O.J. Simpson Wants Out!

Prison drained The Juice. Acquitted of murder nearly 20 years ago, O.J. Simpson is now serving 33 years in prison for robbery and kidnapping. The washed up celebrity is hoping a retrial will set him free. 

A 30+ year sentence for former football star and actor, Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson. Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "The Juice", managed to beat a murder case only to be caught up in a botched robbery case.

In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with numerous felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping.

In 2008, he was found guilty and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He is serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.

Now after four years of imprisonment, O.J. wants out.

So he's now going to have his day in court for a retrial.

O.J. Simpson denies he robbed collectors of his former properties.

CNN reports that the one-time Heisman Trophy winner and Buffalo Bills halfback is more than four years into a 33-year prison term and is asking for a new trial. In court papers, he's arguing that bad legal advice led to his arrest and conviction in a 2007 confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers.

Simpson not only accuses his old lawyer, Yale Galanter, of having a conflict of interest and of failing to mount an effective defense in his trial. He also says Galanter told him before that confrontation that he was within his rights to take back property he believed had been stolen from him, "so long as there would be no trespass and no physical force used against the persons with the property."

Simpson, 65, was convicted of leading a group of associates into a room at the Palace Station hotel and casino and using threats, guns and force to take back the items from the two dealers.

If it don't fit, you must acquit! - Johnny Cochran.

"Simpson also contends that Galanter did not advise Simpson that carrying out the plan could subject him to criminal charges, regardless of the ownership of the property," his new lawyers wrote in seeking a new trial.

Simpson also blames Galanter for preventing him from testifying in his own defense. Without putting him on the stand, "There was no evidence presented to adequately challenge the state's evidence of criminal intent and knowledge of the guns or the bad character evidence to which the jury was exposed," his appeal states.

The Nevada Supreme Court already upheld his conviction in 2010. Prosecutors have called the new attempt to reverse his conviction "without merit," and Galanter is quoted in court papers as telling the judge in the original trial that he spoke to Simpson only after the confrontation.

"Other than Simpson's bare allegations, the record does not support any conflict of interest," prosecutors wrote in response to Simpson's claims.

Galanter could not be immediately reached for comment Sunday.

Simpson's October 2008 conviction came on the anniversary of his famous acquittal on murder charges in the 1994 deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Though cleared of criminal charges, a civil jury later slapped him with a $33 million wrongful-death judgment, and lawyers for the Goldman family have doggedly pursued his assets.

His current sentence leaves him eligible for parole in 2017.

John Boehner Welcomes New Black Son-In-Law

John Boehner Welcomes New Black Son-in-Law by Keli Goff

This picture of the lovely couple came from London's Daily Mail

From The Root.com:

By accepting his new relative, the GOP speaker sets a positive example.



John Boehner (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)(The Root) -- We've all been there. Someone you care about starts dating someone you may not consider ideal for him or her. Maybe you think he or she has a less-than-ideal career. You may think to yourself, "There's nothing wrong with being an exotic dancer, per se." It's just not who you pictured your baby brother settling down with.



You may have nothing against atheists personally. You just know that your best friend's dad is a minister, and dating someone who considers church a waste of time won't exactly be easy for her or her family. Maybe your cousin volunteered for President Obama's campaign. So when she introduces you to her die-hard Tea Partier boyfriend, you think, "Her name's not Mary Matalin, his isn't James Carville and this isn't going to last."



But sometimes something surprising happens. Not only does it last longer than you imagined, but to your shock, and perhaps horror, they end up getting married. And then you have a dilemma. Do you speak, or do you "forever hold your peace," as the wedding vows say?



Often how a person behaves in these moments, when real life throws a curve ball, tells you more about that person's values than anything he will ever say, even if that person is a politician whose public life revolves around talking a lot about things such as values. I was reminded of this when photos surfaced of Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner at his daughter's recent wedding.



Lindsay Boehner married Dominic Lakhan, a Jamaican-born construction worker, who happens to be black. He also happens to have been previously arrested for marijuana possession. Now, I don't know Rep. Boehner at all, but I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that when he envisioned his ideal son-in-law, it probably wasn't a dreadlocked manual laborer who was arrested for drugs. Very few men would envision such a man as their ideal son-in-law. Even fewer conservative men would -- and even fewer conservative, powerful white men would envision such a man as ideal for their little princess.



There are men who would have made this clear, not only to their daughter but to everyone else, possibly by not attending such a wedding. And yet there was John Boehner, the man who has served as the primary face of the conservative opposition to President Obama -- opposition that some have considered racially based in its intensity -- showing that perhaps he's not so conservative after all. He also showed that while plenty of people may have a problem with the increasingly brown America that Obama governs, one in which multiracial families are among the fastest-growing segment of the population, he is not one of them.



I can think of plenty of so-called liberals who might not have shown the same open-mindedness and character as someone in Boehner's parental position -- if not over the race mixing that this union represents, then certainly over the class mixing that it does.



A high-ranking Republican official endorsing such a union would have been unthinkable just two decades ago, when race-based political advertisements depicting black men as dangerous were still considered the norm. So just as the wedding itself is a testament to how far our country has evolved on race, Boehner's attendance is a testament to our country's political evolution as well.



