The dramatic dashboard-camera footage shows the fatal takeoff and stall of National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400BCF cargo aircraft, at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on April 29, 2013:
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Friday, August 14, 2026
Digital Overload; Technology makes life more complex rather than simplified, stress related physical health issues
Smart devices, endless notifications, and constant connectivity create digital overload. People face decision fatigue, privacy worries, and the pressure to always be available, which turns tools meant to save time into sources of stress.
https://healthconnect247.com/2025/05/23/digital-overload-how-constant-connectivity-causes-stress/
As an example" YouTube Shorts does not show a normal timeline or progress bar by default on desktop computers, forcing users to squint or zoom out the whole web page just to scrub through a short video. Or you have to into settings using the zoom function to get the timeline bar.
This is what I've found so annoying about YouTube, TikTok etc. Video 'shorts' do not allow the timeline bar to be available by default watching on a laptop/desktop computer. On Windows I have to go into settings and reduce the size using the zoom tool just to get the timeline bar. The 'short' feature should be fixed or removed, technology supposedly making life simpler is doing just the opposite.
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Denial of Epistemology Brainwashed Through Cultural Determinism
Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris Debate Afterlife with Jewish Rabbis:
Monday, August 10, 2026
If you are your mind, then who's listening?
Do you see me because I'm out here or am I out here because you see me?
"Because the problem is that people listen to information about their minds with their minds. And so what they do is to get some more information that they didn't have before, and if you keep accumulating information, what happens is that you get a lot of information." Werner Erhard
Sunday, August 9, 2026
Are You Insane? New amateur comedian competition TV show
Copyright: 2026 Paul E Rainwater. All Rights Reserved.
'Are you insane' a new amateur comedian talent competition show where contestnts advance through elimination in a 10 series season of 30 minute episodes, accumulating cash awards if they progress to the next level, until the final remaining contestant reaches the endgame a $100,000 cash prize and a spot on a Network national late night talk show.
Twilight Flight
Twilight Flight by Paul Rainwater. Oct 11, 2014, Pattaya Thailand
Screenplay Treatment:
Twilight Fight
Copyright: 2026 Paul E Rainwater. All Rights Reserved.
Twilight Flight set in 1982 is a dark and tragic second chance love story about Michael Waters, an international airline pilot near retirement age.
After the recent death of his first wife Yvonne, his high school sweetheart of 25 years (sadly a childless marriage after Yvonne's two miscarriages) Michael has become quite depressed reaching the lowest of lows with the loss of his wife so alone without a family (only an estranged brother and sociopathic lawyer niece who betrayed him over the family estate worth millions after the death of his 104-year-old father).
Opening scene: Michael's in the middle of emergency landing as alarms are blaring in the cockpit the number two engine on fire coming in for landing, he successfully lands the plane and emergency airport fire trucks arrive quickly to extinguish the flaming engine. He saves the plane, all the passengers applaud in spontaneous joy and thankful acknowledgment to the pilot.
Next Michael finds new love and a purpose to live, happiness he has never experienced with his new wife and child, then tragedy strikes...
Act 1: After the emergency landing Michael is questioning his future, the meaning of life still dealing with grief over his wife’s death at this low point, understandably he is in a sad dark mood everyday, despondent only going through the motions. Now only watching the world go by is no longer able to experience joy. He's still flying just to stay busy, he is conflicted trying to decide if he should quit and retire early or what to do with himself. He was introduced to a gorgeous Brazilian flight attendant by his best friend and co-pilot (as they were trying to relax after the emergency landing having drinks at the airport lounge), but in his despondent mood reluctant about pursuing her and unsure about going into a new relationship. Being near retirement a widower Michael is questioning his future dealing with depression. His moods are all over the map.
