CNN Video: “She borrowed $34,000 in student loans. Now she owes over $500,000. As federal student loan payments restart in October, CNN spoke to a lawyer, a doctor, and a scientist about their debt, and how it’s impacted their lives.”
Source: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/10/02/student-loan-debt-repayment-stories-contd-no-orig.cnn
Here’s an idea: It should be illegal to lend money to people who don’t understand the concept of compound interest.
These people are actually bragging about their own stupidity. And yet, they are a lawyer, doctor, and scientist? I don’t understand how anyone so smart could be that dumb.
Apparently, store owners in New York City think shoplifters are too dumb to counteract this security device on the lids of pints of ice cream
Source: https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/shoplifting-in-nyc-so-bad-that-pints-of-ice-cream-now-have-anti-left-lids/
I can think of two possible reasons why New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman said, “We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely”
New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman recently said, “We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely.”
I can think of two possible reasons why he said this.
One is that he doesn’t know that the fertilizer that we use to grow our food is made from fossil fuels.
The other is that he does know it, but he believes that his voters don’t know it.
Either one is a pretty scary prospect.
Here’s video of him saying those words on CNN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG3kBhkSTXM
The increased coal pollution from Germany shutting down its nuclear power plants may have already killed more people than the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters combined
In May 2023, the Washington Post wrote:
“Had Germany kept its nuclear plants running from 2010, it could have slashed its use of coal for electricity to 13 percent by now. Todayâs figure is 31 percent… Already more lives might have been lost just in Germany because of air pollution from coal power than from all of the worldâs nuclear accidents to date, Fukushima and Chernobyl included.”
Wow.
The idiocy of these so-called “environmentalists” never ceases to amaze me.
Car thief jumps out of car while going 45 mph. The laws of physics are very unforgiving. I’m guessing this guy didn’t get an A in high school physics. Skip to 4:05.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4IRiV2FZLg
Driver Dies After Jumping From Stolen CHP Car During Chase North of LA
The driverless CHP car coasted into a ditch and knocked down a utility pole after the driver jumped out and onto a two-lane road near Lancaster.
By Jonathan Lloyd and Rudy Chinchilla
March 28, 2023
The driver of a stolen CHP car died after jumping from the vehicle as it was speeding on a two-lane road during a pursuit north of Los Angeles.
The driver jumped out on West Avenue D near Lancaster and landed in the middle of the road. The car was traveling at an estimated 50 mph when the driver jumped.
Officer Alec Pereyda, a CHP spokesman, said CHP officers provided âlife-saving measuresâ for the driverâs âmajor injuries.â He was rushed to Antelope Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The car with no driver behind the wheel coasted into a ditch and knocked down a wooden utility pole. The rear tires were damaged earlier by a spike strip deployed by CHP officers on the Highway 138.
The chase began near Castaic on the 5 Freeway. Pereyda said CHP officers from the Newhall area received calls around 11:38 a.m. about a reckless driver on the northbound 5 Freeway at Hasley Canyon Road. They then got calls that the driver had crashed on the freeway. One other vehicle was involved in that wreck, Pereyda said, adding that he could not confirm if anyone in that vehicle was hurt.
A CHP officer arrived to investigate. During the investigation, the driver hopped into the patrol vehicle and took off. Pereyda said it is standard procedure for CHP officers to leave their vehicle running during an investigation, though it must be locked.
After the theft, the officer relayed what happened to dispatchers, which prompted a high-speed pursuit, Pereyda said.
The driver continued on the northbound 5 Freeway before entering eastbound Highway 138 in the Gorman area and heading east toward Lancaster. The chase ended between 90th and 70th streets.
The weapons in the vehicle were locked, and the driver was not able to access them, Pereyda said.
The name of the driver was being withheld until his family was notified of the death. The investigation was ongoing.
This is what happens when people don’t think for themselves, or have any curiosity or skepticism. A small amount of research could have prevented this.
City of Newark humiliated after signing trade deal and holding sister city ceremony with Hindu nation that doesn’t exist
By Joseph MacKinnon
March 14, 2023
The Democrat-run city of Newark, New Jersey, recently formalized its sister city partnership with the Hindu nation of Kailasa. Evidently, city officials did not consult a map before doing so.
The “United States of Kailasa” does not exist. It is the invention of an accused rapist who has been on the run from Indian authorities since 2019 for child abduction and other crimes.
