Ruby Dee, RIP

RIP Ruby Dee!

Weeper Boehner: Obama "Taking A Nap" On Iraq!

Weeper John Boehner (R-OH) is complaining about early withdrawal from Iraq. A mess that he and many Republicans sent our men and women into. Now since we got out, Iraq is on the verge of civil war and the armchair warhawks are piss pouring on Obama for leaving.

If it wasn't for our gun-ho mentality, Iraq wouldn't be in the mess its in.

Our American junk food media has to always paint someone as an enemy. We went into a sovereign country on the merits of terrorism. Americans thought that the Iraqi government was harboring terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. We were to believe that Saddam Hussein was an ally of Osama bin Laden.

None of that was true. We wasted over nine years and lost over 4,350 active soldiers, hundreds of civilians, journalists and over 600,000 Iraqis. All for what? An indefinite war in the name of American execptionalism.

My co-workers were dismayed over the Beau Bergdahl situation. They believe that these "terrorists" shouldn't be freed. After spending twelve years in the Guantanamo Bay federal lock up without being criminally charged, these individuals were released for Bergdahl.

Conservatives were whining about Bergdahl being a "traitor" and "deserter". They believe that these men will return to the battlefield.

Of course, they don't see these people as individuals. They see these [people] as targets.

The insurgency spreads around Iraq.

The most annoying agitators ever to exist are King Hippo (Rush Limbaugh), O'Loofus (Bill O'Reilly), That Guy Who Helped Obama Win (Sean Hannity) and That Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall (Matt Drudge).

These individuals are enablers of anti-Muslim hate. These men are the armchair warhawks who fight in front of cameras while those who volunteered for the military fight overseas. These so-called armchair warriors and even me, bitch and bemoan about these issues while our American military risks their lives for American execptionalism.

And to make this clear, there is no "real" winners of war. There are no good guys and bad guys! Conservatives and liberals don't see the grey area. They see battle lines all in the name of partisan politics.

In a war, there are no winners, only a whole lot of dead bodies and destruction of land.

George W. Bush pointed the gun in the direction of a country that nothing to do with September 11, 2001.

This war lasted nine years and caused so much waste. President Barack Obama ended this three years ago.

Now after a few years of withdrawal, conservatives are bitching about the government collapsing and they wanted more and more time in the country.

Of course, the American junk food media does go overboard when it comes to covering international situations. I mean overseas events happen. The United States can't be the world's police officer.

We can't waste time and money trying to solve every crisis in the world.

I mean there are civil wars in Thailand, Syria, Uganda, Somalia, Ukraine, Peru, and the United States Republican Party.

Revising that page in Iraq.

The armchair warhawks are now bitching about the state of affairs in Iraq. Since withdrawal, insurgents have seize control of some of the cities in the country.

Northeastern Iraq is being taken over by an insurgency that has ties to Sunni extremists.

The Iraqi insurgency was initially a response by Iraqi groups to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The insurgency has reemerged since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011, resulting in violent conflict with the central government, as well as sectarian violence between Iraq's religious groups. Since the U.S. military's withdrawal, the level of violence has risen, as Sunni militant groups have stepped up attacks targeting the country's majority Shia population to undermine confidence in the Shia-led government and its efforts to protect people without American backup.

Armed groups inside Iraq have been increasingly galvanised by the Syrian Civil War. Many Sunni factions stand against the Assad regime, which Shia groups have moved to support, and numerous members of both sects have also crossed the border to fight in Syria.

Weeper of the House John Boehner of Ohio knows his time is up. The Republican leader has complained way too much these days. He lead the most inept and ineffective Congress, ever.

He was asked about the situation in Iraq. Never on to shy away from complaining he made a snide response.

It’s not like we haven’t seen this problem coming for over a year. And it’s not like we haven’t seen, over the last five or six months, these terrorists moving in and taking control of western Iraq, now they’ve taken control of Mosul, they’re a hundred miles from Baghdad. And what’s the president doing? Taking a nap.

The American insurgency knocked off House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and they've hailed this as this as the nail in the coffin for Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

The president has fallen into the Second Term Curse. Everything falls on his lap.

This problem is now Obama's.

What will he do to quarrel the crisis in Iraq?

Is the president a lame duck?

