Days after a terrifying attempted robbery at gunpoint where a photographer wrestles with masked men to keep his camera gear, other photographers are speaking out, declaring they no longer will hold photoshoots in San Franciso.
The Dallas-based photographer targeted in the attack the afternoon of on November 9, did not want to be identified but says he was pistol-whipped and was “freaked out” and tried to console the wedding party where “the bride was crying the whole time.”
That same day, another photographer’s belongings were stolen at gunpoint at the same location…on the very same day.
These cases and a number of incidents ABC7 News anchor Dion Lim covered in recent years highlight the dangers for professional photographers shooting in popular tourist destinations in San Francisco.
Archive for 2022
November 16, 2022
PEOPLE ARE GETTING RICHER — SOME PROBLEM! Global population hits 8 billion, but per-capita consumption is still the main problem.
Scientists have been debating such demographic issues at least since the 18th century, when Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population, arguably the first global treatise on the relationship between population growth and scarcity. A few decades later, however, the Industrial Revolution (which the British economist had failed to anticipate) ushered the world into an era of abundance, relegating Malthus’s grim predictions about the inevitability of scarcity to the margins of scientific debate.
In a bestselling book published in the late 1960s, The Population Bomb, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich brought the topic back, advocating for immediate action to limit population growth on a finite planet. This recommendation was reiterated a few years later by the Club of Rome, an international network of scientists and industrialists. Its 1972 report The Limits to Growth aptly demonstrated the dynamic relationship between increasing consumption and the idea of “planetary boundaries” which cannot be crossed without risking severe environmental change.
Translation: The doomsayers are always wrong except for this time*.
*Repeat as necessary.
MAKE THEM PAY: Boston schools panic over lawsuits by parental rights group. “The trend of American public schools turning into radical liberal indoctrination centers that defy the rights of parents to control how their children are raised has been ramping up for some time now. But in recent years, encouraging signs have been observed as parents have sought ways to reassert their rights. Some have opted to abandon public schools, choosing either private schools or homeschooling for their kids. Others have run for and won seats on school boards to retake control of the curriculum and school policies. But a group called Parents Defending Education has adopted a far more confrontational approach. They have identified incidents where schools are promoting racism, transgender ideology, and the sexualization of children and have taken the school districts to court to stop it. They’ve been particularly active in Massachusetts lately and, as the Boston Globe reports, the schools are growing increasingly anxious in fear that any of them might be next.”
Related: Florida pro-parent school board candidates ride the wave to victory.
BIDENFLATION! Gobbled: Thanksgiving dinner costs rise 20%. “General inflation slashing the purchasing power of consumers is a significant factor contributing to the increase in average cost of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner.”
HOW CAN WE MISS YOU, IF YOU WON’T GO AWAY? Donald Trump announces his 2024 presidential campaign in a bid to seize early momentum.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Ill-Gotten Gains: Crypto Kingpin’s Donations Put Democrats in the Hot Seat.
The embattled crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now under federal investigation and suspected of defrauding his investors, spent the election season shelling out cash to Democrats: $865,000 to the Democratic National Committee, $1 million to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) Senate Majority PAC, and $6 million to the House Majority PAC.
With each passing day, it looks more and more like FTX’s customers won’t get their money back. But Democrats won’t say whether they’re going to hang on to the cash. The Democratic National Committee, Senate Majority PAC, and House Majority PAC did not respond to requests for comment about Bankman-Fried’s donations. The White House has also not weighed in on Bankman-Fried’s $5 million contribution to Future Forward PAC, which spent $74 million in support of Biden in 2020.
They’re keeping the cash.
HE ISN’T UP TO THE JOB: Nap Time? Biden Unexpectedly Skips Key Dinner at G-20 Summit.
DOES THE WORLD BANK ALSO HAVE TO GEN-GINEER THE UNICORNS THAT WILL FART TO KEEP IT GOING? Australia Demands the World Bank Pay for the Renewable Transition.
The innumerate extorting the economically illiterate to pursue the scientifically impossible. The clown car fell in a dumpster and the whole thing caught fire, already.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Bidenomics update: Household debt increased at fastest pace in 15 years.
PLEASE, PLEASE, IF YOU’RE UP THERE HAVE ALTERNATE FORMS OF HEAT: Winter Warning to Biden Administration (New England Energy Shortages Ahead?)
And if you haven’t prepped, do it now. Food, fuel, Freedom Seeds to defend both. May G-d bless you and keep you through this very hard winter ahead.
IT’S TIME TO LOOK TO THE BORDERS: October’s Border Arrests Are The Third Highest In U.S. History.
A government that ignores invasion is not in fact fulfilling its primary constitutional role.
THE MAN JUST DON’T KNOW HOW TO LIE DOWN AND QUIT: Trump Won’t Be Defeated By Media, Conservative Or Otherwise.
You’d think they’d have gotten used to it by now.
I’M STILL GOING TO PUT MY MARKERS ON: RUMORS OF OUR DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED: Time to face some hard truths about America’s political future.
It’s going to be hard. Very hard. But in the end the only things worth winning are hard to get. Birth happens in blood and pain just like death. So, shoulders up. Don’t stop fighting.
BEHOLD, MY VERY SHOCKED FACE: Russian Software Falsely Labeled as ‘American’ Found in Apps Used by U.S. Army, CDC.
UNFORTUNATELY I HAVE IT ON GOOD AUTHORITY IT DOESN’T INVOLVE RAPIERS: Republican FL Sen. Rick Scott Will Challenge McConnell for GOP Senate Leadership.
OH. WELL, CURSE YOUR SUDDEN YET INEVITABLE BETRAYAL: BREAKING: Russian missiles hit Polish border town, killing two.
The leaders of the world want nothing more than a reprise of WWII right now. They think that something like that war, which allowed them to clamp centralized, top down government on the nations of the world would bottle the lightening again. They tried with the Covidiocy. Then they tried the “the earth will boil in 12 years, but that only scared their own, subnormal supporters. So, a war was inevitable. And I think they break their teeth on it.
GO READ: A Tuesday Omnibus.
OH – THE POLICE HAD HIM ON THEIR RADAR … Accused UVA gunman Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. was on police’s radar since September.
THIS SEEMS OPTIMISTIC: One out of every 179 Americans will eventually be murdered if crime rate continues: study.
Because of course the crime rate will increase when there are no consequences whatsoever.
YES, WE’RE ALL VERY ANGRY. IT’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER TO BE ANGRY AT THE RIGHT PEOPLE: Beyond the Red Rage Horizon.
And never let the lie into your head.
ISN’T THAT THE BASIS OF CRT? HOW COULD WHITE PEOPLE BE THAT UNIFORMLY OPPRESSIVE AND PLOTTING IF THEY WEREN’T SUPERIOR? Texas teacher on leave after saying white people are ‘superior’ race.
Oh, I get it. The left is mad at him for saying the quiet part out loud.
And for the idiots not following at home: I despise theories of racial superiority, which yes does include CRT.
November 15, 2022
OPEN THREAD: Is there anything to talk about today?
HE’S IN: Trump announces 2024 run.