The VA Scandal – “Shut up, Sit Down, Take a Number and maybe we’ll see you before You Die”

 

By Richard Anthony

Like all of you, I am watching the latest scandal unfold about the Veterans Administration. Am I surprised? No, but what insults my intelligence is the president saying that the situation is “unacceptable.” Really? Once again, our president is looking right into the face of the American people and L-Y-I-N-G! Obama knew about the problems with the VA when he took office. Those same problems continued to present themselves during the first four years of his presidency, and all the while he knew about them.

It is obvious that Obama doesn’t give a tinkers dam about what happens to veterans. If he did, these problems would have been taken care of four or five years ago. Instead, he focused on Obamacare, his baby, his signature piece of legislation, which was going to insure not only his legacy, but a place in American history. Well, just like everything else this man has done, problems with the VA are only a small part of a long list of screw-ups.

I am only one of a long list of veterans, who have had bad experiences dealing with the VA. I’ll let you in on something. VA employees can say or do anything they want. They can insult you, they can call you names, they can curse at you, they can even threaten you with physical harm, and there’s not a thing that you can do about it.

Here’s why; the union! VA employees are part of one of the single most powerful unions in this country. As you have seen while watching the news, not even an act of congress is enough to get a VA employee fired. Maybe if a VA employee was caught red-handed murdering a patient, and they were caught on camera committing the alleged murder, it would still literally take an act of God to get them fired (and that’s only “maybe”).

I have personally experienced all of the things (except the “murder” part) that I just mentioned. As a patient of the VA, don’t you dare say anything remotely offensive, or in a raised voice, because then they put what is known as a “Red Flag” on your records. A “Red Flag” denotes you as a “violent,” possibly dangerous, person.

What happens then, is that every time you have an appointment, prior to being seen by VA personnel, a VA police officer is called (these are ARMED federal Police mind you), and before you are seen, the officer places himself right outside the office/ treatment room. So much for “Patient Confidentiality,” huh? If he feels you are about to harm the VA employee, he has the legal right to burst in the room/office and shoot you dead! That is a stone cold, solid fact – absolutely no exaggeration folks!

How do I know this? Simple, I have a “Red Flag” on my records, even though I have never, ever threatened, or ever physically harmed a VA employee. Why do I have a “Red Flag” you may ask? I dared tell a VA doctor he was an “A-hole.” That was 10 years ago, and the Red Flag is still on my records.

It was the VA that diagnosed me with PTSD many years ago and I have never received one single dime in disability from them.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I appreciate what they do and there are a few kind, decent people who work there, but more often than not, too many VA employees seem to have forgotten that if it weren’t for guys like me, they wouldn’t even have a job. A VA employee can say and get away with things that would otherwise, not only get them fired if they were working for a civilian medical facility, but possibly land them in jail and get the hospital sued. But you can’t sue the VA (nice huh?). That’s “job security” on steroids.

I have never told anyone the things I have just told you about my experiences with the VAMC. The main reason is because nothing would ever get done about it and that’s the truth. As other veterans can attest to, I’m sure they have experienced far worse things than I have.

That’s what we veterans get for serving our nation faithfully.  ”Shut up….sit down…. take a number and maybe we’ll see you before you die.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, if you want to hear something really scary. That’s what the future of medicine in the U.S. is headed towards in the next ten years if Obamacare is not repealed.

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Fri, 23 May 2014 21:00:02 GMT

Doing The Laundry Without A Washing Machine…Or Electricity

 

Mondays was washing day. It was a big job and organisation was the only way to get everything done and still have time for everything else.

I had two large laundry coppers, like large round copper half barrels. Under one was a fire box, the other had no way of heating the water.  Both coppers had a mangle on them. A mangle is a wringer, two tubes squeeze water out of the clothes when you turn the handle. To go with the coppers there was five large galvanized metal pails.

The coppers would be filled with water the night before so I didn’t have to haul all the water myself, and the buckets would be filled and stood in a line.

On a Monday morning I would light the fire under the hot copper. The children would have pulled the sheets and pillow cases off their beds and dumped them by the back door ready to be washed. After getting them off to school I would go up and make the beds and find any washing that had been left behind. All of it would get thrown down the stairs.

The bedrooms would be tidied and dusted and then the stairs swept on my way down. All the laundry at the bottom would be taken to the back door and sorted into piles.

I would check the heat of the water and when it was ready add some soap flakes and the least soiled of the light coloured pile of laundry. This would get bashed around by my dolly, a wooden pole with three smaller thicker rounded lumps of wood at the bottom of it.After a good bashing they would be put through the mangle. The clothes would be squeezed through the rollers and drop into the cold copper for rinsing.

