Dog Gone!

Seth MacFarlane's alter ego Brian is the character killed off on an episode of Fox's Family Guy.

Seth MacFarlane's hit comedy Family Guy has a main character killed off and the public doesn't like the move.

I watched Sunday's program on Fox and seen the Thanksgiving based episode with the two main characters and their wacky adventures through the multiverse.

Brian meets the controversial conservative agitator. The agitator bemoans about Brian's liberal stances.

At the peak of the episode, the character is killed by a reckless driver. Ironic the character killed a fellow canine in the earlier seasons. The characters reflect on the death in strive. They go to the pet store and meet the talking dog Vinny (played by Soprano's star Tony Sirico).

At home, Vinny offers to make dinner and ingratiates himself with the family. Peter introduces Vinny to his friends at The Drunken Clam and they become drinking buddies. Stewie still is not happy with Vinny and decides to ruin him. Stewie feeds him some sad Italian news hoping to break his heart, but Chris ruins it for Stewie.

Later, Vinny hears Stewie crying and finds he is still upset over Brian. Vinny offers some comfort, talking about the death of his previous owner and proving he knows what it is like to lose your best friend. Vinny says even in the pet shop, he felt a kinship with the Griffins. Stewie finally accepts Vinny into the family, and later that night Vinny goes to sleep beside Stewie's bed.

Brian played by MacFarlane was the "voice of reason". He represented the actual persona of the show's creator.

Shocking and surprising many viewers of the long running animated sitcom.

 Comedian Seth MacFarlane surprises fans with the death of Brian, the main character of Family Guy.

That adds to the latest surprises from MacFarlane.

The killing of Brian marks a new direction for the show. Family patriarch Peter Griffin and devious toddler Stewie expressed emotion towards the lost of the dog. It also puts an end to the ongoing feud with neighbor Quagmire (all characters who are mentioned were played by MacFarlane).

His former girlfriends, one being Gillian (played by Drew Berrymore) was in attendance.

Eric Thurm of The A.V. Club gave the episode an A–, saying that Brian's death scene was "actually pretty poignant, coming as close as Family Guy can to genuinely moving" and said it was "surprisingly effective [...] at dealing with the sudden death of a main character."

Many didn't like the move and feel that it officially "jump the shark".

But since it's animation, we probably haven't seen the last of the character. It's not like he's a living being.

But what's your opinion on the character's death?

Popular Football Star Kills His Lover!

Teen accused of murdering his boyfriend may get life in the iron college. Once the teen was popular student and football star at his high school.

This is one of those stories that has the writings of jealousy and malcontent. A boy who was going to be a future football star wasted it on some dumb shit. I mean if you're spurned by your lover, don't take it personal. I mean yeah, make it personal but don't end killing the lover over an argument.

This stuff happens when a man is spurned by a woman. They happen to get obsessed with the victim. They react to the rejection by threatening retaliation against the victim. They feel rejection as an insult. After all, you do all you can to please your lover and they do you like this. So the man would end up killing his woman over an issue. Say if she had another boyfriend or she is pregnant and its not your child. That stuff occurs in America.

And it also occurs in the LGBT community as well. Sometimes men (or women) are threatened by their lovers when they feel spurned. The spurned lover would do dangerous and outrageous things to their former lover.

And this type of stuff leads to the rise of domestic violence in America.

The victims killed whether in a straight or a same sex relationship use "restraining orders" against the threat.

A restraining order to a spurn a former lover is a time bomb. That time bomb will explode. They would snap when they're served with papers.

Mitchell was a popular student.

A standout football star from Connecticut is accused of murdering his boyfriend.

If convicted of murder, this young man will be serving the rest of his life in the iron college.

Tarence Mitchell, 18 years old is from Bloomfield, Connecticut makes a court appearance this week. He will be charged in the death of his 27 year old boyfriend Ronald Taylor, Jr.

Mitchell confessed to stabbing Taylor, also known as "City," five times, in his torso, at the 27-year-old's home, including leaving the knife in Taylor's back, after the teen tried to break off the relationship. The murder weapon is reported to be a steak knife. The Hartford Courant reports that Mitchell armed himself after Taylor arranged a meeting between the two, promising it "wasn't going to end well." The police report says that Mitchell chased after Taylor and continued to stab him after the 27-year-old put his hands up in the air. Mitchell reportedly suffered minor cut wounds during the ordeal, Taylor was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Bloomfield, where he was pronounced dead, reports NBC Connecticut.

Mitchell tried to tell the law that he and the victim had been attacked by two black males.

That story didn't add up and he finally confessed.

