Charles Ramsey Faces Backlash From Junk Food Media!

Cleveland man who saved kidnapped women is hailed a hero among the majority. The minority hates this because he's a Black man. So they find ways to paint a negative picture of Charles Ramsey.

 

Even an unlikely hero still gets called a NIGGER by those in the conservative/white supremacists bubble.

Part II will deal with the Castro brothers. They're in fear of retaliation because of the junk food media's coverage of them.

The junk food media is looking into the history of viral sensation Charles Ramsey. The unlikely hero and others were responsible in rescuing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Ramsey is a colorful figure. The internet is blown up with "autotune" of the often brash and straight to the point Cleveland resident.

What I don't see is how the conservative/white supremacist bubble treats this individual like's he's criminal.

According to those in the junk food media, he was once a criminal.

Who gives a...........(Well you know)!

My problem with this is simple. The junk food media just can't give a man a break. Even though he may had done wrongs in the past, Charles Ramsey admitted that he's paying for his past sins. He's even cautious about the media attention given to him.

I see he's a honest man a heart! Even though there's a reward in this, he wanted to give it to the victims.

They used the picture to portray heroic Cleveland resident as a criminal.

WEWS-TV (Newsnet 5, NBC Cleveland) apologized for putting his business out there for the conservative/white supremacist bubble.

Cleveland's WEWS-TV issued an apology on Thursday after the local news station reported on Charles Ramsey's criminal record.

Ramsey was one of two neighbors who helped Amanda Berry, who had been kidnapped for 10 years, and two other women escape from captivity earlier this week. While he was hailed a hero for his role, his presence on TV was mocked and even autotuned. Al Sharpton defended Ramsey. "He kicks in a door to rescue those women and some are criticizing his diction?" Sharpton said of Ramsey.

Soon after his TV debut, reports surfaced about Ramsey's record, one that reportedly included convictions for domestic violence. Multiple outlets, including WEWS, reported on Ramsey's criminal past.

After facing backlash from viewers, WEWS apologized in a post on the station's Facebook page.

TO OUR READERS & FOLLOWERS: We heard you. Wednesday night, we made a poor judgment call in posting a story about Charles Ramsey’s criminal record and how he’s since reformed. While the story was factually sound, the timing of it and publication of such information was not in good taste, and we regret it. Your comments prompted us to quickly remove the story from our website and Facebook page, but we know we can’t erase what we’ve already done. Ramsey is a hero for his actions, and we recognize that. Thank you so much for your feedback.

Conservatives Pissed At The IRS "Mistakes!"

The IRS is facing scrutiny over its handling of conservative organizations.

 
Whatever happened must have gotten the right wing agitators in a mood. The Internal Revenue Service is facing heavy criticism for its motivation to look into Tea Party/conservative groups.

See its been over five months into President Barack Obama's second term, the junk food media is finally giving the conservative agitators what they want! More harsher criticism of President Barack Obama.

If you're familiar with Republicans and their conservative agitator friends, then you know they'll overplay their hand and people will eventually tune them out.

Already the low approved members of Congress are reacting to the IRS. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky, Minority Leader) already called this a "thuggish" tactic enabled by President Barack Obama.

Many Republican House members [ah hem Darell Issa (R-California) and Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota)] are calling upon heads to roll and an investigation into the matter.

Since 2011, the IRS was watching how non-profit groups such as Tea Party Patriots and FreedomWorks were handling their affairs.

The Washington Post reports, the IRS on Friday apologized for targeting groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, confirming long-standing accusations by some conservatives that their applications for tax-exempt status were being improperly delayed and scrutinized.

Notice the street sign!

Lois G. Lerner, the IRS official who oversees tax-exempt groups, said the “absolutely inappropriate” actions by “front-line people” were not driven by partisan motives.

Conservative activist groups have long complained about the president and government.

Rather, Lerner said, they were a misguided effort to come up with an efficient means of dealing with a flood of applications from organizations seeking ­tax-exempt status between 2010 and 2012.

During that period, about 75 groups were selected for extra inquiry — including burdensome questionnaires and, in some cases, improper requests for the names of their donors — simply because of the words in their names, she said in a conference call with reporters.

They constituted about one-quarter of the 300 groups who were flagged for additional analysis by employees of the IRS tax-exempt unit’s main office in Cincinnati.

Where you'll find a middle aged White guy in a stuffy suit trying to say he's a "revolutionary" to a tyrannical government. Hence forth the Tea Party, a conservative movement founded by the last elements of a dying population.

It was not clear whether the IRS had anticipated the firestorm that it would ignite with its disclosure. Indeed, it appeared to have happened by chance when Lerner, appearing Friday at a conference held by the American Bar Association, responded to a question about the allegations by conservative groups.

