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Oldest living African American woman died this week.

There's been plenty of supercenturians but none so than Marnie Rearden, the oldest African American woman. At age 114, she died Wednesday confirming her family.

Mamie Rearden of Edgefield, South Carolina who held the title as the country's oldest person for about two weeks, died Wednesday at a hospital in Augusta, Georgia, said Sara Rearden of Burtonsville, Maryland, and Janie Ruth Osborne of Edgefield. They said their mother broke her hip after a fall about three weeks ago.


"My mom was not president of the bank or anything, but she was very instrumental in raising a family and being a community person," said Sara Rearden, her youngest child. "Everybody can't go be president of a bank or president of a college, but we feel just as proud of her in her role as housewife and particularly as mother and homemaker."

Mamie Rearden, who was married to her husband Oacy for 59 years until his death in 1979, raised 11 children, 10 of whom survive, Sara Rearden said. She lived in the family homestead with a son and a daughter on land that had been in the family since her father's accumulation of acreage made him one of the area's largest black landowners.

Her father sent her off to earn a teaching certificate at Bettis Academy on the far side of the county, spending an entire day on a loaded wagon to reach the school along dirt roads, her daughter said. She taught for several years until becoming pregnant with her third child.

In the mid-1960s at age 65, when some settled into retirement, she learned to drive a car for the first time and started volunteering for an Edgefield County program that had her driving to the end of remote rural roads to find children whose parents were keeping them home from school, Sara Rearden said.

Mamie Rearden always counseled that her children should treat others as they wanted to be treated and that included never gossiping or speaking ill of others. When asked about a preacher's uninspiring sermon, her daughter recalled her mother saying: "`Well, it came from the Bible.' She never would bad-mouth them."

GOP Grumbles As They Finally Pass Hurricane Relief!

Congress passed Hurricane Sandy relief, finally!

This week has been very bad for Congressman John Boehner (R-Ohio). He's taken a lot of lumps from the left and yes, even the right when it came to debating important issues.

The 113th Congress appoints him again as the Speaker Of The House. This time, the weeping speaker is going to bring his A-game to President Barack Obama. Boehner and the more conservative Republicans members of the House of Representatives have fought over the past month with the fiscal cliff.

The fiscal cliff was a contentious debate. The Republicans fought tooth and nail for spending cuts. That didn't happen. President Barack Obama managed to box them in with tax cuts. The Bush tax cuts will expire for the upper end earners. And despite bipartisan passage of the fiscal cliff, Republicans were grumbling over this.

What also have Republican at odds with one another was hurricane relief. Speaker Boehner pulled the plug on the Hurricane Sandy relief causing a major rift between New York and New Jersey Republicans.

Congressman Pete King (R-New York) at first warned that if Congress fails at passing hurricane relief, he would rally local Republicans to not donate to the party.

All of this infighting was put to rest after Republicans elected John Boehner as the House Speaker. A few rogue members wanted former congressman Allen West to take the helm. Democrats rather had Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-California) as the speaker.

Republicans maintained this narrative that entitlements are out of control and their job is to prevent government dependency. 

Congress passed the relief bill today and it will be sent to President Barack Obama to be signed. The $9.7 billion package is guaranteed to aid those affected by the devastating superstorm that hit the Atlantic coast in October 2012.

The New York Times report that intense pressure from New York and New Jersey, Congress adopted legislation on Friday that would provide $9.7 billion to cover insurance claims filed by people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. 

The measure is the first, and least controversial, portion of a much larger aid package sought by the affected states to help homeowners and local governments recover costs associated with the storm. The House has pledged to take up the balance of the aid package on Jan. 15.

The House passed the insurance measure 354 to 67; it then cleared the Senate by unanimous consent. President Obama is expected to sign the measure into law.

In the House, all of the votes against the aid came from Republicans, who have objected that no cuts in other programs had been identified to pay for the measure despite the nation’s long-term deficit problem. The 67 Republicans who voted against the measure included 17 freshman lawmakers, suggesting that the new class will provide support to the sizable group of anti-spending conservatives already in the House.

Still weeping! 

