Caleb Bankstan, the boyfriend of infamous Survivor quitter Colton Cumbie, was killed when a train he was working at the Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham, Ala., derailed as reported by TMZ. He was 26 years old.
“Survivor” host and executive producer Jeff Probst remembered Bankston as “one of the most humble and likable contestants we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with on the show.”
“The entire Survivor crew is together in Nicaragua,” Probst said in a statement. “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the loss of Caleb. He was one of the most humble and likable contestants we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with on the show. A true gentleman. He will be missed by so many. We extend our most sincere condolences to his family and to his fiance, Colton.”
News of his death sent shockwaves through the “Survivor” community, and many spoke out to pay tribute.
“Caleb was an amazing man and friend,” fellow contestant Aras Baskauskas toldPeople. “One of the sweetest and most sincere humans I’ve ever come across. I am gutted by his loss. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
Remember when Chris Christie’s reelection was supposed to herald the coronation of a politician who could reach across the aisle, make deals with the Democrats and solve New Jersey’s fiscal problems, all while simultaneously running a campaign for president?
November seems so long ago.
The Governor’s signature accomplishment, the pension and benefits bill of 2011, did not, in fact, solve the solvency problem, and his singular failure, not being able to stimulate New Jersey’s economy, is wreaking havoc with his budgetary priorities. All along, Christie has held the line against revenue increases and has stated repeatedly that the only fix for the dire fiscal straits New Jersey finds itself in is for him to renege on his promise to make a full pension payment and for public workers to pay more for their health care and retirements.
…while the paper goes into a detailed argument on why tax migration makes financial sense, it states at the beginning that “this paper does not provide proof or hard evidence that high income and/or high net worth residents are leaving New Jersey because of high taxes.”
The real truth is that Christie seems to be concerned about the hardships millionaires might face, but he perversely seems to accept hundreds of thousands of public workers seeing more money coming out of their paychecks in pension and healthcare costs without the means to sell their leveraged homes and move to states that have made their pension payments. Many state workers will see their actual take home pay decrease over the next three years. It’s no wonder the economy has been very slow to recover in New Jersey. When people have less money to spend and have to worry about saving enough to make up for any shortfalls in what the state can provide for pensions, then people spend less. The Governor wants them to pay more. And this guy wants to bring his agenda to the nation. Terrible.
We have one week of brinkmanship to go before the July 1 deadline for a balanced budget. I doubt the legislature will shut down the government, but any deal will require some compromise from both the legislators and Christie. Meanwhile, like the other state workers following this horror story, I’m holding on to my wallet.
If she decides to run in 2016, Hillary Clinton, the potentially first female president of the United States, could blow the Republican candidate out if the waters. So naturally, Republicans have been relentlessly attacking the former Secretary of State, even though she hasn’t made a decision to run.
This latest attack is compliments of Newt Gingrich. In Tuesday’s episode of “Crossfire,” Gingrich accused the former First Lady of lacking the qualifications for the presidency.
“You have to understand the problem Bill has,” Gingrich said. “Bill is to politics what Fred Astaire is to dancing, he is just automatically amazing and he wants to have Ginger Rogers out there dancing. Instead [with Hillary Clinton] it’s a little bit like watching Kim Kardashian get kicked off the stage by Prince because she couldn’t dance.”
Gingrich was referring to a February 2011 concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where Prince called Kardashian onto the stage. When the reality star did not start dancing, Prince booted her off, yelling, “Get off the stage!”
And when it comes to politics, Gingrich is not sure that Hillary Clinton has the right moves.
“I think there’s a big problem, because I don’t think, as a candidate, that [she] dances very well,” Gingrich said.
It was a terrifying ordeal as heard in the 911 call, as the babysitter described the home invasion that caused some of the family’s prized possessions to be stolen. But the babysitter did not plan on 4 year old Abby, and her penchant for telling the truth.
home alone when two men broke into the house stealing the family’s iPod, Xbox and Wii consoles.
The 17 year-old sitter told the police that two armed black men had broken into the house and that one of them looked like the family’s African-American neighbor, Cody Oaks. Soon after, police arrested Oaks and questioned him for hours. But it wasn’t until Abby spoke up that they were able to solve the crime. Abby told the police that “It wasn’t the right skin color,” explaining that the invaders had been white, not black.
The sitter’s story eventually fell apart and it was discovered that she had orchestrated the entire thing with her boyfriend and an accomplice committing the crime.
Ah Republicans. You claim Democrats were guilty of voter fraud and you create laws to keep them from going to the polls to vote. But as it turns out, the people committing these frauds are members of your party.
A Wisconsin insurance executive and Republican donor was charged with voting illegally more than a dozen times in four elections.
The Journal-Sentinel reported that 50-year-old Robert Monroe was caught as a result of an investigation into a possible illegal voting by his son in Waukesha County. But after his son denied requesting an absentee ballot from his father’s address in Shorewood, suspicion turned to Monroe.
A complaint claimed that Monroe voted five times in Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) recalled election. He also was accused of voting illegally in a 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a 2012 primary, and the 2012 presidential election.
Although the complaint did not state who Monroe voted for, WISN determined that he had donated money to Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling.
The racist numbnuts in the republican party are trying to intimidate some black people in Texas by holding what they call a “walk” through a black neighborhood. Said walk would feature these numbnuts brandishing their weapons as they stroll through the neighborhood where families with kids live.
