Quick Picks: VA Hospital’s Tainted Equipment and California Cronyism
The Miami Veterans Administration hospital may have exposed thousands of veterans to HIV and hepatitis by improperly sanitizing colonoscopy equipment, despite being warned by the Department of Veterans Affairs after problems at another hospital, McClatchy reports. The hospital sent a letter Monday to more than 3,000 patients who may have been exposed since 2004.
Also, the California state legislature is doing its best to stimulate the economy by offering jobs, often with vague responsibilities and good salaries, to the politically well-connected, the Los Angeles Times reports. Lawmakers are able to hire whom they wish, with little oversight, and as a result at least a dozen family members, friends and political candidates looking for something to tide them over between elections are on the state payroll, costing state taxpayers more than $700,000 last year.
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Purple Girl
March 29, 2009, 6:52 a.m.
Yet another reason any and all who sat on the Armed Services Comm (con) should be held responsible for their dereliciton of duty (Levin, McCain, Hillary).That Comm not only failed in it’s duty to provide oversight in the use of our Military forces, they failed to assure their safety- during and after service.
Hillary and her lil’ band of DLC’ers have proven repeatedly to be nothing more than Repugs in Blue camoflague.
And they are at it again, under the command of Bayh attempting to screw the American public out of Real progress away from Corp Controlled Gov’t. It’s seems no mistake this gang of covert operative formed in 1984. Hillary realized it was time to inflitrate behind Enemies lines.She was Goldwater Girl then and she still is now. How could anyone miss her mirroring of McCain throughout the campaign- “Bomb bomb bomb Iran” parroted as “obliterate Iran”. Who could have missed her 3rd times a charm Request by invoking RFK’s assasination, just to elicit a Fear resposnse to gain votes?
Personally as a Life Long REAL Dem- this Group of “Third Way” DLC’ers can take their Corp agenda and return to the under belly of the beast from which they crawled out. I don’t just hold the Bush Admin responsible for the Treasonous act of the illegal invasion into Iraq- I hold all those so called ‘Dems’ who not only Caved but paved they way for his Abuse of Power.
Does any one still think that Obama doesn’t know Who the real enemy is- He has name various ‘envoys’ to the most sensitive regions around the world. He too does not trust Hillary “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer”- Just don’t give them the chance to screw You up- Which She and her minions are working very hard to do, any way they can.Still got your sights on ‘12 ah Hillary, Ya POS!
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