Speaker John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, brought the bill to the House floor after he drew criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike for adjourning the previous Congress earlier this week without taking up a $60.4 billion aid bill that the Senate had passed to finance recovery efforts in the hurricane-battered states. Among those most critical of Mr. Boehner were several leading Republicans, including Representative Peter T. King of Long Island, who is a senior member of Congress, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who is a possible presidential contender in 2016.

The bill adopted on Friday would give the National Flood Insurance Program the authority to borrow $9.7 billion to fill claims stemming from damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and other disasters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which administers the flood insurance program, recently notified Congress that it would run out of money within the next week to cover claims filed by individuals.

“The administration is pleased that Congress has taken action to ensure that FEMA continues to have the funds to cover flood insurance claims, including over 100,000 claims from Hurricane Sandy the agency has already received,” Clark Stevens, a White House spokesman, said in a statement. “We continue to urge Congress to take up and pass the full supplemental request submitted last year to ensure affected communities have the support they need for longer term recovery.”

Congress’s action did not fully mollify lawmakers from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states struck by the storm. Some officials continued to criticize the chamber’s leadership for failing to act more quickly on the larger aid package, saying it provided the necessary financing to help the region rebuild.

“I am optimistic and worried,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York. “Optimistic because there is pressure on the House to produce. Worried because I know how difficult it is to get things through the Congress.”

Mr. Christie and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a Democrat, issued a similarly cautious statement.

“Today’s action by the House was a necessary and critical first step towards delivering aid to the people of New Jersey and New York,” they said. “While we are pleased with this progress, today was just a down payment, and it is now time to go even further and pass the final and more complete, clean disaster aid bill.”

The overall measure would provide money to help homeowners and small-business owners rebuild; to repair bridges, tunnels and transportation systems; to reimburse local governments for overtime costs of police, fire and other emergency services; and to replenish shorelines. It also would finance an assortment of longer-term projects that would help the region prepare for future storms.

Some Republicans have been critical of the size of the proposed aid package, and have suggested that it includes unnecessary spending on items that are not directly related to the hurricane, like $150 million for fisheries in Alaska and $2 million for museum roofs in Washington. Representative Frank A. LoBiondo, Republican of New Jersey, said Friday that the measure going before the House later this month would “strip out the extraneous spending directed to states not affected by the storm.”

“Today’s vote is a key step in getting critical federal assistance to the residents, businesses and communities devastated by Hurricane Sandy,” Mr. LoBiondo said in a statement. “I hope my colleagues recognize politics has no place when dealing with a disaster and that the overwhelming bipartisan support demonstrated today is present as the remaining federal aid is considered.”

In the House debate leading up to the vote on Friday, several lawmakers said it had taken too long for Congress to provide federal aid to the region and urged the speaker to make good on his pledge to bring the $51 billion aid package to the floor later this month.

“We have been waiting for 11 weeks,” said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, a Democrat from New York City. “It is long overdue.”

Al Gore Sold Out Both Ways!

Al Gore is catching flack for getting a huge payday. Current TV is being sold to Al-Jazeera Worldwide and the network will finally break into the United States with groundbreaking coverage.

Former Vice President of The United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Al Gore, once again puts himself in the news for all the wrong reasons. Today, the former vice president attracts not only outrage from the conservatives but the liberals as well.

Gore became a media mogul in the late 2000s when he and Joel Hyatt created Current TV. The network revamped its image last year with the addition of commentators who represented the progressive movement.

Well as of today, it's confirmed that Current TV was sold to Al-Jezeera, a Qatar based network that covers international news and politics in the United States. The network will revamp its image and purge itself of likely most of the staff.

Liberal agitators such as Cenk Uygur, Bill Press, David Shuster, Stephanie Miller, John Feuglsang, Joy Behar, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, were eager to jump into Current TV after the network had bumped off its former star Keith Olbermann.

Olbermann, the once mighty voice of MSNBC abruptly left the network after conflict with the network president and took an opportunity to join the Current TV staff. For at least one year, Olbermann brought his Countdown program with the same themes and unique stamina. But that all turned sour when Current fired him and they're feuding in court over a contractual agreement.

