Saturday, August 17, 2024

Victoria Jackson May Not Live To See A MAGA Victory!

Washed up actress Victoria Jackson has terminal cancer.

The uchelate playing former actress Victoria Jackson was a fixture during the Obama years. She was the far right entertainer who called former president Barack Obama a "dirty Muslim Communist."

Jackson voiced animated characters on Garfield and Friends and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Jackson is a conspiracy theorist, Zionist, white nationalist and blonde ditz as she described herself.

Jackson announced she has terminal cancer and is not certain that she may be able to assist former president Donald J. Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to victory.

Jackson admits she is no longer acting because she believes Hollywood silences conservative entertainers.

Roseanne Barr, Rob Schneider, Lil Pump, Kanye West, Scott Baio, Herschel Walker and James Woods are blacklisted. 

Their support for Trump isn't the reasons for the blacklisting. It is the rhetoric they spread online or in public. 

Jackson isn't sweating about Hollywood dodging her calls.

She can always rely on a David Zucker phone call.

Jackson had a brief stint on SNL in the late 1980s to early 1990s.

Jackson took to social media this week to share that she has an inoperable tumor.

“I have 34.8 months to live if I don’t get hit by a meteor, shot by a MAGA hater, get Covid again or WWIII breaks out,” the comedian and actor — who appeared on the NBC sketch show in the 1980s and early 1990s— wrote Wednesday on Instagram.

Jackson said in a video that doctors can’t operate to remove what she described as a “marble” on her windpipe, saying it would eventually “suffocate me to death.”

She added that doctors are giving her a “magic pill” containing ribociclib, a kind of cancer growth blocker, that she hopes will “shrink the marble.”

Jackson said in a video that doctors can’t operate to remove what she described as a “marble” on her windpipe, saying it would eventually “suffocate me to death.”
She added that doctors are giving her a “magic pill” containing ribociclib, a kind of cancer growth blocker, that she hopes will “shrink the marble.”

She said she looked up the pill, which she did not name, on Google before finding out that those who use it typically have under three years to live.

“I’ve had a fantastic life,” said the 65-year-old.

Jackson’s health update comes after she previously revealed a breast cancer diagnosis nearly a decade ago.

Outside of “SNL,” Jackson’s credits include films such as “Casual Sex?” and “UHF.” She’s also acted in a number of TV shows, such as Comedy Central’s “Strip Mall” and Nickelodeon’s “Romeo!”

Jackson has faced backlash for making controversial remarks over the years. She called Barack Obama an “Islamic jihadist” toward the end of his presidency, and she knocked the show “Glee” in 2011 for a scene in which two gay characters kiss.

She told Minnesota’s Star Tribune in 2022 that it became difficult to find roles in Hollywood around the time of those remarks.

“I was blacklisted,” Jackson said.

Jackson, who has two daughters and is married to former law enforcement officer Paul Wessel, said in this week’s video that she’d like to see a grandson, named Jimmy, be born in October and “would like to see my daughter Aubrey have a baby.”

South Carolina, Please Vote Nancy Mace Out! She Is Not Serious About The Job!

"The Give Zero Fucks" nonsense will backfire and Nancy Mace will be vulnerable for defeat.

Nancy Ruth Mace is a victim of sexual abuse. In what world could the two term lawmaker support a man who was found liable for sexual assault?

How the hell can a woman who ran as a practical conservative turn out to be one of the insufferable members?

Remember, former South Carolina U.S. lawmaker Joe Cunningham called her an opportunist who is willing to sell her soul for Donald J. Trump. She denied it and stated that she wants to be a voice for the constituents of the 1st Congressional District.

Now riding on this gaslighting and "I'm a victim" bullshit, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shows herself out once again. 

The three things that should cost her reelection.

1. The spray paint on the sidewalk and her blaming antifa for it. It happened in front of her Ring Doorbell Camera and no property was stolen. Mace had taken pictures of herself with spray paint and the writing of her vowels almost matched what was sprayed on the sidewalk.

2. Her staff has complained about her behavior. Staff complain about her talking too much about her sex life, revenge against her ex-fiance, her appearing to be drunk, drinking while on the job, the endless showboating and berating former staffers. 

3. Mace pretending to be dumb. She graduated from the University of Georgia and The Citadel. On Fox, she speaks like a MAGA Republican. On CNN, Newsnation and MSNBC, she tries to speak like a normal politician. It is all an act. She does it to fend off primary challenges or a strong Democratic opponent. Mace and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) were once influential members of the Republican Party. They are considered to be almost equal to the far right members Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) (by whom they've feuded with). Totally insufferable.

Months ago, she stated she will no longer appear on ABC'S This Week with George Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz. Stephanopoulos called Mace out for backing Trump even after he was found liable for sexual abuse and convicted of lying in financial records to hide an affair with Stormy Daniels. Mace even went as far to attack her former ally Nikki Haley when the former UN Ambassador and Republican presidential candidate told the junk food media that Trump's actions will turn off Republicans and in the end you will get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Mace constantly showboating. She was berating the former U.S. Secret Service director after the Trump assassination attempt. She called for jailing university presidents and professors who faced pressure to expel protesters who boycott Israel. She attack Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for silently protesting Benjamin Netanyahu at the Joint Session of Congress. She was one of eight members to vote Kevin McCarthy out of his speakership. The ex-lawmaker McCarthy vowed to oust her by any means necessary. She wore a Scarlet Letter shirt with the A on it. She was clueless wearing it because it represents protecting women's reproductive rights.