Update change scenario well I'm still in the editing phase:
While on a long international flight above the Indian Ocean en route to Auckland Australia, in the middle of the night Michael notices an effect on the windscreen similar to St Elmo's fire (a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created). The phenomenon persists despite the weather radar showing clear skies, the crew is mystified, switches on engine anti-ice and the passenger seat belt signs as a precaution. As the flight progresses, smoke begins to accumulate in the passenger cabin, it soon grows thicker and has an ominous odour of sulphur. Passengers who have a view out the aircraft windows see the engines are unusually bright, with light shining forward through the fan blades and producing a stroboscopic effect. At approximately 13:42 UTC (20:42 Jakarta time), engine number four begins surging and soon flames out. The flight crew immediately performs the engine shutdown drill, quickly cutting off fuel supply and arming the fire extinguishers. Less than a minute later, at 13:43 UTC (20:43 Jakarta time), engine two surges and flames out. Within seconds, and almost simultaneously, engines one and three flames out, prompting the flight engineer to exclaim, "I don't believe it—all four engines have failed!" now in a mayday emergency with all 4 engines flamed out (later we learn the reason is due to volcanic ash from an eruption of Mount Galunggung 110 mi south-east of Jakarta, Indonesia).
The captain (our protagonist) goes through all the emergency procedures and tries repeatedly to restart the engines to no avail. After multiple attempts he is able to glide the aircraft and with only a few minutes left before the plane crashes into the cold dark sea that would surely kill everyone aboard he finally is able to restart the engines. He saves the airplane from crashing with an emergency landing gliding far enough to exit the ash cloud, (although one engine fails again soon after), he lands the plane safely at the Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta.
Act 2: After this near death experience he realizes life is worth living again and has meaning. He begins dating the gorgeous Brazilian flight attendant and falls in love, they marry and have a daughter. He retires from the airline and he and his new family move to a villa on a seaside cliff in one of the most beautiful places in Brazil to start his new wonderful life with his gorgeous new wife and raise his precious daughter, then tragedy strikes.
Act 3: After he and his new wife and child are all settled into their beautiful villa and everything is perfect in his new life, one weekend after lunch he offers to drive into town for ice cream. Promising to quickly return and still a bit unfamiliar driving in a foreign country he is distracted by a text message from his wife and runs a red light, a large ice cream truck strikes his car and he is killed instantly.
Text message: Amy changed her mind wants chocolate and strawberry.
Mid shot of ice cream truck tank trailer jackknifing in slow motion with the words ice cream on it The End
alternate ending, the ice cream truck barly misses him, he pulls over to copose him self (the tension is relieved and takes a deep breath), gets out of the car and is shot in the head from a bank robbery in progress from across the street and dies instantly.
The End.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
https://www.wgawregistry.org/webrss/
Act 1, called the Set-up, The situation and characters and conflict are introduced. This classically is 30 minutes long.
Act 2, called The Conflict, often an hour long, is where the conflict begins and expands until it reaches a crisis.
Act 3, called The Resolution, the conflict rises to one more crisis and then is resolved
He feels empty and unfulfilled after burying his wife with no family or children from his barren relationship with his wife and of 25 years. He lives a depressed and meaningless existence no purpose and nothing to look forward and only continues to fly out of boredom...
Michael Saylor the incarnation of Bernie Madoff?
