Kelly Ludwig

Geeky & opinionated. Twitter is my book/celeb/weather geeking place & work venting - NOT PG rated :p

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

OutFront goes inside a flight simulator to see what it looked like when the Flydubai flight suddenly plunged 20,000+ feet in 35 seconds after one of the pilots stabbed the other.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WOW! President Trump claims a PLUMBER intervened and prevented 100+ deaths during the AirDubai hijacking earlier today, and grabbed the stick to LEVEL OFF the plane

Why, you ask? Because the man was a fan of "AIR DISASTERS," a show that documents plane crashes

TRUMP: "I don't like watching it because bad things happen." 🤣

"But he said he watches it a lot and he learned from watching that show sort of how to fly."

"An Israeli plumber saw what was happening and was strong. You know, when you lift pipe all day, you're strong. And he saw what was going on and he heard the screaming."

"He grabbed the stick, pulled it up, leveled out the plane before it crashed. I think it's like Jeff. I think it's true. Pretty incredible."

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

DEMOCRATS: "It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote so Voter ID is just stupid and unnecessary"

ME: "It's already illegal for minors to drink alcohol so we don't need to check IDs at stores or bars anymore?"

THAT is exactly how idiotic that argument is!!

[Health Freedom Defense Fund @theHFDF]

SHOCKING:

This woman was nearly killed in a hospital for being unvaccinated.

Gail Seiler got Covid in 2021.

When doctors discovered she was unvaccinated, they told her:

“You’re going to die.”

She was denied food for 12 days.

She was denied water for 7 days.

Doctors refused her requests for ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, budesonide, zinc, and vitamin C.

“I faced aggressive pressure to take remdesivir, escalating oxygen protocols, and repeated pressure toward ventilation.”

“I was isolated from my family.”

“I was denied access to my Catholic priest and my sacraments until I received remdesivir.”

“I was designated a DNR, or Do Not Resuscitate.”

“I experienced physical, verbal, and psychological abuse at the hands of some of the nurses because I was not vaccinated.”

“I was left naked and uncovered for extended periods of time while staff observed me through the ICU windows.”

“My family was repeatedly told that I was unsavabale and needed to be allowed to die.”

Getting her out took a six-hour police standoff.

Her husband Brad, a former ER nurse and Army captain, walked into the ICU to take her home.

“The hospital called the police, resulting in a six-hour standoff, as officers tried to persuade him to leave.”

It took an intervention from a Colonel and a State Senator to rescue her.

“With the intervention of Colonel Allen West and Texas Senator Bob Hall and our attorney, we were finally allowed to leave.”

“Doctors insisted that my lungs were permanently damaged and that I would not survive outside their care.”

“They were wrong.”

Treated at home with the drugs the hospital refused her, Gail fully recovered.

“I encourage our government to fully investigate what happened to patients and families during the Covid response so that no American family will ever experience these abuses again.”

@SenRonJohnson @HighWireTalk

[Mason @masonq33]

Captain Smit Machchhar was stabbed so badly that he needed hospitalization and surgery, yet despite that, he was able to send a distress signal and open the cockpit doors

There were many heroes on that flight, but without his actions, none of them would've mattered

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

Imagine. You see someone down on his luck, in need of a place to stay for the night. You open your doors and welcome him inside. He proceeds to bludgeon you to death with a hammer.

He leaves your body so mutilated that your family isn't even permitted to view it.

Then imagine, just a few short years later, the District Attorney presents a plea deal to get your killer out of prison. To walk free. After murdering you in cold blood for doing nothing but welcoming in a stranger.

This same prosecutor advocates measures such as cashless bail, ending capital punishment, and reducing "unnecessary" punishments.

It seems she thinks keeping your killer off the streets is unnecessary.

Now imagine that other victims' families have requested that she recuse herself from prosecuting the killers of their loved ones, in light of her track record of sympathizing with criminals instead of victims, only to be met with gag orders.

Gag orders. For the families of victims. So she can continue her reckless, soft-on-crime pursuit of injustice.

Now finally imagine that in your city of Tucson, Arizona, the local government is throwing its whole weight behind an effort to euthanize a dog — a livestock guardian dog — who made a single, isolated mistake and bit a family member while under duress, trying to keep his home and animals safe against coyotes.

One mistake made in the heat of the moment, trying to defend what it holds dear — its family — and the local government is going after it with everything it has.

They want to let your killer walk.

Capital punishment for dogs protecting their homes. Freedom for hammer-wielding monsters who come into other people's homes.

You don't have to imagine it. It's true.

#SaveSnuggles

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

When a Muslim terrorist attempts a hijacking, it’s an “altercation”

When left-wing thugs burn down our cities, it’s “mostly peaceful”

When you call for secure borders, fair elections and safe communities, they call you a “right wing extremist”

You don’t hate the media enough.

