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People Ain’t Isht: Couple Popped By One-Time For Locking 4-Year-Old Son In Dog Cage For 14 Hours A Day

He’s a little boy not a Golden Retriever! Couple Arrested For Locking Child In Dog Cage For Several Hours A Day SMH. According to Tulsa World: A Chelsea couple were arrested on allegations that they locked a 4-year-old boy in a dog cage for several hours a day and abused and neglected two other children. Suzanne Satterfield, 33, was booked into the Rogers County Jail on Tuesday on complaints of child abuse by injury and child neglect. Johnathon Wade Lee, 31, was jailed on a child abuse by injury complaint, records show. Authorities were contacted Oct. 13 after a Department of Human Services social worker visited the couple’s home and found Satterfield’s 4-year-old son locked in a small dog cage, records show. During an interview, Lee claimed that he and Satterfield decided to keep the boy in the cage to prevent him from harming himself and on occasions when he needed to be disciplined, the affidavit says. The pair estimated that the boy was in the cage as long as 14 hours a day, the affidavit states. Satterfield told authorities that “it was a big mistake” and that they “went too far.” Satterfield is jailed with bail set at $100,000. Lee is jailed with bail set at $50,000. Hopefully, if karma is everything we’d like her to be, these two crazies will be locked in a cage for a long time. Shutterstock

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Epitome Of A Bad Mother: Woman Offers Herself And 9-Year-Old Daughter For Sex To Pay Off $25 Laptop Debt At Pawn Shop

Two words: Trifling beyotch. A mother offered up herself and her daughter this week for sex to pay off a debt at a Southgate pawnshop, the owner of the shop said Wednesday. Al Hassan, a co-owner of DaSilva’s Pawn and Exchange on Eureka, said the mother, believed to be in her mid-30s, came into the shop Monday night and offered him sex with her and her daughter, who he estimated to be 9-11 years old, if he agreed not to sell a laptop she pawned a few weeks ago for $120. A $25 payment was due to keep the laptop from being sold, Hassan said. Hassan said he quickly notified police and reported the incident to Children’s Protective Services. Southgate police confirmed they are looking into the allegations. “It’s still under investigation,” Lt. Kasper Ohannasian said. David Akerly, spokesman for the state Department of Human Services, said confidentiality laws prevent the state from commenting on individual cases, and he couldn’t confirm that the state is investigating. Local TV station WDIV said it interviewed the mother at her home in Monroe, Mich., and she said the offer was meant as a joke. “I wasn’t serious,” the mother said. “I don’t want to be considered a bad mother just because I needed some money for gas and groceries.” Hassan said he believes the woman may have a drug habit that drove her to desperation. “I felt disgusted,” Hassan said of his reaction to her offer. “I was sick.” Yeah right, this heffa knows good and damn well she wasn’t joking. What a disgusting excuse for a mother. No words. Source More On Bossip! Get Your Life Together: 10 Classic Junk Food Snacks That Will Turn You Into A Paula Deen Chubby-Lumpkins Visitation Hours: Famous Dads That Are Always With Their Kids Even Though It Didn’t Work Out With Mommy X-Rated Bangers: The Hottest Black Adult Movie Stars In The Biz…Would You Wife Any Of Them? Part 3! Beautifully Coupled Up: Look At This Atlanta Falcons Player And His Boo’s Engagement Pics

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No Co-Pay Needed For Birth Control

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UPDATE: Health insurance companies will now be required to provide women free birth control, in keeping with the new Obama administration guidelines. The new guidelines, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) labeled “historic,” will require new health insurance plans to include women’s preventive services including FDA approved contraceptives, breast feeding support, and well-women visits — all without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible — beginning August 1, 2012. Ladies, keep in mind you still have to protect yourself against sexually transmitted diseases. Michelle Obama: First Female Public Figure To Appear On Better Homes & Garden Another birth control revolution may be on the horizon. Fifty years after the pill was introduced, free contraception for women in the U.S., may be in effect thanks to the new health care law by the Obama administration. According to the LA Times , the Obama administration, is recommending that all U.S.-approved birth control methods — including the “morning after pill,” taken shortly after intercourse to forestall pregnancy — be added to the federal government’s list of preventive health services. The IOM noted that women with unplanned pregnancies were more likely to put off or neglect prenatal care and to smoke, drink or experience depression. The recommendation to add birth control is a big gain for organizations like the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Planned Parenthood, but is likely to stoke opposition from conservative and religious groups. Other services recommended by IOM include screening for gestational diabetes, testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) in women over 30, counseling for HIV and sexually transmitted infections, lactation counseling, screening for domestic violence and yearly wellness visits. This would be a groundbreaking moment for women in the U.S. President Meets Circle Of Protection To Talk About Poverty

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Sarah Palin’s message to all 57 states

She will never be the leader of my choice. BUT this is hysterical, true, and to me shows why so many people like her despite her lack of qualifications for public office My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that… Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors. Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us. If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.) “Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! – Sarah Palin http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=463364218434 added by: Itsbatman_Durr