He's a masterful salesman, Bitcoin and cult leader; you can see how skilled and highly convincing his sermon like delivery is in this recent interview video below. I lost over 25%, 6 figures of my life savings to this scam. Join the class action lawsuits; The Rosen Law Firm launched an investigation into Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and Michael Saylor regarding potential misleading statements about its Bitcoin treasury strategy. To check eligibility or submit your information for a potential class action, visit the official investor inquiry page on the Rosen Law Firm Website or similar shareholder rights portals: https://youtu.be/X9muM9MVsNs?si=GqiFaQV0nLkS-Pgx
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Xanax for Breakfast, Ice cream for Lunch
I've just started creating an ebook regarding aging, now 71, surviving as a US expat living alone in Thailand, a 2 time stroke survivor, I've lost 50 lbs in the last year. Hospitalized last December 2025 (2nd stroke)
I'm now dealing with Central Post-Stroke Pain (CPSP) Syndrome, caused by brain damage that misinterprets signals causing heart palpitations also associated with general anxiety disorder (hence Xanax and insomnia) a separate cardiac issue that can be triggered by stress, medication or heart rhythm problems.(I'm on 7 different meds). Also chronic IBS-C (thank you Miralax a lifesaver), dental issues for the last 6 years including 6 implants 4 failed root canals, chronic molar tooth mystery pain for the last 3 years that multiple dentists could not diagnose and finally my neurologist prescribed medication to repair nerve damage and I'm healing thank you Dr Niyom Bangkok hospital Pattaya Thailand... Not to mention my degenerative spine issues with a herniated L5 S1 disc injury from 2012.
Now I'm finally gaining weight, getting my appetite back exercising and I want to live!
Sunday, March 22, 2020
The Sinister Face Of 'Neutrality' | FRONTLINE | PBS
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Switzerland's reputation as a neutral safe-haven during World War 11 has been badly tarnished by recent revelations about its wartime transactions with Germany. What began as an examination of the dormant bank accounts of Holocaust victims has gained momentum to include the whole gamut of Swiss financial dealings with the Nazis. In recent months a vast amount of incriminating documentation has been unearthed that reveals the sinister side of Swiss "neutrality".
Switzerland served as a repository for Jewish capital smuggled out of Nazi Germany and the states threatened by it, and also for vast quantities of gold and other valuables plundered from Jews and others all over Europe. Right up until the end of the war, Switzerland laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen assets, including gold taken from the central banks of German-occupied Europe. At the war's end Switzerland successfully resisted Allied calls to restitute these funds, and in the Washington Agreement of 1946 the Allies contented themselves with acceptance of a mere 12% of the stolen gold. Holocaust survivors and the heirs of those who perished met an implacable wall of bureaucracy and only a handful managed to reclaim their assets. See the full story in headline link above.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Keep IRA Distribution Income Taxes Low and Pay NO Tax on Social Security
Once you start taking Social Security (as a single filer), if you can keep your income below $25K you won't pay any taxes on your SS benefits:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-do-ira-distributions-affect-social-security-2014-01-17
Also, IRA distributions are not subject to FICA taxes only income tax; Money taken out of traditional individual retirement accounts or IRAs is considered taxable income, but is not subject to FICA because those funds are contributed after FICA has been deducted by an employer or paid through self-employment tax: http://finance.zacks.com/ira-withdrawals-subject-fica-5179.html
From the Social Security site; Benefits Planner: Income Taxes And Your Social Security Benefits:
https://www.ssa.gov/planners/taxes.html
Also Note: For a self-employed person contributing to his or her own SEP IRA, contributions are deducted as an adjustment to income on Form 1040 line 28. SEP contributions reduce a person's adjusted gross income, reduce taxable income, and thereby reduce the federal income tax. SEP IRAs do not impact the calculation of the self-employment tax, since the self-employment tax is calculated before SEP contributions are calculated: https://www.thebalance.com/tax-planning-with-sep-iras-3193211
Other important Tax Lowering factors; How do I figure my EIC or Earned Income Credit?
Who qualifies?
Many people think the credit is available only to parents. It's not. But the amount the Internal Revenue Service will give back is greater for eligible low-wage taxpayers with children.
For current year returns, the maximum credit can be as much as $6,242 for workers supporting three or more children. A worker with one child can get up to $3,359 with the credit. And $503 is available to a childless eligible employee. The amount is adjusted slightly for inflation each year.
To qualify for the credit, a taxpayer must have earned income, but stay within certain thresholds.
A single filer's adjusted gross income must be less than $14,820 if he or she has no children; $39,131 with one child; $44,454 with two children; and $47,747 with three or more children. For Married couples filing jointly your adjusted gross income must be less than $20,330 if he or she has no children; $44,651 with one child; $49,974 with two children; and $53,267 with three or more children.
