Disney announces its huge Star Wars hotel will CLOSE just a year after opening and charging visitors up to $20,000 for two night ‘voyage’ on fake Orlando spaceship with no windows

The expensive and immersive Star Wars hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida is closing after just one year of taking guests on a two-night ‘voyage’ that could cost up to $20,000.

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser was originally sold as an experience rather than a hotel and costs around $1,200 per person per day. One ‘tricked out’ suite has been reported to come in at a whopping $20,000 for the trip.

The immersive lodging, which is based in Orlando – and does not have any windows – will carry out its final ‘voyages’ in September, four years after it was announced at D23 Expo in 2019 as part of the park’s $1 billion Star Wars land.

The news of the closure comes just months after DailyMail.com reported that Disney was struggling to fill up bookings and had reduced availability for the fall.

The hotel, which is located near Disney World in Orlando, Florida, created major buzz when it first opened over its price and its amenities.

Included in the two day experience is a cabin or suite, ongoing immersive entertainment, food and beverages in and out of the space, and admission to Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

A room that can accommodate three adults and one child is priced at $5,999, not including taxes and fees.

A cabin with two guests comes in at $4,809 while three guests comes to $5,299.

The Starcruiser “immersive experience” is three days pretending you are living in a cruise ship in the Star Wars universe.

This video is a walk through of the attraction.

That looks like it would be fun for a few hours, or a cool theme restaurant, but unless you are a ridiculous Star Wars super-fan into LARPing, that’s gonna get old fast.

Considering the $6,000 price tag, the only people willing to pay for that are Star Wars super-fan into LARPing.

Did Disney have it’s head so far up it’s own ass that it thought that there were enough Star Wars super-fan into LARPing to sustain this as a business?

Because clearly, there are not.

This took $350 Million to build, so they didn’t recoup their investment.

It’s not DeSantis that is killing Disney jobs in Orlando, it’s dumb fuck decisions like this.

Family of NYC woman stabbed to death in her apartment by mentally ill homeless man sue NYPD for taking too long to break in to save her from him

The family of a woman who was brutally murdered in her New York City apartment by a mentally ill homeless man has sued police for allegedly causing her death by taking too long to try to save her.

Christina Yuan Lee, 35, was stabbed more than 40 times in February, 2022, after Assamad Nash followed her inside her Chinatown building as she got out of a cab in the early morning hours, according to police.

Neighbors contacted the New York Police Department after hearing Lee’s desperate screams for ‘at least five minutes’ as she was being attacked by Nash, who has a long criminal record.

Lee’s family says two unidentified officers stood outside Lee’s apartment as they heard her screams, failing to break down the door in time to save the ad executive, claims the lawsuit, which was filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday and first reviewed by The Daily Beast.

The lawsuit claims the officers, who came from the 5th Precinct just a few blocks way from Lee’s apartment, even spoke to her alleged murderer.

It states: ‘Despite having reason to believe Ms. Lee’s life was in imminent danger, [the officers] failed to gain entry to Ms. Lee’s apartment or otherwise provide her with any potentially life-saving police or medical assistance at that time.’

When officers finally broke down the door to Lee’s apartment 90 minutes later, they found the partially naked woman bleeding to death from 40 wounds to her torso, head and neck inside the bathtub.

On February 12, 2011, the NYPD watched through the window of the driver’s cabin as wanted criminal Maskim Gelman stabbed Joe Lozito multiple times on a Subway car, and did nothing until Lozito managed to fight back and subdue Gelman.

Lozito sued the NYPD because at the time, German was the subject of an active manhunt because he was on a stabbing spree.

The NYPD defended themselves saying they had no duty to protect Lozito and could hide in the safety of the driver’s cabin and fuck Lozito.

The NYPD won.

The Supreme Court and US Court of Appeals have previously decided that police have no duty to protect.

Castle Rock vs Gonzalez and Warren vs DC.

This is why we in the Concealed-Carry and Gun Rights community push self defense, because the police can do shit like this.

New York is utterly fucked considering that they will arrest you for defending yourself.

I feel bad for this woman’s family, but the NYPD will skate again for being stupid cowards.

Welcome to gender equity in civil engineering and urban development.

