Megadeath Singer Trashes Obama Overseas!

Aging rocker trashes President Obama overseas.

Dave Mustaine is never shy about his political views. He's endorsed Mitt Romney for president. I guess he's not comfortable to say it to the face of the President of The United States, so what does he do, go overseas and totally trashes President Barack Obama. Now you know conservatives get when a person criticizes a Republican president. They call for blood. I wonder if those liberals are heeding the message!

I am guessing he'll probably be getting his first interview on Sean Hannity's radio and television program.

The rock band is under fire for one member's rant about the tragedy in Wisconsin and the traitorous attack on President Barack Obama.

Like the Dixie Chicks, Eminem and Ludacris, if you're criticizing President George W. Bush, they call you a traitor. But if you're Ted Nugent, Dave Mustaine, Penn Gillette, Jon Lovitz, Jon Voight, and Victoria Jackson, you're a patriot.

Dave Mustaine, the frontman of Megadeath is catching some major flack after he went overseas to denounce the president.

Zap2It reports that the aging frontman believes the tragic shootings in at a Sikh Temple and Aurora, Colorado were conspiracies created by the president and Attorney General Eric Holder to take away firearms.


There are conspiracy theories, and then there is the stuff that comes out of Dave Mustaine 's mouth. Mustaine, the frontman for heavy-metal band Megadeth, has accused President Obama  of masterminding the "Dark Knight Rises" shooting and other incidents in order to pass gun-control legislation.

Mustaine made his rather extreme accusations in the middle of an Aug. 7 concert in Singapore during the the band's "Th1rt3en World Tour." In the middle of the show, he took a moment with the microphone to express his extreme dislike for the president.

"Back in my country, my president is trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders," Mustaine says. "The 'Fast and Furious' thing down at the border. And Aurora, Colorado -- all the people that were killed there. And now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple. I was talking to J.D., our promoter here tonight -- what a great guy. I was saying, I don't know where I'm going to live if America keeps going the way it's going, because it looks like it's turning into Nazi America."

Mustaine's allegations refer to the Aug. 5 shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the July 20 "Dark Knight Rises" shooting in Colorado, and the December 2010 murder of an Arizona border agent and subsequent scandal involving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. If you believe Mustaine, all of these are the fault of President Obama.

If you really want to see the angry rant for yourself, check out the video from the concert.

Pimpin' Ain't Easy For ACORN Pimp James O'Keefe!

James O'Keefe (left), Hannah Giles (right) and Andrew Breitbart (center). A federal judge ruled that they could be legally sued for taping former ACORN workers in their sting videos. Andrew Breitbart died in 2012. 

In 2009, two conservative activists go into a low income housing and voting rights organization. These two dressed up as a prostitute and a pimp. The went "undercover" to expose this organization for voter fraud.

As they filmed the organization staff, they got "advice" from workers telling them how to get public assistance and how to register "Mickey Mouse" for the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections. This young activist and his then girlfriend had went forth with their evidence of shady activity to one of the country's most hostile conservative agitator and the network responsible for the rise of the Tea Party Movement. This agitator was railing against the "establishment media" and their shielding of President Barack Obama.

Many Republicans believe this organization "stole" the election for Barack Obama. The Republicans vowed and succeeded in getting this organization shut down.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now shut down in 2010, putting hundreds of workers out of jobs. The result of the the videos, which were recorded secretly by conservative activists Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe (the "young couple"), were released on Fox News and the late Andrew Breitbart's website BigGovernment.com from September into November 2009.

They quickly generated widespread, negative publicity for ACORN, a non-profit organization involved in voter registration, community organizing and advocacy for low- and moderate-income people for nearly 40 years. O'Keefe explained in September 2009 that he "targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives".

Hannah Giles reputation was ruined after the ACORN videos.

The U.S. Census Bureau and the IRS ended contracts with the organization, and the U.S. Congress voted to suspend its funding to ACORN. Soon ACORN also lost most of its private funding, despite several independent investigations that by December 2009 began to reveal no criminal activity by ACORN staff had taken place. ACORN filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on November 2, 2010, effectively closing the organization.

The videos seriously tarnished Hannah Giles. She refused to participate in any other activist activities with James O'Keefe after the ACORN incident.

James O'Keefe is currently on probation for a federal crime. He tried to infiltrate the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) over her participation in the deciding vote for the American Healthcare Reform law.

While on probation, James O'Keefe asked a federal judge to grant him permission to continue his "journalism" without causing a scene. That was granted. So off he goes!

