AS the Hatchet Falls
This year we see the same attempts to scare the general public with cuts to programs, and the never ending issue with the longevity of Social Security monies, plaguing our headlines.
I'll take a different vantage point as we re-open the government owner's manual with some well known stars such as Verizon and it's friend in crime: The PUC.
Get ready for some new and improved blogging as we as owners of this government have much to say....
See you soon Uncle Sam, From Aunt Laura
Monday, December 30, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Governance, and Finance...
WHo controls the Major control in this and all?
FAke, and I thought I was shallow, hell, I'm as deep as possible, creeping slowing, worming my way to the ROOT of this problem.
Never, ever, eve, as eve, reve, reveN
NAME PLEASE
Friday, January 11, 2013
KVHD UNDER FIRE: Hosting the posting
Friday, January 11, 2013
Edge A Caution: America's Academia-dementia
Higher Vocational calling...
Now it's the schools that have learned how to make some dough and a few middle men seize the advantages of the game of "Edge A Caution": America the debt trappers.
Student Loans
Can't crack the old bankruptcy stick in case of emergency when your dealing yourself into the student loan card shark game.
Therefore it's a con game with an end game that could favor or disfavor, depending on the luck of the overdrawn.
Private schools such as the "alma doesn't matta" home of Kern Valley Healthcare District Cheif Financial officer, Chester Beedle, LaVerne University are an ever expanding franchise business opportunity. And teaching business is one of their specialties.
It appears as a do what we do. Find a gravy train and make a splash. And don't worry about mashing a few potatoes while boarding this "loco" motive.
Phoenix University rose from the ashes of a burned out system, not the elusive "seat of enlightment" but of a vocational splintered industry designed to paper train with immense paper trails.
It's costing too many who haven't a scholarship or a penthouse quorum at the top pyramid scam economy, and the students who falter for this bait then tackled proposition can expect to be hounded by the ever growing "debt collection" industry in case of late or non-payment.
They say Volume is the key, well the mirth makers of this loving society, have pumped it up.
I recieved a phone call the other day from one of the beneficiaries of these "hire than you are" education dealers.
These specialized colleges of no repute, prepackage their wares, offer two and four year degrees in heavily marketed career areas such as--Criminology-- national security-- or film making--a mutual menu of specialization.
--And they have a middle man.
His job is to size up the potential to simply get a warm human body to take a loan to pay for an education which may or may not be worth the cost--or guarantee any sort of pay or job in these industries--but will infuse money and possibly hope to those starved of either. No credit required or taken.
I asked this savvy solicitor who had been transferred from a front caller, who originally called to survey my educational needs. She suddenly dropped from the line and a male, more manipulative voice took over.
Before he got too far into convincing me of my education inadequacies, I interrupted and asked what business he was in. Who was he associated with and how did he make money.
Quickly he bragged that the company calling me, (or actually hired an independent telephone solicitation firm to cold call and transferred me to them) was a Fortune 500 race car of a company.
And he added they had risen to the top quickly--an industry leader for three years, he crowed.
There must be some easy footholds when climbing the ladder made of the hopes and dreams of young, aspiring, even more so, of desperate, hungry, out-of-work, Americans.
"Wow," I asked him, "who pays you?"
These ever growing school franchises are pushing dollars at "dough" nuts who don't need much to figure out a way to push "easy loans" to the poor and "undercertifiable" and I had one of these beneficiaries of the US educational system on the phone.
Not only did I learn that his company makes millions selling a dream to an insomniac population, I imagined that with a cost of 50 thousand pyramid scam dollars to complete a Bachelor's in Criminology, that Someone should get to the crime scene of this world of "Akademonic" dollars for a look&see.
These costly, over inflated programs are backed and insured by the US Government's "Go and Get 'em" student loan collection industry thriving and driving it's own Fortune 500 mobile.
"Oh sorry you're barely making it, or couldn't find a job- or had to take any damn job in any damn industry-so sorry but you are NEVER going to escape your "Stewedint" loan. Oooo, ha, ha, ha, ha (evil laugh).
It's a new list: Death, taxes, student loans (Cal Mtg. loans to underserved rural healthcare Districts)
So we have the college with all the knowlege, along with inter-nets to hold all the fishy schools, which have some FUNding to pay for this man on my telephone making his fortune peddling "higher education monies" for his "friendors" the vendors of candy bar in the sky exams.
These college franchises don't have to do much to reduce overhead, as campus free, is "frat free," and they can afford to feed a bolemic sales force, binging and purging, for potential students. And the colleges spring into business everywhere under this government fortified bulwark of serial entrapment.
Tiny strip malls, with aged wooded siding, will do--or an office building floor--many programs require nothing special in terms of a campus or equipment, or the bothersome task of housing and counseling of students. It appears the "financial counseling" takes place in a call or two, transfer student, to the loan program.
Some more specailized University types do provide a campus with smaller satellite units orbiting their home base. And there is also a trend toward all colleges to go on-line as there are benefits and costs accounted for--But what is lost in intelligent design and human interaction is "written off" as unnecessary.
Many of these colleges are Cheap to operate, "Laptop Learning" teachers can teach in their underwear from their car, and certainly no creativity required as they are following college cirriculum or template or cookie cutter, provided then certified by another member of the gang on this chain.
With that irritating "student-teacher" relationship laid to rest, there's only some paperwork for the office workers at the college who got their own certified "AA" degrees around the corner at an old TAco Bell building.
Burdened with their own student loans, these office personnel possibly get $10 an hour to make half the country richer by shuffling the paperwork of Crony created colleges spawning bags of money for middle men and end players who have a RIGGED playing field.
The government provides, does it not, the playing field? Lol All the legislation, licensing, certifications, loan approval qualifications, classifications, designations, board and directors, all of these to make sure that American's can have a chance at....(Oh YEAH BABY, a FORTUNE 500 company with Porsche and arrogance included)
Umm, an Education?
Vocational and profanely profitable, who would have thought? Oh well the student loans for "truckers licenses" and "Medical Office Assisting" got this show of a program and industry generator up and running.
It's just been taken to "higher student loan indebtedness level."
"Wanna be somebody? Not a nasty old poverty ridden, shoe dwelling, old maid--or change your useless, disabled, "made in a China shop" bullshit existence?
Come aboard "Captain Corrupto's" titanic educational ferry across the seas of anonymity, obscurity, and poverty into the world of "HIGHER VOCATION."
What a success story! I practically want to weep.
Laura Hart--The Bi-Polar American
www.kernvalleyhospital.blogspot.com
www.thebipolaramerican.blogspot.com
Friday, October 26, 2012
Roots of the Ruling Party: America 2012
I have no sympathy for the Obama Campaign, Choices were made to overpower the country, with such great Commands such as the extension of the "patriot act" which gives him power to pick up anyone at anytime the government feels slightly threatened.
But Romney is a sick second, and the race is on for top spot of a dog of a Country.
Personally, my vote won't be cast in this characterless election. I suspect this has been set in motion long before this time. The outcome is the income of each household.
Where will they go next?
The same names, same story, same tactics, and a time for exploration into these dark PAC caves to find out what or who dwells there.
Sachs, Chase, Rockefeller, Etc. are just a ring too familiar, Pavlov's dogs still persist in believing these hungry jAcks will send them scraps. They are mistaken.
Let's begin to send this group of power mongers a message that we are KNOWing more, and this Facade will eventually fail to protect them from the current insulated condition. It's about to get cold out there.
To remind you regarding the names and figures involved in each campaign, This is what they ALLOW us to see. Imagine how many others have a Stake in their claims....
Happy Election Halloween...Boo!
Propositon: Clarity
I'm fishing around for information on the current two propositions being bandied about, tossed like salad around the state of California: Proposition 30 and 32.
When we decide to REFORM our situation in earnest, we will not be tossed grenades which go off in our faces. These warnings, that there is a "TRick" in this treat, and voters will be cheated who believe the lie contained in these propositions.
So, it's easy enough to determine that NO is the answer until there is a CLaritY to the measure, and we don't have to deal with a "shell game."
Either way, this is not a good deal for anyone, and only illustrates the inherent flaws in our thinking that we are reforming the transparency of the government, when in fact, we are so Shackled by these Ploys used to quash any sort of healthy reform, we are FOoling ourselves. Our folly only that we would Miss the mark truth leaves, compared to the stain left by intentional deceptive tactics.
There would have been reform, but there is no way to get past the sandwich the voters must endure to find out what verbiage serves what "interested in themselves" group will benefit from either passing or not.
I'm not even willing to read the verbiage, I'm not impressed at all. It's too easy. Too easy, but voters are still enamored with the lure of reform, and refuse to recognize that double dealings must be halted or no honest reform will take place.
Do not think there is not a bit of tiny writing somewhere in all measures, as the game is to cloak the truth, feed the lie and addiction machine, and hope for an election outcome to match the results.
And if that doesn't work, I guess we all know the "potential" of election fraud.
Real reform would come with more power behind it. This is a weak effort, and the portion of those who wish to actualize some truth in government, must move on to push a measure with little to complicate or interpret. A message from the voters in the form of a Clear Channel opened between them and the truth.
The only way to change is to remove the illusion of "actual reform" and institute true change.
Truth is foremost and it does not require some Shady business to get to the point.
No to anything remotely hiding the truth. Now go vote.
When we decide to REFORM our situation in earnest, we will not be tossed grenades which go off in our faces. These warnings, that there is a "TRick" in this treat, and voters will be cheated who believe the lie contained in these propositions.
So, it's easy enough to determine that NO is the answer until there is a CLaritY to the measure, and we don't have to deal with a "shell game."
Either way, this is not a good deal for anyone, and only illustrates the inherent flaws in our thinking that we are reforming the transparency of the government, when in fact, we are so Shackled by these Ploys used to quash any sort of healthy reform, we are FOoling ourselves. Our folly only that we would Miss the mark truth leaves, compared to the stain left by intentional deceptive tactics.
There would have been reform, but there is no way to get past the sandwich the voters must endure to find out what verbiage serves what "interested in themselves" group will benefit from either passing or not.
I'm not even willing to read the verbiage, I'm not impressed at all. It's too easy. Too easy, but voters are still enamored with the lure of reform, and refuse to recognize that double dealings must be halted or no honest reform will take place.
Do not think there is not a bit of tiny writing somewhere in all measures, as the game is to cloak the truth, feed the lie and addiction machine, and hope for an election outcome to match the results.
And if that doesn't work, I guess we all know the "potential" of election fraud.
Real reform would come with more power behind it. This is a weak effort, and the portion of those who wish to actualize some truth in government, must move on to push a measure with little to complicate or interpret. A message from the voters in the form of a Clear Channel opened between them and the truth.
The only way to change is to remove the illusion of "actual reform" and institute true change.
Truth is foremost and it does not require some Shady business to get to the point.
No to anything remotely hiding the truth. Now go vote.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Dr. Hoshang Pormir Pleads out of elder abuse charges...
According to the Kern County Superior Court website, Dr. Hoshang Pormir,
charged with eight counts of elder abuse plead no contest to one count
of "conspiracy" last Friday, June 1st.
The eight counts of elder abuse were dismissed as Pormir has accepted the charge referred to in penal code, section 182 (a) (5): "To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to pervert or obstruct justice, or the due administration of the laws."
Pormir is scheduled to return to court to be sentenced in the case on July 11th.
There are three defendants in the elder abuse case, Pormir, former Kern Valley Healthcare District CEO, Pamela Ott and once director of nursing for the KVHD skilled nursing facility, Gwen Hughes.
As of now, Pormir is not scheduled for trial, and all information leads to the plea deal. The other two defendants remain on track for a trial later this month on June 25th.
UPDATE:
Dr. PORmir, WAs Sentenced to Conspiracy, his Co-Conspirators are Awaiting their Share of the ConSpiring minds, WERE Told.
Pormir, LEft Court last month, With Some Freedom Resumed, such as Allowing the Doctor to Continue Practicing, but NOT With Elderly patients. A Probation of three years, some concURRENT, while some CURRENTLY questioned, by us - the blog.
Did the Doctor Fall for the Sirens, Sounded by Former CEO, PAMEla Ott, not have done that, or WAs he, a SET UP, and Took the Fall without a Golden Para Normal CHUTE?
HE did Bring the Dis Likes of Donald Etra, A Palm REader, of sorts, as He HOlds hands and Awaits the HOld, to take, but It does a WAke, and NEVER sleeps As the LIon Did TOnight. Etra READ all About it, and ABOUT YOUR FAteful, Con Clusion of Collusion NOt to CLoudy as the A Rain would LIKELY Wash Away.
Hear me, Etra, ExTRA Helpings, for THose wHO knew, WHO and What a hand, they held, but Beheld, a hand NOT A Deck Can SWAB matey.
Gins For BURg, you Are a CHARGE of a Silent, a STALKER, a NIGHT rider. What SHALL YOURFUTURE HOld?
I'm told it's a ROLLED NEWS Paper to the NOSE, of those who KNOWs, the PENALty as PURGATORy is a cRIME and Punishment, PUN ish, and To those Who WERE NOT So Helpful.
LAywers, with layers of Deceipt, WILL need to RETREAT, NO FIre or ICe, Nice is BEst. Naive or NAve, it's still Counts as Four, and Two will Find Two, much. So, YOu must COME and WORK it OFF.
WORk and you will BE unbound, come The FALL guys.
No Work or PlAYING GAMEs will Make FOr a SERious DrOP In Tolerances, IN cRowd id. Of this crowd, THERE Is Few, a Dollar wasn't MORE, but MORE was a Better BUy. Don't Get Buy, Get To WHY? WHy did you? WHo AR E YOU?
And WHY THE HELL should EYe Put out?
