Benghazi: A Republican/Fox News Feature!

Republicans and conservatives mount pressure on President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over their obsession with Benghazi. 

The Republican outreach is a total failure. The outreach to win minority voters is not succeeding.

They're practically begging themselves for a defeat. If you're getting frustrated with the job of Congress, you're not alone. The low approved Congress hasn't passed major legislation since President Barack Obama was sworn in for his second term. The failure of compromise has poisoned Washington.

The Republicans are gathering their talking points from the folks over at Loserville and they're continuing a strategy that is determined to eventually backfire. The Republicans have no real strategy to win back Congress. Their only objective for the Republican majority in the House of Representatives is to draft the Articles of Impeachment over issues such as this controversy, Syria, the Boston Marathon tragedy, gun control, and the impending sequester they've supported. They're dragging Congress all the way to the bottom.

For one thing, I am not concerned about the controversy.

Let me take that back! I am concerned about it in a way that the deceased are being used a "props" for this ridiculous witch hunt. Yeah, since they want to use that term to describe those families of the Sandy Hook tragedy, I found it worthy of my time to say the same about this issue.

Attack on U.S. Consulate in Libya.

I never knew that Republicans are so quick to pinpoint a horrible tragedy. I mean weren't we all Americans on September 11, 2001?

We all stood in unison when that happened. George W. Bush managed got a huge rise in popularity during this tragedy.As far as it goes, no one should talk negative about September 11, 2001. Remember whenever someone criticized the tragedy, you would expect Republicans and conservatives screaming out of their lungs wanted someone to be punished for attacking on the dead.

This tragedy in Benghazi continues to be a political football among the kookspiracy.

The United States Consulate in Benghazi comes under attack.

It was an act of terrorism sparked by an active group of individuals who have ties to some extremist group. They've used the cover of Middle East protests to sneak into the consulate and kill four Americans.

We're not done yet! Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California).

The attack began during the night at a compound that is meant to protect the consulate building. A second assault in the early morning the next day targeted a nearby CIA annex in a different diplomatic compound. Four people were killed, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Ten others were injured. The attack was strongly condemned by the governments of Libya, the United States, and many other countries throughout the world.

The Republicans crusade to get "all the answers" to what happen continues on.

The Republicans continue to beat down a drum to obscurity with this hearing this Wednesday.

Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California), Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) are leading a panel of these  "whistle-blowers" who were there during the attack. The Republicans shut the Democrats out of the panel.

Mark Thompson and Greg Hicks are the key figures in this panel. They will try to prove the Republicans talking point that Benghazi was a "cover up" and the president allowed people to die.

The Washington Post reports that the new details are certain to reignite a debate over whether the Obama administration has been sufficiently forthcoming in its public accounting of the events and missteps that resulted in the first death of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty in a generation. If Republicans in Congress succeed in portraying the administration’s response as feckless, the episode could dog any future political aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was secretary of state when the attacks happened.

After the attacks ended without planes being scrambled or special forces dispatched, the lieutenant colonel in Tripoli who commanded the Special Operations team told Hicks he was sorry his men had been held back.

Four American diplomats were killed.

“I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life that a State Department officer has bigger balls than someone in the military,” the officer told Hicks, according to the diplomat’s account. Hicks called that “a nice compliment.”

Hicks may have been the last American official to speak with Stevens. After an embassy security official ran into his residence to tell him about the attack, Hicks managed to get Stevens on the phone.

“Greg, we’re under attack,” Stevens blurted out, according to Hicks. “My response is ‘Okay,’ and I’m about to say something else and the line clicks.”

The administration has said the independent review of the Benghazi attack was exhaustive, and State Department officials have vowed to implement reforms to make U.S. missions abroad safer. Republicans, however, say Hicks’s account suggests the administration has not been entirely truthful.

“The White House and the Pentagon have allowed us to believe that there were no military options on the table,”  Chaffetz said in a phone interview. “The model of the military is to leave no person behind, and it’s stunning and unacceptable to think we had military willing and ready to go and the Pentagon told them to stand down. That’s just not the American way.”

Combative debate over Benghazi

Chaffetz said the troops who were not allowed to travel to Benghazi would have arrived after the attack on the CIA base but may have provided first aid to wounded personnel. He noted that the order to keep them from traveling was given before the second attack.

A Pentagon spokesman said he would review the Hicks testimony. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters that the Republican-led inquiry appears to be politicized, saying it was “not a collaborative process.”

He said, however, that the State Department is not seeking to suppress the accounts of whistleblowers. “We have always encouraged any State Department employee who wants to share their story and tell the truth,” he said.

Part of the Benghazi debate has focused on whether prompt action might have saved lives. In the initial attack, militants overran the compound where Stevens was staying and he and another State Department officer, Sean Smith, were killed. Others made their way to a nearby annex used by the CIA, where two Americans, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, died in an attack several hours later.

Hicks, a veteran foreign service officer who is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, told congressional staffers that he and others in Libya thought that flying U.S. military jets over Benghazi during the early hours of the attack could have had a deterrent effect.

“If we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the [CIA] annex in the morning, because I believe the Libyans would have split,” Hicks said. “They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them.”

Hicks said that late on the night of Sept. 11 he called the embassy’s defense attache, Lt. Col. Keith Phillips, and asked about the viability of sending jets.

“Is there anything coming?” he said he asked.

Phillips told Hicks that the nearest planes were at Aviano Air Base in Italy and that it would take two to three hours to get them off the ground, the diplomat told congressional staffers. There also were no aircraft nearby that could have refueled airborne planes.

“The answer was, it’s too far away, there are no tankers, there is nothing, there is nothing that could respond,” he said.

A Lot Of White Guys With Guns!

The National Rifle Association held its event in Houston, Texas.

The White guy with a firearm. It's the part of the conservative credo to have a bigger gun! I mean how many of these people have this obsession with firearms?

A whole lot of penis swinging around there. All gushy eyed over that half term moron and the cabal of conservative agitators.

The NRA elects its newest nut to the tree. The guy is a former lawyer named Jim Porter.

With headliners like Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas), Chalk E. Becker, The Guy Who Helped Obama Win, Palin Da Ass, and other agitators there, the NRA convention came off more so as the only place where a White man can feel like he's a leader in a diversified nation.

Jim Porter, the newest president of the National Rifle Association.

Can't be so subtle when I say this: But do you actually think the NRA events are catered to anyone of color?

Republicans and their conservative allies have done victory laps over the defeat of a reasonable background check. The NRA have put so much time in trying to scare up fundraising.

