Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Sex Symbol Angelina Jolie Reveals Bombshell!
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| Those big things that keep the junk food media focused. Actress/activist Angelina Jolie makes a shocking announcement. |
The 37-year old actress and activist shocked the junk food media today with a bombshell about her health.
The international press is covering the shocking story about Jolie having her breasts removed after undergoning a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer. Jolie has a defective BRCA1 gene resulting in an increased risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. She said she decided to go public about it to encourage other women to make informed medical choices.
Jolie engaged to actor Brad Pitt is the mother of six (three by Pitt and three by international adoption).
Jolie travels frequently and is currently living in France.
In a New York Times opinion piece, Jolie explains her decision was very tough but it had to be done for sake of her children. She introduced her piece to the last years of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand. The actress was once married to Jon Voight, her estranged father.
She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.
Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average.
Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.
On April 27, I finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work.
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| Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are a power couple. |
My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a “nipple delay,” which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple.
Two weeks later I had the major surgery, where the breast tissue is removed and temporary fillers are put in place. The operation can take eight hours. You wake up with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts. It does feel like a scene out of a science-fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life.
Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful.
I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.
It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive. So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has.
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.
I acknowledge that there are many wonderful holistic doctors working on alternatives to surgery. My own regimen will be posted in due course on the Web site of the Pink Lotus Breast Center. I hope that this will be helpful to other women.
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| Actress Angelina Jolie makes a personal sacrifice. |
I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
The media lavishes the power couple dubbed Brangelina.
They also lavish in the ongoing feuds with her father Jon Voight and Jennifer Anniston as well.
Jolie divorced Billy Bob Thornton and was single for brief moment besides a few dates. On the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jolie took a liking to the chemistry on set with Pitt. The media stirred rumors they were dating while Pitt was still married to comedian/actress Jennifer Anniston.
Heavily tattooed and widely considered the world's most beautiful woman, Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011.
Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has often been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our prayers to Angelina Jolie and wish her well on her journey.
N.O. Police Wants This Guy!
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| New Orleans police search for weekend shooter. |
The NOLA is the home of Southern Hospitality.
The Bayou, the mighty Mississippi River, Cajun cooking and the jazz keeps New Orleans in the positive.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, crime, as well as police and government corruption keeps the city in the negative spotlight via the junk food media.
This weekend's shooting at a Mother's Day parade/festival in New Orleans nets a description of the alleged shooter. A 19 year old man who is being sought in the shooting of nearly two dozen innocent bystanders.
Of course, this will be another word vomit of conservative/white supremacist bile about how this could have either been Obama's son or the future Trayvon Martin. There's no talk about gun rights when its an "urban" issue. You'll hear talk about gun control for Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims.
What's the difference in mass shootings?
This one manages to be a blip compared to the Aurora movie shooting and Sandy Hook shooting.
Those shootings were in suburbs and it managed to get the low approved Congress to do something .
Of course, the National Rifle Association finds ways to train wreck legislation.
Since this is in New Orleans, a predominately Black city, it's "oh that's just a Black issue!" The city still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Many crimes that occurred in New Orleans, ring echos of conservative agitators blaming the Democratic Party and Black leaders for the rise in gun crimes.
They'll say that Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Birmingham, Cleveland, and Atlanta (mostly Black majority cities) are the faults of Black leaders like President Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very same conservative agitators will ignore the institutional racism from White flight, manufacturing drying up, urban sprawl, redlining, and discrimination within school districts. And the conservatives (in particular, those Black conservatives who live in the suburbs) continue to complain that "us Black folk" are never "awaken" to the economic turmoils in the Black community. The conservatives continue to berate "us Black folk" because of overwhelming support of the Democratic Party and the first Black president, Barack Obama.
New Orleans police and the federal authorities are searching for Akein Scott, the apparent shooter at the Mother's Day parade/festival.
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| The shooter is in the center. I already expect the white extremists blogs will parody a tragedy. |
Serpas said officers would be searching all night and into Tuesday for Scott, whom he called "no stranger to the criminal justice system." He urged the teen, who has previous arrests on firearms and drug charges, to give himself up.
"We would like to remind the community and Akein Scott that the time has come for him to turn himself in," Serpas said at a news conference outside police headquarters.
A photo of Scott hung from a podium in front of the police chief. "We know more about you than you think we know," he said.
Serpas said it was too early to say whether he was the only shooter.
The mass shooting showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city's festive image. Earlier, police announced a $10,000 reward and released the surveillance camera images, which led to several tips from the community.
"The people today chose to be on the side of the young innocent children who were shot and not on the side of a coward who shot into the crowd," Serpas said.
