May 26  2003  Monday

Benefit cutback angers veterans
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL - May 25, 2003

Veterans consider their federal benefits their just-deserved payback for risking their lives for their country. Now some think the government is reneging on the deal.

Beginning Jan. 17, veterans with incomes above certain levels were told they could enroll in the system -- but that their medical benefits had been temporarily suspended, meaning they won't be getting any health care in the near future.

 

Bush to Slash Veterans Benefits
WTVG, OH - May 20, 2003

... about 4,000 of the estimated 173,000 veterans nationwide who would be excluded from care live in Ohio.
The additional costs would squeeze about 41,000 Ohio veterans out of the system, including about 14,000 who currently are receiving medical care, according to the study by the House Committee on Government Reform.
 

Absent docs make vets wait for care
Springfield News Leader, MO - May 24, 2003

The American Legion's national commander visited a veterans clinic last month only to find 47 patients waiting for treatment with no doctors to see them...
"The doctors didn't show that day," Conley said of the VA's investigation. And even when doctors do show up, the wait time for an appointment can be months.
About 168,000 veterans wait at least six months to see a VA doctor, according to the department. The VA operates the nation's largest medical care system with 163 hospitals — 102 affiliated with medical schools — and 850 clinics.

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"The Bush family has a longer rap sheet than my in-laws." Anita Beer at the Republican Fundraiser, GOPigs at the Trough, Washington, DC.

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SOME VIEWER SUGGESTIONS for Terror Alert Girl of the Month:

• How about the late Anita Bryant? A day without a terror alert is like a day
  without sunshine!

• ann coulter, of course, i vote for her!

• ken starr - i'd like to see him in drag!

• The Dixie Chicks!

• Double your pleasure, double your fun! Pick Barbara and Jenna Bush, the Terror
  Alert Twins, and don't forget your gun! Eric M

• Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a.k.a. Mrs. Anthrax
   

Laura Bush used your tax dollars

to purchase this $4000+ purse

The Reliable Source
Washington Post, DC - May 19, 2003
... The Post's Robin Givhan reports Laura Bush has ordered a crystal-encrusted, Faberge
egg-inspired Judith Leiber evening bag (retail price: $4175) as a gift for Russian first lady Ludmila Putin ...

Gee, 95% of Americans haven't even seen a purse that costs $4000.  I wonder what our troops in Iraq would think about this story?  Or how about the veterans that recently lost their health care?
 

Presenting the Daughter of the President of the United States -

How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?


Charismatics: Only one.
Hands already in the air.

Pentecostals: Ten.
One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness.

Presbyterians: None.
Lights will go on and off at predestined times.

Roman Catholic and Orthodox: None.
Candles only.

Baptists: At least 15.
One to change the light bulb, and three committees to approve the change and decide who brings the potato salad.

Episcopalians: Eight.
One to call the electrician, and seven to say how much they liked the old one better.

Mormons: Five.
One man to change the bulb, and four wives to tell him how to do it.

Unitarians: We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey you have found light bulbs work for you, that is fine. You are invited to write a poem or compose a modern dance about your personal relationship with your light bulb, and present it next month at our annual light bulb Sunday service, in which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions, including incandescent, fluorescent, three-way, long-life and tinted, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.

Methodists: Undetermined.
Whether your light is bright, dull, or completely out, you are loved -- you can be a light bulb, turnip bulb, or tulip bulb. Church wide lighting service is planned for Sunday, August 19. Bring bulb of your choice and a covered dish.

Nazarene: Six.
One woman to replace the bulb while five men review church lighting policy.

Lutheran: None.
Lutherans don't believe in change.

Amish: What's a light bulb?
 

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Post This..I think GW is 1 of the finest
Presidents America has EVER had!!! Mike Webb, Tenn

Sure, Mike. We will post this. We are all about laughter. I am sure many of our readers will get a great kick out of this.

Thanx for the comedic fodder!
ZeldaM
 

Lisa:
Prinzess Zelda:

I have no clue how I found your website, but I love it.

Do you have day jobs? I hope you make money...

Well, I want and need answers to Life's Important Questions. and having read your story at http://www.allhatnocattle.net/zelda_morgan_project-princess.htm
I think YOU may have them!

So,tell me:
Who are these people who think George Bush is doing a good job? His approval ratings are five times what they should be (in my humble opinion).

How are we going to survive for another two years?

I need answers.or,you could e-mail me some HappyPills.

I am thinking of defecting to Canada...

so,write back soon.
____________________________________________
Bruce St.John
 

Dear Bruce,

ThanQ for your kind thoughts. Funny, you should mention day jobs ... more to come on that later.

Don't go to Canada. We need you here.

I have looked into Belize -- the only English speaking country in South America. It's a beautiful place and their official motto is "No shirt, no shoes, no problem." These are my kind of people.

But I don't want to leave. And I don't want you or anyone else to go either. It is like leaving a spouse who has been cheating. We Irish girls can exact better revenge by sticking around.

Let's just drive the vermin out of DC and take our country back.
ZeldaM
 

There is an old saying that the person who defines the terms will almost always win the debate. By allowing the Dubya crew to define chemical and biological weapons as WMDs, the Democrats have virtually handed the Republicans the victory. Any student of military history knows that neither chemical nor biological weapons are WMDs, nor are they particularly useful weapons of any kind. They are messy, difficult to deliver, and uncertain in their effects. For example many kinds of chemical weapons were used, both by passive release from canisters and artillery shells in World War I. However, their effects on the outcome of any of the battles in which they were used were marginal at best. But that was long ago, one might say. Ok, then lets look at the sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground a few years ago. The attack took place in what should have arguably been the ideal site for a gas attack. An enclosed area with a high density of people with marginal air circulation at best. Even so, only 7 people were killed and 400 people made sick. More people die in the U.S. by hand-guns each day. Should we then label hand-guns as WMD? No, the only true WMDs are nuclear weapons. Yet, the one member of the 'Axis of Evil' that does have nukes and has threatened to use them, North Korea, does not seem to bother the Dubya administration at all. The time has come
for the leadership of the Democratic party to stop allowing the Republicans to set the terms of the debate on national security, and call it as it truly is, rather than trying to use the euphemisms of the right to appear 'patriotic'.

Just my two cents.

We have some fantastic readers and you are a shining star.

I appreciate your insights and thank you for articulating this difficult issue for us. You make it sound so simple -- a trait of true genius.
 

Where're Osama, Saddam and the unused weapons of mass destruction? - Lisa