Walmart endangering customers!!

I am livid.  Took the kids out to pick up some items, and the entire trip was a disaster.  Couldn't look at firearms, because Walmart has decided those can't be on display.  Oh well, guess someone else will get that business of mine.  Annoyed through the whole store by stupid floor signs telling me which end of an empty aisle I could or could not enter.  Because, gee, that matters....NOT.  Ignored those, as did most people.  No employees anywhere to ask for help locating items.  Ever.  If it's not in Electronics, forget getting help.  All that is bad enough. 

Still, managed to get what we needed, and went to check out.  One live cashier, ONE, for a LONG line of people waiting to check out.  Not a huge big deal, since the self checkout was closer to the door we entered.  Note, that door was open after 6pm, and we checked out and left before 7pm.  After checking out my own items, because they are too incompetent to have enough actual cashiers, we headed to the door, to find it blocked.  Literally blocked, with rows of carts, and other barriers.  When asked for an explanation, the employee had nothing other than, "You have to use the other door."  So inside an hour, they close and completely block an exit, and there is literally no reason to do this. 

By the time we reached the car, my breathing was not good, as asthma doesn't respond well to hotter temps and exertion combined.  But, hey, Walmart doesn't care.  They want sheep, not customers.  No help, not even a cashier.  The employees you can locate, you can't understand because of the stupid masks, and when you can understand them, they don't now anything useful anyway.  But, gee, I should forget all that, because they care about black lives, right?  Wrong!!  They don't care about anyone.  Blocking exits, endangering the lives of customers, and treating people like sheep who should wait on themselves, and be glad of the privilege to throw money at this corporation that destroys local businesses; that's how they show they "care". They even have the audacity to post a sign stating "free loading" for your car if you download their app.  Wow, like real grocery stores have always offered, forever, for free, with no app?  Thanks, but no thanks.  Well, they can care without me.  Nothing they sell that I can't get some other way. 

The sickening part is how many people just accept this sort of treatment, without complaint, as though it is normal and expected.  Well, it isn't.  It's rotten, its bad business, and I am sick and tired of this company treating customers like we belong to them.  I've had enough. 

Liberals Lie - They Like Walls and Borders!

This won't surprise most of you, but it's being shown that the Left lies, when it comes to topics such as border walls and deportations. In Seattle, where they've established their own criminal zone, calling it "free", they have barriers up, armed guards, and have "deported" at least one person, stating he doesn't matter.  Go figure.

PHOTOS: Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’ Has a Border Wall, Conducts ‘Deportations’

Seattle, Washington’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) — formed by anarchists, Antifa members, and Black Lives Matter activists — has set up a border wall surrounding its perimeters and is seemingly conducting ‘deportations’.

CHAZ, a six-square block autonomous zone, has clear and precise borders made up of mostly vehicle barriers and various forms of fencing.

Photos from CHAZ show the border controls:

A sign is seen on a barrier at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Barriers are seen on a street leading to the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

A protester uses a scope on top of a barricade to look for police approaching the newly created Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington on June 11, 2020. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

People peer through a barrier with their dog at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

An acronym for “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” is seen painted on the street near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct on June 9, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

A barricade is seen at an entrance to the so-called “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” on June 10, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

Likewise, CHAZ occupants have seemingly conducted at least one deportation.
On Thursday, reporter Julio Rosas captured a moment where CHAZ occupants kicked out a man who said he was a pro-life activist and had been live-streaming from inside the autonomous zone.
The man was taunted by a mob as he was kicked out. The process was far less technical and impartial than the deportation process of the United States federal government.

Occupiers forced this guy out who was live-streaming inside the zone. The crowd was calling him a white supremacist, though the man being pushed out says he’s simply an anti-abortion advocate. The crowd chanted, “Who don’t matter? This motherfucker!” pic.twitter.com/qCBl1K7G90

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) June 11, 2020

As Breitbart News has noted, despite left-wing opposition to border walls and border controls, homes owned by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill Gates are surrounded by fences, walls, and sometimes 20-foot high barriers.
Similarly, countries like Israel, Hungary, Bulgaria, Australia, and Slovenia have proven the effectiveness of implementing strict border controls and erecting border walls to drastically reduce illegal immigration.

Remember, the Left claims thy are against these things, marching and chanting things like this:

...and this....

