Amazon Pulls Rape A B**** Shirts!

A real laugh riot! Nothing is funny about rape. I guess the company that allow this to appear is facing backlash.

The actual shirt were published by Solid Bomb Gold, a U.S. based clothing seller. After a weekend of firestorm from the shocking shirts, Amazon decided to pull the shirts.

There were three shirts that many deemed offensive. Some of these shirts had phrases like "keep calm and rape her alot", "keep calm and knife her" and "keep calm and grope a lot!"

Now think about how dumb these shirts are!

As a Black man, I find these shirts to be offensive.

I would never wear this type of outfit while dating a woman. If I would wear this shirt in the general public, I might have the police called on me!

That's the type of stuff a douche would wear in order to impress a group (i.e. jocks, fraternity, and Halloween costumes).

The Guardian from the United Kingdom reports that an apology from Solid Gold Bomb was issued before another public apology also appeared on Twitter. Solid Gold Bomb had its social networking accounts deactivated.

The American clothing company Solid Gold Bomb blamed an automated computer dictionary for its series of the items emblazoned with offensive phrases such as "Keep Calm and Rape a Lot" and "Keep Calm and Hit Her", based on the much reproduced "Keep Calm and Carry On" second world war poster.

The company said it had received death threats and its Twitter account was bombarded with scores of angry messages, many of which said: "Rape is not a joke."

Would you wear this shirt?

It closed its Facebook and other social media accounts on Saturday morning and left a message on its website which read in part: "We have been informed of the fact that we were selling an offensive T-shirt primarily in the UK. This has been immediately deleted as it was and had been automatically generated using a scripted computer process running against hundreds of thousands of dictionary words.

"Any offensive items that are remaining are certainly in the deletion queue and will be removed as soon as the processing is complete. Although we did not in any way deliberately create the offensive T-shirts in question and it was the result of a scripted programming process that was compiled by only one member of our staff, we accept the responsibility of the error and are doing our best to correct the issues at hand. We're sorry for the ill feeling this has caused!"

Based on Amazon's typical charges, the internet retailer was likely to be making just over £1 on each sale.

Amazon is no stranger to controversy. The site's U.S. operation faced criticism for briefly selling a book described as a pedophile's guide. In 2008 it had to pull from sale T-shirts lauding Nazi leaders.

Both companies were bombarded with complaints and Solid Gold Bomb later closed its Twitter account. The T-shirts were still on sale in Germany on Saturday.

Amazon deleted most of the offensive "Keep Calm" range but continued to promote the company's shop.

Detroit Goes For Broke!

Conservatives and the white supremacists are working the nexus of bigotry. They've already considered Detroit, Michigan a city ruined by the Niggers and the Nigger lovers in Washington, DC.

With Detroit being majority Black, it's always figured by some radical right wing extremist, the turmoils of the once booming manufacturing city being the faults of the Democratic Party, the unions, racial integration and liberalism.

Never blaming the corporations who shut down the factories putting hundreds out of work. Never understanding that White flight that plagues urban areas because of school busing and forced integration.

Now when I decided to go up to Detroit, my family always warn me that it's not safe going through the city at dark. Although, I don't fear any man, woman or beast, I always adhere to my surroundings.

Whenever I go to Detroit, I usually head to Windsor, Ontario in Canada. I love to see the skyscrapers of the city. Whenever I go to the Caesar's Windsor casino, I always take a look at the United States from the other side. I love to see the city from the Detroit River. Sometimes I like to ride around the neighborhoods of Grand River Avenue, Gratiot Avenue, Telegraph Road, and Eight Mile Road.

I've driven on many freeways in Detroit. I've traveled on the Chrysler Freeway/Fisher Freeway (Interstate 75), the Lodge Freeway (M-10) and Jeffries Freeway (Interstate 96) and Edsel Ford Freeway (Interstate 94).

Detroit may seem like a slum to those who never been there, but in my opinion, it's a nice city and I enjoy being there.

The Detroit metropolitan region currently holds roughly one-half of the state's population. With White people leaving en masse, most of Detroit is left in ruins while the young Blacks and Hispanic suffer in a future of crime and no way out.

Detroit remains one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States.

Blacks moved to the city en masse to escape Jim Crow laws in the south and find jobs.

However, they soon found themselves excluded from white areas of the city—through violence, laws, and economic discrimination (e.g., redlining).

White residents attacked black homes: breaking windows, starting fires, and exploding bombs.

The pattern of segregation was later magnified by white migration to the suburbs.

A traditional boundary between black and white is Eight Mile Road, which separates the city from suburbs to the north.

Long a major population center and major engine of worldwide automobile manufacturing, Detroit has gone through a continuing economic decline.

Detroit reached its population peak in the 1950 census at over 1.8 million people, and as of the 2010 census has less than half that amount at just over 700,000 residents. The city has declined in population with each subsequent census since 1950, for a total loss exceeding 60 percent by 2010.

The New York Times reports that Republican governor Rick Synder issue a call for an emergency manager.

This person wield sweeping powers to reshape the city. This is attracting a great amount of controversy.

The hiring of an emergency manager underscored a long, troubling arc for Detroit. Once the cradle of the American auto industry and the nation’s fourth most populous city, it is now less than half the size it was decades ago and has a public sector plagued by more than $14 billion in long-term liabilities and annual worries of cash shortfalls.

The notion set off a flurry of pointed and sometimes emotional reactions here, including an unavoidable racial and political component. Detroit is a mostly black city dominated by Democrats in a mostly white state where Republicans, including Mr. Snyder, control the capital.