Jim Porter declares President Barack Obama, a "phony politician." Porter, who until this week was first vice president at the NRA and chairman of the group’s Legal Affairs Committee, will officially take over for David Keene at the group’s annual convention this weekend in Houston. The NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, has headed the organization since 1991, and has become a somewhat controversial but public face of the organization in recent months.

It’s no surprise that Porter, whose father was an NRA president in the late 1950s, is well-versed in NRA doctrine, namely protecting 2nd Amendment rights at all costs.

And anyone expecting the NRA to soften on assault weapons would be, well, deeply disappointed.
Indeed, Porter, 64, has put it in crystal-clear terms: He believes the NRA was founded to teach civilians how to use military-style weapons in the Civil War era.

“That was the very reason they started the national rifle association, was to teach and train the civilian in the use of the standard military firearm,” Porter said at the New York Rifle & Pistol Association’s Annual Meeting in 2012. “And I am one who still feels very strongly that that is our greatest charges that we could have today is to train the civilian in the use of the standard military firearm, so when they have to fight for their country, they’re ready to do it.

“Also when they’re ready to fight tyranny, they’re ready to do it. Also when they’re ready to fight tyranny, they have the wherewithal and the weapons to do it,” Porter added.

The video of the meeting was first unearthed by the Education Fund to Stop Gun Violence.

Speaking of a fight, Porter also noted that the Civil War is commonly mislabeled in the North.

“Y’all might call it the Civil War, but we call it ‘the war of northern aggression’ down South,” Porter said.

In that same speech, Porter also made it clear that there’s no love lost between the NRA and President Obama, whom he called a “fake president.”

“His entire administration is anti-gun, anti-freedom anti-second amendment,” Porter said.

And that was before Obama backed a new background checks bill and pushed for an assault weapons ban in Congress.

Here's some lowlights from the show

Mountain Dew Drops Lil' Wayne And Tyler The Creator!

One thing they never lost was the skateboard they're riding on.  Lil' Wayne and Tyler The Creator were let go of their Mountain Dew endorsements. They've managed to stir the junk food media with their antics.

To all reading: Understand that rape is rape! There's nothing funny or creative about it! 

And by the way, if you don't snitch: You get sentenced! Help solve a crime, don't be a part of it!

Who would of thought a heavily sugared soft drink would draw such controversy?

I understand that these agitators in the entertainment industry are entitled to their opinions. They're creative artists. The most popular are subjected to the most criticism.

If you're on the top, you're expected to lead the way! Shame that everything you're saying is looked under the microscope.

Not saying that most rappers are role models, but I don't see any of them going into a public school telling a class that it's cool to be an entertainer or media mogul!

Tyler the Creator of the rap group Odd Future and Lil' Wayne are now facing a public backlash over their endorsement of Mountain Dew. Under pressure PepsiCo dropped the rappers. MTV reports that Tyler the Creator and Lil' Wayne are pretty much upset over the whole ordeal.

Lil' Wayne appears on Cash Money Records. He is affiliated with Young Money Entertainment.
Tyler The Creator appears on Odd Future Records.
Future appears on A1/Freebandz/Epic Records
Rocko appears on A1/E-1 Entertainment
Rick Ross appears on Def Jam. He is affiliated with Maybach Music Group and Slip-N-Slide Records.

First, there's a video circulating over the internet that the junk food media considered "racist".

The ad features a White woman, a handful of Black guys and a goat.

The ad was a battered woman who is being interviewed by a detective in a fingering room. The woman who was clearly injured had to single out a handful of suspects. There were Black suspects and a goat. The woman fingered the goat and the detective was drinking a Mountain Dew.

Well according to the junk food media the ad was horrible and was deemed offensive.

'There's no type of hate being portrayed in that work of art at all,' Tyler says of his banned Mountain Dew ad.

Tyler singled out Black activist Dr. Boyce Watkins for the ad drop.

[You know this older Black] dude, Dr. Boyce Watkins, I guess he found it racist because I was portraying stereotypes, which is ridiculous because, one, all of those dudes [in the line-up] are my friends."

Tyler explained that there were absolutely no intended racial undertones in the ad, which was simply supposed to tell the story of a crazed goat who went as far as assaulting a woman on his quest to secure more Mountain Dew. "It's just a goat. I just think a goat is funny. It's no deeper meaning," he explained. "I wasn't thinking, 'Oh, let's use all black [people]' or whatever. I wanted to use my friends. You know why? 'Cause I don't like using other actors. You can look at every one of my videos, and my friends are always in it. Saying that I'm racist — every video I got, Lucas is in it! He's a little scrawny white kid. So what is this dude talking about?"

Dr. Watkins had a slight change of heart, reaching out to Tyler on Twitter on May 2, writing, "Studied your music, I have an altered perspective. Still could do without the ad, but I think you were well-intended. #respect." Tyler obviously interpreted this as "I take back what I said."

"You're so quick to judge something that you don't know the context, you're so quick to call me a racist and other stuff, but he didn't know where I was coming from. But then he looked at what I have actually done, and now he wants to take his statement back," Tyler said in reaction. "'My daughters listen to you.' OK, that's confusing, because if I'm such a racist, and such a bad person, and feeding negativity to the youth, why are your daughters listening to me? That shows you're a bad parent and a hypocrite if your daughters are listening to me and I'm such a bad person."

"I was watching a 20-minute interview that Dr. Boyce Watkins had about me, and he said that I was feeding into my demographic of black pain," he added. "Dude, to keep it honest, a lot of black teenagers don't even listen to my music, and then he says I'm portraying that it's OK to be a thug. Are you serious? All my music is about being awkward and not fitting in!"

Despite his annoyance, he did try to understand where Watkins was coming from when he reacted. "Then again, I look at it from his perspective. He's an older black man. It's a generation gap. He's older than me. So the things that he had to experience with racism and stereotypes and being a black man in this country, is different from mine."

Who said Tyler isn't diplomatic? With all that said though, Watkins is still happy that the ad was removed. "I think that people believe that I regret telling Mountain Dew to take down the ad, I do not," he tweeted.

Mountain Dew is one of PepsiCo's most popular products.

The family of Mammy Till, the mother of slain teenager Emmet Till managed to get Mountain Dew to drop Lil' Wayne. Earlier this year, Rick Ross got his endorsement deal from Reebok dropped after he made a reference to "date rape" on Rocko's U.O.E.N.O. single.

On Friday, PepsiCo said in a statement that Wayne's "offensive reference to a revered civil rights icon does not reflect the values of our brand." It declined to provide any further comment.