Keith Olbermann short tenure with Current TV went sour after nearly a year on the air.

Current TV staff, program hosts and cable subscribers were caught off guard by the decision.

The network prompted itself as the alternative to "MSNBC" and "Fox News". Unfortunately many cable subscribers couldn't get it on their regular lineups. Time Warner Cable, the nation's second largest cable provider has pulled the plug on Current TV after it learned that Al-Jazeera was moving in. The cable company attracted controversy for the pull and now its considering to add the news network to its lineup.

Fox News is the sworn enemy of President Barack Obama, former president Bill Clinton and Gore. The conservative news network wasted no time attacking the decision for Gore to sell his network.

Many of the commentators, one being the serial annoyance Sean Hannity were eager to attack Gore for allowing the sale of the network go forth. He went on to criticize Gore for being an advocate of the environment but he's willing to sell out for the oil rich nation of Qatar.

Bill O'Reilly was the most harshest of the commentators. Mediaite obtained the portion of The O'Reilly Factor in which the serial agitator blasted Gore for hypocrisy. O’Reilly took issue with Gore’s hypocrisy in trying to finalize the sale before the fiscal cliff deadline this past Monday night to avoid paying higher taxes, as well as doing a deal with “anti-Americans” at Al Jazeera. O’Reilly declared that Gore has “shamed himself” with the deal.

Stephanie Miller, a liberal talk host on Current TV.

Many conservatives believe that Al-Jazeera is "anti-American" for promoting terrorists videos, graphic images of victims, and hostile leaders criticizing the United States. Others consider the network very balanced in their coverage.

Al-Jazeera is by far one of the world's leading news organizations. They've covered news that most networks such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News refuse to cover. While Fox News and MSNBC rank as the nation's largest cable news companies, these networks fear Al-Jazeera approach to the news will shape the opinion of the nation. So by Al-Jazeera jumping into the fray, one could think this will shake up things.

Now liberals are kind of mad that Al Gore would hire these commentators to host programs on the network and then give them the news that their jobs may be lost after the deal.

Stephanie Miller in particular is the 10th most listened radio host in the country. Her show Talking Liberally, comes forth through The Stephanie Miller Show, a nationally syndicated morning show. Miller, a comedian and liberal agitator is one of the fixtures of the network. Her radio show competes with conservative agitators Laura Ingraham and Glenn Beck. Ingraham and Beck are ranked the 4th and 5th most listened to in the nation respectfully.

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks.

Eliot Spitzer was the former governor of New York embedded in a sex scandal. He left abruptly the governorship. He went on to host a program with Kathleen Parker on CNN. When Parker left after a few months, Spitzer took over and ran his program. With CNN's ratings down and the MSNBC and it's ratings of Rachel Madow, Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O'Donnell improving, CNN let Spitzer go. They replace his show with Anderson Cooper. Spitzer replaces Keith Olbermann after he got into it with Current TV staff.

Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan came into the limelight after a passionate speech in favor of President Barack Obama. She was granted her own program and garnered positive reviews. Now that's uncertain where she'll go but it's likely ABC News since she rose to fame after she left Lansing, Michigan.

Bill Press is the morning host who features his program out of Washington, DC. He hosted The Bill Press Show on Current TV as the Full Court Press. Press is formerly a host on CNN's Crossfire. Press has filled in for MSNBC hosts before he went on Current TV.

Cenk Ugyur is also another fixture to Current TV. He is the host of The Young Turks, a daily program that runs concurrently on the internet and the network. Like Olbermann, Uygur had issues with the direction of MSNBC. He was angered by the decision to put Al Sharpton into his 6pm. When the network refused to hear him out, Uygur left the network. He began hosting The Young Turks on Current TV at 7pm. Uygur brings TYT to the nation. The program also has a YouTube channel which features some of the shows best interviews.

Their futures with Al-Jazeera America is uncertain but it's likely they'll be purged upon the change.

Eliot Spitzer joined Current TV in 2011.

The Associated Press reports that Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach in the U.S. nearly ninefold to about 40 million homes. With a focus on U.S. news, it plans to rebrand the left-leaning news network that co-founder Al Gore couldn't make relevant.