The superintendent said SWAT team members and U.S. marshals served a searched warrant at one location looking for Scott, but didn't locate him.
Angry residents said gun violence – which has flared at two other city celebrations this year – goes hand-in-hand with the city's other deeply rooted problems such as poverty and urban blight. The investigators tasked with solving Sunday's shooting work within an agency that's had its own troubles rebounding from years of corruption while trying to halt violent crime.
"The old people are scared to walk the streets. The children can't even play outside," Ronald Lewis, 61, said Monday as he sat on the front stoop of his house, about a half-block from the shooting site. His window sill has a hole from a bullet that hit it last year. Across the street sits a house marked by bullets he said were fired two weeks ago.
"The youngsters are doing all this," said Jones, who was away from home when the latest shooting broke out.
Video released early Monday shows a crowd gathered for a parade suddenly scattering in all directions, with some falling to the ground. They appear to be running from a man in a white T-shirt and dark pants who turns and runs out of the picture. Two children were among those wounded.
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| Panic as the shooter aims his pistol at victims. The shooter is in the middle. |
A police news release says Scott has previously been arrested for illegal carrying of a weapon, illegal possession of a stolen firearm, resisting an officer, contraband to jail, illegal carrying of a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession of heroin.
It was not immediately clear whether Scott, who was arrested this past March, had been convicted on any of those charges.
Serpas said ballistic evidence gathered at the scene was giving them "very good leads to work on."
Witness Jarrat Pytell said he was walking with friends near the parade route when the crowd suddenly began to break up.
"I saw the guy on the corner, his arm extended, firing into the crowd," said Pytell, a medical student.
"He was obviously pointing in a specific direction; he wasn't swinging the gun wildly," Pytell said.
Pytell said he tended to one woman with a severe arm fracture – he wasn't sure if it was from a bullet or a fall – and to others including an apparent shooting victim who was bleeding badly.
Three gunshot victims remained in critical condition Monday, though their wounds didn't appear to be life-threatening. Most of the wounded had been released from the hospital.
It's not the first time gunfire has shattered a festive mood in the city this year. Five people were wounded in a drive-by shooting in January after a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, and four were wounded in a shooting after an argument in the French Quarter in the days leading up to Mardi Gras. Two teens were arrested in connection with the MLK Day shootings; three men were arrested and charged in the Mardi Gras shootings.
The shootings are bloody reminders of the persistence of violence in the city, despite some recent progress.
Last week, law enforcement officials touted the indictment of 15 people in gang-related crimes, including the death of a 5-year-old girl killed by stray gunfire at a birthday party a year ago.
The city's 193 homicides in 2012 are seven fewer than the previous year, while the first three months of 2013 represented an even slower pace of killing.
On Monday night, 100 to 150 people gathered for a unity rally and peace vigil in the wake of Sunday's shootings. Some residents stood in their doorways or on their steps. At one point, trumpeter Kenneth Terry played, "O For a Closer Walk With Thee."
Robin Bevins, president of the ladies group of the Original Four Social Aid and Pleasure Club, said she and members of her organization came to the rally to show solidarity.
"This code of silence has to end," said Bevins, who's also a member of the city's Social Aid Task Force. "If we stand up and speak out, maybe this kind of thing will stop."
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu walked into the area, greeting people, shaking hands and stopping to talk with some residents before addressing the crowd.
"We came back out here as a community to stand on what we call sacred ground," Landrieu said. "We came here to reclaim this spot. This shooting doesn't reflect who we are as a community or what we're about."
Leading efforts to lower the homicide rate is a police force that's faced its own internal problems and staffing issues. At about 1,200 members, the department is 300 short of its peak level.
Serpas, who has been chief since 2010, has been working to overcome the effects of decades of scandal and community mistrust arising from what the U.S. Justice Department says has been questionable use of force and biased policing.
The site of the Sunday shooting – about 1.5 miles from the heart of the French Quarter – showcases other problems facing the city. Stubborn poverty and blight are evident in the area of middle-class and low-income homes. Like other areas hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the area has been slower to repopulate than wealthier areas. And Landrieu's stepped-up efforts to demolish or renovate blighted properties – a pre-Katrina problem made worse by the storm – remain too slow for some.
Frank Jones, 71, whose house is a few doors down from the shooting site, said the house across from him has been abandoned since Katrina. Squatters and drug dealers sometimes take shelter there, he said.
A city code inspector, who declined to be interviewed, was there Monday.
"It's too late," Jones said. "Should have fixed it from the very beginning. A lot of people are getting fed up with the system."