As I gather my thoughts on Beau Bergdahl, we here at Journal de la Reyna will keep you informed on the situation in Iraq. If details emerge, we'll keep you covered!

The Transgender Tea Party Candidate!

Lauren Scott, the chairwoman of Equality Nevada switch parties to run for Nevada state assembly. Originally a Democrat, Scott became a Republican. This could be the first transgender lawmaker. She took a picture with Vice President Joe Biden.

Nevada Republicans could elect its first transgender candidate for the state legislature. 

The Huffington Post reports that Lauren Scott is posed to be the nominee. She is the executive director of Equality Nevada, won 58 percent of the vote Tuesday in the state Assembly's 30th District.

If Scott wins in November, she could be the nation's first openly transgender state legislator, though another transgender woman, Dana Beyer, is running in Maryland's Democratic primary for a state Senate seat and so could also win that distinction.

Winning in the legislative district, which encompasses parts of Democratic-leaning Reno, could prove to be a challenge. However, Scott thinks her background -- she used to be a Democrat, registering as a Republican in 2011 -- may help her in her bid to unseat the Democratic incumbent, State Assemblyman Michael Sprinkle.

“I have always been a moderate and I am willing to work with Democrats and Republicans to find solutions to the problems facing Nevada today,” Scott said in a statement after her victory.

Scott was as an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force for nearly seven years.

According to her website, she claims that her party change started when she was disenchanted with both political parties and had originally registered as non-partisan. 

Scott agree with many issues the Democrats supports but the issues of taxation and business development, she supports Republicans.

On Thursday, Scott suggested that she'd have national support from the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, a group that works to elect LGBT candidates to office.

Now you understand that the Republican Party isn't that tolerant of the LGBT community. They happen to be the party that is trying to pass legislation that openly discriminates against transgender Americans.

This candidate will have to work hard to get her Republican friends to support her. 

Ruby Dee Passes Away!

Actress Ruby Dee passed away.

Today we lost a great cultural icon of Black cinema. The passing of Ruby Dee happened today.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Ruby Dee.

Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio in 1922 to Gladys Hightower and Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace, a cook, waiter, and porter. After her mother left the family, Dee's father remarried, to Emma Amelia Benson, a schoolteacher.

She was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist.

She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She has won Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Awards. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, among scores of others awards.

Ossie Davis was Ruby's soulmate.

She would marry blues singer Frankie Dee in the mid-1940s; the couple later divorced, but she kept his surname professionally. Three years later she her soulmate Ossie Davis. Together, Dee and Davis wrote an autobiography in which they discussed their political activism and their open marriage.

Together they had three children: son, blues musician Guy Davis, and two daughters, Nora Day and Hasna Muhammad. Dee is a breast cancer survivor of more than three decades. Dee and Davis were well-known civil rights activists.

Dee is a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dee and Davis were both personal friends of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, with Davis giving the eulogy at Malcolm X's funeral in 1965.

In November 2005 Dee was awarded - along with her late husband - the Lifetime Achievement Freedom Award, presented by the National Civil Rights Museum located in Memphis.

Dee, a long-time resident of New Rochelle, New York, was inducted into the New Rochelle Walk of Fame which honors the most notable residents from throughout the community's 325 year history.

In 2009 she received an Honorary Degree from Princeton University.

She was married to actor Ossie Davis until his death in 2005. On June 11, 2014, she died at her home in New Rochelle, New York.

Drugged And Stripped!

Beauty is the mastermind. Karina Pascucci was charged with prostitution, felonious assault and grand larceny.

The U.S. Justice Department is cracking down on human trafficking and online prostitution.

Some of the prostitutes are turning to the online world instead of the streets.

Facebook, Twitter, POF, Badoo, OkCupid, backpage, Craigslist, and eHarmony are the new way for prostitutes to meet their johns. The pimps are becoming more equipped with the internet as well.

They'll recruit young women who are often runaways and drug abusers to be their "lovers" and "best friends".

They'll play psychological games in their heads. The pimp will give them "candy" or tell them the tales of being not wanted. Usually it begins with the promise in making a little extra money either through stripping or modeling.

Some women (and transgender women) are likely to engage in drugs and practice in unsafe sex. That's gives the risk of sexuality transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

 A crew of New York City strippers scammed wealthy men by spiking their drinks with "molly" or other drugs, then driving them to strip clubs that ran up tens of thousands of dollars on their credit cards while they were too wasted to stop it, authorities said today. A banker and a real estate attorney were among four unnamed victims who lost at least $200,000.

