Racial Profiling Or Realistic Profiling?

Nadra Enzi Racial Profiling Or Realistic Profiling?

“ewest305″ says:

You are a disgrace to your own race. Whites commit more category of crimes than blacks. This does not mean that we should target whites for these crime nor target blacks, middle easterners, etc. for other crimes. In other words, you are basing a small percentage of crime in the United States to justify racial profiling. You are not considering domestic violence, kidnapping, white collar crime, child abuse, etc. You can’t pick and choose which crimes should be racially profiled. You just can’t! Get an education, respect your race and quit being lead to believe racial profiling will make us safe because it wont (sic).

This latest political love note was sent as a reply to my affirmative answer on a Politix poll about racial profiling.

Racial profiling is a phrase sure to set self-righteous progressives off on new lows in criminal coddling disguised as civil rights.

I often wonder if another term, perhaps “realistic profiling”, could be inserted to soothe their savage breasts?

But it wouldn’t, not when dealing with a philosophy that supports street thugs, cop killers, killer ex-cops like Christopher Dorner, and foreign terrorists as morally equivalent to 1960s civil rights marchers.

Racism in law enforcement and homeland security isn’t what I’m promoting and not even debating in this advocacy.

Realism in law enforcement and homeland security, complemented by realism (responsibility) from profiled groups and their popular culture is my goal.

Where are the young Black men and older leaders loudly and proudly distinguishing themselves on air, musically and as activists, from thugs I call chocolate Klansmen and enablers excusing their crimes by blaming conservative White people for it?

Our clothing, songs, videos, and snivel rights spokespersons all proclaim that Black crime is a product of external injustice and thus won’t be denounced by the majority of the community.

I’ve always marveled at this position since it supports every stereotype created about us in the past.

Even Minister Farrakhan, self-proclaimed inheritor to the late Elijah Muhammad’s mantle of America’s top Black Muslim reformer, has sunk to enabling thugs, by calling gangs “street organizations” and judging them the “best generation we’ve (Americans Blacks) ever produced.”

This from someone whose spiritual father said decades ago our larcenous condition proved “the so-called American Negro is totally unfit for self ” and thus required the highly regimented, military-themed rehabilitation he proscribed.

While many American Blacks tilt left on our criminals, law enforcement doesn’t.

Inner cities from coast to coast are subjected to field interviews, check points, probation/parole inspections, and the New York Police Department’s “Stop and Frisk” program based upon rampant gun violence and other serious crime committed by residents.

Is it racism to point out who the majority suspects are in the national Hood’s daily murder rate?

My counter charge is it’s racism not to! Silence when we kill each other makes high profile marches, when a cop or a George Zimmerman does it, illegitimate!

Realistic profiling strips our crime rate of all external blame mechanisms and places scrutiny where it belongs!

All my life, I’ve heard how racist police are. I’ve even met some officers who clearly hated me for the color of my skin.

That wouldn’t justify my shooting people in my neighborhood or anywhere else as a misguided response.

Their hate was also compounded by my lack of felonies, active warrants, contraband, or being in the commission of a criminal act.

Inner cities where the majority of young Black men fit that above profile would make it much harder to justify invasive policies.

If the murder rate in these communities disappeared and general gun crime became non-existent, why would “Stop & Frisk” of any sort be necessary?

Until we decide to change these statistics through our choices, racial profiling, good and bad, will continue.

Unlike my White liberal critics, I see the inner city from the inside as a member of a community you will never fully understand because your image of us is your only concern.

I don’t occasionally perform feel-good missions here, nor advocate from afar as a politician or social (ist) service provider.

I’m right here, demanding higher standards, intervening in violations of the peace and not making excuses for what we’d call hate crimes if Americans of other colors committed them here.

This isn’t racial profiling. It’s realistic profiling.

 

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Some Seniors Display The Class And Morals Of 1960s Hippies

10.16.12 Senior Citizen 600x600 Some Seniors display the class and morals of 1960s hippies

Disgusting debasement of America’s moral and Christian standards is reaching an all-time high as reports surface that senior citizens are increasingly falling victim to various sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially Herpes, Chlamydia, Syphilis, and Gonorrhea.  The idiot left-wingers of the 60′s Baby Boomer generation, now reaching what once was called the Golden Years, are making America and themselves laughing stocks with foolish, unseemly conduct bordering on sexual perversion.

