Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Texas Drifter Explain Vietnam Vets Pre-mature Death Rates

Marshall’s Law Townhall Dateline – One estimate suggests ninety percent (90%) of Vietnam Veterans have died, or are dying at faster rate than any previous group of American combat veterans. Texas Drifter asks, why?

Little background, Texas Drifter is not an American Armed Forces Veteran. Explaining not complaining and certainly not attempting to equate being recruited for intelligence gathering in October 1968 to infiltrate anti-war movement with any peace time or war time service in any branch of America’s military.

Two following excerpts plus comments from several friends and associates; causes me to ask first, why excessive death rates for survivors of Vietnam War. Second, what are American people doing to make lives easier for those young men and women who traded and are still trading their futures to defend Heaven’s favorite Republic?

(Excerpts) Memorandum: Accelerated Mortality Rates of Vietnam Veterans

Conclusion

There is no certain way of knowing how many Vietnam veterans have died through suicide, motor vehicle "accidents," or illnesses. The available evidence, both anecdotal and scientific, however, suggests elevated mortality rates from suicides, motor vehicle accidents, and certain cancers for Vietnam veterans. In some cases the data suggests mortality rates are "significantly elevated."

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(Excerpts) VIETNAM VETERANS FADING AWAY AS DEATH RATE RISES
"It's scary. It seems like the 'Nam guys aren't going to be around a long time, not like their fathers."

NOTE from Larry Scott, VA Watchdog dot Org ... Be sure to watch the video using the embedded player at the bottom of the page.
And, use our search engine for more about Vietnam veterans ... here ...
http://www.yourvabenefits.org/sessearch.php?q=vietnam&op=and

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Vietnam generation begins to fade as death rate rises for war's veterans
By Brian Albrecht

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/02/viet
nam_vets_fight_final_battl.html
Forty years ago, Ron Willoughby was death with a telescopic sight as a Marine sniper in Vietnam.

Today, mortality has Willoughby and other Vietnam veterans in its crosshairs.

The generation of an estimated 8 million military service members of the Vietnam era, 1964-1975, is fading.

The number of Vietnam veteran deaths has almost doubled since 2001 and, according Department of Veterans Affairs' projections, will hit 103,890 this year -- approaching 300 a day. That's more than five times the average daily number of U.S. combat deaths during the peak casualty year of the war in 1968.

Willoughby, now 63 and a year older than the national average age of Vietnam vets, said three members of his old unit have died in the past five years, two from cancer and one from a heart attack.

That's why the North Olmsted veteran said the unit reunions have been changed from once every two years to annual affairs.

Time is catching up, and they know it…

… Though the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, finds only "suggestive but limited evidence" that Agent Orange can be associated with diseases, Veterans Affairs lists 15 conditions -- qualifying veterans for service-related compensation -- that might be connected by exposure to the defoliant. Among them are ischemic heart disease, prostate and respiratory cancers, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Parkinson's and Hodgkin's disease.

Quisenberry, wounded twice during his Vietnam tour with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, wonders about the risks.

"We were in some areas of deforestation where we drank our water out of rivers and bomb craters," he said. "So far I haven't shown any symptoms, but I worry about it."

In the past three years, the number of Vietnam vets seeking treatment from the VA has gone up 25 percent nationally, about 10 percent locally, and the largest category of that treatment is for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Dr. Edgardo Padin-Rivera, chief of psychological services at the Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

Vietnam veterans are reaching a point in their lives where they may be retired, losing the past support systems of family and friends, susceptible to depression and prime candidates for late-onset PTSD, Padin-Rivera said.

Marine Vietnam vet Jim Minnery, 66, of Elyria, said counseling has helped him cope with PTSD -- the modern term for the "shell shock" diagnosis his grandfather got after serving in World War I.

"I'm doing pretty good now," he said. "It helped that I quit drinking 23 years ago. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't be here."

Willoughby, the Marine sniper, said one member of his unit is a recovering alcoholic who once said "he wasn't drinking to get drunk. He was drinking to go to sleep because of all of this stuff."

Willoughby revisited the ghosts of his own past with a return trip to some of his old battlefields in 2008.

"I guess to remember and forget at the same time," he said. "I wanted to go back to see what it was, because that was a time when we thought we were going to die."

Now they know they are.

The prospect of death has lent a new urgency to life for some Vietnam veterans…

…Vietnam veterans like Bob Stockhausen, 62, of Lakewood, cite another legacy.

"Our generation was the one that figured out you can oppose the war but support the troops," he said. "Even though our welcome home was 15 years late, we're out on the front line welcoming home the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan."

