by Amanda M. Wilczynski Dietician Rachelle Lyons hosts the first “Healthy Eating Kitchen” as part of the “MOVE!” program. It is just one program, along with Tele-MOVE!, that works with Veterans to develop a more healthy lifestyle. VA Butler Healthcare’s MOVE! Program now has another program option: Telephone Lifestyle Coaching, or MOVE! TLC. TLC […]
Archive for August, 2011
American Dream Eating Itself Alive!
by Tom Valentine Just google scrap metal thieves to see the extent of this dilemma. There is an ant in Australia that digests itself into oblivion as some sort of weird natural “defense” mechanism. Why God created this, or how the hell could it have evolved. Remains to be argued by ignorant experts. AS […]
Vietnam Vet Regains Long-lost Bronze Star
Army 1st Lt. Robert C. Berkshire takes a break during his deployment to Vietnam in 1970. Berkshire recently received a new Bronze Star Medal — the original had been stolen along with his duffle bag at the end of his Vietnam tour of duty — to replace the one he’d earned more than 40 years […]
Gaddafi’s Israeli Intel Mercenaries Uncovered
by Jim W. Dean, VT editor Guess Who We Find in the Bowels of the Spider’s Den? The pro Gaddafi media has been on steroids shoveling out all their NATO monster stories…slaughtering civilians intentionally, destroying civilian infrastructure, etc. And when it comes to the rebel command we have heard of them being Al […]
The Spark Of Life Is Love Not The Higgs Boson
Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) proton-proton collision in which two energetic electrons and two energetic muons, elementary particles similar to electrons, are observed—the type of event that the decay of a Higgs boson might produce, although there are other explanations as well. © 2011 CERN by Allen L Roland Scientists have concluded that […]
America’s FBI Goes Rogue
In such a way is the road to hell paved with (alleged) good intentions. by Dr. Lawrence Davidson If one thinks this through, it becomes clear that the FBI policy makers have confused thought and action. This is a very Judeo-Christian thing to do. Entrapment as Government Policy Here is an important question: […]
Home Telehealth Keeps Veteran Independent
by Jean Mullally, RN Mr. Adams speaking with Jean Mullally, RN, Home Telehealth Care Coordinator Mr. Clifford Adams is a legally blind Veteran who lives alone and has several serious medical conditions. Living in his own home is very important to him. He was spending hours managing his medications: filling pill boxes, calling for refills, […]
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for Aug 30, 2011
Here’s Today’s Department of Defense Contract Awards MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is announcing the award of an Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to Teledyne Brown Engineering, Incorporated, Huntsville, Alabama under contract HQ0147-11-D-0015. The maximum ceiling value of this action is $595,000,000 in Research, Development, Test Evaluation funds. This IDIQ contract […]
Why My 9-Year-Old Neice Is Smarter Than Our Genius President
by David Swanson While the evidence suggests that President Obama is not terribly bright and has just benefited from succeeding a downright moron, and while voluminous evidence to which I am privileged suggests that my 9-year-old neice Hallie is extremely intelligent, consider just this one way in which Hallie would make a wiser president […]
VA Launches Open Source Custodian
Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent Begins Operations WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced it has completed an important milestone on its joint path with the Department of Defense (DoD) to create a single electronic health record system for servicemembers and Veterans. OSEHRA, the Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent, […]
APNewsBreak: Vets Agency Gives Businesses The Boot
by Jacob Adelman, Associated Press The Department of Veterans Affairs is booting a bus company, a car rental firm and a commercial laundry from its sprawling campus a few miles from the ocean as it tries to counter accusations that it puts commercial interests ahead of housing homeless vets. The VA told the three […]
John Paul Sebastian accused of murdering his wife in Tel Aviv
John Paul Sebastian has been charged with the murder of his wife in Tel Aviv. Source: Supplied A MELBOURNE man has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination after being charged with the stabbing murder of his wife in their Tel Aviv hotel room. A judge at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court ordered that John […]
‘Frightening’ rise in domestic violence
VICTORIA Police expects a shocking increase in family violence to grow further in coming years, warning of a “frightening” problem that requires urgent attention. Statistics released yesterday show that while crime dropped overall in Victoria by 2.4 per cent over the last financial year there was a 26 per cent increase in the number of […]
New plants vital to avert blackouts
QUEENSLANDERS will today be told to expect possible blackouts as early as 2013 unless new electricity generation is built, while explosive new industry modelling warns that Julia Gillard’s clean energy plan will cause bills to rise by at least 10 per cent on top of the carbon price. The Australian Energy Market Operator will today […]
Shark spooked locals before fatal attack
In this file photo a tiger shark feeds on a whale carcass off the Queensland coast. Photo: REUTERS/Paul Burt A man’s body was mauled by tiger sharks in waters avoided by locals because the predators had been circling since a whale carcass was discovered in the area a few weeks ago. A crocodile had also […]
Opposition to UN seat bid ‘pathetic’
OPPOSITION to Australia’s bid for a United Nations Security Council bid was ”pathetic”, and we should push for a seat on the council more often, according to Australia’s foreign affairs chief. The federal government – particularly Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd – is fighting hard for a seat on the 15-member body, with the result of […]
Julia Gillard facing revolt over manufacturing future
Prime Minister Julia Gillard after holding a business round table with officials and union delegates at the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials in Wollongong. Picture: James Croucher Source: The Australian JULIA Gillard faces a possible caucus revolt over her refusal to hold an inquiry into the future of manufacturing. And while Tony Abbott has called […]
Julia Gillard not only unpopular, she also lacks authority – John Howard
John Howard on the 7.30 program last night. Picture: ABC Source: Supplied FORMER prime minister John Howard has re-entered the political debate with a blast for Julia Gillard who he says “lacks authority”. The nation’s second longest serving PM also predicted independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott would lose their seats at the next […]
WikiLeaks under fire for releasing cleric cable
Updated August 31, 2011 00:37:03 Anwar al-Awlaki is an American citizen at large in Yemen with links to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has attacked WikiLeaks for publishing a US diplomatic cable that names 23 Australians as having alleged links to a radical Yemeni cleric. The cable, dated January 2010, […]
Police ‘diverted from Ivy assault’
POLICE called to an alleged assault at Sydney’s upmarket Ivy nightspot were “deliberately diverted” from discovering a teenager being beaten up in the basement of the premises. According to documents tendered to a Sydney court yesterday, the alleged assault of university student Nicholas Barsoum, 19, was captured on CCTV footage and is said to show […]