Watchdog questions security at U.S. Embassy in Kabul?

There is just soooo very much wrong with this story! I'd like to think that most people would recognize right off the top the most grievous of the wrongs. But as I am wont to do, I fear that some might be overlooked. So, I'll list some of them, but certainly not all! I don't have the mental fortitude.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overwork, language barriers and obscene, drunken behavior among guards at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan is causing a breakdown in discipline that is jeopardizing security, a watchdog group said on Tuesday.

The nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight sent U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a letter documenting complaints about guards working for ArmorGroup, North America, and photos of nearly naked men behaving lewdly at their camp.

"These are very serious allegations and we are treating them that way," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said at a briefing, adding the issue had been turned over to the department's inspector general.

Kelly was unable to say if the State Department was satisfied with ArmorGroup's performance or when the documents were sent to the inspector general. He said the State Department had "zero tolerance for the type of conduct that is alleged in these documents."

Pictures obtained by POGO showed guards, barely dressed in G-string style outfits, dancing around a bonfire and urinating while others snapped photographs. Video showed them pouring alcohol down the bare backside of a new recruit and trying to drink it as it spilled from the recruit's buttocks.

ArmorGroup, North America, a subsidiary of Wackenhut Services Inc., had no immediate comment on the letter or the allegations. The firm employs 450 guards to provide security at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul under a five-year, $189 million contract with the U.S. State Department.

O.K. Take a deep breath.

First, the staff is so thin that maintaining security with the personnel on hand is causing sleep deprivation? At a U.S. Embassy?

And what few, sleep deprived personnel they DO HAVE can't even communicate with each other due to language barriers?

And to blow off steam and have some fun, these protectors, these soldiers, these man's men run around in G-strings drinking liquor off of their buddies ASSES?!!!!

And the company running the show is called WACKENHUT, for Pete's sake? Who the hell couldn't have seen a problem with this coming a mile away? Sounds like the wacko's are certainly whacking each other off... I mean since they can't understand what each other are saying, why not? The universal language of man love.

Don't get me wrong, I don't personally care who you love or how you do it. But there is a time and a place for everything. A fucking war zone just doesn't strike me as the place to be holding man orgies! Of course, I could just be a prude. But I kind of doubt it in this circumstance.

But do you know what the most disturbing thing about this whole story is? THAT WE EVEN HAVE AN EMBASSY IN KABUL OF THIS MAGNITUDE! If the damned thing wasn't there, we wouldn't have the conditions that make this kind of embarrassing behavior even possible!

The reason that they have a "Lord of the Flies" mentality there is because that is the mentality of their bosses HERE!

I'm officially disgusted.

Missouri school district bans t-shirts for acknowledging evolution.

Missouri school district bans t-shirts for acknowledging evolution.

T-shirts worn by members of the Smith-Cotton High School band have been recalled by the school district because they contained images of evolution. The t-shirts featured an image of a monkey holding a brass instrument and progressing through various stages of evolution until eventually becoming a human. “I was disappointed with the image on the shirt,” said Sherry Melby, a band parent who teaches in the district. “I don’t think evolution should be associated with our school.” Assistant superintendent Brad Pollitt explained that the t-shirts were banned because they were imposing on religious views:

Though the shirts don’t violate the school’s dress code, Pollitt noted that the district is required by law to remain neutral on religion.

“If the shirts had said ‘Brass Resurrections’ and had a picture of Jesus on the cross, we would have done the same thing,” Pollitt said.

Law professor Jonathan Turley notes, “Evolution is not a religious issue. Extremists want to make evolution into a religious question, but it is not.”

This is the ignorance, prejudice, and denial that we live with every day! Amazing!

Taking a Bigger Cut of YOUR Tax Dollars. For what?

Just so you know how much it costs you for the state to keep you "safe" from all those pot smokers, drunks, dead beat dads, and other assorted threats upon the very fabric of society, we present you with...
THE CHART

(this is a state by state chart that shows how much percentage of your taxes goes to the Prison Industry)

And if you think that they are not getting rich off of your collective paranoia, well,... I've got some beach front property in New Mexico that I'll sell ya REAL CHEAP!

If you need proof that the U.S. is becoming a prison based society, look no further than http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence/imprisonment

Imprisonment

The proportion of the population imprisoned in a society is influenced by four things: crime rates, conviction rates, the tendency to give prison sentences rather than fines or community service, and the lengths of prison sentences. Some societies use imprisonment far less, and when they do imprison people, they put more emphasis on training and rehabilitation so that re-offending rates are also lower.

In the UK, despite falling crime rates, imprisonment rates have been climbing steadily for decades leading to a crisis of prison overcrowding. In the USA only about 12% of the growth in prison populations is due to an increase in crime. In both countries the rise in prison populations over recent decades seems to be primarily the result of more punitive sentencing.

The USA imprisons people at 14 times the rate of Japan, and even within the USA there are big differences, Louisiana imprisons people at a rate six times higher than Minnesota. In a study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, we have found strong links between imprisonment and income inequality - both internationally and among the 50 US states. We also found that the more equal US states, with lower homicide rates, are less likely to retain the death penalty. The graph below shows the international data.

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For more information:

Wilkinson RG, Pickett KE. The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others. Social Science and Medicine 2007; 65: 1965-78 .

The Sentencing Project

The Crime and Society Foundation

The Long Strange Posthumous Life of Leon Trotsky

(EdgeLeft is an occasional column by David McReynolds, it can be circulated without further permission)

The Long Strange Posthumous Life of Leon Trotsky

Historically the Socialist Party USA had two major splits. The first was after the Russian Revolution, when there was an international split in all socialist parties between those who accepted the leadership of Lenin's Third International and those who didn't. In the US, Debs, who had proclaimed himself "a Bolshevik from the tip of my head to the tips of my toes" -- reflecting the overwhelming international support for the Russian Revolution -- then led the Socialist Party in rejecting Lenin's "21 demands".

There followed the split which led to the formation of the Communist Party. The second major split - (actually two in almost one year) - was the right wing split in 1936 by the Social Democratic Federation which wanted to support Roosevelt, breaking with Norman Thomas, and the split by the Socialist Workers Party which, under James Cannon, had entered the Socialist Party and then in 1937 split, taking much of the youth of the Socialist Party with it.

By the 1960's (in fact even by 1951, when I joined the Socialist Party) both the Socialist and Communist Parties were shadows of the past, battered by various currents. The Communist Party was never able to build a mass base here after the Cold War began - Communism was seen not simply as "radical" but as "treasonous". The Socialist Party, in no small part because, fearful it might be accused of being communist, spent too little time on what it favored, and too much time making sure its skirts were clean. (There is nothing simple about this - the Communist Party always had internal dissent, and there was a serious left wing in the Socialist Party, which I joined when I came into the SP).

Thus when we leap forward to the "final split" in the SP in 1972 we are talking about midgets. Max Shachtman took out his people to form the Social Democrats USA (actually, he had the majority at the 1972 convention, so for a brief moment he was the SP - it is ironic that it is Shachtman's group which has since totally vanished). Michael Harrington finally broke with Shachtman and split to form the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee which morphed into today's Democratic Socialists of America. The remnants of the old Socialist Party, some on the left, some on the right, regrouped under Frank Zeidler in 1973 to form what is today the Socialist Party USA, and which is, pretty much, the legitimate heir to the party of Debs and Thomas. (It is under the banner of this group that I ran for President in 1980 and 2000).

In the real world nothing is static. The Socialist Party, which has about 1,000 members, has attracted newer members who are not aware of the history, and whose radicalism includes an admiration to Lenin and Trotsky. The SP is not anywhere near another split - only genuine Trotskyist groups can split when they have less than a 1,000 members. But I've been fascinated by this odd posthumous life of Trotsky, and want to reflect on it here.

There really aren't any Leninists running around - there are lots of people who belong to "Marxist/Leninist" groups, such as the Communist Party, but there are simply not a dozen different Marxist/Leninist groups in this country. There are large numbers of socialists who are not even aware that there was a Marxist tradition before Lenin, and independent of Lenin. There must be a few Stalinist groups, I am sure I could find them on google, but not even the Communist Party today counts as Stalinist. Stalin has almost no heirs. In fact, the interesting thing about Stalin is that almost no one wanted to duplicate his politics. The Japanese and Italian Communist Parties broke with Moscow very early, not long after Tito had taken Yugoslavia out of the "Communist Bloc". Mao (a man Stalin once thought might best be "eliminated") defied Stalin almost from the beginning. The Vietnamese were careful, in taking aid from both China and the Soviet Union, not to duplicate the Soviets in their own political patterns (there were never any purge trials in Vietnam to equal those in the Soviet Union). And Cuba stands almost in its own tradition, bending to Russia when it depended of Moscow's aid, but building on Cuba's own traditions.

