Intro: "Some days just leave me speechless - Angry - and more than a little pissed off. This little treasure just takes my breath away. In order for 9/11 Responders to receive needed medical care and treatment, they have to be screened against the Department of Homeland Security Terrorism Watch List. It's the law."
A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center, 09/15/01. (photo: Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres/US Navy)
9/11 Responders Are Terrorists?
21 April 11
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ome days just leave me speechless - Angry - and more than a little pissed off.
This little treasure just takes my breath away. In order for 9/11 Responders to receive needed medical care and treatment, they have to be screened against the Department of Homeland Security Terrorism Watch List. It's the law.
Apparently, true patriot Florida Republican Rep. Cliff Stearns, attached an amendment to the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Law that was passed by Congress last May. This amendment bars any and all 9/11 Responders from treatment if they have not been cleared by DHS. Obviously rushing into burning and crumbling skyscrapers to save lives is a suspicious activity that indicates possible ties and sympathy to - terrorists.
Pardon my French, but -- are you fucking kidding me!
And Democrats let this piece of manure pass? The smell didn't bother them?
And where is that grand old "I want my country back-proud to be an American" Tea Party? Did they get lost at a "birther" convention in the Trump Towers?
Honest to God, I don't know what to say about this - this miserly, mean-spirited little Republican representative and his cohorts who seem to enjoy inflicting cruelty and pain on the men and women who risked life and limb to save lives on that horrible day and the days and weeks afterward. This is how we honor their heroism and sacrifice? Really?
This odious piece of excrement stinks to high heaven.
Where are the Democrats? Where is the so-called media? Rachel? Chris? FOX? Where are the rest of us?
Have we become a nation that smears the dead and the very people who risk their lives daily for us in order to save a few pennies or gain political points and increase campaign contributions?
Apparently.
I say get hold of your Congressperson and Senator and demand that this amendment, this insult to 9/11 Responders and their families, be repealed and dumped in the trashcan of false patriotic piety. Let everyone know about this travesty and tell them to put heat on the media to actually use their celebrity status to do some good for their country for a change. Spread the word on every blog you visit.
And then - send it to the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic parties, and especially the White House.
What good will it do?
It can't do any harm.
And it might help us feel like real Americans again.
Even if it's just for a little while.
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Republican Politicians to THEIR voters
are like . . . WILD Animals eating their young!
The American people have allowed ourselves to be divided and we are being eaten by the WILD ANIMALS . . .
Who I might add in the midst of all the budget cuts have not ONE suggested THEY (POLITICIANS) take some cuts . . . WAKE UP AMERICA!!! tHEY WILL CUT YOUR HEALTH CARE BUT HAVE YOU EVEN ASKED THE cost OF THEIRS?
BUSHWHACKED and KOCHSUCKED -
VILLAINAIRES, GO TO HELL!!!!!
Make a resolution now to keep up your strength when you are assaulted by the TV ads in the election season that is now beginning. It is all lies and empty promises. We will get no change until we throw out the corrupt.
We the People of the United States of America, need to remember this great line...• Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."
Even if you used to be a republican == look at the scum that fly under the R flag today -- they are bought and paid for by the Koch brothers.
Corporations are not individuals. They don't look like one, don't talk like one, don't live like one, don't quack likke one (etc) so HOW THE HECK did the Strupemes rule they are one (with 5th and 14th and 1st amendment rights?)
Bc Scalia/Thomas SLEPT with the Kock brothers before they ruled in their favor.
REPEAL that decision --- yes YOU: Stupremes.
When the United States is ruled by man (we the people) = democracy.
When the United States is bought and paid for by corporations ($$$ and not man) = facism.
Start writing to your Congress Persons to start legislation to repeal that 2010 decision.
VOTE in 2012 -- vote for a democrat else you'll go down with the rest of us
Ave. As for Scalia/Thomas...Thomas should be impeached on tax evasion charges besides the fact the man should NEVER have been a Supreme in the first place. And Scalia should be outfitted with an English wig as so befitting his pompous ass status.
My theory about Dems v Republicans is that the Republicans as a Majority in either house seem to chip away at Democracy in ruthless ways. Dems are not clean but as a block - we have a better chance to survive.
E.G. Wisconsin and other mid-west R governors' actions will take as many years to "undo" as the actions of Bush & company did at the Federal level.
As for the D's --- although the R's and much of both sides in the media dry the D's didn't pass a budget (and other such) -- we know the R's ran more filibusters between 08-10 etc.
I heard on RT.com (Russian Television) that the Dems have a "motion" before the Stupremes to repeal the 2010 "corp $" decision -- still looking for proof though.
MAYBE more good guy Congressmen (like Sanders - who is tops) will run on the I ticket.
Yes and No to D v R -- The TParty is taking hold of the R's and nothing can be more dangerous (reasons mentioned in other articles).
As for the Railroad information -- THAT is new to me and makes me even more afraid (and angry) at the 2010 Decision - thanks for the infor.
boooooooooo
HISSSSSSSSSS
hisssssssssss
So what great egregious act of the day should I get pissed about? The unimaginable and hideous has played out in real life many, many times. That which catches the interest of politicians is unknown to me, but it sure isn't what angers me.
Good grief.