No more, there are mEssages and MEssengers, who NEEd to WRite HOME, and Speak A REAL Deal, or Simply go your way, as TOMORROW is a DAY A WAY, Farer...and Seeker, but of a QUALity control of a meeker. One.
HEar, Hear, it's a FUTURE, a Head of a GAMe, and Now, a LA\me Duck. RE lax, and Re Set, the early Win makes a Lover of a FIGHTEr, just Don't FIght with no LOVE, as I Work and Toil, and MY Boil Points to a Temperature, Of Temper, but NOT Time. YOU ARE out, and Doubt I will Sniff. Don't do it, you are A FIRST of a KInd of NEG a TIvely Charged, Too much JUICE, and YOur WIREs LOOSe their FITness TEst.
Fitness, Test it out, you are MINe, and do you MIND if I do you too?
KEep your SNarky Barks for others, I'm A Funny Face, and YOU ARE NOT FACING YOUR deeds, but a FALSE sense. Let the TRUTH, Spear the pocket of RESISTANCe, and FRee you. BUT it will HURT and Curse it, it will MAKE you What only YOU have the power to empower. YOU.
I'm just a SingING in the RAIN pain in the Ass of the UNDECIDED. Please VOTE for me, I"m your ONLY REAL, deal, but then It's a VOTe, you do Register, but IN TIME?
Laura Hart ATTlast, the Barbarian meets Barbie, And They ARE A couple of Dolls! House the Insane and Float the Mote of eyes unworthy, EYEs, of Addicts, and Plain Dicks, or Wicks or Wicannot, without my PER MISSIOn Boundaries in PLACe, until We Ascend. The Hole is a Place, a WHole World, A whole BREAD, a FOOD, a hole to FLy and We are NEEDING Some SUITS of READy and Willing to FLy the SOre TEE, and And Make our Plane, as the FAce on your Knows it.
Keep the FAITH, they ARE and CAn REturn adn EArn their World, a NEW, and I will PRO mote and PRO miss the FIre to those who CAn Find a FLAME to Retard, their FIRE SUIT of Proof. NO PROOF, until Positive of FLOW and Ebbenizer as NO SCROOGE can Ruin mY Christmas Past, heres your PRESENCE, a Gift of Gab. Real.
What an ANGEL, hath your Back side, Front of All? Angel FIRe! So, Your a Snarky barker, well then, please WAit, as I will Bound you in Cotton PICKIN' SLave Rehab, or Hab not. For long you are Too, but too longs don't make me WRite. THey Will Take a Might of Dog, HE's a We, and Duke and I will Sky Walter your SNarky, chem Trails, of Tears gassing and HARASSing. We will NO longer, BE CHemciallY ALTered. PlEASE STOP before I START, the MORE of what you CAN HANDLE! LOL
DEAL or Throw DOWn, I'm a Fight a DAviD and A GO LIATH, but you are LYing WIth the Lamb, and your chop MAYBE DOWN. Come hither, SOon, Shortly and Your Time will Spent well, BE with me.
Laura (CAn YOU HEAR ME Y"ET? How About NOW?) One more TIME...REcruit, NOT DRAFt, or Daft. Can it, and Plan your Escapades to SCAPE not SO LAND? No is your ORDER and I'll cook your ORDER as you can Count on it. FRIED Goose, or Noose Lied a GOOSe cooking and NOT looking for NECK IN neck, line of FIRE the TRUTH, and SHe's UP your Plan man's can. I can DO anything The man with a PLAN, and Can do. Better Behave or Save it for LATER. Traitors Are NO torious, for TArdy Party Fouls.
Thanks for Listening to the RABBIT HOle, Broadcast from a Soul of Soft Service. Don't let her OVER Done Satire, Do more HARM, as it is TRULY GOOD FOR you, and IF you Reed, You will Find your Message. FLute, music, EArs can Sing to.
I't a round here, LOL A Peg of Square only ROUND will Go. Now and WorTH the TRuth, ARE YOU?
The eight counts of elder abuse were dismissed as Pormir has accepted the charge referred to in penal code, section 182 (a) (5): "To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to pervert or obstruct justice, or the due administration of the laws."
Pormir is scheduled to return to court to be sentenced in the case on July 11th.
There are three defendants in the elder abuse case, Pormir, former Kern Valley Healthcare District CEO, Pamela Ott and once director of nursing for the KVHD skilled nursing facility, Gwen Hughes.
As of now, Pormir is not scheduled for trial, and all information leads to the plea deal. The other two defendants remain on track for a trial later this month on June 25th.
UPDATE:
Dr. PORmir, WAs Sentenced to Conspiracy, his Co-Conspirators are Awaiting their Share of the ConSpiring minds, WERE Told.
Pormir, LEft Court last month, With Some Freedom Resumed, such as Allowing the Doctor to Continue Practicing, but NOT With Elderly patients. A Probation of three years, some concURRENT, while some CURRENTLY questioned, by us - the blog.
Did the Doctor Fall for the Sirens, Sounded by Former CEO, PAMEla Ott, not have done that, or WAs he, a SET UP, and Took the Fall without a Golden Para Normal CHUTE?
HE did Bring the Dis Likes of Donald Etra, A Palm REader, of sorts, as He HOlds hands and Awaits the HOld, to take, but It does a WAke, and NEVER sleeps As the LIon Did TOnight. Etra READ all About it, and ABOUT YOUR FAteful, Con Clusion of Collusion NOt to CLoudy as the A Rain would LIKELY Wash Away.
Hear me, Etra, ExTRA Helpings, for THose wHO knew, WHO and What a hand, they held, but Beheld, a hand NOT A Deck Can SWAB matey.
Gins For BURg, you Are a CHARGE of a Silent, a STALKER, a NIGHT rider. What SHALL YOURFUTURE HOld?
I'm told it's a ROLLED NEWS Paper to the NOSE, of those who KNOWs, the PENALty as PURGATORy is a cRIME and Punishment, PUN ish, and To those Who WERE NOT So Helpful.
LAywers, with layers of Deceipt, WILL need to RETREAT, NO FIre or ICe, Nice is BEst. Naive or NAve, it's still Counts as Four, and Two will Find Two, much. So, YOu must COME and WORK it OFF.
WORk and you will BE unbound, come The FALL guys.
No Work or PlAYING GAMEs will Make FOr a SERious DrOP In Tolerances, IN cRowd id. Of this crowd, THERE Is Few, a Dollar wasn't MORE, but MORE was a Better BUy. Don't Get Buy, Get To WHY? WHy did you? WHo AR E YOU?
And WHY THE HELL should EYe Put out?
No more, there are mEssages and MEssengers, who NEEd to WRite HOME, and Speak A REAL Deal, or Simply go your way, as TOMORROW is a DAY A WAY, Farer...and Seeker, but of a QUALity control of a meeker. One.
HEar, Hear, it's a FUTURE, a Head of a GAMe, and Now, a LA\me Duck. RE lax, and Re Set, the early Win makes a Lover of a FIGHTEr, just Don't FIght with no LOVE, as I Work and Toil, and MY Boil Points to a Temperature, Of Temper, but NOT Time. YOU ARE out, and Doubt I will Sniff. Don't do it, you are A FIRST of a KInd of NEG a TIvely Charged, Too much JUICE, and YOur WIREs LOOSe their FITness TEst.
Fitness, Test it out, you are MINe, and do you MIND if I do you too?
KEep your SNarky Barks for others, I'm A Funny Face, and YOU ARE NOT FACING YOUR deeds, but a FALSE sense. Let the TRUTH, Spear the pocket of RESISTANCe, and FRee you. BUT it will HURT and Curse it, it will MAKE you What only YOU have the power to empower. YOU.
I'm just a SingING in the RAIN pain in the Ass of the UNDECIDED. Please VOTE for me, I"m your ONLY REAL, deal, but then It's a VOTe, you do Register, but IN TIME?
Laura Hart ATTlast, the Barbarian meets Barbie, And They ARE A couple of Dolls! House the Insane and Float the Mote of eyes unworthy, EYEs, of Addicts, and Plain Dicks, or Wicks or Wicannot, without my PER MISSIOn Boundaries in PLACe, until We Ascend. The Hole is a Place, a WHole World, A whole BREAD, a FOOD, a hole to FLy and We are NEEDING Some SUITS of READy and Willing to FLy the SOre TEE, and And Make our Plane, as the FAce on your Knows it.
Keep the FAITH, they ARE and CAn REturn adn EArn their World, a NEW, and I will PRO mote and PRO miss the FIre to those who CAn Find a FLAME to Retard, their FIRE SUIT of Proof. NO PROOF, until Positive of FLOW and Ebbenizer as NO SCROOGE can Ruin mY Christmas Past, heres your PRESENCE, a Gift of Gab. Real.
What an ANGEL, hath your Back side, Front of All? Angel FIRe! So, Your a Snarky barker, well then, please WAit, as I will Bound you in Cotton PICKIN' SLave Rehab, or Hab not. For long you are Too, but too longs don't make me WRite. THey Will Take a Might of Dog, HE's a We, and Duke and I will Sky Walter your SNarky, chem Trails, of Tears gassing and HARASSing. We will NO longer, BE CHemciallY ALTered. PlEASE STOP before I START, the MORE of what you CAN HANDLE! LOL
DEAL or Throw DOWn, I'm a Fight a DAviD and A GO LIATH, but you are LYing WIth the Lamb, and your chop MAYBE DOWN. Come hither, SOon, Shortly and Your Time will Spent well, BE with me.
Laura (CAn YOU HEAR ME Y"ET? How About NOW?) One more TIME...REcruit, NOT DRAFt, or Daft. Can it, and Plan your Escapades to SCAPE not SO LAND? No is your ORDER and I'll cook your ORDER as you can Count on it. FRIED Goose, or Noose Lied a GOOSe cooking and NOT looking for NECK IN neck, line of FIRE the TRUTH, and SHe's UP your Plan man's can. I can DO anything The man with a PLAN, and Can do. Better Behave or Save it for LATER. Traitors Are NO torious, for TArdy Party Fouls.
Thanks for Listening to the RABBIT HOle, Broadcast from a Soul of Soft Service. Don't let her OVER Done Satire, Do more HARM, as it is TRULY GOOD FOR you, and IF you Reed, You will Find your Message. FLute, music, EArs can Sing to.
I't a round here, LOL A Peg of Square only ROUND will Go. Now and WorTH the TRuth, ARE YOU?
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Hughes Net CEO, Pradman P. Kaul allows customers to suffer...
(Hughes Net. CEO, Pradman Kaul, pictured in this photo for "Spacenews." Kaul is the leader of the satellite internet provider Hughes Net, which seems to "space out" when it comes to providing actual service for the money. But he's one of many "fat" and happy CEO's whose financial success does not rely on customer satisfaction. And the FCC has little or no interest in raising any alarms as to the potentially criminal business practices artfully done at Hughes net. http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/111117-hughesnet-wildblue-subscriber.html.)
Hughes net, a leader in corporate tyranny is being run by a man named, Pradman Kaul. It appears Mr. Kaul has some serious problems with creating a fair playing field for his customers.
I'm sure his background is in "how much money can I get" business practices as if this the only mark of success.
Success was once considered by how many customers a company could keep, not how many they could scam.
But the illustrious Mr. Kaul, who seems to get awards from different organizations, must not have these people doling out the praise, on his list of customers.
Why?
Because this is the most terrible company since Microsoft. They are in it to win it and the prize is every dime they can pickpocket from their customers.
Watch President Obama will hold him up as an example of good business practices. We know that Obama likes anyone who will shift some dough or false praise his way.
What are wrong with these people that money obviously doesn't buy?
They can't be happy to rip off people everyday can they?
It appears so my friends. If you have trouble it is not because of the person you have from customer support or tech support, it is these fish slurping up the worms at the top of the corporate food chain.
I personally would like to offer Mr. Kaul and associates, all the money left in my pocket at this time. It appears they need it more than I, because I am NOT out ripping people off or vying constantly for an extra buck. LOL
Pradman P. Kaul – Chief Executive Officer and President of
Hughes Communications, Inc. (HCI)
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS)
Grant A. Barber – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
T. Paul Gaske – Executive Vice President
Bahram Pourmand – Executive Vice President
Adrian Morris – Executive Vice President
Dean A. Manson – Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary
Thomas J. McElroy – Chief Accounting Officer
Deepak V. Dutt -- Vice President, Treasurer, and Investor Relations Officer
Cleo V. Belmonte – Assistant Secretary
Andrew D. Africk – Director
O. Gene Gabbard – Director
Jeffrey A. Leddy -- Director
Lawrence J. Ruisi – Director
Aaron J. Stone – Director
Michael D. Weiner – Director
This situation is no different, I'm afraid.
Lay on the complaints but don't waste too much time as you have "Hughes Net" internet service and it will take forever with their downloading speeds....LOL
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Recall California Jerry Brown: C'mon it's time...
The state of California hurts. It is being run into the ground by those who thought at one point they could have a "California dream."
The Governor, Jerry Brown, is very much into bringing on the pain for the most vulnerable of citizens. We can't believe what he tells us as he has his own agenda for California.
This agenda includes hurting the people who already hurt.
The disabled have come out and protested. The people labeled mentally ill were next on his list. Then he continued down the line to care providers.
The care providers who are paid a nominal sum for taking care of elderly people in their homes, now must face not even making that money.
Brown says if the state constituents do not vote in a new tax measure on themselves, he will be cutting vital services to such things as elder care and down the line to education.
The fees for colleges are outrageous. They are causing major needs for student loans. These student loans keep escalating making education a risky business. But again, there isn't much choice other than to take out the loan.
Brown is killing the spirit of the state. He has none of his "new" ideas this time around as Governor. There was a time this man was willing to throw out the whole "income tax system" now he's ready to turn on his allies the people who voted him in.
