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Monday, December 31, 2012

Kanye West Announces Baby With Morally Bankrupt, Still-Married Kim Kardashian


Black liberals fell in love with Kanye West after he announced on air in 2005 that former President George W. Bush "doesn't care about black people", essentially blaming Bush, and only Bush, for the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina, while at the same time opening the door to Bush's successor, Barack Obama. It was a brilliant move by West, a statement based on total ignorance broadcast to millions of naive souls looking for any reason to further hate Bush and get a Democrat POTUS into the White House. Since then the rapper and producer has gone on to make millions via feel-good music, while furthering his brand and exposure with high-profile relationships with noted gold-digger Amber Rose and still-married, morally bankrupt socialite Kim Kardashian, with whom he has just announced expecting a baby with. How this news effects West's relationship with black liberals is probably a non-factor considering Obama's successful re-election bid. But no doubt, those of you considering having kids with married women will be comforted by West's "good news":
Kim Kardashian is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Kanye West, the reality star's spokesman confirmed.
The happy news was first revealed by Kanye onstage during his concert in Atlantic City on Sunday night as Kim watched from the audience.
The rapper said 'stop the music', then announced 'make noise for my baby mama right here,' with a wide smile. Kanye's announcement prompted a flurry of excited tweets from the audience.
Kim, who was sat in the audience during the show, is said to have not known that her man would reveal their pregnancy and was in shock like many of the rappers fans.
She confirmed the news in a message to fans titled 'New Year, New Beginnings' on Monday.
She wrote: It’s true!! Kanye and I are expecting a baby. We feel so blessed and lucky and wish that in addition to both of our families, his mom and my dad could be here to celebrate this special time with us. Looking forward to great new beginnings in 2013 and to starting a family. Happy New Year!!! Xo
The two have been dating for eight months. They have previously denied pregnancy rumours.
Kim is thought to be around the 12-week mark.
Kim, 32, and Kanye, 35, were last seen together on Christmas Day when they attended a basketball game to watch Kim's brother-in-law Lamar Odom play with his new team The Clippers.
Kanye was seen carefully attending to his girlfriend and holding her hand as they sat side by side in the front row. They left at half time, with Kim later tweeting that she felt 'unwell'.
'In bed with the flu all day. Praying this goes away fast!' the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star wrote.
Kim won't be letting her pregnancy get in the way of her work - she is hosting a party in Las Vegas for New Year's Eve at the 1 Oak nightclub.
Kim will earn a six-figure sum for the appearance with tickets costing $125 for entry into the VIP area and $3,000 for a table, according to TMZ.
Of course, Kim is still married to her estranged second husband Kris Humphries. The pair's divorce has been prolonged as the basketball star has insisted on a court case, claiming the marriage should be annulled as it was 'fraud'.
After the news of Kim's pregnancy broke late on Sunday her excited family took to Twitter.
Sister Kourtney wrote: 'Been wanting to shout from the rooftops with joy and now I can! Another angel to welcome to our family. Overwhelmed with excitement!'
RELATED: Kim Kardashian's Baby: 6 Other Stars Who Conceived While Still Married To Their Exes

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Rev. Jesse Jackson Repeatedly Challenged To Defend Chicago Gun Ban After 500th Homicide This Year


 Mediaite.com:
Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared on CNN on Friday where he was pressed to defend Chicago’s strict gun control laws following the city’s 500th homicide, 87.5 percent of which are gun-related, this year. Jackson said that Chicago, unlike Newtown, has no gun culture – Newtown, Connecticut, having several gun ranges whereas Chicago has none.
He also said that the pressing issues of poverty, unemployment and the lack of a sense of mobility in America’s urban centers are the root causes of gun violence.


Jackson was asked to defend Chicago’s gun ban, given the staggering rates of gun violence in America’s cities compared to other areas that do not have such strict gun laws and experience less gun violence.

“I think about Newtown, for example, they have three or four gun ranges. There are no gun ranges in Chicago,” Jackson replied. “Newtown is so different than the complexity of the urban crisis.”

“40 percent unemployment does matter,” Jackson continued. “Lack of education does matter.” He said that gun crime and joblessness are inextricably linked. 

Jackson was asked again, given Chicago’s gun violence in spite of its strict gun laws, how even stricter gun laws can be justified. 

“The guns are not coming from Chicago,” Jackson replied. “Chicago is in a bubble as the manufacturer — we’re a target market for gun flow. And they exploit the poverty and the pain.”

“It’s not gun violence. It’s also poverty and lack of education and lack of dreams, where people think killing is the only way out,” Jackson concluded. “This is the need for an urban policy of reconstruction.”
RELATED:  Mayor: Chicago's 500th Murder An "Unfortunate, Tragic Milestone"

Thursday, December 27, 2012

CNBC Anchor Maria Bartiromo Goes Off On Democratic Congressman: ‘Are You Guys Incompetent Or What?’



Mediaite.com:
During an interview last week, CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo went off on Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) over what she perceived to be his frustrating insistence that the Republicans are not offering a “balanced approach” in the ongoing “fiscal cliff” negotiations.

“Are you guys incompetent, or what?” Bartiromo pointedly asked the senator, emphasizing that both his party and the opposing Republicans repeatedly accuse each other of not having a “balanced approach” in negotiation to avoid the so-called “cliff.”

She continued to berate Cardin: “If you can’t do what the American people pay you to do, why don’t you just step aside and put somebody in there who can actually get a deal done?”

Cardin responded that he’d like to get a deal done, but the Republican leadership — namely House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) — have prevented talks from moving forward. This statement set Bartiromo off:
“So how come you’re not moving forward? What’s the problem? Because the American people are so tired of this, and they are really tired of the lawmakers thinking that the American people are stupid. You can’t keep coming on the show every week saying the same thing: ‘It’s not a balanced approach.’”
At this point, Bartiromo began shaking her head and laughing as Cardin insisted that the Democrats have long been ready to move forward with a deal. Unconvinced and clearly agitated, Bartiromo pointed at the screen and directly confronted Cardin about whether he’d be willing to consider tax code reform as a means to obtaining new revenue.

