Wow, all I had to do is click here and here and be amazed at the slander that's being directed towards Arnold.
Update to an update: the pig boy told my sister, Chris Andrea Hays, to help my ex-wife, Faye Marie Oekerman buglarize a couple of my apartments. Maybe, just maybe, they'll give back a couple of the guitars they stole.
According to some private investigators and legal eagles, the pig boy's machinations caused some people in authority in Washington County, Oregon to commit some illegal acts. According to some experts this makes Washington County liable and I can sue the county. Also, according to experts, since some of the people in authority in Washington County have gone to great lengths to hide their involvement in illegal acts committed against me, this causes an extension of the timeline for my lawsuit.
Update: Since I posted the post below, the pig boy has had his mindless minions call where I live and say "not nice" things. Jeez, it's not my fault the ugly, stupid old hag, Frances Weidner, raised her son to be a stupid, violent, white supremacist. Besides, she really is an ugly, stupid old hag.
Send us your nominations for "ugly old superior, master race hag of the week".
Frances Weidner nominations won't be accepted because she has already won the the award of the decade for being the stupidest, ugliest, whitest old hag who is also a superior member of the Aryan race. Besides, all the other ugly old hags could never match Frances Weidner for stupidity and ugliness, so it wouldn't be fair to make the other ugly old hags compete with Frances Weidner.
I wonder why all the superior women of the superior white master race Victor Oekerman/Roger Weidner gang are so damn ugly. Is there some sort of rule in the master Aryan race that the women have to be ugly.
Here in looney, homophobic, racist Washington County one of Roger Weidner's appointees as the "little Hitler" for Washington County, Oregon got busted for sleaziness and dishonesty.
OREGON STATE BOARD OF INVESTIGATORS Public Meeting Minutes
August 29, 2000
Portland State Office Building
Riverview Conference Room, Suite 445
800 NE Oregon Street Portland OR 97232
1) CALL TO ORDER
The Board of Investigators, after giving notice, met for a Special Board meeting on August 29, 2000 at the Portland State Office Building, Riverview Conference Room, Suite 445, 800 NE Oregon Street, Portland OR 97232 via telephone conference.
Attendance: Board Members: Lila Ashenbrenner, Chair
Leroy Chastain
Michael W. Miller
Rochelle Silver, Ph.D.
Staff: Michael Jacobs, Executive Director
Excused: Bruce Daily, Vice Chair
Public: none
2) APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND ORDER OF BUSINESS Chair Ashenbrenner opened the meeting at 8:05 a.m.
3) ENFORCEMENT ACTION
Motion: Moved by Chastain to find Edward Snook in violation of ORS 703.405 {No person shall act as an investigator or operative or represent that the person is an investigator or operative unless that person is licensed or registered under ORS 703.430.}
Discussion: None
Vote: Motion Passed;
Aye: Ashenbrenner, Silver, Miller, and Chastain;
Nay: none
Motion: Moved by Chastain to impose a civil penalty of $1,000 against Edward Snook for violation of ORS 703.405.
Discussion: None
Vote: Motion Passed;
Aye: Ashenbrenner, Silver, Miller, and Chastain;
Nay: none
Motion: Moved by Chastain close complaint file 00-89.
This just goes to show that that racist pig, Victor Oekerman, is incapable of having friends who are intelligent, honest and decent. Where does he dredge up the scum he hangs around with?
Maybe there's some way to get Edward Snook, that great disciple of Roger Weidner, to quit driving back and forth really fast in front of the house where I live. Then again, maybe driving back and forth in this neighborhood is how the great investigative reporter, Edward Snook, does his great, brilliant investigations into why Oregon needs homophobic, white racists in charge. I would think driving back and forth really fast wouldn't be the best way to interview sources, unless, of course, Edward Snook's sources are into jogging beside cars really fast.
