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I found some information on Fred Phelps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps#endnote_addict3
Why do we have to put up with this insane jerk and his illegal activities?
sledge
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Comrades,
I don't care what anyone believes about the present or Hereafter.
I care in the extreme if someone forces their misguided ideas of freedom of religion on the bereaved family of a bonofide war hero.
To me, this issue is not about homos or the Great Satan.
It's about misusing the freedoms that we fought for to harrass the family of a fallen soldier.
I'll be there with 3 cameras and all of the friends that I can find.
If the bikers show up I'll be on their side and in their midst.
This BS has got to stop somewhere and the time is now.
sledge
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Excuse my placement of this post as I'm not thinking straight.
I will attend this funeral.
I 'may' be jailed for whatever.
This crap makes me ill.
TITLE;
"Hate Group To Protest Funeral"
A Kansas Group Known for it's placards denouncing homosexuality is planning to protest the funeral of a McDonald County soldier killed last week in Irag.
Funeral services for Pfc. Christopher L. Marion are set for 1 p.m. Saturday at Ozark Funeral Home in Anderson, Missoiuri.
Marion was killed on Feb. 22 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee.
Three other soldiers were also killed in the blast.
An official with the Westboro Babtist Church said Thursday morning about a dozen members plan on protesting Marion's funeral Saturday.
Shirley Phelps-Roper, a Topeka, Kan., attorney and daughter of church founderthe Rev. Fred Phelps, said it was "the American Taliban" who sent Marion into harm's way.
According to Phelps-Roper, God is punishing America for it's support of homosexuality by killing soldiers "through Muslim IED's"
"They've turned the country over to the fags, and they're coming home in body bags," Phelps-Roper said in a telephone interview from the group's Topeka headquarters Thursday morning.
Her words have been included in church communications, including faxes sent to newpapers.
The church, according to it's web page www.godhatesfags.com, says U.S. soldiers killed overseas face the fiery torment of hell as punishment for the nation's support of homosexuality.
And the group protests funerals as a means of warning those attending that "unless they repent, they will likewise perish."
"If you hear the trumpet blasting in the city and you don't warn the people, their blood will be on your hands," Phelps-Roper said.
"There is a God. America has sinned away her day of grace."
The church, made up largely of members of the Phelps family, has picketed the funerals of homosexuals for years.
Recently, it expanded it's protests to include members of the armed forces killed in action in Irag and Afghanistan.
Signs carried by protesters at a Lincoln, Neb., soldier's funeral recently included slogans like
"God Sent the IED's," a reference to the roadside bombs which has killed many soldiers and Marines.
Other slogans included "God Hates America," "Don't Pray For the USA," and "God Hates You."
Meanwhile, protesters at the Nebraska funeral shouted slogans such as "God is your enemy" and sang the words "God hates America, land of the fags."
A new Missouri Statute, signed into law under an emergency clause Feb. 23 would limit funeral protests to within an hour before and an hour after service times.
And protesters are prohibited from being "in front of or about" the building where the service is to be conducted.
The provision also covers funeral homes and cemeteries.
Many other states are considering are considering similar legislation.
Phelps-Roper held Missouri's new law in distain and said it would not be a deterrent to the protest.
"The new law is a big fat nothing," she said.
"It's a feel good measure by the Missouri Taliban."
"The new law just says "in front of or about."
"If we're across the street or down the street, there's nothing included about that."
The newspaper article also states that law enforcement personel will be on hand, in force, to enforce Missouri law at the funeral.
This funeral is about 15 minutes from my place.
sledge
p.s. Do American Babtists really support the Islamic Terrorist agenda or is this crap from a bunch of wannabes?
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"I would not live to see the claim resolved. What happens in a case like that?"
Generally speaking, when the veteran dies, the claim dies with him/her.
The longer they can hold out, the less they have to pay out.
I'm still waiting after 5300 days-plus. (Fifty-Three Hundred)
Two hndred and something doesn't bother me too much.
If ya get it done in less than 5 years, ya done somthin.
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Anything they tell the public is the product of politics, not good judgement or a caring attitude.
