Trump Freefall 59% Record Disapproval Of Americans How Low Can He Go? "Trump Mental Meltdown""Unfitness""Instability""Unmoored""Unwell" & "Mad" Trump Serial Sex Assault Braggart Bogus "Thanksgiving Thank You" Stinking Pile Of Vile Lies Disgraces U.S. Spews Repugnant Broadcast To Troops Trump Exploits To Thank Self For Delusions Of Success Repeat Lying False Promises To Hostage Audience Of Soldiers In Line Of Fire Overseas Doing U.S. Military Service That Bogus Patriot Trump Shirked By Lies When Called Upon To Serve Trump Worst Approval This Point In Term In 7+ Decades Of Polling Presidents Devastating "Disapproval" And "Strong Disapproval" Break Lowest Marks Yet

UPDATED to 8 December 2017

       Sunday, 5 November 2017, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Struggling incompetent President Trump's performance in his first nine months in office has been rated by a majority of Americans even more harshly than the low expectations they had for his presidency when he took office, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News survey.
       As Trump approaches his first year since his victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election Trump has achieved what likely is his one of his most undesired historical statistical distinctions being a performance approval rating that is the lowest for any president at this point in his presidency of any president in more than seven decades of polling. Less than four in ten Americans , just 37%, now approve of Trump's presidential performance.
       Similarly Trump has reached 59% "disapproval" with the "strong disapproval" of a full 50% of Americans of how Trump is doing his job. Though these latter figures are not much worse than Trump's ratings from this past summer they still now mark the lowest such ratings of his presidency.   
       The above survey numbers are the most prominent in the polling which also breaks down Trump's mostly low and often underwater ratings among a variety of voter groups and issues. This newest just released Trump performance survey reports the results of a Washington Post-ABC News poll performed Oct. 29-Nov. 1, among a random national sample of 1,005 adults with an error margin of +/- 3.5%, with other data from Post-ABC polls, Carter and previous Gallup polls  Readers interested in the full survey polling results in all categories can go to the full article at the first link below.
       UPDATE Thursday, 23 November 2017 - Trump exploits traditional Presidential "Thanksgiving Thank You" broadcast from his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate to U.S. armed forces including those sent back again by Trump to Afghanistan longest-ever U.S. conflict Trump exploiting the traditional message opportunity to give himself more political kudos for his non-existent accomplishments or those belonging to others and to further mislead and lie in repeated desperate attempts to "Get Any Bill" really a massive tax cut giveaway to richest including himself and GOP donors demanding a return on investment in bought Republican seats while adding at least $1.5 trillion plus interest debt burden on other Americans living and not yet born as well as potentially simultaneously also stripping away healthcare from millions of those Americans. Readers interested in more information can go to the second link below.
       UPDATE Friday, 1 December 2017 - The rapidly mentally deteriorating Trump whom nauseatingly corrupt Un-American GOP congressional hypocrites are trying to drag like a dying racehorse over the finish line of the most obviously destructive piece of legislation known in modern history already having himself been recorded unprompted confessing to being a serial sexual assaulter has now himself among many continuing mostly tweet attack lines attempted to distract anyone he can under steeply mounting pressures of his failure to pass legislation, the closing in of near daily Trump-Russia probe new revelations now including him and his family, as well as the real threat of nuclear war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula entirely due to his administration's complete ineptitude and inability to engage in urgently needed top-level seasoned diplomacy further exacerbated by rumors of Secretary of State Tillerson's imminent departure while the U.S. has no South Korean ambassador and other regional state department high officials in place has further taken it upon himself to include in his attacks those on non-Republican persons accused of sexual misconduct while also implicitly clearly supporting without expressly saying so Alabama convincingly accused pedophile Ron Moore as the nation's newest seated GOP official (why not?) for the Alabama U.S. Senate seat vacated by now U.S. Attorney General "Racist Disgrace" Jefferson Beauregard "Jefe" Sessions III.
       UPDATE Friday, 8 December 2017 - Joe Scarborough's Washington Post piece "Trump's Mental Meltdown" linked to below warns of present serious concerns about the danger of President Trump's seeming increasing lack of mental fitness and competence written by someone who has known President Trump and many White House staff, politicians and press around the President well for some time while also reminding readers that as early as August 2016 he and co-host Mika Brezinski warned of Trump's flippant remarks alarming foreign policy officials and others about his potential use of nuclear weapons in places ranging from North Korea to Europe as evidence enough even then that Trump was neither fit nor competent to serve as President. For interested readers "Trump's Mental Meltdown" linked to below further primarily cites a range of sources best in positions to know expressing real immediate concerns about the dangers of Trump's lack of fitness and competence including mostly those in the Washington, D.C. community with the quoted words in the headline above coming from Trump's staff to White House reporters to politicians on and off the record friend and foe alike.