I wonder if Edward Snook's kids know that their father has been appointed the Hitler of Washington County by looney Roger Weidner. If so maybe the kids should ask for more for their allowance because, I mean, if Edward Snook is the new Hitler of Washington County, this means he's not only really, really important, but also that he's got mass bucks. Maybe his personal physician is Dr. Ron Turco. Dr. Ron Turco seems like he'd rather be hanging out with superior people instead of everyday, lowlife homosexual satanists who, he believes, populate too much of Washington County.
Only in looney, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
By the way, I've recently received a slew of email from Roger Weidner's idiot followers telling me how evil Mormons are and how Mormons are homosexual, satanic devils.
I'm not Mormon. I've gone out with a couple of Mormon women but they didn't seem to be homosexual, satanic devils. At the moment I'm not planning on becoming a Mormon but I doubt Mormons are as evil as Roger and his idiot followers think they are. In any event, I wish Roger and his buddies would quit sending me hate email.
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Update: It seems pig boy, Victor Oekerman and some of their associates have been identifying themselves as cops and federal agents. I've received numerous phone calls over the years from people identifying themselves as cops or federal agents of some kind, but now I know those people were buddies of the pig family and its allies.
Also, some members of the gang have come up to me on the street and in various business establishments and have identified themselves as cops or federal agents of some kind.
You know what's weird? If a person identifies themself as a cop or a federal agent and tells you to do something, you have tendency to do it, even if it's stupid.
I don't usually listen to Rush Limbaugh because, in my opinion, he's a bombastic purveyor of nonsense. But, nevertheless, he has a right to his opinions and now he's in the news once again. According to some news reports he made stupid racial remarks and and because of the remarks he was pressured into resigning from ESPN and, according to some news reports, he's under investigation by Florida law enforcement. In my opinion being under investigation by Florida law enforcement is no big deal. There's more drugs and more gangs and more crime and more incompetent cops in Florida than you can shake a stick at. Florida cops commit more crimes than everybody else combined. If you're a vicim of a crime in Florida and you go to the cops and expect to have that crime solved, .........well......good luck..
I listen to a lot of comedy. I listen to Chris Rock, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and many others. Part of their comedy is making remarks that offend people. Sometimes I'm offended but more often than not I'm too busy laughing to be too offended. If ESPN is going to demand the resignation of everybody on their staff who makes stupid remarks, pretty soon there won't be anybody left and I'll have to go elsewhere for college footboall. Are you going to tell me when ESPN hired Rush in the first place they didn't know Rush was prone to making stupid remarks and then......and then....get this.....when Rush makes a stupid remark somebody at ESPN says, "Oh lord, Rush has made a stupid remark. We better fire him".
At the moment I'm watching MSNBC and (I swear I'm not making this up) there's a Rush watch on.
Arnold has been outed once again. Earlier in my life I partied with the beautiful people of Hollywood and Beverly Hills. I even married one. At times it seemed everybody groped everybody and many times women groped some of the rock stars, TV stars and sports stars at some of the parties I was at. Now left-wing Marxists are jumping up and down in glee because Arnold made stupid remarks and behaved boorishly at times.
I've recently been told by a business associate of sleazy Victor Oekerman that because the business associate is a millionaire, this business associate is important in Washington County, Oregon and elsewhere.
I understand that Stalin and Hitler were millionaires and they were important, also.
I think I'll stick with my pedestrian view that people like Mother Theresa are the truly important people in a community.
According to KATU 2 - in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon is playing host to an event many other cities in the world would love to play host to.
This gives me a chance to mention the University of Portland.
This brings up a question of the moment: Which soccer programs in America have consistently been a winner?
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There's a new show on TV about NCIS. NCIS is an acronym for Naval Criminal Investigative Service. I like the show but let's face it, TV is not real.
