WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Indian woman who was allegedly raped dies after being set on fire while heading to court

 

[Free]

Marine vet told to get rid of emotional support potbelly pigs

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — Tony Shelley's pet potbelly pigs are affectionately named Kevin Bacon and Zoey Hamilton.

www.fox13memphis.com

 

[Free]

Sheesh.

Medicare Chief Under Fire For Asking Taxpayers To Cover Stolen Jewelry

Seema Verma filed a claim for jewelry worth $43,000 that was apparently stolen from her rented SUV during a work trip to San Francisco.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Sheesh.

Medicare Chief Under Fire For Asking Taxpayers To Cover Stolen Jewelry

Seema Verma filed a claim for jewelry worth $43,000 that was apparently stolen from her rented SUV during a work trip to San Francisco.

www.huffpost.com

Background:

In her role as CMS administrator, Verma spent more than $2 million of taxpayer funds on Republican-connected communications consultants and other expenses to boost her visibility and public image.[23] The contracts, which prompted an Inspector General review, included efforts to get Verma profiled in women’s magazines and invited to conferences

Verma established her reputation with her work on Indiana's redesigned Medicaid program.[8] She first worked with Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels on health care policy,[13] and was the architect of the health insurance pilot program known as the "Healthy Indiana Plan",[7] which received support from the Indiana legislature and passed into law in January 2008.[6] Ostensibly designed for people with low income, the plan requires participants to pay into a health savings account and has high deductibles.[6] According to Verma, "you have to make your contribution every month, with a 60-day grace period. If you don't make the contribution, you're out of the program for 12 months. It's a strong personal responsibility mechanism.

On July 25, 2018, Verma gave a speech[20] in San Francisco in which she criticized proposals for "Medicare for all". She claimed that single-payer healthcare would "destroy" Medicare, which provides insurance for elderly people, and lead to "Medicare for None".[20][21] The speech and her repeated attacks on medicare-for-all proposals led critics to file a lawsuit against Verma under the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal officials engaging in political activity.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Those interested in the implementation of single payer might find the history of it in Canada interesting.

Tommy Douglas - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

It had its bumps.

 

[Romana]

Those interested in the implementation of single payer might find the history of it in Canada interesting.

Tommy Douglas - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

It had its bumps.

Unfortunately, anything will have its bumps, some of them thrown in the way by politicians who want it to fall, as happened with the ACA, some of which contributed greatly to its bring screwed up when it did pass.
Medicare for all is no more likey to lead to "Medicare for none" than previous Dem plans were to lead to "death panels". Death panels always existed, though, they're just called managed care.

 

[Romana]

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

AUSTIN — The Alamo defenders are heroes, but Hillary Clinton is not required reading.As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies...

www.dallasnews.com

I know what they hate Hillary, but what did Helen Keller do to earn their ire?

 

[Tigger]

Er, wtf?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Er, wtf?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

 

[Brenda Archer]

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

AUSTIN — The Alamo defenders are heroes, but Hillary Clinton is not required reading.As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies...

www.dallasnews.com

I know what they hate Hillary, but what did Helen Keller do to earn their ire?

All I can think of is that they hate disabled people. The whole thing is evangelical propaganda.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Helen Keller is best remembered for overcoming her serious handicaps. Her real legacy is as a speaker (figuratively) and activist for causes including suffrage, anti-war efforts, and labor rights. She was a member of the Socialist Party and the IWW.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sheesh.

Medicare Chief Under Fire For Asking Taxpayers To Cover Stolen Jewelry

Seema Verma filed a claim for jewelry worth $43,000 that was apparently stolen from her rented SUV during a work trip to San Francisco.

www.huffpost.com

She didn't get it all:

Seema Verma, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, filed a $47,000 claim for lost property on Aug. 20, 2018, after her bags were stolen while she was giving a speech in San Francisco the prior month. The property was not insured, Verma wrote in her filing to the Health and Human Services department.

The federal health department ultimately reimbursed Verma $2,852.40 for her claim, a CMS spokesperson said.

Verma’s claim included $43,065 for about two dozen pieces of jewelry, based off an appraisal she'd received from a jeweler about three weeks after the theft. Among Verma's stolen jewelry was an Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, made of gold, prasiolite and diamonds, that Verma’s jeweler valued at $5,900.

Medicare chief asked taxpayers to cover stolen jewelry

Seema Verma requested $47,000 for items taken from an SUV that took her to a speech.

www.politico.com

There's something a bit suspicious about this, to my mind. I mean, who would wear jewellery worth that that kind of money and not insure it against theft or accidental loss outside the home?

 

[Free]

I mean, who would wear jewellery worth that that kind of money and not insure it against theft or accidental loss outside the home?

Republicans.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Tennessee sheriff's deputy facing gamut of charges

A sheriff’s deputy in Tennessee was indicted on Tuesday on 44 criminal charges — 25 of them felonies — over actions alleged to have been taken in the course of his official duties, including rape, extortion, stalking and assault, according to the authorities.

