A Kansas makeup artist says she won a national contest sponsored by Kat Von D Beauty but was later disqualified because of an Instagram post supporting Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.
Screenshots taken by Gypsy Freeman show she was declared the winner last month of an Instagram “Saint + Sinner Contest” sponsored by the makeup line, which was founded by tattoo artist and former reality show star Kat Von D.
Freeman’s entry was an Instagram image of an angelic figure beside a girl in an all-black outfit and thick mascara, the Wichita Eagle reported. The winner of the Saint + Sinner Contest – and a guest – was to be flown to Los Angeles to attend the launch party of a new makeup line from Kat Von D, perhaps best known for her role on “LA Ink.” The approximate value of the prize package, which included a $500 gift card to Sephora, was $2,100.
To enter, Freeman submitted an Instagram image of an angelic figure beside a girl in an all-black outfit and thick mascara.
When Freeman was announced as the winner, curious Instagrammers went to her page and found a pro-Trump post from Election Day last year.
Von D, who starred in the tattoo-themed TLC reality show “LA Ink,” later messaged Freeman on Instagram to say she had “drawn a personal line in the sand between myself and anyone who supports that man,” according to screenshots of the conversation.
“My launch party (and my brand) celebrates many things that Trump is against,” Von D added, according to the screenshots. “And I just need you to know that I personally have a hard time with inviting anyone who would support such an anti-feminist, anti-homosexual/LGBT, anti-immigrant, and anti-climate change fascist such as Trump.”
According to the screenshots, Freeman replied: “I won’t be upset with you if you can’t have us there for these reasons, and I wish you the best. We would love to be there, of course, but I sincerely do understand if you decide to replace us with someone who supports the candidate you support.”
The celebrity then replied, according to the screenshots provided: “It’s not about inviting people based on their political stance – it’s just extremely difficult (borderline impossible) for me to be friends with or associate with anyone who would support a man who goes against everything I stand for. I would feel the same way towards people who supported Hitler, or any other fascist.”
The Florida-based photographer who took the photos for Freeman’s entry, Jenn Bischof, was invited to – and attended – the launch party in her place, Freeman said.
A post on Bischof’s Instagram account shows her at the party alongside Kat Von D.
Freeman told The Eagle it’s “really unfortunate” that politics was brought into an art contest “where I never brought it into the art contest.”
“I didn’t erase (the Trump post) either,” she said. “Part of the great thing about this country is having freedom of speech.
Freeman – who does fashion editorial, styling and a variety of bridal work – said she has used Kat Von D Beauty products in her makeup kit for years, though she will likely stop doing so. She said she plans to contact Sephora, which sells the product line, about the incident as well.
“It’s definitely bigotry – it’s everything that they’re calling us, they’re doing,” she said. “It’s a huge case of hypocrisy.”
Multiple phone calls and messages left with Kendo Holdings, the parent company of Kat Von D Beauty, have not been returned.
Inexpensive healthcare is available if you look for it. Obamacare screwed me completely. Sky high premiums, co-pays, and deductibles, not to mention the many things that were not covered at all. I had to drop out before the financial hole got any deeper. Not a good place to be. Unfortunately, no one can be told what real problem is. You have to see it for yourself.
You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up with your Government Mandated Healthcare and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
I took the Red Pill and found my new doctor, Vance Lassey, who is unbelievably inexpensive because he has his own storefront facility, and doesn’t take insurance. For a small monthly charge, according to your age group, virtually anything done in the office is covered. Whatever you need. Call for an appointment? Most times, you can get in today or tomorrow. No bum’s rush to get you gone either. Now you’re about to see how deep the rabbit hole really goes!
Has his own in-house super discount pharmacy. He is hooked up with a very fine medical/surgical hospital that works the same way, for things he can’t handle walk in. Same kind of arrangements with lab work, MRI, CAT scans, etc. Here is a clickable link to a fine example of one, Surgery Center of Oklahoma. Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy because Kansas is going bye bye. The website has a feature where you can find out EXACTLY what your surgery will cost, and if you have had a procedure to check prices against, you will see that the difference is jaw dropping!
