Trumpy Bears?

Yes they do at first appear to be some kind of parody.

But then again, maybe not.

If they are a parody, they are brilliant. I mean a bear, the symbol of Russia, and Donald Trump combined?

However if they are on the level, and actually a serious product, well that is simply disturbing.

Oh and by the way, in case you were wondering, yes they are indeed made in China.

Fox News host is suing Hasbro for making a toy hamster that shares her name. In other news the animal fox is suing Fox News for poisoning its brand.

Courtesy of ABC News:  

An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that shares her name — and possibly even her resemblance. 

Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro this week over its plastic Harris Faulkner hamster, sold as part of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company's popular Littlest Pet Shop line. She says the toy wrongfully appropriates her name and persona, harms her professional credibility as a journalist and is an insult. 

"Hasbro's portrayal of Faulkner as a rodent is demeaning and insulting," says the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey. 

Faulkner has been at Fox News for a decade. She hosts the daytime show "Outnumbered" and anchors a Sunday evening newscast.

Here's my favorite line from the article, "harms her professional credibility as a journalist."

I hate to break it to you lady but that happened the day you signed on to work for Fox News.

Faulkner should be so lucky that when people think of her they think of this:

Instead of this:

One version is rodent like creature that associates with lowly life forms. The other is a cute plastic hamster.

Two young elementary school children bring handguns to Kentucky school thinking them toys.

Courtesy of Yahoo News:

A first-grader and his brother in kindergarten took two handguns, one of them loaded, on a bus to a Kentucky elementary school Thursday morning after apparently thinking they were toys, authorities said. They said no one was hurt and the firearms were seized when the boys reached school. 

The boys, ages 6 and 7, had a gun each in their school backpacks and showed them to some other pupils on a bus headed to Dewitt Elementary School in Flat Lick, said Kentucky State Police Trooper Shane Jacobs. He said one student alerted a teacher and the eastern Kentucky school was briefly locked down and the guns were confiscated. 

"We never felt that the kids' intent was to hurt anyone at the school," Jacobs said by phone. "We feel the kids didn't know that they were actually a firearm. They thought they were toy guns."

Even though the children did not seem to know better each was charged with possession of a firearm on school property.

The parents have also been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, and even the school bus driver was charged, because he knew about the weapons and did not contact the school.

Obviously this could have been so much worse.

But it also goes to show that when you make your toys look like real guns, and real guns look like toys, you are asking for trouble.

I'm just going to leave this right here.

Yes apparently that IS the Grizzled Mama struggling to reach her gnarled foot with the ugliest headband I have ever seen holding her wig in place.

(H/T to Gina.)

Five year old boy kills his two year old sister with a rifle designed for children. Because remember, guns don't kill kids, kids kill kids, with guns designed specifically for them. Update!

Courtesy of Kentucky.com: 

A 5-year-old boy who was playing with a .22-caliber rifle accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister in Cumberland County on Tuesday afternoon, according to a news release from the state police. 

The shooting happened just after 1 p.m. at a home on Lawson's Bottom Road. 

The 2-year-old was taken to Cumberland County Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. An autopsy has been scheduled for Wednesday. 

Cumberland County Coroner Gary White identified the girl as Caroline Starks. 

He said the children's mother was at home when the shooting occurred, and the gun was a gift the boy received last year. 

"It's a Crickett," he said. "It's a little rifle for a kid. ...The little boy's used to shooting the little gun." 

White said the gun was kept in a corner, and the family did not realize a shell had been left in it. He said the shooting will be ruled accidental. 

"Just one of those crazy accidents," White said.

Yes it's "just one of those crazy accidents" that happen when you buy your five year old a gun and then leave it lying around the house, unattended and loaded.

Who could possibly have seen this coming?

To me this Cricket rifle seems like a bad idea all around.

For one thing it looks like a toy.

And for another it seems to me that if you are not old enough to hold an actual adult size rifle, perhaps you are not old enough to be trusted to understand just how deadly this weapons really is.

But that is almost beside the point, since the real fault for this unfortunate incident lies with the parents who left a loaded weapon in a houseful of children, within easy access.

How THAT is not considered neglect I don't really understand.

Though perhaps if you live in Kentucky, on Lawson's Bottom Road, the parenting standards are somewhat more lax than in other parts of the country.

Update: Well it looks like Alaska has its own version of this tragedy.

Do you think you are done shopping for your daughter this Christmas? Perhaps not.

I think this is a marvelous idea, and so late in coming.

My daughter truly disliked the dollhouses, and Barbie's my mother gave her as gifts, but after I bought her Star Wars figures and Lego's she would not stop playing with them. In fact THAT fueled her desire to create set designs, and to make movies, which is what she does now.

I think we now realize that teaching little girls to be princesses, housewives, and mommies is outdated. But a present that teaches them that they can be ANYTHING, now that is a gift worth giving.

Okay my only question is how do I tell this from the real thing?

The Sarah Palin Bobblehead.

I don't think the hair looks fake enough.