James O'Keefe wanted to continue the same formula he did with ACORN. Alas, most of his schemes seem to backfire. The media hasn't covered the latest bombshells from James O'Keefe and his fellow conservative agitators Lila Rose and Jason Mattera. They seem more interested in facts over edited footage.

Since Andrew Breitbart's passing, his organization has struggled to stay relevant. His crack team of serial agitators have rolled out the Harvard tapes of Barack Obama. He was embracing Derrick Bell, a tenured professor who was campaigning against the discrimination of women and people of color in the Harvard Review. The Breitbart team thought they had a "smoking gun!" Nope, just another banana peel that's rotten.

In order to keep the movement going, they kept James O'Keefe and Lila Rose running across the country with their cameras looking to tear into an organization that supports progressive causes. Planned Parenthood, CNN, NPR, and even billionaire George Soros were targets of a James O'Keefe sting. Unfortuantely, those couldn't match the formula of ACORN.

James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles portrayed themselves as a pimp and prostitute who were looking for a way to get public assistance for underage prostitutes. 

Now that the ACORN sting tapes are long and gone. Some former workers are vowing revenge.

According to the New Civil Rights Movement, a federal judge has just refused to throw out a request from James O’Keefe, who infamously and secretly filmed an ACORN worker while pretending to be a pimp. The selectively-edited video, emblematic of O’Keefe’s ugly brand of journalism, ultimately led to the unfunding of ACORN by Congress and its subsequent bankruptcy.

“Juan Carlos Vera sued O’Keefe and his associate Hanna Giles in Federal Court on privacy claims, after O’Keefe secretly filmed Vera at an ACORN office in National City in 2009,” Courthouse News  reported:

The now-famous series of ACORN recordings featured O’Keefe posing as pimp, dressed in a chinchilla coat, while Giles was disguised as a prostitute.

“The edited video depicted plaintiff as conspiring to promote an underage prostitution business by agreeing to help defendants file fraudulent tax forms and smuggle underage girls from Mexico,” U.S. District Judge M. James Lorenz wrote in his order denying defendants’ request for summary judgment.

Vera, who said he contacted police shortly after the activists’ peculiar visit, sued them in the summer of 2010.

O’Keefe sought summary judgment, claiming that Vera had no expectation of privacy when the conversation was taped.

But Judge Lorenz found a “genuine dispute as to whether plaintiff’s [Vera's] expectation of privacy was reasonable.”

“ACORN is in the business of providing counseling and support for the community on various matters,” Lorenz wrote. “By its very nature, the organization handles personal matters with individual clients.

Defendants walked into ACORN and asked for plaintiff’s help with tax forms. … Specifically, they solicited his help with setting up an illegal prostitution business with underaged girls. … Plaintiff, as a worker for an organization like ACORN, reasonably believed that the content of the conversation was sensitive enough that it would remain private.”

O’Keefe duped Vera by asking if the conversation would remain confidential, before he launched into details of the nonexistent scheme, Lorenz wrote.

Over the course of a 40-minute conversation, Lorenz noted, the three “abruptly paused their conversation” after Vera’s supervisor, David Lagstein, entered the office, and continued talking after the supervisor left.

“Based on the surrounding circumstances, plaintiff reasonably believed that the conversation was private because it was held in his office with no one else present, and he believed that no one else was listening in on his conversation,” Lorenz wrote.

Because of this “genuine dispute,” Lorenz denied O’Keefe’s motion for summary judgment.

One of the controversial video from Project Veritas, a conservative activist group founded by James O'Keefe and Lila Rose.

Shenanigans, Ohio!

                        

The Republicans are trying to end early voting in the eight urban areas in the state of Ohio.

• Columbus:    785,000 - state capital and largest city
• Cleveland     396,000
• Cincinnati     294,000
• Toledo         269,000
• Akron          199,000
• Dayton         141,000
• Canton         73,000
• Youngstown 67,000

Many in the state will see a change in how they do early voting. Secretary of State Jon Husted and Governor John Kasich are playing dirty bull! They are intending on disfranchising Black, Hispanic and poor voters.

President Barack Obama carried Ohio in 2008. The president is facing a deficit of support in this state and he hopes he can capture the magic of four years ago.

Most independent voters have swung back to the president. But with the state having issues with unemployment, high fuel prices and stalling progress, the voters of Ohio are going to take it out on someone.

Independents are crucial to both the president and Mitt Romney. Ohio is leaning towards President Barack Obama for now. It could change within the next few days.

Ohio governor John Kasich

In 2010, John Kasich beat incumbent Ted Strickland in a narrow race in this crucial swing state. When Strickland was in charge of the state, unemployment had reached about 10.4%. 