Kermit Gosnell Will Be Heading To The Iron College!
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| The controversial late term abortion doctor is going to the iron college for the death of premature babies. |
Expect a right wing email to spring forth with the mention of convicted abortion doctor being the reason for why President Barack Obama exists.
The verdict was released and the controversial late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell is found guilty of murder. The controversy driven into the mainstream by the ever so annoying conservative agitators claiming that a "media blackout" was instigated during courtroom hearings.
Newsflash: The last thing that the junk food media reporting on was the Boston Marathon Bombings and the release of three women held captive in a man home in Cleveland.
So what does a culture war issue such as abortion have to do with some news of tragedy?
Ever so, says conservatives!
Conservatives claim that the junk food media buried this. They believe that if the story was covered, the junk food media would take a consideration into abortion doctors and Planned Parenthood, an advocate and family assistance organization.
Today, the verdict was read to the news media. Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first degree murder. These charges carry the death penalty. The decision was read and the junk food media was barred from being inside the courtroom.
What was described as a "house of horrors" by former workers, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic was a bio-hazard. The doctor would gradually kill 37 week premature baby with no shame. The doctor would collect jars to hold the fetuses. One family claims that his treatment of low income women would result in painful memories. Even one of his pregnant patients died because of his reckless behavior.
In the age of President Barack Obama, the doctor Gosnell is going to be raked through the coals. The junk food media caters to conservative rancor from the likes of King Hippo and the Guy Who Throws Shit on The Wall. Despite there chatter, the nation is moving forward. If this last election meant something, I can tell you that it's likely going to be more defeats for the opponents of change.
This controversy has become a rally cry for both parties. The anti-abortion activists have the case to say that these doctors are killing babies. The abortion activists also have a case. They're saying that if there wasn't so many restrictions by Republican legislators and preventive healthcare, then you wouldn't see women go to this monster.
The New York Times reports Kermit Gosnell, 72, operated a clinic in West Philadelphia catering to poor women that prosecutors called a “house of horrors.”
The case turned on whether the late-term pregnancies Dr. Gosnell terminated resulted in live births. His lawyer, Jack McMahon, argued that because Dr. Gosnell injected a drug in utero to stop the heart, the deliveries were stillbirths, and movements that witnesses testified to observing — a jerked arm, a cry, swimming motions — were mere spasms.
But after deliberating 10 days, the jury found Dr. Gosnell guilty in the deaths of victims known as Baby A, Baby C and Baby D. He was found not guilty of murdering Baby E.
Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty when the trial moves into the sentencing phase next Tuesday.
While abortion rights groups argued that Dr. Gosnell operated far outside the legalities and norms of women’s health care, abortion opponents seized on the case to raise questions about the ethics of late-term abortions. Put simply, they asked why a procedure done to a living baby outside the womb is murder, but destroying a fetus of similar gestation before delivery can be legal.
“What we need to learn from the Gosnell case is that late-term abortion is infanticide,” the Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers wrote last week, after starting an online furor earlier with a column suggesting that the news media had ignored the case for ideological reasons.
Abortion rights supporters said it was opponents who politicized the trial. What abortion opponents really sought from the trial, they said, was an acceleration of restrictions at the state level to effectively end legal abortion.
“Justice was served to Kermit Gosnell today and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed,” Ilyse Hogue, president of Naral Pro-Choice America, said in a statement. “Anti-choice politicians, and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”
In recent weeks, the case was cited in Congress to support restricting abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy, and it was invoked by an anti-abortion political action committee in radio ads to attack the Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe.
Although the trial has not brought new issues or tactics to America’s long-running abortion wars, it provided an emotional jolt through five weeks of graphic testimony and an earlier grand jury report.
“This is a visual argument that no one would ever want to have,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, which works to elect women opposed to abortion. “But if we’re going to have it, let’s go ahead and have it. What are the limits? What are we as a society willing to forbear?”
She and others predicted greater support for laws banning abortions past 20 weeks, which have been adopted in several states in recent years, on the disputed theory that fetuses of that age feel pain. Dr. Gosnell was found guilty of 24 counts of performing an abortion beyond 24 weeks, the limit in Pennsylvania.
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| Racist right wing emails claim the media ignored this! |
Nonetheless, “the imagery” of later abortion “is very powerful,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion access. “In 2010 Nebraska banned abortion at 20 weeks post-fertilization,” she said. “That bill was seen as the type of bill that was going to catch fire across the country. It did.”