The charges against the deputy, Daniel Wilkey, include six counts of sexual battery; two counts of rape; and nine counts each of extortion, stalking and assault, according to court documents. Sheriff Jim Hammond of Hamilton County said in a statement on Tuesday that the indictments were connected “to incidents he was involved in while on duty in an official capacity.”

“In the days that follow, I want to reassure our community, each and every day the men and women of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office are to perform their duties in a deliberate, honorable and professional manner,” the sheriff said. “We are charged to protect this community and its citizens, and this is a responsibility I take very seriously.”

Mr. Wilkey has also been the subject of multiple lawsuits while employed by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office that accuse him of misconduct, including false imprisonment, child molestation and forcibly baptizing a woman during a traffic stop.

Holy smoke, this guy was a cop? It sounds as if he's done like practically every crime-thing you can possibly do except freaking murder someone.

Before his employment in Hamilton County, Mr. Wilkey worked as a law enforcement officer in neighboring Rhea County, Tenn., where he was accused in a wrongful-death lawsuit of fatally shooting an unarmed man in the head in 2014 while the man was receiving treatment at an emergency room.

...okay, scratch that.

He was not charged criminally in the man’s death.

Of course he wasn't.

In case you're paywalled, the rape and sexual assault charges stem from the time he pulled over a black man and cavity-searched him on the side of the road for no apparent reason.

As for the "forced baptism",

Several of the indictments filed on Tuesday relate to a different traffic stop, in February, that involved Shandle Riley, whom prosecutors say Mr. Wilkey stalked, assaulted, extorted and falsely imprisoned.

Ms. Riley, who is also a client of Mr. Flores’s, described the events of that night in a lawsuit filed in September against Mr. Wilkey; a second deputy, Jacob Goforth; and the Hamilton County government.

In it, she accused Mr. Wilkey of illegally searching her car — during which he found a small amount of marijuana — and then offering not to arrest her if she would allow him to baptize her.

Ms. Riley said in the suit that she felt as if she had no choice but to agree to Mr. Wilkey’s strange demand, so she went with him to a lake, where he stripped to his underwear and brought her into the frigid, waist-deep water.

Mr. Wilkey fully submerged her in the lake with his hands on her back and her breasts while Mr. Goforth stood on a nearby boat ramp to serve as a witness to her baptism, she said.

“Wilkey held plaintiff under water for several moments, then with his hands still positioned on her back and breasts, raised plaintiff from the cold water,” Ms. Riley’s lawsuit claims. “Plaintiff was shivering uncontrollably and felt horribly violated.”

Impromptu religious ritual under threat of arrest, simply as an excuse to grope a woman - classy.

This guy is one of the worst people in the world. He's creepier even than that slimeball up there eulogizing Taylor Swift's eggs, and that was a comically-high freaking bar. Florida Men would scoot away from this guy on the Group W bench.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This guy is one of the worst people in the world. He's creepier even than that slimeball up there eulogizing Taylor Swift's eggs, and that was a comically-high freaking bar. Florida Men would scoot away from this guy on the Group W bench.

God dammit i laughed.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Tennessee sheriff's deputy facing gamut of charges



Holy smoke, this guy was a cop? It sounds as if he's done like practically every crime-thing you can possibly do except freaking murder someone.



...okay, scratch that.



Of course he wasn't.

In case you're paywalled, the rape and sexual assault charges stem from the time he pulled over a black man and cavity-searched him on the side of the road for no apparent reason.

As for the "forced baptism",



Impromptu religious ritual under threat of arrest, simply as an excuse to grope a woman - classy.

This guy is one of the worst people in the world. He's creepier even than that slimeball up there eulogizing Taylor Swift's eggs, and that was a comically-high freaking bar. Florida Men would scoot away from this guy on the Group W bench.

He should be made to baptise a large herd of feral cats. One at a time.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

He should be made to baptise a large herd of feral cats. One at a time.

When you said you were in the Navy we had no idea that meant you did interrogations.

 

[Free]

A Tennessee Cop Accused of Searching a Black Man's Anus on the Side of the Road Is Now Facing 44 Criminal Charges

He also allegedly forced a woman he arrested to be baptized.

www.vice.com

A young Tennessee cop already facing a barrage of disturbing allegations — including forcing a woman he arrested to be baptized and probing a black man’s anus on the side of the road — was just indicted on 44 criminal counts.

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Wilkey, 26, was arrested Tuesday on charges including rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, extortion, stalking, assault, oppression, and reckless driving, according to court documents.

...Reckless driving?!?!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

...Reckless driving?!?!

He said, "Kid, what'd you get?"

I said, "I didn't get nothin'. I had to pay fifty dollars and pick up the garbage."

He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" and I said, "litterin'"
And they all moved away from me on the bench there, with the hairy eyeball
And all kinds of mean, nasty things, till I said, "And creatin' a nuisance"
And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the
Bench talkin' about crime, mother-stabbin', father-rapin', all kinds
Of groovy things that we was talkin' about on the bench, and everything was fine