DEA bans K2, other ‘fake pot’ products

WASHINGTON — The DEA used its emergency powers Wednesday to ban K2 and other “fake pot” products that mimic the effects of marijuana. The action by the Drug Enforcement Administration makes it illegal to possess or sell the five chemicals used to make the products for at least one year. The agency and the Department of Health and Human Services will determine whether the chemicals should be permanently added to the federal list of controlled substances considered unsafe, highly abused and without medical use. 'SPICE' DRUG: States, cities race to outlaw K2 The herbal blends coated with synthetic chemicals are marketed under brands such as Spice, Red X Dawn and K2. They are usually sold as packets of incense or potpourri at convenience stores, herbal and spiritual shops and online. The packets can sell for as much as $35 an ounce and have become popular as a legal alternative to marijuana among teenagers and college students. The chemicals are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for human consumption, the DEA said in its federal notice. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-11-24-k2-ban-dea_N.htm added by: TomTucker

Sebelius to Health Insurers: Shut Up Or Else About ObamaCare Increasing Premiums; To AP, It’s Mere ‘War of Words’

Adopting language and tactics more typical of tyrants, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday sent a public letter to the head of a health insurance industry group demanding that carriers stop “falsely blaming premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act,” and that “that there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases.” She reinforced her short-term threat with a longer-term one: We will also keep track of insurers with a record of unjustified rate increases: those plans may be excluded from health insurance Exchanges in 2014. Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections. Keep in mind that three months ago (noted at NewsBusters ; at BizzyBlog ), leaked government documents estimated that, depending on the assumption sets used, anywhere from 49 of small employer health plans and 34 of large employer plans would be forced financially or otherwise to “relinquish” their “grandfathered” status by 2013. This necessarily means that the market for private plans will decrease, while the market for those who would be forced to buy coverage through the “Exchanges” (what’s with the uppercase?) will necessarily expand. Thus, when Sebelius threatens exclusion from the “Exchanges,” she is really saying: “Shut up and eat your costs, or you’ll be out of business in a few years.” If you didn’t expect that the Associated Press’s coverage of Sebelius’s threats by Ricardo Alonso-Zalivar wouldn’t make this linkage, you’re right. In fact, the AP writer characterized them as “warnings” and part of a “war of words”  in his coverage (HT Hot Air ): HHS to insurers: Don’t blame us for your rates President Barack Obama’s top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won’t tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law. “There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a letter to the insurance lobby. “Simply stated, we will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections,” Sebelius said. She warned that bad actors may be excluded from new health insurance markets that will open in 2014 under the law. They’d lose out on a big pool of customers, as many as 30 million people nationwide. The letter to America’s Health Insurance Plans was the latest volley in a war of words over who gets the blame for rising premiums. Polls show that many people expect their costs to go up as a result of the law, but there’s also widespread mistrust of the insurance industry. Note how helpful the AP writer is to Sebelius’s cause with his reference to “bad actors,” as if a company passing on otherwise legitimate cost increases is presumptively so. It’s also a complete whitewash to describe what’s going on as a “war of words,” when the government is browbeating carriers into reducing otherwise presumably justifiable increases, while brazenly brandishing denial of access to the “Exchanges” and other sanctions as weapons. Though I can’t be sure, it appears that Alonso-Zaldivar got his 30 million figure from estimates of “the uninsured” — really those who don’t have insurance for a brief period during a given year — who would become covered under ObamaCare. If that’s the case, he has totally ignored Treasury’s preliminary estimates of those who would have to flee to the “Exchanges” as a result of employer plan terminations. Even at the low end of Treasury’s estimates (a blended 39% of small and larger employers, assuming that terminated plans have similar average numbers as those which remain), as many as 48 million Americans (39% x roughly 190 million Americans under age 65 x roughly 65% who currently have private plan coverage) would be herded into the exchanges by the end of 2013. Now there’s a threat, namely that the “Exchanges” will be so overwhelmed by new applicants that they will fail to function properly and disrupt the entire system of medical care delivery. Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .

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How Proposition 8 Went Down

A video summarizing how and why proposition 8 was overturned. Very easy to follow and very to the point. Part two will be posted in the comments Description: Part 1 of a look at the recent ruling in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which struck down California's Proposition 8 as violative of the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNUo6… FOOTNOTES: 1. Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://docfiles.justia.com/cases/fede.. . ; Gill v. Office of Personnel Management http://docfiles.justia.com/cases/fede.. . 2. Perry v. Schwarzenegger https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09.. . 3. “Conservative Jurist, With Independent Streak” (New York Times, 8/5/2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/us/.. . 4. “Judging Marriage” http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentar.. . 5. http://nomblog.com/ 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNscb… 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZnVlD… 8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8e762… 9. From William Lane Craig's website http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/N.. . 10. “Challenging Judge Walker” by Sherrilyn A. Ifill http://www.theroot.com/views/challeng.. . 11. West Virginia School Board v. Barnette http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts.. . 12. Donald P. Haider-Markel, Alana Querze, & Kara Lindaman, “Lose, Win, or Draw?: A Reexamination of Direct Democracy and Minority Rights”, 60 (2) Political Research Quarterly 304 (June 2007). 13. “It's all about children (or at least the anatomical possibility thereof).” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzUFYN… added by: MizPiz