In reality NCIS is filled with incompetent idiots. How do I know? Because I was attacked in an incident set up by YN2 Cathy Winters in which two males assaulted me in 1984 because they were convinced I was a homosexual. (I'm not, but the idiots in my ex-wife's family have been telling people I'm a homosexual, among other things, since I divorced her.) This happened after an event also set up by YN2 Cathy Winters in which I was stabbed shortly after reporting for duty at a seabee training unit on the Rota Naval Base in Spain.
Was the vaunted NCIS able to find out who perpetrated the attacks or even find out who was involved in the planning of the attacks? No.
I was able to find out who some of the people were who were involved, though, and I don't even have any of the vaunted resources of the NCIS.
This leads me to conclude that while NCIS is generally incomptent about almost everything it does, at least the Public Relations department is doing its job.
Judge Andrew Napolitano is doing a pretty good job subbing for John Gibson. I'll bet you he's having more fun being in show business than being a judge.
I've been informed by email that there is an update to a post I made a little while ago. Here's the the update:
Lesbian couple threaten to take legal action - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Lesbian couple threaten to take legal actionBy Anne Williams
The Register-Guard
The flurry of publicity over their case has ebbed, but a lesbian couple whose 4-year-old daughter was denied admittance at O'Hara Catholic School last month intend to challenge the decision through legal means, one of the women said last week.
Lee Inkmann, who alleges that O'Hara turned down her and her partner's application because they are gay, will meet this week with Eugene attorney Martha Walters, one of the chief lawyers who successfully argued golfer Casey Martin's case against the PGA Tour for refusing to accommodate his disability.
"I have a belief that throughout history, when discrimination has been ignored in a community, it has a tendency to flourish, and my commitment is to eradicate discrimination in any educational setting in which I find it," said Inkmann, a 43-year-old Eugene businesswoman who recently returned to the Catholic Church after a long absence.
Citing the confidentiality of student placement, officials with the school, parish and Archdiocese of Portland have refused to discuss their reasons for denying the girl admittance. But in a letter sent to O'Hara parents earlier this month, they appeared to deny Inkmann's assertion.
"The Catholic Church and its schools welcome a diverse community," wrote the Rev. Mark Bachmeier of St. Mary Catholic Church, who said the decision was his. "The sexual orientation of a child's parent is not a reason for us to deny admittance, and O'Hara's history supports that."
Neither Bachmeier nor O'Hara Principal Dianne Bert returned phone calls seeking comment. Archdiocese spokesman Bud Bunce said they had asked that all media communication go through him.
Bunce said there were "other factors" involved, and backed up the letter's claim.
"(Parental sexual orientation) in itself would not be a reason to deny somebody entrance," he said.
Bunce said there is no blanket church policy on admitting openly gay students or the children of gay parents, and said local parishes and schools may institute their own placement procedures.
He noted that O'Hara's decision was made at the parish level, but that the Archdiocese supported it.
Inkmann initially complained to the state Department of Employment's Child Care Division, believing that the school might be vulnerable under a state law that prohibits discrimination by state-certified pre-schools on the basis of parents' marital status. However, the division's legal counsel determined that the law was not applicable in this case.
"We will seriously consider, at the time that we revise our rules, changing the rule to include local civil rights laws," Child Care Division field manager Kitty Lake wrote to Inkmann.
The city of Eugene's human rights ordinance prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, employment, city contracting and "public accommodation," a term whose definition in the ordinance does not specifically mention schools. A key legal question that may be answered by this case is whether a private school is considered a public accommodation.
Inkmann also complained to the city Human Rights Commission, which assigned an advocate to help resolve the disagreement. Inkmann said O'Hara officials declined a meeting with her and the advocate.
The case has received a good deal of national media attention. Inkmann has been interviewed on Fox Television's "The O'Reilly Factor," as well as on Bill O'Reilly's radio show, and "Dateline NBC" filmed a segment that has yet to be scheduled to air, Inkmann said.
The school has received numerous e-mails and phone calls, both positive and negative, Bunce said.
"I think the school's kind of moved on from the issue now, and they're working on educating the students," he said.
