Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ceremonial Observation Saturday, March 27, 2010 55 Water StreetNew York, NY 10041 - Lobby Promenade - Adjacent to Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM: Reading...

Justice Renault, I mean Roberts is shocked, shocked to find that screwing veterans is going on in here!

By: Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY AN INEVITABLE KARZAI DYNASTY RULING ...

Former VP Dick CheneyFormer VP Dick CheneyIn April, 2009, former vice president Dick Cheney called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release classified memos he said demonstrated how well "harsh interrogation methods" -- torture -- worked to prevent terrorist attacks and save lives. But investigators with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) just released a report saying that the CIA memo Cheney cited as justifying U.S. torture contains "plainly inaccurate information" that undermines its conclusions.

Edward Freeman died almost two years ago. Freeman was a former Army helicopter pilot who received the Medal of Honor for his heroics during the Vietnam War. He was portrayed...

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki speak about his goals to improve the quality of life for veterans at the El Paso VA Health Care System facility." During his visit, Shinseki, who "was hosted" by US Reps. Silvestre Reyes, Ciro Rodriguez, and Harry Teague, "toured the VA facility and the Fort Bliss National Cemetery, and he participated in a veterans roundtable before addressing the public on the purpose of his visit. In his speech, he addressed three specific goals targeting programs affecting the nation's veterans: reducing the growing backlog of claims, improving the quality of VA healthcare facilities and reducing homelessness among all veterans."

Dodd & Udall Introduce Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Supreme Court Campaign Finance Ruling February 24, 2010 WASHINGTON - Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) today introduced a constitutional...

Established in 1992, the Community Health Plan of Washington has become the fifth largest health program (commercial or non-profit) in the state of Washington. The company is actively inviting veterans to look into its job openings and become part of its successful team.

There has to be a better way to stop wars and reduce military spending. Polls show U.S. voters at worst divided on current wars...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Allouez, Wisconsin, Athens, Tennessee, Newport News, Virginia, Roseburg, Oregon, Colorado Springs , Colorado, Birmingham, Alabama, Los Angeles, California, Joliet Illinois, and Visalia, California.

"We're Number 37" Come one, Come all Down to the hall Were gonna make noise Were gonna bust balls Were gonna disrupt Were gonna jump in the fray I got a...

Update: For an opposing view, see also Tech Ticker which is running several looks at this issue. From Tech Ticker, a financial site with a short video...

No. 146-10 ------------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: NAVY                   SunEdison*, Beltsville, Md. (N62583-10-D-0326); AECOM Energy/Solar Power Partners, Inc.*, Mill Valley, Calif. (N62583-10-D-0327); Chevron Energy Solutions Co., a division of Chevron...

The economic pain our country is experiencing did not begin when the financial sector nearly collapsed over a year ago as a result of the greed and recklessness of Wall Street. The decline of the middle class has been going on for many years. Describing "a lost decade for American workers," The Washington Post said the past 10 years were the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times. USA Today said incomes of the young and middle-aged "have fallen off a cliff since 2000, leaving many age groups poorer than they were even in the 1970s."

This is based on a true story happening to me in the summer of 75'. I had hired on with the Donner - Hanna Coke...

When Al Franken ran for the Senate, people questioned his credentials, but good grief, people, comedy is hard work compared to harrumphing. It takes brains and elegance and courage to make people laugh. A comedian who joins the Senate has taken a step down on the social scale and everybody knows it.

It's the first of several job-creation measures promised by Democrats WASHINGTON - Companies that hire the unemployed would claim new tax breaks under a jobs-promoting...

No pitchforks, but expect more airplanes or more likely guns. Everyone wants a just, fair country back, but the black guy didn't take it. Ordinary...

Wish President Obama would just say the U.S.A. resembles an oligarchy in many ways, this is not good, I'm for the people and: Here's what we're...

Western Peterbilt is committed to the highest standards of performance and takes pride in being the industry leading experts. The company is actively seeking veterans to become a part of its work force.

"Honor" killings are often explained as suicides.