Newark residents have spoken out about Democrat officials’ failed foray into foreign policy, questioning whether anyone at City Hall is capable of performing a simple Google search.
A sisterhood of deception
According to its website, the so-called nation of Kailasa “is the home and refuge for the international Hindu diaspora. … The nation of KAILASA stands as the world’s sole beacon of genuine Hindu self-governance and autonomy.”
The population of the fictitious realm that Newark had a fleeting relationship with is allegedly “100 million Adi Shaivites; 2 Billion practicing Hindus.”
The fake nation has its own flag, emblem, national anthem, constitution, and passport.
https://twitter.com/SriNithyananda/status/1613428777157120002
https://twitter.com/SriNithyananda/status/1613428777157120002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0aR2EagjXM
Alyssa Milano says she traded in her Elon Musk car for a Hitler car because she is against “hate and white supremacy”
âI gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW ev. I love it. Iâm not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded companyâs products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesnât seem to be a winning business model.â
– Alyssa Milano
Original: https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1596502100066045952
Kjerstin Laine has been making tiny monthly payments on her student loan, and she doesn’t understand why her balance has been getting bigger instead of smaller. People who are this dumb should not be allowed to borrow money. Oh, and try drinking some water.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
October 31, 2022
Kjerstin Laine is yet another example of how it’s too easy to get admitted to college. Since she finished graduate school with $98,000 in debt, she’s only been paying $300 a month toward her debt. And she doesn’t understand why her balance has been going up instead of down.
It should be illegal for people this stupid to borrow money.
Also, she needs to learn to drink some water.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/meet-30-old-110-000-123000305.html
Meet a 30-year-old with $110,000 in student debt who chose her job in hopes of public-service loan forgiveness â but her balance just keeps growing
By Juliana Kaplan
October 30, 2022
Kjerstin Laine. Courtesy of Kjerstin Laine
Like millions of student-loan borrowers, Kjerstin Laine is in loan-relief limbo.
For Laine, a 30-year-old who has over $110,000 in student debt, the $20,000 in forgiveness she’s set to get from President Joe Biden’s plan is just a drop in the bucket. As a first-generation college student whose debt has shaped the trajectory of her career, she fears her balance will balloon even more after pandemic-era payment pauses end and interest starts accruing again.
“I never miss a payment, always on time, and yet my balances never go down,” Laine told Insider. “I don’t understand how people can’t see that there is something wrong with that picture.”
Despite working through college and taking measures to cut down on the cost, Laine completed her degree in 2014 with a grand total of $98,000 in debt from her undergraduate and graduate studies. In the eight years since, accruing interest has brought her balance to today’s amount, despite her consistent repayment.
Laine chose her job in communications for an education-advocacy nonprofit because it was a good fit for her skills â and because it could set her up for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which forgives student debt for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments.
But that program has historically been riddled with flaws, and she recently paused that strategy to take a marketing-agency job with a salary that brings her much closer to the $90,000 the federal government estimated she needed to make a year to afford to pay back her debt. She’s also paying off medical debt.
“I also had to leave the nonprofit sector to get anywhere near that, obviously,” she said. “So it’s like that Catch-22.”
Laine is one of many millions of US borrowers stuck in an untenable situation. She’s grateful for the relief she’s set to get â though the legality of Biden’s forgiveness is still under scrutiny â but she’s not sure she’ll be able to afford monthly payments when they restart in January.
Her situation points to the larger structural issues underpinning the student debt crisis, where first-generation and lower-income students take on huge debt burdens to get ahead and up their earnings but still find themselves buried under ever-growing balances. Many, like Laine, have shaped their lives around the hope of assistance â now that it’s here in some form, it may not be enough.
“The hardest thing is that I trusted in this system that I was told from a very young age was going to be my path to prosperity or a decent â not anything exorbitant â but a decent middle-class life where I could give back to the community that helped raise me and supported me through education programs, meal programs, things like that,” Laine said. “And it feels like that’s a big broken promise now.”
Interest on student loans can balloon, meaning balances don’t go down â and could go up
As a college student in California, Laine worked at several jobs in places like restaurants and grocery stores. She took classes at her local community college and at her university in the summer and winter to try and reduce her expenses. She graduated in 2012, a semester early to cut down on costs, racking up nearly $18,000 in debt total for her undergraduate degree in journalism.