The IRS’s subsequent conference call with reporters was clumsily handled. At one point, Lerner attempted to do arithmetic on the phone and blurted out: “I’m not good at math.” That admission was understandable, given that her training is as a lawyer, but it produced a quote that is likely to haunt the agency that handles the nation’s tax returns.

Nor did IRS officials appear to have prepared much for the questions they would get.

“The IRS did not acknowledge the use of names as part of the process earlier because the details were not initially known to senior leadership, and [the Treasury inspector general for tax administration] has been reviewing the situation,” IRS spokeswoman Michelle L. Eldridge said. “Their work is now far enough along that it was appropriate to address the issue when it came up during today’s tax conference.”

Of the 300 groups affected, the IRS said, 130 have had their tax-exempt status approved and 25 have withdrawn their applications.

The sensitivity arises in no small part because of the IRS’s history as an agency that presidents have used to intimidate, harass and punish their political enemies. Most infamous was Richard M. Nixon, but the practice went back at least as far as Franklin D. Roosevelt. ­Post-Watergate reforms made the IRS more independent and were designed to insulate it from politics.

“I call on the White House to conduct a transparent, government-wide review aimed at assuring the American people that these thuggish practices are not underway at the IRS or elsewhere in the administration against anyone, regardless of their political views,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.
“An apology won’t put this issue to rest.”

One of the nation’s largest tea party groups, the Tea Party Patriots, said it rejected the IRS’s explanation and demanded the resignations of all officials involved. The group also called on President Obama to apologize for ignoring its concerns.

“The IRS has demonstrated the most disturbing, illegal and outrageous abuse of government power,” said Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. “This deliberate targeting and harassment of tea party groups reaches a new low in illegal government activity and overreach.”

Lerner said she has had no contact with Obama administration officials about the issue.

When questioned by reporters, she said the problem came to the IRS’s attention only after officials read reports in the media of complaints by tea party groups that their applications for ­tax-exempt status were being unfairly scrutinized and delayed.

Although the IRS is part of the Treasury Department, it “is an independent enforcement agency,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “What we know about this is of concern and we certainly find the actions taken, as reported, to be inappropriate. And we would fully expect the investigation to be thorough and for corrections to be made in a case like this.”

Carney did not describe what contact, if any, administration officials have had with the IRS regarding the issue.

The IRS admission comes amid a debate about when political groups on both sides deserve tax-exempt status — a complex question that turns on whether the group is working mainly to support a general philosophy or a specific party or candidate.

That can be particularly difficult to determine in the case of groups that operate under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. The law grants them an exemption from income taxes on the contributions they receive if they are “social welfare” groups.

The more the better! - Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California)

It also allows them to engage in political activity and advocacy as long as it is not their primary mission. And while donors to those organizations are not allowed a tax deduction for what they give, they can remain anonymous.

The number of organizations applying for tax-exempt status under that provision more than doubled after 2010, Lerner said. It was a scramble that began after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on corporate and union spending in political campaigns, a move that was seen as a green light for outside groups to become more involved, as well.

Both Democratic- and Republican-allied interests have formed such organizations, but the conservative groups have raised vastly more money.

The IRS disclosure comes after more than a year of tense debate about the tax status of conservative political groups. Tea party groups and other conservative organizations have said that they have been the subject of inappropriate screening by the IRS, prompting formal complaints by Republican lawmakers. The IRS inspector general has been reviewing the claims.

Some Democrats and campaign finance groups, meanwhile, have argued that ­tax-exempt groups are stretching the boundaries of the law and should be required to disclose more about their operations.

Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (Utah), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, who has raised concerns about IRS oversight of conservative groups, said he was not satisfied by the apology.

“This, frankly, isn’t enough,” he said. “We need to have ironclad guarantees from the IRS that it will adopt significant protocols to ensure this kind of harassment of groups that have a constitutional right to express their own views never happens again.”

Lerner would not say whether any of the IRS employees involved have been disciplined. She said that policies have been put in place to prohibit this kind of screening and that so far, none of the 75 groups has been rejected for tax-exempt status.

Jay Sekulow, a lawyer representing 16 tea party groups, said Friday that he was gratified by the IRS acknowledgment.

“This admission by the IRS represents a significant victory for free speech and freedom of association,” he said. “There was never any doubt that these organizations complied with the law and applied for tax-exempt status for their activities as Americans have done for decades.”

 

You know this along with Benghazi have been the latest attempts to taint President Barack Obama's legacy.

 

I notice that conservatives say the president apologizes for America. And here today, the same bunch of idiots and turd flippers are saying he should apologize.

 

Some are even calling for impeachment.

 

The same players, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California), Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), Congressman Steve Stockman (R-Texas), Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina), Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) will rush to the cameras.