The former vice president confirmed the sale Wednesday, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shares Current TV's mission "to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling."

The acquisition lifts Al-Jazeera's reach beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas including New York and Washington, where about 4.7 million homes can now watch Al-Jazeera English.

Al-Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, plans to gradually transform Current into a network called Al-Jazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus beyond the five it has now and hiring more journalists. More than half of the content will be U.S. news and the network will have its headquarters in New York, spokesman Stan Collender said.

Collender said there are no rules against foreign ownership of a cable channel — unlike the strict rules limiting foreign ownership of free-to-air TV stations. He said the move is based on demand, adding that 40 percent of viewing traffic on Al-Jazeera English's website is from the U.S.

"This is a pure business decision based on recognized demand," Collender said. "When people watch Al-Jazeera, they tend to like it a great deal."

Al-Jazeera has long struggled to get carriage in the U.S., and the deal suffered an immediate casualty as Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second-largest cable TV operator, announced it is dropping Current TV due to the deal.

"Our agreement with Current has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service. We are removing the service as quickly as possible," the company said in a statement.

Jennifer Granholm delivers a passionate speech for President Barack Obama. She hosted The War Room on Current TV.

Previous to Al-Jazeera's purchase, Current TV was in 60 million homes. It is carried by Comcast Corp., which owned less than a 10 percent stake in Current TV, as well as DirecTV. Neither company announced plans to drop the channel.

In 2010, Al-Jazeera English's managing director, Tony Burman, blamed a "very aggressive hostility" from the Bush administration for reluctance among cable and satellite companies to show the network.

Even so, Al-Jazeera has garnered respect for its ability to build a serious news product in a short time. In a statement announcing the deal, it touted numerous U.S. journalism awards it received in 2012, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize and the Scripps Howard Award for Television/Cable In-Depth Reporting.

But there may be a culture clash at the network. Dave Marash, a former "Nightline" reporter who worked for Al-Jazeera in Washington, said he left the network in 2008 in part because he sensed an anti-American bias there.

Joy Behar is a co-host on ABC's The View. But on weeknights she host her own program on Current TV.

Current, meanwhile, began as a groundbreaking effort to promote user-generated content. But it has settled into a more conventional format of political talk television with a liberal bent. Gore worked on-air as an analyst during its recent election night coverage.

Its leading personalities are former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Cenk Uygur, a former political commentator on MSNBC who hosts the show called "The Young Turks." Current signed Keith Olbermann to be its top host in 2011 but his tenure lasted less than a year before it ended in bad blood on both sides.

Current has largely been outflanked by MSNBC in its effort be a liberal alternative to the leading cable news network, Fox News Channel.

Current hired former CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman in 2011 to be its president. Bohrman pushed the network to innovate technologically, with election night coverage that emphasized a conversation over social media.

Current TV, founded in 2005 by former vice president Gore and Joel Hyatt, is expected to post $114 million in revenue in 2013, according to research firm SNL Kagan. The firm pegged the network's cash flow at nearly $24 million a year.

Kanye and Kim's Pregnacy Brings Out The Haters!

                                 The report of their first child brings out the right-wing bigots and racists.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's announcement of their first child has brought out the racists in American Renaissance, an extremely right-wing conservative website obsessed with "miscegenation" and "Black and Latino Crime" and "Black and Brown inferiority."  They hate the idea of interracial relationships, especially between Black men and Non-Black women.  It brings out the hate beast in them.  It's sad that in a world of unemployment, social upheaval, they fixated in Black men and Nonblack(White) women relationships.  So much that up to 600 posts were made on that pathetic website.

http://www.amren.com/news/2012/12/its-true-kanye-and-i-are-expecting-a-baby-we-feel-so-blessed-kim-kardashian-opens-up-about-baby-joy-but-admits-news-is-tinged-with-sadness/


Congratulations, Kanye and Kim on your first child!

Ohio Rust City Torn By A Rape Involving High School Football Stars! [NSFW]

Disturbing photos of young girl being carried by two young men. The photo gives a picture to the possible rape of this person. The rust belt city of Steubenville, Ohio is once again the center of a national controversy.