It's official! La Sombrita, our shade and lighting pilot for the @LADOTofficial Gender Equity Action Plan, was unveiled this morning pic.twitter.com/cqX1lFePzo

— Kounkuey [KDI] (@Kounkuey) May 18, 2023

The fuck is that?

The news will tell us.

LADOT introduces new solar-powered bus shelters that cast shadow

A bus stop at the intersection of 3rd Street and Union Avenue is the site of an ambitious new pilot program to bring shade, lighting and safety to female transit riders.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation unveiled its new La Sombrita, or little shade, in four LA neighborhoods.

Designed by and for female bus riders, the unassuming blue metal structures provide lighting at night and shade during the day, casting a shadow that elongates enough during some times of day to provide shade to nearby bus benches in addition to the person standing directly beneath it.

“At many stops in my neighborhood, there isn’t any area where you feel safe waiting for the bus,” Watts resident, and public transit rider, Kiana Stepney said at La Sombrita’s unveiling Thursday in Westlake. “La Sombrita will make waiting for the bus at night safer and more comfortable during hot days.”

Because the shelters are attached to pre-existing LADOT signs, they do not require costly new infrastructure or permitting. Because they are small, they also fit on narrow sidewalks that aren’t able to accommodate larger shelters.

“The lack of essential amenities like shade and lighting isn’t just a simple inconvenience. For women and gender minorities — half of our population — it can change the trajectory of their lives,” said Chelina Odbert, founding principal of the Kounkuey Design Initiative, which developed the structures with input from female transit riders.

Women who do not feel safe might forgo public transportation and the opportunities that come along with being able to travel outside their immediate areas, she said.

Fucking hell…

This reads like a parody.  “Standing in line for a bus sucks, women and minorities hardest hit.”

Here’s a picture of that thing:

First of all, that piece of shit cost only $10,000?

Wow, did they over pay.

But when you look at it in relation to the preexisting bus stop benches, at what time of day and year does it cast a shadow that covers them?

Did the diverse group of women who designed that forget that in the northern hemisphere, shadows are long in winter and short in summer?

So if you’re a woman who wants to sit in the shade at any time of the day except those certain hours. You’re just fucked.

What about things other than sun, like rain?  I guess women are fine to stand in the rain.

What about men?  Are men not allowed to stand in the women’s shade?

I suspect that there are a lot of better designs for more useful shade cover that could be built for $10,000, or less, but that’s just me thinking like a straight white male engineer.

This is an embarrassing failure of design that only points out that design by diversity committee is the worst way to do anything.

I just can’t wait until that diversity committee builds an overpass for women.  There will be casualties.

In case you missed the story:

A white nurse who is 6-months pregnant rented an e-bikr from an automated kiosk.  A group of five black men grabbed her and her bike and shoved it back into the kiosk, effectively canceling her rental.  Then they rented that bike and tried to take it out from under her.

She resisted and called for help.  The men rrecorded her calling for help and the video went viral.

The claim is that the pregnant white nurse was trying to steal the bike from the five black men.

Receipts prove her side of the story.

Black activists have claimed that she “weaponized her tears.”  That a white woman calling for help when assaulted by black men is tantamount to attempted murder and is racist.

https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1657918241614774275?s=19

Citibike Karen has deleted all her social media accounts.

Don't hide now, bitch. Be as loud and proud as you were when you weaponized your white lady tears and screamed "help" to try and get those young Black men killed.

— first of all, bitch, … (Yeah Mo!) (@thejournalista) May 15, 2023

The point here cannot be understated.

The goal is to make people understand that when they are attacked by thugs from an oppressed group, they must not resist or call for help.  They must submit and subjugate themselves.  To resist or even call for help makes them more guilty of moral crimes.  The black man may be stealing something, but resisting their stealing is racist.

We’re seeing the sane thing with the Jordan Neely Daniel Penny subway fight.  Defend innocent people from a black man making terrorists threats is racist.

Don’t fight back. Call the police.

Don’t call the police.  Call a social worker.

Don’t call for help at all, just take your lumps.

They want to create a system of racial dhimmitude as social justice.

Shortly after the Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting, the narrative of Steven Spainhouer was born.

We has supposed to be a good Samaritan whi rushed in to save lives.

The media interviewed him and promoted that.

Spainhower is a former police officer and army officer.

Back the Blue veteran, salt of the earth, wearing a cowboy hat in Texas.