They'll continue this narrative that the president is either failing the American people or succeeding on destroying the world. While on camera (or radio), they'll offer no alternatives or solutions, just more chest beating rhetoric that will eventually turn off Americans.

If the low approved U.S. Congress continue to keep dragging their feet, no incumbent will be spared from an onslaught of angry voters.

Fox Cancels The Cleveland Show!

The third animated series sponsored by comedian/writer Seth MacFarlane is being axed.

The show featured the voices of Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jason Sudeikis and Seth MacFarlane.

The Cleveland Show is one of the many Fox animated sitcoms on Sunday. And it's one of the many that are getting the ax for the 2013. It's features Cleveland Brown (of Family Guy) moving from Quohog, Rhode Island to Stoolbend, Virginia with his obese son Cleveland, Jr. to start a new life. Cleveland ends up meeting a former girlfriend named Donna Tubbs and eventually marries her and moves in with her children Roberta and Rallo.

TVOvermind says the result isn't a surprise for the animated comedy, which would have needed a renewal around the first of the year for a fall premiere to be possible.

The writing has been on the wall for The Cleveland Show for some time, though, as FOX ordered a new animated show in Murder Police, burned through several Cleveland episodes during the month of March, and didn't categorically deny an insider blog post that mentioned the show's demise. Past FOX comedies have been put on hold for a production cycle or resurrected from the television grave due to popular demand, so if The Cleveland Show does well enough on Adult Swim (where it began airing in syndication this year), there's a very slim chance it might return one day. However, the more likely situation is that Cleveland and his family will be folded back into the Family Guy universe and brought out for subplots or cutaway jokes.

The Cleveland Show one-hour series finale airs Sunday, May 19th at 7:00 on FOX. The network is set to reveal its 2013-2014 schedule the afternoon of Monday, May 13th.

The show surpass syndication and has clocked at 85 episodes. So far it seems that even Seth MacFarlane didn't expect this coming (or did he)?

The show was the first in long time of animated sitcoms that features a Black family. The show competed with The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and Bob's Burgers. But the whole Animation Domination Block competed with Football Night in America on NBC, Once Upon A Time, Survivor and The Good Wife.

Most Fox programs have taken a nosedive despite critical acclaim. The American Idol judges are getting the ax. Mariah Carey, Nick Minaj, Keith Urban and Randy Jackson are going to be sent their walking papers.

Many fans have long complained about the diva attitudes of Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey for some time now. The ratings took a big hit. And NBC's The Voice and ABC's Dancing With The Stars for the first time surpassed the ratings of American Idol.

The Mindy Project, New Girl, Touch and Raising Hope survived the season despite taking a slight dip in ratings.

The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy.

The Watergate Under The Benghazi Bridge.....

It continues on. The Republicans want answers to Benghazi.

You notice that Republicans overplay their hand. They did it during the Tea Party protests in 2009. They did it while there was the Gulf Oil spill in 2010. They did it during the health care debate. They did during the Operation Fast & Furious issue in 2011. They are doing it through the continuous repeals of Obamacare in 2012. And now we're in 2013 and the very same party of obstruction continues down the path to defeat.

They're worked up over this Benghazi consulate attack and it's becoming more of a migraine instead of a real controversy. The Republicans are using the victims as props in a political sabotage of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State and floated presidential candidate.

The Republicans are never blameless but they hate it when the Democrats bring up the past.

For you see that during the previous term of George W. Bush, on September 11, 2001, our nation was attack on home soil by foreign nationals. We went into two wars. One being the War on Terror (which is the ongoing Afghanistan war). The other was based on intelligence saying the nation of Iraq was holding "weapons of mass destruction". That war was closed out in 2011 with no weapons of mass destruction being found and over 4,500 soldiers and thousands of innocent victims. This president managed to see many Americans die on home soil during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. This president allowed young men and women die at Virginia Tech. This previous administration fired lawyers, outed a CIA agent, paid columnist to speak talking points, appoint a Fox News host as a press secretary and a press secretary becomes a Fox News host. His vice president shot a man in the face. And yet, the Democrats didn't think of drafting Articles of Impeachment on a president. Scratch that there was Dennis Kucinich.

Is one to believe that "RACE" doesn't have a thing to do with all this rabble rousing from those Republicans?

The people over at Loserville are furious at the rest of the junk food media. They're so angry over the fact that no one in the junk food media cares about this Benghazi incident.

The tragedy happened on September 11, 2012 in which extremists attacked the United States Diplomatic Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. A group with ties to an extremist group stormed the compound. The chaos occurred during an outburst of reactionary outrage. The incident ended up killing four Americans.

The Islamic protests over in Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco were sparked by the viewing of an anti-Islamic video. The effects happened in Libya as well. How are we to know that a video would inspire a terrorist group?