She went on to a “dream school” for a master’s in journalism, still working part time and leaving with an additional $80,000 in debt in 2014. At the end of her time in school, she was hospitalized for dehydration after she said she ran herself ragged.
Despite consistent payments, the years since graduation have seen Laine’s debt grow. It comes down to the issue of interest capitalization, which is when accrued interest tacks on to a borrower’s principal balance and can lead to debt loads being much larger than what was initially borrowed.
Biden’s administration has taken steps to prevent interest capitalization. In July, it released a proposal to end the practice in every instance that isn’t required under the Higher Education Act, like forbearance periods, but those changes won’t be implemented until next year. And borrowers are still struggling to stay on top of their payments.
For borrowers like Laine, within a few years, interest could cancel out any of Biden’s relief she received.
“I was paying $300 until the pandemic hit. I was paying $300 a month, I think, for three to four years, and my balances never went down,” she said. “They always went up.”
Public servants like Laine can get their debts forgiven â but many can’t even get in touch with their loan servicer
While Laine is a big proponent of public-service loan forgiveness, she said it “has been plagued by its own issues.”
The company that manages the entire Public Service Loan Forgiveness portfolio â MOHELA â isn’t making matters any easier. After a number of loan companies ended their federal contracts last year, all borrowers enrolled in PSLF were transferred over to MOHELA, and the process hasn’t been seamless.
Insider previously spoke with two borrowers who wanted to get simple questions on their PSLF payments answered but ended up spending hours on the phone and never even got connected to a representative who could answer their questions.
“I’m really concerned about MOHELA as a servicer in total,” Laine said.
While MOHELA never commented on the hours-long hold times, Scott Buchanan, the executive director of the Student Loan Servicing Alliance â a group that represents federal loan servicers â previously told Insider that the Education Department decided how many resources it gave loan companies, which affects how many customer-support staff they can hire.
But with the PSLF waiver expiring on Monday, which allows past payments, including those previously deemed ineligible, to count toward forgiveness progress, borrowers are in a time crunch to access the expanded relief. The department recently introduced permanent PSLF fixes for after the waiver’s expiration, but that doesn’t eliminate confusion some borrowers may be experiencing with their payment history.
“I’d love nothing more than to be able to dedicate my entire career to serving this sector,” Laine said. “All of my career choices are kind of centered around this debt, and that’s a really tough, not fun place to be in.”
These UCLA students don’t know what the capital of the United States is. This is proof that getting into college is way too easy. No wonder why so many college students think that borrowing money doesn’t entail paying it back.
This new video from James Klug is called, “BRUTAL: Gen Z Fails To Answer The EASIEST Questions.”
He asks adults the following questions. They don’t know the answers:
What’s the capital of the United States?
How many stars are on the United States flag?
What ocean is on the east side of the United States?
What country is the Queen of England from?
What was Adolf Hitler’s first name?
What is two times two times one?
Who was the first President of the United States?
They don’t know the answers.
This is proof that getting into college is way too easy.
No wonder why so many college students think that borrowing money doesn’t entail paying it back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsDVwYqs0ws
Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilotâs cigarette, investigation finds
Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilotâs cigarette, investigation finds
By Snejana Farberov
April 27, 2022
An EgyptAir flight that crashed en route to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board, was brought down by a pilot who had a cigarette in the cockpit and started a fire, a new report found.
EgyptAir flight MS804 was traveling on May 19, 2016, from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport when it fell out of the sky between the Greek island of Crete and northern Egypt.
Franceâs Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) has since concluded that pilot Mohamed Said Shoukairâs mid-air smoke break led to a fire onboard the Airbus A320 jet when his cigarette ignited oxygen leaking from an oxygen mask in the cockpit.
The air disaster resulted in the deaths of 56 passengers and 10 crew members, among them 12 French nationals, 30 Egyptians, two Iraqis, one Canadian and one British citizen.
Egyptian authorities initially said that the plane crash was the result of a terrorist attack, claiming that traces of explosives had been found on the bodies of the victims, but those allegations were widely discredited.
In 2018, Franceâs BEA determined that the flight went down because of a fire onboard based on analysis of data from the aircraftâs black box recorder, which was recovered from deep water near Greece by the US Navy â though at the time investigators did not say what specifically caused the onboard inferno.
