Friday, October 26, 2012

Man Threatening Suicide 'Passes Out,' SWAT Rushes In

Update: Man Threatening Suicide 'Passes Out,' SWAT Rushes In
The Douglasville Police Department and Douglas County Sheriff's Department have a house in Tributary surrounded. The man in the house called 911 earlier today is threatening to kill himself.
By John Barker
October 25, 2012


Update 4:13 p.m.

The man threatening suicide was taken to Douglas Hospital moments ago, after passing out on his back porch and being overtaken by the SWAT Team, according to Deputy Gary Sparks, Douglasville Police.

"Appearantly he had been drinking and was a little intoxicated," Sparks said. "He somewhat passed out and the SWAT Team went to go take him."

The man stated at one point he was a former Marine or had been in the military, Sparks said.

"I'm happy we resolved the situation peacefully," he said. "That's what the SWAT Team is for, to resolve situations in a peaceful manner. That's their mission. They work well with the negotiators and other elements as far as communications is concerned."

Sparks said the reason he was taken to the hospital was to be evaluated by medical personnel.

"He needs help," he said. "He needs to be evaluated by mental personnel."

Sparks said the gun was confiscated for the man's safety.

"Our major concern right now is everyone's safety," he said. "We're not looking at any charges."
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Military Is Losing More Troops To Suicide Than Combat, still

If they read this blog, they'd know why.

The Military Is Losing More Troops To Suicide Than Combat
Allison Churchill
Oct. 25, 2012

A startling statistic was released by the Army on Friday: the number of soldiers who have committed suicide between January 1 and September 30 is 247, while the number killed in combat is 222.

In September alone, it's believed 15 active-duty and 16 reserve or Guard soldiers committed suicide. That's a huge number. And this is just the Army.

All branches of the military are losing troops to this particularly sad enemy, and all have worked to create programs to relieve the stigma of getting mental health treatment. The Department of Veterans' Affairs is conducting a study to see if fish oil-spiked smoothies will ease depression.

In the Army's press release, Lt. Gen. Howard B. Bromberg, deputy chief of staff of manpower and personnel, asks soldiers, family members, civilians, anyone who might come in contact with a soldier to "look out for each other."
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Did Ted Turner say military suicide "is good"

When I saw this headline I figured Turner would end up saying something stupid afterwards that would explain saying what he said.

Ted Turner: Military suicides outnumbering combat deaths is 'good'
Published October 25, 2012
FoxNews.com

CNN founder Ted Turner, in arguing for a greater role for the United Nations as the world's policeman and condemning U.S. military spending, said recently that rise in military suicides in relation to combat deaths is a "good" development.

Turner made the comments in an appearance on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight." The interview aired Oct. 19, but the comment about military suicides was highlighted Thursday by Brietbart.com.

MORGAN: You made the point to me in the break there, more American servicemen have --

TURNER: -- are dying now from suicide over there than are dying in combat.

MORGAN: That's shocking, isn't it?

TURNER: Well, what -- no, I think it's -- I think it's good, because it's so clear that we're programmed and we're born to love and help each other, not to kill each other, to destroy each other. That's an aberration. That's left over from hundreds of years ago.

It's time for to us start acting enlightened.
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It is worse than I thought it would be. Turner must have gotten some crash course in New Age healing and figured he'd toss in his two cents worth.

What is worse than this? What Morgan said right after this deplorable comment from Turner.

MORGAN: What's it like to give away a billion dollars? I can't even imagine.

That was Morgan's followup question after Turner said "it's good" and that is how we're programmed.

There used to be a rule in journalism, even in talk shows. If you don't know what the hell you're talking about, don't talk.

Turner clearly understands very little about what causes military suicides and even less about our troops. He took a few buzz words from what we talk about with Combat PTSD and thought it would justify the number of combat survivors killing themselves?

Yesterday I met with a Mom of an Iraq veteran. We were talking about so many others she knows personally slipping into quicksand back home. It is because they are not getting what they need and families don't hear what they need to know. They are disposable. No one is holding congress or anyone else accountable for this AND THAT INCLUDES CNN!