President Barack Obama was angered over this. He ordered then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to return back to the United States. The next day, he expressed outrage and determined that those involved this "act of terror" will be brought to justice.

Four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi.  Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed.  

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. 

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.  Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America.  We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.  And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers.  These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity.  They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

The president, Vice President Joe Biden attended the viewing of diplomats J. Christopher Stevens, Ty Woods, Sean Smith, and Glen Doherty. The president met with the families of each victim.

What started this nonsense was the White House press statement determining it to be a "spontaneous" event sparked by anti-Islamic movie and the chaos that sparked overseas.

United Nations secretary Susan Rice appears on most Sunday news programs to say the side of the story.

The perennial loser Mitt Romney tried to bait the president into this conflict. He immediately licked his chops on the news of a terrorist attack. Romney thought of potential of winning the White House on this tragedy. The conservative media figures such as that Guy Who Helped Obama Win (best known as Sean Hannity) was relentless in this. He made calls to the Romney campaign demanding the perennial loser take up this issue as well as Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers.

At the presidential debate, the perennial loser Mitt Romney got his ass handed to him. The president told him that he acknowledge the word "terror" in his Rose Garden statements. CNN anchor Candy Crowley even helped the president and Romney get in a few words.

Enter 2013, the Republicans are rehashing this stuff again. They're looking at these "whistleblowers" as the key to finding out what happened in Benghazi.

The Guardian reports that Gregory Hicks, deputy to murdered US ambassador Christopher Stevens, revealed for the first time in public a detailed account of the desperate few hours after the terrorist attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi.

Rescuers tried to save Christopher Stevens.

He also said that Stevens went to Benghazi to beat a 30 September deadline to convert the mission to a permanent posting. There was additional time pressure because Clinton planned to visit Libya later in the year and to announce the opening of the post, Hicks said.

But Hicks and two other state department witnesses also singled out the government response for criticism. Until now that criticism had been largely dismissed as a partisan effort by Republican congressman to smear former Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time.

Hicks claimed Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, telephoned him to complain that he had given critical evidence to congressional investigators without the presence of a "minder" from the state department. "A phone call from that senior a person is generally considered not to be good news," said Hicks, who said he had since been demoted. "She was upset. She was very upset."

The career diplomat also alleged he was actively discouraged by officials from asking awkward questions about why other top Clinton aides, including the UN ambassador Susan Rice, initially blamed the attack on a spontaneous protest that got out of control. He described that briefing he described as "jaw-dropping, embarrassing and stunning". It is now thought the attacks, involving up to 60 heavily armed militia, were co-ordinates by Ansar al-Sharia, a group affiliated to al-Qaida, and timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.

The allegations of a state department cover-up follow equally embarrassing claims that military leaders blocked efforts to dispatch special forces troops to the Benghazi consulate.

In testimony that first emerged on Monday, Hicks claims that four special forces soldiers with him in Tripoli were "furious" when they were told by superiors in Washington that they could not join a relief flight to Benghazi organised by the Libyan government in the hours after the initial attack.

Trying to sabotage any potential thoughts of her running for president, the Republicans harp on Benghazi in order to put a dent in the President Obama's agenda and try to derail Hillary Clinton's potential run for president.

Mark Thompson, a former marine who heads the foreign emergency support team, also alleged that the White House blocked his efforts to dispatch a specialist group from the US that is designed to respond to incidents such as the Benghazi attack.

Hicks said he was told that US air force jets based in Italy could have reached the consulate in "two to three hours" but were blocked, out of fear of offending the Libyan government, and because a refueling tanker could not be found.

Pentagon officials have repeatedly argued that none of the available military assets could have reached Benghazi in time to prevent the death of ambassador Stevens and three other consular staff. But Hicks insisted even if they had been too late, better attempts should have been made. "People in peril in future need to know that we will go to get them," he said. "That night we needed to demonstrate that resolve even if we still had the same outcome."

While under oath, three men testify about Benghazi.

Hicks also rejected the defense given by Hillary Clinton when pressed on the initial delay in attributing the attack to terrorists, arguing the US undermined its Libyan allies who were rightly pointing to Ansar al-Sharia.

"President Magarief was insulted in front of his own people, in front of the world. His credibility was reduced. His ability to govern was [damaged]. He was angry … He was still steamed about the talk shows two weeks later. I definitely believe it negatively affected our ability to get the FBI team quickly to Benghazi."

Hicks also testified that part of the reason that Stevens was in Benghazi was to make preparations to convert the mission to a permanent post, and to lay the groundwork for a visit by Clinton. "At least one of the reasons the ambassador was in Benghazi was to further the secretary's wish that that post become a permanent constituent post" and because Clinton "intended to visit later that year" to announce the conversion.

