Military Spouse in Need of Medical Care Suspects Sequester Foul Play

RUSH: Heidi in Fort Bragg in North Carolina. I'm glad you waited. Great to have you on the program. Hi.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. We love you out here.

RUSH: Thank you very much.

CALLER: I'm gonna try and get to the point because I'm crying, I'm so upset. I'm sitting in a parking lot here at Fort Bragg. My husband's been in the Army for 30 years, and he's deployed again. I'm sick and I'm alone here. I was diagnosed last week with some cysts and some tumors and things, and I'm in pain, and I'm sick, and I'm scared. I came out here... Apparently our referral office at this hospital on post has, from what I've heard from someone in an office next door, let go 50 people. There's a sign on the door blaming the budget cuts, and when I asked someone about it, I said, "This was probably before the March 1st apocalypse, right?" And she tried not to laugh. She said, "Yeah, they let 50 people go. They knew it was coming." I cannot get a referral! I'm sick and I cannot see anyone. I feel like there's no respect for the military.

RUSH: Wait, wait. Hold it. I need to understand some things first.

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH: What do you mean, you can't get a referral?

CALLER: There's literally no one to speak to to get a referral. They've shut their hours. Apparently... They said they let 50 people go before the March 1st, and I don't think there were 50 people in that little office to begin with, and the phones are literally down. The message says, "We cannot take a call. There's no more room in the mailbox." I literally cannot speak to anyone to get my referral, and since someone here told me this was already done before March the 1st, it sounds like they were going to do this anyway. They had already set this up, you know what I mean?

RUSH: No, they did. Just to give you an example of how you're right, 2500 illegal aliens were let out of prison three weeks/a month prior to the sequester going into effect.

CALLER: Right. I saw that.

RUSH: So the idea that they would shut down... I don't understand. I still don't know what a referral is. To me a referral is somebody's referring you to a doctor. That's obviously not what you're talking about. A referral is a hospital or a doctor's office?

CALLER: I have seen a doctor off post, and he saw my tests and he has referred me to a specialist, a gynecologist --

RUSH: Oh.

CALLER: -- and that's who I cannot get.

RUSH: Oh, you can't get in to see him?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Now, are you limited in the kind of doctors you can see because of who pays for your treatment?

CALLER: Yes, we have TRICARE. Uh-huh, yes.

RUSH: So you have to see military personnel? Is that it?

CALLER: Oh, they can be civilians as long as they take our insurance.

RUSH: And that's limited?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: By what?

CALLER: Not every provider chooses to take our insurance, which is TRICARE, and then some doctors I'm seeing are packed. One of my doctors is seeing almost 60 people a day because they're just cutting so much into our military. Now, like I said: I'm sitting here sick, I'm alone, he's deployed, and I literally cannot speak to a human being to see a specialist about these tumors.

RUSH: Let me just --

CALLER: You know, you hear "tumors" and you get scared!

RUSH: Heidi, let me just tell you something.

CALLER: Okay.

RUSH:? Last week as we were paying attention to this deadline coming up, we learned a lot of things.? We learned that it takes a month to furlough anybody.? It takes that long for the paperwork and for the action to actually occur.? And there has to be a 30-day notice before any furloughing takes place.? So for your circumstance to have happened, this would have had to have been done a month ago, Heidi.

CALLER:? Okay.

RUSH:? And this would have had to have been done by somebody anticipating that this was going to happen or being ordered to do this.? This is very painful.? I think you need to get some names of the people who told you that doctors were let go and that offices were closed and find the name of your local congressman -- hopefully he's a Republican -- and call him. Call that office and explain to them what's happened here.? There's no excuse for this.? We could have cut funding to the Salamander Preservation Project.? We could cut two or three programs we're spending on feeding kids who are on spring break.?

CALLER:? Exactly.

RUSH:? There's any number of ways.? This is the equivalent of, in your local community, when they threaten budget cuts, the mayor says, "Well, we have to close the fire department," and the townsfolk say, "No, no, no, don't get rid of our fire truck!"? And they support the tax increase.? What they're doing here is trying to inflict this pain so that you, Heidi, will never, ever again support the government getting smaller or budget cuts our what have you.?

CALLER:? Well, they have it the wrong way around.? 'Cause I know exactly who to blame, and I get to go home and worry about a deployed husband and turn on the news and see my money going to Syria, for example.

RUSH:? Yeah, or Egypt.

CALLER:? Yes.