At a time when many municipalities are struggling financially, five cities and three school districts in Michigan alone are already under supervision from a state-appointed emergency financial manager. But municipal finance experts pointed out that Detroit is on a different scale. “Detroit is a huge and prominent American city, so anything that happens with Detroit will set a much bigger precedent,” said Matt Fabian, a managing director at Municipal Market Advisors. “There isn’t a lot of precedent with the state taking control of a city this size.”

For decades, states have used a range of methods, including oversight boards and appointed receivers, to step in and stabilize cities that appeared to be headed toward bankruptcy or default. The methods — and the powers and roles of those charged with overseeing a troubled city — vary widely from state to state, as do opinions about whether they work. A financial control board helped New York City return from the edge of crisis in the 1970s, but such intense state involvement is more often needed in smaller cities.

For more than a year, Detroit leaders had raced to ward off an emergency manager. With a similar possibility looming last spring, city officials entered into a legal deal, giving the state some oversight as Detroit tried to cut spending and staff members and collect more tax revenue. It was not enough, said state officials, who re-examined the city’s books in recent weeks and said they found a pattern of overly optimistic revenue estimates, poor and conflicting record-keeping and endless borrowing to make up for shortfalls.

“There have been many good people that have had many plans, many attempts to turn this around — they haven’t worked,” Mr. Snyder said on Friday during a town hall meeting broadcast on local television, the start of a concerted state effort to sell the notion of an outside manager to city residents. “The way I view it, today is a day to call all hands on deck.”

While some Detroit residents saw state intervention as one more very public indication of a city crumbling, others hailed it as the first promising sign of real repair. The city’s business leaders lauded the plan, noting that Detroit’s private sector had experienced tangible signs of growth and reinvestment — including newly filled downtown offices and young entrepreneurs opening dress shops — even as the public sector had lagged.

“Bring it on,” Sandy K. Baruah, the chairman of the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, said of state management. “This sends a positive message to business that Detroit is fixing its problems.”

But Detroit city officials, who have 10 days to seek reconsideration from the governor before a state board formally appoints a manager as early as this month, objected strenuously. Under a much-debated state law, an appointed manager would ultimately hold powers to cut city spending, change contracts with labor unions, merge or eliminate city departments, urge the sale of city assets and even, if all else failed, recommend bankruptcy proceedings. In an election year for mayor and the City Council, many candidates, incumbents and community leaders denounced the move as an affront to democracy and a state takeover, and called for legal action.

“For one individual to be able to wipe out the duties of our duly-elected officials, that’s more or less a dictatorship, and it’s against everything that America is supposed to be about,” said the Rev. Wendell Anthony, the president of the local NAACP. “If you come into Detroit,” Mr. Anthony said, “you own Detroit. You own education. You own police and fire.”

Mayor Dave Bing, who has not said whether he would seek re-election, was more tempered than most in his critique, suggesting that while he opposed an emergency manager, there might be a way for the state and city to work together. “I will look at the impact of the governor’s decision as well as other options, to determine my next course of action,” he said.

Michigan’s emergency manager law — and the possibility that Detroit, the state’s largest city, might be affected by it — has been a matter of contention for several years. After Mr. Snyder became governor in 2010, he and the Republican-held Legislature approved changes to the state’s two-decade-old law, giving such managers more wide-reaching powers, including the ability to drop union contracts with cities. In November, voters rejected that new version of the law, but the Legislature quickly passed a third version, which also allows relatively broad powers to change the terms of labor contracts and which will take effect this month.

But many here wonder whether any emergency manager, under any version of the law, will be enough to solve Detroit’s woes, which are in some way a reflection of the city’s own story. Beyond the nagging budget questions and the mounting debt is a place that grew with the auto industry into a city of more than 1.8 million residents and 139 square miles, then shrank decade after decade even as the city’s boundaries and infrastructure did not. With a tax base of some among about 713,000 remaining residents, Detroiters complain of late buses, high crime and darkened streetlights.

Man Poses With Murdered Mother's Head! [NSFW]

How could someone do something to his mother and smirk about it?

A sure guarantee for the conservative/white supremacist bubble. The conservative agitating media will quickly blame President Barack Obama, the Black community, Trayvon Martin, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Attorney General Eric Holder, and all African traditions for one sick individual.

No man should hit a woman let alone his own mother. But it's a theme that's common among our young individuals.

How could anyone (i.e. Adam Lanza, Bashid McLean and others) kill their own mother?

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Tanya Byrd and other woman killed by abuse men.

Before we go into the details of this senseless tragedy, I share with you an incident of a few years back.

I remember in March 2011, my friend Glenn Walker, Jr. was accused of killing his mother. Walker, was once a former co-worker who went through the same personal demons my best friend Charles Barrett suffered.

Walker wanted to be a rapper and script writer for movies. He also was the charmer. He always seems to win over women with his smooth talk and bravado of his private parts.

He dated two of my friends and spurned them during a period where all of them were dating other people.

Walker was struggling to find a job. He was into drugs and frequently would space out over things.

Walker was implicated in the murder his mother Michelle Walker on March 16, 2011. The FBI and U.S. marshals were searching for him. They managed to catch him at the public library nearby on the computer posting comments to others on Facebook. His family and friends stated that he suffered from a mental illness and felt compassion for his own mother. It took a year for the trial and eventual conviction.

After a grand jury found Walker guilty of the murder of his mother, he was sentence 15 to life without a chance of parole.

This individual today makes it clear that for every incident that involves Black men, it's certain that it's agitation for conservatives and white supremacists.

Tanya Byrd was murdered by her son Bashid McLean. He decapitated her head and posted it on social networks via his cell phone. The police arrest this individual.

The New York Daily News and other media outlets report on 23-year old Bashid McLean murdering his mother 45-year old Tanya Bryd. A man walking his dog discovered the dismembered remains of Byrd at a park.