The senator’s response essentially boiled down to “No,” and so Bartiromo went off on him again: “You’re talking about $1.2 trillion in revenue, but you’re not prepared to put anything on the table. People are not stupid!”

Cardin then replied that “the easiest way to get the revenues is to [raise taxes on] the highest income brackets,” Bartiromo had enough and ended the conversation: “That’s all you want to do. That’s it. It’s your way or the highway. Raise the rates on the rich. No other way. Your way or the highway. That’s it. That’s where we are. Thank you, Senator.”

As soon as the interview ends, the Wall Street trading floor behind Bartiromo erupts into applause, prompting the anchor to blush and hide her face in hands.
RELATED: 'Scrooge-tivity': Congress Irked by Fiscal Cliff Cutting Into Holidays

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Yes. Nancy Lanza Should Be Blamed For Newton, CT Massacre


There just shouldn't be any sympathy for Nancy Lanza. None. She was a reckless gun owner who taught her mentally ill son how to shoot guns, even took him to firing ranges. Adam Lanza didn't buy the guns, his mother purchased the arsenal, and failed to keep her guns secure from Adam. 20 children & 6 other families would still be celebrating Christmas right now if it wasn't for Nancy Lanza's incredible stupidity. And while the idiot media and even dumber extremists on the Right and the Left concentrate on the NRA and more gun control laws, the real blame for the Newton shootings lies with Nancy Lanza and anyone who allows a crazy person to have access to a gun. That's just the God's honest truth:
Twenty-six. Not 27.

When many people in Newtown count the victims in last week’s massacre, they tally 20 children in Sandy Hook Elementary School, plus six adult faculty and staff members. Few count shooter Adam Lanza’s first victim: his mother, Nancy. Police said that before he attacked the schoolhouse, Adam Lanza pumped four bullets into his mother’s head as she lay in bed.

As this heartbroken town tries to process Friday’s horror, there is considerable anger toward Lanza’s mother. Her name is noticeably absent from many of the impromptu shrines, memorials and condolence notes placed around town.

At the foot of the street leading to Sandy Hook Elementary, 26 Christmas trees stand to honor the dead at the school, each bearing the name of a victim, but no Nancy Lanza.

Outside the Newtown Convenience and Deli in the town center, 26 small plastic Christmas trees with twinkling blue and purple lights stand next to a sign that says, “In loving memory of the Sandy Hook victims.”

The University of Connecticut honored the shooting victims Monday with a ceremony before a men’s basketball game, with 26 students standing at center court holding lighted candles.

“I am feeling that there is more anger toward the mother than there is toward the son,” said Lisa Sheridan, a Newtown parent.

“Why would a woman who had a son like this, who clearly had serious issues, keep assault rifles in the house and teach him how to shoot them?” she said. “To deal with that, there’s a feeling here that we’re just going to focus on the 26 innocent people who died at the school.”
 RELATED: Nancy Lanza, Gunman's Mother, Deliberately Forgotten In Newtown Memorial

Monday, December 24, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI Denounces Gay Marriage As A ‘Manipulation Of Nature’


A great servant of God speaks the truth:
Pope Benedict XVI used the opportunity of his annual Christmas address to amp up his opposition to gay marriage Friday, calling homosexuality a “manipulation of nature.” He denounced people who “deny their nature” and “make it for themselves.” He claimed homosexuality was destroying the very “essence of the human creature.”

The Pope dedicated the speech to promoting “traditional family values” in the wake of campaigns to legalize same-sex marriage in France, the United States, Great Britain and elsewhere. He implied that the Vatican would be open to allying itself with other faiths who also oppose marriage equality.

During the speech, he referred to a study done by the Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, who called the campaign for marriage equality an “attack” on the traditional family. The Pope agreed, saying,
“There is no denying the crisis that threatens it [the family] to its foundations – especially in the Western world. When such commitment is repudiated, the key figures of human existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child – essential elements of the experience of being human are lost.”
Earlier that same week, the Pope said gay marriage, along with abortion, was a threat to world peace.

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Narcissistic Barack Obama Talks More About Himself Than Late Senator Daniel Inouye At Eulogy


Slate.com
:
Someone needs to tell Barack Obama—it must get particularly confusing this time of year—that his own birth is not Year One, the date around which all other events are understood. His much-noted, self-referential tic was on cringe-worthy display Friday when the president gave his eulogy for the late Sen. Daniel Inouye, who served in Congress for half a century representing Obama’s birth state of Hawaii.
Inouye was a Japanese-American war hero (he lost an arm in World War II, destroying his dream of becoming a surgeon), and as a senator he served on the Watergate committee, helped rewrite our intelligence charter after scandals, and was chairman of the Senate committee that investigated the Iran-Contra affair. It’s the kind of material any eulogist could use to give a moving sense of the man and his accomplishment. But President Barack Obama’s remarks at Inouye’s funeral service were a bizarre twirl around his own personal Kodak carousel.
Obama likes to see events through the lens of his own life’s chronology. Thus we learn that Inouye was elected to the Senate when Obama was 2 years old. Now you could make this relevant by describing how Inouye worked to send federal dollars (you don’t have to call it “pork” at a funeral) to transform Hawaii’s roads and schools, for example, so that the Hawaii Obama grew up in had the kind of facilities people on the mainland had long taken for granted. But no, we simply learn that Inouye was Obama’s senator until he left the state to go to college—something apparently more momentous than anything Inouye did during his decades in office.

Obama acknowledges that as a young person he was unaware of politics, and thus Inouye. But then something important happened that made young Obama pay attention to the first man to be elected to Congress from Hawaii after it joined the union. When Obama was 11 years old he went on vacation with his family, and those paying their respects to Inouye got to hear a long description of this amazing trip, from Seattle to Kansas, from Disneyland to Yellowstone. They heard of the young Obama’s happiness whenever the motel had a pool or an ice machine. And finally, as the people must have been twitching in the pews wondering where this was all going, we get back to the late senator.