Mace is feuding with Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). Wilson, the "You Lie" guy has backed every primary challenger against Mace. The insufferable Katie Arrington and former GOP candidate for governor Catherine Timpleton were backed by Wilson. Mace is backed by AIPAC also so it was more money poured in backing her because she backs Israel more than the other two. Arrington was backed by Trump in her two failed bid. Mace was endorsed by Trump this year. 

Now she is intentionally mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris' name.

On CNN with Abby Phillips, the host, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Keith Boykin were thinking the folding chair. 

Mace repeatedly mispronounced Harris’ name and declared that she would say her name “any way that I want to.”

Dyson, a professor in African American studies at Vanderbilt University, described her remarks as “disgusting.”

Michael Eric Dyson calls out Mace for deliberately mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name.

“You know what, you know what’s disgusting to women is her disrespect of women,” Mace said. “She doesn’t know what a woman is. And 25 years ago—”

“White women don’t have the ability to tell Black women who paid the price of blood to make this country what it is to tell them they’re not real women,” Dyson said.

Mace’s ridiculous claim arrived after Dyson said the congresswoman’s “any way that I want to” remarks stemmed from “the history and legacy of white disregard for the humanity of Black people.”

“Oh, so now you’re calling me racist?” Mace said.

“I didn’t say—” Dyson replied before the two sparred on the CNN panel.

Mace doubled down on her mispronunciation of Harris’ name. Sociolinguistics professor Nicole Holliday told HuffPost last month that right-wingers are botching the vice president’s name “on purpose,” noting that it could be taken as a way to show that “you’re not really for her” politically.

Mace, who was later asked by CNN’s Abby Phillip whether Trump should stop suggesting that Harris is “not actually Black” when he questioned her racial identity last month, squirmed as she dodged the “yes or no” question.

“Well, I mean, I, I, I didn’t hear him say it, I didn’t hear what he said about her race, I’m not gonna weigh in on her race,” said Mace, who weighed in on other aspects of Harris’ identity earlier on the panel.

She later added, “Well, she’s of mixed race. She’s of mixed race.”

Phillip later said that it doesn’t “take that much courage” to say Trump’s comments were “out of bounds.”

Democratic strategist Keith Boykin then pressed Mace to “just say yes” before saying that she was in a “cult” with her leader being the former president.

“The fact that you talk to women this way is ridiculous,” Mace said.

“You just talked about a Black woman that way,” replied Boykin as Phillip attempted to wrap up the program.

“In what way? She doesn’t know what a woman is,” said Mace as she doubled down on her insult.

Michael B. Moore is the Democratic nominee for the district. He is African American and he is not getting much attention due to the Democrats not pouring money into the race.

Maybe it's time to change that. Mace is not safe. If McCarthy is vowing to get rid of her, I am certain that we can make this race more interesting if we start boasting Moore.

Lowcountry South Carolina should have fair congressional representation. Mace once again proved that racial gerrymandering keeps her in power. 

From working at a local Waffle House to now being an insufferable lawmaker who uses racial attacks against a Black woman shows how ineffective she is. 

I mean Mace represents a district where a dirty cop killed Walter Scott and a white terrorist killed nine people inside Mother Emanuel AME Church.

Friday, August 16, 2024

BeatKing Passed Away!

Houston rapper, deejay and producer BeatKing passed away. He is pictured with Drake.

Justin Riley, known nationally as BeatKing was a rapper and producer who was known for his club music and also went by the name Club Godzilla, has died at the age of 39, his manager confirmed Thursday on Instagram.

The entertainer was also a father to two daughters.

No further details have been given about how he died or where, but manager Tasha Felder said BeatKing died on Thursday.

"Today, August 15, 2024 we have lost @Clubgodzilla. BeatKing has been the best part of the club for over a decade. He has produced and worked with so many artists, that his sound will forever live," Felder wrote. "He loved his daughters @clubgodparenting, his music and his fans. We will love him forever."

BeatKing's 2020 song "Then Leave" was a viral hit on TikTok and Houston airwaves.

But as the Houston Chronicle's music critic Joey Guerra points out, he rose to fame in 2010 with his album "Kings of the Club."

His latest album "Never Leave Houston On A Sunday" was just released last month.

According to BeatKing's Facebook page, he went to Booker T. Washington High School.

BeatKing is being remembered by fans and prominent members of the music world, including Three 6 Mafia and Houston rapper and entrepreneur, Bun B, who is among the artists that have worked with him.

He had a heart attack. 

Colorado, Please Vote Lauren Boebert Out! She Ain't Serious About The Job!

Lauren Boebert is an embarrassment to Colorado.

Colorado, does this woman take the job of being a U.S. Representative seriously?

The 3rd and 4th Congressional District made a huge mistake in electing Lauren Opal Boebert. The 38 year old mother of four and grandmother of one is very insufferable.

Even after she won her primary, Boebert once again leaves the district to do what her voters complained about. They were saying she is too polarizing and not focus on the needs of her current 3rd District and possible 4th District. It too much noise and no substance.

She is spending your hard earned taxpayer money on vacations to Florida, cigarettes, tattoos, speaking engagements and Trump rallies.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are the most insufferable lawmakers in history.

There are more and several Democratic lawmakers on the list of insufferable but I just don't have the time to name them all.

Ginger Gaetz, the wife of Matt Gaetz posed a picture of Boebert in a bikini flaunting her new tattoo on the stomach to waist. Also Anna Paulina Luna was sporting off a MAGA bikini.

In the photo of Boebert posted Thursday, the congresswoman had her ink on full display as she smiled on the sand in Palm Beach. Between her black bikini top and leopard-print bottoms, a smattering of wavy black lines could be seen stretched across the entire right side of her torso.

Ginger wrote in the post: "We love confident, healthy, patriotic women like Lauren."