I get a shot every 2 weeks that was $26 with my old insurance, $87 with O-Care, and now with no insurance and using my local PDC doctor 10 minutes away from me, $17.85. One of my meds, done the same way, $18/$65/$4. Bloodwork, $85/$220/$3.75.
THOSE ARE NOT TYPOS!
Like I said, it’s done by eliminating the middlemen. Has his own private clinic and one receptionist/nurse, doesn’t use insurance companies, medical facility labs, all jacked with huge markups, gone. Remove the leeches from the system and everything changes.
The endless circle of insurance companies keep feeding the free market money the med industry asks for, and keeps new ideas and procedures coming, but it is also why everything so expensive and why our country best doctors and tools available. It’s the delivery system that is broken.
But the system is in place, and employs millions of people. The government has no right to intervene and destroy what works. What are all those people going to do to pay their bills and not be homeless? Let the matrix live as it is to keep things moving forward, and keep it available for the Blue Pill takers who prefer it that way. But this alternative Red Pill universe is for the rest of us. Nice, neat, and it will all evolve into the Red Zone gradually as competition drives the market down. Capitalism trumps Socialism every time.
Find a Direct Primary Care doctor, and put half the money you save in a health savings account. If you want to, get a catastrophic insurance policy for cheap, to cover the unlikely. Use it with Part-D. consider the many possibilities. I’m trying to free your mind.
There are many others like him everywhere. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.
The map example shown below gives you a quick idea. Go to the active, zoomable, searchable version of the map by CLICKING HERE. It contains a listing of public addresses and website links to 652 DPC practice locations in 47 states + DC, that we currently know about, you may possibly find others if you look, GOOGLE is your friend.
Rally to be live streamed to over 1 million online viewers!
This is a Rally Cry and Call to Action to our Kansas leaders and every Kansas Citizen to stand with us in defense of the Second Amendment Protection Act of Kansas, and all Kansas citizens against prosecution by the federal government in their infringement of our Natural Rights GUARANTEED by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. We have recently had two Kansas citizens face Federal prosecution for actions protected under the Second Amendment Protection Act of Kansas.
Special Guests include…
Ted Nugent – an American musician and political activist. Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock. After playing with the Amboy Dukes, he embarked on a solo career.
Larry Pratt – the executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America, a United States-based firearms lobbying group, and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. He is also Vice Chairman of the American Institute for Cancer Research.
Sheriff Richard Mack – the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona and a political activist. He is known for his role in a successful lawsuit brought against the federal government of the United States which alleged that portions of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act violated the United States Constitution. He is a former lobbyist for Gun Owners of America (GOA) and a two-time candidate for United States Congress. Mack is also the founder of Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), and established the “County Sheriff Project” movement, both of whom claim the power to refuse to enforce federal laws.
KrisAnne Hall – an attorney and former prosecutor who travels the country teaching the Constitution and the history that gave us our founding documents. KrisAnne will connect the dots for you like no one else can! Host of The KrisAnne Hall Show, she pulls no punches, puts Liberty First and gives no quarter to those who hide behind party labels. Like no other host, KrisAnne will tell you what the founders had to say on today’s relevant issues. KrisAnne will be streaming one of her fiery speeches that will be projected on a big screen.
The Gun Owners of America Foundation will be conducting a 20 firearm raffle with only 2500 tickets sold for $10 apiece. If you win, your ticket goes back in the barrel for a shot at winning again! Get your tickets now, only $20 in advance and $30 at the door (if there are any tickets left).
We are offering a special VIP Luncheon package, which includes a full top of the line meal with Ted Nugent, Larry Pratt, Kris Kobach and Sheriff Mack, 1 general admission ticket to the concert and an “I’m in the Fight” concert T-Shirt for $100. These packages are limited to the first 100 purchasers.
Every now and then a substantial solar storm moves our way and creates favorable conditions for the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, to be visible as far south as Kansas.