It was as if everyone looked at Stalin and thought "there is a lot there we don't want to repeat". Even the Soviets, to the astonishment of the West, broke with their own "tradition" when Stalin died, and, after the murder of Beria, allowed a peaceful transfer of power to Khrushchev.

But Trotsky while dead, is still very much alive. Sometimes as a ghost on the far right - Max Shactman became the first true neo-conservative, embracing the system. His followers took key positions in the Reagan Administration and in the right wing of the Democratic Party. Younger readers may find it hard to believe (I admit that even I do) that Shachtman, who went into the Communist Party in its early years, traveled to the Soviet Union, was a significant leader of the American Communist Party, ended his life supporting the US invasion of Cuba (the Bay of Pigs), the US invasion of Indochina, shifted from a position critical of Israel to one of fervent support of Israel. I knew Shachtman well, and while I didn't like the man, or trust him, I would never have thought he would have ended in the camp of the enemy.

The original Trotskyist movement in this country formed in the late 1920's, headed by James Cannon and Max Shachtman. It was authentically revolutionary, had an honorable tradition of work in the trade union movement. It reflected the international split, following Lenin's death, between Stalin, the General Secretary of the Soviet Party, and Trotsky, the brilliant, courageous military leader of the Red Armies. Stalin insisted that a world revolution was not in the cards history had dealt, that the only hope was to build "socialism in one country". Trotsky, by far the more revolutionary, and internationalist, argued that "socialism in one country" would become bureaucratic, militarized, and fatally "deformed". Both men were right. There was to be no world revolution. Germany, which had a powerful socialist movement, did not have a revolution and could not rescue the young Soviet Union. Trotsky was right, the Soviet Union became a police state. There was one crucial shift, however, which caused Trotsky to the end of his life to argue that the Soviet Union had to be defended in any conflict with the West - private property had been collectivized, and the old class had been destroyed. Shachtman split over the matter of the Soviet invasion of Finland, setting up what would beome the Independent Socialist League, which lasted until it merged into the Socialist Party in 1958.

Some contempoary Trotskyist groups, such as the ISO (International Socialist Organization) represent what might be called Shachtman's radical positions of the 1950's. The official Trotskyist group, the Socialist Workers Party, long since became a cult, focused on support of Cuba largely ignoring its own Trotskyist past. There are other groups which owe a debt to Trotsky - Solidarity, while hardly an orthodox Trotskyist group, comes out of that background. New Politics, founded by Julius and Phyllis Jacobson (and a journal on which I was once a member of the editorial board) had its origins in a kind of "left Shachtmanite" position. I felt I served as the "shabbas goy" on the editorial board, since I was primarily a pacifist, and had never been a Trotskyist. At one point - and perhaps the last intellectually significant split in the Trotskyist movement - Bert Cochran formed a new publication, the American Socialist, which had a brief useful life but could not be sustained.These groups have made real contributions to the American Left.

They made, for the most part, a very serious effort to uphold the best of the Russian Revolution, while being frank about the disaster of Stalin. Some of the Trotskyists did finally face the problems inherent in Leninism, the vanguard theory of change, the concept of democratic centralism, and the fact Trotsky himself was not really any nicer than Lenin. There are always apologies made for the violent suppression of the workers uprising at Kronstadt - and I wish the Trotskyists, and Leninists, some of whom are now in the Socialist Party, would realize that if one can justify mass murder because the situation demanded it, they should be much more hesitant in writing off the Socialist Parties in the West because they, too, made compromises. I guess my question to the Leninists is why are crimes and mistakes acceptable if committed by the followers of Lenin, but not if committed by the non-Communist left. (Thus far the best answer I've heard is that in the name of the revolution, murder, while regrettable, is defensible).

The Workers World Party, formed in 1956, when the Socialist Workers Party had a split over the Hungarian Revolution, (WWP supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary) became a thorn in the side of many of us, with its range of front groups - the International Action Center, ANSWER, etc. In due time WWP had a split of its own, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, which took ANSWER with it. WWP still exists.

If one had time and the inclination, the list of those who were in the Trotskyist movement, or touched by it, is truly remarkable. Dwight Macdonald's Politics, Dissent Magazine, and literally dozens of small Trotskyist groups. My own primary mentor, A. J. Muste, was briefly - very briefly - in the Trotskyist movement. The Trotskyist movement has had one great advantage over the Communists - with very few exceptions they never actually had power. And thus they could be pure. All those who hold state power will find that it forces compromises.

So much for this very too brief run down. I have read Trotsky, and Lenin, and Stalin, and a number of others from that period. I liked Lenin and still do - I just don't agree with him. My own path led me to Gandhi. I liked Trotsky a bit less, though I concede he was brilliant. Issac Deutscher, in one of his three volumes on Trotsky, cites the case where, in one of the inner-party fights, Trotsky felt he had to make a temporary peace with Stalin. The price which Stalin exacted was that Trotsky withdraw his support from two of his own key allies. Which Trotsky did. Not surprisingly, his allies, once abandoned, sided with Stalin in the next round of in-fighting and helped seal Trotsky's fate.

All of which brings me to a deeply flawed film I rented from Netflix - Exile in Buyukada.Deeply flawed because while showing Trotsky's arrival in Turkey, where he spent the first period of his exile, the sound track, featuring a narration by the wonderful actor, Vanessa Redgrave, is "buried" under the music. There are occasional sub-titles, but essentially the film is only worth watching for the sense of that period. And it is to that sense that I now want to turn my attention, (while, by pure chance, listening to a new recording of a Shostakovitch work, featuring the Internationale).

Let's leave aside the manipulations of Shachtman, the betrayals of the Neocons, the chaos created by Workers World . . . and turn back to the events in the Soviet Union. That Trotsky would be expelled from the Communist Party and sent into exile was unthinkable. He had been essential to the revolution. He did not leave the young Soviet Union as a dissident - he left it as a believer in the revolution. He and his wife knew they faced death wherever they went, from Stalin's agents (who did finally murder him when he was in Mexico).

Trotsky had no allies within the socialist movement. He despised the socialist parties of the West. The problem was that he had no allies at all except for the opposition to Stalin which, in the Soviet Union, could not be expressed without risking certain death. In the West the Trotskyist movement was a small splinter in the side of the Communist movement, under steady ideological attack as "agents of the State". To support Trotsky was genuinely heroic - no one was going to pay you! You had no chance at career advancement. You had no allies in power anywhere in the world. The Communists would check out books by Trotsky from public libraries in order to destroy them (and I knew one Shachtmanite who checked out those same books from public libraries in order to save them from destruction - theft in the name of love).

The Communists held power in the Soviet Union. Their parties in Western Europe were strong. And strong even as far away as Indochina, and China, and Japan.

So those of us who have basic disagreements with Trotsky - essentially the same disagreements we have with Lenin - should pay the history of Trotsky some respect. He was no a democrat. It has been said, by one of those in post-Soviet Russia, that if Trotsky had won the fight against Stalin the outcome would have been just as many executions - but with a far more literary flavor. The sadness of Trotsky's life is that once the internal fight in the Soviet Union had been decided, Trotsky was an heroic but lost figure. His followers in the US ended on the subversive list, were hounded from their jobs by the FBI.

But always and always, those who took Trotsky's side cannot help but look back and think what the Soviet Union might have been if only Stalin had lost that fight. I'm very much among those who feel that American socialists need to look to American history - not Russian or Chinese or Cuban history - to chart our course. But no one who has looked back at the early part of the 20th century can fail to be thrilled by that moment when it seemed as if the workers were actually in control of history. It was this painful memory Trotsky carried with him as he began the first of his exiles in Turkey.

