Earsplitting Blasting Music Throughout Every Major Department Store Nationwide Must STOP. By Carole Wade                                                      Major department store executives are pumping earsplitting "thumping" "throbbing" "blasting" music into multiple ceiling speakers throughout their stores. The loud music gets louder and worse in all of the stores. Do complaints work? Will boycotting the stores work? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125367349893632975.html First, the 18 to 23 year old shoppers major department are pandering after have no loyalty to the stores -- with its blasting music -- as they are en route to cheaper stores in malls. This age group has lost their hearing because of their bad habits. Second, today's shoppers (with money) are older members of the $ 78 Trillion-Dollar-A-Year spending generation. They are part of the 70% age group with “all-of-the-wealth.” “Boomer-Women” and “Boomer-Men” have “normal” hearing.  Department stores off-site contractors music volume controllers despise “Baby-Boomers.” Major department stores ignore older shoppers with "normal" hearing. Shoppers must demand department stores: Lower the volume of the music in all of their stores across the United States. Department store managers and executives must “pay attention” to older age groups. If not -- they might lose all of their longtime paying customers and their store will go out of business.  Please “catch-on” to what I’m saying.

 

 

The Unfortunate Healthcare Lone-Vote by Senator Olympia Snowe: AARP's Older Members will be Tragically Harmed. AARP's Staff Members and Lobbyists are Progressive Liberal = Backward Thinking.

By Carole Wade

Today's long-time members of AARP have been placed closer to losing their healthcare benefits by Senator Snowe's Senate Vote. Although The Wall Street Journal has cited in article after article about AARP members quitting the organization, AARP continues to enthusiastically back the Obama White House Healthcare convoluted plan.

AARP's Washington lobbyists are selling out their rural members while rewarding their city urban members. In other words, Obama/AARP soul-mates don't care about the millions and millions and millions of older Americans who reside throughout rural areas in every state.

David Certner's (August 11th, 2009) interview on FOXNEWS' Bill O'Reilly Show came across as a smug, snarling, smirking liar -- a disgrace to the past professionalism of the AARP's full-time paid staffers. In fact, laid off executives -- with families to support -- should apply for Mr. Certner's position.

Mr. Certner's nonsense about "forty million plus" Americans who currently lack health insurance coverage must be refuted:

(1) Millions of young men choose to engage in "extreme sports" like snowboarding outside the boundaries of ski slopes, skateboarding in traffic and everywhere else, surfing alongside breakwaters where the waves are larger, motorcycling without helmets, and on and on.

(2) Millions upon millions of young women drive giant SUV trucks while texing and screaming on their cell-phones. They are seen constantly -- notwithstanding the legal prohibitions in many states. These young women cause accidents daily -- harming themselves and innocent people who get in their way!

(3) Many trades people in their forties and fifties -- now that President Obama is pushing his health care program so aggressively -- have cancelled their employer-provided coverage because the eighty-dollar monthly co-insurance or co-pay charges are interfering with their purchases of Global Positioning devices for their pick-up trucks. They sacrifice their health insurance for GPS instead of reading road maps!

Why should AARP's health care policy staffers bankrupt their elderly members to cover millions of individuals uninsured by their own choice?

AARP's Healthcare Blues and Its Never Ending Lies

By Carole Wade

The Wall Street Journal's August 21st, 2009 article "AARP Takes Heat Over Health Stand" explains why AARP members are quitting the organization.  Maybe it is because of David Certner's interview on the Bill O'Reilly show on August 11th.
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/08/21/health-reform-aarp-astroturf-and-the-co-op-public-plan/

Certner comes across again and again as a smug, snarling, smirking liar -- a disgrace to the past professionalism of the AARP's full-time paid staffers.  Replacing its new staffers would be a good beginning to getting AARP back to its roots of representing "older" people.

David Certner's and David Sloane's nonsense about forty million plus Americans who currently lack health insurance coverage needs to be refuted.  Millions of young men choose to engage in "extreme sports" like snowboarding outside the boundaries of ski slopes, skateboarding in traffic and everywhere else, surfing alongside breakwaters where the waves are larger, motorcycling without helmets, and on and on.

Millions upon millions of young women drive giant SUV trucks while texting and screaming on their cell-phones.  They are seen constantly notwithstanding the legal prohibitions here in California and elsewhere too.

Tradespeople in their forties and fifties tell us -- now that President Obama is pushing his health care program so aggressively -- that they have cancelled their employer-provided coverage because the eighty dollar monthly co-insurance or co-pay charges are interfering with their purchases of Global Positioning devices for their pick-up trucks.  They sacrifice their health insurance for GPS instead of reading road maps!

Why should the AARP's current group of health care policy staffers bankrupt its elderly members to cover these many millions of individuals uninsured by their own choice?