RUSH:? John Kerry sending money. By the way, I've got a story here in the stack.? I shouldn't tell you this 'cause it's gonna make you even angrier.

CALLER:? You mean the Muslim Brotherhood?

RUSH:? No.? No, no, no, no, no.? About the federal government hiring people.? They have job applications out.? They're asking for people to apply for jobs.? I've got it here in the stack somewhere.? While the sequester is going on, the federal government is accepting applications for employment in certain areas.? There simply is no excuse for you in the United States military not being able to see a doctor, particularly if your husband is uniformed combat personnel deployed.? There is no excuse for this.? There is no rational reason whatsoever.? This is suspicious to me.? I'm sorry.? Here it is.

CALLER:? It is to me, too.

RUSH:? Here it is.? The Washington Times:? "The sequester cuts are now officially in place, but many government agencies appear to be hiring freely anyway. The US Forest Service on Monday posted help-wanted ads for a few good men and women to work as 'recreation aides' this summer, the Internal Revenue Service advertised for an office secretary in Maryland, the U.S. Mint wanted 24 people to help press coins, and the Agriculture Department said it needs three 'insect production workers' to help grow bollworms in Phoenix."? So they're out there hiring.

CALLER:? But they're cutting what is the most important or urgent to us.? It's very suspicious to me, too.? That's why I called.? I know you love the military.? I feel like no one in Washington -- what is the Army doing about this?? Are they just putting up with it or are they being ordered to blackmail -- (crosstalk)

RUSH:? Well, now, it's a very sensitive subject, too.

CALLER:? Yeah.

RUSH:? Because Leon Panetta announced that 800,000 civilian Pentagon people get furloughed with the sequester, 800,000, Heidi.? What it means is they work four days a week instead of five.? In your case, they've shut down this medical office.

CALLER:? Severely limited the hours.

RUSH:? The military's got two kinds of generals.? You got the warrior generals, you got the political generals.? Every organization's like this.

CALLER:? Yeah.

RUSH:? You got people devoted to the cause and others devoted to their advancement.? I don't have any idea what happened to make your situation happen, but there's no excuse for it. There is no excuse for military families in this country not having access to health care.? We're spending way enough money to be able to accommodate this.? This is outrageous. Get names of people you've talked to who've told you what and call your local congressman.

CALLER:? Okay.? Well, thank you for talking to me.? My husband's the one that turned me on to you.? I was raised a Democrat and never again.

RUSH:? God bless you.? If I was a doctor, I'd have you into my office for nothing.? I feel frustrated.

CALLER:? Well, at least people know about it.? People know that they're purposely cutting what is going to --

RUSH:? Would you give Mr. Snerdley your phone number?? 'Cause I have a feeling something's gonna happen here.? We're not gonna give it to anybody, don't misunderstand, but if somebody offers to help you, I want to be able to follow through on it, so would you give him your number?

CALLER:? Well, sure, Rush.? Thank you.? Love you.

RUSH:? Okay, don't hang up.

CALLER:? Okay.

RUSH:? Don't hang up.? I appreciate the call.?

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RUSH:? Yeah, they are cutting.? I've got a lot of e-mail from people.? They're cutting TRICARE, which is what's affecting Heidi, and it would be a great place to cut if you want to call attention to it. If you want to cause some suffering and pain and have everybody understand that there's a lot of suffering and pain, cutting TRICARE is a place to do it.? This is what people are talking about whether the sequester cuts being done on purpose to inflict pain for the political gain.? That's hard for people to believe, but there's no reason.? We're not cutting any money.? We're just spending less than was projected.? There's no excuse for this.

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Flyers call knives-on-planes policy 'common sense'

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store. Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning in April 2013 under a policy change announced Tuesday, March 5, 2013, by the head of the Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, knives of all sizes and types are piled in a box at the State of Georgia Surplus Property Division store in Tucker, Ga., and are just a few of the hundreds of items discarded at the security checkpoints of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport that will be for sale at the store. Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning in April 2013 under a policy change announced Tuesday, March 5, 2013, by the head of the Transportation Security Administration administrator John Pistole. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes.

"It's common sense," said Pat O'Brien, who stood at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Durango, Colo. "You can make anything into a knife so I don't have a problem with it at all. You can sharpen a credit card to make a sharp implement."

Aviation security consultant John L. Sullivan agreed with O'Brien, saying a pen or toothbrush can be sharpened like the "shivs" inmates sometimes make in prison.

