Health & Fitness

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

The White House stopped federal payments, called cost sharing reductions as part of the Obama administrations Affordable Healthcare.  According to some insurance providers, the decision has destabilized the insurance industry with one company saying increases for 2018 is slated to go up from a projected 8 percent to 41 percent. 

The extreme increases will hurt consumers on both sides.  However, some states are making changes to mitigate the hikes the unpaid amount will ultimately be covered by taxpayers. 

For those people who do not qualify for state aid, would be required to pay the full increase amount.  For a guy worth $3.8 billion, no big deal, but for most Americans its bad. 

Scribe:  N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

Roy, Utah, is the latest location in which a racist, who says he is not a racist has posted something stupid.  Kade Rogers a former Marine is exercising his first amendment rights by posting a divisive sign on his garage door. 

His neighbors don’t like it and are saying that it is offensive despite the complaints he insists on keeping the sign up.  Of course he is a Trump supporter, and has written on the sign “Make America great Again, Purge and Purify.” 

Rogers is cowardly playing the sign off by saying its Halloween and it has nothing to do with race.  But, wait, that’s not all!  How many times have you heard this one, "I kind of knew it was going to happen (controversy) but it's my right, it's not racist. I'm not meaning to be racist, in no way, in fact, I have a black friend. His name is Isaac." 

Cliché?   

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

A shooting at Texas Tech on Monday left one police officer dead. 

Hollis Daniels, 19, was subject to a wellness check on Monday when officers found drugs in his room, he was then taken to the campus police office where he pulled a gun and shot the officer in the head. 

The man is originally from Seguin, Texas was studying Communications and was classified as a freshman.   For a short time after the shooting the campus was on lockdown while an investigation into Daniels whereabouts was locked down.   He was apprehended near the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum around 9:30 p.m.

The officer has not yet been identified pending familial notification.  It’s unknown who owned the gun.  

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email: lucy@thethinkering.com

Columbus is said to have discovered America, a boast that has led to controversy and rightly so.  Europeans have traditionally celebrated this man’s voyage to the Americas, when in fact he was completely lost and served to single handedly kill millions of Native Americans in the process. 

We talk about genocide of Jewish people which was wrong and of others which was wrong, but this voyage caused the end for 50 million indigenous people in this hemisphere.   Europeans introduced small pox a disease ravaged the natives and cleared the land for others to move in and take over.  It’s a process that has been successful worldwide. 

Scribe:  N. Tru Bass

Email:  ntb@thethinkering.com

On Monday a man from the year 2048 was arrested after a hospital visit where he became irate causing officials to call police.  His behavior prompted him to be arrested and booked into the Natrona Country Jail. 

27-year-old Bryant Johnson, would not talk to nurses and doctors at the hospital and asked to see the towns president so that he could deliver an important message.   During the police interrogation Johnson explained the he had traveled back in time to warn Casper, Wyoming residents to leave or risk alien encounter.  He said, “to leave as fast as possible.” 

He wanted authorities to know, the only way he was able to time travel, “was to have the aliens fill his body with alcohol.”  Johnson fell short on his mission, he was supposed to arrive in 2018, but had a slight hiccup and landed in 2017 instead. 

Scribe:  N. Tru bass

Email:  ntb@thethinkering.com

October marks breast cancer month and the Hamden Police Department is participating in a big way with a new vehicle.  Two Hamden patrol cars will be outfitted with hot pink or fuchsia color to commemorate the disease that affects about 12% of the U.S. population. 

In 2017 and estimated 252,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S. in addition to 63,410 new cases of non-invasive breast cancer. 

Recently, Julia Louis Dreyfus recently announced that she was diagnosed with the disease and intends to mount an intense fight.  She was greeted with support from people in her industry including Kevin Spacey, Rosie O’Donnell and Anna Kendrick all stepped up to support her upcoming fight. 

e:  N. Tru Bass

Email:  ntb@thethinkering.com

Scleral tattooing is the process of inking the whites of one’s eyes.   The process is dangerous and has to be done accurately in order to have success. 

Recently a model allowed her then boyfriend to attempt the tattooing –he botched it.  She is now crying purple tears and is suffering from double vison and pain.  Catt Gallinger, 24, from Ottawa, Canada told her story of vision loss in one eye after attempting the intricate procedure.   She said in recent reports, “The artist, my ex-boyfriend, just kept pushing me until I got it done that night,” she continued, “We were only together for a month, but I’ve known him for years. It was something I thought I could trust him with because he had a portfolio. I was wrong.”

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email:  lucy@thethinkering.com

Can you smell peppermint?  Researchers from the university of Chicago Medical Center says along with sleeplessness, mental confusion and mood swings the inability to smell is another symptom of deadly dementia. 

3000 people were examined between the ages of 57 to 85, testing their ability to smell, fish, rose, leather, orange and peppermint.  78 percent of subjects named at least four out of five scents, 14 percent could have distinguished at least three, and five percent could recognize two, with just two percent only able to identify one smell. 

The rub is of those people who could only distinguish just one smell, after five years were all diagnosed with dementia.  Scientist say the sense of smell is directly linked to brain function and general health. 

Scribe: Samuel Otis

Email: samuel@thethinkering.com

A couple who sleeps in separate bedrooms had a recent altercation when the husband got home after midnight and heard moans of pleasure throughout the house.

The man, 43-year -old Garrett Higgs, followed the sounds to his wife’s bedroom and attempted to break in with a screwdriver. His wife then jumped up to bar the door as he pushed his way into the bedroom to find Higgs was pleasuring herself due to the couple no having sex for more than a year.

Court documents say, , “thought there was another man in the house and he used a screwdriver to open the door.” At this point, Flavia sought to bar his entry to her bedroom and “tried to physically escort him out.” during the rough housing, Flavia Higgs slapped him in the face, “struck him in the face.”

She is being charged on misdemeanor domestic battery, she is a licensed private investigator.

Scribe: Samuel Otis

Email: samuel@thethinkering.com

A southwest Airlines passenger got a dose of what its like when anti-trust laws are not enforced. There are four major airlines in the country and they are quick to show you where you stand in their hiearcy of importance. American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines, are the four heads of the airline monster.

A woman who identified herself as a University Professor was grabbed and forcible taken off a Southwest flight, because she said she had a pet allergy and a service animal and a pet was on the plane. Instead Southwest heaved hoed her asking her to leave the plane.

She then requested an allergy shot to prevent her from having symptoms from the pet allergens, she ws refused. She then asked for empathy because her father is in the hospital. .