Saturday, March 10, 2018

Toys "R" Us Is History!


Your childhood memories are about to come to an end.

Like Saturday Morning Cartoons on the Big Five, your days of childhood are over. Your days of telling mom and dad that you want to go to the toy store are coming to an end.

The world's largest toy store company may close all the stores in the United States taking away 15 to 25% of the toys sold.

Toys R Us was the one place a child would go to buy toys and games. It was the place where you don't want to grow up. Now it's on the verge of collapse.


Toys R Us is going out of business. Will you miss it?

Of course I will. It was a part of my childhood.
No. There's other places that sell toys and games.
Amazon offers better deals.


Corporate executives are debating whether they continue the bleeding or just let it die. Now if it goes into the Chapter 7 bankrupcy, it will begin liquidation and the formal closing of its stores.

This could affect Hasbro, Mattel, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, LEGO, Bandai, LG, The North Face and Jakks Pacific.

This could have an impact on Walmart, Target, Kroger and other big box stores.

While Donald J. Trump touts jobs, jobs, jobs, those affected by the imminent closing of Toys R Us will be out of jobs.

The gift cards and perks are going to end soon. The demise will hurt your childhood.

I have a 19 month old son who will never have an opportunity to experience what it's like to be a Toys R Us kid.

Any thoughts?

Company Man is a very popular blogger on YouTube. He will give you a honest and sad take on the fate of Toys R Us.


Blame Game: Albert Wong!

The terrorist was a former combat veteran with post traumatic stress disorder.
The Blame Game once again comes into play.

So who takes the blame for this tragedy?


There was a mass shooting in California. The terrorist killed individuals before the law got him. Who will get the blame?

Barack Obama
Donald Trump
NRA
Black Lives Matter
Muslims
Liberals
Conservatives
The Junk Food Media
Congress
The Shooter


Obviously I know who deserves the blame. But I want to know what can be done? Cause I am getting tired of hearing that "now isn't the time to talk about guns."

Now is the time and we need to get something done through the Congress.

This inept leader could win my support if he gets his mouth off the tip of Wayne LaPierre's shriveled dick. He taking advise from the National Rifle Association is a badge of shame.

The NRA ain't about gun safety. It's about selling guns and lobbying for more massacres. All that tough guy talk won't save these bozos from an AR15.

The terrorist was identified. He was a military veteran suffering from PTSD.

The terrorist is a man of color. He is an Asian American man. He is a personally and government trained firearm specialist.




These are the guys the NRA, Republicans and Donald J. Trump want in our schools. They want military veterans, armed school teachers, and more armed security to protect your school. However, they don't want to fund the education budget or the give educators a raise.

So yesterday, this terrorist stormed into a party at the Pathway Veterans Home Program. This was a state funded rehabilitation center.

Trump, Gov. Jerry Brown, Democratic senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris all expressed their condolences and their phony sympathy.

They offer nothing but finger pointing and no real solutions.

They then do these ridiculous platitudes. These lowering of the American flag, their heart, their thoughts and prayers will not bring back the dead or the heal the wounds.

The victims were women who worked to help veterans.

Their families will now have to bury them. We grieve, talk about for a few days, do a political debate on social media, move on and then it happens again.

Enough is enough.

The March for Our Lives Rally is March 24.

Bloody March: Mass Shooting In California!

Shooting at a California treatment center for veterans with mental issues.
A terrorist who was a veteran with PTSD killed three workers at a Yountville, California rehabilitation center.

The terrorist was a resident at the facility. He used the weapon of choice to massacre four people who likely had families and careers in psychology.

The terrorist barged in on a going away party for another patient.

Donald J. Trump, Gov. Jerry Brown, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) will offer the usual phony sympathy and condescending condolences to the victims.

Only two weeks since the massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and we continue to allow this shit to happen.
Three lives lost to senseless gun violence.
No other country in the world would allow this happen.

I am tired of hearing the bullshit about these terrorists having mental issues and ties to some form of extremism.

What they do is squarely their own doing.

The Pathway Home was the scene where a terrorist decided that in order to get name recognition, he would put bullets in three women and then go out like a punk.

SWAT tried to negotiate with the terrorist. They knew a trained armed individual wasn't willing to let hostages go without a fight in a hail of bullets.

The governor is using these worthless platitudes to make people feel good.

What will thoughts and prayers, lowering of flags, your heart and your condolences do?

Nothing. It will not heal the wounds.

It certainly won't bring back the dead.

