If I had to pick between a political debate and football game, I would say football. Given that CBS decided to place the Democratic debate on Saturday, they knew that about less than 3 million would watch it. Given that there's three candidates remaining in the Democratic presidential primary race.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) were at Drake University for tonight's debate.
This the second debate for the Democrats. There was a forum last Friday being hosted by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in South Carolina.
The Democrats mostly stayed focused on issues involving the economy.
The debate changed directions given the Paris attacks. The main focus of tonight's debate focused on how to prevent a terrorist attack in the United States.
Clinton, O'Malley and Sanders have all had an opportunity to debate the issues. Terrorism, social programs, how to work with the Republicans, the Obama legacy, Clinton's trustworthiness, Sanders's being a Democratic Socialist, and O'Malley's reaction to #BlackLivesMatter.
I want to say that I didn't fall asleep listening to the candidates. I mean there was a few moments where the candidates did raise their voices at one another.
I am not going to bore you with the debate. All I can say is who won this debate?
The global city of Paris was rocked by a horrific terrorist attack.
I don't want to jump to conclusions on the death count, but I can tell you that the causality count is extremely high. Me and S. Baldwin send our condolences to the victims of tonight's tragedy in Paris.
According to the numerous sources, there was a series of mass shootings and bombings in the entertainment districts of Paris.
This worst of the attacks happened at the Le Bataclan Music Hall. The concert featured American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. While people were cheering on the music, these terrorists opened fire on concert goers, people enjoying dinner and watching a soccer event. These individuals who were cornered by the law decided to take more lives out by detonating suicide explosives.
This tragedy has merit global attention.
#PrayforParis is trending on the social networks.
The blame game also is trending.
I am picturing our conservative agitators saying that President Barack Obama didn't do enough or say enough. I can imagine that terrorism will be front and center in the Democratic debate. I can imagine that Republicans will agitate bigotry towards Muslims.
Muslims condemn this tragedy.
The French government imposed a mandatory curfew for the entire country. President François Hollande announced that borders are closed. He also vows to find everyone involved in this tragedy.
The leaders come to the aid of the French government. President Barack Obama, Britain's David Cameron, Canada's Justin Trudeau, Germany's Angela Murkel, and Russia's Vladimir Putin all send sympathies to the French Republic.
The Beirut bombings, the Jordanian police officer who murdered American contractors, the apparent take down of the Russian Boeing plane has intelligence agencies pointing fingers at the Islamic State.
At least seven individual attacks took place, comprising of at least six shootings and three explosions.
Shootings were reported around the Rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, Rue de Charonne, and Rue Bataclan.
Petit Cambodge and Le Carillon shootings
A shooting at the Petit Cambodge ("Little Cambodia") restaurant in the 10th arrondissement of Paris resulted in several deaths, which are reported to be between four to eleven.
The assailants also shot people outside a bar called Le Carillon near the Canal Saint-Martin.
According to a police official, 11 people were killed at the restaurant. The assailants reportedly "fled in one or two vehicles" after the shootings.
La Belle Equipe shooting
Shots were fired at La Belle Equipe, a restaurant in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Bataclan theatre siege and mass shooting
Shootings and hostage takings occurred at the Bataclan theatre in the 11th arrondissement where the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal were playing to an audience of around 1,500. 60—100 hostages were taken.
The band's members escaped without injury.
Someone who escaped the attack told a journalist that the attackers mentioned Syria and that there were five or six attackers. One witness in the Bataclan stated that a gunman yelled "This is because of all the harm done by Hollande to Muslims all over the world."
There were further attacks reported on police and first responders who arrived at the scene after initial reports of shooting inside the theatre.
One of the attackers at the Bataclan had explosives, according to a police officer at the scene.
Julien Pierce, a journalist from Europe 1, said that he saw armed men enter the Bataclan, and two or three men not wearing masks fired indiscriminately on the crowd.
The siege ended at 1 am.
The police reported that an estimated 100 people were killed at the theatre.
Four attackers were killed, three of whom died by detonating their suicide belts.
Stade de France explosion
At least 10 people were injured or killed in an explosion at a bar near the Stade de France in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
The President of France, François Hollande, was at the Stade de France attending an international friendly football match between France and Germany. Hollande was safely evacuated from the scene and met the French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve to coordinate a response to the emergency.
Explosions were heard on the live televised broadcast of the match.
Following the game, fans were brought onto the pitch to await evacuation as police monitored all exits from the venue.
I stand with the people of France in the wake of this horrific tragedy. We will continue to follow this tragedy.
If you want to help, please donate to the American Red Cross and Amnesty International for assistance.
Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler will meet French president François Hollande. President Barack Obama praised the Americans for stopping a terrorist from carrying out his mass murder plot.
Americans were praised by the French government after they disarmed a terrorist who tried to shoot up a train bound for Paris.
As it left Belgium, the train was traveling through the rural side of the country. After it enter France, the Morocco-born man picked up his piece and began firing.
The passengers were caught off guard by this and were fearing the end was near. Well three Americans and one Brit were there to stop this from becoming a tragedy.