Users quickly began sounding off in the comments with mixed reactions to her newly exposed tattoo. One person called it "trashy" and another said it was "atrocious", while a third wrote: "LOVE her tattoo!! MAGA BEAUTIES!!"

Boebert commented: "We all love Anna Paulina Luna!"

Luna also took to social media to clap back at critics blasting her for posing in a one-piece bathing suit touting Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.

As the 2016 clip went viral, the politician told off her critics, writing on X Wednesday: "There are better (things) to do with your time than digging up modeling photos of me from almost a decade ago. The left is attempting to make this a thing yet can’t define a woman. Very low IQ behavior. Get over it."

She wrote in another post: "I'm confirming that I have indeed worn swimsuits and you can tell I am biologically a woman."

Yet another social media update read: "I have a confession to make since the TikTok Democrats are onto me – I wear bikinis to the beach and mineral sunscreen."

Boebert, who filed for divorce from her husband Jayson last year, has been the subject of her own series of controversies.

Anna Paulina Luna is an embarrassment to Florida.

In January, Jayson claimed she punched him during a confrontation, but later retracted his statement. Around the same time, Jayson was arrested for allegedly assaulting their 18-year-old son, Tyler, during a dispute over laundry. He was accused of drawing a gun as the situation escalated.

Tyler – who had his own child at 17 years old – has also made headlines for his arrest earlier this year on 22 charges. He was accused of breaking into vehicles to steal wallets and make unauthorized purchases.

Boebert also faced the fallout from being caught vaping and engaging in inappropriate behavior with a new partner during a Denver performance of Beetlejuice in September of last year.

Anyway, the 118th Congress is the least productive in modern history. It is worse than the Republicans holding the House and Senate during former president Barack Obama's second term.

President Joe Biden could easily have beaten former president Donald J. Trump. But due to the noise, he had to step down and pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Now tasked with trying to unite the Democrats, Harris and her running mate Minnesota governor Tim Walz must defeat not only Trump but the ney sayers. The protests against her are growing. The Democrats are definitely split over Israel. The ethnostate is committing a genocide and Harris is caught between a rock in a hard place. 

Biden is still committed to aiding Israel despite it nudging us closer to global war.

Harris must figure out how to unite the party and bring back the voters who vow to never support Biden (which means her and Walz).

The issues with Republicans should be crystal clear. Trump should drop out as well.

He is clearly losing his memory and physical appappearance is not looking good.

It Is Getting Really Bad!

I wonder if he noticed that frozen food will go bad if its out too long.

The Trump Campaign is about to bring back that moron Corey Lewandowski and may fire Chris Lacivita and Susan Wiles. The campaign has been sinking after the assassination attempt.

Former president Donald J. Trump was fuming over President Joe Biden stepping down from the 2024 election. Trump was confident he would be able to beat him. Now he is stuck with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump can't figure out how to go after Harris so he is resorting to attacking Biden, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee and the junk food media. He is mispronouncing her name, saying she is unintelligent and still running on this border czar nonsense.

On Thursday, Trump held another press conference at his Bedminster Golf Course in New Jersey. The former president offered grievances and more ridiculous name calling. He did not take questions nor offered an agenda or defense of his policies under his one term.

Trump was asked during a news conference whether his campaign needs more discipline as he faces a Democratic ticket newly energized since Harris replaced Biden as the party’s presidential candidate.

“As far as the personal attacks, I’m very angry at her because of what she’s done to the country. I’m very angry at her that she would weaponize the justice system against me and other people, very angry at her. I think I’m entitled to personal attacks,” Trump said at his New Jersey golf club, where he invited reporters in his quest to saddle Harris with Biden’s unpopular economic record.

“I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence and I think she’ll be a terrible president,” he added.

It was taken by CNN and Fox. The other networks held it on streaming or YouTube.

MSNBC did not cover it because they knew he would waste time and they would give him another shameless plug.

Republicans are concerned that he is not connecting. He constantly rambling about polls, crowd sizes, the border, defending Israel, the Taliban, Russia and saying the country will go to hell if Harris is elected. These Sean "Softball" Hannity-like rants are turning voters off.

Trump was suppose to talk about issues and offer solutions. For over an hour, he suckered the junk food media into another waste of time. He also is reminded he was convicted in the state of New York. Trump is asking for Judge Juan Merchan to delay his sentencing.

There is no evidence that Biden or Harris weaponized the criminal justice system to target Trump, who has pledged to retaliate with criminal investigations of Biden and his relatives if he wins.

Trump also took issue with Democrats branding him and his running mate as “weird.” Harris is “weird in her policy,” he said.

There were more embarrassing incidents involving Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH). The Republican vice presidential nominee was pictured in a men's restroom with women acting like they were urinating in a stall. It comes after another audio leak of Vance talking about women having menstruation.

Trump stuck close to his scripted economic message for more than half an hour, reading from a binder in front of him. Later, he veered into familiar stories he enjoys telling at his rallies. A day earlier, he had struggled to make a sustained case for his economic policies during a meandering speech that his campaign had billed as a major policy address.

“Kamala Harris is a radical California liberal who broke the economy, broke the border and broke the world, frankly,” Trump told reporters.

Trump was flanked by popular grocery store items, including coffee, breakfast cereals and pastries, laid out on tables as he highlighted the cost of everything from food to car insurance to housing. Posters showed the increase of prices for grocery staples.

At one point, as Trump talked about the 2020 election he lost, he noticed a box of cereal.

“I haven’t seen Cheerios in a long time,” Trump said. “I’m going to take them back to my cottage.”

As he turned to walk back inside, Trump did not respond to shouted questions about when he last went grocery shopping.

