Is Republican Governor Scott Walker In Trouble?

Walker under fire for shady funds.

The controversial Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is mounted up a reasonable amount of problems during his first term as the state's governor. He was risen to prominence by the insurgency.

He faced Democratic nominee, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, in the general election, where Walker won with 52% of the vote.

Walker survived a recall challenge during his first year.

Walker introduced a controversial budget repair plan which eliminated many collective bargaining rights for most public employees and made over $1 billion in cuts to the state's biennial education budget and $500 million in cuts from the state's biennial Medicaid budget.

The budget cuts led to significant protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol and sparked an effort to recall Walker.

In a special election in June 2012, Walker again faced Tom Barrett in Wisconsin's first and only Gubernatorial recall election and defeated him for a second time, obtaining more than 53% of the vote. Walker is the first and only governor in the U.S. to date to win a gubernatorial recall election

The governor and Republican state lawmakers passing that controversial Union busting law triggered the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The Associated Press reports that newly released documents show prosecutors are alleging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was at the center of a nationwide "criminal scheme" to illegally coordinate with outside conservative groups.

The documents were filed as part of an ongoing lawsuit challenging the probe by the conservative group Wisconsin Club for Growth. They were ordered publicly released Thursday by a federal appeals court judge after prosecutors and the Wisconsin Club for Growth did not object.

One of the filings from prosecutors outlines previously unknown details about the investigation that began in 2012 as Walker was facing a recall election.

Prosecutors say Walker, his chief of staff and others who worked for him were discussing illegal coordination with a number of national groups and prominent figures, including GOP strategist Karl Rove.

Now it seems like there's political buzz around Walker. The Republicans believe that he's capable of being in the White House.

He up for reelection again and he's going to be facing a tougher challenger. I know the spineless Democrats probably lined up a candidate strong enough to beat him, right?

We'll see how this goes!

Mourning Blues!

Kingdom come.

Good readers of Journal de la Reyna, I want to announce I had a death in the family. My grandmother Lyvert has passed away.

As the family gather to for their rites and somber, we all want to know that my grandmother live a great life

It's hard and I'm soaking with emotional distress.

I can't shed tears like my mom, dad and sister. I am deeply sadden by this and will show my sorrows tonight for the passing of my grandma.

Like it hits close to home when you lose a family member. Yes, it does hurt alot.

But we'll be alright. We all know that she cared for us and loved us dearly.

Just seven months ago, my other grandmother Gladis passed peacefully away in December after my mother and sister were called on an errand run. They came to her home and saw that she had no pulse and her lips were cold.

We buried her on December 15, 2013. She passed away on December 7, two years since the death of Levi Barrett, my former best friend's youngest son.

My grandmother Levert just celebrated her birthday just a week ago. Around that time, she was in the hospital for pneumonia and it took its toll.

On behalf of me, I want to thank all of you for reading my post. I will continue to post as long as I am alive.

I will keep my grandmothers in spirit and my family a little bit closer.

I will post my thoughts about my family and the former best friends in a honest and yes truthful post.

Benghazi Suspect Tells Junk Food Media That The Anti-Islam Video Pissed Him Off!

Benghazi suspect was pissed off about the anti-Islamic movie Innocence of Muslims.

The New York Times once again helps debunk this ongoing nonsense being spread by conservatives.

They report that hmed Abu Khattala was always open about his animosity toward the United States, and even about his conviction that Muslims and Christians were locked in an intractable religious war. “There is always hostility between the religions,” he said in an interview. “That is the nature of religions.”

During the assault on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, Mr. Abu Khattala was a vivid presence. Witnesses saw him directing the swarming attackers who ultimately killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Afterward, he offered contradictory denials of his role, sometimes trying to say that he did not do it but strongly approved. He appeared to enjoy his notoriety.

Captured by military commandos and law enforcement agents early on Monday, Mr. Abu Khattala may now help address some of the persistent questions about the identity and motives of the attackers. The thriving industry of conspiracy theories, political scandals, talk show chatter and congressional hearings may now confront the man federal investigators say played the central role in the attack.

Despite extensive speculation about the possible role of Al Qaeda in directing the attack, Mr. Abu Khattala is a local, small-time Islamist militant. He has no known connections to international terrorist groups, say American officials briefed on the criminal investigation and intelligence reporting, and other Benghazi Islamists and militia leaders who have known him for many years.