o https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-trumps-performance-lags-behind-even-tepid-public-expectations/2017/11/04/35d2a912-bf4d-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.d1cb28168eb1
o https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-thanksgiving/in-thanksgiving-message-trump-hails-military-gains-and-big-beautiful-fat-tax-cuts-idUSKBN1DN1OT?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29
o https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-mental-meltdown/2017/12/07/a010dbcc-d605-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?utm_term=.99bc4c6863af Video 2:59 0:18

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Corrupt Texas GOP Governor Greg "Payoff" Abbott And Bought Republican Lawmakers "Awash" In Oil And Gas Bribes To Force-"Frack" All Texans' Home Turf Including Parks, Day-Care Centers Even When Disaster Strikes

     Saturday, 18 April 2015, AUSTIN, TX - All good hardworking Texans who long have prided themselves as fiercely independent living in the natural beauty of the Lone Star state will have one less decision to make even about the sanctity of their own home ground and communities and the lives of their family and children as Denton, Texas has learned the hard way fracked in the face by long-corrupt GOP enemy of the people now-Governor Greg "Payoff" Abbott and his greedsick Republican lawmakers "awash" in the luxury of oil and gas bribes about to grab the very home ground of all Texans including also their parks and day-care centers right from underneath their feet and that of their families and children even leaving them powerless to stop "fracking" when disaster strikes right at home.
     The above expected Abbott forced-"fracking" ready to creep underneath the home ground of Denton, Texas that does not want it and now of all Texans, their families and children whether they want it or not officially called "hydraulic fracturing" (totally outlawed in some places where the people are allowed to make their own decisions) is now known to cause widespread devastating earthquakes and especially when done recklessly to widely pollute irreplaceable precious clean water resources with a highly toxic poisonous chemical stew force-injected into people's home turf. "Fracking" sounds great if it means more and cheaper independent American gas and oil but not if one's hard-earned home property loses all value and not at all if one and/or one's family and children become sick or even dead.
     Readers interested in more information about the above expected Texas Republican forced-"fracking"  law for Denton, Texas and all Texas communities even when disaster strikes can go to the Associated Press release link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/us/politics/texas-bill-prohibiting-cities-from-banning-fracking-advances.html?ref=todayspaper

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Johns Hopkins Sued For $1 Billion By 750 Over Program Which Intentionally Infected Participants With Syphilis, Gonorrhea And Other Venereal Diseases

     Friday, 3 April 2015, BALTIMORE, MD - The Johns Hopkins Hospital System affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins) widely regarded as one of the best of institutions of its kind in the world was sued for $1 billion on Wednesday by "study" participants as well as their spouses and children for Johns Hopkins' "substantial influence" including controlling advisory panels and planning and authorizing medical experiments in which study participants were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal diseases the Associated Press (AP) reports.
     The plaintiffs number 750 study participants as well as their family members. According to the AP this is the latest suit over medical experiments allegedly substantially conducted by Johns Hopkins in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s in which the subjects were infected with venereal diseases under the auspices of a United States government program. One Johns Hopkins lawyer reportedly called the charges "baseless". Previously in 2012 a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the federal government based on the same medical experiments on unspecified grounds.
     Interested readers may refer for to the below link for more information about the AP report including links for those interested in more information about gonorrhea, syphilis and venereal diseases.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/maryland-johns-hopkins-sued-over-disease-study.html?ref=todayspaper

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Fentanyl Narcotic Heroin Additive Nationwide Alert Issued By U.S. DEA

