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how off a i on this?
This morning there was a post a vidwo between steward shouting at bill kristol
I read some of the pretty smug responses to Jon Stewarts so called victory over the big bad bill Kristal I wondered why Kristal did not explain that the health care the government offers soldiers tend to be for war wounds. like for shrapnel. TBI’s patch them up until they can get someplace else, do you live in a war zone started by the country that sent you over there. You are darn tight the deserve the vey best if you want to compare check the mixed perception and quality problems with the V.A, a quasi government agency that has screwed things up real well if the Commander in chief sends you to a place where you are being blown up in pieces yes you do deserve a better health care system. .
Does your community have this Many men dying by month
J F M A M J JU A
86 85 82 117 131 108 89 88
S O N D YEAR END 2007 DEAD
70 40 40 25 961
Soldies sent out in harms wat by rgeir government the government has a fifferent relationhip with them I might be wrong mat be you live in a war zone sales between Kohls and wal mart be careful.
I read some of the pretty smug responses to Jon Stewarts so called victory over the big bad bill Kristal I wondered why Kristal did not explain that the health care the government offers soldiers tend to be for war wounds. like for shrapnel. TBI’s patch them up until they can get someplace else, do you live in a war zone started by the country that sent you over there. You are darn tight the deserve the vey best if you want to compare check the mixed perception and quality problems with the V.A, a quasi government agency that has screwed things up real well if the Commander in chief sends you to a place where you are being blown up in pieces yes you do deserve a better health care system. .
Does your community have this Many men dying by month
J F M A M J JU A
86 85 82 117 131 108 89 88
S O N D YEAR END 2007 DEAD
70 40 40 25 961
Soldies sent out in harms wat by rgeir government the government has a fifferent relationhip with them I might be wrong mat be you live in a war zone sales between Kohls and wal mart be careful.
Did you hear that the Republican Nat'l Party has..
...been allowing it's health care benefit to include paying for abortions, both elective and non-elective for 18 years???? To me, that's laughable. Here we have the party of unborn babie's rights actually PAYING for abortions for it's employees, through their health care coverage.
I would LOVE to know how many abortions were performed for that group in those 18 years... wouldn't you?
I would LOVE to know how many abortions were performed for that group in those 18 years... wouldn't you?
9/11 First Responders
I didn't know this: "Decent People Who Feel Forgotten"
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All the money the U.S. is spending on criminal wars and we can't take care of heroes, be they first responders, fire fighters, G.I.s, nurses, or what. Howcum?
I remember lying on the floor of a fitness center looking up at two first responders. It was really nice to see them. I actually said "Thanks for coming".
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All the money the U.S. is spending on criminal wars and we can't take care of heroes, be they first responders, fire fighters, G.I.s, nurses, or what. Howcum?
I remember lying on the floor of a fitness center looking up at two first responders. It was really nice to see them. I actually said "Thanks for coming".
FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts
WASHINGTON – Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
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Today...
TODAY...
posted about 21 hours ago, updated about 17 hours later
Today I buried my father. He was 83 years old, a WW2 combat veteran, and a partially disabled man who worked every day of his life until he was forced to retire. He had Alzhiemer's disease.
I couldn't afford to get him into a decent, private, for-hire nursing home and had to put him on state assistance. He was a proud man and wouldn't have wanted that if he was aware that I had done it. Luckily, he wasn't.
There was a V.A. program, that he was eligible for, that would have funded his entry into a decent for-hire facility, but the V.A. ran me around with red tape and unending forms untill it was too late for my dad to access the program. This is because the V.A. is chock-filled with self-serving pieces of shit whose only concern is their precious beaurocratic jobs. They are less than useless and weren't, and aren't, good enough to breath the same air as my dad. Luckily, this problem has been solved, for my dad, today.
I wrote Senator Kennedy who was working on my dad's case until the time of his own death. I also contacted my congressman but it seems that no one can tell the almighty V.A. what to do, even congressmen and senators.