For this reason, I want to congratulate the newlyweds, Lindsay and Dominic, and wish them much happiness. But I also want to give kudos to Boehner for not just talking the talk, as so many do, but for actually walking the walk -- right on down the aisle. He set a positive example for his party and the nation, ultimately sending a message that yes, America is changing and will never be the same again. And you know what? That's OK.


First, Rep.Bob Portman's son came out of the closet this year, now the Speaker of the House, John Boehner daughter has married a Black man and has a new son-in-law.

Funny things happen to Republicans who are least likely to be open minded on interracial relationships, Blacks/multiracials, and LGBTQ people, have relatives and family members who are. 

Think about it!

Wayne Brady Called Out Bill Maher......

Sex Symbol Angelina Jolie Reveals Bombshell!

Those big things that keep the junk food media focused. Actress/activist Angelina Jolie makes a shocking announcement.

The 37-year old actress and activist shocked the junk food media today with a bombshell about her health.

The international press is covering the shocking story about Jolie having her breasts removed after undergoning a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer. Jolie has a defective BRCA1 gene resulting in an increased risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. She said she decided to go public about it to encourage other women to make informed medical choices.

Jolie engaged to actor Brad Pitt is the mother of six (three by Pitt and three by international adoption).

Jolie travels frequently and is currently living in France.

In a New York Times opinion piece, Jolie explains her decision was very tough but it had to be done for sake of her children. She introduced her piece to the last years of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand. The actress was once married to Jon Voight, her estranged father.

She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.

Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average.

Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

On April 27, I finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are a power couple.

But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a “nipple delay,” which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple.

Two weeks later I had the major surgery, where the breast tissue is removed and temporary fillers are put in place. The operation can take eight hours. You wake up with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts. It does feel like a scene out of a science-fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life.

Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful.

I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive. So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has.

For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.

I acknowledge that there are many wonderful holistic doctors working on alternatives to surgery. My own regimen will be posted in due course on the Web site of the Pink Lotus Breast Center. I hope that this will be helpful to other women.

Actress Angelina Jolie makes a personal sacrifice.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

The media lavishes the power couple dubbed Brangelina.

They also lavish in the ongoing feuds with her father Jon Voight and Jennifer Anniston as well.

Jolie divorced Billy Bob Thornton and was single for brief moment besides a few dates. On the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jolie took a liking to the chemistry on set with Pitt. The media stirred rumors they were dating while Pitt was still married to comedian/actress Jennifer Anniston.

Heavily tattooed and widely considered the world's most beautiful woman,  Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.

Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has often been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our prayers to Angelina Jolie and wish her well on her journey.

N.O. Police Wants This Guy!

New Orleans police search for weekend shooter.

The NOLA is the home of Southern Hospitality.

The Bayou, the mighty Mississippi River, Cajun cooking and the jazz keeps New Orleans in the positive.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, crime, as well as police and government corruption keeps the city in the negative spotlight via the junk food media.

This weekend's shooting at a Mother's Day parade/festival in New Orleans nets a description of the alleged shooter. A 19 year old man who is being sought in the shooting of nearly two dozen innocent bystanders.

Of course, this will be another word vomit of conservative/white supremacist bile about how this could have either been Obama's son or the future Trayvon Martin. There's no talk about gun rights when its an "urban" issue. You'll hear talk about gun control for Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims.

What's the difference in mass shootings?

This one manages to be a blip compared to the Aurora movie shooting and Sandy Hook shooting.

Those shootings were in suburbs and it managed to get the low approved Congress to do something .

Of course, the National Rifle Association finds ways to train wreck legislation.

Since this is in New Orleans, a predominately Black city, it's "oh that's just a Black issue!" The city still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Many crimes that occurred in New Orleans, ring echos of conservative agitators blaming the Democratic Party and Black leaders for the rise in gun crimes.

They'll say that Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Birmingham, Cleveland, and Atlanta (mostly Black majority cities) are the faults of Black leaders like President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The very same conservative agitators will ignore the institutional racism from White flight, manufacturing drying up, urban sprawl, redlining, and discrimination within school districts. And the conservatives (in particular, those Black conservatives who live in the suburbs) continue to complain that "us Black folk" are never "awaken" to the economic turmoils in the Black community. The conservatives continue to berate "us Black folk" because of overwhelming support of the Democratic Party and the first Black president, Barack Obama.

New Orleans police and the federal authorities are searching for Akein Scott, the apparent shooter at the Mother's Day parade/festival.

The shooter is in the center. I already expect the white extremists blogs will parody a tragedy.

The Associated Press reports that Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas identified the suspect late Monday as Akein Scott, 19, of New Orleans. Referring to blurry surveillance camera images of the mass shooting, Serpas said police have "multiple identifications of Akein Scott as the shooter" seen in the film.

Serpas said officers would be searching all night and into Tuesday for Scott, whom he called "no stranger to the criminal justice system." He urged the teen, who has previous arrests on firearms and drug charges, to give himself up.

"We would like to remind the community and Akein Scott that the time has come for him to turn himself in," Serpas said at a news conference outside police headquarters.

A photo of Scott hung from a podium in front of the police chief. "We know more about you than you think we know," he said.

Serpas said it was too early to say whether he was the only shooter.

The mass shooting showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city's festive image. Earlier, police announced a $10,000 reward and released the surveillance camera images, which led to several tips from the community.

