THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS- Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Here we go again folks. The Administration is trying to beat war drums pointed toward Iran.
Hasn't the lawmakers learned anything from the lies and deceptions that brought about the Iraq war?
Lets see, there was accusations of yellow cake; the scare of mushroom clouds;lies that Saddam aided and abetted the 9/11 attack in New York City; and, remember the bold faced lies by Colin Powell who went before Congress and said with a straight face that there were (WMD's) weapons of mass destruction being dragged around in trailers.
People. now Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State goes before the world media and begins to threaten Iran with the power of the presidency behind her. Clinton states that Iran was behind an assassination plot to take out the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil? Whoa! Does that sound familiar? A bag full of allegations, inuendo and suppositions to rally up the masses and stir the pot.
The administration says, the United States considers the alleged plot to be an act of terrorism so using terrorism as the catalyst the United States is attempting to gain a coalition involving other nations to support the United states argument.
The United States said they foiled the plot. But did they? Or, is it another make believe scenario to ratchet up another war or attack on another regime for the sole purpose of taking the countries mind off of its domestic and foreign problems?
I would suggest that those other countries that the United States does approach to listen to their song and patter should look at the materials and statements with a jaundice eye. I trust that China and Russia are skeptical and as to our allies like France and the U.K., I would say DO NOT be a lap dog and jump on the bandwagon like Blair did in the Iraq war.
Why? Look at what happened in the Iraq fiasco. The war was built on total fabrication and lies by lawmakers in the United States. For example, the U.S. continued to beat the war drums against Iraq and tell the people of this nation that Iraq had nuclear weapons. What the U.S. didn't tell its people was that Iraq quit and shut down its nuclear program way back in 1991. However, in March 2003, we, the United States invaded Iraq using that rationalization.
Then, the lawmakers and administration proclaimed that there were secret meeting by Iraq and other powers to obtain yellow cake so that nukes could be advanced. The administration continued to beat the war drums and have high level individuals in the administration even go before Congress to promote outright lies in order to gain support for their views as to why the United States should invade another sovereign nation.
Once the Iraq war was on there were more than 100,000 people killed because of our action and most of those that died were Iraqi civilians.
Remember the snitch that informed to our government that Iraq had WMD's. This guys code name was "Curveball" and using him, I have to say the administration did throw up citizens a curveball. This is the guy that the United States believed and chose to act on his false statements even though many in government has their doubts and misgivings about this idiot.. But, the U.S. wanted to go to war and this man's statements were another justification.
This informant, "Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi"later told this government and other foreign nations that he actually lied to everyone about the state of Iraq's government, facilities, military and weapons because he did not like Saddam and had a grudge against him.
Can you imagine , a country like the United States allowing one man to advise the lawmakers and President with lies and falsehoods so as to justify a war the administration wanted to engage in?
So, people of the United States and any foreign nation abroad - - - be skeptical of the words coming out of the mouths of our lawmakers when it come to taking action against another nation, PLEASE. Don't we learn by our mistakes?
The practice in this country used to be: when a crime is "committed", then we go after the culprit and bring them to justice. It should not be our practice to initiate any preemptive action against anyone or any country on "something that might have happened." My view is that when the act itself happens, whether it be robbery, rape,burglary, murder, arson or assassination, then you take action and handle it. Once the crime has been committed then you gather the evidence and go out and arrest the perpetrator(s). No one person or country should be allowed to think that a crime "might be committed." That is the kind of crazy and inappropriate thinking that got us into the Iraq war. Now we are in three wars. Those being: Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Isn't three wars enough for this administration? Now,, they want to ramp up support to attack Iran.
Did it ever occur to most of you that every time the United States is having domestic difficulty and cannot solve the problems here at home the administration starts a war? It's happened over and over again in the past. The Congess and lawmakers want to take the heat of their their own bumbling in-actions and their failure to address the problems we may be experiencing here at home so their watch word is :"WAR" or "CONFLICT with another nation. Their feeling is that if the countries mind is on a war or foreign conflict, the people will rally around the lawmakers for support and put aside any home grown problems. And, who makes out on that approach to solving problems? The military defense firms, the corporations, the banks, and of course the lawmakers who are hoping to retain their seats in power.
I would suggest that the people of this country hold our lawmakers feet to the fire and insist that they do not lie to the American people as they have done in the past and using the guise of war or threats of invasion or preemptive strikes to circumvent the real problems here at home while hoping all the while that they will retain their power in government. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Thursday, May 10, 2012
PRESIDENT OBAMBA PANDERS FOR THE GAY VOTE
"A HAIL MARY MOVE FOR RE-ELECTION"
THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS- Hello America and how is the world treating you?
Obama stands up for gay marriage? The first sitting president in history who decided to stick his nose in a social issue as hot as "gay marriage. Is there a method to his madness? You bet!
Folks, I see president Obama's move as a way of doing everything he can to win reelection.. This is a political move on his part. In the past he opposed gay marriage. He was adamant about his feelings toward marriage and expressed them over and over while running for president. Now, he flip-flops and says he found the light. Hallelujah !! According to him "today" Gay marriage is a good thing.
Obama even has the gall to use his daughters as a pawn in his move to accept gay marriage. He said he was hit with this wonderous revelation only after he talked with his children.. It appears Obama and his ilk will do anything to be reelected. I see his move as pandering for votes from the gay communities across the nation. Nothing more, nothing less.