As for Inkmann's daughter, she's happily attending preschool at the Eugene YMCA, although Inkmann said she and her partner, who adopted the girl together, have not ruled out O'Hara in the future.
"We believe there's a lot of good resources there," Inkmann said.
"There were many people who called to welcome us there. The spirit of O'Hara has been very welcoming, even though the institution of O'Hara has not been."
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I'm helping take care of a family's Labrador. This Lab is almost two years old and she likes to chase the frisbee, the tennis ball, the plastic softball, and the small basketball. Part of my job of being a well-trained human is throwing whatever she wants thrown.
The dog and I have worked out an agreement.
The Agonist: A Short Bio Archives.
Ok, now that you've checked out who the person behind the blog is, let's check out the post about more inanity from the government. I generally approve of many things the FDA does but sometimes the FDA acts like a political entity and does some really dumb things. I have nothing against politics, I mean... after all, it's kept our country relatively free for a couple of hundred years, but sometimes when an agency becomes too political strange things can happen.
I hope Mr. Wu is successful in his efforts to allow Oregon to keep a rather innovative program.
Sometimes when I'm not in the mood for deep, meaningful discourses or even deep, meaningless discourses, I link to strange and incomprehensible posts.
For those of you medicating yourself because you lack health insurance, you better check out MedWatch - 2003 Safety Information Alerts - 2003 Safety Alerts for Drugs, Biologics, Medical Devices, and Dietary Supplements. Then go out and buy as much tequila as possible because I understand tequila prices are rising. I wonder what an economist might say about all this. I know one we could ask but he's so busy being involved in some sort of bizarre Conspiracy, that he's probably too busy posting really important stuff, just like me.
I wonder what Jack Bogdanski would say about the following:
Small Business Survival Committee | Fact of the WeekSBSC released the “Small Business Survival Index 2003” on Thursday, September 25. The Index ranks the states according to their public policy climates for small business and entrepreneurship.
One measure included in the Index is state personal income tax rates. Why does the personal income tax matter? First, income tax rates impact decisions regarding where people live, work, invest and take risks. Second, most businesses – about 89 percent or 90 percent – pay the personal income tax as sole proprietorships, partnerships or S-Corporations – rather than the corporate income tax.
According to ">NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Deficits and the Federal Debt, as recently as January 2001, the Congressional Budget Office projected budget surpluses of $5.6 trillion over a decade. But as fiscal year 2003 ends, a new study says that federal budget deficits could add up to $5 trillion over the next decade.
I don't care what the Hayekians might say, even if they say Vita,
"Je Maintiendrai". I know for a fact we can spend our way out of debt. If fact, I think we can spend our way into another solar system, or as General Clark might say, "I know we can go faster than the speed of light, because, hey, nobody really knows how fast light travels in one party dictatorships".
At the moment I'm watching "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones". It's not as good as "Return of the Jedi" but it's still pretty good.
It's got plenty of good, clean violence, but where's the blood and the guts and the beer?
Looks like the Ifeminists are fighting the mindless propaganda spewed out by the crazy Marxists that control the agenda of the America-hating, men-hating, family-hating, minority-hating so-called feminist movement. Remember Ifeminism is the feminism of the 21 Century.
editorial rel="nofollow"> Domestic Violence Campaign Not About Helping Women" href='http://sleazereport.com/redirect.php?url=www.ifeminists.net%2Fintroduction%2Feditorials%2F2003%2F0930roberts.html' rel="nofollow">ifeminists.com > editorial > Domestic Violence Campaign Not About Helping Women by Carey Roberts. It's an interesting opinion. The following is an excerpt:
October 1 is the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. But don't be fooled -- this feminist-driven campaign is not about stopping partner violence, or even helping women in abusive relationships.Domestic Violence Awareness Month is an excuse for radical feminists to perpetrate their myths that domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions in this country, that men are always the brutal perpetrators, and women the inevitable victims.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month was spawned by the federal Violence Against Women Act, the $3.3 billion taxpayer boondoggle that proves the truth of the Führer's famous statement that the masses "more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie."