"The people today chose to be on the side of the young innocent children who were shot and not on the side of a coward who shot into the crowd," Serpas said.

The superintendent said SWAT team members and U.S. marshals served a searched warrant at one location looking for Scott, but didn't locate him.

Angry residents said gun violence – which has flared at two other city celebrations this year – goes hand-in-hand with the city's other deeply rooted problems such as poverty and urban blight. The investigators tasked with solving Sunday's shooting work within an agency that's had its own troubles rebounding from years of corruption while trying to halt violent crime.

"The old people are scared to walk the streets. The children can't even play outside," Ronald Lewis, 61, said Monday as he sat on the front stoop of his house, about a half-block from the shooting site. His window sill has a hole from a bullet that hit it last year. Across the street sits a house marked by bullets he said were fired two weeks ago.

"The youngsters are doing all this," said Jones, who was away from home when the latest shooting broke out.

Video released early Monday shows a crowd gathered for a parade suddenly scattering in all directions, with some falling to the ground. They appear to be running from a man in a white T-shirt and dark pants who turns and runs out of the picture. Two children were among those wounded.

Panic as the shooter aims his pistol at victims. The shooter is in the middle.

Police were working to determine whether there was more than one gunman, though they initially said three people were spotted fleeing from the scene. Whoever was responsible escaped despite the presence of officers who were interspersed through the crowd as part of routine precautions for such an event.

A police news release says Scott has previously been arrested for illegal carrying of a weapon, illegal possession of a stolen firearm, resisting an officer, contraband to jail, illegal carrying of a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession of heroin.

It was not immediately clear whether Scott, who was arrested this past March, had been convicted on any of those charges.

Serpas said ballistic evidence gathered at the scene was giving them "very good leads to work on."

Witness Jarrat Pytell said he was walking with friends near the parade route when the crowd suddenly began to break up.

"I saw the guy on the corner, his arm extended, firing into the crowd," said Pytell, a medical student.

"He was obviously pointing in a specific direction; he wasn't swinging the gun wildly," Pytell said.

Pytell said he tended to one woman with a severe arm fracture – he wasn't sure if it was from a bullet or a fall – and to others including an apparent shooting victim who was bleeding badly.

Three gunshot victims remained in critical condition Monday, though their wounds didn't appear to be life-threatening. Most of the wounded had been released from the hospital.

It's not the first time gunfire has shattered a festive mood in the city this year. Five people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in January after a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, and four were wounded in a shooting after an argument in the French Quarter in the days leading up to Mardi Gras. Two teens were arrested in connection with the MLK Day shootings; three men were arrested and charged in the Mardi Gras shootings.

The shootings are bloody reminders of the persistence of violence in the city, despite some recent progress.

Last week, law enforcement officials touted the indictment of 15 people in gang-related crimes, including the death of a 5-year-old girl killed by stray gunfire at a birthday party a year ago.

The city's 193 homicides in 2012 are seven fewer than the previous year, while the first three months of 2013 represented an even slower pace of killing.

On Monday night, 100 to 150 people gathered for a unity rally and peace vigil in the wake of Sunday's shootings. Some residents stood in their doorways or on their steps. At one point, trumpeter Kenneth Terry played, "O For a Closer Walk With Thee."

Robin Bevins, president of the ladies group of the Original Four Social Aid and Pleasure Club, said she and members of her organization came to the rally to show solidarity.

"This code of silence has to end," said Bevins, who's also a member of the city's Social Aid Task Force. "If we stand up and speak out, maybe this kind of thing will stop."

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu walked into the area, greeting people, shaking hands and stopping to talk with some residents before addressing the crowd.

"We came back out here as a community to stand on what we call sacred ground," Landrieu said. "We came here to reclaim this spot. This shooting doesn't reflect who we are as a community or what we're about."

Leading efforts to lower the homicide rate is a police force that's faced its own internal problems and staffing issues. At about 1,200 members, the department is 300 short of its peak level.

Serpas, who has been chief since 2010, has been working to overcome the effects of decades of scandal and community mistrust arising from what the U.S. Justice Department says has been questionable use of force and biased policing.

The site of the Sunday shooting – about 1.5 miles from the heart of the French Quarter – showcases other problems facing the city. Stubborn poverty and blight are evident in the area of middle-class and low-income homes. Like other areas hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the area has been slower to repopulate than wealthier areas. And Landrieu's stepped-up efforts to demolish or renovate blighted properties – a pre-Katrina problem made worse by the storm – remain too slow for some.

Frank Jones, 71, whose house is a few doors down from the shooting site, said the house across from him has been abandoned since Katrina. Squatters and drug dealers sometimes take shelter there, he said.

A city code inspector, who declined to be interviewed, was there Monday.

"It's too late," Jones said. "Should have fixed it from the very beginning. A lot of people are getting fed up with the system."

Kermit Gosnell Will Be Heading To The Iron College!

The controversial late term abortion doctor is going to the iron college for the death of premature babies.

Expect a right wing email to spring forth with the mention of convicted abortion doctor being the reason for why President Barack Obama exists.

The verdict was released and the controversial late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell is found guilty of murder. The controversy driven into the mainstream by the ever so annoying conservative agitators claiming that a "media blackout" was instigated during courtroom hearings.

