Sancho Panza responded to my assessment of America’s rich white men’s wars in yesterday’s curmudgeon news, from pig heaven law school (Key West) post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
Trump has pretty much said the same thing about the Iraq disaster and Obama’s Syria and Libya disasters, which the left wing caricature conveniently omits… Trump would have kept the old dictators in place… Trump is not ideological or easily intimidated, that’s why both Dems and Reps fear him… he even kicked big Pharma down a notch(stocks tumble)… it’s going to be fun watching him bump heads with the establishment. But nobody messes with Israel… not even Trump… well, maybe my guy, the peanut farmer… that’s why he was a one term president!
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
Sancho then sent:
Paul Ryan Picks Fight with Donald Trump Over Big Pharma Corruption: ‘I Don’t Speak Like That, Generally Speaking’
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, failed one-time GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, is picking a fight with incoming President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence over the Trump administration’s vow to tackle corruption in Big Pharma.
Trump promised during his press conference in New York City at Trump Tower last week to reform the pharmaceutical industry to ensure proper bidding procedures take place—among other reforms to the major industry—moving forward.
“We have to get our drug industry coming back,” Trump said at the press conference. “Our drug industry has been disastrous. They’re leaving left and right. They supply our drugs but they don’t make them here, to a large extent. And the other thing we have to do is create new bidding procedures for the drug industry, because they’re getting away with murder. Pharma has a lot of lobbies, a lot of lobbyists, a lot of power. And there’s very little bidding on drugs. We’re the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don’t bid properly. We’re going to start bidding. We’re going to save billions of dollars over a period of time.”
Later, in an interview with the Washington Post, Trump doubled down on his criticisms of Big Pharma. “They’re politically protected, but not anymore,” Trump said in that interview of drug companies.
Trump’s comments sent the pharmaceutical industry, according to Fortune Magazine, into a financial tailspin. So naturally, Ryan–the donor class’s representative in Washington–rode into the rescue and to fight Trump.
Ryan, in response in an interview with Mike Allen of Axios, said that he wants to “have more conversations about” Trump’s efforts to crack down on Big Pharma corruption before the president-elect—soon to be president—does so.
“I believe that the current premium support system with Part D works extremely well,” Ryan said. “I think there’s some real success stories … and I think we need to tell that story.”
When asked by Allen if that also means telling such stories to Trump, he replied that the story needs to be told to “a lot of people.”
“I think [incoming Health and Human Services Secretary] Tom Price understands this issue extremely well,” Ryan said.
When asked specifically about Trump’s Washington Post comments about how the drug companies are “politically protected, but not anymore” under Trump’s administration, Ryan replied: “I don’t speak like that, generally speaking. I’m always looking for win-win situations, and I believe there’s a lot more we can do to bring down the price of drugs.”
The tension is yet another example of where Trump’s populist nationalism—he’s a president for the working class, and wants to stand up for American workers against world financial, cultural and political elites—is rubbing up against Ryan’s globalist elitism. Ryan is someone who is joined at the hip with the donor class, and hardly ever does anything anymore because he thinks it’s the right thing to do: Ryan’s motives are usually on behalf of whoever is funding Republican campaigns including his own, but he;s also driven by his open borders, elitist ideology. Expect more clashes soon.
Then, as the interview Ryan did with Allen seeps in throughout Washington, his office released a video of him showing Trump, incoming First Lady Melania Trump and incoming Vice President Mike Pence a view from the Speaker’s balcony at the U.S. Capitol in a seeming attempt to smooth things over with Trump and Pence.
I replied:
The peanut farmer also was unable to rescue the American hostages in Iran, and right after Ronald Reagan was elected, Iran released the hostages, figuring, perhaps, that Reagan was not a mere peanut farmer, but was a very real 800-pound gorilla?
Israel has far too much influence over American government policy, dwarfing concerns about Russia influencing American politics. The angels don’t seem to think America should keep bowing to Israel. But then, the angels don’t seem to think the US should be in the Middle East at all.
Maybe the Republican Party, bless its big, donor heart, will end up feeling like the Democrats already are feeling about Trump, and maybe the Democrats will end up liking Trump better than they like the Big Donor Heart Party?