A publicist for Lil' Wayne, Sarah Cunningham, said that the split was due to "creative differences" and that it was an amicable parting.

"That's about all I can tell you at this time," she said.

Wayne had sent the Till family a letter offering empathy and saying that he would not reference Till or the family in his music, particularly in an inappropriate manner.

But the Till family said the letter fell short of an apology.

"It's mindboggling to me that they partnered with him in the first place," said the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a Till cousin and witness to his abduction. "Major corporations should scrutinize who they endorse, don't let greed or money determine who you sponsor."

Parker's written statement said Wayne's lyrics not only insulted Till's memory but degraded women as well.

Rev. Al Sharpton, who had been working with the Till family to arrange a meeting with Lil' Wayne and PepsiCo officials, said in a telephone interview that he hopes the decision ultimately is less about punishing individual rappers and more a cultural "teaching moment."

"Otherwise we're just waiting on the next train crash instead of trying to really resolve our problem and learn from these experiences and set a tone in the country that's healthy for everybody," he said.

Sharpton said that he and the Till family still plan to meet with PepsiCo officials next week.

The controversy erupted after Wayne made the reference to Till on Future's song "Karate Chop" earlier this year. He refers to a violent sexual act on a woman and says he wants to do as much damage as was done to Till.

The black teen from Chicago was in Mississippi visiting family in 1955 when he was killed, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. He was beaten, had his eyes gouged out and was shot in the head before his assailants tied a cotton gin fan to his body with barbed wire and tossed it into a river.

Two white men, including the woman's husband, were acquitted by an all-white jury.

Till's body was recovered and returned to Chicago where his mother, Mamie Till, insisted on having an open casket at his funeral. The pictures of his battered body helped push civil rights into the cultural conversation.

Music and media industry executive Paul Porter, who comments on music issues on his website RapRehab.com, said he thought PepsiCo's decision was an effort by the company "to do the right thing now."

Their fingerprints are all over this one!

Porter, who had complained publicly and to PepsiCo about Lil Wayne and the Mountain Dew video by Tyler, the Creator, said the company is "doing a whole evaluation of the process" involving its commercials and musicians. His comments were based on his conversations with the company.

"I commend them for making this strong judgment," he said. "Lil Wayne's apology was not an apology."

Earlier this month, Rick Ross also lost his deal with Reebok after he rapped about raping a woman who had been drugged. As for the Mountain Dew ad by Tyler, the Creator, PepsiCo said it pulled the spot immediately after learning people found it offensive.

The ad portrayed a battered white woman being urged to identify her attacker from a lineup of black men and a talking goat that has appeared in other Mountain Dew ads. Tyler, the Creator has noted that the men in the lineup were played by his friends and members of Odd Future, a Los Angeles-based rap collective.

Now as usual, I don't endorse every boycott or sponsorship drop but if we could allow King Hippo to lose endorsements because of his controversial rants, then it's considered equal upon those in the entertainment industry.

Notice that Al Sharpton and Boyce Watkins were involved. Conservative agitators scorn at them for being "race-hustlas" and panderers of "anti-White" rhetoric. But the supporters look upon them when there's an issue and there's no one who can help.

No doubt, Lil' Wayne and Tyler The Creator will hit back at Mountain Dew, Bill O'Reilly, Boyce Watkins and Al Shaprton. It's assured that in a feud, a rapper will not rest until they've won the battle.

But in an age post Sandra Fluke and even the Steubenville rape trial, many women are calling out the sexism. Even President Barack Obama wasn't immune from criticism.

Being a pop culture icon in a nation full of cynics can be problematic. Especially in the age of Barack Obama.

Here's a few examples of rappers who embraced the culture of sexism, commercialism, homophobia, the crime and gun culture being dropped from endorsements after groups and conservative agitators rolled their tongues.

Ludacris (Pepsi), Snoop Dogg (The Muppets), Busta Rhymes (Mountain Dew), Chris Brown (Wrigley's), The Game (Reebok), and Shawty Lo (All My Baby Mamas), Hank Williams (ESPN), Ted Nugent (U.S. Military Bases and Discovery Channel), Sarah Palin (TLC and Fox News) are examples.

Some conservative agitators lost endorsements for their embracing of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophoia, the crime and gun culture.

Rush Limbaugh (1,000 endorsements), Dr. Laura Schlessinger (40 endorsements, 4 syndicators), Michael Savage (400 endorsements, 5 syndication companies), Glenn Beck (ABC, HLN, Fox News, 500 endrosements).



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Spring Forward!

Unemployment numbers drop!

The unemployment numbers are out again and this has the economy looking a little better. The hiring numbers are at 165,000 and the unemployment number drops down to 7.5%.

Again, we're in a sequester and the likely numbers are higher. But still hiring for the spring and summer are looking better. Of course, conservatives will dismiss this job report as bogus because in their warped minds, it's over 40% unemployment and millions of individuals on food stamps.

Que: King Hippo and the Guy Who Helped Obama Win.

Well it's an improvement in the economy and why would anyone root for it to be


Employment rose more than expected in April, pushing the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent, which could help ease concerns of a sharp slowdown in the economy.

Nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. March's payrolls were raised to 138,000, 50,000 more jobs than previously reported, and February's job count was revised up to 332,000, the largest since May 2010.

Winning the narrative!

Economists polled by Reuters had expected April payrolls to rise 145,000 and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 7.6 percent. The drop in the unemployment rate last month reflected an increase in employment, rather than people leaving the workforce.

Still, details of the report remained consistent with a slowdown in economic activity.

Construction employment fell for the first time since May, while manufacturing payrolls were flat. The average workweek pulled off a nine-month high, but average hourly earnings rose four cents.

Even the guy who throws shit on the wall concedes that there is an improvement.

Usually I click on the conservative agitator's website to see all the negative reactions to the good news. But today I rather just get a screenshot and prove the point.

Tupac Shakur's Aunt Is A Wanted Woman!

Assata Shakur is placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists.

This week the FBI announced that the aunt of Tupac Shakur is added to the list of most wanted terrorists.

Assata Shakur (aka Joanne Chesimard) is wanted for escaping from prison in Clinton, New Jersey, while serving a life sentence for murder. On May 2, 1973, Shakur, who was part of a revolutionary extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Army, and two accomplices were stopped for a motor vehicle violation on the New Jersey Turnpike by two troopers with the New Jersey State Police. At the time, Shakur was wanted for her involvement in several felonies, including bank robbery.