The break in the case came when the son Bashid McLean appears in a photograph he shared on social networks being "almost gleeful" holding the severed head of his mother.

He has reportedly confessed to the charges and has been placed on suicide watch.

Friends and family say that McLean developed some jealousy over his mother giving preferential treatment to his other siblings. Byrd who worked as a home health aide and was described as a "beautiful mother" and a "hard worker" by her sister.

McLean however, has been said to have been troubled for some time.

His lawyer says McLean's been off his medication for days, and according to the Daily News, McLean is schizophrenic.

McLean scouring the Internet for how to tips on covering up a murder and that he later created a MySpace page called 'Kill the b**** Tanya.'

Police say McLean murdered his mother because she 'wanted him to grow up and move out and be a man.'

Beautiful woman Tanya Byrd was murdered by callous son Bashid McLean.

McLean's father discussed his son's history of violent tendencies and said, "He did destructive things. He set fires. Nobody could control him."

DNAinfo reports McLean allegedly fatally hit his mother while she was sleeping before stealing money from her to purchase a saw to cut up her corpse.

McLean was placed in a foster home while his mother was battling a drug problem. He came back to live with her when he was 18. He was also suspected of abusing his younger brother, whose body began displaying bruises.

His friend, William Harris, 26, allegedly helped him get rid of the body. The pair were reportedly caught on surveillance video at a nearby hardware store where they bought a power saw with cash.

A blade and a box were found in the apartment McLean shared with his mother while the saw - 2-foot-long Black and Decker jigsaw - was found at Harris' home, sources said.

Cassandra McLean labelled the 23-year-old a 'monster' who had been plotting his mother's murder. 'My nephew is a monster,' she told the Daily News. 'This murder was premeditated.'

Looking gangsta! Friends and family feared that McLean would harm people.

She said he deserves the death penalty. 'He took away one of God's angels, and for that he deserves to go to hell.'

Even his father said he was a bad egg.

A photograph on his Facebook page shows him burning a scarf.

His sister, Porsche Lovett, said he wasn't remotely sorry for what he'd done. 'He looked me in the eyes and told me he did nothing wrong when he killed her,' she told the Daily News. 'I don't know who he is.'

McLean confessed to the sickening crime after police found a shower curtain missing at his apartment, which wreaked of bleach. The shower curtain was later found wrapped around his mom's body parts in one of the bags dumped on the curb for collection.

McLean was charged yesterday with second-degree murder and he and Harris were also booked on charges of hindering prosecution and the unlawful dissection of a human body.

When they were questioned they both blames the murder on the other. Harris, who has been arrested 12 times prior to yesterday's booking, told police McLean confessed to the slaying on the subway and begged for his help. Meanwhile, McLean, who was on probation after attacking two police officers with a knife in 2010, said Harris killed the woman at their apartment.

'Bashid had a problem controlling his rage,' a neighbor told the New York Daily News. 'He had creepy eyes. Didn't like to look you in the eye — but when he did, they went right through you.'

McLean confessed to the crime late on Tuesday after cops found the electric saw and other carving implements.

Police were overwhelmed by the stench of bleach when they entered the apartment Bahsid McLean shared with his mother and little brother. He was led out of the house in handcuffs.

Byrd's body parts were found strewn around at least four different curbside locations within a half-mile of the pair's Morrisania home in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The pieces - which include her head, torso, right leg and hands - were found zipped into travel bags or stuffed into plastic garbage bags.

McLean, who suffers learning disabilities, admitted to the crime during questioning by NYPD officers.

Investigators spent Tuesday scouring through piles of trash in the South Bronx neighborhood after a horrified dog-walker discovered the human remains in a travel bag at around 4:30am and called police.

NYPD arrest man who axed his mother.

One-by-one, Byrd's decapitated head, right leg, torso and hands have been unearthed in the area around Eagle Avenue, 158th Street, 156th Street and Cauldwell Avenue.

Some of Byrd's body parts were still wearing the clothes she was in when she was slaughtered, police sources told the Daily News.

A neighbor told the paper: 'I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Bashid killed her. She was afraid of that boy... He was a hellion.'

Byrd's sister, Cassandra McLean, initially defended her nephew, believing Byrd's allegedly abusive ex-boyfriend was responsible for her ghastly murder and dismemberment.
Police confirmed Byrd's son reported her missing at the Bronx's 40th precinct station.

He found a photograph of her, which they matched to the decapitated head found in one of the bags, when police showed up at his house. This is when they discovered the carving equipment.

He reportedly told police he hadn't been able to contact his mother for at least a day.

Cassandra McLean said her nephew suffered learning difficulties from an early age.

She said Bahsid McLean told her Byrd's former boyfriend dropped by on Monday and that was the last time he saw her.

'He (the ex-boyfriend) came over yesterday and walked out with her in the morning, yesterday morning,' McLean said on Tuesday. 'That’s what her son told me on the phone just now.'

She told DNAInfo that Byrd's ex-boyfriend was trouble.

'I told my sister to stay away from him, but she said he's harmless and not to worry.'

McLean added of her sister: 'She was a loving mother and very devoted to her son. That's what she lived for. That's her joy in life.'

It's A Coming.....

President Barack Obama speaks to the press about the sequester. He's visibly angry about the Republicans refusal to support tax increases alongside spending cuts.

President Barack Obama, the Democrats and Republican lawmakers are pointing fingers at one another.

The sequester is going to take effect putting our nation's military, our government workers and our country's needy at risk of losing benefits and their jobs.

President Barack Obama and the Democrats want Republicans to give up the fight on protecting tax breaks for the wealthy. The Republicans want the president and Democrats to give up on entitlements and scaring the public with catastrophic themes.