It turns out the Watergate hearings were taking place at that time, too, and Obama’s mother watched them in their various hotel rooms. It surprised young Obama to see that a man of Japanese descent was a senator. Little did most people know that the most important thing to come out of the Watergate hearings was that Obama, with his mixed-race background, saw in Inouye a hint of “what might be possible in my own life.” That Obama in some way may have been inspired to a political career by a man who overcame prejudice and later became Obama’s colleague is a fine point to make. But it is an incidental one to the life being celebrated.
Obama never really gives us a sense of the life being celebrated. (He keeps referring to Inouye as “Danny,” which somehow seems inappropriate given the occasion and their great difference in age.) From Obama’s telling, the next significant event in Inouye’s life was greeting his new Senate colleague, Barack Obama. The president says that he got good advice from Inouye on the workings of the Senate. But these insights must not have been too memorable, because Obama doesn’t cite any. He then wraps up with some generic praise, none of which has the specificity, the detail, the sense of life lived as his description of that summer trip that was so meaningful to the man standing before us. 
RELATED:  The selective modesty of Barack Obama

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

No Hope, No Change For Black People

I think that I've found a new hero! Preach! Brother! Preach!



RELATED: Black Republican Reverend To MSNBC: Blacks And Latinos Had No Reason To Vote For Obama But His Race

Limbaugh: ‘Anti-Gun Media’ Don’t Care About Gun Violence When It Involves Urban Neighborhoods


Of course, Limbaugh's right here. When it comes to black-on-black crime or just about any crime involving guns in the inner cities around the country, the hypocrites in the national, liberal media could care less:
On his syndicated radio show this afternoon, Rush Limbaugh went after the “anti-gun media” for, in his belief, not caring about gun violence when it affects urban neighborhoods like Chicago and Oakland.

“You guys ever been to Chicago? Do you know what happens in Chicago every night?” Limbaugh rhetorically asked the pro-gun politicians like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) who’ve now become pro-gun control in the wake of last week’s massacre. “What happens in Chicago in a week dwarfs what happened in Connecticut. Just nobody’s reporting it. There’s no cameras up there. You don’t see it. All you see is the mayor warning the gangbangers to kill each other instead of other people. That’s all you ever see.”

Limbaugh continued: “Have you ever heard any politician go on an anti-gun rant when you’ve heard about urban violence? Does it ever happen? I’m asking. Those stories out of Chicago were happening daily.

 Drudge was highlighting them. But take your pick. The Rodney King incident, whatever, the Watts riots, pick one. Post-Katrina looting in New Orleans, was the anti-gun control out in force there? They never are, are they? I wonder why that is? Why is it the anti-gun people never use violence in urban neighborhoods as an example of why we have to get rid of guns?” he asked.

The conservative host then cited other cities for example: “Look at the gun violence that took place in Oakland against the cops and so forth. The anti-Second Amendment crowd never gins up, do they?”

He concluded: “There are more than 41 murders a month in Chicago. The lion’s share of them are taking place in poor black neighborhoods. I don’t hear the Reverend [Jesse] Jackson or any of the anti-gun media that we’re hearing from now raise a stink about guns in those places. That’s absolutely right. I wonder why that is. There has to be a reason.”
RELATED:  Gun Control Shadows Obama From Chicago to White House

Monday, December 17, 2012

Gretchen Carlson Moved To Tears As Mike Huckabee Urges America: ‘Quit Being Ashamed That We Believe In God’



Mediaite.com:
Fox News Host Mike Huckabee moved Fox & Friends host Gretchen Carlson to tears on Monday in a discussion about God and religion in the wake of the mass murder in Connecticut on Friday. After saying that no one “should be surprised” by the attack because schools have become a place free of religion, Huckabee softened his tone. He said that Americans should no longer be ashamed of their belief in a higher power and turn to morality before the tragedy rather than after. 

“I’m not suggesting by any stretch that if we had prayer in schools regularly as we once did that this wouldn’t have happened,” said Huckabee. But, we’ve created an atmosphere in this country where they only time you want to invoke God’s name is after the tragedy.”

Huckabee praised President Barack Obama freely quoting scripture in the wake of the shooting deaths of 26 people, including 20 children. However, he said that it was still important to “create an atmosphere in this country where morality is not something we discuss only when we have no other place to run.”

Carlson was moved to tears. “Yesterday at our church, Governor, it was so moving,” she said. “It was so wonderful to know that if you are a person of faith, you have a lot of questions why, but you have something to hold onto.”

“I think It’s important that we quit apologizing for having a spiritual conversation,” Huckabee continued. “Quit being ashamed that we believe in God.”
RELATED: Oklahoma Teen Arrested Friday In School Shooting Plot, Hours Before Sandy Hook Massacre

Idiot Black Liberal ESPN Host Rob Parker Suspended After Questioning Robert Griffin III's 'Blackness'

Oh to be a black liberal in 2012: never openly criticize Obama, vote Democrat even if you have no clue about the ideas that really matter, continue to be brainwashed by the white liberals on MSNBC, hate FOX News (without ever actually watching it), cherish entitlements, never date outside your race, blame everything bad that happens to your life or others on "whitey keeping you down" (aka Republicans) and "keep it real" at all times, even if it's to the detriment of you and your community at large:
Commentator Rob Parker has been suspended indefinitely by ESPN after he questioned Robert Griffin III's blackness on the television show "First Take" on Thursday.

“Following yesterday’s comments Rob Parker has been suspended until further notice,” ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said. “We are conducting a full review.”

Parker apparently did not think that there would be any repercussions for his racially charged remarks, which included him asking whether Griffin was a "brother" or a "cornball brother."

Parker responded to a tweet Thursday which said "Good luck in your next line of work!" by writing: "Typical silly response. Watch me on First Take tomorrow and Sat.#pleze."

Parker has not tweeted since his suspension was announced.

Parker questioned Griffin's racial identity because the Washington Redskins star is engaged to a white woman and may be a Republican.

“He’s black, he kind of does his thing, but he’s not really down with the cause; he’s not one of us,” Parker said. “He’s kind of black, but he’s not really the kind of guy you want to hang out with 'cause he’s off to something else.”