Oregon Measure 74 Backed by Medical Marijuana Advocates

Oregon Measure 74 – Safe, Regulated, Non-Profit Medical Marijuana Supply System Hear Oregon Medical Marijuana Advocates Stormy Ray and Madeline Martinez talk about the need for a safe, regulated medical marijuana supply system. Stormy Ray is President of the Stormy Ray Foundation. Madeline Martinez is Executive Director of Oregon NORML. Ballot Measure 74 changes state law by directing the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), formerly part of the Department of Human Services, to establish an OHA regulated medical marijuana supply system as an additional component to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act. The supply system will be funded through program fees; no General Fund revenue may be used and additional revenue, if any, would fund other OHA programs added by: ProfessorWit

The Deadly Neurotoxin Used Daily By Millions

All Industry-Funded Studies Give Aspartame Clean Bill of Health, While Majority of Independent Research Find Indications of Hazards A 1996 review of 165 studies [vii] [viii] believed to be relevant to human safety, by Dr. Ralph G. Walton, a professor of Clinical Psychiatry, showed a remarkable discrepancy between study results and their source of funding. Of the 165 studies, 74 had industry related funding (such as Searle, Nutrasweet

Leaked Draft Treasury Docs: Majority of Employer Health Plans Won’t Be ‘Grandfathered’

Earlier this year, in his “Can we lose health coverage? Yes we can” column, syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock made a point asserted in dozens if not hundreds of columns and reports during the hide-and-seek legistlative process that ultimately led to the passage of what is commonly known as ObamaCare: The President’s core promise relating to the statist health care legislation that ultimately became law in March — namely that “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what” — could not and would not be kept. In that column, Murdock quoted Cato Institute analyst Michael Cannon as follows: “Obama’s definition of ‘meaningful’ coverage could eliminate the health plans that now cover as many as half of the 159 million Americans with employer-sponsored insurance, plus more than half of the roughly 18 million Americans in the individual market. … This could compel close to 90 million Americans to switch to more comprehensive health plans with higher premiums, whether they value the added coverage or not.” In a late Friday afternoon blog post followed by a fuller early evening report , David Hogberg and Sean Higgins at Investors Business Daily confirmed that Obama’s never-credible core promise is on the brink of being shattered, and that the employer-related calculations by Cato’s Cannon were essentially correct (graphically illustrated by IBD at the top right): Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans. The “midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfathered status by the end of 2013,” according to the document. In the worst-case scenario, 69% of employers — 80% of smaller firms — would lose that status, exposing them to far more provisions under the new health law. …. The 83-page document, a joint project of the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the IRS, examines the effects that ObamaCare’s regulations would have on existing, or “grandfathered,” employer-based health care plans. Draft copies of the document were reportedly leaked to House Republicans during the week and began circulating Friday morning. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., posted it on his Web site Friday afternoon. … In a statement, Posey said the document showed that the arguments in favor of ObamaCare were a “bait and switch.” … (A White House) source conceded: “It is difficult to predict how plans and employers will behave in the coming years, but if plans make changes that negatively impact consumers, then they will lose their grandfather status.” … In total, 66% of small businesses and 47% of large businesses made a change in their health care plans last year that would have forfeited their grandfathered status. When one looks at the list of what would cause a plan to get de-grandfathered compiled by Hogberg and Higgins, it’s easy to see why the percentages are so large. The referenced Treasury document (an 83-page PDF ) lays out how employers might react to the new law on Page 36: Page Plan sponsors and issuers can decide to: 1. Continue offering the plan or coverage in effect on March 23, 2010 with limited changes, and thereby retain grandfathered status; 2. Significantly change the terms of the plan or coverage and comply with Affordable Care Act provisions from which grandfathered health plans are excepted; or 3. In the case of a plan sponsor, cease to offer any plan. Option 1 would be nice, but as the IBD reporters noted in the bolded paragraph in the excerpt above, most employers would have run afoul of it during the past year. This means that they would have been forced into Options 2 or 3. Employers choosing Option 2 would have to buy pre-designed and very expensive coverage through the bill’s health insurance exchanges. Employers choosing Option 3 would force their employees to buy pre-designed and very expensive coverage through those same exchanges. If the legislation stands, the end result over a not very long time will be that the large majority of employers and employees will be stuck in the exchanges, the roach motels of health care — Once you go in, you can’t come out. Statist mission accomplished. The Associated Press has noticed the story too, but with the weakest of headlines: “Health overhaul to force changes in employer plans.” The content isn’t much better. Earth to AP reporter Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar: ObamaCare, as predicted by so many during the previous year by experts most of the establishment press willfully ignored, will cause many employers to drop their insurance entirely. Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .

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