House Speaker John Boehner and the Republican House members still are infighting over how to address the sequester. Some members are willing to tax the rich, but fear a primary challenge from a more conservative candidate. Boehner fears he may lose his speakership if he gives the president what he wants.

The public is on the president's side and the conservative media are trying there best to make it seem like the president wanted the military to be "weaken" and the growth of the government.


Now they can't understand the fact that our government hasn't grown since President Barack Obama been in office. They'll say anything that will stick to the wall. And of course, the president's political foes are tone deaf to anything he says.

Bob Woodward, the famed Washington Post journalist who rose to fame with Carl Bernstein to expose Republican president Richard Nixon's dirty deeds during his presidency. In the midst of his second term, Watergate happened and it force Nixon to resign and Gerald Ford to become the president. Ford's presidency was marred with controversy. His biggest failure was pardoning Nixon.

Woodward isn't a fan of the president. He went through the media cycle exaggerating an interview with a top Obama official. The official got heated over misinformation made by Woodward on the president.

Woodward went to CNN to tell the country that the Obama Administration threatened him.

The conservative media went totally bonkers on it. Sean Hannity was so eager to have him on to explain his side of the controversy.

Most Washington insiders figured that Woodward is trying to stay relevant by creating a scandal where there's none. And most people read the email exchange between the official and Woodward. They saw no controversy.

But since it's went viral, conservatives regardless will assume the president is hostile to the media. A media they've once claimed was in the tank for him.

It's funny that President Barack Obama won easily against that perennial loser Mitt Romney. Despite the sluggish economic conditions, the American people felt that the president's policies are working. The stock market reached 14,000 and the people are feeling good about the future.

Today, some of the steam was let out of the good times. Due to the ineptness of Congress, the government workers and people who contribute to the nation are going to suffer for a bunch of hyper partisan idiots.

My mission from this point is to be the activist. We need to get the Republicans out of the House of Representatives. They're not working for the American people. They're working for the corporations, religious fanatics and reactionary bigots.

Conservatism is on the decline. A new age is dawning. Progressive movement is rising and the conservatives aren't getting their country back!

The Democrats and Republicans who stand against progress better get their asses together or else face the gauntlet of the voter.

Fist Full Of Dollars!

Racial stereotypes are common within the Black community. Many conservative White males think of Blacks as natural born criminals. Many in the conservative/white supremacist bubble think Black men want to grow up to be rappers, athletes, drug dealers, thugs and "gubmint gibbs mes". The believe Black men are the inductees of the iron college (prison), or the pop skip (dead beat parent).

Many in the conservative/white supremacist bubble think of Black women as ugly, fat, ghetto, ignorant, attitude rousing, baby making factories who worship the penis and not the employer.

Besides the stereotypes, racial slurs come down the pipe. Blacks are referred as monkeys, primates, Niggers, coons, bootlips, Obama's children, enslaved to the Democrat plantation or whatever else coming out of the conservative/white supremacist bubble.

Mediaite brings to attention a controversial cover. The Bloomberg Businessweek magazine cover shows a Black family in a house full of money. Meenal Vamburkar uncovers this one.

She writes that Bloomberg Businessweek became part of its own story today — through its controversial cover. It wasn't long before the magazine was accused of crossing the line with a “racist” portrayal of the issue.

Now I am all for freedom of speech. But so far, my thoughts of how the media portrays the Black family and President Barack Obama overstepped its boundaries.

Of course you know the outrage is pretty big right now!

For those in the conservative/white supremacist bubble, this is just PC (political correctness) outrage over nothing. It's just those lefties and civil right agitators making a mountain out of a mole hill.

The Raw Story also reports that the cover depicts people of color with a house full of cash. The “father” is barefoot and leering, depicted as an African-American, leaning out a window to clutch at a stream of dollar bills. The “mother” figure has brown skin and cartoonish, oversized lips. Upstairs we see a black boy and a Hispanic teenage girl, each grotesquely caricatured and shown reclining on big piles of money. All of the characters are grabbing for money while talking on cell phones or Bluetooth devices. Even the family cat, floating on a pillow in a sea of money downstairs, is depicted as black.

According to the Columbia Journalism Review, the image reinforces race-blaming right wing tropes about the mortgage crisis. “The narrative of the crash on the right has been the blame-minority-borrowers line , sometimes via dog whistle, often via bullhorn,” wrote CJR’s Ryan Chittum.

“In fact, though, the record is clear: minorities were disproportionately targeted by predatory lending, which has always gone hand in hand with subprime. Even when they qualified for prime loans that similar-circumstance whites got, they were pushed into higher-interest subprimes.”

Rinku Sen, president of the Applied Research Center, a nonprofit dedicated to “racial justice through media, research and activism,” called the artwork “egregious,” “straightforwardly racist” and “an extreme take on the ‘freeloader’ image.”

Sen said that while many will feel the temptation to call for symbolic firings and to demand some sort of disciplinary action toward whatever editorial personnel let this drawing by, the judgment error on the magazine’s part presents an opportunity to the public.

“It’s upsetting,” she said, “but it’s a really good opportunity to have a discussion with Bloomberg News about how they understand racial dynamics in the economy and how they make editorial choices that have racial implications.”

“What’s sad about this cover is that it’s obsessed with perpetuating racial stereotypes rather than telling the truth. Greed did bring down the housing market but it was the rapaciousness of Wall Street rather than communities of color,” said Imara Jones, the economic justice contributor at Colorlines.com.

”As financial institutions, such as Bank of America and Wells Fargo have admitted to the Justice Department in court settlements, their predatory lending practices of steering credit worthy blacks and Latinos into bogus financial products is what collapsed our economic system. According to Wall Street itself, racism is what destroyed the American dream for millions.”

Bloomberg apologized for the cover.