In several hours of interviews since the attack, Mr. Abu Khattala was happy to profess his admiration for Osama bin Laden and other leaders of Al Qaeda. He insisted that American foreign policy alone was to blame for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But he remained a distant admirer of Mr. Bin Laden’s organization, having spent most of his adult life in and out of jail for his extremism under Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

The FBI is still seeking information in regards to those involved in the September 11, 2012 attack.

Even by the standards of Benghazi jihadists — and even among many of his friends — Mr. Abu Khattala stands out as both erratic and extremist. “Even in prison, he was always alone,” said Sheikh Mohamed Abu Sidra, an Islamist member of Parliament from Benghazi who spent several years in prison with Mr. Abu Khattala.

Although widely seen at the attack, Mr. Abu Khattala made no attempt to flee. The safest place for him may have been Benghazi, where Libya’s weak central government feared exerting its authority because of the superior power of the local Islamist militias.

Mr. Abu Khattala’s neighbors and other residents of Benghazi were apparently unaware of his capture, perhaps because they assumed he was caught up in other fighting in the city. A renegade general has been waging a local campaign against Islamist militants such as those in Ansar al-Shariah and Mr. Abu Khattala.

In interviews after the news emerged, two Benghazi residents said they had last seen Mr. Abu Khattala on Sunday. A neighbor in the el-Leithi district said he had seen Mr. Abu Khattala leaving his house alone in an Afghan-style jallabiya, with a Kalashnikov rifle slung over one shoulder and a Belgian FN rifle over the other.

“Then he walked deep into el-Leithi,” the neighbor said. “We haven’t seen him since.”

Since the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the conservatives decided to hang that rope around the neck of the president and Hillary Clinton instead of the mastermind who committed the act.

Conservatives believe that President Barack Obama was incompetent in handling this event. After all he was on the election trail and it happened to by September 11. Obviously that is a symbolic day in America.

Benghazi is a beautiful seaside city.

In 2001, we saw one of the worst attacks on American soil. The United States went to war in Afghanistan and later Iraq on the whims of the War on Terror.

The event in Benghazi was a part of multiple sparks of anger overseas. The social networks were lit ablaze when a mysterious man released a movie trailer online called the Innocence of Muslims

Over here in the United States, we became more hateful towards Muslims. Did you know there were 20 reported crimes of anti-Islamic hate in the United States?

It's driven by the angry voices of the conservative agitators who have a strong resentment towards race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, disability, political and economic standings.

Read the latest from the New York Times on the controversy.

Dayton Bus Driver "Saved" By The Bible Under Fire For Making The Whole Thing Up!

Story falling apart for the "hero" bus driver.

Well I don't like to say to the world that I've told you so, but damn it I told you so!

I wondering if that racial asshat Colin Flaherty will recant that story about Black thugs. After all he's way obsessed with this Black on White crime narrative that drove him to Loserville and far right blogs.

Earlier this year, a Greater Dayton RTA bus driver was shot three times and stabbed once by three Black assailants.

These three assailants were trying to do a gang initiation. They were hunting for polar bears. He happen to be a polar bear.

The RTA bus driver survived on the skin of his teeth. He had a bible in his pocket. After all he was shot in the chest.

Today, the news broke that Rickey Waggoner's story is "unfounded". What does that mean?

It means that fucktard lied and will likely be charged with filing a misleading police report. The former RTA bus driver's story didn't constrain with the injuries.

The Dayton Daily News reports that Dayton police said in a press conference today that the case into a RTA bus driver who said he was shot and stabbed by three assailants is being closed as unfounded, meaning the case was not found to be factual as reported by the victim.

Somehow those Black assailants managed to shoot Waggoner in the foot. This fucktard's story about Black thugs is falling apart..

In the Feb. 24 incident, RTA bus driver Rickey Wagoner told police he was shot and stabbed in the 1900 block of Lakeview Avenue, while standing outside of his electric-powered trolley bus investigating why it lost power.

Police said Wagoner’s injuries were not consistent with defensive wounds, but were consistent with hesitation wounds. Wagoner told police he heard one of the suspects tell another to kill him “if you want to be all the way in the club” and that they were there to “shoot a polar bear” — street lingo for a white person.

Wagoner told investigators he believed the shooting might have been a gang initiation. Wagoner told police three shots were fired — one struck him in the right leg and two were fired into his chest. He told police he wrestled the gun away from the shooter, but he was stabbed by another in the left arm.