Griffin's father, Robert Griffin II, weighed in on Parker's comments on Thursday.

“I wouldn’t say it’s racism," he told USA Today. "I would just say some people put things out there about people so they can stir things up.”
RELATED: An Open Letter to Rob Parker


Friday, December 14, 2012

Gunman Kills 20 Schoolchildren, 6 Adults at Connecticut School


Crazy people having guns isn't a Left or Right thing, or a Democrat or Republican thing, it's a common sense, life or death thing. Because a man who uses a gun to kill innocent children was never interested in "self-defense" or shooting some bear in the woods, Adam Lanza was a madman and a coward hellbent on making a name for himself in the most hellacious way possible. And he did just that. And like day follows night expect the Left to exploit this tragedy in every way possible and in return (as per usual) conservatives will return the fire with 2nd Amendment creeds ad nauseum...yunno, the usual stuff. And in the meantime people will talk "the good fight", but nothing will get done, crazy people will continue to have access to guns and more innocent people will die in the next tragedy...whenever that is:
Dressed in black fatigues and a military vest, a heavily armed man walked into a Connecticut elementary school Friday and opened fire, shattering the quiet of this southern New England town and leaving the nation reeling at the number of young lives lost.

Within minutes, 26 people were dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School -- 20 of them children. Among the six adults killed were Dawn Hochsprung, the school's beloved principal, and school psychologist Mary Sherlach.

The shooter, identified by three law enforcement officials as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also was killed, apparently by his own hand.

"Stuff like this does not happen in Newtown," a tight-knit community of about 27,000 just outside Danbury, said Renee Burn, a local teacher at another school in town. In the past 10 years, only one homicide had previously been reported.

With the death toll at 26, the Newtown shooting is the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, behind only the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead.

"Evil visited this community today," Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy said of Friday's massacre.

Susan Rice Withdraws Her Name From Consideration To Be Secretary Of State


Some conservatives may look at this as some sort of "victory" what with Ambassador Rice's inept handling of the Benghazi situation, but with a total loser like John Kerry now on deck to become SOS is it really a win?
United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice has sent an official request to President Barack Obama that her name be withdrawn from consideration to replace Sec. Hillary Clinton to be the next Secretary of State.

NBC News reports that the ambassador will speak with anchor Brian Williams to elaborate on her reasoning. The interview will be broadcast on Thursday night.

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) is the likely candidate to be sent to the Senate for possible confirmation to replace Sec. Clinton. 

UPDATE: President Obama has accepted Rice’s request that her name be removed from consideration to replace Sec. Clinton. “I deeply regret the unfair and misleading attacks on Susan Rice in recent weeks,” Obama said in a statement. 
RELATED:  Brian Williams Asks Susan Rice If She Is ‘Blameless’ In Controversy Over Libya Attacks

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Rush Limbaugh: Obama Wants The Republican Party To ‘Destroy Itself’


Mediaite.com:
On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh concluded that President Obama is trying to get the Republican party to “destroy itself.” Why else, he reasoned, would he be trying to convince an ardently anti-tax party that they need to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to handle the fiscal cliff crisis? With Democrats pressuring the GOP to agree to tax increases in the fiscal cliff negotiations, Limbaugh could reach no other conclusion than the Democrats are trying to facilitate the destruction of their opposition. It would be a confession by the GOP taxing the rich more would do a lot to improve the economy.

Limbaugh made it clear that any sign of capitulation on the part of the Republicans will be, basically, driving a stake through the heart of their core principles and leave a distaste in the mouths of their supporters.
“If Obama succeeds and ends up getting a confession from Republicans that tax cuts are the problem, tax cuts are the cause, what happens to the next Republican who campaigns on tax cuts? Not going to have a prayer.”
Limbaugh attacked Obama and the education system for creating a “distortion” of American history to explain how the country’s economic woes are in part to blame on lower taxes on the rich. He brought up a poll finding that Obama has not only won the argument on taxes, but now a sizable chunk of Republicans believe the president has a mandate to raise taxes on the top one percent of Americans.
RELATED:  Report: Boehner willing to consider more tax revenue — in exchange for deeper entitlement cuts

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Chirlane McCray Proves That Homosexuality Is A Lifestyle Choice


Godless, social liberals love to equate homosexuality with race, but amongst other differences black people can't wake up one day and declare themselves white or vice versa. However, one time "lesbians" can go "straight", marry a man and have kids with her husband as Chirlane McCray proves here:
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and his wife went on a media blitz yesterday — opening up about her lesbian past and their 21-year marriage.

“I really prefer to define myself on my own terms and wanted to clear the air a little bit. I own it,” de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, told The Post after appearing on NY1’s ‘Inside City Hall’ last night.

McCray and de Blasio, who is running for mayor, were responding to the bombshell revelation last week that she had written a front-page article on the cover of Essence magazine in 1979 declaring, “I am a lesbian.”

“Sexuality is very fluid, it’s very individual and it’s very personal,” McCray said in the NY1 interview.

She said she was pleased by the “outcry of support,” adding, “I think I’m going to be able to use this as a platform to go out and do a lot of good.”

Earlier, the couple appeared on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York.” She wore a yellow dress and he donned a yellow power tie.

Both stressed they are in a loving relationship and have two wonderful children.
And they celebrated her lesbian past.

“When I think about how young I was, what the world was like in 1979, I’m proud at what I was able to do. I was able to project my voice and claim my space in the world,” McCray said.

“I hope young people struggling with their identity try to take heart from that. That was 33 years ago. The world has progressed a great deal.”

De Blasio emphasized the couple is in a “monogamous, committed relationship.”

Asked if she was no longer a lesbian, McCray said, “I am married. I have two children. Sexuality is a fluid thing and it’s personal. I don’t even understand the question, quite frankly.”

She said their two children, Chiara and Dante, were “smart” and “hip” and understood her past.
RELATED:  Science: Homosexuality Isn't Genetic, but It Is Biological

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Only 7% of Detroit Public-School 8th Graders Proficient in Reading


Remember it's Democrats who almost always support unions and this is what your kids get in return:
In the public schools in Detroit, Mich., according to the U.S. Department of Education, only 7 percent of the eighth graders are grade-level proficient or better in reading.