Newsflash: The last thing that the junk food media reporting on was the Boston Marathon Bombings and the release of three women held captive in a man home in Cleveland.

So what does a culture war issue such as abortion have to do with some news of tragedy?

Ever so, says conservatives!

Conservatives claim that the junk food media buried this. They believe that if the story was covered, the junk food media would take a consideration into abortion doctors and Planned Parenthood, an advocate and family assistance organization.

Today, the verdict was read to the news media. Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first degree murder. These charges carry the death penalty. The decision was read and the junk food media was barred from being inside the courtroom.

What was described as a "house of horrors" by former workers, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic was a bio-hazard. The doctor would gradually kill 37 week premature baby with no shame. The doctor would collect jars to hold the fetuses. One family claims that his treatment of low income women would result in painful memories. Even one of his pregnant patients died because of his reckless behavior.

In the age of President Barack Obama, the doctor Gosnell is going to be raked through the coals. The junk food media caters to conservative rancor from the likes of King Hippo and the Guy Who Throws Shit on The Wall. Despite there chatter, the nation is moving forward. If this last election meant something, I can tell you that it's likely going to be more defeats for the opponents of change.

This controversy has become a rally cry for both parties. The anti-abortion activists have the case to say that these doctors are killing babies. The abortion activists also have a case. They're saying that if there wasn't so many restrictions by Republican legislators and preventive healthcare, then you wouldn't see women go to this monster.

The New York Times reports Kermit Gosnell, 72, operated a clinic in West Philadelphia catering to poor women that prosecutors called a “house of horrors.”

The case turned on whether the late-term pregnancies Dr. Gosnell terminated resulted in live births. His lawyer, Jack McMahon, argued that because Dr. Gosnell injected a drug in utero to stop the heart, the deliveries were stillbirths, and movements that witnesses testified to observing — a jerked arm, a cry, swimming motions — were mere spasms.

But after deliberating 10 days, the jury found Dr. Gosnell guilty in the deaths of victims known as Baby A, Baby C and Baby D. He was found not guilty of murdering Baby E.

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty when the trial moves into the sentencing phase next Tuesday.

While abortion rights groups argued that Dr. Gosnell operated far outside the legalities and norms of women’s health care, abortion opponents seized on the case to raise questions about the ethics of late-term abortions. Put simply, they asked why a procedure done to a living baby outside the womb is murder, but destroying a fetus of similar gestation before delivery can be legal.

“What we need to learn from the Gosnell case is that late-term abortion is infanticide,” the Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers wrote last week, after starting an online furor earlier with a column suggesting that the news media had ignored the case for ideological reasons.

Abortion rights supporters said it was opponents who politicized the trial. What abortion opponents really sought from the trial, they said, was an acceleration of restrictions at the state level to effectively end legal abortion.

“Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed,” Ilyse Hogue, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, said in a statement. “Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”

In recent weeks, the case was cited in Congress to support restricting abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, and it was invoked by an anti-abortion political action committee in radio ads to attack the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe.

Although the trial has not brought new issues or tactics to America’s long-running abortion wars, it provided an emotional jolt through five weeks of graphic testimony and an earlier grand jury report.

“This is a visual argument that no one would ever want to have,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which works to elect women opposed to abortion. “But if we’re going to have it, let’s go ahead and have it. What are the limits? What are we as a society willing to forbear?”

She and others predicted greater support for laws banning abortions past 20 weeks, which have been adopted in several states in recent years, on the disputed theory that fetuses of that age feel pain. Dr. Gosnell was found guilty of 24 counts of performing an abortion beyond 24 weeks, the limit in Pennsylvania.

Racist right wing emails claim the media ignored this!

Opponents of the restrictions argue that later abortions are very rare: fewer than 1.3 percent are past 20 weeks of gestation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Abortion rights activists say restrictions before fetal viability, generally 24 weeks, violate the constitutional protections of Roe v. Wade.

Nonetheless, “the imagery” of later abortion “is very powerful,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion access. “In 2010 Nebraska banned abortion at 20 weeks post-fertilization,” she said. “That bill was seen as the type of bill that was going to catch fire across the country. It did.”

Dr. Gosnell was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 41-year-old patient, Karnamaya Mongar, who died of an overdose of sedatives. Among lesser charges, he was found guilty of 211 counts of not waiting 24 hours after consulting with a patient before performing an abortion.

Activists on both sides debated whether the deplorable conditions at Dr. Gosnell’s clinic — including broken equipment, bloodstained recovery chairs and an untrained staff giving anesthesia and other drugs — could be found at other clinics.

Anti-abortion groups cited the case to press for more regulations of clinics. “By pulling back the secrecy that cloaks this industry that preys on women’s misery, we have a real agenda moving forward,” said Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, which pushes for stricter clinic rules.

But abortion rights groups attacked the regulations as a backdoor route to shut clinics by requiring costly but medically unneeded upgrades, like wider hallways and bigger closets.

“What’s going on with these laws is really about the agenda of having abortion eventually made illegal again,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights in Washington, which has challenged the laws in court. “And if that were to happen, unfortunately you’d have a lot more Gosnells out there.”

The junk food media wasted no time trying to question the president on Kermit Gosnell. The conservative agitators are already comparing the president to the convicted doctor.