They are the Houston chapter of Open Carry Texas, and they intend to masquerade their intimidation effort this Sunday, by calling the walk, a food drive. According to the groups Facebook page, they’re encouraging their supporters to turn out and “make this a big event.”
“Let’s once again show that gun rights belong to all,” they said.
But wait, something happened. It seems the intimidating Open Carry racists have canceled the event. Apparently they have realized that guns are not exclusive to whites only.
Earlier this month, R. Kelly’s 14-year-old child Jaya came out as a transgender boy and changed his name to Jay. The singer had been silent on the news until this morning when he was asked about it during a live radio interview.
The video above shows the founder of American Apparel, dancing in front if two female employees, fully naked with his dingerling dangling.
The Video, originally published by Viddme, and then later confirmed by Gawker, shows the American Apparel creator having a conversation on the phone while dancing around the room, clearly missing the fig leaf that would have covered his protruding member. At one point in the video, Mr. American Apparel, also known as Dov Charney, tried to pull one of the fully clothed females to join him in his joyous celebration. She was clearly not impressed.
After the video surfaced, Mr. Charney was fired from the company he founded.
>This is the shocking moment a Russian schoolgirl was beaten up and forced to drink from a puddle by classmates who were ‘jealous of her good looks’.
Vlada Kholod, 13, was filmed being attacked by a gang of four girls at her school in Korkino in western Russia’s Ural Mountains.
She was beaten up and forced to lie on a dirty road, before being made to drink filthy water from a puddle for ‘being too pretty’.
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Vlada Kholod (right) was filmed being attacked by a gang of four girls at her school in Korkino in western Russia’s Ural Mountains. She was beaten up and forced to drink water from a puddle (left) for ‘being too pretty’
+8The attack was videotaped by two schoolboys and later uploaded to the Russian social network, VKontakte
The attack was videotaped by two schoolboys and later uploaded to the Russian social network, VKontakte
Shockingly, the attack was videotaped by two schoolboys and later uploaded to the Russian social network, VKontakte.
However, after teachers saw the video, Vlada’s attackers were reportedly reprimanded and forced to apologise to their victim.
The assault was carried out by Vlada’s classmates, Olga Guseva, 16, Lyubov Goloborodko, 14, Sasha Rattsova, 15, and Ekatirina Streltsova, also 15.
They claimed the schoolgirl had said something derogatory about one of their parents – and that they had needed to set an example ‘that nobody should curse somebody else’s parents’.
After teachers saw the video, Vlada’s attackers were reportedly reprimanded and forced to apologise to their victim. Above, Vlada is forced to drink water from a puddle by a classmate who was ‘jealous of her good looks’
Vlada (above) said she was assaulted because her classmate was jealous about her boyfriend looking at her
However, Vlada later took to VKontakte to dispute claims that she had cursed one of their relatives.
Instead, she said she had been assaulted because Olga had been jealous about her boyfriend apparently looking at her.
Following her attackers’ apology, Vlada verbally denounced the bullies in front of the entire school.
One of her friends said: ‘She was very brave. She faced up to these bullies and they had to eat humble pie.’
According to NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, more guns is the answer to all the shootings and gun crimes in this country. LaPierre will have you believe that criminals only attack places where there is a “no guns” policy in effect.
Well this story just put a bullet right in the heart of that theory – robberies at Gun ranges.
Officials say two suspects – Poteet and Chandler – were involved in two holdups at two different gun ranges — the first at Yury’s Gun Range in Philly’s West Poplar neighborhood and the second at the Delaware Valley Sports Center in the city’s Bustleton neighborhood.
The suspects waited in a parked car, a late model dark colored 2-door coupe, outside of the ranges until potential victims exited.
They robbed a 68-year-old man at gunpoint outside Yury’s at 544 N. Percy St. around 6:40 p.m. June 11, emptying the victim’s pockets and taking off with his backpack, which contained two .22 caliber handguns, according to authorities.
The following day, the pair went to Delaware Valley Sports Center at 101 Geiger Road and pulled off the same heist on an unsuspecting 67-year-old man, who was leaving the range with a friend around 8:40 p.m., according to police.
Officials say they demanded the two men hand over their cash and guns. Even though the victims were cooperating, Chandler fired a shot, striking the 67-year-old and critically wounding him, according to authorities.
The church claims that this is their way of bringing people to Christ. For those who know what the Bible says in reference to bringing people to Christ, giving them AR-15s was not on the list. From what I remember, the Bible says to “preach the Gospel to every creature.”
Apparently this church is tired of the preaching. Time to bring out the heavy artillery.
In Joplin, Missouri, the pastor of the church told the Joplin Globe, “We’re just dudes,” adding, “If we can get more people to follow Jesus, I’ll give away 1,000 guns. I don’t care.”
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years, has been shifted to outpatient care at a Texas military base, the U.S. Army said in a statement Sunday.
Bergdahl, 28, had been receiving inpatient treatment at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston. He is now receiving outpatient care on the base in San Antonio, according to the statement. The Army said his “reintegration process” is proceeding with exposure to more people and a gradual increase in social interaction.
The Idaho native was captured in June 2009 and freed by the Taliban on May 31 in a deal struck by the Obama administration in which five senior Taliban officials were released from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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