But in March 2022, BEA released a new report that alleges that oxygen had leaked from a pilotâs oxygen mask in the cockpit shortly before the crash, based on black box data that captured the sound of the oxygen hissing.
The oxygen mask in question had been replaced just three days before the fateful flight by an EgyptAir maintenance worker, but for an unknown reason it had its release valve set to the âemergency position,â which, according to the Airbus safety manual, could lead to leaks.
Incredibly, at the time of the incident, EgyptAir pilots were allowed to smoke in the cockpit â a rule that has since changed. The onboard smoking, combined with the leaking oxygen, had set the stage for the fire, according to French aviation experts.
The deadly plane crash is currently the subject of a manslaughter case before the Paris Court of Appeals.
The 134-page report, which was reviewed by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra, was released to the Parisian court at the request of local judges.
Egypt has refused to release its own report into the crash and in 2018 rejected BEAâs initial findings, dismissing them as âunfounded.â
Families of victims have accused the Egyptian authorities of failing to cooperate with the investigation into the crash.
Antoine Lachenaud, a lawyer representing the family of Clement Daeschner-Cormary, a 26-year-old passenger who died, said the new report showed that the crash was caused by human error.
âWhen warnings are ignored in a systematic manner this results in a crash and it becomes impossible to maintain that this is due to chance,â he said.
Idiot smoker kills 12 people in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:
A 5-year-old boy who escaped the fire that killed 12 people in a Fairmount apartment Wednesday told investigators the blaze started after he accidentally lit a Christmas tree on fire while playing with a lighter, according to police records obtained by The Inquirer.
I don’t blame the child for this.
I do blame the smoker who left their lighter within reach of the child.
What an idiot: “I have $131K in student loans and canât afford my life, despite making $110K a year…. I didnât care what the cost was – I didnât even look at what I was signing”
âIt doesnât seem fairâ: I have $131K in student loans and canât afford my life, despite making $110K a year. How to get out of student-loan debt faster
By Brienne Walsh
December 29, 2021
Question: Iâm now 39, and in a better place in my life than I was roughly 10 years ago, when I decided to take out over $100,000 in student loans to attend a food policy and nutrition masterâs program. The program was the only masterâs program I got into, and I didnât care what the cost was â I didnât even look at what I was signing.
Now, in total, between my undergrad and grad loans, I owe $131,000. Some of the loans are federal and some of them private; one of those companies charges an interest rate of 6%. Though most of my loans are on pause now (thanks to the federal government), Iâm worried about what will happen when that stops. The loan payments are too expensive, even though Iâm now a nutrition and public health consultant who works on a contractual basis, and I make a good salary â $110,000 a year.
But our mortgage costs $1,100 a month; daycare is about the same, and car payments are $400. Otherwise, I feel we live very frugally: We even bathe our son in a Tupperware tub because our bathroom needs to be renovated, but we donât have the money for it! We canât even afford, as it is, to contribute to retirement or pay for some much-needed dental work. I honestly donât know what we are going to do when my loans become unfrozen. How can I get out of debt faster? â Erin
Answer: First up, youâre not alone in feeling overwhelmed by student loan debt, and youâre doing some things right, like âlimiting the mortgage and the car loan,â which are both âwell within your range for your income level,â says Mitchell C. Hockenbury, a certified financial planner at 1440 Financial Partners in Kansas City. But, Hockenbury says, with your low mortgage and other seemingly reasonable expenses, you should see if there is more money to put towards debt payments. Even if thereâs not, once the daycare stops, you will have that money to more aggressively pay down debts.
The next question is whether to refinance loans to save money. But first, consider that right now your federal loan payments are on pause through May 2022, and that you should be careful about refinancing a federal loan into a private loan as you will lose some of the federal loan protections, such as income-based repayment and forgiveness options. (You can get details on how much a refinance could save you here). But Ethan Miller, the founder of Washington, D.C.-based financial planning firm Planning for Progress, says Erin should likely refinance some of her private loans, as rates are pretty low right now (see the lowest fixed student loan refinance rates you can qualify for here). âIf you feel confident in your income, and you know youâll have a job for many years, this is the best option,â says Miller.