Mitchell is being held in jail on a $1 million get out free card. Judge Joan Alexander initially set the release fee at $500,000 before raising it. The youngster doesn't suffer from any mental illness, the court heard but "he's extremely confused and upset" about Taylor's murder.

Mitchell was a popular student in his high school. Apparently, the girls loved him. And so did his lover. The lover was jealous. The victim threatened to go with a public "outing" after Mitchell was apparently trying to end the relationship. That set off the events.

Taylor went to Facebook to public shame him and that launched into the tirade with Mitchell. That led to the murder. His family denies he done this. They didn't think a kid with such an upbringing would be a murderer.

Again ignoring the "nice guy" theory. The most dangerous individual is the "nice guy".

I don't blame no one but Mitchell. If anything, I don't understand how a grown ass man would be messing with a teenage boy.

When jealous gay lovers publicly shame their "straight or nonsexual" lovers, it sparks the homophobic reactions and the denials of an affair. It could lead to violence.

90% of the time, men have sex on their minds. They don't care who they sleep with, as long as their sexual satisfactions are met, they're happy. That's probably why there's so many STDs and unwanted pregnancies in the Black community. Some people don't talk about their sexual business in public. That's why they invented the term the "down-low".

Taylor's jealousy and "public outing" is reckless. But in no way Taylor's actions should be an excuse for suspect Mitchell going crazy and killing the man.

Somehow, the young teen wasn't thinking. He had to keep a "rep" with his fellow peers. I mean he had a great time smoking weed, drinking underage and having a little "fun" with Taylor. He couldn't hide that pleasure. I mean Mitchell loved women. He was actually talking with one and that led to Taylor threatening to expose his lover after being spurned.

But in this straight culture, me and millions of Black men still pride ourselves on the masculinity. So it would ruin our street cred with the fellow Black men if one of our friends is gay. That stuff exists to this day.

Black men have to find comfort with the LGBT community. They aren't hurting me. They want to live their lives loving one another. They don't cause no problem to you regardless of what you religious beliefs are.

I mean we seriously need to look at ourselves in the mirror and figure out whether you could be a bigot but not even know it.

Again, I don't care whether you're straight, gay, bisexual or non-sexual, if you're still a human first. You're my friend regardless.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Ronald Taylor, Jr.

WFSB 3 Connecticut

The Tea Party Is Pissed At Mitch!

The Tea Party is really pissed at Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY). They think he undermines Republicans by assisting Democrats in passing legislation. Despite having the most animosity towards President Barack Obama, it's still not enough for the Tea Party.

Alison Grimes isn't the biggest problem for the veteran Republican senator.

But the latest crap coming from Mitch McConnell's campaign office is certainly going to have Tea Party supporters look at his opponent in the Republican primary.

Mitch McConnell's campaign is none to happy with former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund group.

He basically is calling the Tea Party a bunch of damn asses.

I couldn't agree with him more.

I am certainly happy to see the Republicans going at each other. The moderates are frustrated with the conservative extremism. It's ruining their chances at retaking the Senate and possibly the 2016 presidency.

We know how this infighting contributes to the government shutdown and their ineptness to win over voters who normally avoid the party. Mostly those voters perceive the Republican Party as a bunch of bigots and racists.

TPM reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) re-election campaign has a response for the Senate Conservatives Fund's (SCF) accusation that McConnell rolled over as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) changed Senate filibuster rules: that's "profoundly stupid."

"That argument is so profoundly stupid that it is hard to fully ascertain whether their deficiency is in math or logic," McConnell campaign spokeswoman Allison Moore told TPM on Friday. "It does however help further illuminate why SCF is so bad at what they do."

"What's stupid is for Mitch McConnell to think that appeasement is a winning strategy," Senate Conservatives Fund executive director Matt Hoskins said to TPM in response to Moore.

Moore's statement on Friday is in response to a fundraising email from SCF, which is backing McConnell primary challenger Matt Bevin, arguing that Reid was able to enact the "nuclear option" removing the filibuster option from judicial and executive nominees.

"Harry Reid did this because he knows Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will let him get away with it,"Hoskins wrote in an email to supporters Friday. "The only way to deter a nuclear attack is to make it clear that the response will be equally devastating. Unfortunately, weakness is the only message Mitch McConnell has sent the Democrats on this issue."

The original statements by both Moore and Hoskins come a day after the Senate rules change. Right after the rules change Bevin's campaign released a similarly critical statement of McConnell.

"Kentuckians deserve better than a pretend leader who does nothing more than wave his arms for the cameras," Bevin said in a statement referring to McConnell.

Democrats hope to beat back Republicans by lining up moderate candidates in states that are considered swing.

