RODNEY KING-- The start of a Template

CHP Officer Klaus Groeger points to a bullet hole in the ambulance that he just escorted on a run during the Rodney King Riots. 

Today, Rodney King, was found dead in his swimming pool.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/rodney-king-details-emerge-about-his-death-in-swimming-pool.html

King had long struggled with drugs and alcohol. He called himself a recovering addict but had not stopped drinking, and possessed a doctor's clearance for medical marijuana. King last year appeared on VH1’s "Celebrity Rehab," trying to tackle his fight with alcoholism.

King was drunk and unarmed when he was pulled over for speeding by Los Angeles Police Department officers and beaten.

The incident was captured on video by a civilian bystander, and the recording became an instant international sensation. Four of the officers were tried for excessive force. Their acquittal on April 29, 1992, touched off one of the worst urban riots in U.S. history.

"It felt like I was an inch from death," he said, describing what it was like to be struck by batons and stung by Tasers.

A jury acquitted the four police officers in the beating of King, unleashing an onslaught of pent-up anger. There were 54 riot-related deaths and nearly $1 billion in property damage as the seams of the city blew apart.

This was the beginning of the enforcement of Political Correctness by Special Interest Groups, also known as "Minorities". 

A husband/wife California Highway Patrol unit noticed the car Rodney was driving because it had expired tabs, meaning the registration was not up to date. The team attempted to stop Rodney, intending to write a "Fix-it" ticket. Rodney was intoxicated on PCP. (YEAH, I know. You are going to say" But his tests came back negative". However, as another CHP Officer, I was a Drug Recognition Expert -DRE- certified by the National Highway Transportation Administration. I had also had an experience with several on PCP, one who took 13 Law Enforcers to take him down, basically by Gang Tackling him. ) 

Rodney knew if he stopped, they would notice that, which was a violation of his Parole 

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lapd/kingarrests.html

King's Trouble with the Law Prior to His Beating

July 27, 1987:  According to a complaint filed by his wife, King beat her while she was sleeping, then dragged her outside the house and beat her again. King was charged with battery and pleaded "no contest."  He was placed on probation and ordered to obtain counseling.  He never got the counseling.November 3, 1989: King, brandishing a tire iron, ordered a convenience store clerk to empty the cash register.  The clerk grabbed the tire iron, causing King to fall backwards and knock over a pie rack.  King swung the rack at the clerk and fled the store with $200.  King was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, second-degree robbery, and intent to commit great bodily injury.  In a plea agreement, King pleaded guilty to the robbery charge and the other charges were dropped.  He was sentenced to two years in prison, but was paroled on December 27, 1990.

The Arrest of Rodney King on March 3, 1991

March 3, 1991:  After being seen speeding on the 210 freeway by CHP officers, King led them on a chase at speeds estimated at up to 110 to 115 mph.  When finally stopped, King refused requests to get into the prone position and appeared to charge one of the officers.  He was beaten and arrested.  King was charged with felony evading.  Charges were later dropped.King's 3/3/91 Arrest Record