With this as a backdrop I'd like to offer the following opinions and suggestions. I would like to see the V.A. closed permanently and simply replaced with a credit card that says "V.A." on one side.
A small cadre of retired veterans, and veterans only, would handle any administration needed. All administration would be kept to the barest minimum. Their only job would be to dispense, without question other than veteran's status, monies needed by veterans for health (any hospital, any problem), education (any school the veteran is able to qualify for academically), and housing (co-sign any loan, at any bank, for a modest first home).
If I was President, a Senator, or a Congressman, this is what I'd propose immediately. It would automatically remove duplicitous spending of now precious tax money on clerks and no-talent so-called executives who do everything within their self-serving power to deny benifits to veterans. Ask any veteran what they think of the V.A. if you doubt me.
So, if you agree with me, please call, write, or email your Senator or Congressman and relate this story and any of your own that you might have. My dad drove Higgins boats onto the beaches of Normandy at age seventeen, with bullets wizzing by him, so that you and I could keep the freedom of speech that it took to write this!
posted about 21 hours ago, updated about 17 hours later
Today I buried my father. He was 83 years old, a WW2 combat veteran, and a partially disabled man who worked every day of his life until he was forced to retire. He had Alzhiemer's disease.
I couldn't afford to get him into a decent, private, for-hire nursing home and had to put him on state assistance. He was a proud man and wouldn't have wanted that if he was aware that I had done it. Luckily, he wasn't.
There was a V.A. program, that he was eligible for, that would have funded his entry into a decent for-hire facility, but the V.A. ran me around with red tape and unending forms untill it was too late for my dad to access the program. This is because the V.A. is chock-filled with self-serving pieces of shit whose only concern is their precious beaurocratic jobs. They are less than useless and weren't, and aren't, good enough to breath the same air as my dad. Luckily, this problem has been solved, for my dad, today.
I wrote Senator Kennedy who was working on my dad's case until the time of his own death. I also contacted my congressman but it seems that no one can tell the almighty V.A. what to do, even congressmen and senators.
With this as a backdrop I'd like to offer the following opinions and suggestions. I would like to see the V.A. closed permanently and simply replaced with a credit card that says "V.A." on one side.
A small cadre of retired veterans, and veterans only, would handle any administration needed. All administration would be kept to the barest minimum. Their only job would be to dispense, without question other than veteran's status, monies needed by veterans for health (any hospital, any problem), education (any school the veteran is able to qualify for academically), and housing (co-sign any loan, at any bank, for a modest first home).
If I was President, a Senator, or a Congressman, this is what I'd propose immediately. It would automatically remove duplicitous spending of now precious tax money on clerks and no-talent so-called executives who do everything within their self-serving power to deny benifits to veterans. Ask any veteran what they think of the V.A. if you doubt me.
So, if you agree with me, please call, write, or email your Senator or Congressman and relate this story and any of your own that you might have. My dad drove Higgins boats onto the beaches of Normandy at age seventeen, with bullets wizzing by him, so that you and I could keep the freedom of speech that it took to write this!
wjuy do they join?
As a westerner I probably could never understand the attraction of the Taliban and their value system Yong men seem to be attracted to joining. As far as I know they have a belief in establishing sharia law. Now sharia states that all citizens are entitled to five rights: life intellect, family, property and religion. But as soon as they move into an area they twist this no woman can receive an education men have to have beards the use of punishment is severe to the point of being crazy. They do this every area they move onto my question then what is the attraction?
(As a comparison)I can partially understand back in the year 400 why the church was attractive. In an era where there was gross inequality Its main message was “everyone is equal in the eyes of the lord” so slaves and the poor were the initial members. I never ever understood why people of wealth back then would join.
(As a comparison)I can partially understand back in the year 400 why the church was attractive. In an era where there was gross inequality Its main message was “everyone is equal in the eyes of the lord” so slaves and the poor were the initial members. I never ever understood why people of wealth back then would join.