Wagoner was off the bus for a total of seven minutes and 20 seconds, and surveillance cameras did not capture any audio or video for the first five minutes. The sound of several shots fired were caught on surveillance. Dayton police Chief Richard Biehl said the gunshots were in reverse order of what one would expect in the situation that Wagoner described.

Two bullets were found lodged in a book titled, ““The Message,” which is a modern translation of the Bible that was inside Wagoner’s front pocket. Biehl said it’s “not credible” that bullets were fired into the book without penetrating the torso. Several ballistic tests were conducted using the same weapon and ammunition that were used in the incident. Biehl said bullets penetrated “The Message” during ballistic testing, but when the book was placed on asphalt, bullets did not penetrate the book.

The only DNA identified at the scene was of Wagoner’s, Biehl said.

In a surveillance video from inside the bus, Wagoner can be seen getting back onto the bus and driving it down the street after gunshots were heard. In the video, Wagoner tells an RTA dispatcher he’s been shot.

Biehl noted how Wagoner was not winded in the video, which is unexpected given that he had just “fought for his life” by his own admission and ran 200 to 300 feet.

Biehl said police have worked with the RTA to determine what could have caused the bus to lose power, and the reason cannot be explained or recreated.

The FBI also launched an investigation into the incident as a potential hate crime.

Wagoner is a ten-year veteran bus driver described by RTA as having an excellent work record. RTA released a statement today saying Wagoner has been charged with violations of RTA’s Employee Standards of Performance. He will receive an opportunity to present evidence in support of his position, as would any RTA employee, according to the release.

Charges have not been filed.

David Vitter: Sure Hope Louisiana Voters Forgot About That DC Madam!

Corrupt politico runs for Republican nomination for governor. He hopes that his past will not catch up with him.

I only wish that Deborah Pelrey would have been alive to see this clown. This clown is a certified right wing nut job and yet this clown has been embraced by the likes of the conservative agitating media.

It's like no one remembers the embarrassing scandal that put him in vine.

Vance McAllister, a Republican lawmaker from Louisiana is told to bounce while this clown is told to continue with pride. McAllister was caught on tape this year kissing one of his campaign staffers. That wasn't his wife.

Now one of the Duck Dynasty family members wants to run for McAllister's seat. McAllister was shamed out. He announced he will not run for reelection after the scandal broke.

This politico is corrupt. He is a supporter of the Tea Party Movement and has ties to the Koch brothers.

This guy was supposedly a fan of diapers and sexting.

Republican Senator David Vitter has announced he's running for governor of Louisiana. He will face a fierce primary against Lieutenant Governor Jay Dardenne for the nomination. This will be a heavily watched race.

This race will be dirty. After all Vitter has got a embarrassment back in 2007.

Vitter's phone number was included in a published list of phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates, a company owned and run by Deborah Jeane Palfrey, also known as the "D.C. Madam", convicted by the U.S. government for running a prostitution service. Hustler identified the phone number and contacted Vitter's office to ask about his connection to Palfrey.

The following day, Vitter issued a written statement in which he took responsibility for his "sin" and asked for forgiveness.

After a week of self-imposed seclusion, Vitter emerged and called a news conference. Standing next to his wife, Vitter asked the public for forgiveness. Following Vitter's remarks, Wendy Vitter, his wife, spoke. Both refused to answer any questions.

While the Louisiana state Republican Party offered guarded support, national Republicans offered forgiveness. The Nation predicted that the Republican Party would be in a "forgiving mood", pointing out if Vitter did step down, then Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, a Democrat, would likely appoint a Democrat to take Vitter's place until a special election took place, thus increasing Democratic control over the Senate.

Will the state of Louisiana forgive this politico?

I am certain that he'll be dogged by conservatives and those who would love to him fail.

Of course, if he cheated on his wife once, he'll do it again!

U.S. Special Ops. Capture Benghazi Suspect And Conservatives Are Still B**ching!

The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi nets arrests.

I just about had it with these armchair pansies bemoaning President Barack Obama and former State Department secretary Hillary Clinton's handling of the 2012 attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya that led to the death of four Americans.

Make this clear, September 11, 2001 was the worst attack on American soil. It occurred during the first term of George W. Bush. If Republicans were so concerned over the handling of national security, they should have looked at Bush during the first nine months in office.

The conservative media is such a bunch of hypocrites.

