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)

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.