots-on-the-ground patriots joined together...[&] overcame the tyranny of big government."

Walsh added "we should be smart enough to know that this isn't the end. The BLM could easily show up again tomorrow, next week, or next month. ...We must be vigilant."

Assemblywoman Michele Fiore is a Republican legislator from the Las Vegas area.

A woman who's partly Italian and Latina, Fiore is an active member of the Tea Party movement. She likes to flaunt around her beauty and her many pistols.

She didn't follow the byline of what happened in reality. She would just open her damn mouth insert foot in.

Chris Hayes decides to call her on her bluff and sparks fly.

The Raw Story reports that Fiore was in Bunkerville showing her support for the rancher. She defends this standoff with the right wing rancher and the federal government.

“I’m not saying I agree with Cliven Bundy, I’m saying the way this was handled was really suspicious,” state Assembly member Michelle Fiore (R) told Hayes. “When in the heck do we send our federal government with arms to collect a bill? When do we do that? When have we ever done that? I mean, literally, if we sent our federal government to the borders to secure them against terrorist crossing, hey, I got that. But they want to come here with arms because cows are grazing?”

Fiore spoke with Hayes from outside Bunkerville, Nevada, where a crowd has formed in support of Bundy. The government holds that Bundy has refused to pay federal grazing fees for two decades, incurring a debt of more than $1 million after losing several court battles.

Right wing militia stands off with U.S. Federal Authorities.

After Bundy declared he he would give the government a “range war,” the dispute led to a stand-off between his supporters — many of whom arrived with firearms — and officials from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), who later left the area.

But Fiore accused the bureau of “coming up” with the fees in 1993 over unspecified damages, and cut Hayes off when he was about to mention that Bundy’s supporters were armed. Hayes also showed footage of one of them openly discussing being willing to kill or be killed by BLM officials during the stand-off.

“Chris, do you want them coming to your house pointing guns at your wife and children? Is that okay with you?” Fiore asked. “Because it’s defnitely not okay with me, it’s not okay with Americans across the United States.”

“Is it okay with you if every rancher in the country stopped paying their grazing fees?” Hayes asked.

“No, it’s not okay,” Fiore responded.

“Well, that’s the issue, right?” Hayes said.

“Great,” Fiore replied. “Lien the cows. Lien the property. Don’t come here with guns and expect the American people not to fire back.”

Fiore did not mention that conservative media outlets have been keen to cheerlead for future conflicts between the Bundy ranch and federal officials.

But when Hayes asked Fiore if she would support any undocumented immigrants who felt it best to have their own armed supporters on hand to resist deportation efforts, Fiore did not answer.

Chris Hayes goes to battle with Nevada legislator.

“Are we talking about cows, or are we talking about illegal immigration?” she asked, instead. “I’m talking about cows.”

“I’m talking about human beings,” Hayes retorted. “Which seems to me even more important.”

“Human beings that, thank God, did not get slaughtered,” Fiore told Hayes. “Cows did get slaughtered out here.”

“What is gonna happen to those cows later on?” Hayes asked her.

“Are you saying it’s okay to cruelly slaughter them because they’re raised for beef?” Fiore shot back. “Is that what you’re saying? I would retract those statements, because it’s pretty sad, Chris.”

“Don’t put words in my mouth,” Hayes said.

Rapper Ain't Rapping About His Engagement!

Rapper Big Sean and actress Naya Rivera broken up. They called off their wedding plans. 

Def Jam rapper Big Sean is all G.O.O.D!

The Detroit rapper has been dating Naya Rivera for awhile. But all things like their love for one another has come to an end. They've called off an engagement and its over for them.

Apparently the two had some friction. According to the junk food media, there were accusations of Big Sean cheating on her. Big Sean dated his high school girlfriend Ashley Marie from the time he was sixteen until their break-up in early 2013. He subsequently began dating actress Naya Rivera, whom he first he met over Twitter; their relationship became public in April 2013, though Big Sean told Complex that they had been dating for a while beforehand.

One of Sean's ex, Brytni took to Twitter to speak her mind about the situation, claiming that she thinks it's a bad idea for him to be spreading this message to his younger fans.

"I mean it's on you if you want to publicly admit your role in cheating as a positive. But remember..Telling your fans who are mostly young girls that its ok to disrespect another woman is foul. Sorry. Not sorry."

