Butts Out At CVS!

The pharmacy is going to cut the smokes.

I know that conservatives are thinking that the Obama Administration had something to do with it!

Would be worth my while to say that anything done in the name of the health of Americans is considered treasonous according to the racist right agitators?

The second largest drug store company decides to put the smokes out literally.

By October, all CVS locations will be void of the cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars and e-cigs.

This comes as no surprise that a drug store selling cigarettes is kind of stupid in the first place.

In a statement explaining the change, CVS President & CEO Larry J. Merlo said, "We came to the decision that cigarettes and providing health care just don’t go together in the same setting."

The retailer said the move makes CVS/pharmacy the first chain of national pharmacies to take tobacco products off the shelves.

"Ending the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products at CVS/pharmacy is the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health," Larry J. Merlo, president and CEO of CVS Caremark, said in a statement. "Put simply, the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose."

A former smoker himself, President Barack Obama praises the move. In this CVS store, someone left a cutout of the president by the cashier window.

Health-oriented organizations and President Barack Obama praised the move.

"As one of the largest retailers and pharmacies in America, CVS Caremark sets a powerful example, and today's decision will help advance my administration's efforts to reduce tobacco-related deaths, cancer, and heart disease, as well as bring down health care costs -- ultimately saving lives and protecting untold numbers of families from pain and heartbreak for years to come," Obama said in a statement Wednesday.

"This is an important, bold public health decision by a major retail pharmacy to act on the long understood reality that blending providing health care and providing cigarettes just doesn't match," said Dr. Richard Wender, chief cancer control officer at the American Cancer Society.

"We need an all-hands-on-deck effort to take tobacco products out of the hands of America's young generation, and to help those who are addicted to quit," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement. "Today's CVS Caremark announcement helps bring our country closer to achieving a tobacco-free generation. I hope others will follow their lead."
It remained unclear whether other pharmacies will follow CVS' lead.

"We have been evaluating this product category for some time to balance the choices our customers expect from us with their ongoing health needs," Walgreens spokesman Jim Graham said in a statement.

"We will continue to evaluate the choice of products our customers want, while also helping to educate them and providing smoking-cessation products and alternatives that help to reduce the demand for tobacco products."

Meanwhile, David Howard, spokesman for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., said, "We value the long-term relationship with CVS and respect their commercial decision. We will work with them as they transition out of the tobacco category in the coming months."

Stopping cigarette sales comes at a price. CVS Caremark estimates it will take an annual loss of $2 billion from tobacco shoppers -- $1.5 billion in tobacco sales and the rest from other products tobacco shoppers purchase while in the store.

The company has enjoyed growing revenues in recent years, boosted by its pharmacy services business and prescription drug sales.

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Oh No, Not This Stuff Again: Man Rips Victims Face! Cops Kill Man! [NSFW]

The return of the face eating zombies. Of course Rudy Eugene attracted international celebrity for being the first man who was apparently high on drugs when he attacked and manned a homeless man. This incident in Palm Beach County sparks a major concern among Florida law enforcement.

Take caution in reading this story. The picture below is disturbing. The incident that occurred is disturbing.

Once again, we here at Journal de la Reyna send our prayers and condolences to the victims of this horrible tragedy. This stuff will attract the racist right to making assumptions of Black on White crime (if the suspect's name is released to the public).

A few years ago, the world was introduced to the Miami Zombie.

Rudy Eugene allegedly high on bath salts managed to attack and rip the face of a homeless man.

The Miami Police ended up serving him with lead and he would pay the price. The victim would end up having reconstructive surgery after Eugene would rip his eyes and nose off.

It's kind of crazy and the racist right was all fearing of the ZOMBIE Apocalypse.

Nowadays, this bath salts, molly and heroin are a danger to the young and even old.

This craze is happening in the country's most notorious state for problems: FLORIDA.

This marks the return of the long-fabled flesh eating zombie only seen in comics and on TV screens, because a Florida man was shot to death after he (with no clothes on) assaulted an ex-police officer and tried to tear a man’s face off with his teeth.