They support the terrorists more than the president. I mean this capture can bring closure to the families who lost their love ones during that night on September 11, 2012.

Undated photo of Ahmed Abu Khattala.

Conservatives are so worked over the fact that President Barack Obama managed to win reelection despite holding total responsibility for the death of ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Republicans are by far the worst when it comes to national security. They claim they're more tougher on national security but yet allows extremism to continue to exist in America with letting mentally insane individuals purchase firearms.

They allow people to continue to march with degrading images of the president and openly threaten law enforcement with the "tree of liberty" nonsense.

They conspire to destroy those they deem inferior to their radical Christian beliefs.

They can't even fault the terrorists responsible for the deaths of four Americans. They rather blame the president and Clinton for this than the mastermind who was responsible for this.

The Associated Press reports this capture of the Ansar al-Sharia leader will be tried in American courts.

Republicans want this man to be placed in GITMO.

Obama administration officials said Ahmed Abu Khattala, a senior leader of the Benghazi branch of the terror group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya, will be tried in U.S. court. He was captured by U.S. forces on Sunday and is being held in an undisclosed location outside of Libya, according to the Pentagon press secretary, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said the capture makes clear that the U.S. is fulfilling its pledge to bring to justice those responsible.

"The capture of Abu Khattala is not the end of that effort but it marks an important milestone," Carney said.

Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty in more than 30 years.

Last year, the U.S. filed charges against Khattala and a number of others in a sealed complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Washington. However, until now, no one had been arrested in the attack in which a group of militants set fire to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.

The Obama administration has come under intense criticism from Republicans for being unable to apprehend those responsible for the attack.

GOP Sundays with Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

According to a U.S. official, the operation that captured Abu Khattala was planned over a long period of time and executed by U.S. special operations forces. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to disclose sensitive details by name, said the operation was conducted in conjunction with the FBI.

In the immediate aftermath of the stunning attack, political reaction formed along partisan lines that hold fast to this day.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and others said President Barack Obama had emboldened Islamic extremists by being weak against terrorism. But the public still credited Obama with the successful strike against al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden a few months earlier in Pakistan.

The accusation that took hold was a Republican charge that the White House intentionally misled voters by portraying the Benghazi assault as one of the many protests over an anti-Muslim video made in America, instead of a calculated terrorist attack under his watch.

Obama accused the Republicans of politicizing a national tragedy. He insists that the narrative about the video protests was the best information available at the time.

After 13 public hearings, the release of 25,000 pages of documents and 50 separate briefings over the past year and a half, the arguments are the same.

Of course with this capture comes the claim that he was in open light. After all he gave interviews to the junk food media.

So what?

Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zarhiri, Adam Gadahn, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samantha Lewthwaite gave interviews with the junk food media too.

bin Laden was killed in 2011 after U.S. Special Forces made a surprise attack on his home in Pakistan.

al-Awlaki was killled in 2011 after a U.S. drone fired upon his vehicle in Southeastern Yemen. It killed him and one of his oldest sons.

The other three are still active and still have access to the junk food media.

It doesn't matter where they're located if they're convicted of funding and aiding terrorism, the United States and its allies will do their best to capture these people.

They don't have to fire a gun. They get others to do their dirty work. Kind of like Republicans and Democrats who serve in Congress and not on the battlefield.

Loserville's George Will Mocks Rape!

Another stupid old White guy who thinks a rise in college rape is the fault of the victims doing reckless things.

Longtime Washington Post and Loserville contributor George Will is under fire. Once again sticking his condescending mouth in business he has no right to be in. He and that jackass Richard Cohen have dragged the Washington Post into trouble one too many times.

Will was once a contributor to ABC News. But he was given his walking papers after he refused to travel to New York for taping of the problems.

Now if this picks up steam and people start to question should the Washington Post step in?

Do you believe that its time to retire Will and Cohen?

Anyway, Will has been totally wrong on the War in Iraq, the War in Afghanistan, and now the impact of rape in our American colleges and universities.

He would write a piece saying that government is injecting campus victimization. He wrote that campus victimization at college and universities are ubiquitous (“micro-aggressions,” often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate. And academia’s progressivism has rendered it intellectually defenseless now that progressivism’s achievement, the regulatory state, has decided it is academia’s turn to be broken to government’s saddle.

He believes that campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. “sexual assault” is victimization created by government.

I've said it one too many times: RAPE IS RAPE.