Now voters it's time to turn on him.
Recall Jerry Brown...coming to a petition near you...
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Written March 2011
I'm always sad to deliver bad news, but it's true this country, America, is not so beautiful anymore is it? It's not only not beautiful it's lost it's heart and soul and has taken over the world basically.
Oh you didn't realize it?
Some people in power want more power and want resources, low wage workers, (slaves if they could) interfering with the actions of other countries, it's a nut house.
Gosh, right now we are fighting for rebels in Lybia because they are for...? We don't know who or what they are. We are fighting against something not for something. I've fought for a lot of things in my life, and mostly because most other people are cowards who won't fight for anything or against anything, and that generally leaves me sticking out in a crowd. I had wanted to make a difference while I was here, as we all get our chance, whether or not it is what you might think. Sometimes a difference is a facial expression, a smile. It could be soothing others in a serious situation. It could be having to hurt or kill others because they are hurting and killing and won't stop.
Do you realize how long it took for us to get into WWII when FDR had to go all around the congress and the populace who had fought hard in the first world war to get us over there, to the European front where people, jews mostly, but others as well, were eliminated with no compunction. Tortured and turned out of their homes and businesses, everything stolen, including their dignity. And you think it can't happen again.
As I am going to be doing is talking about the "American Revolution" which is on the menu, under "bologna sandwich." We have taken all the bullshit we can take here in America where politicians swear they are here for all of us, then take a walk once their limo pulls up.
The last straw for me was the invasion of Iraq after 9/11. I don't know about you, but I never thought much of the Iraqi's ability to put up a fight after they scrambled out of Kuwait the minute our desert attired soldiers showed up.
Now, George W. has excuses and a book. Fuck him. I don't have to respect him, I didn't vote for him. And even his father was a failure at making this country tick.
He was simply another tick. Feeding his family from Saudi Arabia and making it ridiculous here at home as he was playing both sides..
When the roads full of Kurdish refugees, women and children, were bombed and these people massacred, George Senior walked away with an excuse. It was too much to side with the Kurds as we still needed the Syrians who share the border.
What a sickness we have become on the world. We are deluded if we think we can continue to do this and not have repercussions such as what will happen with Lybia being taken over by rebels with no "political platform."
Our government is doing what we have to do with our limping democracy: vote for the lesser of the two evils, democrat or republican. There should be a major change in this country but we have no heroes, no great minds who have spoken up and said, "it's time for a big change."
We need to change our attitude that our "democrashy" is working. It isn't.
We need to share with the rest of the world, show some kindness, and less bombs.
We need people in government who are actually concerned and qualified, but we haven't made that distinction: what does it mean to be qualified? An age? How ridiculous. Education, history, philosophy, technology and a vision for a future that is realistic and broad as it is a world economy.
No more invasions. We use negotiations.
And yes, that frightening group known as the United Nations, is fast becoming a corrupted organization which will again need a remake.
No more bucking the system for any country, there should be conscious effort to meet the needs of all nations with the "competitive" nonsense omitted. Competition is good for an economy. Ask At&t and Directv, they did really well as all their brethren fell to the wayside leaving a monopoly.
We didn't and couldn't control that marvel called Microsoft either. And certainly the bail outs were so offensive to everyone, I think we can officially claim there will be an inner war here in America.
When a country and it's leaders push down the people already down, you're guaranteed an uprising.
Surprise America isn't so cool is it? Let's just hope we don't see any states making a break, hell I would tell them to if they felt the federal government is not doing it's job. It's certainly far behind the times and has basically ruined and stolen and forced Americans to become active.
I see no evil in people trying to survive, so if white collar crime can go unchecked, why not more gangs and more violence, and drugs too?
We are just over 200 years old and we are almost obsolete. We are not the powerhouse of the world with democracy the savior.
The best quote of the new century came from someone who knows, and who is stuck in the system in many ways. Madoff was quoted to have said, "American Government is just another Ponzi scheme."
Indeed.
Multi-level marketing only works at the top of the pyramid. You wouldn't buy into Amway would you? They have already too many sucklings and you would be feeding the top.
No, there's got to be good, intelligent people with vision who we can entice to come forward and help create a better future for our children. Yes, they are the lucky ones who get to inherit this mess. In God we trust, but we can't trust America, unless you're a witless boob. And so it goes...
I'm always sad to deliver bad news, but it's true this country, America, is not so beautiful anymore is it? It's not only not beautiful it's lost it's heart and soul and has taken over the world basically.
Oh you didn't realize it?
Some people in power want more power and want resources, low wage workers, (slaves if they could) interfering with the actions of other countries, it's a nut house.
Gosh, right now we are fighting for rebels in Lybia because they are for...? We don't know who or what they are. We are fighting against something not for something. I've fought for a lot of things in my life, and mostly because most other people are cowards who won't fight for anything or against anything, and that generally leaves me sticking out in a crowd. I had wanted to make a difference while I was here, as we all get our chance, whether or not it is what you might think. Sometimes a difference is a facial expression, a smile. It could be soothing others in a serious situation. It could be having to hurt or kill others because they are hurting and killing and won't stop.
Do you realize how long it took for us to get into WWII when FDR had to go all around the congress and the populace who had fought hard in the first world war to get us over there, to the European front where people, jews mostly, but others as well, were eliminated with no compunction. Tortured and turned out of their homes and businesses, everything stolen, including their dignity. And you think it can't happen again.
As I am going to be doing is talking about the "American Revolution" which is on the menu, under "bologna sandwich." We have taken all the bullshit we can take here in America where politicians swear they are here for all of us, then take a walk once their limo pulls up.
The last straw for me was the invasion of Iraq after 9/11. I don't know about you, but I never thought much of the Iraqi's ability to put up a fight after they scrambled out of Kuwait the minute our desert attired soldiers showed up.
Now, George W. has excuses and a book. Fuck him. I don't have to respect him, I didn't vote for him. And even his father was a failure at making this country tick.
He was simply another tick. Feeding his family from Saudi Arabia and making it ridiculous here at home as he was playing both sides..
When the roads full of Kurdish refugees, women and children, were bombed and these people massacred, George Senior walked away with an excuse. It was too much to side with the Kurds as we still needed the Syrians who share the border.
What a sickness we have become on the world. We are deluded if we think we can continue to do this and not have repercussions such as what will happen with Lybia being taken over by rebels with no "political platform."
Our government is doing what we have to do with our limping democracy: vote for the lesser of the two evils, democrat or republican. There should be a major change in this country but we have no heroes, no great minds who have spoken up and said, "it's time for a big change."
We need to change our attitude that our "democrashy" is working. It isn't.
We need to share with the rest of the world, show some kindness, and less bombs.
We need people in government who are actually concerned and qualified, but we haven't made that distinction: what does it mean to be qualified? An age? How ridiculous. Education, history, philosophy, technology and a vision for a future that is realistic and broad as it is a world economy.
No more invasions. We use negotiations.
And yes, that frightening group known as the United Nations, is fast becoming a corrupted organization which will again need a remake.
No more bucking the system for any country, there should be conscious effort to meet the needs of all nations with the "competitive" nonsense omitted. Competition is good for an economy. Ask At&t and Directv, they did really well as all their brethren fell to the wayside leaving a monopoly.
We didn't and couldn't control that marvel called Microsoft either. And certainly the bail outs were so offensive to everyone, I think we can officially claim there will be an inner war here in America.
When a country and it's leaders push down the people already down, you're guaranteed an uprising.
Surprise America isn't so cool is it? Let's just hope we don't see any states making a break, hell I would tell them to if they felt the federal government is not doing it's job. It's certainly far behind the times and has basically ruined and stolen and forced Americans to become active.
I see no evil in people trying to survive, so if white collar crime can go unchecked, why not more gangs and more violence, and drugs too?
We are just over 200 years old and we are almost obsolete. We are not the powerhouse of the world with democracy the savior.
The best quote of the new century came from someone who knows, and who is stuck in the system in many ways. Madoff was quoted to have said, "American Government is just another Ponzi scheme."
Indeed.
Multi-level marketing only works at the top of the pyramid. You wouldn't buy into Amway would you? They have already too many sucklings and you would be feeding the top.
No, there's got to be good, intelligent people with vision who we can entice to come forward and help create a better future for our children. Yes, they are the lucky ones who get to inherit this mess. In God we trust, but we can't trust America, unless you're a witless boob. And so it goes...
American Reform or Revolution: Leaving the scraps for the next generation
Written March 2011
Nobody wants to talk about it, but America is not number #1 in anything anymore.
American's don't like bad news and they haven't gotten up off their duffs in a while to go outside and take a real look around.
Crime on the rise, or is it that we can't see the crimes because they are inside the government, swelling with blood like ticks.
White collar crime is a boon in this country and they get away with it in small places such at the Kern River Valley, a beautiful place that could be a nice place to live: but it has become factionalized. The factions we see out there marching, the unions, they want to keep that protection, the pensions, the power of a government job.
And the government caught dumping money in the river or as they call it, "the bailouts" was the final straw and now the earth is moving, stocks are slipping, but hope of fairness, justice, and equality are out the door.
Welcome to dog eat dog time I must say I had quite a go round with a hospital district that has wasted more money than most people will make in their whole lives. And I've seen the damage done to people.
Friendly fire or collateral damage some might call it. Others take it more personally. Those that take it personally or have been hurt in the fight for intelligence, and compassion, are going to be those who are out there doing what has to be done in the name of what is good and right in this world.
Surprisingly sometimes it has to come to WAR and that war is not always away from your home or your apartment.
It's right on top of you. You have no choice but to fight or to have your ability to ever fight taken from you.
Disarming the American Mind
Education has taken such a dive in the last decade, it's all about diplomas and vocation, and less about humanity.
Is this a civilization is this really what being civil is all about?
You know the government lies to you, but the government has to lie in many cases because of real issues such as MASS PANIC, and REBELLION and when the situation gets hot enough it will begin to happen. It already has happened, we have seen the government putting it's big clumsy foot down on workers in Wisconsin.
I thought it, they probably did too I had the notion that if you stick to the side of truth and use intelligence and compassion you can't lose. I'm sure that the people who walked the streets of LA believe that they are making a difference.
Not yet.
Unfortunately, our country is running about with SMART bombs and dumb people because of the priorities we have established. We help other rebels, we even helped Osama Bin Laden when he was of use to the US Government during the "cold war" which ate up all the riches of Russia and created a huge storehouse of military gear and gadgets over here in America.
The US and it's friends from Europe have done some ugly things in the course of pretending to do what is right.
Currently we are short of knowledge and short on vision of the future. Where are the GREAT MINDS are there any left in America?
And are we going to dumb down our population and make them into homeless do-nothing's who are not serving the overall good of the world's population. I'd like to see one of the great minds stand up and begin the dialogue, but we have to wait as there will be a revolution in this country.
It won't be like the 60's though. It won't be made of rock and roll, it will be made of suffering like we have not seen or experienced.
The government offices and agencies where people are overworked, and under achievers, will be surrounded by razor wire as offices that used to house people who were trying desperately to work, are now picketing, throwing rocks, or...rockets.
Guns will be the big disaster in the world as people will fear their neighbors and not be communities. Dumb asses are running this country and the one's who want to help, who have the heart and the vision, don't show up for the flag waving parties.
We had hope President Obama...We believed you Governor Jerry Brown.
Now we hear it again, the condescension that the government can SOLVE our problems: the government has created our problems.
We let George Bush push us up against a wall of weapons of mass destruction, which were right here in America, not in Iraq.
Jerry Brown is probably the most correct that there will be anarchy, and maybe we all should go out and purchase those guns and ammo. We have something to fight for.
Here's the problem, America is so factionalized, so many groups insisting they are "righter" or "better" than the rest.
When you start hearing bullets whizzing by you, you'll get the message: and maybe the government will hear it too. We've already seen it starting the shooting of politicians: open season? Thin the heard? Imprisoning people is a costly business, but people have to eat and stay warm. What will America do and who will lead the way and most importantly...exactly where are we going?
(Example of a laughable but ugly situation: the Kern Valley Healthcare District. Jerry Brown couldn't do anything about it, the community doesn't know it's been duped into paying more taxes and is going to be asked to pay even more. And nobody could do anything...it's just a small community and Brown is now running the state? And Jean Fuller is a Senator? And Sharon Grove moved from business into politics, who is she and does she know about any of the huge failures here? See: KVHD under FIRE)
Nobody wants to talk about it, but America is not number #1 in anything anymore.
American's don't like bad news and they haven't gotten up off their duffs in a while to go outside and take a real look around.
Crime on the rise, or is it that we can't see the crimes because they are inside the government, swelling with blood like ticks.
White collar crime is a boon in this country and they get away with it in small places such at the Kern River Valley, a beautiful place that could be a nice place to live: but it has become factionalized. The factions we see out there marching, the unions, they want to keep that protection, the pensions, the power of a government job.
And the government caught dumping money in the river or as they call it, "the bailouts" was the final straw and now the earth is moving, stocks are slipping, but hope of fairness, justice, and equality are out the door.
Welcome to dog eat dog time I must say I had quite a go round with a hospital district that has wasted more money than most people will make in their whole lives. And I've seen the damage done to people.
Friendly fire or collateral damage some might call it. Others take it more personally. Those that take it personally or have been hurt in the fight for intelligence, and compassion, are going to be those who are out there doing what has to be done in the name of what is good and right in this world.
Surprisingly sometimes it has to come to WAR and that war is not always away from your home or your apartment.
It's right on top of you. You have no choice but to fight or to have your ability to ever fight taken from you.
Disarming the American Mind
Education has taken such a dive in the last decade, it's all about diplomas and vocation, and less about humanity.
