Looks like the economy is stalling again. With China's economy stalling, global markets have seen a decrease in progress. China's economy is big enough to take everyone down.
U.S. employers added only 142,000 jobs in September keeping the unemployment rate stalled at 5.1%. That release closes out the Summer. Showing that a weak jobs report will result in the usual partisan blame game.
Weak job numbers assure conservatives the talking points saying President Barack Obama's policies have the country going in the wrong direction. Weak job numbers assure liberals the talking points saying the Republican controlled Congress have the country going in the wrong direction.
Average hourly earnings up just 2.2 percent from last year.
Employers decided to halt hiring causing a ripple effect on the economy. For the last two months, wages and hiring fell raising doubts on the economy. Is it strong enough?
With the service and manufacturing industry cutting hours and positions, many are finding it harder to obtain a better job.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
U.S. factories are feeling the global chill and shed 9,000 jobs in September after losing 18,000 in August, according to the Labor Department's survey of employers.
The recent pace of job growth should have been enough to push the unemployment rate lower because only around 100,000 new jobs are needed a month to keep up with population growth.
But the jobless rate held steady at 5.1 percent. The unemployment rate is derived from a separate survey of households that showed 350,000 workers dropping out of the labor force last month, as well as a lower level of employment.
Average hourly wages fell by a cent to $25.09 during the month and were up only 2.2 percent from the same month in 2014, pointing to marginal inflationary pressures.
Cecile Richards testified in Congress. Many pundits think it was a big sideshow.
If fixing stupid was easy, Washington edition.
While I don't support abortions, I don't believe it's my right to tell a woman whether to keep an unwanted pregnancy. I think women should have the right to make this difficult choice. I learned that a few years back when I dated a woman who I had gotten pregnant with my child. She had an abortion.
Matter of fact, that was probably one of the worst experiences in my life. And most recently, a woman I've dated hid her pregnancy from me. She was pregnant with another man's child.
I learned that I'm too damn nice and I've almost given up on finding love.
The Republicans may stall the government shutdown. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is weeping his last role as the House Speaker. His sudden resignation from Congress sparked a major civil war between the establishment and the insurgency.
Finger wagging from lawmakers. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is an insurgent.
The insurgency continues to push Republicans further to the right. They still are fighting battles they'll never win.
Women rights is a very important issue. Planned Parenthood is a women's health clinic that assist women in family planning, women cancer screening, sexual disease treatment, and provide assistance to abortions.
Republicans who hate "big government" believe it's their business to be in a woman's legs.
These Republicans are so fucking stupid.
A majority of Americans polled said that Planned Parenthood is needed. A majority of single issue Republican voters support stripping funding from Planned Parenthood and every abortion provider.
Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) and many of her insurgent members were disrespectful to Planned Parenthood CEO.
Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood was called to testify at a majority Republican committee.
Many of the insurgent lawmakers were interrupting her and tossing around baseless claims about the Planned Parenthood CEO. Matter of fact, they gathered their talking points from the secretly recorded videos provided by an extremist group masquerading as a firm.
The videos that were released in this year were heavily elected and doctored. These videos haven't stopped the Republicans from stripping Planned Parenthood.
They vow to shut down the government if they can't take away a woman's right to choice.
Any thoughts on this controversy.
By the way, insurgent Black lawmaker Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) got a chance to show the country how truly crazy she is.
Soon I will add Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to the list of many here on World News Today. The California congressman who became a rising star since the departure of Eric Cantor is thinking about becoming the next House Speaker.
K-Mac is the Republican Majority Leader. He represents the 23rd U.S. Congressional District of California. The district carries Bakersfield, a large city with a population of 376,000 residents.
The current district is centered in areas of the southern San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra Nevada, the Tehachapi Mountains, and the northwestern Mojave Desert. It includes the cities of Mojave and Ridgecrest, as well as most of Bakersfield. Sequoia National Park and Sequoia National Forest are within it.
If he's picked to become the new Speaker, he will have a lot of work ahead of him. He will face an already invigorated President Barack Obama. Obama has won the summer.
Obamacare survived another Supreme Court challenge. Marriage equality is valid in the all states and territories. The Iranian deal will go into effect. Cuba and the United States are establishing friendly relations. Planned Parenthood will not be defunded.
Conservatives are demanding Republicans stand firm against Obama or face a primary challenge.
The president promises that anything the Republicans pass will fail. He concludes that the Republican civil war is damaging the party and hurting the country. The party has become more extreme in their views.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) the outgoing Speaker of the House blasted the insurgency. He believes that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) are false prophets. He believes these politicos are fucking stupid.
He announced on Friday that he's bouncing out of Congress effective immediately. In late October, Boehner will give up his role as the House Speaker and representative. He basically said to Republicans, "Fuck you! I'm Out! Good luck on getting things done with Obama!"
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may become the new House Speaker. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) were Speakers of the House. President Barack Obama believes Republicans infighting causing government shutdown.
Boehner's congressional district is up for grabs. Insurgents are looking to replace him, A right wing bigot sheriff named Richard Jones is considering a run for the seat. The Butler County Sheriff is willing to take his anti-immigrant, anti-BlackLivesMatter rhetoric to Washington, DC.
McCarthy on the other hand is hoping the Republicans will give him a chance. The insurgents are really happy with picking McCarthy as the new House Speaker.
Matter of fact, Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) is plotting to derail McCarthy's coronation.
The insurgent lawmaker announced his bid to become the speaker as well.
The insurgent and establishment are showing teeth. The departure exposed some real bad tension between Republicans.
Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is the House majority leader of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. representative for California's 23rd District.
A Republican, he was formerly chairman of the California Young Republicans and the Young Republican National Federation. McCarthy worked as district director for U.S. Representative Bill Thomas and in 2000 was elected as a trustee to the Kern Community College District. He then served in the California State Assembly from 2002 to 2006, including from 2004 to 2006, as the minority leader. When Thomas retired from the House in 2006, McCarthy ran to succeed him and won the election.