May I suggest - though my Trotskyist and Leninist friends will not hear me - that the greatest honor one could pay to Leon Trotsky would be to let him rest with the honor he earned. And, as he broke with Stalin, so let us break with all undemocratic efforts at revolution, which would make human beings merely "means to the end". Humanity - each life - is an end in itself. As A.J. Muste said, "there is no way to peace - peace is the way". So too, revolution begins now, as we empower ourselves to think for our own time.

(David McReynolds worked for the War Resistes League for 39 years, retired in 1999, and lives with his two cats on the Lower East Side. He is a former Chair of the War Resisters International. He can be contacted at: dmcreynolds@nyc.rr.com).

Red Flag Books?

Really?
Ever watch (or read) Fahrenheit451?
What the fuck is a "red flag" book?
One that the Nazi's don't want you to read?
Then why are they studied on college campuses?

You NEED to read The Communist Handbook on Psychopolitics.
You can get a .pdf copy by clicking the link above.

US religious Right concedes defeat

Just a jibe that a friend sent me (thanx xan). My only reservation is that we shouldn't get to comfortable with this. There are literally millions of these freaks, and that's not counting the Mujahadeen. The largest threat we have in Amerika is the Nazi walking the street beside you!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5136050/US-religious-Right-concedes-defeat.html

The Battle is Lost

I will likely cease to post to this blog. The idea that common sense could ever defeat or even coincide with Christianity is more of a fantasy than Christianity itself. Everyone that I come into contact with (and over the past two weeks, that has been more than the past two years) are so brainwashed/brain dead that they can't even think about it when they are confronted with their own double standards and opposing points of view.

In short, I bow to the masters. Mission accomplished. Your masses are indeed brain dead.

If you still give half a damn about the future and wish to understand what is already here so that you may develop strategies for resistance, YOU MUST KNOW THIS INFORMATION.

Otherwise, fuck it. Bend over. When they get done with your ass, it will be more convenient to lop off your head.

Until I decide where I will write in the future, you may be interested in Reeling in the Sneers. I even offer some tunes to tap your foot to as you contemplate the end of the world as we know it.

Oh, and Twin Rivers, I don't intend to single you out in this post. But I would love to thank you for adding to my conviction that they give authority to any moron who appears to think as 'the masters' want us to think. I have seen better run prison infirmaries. But you will get your own post in my time.

A note to international readers, http://heartlandheretic.blogspot.com/2009/03/child-molester-free-because-his-dad-is.html was made possible by Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett, MO and their ignoring every state and federal law. Just know that they protect child molesters and create drones.

But more on them later.

There is no Surviving Christianity. They have started every war since 300ad. They don't realize it because, well, their Christian. They're covered in the "blood of the lamb" and anything else that gets in their way. The wars are almost over.

Let the GENOCIDE BEGIN!

If there were some magical, mystical hand that move things for the advancement of a certain race or nationality, I would be tempted to say, "God, save us all!" But that would be like asking Santa to stop the insanity.

Veteran Health Care

In '96 I decided that I didn't want to take my HIV meds any more. When the VA called to remind me that it was time to refill, I asked them to keep them and give them to someone who could use them. I was not depressed, suicidal, nor talking of death. Only of life... for others.

In 30 minutes there was an ambulance and a couple of cops insisting that I go to the VA for "treatment". After all, I must be suicidal. They took my 200 miles straight through to St. Louis.

I have been absolutely suicidal for the past three days. The only thing that keeps me here is my disabled (blind) cat. And, of course, my goats and chickens. When I spoke with the hospital about it all, they sent a trigger happy cop who could not take his hand off of his gun and a couple of paramedics who seemed to understand.

My point? Veteran care is a myth. It is a lie designed to make you feel better about send young men off to war.

Veterans deserve care, regardless of distance. And they certainly don't need a gun shoved in their faces. And the only way to prevent this is to cease all war and to take weapons away from children who got their 'badge' out of a cracker jack box.

Cops kill. They are just itching to do so.

So, stop war and the police state.... immediately!

People from and around Cardwell/Arbyrd

Beware! Your Family is a shit wad. just read: http://www.topix.com/search/article?q=63821&x=0&y=0


What? afraid to see how you talk about each other?

And if you think the Corps didn'y kill me, join up yourself, pussy!

There is not one square inch of SEMO I would waste my time on. That's especially the people! At least you can farm the ground, the people are useless!

Jack, Fuck you.

Just a note to any who care

I am half way through the last line of defense against c.diff. It is my understanding that if it doesn't kill me, it will make me wish I were dead. A little late for that!

I believe that I have already posted when and where I contracted this disease. I have spoken with many attorneys who will not even consider representing me... nor I suppose my family.

I have also informed my readers that should anything happen to me that a message will be posted here with details. And, no, not from the grave. I do have a couple of friends.

I just want.... no, NEED everyone to know that it is capitalist Christianity that killed me and refused to take responsibility. And more importantly, YOU ARE NEXT.

Good luck to all of you. For I will be in a FAR, FAR better place. I only hope that I don't have to return to this plane for more of this same work. I'd just as soon, sleep.

Child Molester Free Because His Dad is a Cop

If you would like to see a Missouri Official State Document about a child molester that they let go because his "daddy" is a cop, Click on the Pic. Incidentally, the child that he molested and got away with was his daughter.

From Surviving Christianity

This shit happens all of the time. Cops can do what they want to do, and the privilege extends to their families.

Trust your local law enforcement at your own peril!

Oh, I almost forgot: his name is Barry Reece and he lives in Leachville, AR (Fitting name for the home of such a cretin). Of Course, you can get this info off the the document itself with the magnifying glass at the top right of your screen (after you link to the pic).

Your Health Care

How often have you heard that the fastest growing profession is in the medical field.

Now, how many times have you heard the unemployment is going up and that people are losing jobs at alarming rates.

Now, put on your thinking cap for this one!

The person who is taking your vitals at the Doctors' Office, or even worse, the folks they have back there cleaning the equipment that is about to enter your body cavities could easily be the same guy/gal that was flipping your burger or serving you fries last week.

Just think about it. Rashes of outbreaks of hospital born diseases do not simply happen by accident. But then, maybe you voted for Bush.... twice, and you'll buy any lie they serve you.

Bill O'reilly

dare we hope that we may have seen his demise?

Infections and medical errors persist in U.S. Health care system

Infections and medical errors persist in U.S. Health care system

If you have been reading my blog at all, you may detect that I am on a mission. I was infected in a procedure after being denied treatment based on an existing condition that I have. That, my friends is discrimination. The rest is medical negligence and malpractice.

The offenders thus far are:
Pemiscot Memorial Hospital 907 East Reed, Hayti, MO 63851 (573)359-1372
Abdullah Arshad Memorial 907 East Reed, Hayti, MO 63851 (573)359-3660
(Uninteligable) Oladirin 907 East Reed, Hayti, MO 63851 (573)359-3660

These are just the ones who I can identify easily. Just remember, this was a case of discrimination prior to infecting me with a life threatening disease. My c. dff is of the treatment resistant strain. (And before you start with the hypothetical, IT DOES INDEED EXISTS! Otherwise we would not be trying yet another treatment option after TWO MONTHS of an illness you would not wish on your enemy.)

Thanks Diane!

By info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports) on Health

Infections and medical errors persist in U.S. Health care system Have you or a family member acquired an infection from a hospital, or experienced a medical error while undergoing care? If so, you’re in good company—or bad company as the case may be—according to a new survey from Consumer Reports National Research Center. That nationally representative poll of 2,005 Americans found that nearly one in five, or 18 percent, say that they or a family member have contracted a dangerous infection following a medical procedure or hospital stay. What’s more, 60 percent of them say the infection was severe or life threatening. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that nearly 100,000 people die each year to such infections. And many Americans report that errors in routine medical procedures, such as lab work, CAT scans, and blood testing are common as well. More than a third of Americans believe that errors during a diagnostic procedure are very common or somewhat common. Further, thirteen percent report that their medical records have been lost or misplaced; twelve percent say that a diagnostic test was not done properly; and nine percent have had the wrong medicine filled at a pharmacy. “Healthcare-acquired infections and medical errors can devastate American families who are already struggling with the cost of health care,” said Consumers Union President Jim Guest. “These preventable errors and infections can cost families hundreds—if not thousands—of extra dollars each year, and add tens of billions of dollars to our national health care costs. It is imperative that Congress pass health care reform legislation that includes simple safety provisions to help save lives and fix our broken health care system.” —Kevin McCarthy, associate editor Read the full poll (links to PDF) and learn more about Consumers Union’s efforts to prevent hospital infections and medical errors at StopHospitalInfections.org. And we'd like to hear from you: Have you or a loved one been harmed by a hospital error or infection?