The magazine is a part of the vast media empire created by Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City. He was a Republican until 2007. He left the party and became an independent. Bloomberg endorsed President Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential election.

Mississippi Mayoral Candidate Killed! | Las Vegas Shooting Kills Inspiring Rapper!

Marco McMillian (left) and Kenny Clutch's (right) lives were gunned down by individuals who didn't care about their inspiring careers. These two made the national news.

Another twofer. Two urban tragedies in a week made the national news.

Of course these stories made it to the national circuit. The conservative/white supremacist bubble practically saw two individuals who happen to be Black. One being a rapper and another being a gay man running for office.

The conservative/white supremacists thoughts of a Black murder victim.

In the conservative/white supremacist bubble, you'll expect the word vomit of hate to flow down a comment section. The usual word vomit includes racial slurs, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Trayvon Martin, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson. They insert political warfare and the usual blame the Niggers not the guns excuse. 

And there you have it, a reactionary bigot responding to a tragedy in the Black community.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to Kenny Clutch, Michael Bolden, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund and Marco McMillian. Each of these victims died in senseless tragedies.

First we'll start with the victim of the Las Vegas shooting. Kenny Clutch, born Kenneth Cherry, Jr. was a 26 year old inspiring rapper who was gunned down. His shooter and person of interest were finally caught.

Clutch and the shooter were in a high speed chase and the gunman shot at his Maserati. The Maserati crashed into a taxi cab killing the driver and a passenger.

Ammar Harris was caught by the FBI.

CBS News reports that Ammar Harris, suspect in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and subsequent fiery car crash that left three dead, has been arrested in Los Angeles, according to police.

Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones says Ammar Harris, a felon, was arrested Thursday by a team of police and federal agents in Studio City.

The 26-year-old is a self-described pimp who was the subject of a multi-state manhunt following the Feb. 21 gunfire and chain-reaction crash that killed three and injured at least five.

Police say he fired at least five shots into a Maserati sports car, killing aspiring rapper Wayne Cherry Jr. who he argued with earlier in the valet area of a Las Vegas Strip resort.

Mortally wounded, Cherry accelerated and slammed into a taxi cab that burst into flames, killing cab driver Michael Boldon and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund of Maple Valley, Washington.

According to CBS Miami, Harris was arrested in Miami Beach last December for reckless driving. Police say he was also cited for driving without a valid license.

The FBI is also looking into Harris' history as a "self-proclaimed" pimp. He is also under investigation for child abuse, sexual assault and weapons possession.


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Yeah, another tragedy. An openly gay mayoral candidate was gunned down near his home. This is a controversy brewing down in Mississippi. The mayoral candidate by the name of Marco McMillian was found dead. The prospect of this individual running for higher office was shattered by a gun tragedy. The shooter was caught and the FBI and Coahoma County Sheriff are wondering what inspired this individual to kill a man with a promising career.

CBS News reports that a 22-year-old man (assuming McMillian's boyfriend) was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate in the Mississippi Delta.

The Coahoma County Sheriff's Department said in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian. McMillian, 34, was a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale and was well-known in the community and beyond.

An investigation began Tuesday when a man crashed McMillian's SUV into another car on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines. The candidate wasn't in the car.

McMillian's body was found near the Mississippi River levee Wednesday morning between Sherard and Rena Lara, Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith has said.

Lawrence Reed was arrested in the death of Marco McMillian

The body was sent for an autopsy, and the cause of death hasn't been made public.

"There's a lot of people upset about it," said Dennis Thomas, 33, who works at Abe's Barbeque.

"Why would somebody want to do something like that to somebody of that caliber? He was a highly respected person in town," Thomas said.

The sheriff's department has not released a possible motive for the crime.

Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith has said McMillian's campaign was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.

McMillian, who was black, had forged ties while serving for four years as international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Photos on McMillian's website and Facebook page show him with a younger Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat.

McMillian was CEO of MWM & Associates, described on its website as a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. In addition to his role at the fraternity from 2007 to 2011, McMillian had previously worked to raise funds as executive assistant to the president at Alabama A&M University and as assistant to the vice president at Jackson State University, according to his campaign.

A statement from the fraternity said he had secured the first federal contract to raise awareness about the impact of HIV and AIDS on communities of color. It noted that Ebony Magazine had recognized him in 2004 as one of the nation's "30 up-and-coming African Americans" under age 30.

Supporters say McMillian — a 1997 graduate of Clarksdale High School who graduated magna cum laude from Jackson State and held a master's degree from St. Mary's University in Minnesota in philanthropy and development — had big ideas for Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people.

The town is well known to blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman is part owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in town. Clarksdale also is hounded by the poverty typical of the Mississippi Delta.

Obama Unveils Rosa Parks Memorial!

President Barack Obama and members of Congress introduce the statue of famed civil rights icon Rosa Parks. For one moment in history, you see our leaders actually agree on one thing: Rosa Parks did something that changed the nation.

December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

At the time, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. She had recently attended the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee center for training activists for workers' rights and racial equality. She acted as a private citizen "tired of giving in". Although widely honored in later years, she also suffered for her act; she was fired from her job as a seamstress in a local department store.

Her fight for equal rights motivated King to prominence.

The president unveiled the Rosa Parks memorial at the hub of the National Statuary Hall. This is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans. The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is a large, two-story, semicircular room with a second story gallery along the curved perimeter.

For one day the Washington lawmakers had a brief moment of clarity.


President Obama and members of Congress are so far apart on issues. The Republicans want to wreck the economy because they're sore losers. And the public is feeling it. Many Black and Hispanic workers fear that if the Congress fails at solving the fiscal crisis, they'll suffer.