Brytni was also called out in the track by Naya, who sang "Amber, Brytni, Tiffany, Sorry he belongs to me /Heather, Ashley, Stephanie It just wasn't meant to be, Sorry!"

Big Sean was arrested for sexual assault at a concert in Lewiston, New York.

On October 26, 2011, Big Sean pleaded guilty to second degree unlawful imprisonment, and was fined $750. The charges of third-degree sexual abuse were dropped. Big Sean's attorney, Scott Leemon, stated that Big Sean "...did not engage in any type of sexual misconduct.”

Big Sean's rep released a statement to Us Weekly on Wednesday, April 9, announcing that the rapper has decided to call off his engagement to the "Glee" star.

"After careful thought and much consideration, Sean has made the difficult decision to call the wedding off," his rep said. "The recent rumors and accusations reported by so called or fake sources are simply untrue. Sean wishes Naya nothing but the best and it is still his hope that they can continue to work through their issues privately. We will not be commenting again on this matter."

Despite reports that Big Sean, 26, cheated on Rivera, 27, a source tells Us "the allegations are 100% false and untrue" and that the "Beware" singer was the one who ended the relationship.

The couple announced their engagement in October 2013 with Rivera telling the Spring 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan Latinas that she thought Big Sean would make "an amazing husband."

"He's so kind to people, but he also wears the pants in our relationship, which I love," she said. "We Latinas are very independent and strong, so it's even sweeter that I've found somebody who can let me out of that role for a minute."

Sean (born Sean Michael Leonard Anderson, 26) signed to Kanye West's Getting Out Our Dreams Music (G.O.O.D Music) label in 2007 and released two critically acclaimed albums.

Pop Singer's Bodyguard Smacks Up Fan!

Lil' Wayne signs Christina Milian to the YMCMB label.

The Cash Money/Young Money empire is growing. The label helped Lil' Wayne, Birdman, Drake, Tyga and Nicki Minaj into the mainstream with catchy hooks and mainstream album releases.

Some of the veteran acts have decided to save their careers, hop on the label that's making money.

The Game, Busta Rhymes, reality star Paris Hilton and pop singer Christina Milian have decided to saved their washed up careers, they would join the Cash Money label.

Now I'm all for protecting the lives of high profile celebrities. But is Christina Milian a high profile celebrity?

I mean she released three albums on her previous label Island Def Jam. And of the four, one album managed to make her mainstream buzz.

Nowadays she's now a mom. She temporarily gave up the singing and acting to raise her child.

Having a child with confirmed cheater and former Def Jam act Terius Mash (known professionally as The Dream), Milian filed for divorce after rumors of the entertainer cheating on her.

After having a chance to rebound by appearing on Dancing With The Stars, the pop singer announced that she's getting back into the studio with her new crew.

Today, she gets her street cred for allowing her bodyguard smack away a crazed fan. Although the video shows the bodyguard open palm the broad, the video shows that it may land him and Milian in the courtroom if the woman decides to take them to court.

The woman (wearing only a bra and shorts) went after a bodyguard protecting Christina ... and the bodyguard swatted her away with an open palm to the face.

We have no idea who the woman is or why she was upset -- but the video's intense.

Christina was in a great mood on her way into Hooray Henry's ... but the short-tempered security guard definitely led her out in a hurry.

  Christina Milian -- Bodyguard Swats Woman in the Face
  - Watch More
  Celebrity Videos
  or
  Subscribe

Heels Kill!

Men find women in heels to be very sexy.

Houston, Texas is the fourth largest city in America. And somewhere in metro area, a woman does something so deadly it may give her life in the iron college. The woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend with a stiletto heel.

Ana Trujillo, 45 is currently in Harris County lockup over this one. It's gaining national attention.

She was in a dispute with her on-and-off boyfriend Dr. Alf Stefan Andersson over a nightclub fight.

Trujillo claims that Andersson got jealous when a guy hit on her. They continued this argument into their home and I guess this led to her stabbing him in the face, head and neck with her spiky heels.

The mother of two will now face justice on this one.

Houston metro police have discovered the man in a hallway with stab wounds. Trujillo called the law and when they arrived she answered the door covered in blood.

Now as trial begins, Trujillo may take the stand. She will claim that she's a victim of domestic abuse.

The Houston Chronicle reports that Trujillo stabbed the victim at least 25 times with a stiletto heel as she beat him to death last year.

