Dog Chews Off Owner's Toe and Saves His Life- Jerry Douthett and Kiko

MICHIGAN– Forget the nagging wifeclichés – a gnawing dog may be good for your health. A drunk man who’d passed out woke to find his toe amputated by his pet terrier. Good thing, because it led to a diabetes diagnosis.  This dog, like many others, seems to have the ability to detect illness. – Global Animal

Associated Press–

A Michigan man says he’s grateful his dog ate most of his toe while he was passed out drunk.

Jerry Douthett of Rockford says Kiko’s action helped uncover an undiagnosed diabetic condition and led to treatment that could save his life.

The Grand Rapids Press reported that the 48-year-old musician knew for a while something was wrong with his foot.

He resisted seeking care until giving in to his nurse wife’s pressure one day last month.

Before going for an appointment, Douthett says he went out drinking, then came home and passed out.

When he awoke, the terrier was beside him in bed and lots of blood was where his toe used to be.

His wife rushed him to Spectrum Health Blodgett Campus, where doctors found a bone infection and amputated the rest of the toe.

http://www.kwch.com/ktla-dog-eats-infected-toe,0,3382513.story

ObamaCare Mandate To Shut Down Little Sisters Of The Poor

ObamaCare Mandate To Shut Down Little Sisters Of The Poor - Investors.com:
"HHS has ruled that if the Sisters don't offer insurance policies to their employees that include free coverage for sterilization procedures, artificial contraceptives and abortifacients, these vowed-to-poverty women will have to pay about $1 million in IRS fines, effectively making their work nearly impossible."

Captain Capitalism: Turn In Your Yachts!

Captain Capitalism: Turn In Your Yachts!:

Militarization Of Police Continues-SWATs Up?

Dallas Acquires MRAP Armored Vehicle As Militarization Of Police Continues - Investors.com:
"The SWAT raid came after "the Arlington Police Department received a number of complaints that the same property owner was cultivating marijuana plants on the premises," the city's statement said.
So why not just knock on the door with a search warrant?

An Arlington spokeswoman said the raid was perfectly legal and appropriate.
"The purpose was to improve the quality of life, to resolve safety issues within neighborhoods and to hold the property owner responsible for creating blight conditions on their property," she stated, not really explaining how this or even marijuana cultivation requires a SWAT team."

How A Wearable Patch Could Help Prevent Mosquito Bites

ToyotaVoice: How A Wearable Patch Could Help Prevent Mosquito Bites - Forbes:
"Kite, a new wearable patch, may be the solution to the fight against mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases.
A team of scientists developed Kite to block the way mosquitoes track humans through the CO2 we release as we breathe.
The patch, which works for up to 48 hours, doesn’t use the harmful chemicals used in traditional bug repellents, yet it practically makes a person invisible to pesky mosquitoes."

Oh Great, Facebook Wants to Know When You're Being Sarcastic

RealClearTechnology - Oh Great, Facebook Wants to Know When You're Being Sarcastic:
"Facebook can’t detect sarcasm, for example.
If you post on your wall that you “just can’t wait for more news” about your long-estranged school friend’s daily calorie intake as they pursue yet another fad diet, it will take you at your word and send you “helpful” links to celebrity weight loss programmes. 
Deep learning is an attempt to tap into these more subtle aspects of human thought, building on what we have already achieved in machine learning."

Judge approves deal in Alabama prison case over HIV-State taxpayers fund ACLU for plans of big lawsuit for when inmates get HIV

Judge approves deal in Alabama prison case over HIV | The Montgomery Advertiser | montgomeryadvertiser.com:
"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a settlement to end the segregation of HIV-positive inmates in Alabama prisons.
.....The American Civil Liberties Union represents inmates who sued to end the practice.
Thompson approved $1.3 million in legal fees and expenses that will have to be paid by the state."

Ridiculous, onerous, budget-busting, unfair, stolen, criminal Pensions Give New Meaning To 'If It's Too Good To Be True'

Generous Pensions Give New Meaning To 'If It's Too Good To Be True' - Forbes:
"Nationally, state plans covering public employees of cities, police, etc. are underfunded by $1.4 trillion, or 14 followed by 11 zeros. 
To correct that underfunding, you have to take the entire gross domestic product of Norway, add it to Belgium, and throw in Austria, and give all that to the states.