Democrats on the committee attempted to play down the significance of the new evidence. "There is no smoking gun today," said Mark Pocan of Wisconsin. "There is not even a lukewarm slingshot." Deputy chair Elijah Cummings said the hearing would not be able to get to a full picture without recalling other military witnesses.

But the powerful and at times emotional testimony of the state department witnesses is likely to rekindle questions over the government's handling of the incident. The Obama administration had hoped that an earlier independent review panel had drawn a line under the issue.

Republicans characterize their refusal to let the Benghazi issue go as a determination to find out what went wrong. But some Democrats have suggested that the real intention is to taint both the White House and Clinton in a bid to dent her chances in 2016 should she decide to run.

Hicks described receiving the final telephone call from ambassador Stephens revealing he was under attack. He said an attach ran into his villa "yelling Greg, Greg, the consulate's under attack". Hicks looked at his phone and had two missed calls. He called back and got ambassador Stevens. "He said, 'Greg, we're under attack.'"

"I said 'OK' and the line cut."

Hicks then described how he had taken refuge in a secure villa that was set alight with petrol by the attackers. He also told how the embassy building in Benghazi was hit by mortar fire and how a tiny group of soldiers at both sites fought through the night to prevent both facilities from being overrun.

"September 11 was a routine day until we heard the news that our embassy in Cairo had been stormed and they were trying to tear down the flag," recalled Hicks.

"I had bad cellphone reception but walked to the tactical operations center and heard that our consulate in Benghazi had been breached and at least 20 armed individuals were in the compound."

After twice not recognizing the number, he said he received a short call from ambassador Stevens, thought to be his last, who said they "were under attack". He and an assistant, Sean Smith, were led to a safe area inside a villa next to the consulate by security agent Scott Strickland. It was set on fire with jerry cans of fuel shortly after 9pm.

"Scott attempted to lead them out but they didn't follow. He tried to get back in but was beaten back by the smoke," said Hicks. "Petroleum-based fires emit cyanide gas and one full breath can kill you. They managed to pull Sean out, but he was dead. They couldn't find Chris."

A second wave was coming to attack and the remaining consulate staff fell back to a nearby CIA annex. "After about an hour and a half of probing attacks from terrorists that they were able to repulse they decided to evacuate," said Hicks. They met with a response team flown from Tripoli on a Libyan C130 transporter and retreated back to the capital.

Hicks says at this point he still thought that ambassador Stevens might be alive and he received word from the Libyan government that he was being held in a hospital run by the same group responsible for the attack. "I thought we might need a hostage response team to get the ambassador out of a hospital under enemy control," explained Hicks.

At the same time the group was claiming responsibility for the Benghazi attack on Twitter, embassy staff began noticing threats against their facility in Tripoli too.

"We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annex " said Hicks. "At 2am Hillary Clinton calls and she asks me what is going on. I brief her mostly about ambassador Stevens and told her we would need to evacuate. At 3am I received a call from from the prime minister of Libya who told me that ambassador Stevens had passed away. It was the hardest call I have ever had to take."

Conservatives rally for the truth...

Hicks says he has vivid memories of communications staff in Tripoli destroying classified equipment including a female officer manager "smashing hard drives with an axe". The contingent in Benghazi then tried to drive to the airport around dawn but were hit by two mortar rounds.

"The first mortar was long and landed among the Libyans who were escorting us – they took casualties. The next was short and landed on the annex roof, killing one of our people and seriously wounding another, David. Mark charged onto the roof and strapped David, who was a large man, to his back and carried him down the ladder."

Hicks says he wanted to send further reinforcements to Benghazi where they had been fighting through the night but was unable.

Eric Nordstrom, a security officer who also gave evidence to Congress said the lessons state department employees have taken from Benghazi were scathing: "Whether you're at a mission, preparing for a hearing or you're standing on top of a building "surrounded by a mob," he says, "The message is the same: You're on your own!"


The conservative agitating media seems to have collective memory loss when it comes to how the president handles these incidents. They never figured that being the president is 24/7. They don't see that the president is ready on day one.

So to hear these individuals on talk radio and the junk food news channels talk about how the president took a vacation or show no sympathy for the victims is ridiculous. I even hear that some are throwing in the children. Once again proving that they can't leave the innocent out of the discussion.

Cleveland Kidnapper Was A "Monster", Says Family!

Amanda Berry and her daughter fought back captor. The junk food media will now focus on how the Cleveland Police failed Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight.

Bad publicity and the outcomes of being in a minority-majority city.

The city where Black and law enforcement are like distant cousins. Long distance cousins to say at least.

Cleveland, population 394,000 makes it the second largest city in the state of Ohio. The city seen a major decline in population due to economic turmoils such as manufacturing drying up and racial tensions driving the White people from the city. Cleveland minority population for Black and Hispanic citizens would be about 80%.