The fire under the hot copper would be stoked if need be, and the next lot would go in, again the lightest and least soiled stuff.

After a couple of loads the rinse water gets a little soapy so a couple of buckets of water would be drained off and tipped into the hot copper. Fresh water from the pails would go into the cold copper. The clothes that were rinsed would be squeezed and hung out to dry, the line ran the length of the garden and was alongside the narrow path that lead down to the outhouse. The clothes were heavy and the line would be propped up high with a forked ended pole Ern had made.

If I came across anything with a stain I would give it a scrub before putting it in the wash and leaving it to soak awhile.

The last load would be work clothes and stuff that the boys had got really dirty. They would go into the hot copper and be left to soak.  It could take quite a while to get heavy soil out so whilst they were in the wash I would go and clean the downstairs of the house before the children got home.

The evening meal on a Monday was always leftovers from Sunday, that saved a good deal of time. I would put whatever we were having on the range or in the oven and lay out the table for when they all came home starving.

Going back to the washing I would use the dolly again and then give the clothes a scrub before getting them rinsed and on the line. Often the first stuff pegged out would be dry so that would get taken inside and folded into one of two baskets, ironing and no ironing. I liked the no ironing basket to be full and the ironing basket to be empty but it never came out like that.

Washing done the water would be put onto the vegetables and the last pail of clean water would be used to rise out the coppers, with that watering the veggies as well when I drained it out.

Ern and the boys would bring the coppers back into the scullery when they got home, which was usually within an hour of me finishing the laundry.

This way of doing things worked very well when the weather was good, but on wet days the scullery would be an inch deep in water and there would be wet washing everywhere. On days like that we had to dry it indoors, on wooden airers that we stood in front of the range. It often took two full days and nights in winter to get it all dry.

When I watch the modern washing machines whizzing around I am amazed how they can do in an hour or so what used to take me a full day, and then some if it was wet.

I would have really liked to have had a washing machine life would have been very much easier with a washing machine. That said what I really would have liked to have  is fabric softener, I think fabric softener is a wonderful invention, our clothes were often hard and scratchy, especially when they were dried by the fire.

We were lucky though. We had the coppers, many folks had to stoop over a regular tin bath and they often never had a mangle, now that really would have been hard work.

Regards

Maud

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Fri, 23 May 2014 18:00:37 GMT

Overmedicated from the cradle: More than 10k US 2 and 3 year olds prescribed drugs for ADHD

 

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Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that doctors are prescribing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication to more than 10,000 American toddlers between the ages of two and three.

According to a report by the New York Times, these prescriptions are being granted despite the fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics does not even broach the subject of ADHD medication in children. In fact, the guidelines are notably absent regarding ADHD in children under four years old in general, due to the difficulty of diagnosing the disorder.

“Developmentally, you’re supposed to be scattered and disorganized as a toddler,” Dr. Nancy Rappaport of the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School told local CBS affiliate WBZ-TV.

Without taking the time to properly observe and determine whether a toddler has ADHD, doctors could be offering children dangerous prescriptions that will affect them for the rest of their lives.

“People prescribing to 2-year-olds are just winging it. It is outside the standard of care, and they should be subject to malpractice if something goes wrong with a kid,” said behavioral pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Diller to the Times.

During their study, researchers at the CDC assembled data from Medicaid claims in Georgia as well as claims from the research firm MarketScan. By applying the state’s rates of medication in toddlers aged two and three – typically considered to match up with rates around the US – the agency’s Susanna Visser was able to estimate the number of medicated infants across the country.

“If we applied Georgia’s rate to the number of toddlers on Medicaid nationwide, we would expect at least 10,000 of those to be on ADHD medication,” Visser told the Times.

If the information from MarketScan was also applied, that number would jump by another 4,000.

Some of the drugs used include Adderall and methylphenidate (Ritalin), but only Adderral has been approved by the FDA for children under six years of age. Use of methylphenidate could be linked to some studies showing its potential on younger children, but it is still not authorized for kids under age four by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

“Under six years old, you give a child a medication, they are exquisitely sensitive to medications so they may be more likely have irritability, trouble sleeping and you’re not addressing the difficulty of a child concentrating,” Rappaport said to WBZ.

Even doctors who said they could understand why a small number of children would be prescribed ADHD medication stated that adjusting home life should be the first priority. The sheer number of young children on medication suggests, however, that many doctors and parents are looking to take the easy way out.