The 23rd district, numbered as the 22nd District from 2007 to 2013, is based in Bakersfield and includes large sections of Kern and Tulare counties.
McCarthy was elected House Republican chief deputy whip, from 2009 to 2011, and House majority whip, from 2011 until August 2014, when he was elected House majority leader to replace the outgoing Eric Cantor, who was defeated in his primary election.
The controversial pair head to steps of the Capitol with the half term governor, a washed up celebrity television star, and two right wing agitators to plead to the Republicans to kill the Iranian nuclear proposal.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump are currently running for the nomination. They are doing their best to keep the agitation going. Joined with them, Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson and the three morons: Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Mark Levin.
Each of these agitators were just as bombastic as the two clowns running for president.
Trump hasn't turned birther on Cruz. The controversial senator is born in Calgary, Manitoba. He is born to an American mother and Cuban father in a foreign country. Yes, Canada is a foreign country.
Cruz, Glenn Beck and Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX)
Trump still leads in the field. Ben Carson is in second place and Cruz is either tied in third or fourth with Carly Fiorina.
Cruz is an unaccomplished politician who pisses off Republican leaders. His combative and unabashed principles are what's destroying the remaining amounts of bipartisanship in Washington.
Many Republicans quietly and sometimes loudly mock him for being a "pain in the ass." House Weeper John Boehner (R-OH) once told some his buddies that Cruz needs to "shut the fuck up".
This has brought his stock up. He was in eighth place. The Kim Davis fiasco and this event may inspire the extremist to support him. He surged to top-tier standings.
The Tea Party Patriots (the group responsible for aiding insurgent candidates) hosted this event.
The Republican rally is the last ditch attempt to keep focus on opposing an already settled matter.
Controversial agitator Mark Levin speaking at Washington DC rally.
The matter is done. Republicans once again are on the losing side of the debate.
The president won the month yet again. President Barack Obama worked during his August break to wrangle up most of the Democrats. He managed to get 42 out of 46 Democratic senators (include independents Angus King and Bernie Sanders) to block any Republican counter proposal or resolution blocking the Iranian deal.
The Republicans didn't even read the proposal. All the Republicans done during the 60 day period was take a vacation.
This comes on the heels of the conservative outrage at Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's social media outburst. They are outraged that Khamenei went to Twitter to blast Israel and Republicans for threatening his country. He said that Israel won't last for longer than 25 years if they attack his country.
The president had called Iranian president Hussan Rouhani in 2013. He wanted to make a deal with the Iranian president. He told him that if they would cease the nuclear enhancement, the United Nations will lift the sanctions.
I won't be able to fit all the nuts in but I will say that Trump, Cruz, Palin, Beck and Levin were the headliners. Also Phil Robertson, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), former lawmaker Michele Bachmann, and Breitbart agitator Joel Pollak were in featured speakers.
Trump, Cruz and Palin were be featured. Find the rest on CSPAN or YouTube. I couldn't stomach the bile.
The famed Julian Bond passed away over the weekend. World News Today send our condolences to the family of a great icon in civil rights.
Julian was a social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor, and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate, having served a combined twenty years in both legislative chambers. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, after a brief illness, according to The Associated Press.
“Julian Bond was a hero and, I’m privileged to say, a friend. Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life,” President Barack Obama said in a statement Sunday. “Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that.”
I'm privileged to say, Julian was a friend for justice and equality.
Bond was a Nashville, Tennessee, native who attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. While in school, he co-founded the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee -- an organization that fought for and encouraged youth members to be vocal in the civil rights revolution. He led SNCC as the communications director, stood on the front lines of protests alongside several other civil rights pioneers like Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, and became a leader in the 1960s protest movement.
Bond later served as board chairman of the 500,000-member NAACP for 10 years, but declined to run for another one-year term in 2010, the AP reported.
Bond would often appear as a commentator on news shows and became a leading voice in the media, featured on NBC's "Today" show, and in The Nation and The New York Times.
He was also a professor of history at the University of Virginia and an adjunct professor at American University, the AP reported.
Many other celebrated civil and human rights activists mourned Bond's death Sunday.
"Very few throughout human history have embodied the ideals of honor, dignity, courage and friendship like Dr. Julian Bond," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "Quite simply, this nation and this world are far better because of his life and commitment to justice and equality for all people. Future generations will look back on the life and legacy of Julian Bond and see a warrior of good who helped conquer hate in the name of love. I will greatly miss my friend and my hero, Dr. Julian Bond."
Bond is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, and five children.
The city of Baltimore is dealing with a rise in violence. The top cop failed. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had to load him in the cannon and fire him out. Anthony Batts is out.
Baltimore police commissioner Anthony Batts is fired out the cannon.
The city of Baltimore seen a huge spike in gun violence and the junk food media is bothering Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Marilyn Mosby.
For you see, the concern trolls aren't concerned about the illegal guns on the street. They're just trying to finger the rise in violence on Blake and Mosby, because they supported the decision to charge six officers who let Freddie Gray die in custody with involuntary homicide.
Batts was loaded in the cannon and fired out of it.
The AP confirms that this decision comes straight out of the mayor's office. Blake said that homicides in the cities are not acceptable and his performance is poor. This is a distraction. She stuffed him in and fired him out!
Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, who has only been with the department since January, will serve as interim commissioner, Rawlings-Blake said.
"We need a change," the mayor told a news conference, which was attended by Davis. "This was not an easy decision but it is one that is in the best interest of Baltimore. The people of Baltimore deserve better and we're going to get better."
The firing comes 2 1/2 months after the city broke out in riots following the death of Freddie Gray, who died in April of injuries he received in police custody. Six police officers have been criminally charged in Gray's death.
After the unrest, arrests in the city plummeted and homicides spiked. Baltimore's homicide total this year is 156, according to police. That's a 48 percent increase compared with the same time last year. Shootings have increased 86 percent. In one of the latest examples, gunmen jumped out of two vans and fired at a group of people a few blocks from an urban university campus Tuesday night, killing three people.
Police said Wednesday that the shooting wasn't random, but no arrests have been made.