Kasich had went forth to winning the election. Under the whims of his former Fox News boss Roger Ailes, the former congressman and talk show host has shaked up the state in a negative way.

The job approval of the governor is in the lower 40s. Governor Kasich tried to dial back the collective bargaining rights of the public sector unions and the issue became a ballot issue. The state overwhelmingly repealed the law and sent a message to the Republican state legislators.

The Republicans ignored this message. They so far tried to pass a strict abortion law, lessen restrictions on having firearms in the public place, voter identification laws, and lease state properties to corporations.

Kasich claims credit for having the state unemployment tick down to 7.4% this year. In a mere year, the Republican governor would never credit the president for his success. Because if Ohio unemployment is down, it gradually affects the national unemployment levels.

Jon Husted, Ohio Secretary of State

The president went to a federal judge to have the court look into the state's new early voting law. They believe this is considered unconstitutional. The Republicans are denying this accusation.

Former governor of Massachusetts and perennial candidate for president Mitt Romney was making the outrageous claim that President Barack Obama wants to deny active duty military from voting. 

That's not true. 

Bloomberg Financial News reports that under Ohio law, U.S. armed forces members and residents living overseas are allowed to cast ballots until the day before the Nov. 6 election, while early voting for all other Ohioans ends four days before, a split the Obama for America campaign, state and national Democratic parties call unconstitutional.

The case was “never about taking away the right of military or anyone else to vote during those three days, it’s about restoring that right to other Ohioans,” campaign attorney Donald McTigue told U.S. District Judge Peter Economus today during oral arguments in Columbus federal court.

As the arguments began, a Pennsylvania state court judge in Harrisburg rejected an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging that state’s voter identification law. The judge ruled the civil rights group failed to prove the measure would disenfranchise voters. The plaintiffs said they would appeal.

President Barack Obama in Cincinnati.

Ohio holds 18 of the 270 electoral college votes needed to win a presidential election and no Republican has won without a victory there. In 2008, Obama won the state with 51.5 percent of the ballots cast. The judge didn’t rule during the 90-minute hearing. Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.

Ohio previously had one early voting period that enabled all voters to vote until the day before Election Day, before legislation signed by Republican Governor John Kasich  over the past two years created the division. Obama and Democrats sued Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Jon Husted last month, seeking to enjoin the law.

‘Fundamental Right’

“There is no fundamental right to in-person early voting,” Husted and DeWine, who are both Republicans, said in an Aug. 1 filing opposing the injunction request. Ohio has a rational basis for treating military and overseas voters differently from its other eligible residents, they said.

Ohio’s curb on early voting for non-military citizens is needed to allow local election boards to synchronize the early balloting records with those at 9,800 polling places to prevent people from voting twice, said Husted.

Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Jackson, Ohio.

“There’s a balance we have to strike between access and accuracy,” he said.

Ohio  attorney William Consovoy told the judge the “state believes that there needs to be time to prep for election day,” adding that “absentee voting is not a fundamental right.”

Obama and the Democrats disagreed, contending there’s no distinction between otherwise-eligible voters that justifies giving more time to one group than to another.

“Because Ohio has made those voting mechanisms available, it cannot then deny them to some of its citizens on an arbitrary basis,” the party and campaign said in a July 17 filing.

Fifteen fraternal military organizations on Aug. 6 won permission from the judge to intervene on the side of the state.

About That Memo?

Thomas Caffall opened fire on residents of College Station, Texas. He ended up killing a police officer before they killed him. Again, conservatives turn a blind eye when a right wing extremist comes into the spotlight.

                             
The tragedy near the campus of Texas A&M University has once again brought into question of the rise of radicalism in the conservative movement.

Fueled by the economic struggles, Congress inept handling of polices, changing demographics where Blacks and Hispanics are growing rapidly, and the very likelihood that President Barack Obama will secure a second term has the White conservative male, totally unhinged.

Five tragedies in this year alone involving a lone wolf domestic terrorist.

These issues are growing and the country should take notice! Another Timothy McVeigh could happen!

Another Jared Lee Loughner could happen! Another Wade Page could happen!

This is the rise of right wing extremism.

Vice President Joe Biden gave Republicans unease after he slammed the Mitt Romney campaign's pledge to repeal the Financial Reform Law that Congress passed in 2010. He made a comment, "They'll have y'all back in chains" to a crowd in Danville, Virginia.

Romney in Ohio slammed the president and declared that "[President Barack Obama], take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago’.