Is this a civilization is this really what being civil is all about?
You know the government lies to you, but the government has to lie in many cases because of real issues such as MASS PANIC, and REBELLION and when the situation gets hot enough it will begin to happen. It already has happened, we have seen the government putting it's big clumsy foot down on workers in Wisconsin.
I thought it, they probably did too I had the notion that if you stick to the side of truth and use intelligence and compassion you can't lose. I'm sure that the people who walked the streets of LA believe that they are making a difference.
Not yet.
Unfortunately, our country is running about with SMART bombs and dumb people because of the priorities we have established. We help other rebels, we even helped Osama Bin Laden when he was of use to the US Government during the "cold war" which ate up all the riches of Russia and created a huge storehouse of military gear and gadgets over here in America.
The US and it's friends from Europe have done some ugly things in the course of pretending to do what is right.
Currently we are short of knowledge and short on vision of the future. Where are the GREAT MINDS are there any left in America?
And are we going to dumb down our population and make them into homeless do-nothing's who are not serving the overall good of the world's population. I'd like to see one of the great minds stand up and begin the dialogue, but we have to wait as there will be a revolution in this country.
It won't be like the 60's though. It won't be made of rock and roll, it will be made of suffering like we have not seen or experienced.
The government offices and agencies where people are overworked, and under achievers, will be surrounded by razor wire as offices that used to house people who were trying desperately to work, are now picketing, throwing rocks, or...rockets.
Guns will be the big disaster in the world as people will fear their neighbors and not be communities. Dumb asses are running this country and the one's who want to help, who have the heart and the vision, don't show up for the flag waving parties.
We had hope President Obama...We believed you Governor Jerry Brown.
Now we hear it again, the condescension that the government can SOLVE our problems: the government has created our problems.
We let George Bush push us up against a wall of weapons of mass destruction, which were right here in America, not in Iraq.
Jerry Brown is probably the most correct that there will be anarchy, and maybe we all should go out and purchase those guns and ammo. We have something to fight for.
Here's the problem, America is so factionalized, so many groups insisting they are "righter" or "better" than the rest.
When you start hearing bullets whizzing by you, you'll get the message: and maybe the government will hear it too. We've already seen it starting the shooting of politicians: open season? Thin the heard? Imprisoning people is a costly business, but people have to eat and stay warm. What will America do and who will lead the way and most importantly...exactly where are we going?
(Example of a laughable but ugly situation: the Kern Valley Healthcare District. Jerry Brown couldn't do anything about it, the community doesn't know it's been duped into paying more taxes and is going to be asked to pay even more. And nobody could do anything...it's just a small community and Brown is now running the state? And Jean Fuller is a Senator? And Sharon Grove moved from business into politics, who is she and does she know about any of the huge failures here? See: KVHD under FIRE)
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
I want to talk about our self image...
The biggest problem in America
What happens to be the biggest problem in our country today? I would say that it is our self image, we are poor, we have soldiers being killed, we have a President who needs to step the hell up, and we have not taken our power back.
Burning down neighborhoods does not seem like the answer. I know there is pain, in every person, from everywhere. But we don't need to create more of it. We need to take it to the top where the real trouble is brewing.
This will be short, more of an update, but I happen to catch a glance at our local newspaper, The Bakersfield Californian, and it reminded me of days gone by: the North Koreans still wear those communist uniforms. These people believe the only way to live is to create a massive army, nuclear bombs, and if there is any affront by nations, even the once strong America, they will use these weapons.
The picture on the front page was ominous, and the new premier of the country is the son of the late one. Hmm, what will we have? Did this son rebel against his father or is he due to rebel against his father? Or was he groomed to take up where Daddy left off?
I guess we will find out. That is the biggest challenge in the world, assuaging North Korea. Oh boy what an effort. We don't want them to feel bad, we need them to feel comfortably "bad ass" so they don't need to torch us with their standing army and all their angry toys.
More to follow: Laura Hart
What happens to be the biggest problem in our country today? I would say that it is our self image, we are poor, we have soldiers being killed, we have a President who needs to step the hell up, and we have not taken our power back.
Burning down neighborhoods does not seem like the answer. I know there is pain, in every person, from everywhere. But we don't need to create more of it. We need to take it to the top where the real trouble is brewing.
This will be short, more of an update, but I happen to catch a glance at our local newspaper, The Bakersfield Californian, and it reminded me of days gone by: the North Koreans still wear those communist uniforms. These people believe the only way to live is to create a massive army, nuclear bombs, and if there is any affront by nations, even the once strong America, they will use these weapons.
The picture on the front page was ominous, and the new premier of the country is the son of the late one. Hmm, what will we have? Did this son rebel against his father or is he due to rebel against his father? Or was he groomed to take up where Daddy left off?
I guess we will find out. That is the biggest challenge in the world, assuaging North Korea. Oh boy what an effort. We don't want them to feel bad, we need them to feel comfortably "bad ass" so they don't need to torch us with their standing army and all their angry toys.
More to follow: Laura Hart
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Former Kern Valley Healthcare District CEO, Pam Ott, asking for a dismissal
Elder abuse has no excuses or exceptions
May 17, 2011
Bakersfield, CA
It will be a very interesting day at the Kern County Superior Court as a former CEO, Pamela Ott, charged with eight counts of elder abuse surrounding her employment with the Kern Valley Healthcare District in Lake Isabella, CA, in 2006-7, has filed a motion PC 995 to have all charges dismissed.
The case that captured the attention of now Governor Jerry Brown, surrounding the complaints of chemically restraining elderly patients in the Kern Valley hospitals' distinctive nursing center may have lead to their early demise.
Ott, who has plead "not guilty" along with co-defendants, Dr. Hoshang Pormir, and Director of Nursing, Gwenneth Hughes, is the only defendant taking this course of action as her attorney, Jim Faulkner will try to prove that the pretrial somehow her rights were violated during the course of charging her in court or that there was no probable cause.
Dr. Pormir, who had two attorneys working on his behalf, Donald Etra and William Howard Ginsburg, both political figures as Ginsburg was the attorney for Monica Lewinsky in one of our country's worst political brawls, that of the President Bill Clinton.
Etra, is known for his high profile Hollywood type cases, and was a guest of President Bush at the White House.
Under all these heavyweight names you will find a small hospital, with names you don't know, but people such as Phyllis Peters, whose mother died in the hospital's skilled nursing facility.
"I want to go to court and look them in the eyes, that is all I want," the elderly woman said in a recent interview.
Peters is waiting to see if the criminal trial will move forward as there will also be civil cases that follow, but she said she wants "justice."
There has been speculation that the board of directors and other administrators may also be liable as Ott was a CEO, but her credentials are what is in question. On the blog, KVHD under Fire, Ott's whole resume is shown, however, other clouds trail the white collar defendant.
She was alleged to have moved on to Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley California, which bankrupted one month after she was charged with eight counts of elder abuse, and records were to have shown Ott was moving money from protected property tax dollars, GOB, and employee pension funds.
Some Reedley employees will never see their pensions due to conflicts with the bankruptcy, Ott has yet to be charged in that case.
It's a political battle on the inside of the hospital as board meetings have become more contentious as big money was spent to hire a new CEO, the third since Ott left in May of 2007. The hospital, struggling financially, could be pushed into bankruptcy if the trial goes and the state prevails that no matter who you are, there are no excuses for elder abuse.
The CEO, may use her position as undereducated to her advantage today in court, as her credentials come from an Internet college once called Kennedy/Western University.
But the question remains to be seen if a CEO who shares a workspace and work place, could miss such things as a particularly violent act against an elderly woman given an antipsychotic called Risperdal against her will.
Records show that several nurses had to hold her down, and those nurses, as well as other administrators, or board members, have not been charged.
The selectivity of the defendants in the case makes it unusual as this could be the benchmark case, where it reaches those who should have done their jobs, but also, reported the crimes as well. It may well send a message to those who don't report crimes that they will be held responsible too.
Does that include the board of directors? The state and county could argue they had no medical training therefore no ability to know. What if they were told though? Could they then become liable?
This case may open up doors for more laws regarding vigilance and responsibility concerning care of the elderly if it goes to trial and wins. But it could leave scars in the small valley if the Governor and now Attorney General Kamala Harris, cannot finish what they started.
The hospital stands to lose millions of dollars it cannot afford in legal expenses should these cases become successful, which could cause the eventual bankruptcy of the district and possible repossession by a state office which insures the hospital's 20 million dollar debt, Cal Mtg.
It could also lead to more charges with Ott regarding her tenure with Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley.
"It's definitely not over, people are fighting for their jobs, money, it's ugly," said one hospital employee who chose not to be quoted.
The case is scheduled for trial in September, but the Ott camp is going for a full dismissal. More on this motion later today.
May 17, 2011
Bakersfield, CA
It will be a very interesting day at the Kern County Superior Court as a former CEO, Pamela Ott, charged with eight counts of elder abuse surrounding her employment with the Kern Valley Healthcare District in Lake Isabella, CA, in 2006-7, has filed a motion PC 995 to have all charges dismissed.
The case that captured the attention of now Governor Jerry Brown, surrounding the complaints of chemically restraining elderly patients in the Kern Valley hospitals' distinctive nursing center may have lead to their early demise.
Ott, who has plead "not guilty" along with co-defendants, Dr. Hoshang Pormir, and Director of Nursing, Gwenneth Hughes, is the only defendant taking this course of action as her attorney, Jim Faulkner will try to prove that the pretrial somehow her rights were violated during the course of charging her in court or that there was no probable cause.
Dr. Pormir, who had two attorneys working on his behalf, Donald Etra and William Howard Ginsburg, both political figures as Ginsburg was the attorney for Monica Lewinsky in one of our country's worst political brawls, that of the President Bill Clinton.
Etra, is known for his high profile Hollywood type cases, and was a guest of President Bush at the White House.
Under all these heavyweight names you will find a small hospital, with names you don't know, but people such as Phyllis Peters, whose mother died in the hospital's skilled nursing facility.
"I want to go to court and look them in the eyes, that is all I want," the elderly woman said in a recent interview.
Peters is waiting to see if the criminal trial will move forward as there will also be civil cases that follow, but she said she wants "justice."
There has been speculation that the board of directors and other administrators may also be liable as Ott was a CEO, but her credentials are what is in question. On the blog, KVHD under Fire, Ott's whole resume is shown, however, other clouds trail the white collar defendant.
She was alleged to have moved on to Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley California, which bankrupted one month after she was charged with eight counts of elder abuse, and records were to have shown Ott was moving money from protected property tax dollars, GOB, and employee pension funds.
Some Reedley employees will never see their pensions due to conflicts with the bankruptcy, Ott has yet to be charged in that case.
It's a political battle on the inside of the hospital as board meetings have become more contentious as big money was spent to hire a new CEO, the third since Ott left in May of 2007. The hospital, struggling financially, could be pushed into bankruptcy if the trial goes and the state prevails that no matter who you are, there are no excuses for elder abuse.
The CEO, may use her position as undereducated to her advantage today in court, as her credentials come from an Internet college once called Kennedy/Western University.
But the question remains to be seen if a CEO who shares a workspace and work place, could miss such things as a particularly violent act against an elderly woman given an antipsychotic called Risperdal against her will.
Records show that several nurses had to hold her down, and those nurses, as well as other administrators, or board members, have not been charged.
The selectivity of the defendants in the case makes it unusual as this could be the benchmark case, where it reaches those who should have done their jobs, but also, reported the crimes as well. It may well send a message to those who don't report crimes that they will be held responsible too.
Does that include the board of directors? The state and county could argue they had no medical training therefore no ability to know. What if they were told though? Could they then become liable?
This case may open up doors for more laws regarding vigilance and responsibility concerning care of the elderly if it goes to trial and wins. But it could leave scars in the small valley if the Governor and now Attorney General Kamala Harris, cannot finish what they started.
The hospital stands to lose millions of dollars it cannot afford in legal expenses should these cases become successful, which could cause the eventual bankruptcy of the district and possible repossession by a state office which insures the hospital's 20 million dollar debt, Cal Mtg.
It could also lead to more charges with Ott regarding her tenure with Sierra Kings District Hospital in Reedley.
"It's definitely not over, people are fighting for their jobs, money, it's ugly," said one hospital employee who chose not to be quoted.
The case is scheduled for trial in September, but the Ott camp is going for a full dismissal. More on this motion later today.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
California government short staffed and on the brink of financial failure
I am starting to believe as I hear more and more about the budget problems here in California, that we are fooling ourselves into believing we have researched a way to properly fuel up the west coast economy.
With the budget impasse, the late payments, the lack of leadership, and an election year which is bringing out some old timers such as Jerry Brown, current Attorney General, who according to many media resources, claims to have answers to our problems.
Do we want to maybe try something new as AG Brown has not impressed many around the state in his current position, many are disappointed with his record in comparison to that of former AG, Bill Lockyer?
Tough on doctors who over prescribe medications to such people as Anna Nicole Smith and even a foray into Michael Jackson's overdose.
He has taken on big mortgage fraud cases, but in the end, he shrank away from investigating his own...
It's called Cal Mtg. out of the office of Statewide Healthcare Planning and Development, and they are an insurer and creditor for small hospitals and medical clinics around the state.
Cal Mtg. was created to help hospitals who have no credit to obtain monies for expansion projects and to try and guarantee healthcare services to small communities.
But in it's mission statement it's first priority is to "protect the fund." They MAKE money from these loans they issue, but once involved with Cal Mtg. these hospitals and healthcare districts are now without options if they cannot pay.
The second part of my thoughts today about the state, is the fact that Cal Mtg. is basically untouchable.
