Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Barely a month after a Cleveland bus driver uppercut a disruptive female passenger on his route, another brawl between a bus operator and teenager on Monday in Baltimore went viral.

The video shows the two women scrapping throughout the bus until the driver finally gains control of the teen. At the 1:47, the driver is heard repeatedly asking the girl, “You wanna fight somebody? Does it make you feel better?”

Adrian Williams, 22, was sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 brutal slaying of 17-year-old Quinton Brown in a deserted cemetery.

It’s a story of dark twists and turns — and suspicions still linger.

Denzel Fort, Williams and Keldrick Washington spotted the teenager standing on a street corner at approximately 3:00 a.m. They asked him to ride with them to test pistols — including a .357 Smith and Wesson and an EAA .357 revolver — at the historic Natchez City Cemetery.

Washington is also charged with murder; his trial is later this month.

Andrew Thomas, 18, has been charged with solicitation of murder and solicitation of murder for hire for attempting to hire a hitman to kill his girlfriend and her children.

According to Cook County Sheriff’s police spokesman, Frank Bilecki, Thomas was serving time for battering his girlfriend and planned for the hit to take place before his next court appearance on December 3rd of this year. He offered $3,000 for the slaying of his girlfriend, and an additional $1,000 to kill 3 of her 4 children — aged from 2- to 4-years-old — if they got in the way.

The youngest child, the only one fathered by Thomas, was to be spared.

WASHINGTON — Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she will run to keep her job as the Democratic leader in the House, after a pair of elections that kept the party in the minority there even as Democrats gained seats in the Senate and a second term for President Barack Obama.

“My colleagues made it very clear: ‘Don’t even think of leaving’,” she recalled at a news conference, surrounded by women lawmakers. “I have made a decision to submit my name to my colleagues to once again serve as the House Democratic leader.”

After losing his seat to Democrat challenger Patrick Murphy, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) turned down an offer to run for office in Georgia from the state’s Republican Party chairwoman, Sue Everhart, saying that he’ not an “NFL free agent.”

In an interview, West addressed Everhart’s offer, he said, “Look, let me tell you something. I have moved my wife around for 20-some-odd years, being in the military, and she was also the daughter of a career military guy.”

“When I retired, she chose Florida. That’s where my daughter’s in school, in college, my youngest daughter’s in high school. That’s our home. It’s a very nice thing, but I’m not an NFL free agent.”

Mary Woods is so incensed that her son Jamal, a freshman at the University of Mississippi, was racially attacked on the school’s campus that she has enlisted the help of two civil rights organizations who are offering a reward to bring  justice to her family.

The 19-year-old ROTC freshman, who had planned to graduate and then enlist to serve in this country’s armed forces, became the target of several racist taunts that began in August.  Someone reportedly wrote racial slurs on his dorm room door that read, “Blacks are known to steal,” followed by profanity that was scrawled on the youth’s door along with smeared lotion and two playing cards.

The incident left both mother and son shaken.

Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and Rep. George Miller (D-CA) have both proposed legislation aimed at shortening long lines on Election Day.

In the light of infamously slow voting lines that plagued states like Florida and Ohio this year, Coons introduced the Louis L. Redding Fair, Accurate, Secure and Timely (FAST) Voting Act of 2012.

It’s modeled after President Obama’s Race to the Top education program and it will reward states with federal grants if they make voting a quicker and more efficient process.

Besides long lines at the polls, which some people waited in for up to nine hours, this election season also had shorter early-voting periods, photo ID and poll location confusion, and reports of uncounted ballots.

Coons hasn’t set a dollar amount for the grants yet, but in order to qualify for them states would need to improve their voting process by:

Providing flexible registration opportunities, including same-day registration; Providing early voting, at a minimum of 9 of the 10 calendar days preceding an election;  Providing absentee voting, including no-excuse absentee voting;  Providing assistance to voters who do not speak English as a primary language; and  Providing assistance to voters with disabilities, including visual impairment.

This election, the issue of voter disenfranchisement was front and center in several key states across the country. One of the most-controversial moves in the case of voter suppression and the potential robbery of democracy occurred in the battleground state of Ohio.

Republican Secretary Of State Jon Husted’s decision to change the rules just days before the election was “a flagrant violation of a state elections law,” wrote U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley on Tuesday.

On November 2, Husted issued a directive to local election officials to reject certain provisional ballots from voters who didn’t follow explicit instructions of identification on the ballot application.

Judge Marbley ruled that Husted violated a state law that instructs poll workers to fill out the ballot application; the directive would have put the onus on the voter to fill out the form. Husted also violated a federal court agreement that would protect provisional ballots from rejection due to poll worker error.

Some people are really having a difficult time facing the reality of a Black president, so difficult in fact, citizens from 20 states  — and counting — have filed petitions at We The People on WhiteHouse.gov to be granted permission to leave the union.

The people are from: Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Michigan, Colorado, New Jersey, Montana, Missouri, North Dakota, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Arkansas, and Oregon.

According to the terms of participation for “We The People,” as of October 3, 2011, petitions that meet the listed criteria become searchable on WhiteHouse.gov once — and if — they reach 150 signatures within 30 days. If that is accomplished, for President Obama to actively consider a petition, it must reach 25,000 signatures within the remainder of the same 30-day period.

The White House reserves the right to change the time limit and number of signatures required.

Bottom line: while it’s understandable that many conservatives have an aversion to these little things called “facts,” President Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.

They need to either deal with that or get a passport.