Romney, his running mate Paul Ryan and their allies in the conservative movement have dog whistled to the unhinged White conservative male with rhetoric that could inspire another mass shooting tragedy.

The president, Mitt Romney and Congress are scared of the National Rifle Association.

They know the risk of taking on the gun lobby. The gun lobby can inspire law-abiding gun owners to the polls with rhetoric of the government taking your guns!

Glenn Beck's rhetoric has inspired the conservative Tea Party movement. Yet his rhetoric also has inspired radicalism within the conservative movement.

Mitt Romney is wobbly on firearms and his pick of Paul Ryan, Republican congressman from Wisconsin has settled a little bit of the worries of the gun rights organization.

They turn a blind eye when a tragedy happens! When it involves a White conservative male with obsession with firearms, the Republicans would distance themselves from this. They claim the media paints conservatism in a bad light whenever a tragedy happens.

The shooting in College Station, Texas is an interesting one. This reminds me of the shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in which Richard Poplawski, a 23 year old man with ties to White supremacists shot and killed three officers in a standoff in his mother's home.

The gentleman Thomas Caffall was an individual obsessed with firearms, Fox News and the hatred of President Barack Obama.

Buzzfeed obtained Caffall's Facebook page and forum chats. They're disturbing!

Of many there's his views of Thomas Paine, Ronald Reagan and gasp the conservative agitator Glenn Beck are among his "likes".

According to WPTV, the gunman who killed two others before police ended his life in a shootout near Texas A&M University had been battling mental health issues on and off for years, his mother said.

Police say Thomas Caffall, known to his family as "Tres," killed a constable and a bystander and injured four others Monday before police fatally shot him.

His mother, Linda Weaver, said the family became worried after Caffall quit his job in January and announced that he would never work again.

"We had been very concerned about him," Weaver told CNN.

Caffall had withdrawn from the family, and the fear was that he might attempt suicide, his mother said.

But she never imagined that her son would hurt anyone else, or that his end would come so violently.
"Losing a child is a parent's worst nightmare. This is worse," she said.

Police said Caffall, 35, shot and killed Brian Bachmann, a constable for Brazos County, and Chris Northcliffe, an area resident.

Bachmann had approached Caffall's apartment to deliver an eviction notice, and Northcliffe just happened to be nearby.

Brian Bachmann, a College Texas Police officer was shot and killed.

Also nearby was Rigo Cisneros, a former Army medic who assisted both Bachmann and Caffall after the shooting.

As he lay dying, the gunman offered an apology for what he had done, Cisneros told CNN's Brooke Baldwin.

"He did ask me to apologize to the officer he had shot," he said.

Three College Station police officers and a woman were injured in the shooting, police said.

The woman, Barbara Holdsworth, was in serious condition after undergoing surgery.

Investigators on Tuesday continued to process the crime scene.

The area covers "a couple of blocks," College Station Police Chief Jeff Capps said.

The suspect "fired multiple rounds and investigators have recovered long guns and a pistol from the scene," he said.

As the incident unfolded Monday, an alert warning of a gunman was sent out by Texas A&M, one of the state's flagship universities and a sprawling campus of nearly 47,000 students.

According to his Facebook campaign page, Bachmann was a 41-year-old from College Station who had been a Brazos County sheriff's deputy since 1993. The county's website indicated that his four-year term as constable -- an elected position that involves, among other duties, serving court documents such as eviction notices and subpoenas to citizens -- was set to expire on December 31, 2014.

Bachmann was an up-and-coming law enforcement leader who some expected to run for sheriff one day, said Marc Hamlin, the district clerk for Brazos County and friend of the slain constable for more than 20 years.

"He was a true public servant," Hamlin told CNN.

Whenever a group wanted a law enforcement officer or squad car for a community event, Bachmann was always the first to volunteer, Hamlin said.

He also volunteered to help his friends.

On Monday, Bachmann had lunch with his chief deputy, who had to deliver the eviction notice at the nearby residence afterward. Bachmann took the notice and volunteered to serve it himself, Hamlin said.

A search of court records showed no record of Caffall having run-ins with the law except for a traffic violation.

Caffall's mother described her son as an intelligent youth who wasted opportunities available to him.

"It's so hard to imagine that the really sweet kid you raised turned into a huge monster, and that is what he is now," Weaver said.

He enjoyed collecting weapons and refinishing them, Weaver said, so his owning guns wasn't worrisome, his mother said.

Weaver said Caffall had been very affected by the death of his father when he was 12. She said it is hard to comprehend how the same person would deprive Bachmann's children of their father.

Bachmann's three children -- ages 19, 10 and 8 -- would accompany their father on mission trips in Texas.

