Rodney King..."I Would Have Pulled Over"

This guy makes Joe Biden look like Einstein. What does Rodney King have in common with Stephen King besides sharing the same last name? They are both authors. Rodney couldn't write a grocery list let alone a book. 

 Although King was beaten far beyond from what I thought was necessary to subdue him, his words "I would have pulled over" conveys he may have learned a lesson from all this. Afraid not... he's been arrested 11 times for various offenses since then! These are some of the infractions destroying any use he had as a symbolic figure of racial inequality. 

Trying to run over a police officer

Hitting his wife with his car

Committing indecent exposure while high on PCP

Driving while on PCP and crashing through a house

Threatening to kill his daughter and punching his girlfriend in the stomach

Reportedly, when asked how it feels to be stopped by the police so often, King said “it just beats the hell out of me.”

Maybe he's looking for another payday since I hear he blew through the $1.6 million he received the first time. 

That's his new girlfriend. So far she has no contusions.
Oh..BTW.. she sat on the jury that awarded him $3.8 million. 
His right index finger is covering up the guy's name who
actually wrote the book.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- It's been 20 years since the Los Angeles Riots, and Rodney King -- the man at the center of it all -- is in the news again.

King, whose videotaped beating by police was seen all around the world, is now an author.

In his new autobiography, "The Riot Within," King says that his biggest regret is not pulling over that night in 1991, before his confrontation with the LAPD.


"I would have pulled over," he said in an interview with KTLA's Eric Spillman. "I would have just pulled over and got the ticket."

"I had a job to go to that following Monday, and I knew that I'd been drinking and was on parole, and I thought I could get away," King explained.

King says that during the beating that followed, he did not resist. Instead, he says he was just trying to stay alive.

"When I heard the words, 'N****r run, we're gonna kill you, n****r run'... You know, here in a street fight that's to the death," King said.

"I knew life was just a matter of seconds of me dying, so I've gotta try and cover up what I can... Keep my hands above my brain and just scream as loud as I could and as long as I could."

A year later, in April of 1992, King watched on TV as a jury acquitted the four police officers and riots broke out.

King says he was shocked to see the violence, but he was not surprised by the jury's verdict that led to the rioting.

"My case was so strong and so believable, they had to turn that thing around and make it seem like I was being combative and I was resisting arrest," King said.

"There was no other direction that they could have took because it was so clear as day that they had almost took my life."

The mayhem that followed the verdict resulted in 56 deaths, thousands of people hurt and hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage.

Tanesha's unable to contain her pent up emotions over the Rodney King incident felt the need to go "shopping"

In his book, King reveals that on the night the riots started, he put on a disguise and drove into South L.A. to see the burning and looting with his own eyes.

Someone yelled COPS!!! at the book signing

"I put on my reggae hat and braids and started out," King recalled.

"It was just too rough for me," he said. "I'm a tough guy, but that was a war zone out there. In our own backyard, we had a war zone."

King also reveals that, on that first night of rioting, a cousin brought over a pickup truck loaded with liquor and electronics that had been looted from stores.

"They were saying, 'This is for you man. We did this for you,'" King said.

"I'm like, I can't take it. I cannot take that. This is not what I expected."

King says he watched the rioting on TV for several days. He says he felt vindication at first, and then sadness and guilt.

He decided to go in front of the cameras after a phone call from his lawyer.

"He gave me a sheet of paper to read off of, and I wouldn't be able to read all that stuff that they had written down," King recounted.

"So I spoke what was from my heart, you know, 'Can't we all just get along?'" King said, recalling his now famous words.

"That's right off the top of my head -- 'Can't we all just get along?' After I'm dead and gone, it's a good thing for people to remember me by."

Since he spoke those words 20 years ago, King has been arrested 11 times for domestic violence, assault, drug use and, repeatedly, for DUI."

"I drink. I know the alcoholic gene runs in my family," King admitted.

But he says he's working hard to stay sober, and he has a new fiancee.

Cynthia Kelly served on the civil jury that awarded King $3.8 million in 1994.

They met afterward and then reconnected two years ago.

"We started talking and, you know, just one thing led to another," Cynthia said.

"Two days later I was like, 'Well, it was cool to see you again, I'm about to go home,' and he was like, 'Nuh-uh, you're about to be my girlfriend!'"

King says a lot of people are curious about how much money he ended up with from that civil case.

He claims that, after the lawyers got their cuts, he received about $1.6 or $1.7 million.

Rodney King..."I Would Have Pulled Over"

Obama...helping America Downsize

When Obama took office (2009) the median priced home was $172,000. As of April 2012 the value has dropped to $158,000.

Might be a good idea to take some of this stuff to heart when you go to the voting booth in November.

Obama...helping America Downsize

Lawmakers, Obama back Secret Service director

Two House Republican committee chairs said today they expect more departures in the wake of the Secret Service prostitution scandal, but expressed confidence in Director Mark Sullivan.

"I have full confidence in him," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, speaking on NBC's Meet The Press.

He added: "I would suspect within the very near future to have several other Secret Service agents leaving the agency."

King and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Cal., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said they were less concerned with the "salacious" details of the scandal, than with the idea of agents allowing foreign nationals into a secure area.

President Obama has also endorsed Secret Service Director Sullivan, but is angry over the incident that overshadowed last weekend's trip to the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

Maybe he should be a little more "angry". Sullivan's the same guy who was in charge during the Salahi party crasher incident. So far he has been at the helm of two major fuck ups. I don't know who's more inept; POTUS or the Secret Service Director.

Dumb

Dumber

Dumbest 

Is that even possible?

"I think it's fair to say he was apoplectic," said campaign adviser David Axelrod, also on Meet The Press.

The incident involved at least 23 federal security personnel, a dozen members of the military and 11 military people.