How could this be? I asked the DOJ if they, who are attacking "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac" in a potential lawsuit if they would be able to investigate the "government bond" sales at a small hospital in the Kern River Valley which has left them flat broke.
No response of course as they are two offices with a savings account and with the stormy weather blowing money away faster than a child actor, they are keeping their monies safe.
This same request was made to the Governors office, as well as a request for help from Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver's website.
I must say Shriver's people were fully sympathetic with the situation in the valley surrounding Lake Isabella, but the last and final letter told the tale: "Good luck."
With this sort of lack of focus and ability to act quickly and effectively to problems as they arise, there is little hope that the government is going to be able to recover any time soon.
What is happening on the inside?
I know many people working in government jobs who are about at the end of their ropes.
Short staffing, meaning not allowing an adequate amount of employees needed to accomplish their jobs in a proper, legal, manner, is now a grave issue on the inside.
It's funny how they cut jobs from the bottom up. Do you think they could save more money and retain more employees by edging out middle managers and finding ways to both adequately accomplish their respective tasks while maintaining the most important people: the one's at the bottom.
When you call a government office about any issue, do you speak with the President, the Governor, Senators, or is it "Jane Doe" on the phone with you?
As is a pattern in corporate America, the small guy goes first. That's bad business anyway you look at it.
One last thought for the day regarding the marijuana issue being "considered" this year.
There is another cigarette tax on it's way to help create a black market as people will and always do find a way around these ridiculous taxes. Beat up some smokers and throw a tax at them; pretend there are savings in medical care; and go home and sleep at night.
Marijuana has a problem, it works medically for many people. That is a problem for the pharmaceutical industry, "Pharmerica," as it is safer, with less side effects, and has many uses, thus threatening their prescriptionopoloy.
We could be bringing in big tax dollars with "medical marijuana" but that is being fought. Why? For no other reason than it could effect the bottom line for many medications currently on the market.
Legalizing it is not the best way and it will NEVER pass.
Allowing a market for marijuana appropriately monitored for medical patients would bring in tax dollars and truly "cut costs on medical care." That's a problem?
Wake up California, I have many things to show you over the next two months as we move toward the November 2, election...your votes will make a difference so it's time to begin thinking before we cast our powerful opinions...
http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/
With the budget impasse, the late payments, the lack of leadership, and an election year which is bringing out some old timers such as Jerry Brown, current Attorney General, who according to many media resources, claims to have answers to our problems.
Do we want to maybe try something new as AG Brown has not impressed many around the state in his current position, many are disappointed with his record in comparison to that of former AG, Bill Lockyer?
Tough on doctors who over prescribe medications to such people as Anna Nicole Smith and even a foray into Michael Jackson's overdose.
He has taken on big mortgage fraud cases, but in the end, he shrank away from investigating his own...
It's called Cal Mtg. out of the office of Statewide Healthcare Planning and Development, and they are an insurer and creditor for small hospitals and medical clinics around the state.
Cal Mtg. was created to help hospitals who have no credit to obtain monies for expansion projects and to try and guarantee healthcare services to small communities.
But in it's mission statement it's first priority is to "protect the fund." They MAKE money from these loans they issue, but once involved with Cal Mtg. these hospitals and healthcare districts are now without options if they cannot pay.
The second part of my thoughts today about the state, is the fact that Cal Mtg. is basically untouchable.
How could this be? I asked the DOJ if they, who are attacking "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac" in a potential lawsuit if they would be able to investigate the "government bond" sales at a small hospital in the Kern River Valley which has left them flat broke.
No response of course as they are two offices with a savings account and with the stormy weather blowing money away faster than a child actor, they are keeping their monies safe.
This same request was made to the Governors office, as well as a request for help from Schwarzenegger's wife, Maria Shriver's website.
I must say Shriver's people were fully sympathetic with the situation in the valley surrounding Lake Isabella, but the last and final letter told the tale: "Good luck."
With this sort of lack of focus and ability to act quickly and effectively to problems as they arise, there is little hope that the government is going to be able to recover any time soon.
What is happening on the inside?
I know many people working in government jobs who are about at the end of their ropes.
Short staffing, meaning not allowing an adequate amount of employees needed to accomplish their jobs in a proper, legal, manner, is now a grave issue on the inside.
It's funny how they cut jobs from the bottom up. Do you think they could save more money and retain more employees by edging out middle managers and finding ways to both adequately accomplish their respective tasks while maintaining the most important people: the one's at the bottom.
When you call a government office about any issue, do you speak with the President, the Governor, Senators, or is it "Jane Doe" on the phone with you?
As is a pattern in corporate America, the small guy goes first. That's bad business anyway you look at it.
One last thought for the day regarding the marijuana issue being "considered" this year.
There is another cigarette tax on it's way to help create a black market as people will and always do find a way around these ridiculous taxes. Beat up some smokers and throw a tax at them; pretend there are savings in medical care; and go home and sleep at night.
Marijuana has a problem, it works medically for many people. That is a problem for the pharmaceutical industry, "Pharmerica," as it is safer, with less side effects, and has many uses, thus threatening their prescriptionopoloy.
We could be bringing in big tax dollars with "medical marijuana" but that is being fought. Why? For no other reason than it could effect the bottom line for many medications currently on the market.
Legalizing it is not the best way and it will NEVER pass.
Allowing a market for marijuana appropriately monitored for medical patients would bring in tax dollars and truly "cut costs on medical care." That's a problem?
Wake up California, I have many things to show you over the next two months as we move toward the November 2, election...your votes will make a difference so it's time to begin thinking before we cast our powerful opinions...
http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/
Thursday, August 19, 2010
First do no Harm: and do it quickly with good insurance: American Healthcare Reformation
Are doctors Hippocrates or I mean hypocrites?
In the last ten years I have been disabled due to a drug "only an antibiotic" without getting any sort of warning as to the fact that this medicine could cause "permanent damage."
Why didn't they at least give me a head's up or a fact sheet or a simple "watch out for this or that?"
My observations of doctors in the last ten years since this damage occurred, changing my whole life, and my future, was that our healers have no time to both make money and do their jobs...well.
Only a few words and a phone call would have changed my whole situation, but that is not the game of medicine is it?
My doctor was young, probably still had student loans to pay off, and a life to lead, and making sure I knew that the medicine I was being given had the potential to cause life changing damage, was probably last on the list.
The failure of medicine in my case was simple, a warning, a phone call, communication: all things that could be done simply and easily if the doctor was not overworked and stressed.
Statistics in medicine are common, one day one thing helps 30% of the people, the next it's off the market or part of a class action lawsuit.
When the federal government decided to change the playing field to allow pharmaceutical companies the use of television and media to promote medicines that could potentially harm you, they may have just have legalized drugs.
Pharmerica we are now being called by some throughout the world as we are owned and operated by companies which can correct mainly erectile problems, sleep disorders, foot fungus, high cholesterol, depression, but not without the side effects of say, "death" and "permanent damage."
We cannot stop this onslaught of prescription medicines as now they are tied to corporate America and keep many television and most especially magazines going with their big time advertising dollars.
With doctors allowed little more than ten minutes to see a patient and a prescription pad to salve the concerns of the patient, I think there should be more statistics.
For instance, when my injury to my inner ear occurred, did somebody run to the pharmaceutical company and add my name to the list of people injured by this particular medicine?
Did the new statistics regarding my reactions to medications get back to the companies who provide these chemicals?
So, when you open up that slip of paper from the pharmacy or manufacturer rest assured it's outdated and there is little in the way of new information being gathered.
One medicine I personally was given and warned about had a 5% rate that it could effect my endocrine system. Well, it did.
Just because the rate is low, doesn't mean it couldn't happen to you. Somebody had these reactions listed, so therefore, it's all about the odds.
In fact, I researched that medicine after my reaction and found that I was given the wrong statistic: it was 5% of men and 12.9% of women. Being a woman, my risk was greater, but my doctor did not point that out.
Again, what can a doctor do except play the game?
When our local community gathered for the healthcare reform "town hall" meeting, they had to be corrected as many of these people thought reforming healthcare would be more than simply fixing a system of reimbursement and insurance for all.
People were more concerned as to how they are treated by their doctor and the medications they are being given, then the issues of costs. I found that very interesting.
Shush, says the government to the people.
When President Obama decided to reformulate the system of healthcare he wanted it done and fast. He pushed at this thing as he knew after bailing out the needy CEO's on Wall Street, that his popularity would dim quickly.
It did. I mean his popularity hit the skids and we have some specter of a monstrous federal program that will probably hurt us all in the end. And it was pushed through without being finished.
By finished, I mean, they left the door open for lobbyists and strong arm robbers like Pharmerica, and closed it on the American people and their concerns.
It's not the doctors, it's the government, as usual.
I try to imagine the doctors I have had to see over the last decade of ill health in a situation where they could see maybe five to ten patients a day, taking their time to know the patient, allow for more options for treatment, consider all else before the prescription path: then pay them well.
I imagine the attitude would change dramatically as they would not be stressed out and overworked, thereby, making mistakes or not being able to treat those with disorders that are out of the ordinary.
If you gave me a prescription pad and I believed all the statistics provided by Pharmerica, along with having little time, I would probably do the same thing.
Two problems: the studies on these medicines are checked by who, the federal government, meaning they are done to bring "cures" to the market as quickly as possible. That's the first problem.
Second problem is that a doctor doesn't have the time or energy to "follow up" and therefore doesn't know exactly what sorts of problems these medications are causing.
People don't always complain or even come back after a bad experience, so where are these numbers?
Yes, America you should be concerned about what has happened to our medical community. Now we see that doctors have hit the path of politics creating their own ideas about what should be done here in the United States.
We are not Canada nor the UK, we are America. Not the greatest country in the world, but one where you find people who will upset the apple pie cart to get something done right.
Healthcare reform will be difficult due to the many factions who want their money out of this industry which really holds the economy together. Oh, yes, that's right, the industry of medicine, be it "over the counter" or "behind the counter" is big stuff and that is why the President did what he did to push past the bulwark of big medicine business to get something going.
However, one President or one person, has an uphill battle to defeat the parasites residing in medical care everywhere.
We keep hearing about the doctor shortage, yet we don't encourage this particular profession with enough focus.
Get rid of their student loans, if one wants to become a doctor, then give them all the time and money they need based on the individuals ability to complete the long task of educating themselves in this profession.
Nurses too. (Note: there are many programs for nurses who want to continue their education, but that is obviously a scattered promise, as hospitals and colleges have programs to help, but again, if we really see the problem, help needs to get here fast as the numbers are drooping.)
Give these hard working people their share so they can share their "real potential" as a healer with their respective communities. Allow them to focus on the task at hand, and not what or when the health insurance companies decide is best. And certainly keep them out of politics as this is where many have lost their compassion and morality.
With gridlock in government, it's unlikely you will see action, more talk for years to come. And with the President Obama plan, the only consideration seems to be cost and keeping certain factions happy.
What does it cost to lose the trust of the American people. I guess we will find out soon...
In the last ten years I have been disabled due to a drug "only an antibiotic" without getting any sort of warning as to the fact that this medicine could cause "permanent damage."
Why didn't they at least give me a head's up or a fact sheet or a simple "watch out for this or that?"
My observations of doctors in the last ten years since this damage occurred, changing my whole life, and my future, was that our healers have no time to both make money and do their jobs...well.
Only a few words and a phone call would have changed my whole situation, but that is not the game of medicine is it?
My doctor was young, probably still had student loans to pay off, and a life to lead, and making sure I knew that the medicine I was being given had the potential to cause life changing damage, was probably last on the list.
The failure of medicine in my case was simple, a warning, a phone call, communication: all things that could be done simply and easily if the doctor was not overworked and stressed.
Statistics in medicine are common, one day one thing helps 30% of the people, the next it's off the market or part of a class action lawsuit.
When the federal government decided to change the playing field to allow pharmaceutical companies the use of television and media to promote medicines that could potentially harm you, they may have just have legalized drugs.
Pharmerica we are now being called by some throughout the world as we are owned and operated by companies which can correct mainly erectile problems, sleep disorders, foot fungus, high cholesterol, depression, but not without the side effects of say, "death" and "permanent damage."
We cannot stop this onslaught of prescription medicines as now they are tied to corporate America and keep many television and most especially magazines going with their big time advertising dollars.
With doctors allowed little more than ten minutes to see a patient and a prescription pad to salve the concerns of the patient, I think there should be more statistics.
For instance, when my injury to my inner ear occurred, did somebody run to the pharmaceutical company and add my name to the list of people injured by this particular medicine?
Did the new statistics regarding my reactions to medications get back to the companies who provide these chemicals?
So, when you open up that slip of paper from the pharmacy or manufacturer rest assured it's outdated and there is little in the way of new information being gathered.
One medicine I personally was given and warned about had a 5% rate that it could effect my endocrine system. Well, it did.
Just because the rate is low, doesn't mean it couldn't happen to you. Somebody had these reactions listed, so therefore, it's all about the odds.
In fact, I researched that medicine after my reaction and found that I was given the wrong statistic: it was 5% of men and 12.9% of women. Being a woman, my risk was greater, but my doctor did not point that out.
Again, what can a doctor do except play the game?
When our local community gathered for the healthcare reform "town hall" meeting, they had to be corrected as many of these people thought reforming healthcare would be more than simply fixing a system of reimbursement and insurance for all.
People were more concerned as to how they are treated by their doctor and the medications they are being given, then the issues of costs. I found that very interesting.
Shush, says the government to the people.
When President Obama decided to reformulate the system of healthcare he wanted it done and fast. He pushed at this thing as he knew after bailing out the needy CEO's on Wall Street, that his popularity would dim quickly.
It did. I mean his popularity hit the skids and we have some specter of a monstrous federal program that will probably hurt us all in the end. And it was pushed through without being finished.
