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

Neil Armstrong - First Moon Landing 1969

Neil Armstrong Passes Away!

Neil Armstrong has died after complications from heart surgery. The former astronaut was the first American to walk on the moon.

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

"Neil Armstrong was a pioneer of flight and that is how he would want to be remembered," says space historian John Logsdon , author of JFK  and the Race to the Moon. "In his mind he flew all kinds of vehicles that set record firsts, and one of them happened to be the first one on the moon."

Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins assisted Neil Armstrong in the Apollo 11 mission.

Armstrong basically saw himself as an aviator first and foremost, part of the long tradition of American pilots going back to the Wright Brothers, Logsdon says.

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

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

He had died in Columbus, Ohio today.

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

I am glad you guys known I was born an American! The Romney Campaign denies that he cracked a dog whistle to the brither movement.

While stomping in Michigan, Mitt Romney the perennial candidate for president made a joke to dog whistle the extremist within the conservative movement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Tragedy At New York's Empire State Building!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brother No !!!!!!!

LA Porn Star Started A Syphilis Outbreak!

Black porn star has confessed to starting a dangerous outbreak of the STD known as syphilis. He not only put his life at risk, but gave guaranteed assurance of riling up conservatives and White supremacists. In turn, they'll use this as an excuse to blame President Barack Obama and the Black community for something.

The adult entertainment industry is rattled by a member's confession that he's obtained a dangerous disease.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Mr.Marcus@akaMrMarcus

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

Hungarian porn star Aletta Ocean contracted the disease. 

The porn moratorium comes days after the California Department of Public Health released a report finding that syphilis cases in the Golden State have jumped by 18 percent from 2010 to 2011. Men had a vastly higher rate as it largely affects men who have sex with men. The STD also affected African Americans at a higher rate than any other racial demographic.

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Todd Akin Scandal: Drudge Wants To Scalp Al Franken's Head!

There's talk that Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri) getting out the U.S. Senate Race. The Republicans want him not only out of the race but to resign from the House of Representatives. They fear his impact could damage the Romney/Ryan Campaign.

So Matt Drudge wants to make the controversy involving Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri) deflect off to actor/writer Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota)! On the infamous Drudge Report, the gay conservative agitator is pulling out the "big guns" and going back after his old enemy. When Matt Drudge ended his radio program in 2007, he handed the keys to Cincinnati's controversial talker Bill Cunningham. Cunningham takes the mantle and focuses his daily and Sunday based program on issues about his community of Cincinnati and the national news based off the Drudge formula. When Al Franken was on the radio, he wished the agitator happy trails. But he got a good dig at Drudge on his way out!

Since then, it's been kind of a retaliation for Matt Drudge to go after his rivals. When Franken ended his program to run for the U.S. Senate, he took on then Senator Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota), a former mayor and Democrat who switched parties. In a contested race between the candidates, the Republicans were hoping that Franken would lose big. They've thought wrong!

Then they've went forth to contest the race results.

The race resulted in less than 1,000 votes between Coleman and Franken.

Coleman conceded the race! Franken became the new senator.

Now that it's been three years since he's been in office. The Republicans hate him as much as Barack Obama. They thought he was going to be acting like a "comedian". So far, he's been a very serious about issues. The senator has worked hard for the people of Minnesota. He managed to keep the focus on the middle class. He never backs down from the responsibilities as a senator.

The Todd Akin Scandal has distracted the Mitt Romney Campaign. They fear that the message on the economy will dwindle away from voters minds. They fear that members of the Republican Party will screw it up by focusing on issues that will turn off moderates. The culture war is an ongoing controversy and they fear the moderates and independents will swing to President Barack Obama.

Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and Vice President Joe Biden. The conservatives are trying to tie the extreme comments of Congressman Todd Akin (R-Missouri).

The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication from the NewsCorp founded by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes is trying to find an excuse. They wanted to paint Senator Al Franken then a writer on the TV show Saturday Night Live as a serial pervert. Then, he famously joked about raping CBS reporter Lesley Stahl.