Dr. Gosnell was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 41-year-old patient, Karnamaya Mongar, who died of an overdose of sedatives. Among lesser charges, he was found guilty of 211 counts of not waiting 24 hours after consulting with a patient before performing an abortion.
Activists on both sides debated whether the deplorable conditions at Dr. Gosnell’s clinic — including broken equipment, bloodstained recovery chairs and an untrained staff giving anesthesia and other drugs — could be found at other clinics.
Anti-abortion groups cited the case to press for more regulations of clinics. “By pulling back the secrecy that cloaks this industry that preys on women’s misery, we have a real agenda moving forward,” said Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, which pushes for stricter clinic rules.
But abortion rights groups attacked the regulations as a backdoor route to shut clinics by requiring costly but medically unneeded upgrades, like wider hallways and bigger closets.
“What’s going on with these laws is really about the agenda of having abortion eventually made illegal again,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights in Washington, which has challenged the laws in court. “And if that were to happen, unfortunately you’d have a lot more Gosnells out there.”
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| The junk food media wasted no time trying to question the president on Kermit Gosnell. The conservative agitators are already comparing the president to the convicted doctor. |
In the witness box, clinic employees said live births occurred regularly, and they believed Dr. Gosnell’s explanation for snipping necks with surgical scissors — to “ensure fetal demise” — was accepted practice in late-term abortions. An abortion doctor who testified for the prosecution said such practice was unheard of.
One witness, Steven Massof, testifying under a plea agreement to avoid first-degree murder charges, instructed jurors to feel the backs of their own necks and said, “It’s like a beheading.”
Another former employee, Adrienne Moton, sobbed as she described the death of Baby A, aborted when his teenage mother was about 29 weeks pregnant. Ms. Moton was so upset she took a cellphone photograph of him, which was shown in court. She said Dr. Gosnell had joked that the baby was big enough to walk to a bus stop.
Ms. Moton, who also testified under a plea agreement, said she cut the neck of Baby D, who was delivered into a toilet while its mother, given a large dose of a drug to dilate the cervix, waited for Dr. Gosnell to arrive.
Another clinic worker said she followed Dr. Gosnell’s instructions and cut the neck of Baby C after it moved an arm. The doctor told her was an “involuntary movement.”
Dr. Gosnell was originally charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, but Judge Jeffrey P. Minehart of Common Pleas Court earlier threw out three other cases of infants said to have been born alive, known as Baby B, Baby F and Baby G.
Several weeks into the trial, which began March 18, anti-abortion activists and some conservative commentators accused the national news media of skipping it, a charge amplified across social media.
On April 15, President Obama’s spokesman was asked if he was following the trial. “The president is aware” of the case, said Jay Carney, the White House spokesman.
Even as reporters from national newspapers arrived in Courtroom 304 of the Criminal Justice Center, a blog war continued between abortion-rights supporters, who had written of Dr. Gosnell’s abuses from the time of his indictment, and conservatives, who continued to fault broadcast television for a “blackout.”
On Monday, there were 29 reporters in the courtroom and a row of television crews on the sidewalk.
Jon Hurdle reported from Philadelphia, and Trip Gabriel from New York.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Republicans Float Impeachment (Again)!
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| If they can impeach Obama and remove him from office, I guess Joe Biden will be the 45th President! |
Really, if this is the way to get revenge on President Barack Obama, then I realized that history repeats itself.
The conservative agitators in the junk food media are driven in agitation of the president, his allies and the media ignoring them. The junk food media has given them all the red meat issues they've wanted.
They've covered the Tea Party movement.
They've covered the Operation Fast & Furious scandal.
They've covered the BP Gulf Oil Spill.
They've covered the Republicans filibuster by Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).
They've covered Benghazi.
They've covered Kermit Gossnel.
They've covered the IRS scandal.
They've covered the potential failures of Obamacare.
What more can the junk food media do for the agitators of the conservative movement?
Let me see, how about that word.... Call for the Article of Impeachment. Anybody? Impeachment?
The Republicans are floating around the word especially after the IRS scandal. The conservative media is lit ablaze over the Internal Revenue Service "targeting" conservative organizations for scrutiny.
The low approved Congress is expressing outrage at the agency and many Republicans are pointing the finger squarely at the president.
Republican lawmakers and conservatives are demanding an apology from President Barack Obama. Hence the word "apology". This was considered a negative word among the conservatives.
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| Go ahead, I dare you! President Barack Obama promised continuous campaigning to get the Democrats back into power. |
Besides this nonsense, the Republicans are worried that Hillary Clinton may jump into the 2016 presidential race. The Republicans are slated to have another "weak field" of candidates.