"As we have seen in recent weeks, too many continue to die on our streets," Rawlings-Blake said. Referring to Batts, she said "recent events proved that his being here was a distraction."
"We cannot continue to debate the leadership of the department," the mayor said. "We cannot continue to have the level of violence we've seen in recent weeks in this city."
Batts and Rawlings-Blake are African-American, as is the city's top prosecutor, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Davis is white. Sixty percent of the city's population is black, while the police department is 48 percent African-American.
Mosby said her office has already met with Davis and she looks forward to working with him.
The Rev. Alvin Gwynn Sr., president of the city's Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, said the firing was long overdue. Gwynn, who began calling for Batts' resignation within days of Gray's death, blamed the bloody spike in violence on the mayor's previous reluctance to fire the commissioner.
"We have people who died because they delayed," he said Wednesday.
Keonna Stokes, 22, a resident of the housing development in front of which Gray was arrested, said she was glad to see Batts removed from his position, and hopes a new commissioner will have a lower tolerance for police misconduct.
"The police wouldn't do the things they do if the commissioner didn't allow it," she said. "He should have been fired. We call the police when we really need them, when people hurt us. But now we don't call them, because they hurt us. If they didn't Freddie would still be here."
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights review of the department, and on Tuesday, Batts announced that an outside organization will review the police response to the civil unrest that followed Gray's death. Most of the unrest took place on April 27, prompted by Gray's death on April 19.
The Baltimore police union released its own scathing post-mortem report Wednesday accusing Batts and other top brass of instructing officers not to engage with rioters and to allow looting and destruction to occur.
"The officers repeatedly expressed concern that the passive response of the Baltimore police commanders to the civil unrest allowed the disorder to grow into full-scale rioting," Gene Ryan, president of the Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, wrote in the report.
Following Batts' firing Wednesday, the union issued a statement reiterating the report's concerns but also said it would work with Davis to improve the situation.
Davis was previously chief of police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and assistant chief in Prince George's County, Maryland. The mayor said that in addition to reducing crime, Davis would "bring accountability to police, hold officers who act out of line accountable for their actions."
Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney for Maryland, praised Davis, saying he helped reform the Prince George's County Police Department, "raising morale and professionalism while dramatically reducing crime."
In his own remarks to the news conference, Davis said his goals would include improving the relationship with the officers who work for him. "I will walk with them and serve with them and be with them every step of the way," he said.
But Davis also has indicated a willingness in the past to speak out against police abuses.
As Anne Arundel chief, he issued a news release disagreeing with a decision by the county Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 70 to donate $1,070 to a defense fund for Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Wilson, who is white, fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, on Aug. 9.
Rawlings-Blake appointed Batts as police commissioner in September 2012.
His contract with the city paid him $190,000 and was to run through June 2020. It includes a provision for a severance payment equal to his annual salary if he is terminated without cause.
Hours after he was fired, Batts sent a short statement to the Baltimore Sun.
"I've been honored to serve the citizens and residents of Baltimore," he said. "I've been proud to be a police officer for this city."
One term senator Jim Webb decides to put his makeup on. He's running for the blue nose. He makes five. There are five Democrats running for the clown car.
I get this feeling back some time ago about Webb being a strong nominee in 2008. But after I read about his marriages and his mishaps as a senator, I ruled out Webb being a strong contender.
Webb is often looked at as a VEEP or Defense Secretary. But who knows?
Webb has entered the race in hopes that he can usurp Hillary's crowning.
Webb is an American politician and author. He has served as a United States Senator from Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, Assistant Secretary of Defense, congressional staffer, and Marine Corps officer. In the private sector he has been an Emmy-award winning journalist, a filmmaker, and the author of ten books. In addition, he taught literature at the United States Naval Academy and was a Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. As a member of the Democratic Party, Webb announced on November 19, 2014, that he was forming an exploratory committee to evaluate a run for President of the United States in 2016.
Webb is married to Hong Le Webb, a Vietnamese-American securities and corporate lawyer, twenty-two years his junior. Hong Le was born in South Vietnam and escaped to the United States when she was seven, after the fall of Saigon. She grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. They married in October 2005.
Webb with wife Hong Le.
Webb was married twice previously, and has four grown children. Hong Le and Jim Webb also have one child together, Georgia LeAnh, born December 2006. Webb is also a stepfather to Hong Le's daughter from a previous marriage.
Jim Webb speaks Vietnamese.
His second marriage was to health-care lobbyist Jo Ann Krukar in 1981 who also assisted in his 2006 Senate campaign. They have three children: Sarah, Jimmy, and Julia. Jimmy Webb was a rifleman and Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, and served a tour in Iraq with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion 6th Marines. In tribute to Jimmy Webb and "all the people sent into harm's way", Webb wore his son's old combat boots every day during his 2006 Senate campaign.
His first marriage was to Barbara Samorajczyk, who is a member of the Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Council. They divorced in 1979. They have one daughter, Amy Webb, who was eight at the time of the divorce.
On July 2, 2015, he announced that he would be joining the race for the Democratic nomination for President.
Each of them are no match for perennial candidate Hillary Clinton.
Jim Webb and his older children.
Webb is fighting his old buddies. One was a senator who would later become a presidential candidate and later the U.S. Secretary of the State. The other was a congressman who would later become a senator. The other two are governors who left office without memorable legacies.
So Webb is taking betting his odds on winning. When he served only one term, refused Obama's 2008 offer for the VEEP, and his wishy washy stances. It would say that Webb chances are like Martin O'Malley and Lincoln Chafee: Slim to none.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is proven to be a formidable challenger. His first 10,000 supporters happened in Iowa. You know the state that Barack Obama won on his path to victory.
So now there's five Democrats running.
Four formers and one current.
Hillary Clinton
Martin O'Malley
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Lincoln Chafee
Jim Webb
Note that Sen. Bernie Sanders is an independent who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate. He now has to formally become a Democrat in order to be on the ballot.
There are more than a dozen Republicans running for president. The Republicans fear that the candidates will beat each other up and ruin their chances yet again.