     Tuesday, 31 March 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters on 18 March 2015 issued a nationwide alert on the Schedule II narcotic anesthetic/analgesic fentanyl and analogs which reportedly are 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin according to DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart who also states that the euphoric effects of fentanyl are indistinguishable from morphine and heroin.
     Ms. Leonhart states that fentanyl is potentially lethal at doses as low as 0.25 milligrams. The Ninth Amendment does note that the drug not uncommonly is prescribed by pain control specialists including as patches for controlled release through the skin. Fentanyl may be laced into heroin and can be extremely dangerous by injection having been known to kill even anesthesiologists who given more ready access to fenatanyl have abused it and overdosed and according to at least one physician have in some cases even been found dead while on duty in hospitals with syringes still in their arms.
     The DEA warning was issued largely because nationally "heroin abuse has increased". Ninth Amendment field reporters confirm that in fact by all appearances a renewed heroin epidemic affecting all "classes" of society has been sweeping across the United States. This has been recognized individually by a rapidly growing number of states left to face the consequences of the problem but seemingly has not yet been publicly recognized by the United States government. CNN's Anthony Bordain in his "Parts Unknown" series while reporting one heroin ravaged upstate New York community where he attended a meeting of former addicts apparently identified himself as having been addicted and moreover also observed that a heroin epidemic has caught up not only traditional problem urban areas but small and rural communities stretching across the country without discrimination as to race or economic status.
     Reasons for this new heroin epidemic may include that not for the first time a hopefully well-intentioned DEA initiative has gone seemingly predictably badly awry in this case being the rescheduling of opiate medications widely prescribed in the United States with no effective followup or backup plan in the case of consequences unpredictable apparently at least to the DEA. The DEA is not a health agency but an enforcement agency like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) both under the auspices of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
     The Ninth Amendment previously has reported in an earlier post for example on the DEA's years-long effort pressuring the independent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reschedule hydrocodone aka Norco aka Vicadin and other names apparently finally successfully resulting in later 2014 in the prescription medication's reclassification from Schedule III to Schedule II (with a six-month grandfathering exception into 2015 for patients with refillable prescriptions of the medication at the time of the rescheduling). At the time of the rescheduling hydrocodone was the second most prescribed medication in the United States after hypertension medications.
     Nationwide millions of former and present patients have become addicted to opiates in recent years by prescription medications from physicians who "Big Pharma" effectively through massive "promotional" bribery were convinced to suspend disbelief that opiates were addictive. At least one pharmaceutical company while hosting physicians to an all expenses paid week-long paid junket at an exotic location at one of the "teaching presentations" justifying the tax-free promotional holiday actually represented that obviously potentially highly addictive opiates posed less than a 1% chance of patient addiction. The aggressive efforts of big pharmaceutical companies to market opiates through physicians was wildly successful resulting in an unprecedented number of patients being prescribed them in various opium derived and synthetic opioid medications.
     Now with the changed regulatory climate many patients are finding themselves addicted to opiates as physicians effectively dump many of them on the streets as they try to distance themselves from intense scrutiny from the DEA, FDA or state medical boards according to more than one physician. This pressure has increased to the point of increased personal visits by federal drug agents extending according to one pharmacist even to pharmacies. Meanwhile many states have brought or joined lawsuits against the large pharmaceutical companies for their extreme marketing of drugs known to result in high addiction rates which are costing states hundreds of millions of dollars in health costs and untold potentially "ruined lives" of their citizens.
     The Ninth Amendment emphasizes "potentially" ruined lives as a reminder that as shown by Anthony Bourdain's above-referenced CNN "Unknown Parts" episode in which he sat in on a community meeting of former addicts where government assistance is completely lacking or unavailable there are others who have come to fill the vacuum or have long been there as in the case of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and other similar groups. The Ninth Amendment does not purport to provide any medical advice whatsoever to anyone at all. Those in need of medical advice must seek it from a properly licensed health professional.
     Readers interested in more information on fentanyl and its analogs may go to the link directly below to the above-referenced DEA headquarters alert below although directed mainly to law enforcement is informative and also has a link to another DEA site section with apparently more scientific and/or medical background on fentanyl. Those who do not wish to visit the DEA site should be able easily to search for more information on fentanyl using their preferred search engine or the Wikipedia search function located here at the bottom section of the Ninth Amendment.

http://www.dea.gov/divisions/hq/2015/hq031815.shtml

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Alzheimer's Cure Memory And Cognitive Function Fully Restored Potentially In Sufferers By New Ultrasound Treatment Successful In 75% Of Diseased Mice