And even in Democratic majority California, the gun laws are loose.

While that racist elf is worried about immigrants who came to the country illegally, we have White men losing their goddamn minds.
They died because of a terrorist with PTSD. The NRA and many of their followers continue to believe the mass shooting would have stopped if the false narrative of the "good guy with a gun" was used. 
Jefferson Beauregard Magoo should take note. People are getting tired of this.

No one loves covering mass shootings. Get that through your ignorant head, Dana Loesch. You no nothing trophy wife.

Hiring veterans and former police officers may sound like a good idea, but what could happen when a rowdy student who is unarmed gets shot?

Let's not arm the teachers. They are there to help children become adults in a cold, heartless and pretty clueless country. Tell Wayne LaPierre, old fart Rush Limbaugh, Sean "Softball" Hannity and cuntservative Laura Ingraham that teachers already suffer enough. Why give them guns?

And the argument of a "good guy with a gun" is stupid. The law sees a guy with a gun and regard it as a threat. No amount of training, reenactments and firing of the firearm can't stop a mass shooter with the weapon of choice.

Tell the NRA, that if a guy with a handgun is capable of disarming a terrorist with a high capacity assault weapon, he would deserve a medal. Cause you got to be willing to sacrifice your life if your willing to disarm a terrorist.

An AR15 can mop the floor with you and your puny handgun.

Three bodies are now among the 92 a day killer by firearms. How many mass shootings this year? I forgot but I will take a wild guest and say it's about 40 this year.


Trump Sips A Diet Coke With Kim Jong Un!

Trump is willing to meet Kim Jong Un. He is willing to talk to North Korea's leader without any preconditions.
The right was complaining about Barack Obama talking to foreign leaders who were considered the enemy.

The Iranian nuclear deal was the P5+1 Agreement. It was praised by the United Nations and world leaders. It was a historical deal.

Republicans opposed this. They were pretty vocal about it.

I remember Sean "Softball" Hannity, his network Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs were trashing Obama for talking with the enemy. I remember Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Joni Ernst, Tom Cotton, Joe Manchin, Chuck Schumer, Ron Johnson and Mike Lee were bitching about the nuclear agreement.

Now the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) announced that they are willing to broker a truce with the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the United States.
Decisions, decisions.
Donald J. Trump announced that he will have sit down with the DPRK's leader Kim Jong Un without any preconditions.

I would say that Trump's decision is smart and dumb at the same time.

We don't know what kind of agreement was worked behind the scenes.

Trump was threatening North Korea constantly. Taunted Jong Un as "Rocket Man" with the leader calling him a "dotard."

If things work out in the long run, maybe we can find neutral ground with North Korea.

Who knows?

Trump has no experience in foreign relations.


Friday, March 09, 2018

Forward March!


Over 325.9 million people live in the United States. We have an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent and it hasn't changed since. The commonwealth of Puerto Rico has 1.4 million people still without power.

Gun violence has killed 5,000 people a month.

We have added 313,000 Jon's for the month of February.

Impressive given that wages are weak and people are not happy at their jobs.

People are cautious about getting federal jobs. The federal jobs are scarce.

Donald J. Trump wants to cut government and overtime pay for federal workers. He wants to also rollback regulations that protect workers.

The Jobs and Tax Cuts Act hasn't seen many improvements yet.

But stability in the job market is driving success. The folks at Bloomberg added
Payrolls rose 313,000 in February, compared with the 205,000 median estimate in a survey of economists, and the two prior months were revised higher by 54,000, Labor Department figures showed Friday. The jobless rate held at 4.1 percent, the fifth straight month at that level. Average hourly earnings increased 2.6 percent from a year earlier following a downwardly revised 2.8 percent gain.
U.S. stock futures and bond yields rose, as the report signaled the labor market remains strong and will keep driving economic growth. The wage figures show a cooling from a pace that spurred financial turbulence last month on concern that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates faster.
While the unemployment rate remains well below Fed estimates of levels sustainable in the long run, the rise in participation suggests the presence of slack that would keep policy makers to a gradual pace of hikes.
Hiring was strong across the board and particularly in goods-producing industries. Construction businesses added 61,000 jobs, while factories boosted payrolls by 31,000. Service providers added 187,000 workers, including about 50,000 in retail, a sector that has been under pressure.
“The upturn in the U.S. labor market will continue, with the effect of the tax reform, the weak U.S. dollar, interest rates are still low, and I expect more investment,” said Dirk Chlench, head of bond research at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg. He had estimated 300,000 job gains, the highest projection in Bloomberg’s survey. “There’s every reason to be optimistic about the U.S. economy."
We are in the fears of a retail collapse. The fall of Toys R Us is imminent. The company might start liquidating stores and close up shop forever.