By signing onto online seniors “meet and greet sites,” our drugged, defiled, and debased seniors find themselves dealing with personal medical crises unheard of before the left foisted its damaging ideology on foolish and gullible Americans!  Membership in singles dating services for Grannies and Grandpas exploded from 1 million to 2.5 million in just the last nine months; and now the three biggest love sites –Senior People Meet, Seniors Meet, and Ourtime.com–share a participation of more than four million people combined!

When I went to my first and last 55Alive meeting down here in Florida, I sat next to a portly, white haired man who boasted to me, “This was my 45th online date.” He brought a very thin blond woman, just newly widowed, who drove all the way from some place south of Fort Lauderdale to attend this spaghetti, feedlot experience as other retirement-types talked casually of meeting bodies of the opposite sex via cyberspace. Signing up to meet some man via an online arrangement in order to go out on a date at my age of 77 would be absolutely mortifying!  How could a woman preserve any semblance of dignity or expect some man to respect her if she meets people this way?  I’m sorry, but a woman is leaving herself open to all manner of dangers; and getting into a car with someone you don’t know horrifies me!  My ‘50s upbringing certainly drops “stop sticks” in front of me on this one.

What happened to a man vying for a woman’s favors, treating her with the respect due her, opening doors, calling her and not expecting her and other sexually depraved women to CALL HIM?  One doctor said STDs among seniors are running rampant at The Villages community near Orlando, FL.  A gynecologist said she had treated more cases “of Herpes and the Human Papilloma virus in the retirement community than she did in the city of Miami!”

If I can’t find some nice man who values me for what I am, not for what I put out, then I’ll just stay at home. Seeing white hair, bald domes, canes, and oversized Hobo purses struggling up to a cheap pizza place induces my cringe factor, big time.  When an Indiana man told me he went to the doctor to get those “blue pills,” I suggested to him he could go blind, too!  If aging women cannot find better ways to contribute to mankind, what can we expect from our male counterparts?

White Boogeymen And Black Supervillains

Al Sharpton SC White Boogeymen And Black Supervillains

I have searched the Hood high and low looking for its supervillains. This search has yielded a Rogues Gallery of colorful characters, most of whom are themselves Hood residents.

The White Boogeyman has yet to cross my path.

While conservative men, immigrant businessmen, and capitalism generally are Black America’s preferred scapegoats; homegrown hell-raisers get a pass.

Our supervillain lens seems set to ignore the supervillain culture urging youth to be ever more vulgar and violent.

This lens also does cultural editing where daily Black shooters I call chocolate Klansmen are deleted in favor of the occasional police officer or non-Black citizen shooting one of us.

Black supervillains have it made.

They have their own high profile lobbyists, like Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and civil rights organizations like the NAACP to propose softening penalties for their crimes.

Any wrong they do can always be blamed, no matter how improbably, on the likes of Mitt Romney or…Rush Limbaugh.

Black supervillains are never at fault for what they do and thus enjoy unlimited license to destroy even more generations while the Black mainstream contents itself to look for White boogeymen.

This deadly serious game of White Boogeymen and Black Supervillains has nearly destroyed the inner city, has Black popular culture on life support, and promises to forever remove most American Blacks from contention as competitors in this marketplace.

It’s hard for me as an anti-crime activist to ignore the surplus of Black supervillains around me in the inner city, in favor of distant White boogeymen.

Loving thugs who refuse to repent is literally costing us everything!

Crime fighting, like charity, begins at home!

 

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Killing The Obamacare Zombie: Hope Lives!

Obamacare SC Killing the Obamacare Zombie: Hope Lives!

“But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs,” you say. “And political eunuchs in the GOP establishment are bowing to Obama like he bows to foreign dictators. Any hope of repeal is long dead, and besides, Chief Justice John Roberts put the final nail in the judicial coffin last summer, didn’t he? Any chance of killing the Obamacare zombie is gone, right?”

Wrong.

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media paid it little attention; but back in November, the U.S. Supreme Court shocked many in the legal community by granting Liberty Counsel’s motion for a rehearing on its multi-pronged challenge to Obamacare. The high court ordered the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear arguments. This is extremely rare and means, almost certainly, that Chief Justice Roberts will get another bite at the rotten apple – this time, with a whole new quiver of legal arrows.