I went to the ER at the Arkansana Methodist Hospital last night

The attending was an ass. He stood at watched as I fell off of the exam table and hit the floor and then asked, " if you needed help getting down, why didn't you just ask?"

He suggested that the reason that I have c. diff and cannot find treatment for it is because I am an ass hole..... no really, he said that I am the problem!

Don't ya just love America!

Oh, as usual, I have witness to all of this!

I'm just a disgruntled kook making it all up- Vets get HIV

Veterans face HIV risk from hospital pumps

MiamiHerald.com - ‎17 hours ago‎

BY ROBERT SAMUELS Thousands of veterans who underwent certain routine medical procedures at Miami's VA Medical Center are at risk of being infected with ...

Thousands of vets at Miami VA center at risk of HIV infections USA Today

Procedure at Miami VA Medical Center may have been HIV risk Sun-Sentinel.com

HIV Risk To 3000 Vets From Non Disinfected Pumps At VA Hospital In ... Medical News Today

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VA hospital flooded with calls about hepatitis, HIV

MiamiHerald.com - ‎15 minutes ago‎

BY FRED TASKER Worried military men and women flooded Miami Veterans' Hospital telephone hot lines Tuesday after Monday's announcement that improperly ...

VA hospital in Fla. Warns patients of infectious-disease risk

SmartBrief - ‎4 hours ago‎

Officials at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Miami are urging around 3260 patients who underwent colonoscopy with improperly sterilized tools to be ...

So, even if you arent't a vet, think twice before they stick shit into you! I got c. diff. And who cares? Precisely no one. And it ain't fun being sick!

Thanks Diane.

Apparently, I am jealous of someone I know nothing about

This post is for all of you Nazi lovers. I typed the pricks name into google and didn't get one single positive statement from anyone about him. I don't know him. Actually, I only stumbled upon his name while criticizing the current US fascist regime.

So, according to all of you, he is a REALLY nice guy... who just happens to make it a habit of emulating one of the most hated men in world history.

I hate Swastikas for what they represent. I hate the confederate flag for what it represents. I pity you lovers of haters for the ignorance that you represent.

Get off my ass. I could care less what you think... unless and until it becomes the majority of people who feel as you obviously do. At which point, it will be much too late for the salvation of mankind.

You don't like what I say, start your own blog. This one is mine and I will damned well say whatever I think. I only allow your posts to my comments section to show the rest of the world how misguided you are. That and I kinda like that "free speech" thingy.

But, for Christ's sake, get your own forum to promote your hate! Quit leaching off of me!

Medicaid-almost the insurance for all most people.

Several years ago I met a doctor by the name of Abdullah Arshad. He seemed like really nice guy. And even more importantly he seemed more really nice doctor. This past winter during one of my routine office visits he announced to me, without the benefit of any form of lab work or tests that I had lymphoma.. You see I had chronic diarrhea for long as any of us could remember and I did have swollen lymph glands.. So, he decided that these were plenty enough indicators to make a diagnosis of Lymphoma,. However he decided that he wanted to have an in invasive procedures done on me know as a proctoscopy And he had to have one of his esteemed colleagues to do the procedure, a Doctor Oladeran. I had trust both of these gentleman.

On the day of the proctoscopy they all told me to be there bright and early in the morning so they could get me in early and the procedure done before anyone else. In a hospital with a bed capacity of around 90, by the time noon rolled around I began to ask what the hold up was. They had no answer. So, I insisted that if the did not have me on the table within the next 30 minutes that they could pull my IV and I would be on my way. They got me in.

Unfortunately, they claimed to have found a cancerous tumor and had to go back in. With all of the same “be here early” shit, they let me lay until 1:30PM. So, I calmly asked what the hold up was. The answer was that “due to your disease progression” and I interjected “Oh, you mean AIDS”. “ Well, because of the disease progression, they do not want to use the equipment on anyone after they use it on you.” I said, “Disconnect my IV. I am ready to go”. She said let me see what I can do. They immediately came and got me.

The cancerous tumor turned out to be a Medicaid fraud. There was no ‘tumor”.

My next meeting with Arshad, after he made me wait until all other patients had been seen at 7PM, he saw me for my 1:45pm. I insisted on a referral to a new clinic. Unfortunately, for me, that meant 200 miles away at St. Louis.

There is much more to this story. But I think this is bad enough. And it is all a Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti, MO.

And the result of both procedures is that I walked away with c. diff. The question now is how many walked away with HIV.

Message to all government agencies... and those who want to be

Arrangements have been made to continue my factual assaults against your egregious wrong doings regardless of your pending intimidation tactics against me. I will continue to report even if you find some trumped up charge with which to incarcerate a cardiac, diabetic, person living with AIDS, neuropathy, myalgia, and a host of other illnesses. But then, you may enjoy explaining why you are spending $40,000 on incarceration and at least that much on medical. Plus I get 3 hot meals and all.

Read "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau to get a hint of my inference above.

You may imprison the body, but you will only imprison the mind if I say you may.

You may not.

So, go chase Osama (oh, I forgot, he's your man!) Here's an idea! Use some of that illegal wire tap bull shit on George W. Bush, Dick (and I do mean dick) Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld. Oh, and go after that tool, Gonzolez, too! Spent our tax dollars on something worth while... like real crime. And if you can find time, fix health care... which will probably mean scrapping it. Oh, keep the buildings, just replace the staff.

I mean, think about it.... health care is the largest groing industry.... because all of the others are closing. So, we get burger flippers taking our temperature... and medical history. Now, that sends shivers up my spine!

Pemiscot Memorial Hospital

I have tons to say about this butcher factory but I will suffice it to say DON'T GO THERE FOR ANY REASON! They are filthy and apparently their autoclave doesn't work. They did not want to treat me until they treated everyone else because I have HIV. When the DID treat me, the gave me c. diff . And when I suggested that I may have it, they denied it out of hand and did no tests whatsoever.

I am sick and weak as I write this, so this will remain short. Just don't go to that hospital for any reason, unless, of course, your goal is to die. It which case, they are your go to place!

A tribute to Jeff Schoep, since I know nothing about him

An anonymous com menter called me a "fool" for apparently knowing nothing about Jeff Schoep. So, I will attempt to provide some information about this... individual. Let me preface this biographical information with a bit of personal information. Lots and lots of people believe that I am an insufferable, overbearing, self-rightious, sef-absorbed, "know it all" prick, And I can't deny that some of those adjectives may well be deserved. But no one can call me a fascist. Well, they could, but they would be lying and in dire need of facts to back up their assertions.

I will provide the most readily available information on Mr. Schoep. But something suggests to me that I may be hard pressed to find favorable descriptions of him, save any searches on white supremacist web sites. Frankly, I don't care to wade through their drivel. But I may try. Just know that I consider their opinions presented on their sites are hardly anything that I would even broadly consider "fact".

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=512

Based in Minnesota, the National Socialist Movement — which claims to be the nation's largest neo-Nazi organization, though it has only about 200 members — says members should be gainfully employed and positively contributing to society.

But as reporter Jon Tevlin discovered, the 30-year-old Schoep hardly fits that description himself, with a string of petty crimes on his record, including a felony arrest in 1998 for aiding and abetting a burglary.

According to court records, Schoep — who was unemployed at the time, and apparently still is — was arrested for accompanying the mother of his daughter when she stole $4,000 worth of computer equipment. Four children were in the back seat of the car during the burglary.

Schoep, who had become NSM commander four years before the incident, pleaded guilty and got off with probation — but not before District Judge Sharon Hall took him to task for gross hypocrisy.

The NSM, she pointed out, "does not condone fathering children around the countryside and taking no financial responsibility. And it does not condone the commission of crimes. I also know that your organization believes that there are various minority groups in this country that do that on a regular basis."

Schoep told the Star Tribune his crimes were "in the past," and claimed to be "taking care of my children." In the NSM, he insisted, "We stress legality and we're against people breaking the law" — though a registered sex offender, John Snyder, leads the Indiana chapter of the NSM, which puts a special emphasis on recruiting teenagers.

