January 11, 2015

firefighters administer oxygen to cat after deadly fire

Away: The cat was carried off from the scene, looking alert again. An elderly man died and a woman was injured in the blaze

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2904944/Firefighter-uses-tiny-oxygen-mask-revive-cat-pulled-ashes-house-fire-killed-74-year-old-retired-fireman.html#ixzz3OY4Xgs2H

January 11, 2015

pet micro pig that grows to Ten times expected size is much loved

This little piggy got massive: Meet Esther the 48 stone 'micro-pig'! Ten times larger than predicted, the giant porker is now the size of a POLAR BEAR
Esther the Wonder Pig is an internet celebrity with 230,000 Facebook fans
Owners Derek and Steve, from Canada, were in 'denial' about her real size
Eats exclusively vegan diet, munching £1,500 of grain and fruit a year






Steve said: 'Since we moved to the farm she has decided she needs to be close to us and now sleeps beside our bed with her mattress on the floor.
'She still on occasion climbs up on to our bed for a nap during the day.'

Esther has now found fame on Facebook as Esther the Wonder Pig and has more than 230,000 friends who follow updates on their her exploits.
Derek and Steve post pictures and video of the pig and sell calendars, postcards and mugs featuring the pink porker.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2905353/Meet-Esther-48-stone-micro-pig-Ten-times-larger-predicted-giant-porker-size-POLAR-BEAR-forced-owners-buy-bigger-house.html#ixzz3OXxvfHgJ
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January 10, 2015

Survivors of the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia are using their immunity to help others

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11336745/Watch-The-Ebola-survivors-in-Liberia-who-are-saving-lives.html

One month after Peter’s death Davies left the clinic, a survivor of the world’s worst Ebola outbreak, which has so far claimed more than 7,000 lives across west Africa, almost half of those in Liberia. Her father, Reverend Barromi Davies, calls her ‘the resurrected Decontee’. ‘He thought I was dead – everybody in my community did. Coming out of there was a miracle of God.’

Now she spends her days with the children. ‘Many of them don’t have parents to take care of them,’ she says. ‘I know how traumatising Ebola is because I went through it and survived. That has given me the passion to live here and work with these children.’

Davies is among more than 4,000 Liberians currently known to have contracted and survived Ebola. Many have lost everybody only to return home and find they have been evicted by their landlords and their most intimate possessions have been destroyed – burnt or doused in chlorine by health-care workers wearing quarantine suits. They are left with little more than an immunity to the virus that has stripped them of everything.

January 10, 2015

soldiers prized Gremlin towed and sold for scrap while she was deployed

Florida soldier’s car towed, scrapped during Somalia deployment
A homeowners association had U.S. Army Reserve Lt. Col. Alexzandria Kelly's prized 1972 Gremlin hauled away while the nurse and 26-year veteran served overseas, a federal lawsuit says.
One tow company’s junk was a deployed soldier’s treasure — and now she’s suing.

U.S. Army Reserve Lt. Col. Alexzandria Kelly returned in August to her Florida home after a tour in Somalia to discover her prized 1972 Gremlin had been hauled away and sold for scrap, the Sun Sentinel reported.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-soldier-car-towed-sold-somalia-deployment-article-1.2073078
Kelly’s late father left her the classic hatchback in his will, and she’d kept the car running and had registered it with the state and her homeowners association in Margate, about 10 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale.

She figured it would be safe in a guest spot at the complex while she was serving her country overseas, but association hardliners spotted a slowly deflating tire and called West Way Towing in March to whisk it away, according to court documents.

By the time Kelly returned, the tow shop had auctioned her irreplaceable ride for $525.

The chagrined owner of West Way claimed they would never have done it had they known the Gremlin belonged to a soldier
He reportedly offered to refund the $525 to Kelly.

January 10, 2015

dogs shamed publicly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2904304/Gobbling-mama-s-handbag-cracking-open-sugar-trying-eat-JESUS-Shamed-dogs-pose-repent-middle-messes-made.html

January 10, 2015

George Zimmerman arrested for hurling winebottle at girlfriend

eorge Zimmerman is arrested for 'hurling a wine bottle at his girlfriend' in domestic dispute - the THIRD time he has been held by cops since he was cleared of murder

In court this morning

Third time Trayvon Martin's killer has been arrested for domestic violence
Arrested at 10pm on Friday evening in Florida and is being held on $5,000 bail
Brought into custody after his girlfriend reported the alleged incident when police pulled her over for routine traffic stop
Also ordered to surrender any weapons out of an abundance of caution.
Zimmerman was found not guilty of the murder of Martin, 17, in July 2013


