Category Archives: Hollyweird

Fast and Furious Gun Scandal Heading to the Big Screen

Wonder if there’s any chance of this hitting theaters in time for the 2016 election:

Fast and Furious Gun Scandal Heading to the Big-Screen

Lionsgate is aiming to bring the story of the ATF’s gunwalking scandal to the big-screen.

The studio has picked up the rights to The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious, a memoir written by ATF agent John Dodson, and has set Matthew Carnahan to pen the adaptation.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce the adaptation, which will be titled River of Iron, with Josh Bratman and his Immersive Pictures banner.

Gunwalking, which later became known as the Fast and Furious scandal, was a strategy used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms where the agency allowed the illegal sale of guns in Arizona with the hopes that the guns would cross the border into Mexico and lead to the arrests of members of the drug cartels.

That plan went off the rails when the guns sold began finding their way into local and border crimes. The tactic went public after a border patrol agent was killed by one of the firearms.

Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s

Jenny McCarthy is as much an epidemiologist as Andrew Sullivan is an obstetrician.  When you operate outside your zone of competence, this is what results:

Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s

When actors play doctors on TV, that does not make them actual doctors. And that does not mean they should scour some Internet boards, confront their pediatricians, and demand fewer vaccinations for their children, as some Hollywood parents in Los Angeles have apparently been doing.

The Hollywood Reporter has a great investigation for which it sought the vaccination records of elementary schools all over Los Angeles County. They found that vaccination rates in elite neighborhoods like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have tanked, and the incidence of whooping cough there has skyrocketed.

On a related note, the Puppy Blender found this bit of snark from Nigeria:

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All that said, it also doesn’t help that truckloads of illegal aliens got sent all over the country a while back, many of whom were no doubt carrying diseases that had pretty much been wiped out within our borders.  Diseased illegals + unimmunized Hollyweirdos = Bad News.