The scathing grand jury report in 2011 on Dr. Gosnell’s clinic, the Women’s Medical Society, on Lancaster Avenue, detailed how despite complaints and malpractice suits, no inspector had visited in 16 years. The clinic was raided only after a tip that it operated as an illegal prescription mill. A month after the report, Gov. Tom Corbett fired six employees of the Health and State departments.

In the witness box, clinic employees said live births occurred regularly, and they believed Dr. Gosnell’s explanation for snipping necks with surgical scissors — to “ensure fetal demise” — was accepted practice in late-term abortions. An abortion doctor who testified for the prosecution said such practice was unheard of.

One witness, Steven Massof, testifying under a plea agreement to avoid first-degree murder charges, instructed jurors to feel the backs of their own necks and said, “It’s like a beheading.”

Another former employee, Adrienne Moton, sobbed as she described the death of Baby A, aborted when his teenage mother was about 29 weeks pregnant. Ms. Moton was so upset she took a cellphone photograph of him, which was shown in court. She said Dr. Gosnell had joked that the baby was big enough to walk to a bus stop.

Ms. Moton, who also testified under a plea agreement, said she cut the neck of Baby D, who was delivered into a toilet while its mother, given a large dose of a drug to dilate the cervix, waited for Dr. Gosnell to arrive.

Another clinic worker said she followed Dr. Gosnell’s instructions and cut the neck of Baby C after it moved an arm. The doctor told her was an “involuntary movement.”

Dr. Gosnell was originally charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, but Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart of Common Pleas Court earlier threw out three other cases of infants said to have been born alive, known as Baby B, Baby F and Baby G.

Several weeks into the trial, which began March 18, anti-abortion activists and some conservative commentators accused the national news media of skipping it, a charge amplified across social media.

On April 15, President Obama’s spokesman was asked if he was following the trial. “The president is aware” of the case, said Jay Carney, the White House spokesman.

Even as reporters from national newspapers arrived in Courtroom 304 of the Criminal Justice Center, a blog war continued between abortion-rights supporters, who had written of Dr. Gosnell’s abuses from the time of his indictment, and conservatives, who continued to fault broadcast television for a “blackout.”

On Monday, there were 29 reporters in the courtroom and a row of television crews on the sidewalk.

Jon Hurdle reported from Philadelphia, and Trip Gabriel from New York.

Republicans Float Impeachment (Again)!

If they can impeach Obama and remove him from office, I guess Joe Biden will be the 45th President!

Really, if this is the way to get revenge on President Barack Obama, then I realized that history repeats itself.

The conservative agitators in the junk food media are driven in agitation of the president, his allies and the media ignoring them. The junk food media has given them all the red meat issues they've wanted.

They've covered the Tea Party movement.

They've covered the Operation Fast & Furious scandal.

They've covered the BP Gulf Oil Spill.

They've covered the Republicans filibuster by Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).

They've covered Benghazi.

They've covered Kermit Gossnel.

They've covered the IRS scandal.

They've covered the potential failures of Obamacare.

What more can the junk food media do for the agitators of the conservative movement?

Let me see, how about that word.... Call for the Article of Impeachment. Anybody? Impeachment?

The Republicans are floating around the word especially after the IRS scandal. The conservative media is lit ablaze over the Internal Revenue Service "targeting" conservative organizations for scrutiny.

The low approved Congress is expressing outrage at the agency and many Republicans are pointing the finger squarely at the president.

Republican lawmakers and conservatives are demanding an apology from President Barack Obama. Hence the word "apology". This was considered a negative word among the conservatives.

Go ahead, I dare you! President Barack Obama promised continuous campaigning to get the Democrats back into power.

As Barack Obama was sworn in , the conservative agitators in the junk food media claimed the president was a "Muslim terrorist who has Communists leanings". They claimed he was "apologizing for America" and "destroying the country" with his "teleprompter speeches". Of course, many conservatives still deny the fact the president is an American. They're are still some who believe that his "birth certificate" isn't legit.

Besides this nonsense, the Republicans are worried that Hillary Clinton may jump into the 2016 presidential race. The Republicans are slated to have another "weak field" of candidates.

Josh Green of Business Week reports that Republicans are fixing for a political showdown and they're determined to drive themselves right into a war with the president.

He wrote about a donor's meeting with celebrities. The president called upon his donors to help him push his agenda. The president noted that Loserville, Chalk E Becker, King Hippo and The Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall are primarily the reasons to why things can't get done.

Constant gridlock has ruined the image of Congress.

Obama assured voters skeptical of his ability to work with Republicans in Congress that his reelection would “break the fever” of implacable obstruction and finally persuade the GOP to submit to the will of the voters. That prediction quickly proved wrong. Instead of breaking, the fever has spiked.

Last week, with the White House struggling to contain scandals from Benghazi to IRS snooping, it culminated in a chorus of Republican calls to impeach Obama. “Of all the great coverups in history, the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, all the rest of them,” Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma told a radio show host on Thursday, “this … is going to go down as most egregious coverup in American history.” Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee predicted, “This president will not fill out his full term.” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham called Benghazi “Obama’s Watergate.”

Republicans like Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) floating impeachment.