Following the Supreme Court’s directive, Liberty Counsel recently filed its brief in the case of Liberty University v. Geithner. The Christian civil rights firm represents Liberty University and two private individuals in this case. While there are other legal challenges to the employer contraceptive/abortifacient mandate, Liberty Counsel’s is the most comprehensive case pending in the country.

The lawsuit challenges 1) the employer mandate for all employers; 2) the abortion mandate for religious employers; 3) the abortion mandate for individuals; and 4) the entire law because tax bills must originate in the House (and Obamacare originated in the Senate.)

This case is the only one in the country that challenges the entire employer mandate for all employers. Like other pending cases, Liberty Counsel’s also challenges the so-called “Preventative coverage” mandate, which requires employers to provide free contraceptives, sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and IUDs, which also causes abortion.

Additionally, Obamacare compels individual citizens to violate their conscience by making them directly fund abortion homicide – both surgical and chemical – under penalty of law. It forces all employees who are part of a plan that offers abortion coverage to pay $1 per month directly to a “free” abortion fund. There is no opt-out provision, and information relative to which plans offer abortion is intentionally covered up. This too is part of the case, so don’t let anyone tell you that Obamacare doesn’t require you to fund abortion on demand. If they do, they’re simply lying through their triple-grande,-four-pump-hazelnut-mocha-stained teeth.

Finally, Liberty Counsel’s brief argues that Obamacare is invalid because, since it’s a tax – as the Supreme Court already ruled in June – it violates the Constitution’s Origination Clause. To pass constitutional muster, tax bills must originate in the House, not the Senate.

Before the Democrat-led Senate rammed it through in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 2009, Senate majority leader Harry Reid used a House bill unrelated to Obamacare, struck all the language and the title so that only the former HR number remained, and then inserted a new title and over 2,000 pages of job-killing, economy-crushing, health-care-rationing compost.

Sneaky? Yes. Typical? No doubt. Unconstitutional? Absolutely. It’s like dropping a Ford Pinto engine into a totaled Ferrari body, patching it up, and then selling it to some unsuspecting dupe as a “brand new Ferrari.”

Unfortunately, America was that unsuspecting dupe.

Well, the jig’s up. The Constitution is unambiguous on this matter: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” Const. art. I §7, cl. 1.

As Liberty Counsel’s brief notes, “Though denominated with a House bill number, the Act actually originated in the Senate, and therefore violates the Origination Clause.”

“Obamacare represents a frontal attack to religious freedom,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Obamacare is a train about to collide with the fundamental right to free exercise of religion. Not only does Obamacare violate the rights of religious employers because of its abortion mandate, it violates the rights of individuals who oppose abortion and the rights of all employers, religious or not.

“And to boot,” continued Staver, “the entire law is invalid because tax bills must originate in the House, and Obamacare originated in the Senate.”

Yep, doctor shortages, medical-school dropouts, skyrocketing premiums, no money for pre-existing conditions, trillions more than promised, forced taxpayer funding of abortion, critical health-care rationing, and a bankrupt nation.

Welcome to America’s fall.

Welcome to Obamacare.

Zombies eat brains. If they weren’t already dead, they’d most certainly starve to death on the squalid diet of grey matter served-up by Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and every other cracked skull who voted to open the curtain on this unconstitutional Obamacare freak show.

Thankfully, Chief Justice Roberts, whom I strongly suspect regrets voting to uphold it, looks to have another chance to bury it once and for all.

I wonder if that was his strategy all along.

I sure hope so.

Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action.

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Students Suspended For Tackling Armed Teen

Gun SC Students suspended for tackling armed teen

While riding home on the school bus recently, three teens made a split-second decision that likely saved another student’s life and earned them an immediate suspension.

The Florida students noticed a schoolmate pointing a revolver at another student while threatening to shoot. The trio jumped into action, wrestling the gun away and preventing what could have easily become another senseless tragedy.

One of the students spoke to the media, but requested not to be identified.

“I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there,” the student said, noting the armed teen, Quadryle Davis, was a football player who had threatened to shoot a fellow member of the team over a personal beef.

According to Davis’ arrest report, his .22 caliber handgun was loaded; and he was “pointing the gun directly” at an individual while “threatening to shoot him.” Despite the report, his initial charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon contained the caveat that it was committed without intent to kill.