The truth about domestic violence has been reported in well over 100 scientific articles. The findings from this research were summarized in an article by John Archer in Psychological Bulletin in 2000: "Women were slightly more likely than men to use one or more act of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently."
There's even something about Arianna Huffington's sleazy, personal attack on Arnold during the famous California gubernatorial debate. I agree with Arianna on many things, but, man, she should have known better than to make such a silly insult like the one she made to Arnold. And she's a neighbor of Arnold's and attends many of the same parties. The following is the excerpt about the famous California gubernatorial debate:
So how are we going to stop the cycle of feminists who silence men, which allows the lies to fester and grow, and permits more VAWA-type legislation to be passed?The answer: men must stop being intimidated by abusive women. Here's an example of what I mean.
During last week's California debate among the candidates for governor, the discussion began to heat up. At one point, Arnold Schwarzenegger interrupted Arianna Huffington.
Huffington then trotted out one of those lines that is intended to silence their male opponents: "This is the way you treat women, we know that."
But Schwarzenegger had just the right response, "I would just like to say that I just realized I have a perfect part for you in Terminator 4." Of course, he was referring to the female terminator character in Terminator 3 whose face was shoved into a toilet by Schwarzenegger's character.
Now there's a man who refuses to be bullied.
I'm not a tax lawyer or, for that matter, any kind of a lawyer, but Jack is and his post here is a musing about some aspects of the infamous and dreaded "Multnomah County Income Tax". Man, just thinking about it makes me cranky. Who knows, maybe it's all a hoax.
Eric Muller wrote a book entitled "Free to Die for Their Country". At this post Eric Muller mulls about a book that has recently come out, General Dick Thornburgh's autobiography.
This leads us to peruse Eric's comment section which leads us to this post about Philip Greenspun's efforts to get a book published.
This in turn leads us to this post about intelligence failures by Jim Miller.
It's that time of the year for rain and floods and extremely busy sewage systems, so I would like to remind my four drunk readers in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands about the horrors we Oregonians face this time of the year. Not only do we have to put up with idiot lectures, but it's possible tequila prices will be rising.
I'm not surprised that the Punishment Issue Splits Ashcroft, Judges. Judges get paid to judge and part of judging means setting sentences. If Ashcroft really doesn't want judges but really wants prosecutors to be judge, jury and executioner, then maybe Ashcroft is in the wrong country.
Sometimes a bureaucrat will do something so stupid that you just have to think to yourself, "What the HELL was he/she thinking??!!"
The following case is a case in point. It's a PDF file so you'll need the Acrobat Reader. You can download the Acrobat Reader here.
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS, Petitioner,versus
CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES; THOMAS A. SCULLY, in his
official capacity as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; TOMMY G. THOMPSON, in his official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Respondents.IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
__________________________
No. 02-60834
__________________________
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HOSPITALS,
Petitioner,
versus
CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES; THOMAS A. SCULLY, in his
official capacity as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; TOMMY G.
THOMPSON, in his official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services,
Respondents.
________________________
Appeal from the Administrator of the Center for
Medicare and Medicaid Services
________________________
Before WIENER, CLEMENT, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises following the determination, by the Administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, that Rural Health Clinics in Louisiana do not furnish “hospital services”, and hence are not eligible for certain reimbursements. Because we find that interpretation to be unreasonable, we REVERSE.
JOANNE MARINER has a column entitled "FindLaw's Writ - Mariner: Children Killing Children in Colombia" that brings up the fact that many guerrilla groups use kids as weapons. This is definitely an evil that maybe the U.N should address. Of course, since the U.N. can't even address its own security it's unlikely the U.N. will find the time to handle something as important as children killing children.
I don't think most of the Left hates America, but I do think a small minority of the Left hates America and I also believe they hate America because they are crazy control freaks and they're not in control.