Shakur and her accomplices opened fire on the troopers. One trooper was wounded and the other was shot and killed execution-style at point-blank range. Shakur fled the scene, but was subsequently apprehended. One of her accomplices was killed in the shoot-out and the other was also apprehended and remains in jail.

In 1977, Shakur was found guilty of first degree murder, assault and battery of a police officer, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to kill, illegal possession of a weapon, and armed robbery.

She was sentenced to life in prison.

On November 2, 1979, Shakur escaped from prison and lived underground before being located in Cuba in 1984. She is thought to currently still be living in Cuba.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information directly leading to the apprehension of Shakur.

Chesimard was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA). Between 1971 and 1973, she was accused of several crimes and made the subject of a multi-state manhunt.

Shakur fled to the island nation of Cuba by 1984; in that year she was granted political asylum in that country.


The Cuban government pays approximately $13 a day toward her living expenses.

In 1985 she was reunited with her daughter, Kakuya, who had previously been raised by Shakur's mother in New York.

She published Assata: An Autobiography, which was written in Cuba, in 1987. Her autobiography has been cited in relation to critical legal studies  and critical race theory. The book does not give a detailed account of the events on the New Jersey Turnpike, except saying that the jury "Convicted a woman with her hands up!" The book was published by Lawrence Hill & Company in the United States and Canada but the copyright is held by Zed Books Ltd. of London due to "Son of Sam" laws, which restrict who can receive profits from a book.

Mugshot in 1973.

 In the six months prior to the publications of the book, Evelyn Williams, Shakur's aunt and attorney, made several trips to Cuba and served as a go-between with Hill.

In 1993, she published a second book, Still Black, Still Strong, with Dhoruba bin Wahad and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Shakur's writings have been widely circulated on the Internet. For example, the largely Internet-based "Hands Off Assata!" campaign is coordinated by Chicago-area Black Radical Congress activists.

As early as 1998, Shakur has referred to herself as a "20th century escaped slave."

In the same open letter, Shakur calls Cuba "One of the Largest, Most Resistant and Most Courageous Palenques (Maroon Camps) that has ever existed on the Face of this Planet."

Shakur is also known to have worked as an English-language editor for Radio Havana Cuba.

Obviously, the FBI has been tipped about the whereabouts of Shakur. They're counting the days for her to make a simple mistake in her movement. Because the moment she does, Ms. Shakur is caught and brought to the United States.

This is the first time in history a woman was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list.


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Mark Sanford: South Carolina, Please Forgive Me!

Former Republican South Carolina governor Mark Sanford is trying to restart career.

The disgraced former governor of South Carolina is fighting for redemption. He's taking on a famous celebrity's sister in the fight for a politically conservative U.S. congressional district, once held by him, and the former Tim Scott.

He is facing Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, a the Director of Business Development at Clemson University’s Restoration Institute. She is the sister of Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert.

Colbert being one of the most recognizable names in pop culture has made this race even more tighter.

Sanford is fighting for political life. And this political fight may come out to be a nail-biter to say at least.

The first district is a strongly Republican district. No Democrat has ever this area in over 30 years.

As governor, Sanford had a contentious relationship with the South Carolina legislature: notably, he made public statements that he would reject stimulus funds for his state from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

He wasn't a popular governor. He often clashed with the even members of the South Carolina state house when it came to issues because he stood on his "family valued" conservative principles.

The congressional seat was held by Henry Brown, a conservative Republican. But due to the ongoing issues with Congress and fatigue, he retired and Tim Scott went on to take the mantle. Tim Scott served one term before Republican governor Nikki Haley chose him as a senator.

Scott was the representative of that district. He was promoted to become the Republican U.S. Senator after Jim DeMint resigned to take over The Heritage Foundation. Scott, is the first African American politico in the U.S. Seante since Senator Roland Burris of Illinois. He and Massachusetts Mo Cowan, the Democrat make the only two Black senators in 113th Congress. Cowan will retire after the special election in Massachusetts. Scott intents on running for the remainder of the term.

Anyways, as her duty Republican governor Nikki Haley ordered a special election for the open seat.

Sanford, a former governor and representative himself written his political future in disgrace. He made a bogus claim that he was taking a hike in the Appalachian Mountains with staffers. Unbeknownst to the public and his wife, he was secretly traveling to Argentina to meet his mistress (and future baby mama).

He was a married man with four children, why would he travel to another country?

His excuse, he was in love! Of course, we understand. But the junk food media knew what's up!

He was floated around as a potential candidate for the Republican nomination in 2012. Alas, that was squashed and the Republicans allowed the perennial loser Mitt Romney to sent them to defeat.

Sanford and later former presidential candidate John Edwards ended up making the news for all the wrong reasons. Besides being caught up in romantic trysts, the politicos were pretty much written out of

His political adviser and strategist was his wife Jenny, the rock of his life for 20 years was betrayed by this guy who found interest in María Belén Chapur, a news reporter from Argentina. He would eventually leave the state house and travel to the penthouse.

This would eventually end their marriage. Jenny was often floated around as a potential contender for the Republican vacancy, but alas, she wanted no part of it. So here comes the ex-husband and his smoking hot girlfriend and the path to redemption election push.

To say that Sanford's legal and political woes are over is an understatement. The Republican National Committee abruptly pulled all support from the Sanford campaign in the wake of revelations that Jenny Sanford had filed a trespassing complaint against him on February 4.

According to the complaint, Jenny Sanford had caught her former husband sneaking out of her home in Sullivan's Island, using his cellphone as a flashlight. Under the terms of their divorce agreement, neither Mark nor Jenny Sanford may come to the other's house without permission--a condition Jenny Sanford alleged that Mark Sanford had flouted on numerous occasions despite Jenny Sanford filing a "no trespass" letter with the Sullivan's Island Police Department.

In a statement, Mark Sanford admitted that he'd gone to the house to watch the second half of Super Bowl XLVII with his son. He claimed to have tried to contact Jenny beforehand, but was unable to do so. Jenny Sanford filed the complaint the next morning. Several Republican operatives said that they were upset Sanford had known about this complaint for some time and failed to disclose it.

Sanford actually debated a cardboard cutout of Minority Leader Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-California) in an attempt to paint Colbert-Busch as a devoted follower of the Democratic leader.

Larry Flynt, publisher of adult themed Hustler Magazine endorsed Mark Sanford for Congress saying "His open embrace of his mistress in the name of love, breaking his sacred marriage vows, was an act of bravery that has drawn my support."

Republicans cautiously endorsed him for the seat. But if the polls say that Colbert-Busch is slightly ahead of the embattled Sanford, it's going to be a major upset.