"It looked like something out of a horror movie," Assistant Harris County District Attorney Sarah Mickelson told the jury of seven men and five women. "There was so much blood, the police officer thought Stefan had been shot in the face."

Mickelson said Andersson had been stabbed and was "beaten to bloody pulp."

Trujillo's defense team said a fight broke out because Andersson did not want Trujillo to leave town to visit her daughter. They said he believed Trujillo would end the couple's tumultuous relationship.

Houston woman could face life in the iron college for stabbing man with her shoe.

"The man went crazy and said, 'you're not leaving,' " said Jack Carroll, an attorney for Trujillo. "He grabbed her and slammed her against the wall."

Carroll said the couple had spent the evening drinking together and went to Andersson's Museum District condominium about 2 a.m.

"There was a life and death struggle that night," Carroll said. "And she did what she had to do."

Although investigators believe Trujillo used a stiletto high heel to stab Andersson, the defense said Monday it was a platform high heel.

The trial, in state District Judge Brock Thomas' court, is expected to last more than a week.

Big Boom In Harlem!

A gas line rupture caused a major explosion in Harlem.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lost in today's tragedy.

New York's Harlem experienced a major explosion. A five story building has exploded and it collapsed killing three individuals.

CNN reports that at least three people were killed in the massive explosion and fire Wednesday that leveled Patterson's building and the one beside it.

Nine people remained missing hours after the blast, city officials said. Firefighters were still frantically picking through rubble in search of survivors.

Authorities say they think a gas leak was to blame, but they haven't determined an official cause yet.

The massive explosion and fire leveled two five-story apartment buildings. At least 63 people were reported injured.

More fatalities appeared likely. Fire officials reported that two survivors suffered life-threatening injuries.

Near 116th Street and Park Avenue, once the heart of New York's large Puerto Rican community, about a dozen firefighters tore at two-story-high mounds of bricks in a search for survivors from the two buildings, which housed a piano store and an evangelical church in addition to apartments.

As gas and electric utility workers tore up pavement in an effort to shut gas lines, people gathered in the streets, many crying.

"This is a tragedy of the worst kind," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said, "because there was no indication in time to save people."

Deborah Gray White: Black diversity in the Post-civil Rights Movement

Prostitute Goes Bonkers During Hearing!

Fall River prostitute goes completely insane after the judge read charges that she was pimping underage teens for men who lived in the area. Some of her tricks were arrested as well. She gives the racist right a reason to attack Black America.

Again prostitution is the world's oldest profession. Many women and transgender women often sell their bodies for a few bucks. They are often runaways and drug abusers. The end up in the hands of human traffickers (usually pimps and madams) who often emotionally and physically abuse them.

Most prostitutes often would perform sexual acts on clients and put themselves and their partners at risk for dangerous diseases. The most common diseases are gonorrhea and syphilis. These diseases are curable, however there is reports that strains of these sexually transmitted infections are stronger. These diseases are starting to be immune to treatments.

Besides that if the prostitute and client are having sex without a condom, they put themselves at risk for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, HPV (genital warts) and herpes.

The unlawful selling of sex in the United States is classified as prostitution. Most states with exception of some counties in Nevada, outlaw prostitution. It could be classified as Misdemeanor 1 to Felony 5. It can be risen to Felony 3 if the prostitute or client are tested for HIV or Hepatitis. It is a Felony 2 for human trafficking.

Human trafficking can carry a sentence of 15 years to life, if the individuals used for sexual encounters with clients are under 18. If this is a federal charge, you will not be eligible for parole in federal time out. You will serve the full term.

In Fall Rivers, Massachusetts, a woman who was charged for human trafficking was acting a fool when the charges were being read. This woman is Black, and obviously overweight. An instant hit for the racist right to make it all about President Barack Obama.

For you see anytime there's an event in which a Black person acts out in public, expect the racist right to flock to their hate filled watering holes to make noise about it. Compare it to everything that's wrong in Black America and then in turn attack Obama for that being one of "his sons or children".

Lara (known as Missy on the streets) was arraigned on charges of sex trafficking for sexual servitude and deriving support from a prostitute. Lara pleaded not guilty at the arraignment and was held on $100,000 cash bail. As she was exiting the courtroom on Thursday morning, she began screaming and thrashing her head until she was restrained by courtroom officials.