Even after he appeared on television saying gay marriage is okay he still waffled and rationalized his decision and parsed words to try to strike a middle ground. But he should know that there is nothing like half pregnant. "Your either pregnant or your not." You can't have it both ways Mr. President.
People, if you believe that Obama's new found acceptance for gay marriage is not a play for votes from one segment of society - - do you wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn? Such a deal.---
And, that's my opinion. Make up your own minds. You decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Secret Service Director Sullivan Gives G-Men Slap on Wrist
THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Three Secret Service agents were disciplined. But not enough. Again, it's another example of the government protecting their own. The agencies director, Mark Sullivan issued a slap on the wrist as far as I'm concerned. Was it punishment to fit the crime? No way, director Sullivan.
Yes, the three agents were ousted but two of them were allowed to leave the agency in a way that will allow them to go out and be rehired by other agencies. That shouldn't be. My view, all "eleven agents" should have been fired, IMMEDIATELY.
One supervising agent was allowed to retire. I say, it shouldn't have happen. This guy can now received a large, lucrative pension that we taxpayers are on the hook for. We'll be paying him for the rest of his life. And don't forget, we'll have to pay for his health care and other benefits that the Feds lavish on their employees. Plus, he can now go out and get another job in law-enforcement and continue his bad behavior. On the other hand, if the agent was "fired", he could have lost all of his retirement goodies and benefits and it would be a matter of record when a prospective employer and/or agency checked his background. A slap on the wrist for this agent by the Secret Service ? You bet!
A second agent was allowed to resign. This man can also go out and get a job with another agency and have no mention of his misdeeds anywhere in his record. When asked why he left his last job all he has to say is "I resigned." What a joke.
The third agent was fired for cause. Hooray? Finally, a firing. There are a lot of people in Congress and across the country that believe all eleven agents should be fired, which includes one presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. And, he's right. The firings should have been undertaken as soon as the men were recalled back to the states. These federal agents had violated a number of rules and regulations that was a firing offense. Fast, swift justice should have been meted out then and there. Instead the Congress people who pander to special interests decided to have a dog and pony "see me on television" hearing.
We taxpayers shouldn't have to be paying large pensions to these corrupt, drunken agents. They should have been fired and all benefits of the job taken away.
Again, Obama, the administration and Congress are playing games with us taxpayers leaving us to pay the tab while they cover for the federal employees. Shame on them. Kudos to Romney for saying he would have fired the agents. Too bad he isn't president now. Justice would have been served.
As for the ten military personnel that were involved in this sorid mess. Punishment should be reduction in rank, a bad conduct discharge and the loss of all of future military benefits.
I said it before and I'll say it again, when other government agents or military personnel see that severe and swift punishment is handed out for wrongdoing they will think twice before committing such acts. No one wants to lose their jobs, positions and pensions and I suggest that if the morons know that is the price they had to pay, they wouldn't participate in wrongdoing. And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Federal Agents Refuse to Pay Their Prostitute. Our Money at Work Folks.
THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Another government boondoggle. Our government money is being spent by the United States Secret Service on prostitutes. Wow! These federal agents, at least eleven of them was tasked to fly to South America to set up security for President Obama. However, idle hands make for idle, stupid minds. Rather, than take care of the plan and coordinate security with the foreign government these idiots decided to party in sleazy nightclubs, getting snockered and down and out drunk, according to employees of the shabby, low class club. They then hired a number of prostitutes and whisk them back to their rooms at the El Caribe hotel.
And like any sex crazed, trolling John's on the street, at least two of the Secret Service agents tried to stiff the prostitute out of a $50.00 tab after they enjoyed her services throughout the night.They refused pay. What cheapskates. These secret service agents had class - -BUT, it was all fourth class.
To his credit, the director of the Secret Service acted swiftly and recalled the drunken revelers back to the states and replaced them with a new crew of agents. Folks, this is how our tax money is spent. These agents and all other "public employees" have the attitude that they are an entitled group that can fleece and spend our money for their travels, vacations and conventions without any thought to looking out for the taxpayer.
If it were me, and I was the boss of a company or business and my employees neglected and ignored their job duties that they were expected to carry out with diligence and competence, they would be gone, history, FIRED on the spot. I would tell them to find employment elsewhere telling them the gravy train was over. In this case Obama is the boss. He should "immediately "fire" these eleven federal agents. But instead what does he do? He calls for an investigation and says he will wait to see. Wait and see? What? They clearly did the crime and they should do the time. That being - -FIRED. No second chances and certainly no soft slap on the wrist. These people do not deserve to be agents and allowed to draw an over the top salary, lucrative benefits and retirement monies and pensions. It is as clear as the nose on his face. These agents were literally caught with their pants down. In fact, witnesses stepped forward telling what actually had occurred. Whatever happened to "the buck stops here? " With a swipe of a pen, Obama could have had these guys off the job and out the door within hours after receiving word of their indiscretions. But, no! Politics comes first.
Remember, years ago when the federal employee Air Traffic Controls got out of hand, President Reagan didn't take any crap. He fired all of the air traffic controller's in the country, on the spot, and hired all new people. I submit President Obama can do the same thing and fire them instead of having Congress have a dog and pony show at playing to investigate the situation just to get their mugs before the cameras.
