Tag Archives: Korean War Vets Help

SVR RADIO ON HADIT.COM TOMORROW

Jerrel Cook and the gang over at Hadit.com have invited me over to their Radio show tomorrow. It’s 0900(L) on the Left Coast and three hours later on the east Coast or 1200 (L) for those of you trapped in … Continue reading

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SOVALDI SIDE EFFECTS

One thing’s for sure. We’re going to wait a long time for the VA to get Sovaldi on the shelves. Vets are not worth $120K worth of pills no matter how many medals they have. What is of note is … Continue reading

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RENAL CELL CARCINOMA -2NDARY TO HCV

Member 63Sierra from Hadit.com sends me this missive and asked that I post it for all of you. He finally attained SC for his kidney cancer secondary to HCV. While this is nothing to cheer about (the cancer) it is … 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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LIES, DAMNED LIES AND VA STATISTICS

Benjamin Disraeli, the eminent British Prime minister said this in the late nineteenth century long before the VA was beginning to hit its stride at obfuscation and disingenuous, convoluted statistics showing up was left and down was, well, whatever they … 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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PROJECT SANCTUARY

Here’s a real hands-on charity in Colorado. I read over their 2012 IRS 990  Sanctuary 990 2012 and liked what I see.  Project Sanctuary conducted ten retreats in 2011, their latest year tabulated above. That took 103 military families-Dads, Moms, and in … Continue reading

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Minot Hepatitis C outbreak count now at 44

Minot is a very small city of only about 43,000 people with perhaps another 30,000 in the area.  The best local article I’ve found by Jill Hambek provides this information: This investigation was conducted with assistance from the Centers for … Continue reading

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