According to a police report, the alleged victims told police that Lara, who also went by "Missy" would meet with Hispanic male bar patrons and arrange from them to have sexual intercourse for cash.

All three victims, two 15-year-old girls and a 17-year-old girl, stated that Lara would transport them from the bar to the customer's apartments and other locations to engage in sex acts.

The bar that was described by the girls was identified as Fernando's Place in Fall River.

The owner of the bar, Fernando Oliviera, told Eyewitness that he's surprised by the allegations and doesn't condone any illegal activity in his bar.

"That woman that does that, does she come here for a drink? Probably she does.... but what she does for a living, I don't know," said Oliviera.

One of Lara's alleged customers was also arraigned on Thursday morning and held on $25,000 cash bail.

Both Lara and her customer are due back in court on February 12 for a probably cause hearing.

Looking U.S. Up In Texas!

States are seeing an increase in population. The country's southern region saw rapid growth and the Midwest and Northeast seen some real decrease or stagnant growth.

The U.S. population for a time being has slowed down. The states such as Florida, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia gains population while Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Rhode Island, Pennsyslvania, Minnesota, and Michigan saw a decrease in population.

Houston population 4.3 million people.

That means that Texas will likely get three new congressional seats in the 2020 U.S. Census.

Florida is on track to surpass New York as the third most populated state.

Dallas

Ohio loses a seat and North Carolina gains a seat. Ohio the election bellweather is the state that most politicos visit during a presidential election. This state determines the outcome of American elections.

Ohio is the state that went to Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The winner of Ohio managed to secure a second term with exception of George H.W. Bush.


The Los Angeles Times reports that population growth in Southern and Western states, led by Texas, California and Florida, accounted for more than 80% of new residents nationwide over the last three years, surpassing the Northeast and Midwest in the demographic contest that plays a key role in determining states' political clout.

San Antonio

Population estimates are eagerly watched by state officials because the figures determine the flow of money into many federal programs and the number of seats each state receives in the House of Representatives. That number gets readjusted each decade.

The new data reinforce a trend that has seen Southern states' growth outpace that of the Northeast and Midwest. Texas, which gained four seats in the last round of congressional reapportionment, lagged behind only North Dakota and the District of Columbia in the rate of population growth since the 2010 census.

California, with 38,332,521 residents, and Texas, with 26,448,193, remain the nation's most populous states.

New York narrowly maintained its third-place spot with 19,651,127 residents, compared with Florida's 19,552,860, as of July 1. But the Sunshine State will soon surpass New York because its population is growing about three times faster, according to the census estimates, which are based on data measuring births, deaths and migration.

Austin

As a percent of population, California's growth again outpaced the national average over the last year, rising 0.9%, or 332,643 new residents, compared with 0.7% nationwide.

But in raw numbers, Texas added the most residents, 387,397.

An improving state economy in the second half of 2013 may augur faster growth in California, but Texas still has an advantage because of its energy-based economy and a population that is trending younger.


Texas is "going to keep growing a cumulative advantage in redistricting, until the oil economy turns [down] again," said Dowell Myers, a demography expert and professor at USC's Price School of Public Policy. "But California's adding jobs more rapidly now than Texas. So probably next year I would bet that California's share of the growth is up a little bit more."

North Dakota is the nation's fastest-growing state, driven by a thriving oil and gas industry. North Dakota's population stood at 723,393 on July 1, according to the census data, a 3.1% increase from 2012. Since the 2010 census, North Dakota's population has grown 7.6%, far outpacing the national rate of 2.4%.

Fort Worth

Kevin Iverson, manager of the North Dakota Census Office, says the biggest population growth has been among 19- to 34-year-olds, primarily through migration.

"The economic winds have clearly favored North Dakota," Iverson said, attributing it mainly to the energy boom but also growth in the manufacturing and agriculture sectors. "The real question begins to become, to what extent can you continue to grow?"

Population in the District of Columbia also grew at a sustained clip, rising 2.1% from 2012 to 2013 to 646,449. Utah grew the next fastest, at a rate of 1.6%, followed by Colorado and Texas at 1.5% and Nevada at 1.3%.

West Virginia and Maine saw slight population declines in the last year. Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Vermont and Illinois posted the slowest population growth, all at or near a tenth of 1 percentage point.