As New York magazine reported in 1995, from a writing session that the reporter sat in on:

Franken: “And, ‘I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley’s passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her.’ Or, ‘That’s why you never see Lesley until February.’ Or, ‘When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her.’”

With the national conversation now turning to women's issues as a result of the bizarre and offensive comments by Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin over the weekend, it seems a bit odd that Vice President Biden would take the stage with Franken, considering his own lack of sensitivity to the horrors of rape.

Since conservatives love to blame the so-called liberal media for saying things that come off as racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, condescending, overreaching, and moronic, the Republicans want this controversy to disappear.

So what do they do, blame others and President Barack Obama?

The Atlantic: [The Whites] Fear Of A Black President!

With a smile like this, how could they not like you?

Tina Brown's Newsweek magazine cover.

I added the paraphrase. Look here I couldn't resist clicking on a news link from the Huffington Post. It lead me to The Atlantic. The Republicans are working hard to make the president look like a Black criminal. And it's working.

Mitt Romney overwhelmingly carries the White vote by a healthy margin. 58% - 39% , 3% undecided.

The Atlantic writes a piece in regards to the controversial shooting Sanford, Florida in which unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin was killed by White man George Zimmerman.

The president offers his take on the shooting and conservatives went totally crazy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a reporter for The Atlantic describes the fears of a Black president.

One piece that sought my interest was this one here:

[President Barack] Obama has pitched his presidency as a monument to moderation. He peppers his speeches with nods to ideas originally held by conservatives. He routinely cites Ronald Reagan. He effusively praises the enduring wisdom of the American people, and believes that the height of insight lies in the town square. Despite his sloganeering for change and progress, Obama is a conservative revolutionary, and nowhere is his conservative character revealed more than in the very sphere where he holds singular gravity—race.

Part of that conservatism about race has been reflected in his reticence: for most of his term in office, Obama has declined to talk about the ways in which race complicates the American present and, in particular, his own presidency.

The irony of Barack Obama is this: he has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues of yesteryear, by being “clean” (as Joe Biden once labeled him)—and yet his indelible blackness irradiates everything he touches. This irony is rooted in the greater ironies of the country he leads.

That got me thinking! You remember that I wrote a month ago about your White friends, co-workers or family members. Ask them if they think President Barack Obama could win reelection. Most would say no!

Roughly 40% of the White vote goes to President Barack Obama. Mitt Romney carries strongly among White males and White voters over 65. The president carries Black votes over 90% and Hispanics over 70%.

Morgan Freeman donated to the Pro-Obama Priorities SuperPac this year. Freeman criticized the Tea Party and President Obama. He believes that President Obama should acknowledge the issues of race in America.

The fact that conservatives believe the president is talking about is race is ridiculous. This month when Vice President misquoted Republicans by saying they'll put "ya'll back in chains", a firestorm of villianazation by the conservative media. They believe that the vice president has stated something to rile up Black voters. They maybe right, but they're wrong on the aspect. President Barack Obama avoids talking about race. He knows that he has to do more than a White president. He knows that White voters are the most pessimistic about issues surrounding the economy.

President Obama knows the situation. He rather let this issue be the last thing brought up. Conservatives and White supremacists openly ridicule the policies, his race and his family. He is a Harvard-educated scholar and yet his critics still look at him as a Nigger.

They question his patriotism by suggesting he's not an American or not patriotic enough! They think he spends [taxpayer money/government funds] like a rapper or celebrity.

They refuse to give the president credit for bring the stock market back from the brink, ordering the killing Osama bin Laden and breathing life in the struggling Ford, GM and Chrysler industries.

They see the president as something of the 19th or 20th Century. They believe he's a "Socialist" or "Communist".

Let's take a look at Morgan Freeman. Freeman portrayed roles a Black president and leader. ABC's The View looks into his thoughts.