I'm with those who say they are not surprised; I am not. But I am outraged, once again, that this is what we who vote have allowed to happen over and over again. Remember the 2004 election when nearly 55 million people voted to retain Bush, a known war criminal, as president of the US? I remember reading the front page of Britain's "Daily Mirror" that said, "How can 55 million people be so dumb!"
I say that now. We are heading down the path of pure destruction, bitter implosion, because we blindly accept the politicians who do NOT care about the people.
Shame on us! I'm mad and I, for one, will not lie down and take this anymore, even if I don't get heard, even if things don't change. To do nothing is the greatest evil of all.
Look for my continued outrage on this site, in Godot, and elsewhere...wherever I can speak out.
Terrorists? Really???? Who are the real terrorists? Republican, for sure, and any politician who allows this "law" to be enforced against the 9/11 responders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O_GRkMZJn4
Is it possible that Dems had to swallow that bitter pill in order to get the Republicans to vote for it?
So you rushed to the WTC to dig people out of the rubble? Now you feel a little sick and actually want a "hand out?" Screw you!Pay for your own health care.
And this from the part which claims to be against the intrusion of government in citizen's affairs!
Coincidence?
Civilised Man always the same. Now, in THEIR WORLD, your "toys" & Paper Money. Your Lives worthless if not of VALUE to them, on THEIR PLANET, and IF you pay THEIR Price, or doas told, OR ELSE.. In Greed & Lust not Love does Devil Sciamachy fester. So now, where are Ye, Priceless Men of Love & Truth?
Or - perhaps the questions we should be asking are - are Republican politicians actually real people? Or are they merely soulless robots that have been custom made-to-order in the bowels of some secret Koch-Industries laboratory? Or perhaps they are a group of sinister, outlaw aliens from some distant planet that have slipped through a wormhole in space – a wormhole that empties out into Washington DC.
(To be continued)
Ah me... one could speculate from now until the end of time I suppose. But why waste brain cells on such a futile exercise? Washington is chock-full of psychopaths – and these psychopaths make it their business to screw each and everyone of us - each and every day of our lives. Everyone with even the slightest amount of intelligence knows this – so why waste precious time bemoaning and belaboring?
Brings to mind a few words from a little song I know:
“Everything's been turned around, inverted and thrown upside down but that's OK.
'Cause my twisted thoughts grow clearer as your technicolor slowly turns to gray.
Laughter fell like rain inside my head until they took it all away
And now -
It's just another Addams family day...”
To hear the whole song go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImMD-eBFGbo
But be careful – it might just cheer you up – LOL...
But yes, I fear we are overcome with locusts, rotting animals on 2 legs who would devour us without one glance.
I am powerless. All i can do is support you and write on this pitiful machine.
WE MUST BAND TOGETHER AND DO!!!!
ruth mckenney springfield, mo. 65804
McInroe Oliver & Hardy
New Song...Koch Anthem?
Koch are soul-less left brained robots
Made to Red Shield Order in Bush-Obamas-Cheney-Clinton's Loo
Forever to screw each & every one of us
The Psychopaths of Washington & Pentagon Cooking tons of crap most dark & hideous
Lets Flush the robots down the toilet
And forever dump all Red Shield mighty clandestine Poo.
Chorus
Gone, gone, gone & we slaves are now victorious
And forever free of Red Shield Poo
(This lunatic ribaldry has lowered the tone of this academic debate, sorry) (Please don't ban me, you need me)
Mercurial
PS. If you don't I'll write all bad (fun) poetry in future, I've just crawled out of the woodworm cupboard
These insidious bastards of Congress have never felt physical pain from their poor decisions. They have never felt hunger, cold, disease or want because they have been pampered and protected as the elite class.
Time for pitchforks, nooses and guillotines after conviction of crimes against the People by the Peoples Court. European politicians still tremble at the punishments dealt by the French Revolutionaries . Time for the pseudo-American elites to tremble for their well being. One Blue Dog Senator was inappropriately punished, the rest should be appropriately punished and removed from office and denied compensation. No matter what, they should be denied compensation of any kind until the job is done, the country is out of debt, insurance for health care is free to all citizens, the U.S. is not at war and the "Fairness Doctrine" is restored as law.
Unless the Koch-Brothers-Secret-Police get to it and censor it from the sheepish masses first - LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMP15giQXJ8 LISTEN TO THIS!
Health Care cost of 9/11 first responders are high. By the time they complete the political& legal process many of them will be dead, near death or so critically ill the cost of care will be enormous.
But the law also invalidated the HIPA (Health Information Privacy Act) legislation meant to protect the privacy of and prevent disclosure of health care information without the patients written approval to anyone aside from health care providers & in coded fashion to insurance companies for reimbursement of services provided.
The Zadroga Law allows DHS to comb through a patients medical records without patient authorization looking for pre-existing conditions that could be related to their current condition. A claim of pre existing condition could lead to denial of coverage under the Zadroga Law. The insurance adjuster & physician reviewers can turn a remote possibility, inactive condition into a pre-existing conditions, denying coverage.
Profit must be protected at all cost. This is an example of why health care must be taken away from profiteers.
Congress keeps giving the insurance industry gifts either to protect profits as with Medicare & Zadroga Law or increase profits with Medicare Advantage (Part C) which caused Medicare Part B deficit spending by giving low risk patients premiums to insurance companies.
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