Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers”I do think race played a part in this.”Headshot of Christopher MathiasChristopher MathiasNational Reporter, The Huffington PostPosted: 09/11/2015 04:02 PM EDT | Edited: 09/11/2015 05:57 PM EDTPIX11NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to… Read More »
Since Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer. Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone. She held herself up as the martyr, the good Catholic widow left to raise 11 children alone, the empress… Read More »
There was a moment at a recent rally when the nature of the tuition beast was suddenly, and unforgettably, revealed; when “Mandy,” an anonymous NYU junior, took the stage to tell exactly how, and why, she had no choice but to become a prostitute to meet NYU’s soaring price. Source: With No Other Choice, This… Read More »
Hundreds showed support for Kentucky’s first march, part of a nationwide campaign. Standing on a picnic table in the Highlands’ Willow Park, 18-year-old Nan Elpers removed her top as cameras started to roll. Stone-faced, she held her shirt to her side, taking in the scene. Beside her on the table, women held #FreetheNipple posters. In… Read More »
EVERY summer for many years now, my family has kept to our ritual. All 20 of us — my siblings, my dad, our better halves, my nieces and nephews — find a beach house big enough to fit the whole unruly clan. We journey to it from our different states and time zones. We tensely… Read More »
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In those days, California’s water supply was far more reliable than today. Gigantic water projects of reservoirs and aqueducts largely planned while Edmund Brown, Sr., was governor (father of the current governor), comfortably supplied all the water California’s population needed.Since then, California’s population has grown from about 20 million in 1970 to 39 million today… Read More »
A Kentucky mom shared her frustrations with a local high school’s dress code after her daughter was allegedly sent to the principal’s office for wearing an outfit that revealed her collarbone. Mom Stacie Dunn posted a photo of her daughter Stephanie on the first day of school wearing the “inappropriate” outfit in question. In the caption,… Read More »
Placing the sex toy — which resembles a woman’s private parts — on the coffee table, I gently demonstrate to our client how to perform oral sex. “Think about what you’re doing with your tongue,” I tell him. “It’s a little like what I taught you about French kissing last week.” My husband, Rob, who… Read More »
Feds to stop tipping off colleges on student choices 5 Comments Shares Tweets Stumble Email More + For years, the federal government has been delivering inside information to colleges about an applicant’s school preferences that has harmed some students’ chances for admission and awards. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has been serving… Read More »
“The farther you get from the capital, the worse the economic situation is.”APPosted: 08/01/2015 12:25 PM EDTMembers of national guard patrol a supermarket in Caracas, on Feb. 3, 2015.CARACAS, Venezuela AP — A man was killed and dozens were arrested Friday as a mob looted a supermarket and other shops in an industrial Venezuelan city,… Read More »
Of course in the article at Jezebel nowhere does it suggest actually fucking your husband yourself. God (along with all gay misandry twisted female predators) forbid suggesting any kind of affection be acted out upon a male such as a simple hand job, or the never allowed to be mentioned fellatio. Fuck no. Just keep… Read More »
Guest post written by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Ms. Lavizzo-Mourey is the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As a geriatrician who practiced for years in some of Philadelphia’s most disadvantaged communities, I have seen the profound impact that Medicare and Medicaid can have. These two programs help mothers, fathers, grandparents and children get… Read More »
Patients’ medical records sit on shelves in an office, pictured Nov. 7, 2015. The most expensive aspects of medical care in the United States—administrative costs, and fixing medical errors—can be addressed by expanding Medicare benefits, for which those same administrative costs are lower. Cultura/Alamy Medicare turns 50 this week. It was signed into law July… Read More »
Recently, Louisiana became the latest state to attempt a massive ban on cash that would have resulted in making it illegal to use U.S. cash dollars in any secondhand transactions. The law, called R.S. 37:1866, made it illegal to, say, go to a garage sale and buy a lawn mower with cash dollars. That’s right:… Read More »
Toddlers who spend a lot of time in front of a TV may be at greater risk of being bullied later in life, a new study suggests. As the number of hours of TV watching increased, so did the risk of being victimized by classmates in middle school, according to the study published… Read More »
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Anxiety that Social Security benefits will not be available in retirement has inspired plenty of fear among American consumers. Amid the gloom, there is cause for slight optimism: the combined asset reserves of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds are not projected to run out until 2034, gaining a year… Read More »
Everybody knows if you don’t pay to repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true with people. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers. For a half-century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care. But now the Obama administration is pressuring hospitals to skimp. Last week, the administration announced the… Read More »
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(Repeats without change to widen distribution) By Leah Schnurr (Reuters) – Canada’s prim capital is suddenly focused more on the state of people’s affairs than the affairs of the state. One in five Ottawa residents allegedly subscribed to adulterers’ website Ashley Madison, making one of the world’s coldest capitals among the hottest for extra-marital hookups… Read More »
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Tiger parenting is by now a well-documented phenomenon that has given pundits everywhere an extra column or two, and, for a certain original tiger mother, a New York Times best-seller. I have something of a strange tie to tiger parenting. I grew up in Silicon Valley, home of Apple, Google, and the new American dream,… Read More »
Earlier this month a guy named Todd Fassler was bitten by a rattlesnake in San Diego, KGTV San Diego reports. In itself this isn’t terribly unusual—the CDC estimates that roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people a year get bit by a venomous snake in the U.S. And somewhere between five and six people die from these bites… Read More »
“Why do you need to choose love or sex over the other fun things that don’t have the potential for pain and suffering?” via Middle-aged virgins: Why so many Japanese stay chaste – CNN.com.