Some public school teachers in the City of Detroit and around the state of Michigan are reportedly taking a vacation or a sick day today to protest right-to-work legislation likely to be approved by the state legislature. Under current law, Michigan public school teachers must pay dues to the teachers’ union. If the right-to-work law is enacted, Michigan public-school teachers will be free to join the union and pay dues to it if they wish, but they will also be free not to join the union and not to pay it dues.

Detroit public-school eighth graders do even worse in math than they do in reading, according to the Department of Education. While only 7 percentscored highly enough on the department’s National Assessment of Educational Progress test in 2011 to be rated “proficient” or better in reading, only 4 percent scored highly enough to be rated “proficient” or better in math.

Statewide in Michigan, only 32 percent of public-school eighth gradersscored grade-level proficient or better in reading, and only 31 percent scoredgrade-level proficient or better in math.
RELATED: Detroit bankruptcy would be long, painful, experts say

Bill O'Reilly Says He's Going To Call Out Race Hustlers



Mediaite.com:
Bill O'Reilly opened his show tonight by attacking liberal hate speech on the divisive issues of race and gay marriage. O’Reilly, in particular, highlighted rhetoric used by sports writer Jason Whitlock, whose words on gun control following the murder-suicide committed by NFL linebacker Jovan Belcher were now-famously quoted last Sunday by Bob Costas. O’Reilly described his language as “pure racism” and responded to personal attacks leveled at him by Whitlock.

O’Reilly explained that he reached out to Whitlock to get him on the program, but instead of accepting the invitation, Whitlock publicly wrote a piece attacking O’Reilly for acting like a “master” in the “big house” thinking that he could simply “summon” him. O’Reilly said Whitlock is engaging in “pure racism” for implying that O’Reilly is akin for some kind of slave overlord.

O’Reilly said Whitlock deserves some pity, but mostly he deserves to be called out for trying to deliberately stir up emotional reactions. Juan Williams said Whitlock should have considered the O’Reilly invitation as an “honor,” saying that Whitlock are trying to “muzzle” people like him and O’Reilly.

Mary Katharine Ham agreed that Whitlock’s attacks on O’Reilly were just “an attempt to marginalize people who disagree.” O’Reilly broadened the discussion to say it bothers him when people try to label people who oppose gay marriage as bigots and homophobes.

Williams said these people don’t want an honest debate, while Ham pointed out there are different standards for different sides.” O’Reilly declared that he has “had enough” and will continue to call out the “Christmas haters” and the “race hustlers.”
RELATED: Gregory Kane: Is Jason Whitlock a 'blame whitey firster'?

Monday, December 10, 2012

Cory Booker Quote of the Day!


"If we got rid of the labels of Republican and Democrat, we'd get a lot more done."

- Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker

Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/10/12

Obama, Boehner Meet About Fiscal Cliff and Agree -- Not To Say Much

Sandy Victim Accuses FEMA Representative of Discrimination

Supreme Court to Review Gay Marriage

‘Study’ Claims Fox News Viewers Have Average IQ of 80

Newt Gingrich: Yeah, If Hillary Runs in 2016 Republicans Will Lose

Murder, the Chicago Way

CBO: Feds Borrowing $4.8 billion Per Day in FY 2013, So Far

Gay Mafia Objects to Reparative Therapy Proponent on Dr. Oz Show

Honest Barry? Media Hype Comparisons of Obama to Lincoln

George Will: 'Opposition To Gay Marriage Is Dying - It's Old People' 

The 'Polyamorous' Pour Out 'Polyoutrage' on Dan Savage

What's The Truth About the Unemployment Numbers?

Religiously Unaffiliated’ Voting Bloc Helped Propel Obama To Victory

Friday, December 07, 2012

Angry Black Woman Goes On A Rampage At Waffle House Because Her Omelet Wasn't Served Fast Enough



Wonder why marriage, in the black community especially, is on a serious decline and why prominent women like Michelle Obama struggle daily to hide their true inhibitions? It's because of Angry Black Woman Syndrome, a deep-seeded infliction that hits many black women who've either seen or experienced some type of hurt in their lives. Unlike normal people who can usually get over hurt by either dealing with it head on or letting time heal their wounds and moving on with their lives, for black women the way to get over hurt (no matter how trivial it is as shown in the video above) is to constantly stay in attack mode all the while building an invisible, barbed-wire fence around you that reaches so high that you can't possibly see the good in anyone or thing, even if your man is the President of the United States. Remember this whenever you witness an episode of an Angry Black Woman exploding...the poor thing just can't help herself.

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Thursday, December 06, 2012

James Holmes' Shrink Told Cops He Talked About Killing A Lot of People But Didn't Order Psychiatric Hold



I've always felt that for the most part shrinks are disgusting people who take advantage of the gullible, naive and those in need of serious attention. In fact the world isn't as complex as we like to make it, God has long laid out a road for us to follow and self-validation is no validation. With that said, if this quack really knew firsthand what mass-murderer James Holmes was capable of and didn't have him placed under hold than she's an accessory in by book:
More evidence that could have preempted Batman shooter James Holmes' killing spree and saved the lives of 12 people and the wounding of 58 others has emerged five months after the movie theater massacre. 

Sources close to the investigation have revealed that in early June of this year, Holmes, 24, who was being treated by a University of Colorado psychiatrist, began talking, speculating, and fantasizing about killing "a lot of people," reported ABC CALL 7.

As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, the California native is charged with two counts of first-degree murder for each of the 12 victims he killed in the early morning hours of July 20 during a premiere showing of The Dark Knight Rises in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater.

On June 11 - six weeks before the shooting - Dr. Lynn Fenton was so concerned by his startling revelations that she called the University police department asking for a background check on him. Then the worried psychiatrist also put calls into the University threat assessment BETA team expressing her suspicion that Holmes was a potential threat because he had talked about killing a lot people.

The move was a massive breach of the doctor-patient confidentiality pact and proves that she believed the threats could be carried out despite the fact that Holmes had no criminal background or any history of violence.

