There is a classic saying or adage
that is out there that goes something
like this: the definition of mental
illness is one who continues to do
the same acts of failure over and over
again while expecting a completely
different result each time.

It's almost as if that cliche was
made with our entire national Veterans
arena in mind, and one has to look
no further for a demonstration of
that than the ineffective and bungled
office of Senator Daniel Akaka as
the Chairman of the Senate Veterans
Committee.

It's not exactly clear what it's going
to take to get this moron out of his
COMA!, but whatever it is, we need
to find it fast before all of us
Veterans are murdered by the VA and
there is nobody left to kick his dumb
and sorry ass into place.

But for the sake of making a small
demonstration to all the rest of you
to show just how incredibly disconnected,
misfired, off target, and off the wall
even that Akaka's office is running at
these days, I thought I would put together
2 different news stories below back
to back so that you can see the shocking
differences between Akaka's mental
delusions and fixations, VERSES the
reality of todays VA world. There
is no comparison between the 2, and
it is here that the daily lives of
deprived Vet criminal victims by the
VA agency all sits.

I think it's safe to say that we can
all start referring to Akaka as
Chairman La-La Land after this.

Whatever it is that he is smoking
in between sessions, for sure it has
no place in this national Veterans
arena because it's the rest of us
who are frying in hell at the expense
of all his bungling and mismanagement
of Senate issues at the Committee.

In this first demonstration, here is
one of Akaka's very own public releases
which was sent out by his office to
us activists by Email. First of all,
since WHEN did a bunch of 20 year olds
coming straight out of the military actually
have a clue about what is or is not going
on in this national VA arena, I would love
to know?? Since when did newly arrived
20 year olds most with mental illness
become the Experts in this arena to go
around doling out Flattery Tickets
to one of the most dysfunctional Senate
Committees of our time? All of you
should be asking yourselves that very
question.

It takes most of us a few years of
working on the ground in Washington
to know anything at all about CONTEXT
of what the VA crisis really is and to
fully comprehend which part is broken and
which is not. And without that, how can
any of them possibly know at all about
who is or is not doing a good job
on all of these issues?

But here ya have it, old guy Daniel
Akaka taking all of his flattery cues
from a bunch of 20 year olds, complete
with fried brains from multiple war
tours from the Republicans, all issuing
their annual bungled, misguided, off
target flattery factory to Chairman
La-La Land who just finished pissing
away the entire last 2008 legislative
session with a bunch of Bills that
were NOT representing the real VA
crisis at hand or even the priorities
of URGENCIES faced by todays Veterans,
both non-combat and combat.

This is a stunning case where incompetent
Veterans actually get in the way of
on target work by Veterans who are
in the know. The most illiterate
and disconnected of our population
rules everything while the hands-on
population actually working the system
is ignored and bypassed.

In the second comparison piece for
all of you to get a load of, there is the
stunning, parallel, and simultaneous
news event of the VARO Regional Director
from VA New York City getting "reassigned"
from her post, as we have all tried to get
done for many many years now, and have relentlessly spoken on this very gripe
directly into Akaka's office
over the course of the past 2 years.
This while Akaka himself, sat around in
a delusional BUBBLE and FOG and did
absolutely Zero, Zip, and nothing at
all on the NYC situation and ensuing
crisis in disability claims.

With these 2 releases placed back to
back in one common place right here
at Vets For Justice, we make our
glaring case of why Chairman La-La
Land needs to go, and why it has become
imperative to remove his dumb and
sorry self from the Senate Veterans
Affairs Comte.

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AKAKA's Own Misfire of a Release
Right during the time that VARO
Director was being FIRED by VA.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

October 8, 2008

“A+” FOR AKAKA ON IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS’ ISSUES

Senate Committee Chairman receives perfect voting score from non-partisan

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Action Fund

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, received an “A+” from the non-partisan Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Action Fund for his leadership and voting record on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ issues. Akaka received 9 out of 9 possible points for voting, plus two additional points for his co-sponsorship of the 21st Century GI Bill of Rights.

“I am humbled and gratified to be recognized by the newest generation of American veterans,” said Akaka. “I am proud of what we were able to accomplish this Congress for the veterans of the current conflicts, and for those who served in previous eras. I look forward to doing even more in the coming years.”

Prior to assuming the Chairmanship of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Akaka was the top ranking Democrat on the Committee from 2004 to 2006. He served during World War II in the Army Corps of Engineers, and attended college on the original GI Bill of Rights.

The IAVA Report card is available at http://www.veteranreportcard.org/.

-END-
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End of Akaka's Psychotic Episode on Paper

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Second Comparison Article taking place
right while Akaka is Piddling and Diddling
with his bullshit A+ headline from
Iraq Vets.




VA removes leaders of New York regional office


BY MARTIN C. EVANS | martin.evans@newsday.com

November 23, 2008

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has reassigned the director of its New York regional office after finding that employees there misdated hundreds of claims to make it appear they were being processed on time.

Without referring by name to the New York director, Patricia Amberg-Blyskal, VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele said last week that the director and five other top managers were ousted after investigators discovered a pattern of deception in the handling of claims at the regional headquarters at 245 W. Houston St. in Manhattan.

"It was systematically enough of a problem that we removed the leadership," Aikele said.

The shake-up at the New York regional office, which serves 800,000 vets living in eastern New York State, came as veterans organizations and members of Congress have criticized the federal agency for mishandling, losing or destroying the benefits claims of veterans.

"The reports of date changing and document shredding at the N.Y. regional VA office are unacceptable and insulting to those who served our country," said Rep. Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills) in a prepared statement.

A summary of an investigation by the VA obtained by Newsday showed that of 20 claims examined by VA investigators at the New York office during a July visit, 16 had been marked with apparently phony dates to suggest their processing had begun within the required seven days of their arrival.

A wider audit in August showed that 56.4 percent of claims carried incorrect intake dates, according to the summary, which was dated Nov. 10. According to the summary, several employees told VA investigators that their supervisor had instructed them to enter incorrect dates, and that the practice was widely known.

VA investigators also found that the New York office has ignored "significant amounts" of its mail, officials said. An Oct. 6 visit by investigators, for example, turned up 700 pieces of mail that had not been acted upon. Aikele also said investigators recovered at least five documents related to claims that had been improperly placed in shredder bins.

On Friday, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) wrote to Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peak, asking to be apprised of the situation in the New York Regional Office.

Amberg-Blyskal did not reply to a reporter's requests for an interview.

The summary said "the director and assistant director were initially placed on administrative leave but now have been detailed to other work sites to complete assigned projects." Four other managers were placed on administrative leave, according to the summary.

Last week, two veterans organizations filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., seeking to force the VA to handle benefits claims more quickly, saying veterans often wait a year before their applications are processed, and as long as four years for appeals.

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End of NewsDay.com Release


I rest my case everybody. Can you
say "B-r-a-i-n-D-e-a-d" Mr. Chairman?