Virginia was a test of the powers the Democrats have against the Tea Party. They know that President Barack Obama is too toxic for them, so they'll find alternatives to beat the Republicans.

Lining up people who have professional people to run for elected office give the Democrats a "middle class" feel among their core supporters. I mean a small farmer could be a lawmaker. A doctor could be a lawmaker.

It doesn't matter whether they're Democrat or Republican, if you got a candidate that's strong enough to win voters, you have an advantage.

Alison Grimes is that advantage and I hope that she can uproot this asshole from Washington.

Innocence Lost: Aaron Vu!

Aaron Vu was a victim of gun violence. The little boy was shot and killed by two men who didn't care who they shot at.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Aaron Vu.

In America, a bunch of heartless human beings gun down an innocent child. In Miami, Florida, a boy at his family's nail salon was gunned down by two assholes who didn't have no concern for the lives they've taken.

"It's sad, tragic, that the child was in the business at the time the crime occurred," Miami-Dade Police Spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said. "It's senseless for an innocent 10-year-old to lose his life."

Two Black men were caught on camera with guns drawn rushed into the Vu Family Salon. They made a quick hit for money. The situation turned into a tragedy when the owners told the robbers they had no money.

The men decided to leave a message to those who don't comply. They used their assault weapons on the people. Bullets hit little Aaron and his father Hai.

Aaron was killed instantly. His father Hai was injured badly but will survive.

Friends and family and even a client stopped by the salon to leave flowers and a teddy bear at a makeshift memorial for Aaron Vu. A woman who did not want to be named, described the boy as "helpful and kind."

"He was sweet," she said.

Police were searching for the gunmen.

One was wearing a beanie, a black shirt and blue jeans and the other was wearing a black jacket and a red shirt over his face, police said.

Now the Miami-Dade Metro Police are now determined to get these dangerous individuals off the streets.

Now as usual, since it hit the internet and possibly landed on the racist right websites such as That Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall, expect that racial extremist asshat Colin Flaherty (who has visited our blog) to outline this. Soon you'll hear talk about Trayvon Martin, President Barack Obama, and racial violence on Asian Americans by Black people.

Again, crime happens.

Criminals look at gas stations, banks, barbershops/salons and cell phone stores as crimes of opportunity. It usually takes less than three minutes for an armed criminal to rob someone of their valuables or property.

Sometimes, it may end up being a deadly confrontation. Especially from those who think they could be "heroes" on the evening news.

Seeing that Black men committed the crime, I expect that they'll be caught likely. There's a possibility that these individuals are known in the area. They weren't wearing masks. So obviously in the digital age, the criminal has a social networking website where they'll brag or mention the incident.

And since the Florida Bureau of Investigation and federal authorities are getting involved. The window will close on these callous assholes.

To take the life of a innocent boy who only wanted to help his family's business is saddening. It's a damn shame that these Black men didn't have an ounce of remorse in their hearts for this little boy.

A**hat Colin Flaherty Responds To Us! We Respond Back!

White Extremist responds to our blog. We respond back.

I understand that we gotten comments today on Journal de la Reyna. I see they came from an anonymous commentator and another racial extremist jerk from his own blog. These racial extremists were given airtime on That Guy Who Helped Obama Win's right wing carnival on Friday. Now these fucktards want to see if people were wondering who the fuck they are!

I guess one of these assholes GOOGLE himself and happened to find "asshat" near his name. So he looks at our blog, and finds the comment section and left us a word vomit. I shrunk it down. Get the barf bag, it's gonna be some nasty stuff here:

Anonymous said...

For a blogger, your command of the English language is atrocious. Methinks you could use a few remedial lessons. I find it interesting that you, along with every other Liberal, don't bother to disprove his theories and facts with your own. Just hurl names and insults and run for the hills. You do realize this gives you ZERO credibility, right?

12:50 PM

DailyKenn.com said...

Black-on-white crime is a serious national epidemic that needs to be addressed.

Recent black-on-white crimes

52.2% of homicides are committed by blacks, according to DOJ stats; nearly all be black males between the ages of 18 and 49 who comprise about 3 percent of the population.

Playing the warm-and-fuzzy white guilt card does nothing to address this very real problem, let alone solve it.

Your thoughts? (Sans sarcasm, please.)

2:26 PM

Here again, we here at Journal de la Reyna respectfully understand the discourse among some of our lesser minded individuals. We think you're entitled to your opinion. No matter how stupid it is. No matter how condescending you are. No matter how just plain racist the words are! 

We're not policing you. You have our blessings to be the asshat you appear to be. No one but you and the racist right obsesses over crime "statistics", President Barack Obama, the Black community, hip-hop music and Trayvon Martin.