In their only debate, Colbert-Busch knocked the former governor over his trip and reckless behavior. The embattled Sanford ignored it and tired to zero in on the experience of the candidate as well as the celebrity of "Hollywood Elites" such as Stephen Colbert.

This is one of the most memorable races ever! For the fact that a scandal prone governor faces the sister of an American comedian is quite entertaining (only if there wasn't these jokers running for office, it would be funny)!

PA Senator: [GOP] Didn't Want To Give Obama A Win!

Two conservative senators Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) tried to pass a bipartisan bill got shafted by Republican obstruction. 

The Republican Party already exposed their true colors.

This crucial vote on the stricter background checks may have the break President Barack Obama needed to rally his base up. The Republicans stubborn desire to hurt the president may have backfired.

Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Senator Dan Coats (R-Indiana) took a hit in their polls.

Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-North Dakota) and Senator Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) also taken a hit as well. They were the few Democrats who decided to put their special interest ahead of the people.

So far the 113th Congress has been an utter disappointment in legislation. While they're taking another vacation, the nation is facing a sequester. The sequester is putting a dent in growth because of Republicans obstruction to raise taxes on the higher end earners.

They allowed the FAA make budget cuts that affected travel across the nation. They finally realized that it affected them as well so they've passed a fast track bill to become law.

So far we've seen continuous gun violence across the country. One thing is clear, the gun always seems like the winner of these debates.

Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) has express concern about his fellow Republicans. He told the press that the reason for the gun bill failure: The Republicans basically can't stand President Barack Obama.

Now we can remember that in 2010, the minority leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) decided to make the Republican Party's goal to deny the president a second term. It didn't happen.

So now the only thing the Republicans got left is basically try to murky the waters up so much the blame will shift to the president instead of them.

With the sequester and gun control failures, Republicans are likely going to lose the House and pick up two seats in the Senate. That's pretty much my prediction on this.

Republicans can take Congress to the bottom of the barrel and still manage to come out looking like winners.

But this isn't going to happen. President Barack Obama will have to campaign throughout his second term to get the public's attention. If one thing is clear, the Republicans pretty much screwed themselves more so than the president.

Chris Kelly Of Kris Kross Passes Away!

Kris Kross member Chris Kelly died.

CNN and the Associated Press can confirm that former rapper Chris Kelly of Kris Kross has died.

Of the early 1990s, Jermaine Dupri introduced the world to two pint size rappers who wore their clothes backwards and sung the smash hit Jump and Tonite Da Nite!

While being one of the youngest acts to ever come out, it helped Dupri launch his vanity label So So Def. It introduced the world to Jagged Edge, Bow Wow, Xscape and Da Brat.

Chris Kelly, one-half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, died Wednesday at an Atlanta hospital after being found unresponsive at his Atlanta home, the Fulton County medical examiner's office told CNN. He was 34.

An autopsy is planned for Thursday.

Kelly, together with Chris Smith, shot to stardom in 1992 with the hit "Jump," which spent eight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. The two also were known for wearing their clothes backward during performances.

The duo followed up their smash "Jump" with the single "Warm It Up." Together, the songs pushed their debut album, "Totally Krossed Out," to multiplatinum status.

Kris Kross followed it up with 1993's "Da Bomb." But the album failed to find the following of the duo's debut, in large part because the boys had hit puberty and they were marketed with a tougher image.

Their career never again reached the heights of their debut, but they continued to make music. In 1996, the pair released the album "Young, Rich and Dangerous."

Kelly and Smith were 13-year-olds when they were discovered in 1991 at an Atlanta mall by Jermaine Dupri.

The pair reunited earlier this year at a 20th anniversary party for Dupri's So So Def label.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to Chris Kelly's family.

Kris Kross was an American rap duo of the 1990s comprising Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly and Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith. The duo was best known for their hit 1992 song "Jump", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and was certified double platinum as a single. Kris Kross was also noted for their fashion style, which consisted of wearing their clothing backwards.

Jermaine Dupri appears on So So Def Recordings.

Da Brat appears appear as an independent artist. Her previous recordings are licensed by So So Def.

Bow Wow appears on Cash Money Records. Previous music is licensed by So So Def and Columbia.

Jagged Edge appears on Slip-N-Slide Records. Previous music is licensed by So So Def and Def Jam.

Kris Kross appears on So So Def/Ruffhouse Records.

Drudge Misleads Headline About Income Inequality!

I for one am getting tired of The Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall and his conservative agitating.

He's entitled to attract his rabid base of WHITE EXTREMISTS and misinformed readers with his website.

Most of the Republican Party takes marching orders from him, the folks over at Loserville, King Hippo, Chalk E Becker, and now Crazy Jones. It's no secret that a handful of Republican politicos are drafting legislation based off these highly paid luntics of the junk food media.

While they're screaming that the media is in the tank for President Barack Obama, their gullible audience continues to shell out dollars for books, events, and products endorsements.

To put this in simple words: We'll scream so much and yes, we've gotten very wealthy by doing it!

In the link, the New York Times tells a tale of income inequality between two common groups Republicans rather see in the iron college instead of the voting booths.

The median income for Blacks and Hispanics have taken a nosedive for over 50 years. Further than we thought though. In the age of Barack Obama, many Republicans and their conservative/White supremacists allies believe the minorities are "brainwashed" into supporting the president because he's a "brotha".

The New York Times cited a study from the Urban Institute saying that White families make an average of $2 for every Blacks and Hispanics that makes $1. This situation has been around for 30 years.

Newsflash, Ronald Reagan was the president back then.

The title is misleading for one thing. It's not true.

One thing about the U.S. Congress these days, they're not popular. Right now, the Kardashians are slightly more likable than members of Congress.

Since the background check vote failed, members of the U.S. Senate who voted against it have taken nosedive in popularity. Republicans and Democrats who voted against gun control really are paying a price.

This inequality gap that stiffed Black and Hispanic families continue to reign because of lawmakers failing to do their part to their constituents. Gerrymandering and lack of knowledge continues to elect these politicos back to Washington. Despite their commitment to helping their country by making progress, our politicos are really more interested in helping their friends, family and allies instead of you and me.

That link will give those in the junk food media and the conservative/White supremacist bubble a "told you so moment!" They will waste no time trying to tie every economic woe to the president.

The president released a budget bill that Republicans refuse support. The president's job bill died in 112th Congress. This wasn't moving the Republicans in the House and the Senate passed it only to have it watered down because of conservative Democrats phobias of a Republican insurgency.

