Denied Help - This Iraq Vet Checked Himself Into A Psych Ward With His Pistol


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Fifteen months in combat left Army Sgt. Robert Anthony Quinones, 29, with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.

When all the help he could get from the Veterans Administration were 10-minute counseling sessions via video, he walked into a Ft. Stewart hospital ER, pointed his 9 mm at the nearest medic and demanded to be admitted into the psychiatric unit.

According to Stars and Stripes Quinones told hospital staff, “I need to see a psychiatrist or someone right now.”

When the officer in charge Major Sabon Sheldon entered, Quinones told him, "Every time I talk to somebody, they just throw meds at me, throw meds at me. Do you know how bad these meds make you feel? These meds make you feel horrible."

Sheldon talked to Quinones for two hours at gunpoint about what led him to the hospital that night. When he was done, Quinones put his weapon down and was handed over to the military police.

Now he's in a jail cell facing a string of felony charges including threats against the president while he was in a delusional state.

The son of a retired Sergeant Major Quinones joined the Army at 23 and the 15 months he spent in Iraq between 2006 and 2008 were the bloodiest of the war.

Engaged in daily firefights, his squad cleared villages of hostile forces for units that would come in and establish a permanent presence. On any given patrol his unit would see 10 to 15 bodies littering the road. His vehicle was hit by more than a dozen roadside bombs and he lost countless friends to IEDs and explosives.

When he got home he couldn't sleep. “I’m back in Iraq when I’m in those nightmares,” he told Stars and Stripes. “Being scared and it’s ... am I up to the challenge of actually kicking in that door?”

His recollection clouded by alcohol and sleeping pills, he barely recalls the day he entered the Ft. Stewart hospital.

Finally getting the treatment he'd requested, he is also facing up to 20 years in prison.

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The Wright Brothers Didn't Invent The Airplane...And 9 Other Inventors Who've Been Wrongly Credited


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Fame and fortune sometimes require more than brains and effort, especially in the realm of invention.

Whether modified and improved upon, grabbed by a more famous inventor, or just completely forgotten, original inventors are lost to history more than most people realize.

The following are 10 inventions generally attributed to someone who didn't create them -- stories of controversy, conspiracy, and downright confusion.

Let's set the record straight.

The Wright brothers did not invent the airplane

Alleged inventor: The Wright brothers

Actual Inventor: Richard Pearse

The story:  In March of 1902, the New Zealand farmer took flight for roughly 350 yards (by most eyewitness accounts) in a monoplane aircraft before crashing into a hedge. This little-known experiment took place months before the Wright brothers more sustained flight.

Microsoft did not create the computer desktop and GUI

Alleged Inventor: Microsoft

Actual Inventor: Xerox PARC

The story: The computer desktop and its graphical user interface -- which lets people interact with their computer as they would the physical world, with buttons and windows -- is typically attributed to Microsoft, but the distinction should go the Xerox company.

The Xerox Alto was released and sold to the public in 1973, though the GUI wouldn't become economically viable until Apple's Lisa and Macintosh machines of the 1980s.

Henry Ford did not invent the first automobile

Alleged Inventor: Henry Ford

Actual Inventor: Karl Benz

The story: When most people think of the automobile, they think of Henry Ford and his assembly lines. In fact, it was a German contemporary, Karl Benz, who was awarded the first patent for an automobile fueled by gas in 1886. 

Benz's "motorwagon", first designed in 1885, went on sale to the general public a few years later. He built 25 models in the first 5 years, and his wife is credited with making the first road trip.

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Crazy Photos Of Last Night's Dust-Storm In Phoenix That Left 1000s Without Power


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Another powerful dust storm swept into Phoenix Thursday evening downing power lines with 60 mph winds, leaving thousands of residents without power for hours.

According to the Associated Press, no injuries were reported but power lines landed on cars and an elementary school bus with children inside.

The last storms hit July 5 and July 18 leaving the city coated in dust and with skyrocketing pollution levels.

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Paranoia Run Amok: California Reporters Detained For Taking Pictures


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Reporter Sander Wolf was taking some close-up pictures of wildflowers, and metal corrosion at an oil refinery when he was approached by Long Beach police officer Asif Kahn.

According to the Long Beach Post, while shooting pictures in June, Wolf was approached by Kahn who told him he'd received a call about his picture taking (via Romanesko).

Though Wolf was breaking no laws, and doing nothing illegal, Kahn asked to see Wolf's identification. Surprised, the photographer asked if he had to and the officer replied, "yes".

"And at that point I did feel detained," Wold told the the Long Beach Post, "because if he was demanding that I identify myself, then I couldn't just walk away."

Kahn ran a check on Wolf and told him that under homeland security laws police may detain and question anyone they like if they feel they have cause.

The law on Los Angeles books allowing this is called Special Order No. 11 and when the ACLU criticized the order, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the program "should be a national model".

The Department of Homeland Security teamed up with the Major Cities Chief Association in 2008 recommending the law be expanded nationwide.

This was the second incident in June alone in Los Angeles after eight police officers rushed from the L.A. county courthouse to detain a reporter for taking pictures of people texting while driving.

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Here Comes A New Explosive With 5x The Power Of Any Substance Seen So Far


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The U.S. Office of Naval Research announced the completion of a five-year development project resulting in an new explosive with five times the explosive power than any substance available today.