However, I could be wrong so check out Dan Flynn, Why the Left Hates America.
Here in looney, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon we also have a small band of morons who hate America. Washington County, Oregon also has a looney psychiatrist who diagnoses people as having the dreaded International Homosexual Satanic Ritualist Syndome. Next thing you know this looney psychiatrist will be diagnosing people as having the dreaded International Jewish Banking Cabal Conspiracy Syndrome. This just goes to show that there are loonies on the Left and loonies on the Right and loonies at all points in between.
There's even a looney at Kaiser Permanente in Portland, Oregon who performs super-duper secret medical tests to determine if a person is a homosexual or not.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the looney who bugs bathrooms in Washington County in order to find out information about the rituals performed by members of the International Homosexual Satanic Ritual gang. Apparently this looney became convinced that the Satanic homosexuals perform their rituals in bathrooms. (You would think cemeteries would be a better place to hold the pet and children ritual sacrifices because, hey, you know, more room. And, of course, cemeteries have an abundant supply of corpses for feast time because.....you know.....after a hard time of sacrificing pets and children it's always nice to sit back and have a corpse feast and......you know......I've heard tell there's plenty of corpses in cemeteries. I mean, when you're in a cemetery you don't want to have to run down to the local corpse supermarket and decide which corpse is the fresher corpse or which corpse is the best deal for the money. If you're in a cemetery and it comes time to feast on corpses, you've got a big selection. I personally don't know how you could get a hundred or so people in a little bitty bathroom to perform all those bloody rituals which include eating corpses.......oh, I know........Satanic powers.........silly me, how could I have forgotten? Yep, only super-duper supernatural powers could get all those people and corpses in little bitty bathrooms.)
Only in looney, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Vindictive - n.
1. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful.
2. Marked by or resulting from a desire to hurt; spiteful.
This brings us to an update on the sleazy activities of the pig family from hell. The pig family is still continuing their mindless, pathetic, spiteful, vindictive slandering of my two daughters and their mother.
The pig family is extremely perturbed that I like the mother of my two daughters and her family but I dislike my ex-wife and her idiot family.
The reasons for my likes and dislikes are simple. The mother of my two daughters and her family are hardworking, honest, decent people who are not control freaks and I like that in people. On the other hand, my ex-wife and her family are liars, manipulators, thieves, bigots, morons, and control freaks to the max. My ex-wife and her sick, pathetic family are also deceitful, envious, jealous, dishonest, violent, spiteful, and vindictive to the max and I dislike that in people.
I mean in what other family would a grandfather (Victor Oekerman) tell his grandson that the grandson's father (me) was dead, instead of telling the grandson the truth, which was that the grandson's father (me) was in reality out on an aircraft carrier (CV-67 - USS JOHN F. KENNEDY) serving the U. S.
I reiterate, there is definitely something wrong with my ex-wife's sick, pathetic family when they lie to my son about me being dead.
I swear, the pig family has more rationalizations for being extremely sleazy than a jackass has fleas. Then again, since many members of the family are jackasses, they're not only sleazy but "fleazy" as well. I guess the pig family's motto is, "A family that's "fleazes" together, sleazes together".
By the way, since, to the best of my knowledge, I just invented the word "fleaze", I can enlighten you as to what the definition of "fleaze" is....FOR FREE. The following is the definition of "fleaze":
fleaze
n. v. adj. adv.
n.
1. To be a person who has fleas and is sleazy at the same time
2. Anyone who has fleas and is sleazy
v.
1. To seek out sleaziness and fleas
2. To seek out sleaziness while having fleas
adj.
1. To have sleaziness and fleas at the same time, i.e. That person is fleazy or That fleazy person reminds me of someone in the pig family
adv. - fleazily
1. To do something in a fleazy manner, i.e. A member of the pig family is fleazily ripping off another elderly person
It's so much fun to watch people on the campaign trail say the weirdest things. (It must be an American tradition.)