If your AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) is equal to or more than the applicable limit listed above, you cannot claim the EIC:
https://www.taxslayer.com/support/208/how-do-i-figure-my-eic-or-earned-income-credit?language=1
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-do-ira-distributions-affect-social-security-2014-01-17
Also, IRA distributions are not subject to FICA taxes only income tax; Money taken out of traditional individual retirement accounts or IRAs is considered taxable income, but is not subject to FICA because those funds are contributed after FICA has been deducted by an employer or paid through self-employment tax: http://finance.zacks.com/ira-withdrawals-subject-fica-5179.html
From the Social Security site; Benefits Planner: Income Taxes And Your Social Security Benefits:
https://www.ssa.gov/planners/taxes.html
Also Note: For a self-employed person contributing to his or her own SEP IRA, contributions are deducted as an adjustment to income on Form 1040 line 28. SEP contributions reduce a person's adjusted gross income, reduce taxable income, and thereby reduce the federal income tax. SEP IRAs do not impact the calculation of the self-employment tax, since the self-employment tax is calculated before SEP contributions are calculated: https://www.thebalance.com/tax-planning-with-sep-iras-3193211
Other important Tax Lowering factors; How do I figure my EIC or Earned Income Credit?
Who qualifies?
Many people think the credit is available only to parents. It's not. But the amount the Internal Revenue Service will give back is greater for eligible low-wage taxpayers with children.
For current year returns, the maximum credit can be as much as $6,242 for workers supporting three or more children. A worker with one child can get up to $3,359 with the credit. And $503 is available to a childless eligible employee. The amount is adjusted slightly for inflation each year.
To qualify for the credit, a taxpayer must have earned income, but stay within certain thresholds.
A single filer's adjusted gross income must be less than $14,820 if he or she has no children; $39,131 with one child; $44,454 with two children; and $47,747 with three or more children. For Married couples filing jointly your adjusted gross income must be less than $20,330 if he or she has no children; $44,651 with one child; $49,974 with two children; and $53,267 with three or more children.
If your AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) is equal to or more than the applicable limit listed above, you cannot claim the EIC:
https://www.taxslayer.com/support/208/how-do-i-figure-my-eic-or-earned-income-credit?language=1
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Undercover Asia- Manila’s Secret Abortionists
Because of thier stupid religious beliefs in the Philippines, women who get abortions (all of which are illegal) and have complications often die and bleed to death:
Undercover Asia- Manila's Secret Abortionists from Pearl Forss on Vimeo.
Undercover Asia- Manila's Secret Abortionists from Pearl Forss on Vimeo.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
16 million children living in poverty in America
There are 16 million children living in poverty in America many who are homeless who stay in cheap motels or sleep in cars and have to use the restroom at a gas station to wash up for school, and the 40% of Americans who make less than the 1968 minimum wage (inflation adjusted). 85% of the wealth in the stock and financial markets is owned by 10% of the population (federal reserve board of consumer finances stats). When are we going to do something about Greedy Corporate America who is getting rich off of Obamacare, for-profit hospital, drug and for-profit insurance companies as the costs continue to rise. Today, 6.9 million fewer Americans are working or looking for work many of which are discouraged workers who have given up looking for a decent job. This drop accounts for virtually the entire reduction of the unemployment rate since 2009 because those not looking for work do not count as unemployed.
