News updates (well, it's news to me)

[temperance14]

First an update on the NPR story on US Army's purported interference with Veteran's Affairs procedures. The procedures involved the VA's assisting disabled veterans with paperwork assessing their disability ratings.

The Army Surgeon General Eric Shoemaker responds.


On the lighter side, an update on known dinosaurs:
4 short web pages, with some nice pen/ink illos.

A short armed Kryptops palaios (to quote Spielberg's Dinosaurs "How come I never make the bowling team?")
and a big boy, Eocarcharia dinops, with a nasty jaw/tooth arrangement.

Both with huge brow bones---interesting shapes.

Methinks I need to set up a photo vault for dino art. My pages need more frilled scaly critters.

Comments

Re: See I disagree on the interpreation of the update

[terpsichoros.livejournal.com]

See, NPR had a contradiction. People at the hospital said that "the Army" told them to not provide the counseling. The Army, in the person of Gen. Showmaker, said they had given no such advice. That leaves three possibilities: The hospital people were lying - blaming the army for an internal policy, Gen. Shoemaker was lying, or someone in-between had told the hospital to not provide counseling, on his own authority or misinterpreting direction from above.

A responsible news organization would have investigated further, and found that the third case was true, before reporting what NPR initially reported. But we don't have responsible news organizations in this country.