The event came one day after the Labor Department announced year-over-year inflation had reached its lowest level in more than three years in July — the latest sign that the worst price spike in four decades is fading.

But consumers are still feeling the impact of higher prices — something Trump’s campaign is banking on to motivate voters this fall.

A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans are more likely to trust Trump over Harris when it comes to handling the economy and immigration, issues he has put at the center of his case for returning to the White House.

Harris is planning her own economic policy speech Friday in North Carolina, promising to push for a federal ban on price gouging on groceries.

Trump predicted he would beat Harris by more that he would have beaten Biden by “once she’s exposed.”

“People don’t know who she is,” Trump said.

A small crowd of Trump supporters watched his news conference from the periphery, occasionally cheering him on. But without a crowd of thousands to please with red meat attacks on his enemies, Trump stuck closer to his prepared remarks.

Trump continued lobbing insults at Harris and Biden at an evening event dedicated to Jewish voters, where he was introduced by GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson to an audience that included a Holocaust survivor.

Hours before the news conference, Trump’s campaign leaders announced they were expanding his staff, bringing a number of former aides and outside advisers formally into the fold. Lewandowski, Taylor Budowich, Alex Pfeiffer, Alex Bruesewitz and Tim Murtaugh will advise the campaign’s senior leadership.

Lewandowski was Trump’s first campaign manager during his 2016 campaign. Budowich and Pfeiffer are moving over from MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC. Bruesewitz produces pro-Trump content for a large social media following. And Murtaugh was the communications director for Trump’s 2020 campaign.

Summer has been the time for shakeups in Trump’s two prior campaigns. This year’s change comes weeks after the campaign itself was transformed by Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign and endorse Harris.

Trump gave his top advisers a vote of confidence Thursday, writing on his social media platform that his management team headed by Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles is “THE BEST.”

Trump spoke to the press as he has stepped up his criticism of Harris for not holding a news conference or sitting down for interviews since Biden made way for her.

“I think I’m doing a very calm campaign,” Trump said after being asked about criticism from Republicans who want him to focus less on personal attacks.

“Some of you will say, ‘He ranted and raved,’” Trump said to journalists. “I’m a very calm person, believe it or not.”

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Elon Musk And JK Rowling Getting Sued By Olympian Imane Khelif!

Keep my name out your mouth

The power of social media has led to misinformation being spread and accusations against an Algerian female boxer being transgender. That led to weeks of conspiracy theories being tossed around by Republicans and far right agitators. 

Even the former president of the United States and 2024 Republican presidential nominee got into the foray.

Imane Khelif is suing Elon Musk and JK Rowling in French Court.

LibsofTikTok, Fox, Newsmax, Candace Owens, Jesse Watters, Sean "Softball" Hannity and former president Donald J. Trump are the most notorious agitators spreading this.

According to Variety, Musk and Rowling were named in a French lawsuit which complained about “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” after Khelif received a wave of abuse on social media due to misinformation about her gender.

Musk and Rowling were among those who accused Khelif – who was born female – of being a man after her Paris Olympics boxing match against Italian boxer Angela Carini ended in Carini’s withdrawal after just 46 seconds.

Rich bigots face a lawsuit.

Following the match, Musk endorsed a post which said “men don’t belong in women’s sports,” while Rowling tweeted, “Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.”

Variety reported that the lawsuit was filed “against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons.” This gives prosecutors the ability “to investigate against all people” who may have taken part in the “cyber harassment,” including posting “hateful messages under pseudonyms.”

Khelif’s attorney Nabil Boudi pointed to Musk and Rowling, as well as former President Donald Trump, whom he said would also “inevitably be looked into as part of the prosecution” for calling Khelif a man.

Monkeypox Is Becoming A Global Threat!

Monkeypox is deadly.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are notified that a potential pandemic is a coming. The monkeypox disease is global health emergency.

It is already here.

The World Health Organization has confirm that the spread is great and folks need to prepare for the potential airborne spread.

Here comes the Republicans and the far right dismissing it. I bet Former president Donald J. Trump already fomating about how Harris and Tim Walz are stealing the election and making up another pandemic.

I can see Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Nicole Shanahan complain about how the Democrats are scaring up votes with this potential outbreak.

The WHO declared the mpox outbreaks in Congo and elsewhere in Africa a global emergency on Wednesday, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries and a new form of the virus spreading. Few vaccine doses are available on the continent.

Earlier this week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the mpox outbreaks were a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international help to stop the virus’ spread.

“This is something that should concern us all ... The potential for further spread within Africa and beyond is very worrying,” said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

The Africa CDC previously said mpox, also known as monkeypox, has been detected in 13 countries this year, and more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo. Cases are up 160% and deaths are up 19% compared with the same period last year. So far, there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 people have died.

“We are now in a situation where (mpox) poses a risk to many more neighbors in and around central Africa,” said Salim Abdool Karim, a South African infectious diseases expert who chairs the Africa CDC emergency group. He said the new version of mpox spreading from Congo appears to have a death rate of about 3-4%.

In 2022, WHO declared mpox to be a global emergency after it spread to more than 70 countries that had not previously reported mpox, mostly affecting gay and bisexual men. In that outbreak, fewer than 1% of people died.

Michael Marks, a professor of medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said declaring these latest mpox outbreaks in Africa an emergency is warranted if that might lead to more support to contain them.

“It’s a failure of the global community that things had to get this bad to release the resources needed,” he said.

Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70% of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85% of deaths.

Jacques Alonda, an epidemiologist working in Congo with international charities, said he and other experts were particularly worried about the spread of mpox in camps for refugees in the country’s conflict-ridden east.