Judge In *Gasp* Texas Warns Of Civil War If Obama Is Reelected!

And you're seeing the unhinged once again raise its ugly head. The President of The United States is zeroed in as an enemy and the Republicans want to defeat him. They don't really have a strong argument to beat him. All they got is the excuses of their involvement in stalling progress and the "overblown" spending they claim he's responsible for.

So what they voted for stimulus funding from then President George W. Bush. So what they voted for two wars that cost trillions of dollars, thousands of lives. So what they voted for extending the debt ceiling. That doesn't matter if President Barack Obama wants something, they refuse to support it and they'll run this economy to the brink in order to hurt him.

This year a federal judge emailed a racist joke and he's under investigation for this. We seen Republican officials say things about the president that were considered racist. Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado), Congressman Joe Walsh (R-Illinois), Congressman Allen West (R-Florida), Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) say "coded" phrases about the president and the Black community.

Now once again in the state of Texas, a county judge warns of a "Civil War" if the president is reelected. He believes that our president will dissolves the country for the United Nations.


A Lubbock County, Texas, judge is asking for a tax increase to hire deputies for the inevitable civil war he believes would follow President Obama's re-election.

The way he puts it, Judge Tom Head wants to prepare for the "worst", which to him means "civil unrest, civil disobedience" and possible "civil war", according to a report from Fox 34 Lubbock

Judge Tom Head and Commissioner Mark Heinrich told the station this week that a 1.7 cent tax increase for the next fiscal year was necessary to prepare for many contingencies, including Obama's re-election. He also mentioned to the station that the county needs a pay increase is needed for the district attorney's office and more funds to pay for more sheriff's office deputies.

"He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the (United Nations), and what is going to happen when that happens?," Head asked the station during a Monday interview. "I'm thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we're talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy."

Head also seems to fear the retaliation of such civil unrest.

"Now what's going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He's going to send in U.N. troops. I don't want 'em in Lubbock County. OK. So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say 'you're not coming in here'.

"And the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said 'you gonna back me' he said, 'yeah, I'll back you'. Well, I don't want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."

The station reports that the tax hike will provide an additional $832,433 coupled with $2 million in cuts to make the numbers work.

The Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Gate covered this controversy.

Texas Billboard Calls Obama "The Other [Threat]!"

Like this is the umpteenth billboard in some small conservative town with another wildly offensive and downright racist slander against President Barack Obama.

This is the Republican Party.

The standard bearer Mitt Romney is going to lead a band of angry lunatics who claim they're patriots to the ballot boxes to remove a "threat!" Who's the threat?

In Texas, you got a bunch of morons who think the bible is science and Darwin was a voodoo witch doctor!

I mean who's the King of the Hill?

Three known Republican idiots reside in Texas. They each had a moment in the sun!

That idiot Republican governor Rick Perry, gadfly cult leader Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas), or foot in the mouth idiot Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). Each of them has riled up their voters with rhetoric that could inspire someone the purchasing rights to an offensive billboard.

According to KGO-TV (ABC 7), San Francisco, the billboard that's on display in a small Texas town is stirring up controversy across the country.

The display compares the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to removing President Barack Obama from office. Images of the ad have gone viral on the Web and raised concerns the message could be a threat against the president.

The man who paid for the billboard says the display was inspired by an anti-Obama e-mail he received.

"Other than the fact it's got some Seals in there with a gun, I think it's pretty obvious what they did and what the statement is," said billboard sponsor Tom Schad.

Despite complaints from neighbors and people around the country, the sponsor says he has no intention of taking it down.

President Barack Obama ordered Special Operations Forces to go into Pakistan to assassinate Osama bin Laden in May 2011.  The new head of al-Qaeda is the Eyptian, Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri. He is somewhere in Pakistan.

The Republicans can't use the argument that the president is "soft on terrorism" anymore!

Black Female Olypians dissed again...