Blowing the Whistle: Retaliating Against Charles Rehberg and Dr. Bagnato
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
After nearly two years of investigating non profit hospitals, Albany, Georgia surgeon Dr. John Bagnato and his accountant, Charles Rehberg, were convinced that they had uncovered systemic corruption in the non profit hospital system. While their investigation encompassed the non profit health care system as a whole, its nexis began at the local non profit hospital, Phoebe Putney. The two of them were certain that they found irrefutable evidence that Putney was making hundreds of millions each year, charging unnecessarily high fees to their poor patients, all while their executives enjoyed handsome compensation and the hospital paid no taxes because...
The Inside Story of Do No Harm
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| dBack in 2004, there was a documentary that was supposed to change the direction of an election. That documentary was Fahrenheit 911 and while it made loads of money for it's film maker, Michael Moore, it had absolutely no effect on the election. In 2010, another documentary may also have a real effect on another election. This time, in an ironic twist of fate, this documentary may wind up being seen by absolutely no one. The name of the documentary is Do No Harm and the election is the election for Attorney General in the state of Georgia. Here is... |
Blowing the Whistle: The Retaliation Against Charles Rehberg and Dr. John Bagnato
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
After nearly two years of investigating non profit hospitals, Albany, Georgia surgeon Dr. John Bagnato and his accountant, Charles Rehberg, were convinced that they had uncovered systemic corruption in the non profit hospital system. While their investigation encompassed the non profit health care system as a whole, its nexis began at the local non profit hospital, Phoebe Putney. The two of them were certain that they found irrefutable evidence that Putney was making hundreds of millions each year, charging unnecessarily high fees to their poor patients, all while their executives enjoyed handsome compensation and the hospital paid no taxes because...
Colonel Adele E. Hodges becomes first female base commander for Camp Lejeune
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Female colonel becomes first base commander for Camp Lejeune Submitted by: MCB Camp Lejeune Story Identification #: 200612391028 Story by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Jan. 23, 2006) -- Colonel Adele E. Hodges will become the first female colonel to command Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Jan. 23, replacing Maj. Gen. Robert C. Dickerson who was appointed the commander of Marine Corps Installations-East. “I am very excited,” said Hodges. “It’s a large base and a large facility, and I am excited to be the first colonel assigned to this challenge.” Hodges plans on upholding... |
Antarctic Oil Painting Shrouded in Mystery
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Antarctic Oil Painting Shrouded in Mystery Mon Mar 28, 2005 By MATT APUZZO/ Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. - As art restorers in London inspected a 230-year-old painting by master landscape artist William Hodges, they noticed the canvas was thicker in some areas than others. Using an X-ray machine, they peered behind the lush greens of New Zealand and discovered the oldest known painting of Antarctica. The X-ray revealed two icebergs, painted during Captain James Cook's historic expedition below the Antarctic circle. Until the National Maritime Museum in London made the discovery last year, historians believed that only sketches... |
The Texas Air Guard Did Go to Vietnam
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Just FYI, for those who say Bush was just dodging Vietnam by joining the Texas Air National Guard, one of Bush's commanders (General Hodges) commanded a unit of TexANG F-102's (the very plane Bush flew) in Vietnam just a few months after Bush enlisted (he was still in training, and probabaly knew about this mission when he did enlist): "In July 1968, General Hodges began a 90-day voluntary tour of duty in Southeast Asia. He participated in the “Palace Alert” program of the Air Force, a program using Air National Guard pilots flying F-102 interceptor aircraft in Southeast Asia. During... |
President Bush's National Guard controversy still front and center
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| <p>A CBS news report that suggested President Bush did not fulfill his military commitment 30 years ago fell under a growing cloud of skepticism Friday. But Democrats insisted that they have plenty of evidence to continue their campaign to show that Bush got breaks that other young men did not get during the Vietnam War.</p> |
Source Pulls Support for Memos on Bush Guard Service
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| WASHINGTON — A key source who was named to back up CBS News' claims about the authenticity of documents used in a report on President Bush's (search) Air National Guard service has recanted his support, saying the network got the information wrong. Retired Major Gen. Bobby Hodges (search), a key source behind a "60 Minutes" story that claims Bush shirked his guard duty, said that now that he has seen the memos, he does not believe they are authentic. Hodges told FOX News that CBS did not call him until two days before the piece aired on the network last... |
CBS News source says papers fake - Former Guard commander says documents were not shown to him
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| A former National Guard commander who CBS News said had helped convince it of the authenticity of documents raising new questions about President Bush's military service said Saturday that he did not believe they were genuine. The commander, Bobby Hodges, said in a telephone interview that network producers had never shown him the documents but had only read them to him over the phone days before they were featured Wednesday in a 60 Minutes broadcast. After seeing the documents Friday, Hodges said, he concluded that they were falsified. Hodges, a former general who spoke to several news organizations this weekend,... |
CBS Public Statements on the Killian Memos Troubling
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| CBS officials have been insisting that the network had done due diligence in checking out the authenticity of the Killian memo's with independent experts over six weeks. If this is true, than why did CBS wait till two days before the broadcast to contact retired Col. Bobby Hodges about the authenticity of the memos? Dan Rather was quoted as saying "We wanted to take the documents to him and do an interview and he declined to do that." Well yeah, I would have to with only two days notice! Col. Hodges further states that he was told during this... |
Gen. Bobby W. Hodges said in an interview that he was "misled" by CBS
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Saturday, another retired Air National Guard officer came forward to attack CBSNEWS credibility. Retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, who was cited by a senior CBS official on Thursday as the network's "trump card" in verifying the documents, said in an interview that he was "misled" by CBS and believed the documents to be forgeries. Hodges said that he was read only excerpts of the documents and never saw the documents. A CBS spokesman said the network stands by its report. |
Hodges says he didn't validate memos for CBS...