I suggest that if president Obama would have immediately taken decisive "ACTION" and fired all of the agents, the matter would have been resolved then and there. Further you can bet that any other Secret Service agent even contemplating hiring a hooker, drinking booze until they were drunk and being a down right moron would think twice knowing that their actions would be cause for IMMEDIATE dismissal.
People, based on these secret service agents blatant actions I would guess that the Secret Service agents had did these things before. I suspect that these and others in the agency adopted this culture as a right of passage. It was so easy for them as they openly partied it up, became loud and obnoxious and topped the evening off with whore-mongering. I have no doubt that these federal agents were predisposed to do what they did.
Like the GSA, the Secret Service is using our money as their own private piggy bank. For example, one of the high ranking administrator's at GSA, Jeff Neely, spent $823,000 on a junket to Las Vegas. for his federal employee's. Christ, over $2,000 a night for a suite at the hotel. Can you believe it? Our money. This loser also told his piggy federal employees : "let's spend it while we got it and can do it." The culture of the Federal government at work folks - - - Yet when Neely was questioned about the matter by Congress he refused to answer any questions, he took the Fifth, and didn't show up the next day for questioning. That is why these lame hearing are only a kabuki dance for the politicians pandering for votes. Neely and every employee that attended the conference in Las Vegas should have been "fired", on the spot when this scam came to light. I say, that is the only way other public employees will get the message that when they scam, cheat, steal, etc., they will LOSE THEIR JOB - -no if, and, or but. Once they have to pound the pavement looking for a real job they'll have a different outlook on how hard it is to survive in the real world. - And, that's my opinion. Make up your own mind, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
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LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
Another government boondoggle. Our government money is being spent by the United States Secret Service on prostitutes. Wow! These federal agents, at least eleven of them was tasked to fly to South America to set up security for President Obama. However, idle hands make for idle, stupid minds. Rather, than take care of the plan and coordinate security with the foreign government these idiots decided to party in sleazy nightclubs, getting snockered and down and out drunk, according to employees of the shabby, low class club. They then hired a number of prostitutes and whisk them back to their rooms at the El Caribe hotel.
And like any sex crazed, trolling John's on the street, at least two of the Secret Service agents tried to stiff the prostitute out of a $50.00 tab after they enjoyed her services throughout the night.They refused pay. What cheapskates. These secret service agents had class - -BUT, it was all fourth class.
To his credit, the director of the Secret Service acted swiftly and recalled the drunken revelers back to the states and replaced them with a new crew of agents. Folks, this is how our tax money is spent. These agents and all other "public employees" have the attitude that they are an entitled group that can fleece and spend our money for their travels, vacations and conventions without any thought to looking out for the taxpayer.
If it were me, and I was the boss of a company or business and my employees neglected and ignored their job duties that they were expected to carry out with diligence and competence, they would be gone, history, FIRED on the spot. I would tell them to find employment elsewhere telling them the gravy train was over. In this case Obama is the boss. He should "immediately "fire" these eleven federal agents. But instead what does he do? He calls for an investigation and says he will wait to see. Wait and see? What? They clearly did the crime and they should do the time. That being - -FIRED. No second chances and certainly no soft slap on the wrist. These people do not deserve to be agents and allowed to draw an over the top salary, lucrative benefits and retirement monies and pensions. It is as clear as the nose on his face. These agents were literally caught with their pants down. In fact, witnesses stepped forward telling what actually had occurred. Whatever happened to "the buck stops here? " With a swipe of a pen, Obama could have had these guys off the job and out the door within hours after receiving word of their indiscretions. But, no! Politics comes first.
Remember, years ago when the federal employee Air Traffic Controls got out of hand, President Reagan didn't take any crap. He fired all of the air traffic controller's in the country, on the spot, and hired all new people. I submit President Obama can do the same thing and fire them instead of having Congress have a dog and pony show at playing to investigate the situation just to get their mugs before the cameras.
I suggest that if president Obama would have immediately taken decisive "ACTION" and fired all of the agents, the matter would have been resolved then and there. Further you can bet that any other Secret Service agent even contemplating hiring a hooker, drinking booze until they were drunk and being a down right moron would think twice knowing that their actions would be cause for IMMEDIATE dismissal.
People, based on these secret service agents blatant actions I would guess that the Secret Service agents had did these things before. I suspect that these and others in the agency adopted this culture as a right of passage. It was so easy for them as they openly partied it up, became loud and obnoxious and topped the evening off with whore-mongering. I have no doubt that these federal agents were predisposed to do what they did.