That community support of the troops nowadays will prove invaluable in treating returning veterans with PTSD, said Dr. Padin-Rivera of the VA.

"The atmosphere of acceptance around veterans is very different from what it was back in the '70s, and this has made a tremendous difference beyond anything we could do as professionals," he said.

Some Vietnam vets believe their legacy in the lessons of that war has yet to be learned…

Texas Drifter asks, if above information does not cause reader to ask why excessive death rates? Then maybe history might judge you the reader as not being worthy of sacrifices made by some of Heaven’s favorite warriors.

Why has American Vietnam Veterans survivor scandal not shamed Americans into action? Reader now knows their next home work assignment. Texas Drifter will start reader off with five possible explanations.
1. Democrat Party can use limited public assets to buy votes from larger welfare interest groups than veterans who honorably defended their America.
2. Democrat Party allies with selfish promiscuous love first never defend America principles are adults with personalities of two year old children who do not care about any veterans’ health care.
3. America’s mainstream news media despises and hates anyone associated with America’s Armed Forces, they lie when they deny;
4. Too many corporate officers and not enough warrior officers and generals in America’s Armed Forces.
5. Conservative patriots have not been aware of mortality rates of Vietnam War surviving veterans;
6. Reader can add their own explanations from this point on …

Closing thoughts, are some conservatives especially Moderate Republicans starting to act like Obama and his allies? What is difference between not calling Islamic Fascist suicide bombers – terrorists, or calling 911 a man made disaster; And conservatives not calling Obama, his Administration, and worshipers: Communists, Leninists, Fascists, Racists, America last crowd, and many words that will not be included as this is a family format writing exercise?

Reason for asking question, one can not dispassionately defeat their enemy until one can look their enemies eye to eye, and without emotion say you are my enemy. Conservatives for "ratings" radio and talk show hosts, who soften their criticism of Obama with politically correct omissions, are not likely to be loyal dependable allies when America’s current events evolve from bad too much worse.

Denying brutal reality does not make reality better. Consider many of Obama’s Democrat Party allies, supporters and worshipers would not criticize Obama even if he constantly sexually abused children every day at noon on Main Street, USA.

Precedent, Democrat Party never criticized Clinton for sexually torturing women while Governor and President. Democrat Party loyalty is consistent not matter how vile or purely evil their President’s sins.

Someone needs to explain to conservative celebrities especially Moderate Republicans (really closet Democrats); golly gee Texas Drifter will say it. Trying to defend America from both domestic and foreign enemies, by not hurting America’s enemies’ feelings by not being politically incorrect is worse than fool’s gold. The proper description is coward’s iron pyrite.

Only thing worse than not have courage to exercise Heaven’s First Amendment right of free speech; is speaking truth then apologizing for speaking truth. Final question, how can Iraq and Afghanistan veterans surviving their honorable tours of duty trust Obama and Democrat Party not to betray them, when precedent for betrayal has been set by abandoning Vietnam War Veteran survivors?

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Texas Drifter KGAB AM Every Third Monday July 50-10-2

EDITOR’S NOTE (not for radio show)before Marshall’s Law Townhall Dateline: no apology for Texas Drifter’s content intent in last posting “Republican Senators Indicted” Entry # 160. One time explanation: definition of “story” is fictional narrative shorter than a novel specifically short story. Reader should pay more attention to noun “story” than intentionally for creative purposes misused adjective “non-fiction”.

As for Texas Drifter’s rudeness to Prosecutor, think between the lines about defense’s defense strategy. Consider value of having Prosecutor diverting and devoting his attention to defense attorney’s personality, and away from defense’s defense strategy.

Reader needs to remember that Texas Drifter paints with words like artists paint with colors. Editor’s closing self serving thought: I enjoy working as Texas Drifter’s editor, and am inclined to allow him loose reins on his content intent. Reader may wish to follow upcoming Marshall’s Law Datelines. Why, "Republican Senators Indicted” will be a developing news story as Texas Drifter’s pre-trial strategy includes having some indictments of remaining good Republican Senators dismissed before start of trial.

MARSHALL’S LAW TOWNHALL DATELINE – These bad guys are well organized across America, well armed, have half million paramilitary personnel on American soil; and have an annual budget twice, combined annual budgets of U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Interview Outline Ideas for KGAB AM 650 Cheyenne, Wyoming – “Every Third Monday” July 19, 2010 - 9AM Central; Listen at KGAB.com This show's theme: threats beyond America’s Southern porous border.