No borders! No nations! Stop the deportations! SFO #NoBanNoWall #NoMuslimBan pic.twitter.com/OHdd6Z8veZ

— Trump/Pence Must Go NOW—#OutNow (@RefuseFascism) January 29, 2017

They want to destroy the country. They will use any excuse, tell any lie, sacrifice any number of people, of any color, to get what they want.   These are the people pushing the rioting, demanding a stop to police, while wanting their own unregulated forces in control, and pushing forward a senile pervert to hold the position of leader of the free world, which they would destroy.  You vote for the Left, or against the Right in some anti-Trump bid,you support this madness.  Remember in November.  Our freedoms and our very lives depend on it.

Some Days, You Hate Being Right!!

Twice today, something I predicted has been proven to be correct. I'd rather have been wrong, all considered.  Thanks you Rocket for pointing out the one, here - https://green-eyedthoughts.blogspot.com/2020/03/woman-deliberately-contaminates-grocery.html#comment-4944262746

Then there are these comments I made almost a full day ago -

...and now this -
George Floyd’s Family Petitions United Nations to Help Disarm Police in the United States

Right on cue. 

Arbery Case - a Collection of Videos

Since this case has hit the news, there has been a lot of debate, and disagreement, and a lot of facts seem to be missed. Rather than list all of that, posting videos that discuss the issues.  This was not some "innocent jogger", targeted for "being black".  This was a legitimate suspect, with a record and recorded previous aggression.  The men who acted did so legally, and should not be prosecuted for that, just because Arbery decided to attack, and ended up shot as a result.

The videos:

This first one shows Arbery being very confrontational with police, aggressive to the point one attempted to use a taser. There is some bad language.  Notice, he comes towards the cop several times, being quite aggressive, then claims the cop can't touch him. 

Next, we will talk about Larry English, the man who owns the home which Arbery entered illegally.  English now claims "nothing was stolen", but he's lying.  He reported to 911 before that things were, in fact, stolen, and even that he had video of that, mentioning a too bag/box. 

 He's lying now to protect himself, I am sure, since threats have been made against others in this case.

Travis McMichael called the police before about Arbery:

He also mentions the previous thefts, which English did, as shown above, report.

Surveillance video shows a man that looks like Arbery inside the English house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttm_UOojaLU

Another video shows him leaving the same house way back in December:

At the time this was reported, English was still lying about the thefts he'd previously reported.

This is, in case you haven't seen it, a video of Arbery leaving the same house the day of the shooting:

This is no innocent jogger.  This man went to that house on multiple occasions, sometimes at night, and items were, in fact, stolen.  The McMichaels had every right under the law to assume he was a criminal, and to purse and attempt to detain him, and to carry guns while doing so. 

Here, a former police officer speaks about many facts in the case, and stateshis opinions on the legalities:

Solid analysis, in this video.

Now here is a video that discusses this case and another, in which an elderly white couple was actually hunted and killed, by a black man, and the media doesn't seem to want to talk about it:

Yet we are supposed to believe that that everything is against blacks, nothing a black person does is relevant, and they can do literally anything, and no one can stand against it, or they risk being called a racist?  That's the real racism here.

Please, share these videos, or the blog link, so people can see the facts, and understand how the media is trying to push these racial narratives.  Don't fall for the propaganda.

President Trump Stands Against Social Media Censoring!

This is awesome!  For far too long, we have seen these social media companies acting as publishers, claiming they can control content, all while hiding behind labels that pretend they are something else.  Finally, we are seeing action against this, in for of an executive order! 

Donald Trump Signs Exec Order to Curb Big Tech’s ‘Unchecked Power’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday in the White House to defend free speech on social media and regulate social media companies for selectively censoring users.