Right-wing calls to impeach Obama aren’t exactly new. (Salon has compiled 14 other instances.) But the combination of the Benghazi and IRS scandals has given them new force. So, presumably, has the eagerness of the Republican base to see such a fate befall the president they despise—a recent poll showed that half of Republicans favor impeachment.

The inclination of many liberals to fan the flames of impeachment has probably given oxygen to this crusade. Commentators from Jonathan Chait, a few years ago, to Michael Tomasky, just this morning, have predicted a Republican push for impeachment. And while none that I’m aware of has explicitly encouraged this push, many liberals privately view the prospect of a GOP impeachment attempt in the same way that Br’er Rabbit viewed getting tossed in the briar patch—as something that would quickly redound to their benefit, just as the impeachment of Bill Clinton ultimately hurt the GOP in the 1998 elections.

One obvious obstacle is that Democrats control the Senate. While the GOP-led House could initiate impeachment proceedings, they wouldn’t get much further. At least for now. Inhofe indicated, though, that the issue could “endure” and move forward if Republicans take back the Senate in 2014. The combination of all these factors—Republican legislators’ thirst to deliver Obama his comeuppance, pressure from the base, tacit liberal provocation—would suggest that the “fever” is likelier to go higher still than it is to subside.

Green's opinion piece shows the nation further evidence that Republicans are still having trouble trying to court minority voters. In the mind of a Black person, the way the Republicans are going at the president is like in their opinion, "racist!"

They can't understand that this overplay will be their undoing. For the first time in history, the Black voter turnout surpass the White vote. The Hispanic/Latino community supports the president 76%.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina)  is one of the most annoying members of the Senate.

You're seeing the possible demise of the Republican Party. The party's outlook isn't looking good.

They may score political points with their base of extremists, but in the end, it's up to us the voter to see these clowns in the Republican Party voted out.

We can do it!

We got the power and we need to use it now!

Shooting In N.O. Injures Dozens!

A day of unity is ruined by a bunch of ignorant extremists. New Orleans police are searching for  individuals responsible for shooting 19 people.

Even on Mother's Day, there's violence.

New Orleans had a celebration ruined by a bunch of knuckleheads who decided to ambush the event.

Now Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of the New Orleans and the U.S. Justice Department are searching for those involved in the shooting that injured 19 people.

Unfortunately there are no days without violence in America. The United States has the most gun crimes in the world. Over 34,000 people died because of firearms this year.

Reuters reports New Orleans police on Monday released photos that they said show a suspect in the shooting at a Mother's Day parade in which 19 people, including two children, were wounded.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters on Monday that investigators are making significant progress on the investigation, although no one has yet been arrested.

"I can assure whoever did this, we know a lot more about you than you think we do," Serpas said at a press conference. "And my recommendation to you is to collect yourself and turn yourself in."

The image singling out the suspect does not clearly show the face, and police, who released the photographs on YouTube (here), asked for the public's help in identifying and finding the person. A reward for information that might help find the shooter was increased from $5,000 to $10,000.

Ten men, seven women and a girl and a boy, both 10 years old, were hit when one or more people opened fire at the parade on Sunday.

Man in the center of the surveillance camera is the shooter. 

Serpas said he has not ruled out that the shooting was gang related.

Investigators on Monday were still trying to figure out if there was more than one shooter and more than one weapon, Serpas said.

The photographs, taken from a surveillance video, first show crowds of people in a street, and then the crowd is seen scattering and ducking. The final image focuses on what appears to be a man in a white shirt leaving the scene on foot as other people are lying on the pavement. The image does not clearly show his face.

Two victims underwent surgery and the children were grazed but in good condition, police said. It was unclear if the victims were marching or watching the parade.

Violent crime in New Orleans ranks above the national average in FBI surveys. A poll of residents in 2010 found crime to be their greatest concern.

(Additional reporting by Corrie MacLaggan. Editing by Gary Hill and Greg McCune)

Chris Hayes Racism....

Charles Ramsey Faces Backlash From Junk Food Media!

Cleveland man who saved kidnapped women is hailed a hero among the majority. The minority hates this because he's a Black man. So they find ways to paint a negative picture of Charles Ramsey.

 

Even an unlikely hero still gets called a NIGGER by those in the conservative/white supremacists bubble.

Part II will deal with the Castro brothers. They're in fear of retaliation because of the junk food media's coverage of them.

The junk food media is looking into the history of viral sensation Charles Ramsey. The unlikely hero and others were responsible in rescuing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Ramsey is a colorful figure. The internet is blown up with "autotune" of the often brash and straight to the point Cleveland resident.

What I don't see is how the conservative/white supremacist bubble treats this individual like's he's criminal.

According to those in the junk food media, he was once a criminal.

Who gives a...........(Well you know)!

My problem with this is simple. The junk food media just can't give a man a break. Even though he may had done wrongs in the past, Charles Ramsey admitted that he's paying for his past sins. He's even cautious about the media attention given to him.

I see he's a honest man a heart! Even though there's a reward in this, he wanted to give it to the victims.

They used the picture to portray heroic Cleveland resident as a criminal.

WEWS-TV (Newsnet 5, NBC Cleveland) apologized for putting his business out there for the conservative/white supremacist bubble.

Cleveland's WEWS-TV issued an apology on Thursday after the local news station reported on Charles Ramsey's criminal record.