By finished, I mean, they left the door open for lobbyists and strong arm robbers like Pharmerica, and closed it on the American people and their concerns.
It's not the doctors, it's the government, as usual.
I try to imagine the doctors I have had to see over the last decade of ill health in a situation where they could see maybe five to ten patients a day, taking their time to know the patient, allow for more options for treatment, consider all else before the prescription path: then pay them well.
I imagine the attitude would change dramatically as they would not be stressed out and overworked, thereby, making mistakes or not being able to treat those with disorders that are out of the ordinary.
If you gave me a prescription pad and I believed all the statistics provided by Pharmerica, along with having little time, I would probably do the same thing.
Two problems: the studies on these medicines are checked by who, the federal government, meaning they are done to bring "cures" to the market as quickly as possible. That's the first problem.
Second problem is that a doctor doesn't have the time or energy to "follow up" and therefore doesn't know exactly what sorts of problems these medications are causing.
People don't always complain or even come back after a bad experience, so where are these numbers?
Yes, America you should be concerned about what has happened to our medical community. Now we see that doctors have hit the path of politics creating their own ideas about what should be done here in the United States.
We are not Canada nor the UK, we are America. Not the greatest country in the world, but one where you find people who will upset the apple pie cart to get something done right.
Healthcare reform will be difficult due to the many factions who want their money out of this industry which really holds the economy together. Oh, yes, that's right, the industry of medicine, be it "over the counter" or "behind the counter" is big stuff and that is why the President did what he did to push past the bulwark of big medicine business to get something going.
However, one President or one person, has an uphill battle to defeat the parasites residing in medical care everywhere.
We keep hearing about the doctor shortage, yet we don't encourage this particular profession with enough focus.
Get rid of their student loans, if one wants to become a doctor, then give them all the time and money they need based on the individuals ability to complete the long task of educating themselves in this profession.
Nurses too. (Note: there are many programs for nurses who want to continue their education, but that is obviously a scattered promise, as hospitals and colleges have programs to help, but again, if we really see the problem, help needs to get here fast as the numbers are drooping.)
Give these hard working people their share so they can share their "real potential" as a healer with their respective communities. Allow them to focus on the task at hand, and not what or when the health insurance companies decide is best. And certainly keep them out of politics as this is where many have lost their compassion and morality.
With gridlock in government, it's unlikely you will see action, more talk for years to come. And with the President Obama plan, the only consideration seems to be cost and keeping certain factions happy.
What does it cost to lose the trust of the American people. I guess we will find out soon...
Saturday, April 24, 2010
You're the employer of the government: be a better boss
May I have some coffee and the morning memos, thank you
It's not like you drive to Sacramento or Washington DC in the morning, prepped for a fight against, greed, overconsumption, pollution, and anything that stands in our way from providing education and compassionate health services for all.
What a wonder of a country we could be if we hired (voted in) the intelligent and fair employees into a system that rewards success and spends less time trying to make sure they spend the whole years allotted monies so that it will cost more next year.
Currently the government cannot save money and is spending it frivolously on amateurish and ignorant plans to run a failing government.
If the government fails it falls to the people.
Don't like that, then start thinking, reading and researching.
If you plan on having tea parties all around the country please take a history class so that you may have a perspective on why these sorts of protests took place.
I will be taking the time to show people not only how to protest, but how to get results. Of course, much to the dismay of political California, I will be demonstrating these gems for the politicians myself.
In other countries violence has supplanted the marching, sit in's, and civil war is the result.
We don't need another civil war and we don't need a war in the middle east either. Had that situation been handled years before by leaders who were not able to look to the future and forecast cloudy, misunderstood skies.
The history of American and European infestation into the Persian lands taking place in the last century with an assassination of a former Shah of Iran. He had to go because we needed to fuel up to get to Africa via Iran and Iraq. The next leader we put in power. You'll remember a religious leader showed up and was greeted with much enthusiasm, as they believed in religion over politics.
Funny, we have instituted a similar policy, just not the same religion, but religion has entered politics and war, if George W. was answering truly when he said the US was on a "crusade."
Let's take this opportunity with poverty and lack of opportunity, an antiquated educational system, right here in this country to focus on what is happening here.
I find it ironic that we are supposedly imposing an American Democracy on a nation where people still move a few goats around in the sandy areas of the vast deserts in the middle east.
When a country forgets it's educational system, it's doomed...eventually. How far can you fall behind before it's obvious in every way, especially the way the country is being run.
Now to my point, you are the boss of this government yet it is all about complaining.
When you have tired of yelling into the wind, start making phone calls, take your power as a voter, taxpayer, worker, drone, queen, and begin to lobby for you, your family, your community and your state.
Become a lobbyist by finding your representatives and sending them your ideas, the ideas of your group, and give them a direction their constituents want to go.
If you vote some in and do not tell them why you did, you may not get what you want.
It's another election year, and it's time to understand who you are in the scheme of America. Welcome to your job too...
Being the boss of a nation at war, broken financially, educationally falling behind the rest of the world, it's time to step up.
Violence is quite unnecessary unless you have a violent and entrenched government which is only representing certain, most likely, greedy interests.
There's no reason this whole world couldn't be well fed and aware of it's responsibility for keeping this planet alive and continuing to create. With China reconsidering it's one baby per family policy, you can expect a population explosion. The smog in China makes a huge impact on the environment, who is worried, raise your hand? It's not going to get better.
Geography as well as cultural respect, is something necessary in the big world we live in today. But keep your eyes on the prize here at home.
Our goals:
Breaking up the concentrations of power
Create a true list of what corporations actually own, and see what sort of measures we can take to save small business from being swallowed up.
The regulators in the bogus bail outs, did not even know how to find the accounting tricks and define them for the government officials so they could act and the American people could be kept informed. Keep your watchdogs trained or reap only confusion and animosity amongst the poor and the rich.
Find a simple way to supply healthcare without having to fill "every one's" pockets. It's not that hard and there are many ideas to support a low cost assistance plan, creating a larger insurance pool, allowing prices to drop. We don't think of the state of Oklahoma as being in the lead in much, except some football, but they have created an insurance pool so small businesses can provide health insurance.
Not a difficult thing to do. And it doesn't have to be done on the federal end only.
Growing food and food consumption. Stop the packaging nonsense. Stop shipping products across the nation when it can be distributed locally. Make it financially feasible to do so. Keep it local, really.
The food is making people fat and there are industries preying upon their insecurities and their health problems. If these corporations were not keeping out other food from the national grocery chains people would have choices. And tax incentives for growing our own foods, and growing for others, and spreading that knowledge.
Cigarettes, killing only, but created a huge market of drugs, patches, gums, and are multi billion dollar companies. Wouldn't it be terrible to find out if the tobacco industry created the remedy to the product they sell? If we ever get a grant to do a research project where we trace the evoluation of big business, actually bonded together in a convenant of greed, we could find out. A lot of work, but I would be willing to pitch in.
Alcohol and alcholism. I've seen many pictures on the news of the horrendous car crashes caused by people drunk out of their minds. Ethanol may be good for gasoline, but it's a very heavy street drug, accessible and powerful. It has no medical value, but it is a part of most every culture. We cannot write more laws, but we can minimize the accessibility and create more remedies to treat the alcoholics.
Birth control and abortion. If we had a society not threatened by sex and sexuality, we could be more open with our children about how to avoid pregnancy, STD's, years of staying in the closet fearing be rejected because of sexual preference (See Senator Roy Ashburn, his life could have been one of being himself, but he chose to hide and was openly homophobic. That's a sad story to end a career on. Not a good example of strength of character.), and the obvious that women are not the only ones who have birth control created for them.
Where's the male birth control, where they can have "control" of their own bodies? And why are there not a fair number of women running this country? Women should be the stronger voice. Black women showed themselves to be some of the strongest and most resilient people on earth. Raising children by yourself is not a sin, a crime, but a call to the community for help.
Yes, it's true, it does take a village to raise a child. And the villagers need to walk the example, show the courage to step up when things are wrong. No child needs to be beaten, berated, sexually used. But they do need encouragement, love, time and communication. And when they are accepted for who they are they become a force in society
Marijuana, could be used for clothes, paper, medicine, and an industry. But there would be corporations losing money so corporations are not lobbying for this or it would have happened by now. The individuals who have been healed by this herb, and the constitution written on Hemp paper, and the fabrics made from the fibers, and it's cheap.
We spend money policing it and jailing some who use it. What is that costing us? But then there are only a few lobbyists out there. NORML was one of the first to take the government to task on the issue, and they have made progress.
Then we need to shut down our war machine. Share the responsibility of "policing" the world with the "world."
As an evolved society we need to take care and utilize our seniors who have both experience and knowledge which is being overlooked. Caring for our elders should be a respectable occupation, not a cheap operation where nurses and caretakers receive little compensation for the compassionate work.
Taking care of those with Alzheimer's and other crippling diseases is difficult at best, so we should not start shooting the full of chemical restraints and find a way to pay a good respectable wage to those who are caring for the people who may have raised you, been your friend, your husband or wife.
And those who have suffered a disability must have the opportunity to serve the community, work for a decent wage, get help to get back into society not be pushed out, and to create a disability program which exemplifies those ideals. Anyone at anytime can have an accident, disease, some malady that changes their whole life. This has to be addressed in a progressive, compassionate and intelligent way. Just because someone is damaged, doesn't mean they are just no good anymore. You'd be surprised, they might just be better.
Each state decides what they want to do with drug addicts who are harming themselves. I really don't care if people want to hurt themselves by becoming addicts, but there would be a solid rule: if you want to be a junkie have fun, but you can never have children or care for anyone else's children. Real simple.
And finally, education is the most important thing we can do to induce continued progress on the part of the US in the world. We still have many natural resources, but the biggest resource is the people who can do many things given the right opportunities. Let's teach everyone to find their passion, their work, their labor of love, and then give them the tools to actually use what the Lord gave us.
But even there we must realize there are many cultures and differences, people are different, have different talents, so education is going to need a makeover so it understands we all learn differently, but we all learn.
Yeah, it's sad, but not hopeless. You're the boss is this how you want your country to run?
It's not like you drive to Sacramento or Washington DC in the morning, prepped for a fight against, greed, overconsumption, pollution, and anything that stands in our way from providing education and compassionate health services for all.
What a wonder of a country we could be if we hired (voted in) the intelligent and fair employees into a system that rewards success and spends less time trying to make sure they spend the whole years allotted monies so that it will cost more next year.
Currently the government cannot save money and is spending it frivolously on amateurish and ignorant plans to run a failing government.
If the government fails it falls to the people.
Don't like that, then start thinking, reading and researching.
If you plan on having tea parties all around the country please take a history class so that you may have a perspective on why these sorts of protests took place.
I will be taking the time to show people not only how to protest, but how to get results. Of course, much to the dismay of political California, I will be demonstrating these gems for the politicians myself.
In other countries violence has supplanted the marching, sit in's, and civil war is the result.
We don't need another civil war and we don't need a war in the middle east either. Had that situation been handled years before by leaders who were not able to look to the future and forecast cloudy, misunderstood skies.
The history of American and European infestation into the Persian lands taking place in the last century with an assassination of a former Shah of Iran. He had to go because we needed to fuel up to get to Africa via Iran and Iraq. The next leader we put in power. You'll remember a religious leader showed up and was greeted with much enthusiasm, as they believed in religion over politics.
Funny, we have instituted a similar policy, just not the same religion, but religion has entered politics and war, if George W. was answering truly when he said the US was on a "crusade."
Let's take this opportunity with poverty and lack of opportunity, an antiquated educational system, right here in this country to focus on what is happening here.
I find it ironic that we are supposedly imposing an American Democracy on a nation where people still move a few goats around in the sandy areas of the vast deserts in the middle east.
When a country forgets it's educational system, it's doomed...eventually. How far can you fall behind before it's obvious in every way, especially the way the country is being run.
Now to my point, you are the boss of this government yet it is all about complaining.
When you have tired of yelling into the wind, start making phone calls, take your power as a voter, taxpayer, worker, drone, queen, and begin to lobby for you, your family, your community and your state.
Become a lobbyist by finding your representatives and sending them your ideas, the ideas of your group, and give them a direction their constituents want to go.
If you vote some in and do not tell them why you did, you may not get what you want.
It's another election year, and it's time to understand who you are in the scheme of America. Welcome to your job too...
Being the boss of a nation at war, broken financially, educationally falling behind the rest of the world, it's time to step up.
Violence is quite unnecessary unless you have a violent and entrenched government which is only representing certain, most likely, greedy interests.
There's no reason this whole world couldn't be well fed and aware of it's responsibility for keeping this planet alive and continuing to create. With China reconsidering it's one baby per family policy, you can expect a population explosion. The smog in China makes a huge impact on the environment, who is worried, raise your hand? It's not going to get better.
Geography as well as cultural respect, is something necessary in the big world we live in today. But keep your eyes on the prize here at home.
Our goals:
Breaking up the concentrations of power
Create a true list of what corporations actually own, and see what sort of measures we can take to save small business from being swallowed up.
The regulators in the bogus bail outs, did not even know how to find the accounting tricks and define them for the government officials so they could act and the American people could be kept informed. Keep your watchdogs trained or reap only confusion and animosity amongst the poor and the rich.
Find a simple way to supply healthcare without having to fill "every one's" pockets. It's not that hard and there are many ideas to support a low cost assistance plan, creating a larger insurance pool, allowing prices to drop. We don't think of the state of Oklahoma as being in the lead in much, except some football, but they have created an insurance pool so small businesses can provide health insurance.
Not a difficult thing to do. And it doesn't have to be done on the federal end only.