“We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers,” the president said, referring to the “unchecked power” wielded by social media companies in the United States.
The president signed the order in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon.
“They’ve had unchecked power to censor restrict, edit shape hide alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens or large public audiences,” Trump said.
The president criticized the growing monopoly of social media companies in America, vowing to act to change the regulatory framework for the companies.
“There’s no precedent in American history for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of interaction,” he said.
Trump said the increasing editorial actions by social media to control the content on their platforms endangered their liability shield under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a neutral public platform.
“The choices that Twitter makes, when it chooses to suppress, edit, blacklist, shadowban are editorial decisions, pure and simple, they are editorial decisions,” Trump said.
The president accused the companies of political activism, calling it “inappropriate.”
“What they choose to fact check and what they choose to ignore or promote is nothing more than a political activism group,” he said.
Trump said that social media companies had “more power and more reach” than any phone company or newspaper or media outlet, and needed more regulation.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr attended the event and said his office would prepare legislation to restrict social media companies from pressing their particular viewpoints on their platforms.
“These companies grew because they held themselves out as public forums,” Barr said, adding, “Now that they’ve become these very powerful networks of eyeballs. They’ve now switched and they are using that market power to force particular viewpoints.”
The president also noted that checking social media companies had become a bipartisan issue, citing Democrat support for regulation.
When ABC News reporter Jon Karl asked why President Trump did not delete his Twitter account in protest of the company’s decisions, Trump replied, “If you weren’t fake, I would not even think about it, I would do that in a heartbeat.”

I believe this is long overdue.  If the platform is supposed to be social media, then it needs to welcome all opinions.  Unless someone is posting something illegal, pornographic, inciting violence, or the like, the content should be welcome.  Political opinions are free speech, and should not be censored.  Differing opinions on social issues, crimes, diseases, or whatever else should not be prohibited.  These companies have gone too far, and want to control what people think.  It's good to have a president that understands and respects the freedoms upon which this nation was founded!

VP Comments on Re-Opening of the Nation

I am sure you all recall that Georgia was being criticized strongly for re-opening faster than some recommended, with all sorts of dire predictions thrown around.  Well, it's working, and that is being recognized:

Mike Pence in Georgia: Brian Kemp ‘Has Proven’ Critics ‘Wrong Every Day’ on Battling Coronavirus

ATLANTA, Georgia — Vice President Mike Pence defended Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp against establishment media and leftist critics who just weeks ago inaccurately predicted widescale doom as Georgia moved to aggressively reopen its economy ahead of schedule.

“Let’s be clear: Gov. Brian Kemp has proven them wrong every day,” Pence said when Breitbart News asked him and Kemp during a press gaggle to respond to critics throughout the media and left who ripped Kemp at the outset of the reopening process. “The people of Georgia have proven them wrong every day.”
The vice president’s praise of Kemp’s handling of the coronavirus crisis comes just weeks after Georgia in late April moved to aggressively reopen its economy—and the state faced a bevy of criticism from establishment media outlets and leftists.
“Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice,” was a headline, for instance, in the Atlantic for a piece by Amanda Mull.
Others in media and on the left were similarly vicious to Kemp. Now, though, the data demonstrates that Kemp was right and they were wrong. A month into Georgia’s reopening process, the first and most aggressive anywhere in America, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are all on the decline. Georgia continues its reopening process, and providing hope to other states across the country following its lead.
While Pence was much more direct in noting that the establishment critics of Kemp were wrong, Kemp brushed them off and said to Breitbart News that he is not interested in battling with media critics—he is more focused on winning the war with the coronavirus and energizing his state’s economy.
“I’ll just say the way I’ve been dealing with that is I’m not criticizing anybody,” Kemp said. “There’s no playbook on this. We’ve all been in this together. Everybody has had to make tough decisions, whether it’s at the federal level or local level or certainly at the state level. I think everybody has the lives of their citizens and constituents [in mind], and they’re concerned about them when they make those decisions. I haven’t been too worried about criticizing the press too much either. I just want to keep driving our numbers down and keep making sure we give people an opportunity to get back to work and save this great economy that we have.”
Pence’s trip to Georgia began with a lunch visit the Star Cafe in Atlanta with Gov. Kemp and Georgia’s first lady Marty Kemp. Later in the day, he visited Waffle House corporate headquarters in Norcross for a roundtable with Kemp and Waffle House’s CEO. The vice president’s trip comes during a broader effort by the White House to reopen America, one that President Donald Trump and Pence have been cheerleading across the country. Trump was in Michigan on Thursday to pressure Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to move faster, and Pence was in Florida on Wednesday to cheer on GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and enjoy a burger with him.