So, lemme see... unemployed, petty criminal, father of multiple children by various wives? Ideal model for a leading, law abiding citizen. (and I do have a criminal record myself!)

And if you can stomach this at all, watch him in action at http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=512

I'm sick of reaading through garbage about this piece of human garbage. So, to Anonymous who is too afraid to acknowledge their real identity who stated: you are a fool, You don't know anything about Jeff Schoep. I have one simple reply: I know plenty enough to know that he is scum. They were kinder to Sadam than the should be to this creep.

I may well be foolish is some areas, but I know a creep when I see one. Jeff Schoep, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rusmfeld, and John McCain are all cut from the same cloth. The slimy, green, stinky kind that few will even come near. That is if they have more than two wet brain cells to rub together.

Sorry for the sorry

Ya know, it is absolutely amazing what happens when you call every law maker in your state and tell them that your intent is to cease all intake of fluids and solids until they correct their ... harrumph, indiscretions in withholding medically and socially justified services.

I spent the better part of the day making such calls. Starting around 2pm calls started coming in authorizing services and authorizing medically justified treatments. Most of my grievances had been resolved by end of working hours (and a little past). Still a couple more to go, though. I am willing to bet that they will be resolved in the morning.

Honestly, though, it is a sad statement when the only thing that can resolve these issues is the threat (no, promise) that you will commit the only act of self termination that cannot be considered and treated as a psychiatric disorder: hunger and water strike.

So, as it turns out I will be able to continue my saga of a futile attempt at obtaining medical treatment and social services in a broken down social system.

A worker at my state representatives office suggested that Medicaid was better than no insurance at all. I laughed. I reminded her that I am a veteran. The implication is that I know what sorry "health insurance" is. Medicaid is actually worse than the VA. I use Medicaid so I don't have to travel across states for services. I still have to travel 200 miles for Medicaid assistance,

And we are suppose to be one of the most advanced societies in the world. I think Europeans may have a bit to say about that... but that is only an educated guess.

The FACT that I have been telling "the professionals" exactly what my chief complaint was and what caused it and that they gave my input the value of a grain of salt speaks volumes.

So, anyway, I will be here for a while longer to inform you of the exact nature of the flaws in our health care system. And I assure you that they are not going to like it. They have already been monitoring me (my statcounter logs tell me this, duh). The first time ever that a brand new machine locked up was after they viewed my blog. So, I will no longer be online as a habit but only to do my research and to post my... bitchfests.

Tune in frequently. Comment at will, even if you hate me, Hate is misguided concern,

I may just live a few more days. But then, the brown shirts may come and get me tomorrow. I will attempt to make arrangements to notify folks when that happens. I'll ask an overseas friend to make the entry. But I'll live a few more days, I'm sure... much to the chagrin of some.

Sorry for the end of the story....

I have informed my Governor's Constituent Services office that unless they address my discrimination grievances within three days that it will be to late... for me, anyway.

I have begun a hunger strike that includes the exclusion of any intake of water. That makes, by all accounts, a three day window in which they have the ability to correct their neglect and abuse.

Of course, this only matters if they indeed give a fuck.

White Supremacist or Government Sympathizer?

I apparently really pissed someone off by comparing our government to a White Supremacist Nazi.

Tough titty. If the shoe fits, wear it.

White Supremacist's suck and so does our government. I could give a long list of government agencies who practice fascist policies as it has become in vogue since 911 and before. But I shall not enumerate them here.

I will only mention a few: Dunklin County, MO Sheriff's Office (and any municipal police department in Dunklin County), Dunklin County Family Services, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Pemiscot Memorial Hospital, Bootheel Area Independent Living Services, and... ah hell, the list goes on. But that is a few.

I'll be addressing each of these in future posts. And for you commies trying to hack my machine: I'm disconnecting it from the net whenever I do not need direct access. So, you'll have to kick my door in (again) to gain access to my equipment.

One last word: Fuck you.

Snitch your brother, snitch you priest.... until the snitch on YOU!

http://miacx.org/default.aspx?menuitemid=101&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Missouri doesn't have enough snitches, so they are asking for your assistance. Just don't forget, they are the fascist enemy.

And if you think that the government won't come after me for testimonials of wrong doing

Here is an example of what these fascists will do....

Blogger claims police search of home was a threat

By Michael Ferraresi - Mar. 19, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

Police officers accused of drunken driving. A female officer's alleged promiscuity and infidelity. A commander whose critics labeled his son a child molester.

Jeff Pataky said he uses negative complaints and anonymous tips to fuel his blogging crusade against Phoenix police. A headline on his Web site suggests rewards would be provided for "dirt" on police indiscretions.

Pataky, a former software sales and marketing executive who now focuses his energy shoveling content on www.badphoenixcops.com , said he believes his online criticism of the department - along with past criticisms of police investigations - led officers to serve a search warrant at his home last week.

Police officials said Wednesday that a Phoenix detective prompted the investigation after complaining about harassment, though they declined further comment.

Pataky said he felt the investigation was a response to a lawsuit he filed on Monday in U.S. District Court saying he was maliciously prosecuted by police in 2007 after his ex-wife accused him of harassment, a case later dropped. In his lawsuit he's asking for an unspecified amount for damages. City officials declined to comment on pending litigation.

Pataky's blog is known in law-enforcement circles for its off-color language that, according to the blogger, is aimed at Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris, Maricopa County Andrew Thomas and other public officials.

"Too bad. They need to get over it," Pataky said. "They are held to a higher accountability."

Pataky said he edits the blog and works with four or five people who receive tips from a variety of sources, including sworn and retired officers.

Investigators confiscated computer material and other items from Pataky's north Phoenix home, which he considered a threat to quit writing.

"We have heard internally from our police sources that they purposefully did this to stop me," Pataky said. "They took my cable modem and wireless router. Anyone worth their salt knows nothing is stored in the cable modem."

Phoenix Assistant Chief Andy Anderson said the harassment case is unique because of the connection to an unaccredited grassroots Web site. He said the blog is one part of the case, though he did not provide specifics of the ongoing investigation.

"This isn't about the blog," Anderson said. "That's just where the investigation led."

Police also served a separate search warrant at the home of former homicide Detective David Barnes, one of the investigators on the "Baseline Rapist" case.

Barnes was demoted from the homicide unit to patrol after he went public one year ago with claims of mismanaged evidence at the city's crime lab.

Mark Spencer, president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, said he was concerned about questionable probable cause to enter Barnes' house. The union, which claims no affiliation with Pataky's blog, will represent Barnes through the internal investigation.

While I can still report this....

The Missouri Division of Health and Senior Services has visited this site and read a previous post in which I cast them in questionable light. They have been calling me all day explaining why they have no intention of helping me. And now they are trying to hack my computer.

Really nice bunch of folks.

http://www.miacx.org/(X(1)S(ikonvmejmg1vao45tb5aol45))/default.aspx?menuitemid=101&menugroup=Home-MO

"We want YOU to be our cop, too!"
Law enforcement and government are the biggest purveyors of hate and fear that the world has to offer!

The Year in Hate
Number of Hate Groups Tops 900
By David Holthouse
Illustration by Sean McCabe