Intro - Temp. / Skies / flooded in - / not religous scholar analogy - not even big storm re: Falcon Lake

1) Some Numbers:
- Wyoming 2010 -2012 Biennium State Budget - Est. 8 Billion Dollars
- DOJ 46 billion / 2008
- U.S. Navy / Marine Corp 2010 Estimated Budget – Estimated 170 Billion (broken down into 45 procurement; 44 personnel; 43 operations maintenance; 19 research; balance other items);
- Illegal drug profits in U.S. estimated 2010 - 400 billion in 2009
- Comparisons: Drugs profits to Wyoming 2 year state budget; drugs to DOJ; AND drugs to U.S. Navy / Marine Corp one year

2) Have 50 times budget Wyoming; ten times DOJ; twice annual budget as U.S. Navy / Marine Corp – so what?

Estimated number of drug related street gang members in U.S. with ties to narco cartels who have ties to internationalist terrorists: 2007 numbers – 30,000 gangs 800,000 members / 2010 close to million – break down 47% Hispanics / 34% Blacks / 13 % whites / 7% Asians

Estimated half million 500,000 Hispanic gang soldiers on American soil now with ties to cartels with ties to all world’s bad guys , terrorists, and national enemies of America.

3) This is perhaps America’s great domestic security – starting solution”
1. Let Military build secure fence along Southern border;
2. Turn fence over to Border patrol with enough boots on ground to do job (keep 20:1 and 5:1 formulas in resource acquisitions);
3. Armed drones which prevent any non-filed flight from crossing border;
4. Check all vehicles crossing border especially 90% of NAFTA trucks given “free passes” without inspections to cross from Mexico into U.S.;
5. Voluntary deportation followed by asset forfeiture policies;
6. Identify, isolate, and remove drug gangs by force if necessary;
7. Adapt as environment needed changes.

* - Libertariian argument on shel bad guys not going home

4) Homework assignment check out: Consequence Management Response Force (CMRF) for yourself. Your assignment, if you have courage to learn real immediate dangers facing Heaven’s favorites Republic; your assignment, do more research, Google: Consequence Management Response Force and choose from estimated 320,000 hits.

“In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President.”

“The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops.”

According to the Army Times,
“They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.”
“The key phrase is may be called upon to help with civil unrest.”

Questions for you the reader or listener: Consequence Management Response Force (CMRF) could and would Obama use this organization as “Gestapo” type dissident suppression organization to achieve 2010 election results he needs to keep Leninist Democrats in Congress and Senate? Answers to both could and would, you the reader already know truthful answers to both questions.

5) (Following off internet): Atlanta’s WSB-TV2 aired a segment on U.S. border security after it obtained records from a federal detention center near Phoenix, Ariz., and found current listings for illegal aliens from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen.
“We have left the back door to the United States open,” former Rep. J.D. Hayworth told the station. “We have to understand that there are definitely people who mean to do us harm who have crossed that border.”
WSB-TV 2 published a population breakdown from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staging facility in Florence, Ariz., dated April 15, 2010, which includes detainees from as far away as Afghanistan, Armenia, Bosnia, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Botswana, Turkey and many other countries.
Based on U.S. Border Patrol statistics, there were 30,147 OTMs apprehended in fiscal year 2003; 44, 614 in fiscal year 2004; 165,178 in fiscal year 2005; and 108,025 in fiscal year 2006. Most were caught along the U.S. Southwest border.
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Studies, from the Office of Immigration Statistics, federal law enforcement agencies detained 791,568 deportable aliens in fiscal year 2008 – and 5,506 of them were from 14 “special-interest countries.” - 5,506 times ten RE: 90% - total not caught

6) America’s best terrorist s and gang recruiting centers are federal prisons – why was recent “Times Square Bomber” not interest in high profile trial – by some accounts to get into federal prison system to start recruiting – solitary confinement needs to be considered standard policy for terrorists to reduce federal prisons continuing to be terrorists’ number one recruiting centers. – just a suggestion.
7) Illegal immigrants possibly bringing “chagas” onto American soil: reference Marshall’s Law Townhall Entry # 153 “Obama Using Illegals To Import Bio-Weapons?”
8) Cartels hiding families on U.S. soil – Examples Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and different RGV counties for low management cartel executives. - collateral damage your family

9) One Day News – in old days people would generally only find one or two tortured murdered bodies together along side of road; now averages seem to be ten or more tortured and murdered bodies together along side of road.
10) Recent Mexico elections PRI won nine of twelve states and major cities Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez – PRI re-establishing control could be bad news for America as PRI’s allies include:
11) New Border News
12) Caller’s: Comments or Questions

sign off - Remember 50-10-2

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Texas Drifter Republican Senators Indicted

Marshall’s Law Townhall Dateline – Texas Drifter of “Texas on Trial" fame and “Prosecutor For Constitution” has agreed to defend soon to be indicted Republican Senators.

