“Ice Road Truckers” star Darrell Ward died in a plane crash Sunday, a rep for the show told FOX411. He was 52.
“We are saddened by the tragic loss of Darrell Ward, a beloved member of the HISTORY family. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his family during this difficult time.”
According to Ward’s Facebook page, the reality star was headed back to Missoula, Montana, after meeting with fans at The Great American Truck Show in Dallas, Texas.
Ward was set to begin filming a pilot for a new documentary-style TV show about plane wreck recoveries. Ward and his co-pilot died.
“An investigation is ongoing and more information will be made available at a later time as the National Transportation Safety Board will be handling the investigation,” a statement on his Facebook page said. “[The] things Darrell loved most were his family, including his kids and grand-kids & trucking.”
Ward became a fan favorite over the past four seasons of the History Channel’s docu-series. His motto was “any road, any load” and he was a self-proclaimed “adrenaline junkie.”
“When Darrell wasn’t hitting the Ice Roads he would be back in Montana doing what Darrel loved best as a log hauler and occasionally helped local authorities fight forest fires,” the statement read. “In his free time, you could usually find Darrell giving back to the community any chance he got, he had promoted the most recent food drive to help victims in the Louisiana Floods.”
The Cessna 182-D crashed on the edge of interstate as it appeared to be attempting to land at the Rock Creek Airport south of Clinton.
Missoula County Sheriff’s Department Patrol Captain Bill Burt said witnesses said the plane appeared to be attempting to land at the south end of the runway.
“Something went drastically wrong,’’ he said. “The plane was trying to climb and appeared to have stalled.’’
To say that this incident here has hit the trucking World very hard, would be the understatement of the century.
The trucking industry has been reeling recently by the shooting death of a terminal manager in Texas. Everybody had just recently gotten over that and now this.
The sad part about it is Darrell Ward was at the Great American truck show in Dallas Texas and a few people who I have communications with actually took pictures with and made video with Darrell Ward before he left the show.
So, needless to say there are a lot of people right now who are truck drivers who are absolutely numb right now with unbelief and grief.
My heart goes out to Darrell’s son and the rest of his family God only knows what they’re going through right now so my thoughts and prayers go to Darrell’s son and everybody in his family.
I think the important thing to remember is this right here: people like Darrell Ward and the others from Ice Road Truckers; to us people on the outside they are television stars: famous people who we just see on a TV screen.
But in reality, they’re real people, with families, children and grandchildren and when something like this happens; it hits hard and it’s hard on everybody. So, I think everybody should probably just say a small prayer tonight for this Man’s family. 😔🙁😟
Gov. Paul LePage left a state lawmaker from Westbrook an expletive-laden phone message Thursday in which he accused the legislator of calling him a racist, encouraged him to make the message public and said, “I’m after you.”
LePage sent the message Thursday morning after a television reporter appeared to suggest that Democratic Rep. Drew Gattine was among several people who had called the governor a racist, which Gattine later denied. The exchange followed remarks the governor made in North Berwick on Wednesday night about the racial makeup of suspects arrested on drug trafficking charges in Maine.
“Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage,” a recording of the governor’s phone message says. “I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you (expletive). I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist (expletive). You … I need you to, just friggin. I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.”
Now, where I come from, that is basically a death threat. I think this guy needs to be ousted and quick. This is being worked on now, and that’s good thing.
I mean, if I did something of this nature to, say, the Governor of Michigan; I would sitting in a jail cell. The Republican Party has enough troubleswith Trump, we do not need another distraction. This moron needs to go and I mean quick.
Donald Trump’s campaign CEO Stephen Bannon was branded an anti-Semite by the same ex-wife who claimed he choked her, court documents reveal.
Mary Louise Piccard said in a 2007 court declaration that Bannon didn’t want their twin daughters attending the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because many Jewish students were enrolled at the elite institution.
“The biggest problem he had with Archer is the number of Jews that attend,” Piccard said in her statement signed on June 27, 2007.
“He said that he doesn’t like the way they raise their kids to be ‘whiny brats’ and that he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews,” Piccard wrote.
“I told him that there are children who are Jewish at (a competing school), and he asked me what the percentage was. I told him that I didn’t know because it wasn’t an issue for me as I am not raising the girls to be either anti-Semitic or prejudiced against anyone,” she wrote.
Bannon asked his ex-wife if it bothered her that a second school, the Willows Community School, used to be a Temple.