Some witness said that the train staff turned chicken and left the passengers to fend for themselves.
These men gave his a five finger knuckle roll with a side of toe jam seasoning. The Americans put their fear aside and went to action. Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler were passengers on the train and they along with British IT worker Chris Norman handled business. They subdued the shooter and put him in the hospital. He is expected to face criminal charges.
The suspect’s motive was not immediately known, but French prosecutors said counter-terrorism investigators were launching an inquiry. According to early briefings, the gunman was known to French intelligence services and was Moroccan or of Moroccan origin.
Knockout punch served with a side of toe jam seasoning.
Belgian prosecutors said on Saturday they had formally opened an anti-terrorism investigation. “We have opened an inquiry as the suspect boarded the train in Brussels,” Eric van der Sypt, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, said.
The shooting happened just before 6pm in the last carriage of the train, which was carrying 554 passengers. The man had several weapons in his luggage, including a Kalashnikov, an automatic pistol and razor blades.
The attacker was taken into custody as the train was stopped in Arras, about two hours northeast of Paris. He was being interviewed by French counter-terrorism officials Saturday, said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
Cazeneuve said the attacker, Ayoub El-Qahzzani may be a 26-year-old Moroccan national who was flagged by Spanish authorities last year for links to Islamic extremist movements, but his identity was never confirmed.
World News Today send our prayers to the victims of this tragedy. But we also send our praise to the brave men who disarmed this terrorist.
Reality star Kim Kardashian-West told of a bump in her belly.
The junk food media reports that controversial celebrity agitator Kim Kardashian West is expecting another one. Kanye West is going to be a proud papa again. The rap star/producer/celebrity agitator is the husband of the socialite.
The couple celebrates their first year anniversary with their daughter when the news broke from Entertainment Tonight and AP.
"I'm hoping so. You know I kind of wish I was pregnant at the same time Kourtney is. She's like more than half way in, so you know, we're trying," Kardashian told "Entertainment Tonight" in August, when asked if she sees another baby in the near future. "It would be fun. There's a lot of craziness in the house, so why not add pregnancy hormones to the craziness? It would be like a partner in crime. Someone to know those cravings that you're really going through."
Round two.
A month later, Kardashian again spoke of her desire to get pregnant, telling Australia's "Today" show, "We’re trying. I guess, it’s all in God’s hands."
Getting pregnant the second time around was no easy task for the couple.
"I've been having sex 500 times a day," Kardashian told Khloe on a preview for the reality show's tenth season. "I was like, 'I'm ovulating today!' So I made [Kanye] come to my photo shoot. You know what, I don't feel bad about that for one second. You gotta get it in where you can get it in."
West is producing his eighth album and it's going to be released on Def Jam this year.
Reality television sucks. I know Kim and her family are probably one of the main reasons.
Nonetheless, well wishes to Kanye and Kim Kardashian-West on their second round.
The American junk food media complaining about President Barack Obama and his team skipping a peace rally in France.
And if he did...They would complain about that!
See I am getting tired of reading and listening to these outrage pimps. I know I can change the channel. I can turn off the radio. But I do this job so you don't have to.
Welcome to the first conservative outrage of 2015. Let's start with the loudmouth agitator from Cincinnati who has a show on Sunday nights. He is the daily router for the conservative Craigslist.
Splashed on the conservative Craigslist is the New York Daily News bruising cover. On it includes President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder. Under it says "You Let The World Down".
Sigh....
Then it was on CNN, the folks over at CBS talked about it. It's probably on Loserville right now.
I want to say that our American media is shiny coin driven.
We have to be vigilant regardless of situation. No one is shielded from interruption.
Okay, over the past week, the junk food media moved away from two cops being killed and protesters claiming they've said "kill cops" to now "radical Islam" and what Obama could have done.
The outrage pimps and fear monkeys along with those annoying Republican senators on GOP Sundays are wimping on how Obama's not doing this or rather doing that but not doing it their way.
Last week three men who had ties to terrorism went on a murder spree. They killed the staff at a French satire magazine and a few member of law enforcement. When cornered, two of the suspects hid in a printing plant taking hostages. They ended up being killed by French authorities. The third suspect surrendered to the law. During the hostage situation, another man held shoppers hostage. He would kill four of them before the French authorities put him down. Now the junk food media is looking for his wife. Apparently she skipped to Syria.
Western Europe's leaders came with solidarity.
Canada's prime minister Steven Harper, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas were among the leaders in attendance. Among 40 leaders mostly from Europe.
The junk food media is not concerned about the out of nowhere appearance. The Secret Service would have to stretch its resources to this. The president is extremely high value and the security has to be huge. Of course, if he has to stop what he was doing fly Air Force One over to France, get out in attire with First Lady Michelle Obama and shake hands with leaders the conservatives hate, then they'll complain.
The White House admit they could have sent a high profile representative. But seriously, this was not an American tragedy. No Americans died in this.
Our conservative agitators are obsessed with "radical" Muslims.
You know I am more fearful of failure and rejection than a terrorist. I don't fear man, woman or beast. I don't worry about my daily life being interrupted by a bunch of ignorant criminals.