There is nothing funny or entertaining about it. It's not about victimization. It's about about a violation of your trust, your health and your safety. It's something that affects women, men, children, animals and those with disabilities.

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, or below the legal age of consent.

Victims of rape can be severely traumatized; in addition to psychological harm resulting from the act, rape may cause physical injury, or have additional effects on the victim, such as acquiring of a sexually transmitted infection or becoming pregnant. Furthermore, following a rape, a victim may face violence or threats of thereof from the rapist, and, in some cultures, from the victim's own family and relatives.

There are several types of rape, generally categorized by reference to the situation in which it occurs, the sex or characteristics of the victim, and/or the sex or characteristics of the perpetrator. Different types of rape include date rape, gang rape, marital rape, incestual rape, child sexual abuse, prison rape, acquaintance rape, war rape and statutory rape.

"Victim blaming" is holding the victim of a crime to be in whole or in part responsible for the crime.

Rape is a Class 1 Felony in most states. It carries a punishment that could land you in the iron college for life.

In some countries, you could lose your life if you're convicted of rape. And yes, the American justice system has the death penalty for rape in some states.

Cantor: I Was Blindsided By The Tea Party!

Republican leader was blindsided by the Tea Party and conservative media agitators.

Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) will formally resign from his role as House Majority Leader in July. He will complete his term as lawmaker.

On that note, he and many Republicans were stunned by the epic loss. They knew that Dave Brat was outmatched by money and popularity. Somehow the gnats of conservative talk radio managed to put their focus on the race.

Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and Mark "Ratface" Levin have been flexing their political muscle in this race.

Did you know that Cantor was the only Jewish Republican serving in a majority Christian party?

Did you know that Cantor is married to a liberal?

Somehow the conservative agitators found out about it and used it against him.

Cantor goes to GOP Sundays to scream and bemoan fellow Republicans, the president and everyone who contributed to his loss.

"I don't have 'any regrets', because I remain focused on the mission that I'm about," Cantor told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."

He did say, though, that he will vote for Brat in the upcoming general election.

"I want a Republican to hold this seat, of course," he said.

Bash asked Cantor about comments by his pollster, John McLaughlin, whose surveys predicted a win for the majority leader. McLaughlin told CNN in a memo that he believes Cantor lost because thousands of Democrats voted in the Republican primary.

"I'm looking forward," Cantor said. "A lot of folks are going to be interested in that, but to me, the problems that people in this country are facing are a lot greater than any kind of setback -- political setback, personal setback -- that I've got, so I really am very focused on continuing on the mission that I've tried to be about here in Washington. It's those reform conservative solutions that actually can be applied to people's problems in the working middle class in this country and for everyone."

The majority leader said he did not think there was any one thing that led to his loss. He stands behind his statements in opposition to comprehensive immigration reform, he added, but still supports legal status for young undocumented immigrations who came to the U.S. as children. Immigration became a focus of Cantor and Brat's campaigns in the final weeks before the election.

"It did, I'm sure, aggravate people on both sides of the issue, but it is the principled position that I've taken and I believe it's the right one," he said.

Cantor is the sole Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives, and Bash asked whether his loss could be partially attributed to anti-semitism.

"I don't ever want to impute that to anybody," Cantor said.

Casey Kasem Passes Away!

Legendary DJ Casey Kasem passes away and a family feud sparks.

Famed DJ and voice actor Casey Kasem passes away today. There was a controversy brewing between members of the family.

Kasem was an American disc jockey, radio personality and actor, best known for being the host of the music radio programs American Top 40, American Top 20, and American Top 10 from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and for providing the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009.

Kasem founded the American Top 40 franchise in 1970, along with Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs, and hosted it from 1970 to 1988 and from 1998 to 2004. Between January 1989 and early 1998, he was the host of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20, and Casey's Countdown. Also beginning in 1998, Kasem hosted two adult contemporary spin-offs of American Top 40, American Top 20, and American Top 10. Kasem retired from AT20 and AT10 on July 4, 2009 and both shows ended on that day.

In addition to his radio shows, Kasem provided the voice of many commercials; had done many voices for Sesame Street; provided the character voice of Peter Cottontail in the Rankin/Bass production of Here Comes Peter Cottontail; was the voice of NBC; helped out with the annual Jerry Lewis telethon; and provided the cartoon voices of Robin in Super Friends, Mark on Battle of the Planets, and a number of characters for the Transformers cartoon series of the 1980s. In 2008, he was the voice of Out of Sight Retro Night which aired on WGN America, but was replaced by rival Rick Dees. After 40 years, Kasem retired from his role of voicing Shaggy in 2009, although he did voice Shaggy's father in the 2010 TV series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Kasem's wife Jean is a certified nutjob.