There are other options as well, says Hockenbury: âIs there a possibility to take a cash-out refi? Interest rates are low, housing prices have soared. Perhaps she could use the cash to pay down some debt,â he says. Though, of course, she needs to be sure she can repay that or she risks losing her house.
Though for some borrowers, student loan forgiveness may be an option, it does not sound like Erin would qualify for a loan forgiveness program like the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program, as sheâs a contractor at a government agency, not a full-time employee, explains Miller. (See details on loan forgiveness, cancellation and discharge here to see if you might qualify.) But if she looks at her budget, she may find extra money to pay down her debt faster; refinancing at least some of her loans at todayâs low rates could make the payments more manageable, and a cash-out refi on her home may be another option. Best of luck, Erin!
James Madison University’s official Instagram account showed Deaquan Nichols falsely saying that the people shot by Kyle Rittenhouse were black
https://twitter.com/TinaRamirezVA/status/1461820863314026501
During the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, prosecutor Thomas Binger pointed a gun at the jury, while simultaneously holding his finger on the trigger
While reporting on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, Newsweek wrote:
“… Thomas Binger pointed the gun at the jury with his finger on the trigger… “
Associated Press published this photo of it:
And NBC News published this photo of it:
Binger violated all three of the three biggest rules of gun safety:
1) Always assume the gun is loaded.
2) Never point the gun at anyone you don’t intend to shoot.
3) Never put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot.
This Tweet from Greg Price compares the irresponsible behavior Binger, to the responsible behavior of Rittenhouse, who is clearly following all three of those rules:
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1460339813945683974
In case Twitter ever deletes that Tweet, here’s an archive of it:
And here’s a screenshot of it that I made:
Assistant director on ‘Rust’ set told police he didn’t check all the rounds in the Colt revolver before handing it to Alec Baldwin
https://www.yahoo.com/news/assistant-director-rust-set-told-162608195.html
The assistant director on the “Rust” set told cops that he didn’t check all the rounds in the Colt revolver used by Alec Baldwin.
Assistant director David Halls “advised he should have checked all of them,” according to a new affidavit.
Baldwin fired a gun on the movie set last week, fatally shooting a cinematographer.
The assistant director on the New Mexico set of Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” movie told police that he did not check all the rounds in the barrel of the Colt revolver used in last week’s deadly shooting to make sure they were all dummy bullets, according to a newly filed court document.
Assistant director David Halls told police that when the film’s armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed “showed him” the firearm, used by Baldwin in the on-set shooting, “before continuing rehearsal, he could only remember seeing three rounds,” according to a new affidavit obtained by Insider that was filed Wednesday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court.
Halls “advised he should have checked all of them, but didn’t and couldn’t recall” if Gutierrez-Reed “spun the drum” of the gun, said the affidavit that was included in search warrant documents for a “prop truck” on the movie set.
When authorities with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office asked Halls about the safety protocol on the set in regards to firearms, Halls said, “I check the barrel for obstructions, most of the time there’s no live fire,” according to the affidavit.
Halls said that Gutierrez-Reed “opens the hatch and spins the drum, and I say ‘cold gun’ on set,” the document states.
Halls did not immediately respond to a request from Insider for comment on Wednesday.
Baldwin, who was producing and starring in the Western flick, was rehearsing a scene for the film at Santa Fe’s Bonanza Creek Ranch on October 21 when he fired the gun, fatally shooting the cinematographer and wounding the director, authorities said.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza told reporters during a press conference Wednesday that the gun was a .45 Long Colt revolver fired by Baldwin loaded with a live bullet.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was shot in the chest and killed, while director Joel Souza was hit in the right shoulder in the incident. Police are still investigating and have not ruled out charges yet.
Authorities said Wednesday that the “lead projectile” was recovered from Souza’s shoulder. Mendoza added it was “apparently the same round” that struck both Hutchins and Souza.
A previously filed affidavit said when Halls handed the gun to Baldwin before the incident, Halls yelled out “cold gun,” indicating that it did not contain any live rounds.
Meanwhile, Gutierrez-Reed told authorities that on the day of the shooting she checked the “dummies” and “ensured they were not ‘hot’ rounds,” according to the affidavit filed Wednesday.
According to the document, when the crew broke for lunch that day, the firearms on set were taken back and “secured inside a safe on the ‘prop truck.'”
“During lunch, [Gutierrez-Reed] stated the ammo was left on a cart on the set, not secured,” the affidavit says.