Now over 40% of Americans make less than the 1968 minimum wage (inflation adjusted). Low-wage Americans are not the only workers affected by stagnant wages and rising inequality. The middle class has also experienced stagnating hourly wages over the last generation, and even those with college degrees have seen no pay growth over the last 10 years. With wage stagnation the last 10-15 years, and so many only able to find low wage part time jobs, rents have doubled the last 10-15 years (4.8 million households receive Section 8 housing assistance as of 2008) not to mention food inflation (Between 2000 and 2011, the number of SNAP participants grew 171 percent to reach about 47 million people, roughly 14 percent of the population). But I guess Obama is too busy giving lectures on Religious History, Political Correctness, acting like an imam preaching to Americans leading "Terrorist Sensitivity" training, giving "Citizen Rights" and tax benefits to foreigners who sneak into America and thinking up new ways to piss off Republicans and Christians than to worry about economic facts. I say, Obama supporters who refuse to criticize him either suffer from bias blindness or they're a cult member, and I haven't seen the man walk on water yet... and if you dare question the President's policy on immigration or why he says stupid shiite like "Christian's should come down off thier high horses" regarding Islam (right after ISIS burned a man alive), your head is bitten off by the left and you are called racist and a bigot which is total BS. What a bunch of Politically Correct Lunatics we have running the country trying to brain wash the American public...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/28/child-poverty-us_n_6054958.html
Saturday, February 21, 2015
6000 killed by Muslim Insurgency In Southern Thailand Rages, Ignored By Outside World
I am critical of most all religions and live in a country that is 95% Buddhist for the last 10 years. Islam in Thailand is not only in a war against the "Infidel" but against other Muslims and Buddhist. Just here alone in Southern Thailand during the last 10 years over 6000 have been killed by terrorists fighting in the name this "religion" on a scale equivalent to Gaza (the world sure doesn't see the Buddhists raising hell ever night on the news like the Palestinians, and I haven't seen any Buddhists burning people alive or beheading anyone). Why don't so called "moderate progressive" Muslims direct thier rage at the Muslims who kill Muslims and the "Infidel" and the racist concept of "Infidel" and the abominations of sharia law that still upholds the death penalty for apostasy, blasphemy, infidelity, and how women are treated as property and on and on and on with your cult of "1/4 of the world's population". So please with all due respect, why don't you so called "moderate progressive" Muslims take your righteous indignation and do something positive to rid the world of this scourge you call religion (like write a new Quran at least the Christians have a New Testament) and change it into something for good (if that's possible)...
http://www.ibtimes.com/private-little-war-muslim-insurgency-southern-thailand-rages-ignored-outside-world-1560930
Red Light Jihad: Thai vice under attack from GlobalPost on Vimeo.
http://www.ibtimes.com/private-little-war-muslim-insurgency-southern-thailand-rages-ignored-outside-world-1560930
Red Light Jihad: Thai vice under attack from GlobalPost on Vimeo.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
60 Minutes Report on Disability Fraud and Senator Tom Coburn
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/disability-usa/
Now I couldn't even work a full time job at age 60 with my back condition if I could find one, and then the SS admin would not even allow me to apply for disability. I didn't even think about applying until a year after my injury when I realized I was not going to heal. And I have paid into the system since my first job at age 14 and working full time since 1978, while 100's of thousands commit fraud getting disability through corrupt lawyers and doctors, and I have a legitimate case as my degenerative disc disease is on the list of qualified conditions approved for disability. See the 60 Minutes report on this fraud, very good report here is the full video link: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/disability-usa/
But because I didn't apply immediately (and worked in Bangkok for 2 years) and spent a year trying to heal, they wouldn't even allow me to apply, how big of an injustice is this? I've never been on food stamps or any kind of government assistance and this disability program is basically like just getting my SS early the way I understand it. But people think you're a lazy bum and a "taker" if you're on disability even though it's a legitimate program that we pay for through our taxes like unemployment insurance. And I've paid my share of taxes being self employed for so many years having to pay a double hit on FICA.
For almost 6 months I could only carry a single bottle of water and a small amount of food while I am alone trying to taking care of my self after this back injury, in bed 80% of the day going to PT 3 times a week (now I still have to spend half the day resting in bed). I've spent almost half of my life savings in 3 years on medical and physical therapy bills, living expenses and loses from a few bad investments and I could really use this money but they won't even allow me to apply.
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