Six Secret Service personnel have left the agency in the wake of the prostitution scandal, either through resignation, retirement, or dismissal.

Another five remain under investigation over allegations they brought prostitutes back to their hotel, two days before Obama arrived in Colombia.

One other Secret Service official has been cleared of "serious misconduct," but still faces "appropriate administrative action," said a statement from the agency.

The U.S. Southern Command says 11 military personnel remain under investigation.

King and Issa said investigators must still determine if Obama's security was ever compromised while in Colombia, something the Secret Service has so far denied. The lawmakers also said Sullivan must take steps to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., a Democratic member of the House oversight committee, said on ABC's This Week that hearings are likely on the incident. Maloney also raised cultural issues surrounding the Secret Service, noting only 11% of the agents are women.

"If there were more agents on the ground, maybe we would not have had this," Maloney said.

Also on ABC, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she doubted the Colombian prostitution incident was a one-time thing.

"To me it defies belief that this is just an aberration," Collins said. "There were too many people involved. If it had been one or two, then I would say it was an aberration. But it included two supervisors. That is particularly shocking and appalling."

Common sense coming from Susan Collins of all people.

Lawmakers, Obama back Secret Service director

Obama ladles up hot bowls of class warfare

By

John Kass

Chicago Tribune

April 22, 2012

Mitt Romney isn't exactly my cup of tea, and loyal readers know this. But my readers are quite civilized and know that tea is served properly with silver spoons.

Not wooden spoons. And not earthenware spoons fit for turnips and onions. But silver spoons. Order afternoon tea at any fine hotel and you will see that they bring you silver spoons.

The silver spoon is for stirring, lightly, without clanking against the wall of the thin china cup. It is not a battle-ax to dismember your enemy, leaving his bones and meat upon the ground as you make speeches about civility. It is not a stiletto, for quick work unrecognized until it is too late. 

It is a spoon.

But President Barack Obama, cruelly and foolishly, wielded a silver spoon in an attack on Romney. His was a thrusting motion, and that lunge revealed something desperate about our president, something unseemly. I remember Obama as a younger man who said he wanted to transcend the broken politics of the past. Now what he wants is a second term.

"I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth," said Obama at a campaign speech in Ohio last week. "Michelle wasn't. But somebody gave us a chance — just like these fine folks up here are looking for a chance."


Silver spoon? More like dining at the trough of Affirmative Action.

Who did pay for Obama to attend Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard? When you start digging into Obama's background, you turn up more questions than answers. 

 By the age of 20 the average American has had their picture taken hundreds of times at various events, holidays, weddings, vacations, etc.

You ever wonder why there are so few of Obama?

The spoon flashed as he stepped forward and tried to slip it somewhere between Romney's political ribs, the message unmistakable: Romney is the rich man, caring only for the rich, and I am the anti-Romney, born poor and guardian of the people.

Naturally, the class warrior didn't mention charging regular folks $1,000 for a handshake at a fundraiser, but class warfare is the theme of the Democrats in 2012.

 The Republican is of the equestrian class that rides over the poor, leaving hoof prints on their necks. And Obama is of the people, so please forget that presidential media guru David Axelrod just dropped $1.7 million on a gorgeous Chicago condo.

In America, only snobs and fools look down upon someone born poor. It's un-American. But if your father's poverty isn't your fault, then why should your father's wealth be a sin?

The opportunity to seek wealth is why our people came here, why they left their villages overseas to ride in steerage, seasick, eating black bread and spooning out the stew with wooden spoons, just on the chance that their grandchildren might hold a silver one someday.

My father plowed his fields with a mule named Truman. Does that make me more virtuous than the daughters of a president who attend the finest schools in the country? Of course it doesn't.

White House press secretary Jay Carney insisted that Obama wasn't talking about Romney. He said that anyone who thought Obama was referring to him might "be a little oversensitive."

But then I haven't really believed a thing Carney has said since he was a correspondent and wrote a revolting CNN; Time puff piece on the Daley machine. Chicago was drowning in debt and outright corruption, but you wouldn't know it from Mr. Carney.


Carney is the biggest Wuss in Washington

That awkward monthly moment for Jay

He gushed over Daley, and said that Daley watches over Chicago the way Andy watches over Mayberry. Yes. Chicago as Mayberry. Dig it.

Romney, of course, took great umbrage at Obama's silver spoon crack, saying it was aimed at his father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, a former president of American Motors.

"The president likes to attack fellow Americans," said Romney on Fox News. "He's always looking for a scapegoat, particularly (those who) have been successful like my dad, and I'm not going to rise to that."

I find both of them flawed, Romney as the ring bearer for all that's wrong with the corporatist Republican smothering of the conservative spirit, Obama as the keeper of the federal leviathan, feeding it as it grows larger, squeezing the life out of entrepreneurship.

There are two kinds of politicians: those without personal wealth, and those with personal wealth. Those with money don't need politics to make more. Those without money need friends as they climb the ladder of public service.

Michelle Obama had such friends. She was making $121,910 a year in 2004 as a lobbyist for the University of Chicago hospitals. But two months after her husband took office as a U.S. senator, she was promoted. Her income zoomed to $316,962 a year.

(Interestingly... after she left her vacancy was never filled)

And the president had friends. One is named Tony Rezko. He's rotting in federal prison, although it was Rezko and his wife who put together the strange deal that helped Barack and Michelle buy their dream house in Kenwood that they never seem to visit anymore.

In prison, Tony Rezko doesn't use a silver spoon. He uses a plastic spork.

Obama ladles up hot bowls of class warfare

If Trayvon Martin were a pit bull... viewed from the left and the right

Right version

Left version

The truth lying probably somewhere in the middle.

If Trayvon Martin were a pit bull... viewed from the left and the right