Cantor: I Was Blindsided By The Tea Party!

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

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

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

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

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

Did you know that Cantor is married to a liberal?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Casey Kasem Passes Away!

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

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

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

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

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

Kasem's wife Jean is a certified nutjob.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This piece managed to rile up the conservatives.

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

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

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

Read Ta-Nehisi Coates piece and be inspired.

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

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

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

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

Understand this: RAPE IS RAPE!

There's nothing funny about it.

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

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

This came off the Newser website.



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

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

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

Animal farm!

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

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

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

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

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

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

One more won't hurt, says the insurgents.

It's almost over!

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

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

The audience chuckled.

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

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

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

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

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

MISSISSIPPI IS CONSIDERED SAFE REPUBLICAN. 

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

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

KFC: Take That Little Girl Out Of Our Establishment!

Victoria Wilcher was a victim of a dog attack. She suffers even more horrors as she goes with her family to one of America's fast food giants.

The fast food giant is doing damage control after one of its restaurants chased off a young child. The restaurant employees were so rude to a mother and her child, this managed to bring up a major controversy.

Victoria Wilcher is a toddler who was severely injured by a pitbull. She suffered a broken jaw, the loss of her right eye and permanent facial scars.

The 3-year old and her mother were eating at Jackson, MS area KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).

Apparently the manager and some employees told the mother and child to leave cause her injures were scaring the customers.

Now the mother went to the junk food media to shame these employees out of the restaurants.

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports that Victoria's Victories page page follows the medical updates for Victoria Wilcher.

The girl's photo shows Victoria bearing the facial scars of an April pit bull attack, and an eyepatch with a cartoon girl's face.

Some KFC locations closed in America. 

KFC spokesman Rick Maynard said by email, "KFC launched an investigation as soon as we were made aware of this report. We take this very seriously, as we have zero tolerance for any kind of hurtful or disrespectful actions toward our guests. Our investigation is ongoing, but we will make things right for this beautiful little girl and her family, and will work with the franchisee to take appropriate action at the restaurant."

And KFC @kfc tweeted this reply to a Clarion-Ledger staffer, "We are working hard to make this right for the family. We do not tolerate the behavior that happened in our restaurant."

On the Facebook thread earlier KFC posted, "KFC Please accept our sincere apologies while we try to investigate this incident," asked for more details and said the company has zero tolerance for any kind of disrespectful behavior by team members. "Once we have further details, we will immediately investigate this and take action, and we wish nothing but the best for Victoria in her recovery."

A Facebook status report say Victoria suffered a broken upper and lower jaw, broken nose, cheek bones and right eye socket and lost her right eye from the attack. Her bottom jaw has been reconstructed and additional surgeries await. The family is struggling financially; the Facebook report asks for prayers and support.

In the attack in Simpson County, the child had been dragged from her grandfather's mobile home by three pit bulls and had bite marks all over her body. The dogs were put down immediately.

The thread has been shared by about 900 readers, prompting many to respond with support of the girl or outrage at the restaurant. The thread said the incident happened at a KFC on State Street, but there isn't currently a Jackson KFC with that address. One on Meadowbrook is close to State Street.

"Beautiful little girl. She is welcome to dine at my table anytime," Leslie Reeves posted on the thread.

Janet Way Walker posted, "This is beyond cruel."

In the lastest posting Victoria's Victories says KFC has reached out for more information thanks to the overwhelming support for Victoria.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish Victoria a speedy recovery.

She is a beautiful toddler. Hope this situation will be resolved. No person regardless of race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, disability. political or economic standing should be discriminated.

20 Years Ago: The OJ Simpson Murder Case!

The "Trial of The Century". 20 years ago marks the OJ Simpson murder trial.

Man it's been that long!

I remember I was in the my high school classroom back in the Spring of 1994 when the OJ Simpson trial was going on.

Everyone was glued to the public courtroom trial of Orenthal James Simpson. He was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Goldman.

This trial was so polarizing and divided people among racial lines. Simpson was found not guilty in the murder but liable for their deaths. For about nearly 12 years, OJ Simpson was a free man. But his misfortunes came to court yet again when he was accused of robbing a group of men in Las Vegas.

He was sentenced to 9 to 33 years in the iron college. He is currently working on a new trial.

Many Americans believe that Simpson got away with murder. Many Black people were happy about the decision.

Did you happen to see the infamous white Ford Bronco chase on a Friday night in June of 1994?

The Bronco permanently entered American popular culture on June 17, 1994, when a white 1992 model owned and driven by Al Cowlings with O. J. Simpson, who was wanted for the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, attempted to elude the Los Angeles Police Department in a low-speed chase.

I bet that over millions of people were glued to their televisions with some jumping in the street cheering him on. It would be one of the most memorable moments in my young life.

Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman both were murdered by a butcher knife.

Watching a former football star and part time actor flee the Los Angeles Police with a gun to his head.

The O. J. Simpson murder case (officially the People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson) was a criminal trial held at the Superior Court in Los Angeles County, California, that spanned from the jury being sworn in on November 2, 1994, to opening statements on January 24, 1995, to a verdict on October 3, 1995.

The former professional football star and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder after the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a waiter, Ronald Lyle Goldman, in June 1994. The case has been described as the most publicized criminal trial in American history.

Simpson was acquitted after a trial that lasted more than eight months.

Simpson hired a high-profile defense team, initially led by Robert Shapiro and subsequently led by Johnnie Cochran, and which also included: F. Lee Bailey, Alan Dershowitz, Robert Kardashian, Gerald Uelmen (the dean of law at Santa Clara University), Robert Blasier, and Carl E. Douglas, with two more attorneys specializing in DNA evidence: Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. Los Angeles County believed it had a solid prosecution case, but Cochran was able to persuade the jurors that there was reasonable doubt about the DNA evidence (a relatively new form of evidence in trials at the time)– including that the blood-sample evidence had allegedly been mishandled by lab scientists and technicians – and about the circumstances surrounding other exhibits.

Cochran and the defense team also alleged other misconduct by the Los Angeles Police Department. Simpson's celebrity and the lengthy televised trial riveted national attention on the so-called "Trial of the Century". By the end of the criminal trial, national surveys showed dramatic differences in the assessment of Simpson's guilt between most black and white Americans.

Later, both the Brown and Goldman families sued Simpson for damages in a civil trial that came to a total of $40 million. On February 6, 1997, a jury unanimously found there was a preponderance of evidence to hold Simpson liable for damages in the wrongful death of Goldman and battery of Brown.

The Los Angeles court upheld a renewal of the civil judgment against him.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the families of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.



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