This is from Spouse Buzz on Military.com

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Accidental overdose killed Fort Riley Sgt

Police: Accidental overdose killed Riley sgt.
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 25, 2012

OGDEN, Kan. — Riley County police say a Fort Riley soldier found dead at his off-post home accidentally overdosed on medication he was taking after surgery.

Officers were called to the Ogden home of 33-year-old Army Sgt. Duriel Powell the morning of Sept. 28 after a relative found him not breathing. Emergency responders said Powell was deceased by the time they arrived.
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Marines build fence and restored hope for PTSD veteran

Marines help build fence for wounded warrior’s home
By AMANDA WILCOX
Daily News Staff
Published: Thursday, October 25, 2012

Johnny McCallon felt forgotten.

He served his country for 16 years and suffered a traumatic brain injury after an improvised explosive device blew him out of a second story window during a tour of duty in Iraq. He later developed post traumatic stress disorder in addition to back and leg injuries he sustained during the blast. As a result, he was medically discharged from the Marine Corps in 2007.

His PTSD consumed him and he slowly lost hope in humanity, finding solace only in his canine companions, of which he currently has eight packed into a small home in Hubert.

“With Johnny’s PTSD he identifies better with dogs then he does with people,” said Johnny’s fiancĂ©e Sandy Tonkens.

McCallon walks with a cane and his injuries make it hard to properly walk each of the dogs, so he lets them run around in their yard. But the yard isn’t fenced, and the dogs often run off the property into other people’s yards and even in the street.
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Family says officer involved shooting victim had PTSD

Family says officer involved shooting victim had PTSD
by KREM.com
NWCN.com
Posted on October 25, 2012

STEVENS COUNTY-- The officers involved in a fatal shooting in Stevens County on October 19th have been identified.

On Friday evening, two Stevens County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a residence near the area of Long Praire and Deer Creek Road on a suicidal call.

When they arrived on scene they confronted 66-year-old John Peterson outside his residence holding a firearm. Peterson was on the phone with Stevens County 911 operators when the two deputies arrived on scene.
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Even long-time Republicans have noticed Obama's dedication to veterans

The following is a really great article that needed to be written and I suggest you go to the link to read the whole thing. For right now, this is a great point for you to see because it is what I do every day.
Even long-time Republicans have noticed Obama's dedication to veterans.

Larry Pressler, a Vietnam veteran with 22 years of service as a Republican member of the Senate and the House of Representatives, recently endorsed President Obama and his commitment to our troops in The Huffington Post.

It is tempting, in light of the above, to believe that President Obama is just much more committed to the concerns of our veterans than President Bush was and have that be the end of the story. But the stark differences between the Democratic and Republican parties' commitment to our veterans extend far beyond the last two presidential administrations. Instead, these differences were most recently on display during last month's Senate vote on the Veterans Job Corps Act of 2012.
I track the reality. Real news reports from reporters all over the country including parts of it you've never heard of before. Why? Because veterans may serve this one nation but they all go back to different parts of it.

In Massachusetts, veterans there know which politician is full of (in the recent words of President Obama) bullshitters and which ones actually care about them. That is why they won't be voting for Romney. They know him. They know how he treated them when he was the Governor and had a chance to prove if they mattered or not.

Go to other parts of the country and you end up with veterans simply voting on party lines because they think it is the right thing to do and that is exactly how we ended up in the mess we've been in for the last ten years. Actually, cancel that. We've been in a mess for too many years going back a lot further than ten. Ask Vietnam veterans what it was like for them to file claims, fight the system, get treated and get what they paid for when we sent them to Vietnam and you'll know none of this is new and Congress is still playing games with their lives.

Here in Florida I talk to veterans all the time and usually I walk away stunned by what I hear them say. It is nothing I've read in real news reports. It has all come from people playing political games that end up making veterans pay for believing in the people they supported.
The Mystifying Misperception
Joseph Graziano
Attorney
Huffington Post

Two months after September 11, 2001 my father, the severely injured, sole survivor of Engine 22 Ladder 13, sought help in securing disability benefits from the New York City Fire Commissioner's Office. The Office responded that the government of New York believed he was dead and refused to help him. A deserving public servant, my father's struggle to obtain benefits from the state following 9/11 is not unlike that of the millions of veterans who struggle to secure disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs after they return home from duty. My father's experience sensitized me to this enduring injustice, and subsequently, I have spent the last decade committed to serving those who have served.