Stuebenville, Ohio is the center of a national controversy this year. Two high school football stars are charged with the rape of a teenage girl.

A reminder to those reading, we advise that you take discretion in reading this. The article with commentary includes portions of The New York Times, Slate and the Associated Press. The individuals are innocent until proven guilty, and we here a Journal de la Reyna want justice served to those who committed this horrible act on this young girl.

This controversy attracted worldwide attention after Anonymous, the hacktivist group unearth the social media of those involved in this sexual assault.

Also what this attracts is conservative ire and White supremacists. The fact that one of the accused is Black and the young girl is white will certainly rile these extremists up! This would lit up their forums with ugly racial slurs, word salads about Black on White crime, and of course an Obama name drop! This will be a reason for these extremists to paint Blacks as sex crazed NIGGERS who voted for that MUSLIM SOCIALIST WHO DISGRACED THIS COUNTRY with his GUBMINT GIVEAWAYS!

Steubenville, Ohio is American made city that sits on the banks of the Ohio River.

The social media is a tool to help people connect. So far this year, Facebook surpassed over 1.3 billion in registered members. The social network is also a tool for the most controversial things. It's why most people work in education, the media, government, and private sector warns their employees not to engage in matters that may land them in the unemployment line.

Ma'lik Richmond one of the members involved. He participated in the so-called "Rape Crew" assault of a young girl.

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter are the most popular social networks in the country. They've entertained, angered and inspired many. But unfortunately, they can make people do the most stupidest things.

The two involved in this rape, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond are going to face the judge this month for their participation in the alleged sexual assault of the young girl. Many are seeking to put these guys in prison for life.

Trent Mays faces court date for rape and kidnapping.

The New York Times reports that some people in and around Steubenville had gotten word that the night of fun on August 11 a party that was held by outgoing high school students might have taken a grim turn, and that members of the Steubenville High football team might have been involved.

Twitter posts, videos and photographs circulated by some who attended the nightlong set of parties suggested that an unconscious girl had been sexually assaulted over several hours while others watched. She even might have been urinated on.

In one photograph posted on Instagram by a Steubenville High football player, the girl, who was from across the Ohio River in Weirton, West Virginia, is shown looking unresponsive as two boys carry her by her wrists and ankles. Twitter users wrote the words “rape” and “drunk girl” in their posts.

Rumors of a possible crime spread, and people, often with little reliable information, quickly took sides. Some residents and others on social media blamed the girl, saying she put the football team in a bad light and put herself in a position to be violated. Others supported the girl, saying she was a victim of what they believed was a hero-worshiping culture built around football players who think they can do no wrong.

On August 22, the possible crime made local news when the police came forward with details: two standout Steubenville football players — Mays, 16, from Bloomingdale, Ohio, and Ma’lik Richmond, 16, from Steubenville — were arrested and later charged with raping a 16-year-old girl and kidnapping her by taking her to several parties while she was too drunk to resist.

The case is not the first time a high school football team has been entangled in accusations of sexual assault. But the situation in Steubenville has another layer to it that separates it from many others: It is a sexual assault accusation in the age of social media, when teenagers are capturing much of their lives on their camera phones — even repugnant, possibly criminal behavior, as they did in Steubenville in August — and then posting it on the Web, like a graphic, public diary.

Twitter post from Michael Nodianos.

Within days of the possible sexual assault, an online personality who often blogs about crime zeroed in on those public comments and photographs and injected herself into the story, complicating it and igniting ire in the community. She posted the information on her site and wrote online that the police and town officials were giving the football players special treatment.

The city’s police chief begged for witnesses to come forward, but received little response. In time, the county prosecutor and the judge in charge of handling crimes by juveniles recused themselves from the case because they had ties to the football team.

“It’s a very, very small community here,” said Jefferson County Juvenile Judge Samuel W. Kerr, who recused himself. His granddaughter dated one of the football players initially linked to the incident. “Everybody knows everybody.”

Michael Nodianos, a player who shows off while firearm sits at the bottom.