The national population stood at 316,128,839 on July 1, an increase of 2.3 million. But the annual growth rate nationally continues to lag behind where it was in the mid-2000s before the economic downturn.

Chiara de Blasio: I'm Only Human!

Bill de Blasio's daughter Chiara reveals to the press her battles with depression and drug abuse.

The racist right hates Bill de Blasio. They hate him just as much as President Barack Obama. The reason why, is purely simple.

The mayor-elect of New York City ran on a populist agenda that rolls back NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy, one of the country's harshest police profiling policies pushed by the aggressive predecessors Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani.

The racist right can't stand him for being married to a "strong Black woman" and having "mixed children" as well.

I've heard conservative agitators say that de Blasio is a "communist" and "traitor". They've called him the "White Obama" because he believes in income inequality. That issue continues to plague New York City's residents.

Then of course, the racist right is rooting for despair in New York City. They hope that his first term results in epic crime, a terrorist attack and people moving out because they can't stand a Democrat running the city.

Well here comes another bone for the racist right to chew on. Since children and young adults are off limits in the era of politics, the racist right will ignore that and focus on the problems.

Chiara de Blasio, the 19-year old daughter of the mayor is telling the world that she has a problem. She wants to tell the world that she can handle her problems with the help of family and a support group.

She revealed to the press in a five minute video about her depression, her addiction to marijuana and alcohol.

Of course, young teens will try something new once in awhile. I mean no one is perfect. But her father's opponents will try to milk this into a sensational story. I can figure that Rupert's New York Post will find some outcry about it.

Chiara and Dante de Blasio at their father's campaign rally.

There limited media appearances for Chiara, who with her 16-year-old brother Dante featured prominently in their father’s recent election campaign. As stated, children are there only when their parent is running. So it would be considered off limits to go after a child.

In the video she stated, “[I've] had depression, like clinical depression for my entire adolescence,” she said, looking healthy and assured.

“It made it easier like the more I drank and did drugs to share some common ground with people that I wouldn’t have.

“It didn’t start out as a huge thing for me but then it became a huge thing for me,” she added, to an accompanying soundtrack of soft piano music.

She credited her therapist for referring her to an out-patient therapy center in New York City, and her mother and busy father with being committed to getting her better.

“Getting sober is always a positive thing and it’s not easy. By no means is it easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done but it’s so worth it,” she said.

The Raw Story added she said beating drugs and alcohol enabled her to participate in her father’s campaign, calling it “like the greatest thing ever”, do well in school and explore things other than partying.

She called on viewers to acknowledge alcoholism and drug addiction as a disease.

“People are suffering from this disease and dying from this disease every day and we really can’t do anything as a society to help those people until we start talking about it,” she said.

According to the video, 28 percent of Americans drink at levels that put them at risk of alcohol dependence.

“If you think you have a problem, don’t wait. Ask for help,” it ended with a written message and the website address for ok2talk.org, which helps young adults who suffer from mental illness.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish Chiara a successful life.

K.O. For Holiday Greet!

The War On Christmas.

Loserville hosts its annual War on Christmas segments. From mid-November to Christmas, the news readers and conservative agitators on the network find a part of America where the holiday is under attack from secular activists who want to Christ out of the holiday.

Bill-O, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, Megyn The Outrage Princess, and the Bow Tied Manchild have covered the war from the frontlines of the studios of Loserville, hoping for an ultimate victory against the axis of Atheism.

The service industry urges its workers to avoid saying Merry Christmas because it may offend non-Christian buyers. They believe that every holiday is equally acceptable. When you think about Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day, it's too many holidays.

Holidays that are often busy shopping days for retail and hospitality services. The service industry is a beast.

Shoppers who have economic woes and also a strong detest to being wrong have become the norm of the service industry. I don't say the customer is ALWAYS right. The customer is entitled to it. Regardless of how wrong the shopper is, management is willing to save the sale if they satisfy the customer.

Being a fateful watcher of Loserville could be a problem for the woman who punched a Salvation Army bell ringer in the arm for saying Happy Holidays to her.

Kristina Vindiola told KNXV that she was collecting donations outside a Walmart in Phoenix and chose the wrong greeting for one woman.

Kristina Vindiola was hit by an angry shopper after she said "Happy Holidays" to her.