The officer asked Dr. Fenton if she wanted to put Holmes under a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation, but as the student said he was planning to withdraw from the university and leave the campus they decided to drop the issue because he was no longer considered to be a student.

Last month, the suspected shooter was hospitalized after a "half-hearted suicide attempt" involving him running headfirst into his jail cell wall three times.

Holmes' mental health has been an issue in the case ever since his lawyers told the judge in early August that Holmes was mentally ill, although they have not yet said whether he will enter an insanity plea. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for January in which the prosecution is expected to lay out its evidence against the defendant.

Marc Marano Blasts Bill Nye and Piers Morgan for Their Global Warming Lies



Mediaite.com:
Famed science TV host Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) and Piers Morgan battled with climate skeptic Marc Morano last night on Morgan’s CNN program. The debate focused mainly on whether or not global warming is a manmade phenomenon, and both Morgan and Nye wholeheartedly disagreed with Morano’s skepticism on the subject.

“If there is a massively increased acceleration in CO2 in the atmosphere at the same time that there’s been a bigger than double the sizing of the population of the planet, why would that not be inexorably linked?” Morgan pressed Morano at the outset. “Explain to me.”

“CO2 is rising. No one is disputing that,” Morano replied. “The question is what impact does CO2 have on the weather, what impact the CO2 have on climate change. And that, as we you look at the geologic records, we’ve had warmer periods where it’s been with lower CO2 and we’ve had colder periods with higher CO2…. The bottom line is hundreds of factors are dictating our climate.”

He continued: “So the idea that Bill Nye is just going around saying CO2 is up, therefore global warming is dangerous, we should be concerned, it’s not. It’s not dangerous. The bottom line is all these factors dwarfs the effects of CO2.”

Morgan interrupted, asking Morano to explain how New York just experienced the worst hurricane it has ever endured, among other recent freaky weather on both sides of the continent. “How do you explain that we’re getting so many of these freakish weather patterns if at the same time you’ve got all this extra CO2 in the atmosphere and all these people now guzzling up power and energy and emitting gases that weren’t there before?”

“You’re looking at anecdotal evidence,” Morano shot back, before taking a shot at Nye: “This is now the level of your daily horoscope. Basically global warmists like Bill Nye say global warming will cause many bad weather events and guess what? Bad weather events happen all the time so people look and they say look, there’s more proof, there’s a bad weather event.”
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

MSNBC's Martin Bashir Is Now Worse Of A Liberal Scumbag Than Bill Maher


In order, the top 5 totally partisan, liberal jerks in journalism: 1-Bashir, 2-Maher, 3-Tommy Christopher, 4-Matt Taibbi and 5 (tie)-Lawrence O'Donnell/Chris Matthews.

Mediaite.com:
As a libertarian who cares a great deal about civil liberties, two of the many things that irritate me are drone strikes and… MSNBC’s Martin Bashir. 

I’ve long been astonished that even the more progressive members of the media have failed to pick up on the intellectual dishonesty and over-the-top vitriol that the MSNBC host displays on a daily basis. 

But that astonishment ended yesterday when Esquire‘s political writer Charles Pierce offered up a scathing criticism of a Bashir segment on President Obama’s use of unmanned drones in taking out suspected terrorists overseas. 

Pierce dubbed the segment a “moral nightmare” for its neglect of the delicate moral issues involved with such a controversial terror policy. The segment, Pierce wrote, consisted of two guests speaking freely about their support for Obama’s drone policy without any hint of opposition or moral hesitation. The Esquire writer also noted that Bashir and his guests failed to notice the irony in their praising of the program’s decisions about “who should live and who should die” being made “at the very top” — something that progressives rightfully demonized during the Vietnam War. 

And when it rains Bashir criticism, it apparently pours. Another liberal journalist, The Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald, came at Bashir, calling the show “one of the worst atrocities on TV“: 

Greenwald has long been a critic of the MSNBC commentators who he believes merrily tow the Democratic Party’s line on most issues — Bashir is no exception. A policy like the secretive “kill list” and the drone-bombing of suspected terrorists (and people surrounding them) is a policy that would deservedly receive much scorn from Bashir had it been under a Republican president; but such ridicule is seemingly absent because we have a Democratic president. 

Greenwald correctly takes it a step further saying Bashir is perhaps the worst program on MSNBC. But the reasons go beyond just the aforementioned intellectual dishonesty. 

The New York Times‘ Jeremy Peters got it exactly right when he cited Bashir as an example of the network’s “extravagant partisans” who “recycle talking points” and “insult and mock” the Republican opposition. 

While his colleagues Alex Wagner and Lawrence O’Donnell regularly mock Republicans, Bashir is just outright nasty and personal. 

Take, for instance, the time he played a sound-bite from conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer analyzing Romney’s electoral defeat. Once he came back to camera, Bashir joked: “Now I need to apologize to any young viewers who may have been frightened by that face.” 

Not only does this insult go beyond ideology or politics, its just mean-spirited. Krauthammer, mind you, is a paraplegic — the result of a diving accident many years ago. This “joke” was tantamount to grade schooler Bashir on the playground bullying a disabled kid for his “stupid doody face.” 

Nevertheless, Bashir’s guests Ana Marie Cox and Jonathan Capehart giggled along and continued on with a predictable stream of Republican-bashing bullet points. All while Bashir’s insults and lack of self-awareness seem to be encouraged. 

His guests’ non-reactions, in addition to the show’s lack of liberal introspectiveness, highlight how Bashir’s show is the sort of “liberal bubble” that should infuriate dedicated progressives. On a near-daily basis, Bashir surrounds himself with the usual slew of “Democratic consultants” and liberal “MSNBC contributors.” That’s all well and good, except the show’s themes and messages are predictable, all while being completely oblivious to its own redundancy. Bashir mocks and poo-poos Republicans with glee — not a single Romney breath was spared ridicule — and asks the sort of self-congratulatory questions that can only prompt his guests to agree and join in on the relentless bashing of their opposition. Very rarely do the guests look inward and take the position that perhaps a Democrat in power is in the wrong (see, for instance, the above drone warfare segment cited by Pierce). 

