TXfemmom's Comments (932)

“Geitner, and anyone else involved in this, along with interceeding and awarding 100% reimbursement has to go, and the government should revoke the deals because of it. If Goldman can pay these huge bonuses, then they need to give back sixty percent of what AIG gave them.

The derivatives were obviously FRAUDULENTLY valued from the beginning, and that is insurance FRAUD. Either ALL the institutions pay it back or INDICT THEM.”

“Geitner has to go. Obama cannot keep him after this has been revealed. Previously, it was revealed that Geitner interceeded and made AIG handle the derivatives at face value, which was immoral and illegal, since it was obvious that their issuance was based on fraudulent information from the beginning.

Now, revealing that Geitner tried to hide and keep it from being revealed HAS TO BE HIS END.”

“My son loves Navy Federal. The distance thing, however, can be a problem.”

“We have banked with Wells Fargo for 24 years but my husband and I plan to make the jump this week. We have IRA's, CD's, Savings, and several checking accounts but we are going to move them all to one of the Credit Unions in the area. I am going to speak with several and then we shall make our selection.

Our son keeps half his banking with the Navy Federal Credit Union, from his days in the Navy and they are great people with whom to deal, but he is hampered by the fact that they don't have local facilities. Their rates on loans, however, are much better than any of the mega, too-big-to-fails, and they pay more on CD's and other things.”

“Thinking of the Saudis as friends or allies is a foolish, and very dangerous thing.”

“Oh, so that means that CHENEY WAS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR YEMEN, AND FOR THE ATTEMPTED ATTACK. We will not see that in the MSM.”

“Alright Geiger, your time away hasn't dulled your senses. I have to fly tomorrow and I am looking forward to it about as much as I would to having a root canal or having a needle rammed into my eye.”

“Wonderful piece. I was on an aborted takeoff once, and thought that was bad. It was nothing compared to this.

Obviously, traveling is going to be even more difficult for the near future.”

“Heh, making them walk the plank doesn't sound so bad to me.”

“Face it, this is not a functioning democracy anymore. Congress is as corrupt and is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the likes of Goldman, the top one percenters, health insurance companies and people who are enemies of democracy.

If we want to get a democracy back, it would take the likes of Teddy Roosevelt breaking up the monopolies to get it done, and some sense in voting from the people of the United States. Obama, I fear and I voted for him, is no Roosevelt. He is so adverse of confrontation that all one needs do to him is say BOO and he runs and hides.

We may need what the French did, to refine our Revolution, in order to get back to the fundamentals of a functioning democracy.”

“That tax cut to CITI is really revolting. As for the AIG thing, some of those who received the bonuses had contracts which awarded them for staying at AIG, but they left after receiving the bonuses, and some attorneys on CNN said that they could very well have severe legal problems over having accepted the bonuses on the premise that they were retention bonuses and they had agreed to stay longer, and they left.”

“What a good and decent man.”

“We hae to get to the truth in the matter, and a good many of the people at AIG and the other institutions need to go to jail. Goldman Sachs bundled derivatives and sold those derivatives as high-quality investments, but they took out coverage with AIG to cover those investments if they failed, and they kept the coverage when the derivatives were sold. That has to prove that they were certain that the so-called high-quality investments were not and were destined to fail. That has to be fraud.”

“Obama has forgotten what Molly Ivins used to day...."that you have to dance with them that brung you" Frankly, he is beginning to look like a version of a Manchurian candidate.

He may have inherited a mess, but a good deal of what that mess was evident before the election, and he should have had some idea about how the PUBS would be, but he seems to have ADD or something, and just prefers to look good in a suit, and read perfectly scripted speeches and then disappear to do God only knows what. He is beginning to resemble Bush in being able to just ignore reality.”

“I was a Hillary voter and I got so tired of being called a racist. However, most of us should have taken the racist stuff as a whiff and GONE HILLARY. At least she knew how to fight and to dig, and to look the PUBS in the eye.

We were sold a bill of goods, as this President is weak and ineffective. Over the weekend, I looked at some of his speeches and debated during the primaries and leading up to the general election and what he has done, and he has DONE NONE OF IT. He hasn't fought for it, and the standing up and making an impeccable speech doesn't cut it anymore. I wish we had a recall procedure in this country.”

“As a former Advanced Nurse Practitioner, I find your approach novel but definitely on the right track. I have insulin resistance from having gained a lot of weight after having a severe neck, back and pelvic injury which left me unable to work and darned angry and depressed about it. I simply cannot start on carbs. I don't drink or do any kind of illegal drugs and never have, but if I started on starchy, salty, greasy foods, I find it difficult to stop.

I have gained a lot of belly fat, my blood sugars on Byetta 5 mg are tightly controlled. My blood pressure was 100.60 until well after I turned 40. My three month diabetic marker was 5.6, the triglycerides are just elevated on Tricor. My recent stress test had a zero calcium count.

Part of my weight gain has been attributed to steroid shots for arthritis of the spine. After having then I developed bronchitis and pneumonia which did not respond well. Then, we discovered B lymphocyte subclasses were all low, so I had four IV IG's and improved, but then the infections returned. The B's were low again, and a stimulation test revealed primary immunodeficiency

I intend to have a gastric sleeve in February of next year to lose the weight and to regain my energy levels. The doctors have assured me that my Type II diabetes should resolver itself with three to four months of the surgery.”

“Heh, the women are being called weeds, I call Tiger MUCH, MUCH WORSE AND HE EARNED IT.”

“Might I suggest that Mr. Kennedy does not really know the Joe Lieberman of today? People change and sometimes, for the worse, and that appears to be what Mr. Lieberman has done. When he stood up and smiled and said he wouldn't vote for the bill when it contained the very thing about Medicare which he had been supporting for years, because the LIBERALS were happy with it showed what Lieberman is today, and today is what really matters.”

“I agree wholeheartedly with this. Often, men cheat on wives who are attractive, intelligent partners, who do far more in the marriage than do the men themselves, but they will tell you some sob story about how men are just wired to do it, my wife doesn't understand me (when in all probability she does understand him only too well) and other stuff. Men who are rich, powerful, and self-entitled are only worse at it.

If men were wired to want sex, then so are women, and people were and are wired for violence...look at the wars upon endless wars we have...and the crime and violence which is overwhelmingly a male
endeavor. Not always, and women are getting in on it more and more. However, society evolves and so does our behavior, and men need to learn to keep their pants on and zipped.”

“Everyone needs to understand that often very significant discoveries in medicine are made by chance or by someone who has motivation such as this doctor, since his wife has MS. Additionally, the entrenched "establishment" can feel very threatened by this.

For fifty years, we were told that ulcers were caused by stress and treated with stupid diets and things when it was largely caused by a bacterium. The guy who discovered it and tried to bring it forth was practically driven out of medicine. The, he had an endoscopy done on himself, which was perfect, and infected himself with the bacterium he had been finding in a certain category of ulcers, and waited. He developed the symtoms and the next endoscopy showed he had a couple really bad ulcers and they had the bacterium. He took a course of antibiotics shown to treat that bacterium and they were CURED without further treatment. Only then did he get the research. Proton drugs help with the ones caused by regurge and other things, and some meds can erode and cause ulcers such as NSAIDS, but discoveries are often by accident, remember X-rays, and penicillin.”

“Heh, look at how many people would lose money, if this was the case for many MS patients. Think of all the neurologists who base their entire careers on it, making half a million a year, then we have the wheelchair makers who won't get to sell the wheelchairs, and most importantly, THE BIG PHARMAS, WHO WOULD LOSE BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS were this discovered to be the case. THEY WILL DO ANYTHING TO SUPPRESS THIS.

Since Pharma isn't about to spend any money on the additional research needed, and they will do anything to block money for the research, it would have to come from money donated to a specific thing set up to do that. No MS organization would want to do it, because a simple cure would throw them all out of work, and handsomely paid work at that.”

“The U. S. media is owned, lock, stock and barrel by Big Pharma, Big Health Care, and Big business. The pharms make BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY for all these drugs and medications to treat MS. One of the most expensive treatments is an anti-inflammatory infusions which costs $10,000 a shot. That drug would effect inflammation in veins and arteries and any improvement in the veins could lead to some improvement. That is why this sounds plausible for me.

I am a former RN, Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists....you Canadians will not know about CRNA's, as only Anesethesiologists administer anesthesia there, but in the U. S. sixty percent of the anesthetics have these highly trained Advanced Practice Nurses involved in them, as either the sole anesthesis provider or paired with an Anesthesiologist who may be "supervising" three of them at a time.

I can tell you that this would not be accepted readily by the industry here because the neurologists would take a great big hit and they mostly are quite zealous in protecting their turf, and the pharmaceuticals would lose A BUNDLE, AS MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS if this proves to be the case in many MS patients. THEY WILL TRY TO BURY THIS GUY, TRY TO DISCREDIT HIM, SHUT HIM UP, AND I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF HE HAS AN UNFORTUNATE "ACCIDENT" IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I am not being dramatic in that.”

“Okay, in a situation such as this, one needs to understand that the entire income from some neurologists who treat MS would go bye bye, if this proves to be the case. I can understand their retisence about it. They do not want to give false hope, either.

However, they could start with ten patients who meet the criteria, and any interventionalism neuroradiologist could do the testing and see if the patients do seem to have narrowed veins or vein formations which would impede flow. Then, dilate those vessels in those patients via this doctor's findings. It would not be nearly as expensive as some treatments for MS.

Then, within three months, those patients should exhibit some improvement. It may only help say fitty percent of them, BUT THAT IS MUCH MORE THAN DRUGS IMPROVE.”

“Big Pharma is blocking this finding, I WOULD STAKE MY SAVINGS ON IT. This makes sense to me, frankly. Some of the patients with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia have been found to have a circulatory problem at the base of the brain which impairs flow. Not all, but some have it.

People tend to forget that we have to have adequate arterial circulation for delivery of oxygen but venous impairment can be a severe problem. When limbs are reattached, it is sometimes venous impairment which actually leads to failure of the limb to survive.

The procedure to do this would entail using an approach which can be done similar to an angiogram, which would involve threading a catheter into those veins and then having a balloon which would inflate and stretch the vein, much like the original balloon angioplasties did for heart blockages. Then, they could move it up and down the vessel, dilating it, and improve the circulation. Improvement would be gradual for most, as they have had years of tissue changes due to this.

Big Pharma makes BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS ON MS DRUGS AND TREATMENTS WHICH HELP VERY LITTLE. They WOULD DO ANYTHING TO BLOCK THIS.”

“I was a HIllary supporter but gave Obama my full support after achieving the nomination. I think the Demcrats should have gone with Hillary. She wouldn't have selected Summers and Geitner because of their history, or Rahm Emanuel, and she and Bill has a lot of experience and knew what to expect from the health thing and would have slugged it out.

Obama is a nice, genuinely intelligent person, but he seems to be unable to assume control and use his power and be willing to get down in the pits and slug it out.”