The Democrats have a very weak field. Hillary Clinton lost in 2008 in the Democratic primaries. What gives her the right to be the chosen one? She couldn't beat Barack Obama.
Obama lost one election to Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL).
Webb with his wife Hong Le and their daughter.
Barack Obama fatigue is something Democrats worry about. People are so turned off to politics due to the toxic nature of lawmakers and the president.
Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are way past the limelight. They need to find something else to do.
The Republican field isn't weak. It's not strong though. It's a bunch of clowns shouting out of bullhorns. Republicans have no strong ideas and they are focused on intrusion and isolationism.
They given up on the diversity strategy after conservative agitators complaints.
A young woman was upset over a flight attendant's bigoted response to her request for a soft drink.
Tahera Ahmad was traveling from Chicago to Washington, DC, last week. She asked the attendant for a can of Coca-Cola. The attendant opened her can instead of serving her a closed can. The attendant told her that she could have used it "as a weapon".
Ahmad witness the same attendant serve a person an unopened can of soda.
Ahmad, a chaplain at Northwestern University, told the junk food media that she requested a closed can of soda for "hygienic reasons". The attendant told her that it's against policy to have an unopened can.
Tahera Ahmad.
Well United Airlines and the subsidiary Shuttle America call the attendant's respond to Ahmad bullshit.
They got wind of this and publicly apologized to Ahmad.
"While United did not operate the flight, Ms. Ahmad was our customer and we apologize to her for what occured on the flight. After investigating this matter, United has ensured that the flight attendant, a Shuttle America employee, will no longer serve United customers," in a presser.
Added, "United does not tolerate behavior that is discriminatory - or that appears to be discriminatory against our customers or employees".
The flight attendant was loaded into the cannon and fired out. The attendant was also banned from traveling on United Airlines.
The agitators of the junk food media have spooked the bigots. The bigots could be your neighbors.
The bigots could be your family members, your co-workers, a person in the service industry or a person in the media.
I admit that everyone has a form of bigotry towards someone. But it's unfortunate that in this age of Obama, it's gotten worse.
Americans who are practicing Muslims are often subjected to suspicion. Many of the partisan agitators in the media have been parroting "radical Islam" and the Islamic State. Some of this crap is sponged into the minds of the irrational.
They fail to realize that they legitimize the Islamic State's claims that the United States is declaring war on Muslims. They don't see they're the extremists.
For you see, I don't fear no man, no animal or act of nature. I fear failure and rejection more than things that I can control.
If you're a business and your goals are to serve customers for the $$$$. You'll have it pretty rough to keep a business running if you believe it's right to not serve Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, gays and the poor.
The conservative Craigslist have been hyping up this guy for some time now. Yesterday, the former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley decided to put on the makeup and jump into the clown car.
The Aristocat himself, 52 year old Martin O'Malley hopes he can defeat a literally untouchable candidate.
He is the father of four. He is married to his wife Katie for over 25 years. He is an American politician who served as the 61st Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as Governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007, having previously served as a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Chair of the Democratic Governors Association from 2011 to 2013. Following his departure from public office in early 2015, he was appointed to the Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School as a visiting professor focusing on government, business and urban issues.
As Governor, in 2011 he signed a law that would make certain undocumented immigrants eligible for in-state college tuition on condition; and in 2012, he signed a law to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. Each law was challenged to a voter referendum in the 2012 general election and upheld by a majority of the voting public.
O'Malley stood in for 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a Democratic campaign event on June 2, 2007, in New Hampshire, Delegate Tony O'Donnell said in response, "It's the worst-kept secret in Maryland that the governor has national ambitions."
State Senator Thomas V. Miller, Jr. said O'Malley's political future "comes into play in everything he does", adding O'Malley is "very much like Bill Clinton in being slow and deliberative and calculating in everything he does."
The conservative agitators are hoping that O'Malley win the nomination. They are planning on giving him the Michael Dukakis treatment.
In order to make Clinton and the crop of Democrats running uninspiring, the conservative agitators will continue to bitch about Obama, Iraq, Syria, ISIS, Benghazi, missing emails, Monica, Paula, Kathleen, Juanita,Vince, Whitewater, the missing server, accomplishments, age, being a woman, and everything else they can pull out their asses.
Jam session with Martin O'Malley.
They want to muddy up the waters with tales of Bill Clinton and the past in order to ruin the potential nomination of perennial candidate Hillary Clinton.
He wants to be the alternative to Clinton. He wants to be the voice of the progressives.
He made his decision in Baltimore. The place where Freddie Gray lost his life to six reckless officers and riots broke out in April. These officers will have a day in court. They are innocent until proven guilty.
CNN reminds the readers that his decision to launch in Baltimore could be proven a "challenge".
The treatment of Freddie Gray, which sparked a national dialogue about police conduct toward racial minorities, drew renewed scrutiny to the controversial zero-tolerance policing strategy that O'Malley advocated for as mayor -- part of an aggressive strategy to crack down on crime.
Speaking in rolled-up sleeves at Federal Hill Park, O'Malley began with a call for economic fairness and closing the gap between rich and poor in America.
Martin and his wife Katie hope 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be their new residence. It's only 40 miles from Baltimore.
"This is the urgent work calling us forward today: to rebuild the truth of the American Dream for all Americans," O'Malley said. "And to begin right now."
He touched upon last month's unrest in Baltimore, saying the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death was about more than race or policing in America, but about "the scourge of hopelessness" in the nation's cities.
"There is something to be learned from that night, and there is something to be offered to our country from those flames," he said.
A small group of protesters tried to interrupt his speech, shouting remarks like "black lives matter" and blowing on whistles. As O'Malley discussed the problem of income inequality and concentration of wealth, one protester angrily yelled out: "You did that! It was you!"
But the protesters largely failed to be a disruptive presence at the launch event, where O'Malley's supporters, numbering in the hundreds, reacted enthusiastically to his speech.
O'Malley also took a shot at Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush, using an attack on Goldman Sachs to suggest they were too close to Wall Street to be advocates for the less fortunate in America.