Then he came out for gun control.  The old story of the guy who loved guns until a massacre hit too close to home.

Steven Spainhouer, a former officer in the US army and police, claims to be a "gun lover" and feels at ease around firearms.

Spainhouer, though, is now fiercely advocating for gun control.https://t.co/zGUvXdLfVb

— WION (@WIONews) May 9, 2023

‘Gun-loving’ ex-US army officer calls for gun control after witnessing Texas mall shooting

As an ex-police and US army officer, Steven Spainhouer is comfortable around firearms and goes so far as to describe himself as a “gun lover”.

But Spainhouer is now passionately arguing in favor of meaningful gun control after witnessing a rifle-wielding man murder several people before being shot to death by police outside a suburban Dallas shopping mall Saturday.

“We need some action in our legislatures at the federal and state level for better gun control,” he said in an interview with MSNBC a day after the mass killing outside Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas. “And I’m saying that as someone who loves guns.”

Well, turns out Spainhouer is also a liar.

Bad Samaritan! ‘Hero’ dad who claimed to have rushed to scene of Texas mall massacre where he found girl shot with ‘no face’ is ‘not a credible witness’ and did not administer first aid, cops say

The man who claimed to be a Good Samaritan during the Texas mall massacre has been accused of lying and branded ‘not a credible witness’ by cops.

Allen Police Department said they believe former Army officer Steven Spainhouer has spent the week since the shooting spreading misinformation.

The Allen Police Department has urged media outlets to stop sharing his story over the ‘discrepancies’ in his tale.

‘Inconsistencies between these public accounts and investigative facts led Allen Police Department to conduct a follow-up interview. During this interview, detectives determined that Mr. Spainhouer is not a credible incident witness,’ police said.

Following his interviews, Spainhouer was hailed as a hero for his actions. He later went on to call for gun reform in Texas despite being ‘someone who loves guns.’

In their new statement, police said Spainhouer was at the scene on the day of the mass shooting but that he arrived after an officer had already shot and killed gunman Mauricio Garcia.

Spainhouer ‘did not perform CPR or administer first aid’ and ‘did not move a deceased mother who was covering a live child,’ police said.

Dude is an ex-LEO, one would think he’d know better than to fuck up a criminal investigation with self aggrandizement.

But the ability to get publicly lauded and call for gun control is just too tempting to be bound by little things like the truth.

That’s how David Hogg built his brand.

There is some part of me that believes he’s a glowie plant.  An ex-government Fudd who could call for gun control in front of the camera that close to a disaster is just too convenient.

I’m glad he’s exposed as a liar.

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

This is from the London local government:

Calls for a commission on knife crime in the black community

Despite making up only 13% of London’s total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London’s knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.

How very interesting.

Let’s look at US data:

Nearly 90 Percent of Black Homicide Victims Killed With Guns, New Violence Policy Center Study Finds

For the entire UNITED STATES, the study finds that in 2019:

There were 7,441 Black homicide victims in the United States that year. Black Americans represented 14 percent of the U.S. population, yet accounted for 52 percent of all homicide victims.

For homicides in which the weapon used could be identified, 88 percent of Black victims (6,190 out of 7,056) were shot and killed with guns. Of these, 64 percent (3,935 victims) were killed with handguns.

The difficult data to get is the percentage of shootings committed by race. It seems purposefully vague.

But there are trends we can notice.

Crime, not cops, is by far the largest threat to black lives

In New York City in 2019, 319 people were murdered. Fully 88 percent of them — 280 people — were black or Hispanic. And 93.2 of them were murdered by other people of color.

Almost 96 percent of all shooters and shooting victims in the Big Apple in 2019 were people of color. People of color also accounted for 73.8 percent of rape victims and 81.3 percent of the rape suspects; 69 percent of robbery victims and 93.3 percent of the robbery suspects; and 79.5 percent of felony ­assault victims and 86 percent of the assault suspects.

People of color, in other words, are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violent crime in New York City. That is a cold fact. These proportions have remained remarkably consistent over the past 12 years.

In the US and London, the percent of Black residents is very close.  Among with the, the rate of violent death, both as victims and perpetrators, is close.

The only really significant difference appears to to be the choice in weapon; knives in the UK and guns in the US.

I’m not going to extrapolate more than that, just it’s an interesting trend to notice.