	From white power skinheads decrying "President Obongo" at a racist gathering in rural Missouri, to neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen hurling epithets at Latino immigrants from courthouse steps in Oklahoma, to anti-Semitic black separatists calling for death to Jews on bustling street corners in several East Coast cities, hate group activity in the U.S. was disturbing and widespread throughout 2008, as the number of hate groups operating in America continued to rise. Last year, 926 hate groups were active in the U.S., up more than 4% from 888 in 2007. That's more than a 50% increase since 2000, when there were 602 groups. As in recent years, hate groups were animated by the national immigration debate. But two new forces also drove them in 2008: the worsening recession, and Barack Obama's successful campaign to become the nation's first black president. Officials reported that Obama had received more threats than any other presidential candidate in memory, and several white supremacists were arrested for saying they would assassinate him or allegedly plotting to do so. At the same time, law enforcement officials reported a marked swelling of the extreme-right "sovereign citizens" movement that wreaked havoc in the 1990s with its "paper terrorism" tactics. Adherents are infamous for filing bogus property liens and orchestrating elaborate financial ripoffs. Somewhat surprisingly, it wasn't just the usual suspects from the white supremacist underworld who sought to exploit the country's economic turmoil and political strife. A key 2008 hate group trend was the increasing militancy of the extremist fringe of the Hebrew Israelite movement, whose adherents believe that Jews are creatures of the devil and that whites deserve death or slavery. These radical black supremacists have no love for Barack Obama, calling him a "house nigger" and a puppet of Israel. They preach to inner-city blacks that evil Jews are solely responsible for the recession. The rhetoric of white-skinned hate group leaders in 2008 was equally alarming. Last September, for example the cover of National Socialist magazine depicted then-presidential nominee Barack Obama in the crosshairs of a scope, with the headline "Kill This Nigger?" What follows is a detailed look at the three most active and dangerous white supremacist hate group sectors in 2008: Ku Klux Klan groups, neo-Nazis, and racist skinheads. KU KLUX KLAN Ku Klux Klan groups Reversing a generally declining trend since 2000, Klan groups in the U.S. increased significantly in 2008, from 155 chapters to 186. Seventeen new chapters belong to the Brotherhood of Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (BOK), which during the past five years has grown into the largest Klan organization in the country. In 2008, the Marion, Ohio-headquartered BOK launched a handful of chapters in Canada, linking up with the Aryan Guard, a fast-growing white nationalist group based in Alberta. A smaller but likewise rapidly expanding Klan group, the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which in 2007 absorbed the National Aryan Knights, more than doubled its number of chapters and tripled its geographic reach last year, going from 11 chapters in eight states to 24 chapters in 24 states. The continued rise of the United Northern and Southern Knights and the BOK paralleled the decline of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA). Since 2005, the IKA has shriveled from 39 chapters in 26 states to just six chapters in five states. Last year, it suffered a crippling blow when a Meade County, Ky., jury delivered a $2.5 million judgment against members of the IKA, including $1 million against IKA leader Ron Edwards, in a lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of a mixed-race teenager who was assaulted by IKA thugs in Kentucky. Beyond the IKA trial, the biggest Klan story for the mainstream media in 2008 was the murder of a 43-year-old Tulsa, Okla., woman during a backwoods Klan initiation ritual near Bogalusa, La. According to law enforcement investigators, the victim was recruited over the Internet to join the Sons of Dixie, a tiny KKK faction led by Raymond "Chuck" Foster. Foster allegedly shot the woman in the head after she changed her mind about joining the Klan. Blipping on the media's radar last December was the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, whose imperial wizard, Ray Larsen, called for all Klansmen "worldwide" to wear black armbands and fly the American flag upside down on Jan. 20, the day of Barack Obama's inauguration. NEO-NAZIS Neo-Nazi groups A slight drop in the number of neo-Nazi chapters last year from 207 to 194 was attributable largely to the dissolution of National Vanguard after its leader, Kevin Alfred Strom, was convicted in January 2008 on child pornography charges. (Strom was released last fall after serving prison time.) Another major neo-Nazi leader, American National Socialist Workers Party "Commander" Bill White, also suffered legal troubles in 2008, culminating in his December indictment on several federal felony counts for posting death threats on his website or by making them by phone. Along with the threats, White often posted the home addresses of perceived enemies, ranging from Canadian human rights attorney Richard Warman (in an item subtly titled "Kill Richard Warman") to Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts to officials of the Southern Poverty Law Center. When the seven-count federal indictment came down, White was already jailed in Chicago on separate charges. He was arrested last October and extradited from Roanoke, Va., where he owns apartments in black neighborhoods, to face a federal obstruction of justice charge for allegedly threatening the foreman of a Chicago jury that convicted neo-Nazi leader Matt Hale in 2004 of soliciting the murder of a federal judge. Still, despite White's legal and personal financial turmoil (he declared bankruptcy last June), the ANSWP grew last year from 30 chapters in 26 states to 35 chapters in 28 states, making it the second-largest neo-Nazi organization in the country, after the National Socialist Movement (NSM). Apart from its usual literature dispersals, book burnings, swastika lightings, and its annual "Hated and Proud" hate rock festival, the NSM in 2008 targeted Latino immigrants with sizable "illegal invasion" protests in Washington, D.C., and Omaha, Neb. Subjected for years to movement ridicule for their brown-shirt uniforms, NSM national and state chapter leaders also voted at the group's National Congress last April to switch to "more militant looking" black BDUs (Battle Dress Uniforms). Even with the makeover, the NSM lost 30 chapters last year (it later added 26, for a net loss of six chapters) after leader Jeff Schoep abandoned his family and relocated NSM headquarters from Minneapolis to Detroit in January 2008, reportedly to move in with a new girlfriend of dubious Aryan purity. Nevertheless, the NSM benefited from diminished competition as the formerly dominant National Alliance continued its long decline, shrinking to 11 chapters in nine states. Similarly, Aryan Nations, another one-time powerhouse, withered to 11 chapters in 10 states. White Revolution gained no ground, ending the year as it began with a dozen chapters. Two upstart neo-Nazi groups emerged in 2008. The League of American Patriots, which held its inaugural meeting last March 29, appears to be comprised of former National Vanguard members. The second newcomer, Knights of the Nordic Order, was founded by "two former captains of the Aryan Brotherhood," a notorious white supremacist prison gang, according to its website. RACIST SKINHEADS Racist Skinhead groups The total number of racist skinhead crews, driven by the addition of a couple of new organizations, rose from 90 in 2007 to 98 last year. Relatively inactive in 2007, Hammerskin Nation, long a force to be reckoned with in the racist skinhead subculture, came back in a big way in 2008. The diminished tally of Hammerskins chapters (which dropped from 15 to 12) is misleading, as it represents the merging of smaller chapters and Hammerskin leaders weeding out weaker outfits, rather than a real drop in the organization's strength and membership. On the contrary, the Hammerskins last year stepped up recruiting while forging new bonds with other skinhead groups and hosting dozens of hate rock concerts, white power cookouts, Mixed Martial Arts prizefight viewing parties and other widely promoted events. The Confederate Hammerskins (CHS), the organization's southeastern regional division, kept particularly busy, beginning last March with a St. Patty's Day concert in Central Florida that was heavily attended by skins from across the country. Represented crews included Volksfront, Blood & Honour American Division, Atlantic City Skins, Troops of Tomorrow, and The Hated. Members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, a notorious biker gang, also attended. A close Hammerskins ally, the Portland, Ore.-based Volksfront, held its first annual "Althing" gathering last Aug. 29-Sept. 1 on private land purchased by Volksfront in rural Missouri, about an hour's drive north of St. Louis. Part three-day hate rock blowout, part skinhead summit, the Althing was held in the "Samuel Weaver Memorial Hall," named after white supremacist Randy Weaver's son, who was killed by federal agents during the infamous Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992 (Weaver's wife and a U.S. marshal were also killed). Among the white supremacist leaders who attended was veteran skinhead organizer David Lynch, leader of the resurgent Sacramento, Calif.-based crew American Front. Last December, more than 100 skinheads from at least five states gathered in Florida for a "Martyr's Day" party, co-sponsored by CHS, Volksfront and American Front, that featured a keynote address phoned in from prison by Richard Kemp, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group The Order. Martyr's Day commemorates the 1984 death of Order founder Bob Mathews, who died in a shootout with the FBI. Another noteworthy development in the skinhead sector was the severe weakening of the Vinlanders Social Club (VSC), a skinhead coalition that began in 2003 and grew to become Hammerskin Nation's primary rival. Plagued by infighting, criminal prosecutions and desertions, the Vinlanders made no public appearances in 2008, limiting their activities to private beer bashes. Three inner-circle Vinlanders, including co-founder Eric "The Butcher" Fairburn, were convicted last year of a March 2007 racially motivated attack on a homeless black man in downtown Indianapolis. At his sentencing hearing last August, Fairburn publicly renounced the skinhead movement. Formerly aligned with the VSC, the Keystone State Skinheads (KSS) distanced their group from the Vinlanders, changed their name to Keystone United and recast themselves as media-friendly "pro-white" activists. Keystone mouthpiece Keith Carney denounced hooliganism in several newspaper and television interviews. Last October, the group held a "Leif Ericson Day Celebration," honoring the Viking explorer, in a Philadelphia public park on the banks of the Schuylkill River. In contrast to the screaming hate rock performed by Absolute Terror and Total War at the annual Keystone-sponsored "Uprise" concert in January 2008, which was held in a secret location, Celtic folk musicians provided entertainment at the two-faced crew's "family-friendly" event. In contrast to KSS, the United Society of Aryan Skinheads (USAS) made no effort to revamp its image in 2008. Formed in recent years inside California's state prison system, the USAS continues to espouse white-power skinhead ideology and grow into a strong presence throughout Southern California as members are paroled. The USAS went from a single chapter in 2007 to nine chapters in 2008, including three separate crews in San Diego, the group's base of operations in the outside world. Though populated almost entirely by ex-cons, the USAS, unlike most prison-based white supremacists, actually maintains a powerful racist identity and rarely compromises principles in favor of criminal profits. One major new racist skinhead group surfaced in 2008: the Supreme White Alliance, or SWA. Co-founded by Kentucky skinhead Steven Edwards, son of Imperial Klans of America leader Ron Edwards, the SWA by year's end boasted eight chapters in as many states, an active website and a substantial online presence on MySpace as well as on the white nationalist social networking site New Saxon. The group's vice president is former IKA member Jarred Hensley, who served more than a year for his role in the hate crime assault that led to the SPLC lawsuit. "Out of prison and back on the streets," Hensley posted on MySpace last July upon his release. "It's gr88 to be a Skinhead!" Last October, former SWA probate Daniel Cowart was arrested in Tennesee with another skinhead he met online for allegedly plotting to assassinate Barack Obama after killing 88 black students (88 is neo-Nazi code for the phrase "Heil Hitler"). The SWA claimed that Cowart had been kicked out prior to hatching the plan.