"Recently, the CEO of Goldman Saches let his employees know that he'd be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would," O'Malley said. "Well, I've got news for the bullies of Wall Street: The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the people of the United States, and exercised on behalf of the people of the United States."
Frenemies.
Perhaps O'Malley's biggest challenge is finding a way to dent the Clinton political machine while also proving that he's a competitive candidate in his own right -- not just a backup for progressives who would rather see "a not running" Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the White House. A Quinnipiac University poll released this week places Clinton 56 percentage points ahead of O'Malley.
It makes three. Three candidates running for the Democratic nomination. A perennial candidate, a Socialist and a nobody ever heard of.
Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and O'Malley have declared their intentions to run for the blue nose while a handful of Republicans and insurgents run for the red nose.
These clowns are uninspiring.
But if you're interested in one of them, could Martin O'Malley be the one you prefer?
The media broke this last night. Vice President Joe Biden's oldest son Beau had passed away.
The White House has confirmed that 46 year old Beau had terminal brain cancer.
World News Today send our condolences to the Vice President Biden and his family.
Earlier this month, Beau, a former Delaware attorney general, was reported to be undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington.
After eight years as attorney general, Beau Biden joined the investor law firm Grant & Eisenhofer in 2015.
He served a yearlong tour in Iraq as a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard and underwent surgery at a cancer center in Texas last year. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010.
“The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us, especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter,” a statement released by the White House said.
The vice president was then a senate candidate. He ran for the U.S. Senate in Delaware. When he won his election, he lost his first wife and daughter to a car accident. A week before Christmas, Biden was informed about his first wife and his children were injured.
Beau, Hunter, Naomi and wife Nellia were hurt. Nellia and Naomi died of their injuries.
Joseph Robinette Biden III (Beau) was an officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG), and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He served as the Attorney General of Delaware and was a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the older son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and older step-son of Second Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden.
Beau leaves behind his wife Hallie and two children Natalie and Hunter.
Beau was tempted to run for Delaware governor in 2016.
Washington, DC police nabbed the man who is accused of murdering a family and setting their properties on fire.
The racist right is obsessed with calling every Black criminal a Thug. Any criminal act by Black man is now considered an act of thuggery.
Forget the innocent until proven guilty, according to the racist right, the Black criminal is automatically guilty. No need for a trial or jury. Send this thug to the gas house.
Thug is the new NIGGER.
A man who was caught overnight was responsible for the death of four people in Washington, DC.
Of course, our friends on the racist right have this obsession to cry foul to every event in America.
The racist right believes that the police involved killings of unarmed Freddie Gray, Tony Robinson, Walter Scott, Darrien Hunt, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and the vigilante killing of unarmed Trayvon Martin are equal to every Black on White crime in America.
This 34 year old man was being sought by the FBI and U.S. Marshals after he was implicated in a murder and arson in an upscale Washington, DC neighborhood. There was a murder of four, an arson of the home and sports car.
DC police focused on the cameras and saw a sportscar zoom through the neighborhoods. Then in suburban Maryland, they saw the sportscar stop. A man get out and soon a fire.
Savvas Savopoulos and wife Amy along with their son and housekeeper were murdered by a crazed man.
The law determined that they have DNA evidence to pinpoint him to the crime. The fool eat a piece of pizza and they swabbed the crust. Daron Dylon Wint was caught in a matter of days. He's currently in city lockup awaiting trial.
CNN reported Thursday that police are searching for the 34-year-old Wint, who is believed to have traveled from D.C. to New York City and has previously faced charges of “theft, assault and a sexual offense.”
He is wanted for first-degree murder in the deaths of Savvas Savopoulos, the CEO of a Maryland building materials manufacturer, his wife, Amy, 10-year-old son Philip and their housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa.
As for motive, police believe Wint was looking for money. During the incident, one of Savopoulos’ employees dropped off $40,000 in cash at the home for the suspect. He is believed to have escaped in the family’s Porsche, which was later found burning in the parking lot of a church in Maryland.
World News Today sends our condolences to the Savopoulous family and the family of Veralicia Figueroa. Their lives were lost in this senseless tragedy.
It seems like the curtain is pulled over again. President Barack Obama jumps onto Twitter. So all that coming from the official Barack Obama Twitter and Facebook accounts were done by his staffers.
Even the signed by "B.O." It was done by staffers.
So who thought he had the time to jump onto Twitter?
The Secret Service clears the way for the president to create an account. Of course, he introduces himself to the Twitter world.
Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.
I mean when he has he ever been able to promoting himself?
Who was sending those mailers, email shouts and videos? I thought it was done by him.
Do you actually believe that?
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States is a very busy guy. I mean he running a country of 322 million people. He controls the nation's military. He is the leader of the free world. He had to be a father 24/7, a husband, a man who has to promote a vision for the country.
Despite his critics attacking him constantly over the most trivial things, Barack manages to brush off the noise and keep it moving forward.
He signs legislation into law. Why would I believe that he jumps onto Twitter and post "I am eating cereal and watching Sportscenter" on the social media?
He doesn't get enough time to jump onto the social media. With all the things going on. I mean the president works 24/7 and doesn't really get a break.
So what did the president do when he was on Twitter?
He tells the public that he made an executive order on police requesting military style weaponry.
The president believes that the police using military arsenal gives communities a sense of distrust towards them.
He traveled to Camden, NJ to talk about the need for police reform, transportation reform (in wake of neighboring Philadelphia and the tragic train crash) and empowerment.
Soon we will address the racist and threaten messages sent to the president.
Don't ask Weeper Boehner (R-OH) for help. He tells the junk food media that the conductor was going too damn fast.
The tragedy in Philadelphia. I've ignored it for a moment. I wanted to get my facts right before I go into this story. I want to be clear that the train conductor is under investigation and he's lawyer up.
The controversy is whether a Washington-New York bound Amtrak train was going too damn fast around a curb or the issue regarding faulty infrastructure.