        25 March 2015, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA - Two researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland earlier this month reported in a study published in the Science Translational Medicine journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science that a non-invasive ultrasound treatment had fully restored the memory of 75% of mice without damaging surrounding brain tissue. The researchers found that the ultrasound treatment cleared their brains of neurotoxic amyloid plaques which are responsible for memory and cognitive function loss in those suffering from Alzheimer's.
       One of the researchers Jurgen Gotz in a press release referenced in Science Alert by BBC Crew on 18 March 2015 linked to second below said that in his opinion the term "breakthrough" was appropriate for the treatment which in addition to being non-invasive did not require the use of any drugs. Gotz however warned the study results are preliminary as the treatment next will be tested in higher animals such as sheep and if successful is hoped to be scheduled for human trials in 2017.
       The Ninth Amendment without having further researched the following nor claiming any medical knowledge whatsoever upon which to rely nevertheless in the meantime refers interested readers to its 27 September 2014 post linked to third below concerning a British Medical Journal (BMJ) study finding a possible link of benzodiazepines and Z-class sleeping drugs to Alzheimer's onset. One MD, Phd. commenter to the New York Times article reporting on the BMJ study referenced in the Ninth Amendment post in refutation to the study's proposition observed that "there is a fairly large scientific literature showing benzodiazepines reduce the deposition of amyloid as well protect from the toxicity of the abnormal protein" therefore protecting from Alzheimer's onset. The Ninth Amendment emphasizes that it has no medical knowledge whatsoever on which anyone should rely. Pertinent links to the full BMJ study as well as the New York Times article including the above and all comments can be found via the below Ninth Amendment link.
       According to the Alzheimer's Association there are more than 5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's which with the United States aging population has been called a "fast growing world-wide epidemic" by the National Institutes of Health. Readers interested in more information on the claimed "breakthrough" ultrasound treatment headlining this post will find more information via the first link below to the 24 March 2015 Huffington Post article reporting on it. Yes that is a lot of links to remember.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/alzheimers_n_6924974.html

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function

http://waronnothing.blogspot.com/2014/09/bmj-study-links-benzodiazepine-anxiety.html

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Best Teeth Whitening Strategies Do Not Require Dentist Visit In Most Cases

       Monday, 23 March 2015, NEW YORK, NY - According to the New York Times "Well" blog linked to below the best teeth whitening strategies do not in most cases require a visit to the dentist although the article sets out different considerations for different individuals taking into account their habits and the current condition and sensitivity of their teeth and gums.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/ask-well-whiter-teeth/?_r=0

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In Final Texas Governor TV Debate State Senator Wendy Davis KO's Corrupt GOP AG "Payday" Greg "Dark Money" Abbott As Abbott Hangs To Long Failed Perry Policies And Davis Reels Off Laundry List Of Abbott Corrupt Official Actions Bought By Dark Money Payoffs Leaving Abbott Defenseless Spouting Empty Drivel

       Wednesday, 1 October 2014, DALLAS, TX - Millions of Texans last night saw exactly what package of used dirty junk goods they would be buying were they to elect as Governor corrupt GOP A.G. "Payday" Greg "Dark Money" Abbott a squirrelly hollow puppet of big dirty "dark money" donors who has made a career of outright accepting illegal "contributions" form dirty entities as to which he has had official decisions pending (and consistently found in their favor) and from groups such as "Payday Loan Stores" to allow loopholes for them letting them collect obscene usurious interest rates on "loans" at far above Texas criminal usury rates to good hard working Texans as well as Abbott grabbing additional large sums of money from chemical companies just before deciding that the location of huge stockpiles of chemicals they stored and dumped even on properties neighboring homes, churches, schools or anywhere else throughout the State did not have to be disclosed to Texans under any circumstances at all regardless of what hazards and dangers they might pose to all in the vicinity who did not even know they were there and then as he was directly asked about but failed to acknowledge also along came Abbott pocket-lining insurance companies running amok raising Texans' homeowner insurance premiums relentlessly with no required prior state review of increases whatsoever under a Republican insurance commissioner who Wendy Davis identified as being completely in big insurance pockets to which Abbott par for the course made no objection nor response other than that he was not an actuary.