Raising taxes will not work because there is just too much money to raise. 
Moreover, many residents wonder why they have to pay high taxes to fund state pensions that are much more generous than they could ever receive. 
Some states replace nearly 90% of an employee’s annual salary, with yearly increases greater than the cost of living. 
Some employees can retire at full pension at age 55 or earlier, and they contribute far less than a private employee’s must pay."

Oshkosh 2013 Highlight Reel-Wow, gives me the shivers!

The Associated Press=Unpaid (until later....wink, wink....) PR firm of democrat party

The Associated Press Goes to Bat For the Democratic Party | Power Line:
"The AP pretends to be a neutral, just-the-facts information source, but it is nothing of the kind. 
While there are some good reporters at the AP, the overwhelming majority function, as to issues that are politically controversial, as advocates for the Democratic Party."

Obamacare Website Quietly Deletes Reference to 'Free Health Care' -The first of many "deletions"

Obamacare Website Quietly Deletes Reference to 'Free Health Care' | The Weekly Standard:
"Even as President Obama and his administration are making a last minute push to encourage enrollment in Obamacare, a quiet change was made on the Healthcare.gov website regarding those who will still not be able to afford coverage after the program kicks in.
From at least June 26, 2013 to as recently as September 15, under the topic, "Where can I get free or low-cost care in my community?" the following statement appeared: "If you can't afford any health plan, you can get free or low-cost health and dental care at a nearby community health center."

'HILARIOUS": Top MIT scientist mocks newest UN climate report -Cash still rolls in!

'HILARIOUS": Top MIT scientist mocks newest UN climate report | The Daily Caller:
"“I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,” Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot, a global warming skeptic news site.
“They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase.”"

Prominent Muskegon attorney, depressed. Steals... no, "misappropriates", money. Shockingly still depressed!

Prominent Muskegon attorney faces discipline over thousands kept from former firm | MLive.com:
"Davis attributed his behavior to financial pressures.
In his defense he asserted his conduct was caused by a “temporary mental disability” – a “very high level of stress and depression he was undergoing as the result of facing serious financial difficulties.”"

Flint working hard to attract "Detroit style"bailout: Man dead following hit and run in Flint; violent crime reported on Flint area college campuses rises.

Police news: Man dead following hit and run in Flint; violent crime reported on Flint area college campuses rises | MLive.com:

"Gve them bread and circuses" NFL Sacks Taxpayers for Stadium Subsidies and Other Goodies

NFL Sacks Taxpayers for Stadium Subsidies and Other Goodies | Heartlander Magazine:
"The NFL is technically a nonprofit — thanks to a special exception in the tax code carved out by Congress in the 1960s — despite making billions of dollars of profit each year and paying top executives seven-figure salaries.

The NFL is allowed to negotiate contracts that would be illegal for companies like Apple or Exxon — thank Congress again for that one."
....Judith Grant Long, a Harvard University professor of urban planning, calculates that league-wide, 70 percent of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by taxpayers, not NFL owners."

They're ba-aack.........Lenders warn auto dealers about bias

Lenders warn auto dealers about bias | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Auto lenders are peppering dealerships with letters that say analyses of the dealerships' practices indicate a pattern of discrimination against minorities, women or the elderly in the loans they arrange for those customers.
....Many dealers say they think the letters were prompted by pressure on the lenders by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and see them as another attempt by the bureau to extend its oversight to dealers. 
The law that created the bureau in 2010 did not give it jurisdiction over auto dealers."

Michigan Gov. Snyder accepts bribe, kneels, kisses ring. Praise as "statesman" oozes from MSM.

Tim Skubick: Gov. Snyder doesn't mind sidling up to White House if it helps Detroit | MLive.com:
"It was shades of Gov. Chris Christie walking around with the President himself in the aftermath of New Jersey’s tragic hurricane Sandy.
The occasion in Motown centered on the financial hurricane that threatens to bury the city and the rest of the state with it.
And just like Mr. Christie, Mr. Snyder is not about to put on his GOP partisan hat and tell the White House folks to take a hike, because they were riding in to deliver some badly needed financial largesse."

US police obtaining military vehicles to aid hunt for criminals and us?

US police obtaining military vehicles to aid hunt for criminals | Fox News:
"“Having a tactical vehicle will not only provide warrants execution with the equipment to assist in performing their jobs, but will provide an overall safety arch," Chief Deputy Marlin Suell reportedly wrote to county commissioners in informing them of the acquisition.

The vehicle costs about $600,000, but the county obtained it solely for the cost of transporting it from Fort Hood."

Driving affects ovaries and pelvis, Saudi sheikh warns women-American lawyers openly salivating!

