Republicans Gaining On Democrats

From the November 3. 2009 Judiciary Report article

U.S. President Obama

The U.S. gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, the latter already decided, with Republican Bob McDonnell emerging as the winner, and the former state holding a GOP lead, has made it clear, Obama’s presidential initiatives are hurting the Democratic Party, as stated two months ago. Obama also needs to think about the 2012 elections.

Yes, one wants to act with integrity and take the road one feels is the best course of action, but the public has been speaking and the White House has not been listening. Neither has Congress, which currently holds a Democratic majority. The current senatorial races is a rebuke from the American people.

Did Washington learn nothing from George W. Bush’s bad decisions as a politician. If you fail to listen to the people, you are going to have problems. This holds true in any world democracy.

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Republican Christie captures NJ governor's seat

Posted: 11/03/2009 02:01:23 PM MST - TRENTON, N.J.—Chris Christie, an aggressive former prosecutor who racked up a perfect conviction rate in public corruption cases and became the darling of New Jersey's Republican Party establishment, has unseated the deep-pocketed but unpopular Gov. Jon Corzine.

Christie, 47, on Tuesday became the first member of his party in a dozen years to win a statewide contest in heavily Democratic New Jersey. President Barack Obama invested heavily in the race, campaigning with Corzine five times on three separate visits...

Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who was sharply criticized when he yelled, "You lie," during Obama's health care speech to a joint session of Congress, stumped for Christie in the campaign's final weekend.

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White Homecoming Queen Catches Flak At Black University

"Race Debate: White Beauty Queen at Black School Pens Plea to Obama"

Nikole Churchill, won "Homecoming Queen" at the predominantly black university, Hampton University in Virginia, which is located in the Southern part of the United States. Her win divided the campus, as she is white.

She wrote to U.S. President, Barack Obama, regarding the situation, asking he visit the school to speak about diversity. She has since apologized for writing to President Obama.

I do not necessarily think it is a bad thing that she wrote to President Obama. It appears enough black people voted for her that she won "Homecoming Queen" - but clearly, some did not and are unhappy with her win, deeming as a white person, she does not accurately represent the predominantly black student body.

What if some started stating, America is predominantly white, which it is and as such, Obama as a black man, who won the election, does not accurately represent the nation (stop grinning Limbaugh).

It would not be fair to make such assumptions, based on President Obama's color and it is not fair to do so to Nikole Churchill either.

I don't know what some people are complaining about. Just wait until your student loans become due. Then you'll really have something to whine about.

Chris Brown Grinning During Hard Labor

As Sony Music singer Chris Brown continues to serve the 180 days of hard labor he was sentenced to, as ordered by a Los Angeles judge, in his domestic violence case, a few of his remaining fans came out to gawk at the grinning singer.

Brown is clearly glad he was not incarcerated, after getting into a physical fight with equally strange girlfriend, Rihanna, in response to her hitting him. The two refuse to talk about that night and why the fight grew so severe, he nearly choked her to death.

Chris Brown Cleaning Up Trash

Chris Brown A/K/A the garbage man

Sony R&B singer and woman puncher, Chris Brown, was photographed performing hard labor, during an ongoing community service stint, cleaning up trash along highways in Virginia.

To change up one his "Run It" lyrics, "If the garbage is on the floor, if it ain't, let me know..."

It is apart of his sentence for beating girlfriend, Rihanna, in response to her attacking him in a rented Lamborghini in February 2009, after a Grammy Awards event.

Obama Speaks About School Speech

U.S. President, Barack Obama, spoke about the school speech he intends to give in Virginia, which will be televised on C-SPAN and posted on the White House's website www.WhiteHouse.gov.

There has been much controversy surrounding it, with reports some parents are even threatening to keep their children home from school, out of concern they will be indoctrinated with the President's "socialist" beliefs.

Pentagon Profiling Reporters

...For Neutralization

The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia (USA)

An explosive article published this week stated, the U.S. Pentagon, which houses the Department of Defense, who ironically appear in this Column's site statistics as frequent visitors, has been profiling journalists, selecting candidates for neutralization, based on their negative coverage of combat in the Middle East.

The Constitution guarantees Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Press, yet the Defense Department, is behaving in a manner contrary to the law of the land.

What is the Defense Department going to do about the many thousand reporters around the world writing about the wars in the Middle East in a very unflattering manner? Are people supposed to be happy and cheerful at the fact civilians and soldiers are dying for wars many do not understand or support.

Files prove Pentagon is profiling reporters

Thursday, August 27, 2009 - WASHINGTON — Contrary to the insistence of Pentagon officials this week that they are not rating the work of reporters covering U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Stars and Stripes has obtained documents that prove that reporters’ coverage is being graded as “positive,” “neutral” or “negative.”

Moreover, the documents — recent confidential profiles of the work of individual reporters prepared by a Pentagon contractor — indicate that the ratings are intended to help Pentagon image-makers manipulate the types of stories that reporters produce while they are embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

This pie chart was extracted from a report by The Rendon Group, evaluating the focus of coverage by a reporter for a major U.S. newspaper. It indicates the firm’s conclusion that the reporter’s coverage was 83.33 percent neutral and 16.67 percent negative in relation to the military’s mission objectives.

One reporter on the staff of one of America’s pre-eminent newspapers is rated in a Pentagon report as “neutral to positive” in his coverage of the U.S. military. Any negative stories he writes “could possibly be neutralized” by feeding him mitigating quotes from military officials.

Another reporter, from a TV station, provides coverage from a “subjective angle,” according to his Pentagon profile. Steering him toward covering “the positive work of a successful operation” could “result in favorable coverage.”

The new revelations of the Pentagon’s attempts to shape war coverage come as senior Defense Department officials are acknowledging increasing concern over recent opinion polls showing declining popular American support for the Afghan war...

“These ground rules recognize the inherent right of the media to cover combat operations and are in no way intended to prevent release of embarrassing, negative or derogatory information,” reads the “News Media Ground Rules” issued by U.S. military officials for embedded reporters in Iraq.

Several professional journalists’ groups as well as media ethicists criticized the Pentagon’s attempts to rate and manipulate reporters. And at least one military official with knowledge of the profiling system has also begun to raise objections.

“It’s troubling that the military is contracting a private PR firm, paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars, to profile individual reporters,” said one servicemember who declined to be identified for fear of official retribution. “It shows utter contempt for the Constitution, which we in the service pledge our lives to defend.”

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