With Blacks The Cleveland Police are facing a public backlash because of reports of neighbors ignoring their concerns.

Ariel Castro with brothers Onil and Pedro were arrested by Cleveland Police. Based on information Ariel Castro not his brothers may face federal charges if the FBI finds more evidence of sex slavery.

The Cleveland Police are under investigation for the shooting of unarmed individuals. The man (was a john) and the woman (was a prostitute) and they've apparently crashed into a cruiser and the police fired upon them.

Anthony Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler was killing prostitutes and runaways. He buried their bodies in his home. It took over a decade to discover the dead bodies being buried in the basement of his home. I once thought that one of the women freed this week was one of the victims of Sowell.

Ariel Castro the man held in custody in the kidnapping of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

According to Cleveland Police, the man had restrained the women with chains and rope. The women were abused and knocked up continuously by the individuals. The women had miscarriages. The only woman with a child is Amanda Berry and she was pregnant by Ariel Castro.

Yesterday, the junk food media awaited the arrival of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and her daughter.

The media covered it just like they've covered the Boston Marathon bombings and Sandy Hook tragedy: Wrong and just plain reckless.

For one thing, they're trying to say they had opportunities to escape the home. It's funny some would say that! If you're not in that person's shoes, you wouldn't know how to escape a captor!

Today, Castro was giving a bail hearing. For each woman and the child, it's a $2 million bond. With an $8 million dollar bond, the worst isn't over for the suspect. The county prosecutor is even going as far to seek the death penalty in this case.

Castro with his love for music and seemingly friendly personality, Ariel Castro was a familiar presence in his heavily Latino neighborhood on Cleveland’s west side. The Washington Post reports that the former school bus driver lived a decent life in the neighborhood. He was the "nice guy" according to neighbors. The family said he was a "monster" and a "recluse".

Ariel Castro's Facebook page tells a disturbing picture into the seemingly "nice" guy who was a bit odd.

Castro, 52, drove a school bus, attended neighborhood barbecues, played bass in a number of local bands and was known for the musical equipment that filled his living room, especially his beloved bass guitars.

Yet there were hints of another side to Castro, who was charged with kidnapping and rape on Wednesday in the abductions of three young women who were held captive for the past decade. The house that seemed so open to some fellow musicians was closed to other people, with locks on the basement, attic and garage.

Records show that Castro was accused of beating his former wife so badly it triggered a blood clot in her brain and that he was fired from his job in November after a series of disciplinary incidents.

The seeming contradictions have left neighbors and family members shocked and perplexed at what could have gone wrong for a family that seemed so woven into the tightly knit community around it, a family that had close ties to relatives of at least one of the victims.

“I am very surprised. I never thought Ariel would do something like this. Never,” said Noemi Castro, Ariel Castro’s half sister in an interview with The Washington Post.

Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping, which included all three captives and the daughter born to one of them while she was detained, and three counts of rape against the three women.

Castro’s brothers — Pedro Castro, 54, and Onil Castro, 50 — were also arrested and still in custody Wednesday, but police said they would face no immediate charges. Police said they had found no evidence the two brothers were connected to the crimes.

Ariel Castro, of Puerto Rican heritage, lived in and owned the ramshackle house on Seymour Avenue where the three women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — were rescued Monday night, along with Berry’s 6-year-old daughter.

Horrible experience for three women. Took over 10 years to find Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Suspect Ariel Castro fathered a baby with Berry.

Pedro and Onil Castro lived together a few blocks away. Little information was available about them Wednesday. Media reports said they did not have jobs and never married.

Also mysterious was the web of ties among the Castro brothers, especially Ariel Castro and the family of DeJesus, who disappeared at age 14 while walking home from school on April 2, 2004.

Roberto Diaz, a neighbor, said in a interview with The Post that Ariel Castro participated in at least one of the annual neighborhood marches to draw attention to all three missing girls. Khalid Samad, a friend of the DeJesus family, said Ariel Castro knew DeJesus’s father and helped search for her after she disappeared, the Associated Press reported. He also performed music at a fundraiser in her honor, Samad said.

The women were held in a "house of horrors" according to the law enforcement officials.

DeJesus’s best friend before she disappeared, Arlene Castro, is the daughter of Ariel Castro. Arlene Castro was with DeJesus moments before she disappeared; Arlene Castro appeared on TV’s “America’s Most Wanted” in 2005 to draw attention to the case.

In her interview with The Washington Post, Noemi Castro said that although she was not close to Ariel Castro, she had been told by other family members about “weird” signs in his life. “He didn’t let anybody in the house,” she said. “There were locks on everything. That’s a red flag.”

