UnitedHealthcare Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million in Settlement: See if You Qualify!

The continuing saga of United Hell-Care… ~ Editor

UnitedHealthcare has agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the company violated a federal law that prevents consumers from receiving robocalls without providing prior consent.

The lawsuit claims that UnitedHealthcare violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which restricts the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages in telemarketing calls. In 2012, the Federal Communications Commission revised the rules to also require telemarketers to obtain prior written consent from consumers before robocalling them, among other revisions. Continue reading

Dickens: The Wrath of CON-gress… in Opposition to Progress

Yes, Trekkies, it’s a play on a movie title from 1982, ‘The Wrath of Khan‘. It seems appropriate because the movie, like the 119th congress, deals with revenge and the overwhelming motivation for retribution in the acquisition of power. You know –  Polly-tics.

Admittedly, I rarely watch congressional swamp-meets because they are nothing more than reenactments of playground quarrels over a ball, or a space in the sandbox, or a bucket and shovel; all are childish arguments about control, and an object lesson in one-upmanship. The difference here is that congress – the opposite of progress, is populated by self-professed, professional custodians, elected adults – hired by us, to manage the country. These are the people in whom we have placed our trust, to follow our laws and represent us. Continue reading

Smith: Panama ~ Uncle Sam Isn’t Creeping Away

We built it. We paid for it. It’s ours” were words declared by Ronald Reagan in 1977, not long after leaving the California governor’s office, and that’s the position President Donald J. Trump has recently taken, by and large if not precisely; but Reagan was reluctant to put any real action behind those words after becoming president, whereas Trump has shown he has the determination of will and the spine to do whatever is necessary to protect and defend U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone, putting Panamanian President Mulino on notice to this fact.

This is a righteous and sound move in response to a growing Communist Chinese influence in a country that has largely been receptive to socialism since its emergence on the international scene as a nation, and it puts new teeth in the Monroe Doctrine and exerting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere to block and expel foreign nations that are hostile to the U.S. from the region. Continue reading

This Is ONE of Our Stories…

May 27, 2018 ~ While searching for specific information earlier in the week, I came across the following. To say the least – it left me in shock for several reasons – the first of which because Memorial day is upon us. Secondly because, next week – June 6, 2018 I will look back exactly 50 years ago to my first landing in Vietnam, where within a week I would be assigned to the 498th Medical Co. (Dust Off) – the company for which a part of the following story took place. Although I do not specifically remember David Hertle, our stories overlapped during the same time frame, to the point where we both left the company and Vietnam within two weeks of one another – but there are others….

One final note: The author makes reference within the following about his story having taken place some 30 years before his writings, which now makes this story 55 years old.

To all of my Brothers who served in the 498th out of Lane Army Heliport – our time and story is nearing its end… I’ll see you at Sundown.

Jeffrey Bennett, Publisher/Editor Continue reading

Vietnam Veteran Music Video “Drive On” by Johnny Cash

I happen to be in the camp that the U.S. actually should have been there helping the South Vietnamese to stop the communists, but like so many other wars we have subsequently entered, I’ve always thought we should have taken the lead and executed the military strategy to win definitively and quickly rather than allow it to drag out as it did. Continue reading

Penalties for Employing Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S. Increased to $5,724 Per Violation

Employers in the United States who hire undocumented immigrants could now face penalties of up to $5,724 per individual. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule in the Federal Register today , stating that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is authorized to impose these penalties. This amount represents an increase from the previous maximum of $5,579. Continue reading

“I Have Many Students Who Don’t Even Speak English”

A Teacher’s Social Media Post Is Being Investigated After They Apparently Invited ICE To Come To The School

Forth Worth Independent School District is investigating a social media post by a reported substitute teacher. The teacher apparently wrote that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement should visit the school where they work because it has “many students who don’t even speak English.” Continue reading

Dr. Fauci: ‘He Was Trying to Cover It All Up’

Fox Host and GOP Senator Claim Dr. Fauci Had Ulterior Motives During Covid Pandemic

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined Fox & Friends on Monday morning and dabbled in some historical revisionism, explaining that he now believes Dr. Anthony Fauci had ulterior motives in trying to limit the spread of Covid-19.

Fauci, like most other officials in his position around the globe, advised both Presidents Trump and Biden on public health intervention measures to slow the spread of the virus, and has since become a controversial figure, with many critics arguing that he was overzealous in his recommendations.

“Dr. Fauci. I don’t hate him, but let’s face the facts. He made them. He tried to establish complete control over everybody. Why did he do that? In my opinion. He was scared,” Kennedy began, adding: Continue reading

The Staggering Number of US Students who CAN’T Read

A record number American children can’t read, according to alarming new data… But they blame in on COVID?

        Underscoring academic – 40 percent of fourth grade children now lack basic reading skills

In 2024, 40 percent of fourth graders and a third of eighth graders had ‘below basic’ reading skills, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Meanwhile, only 23 percent of fourth graders and 26 percent of eighth graders were deemed ‘proficient’.

These results mark record lows since the reading assessments started in 1992. Continue reading

Young Man Dies in Agony After Price of His Inhaler Rose from $66 to $540!

The ONGOING saga of UnitedHell Doesn’t Care and OptumRX

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, who had battled chronic asthma since childhood, was denied his life-saving inhaler when he went to collect his prescription at a Walgreens pharmacy in Appleton, Wisconsin on January 10, 2024.

The pharmacist had informed him that his medication would now cost $539.19 – a shocking increase from his usual cost of $66.86. Continue reading

Dickens: Belly-Up To The Bullshit Buffet, You “Spoon Fed ‘Merkans

                    Hilda-Mae Thudpucker and Hugo Halfenbarfer

Are you a ‘News Junky‘ waiting for the dirt about the partisan politician on the other side of the aisle, or who’s about to invade Liechtenstein, or if the Chinese Communist Party will order North Korean take-out for their next Party Meeting, or if Hilda-Mae Thudpucker will divorce Hugo Halfenbarfer, the under-secretary for the Poughkeepsie City Librarian Coalition for the Equitable Treatment of Captive Koalas (PCLCETCK)?

Does this sound silly? It’s intended too. Yet no more insipid than the garbage overflowing from the landfill that is the DC Swamp. Most states forbid ‘trash-pickers’, those who rummage through societies refuse, but  this seems to be the exclusive source of the Corporate Media Complex (CMC), and if they can’t find any discards, they will invent them to feed the gaslighting, disinformation, malinformation, misinformation, and mendacity machine cranking out their moronic messaging. The CMC thrives on anything unpleasant and unfavorable.

AI tells me: “People tend to gravitate towards bad news because of a psychological phenomenon called ‘negativity bias’, where our brains are naturally wired to pay more attention to negative information than positive information, often stemming from an evolutionary need to be alert to potential threats and dangers; essentially, bad news can signal a need to take action to avoid harm.” Continue reading

Smith: To Live and Die in America

Traitor Joe has left one outrageous, massive mess in the country for President Trump and his team to try to fix and mitigate, in every segment of the federal government’s operations, but especially as it pertains to our border security and thus our national security. We should all be doing everything within our power to make certain Trump is able to succeed, because the future of the nation truly does hang in the balance. And the next four years will largely determine if we will still have a nation that remotely resembles anything we will recognize as America in ten or twenty years down the road. Continue reading