American discounters are going to up prices thanks to Trump.
American discounters are raising fees on their products. The results of Donald J. Trump and his ridiculous trade war with China, Mexico and the European Union.
Everything is $1.
That will no longer be the trademark of Chesapeake, Virginia company.
Dollar Tree is going to raise prices on items and they cite Trump and global uncertainty as a factor. This also will hurt those who bought items for a mere dollar.
This also affects its sister company Family Dollar and competitor Dollar General.
The three companies specialize in low prices and affordable convenience.
The tariffs that are being imposed on China have forced Dollar Tree to find ways to keep business running without completely voiding its trademark.
Some locations are starting to increase the amounts on certain items. You might see it in milk, toilet paper, bread, soft drinks and snacks. Things that many took for granted.
Trump claims that this will force Americans to buy American made products.
It's really causing the U.S. consumer to hold back spending on goods and services.
Tragic. The body of Maleah Davis was found in Arkansas.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The Texas man who was last seen with the 4-year old girl who disappeared a month ago confessed to killing her and disposing her body off an Arkansas highway.
Maleah Davis's remains were found in a black bag in Fulton, Arkansas.
Quanell X, a Houston based activist associated with the New Black Panthers advocated for the mother, Brittany Bowens, told the junk food media that the former boyfriend confessed to the whereabouts of the little girl.
The Hempstead County boys said that the road crew found a bag with a very foul odor. The odor was the bones and decomposing body of a small child.
This monster sexually and physically abused Maleah.
The suspect who is being held on suspicion of murder is likely going to be charged with the death. He had also tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse.
It's alleged that the suspect sexually abused and physically abused Maleah before she was killed. He made up a story about him, his son and the little girl being car jacked by Hispanic men.
The story was bogus from the start. Children services were concerned about the child's safety after she mysteriously had a bad head injury.
Maleah's father wants to strangle this guy. The father wished he could have protected his daughter.
Video evidence showed the suspect and Maleah together. A day later, they see the suspect with a trash bag exiting his apartment complex.
What is going on here?
Why are we harming our children.
Women and children of color are being hurt. We need to put a stop to this.
The only photo the police plans on giving the junk food media. This is the Virginia Beach mass shooter. He was killed and became a martyr for many others.
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers will not heal the wounded or bring back the dead. Your heart can't go out to those people. You don't know them. Lowering flags and moments of silence are pathetic too. What will the lowering of a flag or a silent minute gonna do?
Absolutely nothing.
What triggers mass shooters? (Expect trolls to pick the dumbest answers)
The name of the terrorist who massacred 12 people is released. The terrorist was the nice guy who was shunned by society. The nice guy who was either hated or never appreciated by the society that created the anger.
A man who decided to take out as many individuals with an easy access firearm that our federal and state government allowed. After all, the right to liberty is a man with a gun.....right?
The shooting in a Virginia Beach government center is the latest mass shooting to get the junk food media's attention. Another senseless act of gun violence caused by a terrorist and easy access to firearms.
The shooting happened on Friday at 4pm. The terrorist managed to enter the municipal building and shoot nearly 30 people before the law put him down.
The terrorist was a Black male. Had he been a white male, they would arrest him without a bullet fired. For you see, if the shooter was Black, an immigrant or a Muslim, they would be shot and/or killed by law enforcement.
Families now prepare to bury their loved ones.
Again, here comes the political aspect. The far-white has already made the notion that the terrorist is a registered Democrat.
Yeah. He was a terrorist who killed people regardless of political affiliation.
He was a former Army National Guard. So it could be mental illness or PTSD involved. He had a .45 caliber firearm with a silencer.
Okay, he was the "nice guy." So that means he had trouble with relationships, jobs, social media following, run ins with the law, etc.
What happens next?
Absolutely nothing. The Congress, Donald J. Trump and the National Rifle Association are not willing to do anything to keep these incidents from happening.
Another milestone in America. Where you're not safe in a school, a bar, a transit station, a library, a restaurant, a government building, a shopping center, a sports complex, a church, a mosque, a synagogue, a television/newspaper complex, a college campus, a highway, the workplace and the home.
Gun violence is everywhere.
It never stops.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Who deserves the blame?
This country needs to stop bullying. This is an epidemic as well. Folks who take advantage of the nice guy are likely the ones who may be victims of gun violence. It's simple math. The bullied will get revenge.
Calling this terrorist a disgruntled employee is too nice. I call him a cold blooded killer and another example of failure from our leaders to curb gun violence.
Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Ralph Northam, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), local leaders and the 11 U.S. lawmakers will do the phony sympathy. They will offer nothing but "just words and speeches."
Kingpin of the drug trade Frank Lucas passed away.
The American Gangster.
