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Will a Good Samaritan law to fight drug overdose work?

The state of New York has passed a Good Samaritan law in the belief it will help fight drug overdose.

The law bars arrests and prosecution for personal possession of drugs, paraphernalia or underage drinking when someone calls for help to save the life of an overdose victim.

Overdose—now the leading cause of accidental death in New York and the number one injury-related killer of adults 35-54—is responsible for some 28,000 annual deaths nationally.

Most overdoses occur in the presence of other people and take several hours to cause death. But research finds that in up to half of cases, no one calls for help. 911 calls are also often delayed as witnesses try ineffective methods of reviving people such as slapping them or dousing them with cold water.

The most common reason given for not calling 911 or for delaying help-seeking is fear of arrest and prosecution.

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Entering the hospital? Hold out your palm

If you plan on entering New York University Langone Medical Center as a patient, be prepared to hold out your hand.

The hospital scans palms, instead of insurance cards, to pull up patient records.

Shaped like a butter tray, the black PatientSecure device uses infrared light to scan palms, then links the unique biometric trait to a patient's electronic health records.

No need to pore through a purse for an insurance card. When you return to the hospital for a visit, just place your hand on the box, and let the machine do the talking.

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ND Catholic monastery puts ranch operation out to pasture

A Roman Catholic monastery in Richardton, North Dakota doesn't have enough monks with cowboy skills to keep its ranching operation going.

Ranching has been a part of Assumption Abbey since 1893, when raising cattle helped make the monastery self-sufficient.

Seventy-six-year-old Brother Placid Gross has tended the monastery's cattle for 51 years and says it once had one of the biggest ranching operations in the region. He says he won't miss the hard work but will miss the cows.

The monastery will rent its pastures to other ranchers.

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Entire South Dakota town for sale

Thinking of buying some land?

And if you're thinking of buying it in South Dakota, how about owning a whole town along with it?

The tiny town of Scenic, South Dakota lives up to its name but now the owners are packing up and moving out, selling the entire town in the process.

Scenic, South Dakota (shown above) appears to be a ghost town. If the town does not sell it may well become a very real ghost town.

The sale will include a saloon, dance hall, museum and a jail and it can be yours if the price is right. The town, 46 acres in total, is on the market for $799,000.

The property is located 40 miles southeast of Rapid City in South Dakota's Badlands.

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A slave mailed himself to freedom in 1849

It was a most unusual postal freight shipment when Henry Brown, a Richmond slave, mailed himself to freedom.

The illustration above shows Henry "Box" Brown as his shipping carton is opened in Philadelphia.

Brown was 5-foot-8-inches tall and weighed 200-pounds. It was a tight fit in the 2 feet wide and 2.6 feet deep wooden shipping crate. Brown had three small holes for air when his crate was shipped to Philadelphia abolitionist James Miller McKim.

He bumped and thumped for 27 hours as the box went from wagon, railroad baggage car, the deck of a steamboat, wagon, another railroad car, ferry, railroad car yet again, and the final delivery wagon that took him to McKim's home in Philadelphia.

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Video: Obama discusses and gives speeches but nothing in a Plan

Dr. Charles Krauthammer says Obama discusses. He gives speeches. Nothing is scored. Nothing is estimated. He has nothing.

NASA data and global warming alarmism

New NASA data blows a gaping hole in global warming alarmism.

From a report at the link below:

NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing.

The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than United Nations computer models have predicted, and supports prior studies indicating increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide trap far less heat than alarmists have claimed.

Study co-author Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer flying on NASA's Aqua satellite, reports that real-world data from NASA's Terra satellite contradict multiple assumptions fed into alarmist computer models.

It appears that NASA is going against Al Gore's junk science. Hmm... maybe this is why NASA lost funding and scrapped all future space flight.

It's just a matter of time before the global warming religion crowd to finds some new tenet to explain why these results don't matter.

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'American Dream' sends illegals from California back to Mexico

An improving Mexican economy seems to be drawing illegal immigrants back home from California.

There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California – and the Sacramento region – because many are now finding the American dream south of the border.

"It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico," Sacramento's Mexican consul general, Carlos González Gutiérrez, said Wednesday. "We have become a middle-class country."

Mexico's unemployment rate is now 4.9 percent, compared with 9.4 percent joblessness in the United States.

When they move back to Mexico the state of California will have less cost for education, etc. but will also collect less income tax.

That may be the situation in central California, but what about the hoards of illegals from Mexico living in the big cities of southern California who live on welfare, send their children to free bi-lingual schools and get free medical care.

It would be a boon to California if they would move back to Mexico but they won't. If they go back to Mexico they would have to go to work or starve.

The report continually uses the term "undocumented." They are not merely undocumented, they are illegal immigrants. Why do we sugar coat it?

I lost my wallet several years ago and until my drivers license, etc. could replaced I was undocumented. Big difference.

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Our two favorite mock Time Magazine covers

The 1950's film A Woman of Distinction, starring Rosalind Russell, features the first known mock TIME cover to be used in a movie. The cover is shown above.

Russell plays the roll of a dean at a small women's college. In the film she was on the cover of TIME (done in the original black and white styling).

Below is a poster of actor George Clooney holding a blank see through mock cover of Time.

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Skeleton found in chimney after 27 years

The fate of a man who went missing 27 years ago was revealed when renovators found a skeleton wedged in the chimney of an historic bank building.

The remains were found in May in an Abbeville, La., building when construction workers began restoring it. They were recently identified as Joseph Schexnider, who vanished in 1984 before a court appearance on charges of stealing a car.

Schexnider, then 22, was presumed to have run away, as he had many times before.

The cause of death was likely dehydration and starvation. Foul play was not suspected and the case is closed, he said.

But why Schexnider was in the chimney remains a bit of a mystery.

Schexnider had gloves and a cigarette lighter on him, but no bag or anything to indicate he planned to carry loot from the bank.

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