According to BBC, the new high-density material is a mx of polymers and metals said to have the density of steel but the strength of aluminum.

Navy scientists claim that projectiles using the new explosive are less likely to kill innocent bystanders. Traditional armaments have an explosive charge within a steel casing, the new High-Density Reactive Materials (HDRM) is a single solid charge requiring no metal casing.

The HDRM doesn't throw steel shrapnel like a traditional projectile and ignites a chemical explosion with a lot more energy than anything seen before.

The military is looking to use them in missiles, and any round larger than the M16 7.62 mm. One scientist involved with the project told the BBC, "[I]n higher caliber machine guns, they are definite possibilities."

The new material is four times more costly than current armaments.

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Cartoons From Around The World On America's Discontent


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Discontent sums up the last few day's political cartoons.

From campaign funding in days gone by to the recovery that never arrived, the world is taking a dim view of events in the U.S.

But we're not alone, cartoonists also looked at the European debt crisis and whether Germany is up for the task to save it all.

Cartoons portray Obama before and after, economic direction, and  Republican woes.

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Mothers and Competitiveness: Getting Rid of the Beast

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By Dr. Meg Meeker

We mothers are a bossy lot. We come by it naturally. I like to believe that God gave us a warrior spirit?the kind that sees red when someone tries to harm one of our kids. We are protective, territorial and, well, a bit rough to deal with when it comes to the health and happiness of our kids.

Dave Ramsey and I were recently talking on air about being bossy, and I admitted that I have a ?side? to me. One woman once referred to me as a pit bull. I?m not exactly proud of this.

Protectiveness with our kids is generally a good thing, but it can also get us into trouble. When we are overprotective, we run the risk of suffocating our kids because we are afraid they will get hurt. Sometimes, however, being overprotective is a symptom of being competitive. For instance, we say that we are protecting our kids when we put them in certain schools, make them wear certain clothes or even select athletic programs for them.

The truth is, we aren't really being protective at all?our real motive is competitiveness. In fact, if we dig deeply enough, we can find that at the root of much of our behavior with our kids is competitiveness with other mothers and their children, and we must slay this inner beast. If we don't, we can suffocate our kids.

The Vicious Cycle

When our children are born, we feel pressure to breastfeed. We are told that good mothers breastfeed. And we want to be good moms. If we don?t breastfeed, we feel guilty. As our children enter grade school, we look around the classroom to see how the other kids are reading. We want to be sure that our son is keeping up. Sports come along. If Johnny?s best friend plays soccer and hockey, well, we?d better find Johnny two sports to play.

Then comes junior high and friends. The other kids are popular, and we don?t want Johnny to be left out. So we do all that we can to make sure he has enough friends. And somewhere along the way, we meet the other boys? mothers, and we size them up too. Some work outside the home. Others exercise regularly and come to school dressed in bike shorts to pick up their kids. Ouch. And we wouldn?t even be seen in bike shorts on a bike. We go home and throw the pan of brownies away.

High school arrives and there are varsity sports, prom, dating and colleges to consider. Every step along the way, we feel pressure to make sure our kids don?t fall behind. No, we really want them to outshine the other kids. We don?t want our kids to be snooty. We just want them to be excellent.

But we don?t stop there. We feel pressure to keep up too. We need to be better mothers, in better shape and, of course, always working on that last 10 pounds. We feel this way only because we look around and compare our figures to other women.

Why do we do this? And where does it stop? I worry about us because feeling constantly competitive with other mothers hurts only two people: us and our child. Period.

Time to See the Real Beauty

We need to let this go. God made us just the way he wants us to be, and he gave us children who are amazing. When we compare our children with those in their classes and size up our women friends to see if we are as successful as they are, we lose. We lose God?s perspective of who we really are. We can?t see the deep character that God instilled in the kids beneath our noses, and we can?t see the real beauty that God hand carved into each and every one of us.

Think about the way we women greet one another. When we see a friend after a number of months, we greet her by saying, ?How are you? You look so good!? What we really mean is ?Have you lost weight, because you look like you have??

This has always bothered me, so I decided to change the way I greeted my friends. For one year, I refused to comment on a friend?s weight. After six months, something wonderful happened. I had difficulty even seeing whether a friend gained or lost weight. Changing the way we talk changes the way we think.

So let?s do something extraordinary. Let?s slay the beast of competition with other mothers and their kids. When you feel yourself taking mental inventory of another woman, stop your thoughts. Interrupt the comparison, and refuse to finish the task. And when you find yourself signing your son up for something, ask yourself if you?re doing it because he really wants it or because deep down you need him to keep up with the other boys in his class.

God made each of us and our children perfectly different from one another. Let?s keep it that way.

Pediatrician, wife, mother, and best-selling author of six books, Dr. Meg Meeker is one of the country?s leading experts on parenting, teens and children?s health. Get her book The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers today!

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Pick Perry's Texas Economic Miracle Is A Myth


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As expected, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, has announced that he is running for president. And we already know what his campaign will be about: faith in miracles.

Some of these miracles will involve things that you’re liable to read in the Bible. But if he wins the Republican nomination, his campaign will probably center on a more secular theme: the alleged economic miracle in Texas, which, it’s often asserted, sailed through the Great Recession almost unscathed thanks to conservative economic policies. And Mr. Perry will claim that he can restore prosperity to America by applying the same policies at a national level.

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