posted on March 1, 2007 07:03:27 PM newgo preach to sybil. she posts her ebay userid here....as has rustygumbo.
Are they stupid? You didn't answer that question either. tsk tsk tsk
Oh wise one of the internets...Giving out an ebay user id is not the same as giving out ones email address. You can not get a person's ebay ID by doing an email search. One of the ways you can get a person's contact information is by winning their auction. In this case the seller would have your contact information and you would have the seller's contact information.
So what did you get in return by giving out your email address? NOTHING.
I hope you sleep well at night that all someone needs to do is pay $39.95 to do an internet search to get your personal information because you just happened to share your email address to everyone.
Does that answer your question?
Now I have one for you. ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER?
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on March 1, 2007 08:45:41 PM new
What did I get? I got a very nice exchange with a person I respect. She knows what DECENCY is all about. Obviously you DON'T.
Pay your $39.99 lol and see what you find out about me. LOL LOL LOL Won't be a thing. But I'd love it for you to waste your money proving to even more people just how SICK you really are.
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And just for the record.....<SIGH> sybil is posting a quote....pretending it's something I said...when I NEVER did.
But that's our sybil....always posting lies...always making things up....always DISTORTING things I have said. tsk tsk tsk
posted on March 2, 2007 05:42:43 AM new
Yes, linduh you said that. You posted it.
I am not lying. I have posted it over and over again to show how two-faced and anti-troops you are. It's just too bad you're such a coward you can't own up to it....that doesn't make it untrue.
posted on March 2, 2007 07:42:47 AM new
Nope....you're nothing but a habitual LIAR, twister of things said and you deny the truth all the time.
tsk tsk tsk
And any honest person here KNEW that a long, long time ago.
posted on March 2, 2007 07:51:33 AM new
Don't listen to what mingopig has to say. She lies so often that she now thinks that her lies are the actual truth. Those poor folks of Marine on St. Croix having someone like mingopig among them.
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"Unfortunately there are levels of Stupid that just can't be cured!!" The current Demomoron motto.
posted on March 3, 2007 02:54:28 PM new
MORE HEADS ROLL BECAUSE OF THE POOR PLANING AND TREATMENT OF WOUNDED VETS FROM THE BUSH IRAQ WAR. REMEMBER WHEN ALL THE NEW-CONS WERE TRYING TO DOWNPLAY THIS MESS?
Army Secretary Resigns in Wake of Scandal
General Named to Lead Embattled Army Medical Center
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
AP
WASHINGTON (March 3) - It began with reports of mice and moldy plaster, but after two weeks of outrage, the scandal over poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has claimed several careers, including the secretary of the Army's.
Secretary Francis J. Harvey's abrupt dismissal Friday came under withering criticism from Pentagon chief Robert Gates, who said the Army's response to the substandard conditions for the war-wounded was defensive, and not aggressive enough.
And it left the door open for more personnel changes, as investigations continue and Congress prepares for hearings next week.
Harvey's departure was the most dramatic move during two weeks of furor over the treatment of soldiers at one of the military's highest-profile and busiest medical facilities.
President Bush has ordered a comprehensive review of conditions at the nation's network of military and veteran hospitals, which has been overwhelmed by injured troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"THIS WAR WILL LAST WEEKS NOT MONTHS" SAID BUSH AND HIS GANG.
posted on March 7, 2007 07:00:30 PM new
Bush: Troop Care Panel Will Find Truth
Wednesday, March 7, 2007 6:17 PM EST
The Associated Press
By DEB RIECHMANN
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush said Wednesday the bipartisan panel he named to investigate problems at the nation's military and veterans hospitals would work to restore confidence in the system of caring for wounded troops.
"Any report of medical neglect will be taken seriously by this administration," Bush said in an Oval Office meeting with the co-chairmen of the panel, former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and Donna Shalala, who was secretary of health and human services during the Clinton administration.
"I'm confident that this commission will bring forth the truth," Bush said.
The president announced last Friday he had ordered a comprehensive review of conditions at military and veterans hospitals, which have been overwhelmed by injured troops from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The review came in the wake of disclosures of shoddy outpatient health care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, one of the nation's premier facilities for the wars' wounded.
"Obviously, it's a tragedy," Dole told reporters outside the West Wing. He said the other seven members of the commission would be named later this week or early next week.
"Obviously somebody dropped the ball," said Dole, who as a young Army officer during World War II was grievously wounded in action in the Italian Apennine Mountains. He spent years in treatment and underwent numerous surgeries.
Shalala, currently president of the University of Miami, called the conditions at Walter Reed an "embarrassment to the country." Shalala said she could sense the president's anger about the situation.