Like the GSA, the Secret Service is using our money as their own private piggy bank. For example, one of the high ranking administrator's at GSA, Jeff Neely, spent $823,000 on a junket to Las Vegas. for his federal employee's. Christ, over $2,000 a night for a suite at the hotel. Can you believe it? Our money. This loser also told his piggy federal employees : "let's spend it while we got it and can do it." The culture of the Federal government at work folks - - - Yet when Neely was questioned about the matter by Congress he refused to answer any questions, he took the Fifth, and didn't show up the next day for questioning. That is why these lame hearing are only a kabuki dance for the politicians pandering for votes. Neely and every employee that attended the conference in Las Vegas should have been "fired", on the spot when this scam came to light. I say, that is the only way other public employees will get the message that when they scam, cheat, steal, etc., they will LOSE THEIR JOB - -no if, and, or but. Once they have to pound the pavement looking for a real job they'll have a different outlook on how hard it is to survive in the real world. - And, that's my opinion. Make up your own mind, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Friday, April 13, 2012
GSA Scandal-Outrageous-Fire All Who Attended
THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
The government blows over $823,000 of our taxpayer money on a junket to Las Vegas. The idiots at the General Services Administration even video taped themselves in this fiasco. Christ, a mind reader, costing $3200.00 was hired to entertain for these greedy, lazy, drunken public employees. I venture to say anyone could hire a mind reader for only a few hundred dollars. The GSA employees were so piggish they spent $6,000 just for sushi.They also spent hundreds of dollars per plate of food. And booze, wow! One female employee , one of the lushes on the video was bragging how much she liked the alcohol. Others in the video talked about how they enjoyed wasting taxpayer money for their own pleasures. It should be noted also that the GSA sent an official out to Las Vegas at a cost of at least $100,000 just to scout out the the luxury vacation that they dubbed a training seminar.
People, this kind of extravagance should never, ever have occurred and then found out two years after the fact. Where's the accountability? In the private sector, on most any job, if one employee or a number of employees are scheduled for a training seminar, it includes the name of each employee scheduled to attend, the cost of lodging and meals and travel for each employee. That information goes to the company controller or financial officer FOR APPROVAL. There is no controller, financial officer or boss of any company that I'm aware of that would approve forty dollars for one shrimp on a plate or over a hundred dollars for a plate of food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. And you could be sure that the company would question a cost of $3200.00 for a mind readers act. The entire planned , (Ha, ha) training seminar should have been denied by the managers, supervisors and the administrators as the request went up the chain of command for such a trip. Who gave the okay for this trip? Who's name(s) or initials and dates were on the paperwork as it was being approved? There shouldn't have been any lag time from 2008 to 2010 for someone in authority to see that the cost of the trip was over $800,000.00.
I would think any company boss or any reasonable, prudent person would want to know how much a trip, vacation, or seminar would cost them, (to the penny) , before they allowed anyone to embark on the trip.
The GSA also spent more of our tax money on a grab bag of expensive gifts for their employees each year. There were high end Ipod, tablets, electronics, and other items. And, believe it or not they are still awarding the expensive gifts to the employees. I ask you, what company in the private sector spends tens of thousands of dollars on bonus gifts for their employees? You would be hard pressed to find many. Folks, it's very easy to spend other peoples money instead of your own and these morons at the GSA and other government public employees spend like a drunken sailor with our tax dollars and then have the arrogance to brag about it. They indeed feel entitled, for whatever reason.
Hell, President Reagan, with a stroke of a pen fired everyone of the Air Traffic Controllers when they demanded too much money and benefits. Once those air traffic controller's lost their job they realized how good they had it. They sniveled and moaned but they brought it on themselves. President Reagan then hired new controllers for less salary and benefits.
I suggest that if this administration had a backbone President Obama would use the power of his pen and fire these entrenched government employees and start from square one again. There are tens of thousands of job applicants waiting in line that could fill the positions for less money and benefits and would be happy to do the job.
This administration has the idea that our taxpayer money is their own private piggy bank which they raid and spread around willy-nilly. Even though the head of the GSA and two others were forced to resign, I say that's not enough. The few hundred employees that attended this $800,000 romp should be fired, "IMMEDIATELY." The video was very clear that the attendees didn't care one bit about the cost of the trip. They relished in the fact that they were gaming and cheating us taxpayers.
Each government agencies should be mandated to have a committee that can be held responsible for the review of each and every trip, party, training session or seminar by their employees. Those same committee members should be instructed to go over each and every expense for the occasion, prior to the trip. I predict that if such a committee for each government agency was required there would be no way any agency could blow close to a million dollars on ONE trip.
My view is that these federal employees as well as all public employees should be reined in. It is these powerful public employee unions that are causing cities and states across the country to go belly up. The public employees are milking the system with their total disregard for anyone but themselves. IT HAS TO STOP. Look at Greece, it's public employees being payed over generous salaries, pensions and retirements brought the country to it's knees. Italy, Portugal and Ireland are all in the same bag and it won't be long before the United States will follow in those European countries footsteps. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
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LAS VEGAS:
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
The government blows over $823,000 of our taxpayer money on a junket to Las Vegas. The idiots at the General Services Administration even video taped themselves in this fiasco. Christ, a mind reader, costing $3200.00 was hired to entertain for these greedy, lazy, drunken public employees. I venture to say anyone could hire a mind reader for only a few hundred dollars. The GSA employees were so piggish they spent $6,000 just for sushi.They also spent hundreds of dollars per plate of food. And booze, wow! One female employee , one of the lushes on the video was bragging how much she liked the alcohol. Others in the video talked about how they enjoyed wasting taxpayer money for their own pleasures. It should be noted also that the GSA sent an official out to Las Vegas at a cost of at least $100,000 just to scout out the the luxury vacation that they dubbed a training seminar.