World News Today sends our condolences to the families lost in this horrible tragedy.
We got this foolish Weeper. Congressman John Boehner (R-OH) is the most dumbest or just legally incompetent lawmaker to ever hold leadership. This man is such a diva.
With the body count standing at eight with nearly 80 injured badly, the Congress is full steam ahead on issues that matter. Late term abortion, repealing Obamacare, passing legislation to repeal Dodd-Frank, and trying to meddle in the Iranian nuclear deal.
They have nothing on the table when it comes to jobs, education, infrastructure repair and unemployment benefits. Oh, them's entitlements, right?
Boehner during a press conference went off on a reporter after she questioned the Republican budget bill that required major cuts to Amtrak.
Boehner shot back.
This is the guy who believes President Barack Obama is arrogant.
Look in the mirror and don't cry when you see yourself.
The NTSB and Pennsylvania state police are investigating the tracks, the conductor and the reason to why the train derailed.
A tragedy in Maryland over the week advocates the need for families to have carbon monoxide detectors and proper training with devices that emits the odorless, colorless and tasteless gas.
A family of eight died on Maryland's eastern shore leaving a town and nation in mourning.
The father and his seven children died in their sleep. Other family members did a welfare chceck on them after failed contact. I guess they walked on the shocking discovery.
Apparently Somerset County police are trying to piece together how this tragedy happened.
Unfortunately, the family made the claim that the power company is partially at fault. They cut the power off and Rodney Todd had no choice but to use a power generator. That power generator wasn't placed in an area that was well ventilated. The generator was malfunctioning and carbon monoxide creep in.
The family was asleep. No one expected the gas to be silent and extremely deadly.
The Todd children died in a CO poisoning.
School officials are offering counseling to friends and family. 15 year old, Tyjuziana Todd, who along with her six siblings were killed. Tyjuziana attended Washington High; Cameron, 13, and Tykeria, 12, attended Somerset Intermediate; and Tynijuzia, 10; Tyniah, 9; Zhiheem, 7; and Tyberyia, 6, attended Princess Anne Elementary.
"We had a few staff members who had a hard time coming to terms with what happened," Hankerson said Wednesday. "For some it was rough. They had to leave the room and gather composure, especially when it came to class time."
The Baltimore Sun reports that Todd's supervisor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore — where Todd worked in dining services — grew concerned because he had not talked to him since March 28. Inside, they found all eight family members dead. It appeared that they had gone to sleep for the night and never awakened, police said.
Police found a generator with an empty gas tank inside the home. Lloyd Edwards said his stepson used the generator because the electricity had been shut off.
Delmarva Power said the home had been without service since March 25, when workers discovered a stolen electric meter and shut off power for "safety reasons." The utility originally disconnected power there in October, before the Todds began renting the home, and Delmarva said no request had been made to reconnect service.
The Maryland power company that covers the area claims that Todd stole electricity. They found a power box they claim was malfunctioning and they've determined it to be stolen. So they cut the power off but deny any fault to the family's death.
Todd was struggling father. Couldn't Delmarva offer incentives to assist struggling customers pay their electricity?
Police said Wednesday that they were winding down their investigation after the medical examiner determined that the deaths were accidental.
Somerset County Commissioner Craig N. Mathies Sr., whose district includes the Todds' modest, yellow-siding-covered home on Antioch Avenue, said of the children's father: "I know he was trying to provide for them, but that's putting your family in extreme danger.
"It's just a sad sad change of events," Mathies said. "It really points to the fact that our society can go all around the world and we have so many people who are in need, people who are trying to provide for their families and you have a tragedy like this."
Family members said they were making funeral arrangements.
"We had a lot of church members come to the home last night, family members and friends," said Edwards, Todd's stepfather. "A gathering of people sitting back and talking, expressing condolences. Some stayed four or five hours."
The funeral for Todd and his children will be held April 18 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Viewing is at 10 a.m. and services are at 1 p.m. at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the Todd family. Precious lives were lost in this senseless tragedy.
Rest in peace Rodney, Tyjuziana, Cameron, Tykeria, Tynijuzia, Tyniah, Zhiheem, and Tyberyia.
Ricky "Maya" Shawatza Hall was killed by the law after she crashed into the gates of the NSA. The FBI and Maryland state police determined that the suspect was a transgender prostitute who was trying flee the law after a botched robbery.
There was a story coming from the Washington, DC area. One suspect was killed after police opened fire on the vehicle that crashed through the gates of the National Security Administration near Fort Meade.
The suspects were apparently trying to flee the law after being tipped off that they stolen a vehicle.
Well the suspect Ricky Shawatza Hall (who goes by the name Maya) and her friend Kevin Fleming (unknown street name) were homeless. They were selling their bodies for drugs, food and shelter.
So Hall and Fleming were on the streets and a 60 year old man saw them. He picks them up and offers them an opportunity to make money. He figured that he was going to pay them at least $100 for a few hours and take them back to the streets. The suspects told the trick that he had to take a shower with them. So he gets undressed in the bathroom while the suspects clean his wallet and took his keys. As soon as he heard the door slam, the trick realized he was robbed.
Kevin Fleming's mugshot as a man.
The suspects were geekers. Two prostitutes who robbed a trick. The suspects were transgender prostitutes from Baltimore who were picked up by a trick. The trick took them to a hotel in nearby Elkridge, MD. He probably knew the suspects were male. And he probably was a married man.
So the trick called the law, gave a description of the vehicle and told the law that they are within miles of the hotel.
Hall was driving the vehicle and Fleming was the passenger.
Hall exited off MD State Route 295 (The Baltimore-Washington Parkway) near the NSA. There is an exit that is restricted to non-NSA officials.
They went into a restricted area. The officers immediately order the vehicle to stop.
According to the FBI, they refused order and plowed right through the gate. As soon as they plowed through the gate, the officers opened fire on the vehicle. Hall and Fleming were struck by the lead.
Hall crashed into a NSA police SUV. Hall was lifeless at the wheel. Fleming was also injured and is surviving on the ventilator. Fleming took a few to the chest.