Traditionally, veterans have been dependable supporters of the Republican Party. Although veterans are no longer a homogenous voting group, this continues to ring true. According to recent polling by Politico, Governor Romney has a commanding 20 point lead over President Obama in the veteran vote. This unhealthy pairing can be explained by the existence of a persistent and complexing misperception that hawkish republicans, those most likely to send our soldiers off to war, are the same people most likely to stand beside and serve our veterans when they return home. Nothing is further from the truth.

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Marine and wife die in murder-suicide

More information released in homicide-suicide
Officers with the Jacksonville Police Department found the bodies of Jeremy Darrell Hall and Jessica B. Hart-Hall, both 22, of Jacksonville, at 1405 Hargett St. Tuesday.
By TABITHA CLARK
Daily News Staff
Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Updated at 9:04 a.m. Oct. 25


The man whose body was found in a house on Hargett Street on Tuesday has been identified by Marine Corps officials.

Lance Cpl. Jeremy D. Hall, 22, of Amanda, Ohio, and his wife Jessica Hall, 22, of Amanda Ohio, were found dead at 1405 Hargett St. by Jacksonville Police after a family member called JPD concerned.

According to Jacksonville Police, autopsies were performed Wednesday at Onslow Memorial Hospital. Jessica Hall had two fatal gunshot wounds, and Lance Cpl. Hall had died from a single, apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

First Lt. Kristen McCarthy, a 2nd Marine Division spokeswoman, stated in an email that the Marine was a tank crewman assigned to 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. He joined the Marine Corps in March 2011 and was promoted to his current rank in December 2011.

His awards include the National Defense Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.

“2nd Marine Division’s thoughts are with the Hall family during this difficult time,” McCarthy stated.

Police believe the incident was a homicide-suicide, and it remains under investigation.
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NCIS respond to murder-suicide

Man flown to hospital after being stabbed at Camp Pendleton

Man flown to hospital after being stabbed at Camp Pendleton
Posted: Oct 24, 2012
Video Report By Angelique Lizarde, Reporter

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - An investigation is underway into a stabbing that may have happened at Camp Pendleton early Wednesday morning.

There were reports that a male victim was stabbed at least once in the neck and had extensive blood loss, according to paramedics. The man was airlifted to Scripps La Jolla Hospital around 1:45 a.m. Mercy Air crews arrived at the hospital around 2:30 a.m., when the victim was wheeled into the emergency room.
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Military Rape and the Mourdock connection

Why Liberals are Misreading Mourdock a piece she also wrote, should answer this question.
Why Won’t the Military Take Troop-on-Troop Rape Seriously?

Amy Sullivan
October 24, 2012

Ever since the Navy’s Tailhook scandal in 1991, the Pentagon has declared a “zero tolerance” approach to sexual assault and rape by troops. But as “The Invisible War,” a powerful new documentary out on DVD this week makes clear, the U.S. military’s actual measures to prevent rape and punish rapists range from insulting to laughable to virtually non-existent. Meanwhile, women (and men) who sign up to risk their lives for our country are being driven out of the armed forces after having their bodies assaulted and their careers ruined.

Director Kirby Dick’s previous documentaries include a film about sexual abuse in the Catholic church, and the scandals in these two institutions do have a striking number of similarities. Both handle sexual assault charges internally, both have erred on the side of protecting the reputations of those accused while ignoring the needs and rights of victims. And in both worlds, the often intimate relationship between victim and rapist can make the crime even more confusing and painful.

The women of “The Invisible War” are almost deceptively strong, taking great pride in their military service and relating the abuse they suffered in unflinching detail. At one point, a former Army criminal investigator who has appeared throughout the film to testify about the Army’s reluctance to handle rape cases talks about her own rape by a commanding officer. It takes a moment to register that this no-nonsense woman is no longer in the military because she reported her rape (she was given an administrative discharge with no benefits after nearly ten years of service) while her rapist continues to rise up the ranks.