At the Pentagon, Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was surprised and hurt by the disclosures of shabby treatment of outpatients.
"I was sick," Pace said, noting that in his many visits to wounded soldiers at Walter Reed he had not checked the housing for outpatients. He said that in the future he will do so.
WHEN IN TROUBLE ASK FOR A BIPARTISAN INVESTIGATION HOPING PEOPLE WILL FORGET BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION. BUSH "A UNITER NOT A DIVIDER" LOL
posted on March 9, 2007 04:04:21 AM new
MORE TRUTHS COME OUT ABOUT BUSHY'S POOR WAR PLANNING. OUR TROOPS ARE WALKING INJURED BUT UNTREATED WHILE LIAR_K SAY OUR WOUNDED HOMELESS TROOPS MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICES.
Military Prodded on Brain Injuries
By Gregg Zoroya
USA Today
(March 8) - The Pentagon lacks a comprehensive plan to identify and treat tens of thousands of troops who may suffer from traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq war, according to a previously undisclosed Defense Department memorandum obtained by USA TODAY.
The memo was released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Troops with mild and moderate brain injury are of greatest concern, the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, now part of a new Defense Health Board, said in the Aug. 11 memo.
The board's finding has surfaced as the Army's medical care for Iraq veterans comes under harsh criticism in Congress following disclosures by The Washington Post of soldiers facing bureaucratic delays and substandard housing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The memo said the Pentagon should take the lead in "tackling the issue of TBI (traumatic brain injury) given our current wartime challenges." It was signed by Wayne Lednar, an epidemiologist, and Gregory Poland, chief of the Defense Health Board.
"There remains a need to better understand the unique characteristics of blast-associated TBI and to reduce the health risk and complications from mild or moderate forms of brain injury," the memo said. Lednar and Poland did not return calls for comment.
The panel drafted the report after receiving evidence of traumatic brain injury during a closed hearing in March 2006.
The Pentagon's best work on TBI was on the most severe cases, the memo said. It noted that mild cases are hard to spot and can limit mental performance. Multiple concussions, the report said, can cause permanent damage.
Among the panel's recommendations: improved protective gear, standardized battlefield methods to spot brain injuries, better ways to determine when a injured soldier can return to duty and screening all returning troops for brain injury.
posted on March 12, 2007 07:25:06 PM new
US army surgeon general quits in hospital row
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Tuesday March 13, 2007
The Guardian
A scandal over hospital treatment of wounded US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan yesterday claimed the biggest scalp yet when the army surgeon-general, Lieutenant-General Kevin Kiley, was forced into early retirement.
He is the third victim of a row that has been rumbling since a detailed exposure in the Washington Post last month of the shoddy conditions wounded soldiers were living in at the military's supposed showcase hospital, the Walter Reed, in Washington.
MORE HEADS ROLL OVER POOR MEDICAL CARE FOR OUR TROOPS.
ANOTHER MAN IS RETIRED TO THE DISGRACE OF A FAILED VETS MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS.
BUSHY WILL SOON BE RETIRED LIVING IN THE DISGRACE OF A FAILED PRESIDENCY.
posted on March 13, 2007 06:25:32 AM new
Classic,
The failures of BUSHY in his IRAQ WAR along with his governments substandard health related treatment of returning troops comes to light a little at a time.
I post the new developments as they come to light.
I am looking to keep people like you that support our troops informed. I am glad you read the posts about the issues of returning troops.
Its because of people like you and I backing up and supporting our brave troops that has brought these substandard health issues to light. Now something is being done about that poorly planed situation.
OTHERWISE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE OF "STAY THE COURSE" AS I AM SURE YOU KNOW.
posted on March 13, 2007 02:22:05 PM new
MORE FACTS ARE SURFACING TODAY ABOUT THE NUMBER OF WOUNDED TROOPS. I DON'T THINK THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HAD ANY IDEA THE WOUNDED NUMBERS WERE THIS HIGH. THE NUMBERS ARE GROWING QUICKLY AS WE SEND TROOPS 2,3,AND 4 TIMES TO COMBAT.
One-quarter of Iraq, Afghanistan veterans filing injury claims
By McClatchy Newspapers Posted: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 ; Updated: 9:56 AM on Tuesday, March 13, 2007
WASHINGTON -- More than a quarter of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have filed injury claims with the government, according to an internal Department of Veterans Affairs report.
Of the nearly 690,000 veterans who served in those combat zones, more than 180,000 had filed claims by the end of last year, the report showed.
That's more than a 50 percent increase over where claims stood near the end of 2005, when the number of claims from the war was 115,000, according to the VA.