“The lady looked at me,” Vindiola recalled. “I thought she was going to put money in the kettle. She came up to me and said, ‘Do you believe in God?’ And she says, ‘You’re supposed to say Merry Christmas,’ and that’s when she hit me.”

Vindiola said that she notified Walmart managers that the woman had hit her in the arm, and the police were notified.

“She should’ve just been happy I said ‘Happy Holidays,’ but I got hit because I didn’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’” she pointed out.

After reviewing Walmart surveillance video, Phoenix determined that there was not enough evidence to arrest the suspect. Vindiola is considering taking legal action against the woman.

The Raw Story covers this controversy. It's probably the latest things that comes from the social networks.

When people are obsessed with their hatred of President Barack Obama and devoted followers of conservative media, you would expect this. Luckily this person didn't pull a gun out and shot the young woman.

Carmela Bertagna- John Singer Sargent's Model and Muse

John Singer Sargent's muse, Carmela Bertagna. She's very beautiful and an extraordinary model in her own right.

Here's an essay on the girl dancer and model Carmela Bertagna



Carmela Bertagna, a Spanish-Parisian model who modelled for painter John Singer Sargent. Very little is known about her life, except that she lived with her mother and brother. Her father is unknown. She and her family had to work in order to make ends meet for themselves. She is of Spanish descent and modelled with various artists, including John Singer Sargent. Her Mediterranean Latin looks fascinated Sargent, who was captivated by magnificent Rosina Ferrara of Capri a year earlier.

Carmela Bertagna posed as a young girl begging for alms for John Singer Sargent's painting, "A Parisian Beggar Girl", where she sported unkempt hair semi covered with a veil and wore a stark white gown trimmed in black. She leaned against a very stark white wall, a prop which Sargent used in his later pictures, most notably, "Fumee d"Amberigis," a famous picture in which Sargent placed a magnificently dressed Arab woman against a stark white wall. Carmela also posed for the self-titled picture in which she was dressed in her native peasant costume accentuated with a long, pink, furry-like shawl. Her stare according to some people is like that of a predator, namely a wolf. Bizet contemptuously described Carmen as having eyes like that of a wolf. I'm disturbed about the description. The description implicates that certain groups of women have "animal-like" personalities. It goes back to the ancient stereotyping of women as wicked temptresses who led men astray. The stereotype of a Spanish temptress was the theme of George Bizet's Carmen, a play that shocked conservative middle class audiences when it first performed in 1875. Carmela sports a red ribbon in her hair, which was typical of most Mediterranean women of the late 19th century.

Famous R&B singer Faith Evans have a vague resemblance to Carmela. She is also of Mediterranean ancestry in her multi ethnic makeup and is very ethnic in appearance. Faith's father, Richard Swain, is of Italian Ancestry. Her mother is African American. So is the opera singer Julia Migenes. As a matter of fact, she resembles her in some of her pictures on the internet. Ms. Migenes is of Greek, Irish-Puerto Rican descent and was known for her starring role in the 1984 opera movie, Carmen. She played the title character. Carmela Bertagna wouldn't look out of place in Bizet's Carmen: She's similar the Carmen character: Sultry, seductive, and independent.

In the 19th century ultra-conservative Catholic Spanish society, Gypsies, Middle Easterners, Jews, and poor people are regarded as menaces to the respectable, law- abiding people. It is the same in the 21st Century with us Americans, particularly conservatives and most liberals(a.k.a. SWPL) stereotype and demean certain groups of people to be outsiders: unpopular racial minorities such as blacks, immigrant groups such as Latinos, the underclass and poor of all races and ethnicity, prisoners(The U.S. has the largest prison industrial complex of all the industrial nations), gays, feminists(think Rush Limbaugh's contempt for them), and so on. With welfare reform initiated by Clinton back in 1997, we are seeing plenty poor/working class women, especially Women of Color, struggling to put food and other necessities for their families as well as working at low quality jobs in the future decades. Also, Proposition 187 initiated by Pete Wilson as well as the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 tend to punish immigrants of color as well as poor and working class Americans by telling them that they cannot use taxpayers' funds to help ease their way into the mainstream, that means not using public assistance nor attending public schools like other people. We Americans stereotype Black, Latina, and Native American women as "baby mamas", "welfare queens", and "loose women."  It was the same in France back in the late 19th Century when the French agonized over the Arrivals of Italian and Spanish migrants as well as Roma(formerly known as "Gypsies").