There is a major lawsuit on the dockets of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Shelby County v. Holder is at the whims of a partisan court. The Supreme Court will make a landmark (5-4) decision on due process. The Court granted certiorari on the limited question of "whether Congress' decision in 2006 to reauthorize section 5 of the Voting Rights Act under the pre-existing coverage formula of Section 4(b) [sic] of the Voting Rights Act exceeded its authority under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and thus violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution."

If the Court strikes down any portion of the Voting Rights Act it's going to unravel all the hard work done by the Democrats during the "hot summer of 1965".

Republicans already gerrymandered districts to give their party a 2-1 advantage in general elections. Many state governors are trying to make electoral votes separate count. Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett is likely going to sign a law that breaks up the "winner takes all" strategy. It makes all the rural and suburban (likely Republican strongholds) a single vote for the candidate who pulls the most votes.

Republicans are going to make it harder for Democrats to win elections. Even though they've tried with voter suppression, voter identification laws and false cries of voter fraud, Republicans are devoted to stop progress in the name of extremism (not conservatism).

Hannity Knows The GOP Is His Pimp!

Sean Hannity was furious at Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota). He does a follow-up with washed up politicians and right wing extremists.

Conservative agitator Sean Hannity is still upset over the previous night's taping of his program.

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) became the hero of the day for his combative response to Hannity's word vomit.

Hannity know who his pimp is! He is practically the go-to guy for Republican public relations. When Republicans need a time to promote their agenda, they turn to Hannity. When there's a need to prevent a scandal or a shield from accusations of racism, it's Hannity to the rescue.

And for all that ranting and raving, the conservative agitator on Fox News is suffering from a ratings drop.

Hannity and Bill O'Reilly have seen ratings drop. These last months show a decline in the key demographics.

Although they still pull in millions of viewers, that age 24 - 54 demo is the key to keeping a program on.

Since Hannity and O'Reilly failed in their promise of having Barack Obama getting creamed in the presidential election, many of their viewers are tuning them out.

Hannity's right wing carnival of agitation continues to put on the same old faces! These old faces are just regurgitating the same word salad of how they can't stand President Barack Obama and how the nation is stupid for voting for him.

The sequester is likely going to happen and the Democrats are throwing their hands up and saying there's nothing they can do! They want to cut spending, but in order to do that, the Democrats want tax increases on the wealthy.

Republicans solely want spending cuts. They want defense spending up and domestic spending down. They don't want to cut defense spending. Republicans want spending cuts to food stamps, farm aid, hurricane relief, welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, energy credits for solar and wind. They refuse to compromise on tax increases.

This sequester was passed by Congress in 2011. It was a part of the debt ceiling increase. The sequester was triggered after the "supercommittee" failed to find a solutions for a balance budget. Now the pain will be felt and it's likely the Republicans who will face the gauntlet of public scrutiny.

Hannity invites J.C. Watts, Jr. on his program to attack Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota).

Secretary of State John Kerry said it best that [here in the United States], you have a right to be stupid. Our country allows ignorance. Fox News and its personalities deliberately play upon the ignorance.

When you hear folks like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, Neal Boortz, and Herman Cain say supporters of President Barack Obama are "low information voters", you pretty much get upset over it. You think that these individuals as sore losers and figure that their supporters are reactionary bigots.

Last night's combative debate went viral. Many progressives praised Congressman Ellison for standing up to Hannity. Many conservatives believe the congressman was disrespectful and unhinged.

Hannity was so upset with Ellison talking over him, he cut the interview short.

On his radio show, Hannity bragged about the interview. He believed that Ellison was explaining a perfect example of the "socialist leftists" agenda.

His show now highlights the follow-up to last night's controversy with former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts, Jr.

Of course, Hannity baited Watts into slamming Ellison.

Watts and Gary Franks of Connecticut were the only Black Republicans serving in Congress during the late 1990s. Watts was elected during the Republican Revolution. Franks was a member of Congress during the early 1990s and was defeated in 1997 by a Democrat. Until 2011, Republicans had no members of Congress being African American.

Tim Scott of South Carolina was elected to the House of Representatives. He was recently appointed to be the U.S. Senator after Jim DeMint retired to be the president of The Heritage Foundation.

Allen West of Florida was elected to the House of Representatives. In the beginning he was just a perennial candidate. His losing streak came to an end after he beat incumbent Democrat Ron Klein in a bitterly fought Midterm election. He had a well-funded war chest in his bid for reelection. Even though he had endorsements from every extremist in the conservative movement, it didn't help him secure a victory. West was defeated by 29 year old Patrick Murphy, an accountant.

There are no Black Republicans in the House of Representatives. There are two Black members of the U.S. Senate. Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and Senator Mo Cowan (D-Massachusetts) are the only Black members of the Senate.

CPAC Snubs Christie!

The bromance is too much for conservatives. The annual CPAC convention keeps Republican New Jersey governor Chris Christie off their headliner list.

The Republican Party is in a civil war within itself. Many Republicans are fearing that they'll lose the House majority if they continue their infighting. The New Jersey governor Chris Christie is rising in his job approval. As the Republican governor of a deeply blue state, he handled a major crisis so effectively, his major opponents decided to not run against him. It's too risky for a Democratic candidate to take on a governor.

In late October, Hurricane Sandy roared through the Mid-Atlantic coast. It managed to hit the New Jersey shore and destroyed the lives of thousands (if not millions) of Americans. Christie throw aside his opposition with President Barack Obama and worked with him to get things done.

Christie embracing of President Barack Obama may have destroyed the perennial loser Mitt Romney. The Republicans were furious at Christie and blamed him for the loss.

Christie is being snubbed by the Conservative Political Action Conference. The headliner of previous years, the New Jersey governor was not invited to this year's event. Instead CPAC brings in the washed up politicians like perennial loser Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Allen West.