Veterans advocates said that the numbers likely would continue to climb, and not just because the number of troops has been escalating. Some soldiers wait years to file injury claims, they said, while some injuries, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, can take years to surface.
Steve Smithson, deputy director for claims at the American Legion, said the numbers "seem like a lot, but there may be a lot more. It's a cost of war that we don't always figure into the budget and we don't always realize. This is also a cost, taking care of the wounded, and we're going to be seeing more of this as the war continues."
VA spokesman Jim Benson said that every injury claim by an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran might not be a result of their deployment. The injury could have occurred either before or after they served overseas, he said.
The VA awards compensation for health problems when veterans can prove their injuries were related to their military service. Like the military's health care system for active-duty troops, the VA is under intense scrutiny in light of the treatment scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Several blue-ribbon panels are looking into how to ensure that both veterans and troops face fewer bureaucratic obstacles to treatment and benefits.
"I think Walter Reed is the tip of the iceberg," said Democratic Rep. Bob Filner of California, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. "What we saw is they were deliberately trying to keep the claims down."
The VA has granted 132,000 of the 180,000 benefit claims, which have been filed since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according to the report. The balance includes claims that have either been denied or are pending.
In 2006, the department signed off on nearly 57,000 claims -- an average of more than 150 per day.
"This is good news that VA is processing so many more claims," said Paul Sullivan, veterans advocate and former VA project manager. "However, it's ominous that the claims activity continues to surge."
posted on March 14, 2007 12:00:28 AM new
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first cowfart talks to herself,now its Bigpeepa..must be a democrap thing"""""
The neocons in here never post anything intelligent....must be a neocons thing
But I really think they are finally realizing how wrong they usually are on every issue and are too chickenship to make any comments relating to the thread.
posted on March 14, 2007 08:46:23 AM new
classic,
More new information out today about health care for our vets. I know you support our vets 100% so I hope you are calling your lawmakers demanding something be done about the vets health care crisis.
Posted on Wed, Mar. 14, 2007
VA system reaches limit, study says
Investigators say Bush effort to relieve backlog likely will be unsuccessful
By Hope Yen
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The Veterans Affairs' system for handling disability claims is strained to its limit, and the Bush administration's current efforts to relieve backlogs will not be enough to serve veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, investigators said Tuesday.
In testimony to a House panel, the Government Accountability Office and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes detailed their study into the VA's claims system in light of growing demands created by wars. They found a system on the verge of crisis because of backlogs, cumbersome paperwork and ballooning costs.
The House hearing is the latest to review the quality of care for wounded troops returning from Iraq -- from emergency medical care at military hospitals, to long-term rehabilitation at VA clinics and eventual transition to civilian life with VA disability payments.
According to their findings, the VA:
• took between 127 to 177 days to process an initial claim and an average of 657 days to process an appeal, resulting in significant hardship to veterans. In contrast, the private sector industry takes about 89.5 days to process a claim.
• had a claims backlog of roughly 600,000.
• will see 638,000 new first-time claims in the next five years because of the Iraq war -- 400,000 by the end of 2009 -- creating added costs of between $70 billion and $150 billion.
• maintained a system for determining a veteran's disability that was complex and applied inconsistently across regional centers. Results varied; for example, Salt Lake City took 99 days to process a claim, while Honolulu spent 237 days.
• had antiquated technology for processing claims, such as unreliable old fax machines.
The findings drew fire from House members. Rep. John Hall, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs subcommittee on disability assistance, floated the possibility that the Veterans Affairs Department should be merged into the Defense Department.
"When our soldiers and military personnel return home and need help, they should get the assistance they have earned without delay," said Hall, D-N.Y.
Bilmes, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who co-authored a paper on the war's economic costs with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, described a failed system that could have been prevented after years of warnings. She urged simplifying the disability ratings system, reducing time VA staff members spend documenting disabilities and conducting random audits instead.
"The veterans returning from Iraq are suffering from the same problem that has plagued many other aspects of the war, namely a failure to plan ahead," she said.
Ronald Aument, deputy under secretary for benefits at the VA, told the House panel that the department was working to shorten delays. The VA also was consolidating some processing operations and planned to add 400 new employees by the end of June.
"Expediting the claims process is critical to assisting veterans in their transition from combat operations back to civilian life," Aument said.
"If anything the recent Walter Reed expose has taught us is that trying to treat and care for soldiers and veterans on a limited budget and limited oversight only has one logical conclusion, poor care," said Patrick Campbell, legislative director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.
Daniel Bertoni, an acting director at the GAO, Congress' investigative arm, said the VA system has been riddled with problems for years. "After more than a decade of research, we have determined that federal disability programs are in urgent need of attention and transformation," he said.
Are YOU a Bunghole?