Later, during the Waffle House roundtable, Pence noted that case numbers and hospitalizations continue dropping in Georgia even as testing increases–a remarkable feat, he said, since one would think that increasing testing would lead to a spike in cases.
In the press gaggle inside Star Cafe, Pence told Breitbart News that all 50 states are reopening now. Pence also said that America does not face a choice between the economy or the public health—he said it is a choice between “health and health.”
“I was just in Florida a few short days ago where I heard tell of the level of criticism that had been waged there against the efforts of Florida to safely and responsibly reopen,” Pence said. “I’ve been working with governors in both political parties every day since the president tapped me to lead the White House Coronavirus Task Force. There is not a governor in a state or territory in this country that hasn’t done everything in their power to put the health and well-being of their people first. What governors recognize and what President Trump and I recognize is this is not a choice between health and a growing economy. This is a choice between health and health. There are very serious health consequences to having our economy continue to be closed. I think the American people understand that.”
“We asked people during the most difficult days of the coronavirus pandemic to avoid elective surgery, but the better part of a month ago we saw hospitalizations dropping around the country, so we encouraged states to open up elective surgery again.” Pence continued. “I want to take this time to tell everyone in Georgia: Now is the time to go back to your local hospital and have that procedure and have that routine checkup to support your health and to support your local healthcare community. The truth is when people forgo routine checkups, there are health risks with that. When people go a long time without work, there are profound emotional and physical impacts of that. That’s what Gov. Kemp has recognized and the people of Georgia have recognized and other governors around the country like the governor of Florida are doing.”
“All 50 states today are now in some measure of reopening their economies, ” he said. “They’re demonstrating we can do it safely and responsibly. But what some of the critics have to recognize is it’s not a choice between health and a strong economy. It’s between health and health, and the president and I and the governor here are determined to move forward and safely and responsibly reopen. That’s because that is the best way for a safe and strong America.”
Kemp, during his comments in response to Breitbart News during the press gaggle, said that he has been focused on making scientifically sound decisions—and his push to reopen, which has happened as the coronavirus has receded here, proves that.
“If you think back a few months ago, it’s the best economy we’ve ever seen. I’ve been a small business guy for 30 years,” Kemp said. “I’ve been through ups and downs and I’ve had weeks where I didn’t know if I was going to be able to make payroll. Marty and I were scratching every penny we could get to get our people paid. We were at that point in Georgia and I knew that—and the president and the vice president said to us that we can’t let the ill effects of the virus be worse than the virus itself. We’re fighting two battles—the COVID battle but also the battle to get this economy back to where it was when we started. That’s what I’ve been focused on—I’m not too worried about critics that are out there. I’m making decisions based on science and public health advice—every decision I’ve made with [Georgia Health Commissioner] Dr. [Kathleen] Toomey has been in conjunction with that and I just appreciate the support and the help of the administration, as we’ve been on this battle for months now.”

As many of us already believed, the draconian measures pushed in many states were not necessary,and re-opening is vital to the country, and quite safe.  

Baby Bear Breaks Into Cabin for Reese's Cups!!

 VIDEO: Baby Bear Breaks into Tennessee Cabin with Guests Inside

Two friends on vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, had a close encounter with a baby black bear while they were in their cabin, according to a video.

WATE reported that Michelle Eberhart came to Gatlinburg for the weekend with her husband and their friends when Friday morning, while their husbands were out playing a round of golf, Michelle and her friend noticed the baby bear leaning on the cabin’s back door.
“She just started pointing and I was like, ‘What?’ and so I turned and looked, and there’s a bear just putting his full force on the door. And then the door opens,” Eberhart said.
The bear then barged right through the back door inside the cabin while the ladies rushed to a bedroom for safety. The video showed the bear inside the cabin’s back door pawing on the walls.
There also happened to be three more bears lounging around on the porch outside, according to the video.
“It was just almost surreal, it was just a fight-or-flight, like I just have to remove us from this situation and make sure that we’re at least in a safe place,” Eberhart said.
The police were eventually called in, removing the bear from the cabin and shooing the other three bears lounging on the porch. But the bears did not leave the house empty-handed.
“They got 5 pounds of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and a pound of M&M’s and two pounds of Sour Patch Kids and two bags of potato chips… two beers and two Diet Cokes and about 20 Zyrtecs,” Eberhart said.
Wildlife officials warn to keep your distance if you encounter a bear and call authorities because bears can travel very quickly.

 This is why it's wise to keep doors locked, on cars and homes, in bear country.  They are clever, and can open an unlocked door!  Readers of the old "Facts, Fun, and Faith" channel will recall stories of bears demolishing unlocked cars.

Cute little thing, and not much of a threat, though his mother would be another story!