Bon Ton has declared bankruptcy. Stores are closing and is on the verge of collapse.

The Weinstein Group was going to be bought by a movie distributor. It fell through. Now it's on the verge of collapse. Despite Harvey and Bob Weinstein's ouster, the company still has workers who may not see a paycheck.

The labor force rate remains unchanged as well. About 62.9 percent of Americans are working/overworked.

Okay, here's the reason to why Americans aren't working.

1. DEAD
2. BORN
3. IN PRISON
4. IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
5. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
6. IN HIGH SCHOOL
7. IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING
8. VOLUNTEER
9. DISABLED 
10. STAY AT HOME PARENT
11. RETIRED
12. QUIT ON THEIR OWN
13. NOT HIRING QUALIFIED
14. NATURAL DISASTERS
15. ACTIVE MILITARY 
16. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
17. LAID OFF
18. FIRED FROM THE JOB
19. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY
20. OUTSOURCING 

So if you actually believe that Trump is doing good, you might be right. The inept leader is rolling back regulations and pushing for tax cuts to get the ball rolling on job growth.

Thursday, March 08, 2018

International Women's Day!


To honor the achievements of women.

To remind you that women of color contributed as well.

To remind you that 3 out of 4 women are sexually harassed by a male employer.

To remind you that women are mothers, daughters, grandmothers, athletes, entertainers, politicians, scientists, discoverers, entrepreneurs, innovators, and warriors.

To remind you that women are exploited in sex trafficking by individuals who use them in criminal activity.

To remind you that women are likely victims of gun violence from domestic violence.

To remind you that we must demand equal pay for women.

To remind you that transwomen are women too.

To remind you that in a male dominated world, women have a voice against sexual abuse, racism, gun violence and will hopefully change the demographics of Congress.

To remind you, that Hillary Clinton's loss isn't a setback. It's the beginning of a movement that will now hold men accountable.

Donald J. Trump is an example of why women need to speak out against the sexism in the United States.

Harvey Weinstein is an example of how Hollywood allowed the status quo go on far too long. They are changing it and it will eventually male to Washington, DC.

Women are the barrier of life. We should cherish their accomplishments.

In honor of the late Naomi Parker Fraley, the woman who inspired Rosey the Riveted.

Thank you.

West Virginia Lawmaker N-Tapped Lil' Wayne!

Saria Blair sings the blues. State lawmaker caught on camera saying racial slurs while rapping to Lil' Wayne.

A state delegate from West Virginia is in hot water after someone unearth her old social media posts. The delegate is 21 years old and is a Republican.

Her love for hip-hop makes it head scratching.

Saria Blair is facing a backlash after she was caught on camera singing Lil' Wayne's single Gonorrhea.

It was filmed on Snapchat.

Well she announced that she will no longer seek reelection.

When she won her election, she remarked about the use of the word. The folks at HuffPost added this.

In a December 2014 interview with the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Blair said she believed Americans are “past the point of looking at things from a racial perspective” and that talking about “racial tendencies” creates further division.

“The issue of race is never going to go away unless we stop talking about the issue of race and stop saying black power, white power, Hispanic power,” Blair told the Gazette. “As long as we keep creating that division it’s not going to be solved... I think harping on the racial issues, the racial tendencies, that enhances them.”
Lil' Tunechi aka Lil' Wayne.
Blair made history in November 2014 when she defeated a two-term incumbent delegate at the age of 18 to become the youngest elected legislator in U.S. history. Blair’s father, Craig Blair, is a Republican state senator in West Virginia and served as her 2014 campaign manager. On top of her legislative duties, she is currently studying economics and Spanish at West Virginia University.

Last week, the 21-year-old lawmaker was the only person in the West Virginia House of Delegates to vote against House Bill 4145, which sought to increase teachers’ pay by 5 percent. Public schools across West Virginia were closed for nearly two weeks as thousands of teachers went on strike to demand higher pay and lower health care premiums. 

“We’ve already voted out a pay raise, one that was fair and within our budget,” Blair told West Virginia News last Wednesday about her no vote.

This is what the Republican Party is. They have a party of idiots, morons, climate change deniers, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim, anti-choice, anti-gun control and are stuck on Reagan.

Now as the party of Donald J. Trump, the party embraces extremism.



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