Ariel Castro has been accused of violence against women, according to court records. The records show he was charged in 1993 with domestic violence against his wife, Grimilda Figueroa, but a grand jury declined to indict him. The case was dropped.

In August 2005, according to records in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court, he was ordered to stay away from Figueroa and their children after he was accused of beating her so severely that he broke her nose twice, broke her ribs, dislocated both shoulders and caused a blood clot in her brain.

The petition for a protective order says he threatened to kill Figueroa and their daughters on multiple occasions. The order was rescinded three months after it was granted, for reasons that are unclear, at a hearing not attended by Figueroa’s attorney. Figueroa died last year.

Ariel Castro’s daughter Emily has also run into trouble with the law. She was sentenced in 2008 to 25 years in prison for trying to kill her 11-month-old daughter by slashing the girl’s throat four times, court records show. Emily Castro also cut her wrists with the same knife she used on her daughter, records show.

In an appeal, filed shortly after her conviction, Castro’s attorney said his client was not competent to stand trial because she has “mental health issues, including manic depression.”

Ariel Castro also ran into problems at work. Although school records show he received mostly “excellent” marks in his performance evaluations as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, they also show that he was fired in November after being disciplined for the fourth time in nine years. Incidents included leaving a child alone on a bus in 2004 while he went to a Wendy’s restaurant for lunch.

A Cleveland police report quoted the girl as saying that when Castro arrived at the Wendy’s, he told her, “Lay down, b----,” and left her alone. After he returned, he “drove around a while” before he returned her to her home care provider.

The fourth time Castro was disciplined, records show, was over a Sept. 20, 2012, incident in which he left his unlocked bus in front of a school for several hours.

“I left my bus parked in front of the school and walked home two blocks away,’” he wrote in the file. “I felt tired [that] day. Scranton is my school so I didn’t think anything wrong with parking there. I do appologize.”

Local musicians said Ariel Castro could be guarded about his home, wary of letting people into his world. But Tito DeJesus, a local piano player, was one of the few who stepped inside the house on Seymour Avenue.

It was a few years back, and DeJesus was dropping off tools and appliances that Castro had bought from him. “He was kind of like a hoarder,” DeJesus recalled. The living room was filled with musical equipment, he said. A lamp served as an end table. Castro’s bass guitars were on stands around the room.

The two played together in several bands, and Castro was forever gushing about some new piece of musical gear he had acquired. “He liked to show off his stuff,” DeJesus said.

Shame!

And he liked to show off his playing, too. DeJesus said Castro’s style was a good match for his own. “He’s one of the top [Latin] bass players in Cleveland,” he said.

There was something else DeJesus noticed. “He never had a woman,” he said.

Edwin Nunez, a salsa band leader who performed with Castro, said Castro tended not to hang out with other musicians after gigs. “He was very private about his life,’’ Nunez said.

Roig-Franzia reported from Cleveland. Debbi Wilgoren and Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day:

"There are so many unresolved, unanalyzed, undiscussed consequences to having generations of our ancestors enslaved.  If you think about it, we've only been free for 140 years, but we were enslaved for almost three centuries. And one of the things we haven't dealt with is our relationships."


-  Darlene Clark Hine, Historian.

Black Voter Turnout Surpassed White Voters!

Can we keep this voting thing going? Black voters turnout heavy this last election. If we can get the Republicans out of Congress, we're going to need more than just a few Blacks in the voting booth.

Wondering if the Republican Party and their conservative extremist allies believe it's another attempt by those evil Black Panthers?

Wondering if these Knee-Grows voted for the color instead of the character?

Republicans are quick to dismiss the higher Black turnout on issues that had nothing to do with it. Of course, they'll claim that the name of the Democratic candidate is on the ballot twice. The Black voters embrace the "gubmint gibbs mes" from "brotha" Barack. The skin color is the only thing those "ignant Black folk" support.

Conservative talk radio and Loserville have been on a dog whistle campaign the moment Barack Obama announced he was running for president.

Still some white people believe that the president is either a socialist, Communist, a radical, a racist, a Muslim, a person who hates America, the devil and the guy who takes too many vacations on the taxpayer's dime.

Black voters see this as a disrespect not only upon the president, but the Black community in general. The first Black president ever to hold office and the conservative media treats President Barack Obama like he's a "thug" or being "not one of them".

It's shows through the Republican Party's intrusive strategy to win back the Congress. They've passed legislation that makes it a requirement to have an identification when voting. They want to eliminate overtime pay so businesses can work an individual for lesser pay. They want to cut domestic programs that could help the needy and poor. They refuses to cave on gun control, yet they're screaming at the Black man, the Muslim or the Hispanic man with firearms.

Reince Priebus, the Republican chairman has tried and failed to win over minority votes.