Frank Lucas, the former drug kingpin who led a revolution of narco trade passed away at a local New Jersey hospital. He died of unspecified health issues.
Lucas rose to power in the 1960s and 1970s dealing boy (heroin) in Harlem.
He once boasted that he would cut out the middleman and got his product directly from the Southeast Asian gangs and cartels. He would be smuggle the goods through the coffins of dead U.S. servicemen.
Frank Lucas was born in North Carolina before he made moves to New York.
He got in the trade early when the stuff wasn't illegal. He went by the name of "Blue Magic" and held ground with numerous celebrities, politicians and business executives.
Wheelchair bound, Frank Lucas wrote books and told tales of his life as a kingpin.
He said that his boy got the girls going crazy. He said that heroin was the purest in the streets.
He was soon caught by the feds when he was holding assets in places where the taxman couldn't find. He was busted in the mid-1970s. He held properties in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, New York City, Newark, Greensboro and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Lucas was convicted of federal and state drug violations and was sentenced to 70 years in federal time out. Lucas turned snitch on his formers and sold them out to get a light sentence. He would end up getting five years and a lifetime of parole. He would get busted again for trying to start the business up again. He ended up getting seven more in federal time out.
He was survived by his seven children. He was 88 years old at the time of his passing.
Denzel Washington played Frank Lucas in the 2000s movie American Gangster.
Another mass shooting in the country. Virginia Beach got a mass shooting.
Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers will not heal the wounded or bring back the dead. Your heart can't go out to people who you barely know. Your condolences aren't helping. GOD is not fixing this.
Moments of silence and lowering of flags aren't going to change this.
This is a man-made crisis.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
Another mass shooting in the United States. This one in Virginia Beach. The shooter was caught. Who will actually take the blame? (Expect far-white trolls to pick the dumbest answers)
The latest mass shooting in the United States was in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The largest city in the state with 459,000 residents is now mourning and of course the usual sympathies from the local leaders, the National Rifle Association, Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Ralph Northam, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and the 11 U.S. lawmakers will do the usual thoughts and prayers and ask Americans to do more to stop gun violence by praying.
SWAT had to stop a terrorist who 11 people.
This happened at the municipal center in the heart of the city. A terrorist who was a former city employee laid waste to individuals (including the good guy with a gun). The police officer who was shot is at the hospital. He barely escape the ultimate fate.
The terrorist manage to lay waste to 11 and injure an additional six others.
The shooter died after a gunfight with the law.
CNN reports that Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera said the terrorist was a former employee for the city who was let go.
Lives are ruined.
"This is the most devastating day in the history of Virginia Beach," said mayor Bobby Dyer. "The people involved are our friends, coworkers, neighbors, colleagues."
The terrorist opened fire on numerous floors.
The shooting happened at a moment where people were at the weakest moment. There people who were probably getting their licenses, paying bills, filing business applications and paying their tickets. These folks lives are either gone or interrupted by the gunfire.
The FBI, the state police, Virginia Beach Police and the ATF will do a formal investigation and determine whether the motives were inspired by the terrorist being fired out the cannon.
Victims are being transferred to local hospitals within the Hampton Roads region.
Disgraced musician faces state and federal charges.
There are 11 more charges added to Robert Sylvester Kelly. The 52-year old entertainer is charged with allegations of sexual abuse with a victim who was 13 years old at the time. The victim carried a three year tryst.
Chicago prosecutors charged R. Kelly with four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault by force, two counts of criminal sexual abuse, three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Those charges added on could put the singer in the iron college for LIFE.
Back in February, the singer was arrested and charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four women. Three of the women were under the age of 17 at the time of the alleged assaults.
It remains unclear if the news charges involve a new victim or an accuser currently in the cases filed, the singer does have a plate.
Since the Lifetime documentary Surviving R. Kelly came to light it pretty much opened up a can of worms. Women from all parts of the country accused the singer of being a sexual deviant who has control over their daily lives.
The singer denies the allegations and went to CBS's Gayle King to deny the allegations in a fiery interview.
The singer is also facing child support and alimony charges. He was locked up after his ex-wife Andrea Kelly filed a lawsuit stating the singer failed to live up to his child support. Kelly was held up because he failed to pay the $161,000 in child support.
Kelly is mounting a strong defense. Kim Foxx and Michael Avenatti both faced a backlash. Foxx, the prosecutor who served Kelly is under fire for looking then other way when Jussie Smollett filed a police report claiming he was a victim of a hate crime. Smollett's actions cost Empire and Star a follow up season. Avenatti, the former lawyer for Stormy Daniels is facing a federal sandwich as well. He allegedly stole from his clients and failed to pay his taxes. These scandals could taint the case and give R. Kelly a chance to walk free.