Missouri Division of Health and Senior Services

OK, OK, already! I get it! I may be a bit slow, but I get it! My problem is that I used to work for them and I thought that our mission was to help any and all who need help regardless of disability, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious or political affiliations. But then, that was before the Bush era (error).

The simple fact is that I have AIDS and the people of this community simply do not want me to be here. So, they are not going to offer me any assistance of any kind, even if it is the same type of assistance that would be afforded any other similarly situated individual... so long as they don't have AIDS!

Missouri, especially rural Missouri, is the most bigoted and backward thinking people of any that I have encountered in my travels, And I have traveled half way around the world and back. But Missouri and (to be fair) Arkansas are the most fascist individuals I have ever had the displeasure to encounter anywhere. (And I can't say that I am too fond of North Carolina!)
And from what I have seen of the governor of Alaska, I have to wonder what kind of fascists that they are breeding and teaching up there.

But I was born in and live in Missouri. And I am ashamed to be from here. And I am sick to my soul of having to deal with the fucking morons.

I hope that if someone targets the US for a nuclear strike that they point at Missouri first, if for no other reason than to put me out of my pain.

What dumb fucks.

Acronym AIG

All Ill gotten Gain... wait, that would be AIGG. Fuck it. It still works for me!

Terminal Health care-Part 2: The Veterans Administration

I intend to make this a brief summary of a very long nightmare.

After years of the St. Louis Veterans Administration ignoring my health concerns and connfidential information breaches I began to have chest pains emanating down both arms. They simply ignored my concerns and sent me to their mind police: psychology department.

After a year of this I finally contacted Representative Jo Ann Emerson, my representative. She has a record of defending veterans rights. At her urging, the Poplar Bluff, MO VA decided to submit me to a stress test in which they discovered that I was in imminent danger of cardiac arrest. I was not just real excited about the prospect of letting the same people who let me get to this condition cut me open. So, I requested and got a transfer to the Memphis VA.

They bypassed all protocols of admitting new patients and rushed me straight to their cardiac department and scheduled me for triple bypass surgery. This occurred in five days and I was operated on and discharged within three days. A hospital record for both.

When they called me back to see a primary care physician, as we were going over my out of control cholesterol and triglycerides, my sky high blood sugar levels, and the plethora of other ailments with which I was suffering, without adjusting a single med she looked at me and said, "You are too young to have all of this wrong with you. I want you to see a psychiatrist." I nearly fell out of my chair.

Lab reports do not lie. I know that medical professionals are trained to believe that the patient ALWAYS lies. But blood work doesn't lie.

After a couple of psych visits in which I was not granted an audience with a psych, therapist, nor any other professional and in which all I was exposed to was classes on Buddhist practice and thought which was disguised in Christian trappings, I decided that these classes were only to have seats filled for funding purposes. I was there for help. Not to help them earn funding.

So, I quit them. I decided that I might have just as much luck with Medicaid (the bottom of the line medical insurance offered by the government). I set out to find a Medicaid doctor. That turned out to be a search that would best be served by a posting of its very own.

The primary message in this post is that the Veterans Administration could care less about any of its patients. It is touted as the closest thing to socialized medicine that we have here in the United States. I would put good money on THAT being the reason that so many people are deathly afraid of socialized medicine here. But the VA is anything BUT socialized medicine. It is institutionalized medicine whose only concern is the bottom dollar that it can spend to treat the most patients.

Stay tuned for part 2- Medicaid-almost medicine for almost people

Speculation on WHY Shooting sprees occur begin

Apparently, someone besides myself is beginning to try to connect the dots and come to some pretty telling conclusions as to why seemingly normal people are simply snapping and going on shooting sprees killing "innocent" community members and family members the same. And it seems that I called it a long time ago: Society (that's you) pretty much sucks.

As with so many of these rage massacres from the past 20 years, the more you look at Tuesdays' killing spree, the more you see that the system we've been living under since Reaganomics conquered everything has created all kinds of monsters and maniacs, from the plutocrats who've plundered this country for three decades straight, down to the lone broken worker -- McLendon -- who took up arms in a desperate suicide mission against the beast that crushed him.

So far we've learned that McLendon's hit list names the three companies he had worked for since 2003 -- Reliance Metals, which makes construction materials; Pilgrim's Pride, the nation's number one poultry producer, where his mother also worked, until she was suspended from her job last week; and Kelley Foods, a smaller family-owned meat-processing company from which McLendon apparently quit just last week.

Even more striking to someone who has studied these workplace massacres, it appears that McLendon was bullied and abused at work. One clue as to why he'd end his spree at Reliance, where he hadn't worked since 2003, could be that he was trying to kill the source of the pain: workers at Reliance used to taunt him incessantly, giving him the nickname "Doughboy." Which basically means "fatso" and "faggot" combined: McLendon was 5 feet, 8 inches tall, but he weighed roughly 210 pounds.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but "Doughboy" is the exact same nickname that workers at Standard Gravure, a printing plant in Louisville, Ky., gave to a guy named Joe Wesbecker back in the 1980s.

Like McLendon's case against Pilgrim's Pride, Wesbecker also was locked in an ongoing labor dispute with his company, whose top shareholders had gone on an eight-year plundering spree, leaving little for the workers; the government backed Wesbecker's case against Standard Gravure, and he "won" his dispute, but it was irrelevant.

By 1989, the culture had changed, all power went to the CEOs and major shareholders. Standard Gravure's senior executives ignored the arbitration rulings and continued to treat Wesbecker however they felt, slashing his pay under a different pretense, which would require a whole new round of arbitrations.

Joe "Doughboy" Wesbecker finally cracked: on Sept. 14, 1989, he unleashed America's first private workplace massacre, pitting aggrieved

worker against vampiric company, borrowing from the numerous post office shootings that had erupted a few years earlier. The result: seven killed, 20 wounded, and the death of the company that drove him to the brink. And an unending string of workplace massacres by "disgruntled employees" ever since.

Next time any asshole calls a kid or a co-worker "Doughboy," put the bully and the bullied on the top of your next Ghoul Pool list. Bullying in the workplace, like bullying in the schoolyard, is only now being recognized as a serious problem, with devastating psychological consequences -- and the occasional rampage massacre.

Conventional wisdom used to say that victims of bullying should "deal with it" since it was "just the way things are"; nowadays, after all the workplace and school shootings, anti-bullying laws and codes are becoming increasingly common.

So, when you start wondering why people are going nuts and killing you and your neighbors for "no apparent reason" and you are seeking the reason, just look in the nearest mirror, dumb fuck. It happens because we collectively treat everyone we come into contact with like shit.

I have news for you: YOU ARE NOT SUPERIOR IN ANY WAY. YOU ARE AN EXPENDABLE PIECE OF SHIT JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. AND YOU NEED BADLY TO STOP LYING TO YOURSELF ABOUT IT.