Timothy Hulsey over at My Stupid Dog has an amusing post entitled "The Wit and Wisdom of Wesley Clark".
It seems there has been a slew of stories in the news across the country about sleazy shenanigans pulled by various non-profit organizations so it is time to put up a link to www.guidestar.org. GuideStar, the national database of U.S. charitable organizations, gathers and distributes data on more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits.
Here in Portland, Oregon, KOIN TV news personnel did some great investigative journalism and broadcast a story about how some people in Goodwill Industries, a non-profit, were enriching themselves in ways many people were not aware of. This brings up a question of the hour: Why shouldn't we boycott Goodwill Industries until the organization quits being sleazy?
In an investigative article by Asbury Park Press entitled "How many NJ legislators exploit the system", newspaper investigative journalists have described how New Jersey legislators are egregiously enriching themselves at the expense of the taxpayers. This may explain why New Jersey passes so many stupid laws. An excerpt from the article is below:
The New Jersey Legislature has become a personal money machine for many lawmakers who parlay their public service into private gain, a Gannett New Jersey newspapers investigation found.Gov. McGreevey delivers his annual budget message early this year to a joint session of the Legislature in the General Assembly chamber in Trenton. Lawmakers have used their connections to land multiple government jobs, obtain lucrative no-bid contracts and fatten their state pensions, the investigation found.
Call it legislated greed.
I guess we can assume that somebody in New Jersey is asleep at the wheel.
The following letter was received from Angelo Vitalone Sr. The letter concerns saving the Veterans' Hospitals and a link to a petition you can sign. The petition is at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/951659085.
We are trying to reach 1000000 signatures, and we need YOUR HELP!Please help by signing this petition. It takes 30 seconds and will really help. We really could use your support to get our message out. Please forward this email out to friends and family. THANKS
We, the veterans, and patients, and concerned citizens of the United States ask that you support our online petition at the following link. We need every signature possible and every person to get involved and make their voice heard by contacting their elected officials and demanding that the VA hospitals remain open and receive increased funding for
operation.The American people say that they support our troops, now is the time to show that support. Make sure a soldier returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has a hospital to come home to for care. Please forward this email to your friends, family and elected officials.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The Veterans Administration is proposing closure of the Canandaigua, NY VA medical Hospital along with 7 (SEVEN) others in the US. This hospital and the other seven are vital to our veterans and our hospital has been rated the best in the country. We have our state Senators and Representatives fighting to keep it open. BUT, We need the help of everyone to help start a letter drive and petition to help keep our VA hospitals open and increase the funding for our hospitals. We now ask for your help in this fight. I am a veteran and this is my hospital. If it is closed, other vets and I will be forced to drive 80 or more miles for care. This is the same story for other VA hospitals slated for
closure. Since we are disabled and many are elderly, this is an outrage.It is unthinkable to ask the elderly and disabled who have given so much to us...especially our right to free speech and peacefully protest our government...to take away their healthcare and impede the care that they need so desperately. We are putting these veterans lives at risk by
A) having them travel so far,
B) putting others at risk by asking them to drive that far when many are on medications that impair driving ability,
C) That their pain is so severe that driving long distances would be extremely painful and debilitating,
D) Life threatening illnesses of such, that time is critical in their care.
Driving 80 miles for care would surely mean death.
At the moment our president has involved us in 2 wars, and is pushing for a third and fourth. He is creating veterans at an alarming rate, yet he calls for reduced benefits and medical care. We need to get America to support their veterans. They say have said that they support the troops, well now is the time to show it. We need every American to call, write and email their elected representatives and demand that this outrage be stopped. Now is the time for action. These veterans have little time left.So I beg of you to throw the full weight of the American people behind this fight and let's make a difference.
Please follow this link:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/951659085
Once you have signed, help even more by telling your friends and family to sign as well!
Thank you!Angelo Vitalone Sr