Forecasted aurora borealis issued by the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for Monday, November 2.
Tonight’s level is forecasted to be High(++), at a level of 7 out of 10. The current projection would give the visibility of the lights on the northern horizon, fairly low to the ground overnight. Anywhere on the image north of the solid green line has a chance to see the lights.
TIMING: Monday night, possibly Tuesday night. No set time as auroras come and go periocally.
Good luck and with clear skies most of the night, you might just get a glimpse! There could be another opportunity Tuesday night.
Charles and David Koch’s spheres of influence span business, philanthropy and politics. The lightning-rod capitalist brothers continue to add to their empire, plunking down more than $5 billion on acquisitions in 2014. Charles has been chair of Koch Industries since 1967, overseeing massive growth of what is now the second-biggest private company in America, behind commodities giant Cargill. Their reach extends from oil pipelines, refineries and manufacturers of building materials to paper towels and even Dixie Cups.
They were relative pikers in the 2014 midterm elections, spending about $2.5 million each on Republican races, but the Washington Post reported that they have exhorted their conservative compatriots to raise almost $1 billion for the 2016 presidential election. The Kochs are also active philanthropists. In mid-2014, a $25 million gift from Koch Industries and the Charles Koch Foundation to the United Negro College Fund sparked discussion on the left and right.
NASA joined a multi-agency field campaign studying summer storm systems in the U.S. Great Plains to find out why they often form after the sun goes down instead of during the heat of the day.
The Plains Elevated Convection at Night, or PECAN, project took place from June 1 and continued through July 15. Participants from eight research laboratories and 14 universities collected storm data to find out how and why they form.
“We’re hoping to collect measurements that will be used to characterize the atmosphere ahead of these storms,” said Richard Ferrare, senior research scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Division at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. “If we can map the water vapor that goes into these storms, we’ll be able to improve computer models that represent these conditions and better predict the storms.”
“We’re hoping to collect measurements that will be used to characterize the atmosphere ahead of these storms,” said Richard Ferrare, senior research scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Division at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. “If we can map the water vapor that goes into these storms, we’ll be able to improve computer models that represent these conditions and better predict the storms.”
The NASA DC-8 and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) P-3 Orion research aircraft supporting the PECAN mission was temporarily based at the Salina Regional Airport.
Unlike other parts of the United States, summer thunderstorms across the Great Plains are most common after sunset. Much of the rain comes from medium-size weather systems and resulting thunderstorms known as mesoscale convective systems. These nighttime storms can produce heavy rainfall that contributes a significant portion of the yearly precipitation in the region.
Scientists understand that thunderstorms that form during the day result from a vertical “convective” circulation driven by rising warm air from the heated Earth’s surface and falling air cooled at higher altitudes in the atmosphere. Less well understood are the mechanisms that cause thunderstorms after the sun has gone down and the land surface has cooled.
The DC-8 carries atmospheric science instruments and investigators from Langley; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and several universities and research labs. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, provided a ground-based Doppler radar system.
PECAN is funded by the National Science Foundation with additional support from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and the Department of Energy.
In addition to the NASA and NOAA aircraft, researchers will receive data from a University of Wyoming King Air plane, ground-based instruments, weather balloons and mobile radars. Storm information will continue to be gathered from multiple agency ground and air instruments across northern Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska through July.
The DC-8 is based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Facility in Palmdale, California, and supports NASA’s Airborne Science Program under the Science Mission Directorate. The extended range, prolonged flight-duration capability, large payload capacity, and laboratory environment of the DC-8 make it one of the premier aircraft available for NASA Earth science investigations.
Check out the pilot’s only visual references during one of these flights:
NASA researchers collect and study data from space, air, land and sea to tackle challenges facing the world today, including improved environmental prediction and natural hazard and climate change preparedness. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth’s interconnected natural systems with long-term data records. The agency freely shares this unique knowledge and works with institutions around the world to gain new insights into how our planet is changing.
Results should be analyzed and released by early 2016.
HALLS OF KARMA 
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