On a recent trip, they built wheelchair ramps and roofs, Hamlin said.

"He was strong in his faith and strong in his family," he said.

Less is known about Caffall. He was divorced, and was in the constant companionship of a large Sheltie-mix named Lucy, his mother said. Lucy's fate is unclear.

Conservatives thought this was an insult. They thought that President Barack Obama was stifling freedom of speech. They think he's coming for their guns. They were wrong!

Barack Obama is the first African American to elected as the President of The United States. Many Black people acknowledge that being the first Black president comes at a price. Blacks know that anything done by President Obama can create controversy. They know that a majority of White people are uncomfortable with him. White conservative men are the most pessimistic voters and most likely to be unhinged.

With rhetoric coming from cable news such as Fox News, talk radio, the blogs like The Drudge Report and Breitbart, could the next mass shooting occur in another town?

Biden: Romney & Ryan Will Keep Y'All In Chains!

                                 

President Barack Obama hits the campaign trail fresh after the news that Republican candidate Mitt Romney chosen the Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan for his running mate.

The president's strongest allies are not only former president Bill Clinton and Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton, but the gaffe prone Vice President Joe Biden. Once again, the Republicans are pouncing on the statements of Vice President Biden and they feel that the "race card" was played when he spoke to a crowd of Black voters.

Say it ain't so, Joe!

The conservatives are riled up over the vice president's statements at an event in Danville, Virginia. Biden takes on Mitt Romney's pledge to repeal the Financial/Banking Reform Law. Biden used the "ol' Black slang" when describing the Republican candidate.

Jake Tapper of ABC News reports that the vice president said to the Danville, Virginia, crowd that the House GOP budget, partly written by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, gives an indication of the Republican presidential ticket’s values.

                           

“We got a real clear picture of what they all value,” Biden said. “Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, ‘unchain Wall Street.’ They’re going to put y’all back in chains.”

An Obama campaign official tells ABC News that “as the full quote makes obvious, the Vice President was clearly using a metaphor to describe the devastating impact of deregulating Wall Street and the financial industry, as well as how Governor Romney’s policies would take us back to the same failed formula that led to the 2008 financial crisis – the same failed formula that benefitted a few, but crashed our economy and hurt the middle class.”

Defenders of the vice president suggest that he inartfully was attempting to play off language Republicans have used about President Obama needing to “unshackle” small businesses and the economy.

Asked about the comments by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, Obama campaign deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said the president “probably agrees with Joe Biden’s sentiments.  I mean he’s using a metaphor….He was making a point that if we repeal Wall Street reform which is what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan want to do, we’re going to go back to the days where they’re writing their own rules, and we saw what happened. Taxpayers had to bail them out. We had to spend billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars bailing them out. Now I would think that that, you know, that is a problem for middle class taxpayers. That would hamper their ability to take care of their own finances.”

                  

Cutter said, “the bottom line is that we have no problem with those comments.”

Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul said, “In case anyone was wondering just how low President Obama could go in his campaign for re-election, we now know he’s willing to say that Governor Romney wants to put people back in chains.

Whether its accusing Mitt Romney of being a felon, having been responsible for a woman’s tragic death or now wanting to put people in chains, there’s no question that because of the President’s failed record he’s been reduced to a desperate campaign based on division and demonization.”

Mr. Biden also told the crowd that if they get out the vote, “we can win North Carolina again.” Danville is close to the North Carolina border, but it is in fact in Virginia.

He’s a Rapist Even when He Ain’t: Black Feminism and the Perpetuation of Black Male Rapist Ideology

He’s a Rapist Even when He Ain’t: Black Feminism and the Perpetuation of Black Male Rapist Ideology

Florida Teen Busted For Woman Butt Grab!

The Raw Story and The Smoking Gun covered this one.

Okay, we'll first say that this belongs to the People of Walmart website. This story begs for conservative agitation. This story brings out the mentally inept White Supremacists who fear that the "Niggers" are coming for their women!

This should attract the Fox Nation, The Drudge Report and other conservative agitators who feel the need to blame President Barack Obama or the Black community.

Walmart, the world's largest retail superstore, has some of the most interesting things. From scantly clad men wearing daisy dukes and high heels, to people using other people's credit cards, the most obvious thing you'll find in a Walmart, is the sick pervert looking for a suburban honey dip so he get a feel on!

Meet 18 year old Aaron Morris. The teenager was busted while getting a feel of a woman's buttock.

He was standing near the fitting rooms and he saw the woman. I guess he got a rise in the pants and decided to get a "smack of da booty!"