DEA and NYPD investigators arrested four women—all described as professional strippers—earlier this week on charges including grand larceny, assault, and forgery; one of the women is expected to appear in state court in Manhattan later today following appearances yesterday by the other three, including suspected ringleader Samantha Barbash.

Samantha Barbash was arrested for grand larceny, prostitution and human trafficking.

Investigators say the women arranged to meet the men at upscale bars in New York and Long Island, dosed them, then took them to Scores in Manhattan and the RoadHouse in Queens, where they were charged for private rooms, expensive meals, drinks, and other services. The clubs paid the women for the visits, but the establishments are not facing criminal charges, authorities say.

The men reported waking up in their cars or in hotel rooms with little or no memory of the encounters. Those who tried to dispute the strip club bills allegedly received texts from the strippers threatening to go public with their transgressions.

One of the women, Karina Pascucci, and the manager, Carmine Vitolo, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in state court in Manhattan. The other three defendants, including suspected ringleader Samantha Barbash, were arraigned on Tuesday.

Barbash's attorney, Stephen Murphy, said Wednesday that his client denies the charges. Pascucci's lawyer, Patrick Parrotta, said his client is a college student with no criminal record who worked as a waitress at Scores in Manhattan but never stripped there. A lawyer for Vitolo, Murray Richman, denied charges the club manager helped set up the men.

According to Drug Enforcement Administration and New York Police Department investigators, the scheme began with the women going on "fishing" expeditions at bars in midtown Manhattan and on Long Island to lure in victims. On follow-up dates, they secretly dosed the victim's drinks with the stimulant methylone, commonly known as "molly," or the tranquilizer ketamine.

The dazed and confused victims were driven to Scores and the RoadHouse in Queens, where their credit cards were swiped and unauthorized charges recorded, some as high as $50,000. The clubs paid the women a fee, but the establishments were not facing criminal charges, authorities said.

The men reported waking up in their cars or in hotel rooms, wondering how they got there. Those who tried to dispute the strip club bills received texts from the strippers threatening to go public with their transgressions, authorities said.

"The defendants were banking on the victims being too afraid to contact the police, but as the indictment and arrests show, they made a serious miscalculation," Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said.

Last month, Scores sued Younan, saying he owed the club $135,303 for unpaid services. According to the lawsuit, the doctor disputed the charges by saying "he was drugged by plaintiff's employees and thus did not authorize the charges" — a claim the club says is contradicted by security video showing him freely showing up there on four separate occasions.

The arrests exposed how "my client was preyed upon by this ring and not responsible for charges to his credit card," Younan's attorney, Michael Weinstein, said Wednesday.

There was no immediate response to phone messages left Wednesday at Scores and the RoadHouse.

Mark Levin: Republicans Better Stop Chasing Genitalia!

Right wing extremist whines about Republicans being a bunch of pussies.

In the wake of the devastating defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, Republicans are now scrambling to be in the position.

Republicans across the country practically wrote the insurgents off.

Alas, this gadfly of history still exist!

They're celebrating this victory of political newcomer Dave Brat as the slaughter of the establishment.

Brat ran against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for the Republican nomination for Virginia's 7th congressional district and defeated Cantor by a 12-point margin.

Brat was outspent by Cantor 40 to 1.

Cantor spent over $5 million and Brat raised $200,000, but did not spend all of it.

Brat's win was a historic and stunning victory, as it was the first time a sitting House Majority Leader had lost a primary race since the creation of the position in the 19th century.

Brat ran well to Cantor's right. His campaign laid particular stress on opposing immigration reform, stating Rep. Cantor favored "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.

Cantor was a key figure and highly polarizing member. He basically was caught off guard by this defeat.

The Tea Party scalped Eric Cantor. Dave Brat will face Democrat in general election.

I mean Cantor had more money, more name recognition, had the establishment and the Tea Party backing him. The Cantor campaign threw the gauntlet at Brat and felt that it could have defeated him.

But his constituents in Virginia's Congressional District 7, Cantor didn't care too much. He felt comfortable in his state. But unfortunately the people felt that his quest to usurp Ohio lawmaker Weeper Boehner, was not what they wanted. They wanted a lawmaker who did things for the district.