Here's some cheerful reading from Peter Boone, Simon Johnson, Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman. I'll break it down for you: Absent radical change in fiscal...

Rep. Kucinich wrote to Defense Secretary Gates, demanding that the U.S. comply with its obligation to protect Afghan civilians under international law, following a US attack on a civilian convoy reported to have killed 27 civilians. Kucinich demanded information on the decisions that led to the strike within two weeks, threatening to force a House vote demanding release of documents on the strike.

The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel points out that the sound of one hand clapping is silence and the results of bi partisan legislation when one party refuses to play is... gridlock. We have seen the gun toting Tea Party protesters at political rallies; was Joe Stack the first Tea Party terrorist? Robert Wright asks the question in a NYT OpEd. Robert Gates is trying to tell Europe that the path to lasting peace is through the pursuit of endless wars as Juan Cole points out at Informed Comment. These are among the stories in today's picks.

Facing a strong challenge from  J.D. Hayworth for the primary election in August, John McCain is desperate. When McCain gets desperate, the McC-man lies or gets seriously...

Find out What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans VA Announces Expansion Of IT Program Management, Accountability System. Shinseki Among Those Asked To Choose...

Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from: Indianapolis, Indiana, Reno, Nevada, Sioux Falls, Iowa, Chicago, Illinois, Stamford, Connecticut, Portland, Oregon, Fort Myers, Florida, Leesburg, Virginia, Madison, Wisconsin, and Weslaco, Texas.

Loaded questions were asked of health industry executives who remain about as popular as Bank CEOs.  By Bobby Caina Calvan | The Sacramento Bee Anthem Blue...

Teaching your family and your community not to hate. From the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide Hate...

Damn Europeans blowing off NATO refuse the truth that any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Headline above...

No. 137-10 ----------------------------------------- CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY   McKesson Corp., San Francisco, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $977,318,000 firm-fixed-price, prime vendor contract for replenishment pharmaceuticals and other...

Pushes back, but feels more like rhetoric easing in. From Talking Points Memo: By Rachel Slajda --  Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, and...

From the Post: Q&A with W. Scott Gould, deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs Interview by Ed O'Keefe The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to hire roughly 105,000...

At least you have your health, it's everything. Not everyone agrees. Health Means Life; Health Means Freedom by George Lakoff Life and Freedom are moral issues. It...

Mossad's Rogue Assassins The Dubai Hit By URI AVNERY FROM TIME to time I ask myself: what would happen if the world’s governments decided...

No doubt after chewing our troops up, the DVA will rush in to facilitate expedited delivery of benefits. Right. For those stuck on history...

VA Education Call Center Again Operating Five Days a Week - The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that the Education Call Center, closed on Thursdays and Fridays over the past two months, is again operating five days a week. (2/23/10)

SINCE the two recent NATO-led military strikes that accidentally killed dozens of Afghan civilians, I have been thinking a great deal about the psychic toll that killing takes on soldiers. In 2007, I was an Army lieutenant leading a group on a house-clearing mission in Baquba, Iraq, when I called in an artillery strike on a house. The strike destroyed the house and killed everyone inside. I thought we had struck enemy fighters, but I was wrong. A father, mother and their children had been huddled inside.

The primary reason why the Economic Elite have gained such dominance is their commitment to psychological operations that divide-and-conquer the US public. They use their overwhelming influence over mainstream media outlets and political candidates in very clever ways to divide us.

The U.S. Departments of Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs, as part of their continued commitment to our Nation’s Service Members, Veterans, and their families, launched a new and improved National Resource Directory (www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov).

Service in the U.S. military will soon come down to this: You hate and cannot serve with gays and lesbians, move to Iran or Uganda where bigotry reigns supreme. Just...

The words were from a letter that Mrs. Alleta Sullivan received from President Roosevelt, when it was confirmed that all five of her sons were missing in action after the sinking of the USS Juneau during the Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. While most aboard the Juneau perished, a few remained alive including the eldest Sullivan brother George, who would later die at sea. The last remaining survivors lived through of a horrific ordeal of exhaustion, heat, sharks, hunger and thirst.