       Typical of all Abbott responses which were either lies, omissions or promises of fantasyland improvements with no plausible explanation at all of how they would be accomplished in which he obviously had no conviction whatsoever to things particularly such as education and highways based on Perry disastrous policies that he would not change at all. Abbott volunteered nothing about his close connections and payoffs from payday loan stores, chemical stockpilers and polluters, super-rich insurance companies robbing Texas homeowners blind with outrageous premium increases and who knows how many others who had paid him off for favorable official decisions as Attorney General and have dumped dark money into his campaign coffers drooling for the day when they can own him completely as Governor.  He also virtually assured Texans that like Perry he would reject 100s of billions of dollars in federal funding so that Texas would not have to follow guidelines from the federal governement despite the pleas of Republican chambers of commerce and judges around the state that he not do so just so that as Wendy Davis put it Texans' federal taxes could keep going to Washington and coming back to California and New York for which she described "Abbott as California's best friend".
       Abbott further said he would continue to oppose abortions even for victims of rape and incest be he was "a Catholic". He responded to Wendy Davis' challenge that he as Governor veto any legislative attempt to terminate Texas' so-called "Dream Act" which sets out an official policy for allowing undocumented aliens to continue their studies with higher education.  Abbott also reiterated his opposition to providing any schooling for undocumented aliens as well as a mechanism proposed by Wendy Davis whereby they could obtain some form of driver identification that would allow them to legally operate cars and therefore be able to buy insurance as she argued that Texas must accept the current reality that many driving on Texas roads anyway have no means of getting insurance which situation Wendy Davis described as a constant source of large-scale complaint from her constituents involved in accidents with uninsured drivers.  Abbott simply took the position the nothing should be done to provide education or means for undocumented aliens to drive and purchase insurance because it was symptomatic of much larger immigration problems of a broken system which the federal government was responsible for fixing.
       He made no acknowledgment of the fact that the system has been broken for decades because of competing demands by powerful interests for strict immigration reform fundamentally opposed by the reality that major employers depend entirely on the availability of such labor willing to take below a living wage in order for their businesses to survive. Apparently scant attention has been paid to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's admonition reflecting the longevity of this huge obstacle to immigration reform when he declared during his own Presidency seventy-five years ago that "[a]ny business which depends for its survival on labor paid below a living wage has no place in this country".
       If Texans take a good look at anything or even any look at all beyond a thirty-second Abbott TV commercial at this sorry excuse for a man much less a Texan and compare him to a true fighting Texas champion such as Senator Wendy Davis who actually was the will and endurance to hold tight and smack right back in the thick of it already having worked hard for years to make the improvements for Texas she spoke of realities when she is Governor then it is plain to see that pitiful Abbott with his handful of rich dirty masters of his every decision and who will own him in the office they will spend every last taxpayer dollar he illegally gives them to buy him Texas' Governorship that Abbott should in all fairness not stand a chance of winning anything but a seat in the Big House where he has so mercilessly sent so many others for life (and death) even if they can hardly count to three.

       This typifies Abbott whose debate responses made it clear that honest, decent, hard-working Texans were not going to have a chance in hell from this corrupt indicted Perry policy clone to advance  themselves be it at their homes, work, school, church, healthcare non-provider nor anything meaningful at all in their lives because if they allow this corrupt old boy completely out of tune with the present realities of the Nation's second most populous state they will continue to have no friend at all in the Texas Governor's mansion.
       Just more of the same that is driving all but the very richest in and out of the state into the more and more contaminated and paved ground under more polluted water and the dirtiest skies in the Nation suffering on in the continued Texas "freefall" started by the so-called indicted Perry Texas "miracle" of taking a great state with strong schools and clean environment and reasonable health and safety laws and standards to one where as the Republican dying old boy network mumbles and drools repeatedly that Texans have the "right to work" only problem being that that is hard to appreciate when one is dead from lack of training and prematurely ended education, health care, most every social service and unable to breathe the air befouled the air by the likes of Perry, Abbott and the whole rotten GOP crowd's "dark money" Texas-spoiling cronies propping them up in office to do their bidding.