Headliners include Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin). Each of these individuals are potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.

While some praised the decision to not invite Christie, many Republicans fear that the snub could expose a deep rift between the Republicans.

What more can a Republican do?

Most Republicans held their ground during the Obamacare debate. They've stalled the Chuck Hagel nomination as much as they've could. The former Republican senator has become the new Secretary of Defense today.

Republicans had a huge problem with the voters. The voters figured that Republicans are too extreme and are out of touch with the direction of the country.

Christie basically ignored the snub. He responded with: "It's not like I'm lacking for invitations to speak around the country."

CPAC is the gathering of extremists and racists.

CPAC also has in attendance David Keene and Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, Saratoga Springs, Utah mayor Mia Love, Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).

Some conservative groups were also snubbed. MSNBC/Blaze TV agitator S.E. Cupp opted out of the CPAC event because of her support of the GOProud.

The GOProud group are a bunch of gay Republicans that favors same sex marriage. That group is usually banned from CPAC because of its staunch stance to LGBT activism.

Law & Order: SVU Spins Chris Brown/Rihanna Incident!

What we do is nobody's business! 

It's been over four years since the incident in Los Angeles where Chris Brown and Rihanna got into it.

The domestic violence incident pretty much ruined Chris Brown's career as an entertainer. Everything he does now is subject to scrutiny. Chris Brown had got into heated feuds with Drake, Raz-B of B2K, Jenny Johnson, and Frank Ocean.

Even Rihanna suffered some form of scrunity. Many were figuring that she'll move on but I guess Rihanna still loves Chris Brown. They've ended up hooking back up!

Many in the music industry figured that Rihanna is sliding down the path that lead Whitney Houston to her untimely demise last year.

Law & Order: SVU takes a spin into the Chris Brown/Rihanna incident. The character is pop singer Caleb Brown played by Eugene Jones.

The NBC hit drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit  is taking a spin on the controversy. The show is is an American police procedural crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often "ripped from the headlines" or loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention. Created and produced by Dick Wolf, the series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999 as the first spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama, Law & Order.

The program features Dann Florek, Danny Pino, Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, Richard Belzer, and Ice-T. "Special Victims Unit" of the 16th Precinct, New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on crimes involving rape, sexual assault and child molestation, as well as any crime loosely connected with any of the three, such as domestic violence, kidnapping and child abandonment.

This incident of Chris Brown and Rihanna is going to be on Wednesday night's program.

The New York Daily News tells the tale of “Law & Order: SVU” stories as often do, however, it veers off to its own ending — which, in this case, is not happy for one of the characters.

The central players in “Funny Valentine” are Micha Charles-Green (aka Robyn Fenty/Rihanna), played by Tiffany Robinson, and Caleb Brown (aka Chris Brown), played by Eugene Jones.

He regularly beats her, which leads Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) to wonder why she stays in the relationship.

The facial bruises of a singer. Tiffany Robinson plays Micha Charles, a character loosely based on Rihanna.

She also refuses to cooperate in prosecution despite the efforts of assistant district attorney Barba (Raul Esparza) to built a case.

Micha says it’s complicated, and the story plays out from there, focusing on domestic violence and the ways in which abusers manipulate victims.

In real life, Brown was arrested in 2009 after a picture surfaced of Rihanna with a swollen and battered face.

He pleaded guilty to felony assault and received five years probation plus community service and a restraining order. He made several public apologies and also blamed the media.

Last month Rihanna confirmed the pair are back together.

“He's not the monster everybody thinks,” she said. “He's a good person. He has a fantastic heart. He's giving and loving. And he's fun to be around.”

On “SVU,” Jeffrey Tambor plays Brown’s flamboyant media hound attorney. Talk show host Wendy Williams plays herself.

Chris Brown appears under RCA Records.
Rihanna appears under Def Jam.

Sequester Looms!

Break time ends for members of Congress! The unfortunate aftereffects of the sequester will hit each state and will drive the economy back into the crapper. The Republicans are saying that the president is overacting over this! However the Republicans want to prevent this sequester from happening. The Republicans are getting most of the blame for the sequester. Their stubborn views have finally caught up with them.

Congress has a terrible job approval. Too partisan and there's nothing getting done!  The 113th Congress been in office for over six weeks, and they've taken a 10 day vacation. They have a sequester coming up. The U.S. postal service warns of major delays and the end of Saturday service if nothing gets done. The Senate have the nomination of Chuck Hagel finally wrapped up. The Republicans held up the Hagel nomination up over comments about the Jewish state of Israel.

The sequester is likely to happen putting many Americans at risk of losing their jobs. The Democrats offer a plan that includes cuts to spending but tax increases. Republicans offer a plan that includes cuts to spending but no tax increases. The Republicans refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy.

Republicans are unpopular in this debate. It doesn't stop them from holding firm on their "principles".

The sequester was a part of the compromise by Congress to get them motivated to pass legislation that promised equal sacrifices. The combination of legislators in the "supercommittee" failed to reach a deal.

The Republicans stubborn views on taxes have pretty much stalled Washington and progress. And now the American people have to pay because of this.

The president is going to have to constantly campaign in order to make the public understand the severeness of this. Republicans are upset over this as well. They want the president to come back to Washington to lead.

The Republicans are in such disarray. They can't even vote on an alternative they've sponsored. The Democrats are willing to take their alternative. The Republicans are still fighting over that too.

The Republican House majority could be defeated based on how far they'll go to destroying the economy.

The U.S. Senate Race In 2014. The Democrats have more seats to defend this time. Hopefully, they continue to hold the majority of the U.S. Senate. The House of Representatives is a little harder to win.

Republican gerrymandering has given the Democrats a tougher fight in the claiming a representative seat.