Driving affects ovaries and pelvis, Saudi sheikh warns women - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page:
 "Saudi women seeking to challenge a de facto ban on driving should realize that this could affect their ovaries and pelvises, Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan, a judicial and psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association, told Saudi news website sabq.org.
Driving “could have a reverse physiological impact.
Physiological science and functional medicine studied this side [and found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis.
This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees,” Sheikh al-Luhaydan said."

Greece is starting to look like Weimar Germany...... and USA

Greece is starting to look like Weimar Germany – Telegraph Blogs
Economic collapse, mass joblessness, uniformed paramilitaries, street violence, political assassinations and, now, a round-up of opposition MPs. 
Euro-wracked Greece is beginning to feel eerily like Weimar Germany.

"The right to a family life" protects murderers who kill folks with families.

Britain may need to withdraw from European Convention on Human Rights, says Cameron - Telegraph: "The ECHR has been invoked by foreign criminals and terrorists fighting deportation from Britain.
They argue that its provisions mean they are entitled to various rights to be considered, including the right to a family life.
That has led to foreign criminals being allowed to remain the UK because they have family connections here."

20th Century Death

20th Century Death | Information Is Beautiful

"Gobsmacking" instead of healthcare-NHS 'bans' GPs from carrying out minor operations on patients who smoke unless they promise to quit

NHS 'bans' GPs from carrying out minor operations on patients who smoke unless they promise to quit | Mail Online:
"It was getting caught when he put on ear defenders and hygienic headgear for his job inspecting catering equipment.
As a result, the lump was becoming painful.
Mr Merrett, 46, said: ‘I was told, in no uncertain terms, that unless I gave up smoking or signed up to a quitting clinic they would refuse to treat me. 
I was gobsmacked.’
He claims the doctor told him: ‘These directions are not mine. 
It’s not me refusing this treatment,  it’s the NHS trust.’"

Racial-quota bean counters demand more whites be arrested!-Racist Pot Prosecution in Louisiana

Racist Pot Prosecution in Louisiana | Best Black News:
"Although whites and Blacks use marijuana at roughly equal rates, Blacks are far more likely to be arrested for possession.
In Louisiana, the racial bias in prosecution is extreme.
“In Tangipahoa Parish, blacks are 11.8 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than whites and in St. Landry Parish the rate of black arrests for marijuana is 10.7 times as likely as whites.”"

Reporters to reveal ‘US assassination program’

Reporters to reveal ‘US assassination program’ Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
"I don’t want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the US assassination program,” "

Cultural equalists aghast- Boys stomp girls on the math SAT test

Boys vs. girls on the math SAT test | AEIdeas:
"I created the animated video above in the fall of 2010 after the SAT test results were released showing that boys scored 34 points higher on average on the math SAT test that year, following a long trend back to at least 1972 of boys outperforming girls on the math SAT test (see this recent CD post for more details).
Now that the 2013 results have just been released showing another +30 point advantage for boys on the math SAT, I thought it would be a good time to feature the video."

"Egg Heads" really do have eggs instead of brains in their heads! The dismal failure of 'Big Data'

The dismal failure of 'Big Data' | ZDNet:
"After the financial meltdown in 2008, Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve was asked questions by a Washington committee about how the crisis occurred.
He said all his financial models over the past 40 years were wrong.
Yet those models informed his adjustment of interest rates, and if they were based on wrong models, he likely harmed the economy, consistently, decade after decade.
It's truly an epic fail for Big Data."

The Well Armed Woman-It's free coffee day!

"I just heard on the news that it was National Coffee Day! Going to go get another cup!" 
Gun Gift Shop:

Is that my lunch money in your bra or are you just happy to see me?-School district accountant accused of stealing $3 million in school lunch money by stuffing it in her bra

School district accountant accused of stealing $3 million in school lunch money by stuffing it in her bra - NY Daily News:
"Judith Oakes, who worked for the school district in Rialto, Calif., was caught on video stuffing cash from the lunch program into her brassiere, police said."

Former "Green Cities" coordinator's new job is to spread fear!

Old, crumbling dams pose potential hazards across Michigan | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"It’s “in very, very poor shape,” said Steve Montle, Flint’s former Green Cities coordinator who now works on city projects as a consultant.
Based on its location, it’s considered a high-hazard dam — meaning if it failed, people likely would die and significant structural damage could occur.
Told of the dam’s condition, Lee, 18, of Clarkston said,
“I had no idea.
I’m a little bit scared to be sitting here right now.”"