France is happy the United States had a representative. An ambassador was in attendance. The French government knows that having President Barack Obama there will require heavy security.
So this is beginning of a long whiny year. The outrage pimps are never taking a break from the Obama obsession.
The European Union and the United States today condemns an attack today at a satirical French newspaper that killed 12 people.
This newspaper known as the Charlie Hebdo was in the news some years ago after some its writers and illustrators made nasty references towards the Prophet Mohammad.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lost in this horrific tragedy.
This was bubbling up for a while.
Before the attack happened, the newspaper made another offensive reference towards the Prophet and the Islamic State.
French President Francois Hollande has labelled the shooting a terrorist attack, and confirmed that at least 11 people were killed and another four were in critical condition. Among the dead are two police officers.
“This is a terrorist attack, there is no doubt about it,” Hollande told reporters.
French news organizations are saying that four of France’s most well known cartoonists — Charb, Cabu, Wolinski, and Tignous — are among the dead.
Video shows two gunmen shooting from a distance what is reportedly a Paris policeman, who is then seen struggling on a sidewalk. The two gunmen run over to him, and one casually puts a bullet in the policeman’s head, killing him.
In the video, the gunmen can be heard shouting “Allahu akbar” between bursts of gunfire. The gunmen also shouted “we have avenged the prophet,” according to police.
Hollande arrived at the scene of the shooting after rushing there and calling an emergency cabinet meeting, the presidency said.
The government raised its alert level to the highest possible in the greater Paris region.
A source close to the investigation said two men “armed with a Kalashnikov and a rocket-launcher” stormed the building in central Paris and “fire was exchanged with security forces.”
The source said a gunman had hijacked a car and knocked over a pedestrian while attempting to speed away.
The New York Times reports that the car was later found abandoned “in the 20th Arrondissement of Paris, a neighborhood with a large immigrant population.”
The publication’s cartoonist Renaud Luzier earlier told AFP there were “casualties” after the incident.
The satirical newspaper gained notoriety in February 2006 when it reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that had originally appeared in Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, causing fury across the Muslim world.
Its offices were fire-bombed in November 2011 when it published a cartoon of Mohammed and under the title “Charia Hebdo”.
Despite being taken to court under anti-racism laws, the weekly continued to publish controversial cartoons of the Muslim prophet.
In September 2012 Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of a naked Mohammed as violent protests were taking place in several countries over a low-budget film, titled “Innocence of Muslims”, which was made in the United States and insulted the prophet.
French schools, consulates and cultural centres in 20 Muslim countries were briefly closed along with embassies for fear of retaliatory attacks at the time.
Editor Stephane Charbonnier has received death threats and lives under police protection.
The newspaper’s editor in chief, Gérard Biard, is in London. He was quoted on Twitter saying that the threats had actually lessened lately.
France’s interior minister said police are searching for three suspects involved in the attacks.
"La Sainte-Chapelle ( The Holy Chapel ), is the only surviving building of the Capetian royal palace on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris, France. It was commissioned by King Louis IX of France to house his collection of Passion Relics, including the Crown of Thorns - one of the most important relics in medieval Christendom."
The Sainte-Chapelle or 'Holy Chapel', in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité (now part of a later administrative complex known as La Conciergerie), was built to house Louis IX's collection of relics of Christ, which included the Crown of Thorns, the Image of Edessa and some thirty other items. Louis purchased his Passion relics from Baldwin II, the Latin emperor at Constantinople, for the sum of 135,000 livres, though this money was actually paid to the Venetians, to whom the relics had been pawned. The relics arrived in Paris in August 1239, carried from Venice by two Dominican friars. For the final stage of their journey they were carried by the King himself, barefoot and dressed as a penitent, a scene depicted in the Relics of the Passion window on the south side of the chapel. The relics were stored in a large and elaborate silver chest, the Grand-Chasse, on which Louis spent a further 100,000 livres. The entire chapel, by contrast, cost 40,000 livres to build and glaze. Until it was completed in 1248, the relics were housed at chapels at the Château de Vincennes and a specially built chapel at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1246, fragments of the True Cross and the Holy Lancewere added to Louis' collection, along with other relics. The chapel was consecrated on 26 April 1248 and Louis' relics were moved to their new home with great ceremony.
As well as serving as a place of worship, the Sainte-Chapelle played an important role in the political and cultural ambitions of King Louis and his successors.[2][3]With the imperial throne at Constantinople occupied by a mere Count of Flanders and with the Holy Roman Empire in uneasy disarray, Louis' artistic and architectural patronage helped to position him as the central monarch of western Christendom, the Sainte-Chapelle fitting in to a long tradition of prestigious palace chapels. Just as the Emperor could pass privately from his palace into the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, so now Louis could pass directly from his palace into the Sainte-Chapelle. More importantly, the two-story palace chapel had obvious similarities to Charlemagne's palatine chapel at Aachen (built 792-805) - a parallel that Louis was keen to exploit in presenting himself as a worthy successor to the first Holy Roman Emperor.