From every aspect of America, crime happens. No matter what statistics you posted on our blog or your "proof" that shows the inferiority of one group. We don't care!

We know that criminals look at opportunity, not race! We don't determine who commits a crime.

Crime is based on the product of the environment.

Ahem. The Justice Department sees a rise in crime when there's summer months. They see a rise in extremism since Barack Obama secured a second term as the President of The United States. 

We notice that for every crime there is an arrest to the perpetrator. It may take minutes, days, month or even years. But someone will pay for their crimes.

How many years has it taken to find a White serial killer?

How many mass murders were carried out by WHITE MEN?

I understand that you're obsessed Black on White crime. You love to bury yourself in a bunker with all the newspaper clips, internet hits and use That Guy Who Throw Shit On The Wall's page as a bookmark on your PC or laptop.

You got airplay on That Guy Who Helped Obama Win and Loudmouth Bill Cunningham to promote your book. These morons didn't know that you participated in a White nationalist radio program and have ties to extremist groups like VDare, the Council of Conservative Citizens and WorldNutDaily. Each outlet promotes the extremist rhetoric that may drive White men to committing mass murders.

You're a compulsive obsessive individual with deep seated hatred of the Black and Hispanic community.

You say you're not a racist. You claim that you get appraisal and the "ghetto pass" from Black bigots like Herman "999" Cain, Deneen Borelli, The Other "Reverend" Jesse Lee Peterson, Alveda King, C.L. Bryant, James David Manning, Thomas Sowell and Allen West.

We don't give a flying fuck about them Black suckers! They aid and abet to the racist right.

Who's gonna stop us from expressing our opinions. You want to promote your stupid book so these White extremists can have their "ah ha" moment. You have stupid obsession with blaming the junk food media for ignoring you and your "facts".

The reason why the junk food media ignores you is the credibility issue. Most people fear you may ruin a journalistic creed.

Plain and simple, we don't care about your word vomit.

All these Black stories as you call them are just national events that attract attention for people in the junk food media. We cover them just like you racial extremists.

We don't condone criminal acts by anyone regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion or social status.

Rudy Eugene (the Zombie Face Eater), Aaron Alexis (the DC Navy Yard Shooter), those twats who killed Christopher Lane and the former LAPD cop Christopher Dohner who went on a murder spree are examples of criminals who done harm to people.

It doesn't disqualify Adam Lanza, James Spooner, Wade Page, James Holmes, George Zimmerman, Michael Dunn, or Ted Wafer. These WHITE MEN killed innocent human beings too. You ain't covering that much lately!

There's a place for people like these criminals. And certainly a place for you too!

You cry about credibility when you've already lost it the moment you word vomited on our blog.

Credibility doesn't matter to me when I'm writing an opinion. 

I don't give rat ass about what you think about me, S. Baldwin, or the blog. 

We know how "YOU PEOPLE" act when it regards calling you out on your racial extremism! 

Yes, I mean YOU PEOPLE!

We didn't tell you to read the blog. It ain't like you've been dragged to the internet and happen to click on the damn postings.

Gee, you people are sensitive. And believe me, being sensitive isn't helpful when no one cares about you, your damn book, or your damn "statistics". 

You're just a toe tag when you're dead, okay! So just please just don't worry yourself to death.

We don't want to hear about the coroner putting a toe tag on your rotten body.

Understand that!

Six Reasons To Attract An Anonymous Commentator!

1) They seem to always be focused on one simple issue. 

Conservatives are simple minded individuals. They show such disdain for President Barack Obama and the Black community.

There may be some of these "compassionate" conservatives reading this blog right now!

Drop the act. You're not fooling anyone.

Conservatism is dosed in the bigotry of someone's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, economic and political standings.

Conservatives look at issues in the "black and white" prospective.

That's probably why this anonymous commentator is here. The anonymous commentator is focused on one issue: RACE!

You don't like being called racist. We understand it. The Republican Party isn't racist.

There's a lot of racists in the Republican Party though.

Who says the party that's 90% White and 10% everything else is racist?

The party leaders, those in the conservative junk food media and those pesky anonymous commentators and racial extremists are worked up over the first Black president.

Did you know that President Barack Obama loses 40% or more of the White vote because of some perceived bias against him?

2) They get worked up over an opinion. 

Me and S. Baldwin been here for years blogging about issues. Some issues are controversial. Some are spiritual. Some may inspire you to think. Others may rile you up. That's perfectly fine.

We are here on Journal de la Reyna using our "freedom of speech" to talk about issues.

Some may not like that. That's fine.

We don't condone every anti-website that spends their times attacking someone.