At the North Lauderdale Walmart, the young man “approached the victim and willfully and intentionally grabbed the victim’s right buttocks against her will.”


The victim later identified Morris at local RaceTrac gas station, where he explained his actions.

“Her booty looked so good,” he said. “I just couldn’t resist touching it.”

Morris is being held at the Broward County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bond.

I am guessing that Morris had seen the website. Here's a video from a user on YouTube describing the People of Walmart.

This is a not safe for work video.

Cosmo Girl!

                       

Helen Gurley Brown the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan dies at age 90. She was the crowning of a new women's movement.


Brown's bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl was published. In 1965, she became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and reversed the fortunes of the failing magazine. During the decade of the 1960s she was an outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom and sought to provide them with role-models and a guide in her magazine.

She claimed that women could have it all, "love, sex, and money", a view that even preceding feminists such as Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer did not support at all and has been met with notable opposition by advocates of grass-roots devotion of women to family and marriage. Due to her advocacy, glamorous, fashion-focused women were sometimes called "Cosmo Girls". Her work played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution.

In 1997, Brown was ousted from her role as the U.S. editor of Cosmopolitan and was replaced by Bonnie Fuller. When she left, Cosmopolitan ranked sixth at the newsstand, and for the 16th straight year, ranked first in bookstores on college campuses.

However, she stayed on at Hearst publishing and remained the international editor for all 59 international editions of Cosmo until her death on August 13, 2012.

In September, 2008, she was named the 13th most powerful American over the age of 80 by Slate magazine.

Ryan's Song!

                          

The best kept secret?

People are still talking about the decision made by former Massachusetts governor and perennial candidate for president Mitt Romney. The former governor puts his bets on Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan.

The Republicans are happy about the decision. The decision motivates the discussion squarely on the economy. Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan introduced his controversial budget plan in which it called for major austerity cuts to social safety nets. It advocated for larger defense spending and it was passed by the Republican-controlled House and rejected by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America's Promise was the Republican Party's budget proposal for the United States federal government in the fiscal year 2012. It was succeeded in March 2012 by The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal, the Republican budget proposal for 2013.

Congressman Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, played a prominent public role in drafting and promoting both The Path to Prosperity proposals, and they are therefore often referred to as the Ryan budget, Ryan plan, Ryan proposal, etc.

The plans stand in contrast to the 2012 and 2013 budget proposals, outlined by President Barack Obama and the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

                

The 2012 Republican proposal was formalized and passed by the House of Representatives on Friday, April 15, 2011 by a vote of 235 to 193, largely along party lines. No Democrats voted in favor of the bill, and only four Republicans voted against it: Walter B. Jones, Jr., David McKinley, Ron Paul and Denny Rehberg.

A month later, the bill died in the Senate by a vote of 57–40.

The 2013 proposal includes plans to eliminate Medicare and begin a voucher-like program, cap non-defense discretionary federal spending at $1.029 trillion, and consolidate the six existing income tax brackets into only two.

The Ryan plan is widely controversial. The plan is greatly rejected by the general public and yet, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan think the country would embrace this. The proposal broadly generated negative reactions from Democrats and positive reactions from Republicans.

The gloves come off after the Republican National Convention when Romney takes the nomination.

According to ABC News, Clandestine flights. A slight disguise. Long drives to out-of-the-way airports by an aide's 19-year-old son. An afternoon dash through the wooded ravine behind Paul Ryan's house in Janesville, Wis.

These were just some of the things the Mitt Romney campaign did to keep the world from knowing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had decided to pick Ryan as his running mate.

Beginning in April, Romney aide Beth Myers and a team of lawyers extensively vetted several possible vice presidential candidates, but, in the end, Ryan was only candidate Romney met in person to discuss the job.

From the start, Myers went to extraordinary lengths to keep the process secret. Her team worked in a secure room at Romney's Boston campaign headquarters. Each night they kept the most sensitive documents -- including several years of tax returns from each of the finalists -- in a safe. They made no copies.

"No copies were ever made and all work was done in that room," Myers said.

But it was Romney's final interactions with Ryan that were most elaborately shrouded in secrecy.

"We gave a lot of thought on how to make this work undetected," Myers explained.

It started on August 1, when Romney informed Myers that he had decided Ryan would be his running mate. Romney then called Ryan and asked him to come to Boston for a meeting on August 5.

                        

Instead of flying directly to Boston, where he might be seen arriving in the city where Romney has his campaign headquarters, Ryan flew from Chicago into Hartford's Bradley Airport. To keep from being recognized, he wore casual clothes, a baseball hat and sunglasses.