I guess from the racist right comes Mark "Ratface" Levin. He's an extremely controversial talker on the AM dial and a good friend of That Guy Who Helped Obama Win.

Him along with Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham came out swing against the establishment. They were on Loserville doing a victory lap.

They were blasting the Republicans for not doing enough to defeat President Barack Obama and knee toeing to people they've deem insufficiently conservative. They want no association with the Club for Growth, no more Chamber of Commerce, no Karl Rove, no more Bob Dole and no more establishment backroom deals.

Blonde agitators Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham endorsed insurgent candidate.

Levin managed to attract attention on last night's right wing carnival. He said to That Guy Who Helped Obama Win in an epic rant:

We see the country slipping away, at least the kind of country that we want. Why is it so hard for these guys to articulate our principles? They talk about Reagan, but they're Rockefeller Republicans. And what's ironic about this is the main opponent to Reagan in 1980 was George H.W. Bush, and now it's Jeb Bush, his son, who seems to be the main opponent to conservatives who are trying to rally behind a candidate in order to take this country back. And when I say take the country back, I mean from a president who is an imperial president, who every day says he's going to act unilaterally and does across the board. We wake up in the morning,w e don't know the next outrageous thing he's going to do, and Congress acts like it has no power, it has power, it has the power of the purse, it's got the power to do other things, and it needs to do it. And they're afraid of Obama, they're afraid to take these steps, and you can see there is a growing anger among many American people, not just Republicans.

I'll tell you one other thing: You look at this election 2012 with Obama. Obama should have been beaten by a halfway decent presidential candidate in the Republican Party who could articulate the principles of the party and expose Obama's fecklessness and weakness. We didn't do it. Millions of people stayed home. And who were they? Reagan Democrats. Blue-collar Democrats. Stop chasing ethnic groups, stop chasing genitalia, talk to the American people about liberty, opportunity. Explain to them that Obama's wrong and we need to unleash the American people and the economy.



The racist right will waste no time trying to look at this upset as an example of government going out of control. They will find ways to unseat Mississippi senator Thad Cochran in the Republican primary runoff.

Brat will face Democratic nominee Jack Trammell, also a professor at Randolph–Macon College, in the November general elections.  Brat is heavily favored due to the 7th's significant Republican lean; it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+10.

Walmart Truck Driver Charged In Tracy Morgan Incident!

Kevin Roper is etched in stone as the guy who seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan.

The man who was driving the semi-truck on the New Jersey Turnpike didn't get sleep. He's been up for over 24 hours. Now he's getting rest in the county lockup. As he prepares to lose not only his job at the world's largest employer but the freedom of having a vehicle. Not to mention that he'll be forever known as the guy who injured Tracy Morgan and killed his friend fellow comedian James McNair.

He's facing vehicular homicide for the death of Jimmy Mac.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Jimmy Mac.

CNN reports that Kevin Roper, 35, is charged with vehicular homicide and assault by auto in the Saturday morning crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.

A Walmart spokeswoman issued a news release that said it was investigating the case.

"With regards to news reports that suggest Mr. Roper was working for 24 hours, it is our belief that Mr. Roper was operating within the federal hours of service regulations," Brooke Buchanan said in a written statement, referring to limits of 11 hours driving in a 14-hour period followed by 10 hours of rest.

The wreck took place about 1 a.m. Saturday when the limo bus Morgan was in was hit by a tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike, police said.

Tracy Morgan survived the accident but is still fighting for his life. His friend Jimmy Mac (aka James McNair) was killed in the accident.

Morgan was a passenger in a Mercedes Sprinter limousine involved in a 6-vehicle accident in New Jersey. Just after 1:00am EDT Saturday morning the limousine bus, carrying Morgan and six others, was traveling northbound on the New Jersey Turnpike just north of Trenton, New Jersey when it was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer operated by Walmart, causing a chain reaction crash.

The four comedians, along with Morgan's assistant and two limo company employees, had been returning from an engagement at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Delaware as part of Morgan's "Turn it Funny" comedy stand-up tour.

The crash killed Morgan's friend and collaborator, 63-year-old comedian James McNair.

Morgan was taken by helicopter to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he is reported to be in a responsive but critical condition in the intensive care unit.