We're not like that. Every story that I post comes with a wittiness and willingness to express an honest take on the current issues.

I don't see nothing wrong with discourse. Does it mean we have to read it?

3) Deleting comments always seems to agitate them.

Again, we don't have give anyone a forum to soapbox insults, racial slurs and random spamming.

We're not in the business of this back and forth with people who have no direct ties to us. We are not in the business to respond to a person who has to subject us with insults upon our character, this blog or the supporters here.

We reserve the right to remove comments here on Journal de la Reyna.

Again, we didn't ask you to read the blog. It was the choice of the anonymous user to respond to the blog. You can find other outlets that suit your needs. Why are you bothering us?

4) Never responding back to them drives them crazier.

Never feed the trolls.

Yeah it's the same word vomit. We don't have to read insults.

The best solution is to delete it and move on.

It must drive this anonymous user crazy to not see the word vomit on the comments page.

Should we require that all comments come from a person who is a registered user with Blogger or Google (or linked through Facebook or Twitter)?

5) No one is pointing a gun to the head telling the anonymous user to read this or any blog.

If you have a problem with the blog, that's your opinion. But as far as it goes, we're not going anywhere and as long as I'm still interested, there will be more posts on Journal de la Reyna.

6) Summary

The comments here come from a concerned troll. A concern troll is a false flag pseudonym created by a user whose actual point of view is opposed to the one that the user claims to hold. The concern troll posts in Web forums devoted to its declared point of view and attempts to sway the group's actions or opinions while claiming to share their goals, but with professed "concerns". The goal is to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt within the group.

Call me whatever you want, gadfly! You're not winning.

Get a clue, fool!

As far as I'm concerned, the only racist here is you! 

Now please look in the mirror and yell at yourself. And please use your rope for other purposes other than telling us to hang ourselves.

Who The Hell Is This Colin Flaherty A**hat?

A racial extremist is being promoted by conservative talk radio.

Some white extremist went on That Guy Who Helped Obama's right wing carnival to promote this book about "us Black folks" participating in this "knockout game".

We "Black folk" are trying to destroy White America with the five finger roll.

The young Black youth are running amok in America laying the five finger roll on the faces of unsuspecting White folks. This is the new game sponsored by Trayvon Martin and President Barack Obama says those in the conservative media.

So this Colin Flaherty wrote this book White Girl Bleed A Lot and it outlines all the "statistics" about "us Black folks" being the racist, violent, hateful, and destructive entities of our country.

Colin Flaherty claims he's an author of a book I've never heard of. He believes that racial violence is an everyday thing. He is contributor to WorldNutDaily. So obviously he'll "brag" about being some award winning writer who gets airplay on many news outlets. Whenever on a right wing media outlet this asshole talks about "racial violence (aka Black folks and the rest of America ignoring him)".

His website claims that old school Black extremist Thomas Sowell said, ”Reading this asshat's book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.”

This jackass complains on WorldNutDaily and the internet about this "knockout" game. He believes feral Black youth created this theme to win attention from their fellow peers. Find the nearest surveillance camera, see a bunch of Black youth and an unwitting White person, and instant hit.

He claims that the junk food media is dismissing this stuff because it's not a White man killing an unarmed teenager. He truly is thankful to That Guy Who Helped Obama Win. Without That Guy and his allies over at Loserville, this stuff would just be on the 5pm news.

The "knockout game" requires a five finger roll. The five finger roll has ended up killing four people and injured at least a dozen.

Now me personally believe these incidents are isolated. Because I've been injured by a sucker punch back in 2010 after I left a bar. I woke up in the hospital not knowing what happen. I remember there was a group of people at the bar and two women were screaming for someone to hand them over a phone. I gave them my phone and next thing I know I was in the hospital. I was laid out without knowing the person that hit me.

I guess the knockout game was factor there. No one knows and I was a victim of random violence.

I hate to admit that but it happens.

But do I hold Black America responsible for my injuries, seeing that I'm a Black person myself: NO!

Loserville To Oprah: You BLACK People's Knockout Game Is Racist!

The Republican Party's mouth piece is upset over Oprah saying that "old racists" should die. Somehow, she must of have meant conservatives, because they've went bonkers.

Ever since she spoke the British press about how Americans disrespect President Barack Obama, the conservatives have figured out that the "knockout game" is the counterbalance to her concerns.

Yeah, how many times have I've heard about a group of "BLACK YOUTH" beating on WHITE PEOPLE?

Oprah is right on one thing: You can't satisfy them.

The Grio reports that the right wing media freakout was so huge, you might have to tell them they gonna need a bag for all the vomit. These individuals are so freaking outrageous, it's to the point of sadness.