“Some of these kids are having really legitimate problems,” Dr. Doris Greenberg told the Times. “But you also have overwhelmed parents who can’t cope and the doctor prescribes as a knee-jerk reaction. You have children with depression or anxiety who can present the same way, and these medications can just make those problems worse.”

This isn’t the first time that ADHD treatment has come under scrutiny. As RT reported late last year, the authors of the primary study promoting medication over behaviorally therapy now have serious reservations about their initial findings. While medication is proven to be cheaper than therapy – which is not always sufficiently covered by insurers – it can also produce side effects such as anxiety, depression, insomnia, and even addiction.

“I hope it didn’t do irreparable damage,” said one of the study’s co-authors, Dr. Lilly Hechtman of Montreal’s McGill University.“The people who pay the price in the end is the kids. That’s the biggest tragedy in all of this.”

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Overmedicated from the cradle: More than 10k US 2 and 3 year olds prescribed drugs for ADHD
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If you believe this, I have a bridge you need to buy; US Secretary of War Says ‘New World Order Being Built’ to Do Good

 

A public admission by a politician that a New World Order is under construction should leave us all more worried than when we woke up this morning. The elite are becoming more blatant, bolder both in words and actions, as they move towards their goal of a One World Government.

“During an event honoring the 223rd anniversary of Poland’s constitution last night — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said we are seeing a new 21st century world order being built and although there are conflict and complications, there’s still hope.”

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Fri, 23 May 2014 14:00:31 GMT

The single most dangerous question to Obama about Benghazi

 

By Douglas J. Hagmann

Although numerous unanswered questions continue to plague the Obama White House about the criminal and murderous events of the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012, there is one single question that needs to be asked with absolute precision and answered with authenticated specificity.

It is the question that Obama and a very small contingent of his innermost circle fear the most, for it is my professional investigative assessment, based on insider information, that the answer to this question alone will cause the immediate demands for the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama. It is this precise question:

Where exactly within the White House was Barack Hussein Obama, from the time he left the Oval Office at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET, until the following day when he boarded Air Force One destined for Las Vegas, who was he with, and what were the exact nature of his activities during this period?

Unfortunately, I have significant doubts that specific answers to this multi-part question, subject to verification by Secret Service logs, will be forthcoming or cross-referenced with other internal White House logs and other records that are known to be kept and maintained. I also have serious doubts that the Select Committee will press the issue beyond any vague, superficial and peripheral testimony offered by those called before the investigative body.

It is this one particular question—and a complete, truthful and verifiable answer—that has the ability to completely change the perception of events that have been carefully crafted like a cheap paint-by-numbers picture set suitable for children 8-12 years of age.

Just where was the Commander-in-Chief while Americans were fighting for their lives and awaiting assistance that would never arrive? We now know where he wasn’t, which was in the White House situation room. What activities could possibly take precedence over even a brief “pop-in” to the Situation Room for a strategic, election year photo-op? Think about that and all that it implies for a moment.

Based on information supplied to me by two insider sources, the truthful answers to this multi-part question will never be disclosed—ever. Based on one DC insider who is legally muzzled by multiple national security secrecy oaths, “negotiations” are in progress (or perhaps complete) to make certain the committee will stay away from this question beyond a very narrow line of inquiry. This explains the ostensible partisan cooperation under the direction of Nancy Pelosi, according to my source. There is immense pressure being forced upon the committee chair and others to stay away from this line of questioning beyond the requisite superficiality designed for our entertainment.

Moreover, I have been informed that the Secret Service logs, White House visitor logs, and cross-referencing records “including and especially of those individuals present in the private presidential quarters that would identify the names, ages and alleged purpose for their presence” will never be remitted, at least not in their original form, if at all. Furthermore, any answers relating to this question by witness testimony will not be properly reconciled with any documentation at the depth required.

Robert “Tosh” Plumlee, CIA whistle blower, posed 11 questions about Benghazi to elected officials from both political parties and received no responses in return. I pose one, publicly, for it is the truthful answer to this question that is, and forever will be, the “third rail” of the deepest recesses of insider knowledge.

Wait. Watch. And mark my words.

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Thu, 22 May 2014 23:00:35 GMT

TRAITORS!!! - Congress reaffirms indefinite detention of Americans under NDAA

 

The US House of Representatives approved an annual defense spending bill early Thursday after rejecting a proposed amendment that would have prevented the United States government from indefinitely detaining American citizens.

An amendment introduced in the House on Wednesday this week asked that Congress repeal a controversial provision placed in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that has ever since provided the executive branch with the power to arrest and detain indefinitely any US citizen thought to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda or associated organizations.