She had joint custody of Kasem and held back information about his whereabouts.

Casey Kasem had three children from a previous marriage: Kerri, Julie, and Mike Kasem.

In October 2013, Kerri Kasem said that her father was suffering from Parkinson's disease; a few months later, she said Casey Kasem had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is often difficult to differentiate from Parkinson's.

Due to his condition, he was no longer able to speak.

On October 1, 2013, Kerri Kasem, her siblings and Casey Kasem's brother protested outside Casey and Jean Kasem's home, saying Jean Kasem had been preventing contact with Casey Kasem for three months.

Six days later, Julie Kasem and her husband, Dr. Jamil Aboulhosn, filed a conservatorship petition to place Casey Kasem under their care. The court denied their petition.

On May 12, 2014, Kerri Kasem was granted conservatorship over Jean Kasem's objection.

The court also ordered an investigation into Casey Kasem's whereabouts, after Jean Kasem's attorney argued that the court had no jurisdiction because he was "no longer in the United States" but did not give further information to the court about his whereabouts.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Casey Kasem.

Conservative Outrage Over Ta-Nehisi Coates' Piece On Reparations!

Ta-Nehisi Coates sparks debate over Black Americans still being denied an opportunity to own a piece of the American Dream. He is right, Black Americans are still the most discriminated and likely most segregated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates sparked a firestorm. The American writer, journalist, and educator. Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, as well as a blogger for that publication's website (writing on culture, social issues, and politics).

Conservatives were pissed that Coates would write about "US BLACK FOLKS" getting our "40 ACRES AND A MULE". Honestly, if ever that day would come, most of us young folks would have trouble obtaining even a slight amount of dues.

I mean for how many of them "FREED BLACKS" got their property snatched up. When them "FREED BLACKS" were kidnapped and sold into slavery, it took even more years to regain their dignity and freedom.

Since the 20th Century, White America has grown more diverse. Now in the 21st Century, it's getting a whole lot Browner and those in the racist right are going down.

One by one, some are dying off. It's hard to imagine that even with the first Black president, it's still a touchy subject to even mention reparations. There's nothing worse than an opinion that riles up the racists.

In his piece featured in the Atlantic, he wrote citing an investigation by the Associated Press telling about properties owned by Blacks being snatched up. He stated that in 2001 the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period.

The series documented some 406 victims and 24,000 acres of land valued at tens of millions of dollars. The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism. “Some of the land taken from black families has become a country club in Virginia,” the AP reported, as well as “oil fields in Mississippi” and “a baseball spring training facility in Florida.”

He would add that even in Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport. “It was like people who like to go out and shoot lions in Africa. It was the same thrill,” a housing attorney told the historian Beryl Satter in her 2009 book, Family Properties. “The thrill of the chase and the kill.”

The implications are chilling. As a rule, poor black people do not work their way out of the ghetto—and those who do often face the horror of watching their children and grandchildren tumble back.

Even seeming evidence of progress withers under harsh light. In 2012, the Manhattan Institute cheerily noted that segregation had declined since the 1960s. And yet African Americans still remained—by far—the most segregated ethnic group in the country.

With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin. The resulting conflagration has been devastating.

One thread of thinking in the African American community holds that these depressing numbers partially stem from cultural pathologies that can be altered through individual grit and exceptionally good behavior. (In 2011, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, responding to violence among young black males, put the blame on the family: “Too many men making too many babies they don’t want to take care of, and then we end up dealing with your children.” Nutter turned to those presumably fatherless babies: “Pull your pants up and buy a belt, because no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt.”) The thread is as old as black politics itself. It is also wrong. The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more respectable. The essence of American racism is disrespect. And in the wake of the grim numbers, we see the grim inheritance.

This piece managed to rile up the conservatives.

Blacks are by far the most segregated in jobs, housing, and education. We still are perceived as "natural born criminals". With the turmoils facing a nearly lame duck like President Barack Obama, the conservatives are hoping to keep Blacks out of the White House.

To this day, Republicans aren't even concerned about Blacks. They wrote us off as part of the Democrat Plantation. There's no way to win us back says the strategists. Even if Stallmigo Rand Paul (R-KY) failed in his bid to win over those "BLACK FOLKS" who favor marijuana legalization.