First, King Hippo slammed her comments and suggested that if black people were “so mistreated” Oprah’s success makes no sense.

Now Loserville is entering the fray, singling out her argument that President Barack Obama has received different treatment than past leaders because he is black.

Bill-O dedicated a entire segment to the interview, accusing the talk show icon of “playing the race card.”

Conservative radio personality Rat Levin went even further, saying, “I really find her despicable. Not because she’s black. Not because she’s a woman. But because she’s despicable.”

And That Guy Who Helped Obama Win featured Oprah’s quote and image in an ominous ad which appears to make her look threatening:

Ever since Oprah endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama for president in 2008, she has become a popular target for conservative ire.

Earlier this year, when she shared an experience she had being racially profiled in Europe, King Hippo insisted she was only accosted because she is “overweight.”

Dems Go Nuclear!

President Barack Obama and the Democrats had enough of the Republicans stalling his nominees. They passed filibuster reform. The process from now on will require a simple majority when confirming federal nominees. It won't apply to passing bills in the Senate. Sorry, conservatives you'll need 2/3 vote to repeal Obamacare.

Thanks to the Republicans and their ongoing obstruction, the Democrats are now forcing upon the nuclear option. Too many nominees were being stalled by the Stallmigos and Team Oppostition.

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) told the Republicans "you're done". Enough is enough!

Janet Yellen was being stalled by the Senate because she's a woman. If confirmed, she will be the first woman to head the Federal Reserve.

The nuclear option, called the constitutional option by some proponents, is a generic term for a set of parliamentary maneuvers that could be used in the United States Senate to achieve approval of certain motions by a majority vote, rather than the "super-majority" required by current Senate rules and precedents.

The nuclear option has arisen in reaction to the frequent use of Senate rules by a minority of Senators to block consideration of a nominee for an Executive Branch or judicial position (or less frequently, a bill or resolution). Between the 1970s and 2013, threats by the majority party to use some version of what is now known as the nuclear option resulted in some changes to Senate rules and practices to limit opportunities for blocking nominations, without actually invoking the nuclear option itself.

In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations other than those to the Supreme Court.

The "nuclear option" is a vote by slight majority party.

November 21, 2013, the Senate voted 52-48 (along party lines with the exception of 3 Democrats who voted with the Republicans) to eliminate the use of the filibuster against all executive and judicial presidential nominees (other than to the Supreme Court). This was a rare instance of the so-called nuclear option.
The Democrats' stated motivation for this change was the expanding Republican usage of the filibuster without always stating an objection to the particular nominee, such as for nominations to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[86] Republicans had asserted that the D.C. Circuit was underworked,[86] and also cited the need for cost reduction by reducing the number of judges in that circuit.

As of November 2013, President Obama’s nominees had faced 79 votes to end debate (called "cloture" votes), compared to just 38 during the preceding eight years under George W. Bush.

However, most of those cloture votes successfully ended debate, and therefore most filibustered nominees cleared the filibuster hurdle; Obama won Senate confirmation for 30 out of 42 federal court nominations, compared with Bush's 35 out of 52.

Congressman Mel Watt (D-NC) was being blocked by Republicans to head up Federal Housing Administration.

From this point on, if a nominee is being held up since 2009, the Democrats will just go ahead with simple vote by 51. If the candidate hasn't withdrawn or placed on hold, they'll be easily confirmed.

Congressman Mel Watt (D-North Carolina) will resign from his Charlotte area district to head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which among other agencies, administers or has oversight for the FHA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac.

Janet Yellen is an American economist and professor who is the Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Previously, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. On October 9, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Yellen to be Chair of the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, Yellen would be the first woman to hold the position.

JFK: Thank You!

America mourns 50 yeara of the tragic shooting of the 36th President of The United States.

I wasn't born around the time John F. Kennedy was the President of The United States, but from what I've heard from many, he was probably one the best modern day presidents, ever!

A young vibrant clean smiling guy with a beautiful wife and two adorable children.

November 22, 1963 would be the day the world lost a leader.

When he was in Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was shot in the head by a sniper rifle and was pronounced dead at the hospital.

It lead to the nation's first ever breaking news event. It also thrust his Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson into the forefront as the next in line.

During the 1960s in the South, the United States was going through the segregation of race.

The Civil Rights Movement was at its peak when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his March On Washington (I Have A Dream) speech to a crowd of thousands.

Dr. King, John Lewis and John F. Kennedy. Lewis would later become a U.S. Congressman.

That April, Dr. King got an opportunity to meet Kennedy.

