, the article listed responses from 32 Democrat Congressman and senators that were not going to attend the inauguration. When I looked each of them up more than 80% were people of color. When I read their reasons for not attending it was all the Dems talking points against Trump.
I really didn’t know until today that the Democratic party had so many openly anti-white racist. I am just floored by this. I used to be a Democrat but voted for trump because of who they picked “Hillary” to represent the democrats. Now I am an independent.
I’m a liberal independent that voted for Trump to shake things up and because I didn’t like the dishonesty of the DNC and the “entitlement attitude” of HRC. It turned me off as much as the “entitlement” attitude of the Romneys did. I believe Trump’s heart on veteran’s issues is in the right place as well as on citizenry health care. Tom Daschle butchered the ACA by turning it over to big medical and pharma and insurance to write the law. I think Trump will actually get something that will reduce costs and provide better care for all. That remains to be seen. I’m encouraged by the appointment of a VA Director that has experience in the ACO (Accountable care organization) area which was the lean of Dr. Cutler, the original point man for Obama in his campaign for President. The proof of ACOs viability will be in the pudding. If it doesn’t work we won’t be any worse off than we are now with medial costs the fasting increase in the % of GDP of any segment.
I from a family on my father’s side that moved to Missouri from SC and passed for white as white racists for several generations following the Civil War. The first Bray on my father’s side in the U S was an English sea captain who married a black woman in Boston and moved to South Carolina. I personally gave pro segregationist speeches in speech class at the University of Wyoming in 1959. I subsequently had a life changing experience there when the only black student, a Kenyan called, Barry was rejected from a Fraternity. He was a friend and coworker in the Student Union.  And I realized I was defending my father’s beliefs and not my own. Barry switched to the University of Hawaii after the first semester. He could be President Obama’s father except he was shorter than I was at 5’9″. Could have grown between December of 1959 and the Birth of President Obama. I think he was only 15 or 16 and very intelligent.
I’ll point out that the University of Wyoming was the last land grant university to desegregate. And it took an on field (football) protest by black member of an opposing football team to point that out years after I left UOW to join the Navy.
What do all these side comments have to do with THE LEJEUNE WATER CONTAMINATION LIST I`M ASKING. Can we stay on topic here?
ED: Which is how I led the comments astray. Fed up with spamming of political views off topic which resulted in an introduction of my background in response to another poster and directed at that poster.
No one is preventing you from reading other post. But you are bothered by our comments.

Don’t get on Ed too hard Seymore. He obviously has Camp Legume issues.
In an earlier post, you claim that you are affected by IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome and that you now have a 4-year-old claim for unemployment disability. You also claim to have been stationed at Lejeune for 1 month back in 1956 so you are what 79-80 years old.
 Given the average male lifespan of a male in the US is now around 68.5 years.
Your claim for IBS and unemployment disability. Not happening largely due to your advanced age and you inability to work because of that.
Let me guess GH, dam Martinez? Got a little time off before your next shift at the Hole?
The VA does the same thing like the State of Hawaii does to the Hawaiians. The State depends on infighting by the Hawaiian leaders for power. The State then just sits back and does nothing. There is no unity. The Hawaiians have been waiting for decades to get back taxes from Government Agencies using their land, and they dribble out homestead property to the Hawaiians at a snails pace. I see many similarities.
Then if you piss them off too much, they’ll do the same thing that they did to my ancestors, the Native Americans. They play dirty really well. After all they’ve been doing this for quite a long time now. May be I’m wrong. I sure hope so.
To All – Does anyone receive the muscle relaxer called Soma [Carisoprodol] from their PCP at a VA Medical Center? If not, do you know of any other Veteran that is prescribed this medication? Your help is greatly appreciated.
@ANutterVet, i went to dept. of veterans affairs website and typed in carisoprodol. Directions for use of this medication came up so it is being prescribed in va system.
Copy without quotation marks, then paste in your browsers URL bar.
Does anyone know what a “Sensitivity 7” on the VARO side is.
It delayed my attorney from getting a copy of my file and caused a severe editing of what she received. Also only a “Sensitivity 7” officer was able to see my file. Nothing in it that is sensitive as far as I know unless you think being suicidal or nearly having gone postal is sensitive. All relative to my TBI and residuals of that.
I’ve never been able to get a definition. Is it related to a Top Secret clearance prior to the head injury. Even with the clearance I never saw anything labeled Top Secret or even Secret because I never had the need to know. The clearance was standard for serving on a Naval Communication Station.
I’ve never heard of a “sensitivity 7”. Would it have anything to do with a ‘Top Secret’ or ‘SAS’ clearance is anyone’s guess.
I had a “Top Secret/Crypto” in the Army, and a “Top Secret” in the Navy due to my “MOS” and “NEC”, respectfully.
The only thing I believe this could be attributed to is any documents you would have in your “201 file”, (Army) or “Personnel Records, (Navy)! Other than that, did you ever work as a civilian for the government, (militaries) after you “ETS” out?
The reason I ask is because, at every VHA I’ve been to, the personnel can’t even view my VA or VHA records.
This had to do, according to the VA, is because I was a “civilian contractor” for “special ops”.
I too am confused as to why no one can access my medical and other records. Unless they have some type of security clearance!
No problem on the Medical side. The problem is on the VARO benefits side. Could be because I demonstrated for veterans with organic brain syndromes from 1995 to 2001 on the DC mall and in front of the VA Central Office on Vermont Street in DC. Was primarily while I was an expat.
Eventually a reporter wrote an article on veteran’s with TBIs from IUDs. Possibly got the background from my handouts when I was demonstrating. Anyway I got an additional 40% as of 2009 in 2011 to bring me to 70% from 50% and may make me eligible for UE at 100% from 2009.
If anyone is on the board that had a prior to 2009 TBI and hasn’t requested additional compensation they should get a claim in. They’ll only take it back one year from date claim is filed. I’m trying to break that under 38 CFR 4.42 alleging the first C&P was incomplete for the injuries I had claimed leaving me to struggle for years with untreated subtle temporal lobe seizures which were also responsible for my abrupt shortened career in the Navy (13+ years).
Its not sensitivity. Its likely a ‘sensitive level 7’. Which means only certain folks with that type of access can look at your VBMS records. Perhaps someone is/was employed by VA in your family (now or in the past), or maybe you worked for VA in the past (VBA/VHA), or you had some type of connection/employment to VA in the past.
Sensitivity levels, for the most part, require different levels of access (at least for the providers) to review. That’s all it is, as far as I know.
Did have a Top Secret clearance because of a station I was on but never handled a Top Secret document even unopened to transport. Did transport some Secret and Confidential.
But I don’t think that has anything to do with the VA’s “Sensitivity 7”. My attorney couldn’t even get a copy of my file and finally when she got a copy the most important documents were not included. I think it has to do with my demonstrating in DC beginning from 1995 to 2001 for Veteran’s with Organic Brain Syndromes. It is a bust because only one operator admitted the problem with getting copies of my record was because I was a “Sensitivity 7” and only Sensitivity 7 officers could release information from my file or respond to my attorney. Neither of which happened until I got a copy of a very disorganized file from the VA with many documents missing. Especially those related to my demonstrations and related to my TBI.
I found this site pertaining to different topics inside the VA System. Don’t know if it can be used by anyone