People, this kind of extravagance should never, ever have occurred and then found out two years after the fact. Where's the accountability? In the private sector, on most any job, if one employee or a number of employees are scheduled for a training seminar, it includes the name of each employee scheduled to attend, the cost of lodging and meals and travel for each employee. That information goes to the company controller or financial officer FOR APPROVAL. There is no controller, financial officer or boss of any company that I'm aware of that would approve forty dollars for one shrimp on a plate or over a hundred dollars for a plate of food for breakfast, lunch or dinner. And you could be sure that the company would question a cost of $3200.00 for a mind readers act. The entire planned , (Ha, ha) training seminar should have been denied by the managers, supervisors and the administrators as the request went up the chain of command for such a trip. Who gave the okay for this trip? Who's name(s) or initials and dates were on the paperwork as it was being approved? There shouldn't have been any lag time from 2008 to 2010 for someone in authority to see that the cost of the trip was over $800,000.00.
I would think any company boss or any reasonable, prudent person would want to know how much a trip, vacation, or seminar would cost them, (to the penny) , before they allowed anyone to embark on the trip.
The GSA also spent more of our tax money on a grab bag of expensive gifts for their employees each year. There were high end Ipod, tablets, electronics, and other items. And, believe it or not they are still awarding the expensive gifts to the employees. I ask you, what company in the private sector spends tens of thousands of dollars on bonus gifts for their employees? You would be hard pressed to find many. Folks, it's very easy to spend other peoples money instead of your own and these morons at the GSA and other government public employees spend like a drunken sailor with our tax dollars and then have the arrogance to brag about it. They indeed feel entitled, for whatever reason.
Hell, President Reagan, with a stroke of a pen fired everyone of the Air Traffic Controllers when they demanded too much money and benefits. Once those air traffic controller's lost their job they realized how good they had it. They sniveled and moaned but they brought it on themselves. President Reagan then hired new controllers for less salary and benefits.
I suggest that if this administration had a backbone President Obama would use the power of his pen and fire these entrenched government employees and start from square one again. There are tens of thousands of job applicants waiting in line that could fill the positions for less money and benefits and would be happy to do the job.
This administration has the idea that our taxpayer money is their own private piggy bank which they raid and spread around willy-nilly. Even though the head of the GSA and two others were forced to resign, I say that's not enough. The few hundred employees that attended this $800,000 romp should be fired, "IMMEDIATELY." The video was very clear that the attendees didn't care one bit about the cost of the trip. They relished in the fact that they were gaming and cheating us taxpayers.
Each government agencies should be mandated to have a committee that can be held responsible for the review of each and every trip, party, training session or seminar by their employees. Those same committee members should be instructed to go over each and every expense for the occasion, prior to the trip. I predict that if such a committee for each government agency was required there would be no way any agency could blow close to a million dollars on ONE trip.
My view is that these federal employees as well as all public employees should be reined in. It is these powerful public employee unions that are causing cities and states across the country to go belly up. The public employees are milking the system with their total disregard for anyone but themselves. IT HAS TO STOP. Look at Greece, it's public employees being payed over generous salaries, pensions and retirements brought the country to it's knees. Italy, Portugal and Ireland are all in the same bag and it won't be long before the United States will follow in those European countries footsteps. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions, you decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Monday, March 26, 2012
Organ Transplant System Isn't Fair-Cheney Favoritism
THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
On March 24, 2012, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, a seventy-one (71) year old man received a heart transplant. Did he get special treatment? Some think so. I personally know a person who had a double transplant, a heart and lungs. He was in his early sixties at the time and according to him, was told by doctors that the cut off date for any person to get a heart transplant was sixty-five (65) years-old and he made the cut by the skin of his teeth. However, after Cheney received the transplant some media heads purport that the the cut off age was seventy years old. Huh? Then, get this, another report on the evening news on 03/25/2012 said that doctors said a 71 year old man was within the age range to receive a heart transplant.
It's amusing how the medical transplant people can fudge and manipulate age in order to rationalize Cheney's heart transplant. I predict the medical ethics of Cheney's heart transplant will be a case study for years.
Folks, there were thousands of "young" people who were in line for the heart. As the situation stands at the present time transplant protocol is generally based on: time on the waiting list, a medical need and where a person lives determines the odds of receiving a new heart.
Cheney received his transplant in Falls Church, VA, the same place he got an implanted heart pump that had been keeping him alive since July 2010. Please note that the implanted heart pump is not a permanent fix. It is recommended the patient wear it for only (two years) . Surprise, surprise, Cheney receives a heart when the limits of the implanted heart pump was going to go belly-up. Coincidence? Maybe! Who knows? It just seems a little strange to me that all of a sudden he is reported to have been on a transplant list to coincide with the heart pump use limits and then had climbed to the top of the list for a new heart over younger patients where the survival rate would be more acceptable.
Remember, Cheney had severe congested heart failure and on top of that has had at least (five) heart attacks over the span of 25 years. He also experienced a large number of heart procedures such as: heart bypasses, angioplasty, pacemakers and surgery on his legs. Does that sound like the man is in good shape? Were there other patients awaiting a heart without so many detriments who could tolerate the stresses of the surgery and fight off the organ rejection factors? I would say, "yes."