Gutierrez-Reed told investigators that after lunch, a crewmember, identified as Sarah Zachary, “pulled the firearms out of the safe inside the truck, and handed them to her.”
The armorer told cops that only a few people have access and the combination to the safe, the document says.
“During the course of filming, Hannah advised she handed the gun to Alec Baldwin a couple times, and also handed it to David Halls,” the affidavit said. “When Affiant asked about live ammo on set, Hannah responded no live ammo is ever kept on set.”
Mendoza said Wednesday that police recovered about 500 rounds of ammunition – which includes blanks, dummy rounds, and suspected live rounds – from the “Rust” set as part of their investigation.
“We know there was one live round, as far as we’re concerned, on set,” Mendoza said.
After the shooting occurred inside a church building on the movie set, Halls picked up the gun and took it to Gutierrez-Reed, the new affidavit says.
“Hannah then was told to ‘open’ the gun so he could see what was inside. David advised he could only remember seeing at least four ‘dummy’ casings with the hole on the side, and one without the hole,” according to the document.
Halls “advised this round did not have the ‘cap’ on it and was just the casing,” the document states. “David advised the incident was not a deliberate act.”
âRustâ Shooting: Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins Was Used That Morning for Live-Ammo Target Practice
https://www.thewrap.com/halyna-hutchins-live-ammo-target-practice/
âRustâ Shooting: Gun That Killed Halyna Hutchins Was Used That Morning for Live-Ammo Target Practice
Crew members had gone âplinkingâ and returned the gun to the set, an insider tells TheWrap
By Sharon Waxman and Brian Welk
October 25, 2021
The gun that killed âRustâ cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last Thursday was used by crew members that morning for live-ammunition target practice, an individual with knowledge of the set told TheWrap.
A number of crew members had taken prop guns from the New Mexico set of the indie Western â including the gun that killed Hutchins â to go âplinking,â a hobby in which people shoot at beer cans with live ammunition to pass the time, the insider said.
The shooting happened just a few hours later, when lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin discharged a revolver after first assistant director David Halls confirmed that it was a âcold gun,â meaning that the gun did not have any live ammunition in it.
Search warrants issued over the weekend by New Mexico authorities said that Halls had grabbed one of three prop guns set up by armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed and yelled âcold gunâ as he handed it to lead actor Alec Baldwin, indicating that the gun did not have any live rounds.
Baldwin, who was rehearsing a scene for the film, was âpointing the revolver towards the camera lensâ when it hit director Joel Souza and Hutchins, according to the search warrant made public on Sunday. Hutchins grabbed her midsection and then stumbled backwards as she was assisted to the ground, Souza told authorities. Souza, who was also injured when the gun discharged, was released from a local hospital that night.
Asked for comment, the producers of âRustâ referred to a previous statement: âThe safety of our cast and crew is the top priority of Rust Productions and everyone associated with the company. Though we were not made aware of any official complaints concerning weapon or prop safety on set, we will be conducting an internal review of our procedures while production is shut down. We will continue to cooperate with the Santa Fe authorities in their investigation and offer mental health services to the cast and crew during this tragic time.â
The details of the tragic shooting death of the 42-year-old cinematographer seemed only to get more disturbing on Monday as eyewitness accounts have raced through the Hollywood guilds and tight-knit indie community.
The new warrants confirmed that several members of the filmâs camera crew had walked off the set earlier that day after complaining about housing, payment and working conditions â forcing producers to scramble to find a new crew.
According to the insider, a walkout by crew members from the below-the-line IATSE union would ordinarily trigger a shutdown of the entire production for 24-48 hours. Instead producers chose to hire non-union replacements to continue the shoot.
Reid Russel, whom the warrant identifies as a cameraman who was standing next to Hutchins and Souza as the gun discharged, said that the crew wrote a letter to the production over the disagreements and that after stepping out for five minutes after returning from lunch, the team was already in possession of the firearm preparing for the scene. He was unsure if it had been checked again in that time.
The police investigation is ongoing.
This video is called “Schoolhouse Rock – A Victim Of Gravity.” I dedicate it to the Black Lives Matter protestors who dropped a heavy statue on the skull of one of their own members.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
June 11, 2020
I’m posting two videos here.