The students, whose quick thinking likely saved a life, certainly perceived an intent and did what they felt needed to be done. School administrators, on the other hand, felt differently and promptly issued an emergency suspension for each student involved.

Accused of being a part of an incident involving a weapon, the school’s principal made use of a state law that “allows the principal to suspend a student immediately pending a hearing,” a district source explained.

While it is technically true these three teens were involved in an incident with a weapon, they were only involved to the extent that they disarmed a potential threat. Punishing everyone involved sends an irrational and discouraging message.

This principal could stand to learn something from the mother of one of the suspended students, who said the brave youth “should have a pat on their backs because they did the right thing to save someone from burying their child.”

They most assuredly did do the right thing, and I can only hope that their ridiculous treatment by the school does not dissuade any other youth from jumping in when needed.
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Does It Ever End With Massachusetts’ Democrats?

Democrat SC Does it ever end With Massachusetts Democrats?

There are 200 State Senators and Representatives in Massachusetts. Only 33 are Republicans; the rest are Democrats. Massachusetts sends only Democrats to represent her in the US Senate and Congress. Massachusetts obviously likes being subject to the whims of the hardcore Left, which is its choice; but willfully becoming the toys of the power-hungry unbalanced has its price. Whenever Democrats gain such total power, they become increasingly dangerous and their lunatic streak comes bubbling to the fore.

Not surprisingly, the latest example of what Democrats will do to their subject victims comes from Massachusetts. A New Bedford Democrat has introduced a bill that would hand over the determination of what is and what is not proper and “acceptable” treatment of animals to private citizen PETA types.

As in all other states, animal cruelty is already a crime in Massachusetts. But of course, writing new freedom-restricting laws is seen as a “birth right” of liberals; so that hasn’t stopped a New Bedford State Senator from cranking out a new, more oppressive law.

This law would let private citizens watch how you train your dog and determine whether or not to sue you on behalf of the animal.  If you own a farm, a PETA-type loony could stand at the edge of your land writing down what he/she didn’t like and haul you into court on behalf of your livestock.

One of these self-appointed “Livestock and wildlife lawyers” could watch you legally hunting on your own land and have you served with papers ordering you to defend yourself in court against charges of animal cruelty. Would anyone want to defend against animal cruelty charges in a state dripping with liberal Democrats?

Imagine having to pay for legal council in a lawsuit where the other side not only had endlessly deep pockets (bet on that), but where the judge in the case was appointed by loony liberal Democrats intent upon reasserting their power over us at every opportunity!

Not long ago, something like this could be laughed off as the ravings of the “kook fringe” of the Democrat Party. Those days are over. There is no “kook fringe” of the Democrat Party anymore. It’s just the Democrat Party showing us what it is.

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Gangsta’ Government And The GOP

GOP SC Gangsta Government and the GOP

America’s founding fathers were beholden to the odd notion that the best prevention against a tyrannical leader or mob rule was the simple yet effective system of checks and balances. Presently, a nominal Republican majority in the House of Representatives is the only thing keeping American capitalism from a nosedive into collectivism, communism, Marxism, Leninism, or Maoism. (Feel free to choose your noun.)

I write “odd notion” because since taking office, Obama and Team Pelosi-Reid have effectively used the U.S. Constitution for White House toilet paper. They consistently write checks that can’t be cashed and operate on budgets that cannot be balanced. Not exactly what the founders had in mind. Need a more specific example? All one needs to do is remember the spending spree Democrats went on when they were in control during 2009-2010, leading to the Obamacare fight that Republicans and a majority of Americans went on to lose.

As a result, the electorate said “yes” to checks and balances when it said “no more” to Democrats-Gone-Wild, awarding Republicans the House majority during the 2010 midterm elections (and again in 2012). It’s been a miserable two years for debt-addicted Democrats. Addiction is the right word to be applied here. Addicts (insert Democrats) lose control of their sensibilities, never attaining satisfaction because they always need more.

To heck with the electorate’s wishes and checks and balances; many of these archetypal addicts have convinced themselves any way but their way is downright immoral. According to the Washington Post on March 2, President Obama told reporters he can’t “force Congress to do the right thing” regarding the sequester he originally initiated. Right thing? Seems to me Congress is doing the right thing when they say no to what they believe is the wrong thing for those they represent. Right… err…correct?