The low approved Congress managed to stall the immediate cuts by the Federal Aviation Administration.

They realized that the cuts were hurting their travel by air. They quickly passed legislation and the president signed into law. The president grumbled about this and told the American people that if we're elected to do a job, why are we not working to get things done?

The point of the income inequality started when Whites left the urban areas for the suburbs. Why buy in the city when there's malls, hospitals and parks in the suburbs?

I've heard White friends say they avoid going to the city because of some perceived phobia they've watched on the local news or from experience of friends or family members living there.

The Urban Institute concluded that when it comes to wealth — as measured by assets, like cash savings, homes and retirement accounts, minus debts, like mortgages and credit card balances — white families have far outpaced black and Hispanic ones. Before the recession, non-Hispanic white families, on average, were about four times as wealthy as nonwhite families, according to the Urban Institute’s analysis of Federal Reserve data. By 2010, whites were about six times as wealthy.

The dollar value of that gap has grown, as well. By the most recent data, the average white family had about $632,000 in wealth, versus $98,000 for black families and $110,000 for Hispanic families.

“The racial wealth gap is deeply rooted in our society,” said Caroline Ratcliffe, one of the authors of the Urban Institute study. “It’s here, it’s not going away, and we need to care about it.”

Many experts consider the wealth gap to be more pernicious than the income gap, as it perpetuates from generation to generation and has a powerful effect on economic security and mobility. Young black people are much less likely than young white people to receive a large sum from their parents or other relatives to pay for college, start a business or make a down payment on a home, for instance. That, in turn, makes their wealth-building prospects shakier as they move into adulthood.

Two major factors helped to widen this wealth gap in recent years. The first is that the housing downturn hit black and Hispanic households harder than it hit white households, in aggregate. Many young Hispanic families, for instance, bought homes as the housing bubble was inflating and reaching its peak, leaving them saddled with heavy debt burdens as house prices plunged in places like suburban Phoenix and inland California.

Black families also were hit disproportionately by the housing collapse, because heading into the recession housing constituted a higher proportion of their wealth than for white families, leaving them more exposed when the market crashed. Higher unemployment rates and lower incomes among blacks left them less able to keep paying their mortgages and more likely to lose their homes, experts said.

Discriminatory lending practices were also a factor. “We know that communities of color, their rate of subprime or predatory loans was twice what it is in the overall population,” said Tom Shapiro, the director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University.

Black families also suffered bigger hits to their retirement savings, the Urban Institute found. On aggregate, the value of black families’ retirement accounts shrank 35 percent between 2007 and 2010, while white families’ accounts actually gained 9 percent over the same period. With lower earnings and higher unemployment rates leaving them with a thinner safety net to begin with, black families were more likely to take funds out of the market when it was depressed, leaving them out in the cold as the market recovered.

“That reservoir of what you can dig into for emergencies and contingencies is a lot shallower in communities of color,” Professor Shapiro said. “That pushes black families to sling off assets, like I.R.A.’s or stocks, that you might have had another goal in mind for.”

The Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall tweets a picture with former Bill Clinton nemesis (alleged mistress) Paula Jones. They were spotted at the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner.

Something similar may be happening as the housing recovery takes hold. “Some people talk about it in terms of a land grab,” said Professor Hamilton of the New School, as mainly white investors are buying foreclosed homes from disproportionately minority owners. “As the housing market starts to appreciate, some of those minority buyers might not be back.”

All in all, Hispanic families lost 44 percent of their wealth between 2007 and 2010, the Urban Institute estimates, and black families lost 31 percent. White families, by comparison, lost 11 percent of their wealth. The economic turbulence worsened a gap that has persisted for as long as social scientists have measured it, and has its roots in institutional racism, they said, which, for instance, prevented black Americans from benefiting fully from the G.I. Bill back in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Urban Institute study looked at mean wealth figures, where a small number of high-net-worth families skews the averages upward. Median wealth figures — where half of households have more wealth and half less — produces lower numbers, but the trends are the same, the Urban Institute researchers said.

Even if blacks and Hispanics make progress in the years ahead as the economy improves, the persistence of the wealth gap has pushed many public policy scholars to recommend the adoption of more ambitious programs to help reduce worsening inequality.

The Urban Institute suggests reforming government policies that encourage savings but disproportionately benefit the already wealthy and families with high incomes, like the home mortgage interest deduction. Automatic savings vehicles also might help lower-income and lower-wealth families start saving, it said.

Professor Hamilton has proposed “baby bonds,” granting savings accounts to infants, seeded with funds that allocate greater sums to families with less wealth. (Such accounts would be race-blind, Professor Hamilton emphasized.) Accountholders could tap that money as young adults, to pay for college or start a business.

“That’s really going to break the link of intergenerational poverty, and the intergenerational wealth gap,” Professor Hamilton argued.

But in the absence of such far-reaching measures, scholars and advocates remain generally pessimistic that the wealth gap will narrow even as members of minority groups increase their share of the American work force.

“The growth in the wealth divide is going to be very hard to close,” said Dedrick Muhammad, the senior director of the economic department at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the civil rights organization. “I don’t have a positive feeling about racial wealth inequality resolving itself with the recovery.”

Breitbart: Jason Collins Ain't No Hero To LGBT!

Shock value.

Ben Shaprio and Joel Pollack once again bury their heads in the ass once again.

For one thing, would Ben Shapiro say this stuff to directly to an over 7 ft tall NBA player?

The conservative Breitbart News overreacts once again to the news of NBA center Jason Collins coming out as the first openly gay basketball player.

Buzzkill.

The news broke around 10am and the nation is embracing the NBA star for having such courage to open up about his sexuality.

President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton had contacted Collins and showed their support for the player.

Shaprio on the other hand comes to Twitter to promote conservative agitating. And yes, he's getting flack for it. He took to the social networks to rant about the junk food media forcing the news down his throat.

What kind of America does the left think we live in? This is not 1947 with racism. This is not 1997 with Ellen. Bravery requires risk.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 29, 2013

And yes he gets flack and then plays the victim when confronted by those who felt his tweet was over the line.

There's a website that tracks this type of nonsense. It's called Public Shaming and it collects the most asinine comments from the social networks.

Yes, it's tracked this douchebag Ben Shapiro and the many who supported him.

Jason Collins comes out as a gay player.

Andrew Breitbart once was the voice against the "establishment" media and their "shielding" of President Barack Obama. This conservative agitator died in March 2012 with a legacy of race-baiting and pompous grandstanding.