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2904510/George-Zimmerman-arrested-domestic-assault-weapon.html#ixzz3OSSVFySh

Most popular comment on DM:

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January 9, 2015

Girl, four, manages to keep SIX hungry pit bulls waiting patiently for their kibble

The four-year-old girl orders the six pitbulls to sit before preparing food
The youngster tips two containers of kibble onto the tiled floor
The dogs remain still as the girl slowly counts to three before saying 'okay'
With permission, the hungry dogs dive on the food and eat it noisily


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903369/The-mini-dog-whisperer-Girl-four-manages-SIX-hungry-pit-bulls-waiting-patiently-kibble.html#ixzz3OMC7x0EN

January 9, 2015

woman who abandoned the dog with his stuff in a suitcase comes forward and explains what happened

As the first picture of Fin Rayner, from Aberdeenshire, emerged, the 39-year-old mother claims she left the dog behind after the sale of him fell through.





Ms Rayner claims she had arrived at Ayr train station planning to buy the dog for £400 after replying to an advert on listings website Gumtree.

But when she got to the station with her nine-year-old daughter Rhiannon Strachan, she found Kai - whose real name is Pluto - did not look like the dog in the advert.

The mother-of-three told the Daily Record: 'I went to buy a dog but the dog was not the same as the picture advertised.'

'The guy rushed out with a food chest and lead on the dog. But I could see there was something up because he was very skinny.

'I said I wanted to take the dog for a walk, so he asked me for £150 as a deposit in case I didn't come back. Then I saw him tearing off in his car. I phoned and said "You better come back for your dog". He never turned up.'

She added: 'I got into the station and the dog wasn't settling. He was pulling on the lead and peeing everywhere.

'I thought that it wasn't my dog - I didn't want him.'

The mother claims she then panicked as she had to get the last train to Aberdeen





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903448/Pictured-Woman-left-Kai-Shar-Pei-tied-outside-train-station-claims-did-WRONG.html

January 8, 2015

do military acadenies just benefit the elite and perpetuate inequity?

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lets-abolish-west-point-military-academies-serve-no-one-squander-millions-tax

Let’s Abolish West Point: Military Academies Serve No One, Squander Millions of Tax Dollars

The service academies once had a purpose: when they were founded in the 19th century (the Air Force split off from Army after World War II), college was classics and religion for gentlemen, so it made sense to have technical training institutes for people who would be in charge of increasingly technical warfare. All the service academies have now to justify their cost and their pretensions, it seems, is their once-illustrious history, and the club of “tradition,” which they wield mercilessly against students who dare question why things are as they are.

Who benefits from these strange historical holdovers? Not the taxpayers who fund them. The service academies are the vanity projects of the brass who went there. Their interest is in looking good (it’s good for their careers) and in keeping the tax dollars flowing. All official information taxpayers get about the service academies comes from the brass who run them and who use them as their private country clubs — at taxpayer expense. Military subordinates (which includes the students) are legally unable to offer conflicting views. The result is that the service academies are feel-good hype factories that operate with virtually no accountability and little oversight, the very definition of government bloat on autopilot.

Oh, yes—there’s one more group of people who defend these places to the death: the parents of the young military members who attend them. Why wouldn’t they? Having their children admitted is a government-sponsored guarantee of a golden ticket to life: college at taxpayer expense with no student debts, the highest salary of any set of graduates, and guaranteed employment and (no-Obamacare-necessary) health benefits for at least five years, frequently well beyond. And no, most people in the military aren’t remotely likely to be shot at.

January 8, 2015

Meet 'Handsome African American Man' and Other Stock Images on Jeb Bush's Website

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/meet-handsome-african-american-man-and-other-stock-images-jeb-bushs-website

Meet 'Handsome African American Man' and Other Stock Images on Jeb Bush's Websi

Meet 'Handsome African American Man' and Other Stock Images on Jeb Bush's Website
The 2016 hopeful should know that stock photos can't vote for him.

Having resigned from a series of corporate and nonprofit boards, Jeb Bush is gearing up to run for president. But Bush has a problem: he spent the last seven years out of office getting rich, not developing a fan base.

This means that when he launched his new political action committee, Right To Rise PAC, he didn't have any supporters to put on it. Yet when you go to the front page of the website, you see this:


Click to enlarge.
Who are these people? We hunted down the sources of some of the images.

The black man on the top right is “Handsome African American Man,” a stock photo you can find at Getty Images.

The two children on the fence are “American Cowboy,” which you can find here at iStock.

The smiling girl in the blue shirt in the center is “Teenage girl with wind in her hair”; find her here also at iStock.

The gentleman in the glasses above Bush is “World War II Veteran POW.” Here he is on iStock.