Time's up for R. Kelly. He needs to be held accountable for his actions.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Note: There are two women of color but they might as well be the tokens in a jukebox.
Michelle Malkin, Candace Owens, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Dan Scavino, James Woods and Alex Jones are banned or on the verge of being banned on social media. Years of trolling has become a final straw for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Now Fox News wants to complain about them being censored from being hate mongers.
The propaganda arm of Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party is calling a notorious white extremist a well respective conservative.
Paul Nehlen is a Wisconsin based far-white agitator who wanted to be a member of Congress. He wanted to replace Paul Ryan bit ended up losing to a Republican who didn't wear his racism on his sleeve.
Elizabeth Warren will not be a pawn to Fox News or its audience.
Nehlen is a controversial figure. He openly support white extremists and far-right agitators.
He was banned recently from social media after they determined he would be a dangerous influence peddler.
Laura Ingraham did a segment to defend controversial agitator Candace Owens and placed her and a handful of others in the "censorship" of prominent figures.
Ingraham managed to slip Nehlen into the segment.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) went to The View and told the ladies that the reasons why she refuse to do a town hall for Fox News. She said that it will give them a reason to make a profit.
Warren is often attacked by Republicans and Fox News for demanding the rich pay are fair share of taxes. She is often mocked by Trump. He often calls her Pocahontas.
Warren said that she doesn't mind going to Republican States to engage with folks who may never vote for her. But she said that giving Fox News and it's executives a reason to profit off the term of being "fair and balanced" is not acceptable.
Warren rather not give the ad revenue to a hate for profit business.
Chinese media mock dumb as a box of rocks Fox News personality.
Fox Business personality goes after Chinese American personality who reports for China-state television.
Trish Regan is a dumb sack of rocks who trots out Donald J. Trump propaganda on her network Fox News. She happens to be one of the many "business" folks on its sister network Fox Business.
She and Liu Xin, a media personality for CGTN duke it out over Trump's disastrous trade war with China.
In the time of epic weather events, Trump has a trade war in which folks who are struggling after weather events will find no comfort when the price of food, gas, electronics and necessities go up at the local stores.
Regan in Sean "Softball" Hannity fashion attacks Xin for being a state propagandist who supports Communism. Again the fear mongering of economics is a tradition among conservatives and Republicans.
I will say this in defense of Fin. She has to get a paycheck somewhere.
Fox News is the least diverse network when it comes to hiring journalist of color. The only person of color to host a show is a sexual harasser named No Neck Charles Payne.
The video will be up until Fox News claims copyright infringement.
Reminder NowThis hosted a Danish politician to debunk Regan's bullshit.
Larry King's health declining. It may be the end of a legendary voice in American media.
An iconic broadcaster took a turn for the worst.
Larry King was hospitalized this month for an illness and his family has said that he has taken a turn for the worse. Me and Le Reyna best known him as the iconic talk show host on CNN.
King who hosted Larry King Live until 2011 was the go-to for celebrities, politicians and people in the news. He was considered one of the most trusted and fairest interviewers. Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump have been on Larry King Live. It was one of CNN's only programs where you can call in.
People are concerned that King is dying.
King failed to show up for the American Spirit Awards ceremony.
King who is a survivor of 13 heart attacks was treated in Los Angeles just last month for a heart scare.
King, 85 was appearing to look gaunt and frail. His friends said he lost massive weight and has been in terrible shape. They said that King is fighting through watching his beloved Los Angeles Dodgers on television.
A former smoker, King often told his story about how his life changed after experiencing a heart attack.
King has been married eight times and has five children. He is the host of Larry King Now on Hulu, Ora TV and RT America. He also hosted paid commercials for Omega-3 XL.
Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith (R-MS) replace him and won her special election to finish out his term. She ran like the racist she grew up to be. Had he been in perfect health, Thad Cochran would have served out his term.
Cochran died at the age of 81. He and former Indiana senator Richard Lugar were the few moderate Republicans left. Lugar died earlier this month.
Considered a rank and file, the former senator would be too moderate for today's Republican Party.
Cochran served the U.S. Senate for 45 years. He resigned in 2018 because of his ailing health. He passed away in Oxford. He leaves behind his second wife Kay Webber-Cochran and two children from his first wife, Rose Cochran.
He called the chaos in Washington, DC as an ongoing challenge.
Known as the "quintessential Southern gentleman" he would often be the broker of calm in a polarizing Senate. With folks like Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Marco Rubio, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Martha McSally, Joe Manchin, Susan Collins, Kamala Harris and Rand Paul dominating the news feeds, you often needed a voice of reason to calm nerves.
"Some people say that Thad Cochran is the last true southern gentleman, and I think there's a lot of truth to that. Some people say that he represents the lost art of being nice," said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL).
