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Just sharing a picture I took today of my daughter.

More than 100 million Americans do not go to the dentist for checkups and cleanings because of the cost. As a result, many go broke trying to afford dental care or suffer from extreme pain. Some die.

Nearly 5 million American children, or one in 16, did not get regular dental checkups in 2008 because their families could not afford it.

Going without dental care can ruin lives. Louis Morris, 33, of Philadelphia, found out on Saturday while seeing a dentist for the first time in 15 years at a volunteer clinic that his gum infection had worn away at his jawbone, could spread to other parts of his body and wipe out all of his teeth.

Forgoing dental care sometimes is fatal. Kyle Willis, a 24-year-old father from Cincinnati, died from a tooth infection last year because he could not afford antibiotics or to get the tooth pulled out. The infection spread, caused his brain to swell and then killed him.

12-year-old Deamonte Driver also died when a tooth infection spread to his brain.

People end up dying, and these are the most treatable, preventable diseases in the world. Getting access to dental care is particularly tough for low-income adults and children.

“People want to believe there’s a safety net that catches all of these people, and there isn’t,” said Dr. Glenn Stream, president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Dr. Jim Jirjis, director of general internal medicine at Vanderbilt University, said people, like Willis, without access to care often die of conditions that were much more common decades ago.

“He [Willis] might as well have been living in 1927,” Jirjis said. “All of the advances we’ve made in medicine today and are proud of, for people who don’t have coverage, you might as well never have developed those.”

There are a number of free dental clinics in operation around the country, where dentists volunteer to provide care to those without health insurance. But even if Willis had access to a free dental clinic, Stream said he still may not have been able to get the care he needed for his infection. “The wait is often months at these clinics, and this young man died within two weeks of his problem,” Stream said.

Silverstein operates three free dental clinics in the San Diego area. “We’re overwhelmed right now,” he said. “We can’t take any new patients.” (this is the same thing I heard when I called the dental place in our area that works with low income people. They are not taking new patients….they haven’t been for three years now.)

A teenage lesbian couple were found shot in a public park just northeast of Corpus Christi Texas. Two people found them lying in the grass early Saturday morning.

Nineteen year old Mollie Judith Olgin was dead at the scene. Eighteen year old Mary Christine Chapa was rushed to the hospital and is in serious but stable condition.

The police believe that the women were shot around midnight sometime and do not believe that it was a random shooting. Police had recovered a bullet casing from a large-caliber gun at the scene, but they haven’t found the weapon. A resident living nearby reported hearing two loud bangs Friday before midnight but believed they were from firecrackers.

The girls had been dating about 5 months.

 

Update:“This particular case, it does have some of the earmarks of a targeted attack,” Chief Randy Wright of Portland told local station KZTV.

Can you have a meaningful life without an afterlife?

 

 

It is no surprise to me and I doubt it is any surprise to most people who have followed the case. Sandusky has been found guilty on 45 of 48 counts.

Jurors delivered the guilty verdict around 10 p.m. Friday after deliberating for 21 hours. Now it is up to the judge to decide the punishment. Sandusky should be sentenced in about 90 days, the judge said. It is likely that Sandusky will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The judge will have to decide if Sandusky is a sexually violent predator – it carries stiffer reporting and treatment requirements once someone is out of prison – and can use information from the board’s investigation in a sentencing decision.

If He is sentenced to state prison (which should be a given) then he will be transferred to Camp Hill, where new inmates are put through medical, dental, psychiatric, psychological, vocational and educational testing

He then would be placed in a state prison based on his treatment plans and available beds. Sex offenders are required to undergo mandatory treatment programs.

Age is not a factor in the placement of Sandusky, 68, but any medical conditions could be. Inmates from 18 to 79 are housed in general populations, although older inmates may be put in lower bunks and have other handicap accommodations.

Below is a detailed look at the different counts Sandusky faced and the jury’s verdicts.

Victim No. 1

    Count 1, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 2, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 3, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 4, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 5, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 6, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 2

    Count 7, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – not guilty
    Count 8, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 9, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 10, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 11, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 3

    Count 12, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 13, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 14, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 15, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 4

    Count 16, DROPPED
    Count 17, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 18, DROPPED
    Count 19, DROPPED
    Count 20, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 21, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 22, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 23, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 5

    Count 24, Indecent Assault – not guilty
    Count 25, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 26, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 27, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 6

    Count 28, Indecent Assault – not guilty
    Count 29, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 30, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 31, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 7

    Count 32, Criminal Attempt to Commit Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 33, WITHDRAWN
    Count 34, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 35, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 8

    Count 36, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 37, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 38, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 39, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 40, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 9

    Count 41, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 42, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 43, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 44, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 45, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 46, Endangering the Welfare of Children – guilty

Victim No. 10

    Count 47, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 48, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse – guilty
    Count 49, Indecent Assault – guilty
    Count 50, Unlawful Contact with Minors – guilty
    Count 51, Corruption of Minors – guilty
    Count 52, Endangering the Welfare of Children  – guilty

Thoughts or Comments?

I have shaved my head

 

Thoughts?

If you were a cop and got a call about a mass murder of children and the person who called you is a psychic who gets her information from the angels, would you take it seriously?

The couple weren’t really serial killers and didn’t even have one dismembered child buried in their yard, let alone 25 to 30 of them, much to the surprise of the psychic who calls herself “Angel.  Now they’re suing the sheriff, the psychic and a bunch of news outlets who reported about them “after a self-proclaimed psychic told the sheriff that 25 to 30 dismembered bodies were buried in a mass grave at their home.”

The sheriff’s office provided the plaintiffs’ address to the news media and repeated the false statement, and it made nationwide and worldwide headlines, according to the complaint.

Bankson and Charlton claim the sheriff’s office searched their home unreasonably and without probable cause, inviting the media along to watch the intrusive execution of the search warrant.

The couple claim the sheriff’s office was “unreasonable in relying on an uncorroborated tip from a self-proclaimed psychic source” who has proven to be “unreliable and untrustworthy.”

“They up front asked me how I got the information, and I am a reverend. I am a prophet and I get my information from Jesus and the angels, and I told them that I had 32 angels with me and they were giving me the information and then it went from there,” Angel said.

What judge would sign a search warrant based upon information provided by a psychic?

 

The good news is that there was no mass grave, meaning that 25 to 30 children had not been murdered. If 25-30 children had disappeared you would have thought people would have noticed.