"There are a lot of things you can use on an airplane if you are intent on hurting someone," said Sullivan, co-founder of the Welsh-Sullivan Group in Dallas. "Security is never 100 percent."

The changes announced by the TSA Tuesday take effect April 25. Box cutters, razor blades and knives that don't fold or that have molded grip handles will still be prohibited.

The new policy also allows for souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment to be carried on instead of checked, a move that brought a thumbs up from Dean Rhymer, who plays club hockey for the Junior Los Angeles Kings and strode into the terminal at LAX carrying his hockey stick.

"I think it'll be helpful," Rhymer said. "It's easier to carry it on to bring it places."

Sullivan, speaking as a passenger not a consultant, worried more about the sporting goods than the small knives, saying the "last thing I need is someone getting on a plane taking up valuable space with their pool cues and hockey sticks."

The new policy conforms U.S. security standards to international standards, and allows TSA to concentrate its energies on more serious safety threats, the agency said in a statement.

The announcement, made by TSA Administrator John Pistole at an airline industry gathering in New York, drew an immediate outcry from unions representing flight attendants and other airline workers, who said the items are still dangerous in the hands of the wrong passengers.

Transport Workers Union Local 556, which represents over 10,000 flight attendants at Southwest Airlines, called the new policy "dangerous" and "shortsighted," saying it was designed to make "the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer."

"While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin," the union said in a statement.

The new policy permits folding knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or less in length and are less than 1/2-inch wide. The policy is aimed at allowing passengers to carry pen knives, corkscrews with small blades and other knives.

Passengers will also be allowed to bring onboard as part of their carry-on luggage novelty-sized baseball bats less than 24 inches long, toy plastic bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs, the agency said. The policy goes into effect on April 25.

Security standards adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency, already call for passengers to be able to carry those items. Those standards are non-binding, but many countries follow them.

There has been a gradual easing of some of the security measures applied to airline passengers after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In 2005, the TSA changed its policies to allow passengers to carry on airplanes small scissors, knitting needles, tweezers, nail clippers and up to four books of matches. The move came as the agency turned its focus toward keeping explosives off planes, because intelligence officials believed that was the greatest threat to commercial aviation.

And in September 2011, the TSA no longer required children 12 years old and under to remove their shoes at airport checkpoints. The agency recently issued new guidelines for travelers 75 years old and older so they can avoid removing shoes and light jackets when they go through airport security checkpoints.

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Associated Press writers Joan Lowy and Eileen Sullivan in Washington and David Koenig in Dallas contributed to this report.

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"Charlie's Angels" Alum Annie Ilonzeh joins NBC's "Hatfields & McCoys" pilot

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Annie Ilonzeh has found herself in the middle of a family feud.

Ilonzeh, who starred on ABC's short-lived 2011 revamp of "Charlie's Angels," has been cast in NBC "Hatfields & McCoys" pilot.

Ilonzeh will play Shannon Hatfield, the adopted daughter of Rebecca De Mornay's Mary Hatfield. Shannon develops a romantic interest in Patrick McCoy (played by "As the World Turns" star Jesse Lee Soffer) - which could prove to be problematic, as the two families have a history of not getting along so well together.

The pilot, which is produced by ABC Studios and executive produced by Charlize Theron, among others, recasts the legendary family feud in contemporary times, with the wealthy Hatfields facing off against the working-class McCoys.

The cast also includes Virginia Madsen, Nick Westrate and Patrick John Fleuger.

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ASUS pushes Android 4.2 to Transformer Pad TF300, makes TF700 users wait

Transformer Pad TF300 buyers may have had to compromise on screen resolution, but the little slab's software support is second to none -- ASUS just announced that its entry level Transformer Pad will be its first to taste Android 4.2.2. Customers in the United States can grab the Jelly Bean update over the air starting today, while international users will see regional rollouts throughout the month. Own one of the company's higher end slates? Sit tight, ASUS says Android 4.2 should roll out to the Transformer Pad Infinity and other devices in Q2 2013. A wait for the virtuous, to be sure.

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Special Education Philippines ? Rating Scale for Evaluating ...

In one of the educational seminars hosted by Advocata (Giving Voice to Children with Special Needs) I received a copy of their rating scale after the seminar. I find the rating scale useful so I kept a copy to be used as a reference.

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I am posting this rating scale for educational seminars here today for two purpose:

1. To serve as reference in case you are hosting your own educational seminar

2. To be aware of the categories Advocata uses to measure the effectiveness of their seminars.

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Why do we need to rate our educational seminars here in the Philippines?