And while checking out yet another school, Bannon asked the director during a sit down why there were “so many Chanukah books in the library.”
“At the time, Mr. Bannon never said anything like that and proudly sent the girls to Archer for their middle school and high school education.” a spokeswoman for Bannon told the Daily News.
Donald Trump’s new presidential campaign chief is registered to vote in a key swing state at an empty house where he does not live, in an apparent breach of election laws.
Stephen Bannon, the chief executive of Trump’s election campaign, has an active voter registration at the house in Miami-Dade County, Florida, which is vacant and due to be demolished to make way for a new development.
“I have emptied the property,” Luis Guevara, the owner of the house, which is in the Coconut Grove section of the city, said in an interview. “Nobody lives there … we are going to make a construction there.” Neighbors said the property had been abandoned for several months.
Bannon, 62, formerly rented the house for use by his ex-wife, Diane Clohesy, but did not live there himself. Clohesy, a Tea Party activist, moved out of the house earlier this year and has her own irregular voting registration arrangement. According to public records, Bannon and Clohesy divorced seven years ago.
Bannon previously rented another house for Clohesy in Miami from 2013 to 2015 and assigned his voter registration to the property during that period. But a source with direct knowledge of the rental agreement for this house said Bannon did not live there either, and that Bannon and Clohesy were not in a relationship.
Bannon, Clohesy and Trump’s campaign repeatedly declined to answer detailed questions about Bannon’s voting arrangements. Jason Miller, a Trump campaign spokesman, eventually said in an email: “Mr Bannon moved to another location in Florida.” Miller declined to answer further questions.
…and then, there is this; which is just plain…..odd? 😮
Appearing on The Apprentice with Donald Trump required agreeing to a series of odd and invasive demands regarding sex, nudity, and food consumption. According to a copy of an NBC contract reviewed by The Daily Beast, contestants had to agree to be filmed, “whether I am clothed, partially clothed or naked, whether I am aware or unaware of such videotaping, filming or recording.”
2016 is the first election in American history in which lowbrow entertainment and politics have merged to such a degree that they are nearly indistinguishable. The requirements for The Apprentice contestants, while almost certainly not mandated by Trump himself, underscore just how strange this brave new world is.
Now, at first blush, I would normally say, “Ha Ha! He’s a liberal, he gets what’s coming to him!” However, in this case, I will refrain from much nonsense. This below is a perfect example as to why I simply refuse to blog about rumors, gossip and such.
Just so we’re being completely transparent here, you should know this:
This is being written under duress because I don’t have enough money to fight a legal battle against the Trump machine. Yesterday, I wrote a story based on Melania Trump allegedly having been an escort or paid sex worker when she arrived in New York. A few hours later, the owner of Liberal America received an email threatening us with legal action if we didn’t do as the Trump attorneys instructed — remove the “false statements.” So this is my apology.
First of all, I’m very very sorry that I wrote an article about the past of Melania Trump. I got my information from reputable sources and reported on what was being reported there, but apparently that isn’t good enough to pass muster in the version of American freedom of the press envisioned by Mr. Trump and his team of legal vultures.
Additionally, I’m also sorry that the personal image of the wannabe first lady is so insecure that she feels the need to send her legal hell-hounds chasing after small, independent journalists such as me. I had no idea I was such a threat to the Trump campaign or family. Imagine my surprise.
Andrew Bradford goes on:
But most of all I’m sorry that in Donald and Melania Trump’s view of how this republic works, they think it’s in keeping with the spirit of the First Amendment to threaten, intimidate, and harass reporters. Just the fact that they immediately felt the need to get lawyers involved proves that they don’t believe in preserving, protecting, or defending the Constitution, even though every President has to make a pledge to do so when he or she takes the oath of office. In Donald Trump’s world, the Constitution only applies to those who can afford to hire expensive legal mouthpieces.
It is quite telling about Trump isn’t it?
Here’s the official document:
It is going to be a long election season folks. 🙄 I do not recall Ronald Reagan threatening to sue anyone for something that was said, that he did not like.
Allegations of antisemitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving.
Joseph Schmitz, named as one of five advisers by the Trump campaign in March, is accused of bragging when he was Defense Department inspector general a decade ago that he pushed out Jewish employees.
The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is a foreign policy neophyte, and that his campaign, at times, has offended Jews and other minorities.
Schmitz, who is a lawyer in private practice in Washington, says the allegations against him are lies. All three people who have cited the remarks, including one who testified under oath about them, have pending employment grievances with the federal government.
Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community, described Schmitz’s remarks in his complaint file.“His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’ ” wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general’s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy.
Meyer, who declined to comment about the matter, cited in his complaint another former top Pentagon official, John Crane, as the source and witness to the remarks. Crane worked with Schmitz, who served as inspector general between April 2002 and September 2005. – Source: Donald Trump foreign policy adviser accused of anti-Semitic remarks | McClatchy DC
Donald Trump had better dump this guy and I mean quick. Because as you all well know, there is an Unwritten rule in politics and it is best described like this:
Thou shalt not speak ill of the Jews, thou shalt not do anything to harm the Jews, and thou shalt not even mention the Jews.
Otherwise, Thou shalt not have a political career and thou shalt be destroyed by the political left and the political right.
If Donald Trump is even remotely wise at all when it comes to politics and running a presidential campaign, he will dismiss this guy, as his foreign policy advisor and put as much distance between his campaign and this man.
Otherwise, I’ll be sitting here sometime next year bemoaning the fact that Hillary Clinton is now president as well as most of the Republican Party and Grassroots conservatives.
Antisemitism; whether perceived or real, is considered the third rail in politics and it is not acceptable in general quarters any longer.
I just hope and pray that Donald Trump is smart enough to know this.
After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company.
Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site’s fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision’s bid for Gawker Media’s other assets. Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision. Near-term plans for Gawker.com’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized.
I have a lot I’d like to say about this and I decided to dictate it using speech to text.
This lawsuit and closure of gawker.com ought to be a textbook example of what happens when a news site starts trafficking in gossip and slander and someone decides to fight back.
I have experience with being slandered here on the internet myself. As you all know I am not a neoconservative. But, rather a Paleoconservative or someone who simply believes that war should only be used as a last resort. I am also someone who is mildly concerned with interference with our government, our financial institutions and our media Outlets by those who I refer to as Israeli-firsters. Fox News channel is a perfect example of such.
As a result of this, I have been slandered as an anti-semite and because of my position on blacklivesmatter and because of my issue with media bias, when it when it comes to murders that are committed by African-Americans against whites; as opposed to murders that are committed by whites against blacks and the media bias that surrounds that, I have been labeled a racist bigot.
So, I know a little something about media slander and slander that happens on the internet.
In this case here, someone decided to fight back and yes it took lots and lots of money. But, the person who decided to fight back achieved his goals and that was the shuttering of a so-called news site that trafficked in slander.
I commend Peter Thiel for his efforts to shutter this site. As I once was linked to by them and labelled racist bigot many years ago on my old blog.
Furthermore, I think the bloggers should stand up and take notice of the fact that this man who was slandered by this site decided to stand up and put some of his money on the line to defend himself from these slanderous accusations against him and against his unwanted outing as homosexual.
Because if this happens with gawker.com, who’s to say that someone who gets slandered by a Blog whether in a posting or in the comments section wouldn’t decide to stand up and sue the owner of the blog?
The way I see it, I have grounds for a lawsuit against David Horowitz for his slanderous article on me; by two women who are out to get me, because I dared to stand up against the Israeli-firsters who were causing trouble in New York City.
This is something I would seriously like to do, if I decided to do this I would spare no one. Everyone that wrote anything about me negative on their blogs would be targeted for that lawsuit.
Now am I actually going to go out and do this? The answer to that is basically no; because for one thing to bring that sort of lawsuit in an American Court, you must have lots and lots of money something that I simply do not have and furthermore the justice system in this country runs incredibly slow and the slower it runs, the more money you put out. So, in this case I think will simply allow people to come and view my blog look at my archives and decide for themselves whether I am an anti-Semite or a racist bigot and see that what was written about me was nothing more than sensationalized bull-crap
Essentially, what I am saying is the people who brought these slanderous charges against me in the past are simply not worth spending that sort of money time and effort to bring a lawsuit against them.
Most of the ones who made those accusations against me are really not even in the blogging scene any longer, a lot of them mysteriously disappeared a few years back and I haven’t heard from them or seen them in a long time, not to mention the fact the two women that brought those slanderous accusations against me, are no longer employed by David Horowitz.
I guess slandering some of his friends have consequences.
In case you all haven’t noticed, I really haven’t been writing about politics at all, here as of late.
Quite frankly, I am totally burned out on Politics as a whole. I guess the burnout started after 2012, when Mitt Romney lost and it’s not really gotten any better.