The following non-fiction future history short story is public record of trial after America’s counter-counter American Revolution patriots free America from Obama’s temporary slavery of conservative patriots, Judeo-Christians, Tea Party movement members, Reagan Democrats, Independents, Libertarians and every other American devoted to American traditions, principles, and values.

The legal issue, should Republican Senators who compromised with Obama by omission be convicted of collaborator treason or just being Obama’s strumpets like French women who bedded with Hitler’s Nazis during Germany’s occupation of France during World War II?

Reader can reference “Breaking News: Texas On Trial” Entry # 104 and “Prosecutor for Constitution” Entry # 017 to have better understanding of Texas Drifter’s court room strategies.

PRE-TRIAL MEETING:

Visiting Judge (looks at Texas Drifter): You again. Review your strategy for defending indicted U.S. Republican Senators.

Texas Drifter: Let me begin my presentation by trying to describe my infinite amount of respect for your judicial –

Visiting Judge (interrupts): Skip the platitudes get to issue.

Texas Drifter: Simple strategy, All my clients are guilty of violating their oaths to Heaven to uphold, protect, and defend America’s constitution; my low life clients are guilty of omission by not filibustering Supreme Court nomination of Obama's Leninist groupie Kagan.

Texas Drifter continues: My clients will not be able to claim voting against Kagan as mitigating defense. Had these U.S. Republican Senators filibustered her nomination; their meaning less kiss up votes for their conservative base would have never needed to be taken.
I know my clients on a good day deserve to be publicly hanged and have their worthless souls sent to the place already reserved for Obama and his beyond redemption wickedly evil allies.

Texas Drifter (taking a breath): I am getting to the punishment part for these Republican Senators’ sins and crimes against Heaven’s favorite republic. Since they acted like the French strumpets who served Hitler’s unwelcome occupiers; after all was conduct of these Republican Senators to be Obama’s best friend, much different that what the French women did for Hitler’s troops?

Texas Drifter thinks not, French people made their compromising French strumpets wear really ugly hair cuts so they could be publicly mocked and derided. Seems fair that conservative base’s strumpet compromising Republican Senators should be forced to wear really ugly haircuts similar to those worn by French strumpets. Then if these Republican Senators have redeemed themselves by times of their deaths Heaven can do what it wishes with them.

That Sir is my current defense strategy at this time.

Visiting Judge: Good enough, trail date will be set after Kagan’s appointment.

Texas Drifter To Prosecutor: I still do not like you; and am representing your wife in your unknown to you before now, upcoming divorce and child custody case pro bono. Feel free to take out your contempt for me on my clients. See you in court.

Prosecutor to Texas Drifter: Here is the updated U.S. Republican Senators indictments list.

Texas Drifter to Prosecutor: Tell your soon to be always friendly x-wife to meet me for happy hour at our regular place. See you in court.

"Updated Indictment List" included for readers having special information to help Texas Drifter with his clients' defenses.

Alabama - US Senator Jeff Sessions
Alabama - US Senator Richard Shelby
Alaska - US Senator Lisa Murkowski
Arizona - US Senator John McCain
Arizona - US Senator Jon Kyl - Republican Whip
Florida - US Senator Mel Martinez
Georgia - US Senator Saxby Chambliss
Georgia - US Senator Johnny Isakson
Idaho - US Senator Mike Crapo
Idaho - US Senator James E. Risch
Iowa - US Senator Chuck Grassley
Indiana - US Senator Richard G. Lugar
Kansas - US Senator Sam Brownback
Kansas - US Senator Pat Roberts
Kentucky - US Senator Mitch McConnell - Republican leader
Kentucky - US Senator Jim Bunning
Louisiana - US Senator David Vitter
Maine - US Senator Susan Collins
Maine - US Senator Olympia Snowe
Mississippi - US Senator Roger Wicker
Mississippi - US Senator Thad Cochran
Missouri - US Senator Kit Bond
Nebraska - US Senator Mike Johanns
Nevada - US Senator John Ensign
New Hampshire - US Senator Judd Gregg
North Carolina - US Senator Richard Burr
Ohio - US Senator George Voinovich
Oklahoma - US Senator Tom Coburn
Oklahoma - US Senator Jame M. Inhofe
Pennsylvania - US Senator Arlen Specter
South Carolina - US Senator Jim DeMint
South Carolina - US Senator Lindsey Graham
South Dakota - US Senator John Thune
Tennessee - US Senator Lamar Alexander
Tennessee - US Senator Bob Corker
Texas - US Senator John Cornyn
Texas - US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Utah - US Senator Bob Bennett
Utah - US Senator Orrin G. Hatch
Wyoming - US Senator John Barrasso
Wyoming - US Senator Mike Enzi