“The worst case I’ve seen is that of a six-week-old baby who was just two weeks old when he contracted mpox,” Alonda said, adding the baby has been in their care for a month. “He got infected because hospital overcrowding meant he and his mother were forced to share a room with someone else who had the virus, which was undiagnosed.”

The virus was controlled. Now a spread in the Republic of the Congo is happening.

Save the Children said Congo’s health system already had been “collapsing” under the strain of malnutrition, measles and cholera.

The U.N. health agency said mpox was recently identified for the first time in four East African countries: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. All of those outbreaks are linked to the one in Congo. In Ivory Coast and South Africa, health authorities have reported outbreaks of a different and less dangerous version of mpox that spread worldwide in 2022.

Earlier this year, scientists reported the emergence of a new form of the deadlier form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people, in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more easily. Mpox mostly spreads via close contact with infected people, including through sex.

Unlike in previous mpox outbreaks, where lesions were mostly seen on the chest, hands and feet, the new form causes milder symptoms and lesions on the genitals. That makes it harder to spot, meaning people might also sicken others without knowing they’re infected.

Before the 2022 outbreak, the disease had mostly been seen in sporadic outbreaks in central and West Africa when people came into close contact with infected wild animals.

Western countries during the 2022 outbreak mostly shut down the spread of mpox with the help of vaccines and treatments, but very few of those have been available in Africa.

Marks of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said that in the absence of mpox vaccines licensed in the West, officials could consider inoculating people against smallpox, a related disease. “We need a large supply of vaccine so that we can vaccinate populations most at risk,” he said, adding that would mean sex workers, children and adults living in outbreak regions.

Congo hasn’t received any of the mpox vaccines it has requested.

Congolese authorities said they have asked for 4 million doses, Cris Kacita Osako, coordinator of Congo’s Monkeypox Response Committee, told The Associated Press. Kacita Osako said those would mostly be used for children under 18.

“The United States and Japan are the two countries that positioned themselves to give vaccines to our country,” Kacita Osako said.

Dr. Dimie Ogoina, a Nigerian mpox expert who chaired WHO’s emergency committee, said there were still significant gaps in understanding how mpox is spreading in Africa. He called for stronger surveillance to track the outbreaks.

“We’re working blindly when we’re not able to test all suspected cases,” Ogoina said.

Although WHO’s emergency declaration is meant to spur donor agencies and countries into action, the global response to previous declarations has been mixed.

Dr. Boghuma Titanji, an infectious diseases expert at Emory University, said the last WHO emergency declaration for mpox “did very little to move the needle” on getting things like diagnostic tests, medicines and vaccines to Africa.

“The world has a real opportunity here to act in a decisive manner and not repeat past mistakes, (but) that will take more than an (emergency) declaration,” Titanji said.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Wally "Famous" Amos Passed Away!

Count on me.

I though he passed away five years ago in a Hawai'ian mansion where he was growing macadamian nuts. Well I guess I was sadly mistaken.

The definition of a self made Black man. 

Who says the cookie doesn't crumble?

Wally Amos, the man who is best known as Famous Amos passed away at the age of 88.

Amos was married four times, most recently to Carol Williams. He had four children: Michael Amos, Gregory Amos, Sarah Amos, and musician Shawn Amos. Amos lived in Hawaii from 1977 until 2018. He also lived in Columbia, South Carolina, where he was working on Aunt Della's Cookies as of 2018.

Amos died of complications of dementia at his home in Honolulu on August 13, 2024.

Born Wallace Amos in Tallahassee, Florida, he created a cookie so delicious, many of the greatest soul singers requested him to visit them backstage so they could get some of those Famous Amos cookies. 

Wallace enrolled at the Food Trades Vocational High School. He showed his interest in cooking at a young age. It was from his aunt Della Bryant, who would bake cookies for him, that Amos later developed his chocolate chip cookie recipe. Shortly before graduation, Amos dropped out of high school to join the United States Air Force.


He served at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1954 until 1957. He earned his high school equivalency diploma before being honorably discharged from the military.

Returning to New York City, Amos went to college to become a secretary, and after graduating, took a mailroom clerk job with the William Morris Agency. Eventually, he became the agency's first African American talent agent. He signed Simon & Garfunkel and headed the agency's rock 'n' roll department. Amos attracted clients by sending them chocolate chip cookies along with an invitation to visit him. He represented musicians such as The Temptations, Sam Cooke, and Marvin Gaye.

In 1975, a friend suggested to Amos that he set up a store to sell his cookies, and in March of that year, the first Famous Amos cookie store opened in Los Angeles, California. He started the business with the help of a $25,000 loan from Marvin Gaye and Helen Reddy. The company began to expand, and eventually, Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies could be found on supermarket shelves across the United States. He became such a known figure culturally that he appeared as himself in the Taxi episode "Latka's Cookies", in 1981. Thanks in part to the success of his cookie company, he was hired to deliver speeches. He wrote 10 books, many of which have a self-help theme, including The Cookie Never Crumbles and The Power in You.

In 1979, Amos' long-time friend and publicist John Rosica introduced him to Literacy Volunteers of America. Amos advocated literacy and helped thousands of adults learn to read. In 1987, he also hosted a television series designed to teach others how to read, entitled Learn to Read, produced by Kentucky Educational Television and WXYZ-TV.

Wally Amos opened up his first bakery in Los Angeles and it became one of the most popular establishments in Black culture.

In 1986, Amos was awarded the Entrepreneurial Excellence Award by President Ronald Reagan at the White House Conference on Small Business.