A naked man possessing what authorities described as superhuman-like strength died Tuesday night after he assaulted a retired police officer, bit another man on the face and was then shot during a confrontation with deputies near Delray Beach, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

It was not immediately clear whether the man died from gunshot wounds or from a medical condition, Bradshaw said. Neither the names of the deceased man nor the assault victims were released late Tuesday.

The scene unfolded at about 8:30 p.m. on South Military Trail, north of Lake Ida Road and near The Colony at Delray Beach community. The man, who was not wearing any clothing, was walking north on Military Trail when, for reasons unknown, he assaulted a 66-year-old retired New York City police officer, Bradshaw said.

Ron Poppo was a homeless man who didn't bother the suspect. All of a sudden the attacker rips and eat a portion of his face. This is the horrible after effects of this incident. 

The retired officer was rushed to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries. The naked man, described as being about 6-foot-3, 250 pounds, then continued north on Military toward the entrance to the Colony where began chasing a man and the man’s 10-year-old son. At some point, the man began fighting with an 18-year-old man and he started biting the 18-year-old on the face, Bradshaw said.

The 18-year-old attempted to defend himself with a box cutter knife. The teen sustained serious injuries during the fight and was taken to Delray Medical. Deputies arriving on the scene tried to calm the attacker, Bradshaw said. Deputies attempted to subdue the man with a Taser, but were unsuccessful.

“He’s obviously delirious on something,” Bradshaw said. “He is a huge guy. He takes a fighting stance.

They’re trying to get him on the ground. He starts charging them. The Taser did not affect him.”

At that point, a sheriff’s sergeant fired three shots, one to the torso and two the lower part of the man’s body. The man was rushed to Delray Medical Center where he died.

“We don’t know right now if he’s expired from the gunshots, or if he’s expired because of obviously he’s on some type of drugs that have made him act like this,” Bradshaw said. “There’s no way to know if those are the shots that actually killed him, or if he’s died from what they called exited delirium. He’s obviously on some type of narcotics to make him act like this.”

The scene of the crime where a 6'3" man attacked a former NYPD police officer ripping his face.

Late Tuesday, several sheriff’s patrol cars and incident command units lined a stretch of Military Trail near the entrance to the Colony. Colony resident Eddie Mady said he and his wife were out walking their dog Tuesday when they heard the gunfire.

“My wife thought it was fireworks,” Mady said. “Sometimes in the next door development some kids shoot off fireworks. But I knew it came from this direction and it didn’t sound like fireworks so I immediately grabbed my wife and our dog and said ‘Time to go back inside.”

Word of the shooting quickly spread through the neighborhood, Mady said.

“You never think something like this is going to happen where you live,” he said. “It’s a scary thing, but you never know. It can happen anywhere, anytime. Thankfully the police got him before he got into our development.”

Dog Fight!

The rapper and the acquitted.

Washed up rapper DMX and America's most despised man are going to get into the ring.

The former Ruff Ryder was given an opportunity to take on the guy who shot and killed an unarmed teenager and managed to beat a murder charge. It's going to be a celebrity boxing match.

It seems like this is for charity. A troubled rapper who has a perennial habit of being in the iron college and an asshole who managed to scrape a visit in the iron college.

Trayvon Martin's parents kept a relatively low profile. Unfortunately, George Zimmerman and his family continue to be in the news for all the wrong reasons.

It's unfortunate that he managed to beat a second degree murder charge and still lands his stupid ass in the news.

This is a joke and a travesty of humanity. I don't understand why DMX, The Game and others want to waste their time with this pathetic man?

I don't understand why Zimmerman is profiting off the murder?

Shouldn't he find some rock that he should crawl his ass back under?

DMX, The Game, Sean Hannity (aka That Guy Who Helped Obama Win) and Zimmerman are bipolar.

Mediaite has obtained the CNN interview between turdporter Brooke Baldwin and courtroom agitator Nancy Grace.