After more than two months in jail, they are under house arrest on rape charges, awaiting a trial that has been set for Feb. 13. Mays, a star wrestler, also faces a charge of disseminating photographs of a nude minor. The kidnapping charges were dropped.

The parents of the boys, who declined requests for extended interviews, said that the boys were innocent. The boys’ lawyers assert that the boys have been tried unfairly online, and vow they will be exonerated when all the facts are known.

The case has entangled dozens of people in and out of this town.

Three Steubenville High School athletes became witnesses for the prosecution and testified against Mays and Richmond, their friends, at a probable cause hearing in October. The crime blogger and more than a dozen people who posted comments on her Web site have been sued by a Steubenville football player and his parents for defamation. The girl’s mother, in several brief interviews last month, said her family had received threats, so extra police have been patrolling her neighborhood.

The victim is not a Steubenville High student; she attended a smaller, religion-based school, where she was an honor student and an athlete.

At the parties, the girl had so much to drink that she was unable to recall much from that night, and nothing past midnight, the police said. The girl began drinking early on, according to an account that the police pieced together from witnesses, including two of the three Steubenville High athletes who testified in court in October. By 10 or 10:30 that night, it was clear that the dark-haired teenager was drunk because she was stumbling and slurring her words, witnesses testified.

Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays photos were obtained by hackers and passed along the White supremacists websites.

Some people at the party taunted her, chanted and cheered as a Steubenville High baseball player dared bystanders to urinate on her, one witness testified.

About two hours later, the girl left the party with several Big Red football players, including Mays and Richmond, witnesses said. They stayed only briefly at a second party before leaving for their third party of the night. Two witnesses testified that the girl needed help walking. One testified that she was carried out of the house by Mays and Richmond while she “was sleeping.”

Protest in Steubenville over the police and school district covering up the crime.

She woke up long enough to vomit in the street, a witness said, and she remained there alone for several minutes with her top off. Another witness said Mays and Richmond were holding her hair back.

Afterward, they headed to the home of one football player who has now become a witness for the prosecution. That player told the police that he was in the back seat of his Volkswagen Jetta with Mays and the girl when Mays proceeded to flash the girl’s breasts and penetrate her with his fingers, while the player videotaped it on his phone. The player, who shared the video with at least one person, testified that he videotaped Mays and the girl “because he was being stupid, not making the right choices.” He said he later deleted the recording.

The girl “was just sitting there, not really doing anything,” the player testified. “She was kind of talking, but I couldn’t make out the words that she was saying.”

At that third party, the girl could not walk on her own and vomited several times before toppling onto her side, several witnesses testified. Mays then tried to coerce the girl into giving him oral sex, but the girl was unresponsive, according to the player who videotaped Mays and the girl.

The player said he did not try to stop it because “at the time, no one really saw it as being forceful.”

At one point, the girl was on the ground, naked, unmoving and silent, according to two witnesses who testified. Mays, they said, had exposed himself while he was right next to her.

Richmond was behind her, with his hands between her legs, penetrating her with his fingers, a witness said.

“I tried to tell Trent to stop it,” another athlete, who was Mays’s best friend, testified. “You know, I told him, ‘Just wait — wait till she wakes up if you’re going to do any of this stuff. Don’t do anything you’re going to regret.’ ”

He said Mays answered: “It’s all right. Don’t worry.”

That boy took a photograph of what Mays and Richmond were doing to the girl. He explained in court how he wanted her to know what had happened to her, but he deleted it from his phone, he testified, after showing it to several people.

The girl slept on a couch in the basement of that home that night, with Mays alongside her before he took a spot on the floor.

When she awoke, she was unaware of what had happened to her, she has told her parents and the police. But by then, the story of her night was already unfolding on the Internet, on Twitter and via text messages. Compromising and explicit photographs of her were posted and shared.

The Guy Fawkes Mask represents Anonymous. They hack into controversial groups and exposes them to the world.

Within a day, a family member in town shared with the girl’s parents more disturbing visuals: a photograph posted on Instagram of their daughter who looked passed out at a party and a YouTube video of a former Steubenville baseball player talking about a rape. That former player, who graduated earlier this year, also posted on Twitter, “Song of the night is definitely Rape Me by Nirvana,” and “Some people deserve to be peed on,” which was reshared on Twitter by several people, including Mays.

