Jerbal wants to sell toxic toys to the working poor
It is one thing to be ignorant, but Red County’s Matt “Jerbal” Cunningham has hit a new low. He has actually become dangerous to public safety.
Jerbal wrote in a Red County post today that “The health and safety nazis at the Consumer Product Safety Commission have made it clear to the rabble that re-selling any children’s product that may have any lead in it is illegal and could end up with the offender being socked with a multi-million dollar fine.”
Does this red-faced pendejo know what lead does to children? Let me preface this by saying that I am a certified Hazardous Waste Operations instructor. I am also certified as a Lead Abatement project manager. I know this topic very well.
But let’s see what our friends at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) have to say about lead poisoning in children: “Lead poisoning can affect nearly every system in the body. Because lead poisoning often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it frequently goes unrecognized. Lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and, at very high levels, seizures, coma, and even death.”
Your body thinks that lead is calcium, so it gets stored in your bones, where your body makes blood cells. Imagine what that does to your body over time. Lead can also cause hearing loss and it can also collect in body tissues and organs. You can excrete some lead through urine and the GA tract, but much of it stays in you forever.
And Jerbal is OK with selling toys tainted with lead to the working poor who shop at dollar stores.
Jerbal also wrote “Who does this heavy dose of regulatory compassion hurt? Let’s see, there are those who try to stretch their household budgets by shopping at second-hand stores, which are also a large source of income for charitable organizations. Or folks trying to earn some extra money selling their stuff at garage sales.”
Jerbal wants to sell toxic toys to poor people. Perhaps this is the latest Minuteman scheme to get rid of immigrants?
Or is Jerbal getting paid to shill for some damnable association of dollar stores that wants to poison our children?
This will only serve to prove that Republicans are heartless pigs. And you have to wonder why a guy who wants to endanger children is serving on the Orange County Parks, Beaches and Harbors Commission.
Jerbal you need to apologize for this faux pas!
Art,
This is an important issue, the safety of our children. Mr. Matt Cunningam is a repugnant pundit for the highest bidder.
Art, I know you don’t like this guy, but you have now made this a personal attack. I wrote about this story earlier, it deals more with the “re-sale” of recalled products, (ie. Garage Sales, thrift stores etc) and the fines that will now be imposed on them for doing so. As far as I recall the fimes could go to the millions, for having a garage sale!
You then explain that only “poor” people try to streach their dollars at the Dollar stores. I have to break it to you, I shop there all the time, and I am neither poor, nor a minority.
I would not be surprised to see you post later, that these fines on recalled products, have been designed to discriminate against the poor hispanics who are trying to make ends meet with a garage sale, and to fine them is wrong (which it is)Please don’t let your personal dislike for this guy interfere with your reporting.
You must admit there is a serious concern about
“Jerbal wants to sell toxic toys to poor people.”
He said nothing of the kind. This personal vendetta of yours is getting old. Keep it to yourself.
Besides, you obviously a phony Libertarian.
“Perhaps this is the latest Minuteman scheme to get rid of immigrants?”
You’re right Art, Matt hates poor people (anyone making less than $5 million as defined by McCain). I sure he wants to destroy us, brainwash our children with right wing propaganda, force them to listen to Limbaugh and feed our puppies with low quality food made in China. He’s just a terrible man!!! (I’m being a smartass, of course)
Actually I agree with just about everything bigmarkod said in #2. I disagree with bigmarkod though about you writing the blog simply out of your dislike for Matt. Having seen many of your other posts, I think you wrote the above blog just for the hell of it. It is very much your style to take something and fill it with all kinds of speculations and come up with an extreme conclusion. As in this case:
“Jerbal wants to sell toxic toys to poor people. Perhaps this is the latest Minuteman scheme to get rid of immigrants?…”
Big Mark and Lam Pho,
Products are recalled with good reason. If said reason involves lead or other toxins then it is truly evil to try to sell these products at dollar stores.
And yes Lam, I do have fun with these posts! I have always tried to make this blog entertaining. And there is nothing funner than picking on Jerbal…
“And yes Lam, I do have fun with these posts! I have always tried to make this blog entertaining. And there is nothing funner than picking on Jerbal…”
That’s why I like you Art.
Matt Cunningham outed sex-abuse victims.
OK Art, when the first garage sale host in Santa Ana get fined for selling a recalled toy, You are not allowed to cry anit-immigrant, anti-mexican hatred.
And yes, he is fun to pick on.
I can’t help but notice, this post got eight times as many replies as Jerbal’s last three posts at DEAD COUNTY.
This guys a joke and does’nt deserve the bandwith Art’s giving him.