Tag Archives: Helping Veterans

Dream on

After reading about the sorry performance of the ILP, I can’t help but be skeptical about the lofty goals in VA pamphlet 26-13: Title:  Handbook for Design: Specially Adapted Housing for Wheelchair Users More info:  Part A and Part B. Maybe the VA … Continue reading

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FED. CIR– NOVA v. SHINSEKI–THE FEDS ARE FED UP

Remember the good old days when there was no review  The BVA could simply speak and you would listen. That was the end of it and your options as well. After creation of the COVA, VASECs pretended nothing had changed and … Continue reading

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BVA–VA “INSERTS” NEXUS INTO DBQ

From the David Koresh Memorial VARO in Whacko Yessirree, Bob. You heard it here. When the very first DBQ was put out for use in late 2011, I warned that it had no signature block for a nexus. In no … Continue reading

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BVA–HAV IN 1973, NOT HBV OR HCV

Here’s one of those brilliant medical A=C, B=C therefore A≠D. Huh? You can follow the tortured logic of a Hepatitis Australian Antigens Test in 1973 being positive. Simple. He had HBV in service documented by being HAA positive. He claims … Continue reading

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2013 BVA DECISIONS ARE OUT

Like the post says, it’s springtime and that’s about how long it takes to start getting these 2013 hepatitis decisions airborne. Last year was an anomaly. It took until August or so to get the site operational. Must have been early Sequestration … Continue reading

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RADIO SHOWS THIS WEEK

Rick Townsend Of Stardust Radio has me on to discuss the Gilead Sciences  HCV drug Sofosbuvir (name tentative) or the Trial name GS 7944. That’s Stardust Radio and Rick’s Firebase Adrian show on Sunday at 7 PM EDT or 4 … Continue reading

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WHISTLE-BLOWING IN MISSISSIPPI

That’s funny. I still sing Bobby Gentry’s song when I spell that. Works every time,too.Frank the syrup guy sends us this hair-raiser. Well, it’s only hair-raising until you spot the initials VA, then it becomes just one in a long … Continue reading

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BENZODIAZEPAM–THE SOLDIER’S BEST FRIEND

Magic Bob the Law dog sends us this intriguing piece. For years they’ve been trying to pound Valium® down the throats of the troops with all those pesky personality disorders. They surely wouldn’t want any genuine, full-blown psychoses afoot. That would never … Continue reading

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TIM POE REDUX

Another village is missing its designated idiot and this unfortunate condition will continue for a year and a day. For the three years following that, he’ll be on a short leash picking up trash along the interstates of Iowa. A … Continue reading

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ON THE SUBJECT OF ALIEN ABDUCTIONS

In the last several days I have had the honor of reading many posts by one James Perry. Mr. Perry has many concerns-among them a deeply-seated dissatisfaction with the way things are being run in America. News flash. We all do. … Continue reading

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