States that are key to the 2016 Presidential Election are Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, Colorado, and New Hampshire. These states are key to a presidential nominee.

When Republicans took back a majority of state legislatures and a strong hold of 30 governorships, the Republicans have opportunities to make it harder for Democrats to win.

So far it's likely the Democrats will keep control of the U.S. Senate. Although five Democrats have competitive seats to defend, only one seat is slated for Republican gain.

West Virginia is likely a Republican pick up. Alaska, Louisiana and North Carolina are going to be competitive races. Kentucky is going to be an interesting one. If actress Ashley Judd decides to enter into politics, it's going to be a news event. Maine is likely Republican if the senator Susan Collins decides to stay.

My personal take on the U.S. midterm elections for the senate.

Alaska - Mark Begich (Toss Up)
Hawaii - Brian Schatz
Oregon - Jeff Merkley
Idaho - Jim Risch
Montana - Max Baucus (Toss Up)
Wyoming - Mike Enzi
Colorado - Mark Udall
New Mexico - Tom Udall
Texas - John Cornyn
Oklahoma - Jim Inhofe
Kansas - Pat Roberts
Nebraska - Mike Johanns
South Dakota - Tim Johnson (Leans Democratic)
Minnesota - Al Franken
Iowa - Tom Harkin (Toss Up)
Arkansas - Mary Pryor (Leans Democratic)
Louisiana - Mary Landrieu (Leans Democratic)
Illinois - Richard Durbin
Michigan - Carl Levin (Leans Democratic)
Kentucky - Mitch McConnell (Leans Republican)
Tennessee - Lamar Alexander
Mississippi - Thad Cochran
Alabama - Jeff Session
Georgia - Saxby Chambliss (Leans Republican)
West Virginia - Jay Rockefeller (Toss Up)
Virginia - Mark Warner (Leans Democratic)
North Carolina - Kay Hagen (Leans Democratic)
South Carolina - Lindsay Graham | Tim Scott (Leans Republican)
New Jersey - Frank Lautenberg
Delaware - Tom Carper
Maine - Susan Collins
New Hampshire - Jeanne Shaheen
Massachusetts - Mo Cowan
Rhode Island - Jack Reed

Bold means retiring | Bold Red and Blue means Special Election.

Keith Ellison: [Hannity], The GOP Is Your Pimp!

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) gets into a heated debate with Sean Hannity.

That's not what the congressman said. However, this is what that annoying conservative agitator does on his nightly program and radio show. This conservative agitator practically tricking for the Republican Party.

The Minnesota congressman who was elected in 2006 as the first American Sunni Muslim and state's first African American took great offense to Fox News and the conservative agitator Sean Hannity.

Hannity listed the Democratic congressman as one of his headliners to his program.

They were going to debate the looming sequester deadline. The sequester is likely to happen putting many Americans at risk of losing their jobs. The Democrats offer a plan that includes cuts to spending but tax increases. Republicans offer a plan that includes cuts to spending but no tax increases. They're gridlocked at taxes on the wealthy.

Republicans are unpopular in this debate. It doesn't stop them from holding firm on their "principles".

Hannity goes into his selective editing of President Barack Obama's speech to a naval contractor in Newport News, Virginia and makes a word salad of insults and hyperbolic rhetoric. Hannity rants about how this sequester is not a big deal and the president is lying to the American people about this. And even claiming that it was his idea in the first place.

After playing his selective clip, the conservative agitator starts talking to Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) about how the president is "fearmongering" the public.

Congressman Ellison went right into Hannity.

“You're the worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen,” said Ellison.

That right there got Sean Hannity livid. And for the rest of the interview they get into a screaming match over who's at fault and what didn't get done and the like.

Sean Hannity upset with Congressman Keith Ellison after he called the conservative agitator a Republican shill.

Hannity kept lobbing these accusations that it was the president's massive debt and spending the causes of a stalled economy.

Ellison countered that the sequester was a part of the compromise by Congress to get them motivated to pass legislation that promised equal sacrifices. The congressman told Hannity that the combination of legislators in the "supercommittee" failed to reach a deal. The Republicans stubborn views on taxes have pretty much stalled Washington and progress. And now the American people have to pay because of this.

Hannity didn't buy this. He also went on to say how it's immoral to have such a massive debt.

Ellison shot back and told the conservative agitator that he's immoral and liar. Ellison declared that Sean Hannity (and likely Fox News) are shilling for the Republican Party.

Now that's how the interview went. It's certainly going to have some play on the networks. But also fuels Hannity's argument that MSNBC (or what he calls NBC News) is the pro-Obama network.

MSNBC hired former Barack Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs and campaign adviser David Axelrod to its roster.

Fox News hired former George W. Bush press secretary Dana Perino, former chief of staff Karl Rove, and former UN secretary John Bolton. Fox News commentator Tony Snow served as a press secretary for George W. Bush. Snow died in 2008.

Ellison was notably upset about the guests featured on Hannity's program some time ago. Hannity allows anti-Islamic extremists Pam Geller, Frank Gaffney, Bridget Gabrielle, David Horowitz, Jesse Lee Peterson and Alveda King to openly bash Muslims.

Ellison and Congressman Andre Carson (D-Indiana) are African Americans who are Sunni Muslims. They won reelection easily in their respectable districts.

Not many Democratic lawmakers appear on this program. Not many Democratic lawmakers appear on Fox News in general. The only occasion you at least see a Democratic lawmaker is Fox News Sunday.

Democrats figured that Fox News advocates the talking points of the Republican Party. They don't want to waste their time trying to get a message across to an audience that is already hell bent on seeing their defeat in general elections.

Sean Hannity in particular is one of the reasons why Barack Obama won reelection.