>>10226013 (PB)

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/trump-veterans-choice-program/

>In 2017, Trump signed a bill that eliminated the program’s expiration date and twice signed legislation (in August and December) that authorized funding to keep the program afloat.

Brian Stelter AND Paula Reid can share a donkey dick.

No Trump, no funds. No fund, no Veterans Choice bill.

>Update, July 6: On June 6, Trump signed the VA MISSION Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill that calls for a number of changes at the VA. The new law continues the Veterans Choice Program for a year, but then replaces it with the Veterans Community Care Program.

The new program expands the criteria for those who seek care outside of the VA health care system. For example, it allows a veteran to go to a private provider if the “covered veteran and the covered veteran’s referring clinician agree that furnishing care and services through a non-Department entity or provider would be in the best medical interest of the covered veteran.”

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that “in the early years of the program, roughly 640,000 additional veteran patients would be referred out to community care each year.” The law also requires the VA to provide veterans access to walk-in care from non-VA providers; the veterans may be required to pay copayments, as determined by the VA.

>>10227457

The ammonium nitrate that was supposedly in that shed at the waters edge in porous, open topped, bags was too damned old to light a fart.

Get off that wild goose chase. NO businessman abandons 2,700 TONS of weapons grade (prilled) ammonium nitrate. First off, that stuff was not intended for agriculture. If it's just for agriculture, there is no need for the added expense to prill it. If he couldn't afford to ship it any further, he'd have sold it at auction then put a "for sale" sign on the ship itself. What was he doing? Waiting for the price of scrap metal to go up all the while he's paying to dock the damned thing and keep a ghost crew on it?

A "businessman" does NOT let money sit around in depreciating assets. He tries for a profit. He might take a loss of SOME (but not all) of the investment if he must. But he keeps the money moving. He certainly does not get emotionally attached to a rusty and unseaworthy rust bucket.

If you think that somebody just forgot about an ocean going freighter and 2,700 tons of explosive grade ammonium nitrate, then you probably don't belong here.

Think of wealthy businessmen as autists who focus on money instead of toothpicks. Even if this ship and cargo were a minor part of a huge pot of gold, the guy at the top DID NOT LOSE TRACK OF IT. He may totally lack in empathy, but he doesn't lose track of money. He knows where it is and what it's doing at all times and he moves it the moment it can do better somewhere else.

>>10227456

>the spread of harmful content

Now … just what sort of content do you deem harmful? Apparently it is any viewpoint that does not toe the "official consensus" line, even if that line, as with the use of masks during the faux-pandemic, changes from day to day. A post made just 4 months ago arguing against the general and indiscriminate use of ineffective paper and cloth masks would not be out of conformity with the party line. A great deal of the problem rests with the demonstrated LACK of expertise of the anointed masters of the universe. Some guy living with a hooker is deemed more reliable in medical matters than a group of licensed doctors who are actually saving lives on a reliable basis.

And that's just bullshit. It's the fascism those guys in black masks claim to be fighting against. (Although one wonders if they could even recognize the fascism of the wizards of Silicone Valley.)

>>10227469

September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg], bloodiest day in the American Civil War: 22,000 dead …

September 17, 1942 (Thursday)

Vidkun Quisling reintroduced the death penalty to the Norwegian criminal code.[16] (Wikipedia)

September 17, 1943

• Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station

• World War II: Soviet city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.

>>10227916

A young man marries a young woman. Although she was a virgin when he proposed, she is pregnant now. His hopes dashed, but still hoping to keep her honor (and his) intact, he marries her anyway, possibly intending to quietly divorce her later. Things proceed along and a son is born.

It is the Messiah.

>>10227770

Joe doesn't care as long as he can be home in time for Wheel of Fortune.