"We sent my 19-year-old son to pick him up," Myers said.

Myers son Curt shuttled Ryan from Hartford to Myers' home in Brookline, Mass., driving the car right into her garage before Ryan got out. Ryan had lunch with Myers' family while Romney drove in from Wolfboro, N.H. -- also entering her home through the garage.

Headbutt On Reality TV Wife Lands Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson In The Iron College!

NFL star Chad "Ochocino" Johnson was arrested for hitting wife.

Och-oh! The NFL announced that Chad "Ochocino" Johnson was cut from the Miami Dolphins.

Reality television star and famed NFL player Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson visits the iron college for a domestic dispute between him and his wife, Evelyn Lozada.

According to TMZ, a celebrity news agitating website, NFL star Chad Johnson was arrested Saturday night for domestic violence ... allegedly against new wife Evelyn Lozada, one of the stars of VH1's "Basketball Wives."

Law enforcement sources tell us Johnson allegedly head-butted Lozada during an argument, and when cops arrived to the scene, Lozada had lacerations on her forehead.

Our sources say Lozada has been at the hospital for several hours.

                           
According to our sources, the fight started when Lozada found a receipt for condoms in the center of the couple's Maserati and confronted Johnson about it. A verbal argument ensued.

We're told at some point during the argument, Johnson head-butted Lozada. According to reports, Johnson told police he butted heads with Lozada by accident.

Johnson is reportedly still in custody and wil have to go before a judge before he can be released.

Johnson and Lozada were married last month after Johnson proposed in November 2010 with a massive 10-carat diamond ring.

Chad Johnson played for the Cincinnati Bengals, New England Patriots and recently the Miami Dolphins. Johnson is the father of four children and is participant of the 60 Let's Move campaign by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Evelyn  Lozada, the star of VH-1 reality series, Basketball Wives.

Johnson appeared on WWE as a ring announcer and wrestler. During his off season, he maintains a soccer position for the MLS team Sporting of Kansas City.

Evelyn Lozada is an American television personality. She is one of the six main cast members in the VH1 reality series Basketball Wives.

Lozada was born in Brooklyn, raised in the Bronx, and moved to Miami in 2007. She is of Puerto Rican ancestry and was raised by her mother. She has a daughter, Shaneice, who has appeared on Basketball Wives.

Lozada was previously engaged to NBA star Antoine Walker. The two had a ten-year relationship. Her courtship with NFL star Chad Ochocinco was documented on Basketball Wives; they married in Saint Martin on July 4, 2012.

*Why I say "iron college"? The term iron college is mentioned when a celebrity is in trouble for a crime and are ordered to go to jail!

Drake Will Produce New Aaliyah Album!

      

Aubrey Graham, known as Drake is a Canadian born rapper/singer and actor who signed to Cash Money Records under Lil' Wayne's sub label Young Money Entertainment. He along with Kevin Rudolf, Nicki Minaj and Tyga rolled out in 2009 as the rebirth of the once struggling label. 

He was born in Toronto, Ontario, to American father and Canadian Jewish mother. When his parent's divorce, Drake moved with his mother to Forest Hill, Toronto. He originally became known for playing Jimmy Brooks on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, but also began to rise to stardom with the release of multiple mixtapes that began to generate hype for his future career as a rapper.

Cash Money Records is based out of New Orleans was home to then multi-platinum rapper Juvenile, street rapper B.G., and the youngest rappers Lil' Wayne and Turk. They formed the Hot Boys. Co-founder Bryan "Baby (aka Birdman)" Williams and in-house producer Mannie Fresh formed the group The Big Tymers. They all released albums during their rise in 1998 to 2005. Mannie Fresh went on produce most of their solo albums at the time.

Aaliyah was killed August 25, 2001 in a tragic plane crash in The Bahamas.

According to Wikipedia, Cash Money's big break came in 1998 when the Hot Boys, B.G. and Juvenile in particular, caught the attention of Universal Records executives. In 1998, Cash Money signed a $30 million pressing and distribution with $3 million advance contract with Universal, entitling the label to 85% of its royalties, 50% of its publishing revenues and ownership of all masters.

Nowadays, Cash Money Records is mostly focused on the rising career of Lil' Wayne and his own record label Young Money. With the signing of Drake, the rap label went through a major overhaul from the bounce catchy Southern beats, to a sophisticated style of music that appeals to a more pop friendly audience.

Drake surpassed Jay-Z as the rapper with the most number one hits on the Billboard 200 hot singles list.

Drake declared his love for the late singer Aaliyah. Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash in the Bahamas after filming a music video. Her death in August 2001, came at the peak of the R & B singer's rising movie career.

