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Skip to comments.#1MVetMarch: Barrycades down! Spite House barricades no match for Million Vets March [photos]
Posted on 10/13/2013 9:23:15 AM PDT by Nachum
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@michellemalkin @TwitchyTeam I'm at #vetmarch for million vet march in DC at WWII Memorial 5:06 AM - 13 Oct 2013
Citizens are taking to Washington, D.C., Sunday morning to protest the Spite Houses closing of the nations memorials. Twitter users are using #VetMarch and #1MVetMarch to spread the word and to provide on-the-scene reports from the Million Vet March. As Twitchy reported, Sarah Palin is attending the march as well.
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How much is this stupid move on Obama's part costing us? It would have cost nothing to leave this memorial open.
I just hope that a lot of these Veterans are Democrats who will vote to stop Democrats from occupying the White House for the next 50 years.
Makes my day.
Riot teams teargassing vets in front of WH, making arrests
I love the picture with the woman standing by one of the NPS Clown signs saying that due to the government shut, this NPS area has been closed except for FIRST AMENDMENT ACTIVITIES. What I'm seeing here this morning is THE MOTHER OF ALL FIRST AMENDMENT ACTIVITIES. Barry and the commie 'RATS, as well as their NPS toads, are being introduced to the Bill of Rights.
Source please?
Not true, according to a reporter calling in to this radio show, which I have never heard of today. All peaceful in front of the spite house.
Nachum, your thread just showed up on the first page of Gargle results w/search term #VetMarch !
A witness on Twitter.
Could be someone trying to stir up trouble? Just wondering. I no longer trust people to be truthful.
The internet is going to be used against us, I am afraid.
Another Twitter feed witness said they saw the park police using tear gas on the live video feed.
I would provide the link to the post, but Twitter doesn't usually work with linking to posts.
I expect that the White House is ready for anything—it would take a Marine division to assault the Fortress-White House.
imo, when relaying tweets, best practice, imo, is to copy and paste the whole thing so source can be checked.
This is what the leftists fear the most: normal people showing they are no longer willing to be treated as sheep.
Ok, I will post the tweet. Not that the Tweet is worth much without a pic or a link. I have been burned a number of times with bad info. It is just so plausible that this will spin out of control though. I think the Spite House is itching for an excuse to beat the crap out of these vets.
In 1932 Veterans marched on Washington, DC in a similar way to the Veterans marching today.
For anyone not already familiar with the 1932 Veterans Bonus March it is worth reading about.
The 1932 Bonus march was comprised of about 43,000 marchers 17,000 World War I Vets, their families and supporters.
They camped in a shantytown called Hooverville.
President Hoover and his Attorney General ordered Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur to clean the Vets out of Washington.
MacArther sent Majors George Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower in with regular Army troops and tanks to do the job.
All three ended up with their hands soiled by the blood of veterans and their families. Major Patton became General Patton and gained fame in WWII.
Major Dwight D. Eisenhower is the same man who became Commander of Allied Forces in WWII and went on to become USA President Dwight D. Eisenhower
They attacked the vets and fired on them killing at least one vet and injuring many more.
Then they set fire to Hooverville, injuring many more including some of the Vets' family members.
the final death tally is really uncertain as some of the injured died later of their wounds in various places around the country.
You called?
Just put that info up on Twitter. My feed goes to over 7000 people. Let's see who pics this up.
The military has been used against U.S. citizens before, and I don't doubt that the military would follow orders again.
In my considered opinion, we are very close to some sort of tipping point. Not sure what, but the spontaneity of this, combined with the fact that these are people who normally avoid civil disobedience, is worthy of some sort of note.
From what I have read over the years this is a fairly brutal practice and many Vets sustained severe injuries from these attacks.
When struck hard by the flat of the sword they suffered skull fractures, concussions, shattered bones and of course lesser injuries like lacerations.
By degrees, how close are we to a Tiananmen Square moment where the whole world is watching as a DHS tank rolls over a wounded warrior while removing a barrycade at an open-air monument?
obama's salivating for it to 'get out of control'.
So many fake-cuffs for Barry, so little time.
Yes Dealing Conservatives and Patriots in a fashion les than cordial.
If Obama keeps going as he is there will be more of this, and it is unnecessary, these people intend no harm.
You remember the 60's. Well this time it isn't folks with flowers in their hair.
It is fire in their heart.
wonder if the truckers showed up?
wonder if the truckers showed up?
"While protesters listened to music, planned their actions or slept, the authorities quickly moved in 10,000 Federal troops to various locations in the D.C. area, including 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. At one point, so many soldiers and marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast, that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles from the White House. These troops were to back up the 5,100 D.C. Metroplitan Police and 2,000 D.C. National Guard troops that were already on the streets."
Big difference. The "protesters" were already proven to be a lot of violent slime. I lived through the sixties and watched the Chicago riots. The city had reason to fear.
That isn't true at all, you made that up, the protesters weren't violent.
The relevant point here is the biggest arrest in American history, 13,000, the massive presence of full combat troops, and the internment in camps for days, without charges and in some cases without food and bedding.
I what? Made up the part about the Chicago riots at the DemocRATic National Convention? You mean the ones I had law enforcement friends at? Or perhaps the riots at the NIU campus that my brother participated in?
So yes, you made it up.
This is DC in 1971 when they arrested 13,000 Americans, maybe things will escalate.
"Big difference. The "protesters" were already proven to be a lot of violent slime."
So yes, you made it up.
This is DC in 1971 when they arrested 13,000 Americans, maybe things will escalate.
"Big difference. The "protesters" were already proven to be a lot of violent slime."
Excuse me? I made nothing up. Did you know people in the SDS in Chicago? Do you know law enforcement who made arrests there? I did. Did you know people who were at Woodstock and running concessions there? I did. In 1971, nothing changed. It was the same group of jerks who are now ruining our country. The same ones who planned to take over our universities, create re-educatiion camps and sell us out.
I am done debating with you. Have a nice day.
LOL! Have a nice day! That is so popcorn. Good on ya! :^)
Try to focus, if you want to post about the democratic convention of 1968 then do, but don't get confused and think that was the Mayday demonstrations of 1971.
You directly addressed my subject of the 1971 DC mass arrest, the largest in American history, and said ""The "protesters" were already proven to be a lot of violent slime."" which was false, they weren't violent.
yes, I remember too.
Remember the chicago riots during the "den" convention? I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The demonstrators were throwing fecal waste, urine, molotov cocktails, and anything else they could think of, while calling the police "pigs".
Oh yes. Calling police 'pigs' was considered 'cool'. This is how a lot of the left worked to attack authority.
They also launched helium balloons in an effort to crash circling helicopters.
The May 4 New York Times reported: The protesters did succeed in disrupting the citys normal functioning by impeding traffic and harassing government employees on their way to work, using as weapons trash, tree limbs, stones, bottles, bricks, lumber, nails, tires, rubbish bins and parked cars. At the height of the disturbances, tear gas fumes filled the air over some of the citys most famous monuments, streets and grassy flowered parks. Garbage cans, trash, abandoned automobiles and other obstacles littered some chief arteries.
Over the years, these same people successfully infiltrated all of our institutions, and now plan to use the police against us.
They continued their revolution, and now we see them deride and insult our vets, just as they did back then.
I remember how the media was creating a bunch of nonsense.
When it started, I was in Florida and saw an 11:00 news cast making it sound like DC was on fire and the paratroopers were going to be creating a blood bath.
I left about 30 minutes later to hitchhike to DC, as I read the papers and heard the news in the cars it sounded like I wouldn't even be able to get inside the city because of all the crazy stuff going on, interestingly though, a businessman picked me up for my last ride into the city, I asked him about his calm and ease and he laughed saying that nothing much was going on in the city and that the media was just blowing up nothings.
When I got into DC I saw that he was right, it was calm and demonstrations were calm, during the weeks I was there, it was fascinating to compare the media reports and newspaper versions of things with the reality that you had actually witnessed, even the cops said that it was peaceful.
When I hitch hiked out of DC to head for Texas, I saw the same media phenomena that I had witnessed as I approached DC, the farther I got away from DC, the more radical and violent or potentially violent the coverage and imagery became, just as it got less so when I had gotten closer to DC.
One of the biggest acts of "violence" was at an intersection which everyone agreed was the media making up stuff, even the cops and locals said that some kids had broken their own rules and had tossed some garbage cans into the street, but seemed annoyed at the media portrayal.
You might remember the year before that president Nixon had gone out to mingle with the demonstrators and chat with them.
"Nixon says he woke up shortly after 4 a.m., went into the Lincoln sitting room, and began listening to a record of Eugene Ormandy conducting a Rachmaninoff piece. (Several already-released tapes of Nixon phone conversations feature classical music blaring in the background at rock n' roll volume.) The loud music awakened White House valet Manolo Sanchez, and as Nixon looked out the window at a small knot of people gathering outside on the National Mall, he asked his valet if he had had ever been to the Lincoln Memorial at night. When Sanchez replied no, Nixon impulsively told him, "Get your clothes on, we'll go down to the Lincoln Memorial!""
The violence of the 60-70s was real. My neighbors brother was a policeman in chicago during the democrat convention. It was violent, and the crowds threw at the cops tennis balls with large nails pushed threw them, bags of feces and urine and finally mayor Daly said shut them down. The press wrote it as a police riot against peaceful protestors, just like they do today for the left....I believe the Chicago 7 went to trial and made a mockery of the courts, and that was before the courts were full of commies and progressives...One ran for congress and was voted in, good old Liz Taylor married one and they all loved Hanoi Jane, sitting on a vietcong gun (between her legs). If you were not an adult during those times, your ignorance and lack of knowledge is showing.
After reading this I concede the argument to you. Certainly with the released articles you can see how easily one could be confused against the truth. I quoted the NY Times and was mislead.
Again with the 1968 democratic convention which was supposed to be violent and has nothing with the Mayday demonstrations of 1971 in Washington DC.
So many wasted posts because people just decide to rewrite a posters subject.
Read post 34, it isn't about the 1968 convention, or claiming there weren't violent demonstrations or even riots in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s America, but my posts are about the 1971 demonstration in DC.
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
This looks neat, but I can't get it to work. Also the "hidden field" is a text field that gets a number in it if you click "reply"… I set a css attribute to not display the field, but I would like to have there be some other indication that a comment is being posted as a reply. Right now if you're already down at the bottom clicking on the link doesn't visually change anything (doesn't move to a new area of the page or anything) so people could get confused. Maybe if a line of text appears above the form that says "reply to [name]" or somethinig?
But anyway, I can't get the nested thing to work so far. It still just shows the comments in order, all aligned to the left. I followed the instructions in the OP here, but the instructions in the Plugin help don't display because the tags are not shown (you can see them in the source). Is there something more to it that I'm missing? I thought at first it might not be playing nice with sed_comment_pack but disabling that didn't change anything.
#13 2008-05-27 23:25:52
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
Yeah, the docs are a mess because the plugin I wrote this on top of had screwed-up docs and I never got around to cleaning them up.
I was planning to replace the Javascript that I inherited from cha_comment_reply to make a new reply form appear beneath the comment you're replying to, but I've been caught up in a major art project with no time for coding. Feel free to run it through a decompressor and enhance it, if you have the skills!
Things to do to get it working:
- make sure that you're using <txp:peg_nested_comments /> instead of <txp:comments ?>
- make sure that your form for displaying a comment includes a call to <txp:peg_child_comments /> somewhere in it. This is the heart of how this plugin works.
- make sure that your comments are being displayed in a UL or OL, not in some other method
- make sure that your css isn't killing the left margins of children of lists
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#14 2008-05-28 04:47:28
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
I don't have the skills. Like you, I am an artist … but I'm not a programmer. I can do HTML and that's about it. Anyway I know all about getting caught up in art projects!
make sure that your comments are being displayed in a UL or OL, not in some other method
This may be where I'm having trouble. It has been a long time since I was deep enough in my code to remember how everything is, but looking at the html that is produced on a commented page, I don't see any list tags. What form is it and can you give me a generic example?
#15 2008-05-28 12:41:00
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
It's the "comments" form. Here's an example, pulled from my templates:
<div class="header <txp:comment_name link="0" />"><txp:glx_gravatar class="userpic" />

<txp:comment_name link="1" />
<txp:hide><txp:comment_time format="l, g:i A" />
<txp:comment_time format="F js, Y" /></txp:hide><txp:comment_time />
<txp:peg_reply_link />
<div class="body <txp:comment_name link="0" />">
<txp:comment_message />
<txp:peg_child_comments wraptag="ul" />
And the call to <txp:peg_nested_comments> is in the "comments_display" form. <txp:peg_comments wraptag="ul" /> is what I have.
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Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
Ok here are my forms now (still not working)…
<txp:zem_prblock><div class="<txp:sed_get_comment_class />">
<txp:comment_anchor />

<txp:comment_permlink> #<txp:sed_comment_number/></txp:comment_permlink> · <txp:comment_name link="0" /><txp:sed_if_author_comment_string string=" (Author)" />

<txp:sed_comment_time class="comment-time" />
<txp:message /><txp:peg_reply_link />
<txp:peg_child_comments wraptag="ul/>

<txp:comments_invite textonly="1" showalways="1" showcount="0" />

<txp:peg_comments wraptag="ul" />
<txp:peg_nested_comments wraptag="ul" />

<txp:comments_preview />
<txp:comments_form />
<txp:else />

<txp:text item="comments_closed" />

and here is an example of the source when I view a comment that's been posted:

 #4 · OpalCat (Author)

05/27/2008 03:40 PM

nesting test

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I don't understand why it's wrapping with a p …
#17 2008-05-28 23:06:50
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
Hmm. Well, first, there's no such tag as <txp:peg_comments>. So getting rid of that is a start.
Kill the css that hides the reply-to field and make sure it's getting filled in when you reply to a comment.
(Do you have this live? I might be able to take a look at it.)
You shouldn't see anything special in a comment that doesn't have children.
You should be seeing something like this when you view a comment with a child comment:

 #4 · OpalCat (Author)

05/27/2008 03:40 PM

nesting test

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 #4 · OpalCat (Author)

05/27/2008 03:45 PM

nesting test

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#18 2008-05-29 03:29:53
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
It's live on every article page on my site. I've done a test where I replied to a comment, then replied to that comment, then replied to that comment, etc, here … it all just shows up in the nested order, but flush left with no indent (sorry it's such a bummer of an article, it just happened to be what my most recent one was.).
The reply-to field is getting filled in—I saw that it was before I hid it, but I removed the hidden css to double check and it was fine. It behaves the exact same way whether it is hidden or not.
And I'm confused now because the original post in this thread says:
replace <txp:comments /> in your comments_display form with <txp:peg_comments /> – it takes the same syntax.
#19 2008-05-29 13:42:37
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
I'm not sure why it's wrapping the child comments in a div, instead of a ul. Very weird. Oh, wait. I see now. Close your quotes in the comment form: <txp:peg_child_comments wraptag= "ul />
If that doesn't work, you can work around this by doing this:
add some css along the lines of
.comment .comment {margin-left:2em}
and change

<txp:peg_child_comments wraptag="ul/>
<txp:peg_child_comments wraptag="ul/>

Also, ignore the part above where I talk about peg_nested_comments as I appear to have been smoking crack when I wrote that; I just looked through the source of the plugin and there's no tag by that name. Sorry, it's been quite a while since I hacked this up!
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#20 2008-05-29 18:38:35
Re: [plugin] [ORPHAN] peg_nested_comments
Yeah that crack smoking can mess with your code for sure ;)
I fixed the missing quote, added the css you suggested, moved the div, changed the comments tag back to the tag that actually exists…
…still not working :(


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Skip to comments.Boortz: "REUTERS PULLS ANOTHER FAST ONE"
Posted on 08/07/2006 7:21:57 AM PDT by yankeedame
Monday, August 7, 2006
Reuters. Let me think ... isn't that the news agency that has refused to call Islamic terrorists what they are ... Islamic terrorists! Yes, by golly, I think they're the ones! And Reuters has also been accused of staging photos at the site of the Israeli bombing of that building in Qana?
But Reuters wouldn't do anything like that, would it?
Well ... as a matter of fact, they would.
Fresh off the accusations that Reuters was staging terrorist casualty photos at Qana, they've been caught monkeying with wire photos again. You see, even though news wire photos are usually paid much attention to by newspapers and the like, there are some who have been watching Reuters.
Included in that is Charles Johnson, who runs the excellent blog, Little Green Footballs. You can also see the doctored image at this website ... along with an explanation.
Reuters pushed a photo showing a picture of the Beirut skyline after an Israeli air strike. Evidently the photographer who took it wasn't satisfied with the damage done, because he fired up Photoshop (or some program like it) and decided to expand the reach of the smoke clouds. Not only that, but in the process of using what is called the cloning tool, said photographer decided to add some buildings, too. The result is so laughable you can't even believe Reuters would make such a photo available on their wire service to news outlets.
But they did.
Except as in the case of the staged Qana photos in which a dead girl was used as a prop, they got caught. They got pinched bad this time...with their hand in the cookie jar all the way up to their elbow. For their part, Reuters has yanked the photo, issuing this statement: "Reuters has suspended a photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to a photograph showing smoke billowing from buildings following an air strike on Beirut. Reuters takes such matters extremely seriously as it is strictly against company editorial policy to alter pictures." Uh-huh.
All of this proves one thing. Even photo wire services can be a propaganda machine for the pro-terrorist appeasement forces. The difference these days is if people pay attention, they can call them on it. It will be interesting to see if the suspended photographer is let go.
the photographer will be given hezbullah sensitivity training along with a 6 month school on how to properly use the cloning tool without being caught..
The 1st photo was uncovered by Little Green Footballs
It was quickly picked up here on FR
Reuters admitted the first photo was doctored and fired Hajj
The second photo (F16) was discussed at Jawa, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678950/posts
now they are admitting that photo is doctored as well
Or whether he simply changes his nom de guerre and continues his ways, keeping falafel and pita together via al-Reuters' currency.
Remember - According to Koran, it is perfectly acceptable to lie to infidels - especially if it furthers the spread of islam.
the Little Green Footballs dude was on Drudge last night. He gave FreeRepublic credit for the RATher, 'superscript-scam' too. Drudge didn't know that FR's Buckhead was responsible for that coup.
Look at post #3 for a history of the doctored Beirut photo.
This guys has a good candidate for photo #3. Not so much a doctored photo as a staged photo.
It's not just Reuters
Pookie has a toon this morning showing the photographer now employed by a Motor Vehicle Administration...in the driver license photo section! ROTFLMAO!
All he will do is change his name...Reuters will look the other way and continue to accept his pictures...
His services are no longer being used by Reuters. Keep an eye out for him popping up elsewhere.
What is MORE interesting are the things being discovered by looking through his PAST work. Now that we know the tricks he uses, some other questionable photos are being uncovered.
Right. AP said that they couldn't call the 9-11 hijackers terrorists because AP also lost employees in the attacks and to remain "impartial" they couldn't declare them to be terrorists.
I heard the interview.
LGF should've corrected Drudge.
Mike Drudge said that "both sides do this" and brought up the gag picture of Kerry with Jane Fonda onstage together.
Mike did not say anything other than "that picture of John Kerry and Jane Fonda together".
There WAS an actual photo of them together. And the left even cropped in an image of George W. Bush into that photo (which never got any press).
The gag image (which came complete with an "article") appeared very briefly on FR but was seized upon by the Kerry gang to DISCREDIT the actual photo.
And Corbis played a double standard by coming down on FR for deep linking to the genuine image (stored on licensee servers) and prohibited its use on FR. When I pointed out that Snopes (a leftist owned site) was HOSTING the images, their legal team contacted Snopes who added ownership info (but I seriously doubt they ever paid to license the images).
CERTAINLY Corbis does not license the hoaxed image which can still be found on Snopes' website.
But this is what we are up against.
Incredible! This is a chilling reminder that not only are we at war with terrorists, the MSM is equally our enemy.
What makes anyone think the so called original is really not also doctored with smoke and is just a prior version?
He also added buildings and did all sorts of cloning in that image.
I know, I'm just saying how do we know any of the smoke was real?
Was it not that the cloning itself caused images of buildings to be repeated?
When will we get back to "reporting the news" in a truthful fashion and let the chips fall. If Rather had reported the "truth", he might have gone out intact.
Heard Rather the other day....sounds pretty insecure.
Can never be stressed enough.
I'm more concerned with what this indicates overall. No one is really talking about that. Firing the photog is merely attacking the SYMPTOM. The problem, at it's base, is that the American MSM is working ACTIVELY AGAINST the U.S., all to further the leftist agenda they support. That is the real story that is being proven here.
Reuters has a DUTY, morally and LEGALLY to vet the photos and/or news stories they are ***supplied*** with, yet they don't. They are working against America, causing more troops to be put in danger and it is CRIMINAL. Someone at the top of that food chain needs to fired, not just the doer of the mullah's desires (the photographer).
It is permitted to deceive a goy. (Babha Kama 113b)
Jews must try to deceive Christians. (Zohar I 160a)
In the interest of upright truth and media fairness.
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Marla Akins
August 2008 was a great month. I was running nearly 40 miles a week. Next marathon on the notch was to be Gasparilla Distance Classic in Tampa, Florida, my home city, for the second time. Slowly over the next month of training, my running got much slower and I had to stop for frequent walk breaks. I could tell there was something wrong with my breathing, but didn't think anything of it.
In October, I couldn't even run to the end of my street without stopping. I finally called the doctor. After a brief visit with my primary care provider, I asked for a referral to the pulmonologist. I picked a name out of a hat. I had no idea who to see, all I knew was that I wanted to be seen fast so that my running could get back on track. After calling around, I found one that could see me the very next week. He said that my symptoms sounded like exercise induced asthma so he prescribed me two inhalers and we made a follow up appointment in two weeks.
After the first week, I felt no relief so I called the doctor and he recommended I inhale more often while running. That did not help and I informed him at the second visit. He told me to get a chest x-ray and referred me to his cardiologist friend down the street. My follow-up appointment with the pulmonologist was the day before Thanksgiving. I got an echocardiogram done by the cardiologist. We needed to get out of there fast because my entire family would be arriving in just twelve short hours. I brought my husband and 6-year-old daughter. Why did I bring them? Thinking back, I have no idea what initially made me want to bring them. Remember, I thought I only had exercise-induced asthma. The doctor came in to the room and told me I had pulmonary hypertension. I had no idea what that was and just sat there. I may have even started laughing at that point. To tell you the truth everything went numb as soon as he said, "Marla this is serious business, your life expectancy is three to five years and you need a lung transplant."
All I heard was that was it for me. I was a 37-year-old woman with a 6-year-old daughter and husband. Who would take care of my daughter? Who would drive her to school? Who would buy her clothes and watch her get married? We left. What else was there to do at that point? Of course we called our families and told them the news. Everybody was shocked and in deep sorrow. Imagine how our Thanksgiving was.
On Thanksgiving Day, my father told me about a pulmonologist who specialized in PH. My cousin Scott recommended him to us. Without that recommendation, who knows what kind of care I would have received. He gave my number to Dr. Gossage at the Medical College of Georgia in the Georgia Health Sciences University. Three weeks later, in the middle of December, we were in Augusta, Georgia. The initial diagnosis was confirmed, but there was no life expectancy given this time. I was started on Sildenafil at 20mg, 3 times per day.
After a couple months, I was passing out while walking at work, so I needed something stronger. I had also gained 25 pounds. My cardiologist in Tampa never said a word about it and told me to stop eating so much. When I got back to Georgia in February of 2009, I was in right heart failure and in critical need. My pulmonary pressures were in the 100's and Dr. Gossage immediately admitted me into the hospital and Flolan was started within 24 hours. At that time I was also started on Tracleer. After 2 weeks in the hospital, I was finally ready to go home and be a mommy again. (Oh yea, and did I mention I work full time as a speech language pathologist?) The truth was, it was tough. Crying every day, afraid I was going to die. It's just hard to get past that.
I started seeing a therapist and walking for exercise. I started attending support groups sponsored through PHA. I attended two groups, one in Sarasota and one in Lakeland, Florida. I went back to work. My mood started to get better and was somewhat becoming normal again. In September 2009 after seven months on Flolan, I had a right heart catheterization. My pulmonary pressures had gone back to normal. Me? Normal? "Maybe only from the neck down," Dr. Gossage would say.
In October, my doctor and I began weaning myself off the pump. In December, I started on a Treprostinil, an inhaled medication. Since February 2010, I have been on the inhaled medication Letaris and Sildenafil. I feel great. I exercise five times a week; I take my daughter to amusement parks, the beach, roller skating, bowling and work full time. I also just returned from PHA's International Conference and Scientific Sessions in California, where I got the nerve to start running again. It is a very slow process, but I feel awesome. I contribute my mental and medical success to my very supportive family, the support of the PH support groups and my awesome pulmonologist Dr. James Gossage. I couldn't have gotten to where I am today without the help of them. If you live in the Tampa Bay area in Florida, please attend our newly started support group. We would love to have you.
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Skip to comments.Father Ends Crime Spree by Shooting Armed Robber Outside Burger King
Posted on 04/08/2013 6:10:52 AM PDT by expat1000
A father who was robbed while eating with his family took out his own gun and shot the suspect, Miami Police said.
It happened at about 1 p.m. Friday at the Burger King restaurant at Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 17th Street, police said.
The robber walked in, flashed his gun to the family, demanded their valuables, then headed for the door, according to police.
The father, fearing for his life, took out his gun and shot the suspect in the leg as he stood outside the restaurant, police said.
The suspect, 36-year-old Travis Harris, jumped into a getaway Ford F-150 and took off, police said.
Police said they found him and the driver, 38-year-old Ramon Smalls, a few blocks away thanks to a Good Samaritan who followed them and alerted police. The two suspects were taken into custody at a gas station at Northeast 2nd Avenue and 26th Street after they apparently ran out of fuel, police added.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Too bad he didn't nick the femoral artery.
a getaway car that runs out of fuel, you can't make this stuff up
Priceless! I guess the Hospital wasn't in their plans either!
The suspect, 36-year-old Travis Harris,
jumped hopped into a getaway Ford F-150 and took off, police said.
Fixed it.
Poor planning at it's finest. One problem I see possibly confronting the family man. If the perp had already left the premises, is it a justifiable shoot? Not sure how the cops and DA in miami will handle that. Hopefully the dad walks. Oh yeah. Did the perps look like any of king hussein's sons?
My wife accuses me of being slightly OCD because I fill up the tank the night before we go to my son's house. My son lives 32 miles away.
If I were planning a robbery, I'd probably need to install a 30 gallon auxiliary tank and fill it up as well. These putzes probably had to do the robbery first to get enough cash to put in a couple of gallons.
Looks like the same guy, previous arrest. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer!
when I was in the military, they taught that we should never go below half a tank
"The father who fired his gun is not being charged, police said."
>>Oh yeah. Did the perps look like any of king husseins sons?
Three guesses. The first two don't count.
Dad might walk from criminal proscuetion (let's hope), but he's going to go bankrupt in civil court. Butthead stupid move on his part.
"a getaway car that runs out of fuel, you cant make this stuff up"
Sure sign of a weakened economy.
I shouldn't laugh at someone else's misfortune, but I'm glad I was not drinking coffee when I read that!
CBS video http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/04/05/two-suspects-jailed-one-shot-after-burger-king-robbery/
Exactly. Here in NC we can only shoot if we are in imminent danger and fear for our lives. I am glad the robber was caught, and I hope the shooter has a great lawyer.
Perhaps the reason for the robbery was to get money for gas to get to work the next day
He went outside to see where the perp went and/or get the license number. . .and Son of The Messiah was standing there holding a gun and the guy was in fear of his life or the life of an innocent by-stander. . .so the guy shot him. . .that's how I see it. . . .that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
They were stealing money to buy fuel. I have heard worse, like being caught while attempting to flee the scene on foot or on a bicycle. When committing robbery always drive a fully fueled pickup truck with a fully fueled motorcycle in the back and wear sneakers in case all else fails.
uh huh, that's the ticket
Just wondering...
the demographic "African American male, age 15-25" makes up what percentage of the population and what percentage of the crimes committed?
>>the demographic African American male, age 15-25 makes up what percentage of the population and what percentage of the crimes committed?
That's absolutely unfair - to young men. One of these guys was 36. Don't know about the other one.
I'm glad, but I think we can assume that the guy is either a cop, or related to a cop to get off with so little inquiry. Unfortunately, if that dad were just a regular citizen, he'd have the bright lights shined in his face and some poor woman crying on the news that her boy is a good man and never was gonna hurt nobody with his gun and now her poor baby'll never be able to walk normally again.
The perps stole the familys' cellphones. Would stand your ground come into play?
Wow... it used to be that once over 30, these guys slowed down a bit with their criminal behavior.
But I don't think it's "unfair" to examine the demographic that I outlined and the disproportional level of criminal behavior, especially violent criminal behavior.
The IBD had an article this morning that answered the question of "why"... and we all know this answer - fatherlessness.
And the cause of the fatherlessness is LIBERAL POLICY.
Why? I never understood that civil court thing. Just wondering.
That's where one person sues another person.
Not in Florida he won't.
Actually I probably should have inserted a /sarc tag as you did not miss the mark by much. Or maybe /smirk would have been best.
Yes, liberals do not much like the idea of either fathers or even mothers. All good things like love, nurturing, food, shelter, education should be provided by the STATE in their view.
The owner of the car told me how she stood there watching the fool and laughing.
With a biblical worldview, it's easy to see that these destructive policies and viewpoints are none other than Satanic in origin.
Dang. I should have figured that was the reason. They were "entitled" to the money (but not gas) so they could power their fossil fuel powered vehicle to get to their jobs all week long. I guess they must just do stick ups as a second job. Too bad so many folks have to have a second job huh?
Sounds like the Zimmerman case except the shooter wasn't getting his brains beaten in.
Pray for America
Even better if Dad kills the perp. His accomplice would be charged with felony murder. Sometimes, Florida doesn't completely suck.
It would have been in TX, I think- don't know about FL.
You forgot the belt to hold up their pants for when they have to run from the cops! lol
This is how it will play out:
Your Honor, my client was merely seeking to purchase some skittles, and while on the way realized he was out of gas. My client is guilty of nothing more than seeking to borrow gas money from "the father" - he did not deserve to get shot in the leg. For his injuries and mental anguish, we are asking you to award my client $100,000 in compensatory damages from "the father".
I wonder if he's related to Leonard
Yep. Not being familiar with Miami, I Googled it. They made it all of 0.8 miles before running out of gas. Which one are we going to call Einstein, and which one Dirac?
When I lived in FL and took the ccw class, they were very specific about when you could and couldn't take the shot. Things may have changed since I took the class but according to the instructors lesson at that time this would NOT have been a justifiable shoot. Shooter better have deep pockets since this asshat will look for deprivation of future earning potential compensation. Just another free ride for one of king husseins sons.
This is a marvelous lesson in some of the advantages of concealed carry.
CC sends the "degree of difficulty" of armed robbery through the roof, and gives huge advantages to the cc-carrying victim, even if the robber is brandishing a gun, pointing it at the victim, and the hammer is back.
First of all, the robber wants to rob, not kill, then get away. He does not want to be witnessed, or have somebody sneak up behind him. And he has to be aware of an escape route or two, and that they remain open.
So his attention is all over the place, looking in all directions, not just the victim, ready to bolt at moment's notice for several reasons, and, often as not, he is high on some drug or alcohol, further diminishing his capacity.
But the cc victim is focused. Find an opportunity, draw my gun while taking it off safe, and light the robber up. Your intent is not to rob the robber, but to shoot him. Hopefully a bunch, not once at a time with a pause to see if your bullets have "worked".
The cc victim can shoot any time he wants. If the robber says he has a gun, or holds the gun in his pocket, or is distracted, or when he reaches down to get valuables you have tossed on the ground, or even when he is leaving.
(Oh, and the big secret, that a lot of guns used by robbers don't even work.)
It's comparable to waiting for an opening when you want to make a left turn across traffic. If you see an opportunity, you can take it or not, or wait until a better opportunity. Or even wait for a red light in the opposing lane, and for a nice person to stop and leave you a gap to cross.
The tactical advantages of cc are huge. The dad in this instance did not want any risk to his kids at all, so at first cooperated, and only shot when the robber was trying to get away. He did right. Judgment call as to whether he did right enough times.
As a civil or criminal juror, I would accept the father's statement at face value. The predator would get nothing in civil court, and the decent citizen would not even be convicted of "disturbing the peace" or of "discharging a firearm within city limits" if I was on the jury. Decent people need to make time for jury duty and put an end to abusive prosecution (like Martin Zimmerman but less publicized) and to frivolous or abusive lawsuits (such as a criminal who whines because he got shot by his victim).
Hubby was in the army and then was a firefighter for 33 years. He is OCD about gas in the car. I will run it to the red line but anything close to 1/4 of a tank deserves a fill-up in his view.
Admittedly, I did not click out to the article and read the whole thing, but was there a "Crime Spree" or was this a simple robbery? I don't see any mention of the series of robberies or other crimes that one would normally think of when hearing the words "Crime Spree" as mentioned in the title.
Wife is emphatic about it after being caught low during an impending Florida hurricane, when all the gas stations shut down and bailed.
Years later a mechanic said that with these new cars, driving too often with a low tank left the internal gas pump exposed and not insulated by the gas, and tended to fail more often.
Between the two, I now top off when I get near a half tank.
IF they had the $80 for a fill up, they wouldn't be robbin' nobody!
oh... and why can't dad hit center mass, inside 15 yds.?
ONE MILLION carry permits in Florida. Crime is not a good idea.
CT is an free range crime zone, criminals are welcome in connecticut. Where the homes are rich, the citizens unarmed, and the TV shows use bows and arrows.
My wife and I argue about this. We drive cars with very good mileage. She fills up almost every time she passes a Sams Club or Costco (ok, a little exaggeration there), while I wait until 1/4 tank or so is left. That's still over 100 miles until empty. I don't think it is efficient to fill up at 1/2 tank, unless you plan on driving on roads where there is no gas for hundreds of miles.
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the "alleged" criminal had already demonstrated he was a danger to the father and others. It was an ongoing threat. He robbed a store in broad daylight, not a rational act. He could easily have decided to eliminate witnesses.
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With each international crisis inevitably come the self-styled "realists" proclaiming that there is no such thing as public international law. The Vietnam war is no exception, although here, due to the unusual complexity of the facts and the controversy over the applicable rules of international law, many of the published replies to the "realist's" positions have themselves been insubstantial and unconvincing. Let us look first, briefly, at the arguments of one of the realists, and then, with equal brevity, at some of the counterclaims. The remainder of this comment will be addressed to the larger issues involved and some suggested avenues for coping with the implementation of the ideal of world peace through world law.
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Kim in snow (Like a hot knife in butter.)
Kim on the beach (Like a dull knife in butter.)
Kim in mud. (Ahh, just right.)
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Hooray for the steel frame!ReplyDelete
Wow, it's like we went out and got new bikes together. I am very jealous that you have all new running gear, and your own mechanic. And a springy shock thing.ReplyDelete
Jill, she looks gorgeous. I am a bit enjoying your three hour test ride. I rode mine around the block.
Oh -- but tomorrow I am going to take her out for a ride on the train ... to show her off to the boys.
Congratulations. Enjoy your world.ReplyDelete
Nice rig! You're making me antsy to get my 29er built! I got the frame & fork, just need to get the rest. I'm actually using my Ultegra shifter/brake levers and road bar from my old road bike. I've ridden by 'cross bike on singletrack a couple times and found I really like the way it handled coming down sweeping singeltrack when I was down in the drops. So if I can get that feeling, but w/ fatty tires, a front shock and disc brakes, all the better! :-)ReplyDelete
I think my Stump Jumper ("Big Blue") suspects something is up though - he keeps giving me the eye everytime I walk by. Oh well, I'll get him out on the trail this wknd to make things right....
Sweet new ride.ReplyDelete
My old '98 GT Zaskar continues to collect dust in the shed. /shrug
"I can close my eyes and imagine a world where there's no job to keep, no cats to feed, no rent to pay; a world where the trails don't fade out and the road doesn't end; a world where I can lift my head up, and just ride."ReplyDelete
Nice rig! But I like your writing even better...
Not much can compare to the feeling of a new bike, the anticipation of the first ride and than finally the RIDE!!ReplyDelete
Brings back the feelings of Christmas as a child.
Keep her rubber side down and tell her how much you love her, often!
Jill, Tell Kim that Swamp Thing says hi. Welcome to the world of 29er.ReplyDelete
Hmm. Maybe I'll go an dig the MTB out and give it a service... when I've finished cutting holes in my car might be best though.ReplyDelete
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Hello, That first pic looks like it was taken from Douglas island? I used to live in the big J myself way back. I recently took a trip to Kodiak, to ride my bike of course. Here is a few pics on my Flickr page.ReplyDelete
Great blog, wish I had time to do one as complete as yours.-Tyler
Beautiful bike! I'm going on five wonderful single speed years on my Monkey. When my current frame dies, I'm sure I'll build up another Monkey. Of course, I'm only 135 pounds so the Monkey may never die..... :)ReplyDelete


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