Gov. Phil Bryant, Barack Obama, Mike Pence, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Hyde Smith all expressed their phony condolences to the late former senator.
Cochran was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978. He served as U.S. Representative for three terms prior. He was the first Republican to be elected statewide in Mississippi in more than 100 years. He served with then Senate Majority Leader at the time Trent Lott. Lott is best known for praising far-white bigot and hypocrite (by the way of an interracial daughter) Strom Thurmond.
Cochran with his successor Cindy Hyde Smith.
Cochran faced an onslaught of conservative outrage. In 2014, Sarah Palin, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham and The Drudge Report marked him for defeat. They recruited Chris McDaniel to run against him.
McDaniel who ran a dirty campaign tried to play upon family values by denouncing Cochran who was dating his staffer Kay Webber while his wife Rose Cochran was dying.
Chuck C. Johnson, the far-white troll paid folks to expose Cochran. It failed miserably.
Cochran counted on open primary support from the Black voters. A largely Democratic base supported a Republican is amazing. He went on to defeat McDaniel in the primary.
Cochran would marry Webber soon after his wife's death and reelection.
Cochran was one of the few Republican senators to support the bill to make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.
I am not too keen on Republicans and I seriously believe that Donald J. Trump will destroy the party in the long run. For once I can say that Thad Cochran was probably one of the good Republicans.
Campground apologizes after a worker threatened a Black couple with a gun.
They feel entitled to threaten you when you're minding your business. They call the law on you for the most asinine things and then threaten violence when they don't get their way.
People of color are under attack, especially women of color. More women of color are subjected to abuse from men, the law, and the entertainment industry.
Black women are vilified as "welfare queens" and such by the far-white.
Here's another example of why firearms should never be in the hands of folks.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
A white campground employee was fired out the cannon in Mississippi after she pulled a firearm on a Black couple who had stopped by with their dog to have a picnic.
Franklin and Jessica Richardson with their 2-year old dog had went to the Kampgrounds of America in Starkville to have a lakeside picnic. They were spotted by a woman who wore the KOA attire approach them in a truck.
Jessica and Franklin Richardson were accosted by a white woman with a gun.
When she got out of the truck, she had the firearm on her side cocked back and ready to fire. The woman identified herself as the campground manager told the couple to leave the property. She said they didn't belong and they needed reservations.
So as the woman had her hand on the trigger, Jessica had her hands on the camera and began recording this.
The video soon went viral and KOA got word of it.
Richardson wrote on her social media thread that, "Racism is alive and well."
The couple said that the woman in yellows husband told them that reservations were not required to use the grounds.
KOA also confirmed that reservations are not required for their sites. Some are privately owned. Guest are asked to register upon arrival, which the Richardson's didn't know.
KOA formally apologize to the Richardsons. It is apparent that our country is going through another age of discourse. With Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Phil Bryant, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith (R-MS) and its three Republican U.S. congressman are enablers of bigotry in the delta.
Mind you that Mississippi is the poorest, uneducated and culturally diverse state in the country. The state has a 42% Black population but continues to elect White leaders and has the most insignificant economy of the lowers. The longtime Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is the sole Black and only Democrat of the U.S. lawmakers of that state. Thompson is a product of the Civil Rights era.
Mississippi is known as the Magnolia State. It is also known as the state that still relishes on 20th Century mindset.
As NPR puts it, Leon Redbone was an unusual singer from a bygone era.
He passed away with his family by his side in a Pennsylvania hospice. The singer best known to me was the theme song for Mr. Belvedere. He also made an appearance as Leon the Snowman in the 2003 holiday comedy Elf.
Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian) specialized the guitar. He would make sounds straight out of Tin Pan Alley. He was the guy who wore a Panama hat, dark sunglasses and a black tie.
His musical career launched in the early 1970s in a Toronto night scene.
He would perform songs that reflexes on comedy, ragtime, jazz, blues and vaudeville. He also did voice acting and occasional acting.
He was born on the island of Cyprus. He often kept his origins out of the spotlight. According to the Toronto Star, he came to Canada from Cyprus in the mid-1960s and changed his name through the Ontario Change of Name Act. The only known confirmation is his birth name and his family's Armenian heritage.
His parents lived in Jerusalem but moved to Nicosia, Cyprus where Redbone was born. In 1961, the family moved to London and then to Toronto.
Redbone met an icon of pop culture while living in Toronto. He met Bob Dylan at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1972. Dylan was so impressed with Redbone's performance he told the Rolling Stone, Redbone was "so authentic you can hear the surface noise [of an 78 rpm].
Redbone had retired from the music in 2015. He released over 16 albums during his career.