The stories these women tell are horrifying, especially because so many of them involve rape by men who were supposed to have their backs, their own band of brothers. The use of date-rape drugs is prevalent, as is the refusal by superiors to believe rape charges. One woman stationed at an isolated base in Alaska couldn’t tell anyone about multiple rape attacks because all outside calls were routed through a base operator who listened in. Several other women were themselves charged with adultery because their rapists were married. An accomplished young Marine with a post at the prestigious Marine Corps Barracks in Washington was horrified to watch her rapist go unpunished while she was charged with conduct-unbecoming and public intoxication.
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The truth is rape is a crime. If it is committed against women, then they find excuses for it happening to them, dismiss the attacker and in 31 states, a rapist that gets his victim pregnant end up with parental rights. If the rape is against a male, well then, they just make fun on the victim.

While the Bible has many miraculous births, a fertilized egg in the rest of the population was erroneously considered God's gift, just as not being able to get pregnant was considered punishment. If a baby was born with birth defects, then it happened because of the parent's sins and they didn't deserve a healthy child.

Members of Congress would have let me die. I was pregnant and very happy until I started to have problems. I went to my Doctor in my 4th month and discovered it was twins, so the problems I was having could have been about that. I miscarried when a twin died and because I was hemorrhaging, the had to abort the other twin.

Religious zealots in congress said there should be no exception because a baby is a gift from God. So what would they say to my face? He changed His mind? He wanted me to die?

That keeps getting missed. God does not make mistakes but biology does. God does not point to one woman and tell them they deserve a baby and to another and say she does not. God did not send a rapist to get a woman pregnant any more than He said she should pay for the sin of someone else.

God created the Heavens and earth and along with them all living things. That also included the genes in the first humans, which also include a whole list of issues that happened from generation to generation.

Joseph's sister was raped, but this is the outcome of that story

Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, went out to visit the women of Shechem, where her people had made camp and where her father Jacob had purchased the land where he had pitched his tent. Shechem the son of Hamor, the prince of the land, "seized her and lay with her and humbled her. And his soul was drawn to Dinah ... he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her," and Shechem asked his father to obtain Dinah for him, to be his wife.

Hamor came to Jacob and asked for Dinah for his son: "Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. You shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you," and Shechem offered Jacob and his sons any bride-price they named. But "the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah," saying they would accept the offer if the men of the city agreed to be circumcised.

So the men of Shechem were deceived, and were circumcised; and "on the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males. They slew Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away." And the sons of Jacob plundered whatever was in the city and in the field, "all their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses."


The Bible also says that God breathed life into Adam, which means sent his soul into the body He created out of the earth. The soul is sent from God and He also left us clear instructions on how we are supposed to treat other people.

But the church does not run this country. Anyone claiming it does needs to point out which church they think should be in control. Is it the Catholic church, Presbyterian, Methodist, Mormon, or any of the others? Look up each one and see the differences between each of them and then ask yourself which one should be able to have more control over this nation than your own church?

When you hear people talk about their "faith" notice it is not yours. Notice that if they take control with their own beliefs, they very well may be killing off your own.

Then maybe, just maybe you can get to the real point. No one should be forced to believe anything by anyone. God gave all of us freewill to make our own choices and account for our own lives. If we follow what He said because that is what we make the freewill choice to do, then wonderful but we are to allow others to make their own choices as well. If they choose to commit a crime, then they should be punished for it and not make the victim pay for what you believe. You have a right to yourself and your own choices. You don't have a right to control someone else. Until that is understood, we're all in danger of losing everything this nation was built on because it sounds good.

I have no idea what church Mourdock went to or who told him what he ended up believing but it is far from what most Christians believe. Why should he get to dictate his morality on everyone else in the country? Congress is the body that makes the laws of the land for everyone. What's next? Only certain branches of Christianity have control and the rest have to fall in line?

Rape is a crime and until congress finally figures that out, the military won't do anything to punish the criminal more than they punish the victim!

UPDATE October 26, 2012


Since Romney stands by Mourdock's side and endorsed him, why is he afraid to answer reporters questions? Why isn't he doing any more interviews? Why isn't Ryan defending how he also agrees with what Mourdock said?

Do they believe what they say or don't they? Or is it a matter of the fact the American people are sick over comments like this?