Ramsey was one of two neighbors who helped Amanda Berry, who had been kidnapped for 10 years, and two other women escape from captivity earlier this week. While he was hailed a hero for his role, his presence on TV was mocked and even autotuned. Al Sharpton defended Ramsey. "He kicks in a door to rescue those women and some are criticizing his diction?" Sharpton said of Ramsey.

Soon after his TV debut, reports surfaced about Ramsey's record, one that reportedly included convictions for domestic violence. Multiple outlets, including WEWS, reported on Ramsey's criminal past.

After facing backlash from viewers, WEWS apologized in a post on the station's Facebook page.

TO OUR READERS & FOLLOWERS: We heard you. Wednesday night, we made a poor judgment call in posting a story about Charles Ramsey’s criminal record and how he’s since reformed. While the story was factually sound, the timing of it and publication of such information was not in good taste, and we regret it. Your comments prompted us to quickly remove the story from our website and Facebook page, but we know we can’t erase what we’ve already done. Ramsey is a hero for his actions, and we recognize that. Thank you so much for your feedback.

Conservatives Pissed At The IRS "Mistakes!"

The IRS is facing scrutiny over its handling of conservative organizations.

 
Whatever happened must have gotten the right wing agitators in a mood. The Internal Revenue Service is facing heavy criticism for its motivation to look into Tea Party/conservative groups.

See its been over five months into President Barack Obama's second term, the junk food media is finally giving the conservative agitators what they want! More harsher criticism of President Barack Obama.

If you're familiar with Republicans and their conservative agitator friends, then you know they'll overplay their hand and people will eventually tune them out.

Already the low approved members of Congress are reacting to the IRS. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky, Minority Leader) already called this a "thuggish" tactic enabled by President Barack Obama.

Many Republican House members [ah hem Darell Issa (R-California) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota)] are calling upon heads to roll and an investigation into the matter.

Since 2011, the IRS was watching how non-profit groups such as Tea Party Patriots and FreedomWorks were handling their affairs.

The Washington Post reports, the IRS on Friday apologized for targeting groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, confirming long-standing accusations by some conservatives that their applications for tax-exempt status were being improperly delayed and scrutinized.

Notice the street sign!

Lois G. Lerner, the IRS official who oversees tax-exempt groups, said the “absolutely inappropriate” actions by “front-line people” were not driven by partisan motives.

Conservative activist groups have long complained about the president and government.

Rather, Lerner said, they were a misguided effort to come up with an efficient means of dealing with a flood of applications from organizations seeking ­tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012.

During that period, about 75 groups were selected for extra inquiry — including burdensome questionnaires and, in some cases, improper requests for the names of their donors — simply because of the words in their names, she said in a conference call with reporters.

They constituted about one-quarter of the 300 groups who were flagged for additional analysis by employees of the IRS tax-exempt unit’s main office in Cincinnati.

Where you'll find a middle aged White guy in a stuffy suit trying to say he's a "revolutionary" to a tyrannical government. Hence forth the Tea Party, a conservative movement founded by the last elements of a dying population.

It was not clear whether the IRS had anticipated the firestorm that it would ignite with its disclosure. Indeed, it appeared to have happened by chance when Lerner, appearing Friday at a conference held by the American Bar Association, responded to a question about the allegations by conservative groups.

The IRS’s subsequent conference call with reporters was clumsily handled. At one point, Lerner attempted to do arithmetic on the phone and blurted out: “I’m not good at math.” That admission was understandable, given that her training is as a lawyer, but it produced a quote that is likely to haunt the agency that handles the nation’s tax returns.

Nor did IRS officials appear to have prepared much for the questions they would get.

“The IRS did not acknowledge the use of names as part of the process earlier because the details were not initially known to senior leadership, and [the Treasury inspector general for tax administration] has been reviewing the situation,” IRS spokeswoman Michelle L. Eldridge said. “Their work is now far enough along that it was appropriate to address the issue when it came up during today’s tax conference.”

Of the 300 groups affected, the IRS said, 130 have had their tax-exempt status approved and 25 have withdrawn their applications.

The sensitivity arises in no small part because of the IRS’s history as an agency that presidents have used to intimidate, harass and punish their political enemies. Most infamous was Richard M. Nixon, but the practice went back at least as far as Franklin D. Roosevelt. ­Post-Watergate reforms made the IRS more independent and were designed to insulate it from politics.

“I call on the White House to conduct a transparent, government-wide review aimed at assuring the American people that these thuggish practices are not underway at the IRS or elsewhere in the administration against anyone, regardless of their political views,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.
“An apology won’t put this issue to rest.”

One of the nation’s largest tea party groups, the Tea Party Patriots, said it rejected the IRS’s explanation and demanded the resignations of all officials involved. The group also called on President Obama to apologize for ignoring its concerns.

“The IRS has demonstrated the most disturbing, illegal and outrageous abuse of government power,” said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. “This deliberate targeting and harassment of tea party groups reaches a new low in illegal government activity and overreach.”

Lerner said she has had no contact with Obama administration officials about the issue.

When questioned by reporters, she said the problem came to the IRS’s attention only after officials read reports in the media of complaints by tea party groups that their applications for ­tax-exempt status were being unfairly scrutinized and delayed.