       In truth it is a complete mystery why Abbott and his old boy cronies and those who pay them off are not already in federal prison given that their boss corrupt indicted GOP Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry despite all his mockery of the criminal justice system may soon be there himself for a maximum term of 99 years. In the meantime for those who missed it Abbott was so confused by his own lies and omissions by the end of the debate that he called himself "Governor" of Texas when he told all he had not done (actually as Attorney General) but would when he was "Governor" .
       Finally in one of Abbott's most disingenuous moments of the debate when Senator Wendy Davis referred to the $100 million that Abbott now has received back in Texas taxpayers' money from recipients of Texas Enterprise Fund millions meant to promote Texas businesses but who had never even filed applications for the money that Abbott's office was required to collect and evaluate and maintain but now reports are nowhere to be found Abbott claimed he was "glad' that she had brought it up as he was always grateful to be apprised of such new information. New information indeed as Abbott no doubt is perfectly aware that the Texas Enterprise Fund applications are as Senator Wendy Davis charged the responsibility of Abbott's office to manage and it would seem most unlikely that Abbott was unaware he received $100 million dollars in return from recipients who had never even applied for funds meant to promote Texas business enterprises and not to reward the responsible Texas state official who had allowed them to be disbursed to parties who had not even requested them.
       And this comes as news to Perry's Attorney General Texas chief law enforcer (or was it violator) Abbott?  These guys should keep recording devices under their desks (if Perry even has a desk) because things are beginning to sound eerily similar to their fellow party hero Richard Nixon and his co-conspirators shrugging off their crimes (recorded a on taping mechanism maintained on the orders of Nixon himself) right until days before Nixon would find himself to the first and only President in United States history forced to resign from office because of his criminal acts.
       Incidentally after watching Perry engaging in continuous corrupt actions and Abbott speechless but unapologetic in the face being confronted by a laundry list of his criminal payoffs and tainted official acts even as the State's highest law "enforcement" official one may perhaps understand the absence of Texas law enforcement on the scene since virtually everyone in Texas civil service owes their job to Perry at this point because of his interminable Governorship and because of his amply demonstrated willingness to flaunt the law abusing his office with reprisals and paybacks routinely without any apparent reprercussion. But one must ask where the hell the rest of the feds have been in Texas? Is this the south side of Boston where the mob owns the feds or what?
       One might suspect with good reason that the Texas good old boys own the feds here as well given the feds' complacency in the face of seemingly largely unconcealed wrongdoing at least until bringing back the recent grand jury indictment against the "debate miracle" brain dead still standing idiot Texas Governor Rick "Payback" Perry hustled back off to run Texas to get some glasses and continue as Texas Governor again and now reputed 2016 Presidential re-hopeful provided his is not in prison and his handlers can squeeze enough WD-40 into his above-the-shoulder orifices as least to keep him running for about two minutes at a time like a dying horse getting that last shot of speed before the final laps of his career or the boxer slobbering against the ropes pumped up for one last round and pointed and prodded in the direction of the opponent before the fight is called and he is sent off for permanent "recuperation" never again to appear in the ring or even speak a complete sentence in public.

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Insured Patients Who Go To "In-Network" Hospitals Ambushed By Huge Bills From "Contract" ER Doctors Who Accept No Insurance