Grace a harsh critic of Zimmerman said that this event is "blood money".

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Greedy Kings!

Dexter (right), Bernice (center) and Martin Luther King III (left) are feuding with one another over their father's memorable items. Some include his bible and Nobel Peace Prize. The three surviving members of the King Estate have distanced themselves from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

As you know that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is loved a cherished by millions here and abroad.

He was the pioneer of the American Civil Rights Movement. He fought for equal rights for all Americans.

The modern day conservatives truly believe that King was an inspiration for their loathing of President Barack Obama. They would tarnish his legacy by making outrageous claims about his life, his family and of course his beliefs.

For one thing, King was called a "COMMUNIST" by the racist right. Republicans weren't on board for passing a national holiday recognizing the slain civil rights leader.

For him winning a Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, conservatives would have slander him as a NIGGER who got all this attention for being a meddler. Conservatives believe that King didn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. The very same stuff conservatives done to President Barack Obama when he won the award in 2009.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

Now let's fast forward to 2014,  50 years since the March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Corretta Scott's children are squabbling over the royalties.

CNN reports the children of Martin Luther King Jr. are back at loggerheads -- this time over his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize.

The estate of the civil rights icon filed a complaint in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Friday to force Bernice King, his daughter, to turn over the items.

King's heirs agreed in 1995 to give up their inheritance to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Inc., the complaint reads.


Bernice King has "repeatedly acknowledged and conceded the validity" of the agreement, but has "secreted and sequestered" the items in question, it says.

Specifically, the estate -- which is controlled by Dexter King and Martin Luther King III -- wants his 1964
Nobel Peace Prize and his traveling Bible, which was used by President Barack Obama when he was sworn in for his second term.

Bernice King says her brothers just want the items to sell them.

"Our Father MUST be turning in his grave," she said in a Tuesday statement.

"While I love my brothers dearly, this latest decision by them is extremely troubling. Not only am I appalled and utterly ashamed, I am frankly disappointed that they would even entertain the thought of selling these precious items. It reveals a desperation beyond comprehension."

The complaint does not mention the possibility of a sale, and attempts to contact the King brothers, through the estate, Tuesday were unsuccessful.

This is not the first time the family has been at odds over King's legacy. Over the years, the siblings have sued and counter-sued one another.

Bernice King and Martin Luther King III sued Dexter King in 2008, accusing him of converting "substantial funds from the estate's financial account at Bank of America" for his own use. They later agreed to a settlement and avoided a public trial.

"My brothers' decision to sue me is drastic and grieves me greatly. I have absolutely no desire to be in court or to fight yet another public battle," Bernice King said in her statement Tuesday.

"Nevertheless, some actions are sacrilegious and some things are not for sale."

Spare A Half-A-Dollar For A Worthless Brotha!

Tabloid television program Inside Edition grabs an interview with President Barack Obama's half brother.


The half-brother will write a book detailing the strained relationship with his famous family member. Of course, the racist right media will rekindle the birther issue. Since the racist right hates Obama and all things about him, they'll retry the "he's not American" or "secret Muslim" nonsense.

About 40% of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama is "likely American".

About 30% of Republicans believe that President Barack Obama is a "Muslim".

About most Republicans believe that the president's policies are "destroying America!"

Anything that relates to the president's extended family will drive the racist right nuts!

Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is the son of Ruth Baker and Barack Obama, Sr.


Author of a memoir published in 2013, he runs an Internet company called WorldNexus that advises Chinese corporations how best to reach international customers. Mark graduated from Brown University, studied physics at Stanford University, received an MBA from Emory University, and has lived in Shenzhen, China, since 2002.

Barack Obama, Sr. fathered eight children with four women.

Through his mother, he is Jewish. Ndesandjo is married to Liu Xuehua (also spelled Liu Zue Hua in some reports), a Chinese woman from Henan Province. He is an accomplished pianist.

In 2009, he published a semi-autobiographical novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East.