Not on your life — if the goal is to eliminate all things traditionally American. And if that’s the case, brace yourself for more Chicago-style gangsta’ politics to regain control of the House of Representatives in 2014. That’s why we will continue to hear incessant rants flowing from Obama’s mouth articulating a dishonest portrayal of the “checks” (Republicans) placed to keep him in balance.

We also see the creepy metamorphosis of Obama’s “Organizing for America” into “Organizing for Action” (OFA), which, according to The Weekly Standard, exploits “a loophole in campaign law and ethics regulations” by claiming it is an ostensibly nonpolitical “social welfare group.” Considering some of the emails they’ve sent and I’ve received, they’re about as nonpolitical as the 501c(3) organization Media Matters, of which Fox News claims is bias to Democrats and “maintains a close working relationship with the Obama White House.”

OFA is pimping out the POTUS at $500,000 a pop. Regardless of legality, OFA is raising “pay to play” to a whole new level. “You can buy four audiences per year with President Obama,” according to the Washington Examiner. And $500,000 is for what? A means to an end, I guess.

Those beholden to common sense can glance beyond the peripheral to see what’s undoubtedly happening. Had public welfare, by way of job creation or relief from exorbitant food and gas prices, been a priority, the momentum would be moving in the other direction five years in. Instead, Obama is bent on destroying the one thing, the GOP, that is keeping him from his dream of radical change.

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Choose Grassroots Over Current GOP Establishment

Tea Party SC Choose Grassroots Over Current GOP Establishment

Black folks haven’t given the GOP a reason to court us! This may anger liberals and conservatives within my community (and beyond!), but this fact isn’t being mentioned!

Waiting for middle-aged frat boys at the local, state, and RNC levels to “get religion” about more Black folks in the Republican Party is highly unlikely.

The fact that most of our vote not once, but twice, was thrown to Obama doesn’t thaw conservative hearts now more frozen than ever on Black inclusion.

I see non-GOP establishment entities like the Tea Party, FreedomWorks, and traditionalist third parties like the Christian party welcoming Black conservatives with open arms.

The Abolitionist mantle has slipped the Republican Party’s grasp in terms of representation (Michael Steele’s RNC chairmanship noted) and has been happily taken up by grassroots activists who see principle more than pigmentation.

I’m not saying Republicans are racist per se, but they are realists who assess Black voter turnout and rabid support of liberal platform items as reasons to write us off.

They feel Black voters wrote off the Republican Party generations ago.

Grassroots traditional values activists welcome Black conservatives because they know how difficult it is getting fellow American Whites to abandon socialism!

The way forward may rest in passing the GOP establishment and running Tea Party and third party Black conservative candidates who otherwise wouldn’t get Old Guard Republican support.

Their campaigns and potential victories can be used to create new coalitions of diverse Americans concerned about family values and the Constitution without being bogged down by the GOP machinery.

This also will give Republicans and Democrat-only Black voters a much needed wake-up call that their Cold war isn’t the only game in town.

Americans who love shared principle over various hues are uniting at the grassroots level while the status quo festers.

 

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When Confiscation Begins, Politicians Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Gun Control SC When confiscation begins, politicians guilty until proven innocent

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As the far left pass into law unconstitutional and unforgivable statutes by which to confiscate the firearms of the American people, a number of gun rights supporters believe the reclamation of our 2nd Amendment rights must depend upon the continued election of declared, pro-2nd Amendment Republicans.

Unfortunately, such is the rose-colored-glasses thinking of individuals either too foolish, too gullible or too cowardly to recognize the perpetual treachery of elected Republicans for what it truly is— a politician’s perception of political necessity taking precedence over his duty to support the God given rights of the American people.

And never mind the argument that politicians who vote for gun confiscation will be in imminent danger of losing their jobs and therefore get what they deserve. That is irrelevant to the situation. For such politicians are traitors to the nation and to the American people. They are intent upon eliminating a God given, constitutionally codified and protected right! Therefore, reclaiming their elected office ceases to be an issue of any import as the very fact of their vote to abolish the right to keep and bear arms means they have lost all right to be a lawmaker in a free country.