Josh Green of Business Week reports that Republicans are fixing for a political showdown and they're determined to drive themselves right into a war with the president.
He wrote about a donor's meeting with celebrities. The president called upon his donors to help him push his agenda. The president noted that Loserville, Chalk E Becker, King Hippo and The Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall are primarily the reasons to why things can't get done.
Constant gridlock has ruined the image of Congress.
Obama assured voters skeptical of his ability to work with Republicans in Congress that his reelection would “break the fever” of implacable obstruction and finally persuade the GOP to submit to the will of the voters. That prediction quickly proved wrong. Instead of breaking, the fever has spiked.
Last week, with the White House struggling to contain scandals from Benghazi to IRS snooping, it culminated in a chorus of Republican calls to impeach Obama. “Of all the great coverups in history, the Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Watergate, all the rest of them,” Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma told a radio show host on Thursday, “this … is going to go down as most egregious coverup in American history.” Former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee predicted, “This president will not fill out his full term.” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham called Benghazi “Obama’s Watergate.”
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| Republicans like Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas) floating impeachment. |
The inclination of many liberals to fan the flames of impeachment has probably given oxygen to this crusade. Commentators from Jonathan Chait, a few years ago, to Michael Tomasky, just this morning, have predicted a Republican push for impeachment. And while none that I’m aware of has explicitly encouraged this push, many liberals privately view the prospect of a GOP impeachment attempt in the same way that Br’er Rabbit viewed getting tossed in the briar patch—as something that would quickly redound to their benefit, just as the impeachment of Bill Clinton ultimately hurt the GOP in the 1998 elections.
One obvious obstacle is that Democrats control the Senate. While the GOP-led House could initiate impeachment proceedings, they wouldn’t get much further. At least for now. Inhofe indicated, though, that the issue could “endure” and move forward if Republicans take back the Senate in 2014. The combination of all these factors—Republican legislators’ thirst to deliver Obama his comeuppance, pressure from the base, tacit liberal provocation—would suggest that the “fever” is likelier to go higher still than it is to subside.
Green's opinion piece shows the nation further evidence that Republicans are still having trouble trying to court minority voters. In the mind of a Black person, the way the Republicans are going at the president is like in their opinion, "racist!"
They can't understand that this overplay will be their undoing. For the first time in history, the Black voter turnout surpass the White vote. The Hispanic/Latino community supports the president 76%.
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| Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) is one of the most annoying members of the Senate. |
They may score political points with their base of extremists, but in the end, it's up to us the voter to see these clowns in the Republican Party voted out.
We can do it!
We got the power and we need to use it now!
Shooting In N.O. Injures Dozens!
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| A day of unity is ruined by a bunch of ignorant extremists. New Orleans police are searching for individuals responsible for shooting 19 people. |
Even on Mother's Day, there's violence.
New Orleans had a celebration ruined by a bunch of knuckleheads who decided to ambush the event.
Now Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of the New Orleans and the U.S. Justice Department are searching for those involved in the shooting that injured 19 people.
Unfortunately there are no days without violence in America. The United States has the most gun crimes in the world. Over 34,000 people died because of firearms this year.
Reuters reports New Orleans police on Monday released photos that they said show a suspect in the shooting at a Mother's Day parade in which 19 people, including two children, were wounded.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told reporters on Monday that investigators are making significant progress on the investigation, although no one has yet been arrested.
"I can assure whoever did this, we know a lot more about you than you think we do," Serpas said at a press conference. "And my recommendation to you is to collect yourself and turn yourself in."
The image singling out the suspect does not clearly show the face, and police, who released the photographs on YouTube (here), asked for the public's help in identifying and finding the person. A reward for information that might help find the shooter was increased from $5,000 to $10,000.
Ten men, seven women and a girl and a boy, both 10 years old, were hit when one or more people opened fire at the parade on Sunday.
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| Man in the center of the surveillance camera is the shooter. |
Investigators on Monday were still trying to figure out if there was more than one shooter and more than one weapon, Serpas said.
The photographs, taken from a surveillance video, first show crowds of people in a street, and then the crowd is seen scattering and ducking. The final image focuses on what appears to be a man in a white shirt leaving the scene on foot as other people are lying on the pavement. The image does not clearly show his face.
Two victims underwent surgery and the children were grazed but in good condition, police said. It was unclear if the victims were marching or watching the parade.
Violent crime in New Orleans ranks above the national average in FBI surveys. A poll of residents in 2010 found crime to be their greatest concern.
(Additional reporting by Corrie MacLaggan. Editing by Gary Hill and Greg McCune)
Sunday, May 12, 2013
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