Think about the Golden Rule... better yet, FUCKING PRACTICE THE GOLDEN RULE! And get down off of you fucking high horse. Pay attention to the wants, needs, and concerns of the other people in the world with you. They are all very much just as valid as your own.

Ancient Hindi's knew our Bush World

As the earth fares under a rainless sky,
So do a people languish under an unkind king.

Possessions are less pleasant than poverty
To the oppressed living under an unjust king.

If the king acts contrary to justice, contrary seasons will befall
And rain-laden clouds will not come forth.

If the people's protector fails to protect,
Priests will forget the Vedas and cows' milk will dry up.

-Tirukkural 56: 557-560

Little doubt that these guys were talking about us! Not only did we outsource our tech jobs to them, we outsourced our future, too! And long ago.

Hunter safety instructor removed after ordering 'liberals' from class

Here is one for the record books!

by: RANDY KREHBIEL World staff writer
[Tulsa, Oklahoma]

Friday, March 6, 2009

Thirteen-year- old Lane Dunkley just wanted to go hunting with his grandfather.

What he got was a lecture on politics.

Dunkley and his father Daniel Reddy, who live in Tulsa, went to Broken Arrow Tuesday night for a hunter safety course normally required to get an Oklahoma hunting license.

The class was a reward of sorts. Dunkley, who wants to go hunting with his aging grandfather, was told he could only if he brought his grades up.

So he did-- to a B-plus average.

But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Obama.

Reddy, a transplanted Californian - and ex-Marine - raised his hand.

According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama “the next thing to the Anti-Christ” and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach “liberals” and would cancel the course if Reddy didn’t leave.

So Reddy and Dunkley left, as did a few others.

Lance Meek, hunter education coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, said Wolf had been a volunteer instructor for “a long time, probably 15 years or more” and “from what we’ve heard and observed, had always done a great job. He worked with the kids really well.”

But when Meek received a call Wednesday morning - from someone other than the Reddys - he said he had no choice.

“I got the call at 8:30, and by 9 o’clock (Wolf) was no longer a volunteer for us," Meek said.

Contacted Friday, Wolf had no comment on the matter. Meek said when he talked briefly to Wolf on Wednesday, Wolf did not deny ordering Reddy from the class or offer an explanation.

Stacy Reddy, Daniel Reddy’s wife and Lane Dunkley’s mother, said the family was surprised by how quickly the Wildlife Department acted.

“Lance Meek called and apologized up and down and wanted to know what they could do to make it right,” she said. “The only thing we really wanted was for my son to be able to take the hunter safety course, and there wasn’t another one in the Tulsa area with an opening for the rest of 2009.”

So Meek arranged for a private class.

This, my friends, is the face of the enemy within. The fact that the man is a Marine (for Christ's sake!) makes absolutely no difference to these fascist monsters that populate and propagate among us.

I have but one question: Why does this "man" (and I use this term in its broadest possible sense), Wolf (in sheep's clothing), merely lose his 'volunteer' job for attempting to deny another American their constitutional right and legally mandated course for exercising said constitutional right? I mean, shouldn't he be punished punitively?

Fuck!

'One dead' in US church shooting

'One dead' in US church shooting

One person has been killed and others injured in a shooting at a church in the US state of Illinois, according to local media reports.

The St Louis Post-Dispatch said the shooting happened at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, about 20 miles (30km) from St Louis, in Missouri.

The paper quoted officials saying the man killed was the church's pastor.

The suspected attacker is said to be in custody and receiving treatment for self-inflicted stab wounds.

He reportedly walked into the church during a Sunday morning service and shot Pastor Fred Winters.

The Post-Dispatch said Mr Winters died in hospital of a gunshot wound to the chest.

It remains unclear how many people in the church were injured.

Ok, Ok already! I know that I am pretty hyper critical of the negative effect that Christianity and its twisted, perverted, contradictory teachings and practices has on society and those very few of us who are even remotely left semi-sane. But this is going a bit too far!

I have never and don't advocate the use of violence on anyone simply because they are Christian, or at least claim to be though their actions may suggest otherwise. In fact, I don't advocate the use of violence at any time for any reason. Though, I understand if one uses violence to protect oneself from violence being visited upon oneself from another. Even then, it is just bad karma.

But when one see's news stories like the one posted (and linked to) above, when one considers the Jihad that Islamic extremists are conducting against "the Christian World or 'those blue eyed devils'", and even the name of this blog (not to give myself any credit for people kinda hating the double standards expressed by the practice of the perverted 'modern Christianity'), one really must stop and wonder... what the fuck are you Christians doing that is earning you all of this obvious disfavor?

I'm just sayin'...

Can ya give us a hint?

To execute or not?

So, ya really dig the "eye for an eye" philosophy of Christianity when Jesus actually taught to "turn the other cheek"? Well, if ya can't get it that killing is wrong, even to kill killers, no matter how you slice the cake, perhaps you can get it that it is too financially strenuous, especially in these financially straining times.

Check out this article at MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29552692/

"It's 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive," though most Americans believe the opposite, said Donald McCartin, a former California jurist known as "The Hanging Judge of Orange County" for sending nine men to death row.

The article is pretty cool. It has an interactive map with which you can hover your mouse over any given state and learn how many inmates have been killed in the name of justice since 1976. Texas has killed over 400 people!

And to make matters even worse,

The most recent arguments against it centered on the ever-increasing number of convicts cleared by DNA evidence.

Some of the worst cases occurred in Illinois. In 2000, then-Gov. George H. Ryan placed a moratorium on executions after 13 people had been exonerated from death row for reasons including genetic testing and recanted testimony. Ryan declared the system "so fraught with error that it has come close to the ultimate nightmare, the state's taking of innocent life."

He commuted the sentences of all 167 death row convicts, most to life imprisonment without parole. His moratorium is still in effect.

Across the country, the number of prisoners exonerated and released from death row is more than 130, with thousands of appeals clogging the courts. (emphasis mine).

Death penalty trials are more expensive for several reasons: They often require extra lawyers; there are strict experience requirements for attorneys, leading to lengthy appellate waits while capable counsel is sought for the accused; security costs are higher, as well as costs for processing evidence — DNA testing, for example, is far more expensive than simple blood analyses.

What ever happened to the "moral value" that it is better to let 100 guilty go free than to punish one innocent? And if you imprison an innocent, the best you can do is say, "Ooops, sorry about ruining your life." But you can't take a killing back!

Drill, baby drill!

Kill, baby kill!

You people really confuse me.

A word about postal service hikes and their acting as real estate agents

The price of a stamp to send one letter anywhere in the U.S. was almost fifty cents before the United States Post Office ever even offered to deliver mail to my home in spite of years of repeated requests. That kinda pissed me off a little, but then I live in a rural area... right in the MIDDLE OF THE UNITED STATES, just 45 miles from the Mississippi River. I also live a mile and a half, at most, from two different post offices!

Now, they are talking about raising the price of stamps yet again while considering requesting bail out money from the government, or our tax dollars. And then we find out that they are buying out their employee's homes so that the can VOLUNTARILY relocate to another job. This allows the postal employee, who owns a home worth ONE MILLION DOLLARS, the ability to move to another position without worrying about the failing housing market costing him/her a single dime!

Now, in the first place, the post office has never done me any tremendous favors, unless I count the fact that they finally started delivering my mail within the past two years to a home that has been here since 1934! And while I realize that most postal workers do not make a lot of money, I AM INCENSED THAT ANY OF THEM MAKE ENOUGH TO AFFORD A ONE MILLION DOLLAR HOME! I am further annoyed that THE TAX PAYER IS BEING ASKED TO INSURE THE SALE OF SAID HOME SO THE PRICK CAN GET A HIGHER PAYING JOB!

I say: FUCK THEM! FUCK THE POST OFFICE! FUCK THE BANKS WHO GOT US HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE! AND ESPECIALLY FUCK THE LEGISLATORS WHO ALLOWED ALL OF THIS LARGESS TO FALL BACK TO THE PEOPLE!

Let them all fall. I am not hoping Barak Obama fails. I am hoping that CAPITALISM fails, and fails miserably. I know that we will all pay for the failure in the end. But I pay my part each and every fucking day. It is time that some of you other pricks start paying your part, too!