Surrounded with controversy, this conservative activist founded his own media empire that aided in attacking President Barack Obama, Hollywood or those in the so-called liberal media! Breitbart.com was the beginning of the Big blogs. Each Big blog is play upon what he mocked progressive values such as peace, Hollywood and government.

Andrew Breitbart gain notoriety after he sent two conservative activists into ACORN, a minority voting and housing assistance program that he believe were aiding in voter fraud.

He also succeed in getting Barack Obama's advisor Van Jones fired after he published tapes of Jones calling the Republican Party a bunch of "assholes".

Breitbart was responsible for ending the career of long-term Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-New York) after he used Twitter to send sexual explicit photos to women.

But his most controversial scandal was Shirley Sherrod, the USDA worker under fire for alleged racist comments that were deemed offensive enough for the White House to have her removed. When it turned out it was a doctored video and Mrs. Sherrod was actually trying to acknowledge racism growing up in her childhood, this scandal became an issue towards President Barack Obama. He was forced to apologize personally to Mrs. Sherrod. Breitbart was sued for defamation of character by Mrs. Sherrod. This lawsuit is active even though the conservative agitator died.

A controversial legend to the conservative agitating media.

Andrew Breitbart was the right hand man of gay conservative agitator Matt Drudge and ex-right winger mega-blogger Arianna Huffington. Breitbart made a living trying to distort videos in order to smear an opponent. He claimed that his mission was to root out those who claimed the Tea Party and conservatives were racist and in turn to prove that President Barack Obama, the Democratic Party and their liberal allies are the proven racists!

A known hot head, Andrew Breitbart got into it with commentators who called him out on his hypocrisy.

Never one to back down, Breitbart would get his supporters to shout down those who attack him.
Since his passing, the legacy of Breitbart lives on! Breitbart trained "young gun" proteges Lila Rose, Jason Mattera, James O'Keefe, Dana Loesh, Joel Pollack, and Ben Sharpio to become serial agitators. They vow to expose the "institutional left" and those who support it.

By the way, the newest hot head conservative agitator is the Turd Flipper. She takes the mantle of the most annoying serial agitator.

Jason Collins: NBA Player Dribbles A Shocker!

Jason Collins the 7'0'' NBA center opens up about his sexuality.

The Washington Wizards center comes out a gay basketball player.

Wow, in one day we seen more stuff come out of the Washington-Baltimore area. And it's only Monday.

I had posted about a big time player in the iron college knocking up four correctional guards in a Baltimore jail. The feds are working on putting the player and his honeys in the iron college for life.

I had posted about President Barack Obama and Conan O'Brien making the rounds at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. And the flack of former governor Palin Da Ass.

I talked about Washington lawmakers failing the people of Newtown, Connecticut when it comes to passing comprehensive gun control.

I haven't talked about the low approved Congress passing legislation to slow down the FAA budget cuts. Those budget cuts will affect air travel. But due to public outcry and politicos suffering too, they've compromised on the slow wound.

Now since the news of Black entertainers and athletes coming out publicly, it's another rocker since Jenna Wolfe made her announcement on national television and print.

Collins is an American professional basketball center with the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Collins attended Stanford University, where he was an All-American in 2000–01 and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on March 15, 2000. He finished his college career ranked #1 in Stanford history for field goal percentage (.608) and #5 in blocked shots (89).

In a story appearing in the May 6, 2013, issue of Sports Illustrated, Collins announced publicly that he is gay, becoming the first active male professional athlete in United States team sports to publicly announce his homosexuality.

The Huffington Post reports that 34-year-old, who appeared in 32 games this season for the Celtics before being traded at the deadline along with Leandro Barbosa for guard Jordan Crawford and is now a free agent, tells Sports Illustrated:

"I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand."

Collins continues, "When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue."

As to why he opted to address his sexuality now, Collins says that he was partly inspired by the Boston Marathon bombings, adding that "it takes an enormous amount of energy to guard such a big secret."

"I've endured years of misery and gone to enormous lengths to live a lie. I was certain that my world would fall apart if anyone knew," he writes. "And yet when I acknowledged my sexuality I felt whole for the first time. I still had the same sense of humor, I still had the same mannerisms and my friends still had my back."

Big Player In The Iron College!

Tavon White is the big time player in the iron college. His house of cards folded this week after the U.S. feds busted him, 13 correction guards (four of them he knocked up) and other members who ran a drug trafficking ring.

The feds bust up a huge conspiracy in a state prison. An inmate in the iron college manages to knock up four women.

Did I mention they're correction guards?

This scandal along with numerous violations drove the state and federal authorities to put those involved in the hot seat. They'll end up finding unemployment very unpleasant after they leave the iron college.

Ironic these are the women who were supposed to do their jobs as correctional officers and staffers. They shown the public sector a negative impact of duty as law enforcement officers.

This unbelievable story managed to drive the junk food media into the five themes of yellow journalism.

Was he Black? - YES
What city was this in? - BALTIMORE
Does the state have the death penalty? - MARYLAND BANS THE DEATH PENALTY
How can we blame President Barack Obama? - OBAMA'S SON
Is this an example of Black people being sex crazed animals? - YES BY WHITE EXTREMISTS

Rest assured it probably made it to That Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall's website.

It's probably one of those White supremacists asshole websites who calls Blacks everything but human.

Yeah, it's there. The WHITE EXTREMISTS found the pictures of the individual women who got knocked up by the player. Like every idiot online, they post pictures on Facebook and leave it open for the extremists who cyberstalk and harass those involved.

It's going to expose the lapse of security in our justice system. It's assured that state lawmakers will pass legislation that could mandate stricter background checks for female and male correction officers.

The dangerous individuals will probably find loopholes to outmaneuver state prison officials.

The Black Guerrilla Family is a notorious extremist group. It's known as a prison and street gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco.

The U.S. Justice Department assisted the state police in the investigation of 13 correctional guards, five members of the gang, and seven other inmates were indicted on charges that could carry life in prison.

The Washington Post reports the indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers became pregnant by one inmate. Two of them got tattoos of the inmate’s first name, Tavon — one on her neck, the other on a wrist.

Tiffany Linder is the alleged ringleader. She and other female correctional officers willfully negligent their duties to serve law enforcement. She was knocked up by a drug kingpin and allowed banned contraband to come into the iron college.

The guards allegedly helped leaders of the Black Guerilla Family run their criminal enterprise in jail by smuggling cellphones, prescription pills and other contraband in their underwear, shoes and hair. One gang leader allegedly used proceeds to buy luxury cars, including a Mercedes-Benz and a BMW, which he allowed some of the officers to drive.