King's Trouble with the Law After March 3, 1991

May 11, 1991:  King was pulled over for having an excessively tinted windshield.  Although King was driving without a license and his car registration had expired, King was not charged.May 28, 1991:  King picked up a transvestite prostitute in Hollywood who happened to be under surveillance by LAPD officers.  King and the prostitute were observed in an alley engaging in sexual activity.  When the prostitute spotted the officers, King sped away, nearly hitting one of them.  King later explained that he thought the vice officers were robbers trying to kill him.  No charges were filed. June 26, 1992:  King's second wife reported to police that King had hit her and she feared for her life.  King was handcuffed and taken to a police station, but his wife then decided against pressing charges. July 16, 1992:  King was arrested at 1:40 A.M. for driving while intoxicated.  No charges were filed. August 21, 1993: King crashed into a wall near a downtown Los Angeles nightclub.  He had a blood alcohol level of 0.19.  King was charged with violating his parole and sent for sixty day to an alcohol treatment center.  He was also convicted on the DUI charge and ordered to perform twenty days of community service. May 21, 1995:  King was arrested for DUI while on a trip to Pennsylvania.  King failed field sobriety tests, but refused to submit to a blood test.  He was tried and acquitted. July 14, 1995:  King got into an argument with his wife while he was driving, pulled off the freeway and ordered her out of the car.  When she started to get out, King sped off, leaving her on the highway with a bruised arm.  King was charged with assault with a deadly weapon (his car), reckless driving, spousal abuse, and hit-and-run.  King was tried on all four charges, but found guilty only of hit-and-run driving. March 3, 1999:  King allegedly injured the sixteen-year-old girl that he had fathered out of wedlock when he was seventeen, as well as the girl's mother.  King was arrested for injuring the woman, the girl, and for vandalizing property.  King claimed that the incident was simply "a family misunderstanding." September 29, 2001:  King was arrested for indecent exposure and use of the hallucinogenic drug PCP.

At the time, ALL law enforcers were instructed NOT to wrestle subjects appearing to be on PCP. The only approved method to subdue was the PR-24 baton. 
After the Los Angeles District Attorney was goaded into prosecuting the officers filmed, they were tried. But, at the same time, Rodney King was NOT indicted.
The Special Interests, not content with a finding of a judge and jury, cornered GHW Bush when he came to town to start his re-election campaign. To pacify them, GHW Bush promised to set the FBI after the Officers, which he did. They were charged with "Violation of Rodney King's CIVIL RIGHTS" which is a catch-all charge, kind of like "Conduct Unbecoming", but this one carries a prison sentence.
The damage did not stop there. The Husband Wife team were given Written Reprimands for not timely informing their Supervisor--A Sergeant-- of the event. Their Sergeant was given Days Off for "Not initiating an administrative Inquiry" Their Lieutenant was interrogated, had a hear attack and medically retired. Their Captain also got Days Off for "Not initiating an Administrative Inquiry" . New rules came down from CHP HQ. One was that, if you, the CHP Officer saw a member of an allied agency (Another Police Dept) using brutality, you the Officer were to inform that Law Enforcer that he/she was being brutal, then, at the soonest opportunity, inform your immediate superior of what you had observed. (At  which time, you would be also required to document this in a Memo) 
To me view, this was a step toward electing Barack Obama. 
You see, in both cases.the general public and the Media both ignored all the sins of King and Obama, and focused only on their race. Race gave them both a pass. 

Big Sur Marathon

I ran this course 4 times. It will kick your butt. But, next year, you can't wait to go again

A requisite feeling toward your "Other"

This was one of my favorites, but I never knew about the group or singer until about 2005.

My Fav song, my Fave singer

You can't fix stupid

Granted, DNC Chair Rep Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is not the sharpest crayon in the box, in fact she is not the sharpest crayon in the dull crayon box. But her time on today's Fox News Sunday will go into the dumb politician hall of fame. She was lead into a logic trap by host Chris Wallace and can almost see smoke come out of her ears from her overworked underdeveloped brain as she attempted to free herself.

At issue was her criticism of GOP Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.  According to Ms Schultz, as CEO of Bain Capital, Romney was responsible for layoffs made by companies which received Bain investment dollars. Following that logic Wallace asked Schultz if the CEO of the United States, President Obama was responsible for the layoffs at Solyndra

You see says Dumb, Dumb Debbie ""The decisions that were made at Solyndra that ultimately led to their bankruptcy were those of people who worked at Solyndra." The CEO of the investment company, the United States of America bears no responsibility.  But the layoffs made at companies Bain invested in, were not because of decisions made by the people who worked at those companies, those were the fault of the CEO of the investment company.

The video below is almost comical the way Schultz tries to get out from under her own words. 