Everything they, the VA and/or congress, tell us turns out to be grossly mis-stated or a plain lie.
The only truth that I know of is the fact that our benefits always go down, not up.
Co-Pays are a temporary measure? HEH-HEH
How many times have they gone up??
Cutting Travel Pay helped them to serve more disabled veterans? (GAG, COUGH)
You can't have prescriptions unless they are ON THE LIST, even if the one you need is the only one that works for YOU.
The congress told the VA to take care of veteran's needs........ UNLESS!
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I'm hobbling around on a badly swollen ankle and a bad knee, they owe me for 12 years retro, my MRI is scheduled for JUNE, 2006 (for my neck).....
I have to see a shrink to get refills of thyroid pills.
Yes, I just had a bad day.
sledge
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I get that the AOJ and BVA are not required to discuss every piece of evidence.
However, has evidence been constructively considered when the RO And BVA have never 'listed' the evidence in question?
My doctor wrote me up in 1993 and a few more times down the road, 3 or 4.
The RO and BVA have always refered to a 'later than 1993' opinion from my doctor, notably 1996.
The SOC has never mentioned the VAMC diagnosis' from 1996 or 1995 and they say they have no record of the doctor working for the VA anyhow.
Lately, they ain't got a clue.
sledge
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If you want to change one SO for another you need to find a new one before you revoke the POA.
Tell the new one what's going on and see if he/she will work with you.
Filling out and sending in a new POA will automatically revoke the previous POA.
sledge
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"Whats life going to be like with out that?"
I can't wait to find out!
sledge
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DVS law is really different from the regular legal system.
My local congressman's representative hates to see veterans coming and he hid from me once.
He thinks PTSD means that the 'baby-killers' are always locked and loaded.
He ain't old enough to remember the Viet Nam stuff.
He made it quite plain that he wanted nothing to do with us.
Before I got a lawyer I was planning on picketing his local office just before election day.
My lawyer told me to cool it.
sledge
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I believe somebody here can give the exam criteria to you.
What's your pleasure?
sledge
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The thigh???? Now you tell me! That's NOT where we got it! :-)
I never got that one.
It was discontinued just before I shipped out to SEA in 1972.
Was it reinstated?
sledge
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Somebody correct me if I'm wrong,
Your VBA Disability Compensation can't be 'given' to 'anyone' without your expressed permission. The Court can't assign any of it to anyone or force you to give it up, only the VBA can do that.
However, if you have 'Direct Deposit' and the Court awards half of the bank account to the spouse, whatever is in the account at that time may be lost.
Anyone else?
sledge
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Hey SLEDGE: Do you think we can get a burn permit and burn what's his name in effigy? LoL
B) "Do you think we can get a burn permit"
That depends on where you are located when the permit is applied for.
My area is under a complete 'burn ban'.
Effigy? Let's use a cross.
sledge
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Reasons and Basis is discussed in Gilbert.
89-53 Gilbert v. Derwinski USCVA
http://www.hadit.com/uscvagilbert8953.htm
Enjoy
sledge
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Like I recently told my lawyer,
The RO is doing this crap to certain vets on an ongoing basis.
For reasons known only to the RO, we have been selected to be screwed.
This is personal.
sledge
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Comrades,
Oh my God!
Some quotes from the url.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getc...l=473&invol=305
"The District Court also concluded, apparently independently of its ill-founded analysis of the claim statistics, (1) that the VA processes are procedurally, factually, and legally complex, and (2) that the VA system presently does not work as designed, particularly in terms of the representation afforded by VA personnel and service representatives, and that these representatives are "unable to perform all of the services which might be performed by a claimant's own [473 U.S. 305, 329] paid attorney." 589 F. Supp., at 1322. Unfortunately the court's findings on "complexity" are based almost entirely on a description of the plan for administering benefits in the abstract, together with references to "complex" cases involving exposure to radiation or agent orange, or post-traumatic stress syndrome. The court did not attempt to state even approximately how often procedural or substantive complexities arise in the run-of-the-mine case, or even in the unusual case. The VA procedures cited by the court do permit a claimant to prejudice his rights by failing to respond in a timely manner to an agency notice of denial of an initial claim, but despite this possibility there is nothing in the District Court's opinion indicating that these procedural requirements have led to an unintended forfeiture on the part of a diligent claimant. On the face of the procedures, the process described by the District Court does not seem burdensome: one year would in the judgment of most be ample time to allow a claimant to respond to notice requesting a response. In addition, the VA is required to read any submission in the light most favorable to the claimant, and service representatives are available to see that various procedural steps are complied with. It may be that the service representative cannot, as the District Court hypothesized, provide all the services that a lawyer could, but there is no evidence in the record that they cannot or do not provide advice about time limits."
"We accordingly conclude that under the Mathews v. Eldridge analysis great weight must be accorded to the Government interest at stake here. The flexibility of our approach in due process cases is intended in part to allow room for other forms of dispute resolution; with respect to the individual interests at stake here, legislatures are to be allowed considerable leeway to formulate such processes without being forced to conform to a rigid constitutional code of procedural necessities. See Parham v. J. R., 442 U.S., at 608 , n. 16. It would take an extraordinarily strong showing of probability of error under the present system - and the probability that the presence of attorneys would sharply diminish that possibility - to warrant a holding that the fee limitation denies claimants due process of law. We have no hesitation in deciding that no such showing was made out on the record before the District Court. [473 U.S. 305, 327] " "As indicated by the statistics set out earlier in this opinion, more than half of the 800,000 claims processed annually by the VA result in benefit awards at the regional level. An additional 10,000 claims succeed on request for reconsideration at the regional level, and of those that do not, 36,000 are appealed to the BVA. Of these, approximately 16% succeed before the BVA. It is simply not possible to determine on this record whether any of the claims of the named plaintiffs, or of other declarants who are not parties to the action, were wrongfully rejected at the regional level or by the BVA, nor is it possible to quantify the "erroneous deprivations" among the general class of rejected claimants. If one regards the decision of the BVA as the "correct" result in every case, it follows that the regional determination against the claimant is "wrong" in the 16% of the cases that are reversed by the Board. "
"To be sure, counsel can often perform useful functions even in welfare cases or other instances of mass justice; they may bring out facts ignored by or unknown to the authorities, or help to work out satisfactory compromises. But this is only one side of the coin. Under our adversary system the role of counsel is not to make sure the truth is ascertained but to advance his client's cause by any ethical means. Within the limits of professional propriety, causing delay and sowing confusion not only are his right but may be his duty. The appearance of counsel for the citizen is likely to lead the government to provide one - or at least to cause the government's representative to act like one. The result may be to turn what might have been a short conference leading to an amicable result into a protracted controversy."
I'm gonna be sick.
sledge
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By the way,
As I receive information about the latest plan of action I'll be posting it here.
Probably on next Wednesday.
I'm hoping we are going back to the court over 'Due Process' cause I ain't had any.
sledge
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Welllllll,
First, I'm gonna draw a pentagram on the RO parkinglot.
Then I'm going to paint my naked body red.
While the cameras roll I'm planning on folding up into the fetal position and crying.
Then go like a bat outa hell before the white coats arrive.
sledge
ps My lawyer is already on it.
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Comrades,
I just received another SSOC.
It says that since I submitted no new and material evidence my claims cannot be reopened.
Since my claims have NEVER been closed and our last letter advised the RO of that small fact, I think it's time to punt.
sledge
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Hoppy,
I believe the law is behind us when the RO ries to blow us off with a stupid denial.
They don't read the file, they really don't have enough time before the boss jumps them.
They get the IMO's confused and they don't understand them to start with.
Rather than read the reports and review everything in the proper context, they just ignore our rights and deny, because they can and they have and they will again.
I told them the right way to get rid of me was to do it right ONE time.
They ignored me.
When my current lawyer feels his work is done I will embark on my next quest, sue.
sledge
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P.S. Now I am waiting for one of the following, letter, Sorry for the delay, don't call us, we'll call you, VACAA or C&P exam ntification. Which do you think will get here first. LoL
Jim S. B)
HMM,
"Which do you think will get here first"
Your file just got placed on the bottom.
Even when the court says to expedite, they don't.
But, I'm usually wrong.
sledge
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In this case,
It's a given that the RO has never informed the veteran of appeallant rights.
The paperwork that is sent to one or several vets that includes the appeal stuff is not the same as the vet in this illistration.
An outside example,
I was not informed of my appellant rights up to at least 1996.
The RO said so.
Now the RO sends me a copy of our rights everytime they send an SSOC.
I'm trying to get something on tolling.
sledge
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They are sending me 3 VCAA letters on claims I filed in 2004 but they have never sent any on the main 2003 claim and my 2 CUE claims they are working on now -hmmmmm. I will keep that in my hat-----
The only reason I am getting these 3 VCAA letters is because I sent the Director a letter 2 weeks ago and called the director's attention to all the screw ups in my DRO review.
Then things started moving with my claims. Like- they actually opened the c file.
Berta,
In response to this:
"Like- they actually opened the c file."
In my 32 years of dealing with the VA, one person stated that he "read" my file.
He stated that he had read every last page of my large file.
ALL of the others used the word, "Reviewed".
sledge
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Greetings,
Big, multipart, generalized question.
I'm curious about the RO and BVA not siting the evidence and, of course, not discussing the evidence.
When that happens, is the decision incomplete and of no weight or force?
Does the decision count?
Is the decision appeallable?
Upon winning the award at a later date, will the effective date of the compensation be the date of the original claim filing, (after the claim is later, finally won)?
Does [not appealling an incomplete decision within one year] nullify the original effective date on a later winning appeal?
When nothing is explained in the decision, does that lack of information constitute a CUE?
Bear in mind that the RO has never informed the claimant of the claimant's appeal rights -- in this case.
sledge
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I sure miss them too----
Claims advocacy can burn a person out---
After today- I will have to peal down-myself - not just here but with my vet org and local vets-
my winter school break is over Monday.
I still am not used to this board-but haven't taken the time to really search on it-
One day I used a different program to get on and clicked on the old board by mistake and that made me feel sad when I saw it-
I think some who left were just burned out for a while-or tired of repeating themselves-
I hope ,like General Mac Arthur, that they will return.
Any hadit forum site is better than no hadit.
The information compiled here can't be found anywhere else or info accessed as easily anywhere else.
The people here are fantastic.
However, I prefer the old hadid site like many of the other 'regulars'.
Compared to the older hadit site I find this one much harder to navigate.
On the old site I could pull up the forum that I was interested in and see immediately what was going on with the topics that I was interested in.
Expand and contract strings instantly.
Then again, most will agree, tbird started this with no finanial help from us and that really took some guts.
She has kept it going for years in spite of large personal sacrifices.
I'd prefer to have the old format back but, I ain't got no room to bitch.
Tbirds generousity saved my soul and my life.
I ain't got no room to bitch.
sledge
Oh My God
in VA Disability Claims Research
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Comrades,
I attended the funeral of Christopher Marion today at 1:00 p.m.
It was orderly, reverent and attended by over a hundred veterans from several different states and of course, all of the local mourners, which were many.
I neither saw nor heard any of the predicted protesters.
The lack of visible protesters today does not mean that the protesters from Topeka, Kansas have given up their quest to disrupt the funerals of fallen US servicemen/women.
They were simply stopped today by a large force of local and state police agencies.
I don't think the protesters even got themselves caught on camera.
In line with the protesters past, the denial of their disruption of today's funeral will very likely promote the filing of numerous lawsuits against everyone involved with stopping their illegal demonstration.
I'm only sorry that my name couldn't be added to the list.
The Topeka Jerks are very accomodating in that they tell everyone where they will be next.
The 'Patriot Guard' has vowed to stop their demonstrations and to place themselves between the Topeka Jerks and the families of the fallen soldiers and the Patriot Guard has my full support.
I was proud to stand next to them today.
Hopefully, as the Patriot Guard attends future funerals that need to be protected from the Topeka Jerks, I'll be there with them.
Like Hanoi Jane, these people, the Topeka Jerks, consort with the enemy and that makes them traitors.
Disrupting funerals is just a passtime for them.
Be cool,
sledge