It’s no wonder you don’t often spot an opposing guest on the program. When one does appear, it is usually one of the network’s Republican contributors whose job is to make such appearances. But true policy debates on Bashir’s show are about as rare as a Sasquatch sighting. And when they occur, like in Bashir’s debate with a Koch Industries spokesman, Bashir runs through a gaggle of absurdly leading questions, all under the laugh-worthy premise of “just wanting to be accurate.” (That’s not to say the Koch lawyer wasn’t incoherent and seemingly incapable of defending his company. Because he was.) 
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Monday, December 03, 2012

Barack Obama Celebrates Rosa Parks By Publishing Picture of Himself


He's not the Narcissist-in-Chief for nothing:
Yesterday the White House tweeted out the following photo in honor of the 57th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to sit at the back of the bus.

President Obama really can't help but insert himself into nearly every situation in some way. Remember when he gave Queen Elizabeth of England an iPod full of his speeches? Or how about when the White House changed all of the presidential bios on WhiteHouse.gov to include an accomplishment by President Obama?

In terms of the photo above I can understand the comparison. Rosa Parks was the first black woman to take a stand against discrimination on public transportation while Barack Obama is the first black president, however, he should have published a photo of Rosa Parks on the anniversary of her bold actions, rather than one of himself.
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Lindsey Graham Quote of the Day!


"I think we're going over the cliff. It's pretty clear to me they've made a political calculation. This offer doesn't remotely deal with entitlement reform in a way to save Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security from imminent bankruptcy." 

- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on President Obama's call for more spending as part of fiscal deal

Sunday, December 02, 2012

Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/3/12

Report: Romney's Skewed Internal Polls Had Him Winning Big Chicago’s $55M Anti-Violence Boondoggle Obama Slaps States That Don't Comply With Obamacare Focus on the Family 'Hiding Behind Compromise' Obama’s Now Borrowed More Than All Presidents from Washington to W West Point Chapel Hosts First Same-Sex Marriage Geithner Insists on Tax Rate Hikes for Rich The Real Root of Atheists' Anti-Christmas Rage Calif., Ariz. Border Towns Have Nation’s Highest Unemployment: Over 28% Nader: War Criminal Obama Worse Than Bush Pope To Open A Personal Twitter Account

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Newt Gingrich Slams House Republicans For Negotiating With President Obama: ‘Get A Grip!’


Listen to the man, he makes plenty of sense.

HuffPo.com:
Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich urged Republicans on Wednesday to simply "back out" of all negotiations with President Barack Obama to avert the fiscal cliff, saying that they were ceding their leverage by even talking with the White House.

“My number one bit of advice to the congressional Republicans is simple: Back out of all of this negotiating with Obama," Gingrich said at a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., according to the Daily Caller. "The president is overwhelmingly dominant in the news media.

You start setting up the definition of success [as] finding an agreement with Obama, you just gave Obama the ability to say to you, ‘Not good enough.’”

Gingrich portrayed the fiscal cliff as a "fantasy" Democrats are using to push higher marginal tax rates on the wealthy while squeezing out the GOP's goals of large-scale entitlement reform and spending cuts, and said congressional Republicans were actually in the driver's seat.

“One of the things I would say to House Republicans is to get a grip,” Gingrich said, according to the Ventura County Star. “They are the majority. They’re not the minority. They don't need to cave in to Obama. They don't need to form a surrender caucus.”

Gingrich made a similar argument in the wake of the elections, telling Human Events that GOP leaders should approach the decision to enter negotiations on the fiscal cliff with caution.

“Republicans have to insist that there were two mandates on Election Day. There’s a mandate for Obama and there is a mandate for House Republicans. So, it’s important to put in context that they are meeting as equals to talk about the country," Gingrich advised in an interview with the outlet. "They are not working for Obama, but they are willing to work with Obama.”
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Megachurch Pastor Rick Warren To Piers Morgan: Being Gay Is Like Taking Arsenic


It's always funny watching how white, anti-God, social liberals react when taking on a man of the cloth, as if they're really just shocked that a person who has dedicated his life to God would take man's word over the Bible. Of course, everything Pastor Rick Warren says here about homosexuality is absolutely correct, because like doing drugs or abusing alcohol being gay is a behavioral choice, that's it, simple and done:
Appearing on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight last night, influential megachurch pastor Rick Warren said that being gay is like consuming poisonous arsenic… or having the desire to punch a man in the nose. Like homosexuality, both things are “natural,” Warren said, but we should never act upon them. 

After a tense exchange over homosexuality and whether it is biological, Warren admitted that “it wouldn’t bother me if there was a ‘gay gene’ found,” because regardless of whether we deem it “natural,” it is still wrong. 

He explained: “I have all kinds of natural feelings in my life and it doesn’t necessarily mean that I should act on every feeling. Sometimes I get angry and I feel like punching a guy in the nose. It doesn’t mean I act on it. Sometimes I feel attracted to women who are not my wife. I don’t act on it. Just because I have a feeling doesn’t make it right.” 

“Not everything natural is good for me. Arsenic is natural,” he concluded.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Jamie Foxx Blurts Out How Black Liberals Really Think, Calls Barack Obama "Our Lord and Savior"


Indeed, with Black liberals assisting termendously in Barack Obama's re-election a few weeks ago, give talented comedian/actor/singer Jamie Foxx credit for just telling the truth: for merely existing as a half-Black, two-term President, in the eyes of many naive and ass-backwards-thinking Black liberals, Barack Obama has replaced Jesus Christ as their "Lord and Savior", furnishing "great gifts" in the form of record food stamps, welfare, unprecedented unemployment loot and a host of other entitlements. Lazy Black liberals would never give that up and they certainly didn't come out in force for Obama again this year because Barry cares about real needs in the urban community. Props to Jamie Foxx for giving truth to power:
Oh, Jamie Foxx

The comedian caused quite a stir at the 2012 Soul Train Awards, which was televised last night but taped in Las Vegas a few days after the 2012 election, when he made an out-of-this-world comparison regarding the president.