I want to say that Kennedy was the best progressive leader.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the crime and arrested that evening, but Jack Ruby shot and killed him two days later, before a trial could take place.

The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.

President Barack Obama along with former president Bill Clinton at the Kennedy memorial. Also former First Lady/Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Since the 1960s, information concerning Kennedy's private life has come to light. Details of Kennedy's health problems with which he struggled have become better known, especially since the 1990s. Although initially kept secret from the general public, reports of Kennedy's philandering have garnered much press. Kennedy ranks highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents.

Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race—by initiating Project Apollo (which would culminate in the moon landing), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War. Therein, Kennedy increased the number of military advisers, special operation forces, and helicopters in an effort to curb the spread of communism in South East Asia.

The Kennedy administration adopted the policy of the Strategic Hamlet Program which was implemented by the South Vietnamese government. It involved certain forced relocation, village internment, and segregation of rural South Vietnamese from northern and southern communist insurgents.

Right Wing Media and White Supremacists Turned on George Zimmerman and Craig Cobb

Right Wing Media and White Supremacists Turned on George Zimmerman and Craig Cobb.

  

Those guys thought white supremacists/racists/right-wingconservatives would accept them.  Heck to the naw!

Karma to both men who thought they could get away with murder.  Mr. Zimmerman is finally getting his comeuppance from the right-wing media.  It's all because he beat up White America's precious icon, the all-American Blonde.  Mr. Cobb has fallen from white supremacists' "good graces" once they found out that he's part Black and had a criminal record. 

Here are the links to the latest Zimmerman and Cobb sagas:

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/11/right-wing-media-turns-george-zimmerman/

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/11/21/white-supremacist-target-racism/

http://rt.com/usa/craig-cobb-white-supremacist-113/

Dems See One Thing In Common With The Stallmigos!

Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) along with Stallmigos Rand Paul (R-KY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-New York) is taking on a very serious issue.

She along with two of the Stillmigos are finding common ground to this issue. This bill will stop the rise in military sexual assault.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) practically have no legislative accomplishments whatsoever but managed to get top booking on news programs. Yet for all their hoopla and dragon smoke, they've won nothing but scorn among their critics.

They've been praised by the conservative agitators as the "in your face" tactics they've brought to President Barack Obama. They've managed to stall nominees, filibuster over trivial issues and rally a base of ignorance towards his

For this one moment, the Stallmigos found some common ground with the Democrats.

Military Sexual Trauma (MST) is a term used by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to refer to rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment that occurs during military service. While sexual assault within the military is monitored by the Department of Defense (DoD) Sexual Assault and Prevention Response Office (SAPRO), MST is more broadly defined and is monitored within the DVA by the Military Sexual Trauma Support Team.

Senators Gillibrand and Susan Collins (R-Maine) were amongst the sponsoring congress members and Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and others reportedly joined as cosponsors.

Co-sponsor Representative Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona), who once worked as a rape crisis counselor, said, "It is clear that something is not working.

As of 2013 in cases where sexual assault is alleged extremely intrusive and aggressive cross examination of the victim is permitted during Article 32 hearings, a practice which has been cited by critics of the military's handling of sexual assault.

The addition of the two conservative senators broadens the political and ideological range of the Senate coalition fighting an uphill battle to shift the responsibility for trying sexual assault cases from commanders to military prosecutors.

"So this is not a Democratic idea. It is not a Republican idea," Gillibrand said at a Capitol Hill news conference. "It is a good idea that meets the needs of the victims, creates transparency and accountability, and creates the needed objectivity that this issue deserves."

Gillibrand plans to offer the restructuring as an amendment to the defense authorization bill on the Senate floor, either later this month or in the fall. The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected the legislation in a 17-9 vote last month.

Her measure, which has 33 co-sponsors, would shift the authority commanders now have to military prosecutors to decide how to try rape, sexual assault, murder and a list of other serious crimes.

"I see no reason why conservatives shouldn't support this," Paul said. "Justice is very important for me, both for the accused and the victim."

He said he signed on after Gillibrand agreed to make changes in the measure by leaving some offenses she had included in her measure in the commanders' control. "These were disobeying orders and some other things," he said.

Cruz, who voted for Gillibrand's amendment in committee, said he was persuaded by two points. Sexual assault victims don't report the attacks because they are afraid to come forward, he said. Also, reporting of those crimes rose in Great Britain, Israel and Germany after those countries instituted policies similar to Gillibrand's measure.

Military rape happens and most women (and sometimes men) fear retaliation if they report the incident to their supervisors.

The measure is opposed by all top-ranking military officials along with Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Levin said earlier Tuesday that the defense authorization bill already includes major changes to address military sexual assault, including referring cases to the top of the chain of command and providing victims with special counsel.