This first video is from the NBC New channel at YouTube. It shows Black Lives Matter protestors dropping a heavy statue on the skull of one of their own members. The point of impact is at approximately 0:33
At first, the protestors cheer and applaud. But then their expressions switch to ones of shock and horror when they realize that there is something called gravity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIEe3uKlUvo
To all of these ignoramuses, I dedicate this second video, which is called “Schoolhouse Rock – A Victim Of Gravity.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFtk6Si0Fk
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This video shows an arsonist accidentally setting himself on fire
This video at this link shows an arsonist accidentally setting himself on fire.
https://tuckbot.tv/#/watch/gttg4t
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Congressional COVID Task Force Leader Sheila Jackson Lee Doesn’t Know How to Wear Medical Mask
Congressional COVID Task Force Leader Doesn’t Know How to Wear Medical Mask
April 6, 2020
If this is the woman Congress put in charge of our coronavirus task force team we should all be very concerned.
Meet Rep Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), the chair of the Congressional team in charge of dealing with COVID19.
Last week she appeared on television in her hometown of Houston to talk about how people can combat the coronavirus pandemic and people watching at home noticed something: she doesn’t seem to know how to properly wear her medical mask.
A DC elementary school accidentally gave the wrong second-grader to a child-welfare worker
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dc-elementary-school-accidentally-gave-200737572.html
A DC elementary school accidentally gave the wrong second-grader to a child-welfare worker
February 12, 2020
* A DC elementary school mistakenly turned over the wrong 8-year-old student to a child-welfare worker.
* When the student’s relatives arrived to pick him up later that day, they realized he was missing and panicked.
* Washington City Paper reported that the mix-up happened when the case worker arrived and requested the student he was supposed to pick up, and school officials brought out a different student who shared the same distinctive first name.
An elementary school in Washington, DC, accidentally handed over the wrong 8-year-old student to a child-welfare worker, causing the young boy’s family to panic when they arrived at the school to pick him up that day and realized he was missing.
Washington City Paper reported that a Child and Family Services Agency case worker arrived at the Harriet Tubman Elementary School on January 31 to pick up a child for a visit with his father.
But the school brought out a different student who happened to have the same distinctive first name, and the case worker left the school with the incorrect child around 2 p.m. that day.
The mistake wasn’t caught until the student’s relatives arrived at the school that afternoon to pick him up, and learned he had left with a child-welfare worker.
In response to a request for comment, the CFSA directed Insider to comments from its director, Brenda Donald, quoted in The Washington Post. Donald told the newspaper that the case worker had not previously met the child he was supposed to pick up before arriving at the school, and the child he mistakenly picked up never raised any questions about why he was taken from his classroom.
“He’s a little kid, and usually the schools are trying to explain in a nice way that here’s a nice person from CFSA who is going to take you to McDonald’s to have lunch,” Donald told The Post. “It was a mistake, and it’s explainable. And again, I can understand the family being upset.”
The school’s principal, Amanda Delabar, sent a letter to parents confirming that a “student went briefly missing from school premises after being picked up incorrectly by Child and Family Services,” according to the letter obtained by Insider.
Delabar said in the letter school officials had made “every effort to protect the student’s and family’s privacy,” and said all staff had been reminded of school security protocols that include mandatory sign-ins and sign-outs, and identification requirements for any outside agencies picking up students.
But the family of the child who was mistakenly removed from school remained livid, telling Washington City Paper they had feared the boy was harmed.
“I just can’t understand,” his grandfather, Jason Myers, told the newspaper. “Anyone can come with a badge and take anyone’s kid.”
“Number one: Stop having children with people who don’t support them”
Dave Ramsey is a financial advisor with a radio call in program.
In this case, the caller is an unmarried woman who has three children, all of whom were fathered by the same man, who is an abusive, illegal alien and an identity thief, and who does not pay any child support.
Ramsey starts out his response with the following:
“Number one: Stop having children with people who don’t support them”
Here’s my take on this woman’s behavior:
George Carlin was right when he said the following:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of ’em are stupider than that.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbTU5m59Ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rh6qqsmxNs
Maria Ana Carrola Flores, the UC San Diego student who got hit by a car at 1:30 a.m. during an anti-Trump protest, actually sued her college because it “failed to warn students of the danger of walking onto the freeway”
You may remember this video, which I have posted before. It shows an anti-Trump protest near UC San Diego that took place at 1:30 a.m. a few days after Trump was elected President. One of the protestors, a UC San Diego student named Maria Ana Carrola Flores, gets hit by a car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtM-debHD8
Maria Ana Carrola Flores chose to stand in the middle of a busy highway at 1:30 a.m.