Baby Boomers Turning Age Sixty-Five. The Elimination of the Social Security Number (SSN) for Identification is Vital to You.

With the increased risk of identity theft, the pending publication of the Social Security's Interim Final Rule is important to everyone who is forced to release their Social Security Number to health providers, medical offices, hospitals, drug stores, and all agencies who require the number.

Social Security Numbers are the "number one" source criminals attempt to hack in computers when looking for ways to break into a victim's identity. When an office worker screams, "What's your social?" Don't reveal your number. Furthermore, don't permit our United States Government to continue to force using Social Security Numbers for Medicare benefits.

The United States Government's rule revises the FTR to eliminate the collection of the Social Security Numbers (SSN) for identification purposes. The rule carries out the purposes of the Privacy Act of 1974. Title 5 in the United States Code, Section 552A ensures that the U.S. Authorized agent's personal information, such as its SSN, is protected. Contact the Foreign Trade Division -- (800) 549-0595 and demand Social Security Numbers for identification be eliminated permanently.

A highly scholarly study -- http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/08/080118.epley.shtml -- completed at the University of Chicago (where President Barack Obama was a professor for over twelve years states) that ordinary inanimate objects -- including pets -- bring solace to human loneliness … but at the price of "dehumanization." The research is proven by a prestigious team of psychologists and behavioral and social scientists.

Politically motivated AARP and Pet Industry funded focus groups tout the $ 75 Billion a year Pet Industry's messages (despite the economy) daily on national television outlets including ABC, NBC, and CBS. Their planted unconfirmed video pet stories include selling the fear of loneliness. The American Medical Association, however, overwhelmingly promotes human touch and human conversations to help older people to overcome the fear of being alone.

 

Industries continually monitor lonely people through consumer trends analyses. Executives form focus groups to gather as much information as possible. One decade ago these focus groups began seeing a growing population choosing isolation from human stress. Both corporations and the media saw a tremendous opportunity to exploit lonely women and men for profit. Subsequently, corporations began giving their employees "pet-dog" health insurance programs instead of offering much more costly employees' "children's" health insurance to their workers.

The journal Psychological Science presents remarkably new important research from the University of Chicago where Nicholas Epley and his Harvard University colleague Scott Akalis document how people -- with a lack of connection to other people -- can be channeled into viewing objects -- including pets -- for human-like relationships. Epley and his co-authors have published their findings about what scientists call "anthropomorphism."

It was not until in my late 40’s that I truly began to understand what it meant when someone says to me, "You're going to be OK? Just try to forget about it!"

One day at around 1:00 a.m., while I was sitting in my wing-chair ready for bed and watching an old movie, that I began to see "double." My vision seemed to be confused. I felt "wobbly." Extremely frightened and becoming "weak," I grabbed my raincoat out of the front closet and threw it over my pajamas. Dragging my handbag behind me, I somehow made it to the elevator.

Downstairs on my condominium's carport plaza, what seemed to be a "floating white daze" was actually the headlights of cars. I was not wearing slippers. My doorman called out to me. I said to him: "Please help me." Then, I fell into our valet parker's arms.

Later, I found out that our doorman had called 911, but before the ambulance arrived, our valet parkers had "scooped" me up and carried me across the street to the Century City Hospital's Emergency Room. There, the doctors stopped the nerve damage quickly.

My husband was on a business trip. He returned home immediately. Upon his arrival home, he was told that I had had a small but severe trauma to the nerve behind and inside my right ear. The event had left me weakened in my right eye, throat, cheek, chin; and my entire right side was out-of-balance. Swallowing even a small sip of water was almost impossible without choking. Later, my neurologist told me to swallow and move "slowly." And he said: "Try not to think about it. Go home and get on with your life." I was placed on sedatives, various medications, an intense schedule with a therapist, and sent home.

The moment we pulled up to my condominium complex in Century City the valets and doorman ran over to get me out of the car. They were so happy to see me. We had to force our monetary "thank you" into their hands. All they wanted to know was if I was "OK?" However, we insisted that they had saved my life. And we would never forget them. Oralia, my Guatemalan helper stayed with me until felt comfortable walking around my apartment and going into my kitchen alone.

THE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY

The next weeks were extremely rough. However, they were made much brighter by flowers which were sent from the California Republican State Party. Both State Senator Jim Brulte and Assemblyman Dave Cox sent regards.

A few days later my friend who is a GOP political campaign manager and consultant walked into my apartment. She looked at me. "You're getting better!" Thoughtfully she brought with her a get-well card that was signed by all of my friends at the West Los Angeles Lincoln Club, a political action committee (PAC) where I am an active member. More cards and greetings arrived from the Party's Treasurer and his wife.

My friend, an attorney on the Westside and a former Judge, sent get-well greetings too. Many friends from the Golden Circle (a group founded by former President Ronald Reagan and Actor John Wayne), where I am an active member sent get-well greetings. Other greetings arrived from my lovely political friends -- a Marine Colonel and his wife from Glendale, along with the California State Volunteer Chair for Bill Simon, a great dentist and his wife phoned me often.

Secretary of State Bill Jones had asked me to Co-Chair his Los Angeles County campaign for Governor of California just days before I became ill. Bill visited me on my birthday during one of his primary campaign speeches. I told Bill that I could not possibly take on such a "big job" given the weakness in my speech. He immediately said to me, "You are still Co-Chair." Bill's gracious wife sent greetings.

Except for visiting my therapists, I did not leave my home again until David Horowitz, founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, invited me to his luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel to hear Tony Snow of Fox News. As always, David and his beautiful wife welcomed me -- along with all of David's Wednesday Morning Club members.

By June, I was actually getting worse on my medication. True, my swallowing had improved and my peripheral vision was manageable. But, although my physicians reassured me that my nerves were "improving," they were not recovering as fast as I wanted them to. My neurologist suggested Alternative Medicine. He introduced me to a Chinese physician in Los Angeles who was making progress for stroke patients using Acupuncture and Vitamin therapy. At first I did not feel comfortable with Eastern Medicine, but I decided to meet my doctor and take a chance.

My new Chinese doctor was directing a study of Acupuncture and its effects on long-term stroke and trauma patients in collaboration with the University of Southern California School of Medicine. This study is one of the first to take place in the United States.

My doctor explained to me, "Acupuncture treatment for stroke patients and for patients with nerve damage have long been the first lines of treatment in China's traditional Chinese medical hospitals. Generally in China we start Acupuncture immediately following the trauma and have found that it improves quality of life and mobility, and mental capacity returns more quickly."

My next six-month’s schedule included Acupuncture, light electrical simulation to my facial and neck nerves, vitamins, physical therapy, and bi-monthly visits to my Cedars-Sinai Medical Center physicians who monitored my progress.

At the Republican Firestone Retreat in Santa Barbara in July, Secretary of State Bill Jones greeted me as I walked into the Firestone Winery. He could not believe his eyes. I had made such progress!

Recently, years later after my long journey began, I walked into a reception in Washington, D.C. honoring Congressman David Dreier, my GOP friends said to me, "Carole you look great! We can't believe anything bad ever happened to you!

 

Chicago is known for the White House Chef, who Previously Cooked for President Barack Obama and for First Lady Michelle Obama in their South Side Home and Chicago is known for Mrs. Obama's private Lake Shore Drive Fashion Designer who has become a Multi-Millionaire.  Chicago is also known for Professional Scam Conservators/Alleged Attorneys who Prey on the Elderly.  Chicago is full of Shady People.

No one wants to hear it. Innocent elderly women and men being scammed by welcoming seemingly sweet, lovely, and well-versed swindlers disguised as conservators. These so-called conservators are entrepreneurs who see an aging population with checkbooks. Some of the alleged caregivers cultivate aging people for their own financial gain and interest.

While they may promise to take care of their charges, the victims soon discover that their lifetime finances have ended up in the hands of their conservator.

It can happen to you. In 1990, a bearded man full of charisma, lies, and charm began courting (not literally) a wealthy older Lake Shore Drive woman. According to the woman's friend, “I remember the man entering her life that night. He seemed to be carefully scouting out each person.” At this particular art reception, he promptly set his sights on a distinguished smartly-dressed man of eighty and his small fragile wealthy wife in her advancing years. In a voice that was soft but humorous, the professional attorney conservator said, “You are the most beautiful woman in the room. Are you a model?” The woman -- suffering from onset Alzheimer's -- replied, “How did you know?”

Although the lawyer’s record clearly reflected a numerous string of bushwhacked victims, not to mention that he knew very little about elder care of any kind, he immediately said, “I am here to help you. I will sit down with you and my new ‘adopted dad’ (her husband) tomorrow morning.”  Despite multiple warnings from their son, the gregarious newcomer and confidence man entered his mother's life. Within a few short months, the husband died and this champion scam-master attorney conservator became the sole legal representative for the widow's millions of dollars, while coldly and deliberately isolating the parent from her grown children.

The Wall Street Journal's November 16, 2005, cover story relates this same experience to a beloved American: “Rosa Park's Death Stirs Up Bitter Feud Over Her Estate -- Family Fights Caregivers To Control the Legacy Of Civil-Rights Icon.”