Folks, with all of the past procedures Cheney has undergone to fight the congestive heart failure it is obvious that they took their toll on his body. Plus, the man is well over the upper limits to receive a new heart. Currently there are more than three thousand (3,000) Americans waiting for a new heart. About 330 of those waiting die each year before a new heart becomes available.
The organ transplant list is said to be a very regimented, fair process. The administrators say the lists are policed very closely. Personally, I have my doubts about that. Talk is cheap. Do you really think that the people handling the organ transplant lists cannot be swayed one way or the other for reasons only know to them or their group(s). Do some of the officials and health care personnel have an agenda? Could be. Could a person be moved up on the list? Have they been? Anything is possible. Has the health care people manipulated the health care system before? Yes, and it happens everyday in the health field.
Example: Just look at how the medicare program is ripped off each and every day for millions, even billions of dollars by people in the heath care field. There isn't a day that goes by that you cannot read in your local news about some person in the health field looking to scam the system for money, favoritism or prestige. Not in the too distant past, in Las Vegas, doctor Dipak Desai wanted to cut corners and he and some of his clinic employees (nurses) caused the largest Hepatitis outbreak in history by reusing syringes and needles on patients. Not long after that it was found other clinics and hospitals around the country were doing the same thing. Then, lets not forget the 100,000 or more deaths that are caused in hospitals by the health care professionals due to their errors.
In any event, back to the heart transplant list issue. Patients can get on more than one list if they have the bucks to afford the medical tests that each center may require to ensure eligibility. People with money, worldwide recognition, celebrity and/or power have indeed gamed the system.
Example: Robert Casey, former Governor of Pennsylvania was told he needed a double transplant in 1993. Guess what, the next day he received it. Does some people know how to work the system? Could be. And don't forget Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankee center fielder. It was 1995-when he was told he was critical. He was put on the waiting list and within 48 hours in Dallas, Texas he had a new liver. Keep in mind that in 1995, in Texas, the average wait on the list was 183 days. Was it money, fame, what? Then there was the couple that went on the Phil Donahue television Show and pleaded with the viewing audience for a heart for their dying son. During the show the couple received a call from a hospital in Michigan saying they would "donate' a heart to Loma Linda hospital for the child. The parents flew back to California to receive the donated heart. The sad part is- there was a baby in Kentucky that was on the top of the list for the heart.
People, that is just some examples of manipulation of the organ donor system that I see. I, for one, clearly don't have confidence in the lists and system itself. To me it resembles the legal system where two sets of laws apply - - one for the rich and famous and one for the little people. Do I think Cheney received favoritism over and above the thousand of others waiting for a new heart? Yes. Do I think he was well over the age-limit to receive a new heart? Yes. Do I think there might have been other people on the list more deserving both physically and emotionally than Cheney? Yes. Do I think Cheney was too sick and too old for the new heart? Yes. -And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions in this matter. You decide.
Bradley Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
On March 24, 2012, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, a seventy-one (71) year old man received a heart transplant. Did he get special treatment? Some think so. I personally know a person who had a double transplant, a heart and lungs. He was in his early sixties at the time and according to him, was told by doctors that the cut off date for any person to get a heart transplant was sixty-five (65) years-old and he made the cut by the skin of his teeth. However, after Cheney received the transplant some media heads purport that the the cut off age was seventy years old. Huh? Then, get this, another report on the evening news on 03/25/2012 said that doctors said a 71 year old man was within the age range to receive a heart transplant.
It's amusing how the medical transplant people can fudge and manipulate age in order to rationalize Cheney's heart transplant. I predict the medical ethics of Cheney's heart transplant will be a case study for years.
Folks, there were thousands of "young" people who were in line for the heart. As the situation stands at the present time transplant protocol is generally based on: time on the waiting list, a medical need and where a person lives determines the odds of receiving a new heart.
Cheney received his transplant in Falls Church, VA, the same place he got an implanted heart pump that had been keeping him alive since July 2010. Please note that the implanted heart pump is not a permanent fix. It is recommended the patient wear it for only (two years) . Surprise, surprise, Cheney receives a heart when the limits of the implanted heart pump was going to go belly-up. Coincidence? Maybe! Who knows? It just seems a little strange to me that all of a sudden he is reported to have been on a transplant list to coincide with the heart pump use limits and then had climbed to the top of the list for a new heart over younger patients where the survival rate would be more acceptable.
Remember, Cheney had severe congested heart failure and on top of that has had at least (five) heart attacks over the span of 25 years. He also experienced a large number of heart procedures such as: heart bypasses, angioplasty, pacemakers and surgery on his legs. Does that sound like the man is in good shape? Were there other patients awaiting a heart without so many detriments who could tolerate the stresses of the surgery and fight off the organ rejection factors? I would say, "yes."
Folks, with all of the past procedures Cheney has undergone to fight the congestive heart failure it is obvious that they took their toll on his body. Plus, the man is well over the upper limits to receive a new heart. Currently there are more than three thousand (3,000) Americans waiting for a new heart. About 330 of those waiting die each year before a new heart becomes available.
The organ transplant list is said to be a very regimented, fair process. The administrators say the lists are policed very closely. Personally, I have my doubts about that. Talk is cheap. Do you really think that the people handling the organ transplant lists cannot be swayed one way or the other for reasons only know to them or their group(s). Do some of the officials and health care personnel have an agenda? Could be. Could a person be moved up on the list? Have they been? Anything is possible. Has the health care people manipulated the health care system before? Yes, and it happens everyday in the health field.
