today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “He’s one of the best, most competent, most honorable military leaders of his generation. If it’s impossible for him to fix the VA (lord knows he wants to do what’s right for veterans), then the VA is un-fixable.” – Falls_Church, commenter to this Washington Post article about General Shinseki’s ouster as Veterans’ Affairs leader.
“When this job became available at Vanderbilt University, I wanted the job,” Mason said. “We all aspire to greatness, and that’s where we’re going to go.” – See more at: http://athlonsports.com/college-football/dorm-report-mason-building-something-new-vanderbilt#sthash.Jp04AGLy.dpuf
“When this job became available at Vanderbilt University, I wanted the job,” Mason said. “We all aspire to greatness, and that’s where we’re going to go.” – See more at: http://athlonsports.com/college-football/dorm-report-mason-building-something-new-vanderbilt#sthash.Jp04AGLy.dpuf
“When this job became available at Vanderbilt University, I wanted the job,” Mason said. “We all aspire to greatness, and that’s where we’re going to go.” – See more at: http://athlonsports.com/college-football/dorm-report-mason-building-something-new-vanderbilt#sthash.Jp04AGLy.dpuf
- Justice injustice: Steal $100K get one year in prison – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era
- Maybe Medicare will pay for “Surgical Treatment for Gender Identity Disorder” – The Washington Examiner
- But … “Medicare doesn’t cover routine hearing exams, hearing aids, or exams for fitting hearing aids.“ – Medicare.gov
- Sirota: “Big money behind a big merger” could have been entitled “Comcast greases the political gears.” – davidsirota.com
- Disgrace: Toomey, the non-veteran, talks “rah-rah” to any veteran group that’ll listen, yet he makes it on the CNN’s “Republican Anti-Veteran Hall of Shame.” Read this Harrisburg Patriot-News article, too: “A past president of a veterans organization is taking Sen. Pat Toomey to task for what he called political posturing with the VA crisis.” Here’s another article that contends “Senator Toomey not a friend of veterans.” He, and other politicos, had every opportunity to look into and demand improvements long ago, but as sharks do, they swim toward the blood to feast.
- Shinseki “fell on his sword” yesterday, unable to reign in the “free-range VA system.” Toomey, not a veteran, could not carry Shinseki’s boots. There are too many unchecked free-range systems like the VA everywhere: religious systems; educational systems; governmental services systems, political systems and labor systems, to name a few. How do “free-range systems” get fixed to focus on those the system is intended to serve? Hold people accountable: Here’s a Frontline Report on how to fix one system. – PBS.org
- How the VA developed its culture of coverups – The Washington Post
- Spending more and more for fewer and fewer – the charts below show average state spending on schools and what the trend is for Columbia Borough School District. (SOURCE – openPAgov.org)
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