In today’s Key West Citizen, my interjected thoughts in bold italics:
Dear Concerned Citizens of Monroe County
An Open Letter from Lifenet, Key West
We are truly committed to working with Monroe County to continue providing our high-quality emergency access to healthcare, in conjunction with Trauma Star’s two aircraft currently serving Key West. As you may have recently read, the County is considering the deployment of a third Trauma Star helicopter, which would most certainly pose a greater financial burden via tax on the citizens of Monroe County than our proposal. What of the huge financial burden of flying a Lifenet helicopter, if you don’t have insurance to cover all or part of $50,000 – or is it $60,000? – one-way cost to mainland hospitals? Then, comes the bill for the difference, if there was insurance. A bill for the whole enchilada, if there was no insurance. Florida Keys residents are transported on Trauma Star for whatever insurance they have, or they go free. Visitors must pay. Bring medi-vac helicopter insurance, if you are a visitor.
We share your vision of providing the best possible access to emergency healthcare for the people of Monroe County while limiting your personal financial responsibility for such events. We submitted a proposal to the County Administrator Roman Gastesi which would only cost the County 44-cents per resident per month. This would take the burden off of you, Key West residents, while keeping the same high quality LifeNet critical care access that exists today. In addition, this proposal ensures taxpayers are not saddled with excess personal liability and the burden of purchasing and maintaining expensive equipment and crews.
On its face, this looks great. Wish it had been presented sooner. Like, when Lifenet started its operation in Key West.
Our proposal was rejected by Mr. Gastesi in an email on December 18 stating, “I do not agree with paying LifeNet any subsidy.” This confused us, as Monroe County expressed interest in paying much more for a membership program if one were available. Since no membership program is available in Florida we proposed the patient liability subsidy as a viable alternative to cover the costs to patients over and above any amounts allowed by applicable insurance coverage. Routinely waiving patient cost-sharing co-payments and deductibles is prohibited for all healthcare providers, including Trauma Star.
But does not Trauma Star transport Florida Keys residents for whatever their insurance will pay, or for free?
In the email, Mr. Gastesi expressed confidence that if Monroe County purchased an additional Sikorsky S-76 the county would operate the additional aircraft in the black and realize a reasonable total payback period. The reality is: Monroe County would need to purchase an additional S-76 for $3 million plus spend additional money on ongoing maintenance and staffing versus the $400,000 to keep LifeNet in Monroe County. From our 37 years of experience operating air medical locations across the country, we know it takes millions of dollars per aircraft to provide 24/7/365 access to these lifesaving services.
I tend to trust Lifenet’s numbers here. They are in the business of making a profit. The county government and the sheriff are not in that business. Look at the SHORTFALL in revenues to cover costs Key West is suffering since it started using its own fire department to provide ambulance and paramedic services in the city. It looked to me that City Commissioner Billy Wardlow, a former Key West fire chief, was choking at the dais during a city commission meeting, when the Fire & Rescue Department presented the dismal financials on the first-class ambulance and paramedics service the city provides.
LifeNet Key West invests $4 million annually to operate a base in Monroe County, and this includes aircraft, facilities, flight nurses, flight medics, EMS pilots, mechanics and other support. Our fleet is equipped with Night Vision Goggles (NVG), XM Satellite weather and tracking, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Helicopter Terrain Awareness and Warning Systems (HTAWS). Air Methods also utilizes Level D-qualified full-motion helicopter flight simulators allowing pilots to prepare for routine, unusual and emergency circumstances in a safe environment. This equipment enhances our pilot’s situational awareness and provides critical information to improve operational safety. Our Operational Control Center (OCC) monitors our fleet at all times utilizing satellite tracking and communication providing support to our pilots before and during a flight.
This is in line with what Lifenet officials told me at a city commission meeting, where this was vetted. I told them they needed to do better explaining their fixed $4 million annual nut (cost).
Much like our aviation standards, our clinical quality is the gold-standard in the industry. In addition, LifeNet Key West is the only CAMTS-accredited (Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems) air medical provider in the region. Our clinical care includes extensive clinical training and the use of ICU level skills such as balloon pump management, complicated cardiac cases, time sensitive neurological emergencies, and many other specialty, non-trauma related diseases where not only time but clinical skill and interventional equipment are of the essence of our service.
These standards also demand strict adherence to federal and state regulations that govern many facets of our operation, including how we maintain and operate our aircraft, how we provide clinical care to our patients, and how we administer patient accounts. Such regulations are intended to protect the safety, quality and fairness of the service provided, so we gladly submit ourselves to such authority. As you know, our team of highly-trained professionals work, live and raise families in the Key West community, and care about the wellbeing of their friends and neighbors.
Wellbeing can suddenly turn to shock, and then a heart attack, if you get a $50,000 bill for one helicopter ride to a mainland hospital.
We humbly ask for your help in saving our air medical resources in Key West, and protecting access to our flying ICU dedicated to serving you and your family. Please contact your local commissioner or email Roman Gastesi Gastesi-Roman@MonroeCounty-FL.Gov and let them know that you support LifeNet Key West.
Looks to me your problem, LifeNet, is you are based in Key West, and that is your hub of operation, that’s where you make your revenues, mostly. Whereas, Roman Gastesi is in charge of the entire Florida Keys, and he is not the boss of Sheriff Rick Ramsay, nor is the County Commission. It’s Ramsay’s pilots who fly Trauma Star, yes? It’s the County Commission who funds Sheriff Ramsay’s operations, yes? Make your appeal to the Monroe County Commission, and to the Key West City Commission. They are the final deciders.
Sincerely,
Mike Allen President of Air Medical Services
An old professional psychic amiga in Illinois sent on Facebook:
TUE 9:30PM
Gloria
I hope the croup is beginning to ease by now and that this deal with crazy Judy is soon resolved. I’m following your blog. Can’t recall ever hearing of a situation quite this weird
6:40AM
Sloan
The croup is still with me, slow to leave, but is better. Hoping it is leaving. The Birmingham tryst is truly strange.
Feels to me the croup is both Birmingham lady and Kari.
A Key West amiga lay minister sent on Facebook
Sharon
I hope you are feeling better from the croup.
Sloan
croup some improved
MON 1:33PM
Sharon
Sloan, interesting the part about her reputation vs yours. Our reputation is important
MON 2:48PM
Sloan
We ARE our reputation. I had no clue what she was up to where she lives, but, boy, did I get earfuls from her former husband, and the city attorney and chief of police in the city where she lives.
Then was that scam report someone put onto Rip Off, which she disputed on Rip Off.
Reputation is what other people in our community think about us, not what we think about ourselves. God knows how many times I’ve been blasted on the Coconut Telegraph and on Facebook and by email and by comments at my websites. I don’t recall ever thinking of suing anyone. I simply engaged it, in place.
Guess she forgot clean about dropping this one on me in 2009:
Sloan,
Every time I read something you have written it sounds like sour grapes, i.e., bitterness. When I think of all you accomplished in your life, i.e., children, education; and all that you have been born to, i.e., a good family and financial security, I think you are one of the most ungrateful, bitter, people I have ever run into. What are you doing to alleviate the homeless problem in Key West, etc? Instead of always complaining and whining, why don’t you use what’s left of your life to change the world for the better. I can’t see any redeeming qualities in your bitter diatrites. Get honest and stop playing games that people have to spend time trying to figure out. You are similar to a maze with no way to get or out. In order to see what’s inside you have to stand on top of it and look down. XXXXX Haney
Wonder if she ever got up high and looked down in her own maze? I look down into my own maze all the time, without the angels’ help, and with it. I have sweated blood plenty responding to what she keeps filing in the court against me. She filed a motion to strike my e-filing today, said it had scandalous accusations. True. What her former husband and her own city’s attorney and police chief told me about her was scandalous, and she created the scandal, they just reported it to me.
The way she behaved with me was scandalous.
Sharon
Yes indeed sounds like she is bitter
Yes awful i am very sorry about the whole thing, especially since she is a vexatious litigator, she is well practiced in her craft
I wonder how the courts feel about her litigation who in the courts has time to read that first charge against you what a wearisome task
MON 4:36PM
Sloan
I learned practicing law not to try to predict what judges will do, or pretend to know what they will are are thinking, until they reveal it. I’ve been wondering since yesterday, what if I was still in Birmingham, in that apartment. And then I got wind of Haney’s reputation? And I blew the whistle? And got sued in Birmingham. Or, would she have sued me, given it probably would have been in all the newspapers, because of my last name, and then her reputation would have come out, people up there would have seen to that; people I did not yet even know. Did she actually think her reputation was safe up there, when she sued me down here? It’s been my experience, whatever the angels get me into, they end up leaving no stone unturned. Imagine, if she had just let me carry on the way I usually do, if she had not sued me, would the angels have left me in the dark about her reputation where she lives? Did that scenario even occur to her before she sued me?
On a related front, a book entitled A COURSE IN MIRACLES, the best treatment of projecting (finger pointing) and it’s kissing cousin, psychological transference, probably ever written, or ever will be written, says that when a person does something bad, unconscionable, what that actually is is a deep soul cry for help; it is not what it looks like.
I kept suggesting to Haney, in my emails, that neither of us really knew why she had brought me to Birmingham, and that would become clear as time passed; and maybe she should consider that I had something for her, which she could not get from anyone else. That tends to be the way it goes with people I meet and deeply engage, either briefly, or for a longer time. My training and experiences are unique, and the angels input amplifies that exponentially. She seems to think she’s got herself and her life all figured out, and mine, too. No opening there for her to see that perhaps she missed the entire point of bringing me to Birmingham. Well, the entire point for her. There probably were other reasons for me to be there having nothing to do with her, and maybe she was to rescue me from Key West.
Sharon
Looking up the book heard of it before. Yes no doubt about the reason for you to help her, its too bad it looks dismal at the present, but we never know what tomorrow brings.
Yes a young white man showed up sat carrying a big cross, I told him if brother Charles was carrying the cross from key largo to key west he would be in jail.
MON 6:49PM
Sloan
Saw the guy with the big cross on the highway yesterday, headed down toward KW. I suppose there are different ways to carry that cross. Maybe he’s warming up for other ways? I found myself riding on the lower Keys shuttle wondering if the lady who sued me in Key West even knows about the lady suing people where she lives outside of Birmingham?
Sharon
What do you mean in last sentence? Like dual personality you’re talking about J H in both instances?
& yes probably warming up for other ways of carrying the cross.
MON 9:30PM
Sloan
Yes, which of her is doing what, and when, and which of her sees it all, and which of her only sees part of it?
I’ve read a good bit about multiple personality disorder, prompted by having been with one woman who had it. Not diagnosed. So, right, she didn’t have it. I saw it, though.
Sloan
A psychiatrist once wrote a book, THREE FACES OF EVE, in which he claimed he cured a woman with three personalities. The book did well. He did well on the speakers tour. A movie was made. Then she wrote, I AM EVE, I think was the title, in which she said she was that psychiatrist’s patient, and he did not cure her, and, in fact, she splintered into even more personalities after she left his “care”. I read that book when I was trying to be in relationship with the first multiple I was with.
No human cure for it, but angels can fix it well enough, although I suppose the “patient” needs to recognize the situation and want it repaired. The patient probably would need a human intermediary who is being guided by angels, and who understands really deep healing angels can provide. I know that terrain, from having been a patient of the angels, and from having been their intermediary.
The psychiatrists would go wild to read that, but they really don’t know nearly as much as the hope they know. Nor do ministers. Aborigine tribes and their shamans were much better helping people with so-called mental disorders.
Sharon
Yes because many are hirelings & run when the wolf comes or in it for the $.
And i also believe the person needs to truly want help
10:04AM
Sloan
She now has filed a motion for permission to file and Amended Complaint, in which she shifts from asking the Court to issue injunctions against me, to make me stop publishing about her and to take down everything I did publish about her (which I did a few days ago, at the request of my website host, whom she had contacted). She shifts to asking to be allowed to sue me for punitive damages, which she looks to collect out of my potential inheritance, if she wins and I, or my estate, receive the inheritance. I’d be more than happy to croak today, but that does not seem to be part of today’s adventures in paradise.
I’m having a really hard time inside of me with the notion of counter-suing her for punitive damages, for running me through an emotional wood chipper, which sure looked to me, and felt, like a bait and switch; and then she sued me because I spanked her for it, in public. In her injunction lawsuit, and now in the sought for punitive damages Amended Complaint, she claims she has a good reputation as an appraiser, and I have damaged it and thus her ability to make a living. But where she lives, she is notorious for suing and sicking the police on people, and that does not seem to have damaged her appraisal business, nor her ability to make a living. So how could I, who have probably no readers at goodmorningbirmingham.com, which was inactive for a long time, and perhaps 500 regular daily readers at goodmorningkeywest.com, and perhaps 3-4 times that many occasional daily readers there, have damaged her appraisal practice and her ability to make a living? She has misrepresented to the Court her reputation where she lives and works. That itself is a scam, on the Court. I’m comfortable using defensive arguments in this case. But that does not mean defending the case is comfortable. It’s anything but that.
Sharon
Jesus said if they try to take your coat let them have your tunic too. Maybe you just let her run with the bait till she tires of the scam. Vexatious litigator describes her to a tee
Sloan
I think you probably are right about the lawsuit, I need to go easy there, but I do not think I am supposed to offer her my inheritance, which, taking Jesus at his word, I should, that and again.
Sharon
No not your inheritance just let her run wild she (Haney) will show herself to be who she really is.
Sloan
Birmingham is going to do what she wants to do, and it will go where it goes. I’m just along for the ride. How it tends to go when I get involved with a woman, women.
Sharon
Yes
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