"It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama. Barack Obama," Foxx said to the audience.

The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States Bill Donahue released a statement regarding the actor's comment, saying, "Foxx's epiphany is startling. It just goes to show that even though Obama did not succeed in stopping the oceans from rising (as he promised to do in 2008), he did succeed in convincing Jamie Foxx, and no doubt legions of others, that God exists. Whether God can survive an ACLU lawsuit accusing him of violating church and state grounds remains to be seen."

Foxx's rep was not immediately available for comment.
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Politiks As Usual: In The News 11/26/12

Black Friday Shopping Hits A New Record 

More Congressional Republicans Break Tax Pledge for Sake of Looming Fiscal Crisis 

U.N. Declares Contraception Basic Human Right

Pressure Building For Immigration Amnesty

Exit Polls Prove US Still a Red State Nation

WashPost Celebrates Turkey Day By Saying 'Great Day to Come Out as Gay'

HuffPo Posts Video of San Fran’s ‘Famed Celebration of Fetish, BDSM’

One Third Of Schools Receiving Stimulus-Funded 'Student Improvement Grants' Showed Declines

Planned Parenthood Ran a Black Friday Deal

Redefining Marriage Sign of a Lost Society

5 Deep Insights Gained from Watching Hoarders

Race Rants Over Rice

NBC News Stopped Gay Rights Group From Releasing Chelsea Clinton Ad, According To Report

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Thanks to Angry Radical Feminism Women Aren't Women Anymore And They're Chasing Men Away


FOXNews.com:
What angry, radical feminism has brought us (besides more lesbians that is):

The battle of the sexes is alive and well. According to Pew Research Center, the share of women ages eighteen to thirty-four that say having a successful marriage is one of the most important things in their lives rose nine percentage points since 1997 – from 28 percent to 37 percent. For men, the opposite occurred. The share voicing this opinion dropped, from 35 percent to 29 percent. 
Believe it or not, modern women want to get married. Trouble is, men don’t. 

The so-called dearth of good men (read: marriageable men) has been a hot subject in the media as of late. Much of the coverage has been in response to the fact that for the first time in history, women have become the majority of the U.S. workforce. They’re also getting most of the college degrees. The problem? This new phenomenon has changed the dance between men and women. 

As the author of three books on the American family and its intersection with pop culture, I’ve spent thirteen years examining social agendas as they pertain to sex, parenting, and gender roles. During this time, I’ve spoken with hundreds, if not thousands, of men and women. And in doing so, I’ve accidentally stumbled upon a subculture of men who’ve told me, in no uncertain terms, that they’re never getting married. When I ask them why, the answer is always the same. 

Women aren’t women anymore. 

To say gender relations have changed dramatically is an understatement. Ever since the sexual revolution, there has been a profound overhaul in the way men and women interact. Men haven’t changed much – they had no revolution that demanded it – but women have changed dramatically. 

In a nutshell, women are angry. They’re also defensive, though often unknowingly. That’s because they’ve been raised to think of men as the enemy. Armed with this new attitude, women pushed men off their pedestal (women had their own pedestal, but feminists convinced them otherwise) and climbed up to take what they were taught to believe was rightfully theirs. 

Now the men have nowhere to go. 

It is precisely this dynamic – women good/men bad – that has destroyed the relationship between the sexes. Yet somehow, men are still to blame when love goes awry. Heck, men have been to blame since feminists first took to the streets in the 1970s. 

But what if the dearth of good men, and ongoing battle of the sexes, is – hold on to your seats – women’s fault? 

You’ll never hear that in the media. All the articles and books (and television programs, for that matter) put women front and center, while men and children sit in the back seat. But after decades of browbeating the American male, men are tired. Tired of being told there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. Tired of being told that if women aren’t happy, it’s men’s fault. 

Contrary to what feminists like Hanna Rosin, author of The End of Men, say, the so-called rise of women has not threatened men. It has pissed them off. It has also undermined their ability to become self-sufficient in the hopes of someday supporting a family. Men want to love women, not compete with them. They want to provide for and protect their families – it’s in their DNA. But modern women won’t let them. 

It’s all so unfortunate – for women, not men. Feminism serves men very well: they can have sex at hello and even live with their girlfriends with no responsibilities whatsoever. 

It’s the women who lose. Not only are they saddled with the consequences of sex, by dismissing male nature they’re forever seeking a balanced life. The fact is, women need men’s linear career goals – they need men to pick up the slack at the office – in order to live the balanced life they seek. 

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Corrupt, Black Liberal Democrat Jesse Jackson Jr. Resigns In Disgrace


They're all the same, from Marion Barry to Alcee Hastings to Charles Rangel to Kwame Kilpatrick to William Jefferson Jr. to Jesse Jackson Jr., elected and often re-elected by idiot black liberals and the end game always turns out like this:
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Junior resigned from Congress effective Wednesday, citing the need to spend time "restoring my health."

Jackson, who announced his resignation in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, has been is the subject of several investigations and was recently treated at the Mayo Clinic for what was described as "several serious health issues."

"For 17 years I have given 100% of my time, energy, and life to public service," Jackson wrote. "However, over the past several months, as my health has deteriorated, my ability to serve the constituents of my district has continued to diminish. Against the recommendations of my doctors, I had hoped and tried to return to Washington and continue working on the issues that matter most to the people of the Second District. I know now that will not be possible."

Voters in his South Side Chicago district re-elected Jackson, 47, for a 10th two-year term this month, despite his legal and health troubles.

"The constituents of the Second District deserve a full-time legislator in Washington, something I cannot be for the foreseeable future," he wrote to Boehner. "My health issues and treatment regimen has been incompatible with service in the House of Representatives. Therefore, it is with great regret that I hereby resign as a member of the United States House of Representatives, effective today, in order to focus on restoring my health."

Jackson, the son of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson, is the subject of investigations by the FBI and the House Ethics Committee involving possible financial improprieties.

His House colleagues are looking into allegations that he or one of his associates offered to raise money for then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for Jackson being appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama in 2008.