In fact, it is not the right to their job which has been forfeited, but their right to continued existence. For as enemies of freedom and liberty, they have become implacable enemies of the American public. And no American has the obligation to tolerate the continued efforts or existence of anyone whose clear purpose is the enslavement of American citizens. Any laws implemented by such traitors are void and like all unconstitutional, illegal legislation, need not be obeyed.

In short, these politicians have already forfeited their jobs. Upon the implementation of gun confiscation, it shall be up to Americans to decide if they have also forfeited their lives.

Over the years, the Republicans Party has displayed nothing if not a well-known willingness to “go along to get along.” The importance Republican politicians place on retaining their jobs and power rather than doing what is right—protecting the Constitution by honoring their oath of office—has proven that no political party should ever be depended upon to secure the rights and liberty of Americans. In the end, that is OUR responsibility. Too long we have entrusted politicians with the care of our liberty and watched as it has been either trampled or stolen away. It is long past time we demand politicians follow the dictates of the Constitution or be removed from office. And NOT by the next vote, but by force.

God given rights are not negotiable. They cannot be bartered away by politicians in search of some nebulous “greater good.” And Americans must never permit the importance of their rights to be re-defined downward from the meaning and weight given them by the Founders. For in so doing we lose our constitutional republic and become no more than the slaves the left is so intent upon making us.

Menendez Likes His Hookers Young And Inexperienced

Robert Menendez SC Menendez likes his hookers young and inexperienced

“That senator likes the youngest and newest girls,” said a young Dominican Republic hooker as she described in detail what allegedly went on at sex parties involving Miami ophthalmologist and high-dollar campaign donor Salmon Melgen and New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. Of course Menendez is denying everything, something not difficult to do with the majority of the mainstream media covering up for the liberal democrat.

When she heard the code word “chocolate,” a young sex worker said she and other females knew they were being summoned to various homes. She even preserved the phone number from which the “chocolate” summons came. But she now fears something may happen to her, saying “if they know that I spoke with someone; they will find me.” Another young underage female claims she ”had sex with Menendez three times at least in 2009,” and that she remembers the June visit well because her 17th birthday was in June. These news stories are being carried by The Daily Caller news blog which is posting information from Spanish translations and reports by tipsters and informants. One such informant noted that the girls remember being checked medically more often “because of him.”

All of these “allegations by unnamed sources” are being piously denied by a spokesman for Menendez. Calling failure to pay for one trip an “oversight,” the aide said the senator reimbursed Doctor Salomon Melgen more than $58,000 on January 4, 2013, two years after these denied trips took place!

On February 9th, the Cuban news source Progresso Weekly revealed that a drop dead gorgeous, 26 year old Ukrainian theatre, film, and TV actress named Svitlana (Ukrainian spelling) “Lana” Buchyk was “one of the most regular participants in the activities.” “She has traveled with them in the jet, sailed with them in the yacht, and has repeatedly visited the Doctor’s house.” According to a MIAMI HERALD story of 2-04-2010 -as reported in PROGRESO-, when Lana was involved in a car wreck in Coral Gables, FL, she gave Melgens’ address “as her own,” saying that the car belonged to the eye doctor’s wife. Lana tweeted, “I feel like Moroccan having my hands painted with Henna and wearing a beautiful silk traditional Caftan.” http://t.co/VRYxKmVnXO. But in another tweet, Lana stated, “The truth always comes out. Love and Peace to all of ya. . .The best Miami in the World” http://t.co/YprjkmvaDg

Of course, Lana is not talking, only subtly alluding to the connection she had with the doctor. And the watchdog group CREW-Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, DC,- could not confirm the validity of any of these shenanigans because the principal actors involved in this saga of hookers, dollars, and politics are vigorously saying nothing happened and that all of these allegations are being manufactured by right wing nuts online.

So as pictures of Barack Obama strolling on a Florida beach with a young man appear and quickly are removed from the internet, will the Affair Menendez also be rapidly vaporized? As late as February 21st, an ABC affiliate in New Jersey reported on the Menendez story as one involving political contributors, not hookers and stated Dr. Melgen had been reimbursed by the senator. Of course there was no mention that the reimbursement had come 2 years after the plane trips Menendez had been provided and was only made upon pressure by the Senate Ethics Committee! Just what is going on with our elected officials?