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Texas Drifter America’s Cold Turkey Budget

Marshall’s Law Townhall Dateline – Brutal stomach turning news from friends in Dallas, Texas: All United States federal tax revenue and other revenues barely cover operating annual expenses for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; entire rest of America’s federal budget is financed with loans from foreign nations.

Texas Drifter is not inclined to quietly allow, citizen adults with personalities of two year old children with their world owes me personalities to destroy Heaven’s favorite republic.

Necessary cold turkey budget for Heaven’s favorite republic:
1. America’s garage sale of public lands revenues is used solely to negotiate foreign debts for fifty to seventy-five cents on dollar with desperate foreign lenders.
2. About taxes, Heaven only asks for ten percent. Governments in ethical capitalist systems are not entitled to one percent more than ten percent. Flat tax rates should be limited to: ten percent for individuals, ten percent for small businesses, ten percent for corporations, ten percent return on investment profits; and absolutely no inheritance or death taxes. States, counties, cities, and towns can get used to operating on ten percent sales taxes and user fees. No property taxes to cause Marx and other communists to roll over in their graves. Schools tax revenues can be replaced with voucher funds from states, counties, and cities. Why, local funds to achieve truly local control; everyone needs one compromise issue might compromise of school funding but other compromises, off table.
3. Welfare to the temporarily financially embarrassed is to be limited to equivalent of one minimum wage salary per parent per family. Two parents twice as many benefits per family unit. These benefits will not be affected by out side revenue from part time jobs and individual initiative entrepreneur profits. These totals will be determined by totaling client's all received public subsidy programs: food stamps, SSI, Earned (Unearned) Income Credits, AFDC, rent or mortgage subsides. Obviously, welfare credit to purchase homes or cars is not even an option. Old farmer’s adage: feed cat enough to catch mice not become fat and lazy.
4. Secondary education’s newest lesson, get a part time job; so your graduation present from society is not federal loan debt that makes you an Obama slave to government. Loans for secondary educations will only be provided by private scholarship grants, and private sector financial institutions.
5. Corporate welfare, Texas Drifter should not even have to write that government subsidies are not even passing thought as businesses that get too big to fail that depend on government bailouts need to suffer nature’s consequences for becoming fat bloated stupid hogs.
6. Medicare and Medicaid have replaced role of families, churches, non-profit organizations, non-profit hospitals, charitable medical professionals, and charitable medical professional services for tax deductions with: incompetent public sector health care rationing death panels. Churches need to get back to their original mandate helping poor not raising funds for religious aristocrats’ life styles. Churches can always have their tax exempt status re-visited for ignoring poor with majority of their donated revenues; think of it like Heaven’s favorite Son asking money lenders to leave his Father’s Temple. There is no reason why churches can not provide minimum health care insurance on sliding scale for some members. What better way to eliminate all government health care waste and fraud? Medicare and Medicaid no more budget increases and both phased out over, let say seven years.
7. Moving on to Social Security, first no more inflation based increases. Second, sliding scale for those born after 1960 with incentives for them to develop private sector retirement accounts. More details to follow as this cold turkey medicine is probably making some public sector addicts ill. Texas Drifter never suggested that changing fifty year addiction would be pleasant or easy.
8. As for public employees, time has arrived to determine if public bureaucrats have chosen their careers to make America better place to live or just working for better than every one else benefits. Again sliding scale rolling their benefits into private sector, plus accepting fact that benefits promised by lying politicians to get votes is better suited for fantasyland not reality. Time to de-fund: any and all government agencies having no unnecessary role in constitutional republic.

Guessing Texas Drifter has delivered enough cold or maybe even frozen turkey to public subsidy addicts and those enablers paying their bills for one writing exercise. Texas Drifter has no use for public subsidy addicted adult cry babies who live off property stolen from hard working private sector and public sector citizens.

I can already hear crying what about costs for taking care of thirty million to forty million illegal immigrants? Not an issue, majority will voluntarily deport, others will be physically deported, and neither will be allowed to return. As for legal immigrants they are usually most self sufficient contemporary Americans around and remind “established” welfare seeking Americans why America became Heaven’s favorite republic.