Growing food and food consumption. Stop the packaging nonsense. Stop shipping products across the nation when it can be distributed locally. Make it financially feasible to do so. Keep it local, really.
The food is making people fat and there are industries preying upon their insecurities and their health problems. If these corporations were not keeping out other food from the national grocery chains people would have choices. And tax incentives for growing our own foods, and growing for others, and spreading that knowledge.
Cigarettes, killing only, but created a huge market of drugs, patches, gums, and are multi billion dollar companies. Wouldn't it be terrible to find out if the tobacco industry created the remedy to the product they sell? If we ever get a grant to do a research project where we trace the evoluation of big business, actually bonded together in a convenant of greed, we could find out. A lot of work, but I would be willing to pitch in.
Alcohol and alcholism. I've seen many pictures on the news of the horrendous car crashes caused by people drunk out of their minds. Ethanol may be good for gasoline, but it's a very heavy street drug, accessible and powerful. It has no medical value, but it is a part of most every culture. We cannot write more laws, but we can minimize the accessibility and create more remedies to treat the alcoholics.
Birth control and abortion. If we had a society not threatened by sex and sexuality, we could be more open with our children about how to avoid pregnancy, STD's, years of staying in the closet fearing be rejected because of sexual preference (See Senator Roy Ashburn, his life could have been one of being himself, but he chose to hide and was openly homophobic. That's a sad story to end a career on. Not a good example of strength of character.), and the obvious that women are not the only ones who have birth control created for them.
Where's the male birth control, where they can have "control" of their own bodies? And why are there not a fair number of women running this country? Women should be the stronger voice. Black women showed themselves to be some of the strongest and most resilient people on earth. Raising children by yourself is not a sin, a crime, but a call to the community for help.
Yes, it's true, it does take a village to raise a child. And the villagers need to walk the example, show the courage to step up when things are wrong. No child needs to be beaten, berated, sexually used. But they do need encouragement, love, time and communication. And when they are accepted for who they are they become a force in society
Marijuana, could be used for clothes, paper, medicine, and an industry. But there would be corporations losing money so corporations are not lobbying for this or it would have happened by now. The individuals who have been healed by this herb, and the constitution written on Hemp paper, and the fabrics made from the fibers, and it's cheap.
We spend money policing it and jailing some who use it. What is that costing us? But then there are only a few lobbyists out there. NORML was one of the first to take the government to task on the issue, and they have made progress.
Then we need to shut down our war machine. Share the responsibility of "policing" the world with the "world."
As an evolved society we need to take care and utilize our seniors who have both experience and knowledge which is being overlooked. Caring for our elders should be a respectable occupation, not a cheap operation where nurses and caretakers receive little compensation for the compassionate work.
Taking care of those with Alzheimer's and other crippling diseases is difficult at best, so we should not start shooting the full of chemical restraints and find a way to pay a good respectable wage to those who are caring for the people who may have raised you, been your friend, your husband or wife.
And those who have suffered a disability must have the opportunity to serve the community, work for a decent wage, get help to get back into society not be pushed out, and to create a disability program which exemplifies those ideals. Anyone at anytime can have an accident, disease, some malady that changes their whole life. This has to be addressed in a progressive, compassionate and intelligent way. Just because someone is damaged, doesn't mean they are just no good anymore. You'd be surprised, they might just be better.
Each state decides what they want to do with drug addicts who are harming themselves. I really don't care if people want to hurt themselves by becoming addicts, but there would be a solid rule: if you want to be a junkie have fun, but you can never have children or care for anyone else's children. Real simple.
And finally, education is the most important thing we can do to induce continued progress on the part of the US in the world. We still have many natural resources, but the biggest resource is the people who can do many things given the right opportunities. Let's teach everyone to find their passion, their work, their labor of love, and then give them the tools to actually use what the Lord gave us.
But even there we must realize there are many cultures and differences, people are different, have different talents, so education is going to need a makeover so it understands we all learn differently, but we all learn.
Yeah, it's sad, but not hopeless. You're the boss is this how you want your country to run?
Monday, April 5, 2010
Ken Mettler on Harvey Milk: Republican forerunner in 32nd Assembly district
"That Ken Mettler is on the phone again, Senator Ashburn, what do you want me to tell him?"
"Got Milk?"
It's the political season and it's time to put on our raincoats as we will be showered with parfum and cake for the coming months...well except for certain candidates who play a different sort of game: they are naughty.
Pictured here is Ken Mettler, the bad boy of this year's Kern County election.
Once a Kern Valley High School District board member who gave the public a good schooling on not to talk when he's giving a class on who is in charge, is not my kind of candidate.
Types like Mettler are elected only because of name recognition, not because they are endowed with wisdom and experience which will help them "serve" the public, but because the press can't get enough of them.
From the time he came out swinging at a private citizen after a meeting, to the article in the Bakersfield Californian today, which explains that Mr. Mettler, (whose hubris may make you think he's running for Governor and not just a local assembly seat) used funds from the Kern County Republican coffer to actually trace the heckler from the meeting, along with other somewhat scandalous operations.
Considering Ashburn just...
After a local Senator, Roy Ashburn, turned his station from country western to show tunes recently, it's odd that Mettler would come out so defensively about having a "Harvey Milk" day.
If it weren't for a recent movie, not many people would know who Harvey Milk was, and why some people want to celebrate his life.
Milk was shot and killed by someone who didn't agree with his politics but most especially that he was openly gay way before openly gay became a very rich demographic.
Ashburn spent years bashing gay agendas and then took that next leap from homophobia to "I'm too gay for my shirt."
With Mettler acting awfully homophobic and his politics or personal problems are sliding off the right wing, I'm afraid he may end up a candidate or even a winner in this assembly race.
Yes, Kern County is conservative, but it's not a haven for extremists, I think anyway. Or could I be wrong?
Republicans are not necessarily against abortion and they are not necessarily a member of a Christian church.
They are also just people who prefer a little less government and more or less continued privatization of the economic market.
However, when the press eats at the dish of an extremist just because that is all he has got to go with, they are helping to elect him.
Where's Jean Fuller? Does she have to chase someone out of a meeting and key their car to get a good story in the paper?
Would Fuller be more interesting if she recently checked out of the Betty ford Clinic?
Could we blame the press for these perverse curiosities? ABSOLUTELY!
Recently the media has become defensive and weepy, "the President doesn't want to talk to us" "we're victims" "we don't write fluff."
Oh yes they do. The media controls the elections right up to polling before everyone has voted. That is ridiculous.
If a television station or newspaper hasn't learned that you can elect idiots because they are "news worthy" (yeah, it's called news of the weird), then they don't know how "most" people vote.
Sarah Palin even has a chance...I say fire the media and the current politicians and let's start over.
And regarding Mettler, let's not talk about him anymore, let's get down to the real business of what we are going to do to set the course for success here in California.
He's not interested in what I have to say or people attending public meetings, so I say, there must be nothing to say about him.
Who is worthy of your vote?
I've listened to a few people this year who are running for one office or another. I found one candidate interesting, but only in a funny way. He wants to fix the government by doing something about the problem with gerrymandering.
Yes, there are districts which are drawn in a prejudice manner, to serve one party or the other, or to preserve power over an area, and it makes no sense in the real world, but that is how it has been done.
We could straighten out the problem rather quickly with a map, marker and calculator, but that would be too easy.
One candidate has an interesting solution to this problem: Split the state in half.
Okay. Now wouldn't that be gerrymandering too?
And this is why, we need to research before we vote...Stay with me, and we will find some good people to vote for in this election.
If you're 18 and over it's time to take responsibility for the people who work for you: Elections 2010.
"Got Milk?"
It's the political season and it's time to put on our raincoats as we will be showered with parfum and cake for the coming months...well except for certain candidates who play a different sort of game: they are naughty.
Pictured here is Ken Mettler, the bad boy of this year's Kern County election.
Once a Kern Valley High School District board member who gave the public a good schooling on not to talk when he's giving a class on who is in charge, is not my kind of candidate.
Types like Mettler are elected only because of name recognition, not because they are endowed with wisdom and experience which will help them "serve" the public, but because the press can't get enough of them.
From the time he came out swinging at a private citizen after a meeting, to the article in the Bakersfield Californian today, which explains that Mr. Mettler, (whose hubris may make you think he's running for Governor and not just a local assembly seat) used funds from the Kern County Republican coffer to actually trace the heckler from the meeting, along with other somewhat scandalous operations.
Considering Ashburn just...
After a local Senator, Roy Ashburn, turned his station from country western to show tunes recently, it's odd that Mettler would come out so defensively about having a "Harvey Milk" day.
If it weren't for a recent movie, not many people would know who Harvey Milk was, and why some people want to celebrate his life.
Milk was shot and killed by someone who didn't agree with his politics but most especially that he was openly gay way before openly gay became a very rich demographic.
Ashburn spent years bashing gay agendas and then took that next leap from homophobia to "I'm too gay for my shirt."
With Mettler acting awfully homophobic and his politics or personal problems are sliding off the right wing, I'm afraid he may end up a candidate or even a winner in this assembly race.
Yes, Kern County is conservative, but it's not a haven for extremists, I think anyway. Or could I be wrong?
Republicans are not necessarily against abortion and they are not necessarily a member of a Christian church.
They are also just people who prefer a little less government and more or less continued privatization of the economic market.
However, when the press eats at the dish of an extremist just because that is all he has got to go with, they are helping to elect him.
Where's Jean Fuller? Does she have to chase someone out of a meeting and key their car to get a good story in the paper?
Would Fuller be more interesting if she recently checked out of the Betty ford Clinic?
Could we blame the press for these perverse curiosities? ABSOLUTELY!
Recently the media has become defensive and weepy, "the President doesn't want to talk to us" "we're victims" "we don't write fluff."
Oh yes they do. The media controls the elections right up to polling before everyone has voted. That is ridiculous.
If a television station or newspaper hasn't learned that you can elect idiots because they are "news worthy" (yeah, it's called news of the weird), then they don't know how "most" people vote.
Sarah Palin even has a chance...I say fire the media and the current politicians and let's start over.
And regarding Mettler, let's not talk about him anymore, let's get down to the real business of what we are going to do to set the course for success here in California.
He's not interested in what I have to say or people attending public meetings, so I say, there must be nothing to say about him.
Who is worthy of your vote?
I've listened to a few people this year who are running for one office or another. I found one candidate interesting, but only in a funny way. He wants to fix the government by doing something about the problem with gerrymandering.
Yes, there are districts which are drawn in a prejudice manner, to serve one party or the other, or to preserve power over an area, and it makes no sense in the real world, but that is how it has been done.
We could straighten out the problem rather quickly with a map, marker and calculator, but that would be too easy.
One candidate has an interesting solution to this problem: Split the state in half.
Okay. Now wouldn't that be gerrymandering too?
And this is why, we need to research before we vote...Stay with me, and we will find some good people to vote for in this election.
If you're 18 and over it's time to take responsibility for the people who work for you: Elections 2010.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Senator Ashburn is not gay...what are you talking about?
Since I'm in the journalism field, I rarely read anything but my own stuff, but on the off chance a newspaper fell at my feet, I picked it up and saw a headline: Senator Roy Ashburn says "He's gay."
And I smoke marijuana because it's medicine. Whatever.
Where do these journalists get this stuff. We know the man was drinking that night, he was drunk when he said it.
I mean you don't spend your whole career bashing gays only to become one the year you're quitting. Do you?
He is quitting right? (Brett Farve?)
Anyway, then I run into a friend who is talking about this story, and I ask, "do you think Barney Frank is gay too?"
Whatever the look, it was frankly rude I thought.
Everyone knows Frank came out as gay just to get some of that gay demographic. He was one of the first campaign geniuses to use that fallacy to reform campaigning.
Now, if Frank, who looks more like a football player than a ballet dancer, can pull off this ruse than anyone can, and many have.
However, Mr. Ashburn, is somehow using this gay thing at the end of his career.
If these damn journalists would take their time to investigate that politicians rarely go gay at the end of their careers, there's no pay off.
It could be as simple as Ashburn forgot his glasses which you see him wearing in every picture, am I not right, and went into this bar, didn't read the sign, "ladies night, free ladies" hopped in his car with his free lady who turns out to be a man.
The cops give him a hard time. Could be some pyschological damage, now he thinks he's gay, yet, he forgot his glasses. I think it's typical, they call it something like, his name is, yeah, "gerrymandering."
What silliness. I apologize.
(let's not think there isn't another explanation. The gay underground got to him. That's another possibility. You know what I'm saying.)
Just a few warnings for politicians during election year: (might keep you safe)
Keep your hands to yourself
If you're feeling gay, wait until after the election, and keep your hands to yourself
Don't email anything sexual (unless you are a radio broadcaster like Rush Limbaugh) that can come back on you
Cell phones are a bad place to store your mistresses phone number, whether you're the husband or the wife
So, basically, no porn and popcorn, keep your hands to yourself, don't switch from gay to straight or vise verse until after the election. It's a cinch.
I'm pretty sure it's not that tough to handle this. If I were your campaign manager, that would certainly be my advice.
And to Mr. Ashburn: I guess now we know what your plans are after your political career is over? (I'm only assuming, he's been pretty quiet about that too)...okay...sorry.
And I smoke marijuana because it's medicine. Whatever.
Where do these journalists get this stuff. We know the man was drinking that night, he was drunk when he said it.
I mean you don't spend your whole career bashing gays only to become one the year you're quitting. Do you?
He is quitting right? (Brett Farve?)
Anyway, then I run into a friend who is talking about this story, and I ask, "do you think Barney Frank is gay too?"
Whatever the look, it was frankly rude I thought.
Everyone knows Frank came out as gay just to get some of that gay demographic. He was one of the first campaign geniuses to use that fallacy to reform campaigning.