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

We flew on Westjet Flight #1221 from Fort Lauderdale at 9:30pm, landing in Toronto after midnight, with my toddler whose only other flight was just the week before.

When I first saw you—a big, tough-looking guy in your late twenties—I worried you might not like sitting next to a small child. I was wrong, and I’m so thankful for that.

Because of turbulence, the seatbelt sign stayed on for much of the flight. That meant instead of sitting on my lap or grandpa’s for comfort, my son had to stay buckled in right beside you.
I never got your name, but thank you for all the small, thoughtful things you did. Thank you for picking up his blanket every time he dropped it, half-asleep. Thank you for turning your light away when he finally drifted off. Thank you for being kind and talking to him even when you didn’t have to. Thank you for offering him (and us) candy and gum to help with his ears. Thank you for letting his little legs and feet rest on you. And thank you for getting our bags down so he wouldn’t be disturbed.

My son is usually calm and quiet, but I was nervous about how these first flights would go. Small, tired kids can make people impatient, and not everyone shows kindness.

You turned that flight into a reminder of compassion and patience. One day my little boy will grow into a man, and I hope he learns from people like you. Your simple actions meant more than you know. If you choose to be a father someday, you will be a wonderful one.

[Ultra MAGA Joyce Day @Daytobehappy]

I have undertaken this project to put a face to 9/11 by posting a photo of everyone killed that day. If after everything that happened you can vote for the ideology that brought it about it's as if you are killing them yourself! Pictured below was 32 year old Paul Benedetti who was an assistant director at the Aon Corporation in the South Tower. His wife said that one of his talents was his wonderful sense of humor in which he was even able to find something funny coming down the stairs after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, he could imitate all the characters from The Simpsons and had set up the office software to sound like Homer Simpson saying doh when somebody made a mistake. To forget even a single one of these people is a blasphemy!

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

A couple and their newborn baby were sideswiped in their SUV, thrown off the road and flipped into a ditch.

Then water started pouring in while they were trapped upside down. The father curled around his baby girl, trying to protect her.

Aaron Allen and his sister Jolisa were driving directly behind them. They pulled over instantly and sprinted into the water.

Aaron tried breaking the windows, but nothing worked. With the water rising, the siblings realized they had to move the SUV itself.

Together, they somehow pushed the overturned vehicle back onto its side.

Aaron wrapped his T-shirt around his fist and smashed through the windshield until it finally broke. The glass tore into his arm, but he kept going.

The newborn was handed out first, then Aaron and Jolisa helped both parents escape.

All three survived with only minor injuries.

Aaron later said he simply did what he hoped someone else would do for his own family.

Aaron and Jolisa saved that family’s life. So let’s give them the recognition they deserve.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

From a military pilot on today’s attempted hijacking.

I’ll sum it up for you: Hashem performed an unprecedented miracle today.

[Suprvirat @MostlyKohli]

Know your real Avengers 🚨

- Captain Smit Machchhar, who fought the attacker and opened the cockpit
- Asaf Redjuan, who rushed at the attacker
- Israeli dad Tzvika Mans, who tied the attacker with a cable so he couldn't move
- Yaniv Hayon, who handled the aircraft and kept it stable
- Dr. Shota Musaev, who treated the captain and stopped the excessive bleeding.

They all worked together and made sure all those 180 passengers landed safely. Truly, men are brave 🙏

[Daniel Tibor Fuchs @fuchsdanielt]

@6ESinger157593 Credit the passengers, yes. But without him fighting through the attack, sending the codes, and opening the cockpit door, they never get a chance to act. That one decision changed the outcome.

[Griffin @6ESinger157593]

Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.

Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.

Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.

Yes. One Indian man.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

Understand the magnitude of what those Israeli passengers may have just prevented.

If the emerging reports are correct, an Omani pilot attempted to deliberately crash a passenger jet carrying roughly 180 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv, sending the aircraft into a terrifying plunge before Israelis on board overpowered and subdued him.

Had that plane gone down, regardless of where it crashed, this would not simply have been another aviation disaster.

It would have been a 9/11-scale terrorist attack involving an Emirati aircraft, Israeli civilians, an Omani pilot, Saudi airspace, and a region already engulfed in conflict.

Think about the military response that would have followed. Think about the countries that would have been dragged in. Think about the retaliatory chain reaction that would have been set in motion.

The consequences are genuinely impossible to calculate, but they would have been cataclysmic.

The Israelis who bravely took control of that situation did not merely save the lives of the people sitting beside them.

They may have prevented an event that would have rewritten the history of the Middle East, reverberated across the world, and cost an unimaginable number of lives.

There are moments when ordinary people, in the span of a few terrifying minutes, stand between the world as it is and a world permanently changed by catastrophe.