Now many try to figure out if this was a case of either terrorism or just another horrible incident in which an unarmed suspect was killed by trigger happy cops.
We know they were suspects in a stolen vehicle. The suspects did have traces of the rock in possession and a firearm in the vehicle. The firearm probably belonged to the trick.
The sheet is over the suspect. The car was riddled with led. A NSA police unit vehicle destroyed.
The Howard County Sheriff may charge the trick for prostitution. The trick will probably have to have a bit of family counseling and a HIV test. Since he wasn't on the NSA property, his name isn't going to be released to the junk food media. Although, he may have a sense of vindication after the prostitutes were given a lead sandwich, the real problem lies between him and his wife. He doesn't have a vehicle to get to work. It's evidence. The trick's wife now believe her husband is gay or bisexual. He will probably have a cloud of shame hanging around him. He probably will be it doing again, but for the time being, he will have a lot of explaining to do with wife and family.
The FBI and Howard County Sheriff will determine if charges will be filed against Fleming should she survives the injuries. for theft, destruction of government property, drug and weapons possession and prostitution.
Hall end up paying the ultimate price. The bag 'em ups will do an autopsy on the suspect. They will determine if the suspect was binged on cocaine when this event happened. Maya earned herself a coffin and hundreds of mourners.
Expect the Westboro Baptist Church to picket the funeral.
The unfortunate tales of the grimy Baltimore streets. They thought in order to stay alive, they had to geek from tricks. They were accused of stealing from prostitutes, tricks, and charity.
I am assuming that Hall and Fleming came out as gay when they were young. They were rejected by family. They experience sex at an early age. I am guessing a family member or a male friend raped them when they were young. They were introduced to drugs. They fell in love with their fix and the dope boy. The dope boy would supply them with all their fixes. The only thing they had to do was let them get the loot and a little bit of head.
Hall and Fleming were probably raped, beaten and robbed during them days of hoeing. After all, transgender prostitutes are often beaten, raped, and killed by the tricks or anti-gay bigots.
Hall and Fleming spent time in the city lockup. Hall before had spent time in the iron college.
Transgender prostitutes often face more dangers because they're considered men in drag. Even if some are transitioning into women, some tricks may have a "panic" if they found out they got head from a woman who was biologically born a man.
In human trafficking, the need to satisfy the fix some turn to their friend the dope boy to help them make that money. Drugs are often associated with the hoeing game. The dope boy can become a prostitute's friend (aka pimp).
Pimps take advantage of female and transgender prostitutes. They offer them love and affection. They provide shelter, food and clothes. All they have to do for the pimp, is make them more money.
Do me a favor? Help my friend.
This hotel told the law that the trick was a regular customer.
The pimp will slut shame prostitutes. "You're not pretty. You can't make money if you look like this. You got to wear this in order to make men get you!"
The pimp will physically assault a prostitute. "Shut up bitch!"
Prostitutes will leave their children, legitimate boyfriends and husbands, and family to get a fix.
Crack cocaine and heroin are the common fix for prostitutes. Often prostitutes rely on sugar daddies and other females for protection. The pimp will always control his hoe.
If you don't get in line, you may end up in the white lines.
The FBI and state governments are trying to crack down on human trafficking. They are trying to push for needle exchanges, safe houses for prostitutes who want to leave the business, harsher penalties for tricks, mandatory HIV testing for offenders, sexual awareness classes and family counseling.
Human trafficking and advocating prostitution could carry LIFE in the iron college.
Prostitution is a misdemeanor that could land the offender in the iron college for up to a year. If the prostitute or trick are HIV+, the charges are bumped to a CLASS THREE FELONY. That could carry up to 15 years in the iron college if the offender is caught.
Geeking is street lingo for stealing properties in order to acquire drugs.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Maya Hall.
The Washington Post reports that two Secret Service agents were fired out the cannon after it was reported that two of them got drunk and crashed into a White House barricade. The agents were inside the government vehicle.
One of those agents were on the president's personal detail crew.
Another reckless event created by the men and women who protect our president.
The Secret Service has really screwed up. The president had to fire the cannon and let Mark Sullivan and Julia Pierson fly out of it.
The Salahis crashing an invite only party, the prostitution scandal in Colombia, the fence jumper, the bullet holes in the White House, the drone, the fake credentials standing near the president, the numerous death threats to President Barack Obama and his family, the threats to Vice President Joe Biden, Weeper John Boehner (R-OH) and their families hurt the credibility of the Secret Service.
Joe Clancy the current director of the Secret Service promises the hammer to drop on those agents who fuck up.
The insurgents want DC mayor Muriel Bowser locked up for advocating weed in her town.
Two insurgent lawmakers are pissed that District of Columbia residents passed a legislation allowing marijuana use in the nation's capital.
The District of Columbia and Alaska joins Colorado and Washington as places where you can light up some ounces of weed. The marijuana is legal in three and one federal district now.
Some lawmakers aren't keen on it. DC is technically ran by Congress. They control the spending and ordinances in the district.
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Andy Harris (R-MD) have threatened to take Washington, DC Mayor to the federal time out for advocating it.
Insurgent lawmaker Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
Muriel Bowser, the Democratic mayor (semi-governor) has ignored the threats. The Nation reports that Bowser and the District’s police chief announced earlier in the day that the city would move on the legalization measure, despite Congress’s disapproval. Voters approved Initiative 71 by a huge margin in November, but a month later federal lawmakers inserted a rider into the budget bill intended to prevent the city from using any funds to implement it or to set up a system for taxing and regulating marijuana sales. Doing so would be a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, which forbids DC from spending money that was not appropriated by Congress.
City officials, including Attorney General Karl Racine, argue that the rider doesn’t actually bar them from implementing Initiative 71, because the ballot measure was already certified by the time Congress voted. According to their interpretation, the rider does prevent the District from loosing drug laws any further. Based on this understanding, the City council canceled a hearing on taxing and regulating marijuana earlier in February, after Racine warned that council members and their staff could face fines and jail time if they took part.