He has also stated that he planned to write a proper autobiography which would go into more detail about his relationship with Barack Obama.

President Obama’s half-brother told an Israeli newspaper that when he first met Barack, he was struck by his sibling’s rejection of Western culture.

“I remember that my impression at the first meeting was that Barack thought that I was too white, and I thought that he was too black,” Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo told Maariv. “He was an American citizen on a journey in search of his African roots, while I was a resident of Kenya seeking to find his white roots.”

“I remember that when I spoke with him about the heroes of Western culture he rolled his eyes impatiently. My feeling was that, here is an American who in many ways is trying to be a local Kenyan youth. This is something I tried to flee my entire life,” Ndesandjo said of the brothers’ first meeting in Kenya, which Obama described in his 1995 best-selling memoir, “Dreams From My Father.”

In his memoir, Obama also described the first meeting with his brother: “I don’t feel much of an attachment [to Kenya]. Just another poor African country,” Obama quoted Ndesandjo saying. He went on to say, “You think that somehow I’m cut off from my roots … Well, you’re right.”

As reported on The Blaze last month, Ndesandjo has said he wants to “set the record straight” about some of the details presented in Obama’s memoir.

Capitalizing off the fame, Ndesandjo writes about his strained relationship with President Barack Obama.

The siblings have met since that first meeting in Kenya, including in 2007 before then-candidate Obama’s debate with rival Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“I came to visit him in Texas, and it was one of the happiest moments of my life. He entered the room where I was waiting for him, looked at me and said, ‘Mark, what happened to your afro?’ And I asked: ‘What happened to your afro?’ He said: ‘I cut my hair.’ It was a real moment, very natural, as if for a moment we returned to being two brothers,” Ndesandjo recounted.

Ndesandjo described his relationship with the president as “loaded” and “passionate.”

“There were very good conversations or very loaded,” he said in the interview, which was published Thursday.

The siblings share the same Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr., but had different white American mothers.

“A few months ago I asked him to contact his relatives in Kenya. I told him that even one phone call would propel them to the sky with such happiness, but he didn’t like what I asked, and that moment broke off the connection with me,” Ndesandjo said.

Note that in Hebrew – the language in which the interview was published – the same word is used for “connection” and “relationship” so it’s unclear if Ndesandjo meant that his brother Barack cut off the telephone conversation or their relationship.

President Barack Obama is more closer to his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, his biological sister from his mother Ann Durham.

“He can be sensitive, aggressive or very stoical. That’s a side of his personality that many people do not know,” Ndesandjo said of Barack Obama. “Barack and I have a lot in common. Both of us have advantages and disadvantages, and some of them come from our father.”

The president’s half-brother described their relationship with their parents and with each other.

He called their father “a boundary-breaking man and to a large extent rebellious. He was a man of great passion and intellect, who attracted many people.”

Barack Obama, Sr. with little Barack.

Asked what he has in common genetically with Barack, Ndesandjo said, “I think that the common link between us comes not from [our] shared father, rather more from our mothers. Both of us had strong mothers, women who took great risks to raise their children and to protect them. Barack and I love our mothers to no end, because they defended us and protected us.”

“I thought it was amazing how much he resembles me,” Ndesandjo said of their first meeting. “And yet, we were like two Siamese twins who looked in the direction of the other, and we were unable to see each other.”

Ndesandjo today is a businessman and musician who lives in China. He published an autobiographical novel several years ago which described an abusive Kenyan father.

He also runs the Mark Obama Ndesanjo Foundation which promotes cultural exchanges between Asia, Africa and the U.S. and provides instruments and music teachers to needy children in China.

When his parents divorced, Ndesandjo moved to the U.S. where he studied physics at Brown University and Stanford and earned an MBA from Emory University.

Ndesandjo told Maariv he considers himself a member of the Jewish people: “I am a Jew not only because I have a Jewish mother but first and foremost because there exists in me great pride to be a part of the Jewish people. I feel great belonging to Jewish heritage, to Jewish culture, and to the Jewish philosophers.”

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