H. H. Holmes. Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896[2]), better known under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders.
While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 200.[3] He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was less than two miles away, to his "World's Fair" hotel. Early life[edit] Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire,[4] May 16, 1861, to Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price, both of whom were descended from the first European settlers in the area. On January 28, 1887, while he was still married to Clara, Holmes married Myrta Belknap (b.
Chicago and the "Murder Castle"[edit] Trading Sex for a "F--cking Happy Meal?" Mom Can't Get Food Stamps After Drug Offense, Resorts to Prostitution to Feed her Kids. December 21, 2012 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Carla walked into my office with despair in her eyes. Without much prodding she admitted to me that she had retuned to prostitution: “I am putting myself at risk for HIV to get my kids a f---ing happy meal.”
Despite looking high and low for a job, Carla explained, she was still unemployed. You see, Carla is from one of the 32 states in the country that ban anyone convicted of a drug felony from collecting food stamps. If she’d committed rape or murder, Carla could have gotten assistance to feed herself and her children, but because the crime she committed was a drug felony, Carla joined the hundreds of thousands of drug felons who are not eligible. The 1996 passage of the Welfare Reform Act was supposedly implemented to prevent drug addicts from selling their food stamps for drugs.
Nonetheless, the law persists. Women with children are especially affected. Child of Rage - The Documentary (Part 1) Jane Smiley: A Few Remedies for the Right to Bear Arms. Last night at dinner, my husband said, "There's no solution. " We were talking, of course, about gun control, and it is true that the flood of guns and ammo into our neighborhoods and our nation is daunting. There is no solution. But the first thing I thought of was my mother and me, driving along back in 1954 in her 1953 Studebaker, windows closed, winter day, Mom's cigarette burning in the ash tray.
Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My mom was paranoid about my safety. There is no solution to the gun problem in the US, but there are remedies, and we should pursue all of them. Here is a list of how much each of our elected officials got during this election season from the NRA. Do people you know invest in gun manufacturers? Occupy the NRA. Never let Wayne or your gun loving friends forget how ridiculous NRA talking points are. Liability insurance. I suggest the same for high volume clips. 14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools.
Separation of church and what? Currier & Ives/Library of Congress Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime. Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago.
Here are some of my favorite lessons: 1. Much like tough cop Katie Coltrane and Teddy the T-rex in the direct-to-video hit Theodore Rex Screenshot: YouTube 2. 3. 4. 5. Doesn't everyone look happy?! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Obesity killing three times as many as malnutrition. Inappropriate prescribing. Writing a prescription to treat a mental health disorder is easy, but it may not always be the safest or most effective route for patients, according to some recent studies and a growing chorus of voices concerned about the rapid rise in the prescription of psychotropic drugs. Today, patients often receive psychotropic medications without being evaluated by a mental health professional, according to a study last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Many Americans visit their primary-care physicians and may walk away with a prescription for an antidepressant or other drugs without being aware of other evidence-based treatments — such as cognitive behavioral therapy — that might work better for them without the risk of side effects. The use of psychotropic drugs by adult Americans increased 22 percent from 2001 to 2010, with one in five adults now taking at least one psychotropic medication, according to industry data. Prozac opened the floodgates The drug industry. Nearly half of teachers have suffered from mental illness - Education News - Education. Nearly half of the country's secondary school teachers have suffered mental health problems due to worsening pupil behaviour, a survey has revealed.
The research, by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, on 300 secondary school teachers, showed that abuse at the hands of pupils had left 46 per cent taking antidepressants or facing long lay-offs from school through stress. One teacher told researchers he had been assaulted 10 times during 18 years in the profession and had suffered two breakdowns. He said he had been on antidepressants for more than three years as a result. The survey also revealed that 72 per cent of teachers had considered quitting their jobs because they were worn out by some pupils' persistent disruptive behaviour, such as threats, swearing, locking teachers out of classrooms, vandalising school property, letting down car tyres, stealing keys, throwing eggs at staff and spitting at them.
Doctor Bousted said: "Teaching is a highly intensive, highly stressful job. IAMA 22 year old male who suffers from PERMANENT low libido (sex drive) because I took Propecia (hair loss prescription drug) for less than one month AMA : IAmA. How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation - James Allworth. If there’s been one topic that has entirely dominated the post-election landscape, it’s the fiscal cliff. Will taxes be raised? Which programs will be cut? Who will blink first in negotiations? For all the talk of the fiscal cliff, however, I believe the US is facing a much more serious problem, one that has simply not been talked about at all: corruption.
The corruption to which I am referring is the phenomenon of money in politics. Lawrence Lessig’s Republic, Lost, details many of the distortions that occur as a result of all the money sloshing around in the political system: how elected representatives are being forced to spend an ever-increasing amount of their time chasing donors for funds, for example, as opposed to chasing citizens for votes.
But of all the negative impacts this phenomenon has had, it’s the devastating impact it has on US competitiveness that should be most concerning. Automotive. Intellectual Property. Accommodation and Transport. Telecom. Netflix. US Uncut. Ticketmaster and Servants: Bands Get Cut of Service Fee - Page 1 - Music. The service charge. Is there any more ridiculous and utterly transparent lie in American commerce?
It’s like telling us that a toaster is $20, but then at the register saying that the heating coils inside cost an extra $15. Why not follow the lead of every other, nonseedy business in the world: Do the math in your head and get back to us when you come up with how much the thing costs. One of the lesser-reported revelations of last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the proposed merger of the two corporate behemoths of the concert business, Ticketmaster and LiveNation, came during a conversation with Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff about service fees.