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| "In another challenge to CBS, Killian's boss, retired Maj. Gen. Bobby W. Hodges, told ABC News that he regards the documents as a computer "fraud," never saw them in the 1970s and didn't validate them for CBS. A senior CBS official had claimed to the Washington Post that Hodges had validated the documents. During his national news broadcast, Rather claimed "partisan political operatives" are challenging the memos but omitted the fact that Killian's widow and son dispute them...” The NewYorkPost has a news story that reveals CBS anchor Dan Rather may have caught in their own fraudulent claims. At issue:... |
HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt." Hodges also said he did not see the documents in the 70's and he cannot authenticate the documents or the contents. His personal belief is that the documents have been "computer generated" and are a "fraud". |
Hodges says he was misled by CBS
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS: Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt." Hodges also said he did not see the documents in the 70's and he cannot authenticate the documents or the contents. His personal belief is that the documents have been "computer generated" and are a "fraud". |
HODGES SAID HE WAS MISLED BY CBS
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt." |
Bush Axes Southern Jobs and Southern Heritage
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| The Bush Administration has rewarded the South for its loyalty. Having successfully continued the Executive usurpation of Congressional authority to negotiate trade contracts, thanks to NAFTA and "Fast-Track", as well as Congressional authority to declare war, Bush now enjoys unchallenged power. His latest exercise in imperial Executive authority came last week when he awarded the Socialist Republic of Vietnamincreases in its textile export quotas to the US from $49 million to $1.5 billion. This is good news for the Vietnamese, but more grim news for Southern textile workers. The Southern textile industry has closed more than 150 mills and slashed... |
The Witnesses
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| It would be extremely beneficial at this point if we could simply produce the original autographs for examination. This would greatly simplify the operation of establishing correctly the New Testament Text. But this simply cannot happen. It has long been acknowledged by scholars that we no longer have the "originals." They have long since passed from the scene. This is due to the fact that scribes were known to destroy worn out MSS after they had copied them. Apparently the church valued the WORDS of the original more than the original itself. Therefore, the readings of the originals must be... |
The Palmetto Journal Strikes Back
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| I guess I should feel honored to have an entire article written about me and my previous column on the newly revised version of the Palmetto Journal. After all, it has been a while since anything of real substance has been posted on the website that used to be THE place for inside information about the goings on in politics in South Carolina (now that title belongs to SCHotline.com). It must have been a really slow news day if an article I wrote on Commonvoice.com became the hot topic of the day at the Palmetto Journal! I was rather... |
Poll shows Sanford has slim lead over Hodges; Graham still in front of Sanders [SC]
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Poll shows Sanford has slim lead over Hodges; Graham still in front of Sanders CHARLESTON, S.C. - Former U.S. Rep. and Republican Mark Sanford has a slim lead over incumbent Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges but about 14 percent of those surveyed in a statewide poll remain undecided. The telephone poll of 625 people who said they were likely to vote Nov. 5 gave Sanford 45 percent to Hodges 41 percent. The poll, which has a margin of error of four percentage points, was conducted earlier this week by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research of Washington, D.C., for The (Charleston) Post and... |
New Poll on November Election [SC Races]
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| New Poll On November Election The November election is less than a month away and everyone's trying to predict who'll take over Strom Thurmond's senate seat. In a poll conducted by a national TV network, Republican Congressman Lindsey Graham has a 12 point lead over former College of Charleston president Democrat Alex Sanders. Graham took 47 percent. Sanders had support from 35 percent of those polled. The latest numbers show Governor Jim Hodges pulling away from former Congressman Mark Sanford. 51 percent of those polled say they would vote for Hodges today, compared to 45 percent for Sanford. Earlier this... |
Sanford fundraising called 'astonishing'
