The woman pressed the issue and the man opened — and gave her — the contents of the bag. Inside was a puppy so deformed that it couldn’t walk or hold up its head. Shelter workers and veterinarians grimaced when they saw the dog and came to the same conclusion: It really should be euthanized.
This is how Harper looked when she was rescued. Born with a condition commonly called "swimmer puppy syndrome," Harper had a flattened chest wall and could not walk or hold her head up.
That’s when Daniel, a regular at the local animal shelter, stepped in. She decided to take the puppy home for one full and final day of unabashed affection. “I had to show her what it was like to be loved,” Daniel said. “I’d planned on taking her home that night, letting her sleep in bed with us, and having her humanely euthanized in the morning.”
What a difference a day can make. Today, Harper is not only alive — she’s thriving. The frisky gray puppy is gaining more and more mobility each day, to the astonishment of onlookers and medical professionals.
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Tacoma, Washington, teachers won a victory against the school district, and their strike is over. The contract was ratified.
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One only has to look at the Forbes' list of the 400 richest Americans to know just how screwed up this country is with income inequality:
Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the sector with the largest representation by far in the ranks of the super-rich was “investors,” that is, individuals whose primary occupation is speculating in financial markets. There were 96 such individuals on the list, compared to only four for manufacturing.
Typical of this social layer, utterly parasitic in its relationship to society as a whole, was hedge fund manager John Paulson, who ranked 17, with a wealth of $15.5 billion. Forbes commented on the “Paulson paradox”—the fact that Paulson’s personal fortune has soared 25 percent even though the main hedge fund he operates has fallen 30 percent due to bad bets on Bank of America and other stocks. Last year, Paulson took in a personal income of $4.9 billion.
The increasing wealth of this layer is a direct product of the infusion of trillions of dollars into the financial system, orchestrated by the Obama administration. Three years after rampant speculation led to the greatest world economic crisis in generations, the speculators are doing better than ever.
Yep. Parasites leeching off the taxpayers.
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Here is a behind-the-story story of the Rauh video voyeur case, where he was sentenced to three yesrs in jail last week:
It should be noted that while his mother's September 2009 death was given as THE motivating factor to the crimes ... authorities discovered that TWO YEARS EARLIER Rauh installed a secret camera under his male peer's desk. They found the footage from it on his home computer where they also found the following: footage from "pinhole" mini cameras Rauh wore at school - hidden on his necktie - that recorded the man on school grounds and having conversations with Rauh; that he installed spyware on the man's school computer, that he took photos of the man on the playground and during school assemblies and of course, the bathroom footage; and pictures Rauh stole from the man's computer that depicted him on family vacations. Rauh got those pictures after he broke into the man's home while he was out of town with his family ... he was arrested days later after he was busted for the bathroom footage.
All these crimes Rauh committed against the man (except for the bathroom pics) were not charged. He was basically secretly stalking him for years. If he last burglarized the man's home, what was he going to do next?
One witness claimed the death of his mother liberated Rauh to act out on his sexual obsessive compulsions because he had never told anyone he was gay, while others said the instant gratification of watching the videos temporarily elevated his depressed mood over the death and provided him an "outlet" for his grief.
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