       Tuesday, 30 September 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The New York Times in the first of a series of articles on the shameful state of the United States healthcare system to which interested readers may follow the below link reports that fully insured patients who are careful to use "in-network" hospitals still are increasingly completely ambushed by later surprise huge bills particularly for "contract" Emergency Room (ER) physicians by whom they have no choice but to be seen having been made to sign mountains of forms when usually waiting in distress in the ER which they are in no condition to read nor understand but are given to believe they must sign or die which means they essentially are signing under duress incomprehensible to them pre-prepared documents with no opportunity and in no condition to understand nor give meaningful agreement.
       This effectively means these piles of documents are worse even than for example the printed insurance company "adhesion contracts" which courts invalidated as unenforceable non-contracts almost a century ago as not fulfilling fundamental requirements of contract law such as a meeting of the minds and moreover being completely invalidated by the fact that attempts to bind people to such documents merely by having them sign them in such circumstances is per se unconscionable. As by the way are the fees often charged by the ER "contract" doctors as documented in the Times article which gives examples of even physicians bringing family members in for care and objecting to "contract" ER doctor bills as absolutely outrageous. Also when being gouged for such simple things as putting in eight stitches later followed by a surprise out-of-network surgeon's bill for $4,878.
       Apparently many ER doctors often just gouge completely uninformed patients for relatively simple procedures because being an "ER doctor" was not even a specialty until the 1980's meaning that if any complicated medical work has to be done it still needs to be done by an actual medical specialist and not just someone who is merely a specialist at overbilling unknowing patients in distress and protecting their precious medical licenses by undermedicating patients in serious pain and distress because they are too scared of the DEA, the FDA and/or the state medical board so whenever possible they leave that risky problem to the actual treating physician they tell patients they must see as soon as possible anyway.
       The Ninth Amendment wishes this could be said to be the exception and not the rule but the hard numbers prove otherwise. There have to be a great many ER doctors seriously overcharging to have in a period of just the past four years driven the average ER doctor's annual income up from $247,000 to $311,000 during an era of near zero and even negative inflation and when the average American's real income has not even yet risen back to previous levels. The Times horror stories include an ER physician charging $2,000 for having a patient hooked up to a heart monitor for a few hours before being released. In the stitching case mentioned above an out-of-network surgeon (not ER doctor) saved the day in the ER by putting eight stitches in a girl's chin and later charging $4,878 creatively coding his valiant work as "open wound, jaw, complicated". The Times did not detail if "complicated" referred to the procedure of putting in eight stitches or for thinking up a word that could possibly justify charging that amount for putting in just eight stitches and not getting sued (good thing it was not Medicare).
       Likewise ER physicians' overcharging now has driven up their average annual incomes to more than that of all the previously most notoriously expensive out-of-network specialists being anesthesiologists, radiologists and pathologists (who best we recall often used to be want-to-be surgeons with challenges like alcohol problems who were directed away to a specialty where the patients were already dead) for basically looking at bloodwork, ordering x-rays, oh yes having nurses glance at heart monitors, and interrogating any patient who believes they need medicine that the physician possibly believes might be abused with any subsequent doctor then de rigeur giving an inconsistent explanation of why it cannot be prescribed.
       It has been the experience of the Ninth Amendment that most but not all such physicians lie to patients on such matters more creatively than many law enforcement officers sworn on a witness stand and that is pretty bad. Even the ER physicians' spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Bettinger, chairman of the reimbursement committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians, apparently could not help himself from lying to the New York Times when he "said that out-of-network emergency room doctors were an unusual phenomenon and expressed doubt that the practice was widespread".  Actually the Times reported that the occurrence of out-or-network emergency room doctors indeed was "widespread" having now risen to an overwhelming 65% in the Nation's emergency rooms.
       In fact the Ninth Amendment actually has been informed by emergency physicians for example in a Florida hospital that it is the policy of the State of Florida that because of the high level of abuse of pain medication that patients no longer can be treated at the hospital for previously existing pain conditions.  We suggest the license plate slogan be changed from "Florida The Sunshine State" to "Florida It Is Going To Hurt A Little" superimposed over a five thousand dollar invoice rather than an orange. When the Ninth Amendment asked nurses if they had had many cases of deaths by prescription pain medicine overdoses coming in to the hospital they were able to remember none other than ones in which hospital anesthesiologists had accidentally given patients additional doses of pain medicine on the operating table after they forgot they already had given patients pain medicine which then overdosed them. Anyway pain apparently is now one less worry for ER "specialists" at least in Florida since they can let the State and the DEA practice medicine without a license and just follow orders and not treat it.
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       The Ninth Amendment sympathizes that the situation exposed by the New York Times in the article with link below describes an impossibly frustrating situation for even readers who take every possible reasonable step to see that they are not shocked by what would seem to be a blatantly unfair circumstance that may arise especially in the case of a medical emergency for which they rightfully believe they have taken all apparent possible prudent precautions to avoid surprise unscrupulous catastrophic costs and expenses for which they have purchased and/or arranged insurance or other health cost coverage to the best of their ability.
       It is apparent that the Times describes a healthcare system that is broken and completely unworthy of a country blessed with the great God-given resources of our Nation. How can President Obama repeatedly say in good conscience that the United States has "the best military the world has ever known" fully aware that he can say no such thing about the United States healthcare system? Although the Ninth Amendment can offer no suggestion at this time of a considered workable long-term solution it is our lay opinion in the meantime that given our understanding that all hospitals are obligated to provide emergency medical care to all patients who enter in need of it until such time as they have been stabilized properly with appropriate arrangements made for their continued care that the signing of prepared documentation in conditions such as those as set forth above is arguably unconscionable and cannot be a requirement of necessary medical treatment.
       Rather than argue the point based on past experience we would be inclined to refrain from signing documents which we are in no condition to understand nor able to meaningfully signify agreement but rather simply scribble "I willl not pay" and hand them back as if they had been signed. But then that may just be us.

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BREAKING HEALTH: New Cardiac Arrest 99% Accurate Risk Test Announced! If Advised To Or Concerned Get Person To An Emergency Room