Due to financial troubles, Amos was forced to sell the Famous Amos Company, and because the name "Famous Amos" was trademarked by his former company, he had to use The Uncle Noname's Cookie Company as his new company's name. A Famous Amos distributor at the time, Lou Avignone, heard Amos on a local radio talk show and, inspired by Amos' story of his early business success with Famous Amos and his spirit, contacted Amos with the idea for starting a new business. In 1994, the two became partners and subsequently launched Uncle Noname Gourmet Muffins. The company focused on fat-free, nutritious muffins at that time. Uncle Noname became Uncle Wally's Muffin Company in 1999. The muffins are sold in more than 3,500 stores nationwide.

In 2014, an article in Fortune magazine lauded "The cookie comeback of 'Famous' Wally Amos" as Amos brought back his handmade cookies under a new name The Cookie Kahuna. These cookies were marketed in a store in Hawaii, where Amos was based. They come in the flavors original chocolate chip, chocolate chip with pecans and butterscotch with macadamia nuts.

In 2019, Amos was called "the King of cookies" by NBC affiliate KSNV-TV in Las Vegas.

In 2020, Content Media Group released a documentary on the life of Wally Amos, The Great Cookie Comeback: reBaking Wally Amos. The film was directed by Jeff MacIntyre.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Ilhan Omar Beats The Noise!

Congratulations Queen.

A good night for Minnesota.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, you two got my support (for now).

AIPAC backed Don Samuels lost his second attempt to oust progressive lawmaker Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Omar will join Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) in the 119th Congress if they win their general.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) lost their primaries to challengers who were staunchly supportive of Israel. Goode also took even more of a hit because of his support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Former president Donald J. Trump, Kevin McCarthy and AIPAC backed John McGuire. Bowman and Bush were defeated by two AIPAC backed candidates George Latimer and Wesley Bell.

Both faced well-funded challengers and millions of dollars in spending by the United Democracy Project, a super political action committee affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which appeared to sit out the Minnesota race.

Omar, a vocal critic of Israel is the first African American woman and one of three Muslim Americans to serve in Congress. Tlaib and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) are Muslim.

Omar is often vilified with the rhetoric of colonialism. She and Tlaib being outspoken have often led to members of their own party as well as Republicans to criticize them.

They claim they support terrorists and are anti-American.

It's because they aren't following the status quo of bowing to a foreign apartheid ethnostate like Israel.

Samuels had criticized Omar’s condemnation of the Israeli government’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. While Omar has also criticized Hamas for attacking Israel and taking hostages, Samuels said she’s one-sided and divisive. He also stressed public safety issues in Minneapolis, where a former police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020.

Samuels said he was “very disappointed” with his loss.

“What I was hoping is that a strong ground game and an attention to the details of folks who felt left out would trump an overwhelming superiority in dollars,” he said in an interview. “Clearly money matters a little more in politics than I had hoped.”

Omar will face Republican Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American journalist and self-described secular Muslim who calls Omar pro-Hamas.

Meanwhile, conservative populist and former NBA player Royce White defeated Navy veteran Joe Fraser in Minnesota’s primary election for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in November.

Take a seat Don.

And former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab, supported by former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and the National Republican Congressional Committee, won a contested GOP primary for Minnesota’s 2nd District seat held by Democratic Rep. Angie Craig.

His opponent, defense attorney Tayler Rahm, won the endorsement at the district convention with support from grassroots conservatives.

While Rahm announced in July that he was suspending his campaign and would instead serve as a senior adviser for Trump’s Minnesota campaign, he remained on the ballot.

Teirab will face Craig in what’s expected to be Minnesota’s most competitive House race in November.

Craig issued a statement following Teirab’s win calling him “a guy who recently moved to the district because he saw a political opportunity.”

“He’s a guy who has spent months doing anything to win the support of Washington Republicans,” Craig said. “And he’s a guy who has made it his life’s mission to take away reproductive freedoms from families and give those decisions to politicians.”

In the U.S. Senate race, White — an ally of imprisoned former Trump aide Steve Bannon and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — shocked many political observers when he defeated Fraser at the party convention for the GOP endorsement.

Ilhan had the city of Minneapolis backing her.

White’s social media comments have been denounced as misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic and profane. His legal and financial problems include unpaid child support and questionable campaign spending, including $1,200 spent at a Florida strip club after he lost his primary challenge to Omar in 2022. He argues that, as a Black man, he can broaden the party’s base by appealing to voters of color in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and others disillusioned with establishment politics.

Following his win, White said in a post on the social platform X: “Bring it on commies… The People Are Coming.”

Fraser has said White’s confrontational style and message won’t attract the moderates and independents needed for a competitive challenge against Klobuchar, who’s seeking a fourth term. He said he offers a more mainstream approach, stressing fiscal conservativism, a strong defense, world leadership and small government. Fraser has also highlighted his 26 years in the Navy, where he was an intelligence officer and served a combat tour in Iraq.

Neither had anywhere near the resources that Klobuchar has. White last reported raising $133,000, while Fraser took in $68,000. Klobuchar, meanwhile, has collected about $19 million this cycle and has more than $6 million available to spend on the general election campaign. She faced only nominal primary opposition.

Another clash between establishment and grassroots Republicans played out in western Minnesota’s 7th District. Trump-backed GOP Rep. Michelle Fischbach, considered one of the most conservative members of Congress, defeated small businessman Steve Boyd. Boyd ran to her right on a religious platform and blocked her from getting endorsement at the district convention. Boyd reported spending $170,000, while Fischbach spent over $1 million.

See Kamala Harris Ain't Calling For Trump's Emails!

Trump just keeps failing.
Flashback to July 2016 when Donald J. Trump say to the world, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

When Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee, Trump and Republicans obsessed over her emails, Benghazi, Seth Rich, Pizzagate, Jeffrey Epstein, former president Bill Clinton's affairs, her coughing, her laughing and her voice and her health.