This may have been one of them.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

A PLANE WENT DOWN IN A WISCONSIN FIELD, AND THE FIRST PEOPLE TO RESPOND CAME FALLING OUT OF THE SKY.

A pilot spotted the crash about a mile south and got on the radio offering to drop a load of skydivers right over it to help.

Nobody told him to, and he didn't wait around for permission or a committee meeting.

He saw people in trouble and used exactly what he had to get help there fast.

That's the kind of thing you only see in America, where regular people run toward the problem instead of away from it.

God bless whoever made that call and every one of those skydivers.

[Ultra MAGA Joyce Day @Daytobehappy]

I have undertaken this project to put a face to 9/11 by posting a photo of everyone killed that day. If after everything that happened you can vote for the ideology which brought it about it's as if you are killing them yourself! Pictured below was 51 year old Stephen Belson who died along with Battalion Chief Orio Palmer in the South Tower. Belson had been a firefighter for 28 years and had gotten a college degree in physical education. Prior to becoming a firefighter he had been a lifeguard and eventually moved to my hometown of Rockaway where many firefighters lived and they named a beach there after him following 9/11. On that day he was on light duty because he was recovering from spinal surgery and was assigned to drive Palmer around. They raced to the towers and it was noted that Belson was very good friends with Father Mychal Judge who was also killed on that day and had been the chaplain of the fire department. To forget even a single one of these people is a blasphemy!

[USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 @Arkypatriot]

It's Today in Tennessee at 10 am central.

It’s been more than 200 years since Tennessee executed a woman. That changes today with Christa Pike, and when you read what she did to 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, you understand why this case has never gone away.

Pike, now 50, has spent about 30½ years on death row for the 1995 murder. She was only 18 when she and two other teenagers lured Colleen, a fellow Job Corps student, into a wooded area near the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville. Pike believed Colleen was interested in her boyfriend.

What happened to that young woman was horrific. Colleen was beaten and tortured, cut and stabbed, had her throat slashed, was struck with a meat cleaver, and had a pentagram carved into her chest. Her skull was ultimately crushed with a large piece of asphalt. Pike even kept a piece of Colleen’s skull and later showed it to other people.

Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1996. She is scheduled to die by lethal injection today, becoming the first woman executed by Tennessee in more than two centuries.

There has been plenty of discussion about Pike being only 18 at the time, her abusive childhood and her mental-health history. But with all the attention on Christa Pike today, I don’t want Colleen Slemmer to become a footnote. She was 19 years old and never got the chance to grow older.

After more than 30 years on death row, what are your thoughts on this case and the death penalty?

[Elena Wicker @ElenaWicker]

My mom just called - she was at a gas station, trying to figure out a low tire pressure warning on her car. She saw two people in military uniforms and asked if they might help her…

TLDR: Thank you to the MAJOR GENERAL who helped my mom put air in her tires. 🤣

[Jeffrey Dach MD @jeffreydachmd]

This is mind boggling! It has been 39 years and we have NEVER had a functioning \/a<<ine surveillance system! I hope RFK jr will can create a new surveillance system that actually collects all the data and makes it public. However, knowing what we know about the CDC, they will never let this happen. They will simply slow walk it and drag their feet, and obstruct every effort. Everyone knows releasing the data would bring down the whole house of cards and end the \/a<<ine industry as we know it.

Transcript:

RFK jr: But people said to me during the hearing, oh, well, this link between autism and vaccines has been disproven.

But none of the vaccines that are given during the first six months of life have ever been tested. Ah...the only one was the DTP vaccine. And that one study that was done, according to the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, found that there was a link. They threw out that study because it was based upon CDC's surveillance system, VAERS, and they said that system is no good.

It begs the question is why doesn't CDC have a functional surveillance system?

We're going to make sure they do have a functional surveillance system.

Right now, surveillance system is a system that...(pause) .... because they don't do pre-licensing safety testing for vaccines. They're the only product that's exempt. So what they say is if there are injuries, we'll capture them afterward. They have a system that doesn't capture them. In fact, CDC's own study of its own system said it captures fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries. It's worthless. And everybody agrees it's worthless.

But why have we gone for 39 years and nobody's fixed it?

Moderator: Without a functional system, right.

RFK jr: We're going to fix it. And we have, you know, we have Doge, you know, knows how to manage data. And so we're going to be able to get into these databases and give answers to the American public. And we're going to fix the problems. If there are problems, we're going to fix them very quickly.

But we're going to follow the science. That's what we're going to do. We're going to have gold standard science and we're going to follow the science. We're going to publish all of our data sets, which CDC has never done. We're going to do replication of all of our studies, which CDC has never done. But we're going to publish our peer review, which CDC has never done. So people are going to have real answers for the first time. --