It’s a big story when the CEO of the country’s largest, massively successful, health insurer (Les UDs have used it for years) is ambushed entering his New York hotel early in the morning and shot to death. Right there on the broad daylight streets of the big city, hit in the chest. Masked gunman at large.
So. What’s all this about? Let’s speculate.
For some reason, UD wants to go ahead and put it out there that this was personal. Not corporate villainy, not terrorism aimed at American capitalism, but one nut with a grudge against this guy. We’ll see.
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Thompson had recently received several threats, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. The police are still investigating the source and exact nature of those threats, the official said. Chief executive officers of health care companies often receive threats because the nature of their work.
I’m a high-ranking, highly-paid congressional staffer with a responsible, sensitive, job, and I forgot that I put four ammunition magazines and eleven rounds of ammunition in my bag.
The alarms are beginning to go off — “With the increase in vaccine hesitancy that has been going on since the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re seeing [whooping cough] outbreaks occurring in kids who are not vaccinated.” — but no one’s listening, and with our incoming HHS secretary we can expect the return of a rather wide spectrum of painful and sometimes lethal childhood disease.
Essentially, our country is about to assume the ethos of ultraorthodox Jews – no or few vaccines, and if you have a problem take it up with yahweh – in its approach to contagious illness. What to do?
Remember this mantra: NOTHING BUT NORTHEAST. The northeast states have the highest rates of vaccination; the death-adoring dummy states in the south and west have the lowest. If they don’t kill their kids via the Beretta left on the bed, they’ll do it bacterially.
But you and your kids don’t have to live in Disease Vector RFD. The entire northeast territory of this vast land remains polio and rubella free. Get thee thither.
This one’s from Oklahoma. A driver got pissed when a woman in front of him was kind enough to let another vehicle go in front of her, so the driver drove up next to the woman and aimed his gun at her.
As you see, he explained to the police that he only wanted to intimidate her — maybe she’ll think twice in the future about letting other drivers into her lane — not shoot her to death.
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Oh. This one’s also OK. How do you go on a retreat in Oklahoma?
[S]everal people saw [a local football coach] point a gun at [another coach], who was in a hot tub at the time. The affidavit says [Forrest] Mazey fired a shot outside of the cabin the coaches were staying at in McCurtain County.
… The affidavit says several witnesses heard Mazey making jokes while pointing the gun at the victim.
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Instead of thanking friends and God I'll thank the books that showed me Odd Kafka, Beckett, E A Poe Their twisted landscape helped me know That sentiment is fine and good But most of life's in darkest wood
[Officers on campus] handcuffed Wemp and took [a] loaded revolver off of Wemp’s hip … [They also] removed a fixed blade hunting knife from Wemp’s possession. [University police also] found that he was wearing body armor, an ammunition belt containing several rounds and … was keeping a second loaded revolver in his pants pocket… Wemp was at Mell Hall with “Visions for the World,” a religious group…
The Forbes 30 Under 30 list has become a meme in the past few years as a few of the honorees have found themselves indicted on fraud. The Forbes-to-Fraud pipeline includes FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, co-CEO of Alameda Research; fintech Frank founder Charlie Javice; and “Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.
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