“The inmates literally took over ‘the asylum,’ and the detention centers became safe havens for BGF,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt, using shorthand for the prison gang’s name.

The indictment, unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, puts the spotlight on the enduring power of gangs in jails and prisons. In particular, prosecutors were highly critical of Maryland’s facilities in Baltimore, with procedures and personnel that were “completely inadequate to prevent smuggling” and lacked “effective punishment.”

The Black Guerrilla Family was founded in California in the 1960s but now operates nationwide in prisons and on the streets of major U.S. cities, including Baltimore. It arrived in Maryland’s prison system in the 1990s, according to the Justice Department, and is increasingly involved in narcotics trafficking, robbery, assault and homicides. By 2006, federal authorities say, the BGF had become the dominant gang at the Baltimore City Detention Center.

Gary D. Maynard, head of the Maryland agency that oversees the prisons, appeared at the Baltimore news conference where prosecutors announced the charges, and took responsibility for ongoing problems.

Katera Stevenson's self pictures are posted on extremists websites. One of the many prison correction guards who were charged in a federal probe of drug trafficking. The woman was knocked up by drug kingpin.

“It’s totally on me. I don’t make any excuses,” said Maynard, who was appointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley in 2007, when the prison system was experiencing a spate of inmate violence and corrections officers’ complaints of staffing shortages. “We will move up the chain of command, and people will be held accountable.” A spokesman said late Tuesday that all of the officers have been suspended without pay and that the department will recommend that they be fired.

In a statement Tuesday, O’Malley said the indictment arose in part from the efforts of a Maryland prison task force that includes state and federal officials.

It comes at a sensitive time for the Democrat, who is weighing a 2016 presidential bid. Aides have said that part of O’Malley’s political pitch would be his record as a “performance-driven” manager of state government. “We have zero tolerance for corruption among correctional officers, and we will continue striving to make all correctional facilities as secure as they can possibly be,” the governor said.

 State Sen. Joseph M. Getty (R-Carroll), a member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, said the revelations, coupled with a recent string of inmate killings at Maryland prisons, were “a pretty harsh indictment” of O’Malley’s prison policies.

“This is frightening to us as legislators — the level of collusion that has existed between the correction officers and inmates,” Getty said.

Jennifer Owens fell in love with a thug.

At the center of the investigation was an alleged leader of the Black Guerilla Family, Tavon White, who prosecutors said fathered five children with four of the corrections officers — Jennifer Owens, 31, of Randallstown; Katera Stevenson, 24, of Baltimore; Chania Brooks, 27, of Baltimore; and Tiffany Linder, 27, of Baltimore — since his incarceration on attempted murder charges in 2009.

In one wiretapped cellphone call in January, White, 36, of Baltimore, told an acquaintance: “This is my jail. You understand that? I’m dead serious. I make every final call in this jail.”

Who could blame him? The ladies loved him!

The prison guards were among 25 defendants, including inmates and outside suppliers, charged with racketeering and drug conspiracy. Twenty of the defendants are also charged in a money-laundering conspiracy. Defendants made initial appearances in court Tuesday; they face maximum prison time of 20 years on the racketeering and drug conspiracy charges. The online court docket did not list attorneys for the defendants. One of the defendants was killed in a robbery, prosecutors said, in the hours before the April 2 indictment was filed.

Four years ago, federal authorities in Baltimore targeted the BGF gang at the state prison in Baltimore, sending its reputed leader to prison for 12 years. In that case, prosecutors alleged that gang members, along with four prison guards who were also implicated, ordered hits from their cellphones and enjoyed salmon and Grey Goose vodka that had been smuggled in.

But the scope of corruption in the current case, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said, was stunning.

“Correctional officers were in bed with BGF inmates,” he said. “We need to be able to rely on people within law enforcement — to make sure they are on our side.”

Court papers that were made public Tuesday point to a highly organized, profitable smuggling enterprise within the Baltimore City Detention Center and several connected facilities, including the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center.

Chania Brooks pictures appear on extremists websites. She along with three other female correction guards were impregnated by the same guy. The young woman is facing federal charges for being involved in a drug trafficking ring.

According to an affidavit for search warrants for the homes of the prison guards, who were arrested Tuesday, gang leaders strategically recruited female officers who they thought had “low self-esteem and insecurities.”

Gang leaders also relied on other inmates, known as “working men,” whose jobs throughout the prison gave them greater flexibility to pick up and deliver contraband. Inmates then paid for the drugs and cellphones using 14-digit numbers from prepaid debit cards that had also been smuggled into the prisons.

Within Maryland’s detention facilities, staff workers are generally free to move within their assigned areas, according to department spokesman Rick Binetti. With identification, they can often move freely outside of their assigned locations.

In one instance, prosecutors described Officer Jasmin Jones allegedly standing guard outside a closet while Officer Kimberly Dennis had sex with inmate Derius Duncan.

Maynard said department policy prohibits such relationships between inmates and correctional officers but added that he was unaware of the specific allegations until the court documents were made public Tuesday.

Corrections officers also allegedly warned inmates about impending searches of cells, according to prosecutors. In January, White spread the word to other inmates in a cellphone call recorded by law enforcement: “I just got a message saying that they was going to pull a shakedown tonight. Let me call all these dudes in my phone and let them know.”

In prison, prosecutors said, White bragged about earning $16,000 during a slow month. Percocet pills that cost $10 outside the prison walls, for instance, went for three times as much behind bars. One-gram bags of marijuana sold for $50, a profit of about $1,000 per ounce, according to court documents.

White is also accused of using the money to buy cars for corrections officers to use.

Sen. Lisa A. Gladden (D-Baltimore), who works as a public defender in Baltimore when the legislature is not in session, said the large percentage of female corrections at the detention center contributed to the problem. “A lot of times, they become smitten with the inmates. [The inmates] talk really sweet and say really nice things, and the CO’s fall for them. You need to have a bunch of rough, ugly men.”

But Maynard, the state prison chief, said that the sex of the officers was not the issue. It is not uncommon, he said, for detention centers across the country to employ women. The issue, he said, was this particular group of “bad actors,” who were strategically targeted and were willing to break the law.

Well what does this tell you?

This story will rile up conservatives and White supremacists. They already have a negative opinion about the Black community and President Barack Obama. They are going to paint Black males as sex crazy lunatics. They're going to tie the president to this individual.

This gives them the thoughts that Blacks are violent, Barack Obama is a "nigger" or the whole Black community in general are "primates". They think of these people as some of Obama's children.



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