A standard phrase of Ron White, one of my favorite comedians is "You can't fix stupid." Sometimes I wonder if he came up with that phrase to warn us about Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.  She may not be the dumbest person in congress, she competes with Barbara Boxer and Sheila Jackson Lee for that title, but may very well be the biggest simpleton ever to hold a leadership position in either major political party.


http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/01/chris-wallace-makes-dumb-dumb-debbie.html

"FREE" Medical Care

When you get a chance, put EMTALA in GOOGLE.

This was a "gift" from Teddy Kennedy and the other Senator from Massachusetts
It says
IF you have a hospital that offers Emergency Treatment-- YOU MUST
accept all comers, and treat them
YOU CAN'T
extract payment from them
transfer them to another hospital (ALTHOUGH--This was what Michelle Obama did before he became president)

Michelle Obama's Patient-Dumping Scheme

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/blog/id.9240/blog_detail.asp

But they keep telling us that illegal aliens don't cost the nation anything...that they actually add to the economy!

Hundreds of patients have been languishing for months or even years in New York City hospitals, despite being well enough to be sent home or to nursing centers for less-expensive care, because they are illegal immigrants or lack sufficient insurance or appropriate housing. As a result, hospitals are absorbing the bill for millions of dollars in unreimbursed expenses annually while the patients, trapped in bureaucratic limbo, are sometimes deprived of services that could be provided elsewhere at a small fraction of the cost. “Many of those individuals no longer need that care, but because they have no resources and many have no family here, we, unfortunately, are caring for them in a much more expensive setting than necessary based on their clinical need,” said LaRay Brown, a senior vice president for the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation. Under state law, public hospitals are not allowed to discharge patients to shelters or to the street.Medicaid often pays for emergency care for illegal immigrants, but not for continuing care, and many hospitals in places with large concentrations of illegal immigrants, like Texas, California and Florida, face the quandary of where to send patients well enough to leave. Officials in New York City say they have many such patients who are draining money from the health system as the cost of keeping people in acute-care hospitals continues to escalate…

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/nyregion/nowhere-to-go-patients-linger-in-hospitals-at-a-high-cost.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

By SAM ROBERTS

Hundreds of patients have been languishing for months or even years in New York City hospitals, despite being well enough to be sent home or to nursing centers for less-expensive care, because they are illegal immigrants or lack sufficient insurance or appropriate housing.

As a result, hospitals are absorbing the bill for millions of dollars in unreimbursed expenses annually while the patients, trapped in bureaucratic limbo, are sometimes deprived of services that could be provided elsewhere at a small fraction of the cost.

“Many of those individuals no longer need that care, but because they have no resources and many have no family here, we, unfortunately, are caring for them in a much more expensive setting than necessary based on their clinical need,” said LaRay Brown, a senior vice president for the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation. Under state law, public hospitals are not allowed to discharge patients to shelters or to the street.

Medicaid often pays for emergency care for illegal immigrants, but not for continuing care, and many hospitals in places with large concentrations of illegal immigrants, like Texas, California and Florida, face the quandary of where to send patients well enough to leave. Officials in New York City say they have many such patients who are draining money from the health system as the cost of keeping people in acute-care hospitals continues to escalate.

But even if Medicaid pays for some care, taxpayer dollars are ultimately being consumed by patients who could be cared for in nursing homes or other health facilities, and even at home if supportive services were available. Care for a patient languishing in a hospital can cost more than $100,000 a year, while care in a nursing home can cost $20,000 or less.

Patients fit to be discharged from hospitals but having no place to go typically remain more than five years, Ms. Brown said. She estimated that there were about 300 patients in such a predicament throughout the city, most in public hospitals or higher-priced skilled public nursing homes, though a smattering were in private hospitals.

One patient, a former hospital technician from Queens, has lived at the city’s Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility on Roosevelt Island for 13 years because the hospital has no place to send him, Ms. Brown said. The patient, who is in his mid-60s, has been there since an arterial disease cost him part of one leg below the knee and left him in a wheelchair. The city’s public health system declined to provide the names of any long-term patients or make them available for interviews, citing confidentiality laws.