This may be the coming of a new era in voting. For the first time ever, Black voter turnout surpassed White voters. The White race is 74% of the United States general population.

With the shift in demographics making the Hispanic population the fastest minority group, White males are on the decline. And in thirty years, the White male will officially be a minority.

The Huffington Post and Associated Press reports America's blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly among young people, new census data show. Despite increasing population, the number of white voters declined for the first time since 1996.

Blacks were the only race or ethnic group to show an increase in voter turnout in November, most notably in the Midwest and Southeastern U.S., the Census Bureau said Wednesday. The analysis, based on a sample survey of voters last year, is viewed as the best source of government data on turnout by race and ethnicity.

The Associated Press reported last week that black voter turnout surpassed whites for the first time, based on an analysis by experts of earlier data.

In all, about 66.2 percent of eligible black voters cast ballots in 2012, up from 64.7 percent in 2008, according to census data. That compares with non-Hispanic white turnout of 64.1 percent, which fell from 66.1 percent four years earlier. As recently as 1996, blacks had turnout rates 8 percentage points lower than non-Hispanic whites.

Not helpful. Besides the first Black president is a Democrat. That's the emancipation!

Latino turnout dipped slightly, from 49.9 percent in 2008 to 48 percent, while Asian-American turnout was basically unchanged at 47 percent.

Voter turnout across all race and ethnic groups fell for a second consecutive presidential election, from 64 percent in 2004 to 62 percent in November, according to the census figures.

"Obama's win in 2012, despite the important Democratic constituency of young voters not participating at a high level, is good news," said Michael McDonald, a George Mason University professor who specializes in voter turnout. "The bad news is that voting is a habit – and the fact that we saw turnout declines among younger African-Americans suggests Democrats will have to work even harder to excite these voters in future elections."

The data underscore how turnout plays an important role in elections for both whites and blacks, who will remain the two largest racial groups of eligible voters for the next decade. While Hispanics are now the fast-growing demographic group, they currently make up a smaller share of eligible voters because many are children and non-citizens, limiting their electoral impact for the immediate future.

In 2012, the number of blacks who voted rose by 1.7 million. Hispanics added 1.4 million and Asian voters increased by 550,000.


Meanwhile, even though the white population is slowly increasing, the number of white voters dropped by 2 million – the first drop in absolute terms for any race or ethnic group since 1996.

By age, youth enthusiasm for voting fizzled in 2012.

About 41 percent of voters age 18-24 cast ballots in November, down 7 percentage points from 2008. The drop was greatest among whites, whose turnout fell from 49 percent to 42 percent. But young black voters also saw big declines, from 55 percent in 2008 to 49 percent. That's compared with a decline among young Hispanics from 39 percent to 34 percent.

The only subgroups showing increases in voter turnout were among blacks ages 45 to 64 as well as those 65 and older.

"Blacks have been voting at higher rates, and the Hispanic and Asian populations are growing rapidly, yielding a more diverse electorate," said Thom File, a census sociologist who wrote the voting analysis. "Over the last five presidential elections, the share of voters who were racial or ethnic minorities rose from just over 1 in 6 in 1996 to more than 1 in 4 in 2012."

"We do know the population is growing more diverse, and the electorate is growing more diverse in a different way," File added.

Other census findings:

_White turnout declined in 39 states from 2008 to 2012, including presidential battleground states such as Ohio, Virginia and Florida.

_The gender gap in voting persists, a trend since 1996. About 64 percent of women voted, compared with 60 percent of men.

_Declines in voter turnout also were seen most notably among single people, the unemployed, renters and those with only a high school education or some college, suggesting in part voter disenchantment amid a sluggish economy.

_Black voter turnout surpassed that of whites mostly in the Midwest region, which covers Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as the Southern U.S. region including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

Demographers say the numbers pose long-term challenges for Republicans, given that 80 percent of nonwhites voted for Obama in November.

Analyses by Brookings Institution demographer William H. Frey show that Republican Mitt Romney would have barely won the presidency if whites and other race groups had turned out at the same rates as they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels. But if Democrats can replicate 2012 turnout rates in 2016, they would win the presidency, given current population trends, Frey said.

Paul Taylor, executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, indicated the economy will be an important factor in future elections, noting that Hispanics and young people were among the hardest hit during the high unemployment years of 2008-2012.

"Given what we know about the youth bulge in the population, Millennials and Hispanics will become ever more important voting blocs in upcoming presidential elections," Taylor said. "But in 2012, both groups left a lot of votes on the table."

The census figures are based on the Current Population Survey as of November 2012. Since Hispanic is defined by the government as an ethnicity and not a race, census figures for "blacks" and "Asians" may include Hispanics. Census data for "white" refer to whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity.