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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MEN STOP THINKING OF THEMSELVES...AND FIRST THINK OF OTHERS - USING THEIR OWN MONEY...

WHAT GOVERNMENT CANNOT DO, THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO, CAN....AND WILL. BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO, AND BECAUSE THEY SHOULD!
TO CURE THOSE - OF OUR OWN - WHO ARE HURT, IS MAN'S GREATEST CALLING TO LIFE!
                         
 
                                                       THE STRUGGLE


THE HOUSE THAT FISHER BUILT
The American billionaires who give billions to save the lives of American Troops 
      ARNOLD FISHER, CENTER....PHILANTHROPIST.

$100 Million Rehabilitation Center Opens

This is the astounding story of the Fisher Family of New York who have, among many things, built the most fantastic state-of-the-art medical facilities, some in Texas, to treat the traumatic injuries of returning troops, using medical innovations, diagnostics and machines that a science fiction writer could not have imagined just a few years ago. They had donated hundreds of millions of dollars to veterans and their families...just for travel expenses for families of $150 million!
 
The $100 million center was built entirely from private funds through the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which provides assistance to the nation's military heroes injured in the performance of duty and to their families.



"This is a red-letter day for this country and for the 600,000 Americans who have contributed a dollar, some more than a million dollars, to make sure our young men and women who have given so much to this country are aware the American people care about them," said Arnold Fisher, chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. "They are our national treasure."

Both the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and the Fisher House Foundation, which makes the Fisher Houses possible, are members of the Defense Department's America Supports You program. The program works to highlight ways in which Americans support U.S. troops, veterans and their families.


      

     
Interview from Fall 2010 issue of Philanthropy Magazine
Ken and Tammy Fisher are all about family—family business, family philanthropy, and supporting military families. Ken is a partner at Fisher Brothers, a Manhattan-based construction company founded in 1915 by his grandfather and two of his great uncles. He is the chairman—and his wife, Tammy, is a trustee—of Fisher House Foundation, founded by his great uncle Zachary. And Fisher House Foundation is dedicated to building a nationwide network of Fisher Houses, which provide free lodging to the families of hospitalized veterans and military personnel.
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/topic/economic_opportunity/interview_with_ken_and_tammy_fisher

EXCERPT:
PHILANTHROPY: I would imagine your professional expertise would be invaluable. After all, the Fisher House Foundation focuses on what you know best: building.
MR. FISHER: It definitely meets our skill set. And we can build these facilities much faster than the government can. We’re not subject to the same bureaucracy that can really slow down government projects. I can control the pace because I’m working with private money. Now, of course, not all of it’s our money. A lot of it is donated by the American people, so I have a strong incentive to be very careful about how it’s allocated. We watch every nickel and every dime as if it were our own. We run this like a business. I used to say we run it like a public company. Now, I say we run it like a public company that didn’t need to be bailed out.
MRS. FISHER: Be nice.
MR. FISHER: Sorry.

Group Planning Centers to Treat Combat Trauma
By JAMES DAO
Published: June 12, 2012
Pledging to overhaul the way the military handles the least visible wounds of war, a private foundation will unveil a $100 million plan on Wednesday to construct state-of-the-art treatment centers for brain injuries and psychological disorders at nine of the largest bases in the country.
Arnold Fisher - shaking the hand of a man he says is greater than he is.
Eric Gay/Associated Press
Arnold Fisher and Master Sgt. Daniel Robles after the sergeant received the Purple Heart in 2007 at Fort Sam Houston in Texas.
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The foundation, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, has already raised $25 million and will begin construction this month on the first two centers, at Fort Belvoir, an Army base in Virginia near Washington, and the Marines’ Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.
“The signature wounds of these wars are traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress,” said Arnold Fisher, honorary chairman of the fund and patriarch of the New York development family that started it. “And to this day, we are not treating these people well.”
The centers will allow the Pentagon to expand and modernize treatment of traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems to a degree not currently possible at most Army and Navy hospitals, experts said.
By some estimates, about one in five service members return from deployments with traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder.
When completed, fund officials said, the network will also represent the largest privately financed construction project ever done for the Pentagon, which often resists assistance from outside groups. The Intrepid fund is unique, however, in having built large military medical centers in Bethesda, Md., and San Antonio.
The four-story, 60,000-square-foot center was designed for wounded warriors like Barnes. Equipped with the latest rehabilitation technology, it is a potential athlete's dream. The facility includes an indoor running track, firing range, pool, two-story climbing wall, prosthetic center and a computer assisted rehabilitation environment known as CAREN.
The environment comprises a dome with a 4-meter platform and screen, simulating everything from a city sidewalk to a day on the lake so patients can improve their gait and balancing skills. The unit is one of nine in the world, and it is the only one in the United States.
  
"This is my son's (Ken Fisher) and my commitment, and our mission," Fisher said. "We'll continue this as long as it's necessary. Our only wish is that a place like this someday, it will become a garage."
The two new Fisher Houses bring the on-post total to four. Fisher Houses serve as a home away from home for families of patients receiving medical care at major military and Veterans Affairs medical centers.
The 21-room homes are built in the newer Fisher House style, with a sprawling 16,800 square feet, as opposed to 5,000-plus square feet. Families will be able to live in comfort and style as they care for their loved ones at BAMC in homes that more closely resemble a Malibu mansion than temporary military housing. Each home has a kitchen even Martha Stewart would love, a formal dining room, several sitting rooms and elegant bedrooms equipped with DVD/VCR systems and flat screen TVs.
"What a privilege it is to render assistance to military families," said Ken Fisher, chairman of the Fisher House Foundation.

         

Arnold Fisher

Senior Partner Honorary Chairman, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
Arnold Fisher is personally responsible for the construction of more than 15 million square feet of space, with many of his accomplishments prominently visible on the Manhattan skyline and cityscape. His most noteworthy buildings include Park Avenue Plaza — 55 East 52nd Street, 299 Park Avenue, 1345 Avenue of the Americas and 605 Third Avenue. He is now Trustee and Executive Committee member of the Intrepid Museum Foundation. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Intrepid Museum Foundation, Honorary Chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and Vice Chairman of Fisher House Foundation, and heads up the Fisher Brothers Annual Scholarship Fund for military children.
  


THE HOUSES THAT FISCHER BUILT
Photos courtesy of EMIC
San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC)
SAMMC Emergency Department
BAMC is comprised of the San Antonio Military Medical Center, Center for the Intrepid, Fort Sam Houston Primary Care Clinic, McWethy Troop Medical Clinic, Taylor Burk Clinic at Camp Bullis, and the Schertz Medical Home.
The 2005 BRAC law created a premier regional healthcare system for the military population in the San Antonio Area with the creation of SAMMC and Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center.
SAMMC, a world-class medical center, serves more than 225,000 beneficiaries throughout the San Antonio Region, offering the highest quality of medical care for wounded warriors, service members, family members, civilians, and veterans.
As a certified Level I Trauma Center, SAMMC receives more than 5,700 emergency room visits each month and is one of only 15 hospitals in the United States that holds both Level I Trauma certification and accreditation from the American Burn Association.
In addition, 40 beds are devoted to the Army Institute of Surgical Research, which operates the only Department of Defense Army Burn Center.
As the only DoD Level I Trauma Center, SAMMC will continue to be responsible for research, professional and community education, prevention, consultative community outreach services and programs statewide.
The uniqueness of the medical center is its ability and capacity to take care of patients from a resuscitative state through reconstructive care and then carry them through a full rehabilitation, all in the same location.
SAMMC services include:
  • 32 Operating Rooms for Inpatient and Ambulatory Surgery
  • Medical, Pediatric and Surgical Subspecialty Clinics
  • Primary Care
  • Labor/Delivery/Recovery Unit
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) with ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • DOD's only Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
  • Inpatient Psychiatry Unit
  • Over 200 inpatient beds equipped for cardiac monitoring
  • State-of-the-art Cardiac Catheterization Lab
  • DOD's only Rooftop Helipad
     
The fully integrated collaboration of physicians, nurses, therapists, scientists and support staff within SAMMC, brings the cutting edge of medical care and a catalyst to lead the way for advanced care for Wounded Warriors, service members, families, civilians and veteran patients.
SAMMC staff members are dedicated and committed to providing the highest quality of care and services to all patients in an environment that fosters dignity, respect and professionalism.
      
            


  


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Godfather Politics
Eric Holder Threatens Kansas Over Gun Control Nullification Bill
Posted on May 4, 2013 by Philip Hodges 
Recently, we told you about a rather watered-down version of a nullification bill that Kansas passed and Governor Brownback signed. The gist of it was that federal or state agents attempting to enforce unconstitutional gun laws on Kansas-made firearms would face felony charges and prosecution. It may have been watered down, but it offended Attorney General Eric Holder enough that he had to issue a fast and furious response. Here’s what he wrote in part in a letter to the Kansas Governor:
 “In purporting to override federal law and to criminalize the official acts of federal officers, SB102 directly conflicts with federal law and is therefore unconstitutional. … Under the Supremacy Clause…Kansas may not prevent federal employees and officials from carrying out their official responsibilities.  And a state certainly may not criminalize the exercise of federal responsibilities.  Because SB102 conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulations, federal law supercedes this new statute; all provisions of federal laws and their implementing regulations therefore continue to apply.”
 First of all, where does the Constitution give the federal government the authority to regulate firearms at all? It doesn’t, and that’s why anything the feds do with respect to gun control, no matter how well-intentioned, is unconstitutional.
This is what the 10th Amendment is about:  “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” You can’t get much clearer than that. There is no power delegated to the federal government to regulate guns. Nor is any such law prohibited by the Constitution from being enacted by the states.
And then Holder has to bring up the Supremacy Clause. We’ve been through this many times before. He seems to think that whatever the feds do is authorized by the very nature of it being from the feds. But that’s not what the so-called Supremacy Clause says. It’s taken from Article VI of the Constitution:
 “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.” [Emphasis mine]
 We’ve already established that any federal law restricting or regulating firearms is unconstitutional, because the Constitution does not grant the feds any such authority. If the federal government is enacting laws and creating agencies in direct opposition to what the Constitution says, they’re the ones in violation. They’re the ones that are unconstitutional.
And since the Constitution doesn’t grant these authorities to the feds, and since it doesn’t prohibit states from enacting these laws, on the matter of gun control, the states are sovereign.
And on top of that, the 2nd Amendment says “shall not be infringed.” So the feds are completely wrong on all accounts.
Governor Brownback responded to Holder (in part):
 “The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. It is a right enshrined not only in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, but also protected by the Kansas Bill of Rights…The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right. The people of Kansas are likewise committed to defending the sovereignty of the State of Kansas as guaranteed in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution…”
Right now, Governor Brownback needs encouragement not to back down from the feds. He can be reached here by e-mail. Kansans can reach him at 785-296-3232. And here’s his address:
Office of the Governor
Capitol, 300 SW 10th Ave., Ste. 241S
Topeka, KS 66612-1590

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Commentary Magazine

Contentions

The Lethal Compassion of Modern Liberalism

Peter Wehner 05.14.2013 - 7:35 AM

The Philadelphia abortionist, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, was found guilty Monday of murdering three babies born alive in an abortion clinic. (Gosnell severed the necks of the newborn babies.) He was acquitted in the fourth baby’s death, and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the overdose death of an adult patient. 
Planned Parenthood applauded the verdict. “The jury has punished Kermit Gosnell for his appalling crimes.” 
The abortion rights organization should have stopped there. But it didn’t.
“This verdict will ensure that no woman is victimized by Kermit Gosnell ever again,” said Planned Parenthood spokesman Eric Ferrero. “This case has made clear that we must have and enforce laws that protect access to safe and legal abortion, and we must reject misguided laws that would limit women’s options and force them to seek treatment from criminals like Kermit Gosnell.”
So what’s missing from this Planned Parenthood statement? That’s right: any reference to the murdered infants. 

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/14/the-lethal-compassion-of-modern-liberalism/