Clinton lost to Trump and it was an earthquake. 

How the hell did she lose?

Russia.

Wikileaks obtained information from a Russian account called Gucifer 2.O. The leaks were coming from Clinton, John Podesta, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Donna Brazile's emails. It gave the impression that the Democratic National Committee intentionally denied Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his campaign for Clinton.

They amped up leftists to abandon her for Sanders and later Jill Stein in crucial swing states Pennsylvania and Michigan. Clinton avoided Wisconsin and Ohio. 

Sean "Softball" Hannity, Dick Morris, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin constantly talk about her. They sat with Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Natalya Veselnitskaya and Roger Stone planning and plotting on how they can drive Clinton's favorability down.

Kevin McCarthy even admitted that. 

Clinton to this day believe that Trump is still willing to ask for foreign help to win.

The junk food media did not release stolen information. 

The Republican presumptive nominee boldly and confidently asked for a foreign country to interfere in the U.S. elections. 

Mind you, it's not only Russia, but Israel and Iran meddling.

Trump, as a former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee now wants the junk food media to not reveal the emails that were allegedly hacked by Iran.

Iran is warning President Joe Biden and Western leaders to not interfere in the pending retaliation. Israel had once again violated international law and invaded Iran. It committed a war crime by doing an airstrike on the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Now Iran and Hamas are vowing to return the favor by going after Benjamin Netanyahu, Issac Herzog and Yoav Gallant. They are plotting cyber attacks and possible assassination attempts on the Israeli regime's leaders. They are also going to target Trump, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Roger Stone. The Iranian leaders also want to expose the Anti-Defamation League.

Kamala Harris ain't calling for Iran to release Trump's emails.

The FBI is investigating allegations that sensitive documents from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign were stolen in a cyber intrusion, as well as attempts to gain access to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, days after the Trump campaign declared it had been hacked by Iran.

The FBI released a brief statement on the Trump matter reading, “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter.”

The Trump campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim came shortly after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts to interfere in the U.S. election in 2024. The report cited an instance of an Iranian military intelligence unit in June sending “a spear-phishing email to a high-ranking official of a presidential campaign from a compromised email account of a former senior advisor.”

Two people familiar with the matter said the Biden-Harris campaign was also targeted in the suspected Iranian cyber intrusion that is under FBI investigation. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the details of the investigation.

Politico reported Saturday that it began receiving emails on July 22 from an anonymous account. The source — an AOL email account identified only as “Robert” — passed along what appeared to be a research dossier the campaign had apparently done on the Republican vice presidential nominee, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. The document was dated Feb. 23, almost five months before Trump selected Vance as his running mate.

“These documents were obtained illegally” and “intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said.

Roger Stone is a doofus.

At least three staffers in the Biden-Harris campaign were targeted with phishing emails, but investigators have uncovered no evidence the attempt was successful, one of the people said. The attempts came before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

The FBI began investigating that cyber incident in June and intelligence officials believe Iran was behind the attempts, that person said. Officials have also been in touch with tech companies in recent months about the possibility that people linked to the Trump and Biden-Harris campaigns were being targeted through email.

Harris’ campaign said in a statement, “Our campaign vigilantly monitors and protects against cyber threats, and we are not aware of any security breaches of our systems.” It declined to address whether it had identified any state-based intrusion attempts.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations, when asked about the claim of the Trump campaign, denied being involved.

However, Iran long has been suspected of running hacking campaigns targeting its enemies in the Middle East and beyond. Tehran also long has threatened to retaliate against Trump over the 2020 drone strike he ordered that killed prominent Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

In its report, Microsoft stated that “foreign malign influence concerning the 2024 US election started off slowly but has steadily picked up pace over the last six months due initially to Russian operations, but more recently from Iranian activity.”

The analysis continued: “Iranian cyber-enabled influence operations have been a consistent feature of at least the last three U.S. election cycles. Iran’s operations have been notable and distinguishable from Russian campaigns for appearing later in the election season and employing cyberattacks more geared toward election conduct than swaying voters.”

“Recent activity suggests the Iranian regime — along with the Kremlin — may be equally engaged in election 2024,” Microsoft concluded.

Election Denier Will Get Some Time In The Iron College!

I'm not going to jail, I am a white woman.

Winners and losers of 2024.

The former Grand Junction, Colorado election worker who allowed an election denialer into a secured room to steal information from Dominion Systems was found guilty.

She could face up to 20 years in the iron college for her actions.

Defiant to the end, Tina Peters strongly believe that the Dominion Systems voting machines changed votes from Donald J. Trump to Joe Biden. She was a part of the Mike Lindell Cyber Syposium and was a folk hero among the far right.

Her grift cost her not only her job but it will be a costly set of fines at most five years of the 20 in the iron college.

Peters, the Republican former county clerk and right-wing folk hero, was found guilty Monday on four of seven felony counts against her, and guilty of all three misdemeanor counts. The charges related to one of the most significant election security breaches in recent years.

Peters, who declined to testify at trial, is the former clerk and recorder of Mesa County, Colorado, which is home to Grand Junction and around 150,000 people. She became a cause célèbre for the nationwide election denial movement after she was indicted in relation to the security breach ― maintaining that the breach occurred while she was trying to investigate Dominion voting machines, and that her actions were legal.

The jury reached the verdict after about four hours of deliberation Monday. Peters was not taken into custody at the courthouse but rather instructed to report to a probation officer by noon Tuesday.

She’ll face a sentencing hearing on Oct. 3. Based on the verdict, Peters could face anywhere from 7¾ to 22½ years in prison, according to Marshall Zelinger, a reporter at KUSA-TV in Denver.