Dick Cheney reemerges: Bloodthirsty veep is back to promote endless war — just in time for 2016 Dick Cheney and his silly advocacy group are back to preach neoconservatism to the converted Simon Maloy Follow Share 1K 163 Post 50 Topics: Dick Cheney, 2016 Elections, Liz Cheney, Republicans, Alliance for a Strong America, Neoconservatism, neoconservatives,… Read More »
America’s Seniors Find Middle-Class ‘Sweet Spot’ – The New York Times.
Agatha Tan added 7 new photos. October 6, 2014 · So I wrote an open letter to my principal about last week’s sex ed: Dear Dr. Hon, I am Agatha, a C1 student, and my purpose in writing this open letter to you today is to express my sincere concerns about the MSF “It’s Uncomplicated”… Read More »
Count Bill Gross among the world’s biggest philanthropists. The bond investor has already given away as much as $700 million and eventually will donate his remaining $2 billion fortune, a figure that’s “staggering, even to me,” Gross said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “I define success differently now than five or ten years ago,”… Read More »
An estimated 6 million U.S. citizens are living abroad, and the U.S. is the only country within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that taxes citizens wherever they reside. via Americans Living Abroad Set Record for Giving Up Citizenship – Bloomberg Business.
Cuba Has a Lung Cancer Vaccine—And America Wants It | WIRED.
(NaturalNews) According to the document you’re about to see, for the last eight years, government scientists have actively engineered viral vaccines designed to alter thoughts and beliefs by infecting the brain and suppressing genetic expression of neurological cells. Dispersal of these vaccines has been tested via high-altitude aerosolized sprays, highway vehicles, the water supply and… Read More »
(Bloomberg) — Shoppers thronged grocery stores across Caracas today as deepening shortages led the government to put Venezuela’s food distribution under military protection. Long lines, some stretching for blocks, formed outside grocery stores in the South American country’s capital as residents search for scarce basic items such as detergent and chicken. “I’ve visited six stores… Read More »
Russia throws down the gauntlet: energy supply to Europe cut off; petrodollar abandoned as currency war escalates – NaturalNews.com.
FATAL heroin overdoses in America have almost tripled in three years. More than 8,250 people a year now die from heroin. At the same time, roughly double that number are dying from prescription opioid painkillers, which are molecularly similar. Heroin has become the fallback dope when an addict can’t afford, or find, pills. Total overdose… Read More »
he assortments of bacteria that live within the intestines of isolated tribes are far more diverse than the microbes found in the guts of Americans — and scientists say such findings have implications for modern-day maladies ranging from obesity to antibiotic resistance. The latest studies into the varying genetic signature of microbes found in the… Read More »
This is too awesome! So this girl was looking for a rich husband on a dating website. Her biography was very straight forward about her seeking a rich husband. In a quick summary, she is just a complete gold digger. But the email she received from the J.P. Morgan CEO was definitely not what she… Read More »
THE major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions. Even more strikingly, an analysis by a… Read More »
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A Beijing-Baghdad Railway? via China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Knowns, Unknowns – Bloomberg Business.
Summers is referencing the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s 18-month-old plan to start the first new multilateral development lender in decades. More than 40 countries applied to be founding members including China, Australia, Egypt, Ukraine, the U.K., France, Switzerland, India, and South Korea. via Larry Summers: The Past Month May Go Down as a Turning Point for… Read More »
CIA Insider Breaks Silence on Global Currency Wars.
“This past month may be remembered as the moment the United States lost its role as the underwriter of the global economic system.” What Summers is referring to is the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new banking consortium led by China that will back investment in Asian and emerging-market economies. This bank… Read More »
U.S. officials view the bombers — which have been detected as far south as 50 miles off California’s northern coast — as deliberately provocative. They are a sign of the deteriorating ties between Moscow and the West since Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region in March of last year and its military intervention to support… Read More »
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – A new study just released by the Centers for Disease Control suggests people who make more money get more sleep. Researchers found about 35 percent of adults with incomes below the poverty line report getting less than six hours of sleep a night. While about people making well above the… Read More »
Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the author of a now-discredited article in Rolling Stone magazine about a rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, issued this statement: “The past few months, since my Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus” was first called into question, have been among the most painful of my life. Reading the Columbia… Read More »