The parents then notified the police and took their daughter to a hospital. At 1:38 a.m. on August 14, the girl’s parents walked into the Steubenville police station with a flash drive with photographs from online, Twitter posts and the video on it. It was all the evidence the girl’s parents had, leaving the police with the task of filling in the details of what had happened that night. The police said the case was challenging partly because too much time had passed since the suspected rape. By then, the girl had taken at least one shower and might have washed away evidence, said McCafferty, the police chief. He added that it also was too late for toxicology tests to determine if she had been drugged.

“My daughter learned about what had happened to her that night by reading the story about it in the local newspaper,” the girl’s mother said.

“How would you like to go through that as a mother, seeing your daughter, who is your entire world, treated like that?” the mother said. “It was devastating for all of us.”

Big Red takes a big nosedive!

Mays and Richmond were arrested August 22, about a week after the girl’s parents reported the suspected rape.

Anonymous got involved after a blogger reported that the Steubenville Police and school district were planning on dismissing the case based on lack of evidence. The internet group hacked into the social networks and unearth a disturbing video in which some of the students openly bragged about the crime.

The group thinks that school district and police are going to cover up the crime and they've rallied an online activism to have all members involved to be shamed for allowing two men to walk free while a victim suffers.

Steubenville is a rust belt city sits on near the banks of the Ohio River. This city is a part of the Wheeling, West Virginia metropolitan area. Ironton, Ohio, Stuebenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia, Wheeling, West Virginia are consolidated with the Pittsburgh/Washington, Pennsylvania metroplex. High school football is a growing theme in the once booming town of steel mills and coal.

All the information comes from the New York Times, Slate, The Huffington Post and the Associated Press.

The young men in this video are bragging about the party and the rape. This is disturbing. We here at Journal de la Reyna advise discretion when viewing this.

Bada Boom!

Vacations are for hard workers. President Barack Obama deserved one after bitter fight with Congressional Republicans. He also can celebrate the unemployment numbers. The job report has recorded over 155,000 hiring positions.

Okay, we ended the year of 2012 with Congress being the most dysfunctional ever. They were ranked the worst legislative body ever in 60 years. We ended 2012 with incumbent president Barack Obama easily winning reelection over perennial loser Republican Mitt Romney. We ended the year with major celebrities passing away. We had three major tragedies unfold. The Aurora, Colorado shooting, The Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut and Superstorm Sandy destroying New York and New Jersey has the American public demanding government intervention. We ended the year with unemployment ticking up once again.

However the news is great in a way that helps motivate President Barack Obama to the negotiation table when dealing with a freshman class of conservative Republicans. This new class of Republicans plus the old establishment will waste no time trying to drag another political fight into the whims of public. The old guard was embarrassed by the fiscal cliff fiasco.

Unemployment for based on December hiring was around 155,000 (excluding those who dropped out the workforce) bringing the figure up to 7.8 percent. This sets January as the period for slow growth based on lagging retail sales and the Congress last minute decision to pass a federal law that makes the Bush tax cuts permanent for those who make less than $400,000.

The Associated Press reports the solid job growth wasn't enough to push down the unemployment rate, which stayed 7.8 percent last month, according to the Labor Department's report Friday. November's rate was revised higher from an initially reported 7.7 percent.

Stock futures rose modestly after the report was released.

Robust hiring in manufacturing and construction fueled the December gains. Construction firms added 30,000 jobs, the most in 15 months. That likely reflects additional hiring needed to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy and also solid gains in home building that have contributed to a housing recovery.

Manufacturers gained 25,000, the most in nine months.

Even with the gains, hiring is far from accelerating. Employers added an average of 153,000 jobs a month last year, matching the monthly average in 2011. Employers added 1.84 million jobs in 2012, the same as the previous year.

Still, the stable hiring last month means employers didn't panic during the high-stakes talks between Congress and the White House over tax increases and spending cuts that were not resolved until the new year. That's a good sign for the coming months, since more budget disputes are expected.