Generally this scam is unbeknownst to the children or to the elderly person's closest friends or even their physicians. First, they hear their parents mention a name. Second, his name is being built up into a “super hero.” Third, they discover he or she is in charge of their parents’ fortune and it is too late for them. Professional conservators who can be marginal ex-lawyers "get-away-with-it and it is a growing troubling new occupation.

Is the Chicago legal system flawed? Yes. Did the Judge who handled the case understand professional conservators who are also attorneys? No. The Judge did not even read the case. He had his young inexperienced law clerk make the decision for him. Chicago's legal system failed to protect the elderly parents and the children in question -- permitting the hideous attorney to move thousands of miles west to start a new scam.

Professional conservators are skilled liars and experts at verbal camouflage. They know their success depends on it. Conservator/elder care is a growing and usually unregulated trade in the United States. Tragically, lawmakers and judges did not foresee that shady professionals would turn what had been a family matter into a business.

Once upon a time tobacco companies promoted smoking on the airwaves. The mega-millions-of-dollars-a-year-salaried executives knew that their luxury lifestyles depended on "getting" Americans hooked on nicotine. Now, tobacco companies are back on the air touting their supposedly "do-good" educational marketing -- the Government's ban on cigarette marketing to kids be damned!

Our political landscape now includes chain-smoker Barack Obama. Before moving into the White House we must remember his wife Michelle and their two children have been exposed for years to his nasty-unbreakable-24/7 ugly habit. Mrs. Obama and her girls have possibly suffered for years with poor health. Mr. Obama's daughter's allergies are well documented. The entire family is prone to asthma, heart disease, cancer, and more. Tobacco companies actually sell their cigarettes with Barack Obama in mind despite the EPA's findings that smoking and secondhand smoke kills.

Interestingly, Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor shares President of the United States Barack Obama's smoking habit. In a November 1983 New York Times article about Sonia Sotomayor, she is referred to as "… smoking cigarettes incessantly."

Tobacco companies are the masters when it comes to marketing the smoking of cigarettes to teenagers. While they publicly call themselves "responsible marketers of tobacco," in fact cigarette companies' visions are just the opposite. Every day tobacco companies advertise on California's television to hype their companies' "do-good" programs for young adults. Their ads ramble on about their concern for the environment and about how their websites promote links to help smokers stop smoking. But all the while the tobacco companies know full well that their ads are only aimed at getting their names out to a new audience: they need new fresh young smokers.

What is extremely interesting about the new "do-good" educational advertising by cigarette companies on television -- and all media -- are their "sexy" female voices over the air. As the tobacco companies ostensibly educate us about their "upstanding" community values, the "sexy" female voices cleverly promote and advertise their cigarettes

through "fuzzy advertising" to 13, 14, 15, and 16 year-old children listeners.  The California Department of Public Health's Tobacco Control Program cannot "control" every young person's habits in the State. Today's new culture includes "group" thinking. Groups of teenagers to young adults follow their peer-groups' eating habits, smoking preferences, and their drinking choices, to scrutinizing their groups' dating partners. More goofy Senate Bills or Assembly Bills signed into Law are not the answer. The "Smoke Free Cars with Minors" Law should prove that.

While California leads the nation with smoke-free everything, children, teenagers, and young adults continue to breathe second hand smoke in many areas including the dinner table, listening to their iPods upstairs while their parents smoke downstairs, and sitting with their "group" peers twelve hours every day.

Tobacco companies know teen-culture and they are the ultimate magician in reaching them. Are they responsible for using "fuzzy" supposedly-educational advertising to lure new California adolescents into a life of addiction? Yes, they are. Are the giant tobacco companies looking for new smokers? Absolutely. They have to promote their tobacco products: their financial existence depends on it.

The arithmetic is simple. Millions and millions and millions of their present customers are dying from lung cancer and other diseases related to tobacco. What's more, over the decades their "old" nicotine-addicted customers "puffed" their last breaths and have since been laid to rest.

Do the mega-rich tobacco companies' executives care about cigarette related deaths? No, the greedy tobacco industry executives only care about their homes in Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Aspen, Malibu, and Vail. They care about their yachts, luxury cars, and private airplanes. They also view Hollywood's popular "Sex in the City" show, which includes beautiful people smoking in every frame. "Sex in the City" provides the perfect picture to lure young people into smoking.

Children and young adults emulate what they see and hear. Tobacco companies have found a new way to enter into our children's rooms through so-called "educational advertisements." Cigarette companies bank on kids' listening to their "fuzzy" messages: Smoke cigarettes. After all, smoking works in selling Hollywood's liberal movies -- California's largest industry.

Tobacco companies have history on their side. Cigarette companies know that children become life-long smokers during their adolescent years. American advertising uses messages which are often filled with sexual innuendoes in an attempt to sell products. Cigarette companies know that their "sexy" female announcers can sell their cigarettes surreptitiously ... and keep the money flowing in.