Member Joe Average Vet is on the road like Charles Kuralt looking for a good VA news story. While staying at the Ameristar Casino in St. Charles, Mo. yesterday, he happened on this (above) in the lobby.

VA is a slippery outfit. Caught with their pants down one too many times in Orlando, they are now resorting to small casinos in out of the way places like this. At $169 a pop for the cheapest room, I wonder if they break a sweat when they think about all those poor homeless Vets that are out back dumpster-diving for dinner.

QBRs. What does that stand for. Questions on Benefits Rejections? Perhaps a seminar on how to phrase denials in politically correct vernacular? I called Ameristar and was connected with the Convention Booking desk. Vanessa was very helpful but must have had the vapors because she was not apprised of what it might stand for. Her reply was ” Well, gosh. That’s a durn good question but it’s way above my pay grade, y’know?”