Example: Just look at how the medicare program is ripped off each and every day for millions, even billions of dollars by people in the heath care field. There isn't a day that goes by that you cannot read in your local news about some person in the health field looking to scam the system for money, favoritism or prestige. Not in the too distant past, in Las Vegas, doctor Dipak Desai wanted to cut corners and he and some of his clinic employees (nurses) caused the largest Hepatitis outbreak in history by reusing syringes and needles on patients. Not long after that it was found other clinics and hospitals around the country were doing the same thing. Then, lets not forget the 100,000 or more deaths that are caused in hospitals by the health care professionals due to their errors.
In any event, back to the heart transplant list issue. Patients can get on more than one list if they have the bucks to afford the medical tests that each center may require to ensure eligibility. People with money, worldwide recognition, celebrity and/or power have indeed gamed the system.
Example: Robert Casey, former Governor of Pennsylvania was told he needed a double transplant in 1993. Guess what, the next day he received it. Does some people know how to work the system? Could be. And don't forget Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankee center fielder. It was 1995-when he was told he was critical. He was put on the waiting list and within 48 hours in Dallas, Texas he had a new liver. Keep in mind that in 1995, in Texas, the average wait on the list was 183 days. Was it money, fame, what? Then there was the couple that went on the Phil Donahue television Show and pleaded with the viewing audience for a heart for their dying son. During the show the couple received a call from a hospital in Michigan saying they would "donate' a heart to Loma Linda hospital for the child. The parents flew back to California to receive the donated heart. The sad part is- there was a baby in Kentucky that was on the top of the list for the heart.
People, that is just some examples of manipulation of the organ donor system that I see. I, for one, clearly don't have confidence in the lists and system itself. To me it resembles the legal system where two sets of laws apply - - one for the rich and famous and one for the little people. Do I think Cheney received favoritism over and above the thousand of others waiting for a new heart? Yes. Do I think he was well over the age-limit to receive a new heart? Yes. Do I think there might have been other people on the list more deserving both physically and emotionally than Cheney? Yes. Do I think Cheney was too sick and too old for the new heart? Yes. -And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions in this matter. You decide.
Bradley Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
Friday, March 16, 2012
Govt. Running Vile,Disgusting Ads: We Don't Need it.
THE KUHNS REPORT
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Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
The Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services along with the Center for Disease Control went on television and announced that they are going to release a series of disgusting and vile videos showing people dying, allegedly from smoking cigarettes. . They claim the shock value will make people stop smoking. Wrong! All these videos will do will turn off people from watching television and if some of those people are one of the millions that continue to smoke it will only enrage them and cause them to use their middle finger to flip off our government agencies for splashing the gross, ugly, videos across the television screen.
A message to those government officials that came up with this screwy idea. Hey government people, there is already a warning label on every pack of cigarettes in the country. Everyone knows it is a bad idea to smoke and most American can read a label. That should be sufficient.
The Federal court already threw out the governments attempt to put these grossly offensive photos on a pack of cigarettes. Yet, these same do-good government flunkies are attempting an end run by trying the television route.
Their ad implies that more people die from smoking cigarettes than from any other cause. WRONG AGAIN! And they ( HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES and CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL) of all people, should know that. The biggest killer in the "world" is "HEART TROUBLE." Yet, they want to be dishonest and lie to the American public for the sake of shock value.
People, I don't know about you but I don't want to be sitting at home,enjoying dinner and see one of these repulsive, nauseating, sickening ads pop up oi my screen. I certainly don't want any of my family members, especially children to be exposed to, and see these sleazy ads.
Also, I pay good money (maybe a little too much) to these cable companies to provide me and family members with television programming. I certainly "do not" pay them to transmit abominate , filthy despicable photographs and/or videos of persons dying or on the verge of dying. If I want to see horrid video or programming I have a choice from my selection from the cable companies. It is and will be my choice. I "do not" need disgraceful, foul, loathsome advertisements intruding on my home, (my castle) by way of the government saying they have a right to force them onto my television screen.
What is the next government intrusion to control behavior going to be? Will they want to run television ads showing obese people in disgraceful, nasty end stages of life and spout a party line that hamburgers, pies, cakes and candy are killing you?
Folks, we all know that things are bad for us and may affect our health but we as Americans have an inalienable right to make those choices as to what legal substances, food or drink we put into our own body.
Christ, 1/3 (32%) of all traffic deaths in the country are alcohol related. Alcohol also kills 75,000 people a year and it is well known that alcohol shortens lives. Speaking of alcohol. In 2001, alcohol killed at least 34, 833 people just from cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. So, if we use the same shock methods that the government is using to curb smoking - - why not show peoples rotting livers and cancer infested bodies of alcoholics? There is no difference, is there?
My point, - as a person who has worked in the health field for years I can say: People die everyday from a myriad of ailments, diseases and illness. People die of cancer from many different factors. IT IS NOT ALL FROM SMOKING CIGARETTES. Even some medication people are legally taking will cause them to have cancers of all types, tumors, heart ailments, blindness and many other fatal consequences.