And after she got hit by a car, she actually sued the driver who hit her.
She also sued the city and county of San Diego, UC San Diego, and the UC Board of Regents.
The Washington Free Beacon explained the reason for her lawsuit with the following: (the bolding is mine)
Flores’s attorney, Jerold Sullivan, argued that while his client accepted her responsibility for the accident, others shared blame as well. Sullivan claimed that according to Flores, campus officials had encouraged the protest, did not control it, and failed to warn students of the danger of walking onto the freeway.
So she sued her college because it didn’t teach her that it was dangerous to stand in the middle of a busy highway at 1:30 a.m.
That’s insane.
Fortunately, a judge dismissed her lawsuit.
And besides, since she did insist on filing a lawsuit because someone didn’t teach her that standing in the middle of a busy highway at 1:30 a.m. was dangerous, then she should have filed the lawsuit against her parents, not her college.
An American woman named Bethany Vierra got a masters degree in Middle Eastern studies and a PhD in human rights, moved to Saudi Arabia, was shocked to discover that women didn’t have the same rights as men, and falsely claimed, “The problem here is not Islamic law”
Bethany Vierra was born in Washington state.
She got a masterâs degree in Middle Eastern studies from the American University in Paris.
Then she got a PhD in human rights at the National University of Ireland.
With such an education, I would think that Vierra would be aware that women in Saudi Arabia didn’t have the same rights as men, and that this lack of equal rights was due to the country following Islamic law.
But I would be wrong.
Vierra moved to Saudi Arabia, married a Saudi Arabian man, and later gave birth – while in Saudi Arabia – to their daughter.
Since doing those things, Vierra and her husband have gotten a divorce, and are now involved in a custody dispute over their daughter.
During this custody dispute, Vierra was genuinely shocked to find out that under Islamic law (also known as Sharia law) in Saudi Arabia, women do not have the same rights as men. Here’s the obligatory “shocked” scene from the movie Casablanca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
Vierra was also surprised to find out that she was not allowed to leave Saudi Arabia or to access her own bank account, without her ex-husband’s permission.
During the custody dispute, some of the evidence that was used against Vierra were photographs which showed that she had worn a bikini in public, had worn yoga pants in public, and had had her hair uncovered in public.
And Vierra said of this:
“The problem here is not Islamic law.”
Relative to their level of education, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone as dumb as Bethany Vierra.
Instead of getting all of those useless college degrees, she should have watched the movie Not Without My Daughter. The movie is based on a true story. Here’s the trailer for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSmbayUJCo
And here’s a scene from it about how the country enforces its dress code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm3xv5sosng
Meanwhile, back in the U.S., a woman named Linda Sarsour, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, made four tweets in favor of the U.S. adopting Sharia law.
Sarsour made this tweet, which says the following:
â10 weeks of PAID maternity leave in Saudi Arabia. Yes PAID. And ur worrying about women driving. Puts us to shame.â
She also made this tweet, which says:
âshariah law is reasonable and once u read into the details it makes a lot of sense. People just know the basicsâ
and this tweet, which says:
âYouâll know when youâre living under Sharia Law if suddenly all your loans & credit cards become interest free. Sound nice, doesnât it?â
and this tweet, which says:
âIf you are still paying interest than Sharia Law hasnât taken over America.â
These statements prove that Sarsour wants the U.S. to adopt Sharia law.
Sharia law bans women from driving cars, prohibits women from appearing alone in public, calls for girls to have their genitals mutilated, and gives a womanâs testimony in court only half the value of a manâs.
After Sarsour made those four tweets in favor of the U.S. adopting Sharia law, left wing American feminists chose her to be one of the organizers of the 2017 Womenâs March.
But any movement which truly cared about womenâs rights would not support someone who wants the U.S. to treat women in such a horrible and repulsive manner.
I will say one positive thing about Sarsour: even though Sarsour claims to believe in Sharia law, and says that women in Saudi Arabia are better off than women in the U.S., at least she is not dumb enough to actually move to Saudi Arabia.
Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog 