Double Barreled Opinions

Military Dumping Injured Soldier's Benefits...

We should all be shocked and outraged by this treatment of our injured military personal: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070409/kors. It's a long article that details an investigation into the military tricking injured soldiers into taking a Chapter 5-13 personality disorder for pre-existing condition discharge and thereby loosing their medical benefits... all to save the military money because they don't have to provide medical care to soldiers discharged with a pre-existing personality disorder. Soldiers discharged under Chapter 5-13 can't collect disability pay. Also, if a soldier dismissed under Chapter 5-13 hasn't served out his contract, he has to give back part of his re-enlistment bonus. That amount is often larger than the soldier's final paycheck. We should do all we can to bring this...

Drunken Illegal Immigrant Kills 21 Year Old Student in Car Crash

Missouri: On 4/21/2007 in Maryland Heights, MO, a drunken illegal immigrant rear-ended a car stopped at a stoplight, killing one passenger and injuring the other passenger and the driver. The illegal immigrant ran from his car and was found hiding in near by woods 3 hours later, still intoxicated. Here's the link to the newspaper article: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/0EB81A80B8094F9B862572C50014DF2F?OpenDocument. I learned of this tragedy from the message board on Rhonda Vincent's web site (www.RhondaVincent.com). Rhonda is a bluegrass superstar, 7 times IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Female Vocalist of the year award winner. There was a message posted on Rhonda's web site by her husband asking for prayers for the family: the father of the girl that was killed was his best...