We, as Americans do not need some government official attempting to scare and frighten all of us by saturating the airwaves with insulting, graphic pictures showing people dying.
Some of my suggestions on these vicious, vulgar depictions is:
First, the people should rise up and complain to their lawmakers to have the government stop this ludicrous advertisement campaign regarding the smoking public. They should keep their nose out of the private lives of people. There is no reason whatsoever to show sick and dying people to make a point. Second, people should file a lawsuit against the government agencies involved in this fiasco, especially if it makes anyone in their family sick (physically or mentally) from viewing one of these force fed advertisements.
Side note: The harm these wretched cigarette control ads will have on children cannot be understated.
And, finally, if the cable company(s) or television stations in any persons city and/or town airs these worthless ads in the homes of their television subscribers (without express permission) from the homeowner, those cable companies and television stations should be held accountable in a court of law for the ads content and any possible harm to household residents. In addition the television viewer should boycott and not watch any television program that airs the advertisements during their show and they should advise their friends, relatives and associates to do the same.
I , for one, certainly will not support a television show that chooses to run ads depicting the photos and videos of sick, dying, people for the sole purpose to promote a government agenda. - And, that's my opinion. I leave you to make your own decisions. You decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
_______________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
________________
Hello America, and how is the world treating you?
The Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services along with the Center for Disease Control went on television and announced that they are going to release a series of disgusting and vile videos showing people dying, allegedly from smoking cigarettes. . They claim the shock value will make people stop smoking. Wrong! All these videos will do will turn off people from watching television and if some of those people are one of the millions that continue to smoke it will only enrage them and cause them to use their middle finger to flip off our government agencies for splashing the gross, ugly, videos across the television screen.
A message to those government officials that came up with this screwy idea. Hey government people, there is already a warning label on every pack of cigarettes in the country. Everyone knows it is a bad idea to smoke and most American can read a label. That should be sufficient.
The Federal court already threw out the governments attempt to put these grossly offensive photos on a pack of cigarettes. Yet, these same do-good government flunkies are attempting an end run by trying the television route.
Their ad implies that more people die from smoking cigarettes than from any other cause. WRONG AGAIN! And they ( HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES and CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL) of all people, should know that. The biggest killer in the "world" is "HEART TROUBLE." Yet, they want to be dishonest and lie to the American public for the sake of shock value.
People, I don't know about you but I don't want to be sitting at home,enjoying dinner and see one of these repulsive, nauseating, sickening ads pop up oi my screen. I certainly don't want any of my family members, especially children to be exposed to, and see these sleazy ads.
Also, I pay good money (maybe a little too much) to these cable companies to provide me and family members with television programming. I certainly "do not" pay them to transmit abominate , filthy despicable photographs and/or videos of persons dying or on the verge of dying. If I want to see horrid video or programming I have a choice from my selection from the cable companies. It is and will be my choice. I "do not" need disgraceful, foul, loathsome advertisements intruding on my home, (my castle) by way of the government saying they have a right to force them onto my television screen.
What is the next government intrusion to control behavior going to be? Will they want to run television ads showing obese people in disgraceful, nasty end stages of life and spout a party line that hamburgers, pies, cakes and candy are killing you?
Folks, we all know that things are bad for us and may affect our health but we as Americans have an inalienable right to make those choices as to what legal substances, food or drink we put into our own body.
Christ, 1/3 (32%) of all traffic deaths in the country are alcohol related. Alcohol also kills 75,000 people a year and it is well known that alcohol shortens lives. Speaking of alcohol. In 2001, alcohol killed at least 34, 833 people just from cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. So, if we use the same shock methods that the government is using to curb smoking - - why not show peoples rotting livers and cancer infested bodies of alcoholics? There is no difference, is there?
My point, - as a person who has worked in the health field for years I can say: People die everyday from a myriad of ailments, diseases and illness. People die of cancer from many different factors. IT IS NOT ALL FROM SMOKING CIGARETTES. Even some medication people are legally taking will cause them to have cancers of all types, tumors, heart ailments, blindness and many other fatal consequences.
We, as Americans do not need some government official attempting to scare and frighten all of us by saturating the airwaves with insulting, graphic pictures showing people dying.
Some of my suggestions on these vicious, vulgar depictions is:
First, the people should rise up and complain to their lawmakers to have the government stop this ludicrous advertisement campaign regarding the smoking public. They should keep their nose out of the private lives of people. There is no reason whatsoever to show sick and dying people to make a point. Second, people should file a lawsuit against the government agencies involved in this fiasco, especially if it makes anyone in their family sick (physically or mentally) from viewing one of these force fed advertisements.
Side note: The harm these wretched cigarette control ads will have on children cannot be understated.
And, finally, if the cable company(s) or television stations in any persons city and/or town airs these worthless ads in the homes of their television subscribers (without express permission) from the homeowner, those cable companies and television stations should be held accountable in a court of law for the ads content and any possible harm to household residents. In addition the television viewer should boycott and not watch any television program that airs the advertisements during their show and they should advise their friends, relatives and associates to do the same.
I , for one, certainly will not support a television show that chooses to run ads depicting the photos and videos of sick, dying, people for the sole purpose to promote a government agenda. - And, that's my opinion. I leave you to make your own decisions. You decide.
Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
_______________________
Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com
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