Showing posts with label Vets with PTSD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vets with PTSD. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Vicarious Trauma, Media Frames, Numbing and Avoidance

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Article on vicarious traumatization. With commentary. As an army psychiatrist treating soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Major ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

WaPo Headline Puts Torture in Quotes. Well, Torture's Not Quite the Same as "Torture," Is It?

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Military Agency Warned Against 'Torture'. An otherwise fine article on BushCheneyRrummy admin being warned that torture does not pro...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

Secret Bushist Fascist Pro-Torture Sadist Sez: DON'T TELL THE TERRORISTS ABOUT THE CHINESE WATER TORTURE! THEY'LL IMPLANT EXTRA LUNGS!

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God, I do hate the stupid. I really do. I know it's wrong of me -- even rong of me. But I do. F*ck. From [Cheney? Rummy] some dude ...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Note to teabaggers: pay your taxes like a man

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This is why: Desperate veterans turn to suicide. You break it, you buy it. Several branches of the military are reporting significant spike...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace-Prize Winner, Banned from South African Conference on Peace: Guess We've Still Not Reached Peak Stupid

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Nobel Peace Prize winner banned from a peace conference? Yep. Nope, I'm not making this up. I don't have to. I never have to. Da...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Pushing Fundie Sexist Christ-ist Propaganda Instead of Treating PTSD

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This is infuriating. I don't have time to address it fully now, but it's so wrong across so many dimensions . . . feh. Brainwashing ...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

"What's In a Name? A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell --- " Um, like Torture?

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No, Mikey, let's SO not call a spade a spade. Let's keep throwing obfuscatory Orwellian propaganda-spin-chaff-labels around and see ...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Bushist Fascists to Vets: It's All In Your Heads, Suckers!

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No purple hearts fer vets with post-traumatic stress disorder. No wounds. No actual wounds, you see. It's sort of like waterboarding....
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Panetta: Anti-Torture American

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Why are we even having this discussion? What is wrong with the pro-torture crowd, anyhow? Screws loose? Child abuse? "Obama Picks An...
Saturday, July 28, 2007

A Trip Down Memory Lane

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Huzzah! Bubble Boy Brings Back Burqas! Bubble Boy Wastes Blood and Treasure to Install Medievalist Islamic Theocracy: Mainstream Media Mum...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

Bubble Boy's Oedipal War Broke 'Em, But Bubble Boy Won't Pay to Fix 'Em

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More tales of incompetence and inexcusible stupidity about shabby, shoddy "treatment" for American troops with PTSD. (Recommendat...
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Monday, July 16, 2007

ARP Poll: Scooter "OJ" Libby's Get Out of Jail Free Card Does Not Sit Well With American Public: 45% Support Impeachment of Bush

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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. --George Orwell, Animal Farm. Bet Bubble Boy never thought he'd see these ...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Say, Why DO They Call Him "Preznit Toad-Exploder," Anyhow?

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Why do they call George W. Bush, "Preznit Toad-Exploder"? Well, impressionable American boys and girls, it's like this. It...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Dirty Bush to Vets: Shut Up and Die

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Lookee here. The happy couple. With their happy little boy. You can't tell from this picture that when the happy little boy becomes a ...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Imagine How it Would Have Been -- At Long Last, President Gore

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OSTROY; Al Gore Will Not Only Run, but He Can and Will Win in '08 With an Oscar Appearance, and a Hit Documentary Gore Is Suddenly Very...
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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Dirty Bush Screws the Troops. Again.

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What's dirty Bush done this time? He's cut in half funding for treatment of war-related brain injuries and research on war-related ...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

First We Maim Your Minds, Then We Dump You, Part Three: Haditha Massacre Version

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Video photo: Bodies of Haditha massacre victims are loaded onto trucks (Hammurabi Human Rights Group) MARINES WITNESS MASSACRE AFTERMATH ...
Monday, March 20, 2006

New Bushist Money-Saving Tactic: Send Vets With PTSD Right Back Into Battle

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Gee, why would the Defense Department send depressed, suicidal, suffering vets with post-traumatic stress disorder back into battle? So they...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

You Break 'Em, You Fix 'Em -- Unless You're a Bushist Fascist Pseudo-Conservative

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OK, it's the middle of the work week, I don't have time to do justice to the whole subject now, but I wanted highlight a particularl...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006

First We Maim Your Minds, Then We Dump You. It's Hard Work. Still.

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This is a picture of Specialist Doug Barber. He acquired PTSD as a result of his participation in the Iraq War. Post-traumatic stress disor...
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