“Tina Peters willfully compromised her own election equipment trying to prove Trump’s Big Lie,” Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state, said in a statement reacting to the verdict.

“She has been found guilty of 4 felonies and 3 misdemeanors by a jury of her peers and will now face the consequences of her actions. Today’s verdict sends a clear message: we will not tolerate any effort to threaten the security of our gold standard elections. I am proud that justice for Colorado voters has been served today.”

Mike Lindell relied on Tina Peters to push his bogus conspiracy theories.

After the 2020 election, Peters secretly brought a computer analyst aligned with the election denial movement into a protected software update meeting for Dominion election machines in her county, wary of state officials erasing election information. The analyst attended the update under a disguise, using the name and access badge of a local Mesa County resident.

Digital images from the software update soon leaked online ― published by Ron Watkins, a key QAnon figure ― and state officials quickly descended upon the Mesa County elections office to investigate.

Peters was indicted in 2022, and pleaded not guilty ahead of trial to three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, two counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, and one count each of criminal impersonation, identity theft, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state. The first seven counts were felonies, the last three were misdemeanors.

Peters was found guilty Monday of all felony counts except one of the counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, criminal impersonation, and identity theft. She was found guilty of the three counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one of the counts of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.

The crux of the case against Peters was that she used the identity of Gerald “Jerry” Wood, a local resident, as cover for the computer analyst, Conan Hayes, who attended the software update, which is known as a “trusted build.” Peters, working with Hayes, a former pro surfer who co-founded the clothing brand RVCA, meant to deceive both county employees and employees from the Colorado secretary of state’s office, prosecutors argued; the office had previously denied Peters’ request to include members of the public in the trusted build.

Peters’ then-deputy in the county elections office, Belinda Knisley, also faced charges, but reached a plea deal with prosecutors, agreeing to testify against Peters in order to avoid prison time. Prosecutors alleged Peters had instructed Knisley to have security cameras turned off prior to the trusted build.

Another former Peters employee who testified against her as part of a plea deal, Sandra Brown, told the jury that Peters introduced her to a “new hire” ahead of the trusted build, but that she grew suspicious after she overheard “Jerry” talking about taking “forensic images” of voting systems in other states. Peters “lied to me,” Brown said. Both Brown and Knisley recalled Peters telling them, “I’m fucked,” after images of the software update were published online.

Despite ― or perhaps because of ― the charges against her, Peters became popular statewide among Republican Party faithful, earning the support of 61% of delegates at the Colorado GOP assembly to be the Republican nominee for secretary of state. Still, she later lost the actual statewide Republican primary ― then raised $250,000 for a recount, which confirmed the loss.

Monday, August 12, 2024

Trump Flying On The Epstein Express!

Flying in style.

So when is Sean "Softball" Hannity gonna find some way to blame Bill and Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris?

Former president Donald J. Trump and his presidential campaign confirm that the Republican nominee is using a charter jet once owned by the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump is still obsessed with rallies and President Joe Biden. Biden dropped out after Democrats pressured him after a series of blunders and his terrible debate performance.

The optics are bad.

Really bad.

The European Union had warned sexual predator Elon Musk that his X Spaces town hall must adhere to facts or face sanctions. Musk endorsed Trump after the Butler, Pennsylvania mass shooting and assassination attempt. 

The Spaces has already failed. Over 2 million complain that the platform is down. 

Allegedly Musk claimed there was a DDOS attack. It has finally got started.

As Musk prepares for his interview with Trump, the former president is dealing with damage control after a picture leaked of his running mate J.D. Vance in drag. The Republican Ohio senator has more negatives than Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee and governor of Minnesota.

Trump riding on Epstein's planes only makes the conspiracy theories about his association with the billionaire turned pedophile more convincing.

In 2019, Epstein was found dead in a federal time out in Manhattan, New York. He was awaiting trial. Five workers were terminated and two were indicted for failure. Charges were dropped but their terminations remained.

The campaign said they used the plane on an emergency basis on Saturday after "Trump Force One" was sidelined en route to a campaign rally in Montana. Officials said they did not know the replacement plane they used to go to fundraisers in Wyoming and Colorado was once owned by Epstein a long time ago.

"We had absolutely no idea," said a campaign official who discussed the airplane situation on condition of anonymity.


The plane in question was not the so-called "Lolita Express" that Epstein allegedly used to ferry young girls to a private island. That aircraft has been destroyed.

Trump and Epstein once knew each other socially, but there is no evidence that the former president was aware of Epstein's illegal activities.

The imbroglio surfaced after a social media user tracked the tail number of the airplane that Trump used Saturday.

The Washington Post revealed that Iran allegedly tried to hacked into white nationalist Roger Stone, the Trump-Vance Presidential Campaign, the Biden-Harris Presidential Campaign and the Harris-Walz Presidential Campaign.

The Iranian government warned the U.S. about its attempts to shield Israel will result in a retaliatory strike. The Iranians may have leaked out Vance's strengths and weaknesses along with Trump's concerns with North Dakota governor Doug Burgum.

Stone was informed by Microsoft and the FBI that his personal email was compromised by a “Foreign State Actor,” with the intention of utilizing the account to phish officials in the Trump campaign into opening a link that would give perpetrators access to that person’s computer, one of the sources familiar said.

The Post first reported that Stone’s account was targeted. The Trump campaign declined to comment on whose account was breached.

The FBI also briefed the Biden-Harris campaign in June about Iranian hackers targeting that campaign, one of the sources said.

Remember trumpburgum.com officially went to the Republican National Committee Winred and official Trump-Vance presidential campaign.

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