While the parties reached a deal this week that removed the threat of income tax increases on most Americans, they postponed the more difficult decisions on cutting spending. And the government must also increase its $16.4 trillion borrowing limit by around late February or risk defaulting on its debt.

There were indications in the December report of the job market's ongoing sluggishness. The number of Americans unemployed actually rose 164,000 to 12.2 million. The unemployment figures come from a separate survey of households, while the job counts are derived from a survey of businesses.

Still, the economy is improving. Layoffs are declining, and the number of people who sought unemployment aid in the past month is near a four-year low.

The once-battered housing market is recovering. Companies ordered more long-lasting manufactured goods in November, a sign they are investing more in equipment and software. And Americans spent more in November. Consumer spending drives nearly 70 percent of economic growth.

Manufacturing is getting a boost from the best auto sales in five years. Car sales jumped 13 percent in 2012 to 14.5 million. And Americans spent more at the tail end of the holiday shopping season, boosting overall sales that had slumped earlier in the crucial two-month period.

Of course this won't satisfy the angry rhetoric of conservative talk radio and those in the Republican Party.

They'll dismiss this as another ploy to make the president look good and the Labor Department playing with the numbers again!

The 113th Congress is now in session with the greatest number of women in the House and Senate by far.

Also the very same idiots who rush to the cameras will certainly drag another controversy or two into the fold.

Already, former presidential candidate and unhinged idiot Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) wants to repeal Obamacare. That was the first bill introduced into Congress.

....And All The Kids' Man!

Shawty Lo brings his BIG family onto television.

Rappers are putting down the microphone and picking up the camera. The camera follows them into the abyss  As the gullible audience flocks to see the rapper perform their duties on and off the stage, these rappers introduce you to their families. Sport stars, rappers, rockers and singers started the tradition with MTV. When MTV introduced the world to their cribs, many Americans realized that it's cool to be an entertainer.

Nowadays, it's not so cool when you're broke and you're willing to exploit your family for financial gains!

Atlanta based rapper Shawty Lo comes into the limelight. The rapper who once snapped his fingers with rap group D4L and now swinging his new G-Unit spinner as an affiliate to 50 Cent's crew. The rapper joined the reality television circuit with the 10 mothers of his 11 children.

Shawty Lo appears under Asylum Records, Inc. The company is licensed under Warner Music Group.

Dey know I'm on television! Why dey hatin'?- Shawty Lo.

Backlash ensues. The network that is planning on filming the reality series is under fire as well!

Oxygen is catching some major flack for allowing the rapper to downgrade his family in such a matter.

Civil Rights groups are demanding they scrap the idea of having this.

Conservatives and White supremacists are thrilled about this!

These extremists can finally prove that all Black men are sex crazed NIGGERS who are willing to put their NIGLETS into the spotlight for their GUBMINT handouts and OBAMA bucks! 

This will agitate them into attacking Black people, hip-hop music and of course President Barack Obama. 

Newsone reports that the show is going to bring controversy and ratings! The rapper's pilot is going to be a one-hour special called “All My Babies’ Mamas,” which features the day-to-day drama-filled shenanigans of Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo, his 10 baby mamas and their army of 11 children, reports TV By the Numbers.

Each baby mama has an eye-catching title such as the ‘First Lady E’Creia,’ who handles Lo’s finances and who was actually engaged to him at one point after he already had three children. Then there’s Angela, the “Fighter Baby Mama,” Amanda, the “Jealous Baby Mama,” Sujuan, the “Wanna-be Bougie Baby Mama” and Tamara, the “No-Drama Baby Mama.”

The rapper is currently dating his new girlfriend, Ashlin, who is also featured on the show and who claims to be madly in love with him. The woman is similar to the age of his oldest daughter.

Carlos Walker (born March 31, 1976), better known by his stage name Shawty Lo, is an American rapper, founder of D4L Records, and member of hip hop group D4L.

Other rappers who are professional entertainers moved into acting and reality television. Most recently, Clifford Harris, who performs as T.I. has a hit show on VH-1. The show T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle comes after the rapper's wife Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris is a successor to Tiny & Toya. Cottle did a reality show with Antonia "Toya" Carter the former wife of Lil' Wayne.