Quite honestly, I really don’t know if Donald Trump even has a chance at winning in 2016. What with hiring of the guy, who basically runs the conservative version of Pravada; also known as Breitbart. I just don’t see how people are going to take him seriously.
Then there’s his statement about the American intelligence system. Can you think of a more boneheaded statement to make if you’re running for president? “I want to be your president, but, I don’t trust the American intelligence system”;that has to be the most tone-deaf, ignorant, statement that anyone could make who was running for president.
Then, there’s that every Republican who has any sort of influence in the party, is basically blasting Trump and then endorsing Hillary Clinton. Sorry, but that’s a death sentence for a campaign, when your own people do not trust your ability to lead the country and endorsed someone, who is basically the sworn enemy of the Republican Party.
Then there’s the media, now we all know that the media; except maybe for Fox News channel, is biased against Donald Trump. That’s a given in politics, I totally understand that.
However, I happen to believe that the movements of the Trump campaign here in the last few months, combined with the Republican Party establishment’s literal turning on Donald Trump left and right….I just don’t think he has the ability to win the presidency and that my friends is a depressing thing and makes me not really want to blog at all.
As an independent Baptist and as a Christian and as someone who used to vote Democrat and finally threw up my hands in disgust and walked away and joined the ranks of Pat Buchanan, Chuck Baldwin and many of the other people who still believe in this country: I have to say there are dark days ahead. I just hope we can survive them. 😔😟
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Donald J. Trump on Tuesday appeared to raise the possibility that gun rights supporters could take matters into their own hands if Hillary Clinton is elected president and appoints judges who favor stricter gun control measures.
Repeating his contention that Mrs. Clinton wanted to abolish the right to bear arms, Mr. Trump warned at a rally here that it would be “a horrible day” if Mrs. Clinton were elected and got to appoint a tiebreaking Supreme Court justice.
“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks,” Mr. Trump said, as the crowd began to boo. He quickly added: “Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”
Oblique as it was, Mr. Trump’s remark quickly elicited a wave of condemnation from Democrats, gun control advocates and others, who accused him of suggesting violence against Mrs. Clinton or liberal jurists. Bernice A. King, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., called Mr. Trump’s words “distasteful, disturbing, dangerous.”
Mrs. Clinton’s running mate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, expressed disbelief. “Nobody who is seeking a leadership position, especially the presidency, the leadership of the country, should do anything to countenance violence, and that’s what he was saying,” Mr. Kaine said in Austin, Tex. He called Mr. Trump’s remark “a window into the soul of a person who is just temperamentally not suited to the task.”
And Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, said Mr. Trump’s statement was “repulsive — literally using the Second Amendment as cover to encourage people to kill someone with whom they disagree.”
“For Trump, violence has become a standard talking point, a common punch line, and even a campaign strategy,” Mr. Gross said.
Paul D. Ryan, the Republican House speaker who has had a tense relationship with Mr. Trump, told reporters on Tuesday night that the remarks sounded “like a joke gone bad.”
He added: “You should never joke about that. I hope he clears it up quickly.”
Mr. Trump and his campaign did not treat his remark as a joke; instead, they insisted he was merely urging gun rights supporters to vote as a bloc against Mrs. Clinton. “The Second Amendment people have tremendous power because they are so united,” he told a CBS affiliate in North Carolina late Tuesday.
Here’s the video of Trump explaining himself:
The really funny party is that Hillary Clinton said the same very thing about Obama in 2008. Here is Keith Olbermann talking about it:
I wonder if the media will bring this up? Don’t count on it.
In most electoral campaigns that go sour, the panic-driven fission doesn’t achieve critical mass until the mid-to-late autumn. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is already there, and it’s only August.
Trump has shown himself to be incapable of strategically retreating from losing fights, and his feud with a Gold Star family of a Muslim Bronze Star recipient followed this pattern. As the terrible news cycles mounted and Trump’s Republican allies began openly expressing their dissatisfaction with the course on which their party’s presidential nominee was set, the Trump campaign began to reveal how unstable a compound it was.
That’s Noah Rothman, who used to work for HotAir.com. Noah’s not wrong about that either. This is bad. Trump either needs to gethis act together or turn it over to Mike Pence and get out of the race. Because there are alot of people; myself included that wanted to see Trump turn America around and he is doing idiot nonsense like this. It is asinine and it is going to cost us in November.
It is just pretty darned bad, when a committed Neocon and a populist conservative/paleocon type agree on something. 🙄