                       
Aaliyah Dana Houghton broke into the music scene in 1994 as a protege of R. Kelly. Her album Age Ain't Nothing But A Number went on to sell over 3 million copies. After a bitter fallout with R. Kelly, the singer team up with up-and-coming producer Tim Mosley (aka Timbaland) and rapper Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot to work on her albums. One In A Million, went on to be one of the singer's most critically acclaimed albums. Her final album Aaliyah was released in July 2001. Her smash single "Rock The Boat" and "We Need A Resolution" became instant hits.

It's been over a decade since Aaliyah's death. The singer's legacy continues to influence a new generation of singers and entertainers. Drake was one who felt her influence in the industry inspired him. He declared that his interest in working on a posthumous album.

Drake tattooed the late singer Aaliyah on his back and his start up label OVOXO. 

In an interview with SoulCulture TV, the rapper stated that R&B singer Aaliyah has had the biggest influence on his career:

Aaliyah has had probably the most impact on my career because when I made a choice to start singing it was because of something that my father had told me which was, ‘There’s no rapper out there that sings and raps and does both things well… and in order to be successful you’re gonna need something other than just what everyone else is doing.

I was rapping already at the time so I had an identity in rap, but when I started singing I needed something to reference. I needed someone to be like, ‘I wanna be like that’. I didn’t want it ever to be a male because then I would sound like that person, so I just found comfort in all of Aaliyah’s music and her melody choices and the things that she talks about – and how she always conveyed these amazing emotions but never got too sappy, she always kept it G. That had the biggest influence on my music because – as much as my music may be geared towards women – I try not to make it so that only women can sing it.

The first single released is "Enough Said", and it's produced by Drake's long time producer Noah 40 Shebib.



The release of this single comes after Blackground Records founders Berry and Jomo Henderson allowed access to unreleased demos and outtakes. Drake, Missy Elliot and Timbaland are slated to work on this album and it's planned release in late 2012.

Drake appears under the banter of Universal-Republic Records under Cash Money Records.

Lauryn Hill Will Be Visiting The Iron College!

                         

The Grammy award winning singer/rapper is facing serious charges of tax evasion. She will be going to federal prison in November 2012.

The 37-year old entertainer is under the radar for not paying her 2005, 2006, and 2007 tax earnings. Her estimated value of taxes owed is nearly $1 million.

Again this is federal charges. If you're charged with a federal crime, you are required to serve the complete term. There's no exceptions.

According to The Rolling Stone Magazine and CNN, Hill pleaded guilty in a New Jersey courtroom on Friday to evading federal taxes on $1.8 million earned between 2005 and 2007, the Associated Press reports. The singer faces a maximum one-year sentence for each of the three counts.

Hill declined to speak after the hearing, but her attorney, Nathan Hochman, indicated that she plans on paying back the taxes owed. U.S. Magistrate Michael Shipp agreed to delay the sentencing from early

October to late November in order to give Hill time to make payment.

When Shipp asked Hill if anyone had directly or indirectly influenced her decision to plead guilty, Hill gave an enigmatic response that seemed to promise a future statement: "Indirectly, I've been advised my ability to speak out directly is for another time, at sentencing."

The income on which Hill did not pay taxes -- $818,000 collected in 2005, $222,000 in 2006 and $761,000 in 2007 -- was earned by four corporations that she owns.

Charges were brought against Hill earlier this month , after which the singer took to Tumblr to address her side of the situation  but focused on her time outside of the spotlight: "During this period of crisis, much was said about me both slanted and inaccurate, by those who had become dependent on my creative force, yet unwilling to fully acknowledge the importance of my contribution, nor compensate me equitably for it."

Hill added in the post that she felt her "potential to work" was in danger and thus said, "I did whatever needed to be done in order to insulate my family from the climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism that I was surrounded by.

"There were no exotic trips," she continued, "no fleet of cars, just an all out war for safety, integrity, wholeness and health, without mistreatment, denial, and/or exploitation."

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the debut album that sold over 19 million copies. Hill hasn't released an album since 1998.

Lauryn Hill co-produced the commercially successful Supernatural for Carlos Santana, in 1999, for which she won another grammy for album of the year. This made her the only female artist to win two album of the year grammys consecutively, which set a record for most album of the year wins by a female artist (tied with Norah Jones). Shortly after this she mainly dropped out of public view, in part due to her displeasure with fame and the music industry. After a four-year hiatus, she released MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, a live recording of "deeply personal songs" performed mostly solo with an acoustic guitar.