“This amendment would eliminate indefinite detention in the United States and its territories,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington), a co-author of the failed amendment, said during floor debate on Wednesday, “So basically anybody that we captured, who we suspected of terrorist activity, would no longer be subject to indefinite detention, as is now, currently, the law.”

“That is an enormous amount of power to give the executive, to take someone and lock them up without due process,” Smith added. “It is an enormous amount of power to grant the executive, and I believe places liberty and freedom at risk in this country.”

Pres. Barack Obama vowed when he signed the 2012 NDAA into law on December 31, 2011 that he would not use the indefinite detention powers provided to him by Congress. When that provision was challenged in federal court, however, the White House fought back adamantly and appealed a District Court ruling that initially reversed the indefinite detention clause, eventually sending the challenge to the Supreme Court where it stalled until earlier this month with the justices there said they would not consider the case.

The bill sponsored by Smith and co-author Rep. Paul Broun (R-Georgia) would have given the legislative branch a chance to repeal the same provisions that SCOTUS declined to hear, but the bipartisan amendment failed on a vote of 191 to 230.

A separate proposal from Rep. Smith meant to expedite the shut-down of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was also rejected early Thursday; an amendment from Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Florida) intended to cut federal funding for recreational facilities at Gitmo, however, was approved in the NDAA draft that left the House on Thursday.

On Twitter, Smith said he was “disappointed” but “won’t stop fighting to pass this critical legislation.”

Disappointed my amndts to #CloseGitmo &end #indefinitedetention failed in the #NDAA. I won't stop fighting to pass this critical legislation

— Rep. Adam Smith (@RepAdamSmith) May 22, 2014

And while the White House is unlikely to abandon its own fight with regards to keep the indefinite detention provision intact, the Obama administration threatened to vote this year’s NDAA because it would continue to complicate the president’s promise to close the Guantanamo Bay facility — a vow older than his own administration.

“If this year’s Defense Authorization bill continues unwarranted restrictions regarding Guantanamo detainees, the president will veto the bill,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement Wednesday evening.

When the 2011 NDAA passed Congress with the controversial indefinite detention provision included, the White House said at the time that it would veto the legislation before Pres. Obama eventually balked.

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MUST MUST WATCH!!! Judge Jeanine: War heroes don’t leave men to die

 

The VA is a hotbed of corruption

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California Cops Fatally Shoot Man Who Witnesses Say Was Backing Away From Them

 

“They killed Osman like a dog as he lay on the ground. Why are we to trust them investigating themselves? Why does it take so many bullets to the head to subdue a man who is already lying on the ground? Osman’s life had value. We want the truth,”

Once again  a fatal police shooting is in the limelight. Police officers in Salinas, California responded to a call of a man exposing himself, and of attempted to break into a property.

From the point they initiated contact with the man, the police statements and the witness statements start to deviate…ending up as nothing even remotely similar to each other.

The Monterey County Herald quoted Salinas police Cmdr. Vince Maiorana as saying that the man was initially unresponsive when police tried to approach him about the alleged attempted break-in, then began to act strangely:

“Officers end up talking to this individual, trying to find out what he’s doing and what the situation was based upon the original 911 call,” Maiorana said. ”This individual started to wave the gardening shears at the officers. We tried to deploy a Taser; the Taser did not work and as the officers tried to detain this individual, this individual pulled the gardening shears and actually attacked the officers with the gardening shears.

“In response, the officers, fearing for their personal safety, shot this individual and he is now deceased.”

Cell phone video footage obtained by The Herald  shows that two officers with guns drawn and only a few feet away from the man fired four or five shots in broad daylight on Tuesday in a commercial part of Salinas, a town of roughly 154,000.

“There’s some split-second decisions that have to be made by the officer,”Maiorana told the Herald.”When the officer commanded this individual to drop the shears and to get down on the ground, this individual actually attacked the officer with the gardening shears.”

Now witnesses give quite a different version of events. They say the taser did work, and that Osman Hernandez was on the ground, stunned from the taser when the police officers opened fire.

“They killed Osman like a dog as he lay on the ground. Why are we to trust them investigating themselves? Why does it take so many bullets to the head to subdue a man who is already lying on the ground? Osman’s life had value. We want the truth,”

A KSBW report added that the one eyewitness told the network that Hernandez was on the ground and stunned from the Taser when police fired no fewer than four shots.

The shooting happened outside the Y Delicia’s Bakery at Sanborn Plaza. It was the third fatal officer-involved shooting in Salinas this year and the second one in the last two weeks.

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California Cops Fatally Shoot Man Who Witnesses Say Was Backing Away From Them
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