Five years ago, Yu Kang Fu, 58, who lived in Flushing, Queens, and was a cook at a Chinese restaurant in New Jersey, was dropped off by his boss at New York Downtown Hospital, a private institution in Manhattan, complaining of a severe headache. Mr. Yu was admitted to the intensive-care unit with a stroke.

Within days, he was well enough for hospital personnel to begin planning for his release, but as an illegal immigrant (he had overstayed a work visa a decade ago), he was ineligible for health benefits. And no nursing home or rehabilitation center would take him. Neither would his son in China nor the Chinese government, although the hospital volunteered to fly him there at its expense.

Mr. Yu’s protracted hospital stay was first chronicled in an article in The New York Times in 2008 about the treatment of uninsured immigrants.

Mr. Yu remained in the hospital for over four years until he was transferred last spring to the Atlantis Rehabilitation and Residential Health Care Facility, a private center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, after the federal government certified him as a “permanent resident under color of law,” essentially acknowledging that he could not be returned to China and qualifying him for medical benefits.

“This gentleman cost us millions of dollars,” said Jeffrey Menkes, the president of New York Downtown. “We try to provide physical, occupational therapy, but this is an acute-care hospital. This patient shouldn’t be here.”

Mr. Yu said that the hospital had treated him well, but that he had made enormous progress in regaining his ability to walk through his rehabilitation regimen at Atlantis. He hopes to return to China when he is well enough to be discharged.

“Here, I am very happy,” he said. “This is very nice — No. 1.”

New York Downtown serves a largely immigrant population, and many patients have no insurance or proof that they are in the United States legally, which is necessary for discharge purposes and eventual reimbursements, said Chui Man Lai, assistant vice president of patient services at the hospital.

“These patients often arrive in the emergency room acutely ill and unaccompanied, and we have to treat them until they can be discharged safely,” Ms. Lai said. “The hospital is required, by law and its mission, to care for these patients.”

Health professionals refer to them as “permanent patients,” trussed in red tape and essentially living in hospitals already operating on thin margins. In some cases, health care professionals say, grown children leave ailing parents at the hospitals and go on vacation. Officials call that practice a “pop drop.”

Though the problem is particularly severe in the municipal hospital system, longtime patients place a financial burden wherever they end up.

New York Downtown spends about $2 million annually for such patients out of an operating budget of about $200 million. An acute-care patient can cost the hospital more than $1,500 a day.

Hospitals are reluctant to complain publicly about such patients for fear of being perceived as callously seeking to dump nonpaying patients. Elected officials are generally loath to be seen as encouraging illegal immigrants by changing reimbursement formulas. The issue was never addressed during the debate over national health care legislation.

Longtime patients, meanwhile, risk getting sicker because they are exposed to diseases that fester in hospitals.

“At times there is a fine line regarding who meets the criteria to be admitted to a hospital, but if there’s no way to immediately contact a family member and the patient needs nonmedical help or is homeless, you’re obligated to provide shelter,” said Dr. Warren B. Licht, who recently retired as New York Downtown’s chief medical officer after seven years to return to full-time clinical practice in the wellness and prevention center that he founded there. “You can’t kick a patient out of the hospital.”

New York Downtown, Dr. Licht said, has offered to pay for nursing home care for patents who are uninsured and are illegal immigrants, but care facilities are reluctant to risk taking patients for fear that they would be saddled with unexpected and unreimbursed expenses.

“If the patient does not have or cannot obtain health insurance to pay for the next level of care, other non-acute-care health facilities won’t routinely accept a patient,” Dr. Licht said.

New York Downtown has four or five patients out of a total of 180 who have no place to go, he said, adding, “It cost us several million dollars a year in a hospital struggling to keep its head above water.”

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