Go Green.
Chaffetz’s threat, on the other hand, is hot air. Violating the Anti-Deficiency Act does carry civil and criminal penalties but, sadly for them, lawmakers like Chaffetz have little power to enforce it. (Chaffetz’s office did not return a request to clarify how implementing Initiative 71 could lead to jail time for city officials.) The Obama administration—specifically, the Department of Justice—would have to initiate prosecution. That’s hard to imagine, in light of the president’s statements in support of the legalization initiative—although it’s possible that a anti-marijuana presidential candidate could be elected in 2016 and initiate legal action against the city at that point. Chaffetz played coy when asked if he might sue the city— “It’s in the law; it’s crystal clear,” is all he told the Post— but Representative Mark Meadows, one of the other Republicans trying to block the measure, said “there’s no talk of litigation.” Instead, he issued a vague threat having to do with the District’s ability to get congressional approval for future, unrelated measures
The Republicans spent their first month as a majority in Congress trying to stop the president's first term achievements.
First month since Republicans took control of Congress, I was expecting this to happen. With the Republicans wasting their time on passing bills such as the Keystone XL pipeline, the ban on taxpayer abortion, halting the president's executive order on immigration reform and the 59th repeal of Obamacare, a jobs bill is not likely going to pass.
With that being said, it's been reported that 257,000 jobs were added for the month of January and the unemployment rate ticked up to 5.7%.
Of course, this is going to be challenged by the ney sayers who actually believe unemployment is 23% and 92 million are out of work. And gas prices are down because of fracking.
It's going to be a rough two years.
Non-farm payrolls grew and the government upped the totals by a 100,000. The worker seen a .12 cent increase in their paycheck.
CNBC reports that full-time workers surged, gaining 777,000 and numbering more than 120 million for the first time since July 2008. Their wages grew as well, with hourly earnings up 12 cents an hour, representing an annualized gain of 2.2 percent and the largest monthly gain in the economic recovery.
It was only the second time in the last 11 years that January's numbers beat Wall Street expectations and came amid a powerful run for nonfarm payrolls. Over the past three months, job creation has averaged 336,000, with upward revisions for both November and December, good for a total of just over one million during the span.
Gains came across the board, with retail leading the way in January with 46,000 new positions. Construction added 39,000, while health care grew 38,000.
The report could help ease some anxiety about the pace of growth, particularly in the wake of some mediocre economic reports to start the year.
This Radio Shack located in Dayton will likely close. The Montgomery County Sheriff has taken calls over at this location numerous times after reports of burglaries and robberies.
As predicted, the country's most convenient electronics store has officially filed for bankruptcy. The Fort Worth based company is on a downward spiral.
I am really sadden by this news. Like the demise of Radio Shack is huge. It hits like a cannon.
I am preparing for the news that Kmart is going down hard too. It's one of the many things that happened during the economic recession of 2007.
They couldn't survive the wave....!
On January 15, 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported RadioShack was preparing a bankruptcy filing that could come as early as February. Officials of the company declined to comment on the report.
A separate report by Bloomberg claimed the company might sell leases to as many as half its stores to Sprint.
Later in January 2015, the New York Stock Exchange issued RadioShack a warning stating it would be delisted if its average market capitalization remained below $50 million for longer than thirty consecutive days. RadioShack had received a similar warning in July of the previous year.
The New York Stock Exchange announced that shares of RadioShack were suspended and delisting procedures would commence.
RadioShack died years ago; we're only now holding the funeral. Good active managers have avoided RadioShack for a long time.—Gershon Distenfeld, Director, AllianceBernstein, CBS News.
On February 2, 2015, Bloomberg reported RadioShack was in talks to sell half of its stores to Sprint Corporation and close the rest, effectively rendering RadioShack no longer a stand-alone retailer.
Later the same day, it was reported that Amazon.com and Brookstone were also listed among potential bidders for those same store locations.
The next day, CNN Money reported RadioShack to be in default of its loan from Salus Capital.
Following these reports, some employees were instructed to begin reducing prices and transferring inventory out of stores designated for closing to those that would remain open during the bankruptcy proceedings.
Most employees, however, remained "in the dark" as to the company's future.
Many stores had already closed abruptly on Sunday, February 1, 2015, with employees only having a few hours advance notice.
RadioShack announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Looks like ABC is going to greenlight it's first Asian American sitcom since the cult classic All-American Girl featuring entertainer Margaret Cho.
The comedy series starring Randall Park, Constance Wu, Ian Chen, Forrest Wheeler and Hudson Yang that is loosely based on the life of chef and food personality Eddie Huang and his book Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir. It's going to placed on the Death Slot.
It's going to be similar to UPN (later CW) series Everybody Hates Chris.
The controversial Fresh Off the Boat was once titled Far East Orlando and it pissed off many people especially show creator Eddie Huang. They felt that the series was degrading to Asian Americans.
Huang is a famed hip-hop celebrity chef and writer. He based his sitcom from his days of growing up in Orlando after leaving Washington, DC. He lived with his Taiwanese family during his upbringing and learned culinary during his rise to fame. The sitcom follows Eddie through his school and his family's steakhouse.
His show will likely replace freshman sitcom Cristela featuring comedienne Cristela Alonzo.
Cristela based her sitcom off her comedy routine. Her show takes place in Dallas where she is a law firm intern who got her family pulling her in all directions. It's a comedy to feature a Hispanic family.
Eddie Huang in Detroit.
ABC also has Anthony Anderson's Black-ish. It features him, Tracey Ellis Ross and Laurence Fishburne as an upscale Black family trying to teach their children to the Black experience.
The show already seems like it's on death watch. TVbythenumbers is the website that determines the fate of sitcoms, dramas and action series on the networks. The bear will eat and some of the sitcoms I've watched for years are gone and here comes another batch of disasters to replace them.
ABC canceled Selfie, and Manhattan Love Story. CBS canceled The Millers in the middle of its second season. NBC canceled Marry Me and A to Z. Fox canceled Mulaney.