I think the first purpose is important for those who are researching for rating scales to use while the second purpose gives a window for suggestions and room for improvements in making rating scales.

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Without further adieu, here is the rating scale used by Advocata for evaluating their educational seminars:

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Direction: Make an honest evaluation of the seminar by using a 5-point scale with 5 as the highest and 1 as the lowest. Write a checkmark corresponds (sic) to your rating.

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5 ? strongly agree

4 ? agree

3 ? neither agree nor disagree

2 ? disagree

1 ? strongly disagree

I. Topic

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1. The topics are relevant to my field
2. The topics are useful for me.

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II. Time allotment

1. The seminar started and ended on time.
2. The time was enough for me to understand the topic/s.
3. The schedule set was firmly implemented.

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III. Speaker: (Name of speake) ________________

1. Delivers the subject matter clearly.
2. Presents organized and useable information
3. Uses strategies to make presentation interesting
4. Covers all areas expected
5. Makes full use of the time for the content of the lecturer

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IV. Venue

1. The venue is clean.
2. The venue is conducive to the seminar.
3. The venue is properly ventilated.

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V. Overall-Rating

1. I am willing to attend Advocata?s next seminar.

2. Rate the over-all seminar.

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VI. We want to hear from you?.

1. Strengths of the seminar _______________________________________
2. Things to improve on _________________________________________

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VII. Suggest topics for the next seminar

1. __________________________
2. __________________________
3. __________________________

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Source: Advocata Inc.

What I like about this rating scale for educational seminars is that it is clear, concise and straight to the point. There is also enough space to write your answer and it is very easy to use. I think rating scales are important tools we can use during seminars and even in class presentations. However, just like any tool it has to be used properly for us to maximize its full potential.

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Ja ne, till the next?Special Education Philippines? post.

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Biden: Selma beatings shaped him, nation

SELMA, Ala. (AP) ? Black leaders commemorating a famous civil rights march on Sunday said efforts to diminish the impact of African-Americans' votes haven't stopped in the years since the 1965 Voting Rights Act added millions to Southern voter rolls.

Hundreds gathered Sunday morning for a brunch with Vice President Joe Biden, and thousands were expected Sunday afternoon to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma's annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee. The event commemorates the "Bloody Sunday" beating of voting rights marchers by state troopers as they began a march to Montgomery in March 1965. The 50-mile march prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act that struck down impediments to voting by African-Americans and ended all-white rule in the South.

Biden said nothing shaped his consciousness more than watching TV footage of the beatings. "We saw in stark relief the rank hatred, discrimination and violence that still existed in large parts of the nation," he said.

Biden said marchers "broke the back of the forces of evil," but challenges to voting rights continue today with restrictions on early voting and voter registration drives and enactment of voter ID laws where no voter fraud has been shown.

Jesse Jackson said Sunday's event had a sense of urgency because the U.S. Supreme Court heard a request Wednesday by a mostly white Alabama county to strike down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act.

"We've had the right to vote 48 years, but they've never stopping trying to diminish the impact of the votes," Jackson said.

Referring to the Voting Rights act, the Rev. Al Sharpton said: "We are not here for a commemoration. We are here for a continuation."

The Supreme Court is weighing Shelby County's challenge to a portion of the law that requires states with a history of racial discrimination, mostly in the Deep South, to get approval from the Justice Department before implementing any changes in election laws. That includes everything from new voting districts to voter ID laws.

"At least when you went to the Justice Department, you felt you had one more chance of getting justice when you weren't getting it at home," Alabama Senate Democratic leader Vivian Davis Figures of Mobile said.

Attorneys for Shelby County argued that the pre-clearance requirement is outdated in a state where one-fourth of the Legislature is black. But Jackson predicted the South will return to gerrymandering and more at-large elections if the Supreme Court voids part of the law.

One of the NAACP attorneys who argued the case, Debo Adegbile, said when Congress renewed the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it understood that the act makes sure minority inclusion is considered up front.

"It reminds us to think consciously about how we can include all our citizens in democracy. That is as important today as it was in 1965," he said.

Adegbile said the continued need for the law was shown in 2011 when undercover recordings from a bribery investigation at the Alabama Legislature included one white legislator referring to blacks as "aborigines" and other white legislators laughing.

"This was 2011. This was not 1965," he said.

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