Yep, even back in 1949, this one generated a lot of outrage over the then-new store in Portland's Hollywood district's promotion of a free giveaway of a two month-old baby.
Well, it did generate a considerable amount of interest ahead of their grand opening.
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China just announced they would allow rice imports from the U.S. for the first time in their history.
Read that again.
Trump just sold rice to CHINA.
Democrat hair on fire....
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UPS to the rescue!
A group of United Parcel Service (UPS) employees are accused of smuggling shipments of drugs and counterfeit vaping oils from Mexico and distributing the illicit products around the U.S. for at least a decade.
Authorities arrested 11 people, including four UPS drivers and supervisors, in Tucson, Ariz., for their roles in the alleged smuggling ring, the Department of Homeland Security said. Investigators say the suspects moved thousands of pounds of marijuana and other drugs into the U.S. from Mexico each week using the company's standard cardboard boxes, bypassing security measures.
Raul Garcia Cordova, 47, faces more than a dozen charges. A police raid at his home turned up 50,000 counterfeit vaping pens, a Chevrolet Corvette and a Range Rover.
Obviously, crime paid somewhat more than the standard UPS job.
Right up until it didn't....
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Financial giant Charles Schwab will acquire competitor TD Ameritrade for $26 billion — that’s big news in the financial world, but it’s “enormous news” for Westlake.
That's a suburb near DFW in Texas, and Schwab's moving HQ from San Francisco, though they will retain some employees in the Bay area for the time being. It may be hard to believe, but it appears as though California's Democrat politicians might be doing something wrong.
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Start by getting rid of the lifer bureaucrats. Nobody elected them, after all, and for the most part they're parasites.
These un-elected bureaucrats, the faceless horde, the Deep State, the swamp if you will, the little despots drunk with power and the ability to screw with people’s lives, have risen up. They believe they are the only legitimate government of the United States. Presidents come and go, but they are forever. They’re striking back at a president that represents what they see as the ‘peasants’, the hayseeds, the fly-over states, deplorables who dare to question their authority, competency, and legitimacy.
That's a succinct summation of the long-time "business as usual" situation, so obviously if one plans to drain the swamp, that's Ground Zero.
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Newly released data might have Californians once again praying for rain.
Almost all of the state has fallen into “abnormally dry” conditions, except for the furthest northern reaches of California, according to a U.S. Drought Monitor map released Nov. 12.
Apart from NorCal, about 81% of the state is classed as in trouble. It's looking as though "abnormally dry" is actually the new normal there. But then, historically, the state was mostly desert, so it may be simply reverting back to its preferred environmental status.
And another large business bids California farewell:
The budget hemorrhaging in California continues as yet another major business has announced their plans to flee the state for the greener pastures of Texas.
Quality Custom Distribution is a major distributor to some of the nation’s largest food chains, including Starbucks, Chipotle and Chick-fil-A.
They plan to begin operations out of Frisco, TX in the next two months.
Jobs in the finance department, customer service, purchasing, and accounting have already begun to be posted in Frisco.
The company was formerly based in Irvine, CA.
Quality Custom Distribution will be joining such other notable tenants in the Frisco office park as Jamba Juice, which also moved its headquarters from California in mid-2016.
They're just the latest; dozens of companies large and small have moved out over the past decade, and the pace shows no sign of slowing any time soon.
Of all the states, California ranks dead last for policy friendliness, with key negatives for high taxes, high workers compensation costs and high electricity costs, according to the most recent report from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.
Hundreds of companies and their workers have left California over the last seven years, trading in their surfboards for cowboy boots in many cases.
By far, Texas gained the most from California’s corporate exodus, according to a new report by California site selection consultant Joseph Vranich.
Relying solely on publicly available information, Vranich concludes that 1,510 companies moved all or some of their operations out of California from 2008 through 2014, taking with them valuable jobs, investment dollars and tax revenue. Texas’ most recent big deal was Toyota Motor Corp.’s decision to relocate its North American headquarters in Plano, generating roughly 4,000 jobs and $350 million in investments. Vranich estimates 3,000 of those jobs will come from California.
According to California's Democrat politicians, everything's roses and unicorn farts - but the numbers don't lie. And their response seems to be "Who are you going to believe - me, or your own lying eyes"?
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"Triggered" by a...food truck? Really? Yes, believe it or not:
Around 100 students walked out of West Linn High School in Oregon last week in protest of the school’s decision to allow a Chick-fil-A food truck to sell chicken sandwiches during one of the school’s football games, among other microaggressions they said were making LGBT students feel “unsafe.”
“A group of counterprotesters also walked out of classes wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and waving American flags and Chick-fil-A bags,” the Washington Times reported.
It’s not clear what prompted the Oregon school to invite Chick-fil-A to sell food on campus during sporting events, but the chicken sandwich chain has drawn protests from LGBTQ rights activsts across the country since 2012, when LGBTQ rights groups discovered that Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy is opposed to same-sex marriage and has donated to socially conservative organizations.
Since he dissents from the Lefty idiocy, he must be shut down, and employees prevented from working. How insecure do you have to be to feel threatened by a chicken sandwich?
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Pornhub announced Thursday that PayPal has stopped all payouts to models on the popular hardcore porn site.
“We are all devastated by PayPal’s decision to stop payouts to over a hundred thousand performers who rely on them for their livelihoods,” the porn site said in a release.
"Models"? That's a stretch.
Pornhub performers lashed out at PayPal on Thursday, calling the decision discriminatory.
“It was only a matter of time,” wrote one adult model on a Pornhub message board. “Since 2012 I have been watching PP [PayPal] get worse and worse, discriminate against so many Models and Companies!”
Another model wrote: “PayPal strikes again SMH but, not surprised. Real tired of all these companies taking away SWs [sex workers’] livelihoods.”
PayPal's doubtless really wounded by all that.
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All the TV sets are tuned into the Schiff Circus. The hot-selling drink is the "Subpoena Colada".
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SALEM, Ore. (KATU) – NORPAC Foods, Inc. announced Thursday that it will lay off more than 900 employees beginning Nov. 15.
In a letters sent to all employees at the Brooks Plant and the Salem-Repack Plant, NORPAC said it is permanently closing the two locations.
Just in time for the holidays! Yo-Ho-Ho!
That's got to be a punch in the gut for the workers.
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