Tag Archives: Gulf War Vets Help

FACE THE PAGE–BUILDING PERMITS

These are my kind of people. Deny you a permit to build a horse shade barn? Why, build a table and some sittin’ chairs. Hell, Paul Bunyan and Babe might drop in and sit a spell. Who can say? $20 … Continue reading

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Pediatric HCV reporting in U. S. “grossly inadequate”

Florida requires health practitioners and labs report all cases of acute and chronic HCV into a database called MERLIN.  A 2012 study (link below)   showed that only about 12% of children infected with HCV in Florida had been identified between 2000-2009.   Nationwide, … Continue reading

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GAMMA GLOBULIN SHOTS

Remember those nasty boogers? They refrigerated the serum and then blasted you with it in the arm or upper butt with it. It was like jamming a popsicle under your skin for an hour and the volume was enough to … Continue reading

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HCV IN DENTAL SETTINGS EVEN TODAY

Here’s an important risk factor sent in by “Pop” Smoke. Just when we think the CDC has briefed everyone and it can’t happen any more, along comes one of these or the Minot, North Dakota outbreak. HCV is a lot … Continue reading

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SUNDAY FACE HUMOR

My rare forays onto the Book of Face turned this up. It sums up what many have found out the hard way. Pen posted this vignette which will help us all. DO NOT wash your hair in the shower!! It’s … Continue reading

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POST-IT NOTES FOR HADIT.COM SHOW

Today we are going to make radio history. I’ve kept my identity anonymous for  six long years in an attempt to protect my claims from “shrinkage.” I won on November 21 officially as most know. There is no more need … Continue reading

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CAN YOU SPELL “DRAFT”?

They say you reap what you sew. We experienced this in Vietnam when we discovered we had no more MK 82s lying around left over from WW II.  We ended up buying them back from the German Air Force for … Continue reading

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DVA–WE HAVE TO PASS IT TO SEE WHAT’S IN IT

In an old government trick so antique they don’t even have a name for it in DC anymore, the VA tried to trot out this innocuous document in Rodney King format (Can’t we all just get along?) but in the … Continue reading

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VAOIG’S LATEST ATTABOY LIST

We always get a big bang out of the VA’s OIG squandering millions of dollars in pursuit of $10. In construction, we call it 10¢ chasing a dollar. While I admire the verve and devotion to duty that seems endemic in the OIG, … Continue reading

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THE SHARPER IMAGE FARMER

Veterans Administration psychiatrists are quick to tell you that Veterans, as a whole, are more prone to mental aberrations like being anally retentive, suffer obsessive compulsive disorder and antisocial, positively icky personalitites. Well, why wouldn’t they? Those are manifestations of … Continue reading

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