Now, if Frank, who looks more like a football player than a ballet dancer, can pull off this ruse than anyone can, and many have.
However, Mr. Ashburn, is somehow using this gay thing at the end of his career.
If these damn journalists would take their time to investigate that politicians rarely go gay at the end of their careers, there's no pay off.
It could be as simple as Ashburn forgot his glasses which you see him wearing in every picture, am I not right, and went into this bar, didn't read the sign, "ladies night, free ladies" hopped in his car with his free lady who turns out to be a man.
The cops give him a hard time. Could be some pyschological damage, now he thinks he's gay, yet, he forgot his glasses. I think it's typical, they call it something like, his name is, yeah, "gerrymandering."
What silliness. I apologize.
(let's not think there isn't another explanation. The gay underground got to him. That's another possibility. You know what I'm saying.)
Just a few warnings for politicians during election year: (might keep you safe)
Keep your hands to yourself
If you're feeling gay, wait until after the election, and keep your hands to yourself
Don't email anything sexual (unless you are a radio broadcaster like Rush Limbaugh) that can come back on you
Cell phones are a bad place to store your mistresses phone number, whether you're the husband or the wife
So, basically, no porn and popcorn, keep your hands to yourself, don't switch from gay to straight or vise verse until after the election. It's a cinch.
I'm pretty sure it's not that tough to handle this. If I were your campaign manager, that would certainly be my advice.
And to Mr. Ashburn: I guess now we know what your plans are after your political career is over? (I'm only assuming, he's been pretty quiet about that too)...okay...sorry.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Links to election data for California
The next Statewide Primary Election is on June 8, 2010 and then the big day will probably be a chilly Nov. 2, 2010.
So, it's time to begin the studying, the research about who we are potentially going to be electing and how this person and their background, opinions, and goals for the future, will effect us all.
Here in Kern County we have some role changing as Assemblywoman, Jean Fuller, will be grabbing her suitcases and moving over to the Senator's seat, Roy Ashburn, who is terming out this year, to make a run for it.
But Fuller has some interesting opponents in her own party to defeat before she moves on to the democratic opposition.
Fuller has been visible and accessible to the people of the Kern River Valley, the home of the elder abuse case which rocked our rocks up here. Fuller has said in the past she supports all efforts to keep the hospital not only open and functioning, but growing services which fit the community.
If she were to be elected to Ashburn's seat, she would have the ability to bring even more leverage for the rural community that is lost amongst so many other, larger, prospects which contain bigger voting bases.
But the KRV is known as conservate central, but there is a diversity up here in the valley which would like to see change for reasons other than voting for one party or another.
The following links will give you the head start for elections upcoming.
http://elections.co.kern.ca.us/Elections/
And on the California Secretary of State website much information can be found which may help those needing to register or who are running for office.
The website lists the key dates for this year's election:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/
So, let's begin...
So, it's time to begin the studying, the research about who we are potentially going to be electing and how this person and their background, opinions, and goals for the future, will effect us all.
Here in Kern County we have some role changing as Assemblywoman, Jean Fuller, will be grabbing her suitcases and moving over to the Senator's seat, Roy Ashburn, who is terming out this year, to make a run for it.
But Fuller has some interesting opponents in her own party to defeat before she moves on to the democratic opposition.
Fuller has been visible and accessible to the people of the Kern River Valley, the home of the elder abuse case which rocked our rocks up here. Fuller has said in the past she supports all efforts to keep the hospital not only open and functioning, but growing services which fit the community.
If she were to be elected to Ashburn's seat, she would have the ability to bring even more leverage for the rural community that is lost amongst so many other, larger, prospects which contain bigger voting bases.
But the KRV is known as conservate central, but there is a diversity up here in the valley which would like to see change for reasons other than voting for one party or another.
The following links will give you the head start for elections upcoming.
http://elections.co.kern.ca.us/Elections/
And on the California Secretary of State website much information can be found which may help those needing to register or who are running for office.
The website lists the key dates for this year's election:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/
So, let's begin...
Thursday, March 4, 2010
don't get disabled or fired because there is no net for you out there right now...
It's not the like the government has ever known what to do with the hundreds of thousands of disabled people throughout our country from children born with organs outside their skin, in need of transplants.
Then there's the high rev lifestyle where exciting adventures on dirt bikes, or setting sail on the high seas, leaping off cliffs attached to rubber bands, which lead to potential accidents which have paralyzed and or maimed millions, taking away their independence.
Yes, it would be exciting to think we could have healthcare reform which worked like this: anyone experiencing a broken back, would automatically be given the genetic makeover required to heal it, though costing an arm and a leg (bad joke, but probably true) if we don't deal with the real problems, divvying up the pile of dough for all.
Obviously hypothetical, but that future is so close, that it will be a consideration in the near future. That's called looking ahead and planning, a simple sort of concept.
The players: the insurance companies, John Garamendi knows them as do others here in California.
I could add some personal anecdotes but I will save them for when we discuss this issue with the insurance companies themselves.
That's an easy one.
Pharma, is about as entracted as the tobacco industry, aren't they related?
Whatever your situation, healthcare can "easily" be reformed and nobody would be severely limited or put unfairly out of business. If it has the goal of not just saving lives, but making people healthy so they can work, go to school and contribute, then yes, that's an easy answer.
But what are the complications? Oh boy, that's where it gets fun. We will get there soon.
Then there's the high rev lifestyle where exciting adventures on dirt bikes, or setting sail on the high seas, leaping off cliffs attached to rubber bands, which lead to potential accidents which have paralyzed and or maimed millions, taking away their independence.
Yes, it would be exciting to think we could have healthcare reform which worked like this: anyone experiencing a broken back, would automatically be given the genetic makeover required to heal it, though costing an arm and a leg (bad joke, but probably true) if we don't deal with the real problems, divvying up the pile of dough for all.
Obviously hypothetical, but that future is so close, that it will be a consideration in the near future. That's called looking ahead and planning, a simple sort of concept.
The players: the insurance companies, John Garamendi knows them as do others here in California.
I could add some personal anecdotes but I will save them for when we discuss this issue with the insurance companies themselves.
That's an easy one.
Pharma, is about as entracted as the tobacco industry, aren't they related?
Whatever your situation, healthcare can "easily" be reformed and nobody would be severely limited or put unfairly out of business. If it has the goal of not just saving lives, but making people healthy so they can work, go to school and contribute, then yes, that's an easy answer.
But what are the complications? Oh boy, that's where it gets fun. We will get there soon.
Election year is here are we all excited?
"It's the worst economy since the depression," a teenager told me the other day, as he rummaged through his jean pockets trying to find a few extra coins so he could be a value hamburger off the menu meal.
"You know that food will kill you eventually," I kidded him.
He said, "I know, but you tell me what else I can eat with a buck?"
Yeah, that's definitely a problem.
Somebody across from me at the gas pumps told me she had filled the tank twice in one week, and was speculating that the owners of the gas stations are diluting the fuel to make more money.
Yes, there is so much confusion, not just with our legislature and every agency in the land, but with the kids who inherit this great big boondoogle.
It's not just the children either, grandparents are taking life hard as social security was burned up in war and political misappropriation.
Confusion and fear
Nobody knows if their house they may have worked all their life to buy and pay off will be worth anything once they retire.
"Oh it can't last that long," somebody of a different ilk explained to me the other day.
"Why not," I asked?
She didn't have a response, and her uncertainty made me realize people are just trying to make themselves feel better as they watch the disaster around them.
Life has changed, the government can't keep up, the information is too much for the average person trying to raise a family, and family means something different too.
I told somebody that I had three mothers and three fathers, and a father I didn't know.
How could that be? It sounds like a trick question, but we have not evolved in our awareness that great change took place and we missed it.
I was adopted at 6 weeks old by my mother and father as I knew them. They stayed married until I was ten, then both remarried, giving me an extra mother and father.
When I turned 18 I had to know my roots so I quickly found my biological mother who gave birth to me.
Now, I had three mothers, two fathers. Yes, you figured it, my natural mother got remarried, so there is the final father.
But if you were to say this thirty or forty years ago, you would have been blashphemous or deluded.
Families have changed and we need to change with the families. We could start with getting the male "birth control" on the market allowing men to feel more in control over their bodies.
With men, fathers, in jail, not paying support or not being able to pay support, the dynamic must change.
As women we have made it pretty clear what we want in the way of control of our bodies, our children, and the more we bring women into the chambers once only seating men, white men with property, we see a profound change in our culture.
The influence of women in society
The movements we saw last century, those without property or power were nothing but forced to act or be run over by a patriarchal system using religious materials as justification in many cases.
Now, we see many more women who are making choices their forebearers would not have done.
Graveyards are full of women who died in childbirth, there were no pink ribbons back then, and the rule of thumb was to keep the father alive so he could work the land, fight the wars, and tame the country, all along in battle; never in harmony.
Now women are still recieving hysterectomies in great numbers all in the name of cancer and the relief of night sweats. Men may have only recently discovered that they have a high cancer risk in prostrate cancer, but that is not as significant as the breast, ovarian, and cysts which have been the reasons for taking out what doesn't need to be there?
Our country needs women, women in charge. They need the experience a woman provides in knowing children, food, and a sense of being part of creation.
The founding mothers
This years elections are going to bring about much change, and certainly we will see that sort of push in Washington, other than to cram a horse pill sized healthcare reform pill or bill down our throats.
It's time to think, and we will try and bring as much good, provocative and thoughtful information as we can to make our voting choices, just that choices.
We will be sold many reasons as to why tax increases will be fired at us like shrapnel, and we need to be prepared to understand where we can actually help, and where the responsibility falls in lack of oversight by people in their respective communities.
It's time to pull together, but I must say I see people are pulling apart. Fear our favorite friend.
What fear is not is a motivator, so parent's it's not always necessary to frighten to teach.
What counteracts fear is education. Educate yourselves, there are many incredibly intelligent, funny, daring and determined sites out here in the land of the internet and still hiding out in our newspapers.
And I will be adding posts where you can link up with newsletters which let you know what is going on. It's going to be some year, a defining year, as to how we handle it.
Were we unprepared for this? No bottled water and canned goods?
Yes, we didn't see this coming a long way off...
"You know that food will kill you eventually," I kidded him.
He said, "I know, but you tell me what else I can eat with a buck?"
Yeah, that's definitely a problem.
Somebody across from me at the gas pumps told me she had filled the tank twice in one week, and was speculating that the owners of the gas stations are diluting the fuel to make more money.
Yes, there is so much confusion, not just with our legislature and every agency in the land, but with the kids who inherit this great big boondoogle.
It's not just the children either, grandparents are taking life hard as social security was burned up in war and political misappropriation.
Confusion and fear
Nobody knows if their house they may have worked all their life to buy and pay off will be worth anything once they retire.
"Oh it can't last that long," somebody of a different ilk explained to me the other day.
"Why not," I asked?
She didn't have a response, and her uncertainty made me realize people are just trying to make themselves feel better as they watch the disaster around them.
Life has changed, the government can't keep up, the information is too much for the average person trying to raise a family, and family means something different too.
I told somebody that I had three mothers and three fathers, and a father I didn't know.
How could that be? It sounds like a trick question, but we have not evolved in our awareness that great change took place and we missed it.
I was adopted at 6 weeks old by my mother and father as I knew them. They stayed married until I was ten, then both remarried, giving me an extra mother and father.
When I turned 18 I had to know my roots so I quickly found my biological mother who gave birth to me.
Now, I had three mothers, two fathers. Yes, you figured it, my natural mother got remarried, so there is the final father.
But if you were to say this thirty or forty years ago, you would have been blashphemous or deluded.
Families have changed and we need to change with the families. We could start with getting the male "birth control" on the market allowing men to feel more in control over their bodies.
With men, fathers, in jail, not paying support or not being able to pay support, the dynamic must change.
As women we have made it pretty clear what we want in the way of control of our bodies, our children, and the more we bring women into the chambers once only seating men, white men with property, we see a profound change in our culture.
The influence of women in society
The movements we saw last century, those without property or power were nothing but forced to act or be run over by a patriarchal system using religious materials as justification in many cases.
Now, we see many more women who are making choices their forebearers would not have done.
Graveyards are full of women who died in childbirth, there were no pink ribbons back then, and the rule of thumb was to keep the father alive so he could work the land, fight the wars, and tame the country, all along in battle; never in harmony.
Now women are still recieving hysterectomies in great numbers all in the name of cancer and the relief of night sweats. Men may have only recently discovered that they have a high cancer risk in prostrate cancer, but that is not as significant as the breast, ovarian, and cysts which have been the reasons for taking out what doesn't need to be there?
Our country needs women, women in charge. They need the experience a woman provides in knowing children, food, and a sense of being part of creation.
The founding mothers
This years elections are going to bring about much change, and certainly we will see that sort of push in Washington, other than to cram a horse pill sized healthcare reform pill or bill down our throats.
It's time to think, and we will try and bring as much good, provocative and thoughtful information as we can to make our voting choices, just that choices.
We will be sold many reasons as to why tax increases will be fired at us like shrapnel, and we need to be prepared to understand where we can actually help, and where the responsibility falls in lack of oversight by people in their respective communities.
It's time to pull together, but I must say I see people are pulling apart. Fear our favorite friend.
What fear is not is a motivator, so parent's it's not always necessary to frighten to teach.
What counteracts fear is education. Educate yourselves, there are many incredibly intelligent, funny, daring and determined sites out here in the land of the internet and still hiding out in our newspapers.
And I will be adding posts where you can link up with newsletters which let you know what is going on. It's going to be some year, a defining year, as to how we handle it.
Were we unprepared for this? No bottled water and canned goods?
Yes, we didn't see this coming a long way off...
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