The Carmela picture tells us about the demographics of French society in the late 19th Century. When you look at the picture, remember her as an innocent young girl caught up in circumstances beyond her control, not to condemn her as an outcast or a "tramp."

The Face Of The Healthcare Marketplace Got Death Threats!

The model for Healthcare.gov told the junk food media that she face "death threats" and rampant harassment online.

It seems like conservatives and the reactionary have no shame when it comes to their fellow Americans.

The model who was on the beginning page of the Healthcare Marketplace is being severely harassed by those arm chair assholes.

Ever since it's launch, the Healthcare.gov website has been experiencing problems. All I've heard for the last few weeks is the talk of the website and not the law. I've heard turdporters and agitators in the media complain about the website day in and day out.

So much distortion and half truths plague the media. This has probably made the rollout a whole lot worse when you're the "official face" of the law.

The woman only identified as "Adriana" has spoke to ABC News about the ordeal.

Screenshot of young woman was removed.

When her face was the first thing you see when you went to the website, no one would expect her face to become a viral sensation.

Adriana, who asked that only her first name be used, said she was speaking out now to defend herself after weeks of enduring online lampooning.

"They have nothing else to do but hide behind the computer. They're cyberbullying," Adriana told ABC News' Amy Robach.

The picture was ultimately pulled from the front page, which Adriana called a "relief."

"They took the picture down. I wanted the picture down, and they wanted the picture down. I don't think anybody wanted to focus on the picture," she said.

But a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told ABC that the photo was not removed because Adriana requested it.

Married for more than six years with a 21-month old son, Adriana reached out to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to inquire about having photos of her family taken in exchange for permitting their use on the website. She was notified in the summer that her photo would be used on the front page.

Calling herself "pure Colombian," Adriana said she's lived in the United States for more than six years and is applying for citizenship. Her husband is an American citizen.

Amy Robach of ABC News confirmed that she has breast cancer and its planning on having a double mastectomy in the coming months. Right now she will contribute to 20/20 while Elizabeth Vargas is out on medical leave for alcoholism and depression.

She was a victim of hateful rhetoric as well.

NYPD IDs Baby "Hope's" Mom!

I was so young back then.


But I can vaguely remember the Baby Hope saga. I heard about this. There was a little toddler's body found in a cooler near a highway. It was a major news story back then and I guess that technology has finally determined who the mother of the child is. The New York Police are looking for her and want questions.

The summer of 1991, a little toddler who became known as "Baby Hope" was found dead in a cooler by construction workers in Manhattan, tied up and in a plastic bag. The girl, believed to have been between 3 and 5 years old, had been starved and sexually abused but was never reported missing. Now, thanks to a tip and DNA evidence, police believe they have identified the girl's mother, a law enforcement official tells the New York Times.


Police made a fresh push this summer to solve the case, putting up flyers in the neighborhood where the body was found and offering a $12,000 reward for information. The effort paid off when police received a tip from a woman who said she had spoken to a woman who said her sister had been killed.

Police acting on that tip interviewed several people and were able to confirm the identity of Baby Hope's mother, but while the case remains a murder investigation, nobody has been charged yet.

Loserville Host Thinks Weather Girl Was Born To Tacos And Tequila!

Keep it simple, Kilmeade! A pompous jerk saying pretty ignorant things.

Keep it classy, Brian Kilmeade. That douchebag on Loserville & Friends insults another female of color because she's a Spanish speaking meteorologist.

The Raw Story reports that the chauvinist asshole made a reference to a woman's Nicaraguan heritage by telling Maria Molina that she grew up on tacos.

“So what are the tips we need to know?” Kilmeade asked Molina. “You grew up on tacos, correct?”

“No, I did not grow up on tacos!” Molina shot back. “I’m Nicaraguan. It’s not a native food.”

Tell you what Kilmeade, if you could say something intelligent, what would it be?

Nevermind, I don't like to rattle the brain of an ignorant puss bag like you!

You, Steve Doocy, Alisyn Camerota and Elisabeth Hasselbeck aren't dumb. You may pretend to be dumb (because most of your audience is likely dumb), and that's perfectly fine.

But I tell you what: If you can make the audience believe that woman of color is a taco munching border jumper, that's makes you sound just a tad bit racist, sir.

I wish that woman would smack the snot out of him. But she's got at least some dignity to just keep it cool.