     Monday, 31 March 2014, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA - The development of a revolutionary predictor of cardiac arrest (heart attack) risk this morning was announced. Emergency room (ER) physicians and hospitals have long been dogged by uncertainty about whether to release, hold, or admit patients complaining of symptoms such as chest pains which my indicate immediate risk of a heart attack. This concern is the single most resource-intensive problem which long has frustrated ER physicians given limited resources and the need to triage patients coming into the ER as accurately and quickly as possible.
     The just announced cardiac attack risk test with 99% accuracy reportedly consists of a combination of an electrocardiogram and a blood test. Readers presumably already are aware of the major revolutionary advance in the emergent care of stroke victims with medicine available that can reverse the effect of strokes if administered in time as soon as possible after the event.
    THE NINTH AMENDMENT DOES NOT PURPORT TO BE QUALIFIED IN ANY WAY TO PROVIDE NOR SEEK TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE HERE OR ANYWHERE! YOU MUST CONSULT A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL FOR MORE INFORMATION! IF IN IMMEDIATE CONCERN, CALL 911 OR GET TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM. EVERY SECOND COUNTS!
     The Ninth Amendment presents this information strictly as a public service dissemination of most recently announced public health information of great widespread importance. We express the gratitude of all we are confident particularly to the researchers and all involved with the development of such revolutionary advances in medicine as the above-noted "heart attack" test and development of medicine which may reverse the effect of strokes.
     Although we stress that we do not know from what medical research facilities these advances come, we wish to advise our readers that it recently has come to our attention that the Mayo Clinic provides a free e-newsletter of recent health developments of general interest by Mayo Clinic experts to which readers can subscribe at the link https://newslettersignup.mayoclinic.com. If but one life is saved. . . .

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CREDO Phone Service Save Money Get Your Full Cash Credit Switch Back From ATT And Verizon Contract Hell, Plus Stop Readers' Payments Funding Senator Superstupid Ted Cruz "Tea Party" Titantic Plus All Giant ATT And Verizon Giveaways

       Friday, 4 Octobeer 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C. -  Superstupid Senator Ted Cruz (R- Texas, surprise, surprise)  what more perfect de facto voice of that awesome phenomenon in the United States come to be known as the "Tea Party". The name evokes richly textured small-town communities of mostly more mature thoughtful women discussing topics in knitting circles with others they may have known for decades, not to mention of course the seminal American historical Revolutionary event which started the United States on its long and hard-fought road to independence.
       Only fitting that Cruzian "Tea Partiers" of today distort that essential foundation of our Nation's history to debase it to a series of meaningless noisemaker events worthy of nothing more than the decimation of a collapsing country. Only this country to be rendered once again into the Republicans' timelessly failed recipe for repeated homeland economic disasters a la "Apocalypse Now", copyright the Doors, is our own fault.
       As usual the big-slime corporate donors want readers wrongly to believe "they are helpless" but to keep dumping money in the coffers of social pariahs like ATT and Verizon busy using confused callers perpetually extending "contract fees" (i.e. their latest consumer ripoffs) vying for those coveted front tables at the latest iteration of their "Tea Party" luncheon where they can sit just feet (oh boy!) from the Superstupid Tea Partier Supreme (yesterday dragged from the House of Reprsentatives because he did not know which house of Congress to which he belonged blabbing his phony filibuster). Sentaor Cruz may have his no doubt gathering henchman explain to him who is giving what so that it is easier to keep it straight on "payback" day, which in the Republican spirit unabashedly was cemented by former movie star and poster child for the disadvantaged Ronald Reagan.
       As best we recall before his Presidential inauguration speech had even begun Reagan's staff already had started working the front rows assuring luminaries such as then Searle President ("Pigheart") Cheney that that pesky aspartame ruling (causes brain cancer, does not everything?) would be reversed as soon as "Big Ron" could be taught to sign (no, NOT PRINT) his name to the orders to the FDA Administrator. No need to wait even until the Administrator could be replaced with someone more "enlightened", or should we say "encumbered" with the famous Cheney signature pallets of crisp new stacks of $100 bills straight from the mint press to the helipad do NOT pass time-consuming bill serial number recording.
       Speaking of brain cancer why not FINALLY ALREADY turn our attention back to today and the selfless generosity of ATT and Verizon wireless extended to the "Tea Party" morons and most of all their self-styled brainless leader Senator Ted Cruz, hear the tea spoons clanking around in his empty noggin?). The link below will help fill in those "interested" (or shall we just say "thoroughly nauseated" readers) with fascinating key participation of these well-practiced sleight-of-contract cellphone grifters ATT and Verizon whom we might thank our lucky stars do not get in the automobile sales, leasing and repair business (as far as we know, that is) were we not reasonably confident that they left no stone unturned getting a hand in EVERYONE's pocket except maybe in those countries which do not yet have pockets.
       The reported facts are presented in the CREDO cellular service advertisement set out below but are worthy of brief empahsis here. CREDO by the way is the modern-day mobile iteration of Working Assets which was the pioneer in social activism amongst long-distance landline carriers which monthly let its callers make free long-distance telephone calls directly to provided direct-dial numbers of callers representatives in Washington.
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