Although the IRS is part of the Treasury Department, it “is an independent enforcement agency,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “What we know about this is of concern and we certainly find the actions taken, as reported, to be inappropriate. And we would fully expect the investigation to be thorough and for corrections to be made in a case like this.”

Carney did not describe what contact, if any, administration officials have had with the IRS regarding the issue.

The IRS admission comes amid a debate about when political groups on both sides deserve tax-exempt status — a complex question that turns on whether the group is working mainly to support a general philosophy or a specific party or candidate.

That can be particularly difficult to determine in the case of groups that operate under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. The law grants them an exemption from income taxes on the contributions they receive if they are “social welfare” groups.

The more the better! - Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California)

It also allows them to engage in political activity and advocacy as long as it is not their primary mission. And while donors to those organizations are not allowed a tax deduction for what they give, they can remain anonymous.

The number of organizations applying for tax-exempt status under that provision more than doubled after 2010, Lerner said. It was a scramble that began after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on corporate and union spending in political campaigns, a move that was seen as a green light for outside groups to become more involved, as well.

Both Democratic- and Republican-allied interests have formed such organizations, but the conservative groups have raised vastly more money.

The IRS disclosure comes after more than a year of tense debate about the tax status of conservative political groups. Tea party groups and other conservative organizations have said that they have been the subject of inappropriate screening by the IRS, prompting formal complaints by Republican lawmakers. The IRS inspector general has been reviewing the claims.

Some Democrats and campaign finance groups, meanwhile, have argued that ­tax-exempt groups are stretching the boundaries of the law and should be required to disclose more about their operations.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, who has raised concerns about IRS oversight of conservative groups, said he was not satisfied by the apology.

“This, frankly, isn’t enough,” he said. “We need to have ironclad guarantees from the IRS that it will adopt significant protocols to ensure this kind of harassment of groups that have a constitutional right to express their own views never happens again.”

Lerner would not say whether any of the IRS employees involved have been disciplined. She said that policies have been put in place to prohibit this kind of screening and that so far, none of the 75 groups has been rejected for tax-exempt status.

Jay Sekulow, a lawyer representing 16 tea party groups, said Friday that he was gratified by the IRS acknowledgment.

“This admission by the IRS represents a significant victory for free speech and freedom of association,” he said. “There was never any doubt that these organizations complied with the law and applied for tax-exempt status for their activities as Americans have done for decades.”

 

You know this along with Benghazi have been the latest attempts to taint President Barack Obama's legacy.

 

I notice that conservatives say the president apologizes for America. And here today, the same bunch of idiots and turd flippers are saying he should apologize.

 

Some are even calling for impeachment.

 

The same players, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California), Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas), Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina), Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) will rush to the cameras.

They'll continue this narrative that the president is either failing the American people or succeeding on destroying the world. While on camera (or radio), they'll offer no alternatives or solutions, just more chest beating rhetoric that will eventually turn off Americans.

If the low approved U.S. Congress continue to keep dragging their feet, no incumbent will be spared from an onslaught of angry voters.

Fox Cancels The Cleveland Show!

The third animated series sponsored by comedian/writer Seth MacFarlane is being axed.

The show featured the voices of Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jason Sudeikis and Seth MacFarlane.

The Cleveland Show is one of the many Fox animated sitcoms on Sunday. And it's one of the many that are getting the ax for the 2013. It's features Cleveland Brown (of Family Guy) moving from Quohog, Rhode Island to Stoolbend, Virginia with his obese son Cleveland, Jr. to start a new life. Cleveland ends up meeting a former girlfriend named Donna Tubbs and eventually marries her and moves in with her children Roberta and Rallo.

TVOvermind says the result isn't a surprise for the animated comedy, which would have needed a renewal around the first of the year for a fall premiere to be possible.

The writing has been on the wall for The Cleveland Show for some time, though, as FOX ordered a new animated show in Murder Police, burned through several Cleveland episodes during the month of March, and didn't categorically deny an insider blog post that mentioned the show's demise. Past FOX comedies have been put on hold for a production cycle or resurrected from the television grave due to popular demand, so if The Cleveland Show does well enough on Adult Swim (where it began airing in syndication this year), there's a very slim chance it might return one day. However, the more likely situation is that Cleveland and his family will be folded back into the Family Guy universe and brought out for subplots or cutaway jokes.

The Cleveland Show one-hour series finale airs Sunday, May 19th at 7:00 on FOX. The network is set to reveal its 2013-2014 schedule the afternoon of Monday, May 13th.

The show surpass syndication and has clocked at 85 episodes. So far it seems that even Seth MacFarlane didn't expect this coming (or did he)?

The show was the first in long time of animated sitcoms that features a Black family. The show competed with The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and Bob's Burgers. But the whole Animation Domination Block competed with Football Night in America on NBC, Once Upon A Time, Survivor and The Good Wife.

Most Fox programs have taken a nosedive despite critical acclaim. The American Idol judges are getting the ax. Mariah Carey, Nick Minaj, Keith Urban and Randy Jackson are going to be sent their walking papers.

Many fans have long complained about the diva attitudes of Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey for some time now. The ratings took a big hit. And NBC's The Voice and ABC's Dancing With The Stars for the first time surpassed the ratings of American Idol.

The Mindy Project, New Girl, Touch and Raising Hope survived the season despite taking a slight dip in ratings.

The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy.