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(Aug. 7) -- Six Americans, a Briton and a German all working for a Christian medical charity in Afghanistan have been ambushed and killed by militants, their group said today.
Two Afghan translators were also killed with the eight foreign aid workers -- three women and five men -- whom they'd been helping. Their bodies were found riddled with bullets next to their abandoned vehicles in a mountainous area of Badakhshan province, the provincial police chief told The New York Times.
The victims were a group of foreign medical personnel who'd been working at an eye care center in remote Nuristan, and were returning to the Afghan capital when they were ambushed, the International Assistance Mission said in a statement on its website. The charity lost contact with the group on Wednesday evening, and a local shepherd later found their bodies and alerted Afghan police, CNN reported.
"We object to this senseless killing of people who have done nothing but serve the poor. Some of the foreigners have worked alongside the Afghan people for decades," the IAM statement said, noting that the charity has worked in Afghanistan since 1966, making it the longest-serving NGO there.
This is one of the largest death tolls for foreign aid workers in Afghanistan in a single incident, and the deadliest episode for American civilians there since a suicide bomber killed seven CIA agents at a base in eastern Afghanistan last year. It also underscores the danger for charity workers there, whom the Taliban often view as collaborators with U.S. and NATO forces, rather than humanitarian non-combatants. Earlier this summer, gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the northern Afghan offices of the U.S.-based DAI charity, killing at least five people.
One of the victims of this week's ambush, a female British doctor identified as 36-year-old Karen Woo, had set up a Facebook page for the fated Nuristan expedition, requesting donations for the charity and posting photos of herself and Afghan children. Another photo shows at least two SUVs on a rocky path in Nuristan surrounded by snow-capped mountains, in a hauntingly idyllic scene not far from where the group was killed.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Food Stamps Face 14 Billion Dollar Cut Soon If Not Blocked
Link to original article: Bill slashing food stamp funds worries charities. If it passes, Harris County could lose up to $174 million in federal aid
"Local charities already struggling to provide food for needy families worry that a U.S. Senate bill that cuts $14 billion from the national food stamp program will increase demand for assistance in the Houston area and put more strain on nonprofit groups"
More than 524,000 Harris County families are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. A slash in benefits would mean the average Houston family of four would see a $60-a-month reduction in benefits, said Brian Greene, president and CEO of the Houston Food Bank.
Nearly 41 percent of families who receive food stamps have incomes at or below the federal poverty line, and only 13 percent have incomes above the poverty line, according to government records. The 2010 poverty threshold is $22,050 a year. A full-time wage earner making minimum wage earns just $15,080 a year, Greene said. “It’s the low-wage employment that’s driving them to pantries, and that’s why we need a strong food stamp program,” he said. In a recent Houston Food Bank survey, 62 percent of those surveyed said they had to choose between buying food and paying utilities and 52 percent said they had to choose between buying food and paying rent.
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JMC Ministries Response:
The body of Christ needs to facilitate the love of Christ through giving our time and resources to reach these that will be affected if this bill passes.
In no way should we as Christians say that everyone who is on food stamps is lazy. This form of assistance is supposed to be a hand up for those out of work and a way to help those who can't work.
The love of Christ knows no bounds when it comes to helping people.
I pray that the Holy Spirit continues to convict hearts across the country to give time, money, and prayers for the homeless shelters, food pantries, churches, and others who reach out to feed the need.
"Local charities already struggling to provide food for needy families worry that a U.S. Senate bill that cuts $14 billion from the national food stamp program will increase demand for assistance in the Houston area and put more strain on nonprofit groups"
“We think this is a huge mistake,” Dwyer said. “The food program is the front line of hunger relief in America. With the cut, the pressure falls to charities that are not equipped to handle it.”
The Senate approved a $26 billion financial aid package Thursday to help state and local governments cover Medicaid payments and avoid teacher layoffs. And it’s doing it by siphoning money from the food stamp program. The bill calls for rolling back an increase in food stamp benefits provided through last year’s stimulus recovery act. The rollback would save $12 billion and would go into effect in 2014.More than 524,000 Harris County families are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. A slash in benefits would mean the average Houston family of four would see a $60-a-month reduction in benefits, said Brian Greene, president and CEO of the Houston Food Bank.
Nearly 41 percent of families who receive food stamps have incomes at or below the federal poverty line, and only 13 percent have incomes above the poverty line, according to government records. The 2010 poverty threshold is $22,050 a year. A full-time wage earner making minimum wage earns just $15,080 a year, Greene said. “It’s the low-wage employment that’s driving them to pantries, and that’s why we need a strong food stamp program,” he said. In a recent Houston Food Bank survey, 62 percent of those surveyed said they had to choose between buying food and paying utilities and 52 percent said they had to choose between buying food and paying rent.
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JMC Ministries Response:
The body of Christ needs to facilitate the love of Christ through giving our time and resources to reach these that will be affected if this bill passes.
In no way should we as Christians say that everyone who is on food stamps is lazy. This form of assistance is supposed to be a hand up for those out of work and a way to help those who can't work.
The love of Christ knows no bounds when it comes to helping people.
I pray that the Holy Spirit continues to convict hearts across the country to give time, money, and prayers for the homeless shelters, food pantries, churches, and others who reach out to feed the need.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Terrorists Attacks World Wide In Decline Since 2008
Washington
The frequency and deadliness of international terrorist attacks continue to drop, but Al Qaeda and Islamist extremism remain an adaptable and convert-recruiting foe – as witnessed by the growing number of cases of home-grown Muslim radicals.
Those are among the findings of “Country Reports on Terrorism,” the State Department’s annual report on international terrorist activity.
Among the highlights: The world witnessed 10,999 terrorist attacks in 2009, down from a high of 14,443 in 2006 (think “height of the Iraq war”) and the lowest number in five years. Also last year, the State Department listed 14,971 fatalities from terrorist attacks – down from nearly 23,000 in 2006.
Yet whereas the report claims that Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are losing their allure in the Muslim world, especially over a reaction to attacks that kill Muslims, a related finding is that more Western-reared individuals are hearing the siren of radical Islam. The report cites several high-profile cases in 2009 of Americans either heeding extremist recruitment messages or undertaking Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist acts on their own. It notes that the trend has continued into 2010.
Improved counter terrorist coordination by governments and public intolerance for terror groups have led to falling acts of terrorism in places like Iraq, Algeria, and the Philippines, according to the report, which is mandated by Congress. At the same time, however, it notes that attacks have risen in Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially as the Pakistani government has undertaken extremist-routing offensives into Taliban and Al Qaeda strongholds.
In 2009, 60 percent of all terror attacks occurred in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – with the latter two countries surpassing Iraq for the first time since the reports began compiling the information in 2004.
In reviewing the report’s findings with reporters Thursday, State Department counterterrorism coordinator Daniel Benjamin sought to highlight a silver lining in the shift of terrorist activity to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He cited a considerable increase in “Al Qaeda and affiliated” militants killed in Pakistani government operations and called it the result of a formerly reluctant ally in the battle with terrorism becoming “a front-line counterterrorism partner.”
On the down side, Mr. Benjamin noted the rise of a “constellation” of organizations that are either affiliated with or simply inspired by Al Qaeda. The two standout cases are those of Al Shabab in Somalia and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen.
The report’s focus on nonstate actors like Al Qaeda follows the pattern of recent years in which such organizations have surpassed states as sponsors and instigators of terrorism, Benjamin said.
The report continues to list Iran as the “most active” state sponsor of terrorism – even though State Department officials were hard pressed to list specific acts of terrorism in 2009 that could be attributed to Iran.
Iran continues to “facilitate” the activities of extremist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, Benjamin said. He also cited “a list of incidents in Iraq that can be traced back to Iranian support.”
Chairwoman Of President Obama's Council Of Economic Advisers To Resign
Christina Romer, chairwoman of Pres. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, has decided to resign, according to a source familiar with her plans.
Romer, an economics professor at the University of California (Berkeley) before taking the key admin post, did not respond to repeated calls to her office.
"She has been frustrated," a source with insight into the WH economics team said. "She doesn't feel that she has a direct line to the president. She would be giving different advice than Larry Summers [director of the National Economic Council], who does have a direct line to the president."
"She is ostensibly the chief economic adviser, but she doesn't seem to be playing that role," the source said. The WH has been pounded for its faulty forecast that unemployment would not top 8% after its economic stimulus proposal passed.
Instead, the jobless rate is 9.5%, after exceeding 10% last year. It was "a horribly inaccurate forecast," said Bert Ely, a banking consultant. "You have to wonder why Summers isn't the one that should be taking the fall. But Larry is a pretty good bureaucratic infighter."
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JMC Ministries Response
It seems more and more of Obama's "Czars" are resigning for some unknown reason. The question is who is going to be replacing all these people? What is really going on in the White House? These are questions I think will come to a head with in just a few months when as we head into the 2010 Presidential Elections.
But what is clear is that those who have been either voted in or appointed into power in Washington D.C have NOT done their jobs. American's need to vote and let our voices be heard or else this destructive path our country is on will only get worse.
Is 2010 The Year Of Extreme Weather?
Click to read original Story from DailyMail.co.uk
While Pakistan has been hit by catastrophic flooding, Russia has endured a lethal heatwave.
Some 1,200 people have been killed in the deluges sweeping Pakistan, but in Moscow more than 30 are reported to have died in wildfires as temperatures have soared to a new record for the region of 38C (100F).
It marks out 2010 as the year of extreme weather - and experts predict the pronounced conditions will continue across the globe.
Floods: In Pakistan, onlookers perched on a damaged bridge watch a flood survivor climb a rope to cross a river in the Swat Valley
Scorched earth: The shell of a motorcycle, which was torched in wildfires, sits in the Verkhnyaya Vereya village, about 300 km from Moscow
Last month alone the UK was hit by a hosepipe ban, saw tarmac melting on roads and the population was issued health warnings about the dangers of too much sun.
Yet despite the heatwave, it was also the wettest July ever recorded.
According to provisional statistics from the Met Office, the country was 46 per cent wetter than average and some areas faced devastating floods.
Wildfires: An Envisat satellite image gives an aerial view of the wildfires raging east of Moscow
Britain was not alone. The mercury climbed to its highest point in decades in other parts of Europe, the U.S. and Japan as record temperatures were recorded.
In Russia the army was drafted in to battle the wildfires which threatening dozens of towns and villages.
Thick smoke and ash slowed firefighting efforts and thousands of people were being evacuated.
A state of emergency was declared after swathes of the country were engulfed in flames and thousands were left homeless.
The city has been veiled in acrid smoke causing landmarks to disappear from view and meteorologists expect the scorching temperatures will continue to rise.
More than 2,000 people are said to have died in the region since the beginning of July as they tried to cool down in lakes and rivers.
Burning: Smoke threatens to block out the sun over the village of Marathokampo, Eastern Greece, where extreme heat has also caused wildfires
Meanwhile in Pakistan dozens of villages have been completely submerged by the deadly flooding.
And in Greece dramatic blazes on the island of Samos have wreaked havoc.
Hundreds of tourists were evacuated as the fires spread and helicopters along with more than 150 firefighters were brought in to tackle the flames.
The fire, which broke out in a ravine on Monday, is the second to strike the island in a week.
But Met Office climate change scientist Peter Stott insisted the extreme weather patterns were not unexpected and in keeping with climate change theories.
'What we have observed generally is a tendency for more heavy rain fall, a tendency towards a greater risk of flooding and also a greater risk of drought as well.
'These are consistent with what we know about climate change,' he said.
7 yr old Receives Apology After Health Inspectors Shut Down Her Lemonade Stand
Click to read original Story from Oregon Live.com
No need to jack up the price of a glass of lemonade. Turns out kids won't have to shell out $120 for a health permit to run their lemonade stands after all.
Multnomah County's top elected official apologized Thursday for health inspectors who forced a 7-year-old girl to shut down her stand last week because she didn't have a food-safety permit.
Chairman Jeff Cogen also said he has directed county health department workers to use "professional discretion" in doing their jobs.
Inspectors told Julie Murphy and her mother, Maria Fife, to stop selling lemonade at the monthly Last Thursday arts festival in Northeast Portland last week. State law technically requires that even lemonade stands have temporary restaurant licenses, which cost $120 for one day.
Cogen said the inspectors were "following the rule book," but should consider that food-safety laws are aimed at adults engaged in a professional food business, not kids running lemonade stands.
"A lemonade stand is a classic, iconic American kid thing to do," he said. "I don't want to be in the business of shutting that down."
Cogen talked with Fife for five to 10 minutes to apologize.
Fife said she appreciated his apology after the furor and her daughter was happy because "she's starting to see it had some effect."
Fife also said a radio station has offered to sponsor a lemonade stand for Julie.
The mother and her daughter had gone to Last Thursday because it seemed like a fun place for Julie to open her first lemonade stand, said Fife, who lives in Oregon City.
But after 20 minutes of selling lemonade made from their gallon jugs of bottled water and Kool-Aid packets, a health inspector asked for their license. They didn't have one, and the inspector warned them to stop or face up to a $500 fine.
Initially, vendors at other booths encouraged them to stay, but the inspector returned with another woman. The crowd surrounded the two inspectors, who felt threatened, Cogen said. Fife and her daughter, who left the street fair crying, packed up and the two inspectors left.
Several people who read about the stand in The Oregonian offered to pay the girl's fee so she can sell lemonade. In addition, one of the Last Thursday vendors is planning a "lemonade revolt" at the festival this month.
Cogen and health department officials said they aren't sure what their response will be if people set up unlicensed lemonade stands, as the protest calls for. Cogen emphasized that his employees' safety is also a top concern for him.
The problem illustrates an ongoing dilemma for the health department -- and other local agencies -- in regulating aspects of Last Thursday, Cogen said.
Unlike other events including the upcoming Bite of Oregon or the Cinco de Mayo festival, the free-form Last Thursday fair along Northeast Alberta Street doesn't have a single organizer who takes charge of signing up vendors. People set up booths on a first-come, first-served basis. They don't have to register for space in advance.
The county health department still needs to monitor the food operations at Last Thursday for public health reasons, said Wendy Lear, director of business services for the county health department. Instead of dealing with a single organizer -- who typically has a list of participating vendors and could provide the basic sanitation and hand-washing facilities -- health inspectors have to check with each vendor.
The festival has grown in scope and in cost to taxpayers. In February, the city said it spends about $10,000 a month in the summer for police, security, barricades and traffic control for Last Thursday. Residents have complained of festival-goers urinating and vomiting in front of their houses and other drunken and rowdy behavior.
City Commissioner Amanda Fritz said she and Mayor Sam Adams will present a plan for Last Thursday in the next two weeks. She declined to discuss details, though she noted that vendors at Last Thursday don't pay vendor fees, which she said is "different from any other street fair" in Portland.
She added she believes the health inspectors were right to shut down the lemonade stand.
"When you've got 15,000 people, it's no longer a neighborhood event, it's a regional event," she said. "The county has the responsibility to fairly enforce the rules on permits and food handlers' permits."
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JMC Ministries Response
Written By: Miranda Caverley
In America Children can't even set up lemonade stands without being threatened to be fined hundreds of dollars and told to shut down their little stand unless they spend 120 dollars on a food vending license!
Where are our freedoms? Because it is clear that they are no long in the U.S. any longer. It was nice that the little girl received an apology but the fact that City's Commissioner Amanda Fritz is siding with the health inspectors is only proving that those in Office running some of America's cities are out for themselves and do not care about the people living in their cities and towns.
So my guess is that if Ms. City commissioner should see any children having a lemonade stand in her town/city she will be the first to call to have it shut down.
Just a hypothetical Scenario
What if this little girl had to pay the 120 dollars for the vending license to have her lemonade stand. Then her parents may have been fined because of child labor laws. You will then have a 7 yr old child working in a business making money and in the U.S that is against the law. It is a lose, lose situation for this little girl who just wanted to have a lemonade stand like children for years have done during the summer to make a little extra change.
It is frightening what America has become when children can't even have lemonade stands without being bullied and harassed by public officials who are taking advantage of the power they have been given by those who vote for them and put them into office.
No need to jack up the price of a glass of lemonade. Turns out kids won't have to shell out $120 for a health permit to run their lemonade stands after all.
Multnomah County's top elected official apologized Thursday for health inspectors who forced a 7-year-old girl to shut down her stand last week because she didn't have a food-safety permit.
Chairman Jeff Cogen also said he has directed county health department workers to use "professional discretion" in doing their jobs.
Inspectors told Julie Murphy and her mother, Maria Fife, to stop selling lemonade at the monthly Last Thursday arts festival in Northeast Portland last week. State law technically requires that even lemonade stands have temporary restaurant licenses, which cost $120 for one day.
Cogen said the inspectors were "following the rule book," but should consider that food-safety laws are aimed at adults engaged in a professional food business, not kids running lemonade stands.
"A lemonade stand is a classic, iconic American kid thing to do," he said. "I don't want to be in the business of shutting that down."
Cogen talked with Fife for five to 10 minutes to apologize.
Fife said she appreciated his apology after the furor and her daughter was happy because "she's starting to see it had some effect."
Fife also said a radio station has offered to sponsor a lemonade stand for Julie.
The mother and her daughter had gone to Last Thursday because it seemed like a fun place for Julie to open her first lemonade stand, said Fife, who lives in Oregon City.
But after 20 minutes of selling lemonade made from their gallon jugs of bottled water and Kool-Aid packets, a health inspector asked for their license. They didn't have one, and the inspector warned them to stop or face up to a $500 fine.
Initially, vendors at other booths encouraged them to stay, but the inspector returned with another woman. The crowd surrounded the two inspectors, who felt threatened, Cogen said. Fife and her daughter, who left the street fair crying, packed up and the two inspectors left.
Several people who read about the stand in The Oregonian offered to pay the girl's fee so she can sell lemonade. In addition, one of the Last Thursday vendors is planning a "lemonade revolt" at the festival this month.
Cogen and health department officials said they aren't sure what their response will be if people set up unlicensed lemonade stands, as the protest calls for. Cogen emphasized that his employees' safety is also a top concern for him.
The problem illustrates an ongoing dilemma for the health department -- and other local agencies -- in regulating aspects of Last Thursday, Cogen said.
Unlike other events including the upcoming Bite of Oregon or the Cinco de Mayo festival, the free-form Last Thursday fair along Northeast Alberta Street doesn't have a single organizer who takes charge of signing up vendors. People set up booths on a first-come, first-served basis. They don't have to register for space in advance.
The county health department still needs to monitor the food operations at Last Thursday for public health reasons, said Wendy Lear, director of business services for the county health department. Instead of dealing with a single organizer -- who typically has a list of participating vendors and could provide the basic sanitation and hand-washing facilities -- health inspectors have to check with each vendor.
The festival has grown in scope and in cost to taxpayers. In February, the city said it spends about $10,000 a month in the summer for police, security, barricades and traffic control for Last Thursday. Residents have complained of festival-goers urinating and vomiting in front of their houses and other drunken and rowdy behavior.
City Commissioner Amanda Fritz said she and Mayor Sam Adams will present a plan for Last Thursday in the next two weeks. She declined to discuss details, though she noted that vendors at Last Thursday don't pay vendor fees, which she said is "different from any other street fair" in Portland.
She added she believes the health inspectors were right to shut down the lemonade stand.
"When you've got 15,000 people, it's no longer a neighborhood event, it's a regional event," she said. "The county has the responsibility to fairly enforce the rules on permits and food handlers' permits."
___________________________________________
JMC Ministries Response
Written By: Miranda Caverley
In America Children can't even set up lemonade stands without being threatened to be fined hundreds of dollars and told to shut down their little stand unless they spend 120 dollars on a food vending license!
Where are our freedoms? Because it is clear that they are no long in the U.S. any longer. It was nice that the little girl received an apology but the fact that City's Commissioner Amanda Fritz is siding with the health inspectors is only proving that those in Office running some of America's cities are out for themselves and do not care about the people living in their cities and towns.
So my guess is that if Ms. City commissioner should see any children having a lemonade stand in her town/city she will be the first to call to have it shut down.
Just a hypothetical Scenario
What if this little girl had to pay the 120 dollars for the vending license to have her lemonade stand. Then her parents may have been fined because of child labor laws. You will then have a 7 yr old child working in a business making money and in the U.S that is against the law. It is a lose, lose situation for this little girl who just wanted to have a lemonade stand like children for years have done during the summer to make a little extra change.
It is frightening what America has become when children can't even have lemonade stands without being bullied and harassed by public officials who are taking advantage of the power they have been given by those who vote for them and put them into office.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Florida School Saying Children Can Come To School With Head Lice
Click to read full story from News 4 Jax
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tracie Chaffe has seen her share of lice.She's never seen it in her children's hair, but when she was a teacher, she'd occasionally see a child scratching. And if lice were to blame, there was only one option."They would have to go home. They'd have to get treated for the lice before they were let back into the classroom," Chaffe said.Schools in Duval, St. Johns and Clay counties all have a no-nit policy. If nits or lice are found in a child's hair, the child is sent home and re-inspected when they come back to school. Without a clean head of hair, the student is not allowed back in the classroom.The American Academy of Pediatrics held the same standard until recently."I think this gives the school system a little more breathing space to say, 'We don't have to send them home. We don't have to make those arrangements if we don't need to,'" said Dr. Mary Soho, a local pediatrician.The academy now suggests that no healthy child be excluded or miss school because of head lice. It recommends that schools abandon policies requiring students to stay away until they are free of lice and lice eggs.
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JMC Ministries Response
Written By Miranda Caverley
As a person who was continually exposed to school children with head lice and caught it 5 times in one year I will tell you that it is VERY expensive to have to treat yourself to get rid of head lice. You have to not only treat your head, but vacuum, all the furniture wash all the pillows, sheets and vacuum the mattress of the beds. For a school to say that parents need to send their children to school with Lice I think this school better start paying for all the treatment of the children who catch head Lice because those who had it were not told to stay home. Make them pay the bills for the cleaning supplies, lice shampoo, and powders, plus the time the time off work that the parents have to miss treating their children.
Every time I caught head lice I was NOT allowed to come to work at the nursing home where I was a STNA and was NOT allowed back until I had no eggs and lice. If a health care facility is this strict on their policies on head lice to protect their patients and workers, why is this school NOT? For each time I caught head lice in that one year, I had to miss 2-3 days of work until it was completely gone. And because I caught it so much in that one year from the school children I worked with. My hair actually started falling out due to the harsh chemicals that the Lice Shampoos have in them.
A Quick History Lesson
During the holocaust in WW2 lice and fleas caused typhus and other horrible diseases that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent women, men and children. I think this school is clearly more worried about their attendance numbers than the children themselves and their health.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tracie Chaffe has seen her share of lice.She's never seen it in her children's hair, but when she was a teacher, she'd occasionally see a child scratching. And if lice were to blame, there was only one option."They would have to go home. They'd have to get treated for the lice before they were let back into the classroom," Chaffe said.Schools in Duval, St. Johns and Clay counties all have a no-nit policy. If nits or lice are found in a child's hair, the child is sent home and re-inspected when they come back to school. Without a clean head of hair, the student is not allowed back in the classroom.The American Academy of Pediatrics held the same standard until recently."I think this gives the school system a little more breathing space to say, 'We don't have to send them home. We don't have to make those arrangements if we don't need to,'" said Dr. Mary Soho, a local pediatrician.The academy now suggests that no healthy child be excluded or miss school because of head lice. It recommends that schools abandon policies requiring students to stay away until they are free of lice and lice eggs.
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JMC Ministries Response
Written By Miranda Caverley
As a person who was continually exposed to school children with head lice and caught it 5 times in one year I will tell you that it is VERY expensive to have to treat yourself to get rid of head lice. You have to not only treat your head, but vacuum, all the furniture wash all the pillows, sheets and vacuum the mattress of the beds. For a school to say that parents need to send their children to school with Lice I think this school better start paying for all the treatment of the children who catch head Lice because those who had it were not told to stay home. Make them pay the bills for the cleaning supplies, lice shampoo, and powders, plus the time the time off work that the parents have to miss treating their children.
Every time I caught head lice I was NOT allowed to come to work at the nursing home where I was a STNA and was NOT allowed back until I had no eggs and lice. If a health care facility is this strict on their policies on head lice to protect their patients and workers, why is this school NOT? For each time I caught head lice in that one year, I had to miss 2-3 days of work until it was completely gone. And because I caught it so much in that one year from the school children I worked with. My hair actually started falling out due to the harsh chemicals that the Lice Shampoos have in them.
A Quick History Lesson
During the holocaust in WW2 lice and fleas caused typhus and other horrible diseases that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent women, men and children. I think this school is clearly more worried about their attendance numbers than the children themselves and their health.
Man Praying Outside of Clinic Is Arrest for Disorderly Conduct
Click to read full story from Fox News
A Chicago man says he's fighting charges of disorderly conduct for simply standing on a public sidewalk and praying.
Joseph Holland, a 25-year-old graduate student at Northwestern University, says he was standing still praying the rosary outside a Planned Parenthood facility in downtown Chicago July 3 when police arrested him for violating the city's new "Bubble Zone" ordinance.
The law, passed in October, states that a person cannot approach within 8 feet of another person without consent "for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill to, displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education or counseling" within 50 feet from any health care facility.
It also says a person cannot "by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction" intentionally interfere with any person entering or leaving any health care facility.
But Holland says he didn't approach or interfere with anyone.
"I was just standing by the building praying the rosary and one of the Planned Parenthood volunteers came up to me and started yelling at me that I needed to move 8 feet away, but the thing is I didn't actually approach anyone; I was just standing by the building and the building doesn't actually have a bubble," Holland told FoxNews.com.
Holland said he never responded to that volunteer or said a word to any Planned Parenthood staffers or anyone entering the building, but he still got arrested.
"I tried to talk to the officer first and explain that the building doesn't have an 8-foot bubble and that I didn't talk to anyone," Holland said. "I said, 'I'm praying, I'm praying to God, not talking to people' and basically he said me praying was a type of approaching people and violated the bubble zone ordinance."
Below is raw footage shot of Mr. Holland as he prayed.
Mexican Drug Lord's Offer Reward To Anyone Who Will Kill Arizona Sherriff
PHOENIX - He's been at the center of the discussions and controversies surrounding illegal immigration enforcement in Arizona for quite a while.
On the day parts of Arizona's immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is in the news for another reason: there's a price on his head - allegedly offered by a Mexican drug cartel.
The audio message in Spanish is a bit garbled, but the text is clear.
It's offering $1 million for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head and $10,000 for anyone who wants to join the Mexican cartel.
A man who wants to remain anonymous says his wife received the text message Tuesday evening. It also included an international phone number and instructions to pass the message along.
"She showed it to me..I was kind of disgusted..I reported it to the Sheriff's department yesterday..they said they were going to direct the threat squad on it."
Click to read full story from FOX Phoenix.comJudge Rules Virginia Can Continue in Lawsuit Against "Obama Health Care"
Click to read full story from Fox News
The state of Virginia can continue its lawsuit to stop the nation's new health care law from taking effect, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson said he is allowing the suit against the U.S. government to proceed, saying no court has ever ruled on whether it's constitutional to require Americans to purchase a product.
"While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues, all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate -- and tax -- a citizen's decision not to participate in interstate commerce," Hudson wrote in a 32-page decision.
"Given the presence of some authority arguably supporting the theory underlying each side's position, this court cannot conclude at this stage that the complaint fails to state a cause of action," he wrote.
The decision is a small step, but in no way a minor matter to opponents of the health care bill rejected by all congressional Republicans but signed into law by President Obama earlier this year.
"This lawsuit is not about health care, it's about our freedom and about standing up and calling on the federal government to follow the ultimate law of the land -- the Constitution," said Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who brought the suit. "The government cannot draft an unwilling citizen into commerce just so it can regulate him under the Commerce Clause."
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