The Invisible War is a 2012 documentary film written and directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering and Tanner King Barklow about sexual assault in the United States military. It premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Documentary Audience Award. The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.

The Invisible War features interviews with veterans from multiple branches of the United States Armed Forces who recount the events surrounding their assaults. Their stories show many common themes, such as the lack of recourse to an impartial justice system, reprisals against survivors instead of against perpetrators, the absence of adequate emotional and physical care for survivors, the unhindered advancement of perpetrators' careers, and the forced expulsion of survivors from service.

Interspersed with these first person testimonies are interviews with advocates, journalists, mental health professionals, active duty and retired generals, Department of Defense officials, and members of the military justice system. The film also includes footage, often shot by the veterans themselves, which documents their lives and continuing struggles in the aftermath of their assaults.

In the film's most prominent narrative, Coast Guard veteran Seaman Kori Cioca struggles to earn benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for the many medical difficulties that have resulted from her rape. With the help of attorney Susan L. Burke, Cioca, along with other survivors featured in the film, brings a civil suit against the Department of Defense alleging a failure to adequately address sexual assault within the military.

Other past incidents of sexual abuse recounted in the film include the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, the 1996 Army Aberdeen scandal, and the 2003 Air Force Academy scandal. The Invisible War uses these examples to argue that the military has consistently made empty promises to address its high rate of sexual assault.

These stories culminate with an examination of the previously unreported culture of sexual harassment and sexual assault at the prestigious Marine Barracks Washington.

The survivors and advocates featured in the film call for changes to the way the military handles sexual assault, such as shifting prosecution away from unit commanders, who often are either friends with assailants or are assailants themselves.

Joseph Paul Franklin Gets The Gas Chamber!

White supremacist who caused a nationwide killing spree was put down.

"Former" White extremist was a brutal serial killer. He could not stand watching Black men date White women. He would roam up and down the East Coast looking for chances to "cleanse the world" of people he considered inferior, especially "THE BLACKS AND THE JEWS".

Originally known as James Clayton Vaughn in Mobile, Alabama, Joseph Paul Franklin was born to a poor family. He suffered severe physical abuse as a child.

As early as high school, he was a picked on boy. He was taunted by the classmates and was shunned by girls. So in order to get back at his enemies, he would turn up as a Neo-Nazi.

Larry Flynt survived shooting by Joseph Paul Franklin.

He had an interested first in radical Christianity, then Nazism, and later held memberships in both the National Socialist White People's Party and the Ku Klux Klan.

Being spurn by White women really drove him to hate Black men. He thought that Black men were taking away the White women. So he's reading his hate pamphlet think about a master plan. I'll shoot as many as they come and thus the serial killing begins. In a span of three years, he killed numerous individuals. Most of them were Black men.

In his mind, he believed that Black men and White women together as bestiality. See Romeo Rose for more information.


He also targeted Larry Flynt, the founder of Hustler Magazine. He is paralyzed from the waist down due to injuries sustained in a 1978 assassination attempt.

Flynt was sort-of forgiving to the nutjob and plead to the Missouri state governor Jay Nixon that the fool should rot away in the iron college. Nixon said "Hell no, he's got to go!"

Last chance pleas came form his trial lawyers.

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated two stays of execution Wednesday morning for convicted murderer Joseph Paul Franklin, clearing the way for Missouri to put him to death.

A 63-year-old death row inmate who targeted blacks and Jews was granted a stay of execution Tuesday evening, just hours away from his scheduled death via lethal injection.

Nutjob white supremacist looks like Don Imus.

The St. Louis Press-Dispatch reported that Franklin’s request was granted by U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey, thus allowing for the resolution of a lawsuit filed by him and 20 other inmates against the state Department of Corrections for changing the formula used in the injection.

Franklin was executed in Missouri at 8:50 AM (EST). His execution was the first lethal injection in Missouri to use pentobarbital alone instead of the conventional three drug cocktail.

Franklin was scheduled to be executed at 12:01 AM for shooting and killing 42-year-old Gerald Gordon outside a St. Louis synagogue in 1977. Franklin was convicted of seven other murders and is blamed for committing 20 killings between 1977 and 1980.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling about 5 a.m., and Franklin was put to death a short time later.

“I think it was a terrible thing to do and a terrible crime to commit against some people at a house of worship,” Franklin told local news in an interview filmed last week. “I've got no excuse for it. All I can say is, I was mentally ill. It was just a really bad thing to do to somebody.”

Basically he said he has no regrets. No amount of sorry could replace the lives he taken away because of his hatred of interracial couples.