This statement reveals a new truth behind the foggy nature of the fees, usually $12 to $15, and suggests that in addition to providing the service of selling tickets, Ticketmaster also offered itself up to certain clients as a kind of protection service. Which, granted, isn’t all that surprising. Why You Can’t Even Enjoy Chocolate Anymore [VIDEO] A Failed Experiment. The sore losers club. Sometimes, losing national candidates actually manage to enhance their reputations in defeat.
The most famous example of this is probably Bob Dole, who growled his way through the 1996 campaign but then turned in a winning performance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” a few days after the election, giving rise to something of a post-political career as a humorist. Al Gore knows something about this too; his concession of the 2000 election earned him respect that had eluded him throughout that campaign.
Based on their conduct since last week’s election, though, it’s safe to say that the two most recent national losers won’t be joining this company any time soon. Mitt Romney has been publicly quiet since his brief remarks on election night, but he told his top donors on a conference call yesterday that Barack Obama had won by giving “very generous” freebies to key constituencies, including blacks, Hispanics and young people. But mainly, it’s just bad form. This too smacks of sore loser-dom. Walmart Is America’s First Welfare Queen Superstore.
After it was reported that the heirs of Walmart were worth the same amount as the bottom 40 percent of Americans, you probably thought there couldn’t possibly be anymore reasons to hate the colossal seller of crappy merchandise. Paying its Chinese workers a nickel-an-hour to make more Snuggies and making its octogenarian greeters stand for hours in order to say hello to shoppers who belch and fart in their direction is really appalling, but that it reaps the biggest benefits from the food stamp program–the evil socialist program that dares to allow working families to eat something other than discarded paint chips, and the very program that Republicans smear and want to destroy–truly ups the ante. Walmart receives between 25 and 40 percent of all food stamp spending. Of course Walmart’s slave wages force all of its employees to depend heavily on $2.66 billion in government help every year. Now That's What I Call Gerrymandering!
Americans woke up on November 7 having elected a Democratic president, expanded the Democratic majority in the Senate, and preserved the Republican majority in the House. That's not what they voted for, though. Most Americans voted for Democratic representation in the House. The votes are still being counted, but as of now it looks as if Democrats have a slight edge in the popular vote for House seats, 49 percent-48.2 percent, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. Still, as the Post's Aaron Blake notes, the 233-195 seat majority the GOP will likely end up with represents the GOP's "second-biggest House majority in 60 years and their third-biggest since the Great Depression.
" So how did Republicans keep their House majority despite more Americans voting for the other party—something that has only happened three times in the last hundred years, according to political analyst Richard Winger? "It's difficult to take all of the politics out of the process," Iyer admits. Savita Halappanavar's medically unnecessary death | Jill Filipovic for Feministe. A pro-choice rally in London in 2008 campaigning for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. Photograph: Graeme Robertson "This is a Catholic country," was what Irish doctors told Savita Halappanavar after she learned she was miscarrying her pregnancy and asked for an abortion to avoid further complications. She spent three days in agonising pain, eventually shaking, vomiting and passing out.
She again asked for an abortion and was refused, because the foetus still had a heartbeat. Then she died. She died of septicaemia and E Coli. She died after three and a half days of excruciating pain. US politicians and "pro-life" advocates like Joe Walsh will tell you that there are no circumstances under which women need abortions to avoid death or injury.
"These are the lives of your sister, your mother, your daughter, your aunt, your friends, and your colleagues. Just two months ago, a consortium of Irish doctors got together to declare abortion medically unnecessary. Ethanol Rises to One-Week High as Use Increases and Stocks Fall. Ethanol rose to the highest price in a week after the Energy Department said refiners used more of the fuel last week, easing a supply glut. Prices gained after the Energy Department said stockpiles fell 5.6 percent to 18.1 million barrels in the week ended Nov. 2, the steepest drop since August 2010. Ethanol-blended gasoline made up 92 percent of total U.S. gasoline consumption, up from 91 percent the previous week. “The big number that came out this week was the stocks report,” said Jeff DeReamer, an ethanol broker at ICAP Energy in Lexington, Kentucky. “That was a pretty significant drop.
Simple math says that use went up and they’re blending more.” Denatured ethanol for December delivery rose 2.2 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $2.366 a gallon on the Chicago Board of Trade, the highest price since Nov. 1. Futures have jumped 7.4 percent this year. Ethanol on the West Coast advanced 2.5 cents, or 1 percent, to $2.52 a gallon and in the U.S. Ethanol also gained before the U.S. Election Infographic Shows Most Educated States Voted For Obama | Happy Place « The Tribune of the People. >> Click the link to see the info graphicElection Infographic Shows Most Educated States Voted For Obama | Happy Place. Welcome to all my new readers. Please feel free to follow this blog on Facebook or on Twitter. I also have two other Facebook pages if you are interested in the topics. - Restore the Glass-Steagall Act! And The Social Democratic and Labor Party I would also like to start a Social Democratic and Labor Party.
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Even after we stop eating GE foods, we may still have the GE proteins produced continuously inside us. As the Institute for Responsible Technology has noted, the genetic engineering process creates massive collateral damage, causing mutations in hundreds or thousands of locations throughout the plant’s DNA. Natural genes can be deleted or permanently turned on or off, and hundreds may change their behavior. Even the inserted gene can be damaged or rearranged, and may create proteins that can trigger allergies or promote disease. Please take action today! Ofokc.jpg (715×715) Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza. Woops! Study Accidentally Finds Chemotherapy Makes Cancer Far Worse. U. S. Electoral College: Who Are the Electors? How Do They Vote? Oligarchy, American Style. Do you really own your car? Most Americans Confused By Cloud Computing According to National Survey. Drug Dealers in the Netherlands Now Selling Marijuana.
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