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| <p>COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Sanford raised a record $3 million during the year's third quarter and Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges used a special provision in the state ethics law to delay filing until Oct. 21. Depending on Hodges' figures, Sanford's quarterly showing could move him into relative financial parity with the governor. "We've withstood a multimillion dollar negative barrage of 13 different attack ads from the governor's campaign and are still in a great position to win this race," Sanford said. "We're in a good position to continue communicating our positive message of change to the voters of South Carolina." Sanford's total for the last quarter is only $800,000 less than Hodges spent in the entire 1998 campaign. Dave Woodard, a Clemson University political scientist and Republican consultant, said Sanford is assured of being "very competitive" in the campaign's final weeks. "I'm astonished he was able to raise that kind of money," Woodard said, given the state's $3,500 donation limit. Samantha Slapnik, Hodges' campaign spokeswoman, said that when a pre-election report is required to be filed within 30 days of the end of the prior calendar quarter, the quarterly report and pre-election report can be combined to meet the pre-election report deadline. Herbert Hayden, state Ethics Commission executive director, didn't return a call requesting comment. His predecessor, Gary Baker, said "a special provision was written specifically into the law because campaigns would have to file reports 10 days apart." Hodges' move repeats what other campaigns have done in past years, he said. Quarterly reports were due at the Ethics Commission office by 5 p.m. Thursday and the 15-day, pre-election report for Oct. 1-15 is due by 5 p.m. on Oct. 21. Slapnik said Wednesday the campaign would file and provide cover sheets to news organizations "late" Thursday. Campaign manager Jay Reiff didn't return a call requesting comment on the apparent change. Sanford reported contributions of $3,008,042 and cash on hand of $1,885,642 as of Sept. 30. He reported spending $1,627,700 during the quarter, bringing total spending to $4.28 million. The quarterly figure raised his total donations to $6.17 million. With Hodges' $5.64 million raised through June 30, both campaigns have reported nearly $12 million in donations, breaking the record of $10.4 million set in 1998 when Republican Gov. David Beasley raised $5.8 million and Hodges generated $4.6 million. Sanford's third quarter total was boosted by $618,310 from a July 29 luncheon in Charleston that featured President Bush. Hodges faced no primary opposition, but Sanford had to spend more than $2 million to outlast a seven-person GOP field to win the primary, then defeat Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler in the June 25 runoff. Sanford doesn't accept political action committee funds. Sanford ended the second quarter on June 30 with $505,300 in cash on hand, compared to Hodges' $4.32 million. At that point, Sanford had raised $3.16 million and Hodges, $5.64 million. Hodges launched a television advertising campaign on June 26 that has continued with little slowdown. Sanford has mounted a campaign of his own. Sanford outraised Hodges in the second quarter, $784,550 to $569,000.</p> |
Hodges, Sanford adopt more civil tone at Upstate forum
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Hodges, Sanford adopt more civil tone at Upstate forum Large crowd attends fourth televised debate, held at Furman Universtity in Greenville, between gubernatorial candidates. By Joel D. Sawyer GREENVILLE — Say something nice about each other? Moderator Tom Crabtree made the request — a somewhat unusual one during a political debate — to Gov. Jim Hodges and Mark Sanford to cap off the event Sunday night. Hodges responded quickly, while Sanford took a few seconds to craft a response. “He’s got a great suntan, I’ll tell you,” Hodges said with smile. “He is one who cares about public education —... |
GOP voters pick Sanford
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| GOP voters pick Sanford Former congressman will next face Hodges BY SCHUYLER KROPF AND BRIAN HICKSOf The Post and Courier Staff It was never even close. Former congressman Mark Sanford overcame a late start to decisively win the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday, upsetting early favorite Lt. Gov. Bob Peeler and emerging as the new face of the South Carolina GOP. Peeler, as the highest-ranking Republican in state government, had for years been building a machine to become the party's challenger to Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges. Sanford, meanwhile, was one of the last of the seven Republicans candidates to... |
S.C. Governor Sends Troopers to Borders to Stop Government Shipments of Plutonium
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| Gov. Jim Hodges ordered state troopers and other authorities to South Carolina's borders Friday to stop government shipments of plutonium that could begin arriving from Colorado as early as this weekend. [snip] But Hodges has said he fears the government will end up leaving the plutonium permanently in South Carolina, making the state a tempting target for terrorists. Hodges, a Democrat who is up for re-election in the fall, has been threatening for weeks to use state troopers to block roads into the Savananna River Site and has vowed to lie down in the road if necessary to stop the... |
Governor attends truck-blocking drill at Savannah River Site
Sunday 27th of May 2012 08:29:39 AM
Posted by admin / Under Hodges Village Dam
| History not on Hodges' side in fight over plutonium Governor attends truck-blocking drill at Savannah River Site BY SCHUYLER KROPF Of The Post and Courier Staff If a plutonium standoff at the Savannah River Site leads to armed state troopers confronting armed federal agents, who wins? Should Gov. Jim Hodges proceed with his vow to block Department of Energy trucks when they start moving in mid-May, it could bring about a duel not seen below the Mason-Dixon line since segregationist Gov. George Wallace tried to block the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama. If that happens, some legal scholars... |
Sponsors
Our Services
Do not forget to check the lastest products and auctions related to Hodges Village Dam as well as our free videos and podcasts.
Share this!