Nonetheless Blacks can't move the needle forward. We have to do so with a spirit of unity. It's almost as hard to win support from Blacks even if you're Black.

Read Ta-Nehisi Coates piece and be inspired.

911 Operator Tells Ohio Rape Victim To Chill The F**k Out!

Dispatchers in Florida are dosing off. This is some of the most outrageous things our emergency dispatchers do whenever they're on the job.

I'm from Ohio and I didn't even hear about this situation that occurred over the past day. I mean how callous could a first respond officer be when dealing with an emergency.

In Columbus, OH, a 911 dispatcher got no punishment for disrespecting a woman who was pleading for assistance after she was sexually assaulted and robbed by a man near the Ohio State University.

Understand this: RAPE IS RAPE!

There's nothing funny about it.

Women and men are often raped by people they've known or an associated acquaintance.

Rape is a class 1 FELONY. It could carry 25 years to life in the iron college. Some states may even resort to the death penalty if the victim is younger than 13 years old.

This came off the Newser website.



“Ma’am, you’re going to have to quit crying so I can get the information from you." The victim was staying with a friend at a sorority house near Ohio State University last Sunday when she woke up with a gun to her head around 4am; the man holding it allegedly forced her to perform sex acts on him. After the alleged assault, he left with some stolen cash and an iPhone and the victim called 911, reports ABC News.

Unfortunately, she didn’t have the address, and hoped the dispatcher could figure it out by locating her phone. “No. We can’t. That’s why I need to know where you are,” the dispatcher reportedly said. The victim also didn’t know what door the attacker came in. The dispatcher’s response? “Well, they’re not going to be able to find him with the information that you’ve given.” At this point, the victim lost it, telling the dispatcher, "The kind of sympathy you have is zero.” Since the suspect was arrested—30-year-old Michael Callaghan has been charged with rape and burglary—the dispatcher’s supervisor won’t reprimand the employee, but the call will be reviewed.

Stick A Fork In Him, He's Done: Thad Cochran Says He Done Indecent Things To Animals!

Animal farm!

If all this stuff could have sink his career so long ago. Now all of sudden, here a bombshell to embattled Thad Cochran, the Mississippi senate Republican.

In the digital age, perception is key. Say if I say something that I know sounds right, but to a certain group it sounds wrong, then I would face a made up controversy. Today, I see this happening. It seems like the Chris McDaniel campaign is unleashing tape of Cochran telling a joke that may sink his career as a senator.

Knowing that he's at the verge of losing to an insurgent, he should have known that conservative agitators will do whatever it takes to destroy the establishment. Cochran is the establishment.

Cochran would reminisce about the days of being a lad. He tells the world that he once did indecent things towards animals.

Knowing that he's facing insurgent candidate Chris McDaniel in the June runoff, the Republican incumbent may have sunk chances as the potential nominee.

The racist right has already knocked off House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Republican from Virginia.

One more won't hurt, says the insurgents.

It's almost over!

Okay, here's where Cochran sunk his chances. He told an audience at a Hattiesburg hospital, “I grew up coming down here for Christmas,” he said. “My father’s family was here. My mother’s family was from rural Hinds County in Utica.”

“It was fun, it was an adventure to be out there in the country and to see what goes on,” he said of his boyhood visits to Hattiesburg. “Picking up pecans, from that to all kinds of indecent things with animals.”

The audience chuckled.

“And I know some of you know what that is,” Cochran said.

It maybe curtains for Cochran. So we'll hear our conservative media agitators continue to encourage registered Republicans to dump the chump. The chump could lose to the nut.

This is a civil war within the party. Even though Cantor and Cochran voted against the Affordable Healthcare Law, reasonable gun control and immigration reform, that's not enough for the rabid base.

That base wants to openly call the president a........well you know! They won't stoop themselves at least to that level unlike our insurgent candidates.

Travis Childers is a conservative Democrat. He was a two term U.S. Representative from the 1st District. He will face the Republican nominee in the U.S. Midterms.

MISSISSIPPI IS CONSIDERED SAFE REPUBLICAN. 

No matter who takes the nomination, surely a Republican will win. The only way this could change is the possibility of a war within the party.

Note: I call the Tea Party insurgents. So far they haven't mounted war against the United States in a coup d'etat against President Barack Obama yet.