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This email is not original with me.

It will be hard to find anything not made in China, but not impossible.

You hear on the news that there are many recalls on "stuff" from China. The Chinese are laughing all the way to the bank. One Light Bulb at a Time...

Although one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't slow a train very much, a billion of them would. With that thought in mind,read the following, obviously written by a good American ..

Good idea .. . . one light bulb at a time . . . . Check this out . When I was in Lowes the other day, noticed the hose attachments. They were all made in China. The next day I was in Ace Hardware and just for the heck of it I checked the hose attachments there. They were made in USA. ...this made me start looking. In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else - even their job.

My grandson likes Hershey's candy. I noticed, though, that it is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more.

My favorite toothpaste, Colgate, is made in Mexico ... now I use Crest. You have to read the labels on everything ..

This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60 W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle, and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labeled, "Everyday Value." I picked up both bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price.. and where they were made. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but it surprised me to learn that the GE bulbs were made in MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in Cleveland, Ohio.

So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day so throw out the myth that you have to buy from China. Some of the best stuff is "Made in the USA".

So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets....yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! Yesterday's laundry couldn't tell the difference in brands, but my pocketbook did! The Bounce costs twice as much. And to think that I've been using Bounce for years.

My challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbors!

If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from overseas companies! We should have thought about this a decade ago.

Let's get with the program.....help our fellow Americans keep their jobs and create more jobs here in the USA

What it's like in Texas - the tale of a Texas whistleblower

The true story of a Hearne, Texas, single black mother of four falsely indicted for dealing drugs.

The racist comments to this article are disgusting and shameful. Instead of publishing them, I'm publishing some comments by those who recognize a courageous whistleblower, whether or not she uses good grammar. That she doesn't is a comment on what a farce the public schools in Texas offer blacks, not on the brave woman herself.


"RAT"?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/08/2009

Oh come on..."rat"? No matter what anyone thinks of this woman. She stood her ground. She stood up for herself when many didn't have the courage to do so. Who else was willing to be the spokesperson? It doesn't matter who was chosen to be the spokesperson, what matters is why she was chosen and if it was effective. Rosa Parks really wasn't the first woman to give up her seat or go to jail for standing up for what she believed. But, during that particular time, she was the suitable person to use. Blacks were already being treated and depicted poorly in the south, someone pregnant by a married, white man would not have been the best person to use when trying to make their point, at that time. This doesn't mean this woman was a bad person or anything like that. We all get "caught up" sometimes. It just happened to be the wrong time for that type of situation. As far as the "rat" goes, yes she was young and ignorant, but she was willing to stand up for her rights and that did happen to help many people.

Stupidity Knows No Bounds...
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/24/2009

hood rat gets lucky??????

Man: are you serious? Not only are your comments (look at the original article if you find it necessary to read those comments) ignorant and illogical, but they ignore the point of the story..the district attorney targeted people based upon race. That's illegal. None of us are perfect. The beauty of Regina's/Dee's story is that she is an ordinary person who made an extraordinary decision. No one could blame her if she decided not to fight. But, she decided to forge ahead...Why am I wasting my time????? Obviously, you don't get the point. You're just as bad as the DA.

What Are You Going to Do?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/07/2009

I agree with whomever wrote the 'Stupidity Has No Bounds....' blog. Regardless of where she came from, who her kids' fathers were or who she was, she did something very brave and something that a lot of us wouldn't have the guts to do now days. She stood up for something that she knew was wrong. And think about it.......regardless of what percentage of African Americans live in this town, none of them have any type of power to really be heard and make a difference. I saw the movie and read about the situation outside the movie and based on what I've learned, she could have been killed, targeted, or any other negative reinforcement for standing up to this D.A. and the town for that matter. Her story is extra ordinary.....not ordinary at all. Would you have risked your life and your family's life for this? Would you? Not knowing what the outcome might have been........if it would have made a difference at all? WOULD YOU???? Probably not.

And, for those of you pointing the finger or telling what you see the 4 yr olds do and whose walking to the store by themselves......what are you doing to make Hearne a better place? Are you taking part in some type of action to make things better? Every little bit counts....trust me. Nothing is ever done in vain. Whether the children were thrown on the ground or not (they didn't show children being thrown on the ground) is not even the big issue. Let's face it.........that police force was doing something terribly wrong in Hearne and it finally came to the light. They were racially profiling citizens to reach a certain quota. I don't care if they arrested 10 and 8 of them were actual drug dealers....what about the other 2 that were picked out because of their race? And, I've never heard of a town doing as many raids as that and I live in the city where you can get cocaine from your local doctor!

From,
An educated, not a hood rat, woman

This is our world, smh God save us!
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 08/22/2009

I am so surprised at some of the above comments. This girl is phenomenal, no matter what people think of her. I am a black woman, with two kids and two babies fathers. Am I proud of that ? No I am not , but I am proud of my self and my children. You all are dwelling on the wrong things.We need to empower ourselves and our children,our community. What happened in Hearne Was wrong,the state of Texas is a racist black hole and I feel sorry for any black people living there. True there is racism everywhere I live in NY, it's here too. Our country needs revitalization, thank god for our new president!

Written by a high school graduate, just returning to college
Ignorance is a state of mind, no amount of college or culture can change it.

Time
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/22/2009

What troubles me about this whole issue, is that the D.A. is still in office, after this whole incident took place, if I'm not mistaken This town is one of those small towns that say, everything was alright tell some outsiders came and messed it all up. For who, them. See? That's the problem, some folks seem to feel that everything should stay the way it has been, for as long as they can remember. Just because it's been that way, doesn't make it right. YOU STAY IN YOUR PLACE AND EVERYTHING WILL BE OK. Hopefully, these narrow minded people will soon become a thing of the past, like dinosaurs, extinct.

Who would continue to vote for this DA?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/29/2009

I so admire Regina Kelly for standing up to this dirty DA.
Unfortunately, all over the US, we are locking up non-violent people in cages for what they put in their body or for providing it. NO ONE should be locked up like that. The War on Drugs is wrong. It's not smart, it's not just and it's not effective in keeping drugs away.
We need to treat all drugs the way we treat alcohol and tobacco...as public health issues.
What kind of people would continue to vote for this dirty DA?

Will We Ever Evolve?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/18/2009

The problem is not "whites who hate blacks". The problem is that we as black people can't stick together long enough to do anything about it. We are truly our own worst enemy. We are so worried about getting over, looking out for self, being the house nigga not the field nigga, or being better than each other that we can't see that when the least of us are being mistreated it makes it that much easier for the rest of us to be treated the same way. On the plantation a nigga was a nigga. The house nigga and the field nigga served different purposes but neither were looked at as human beings simply property. The whole idea behind that structure was to divide and conquer and it worked. We are still divided.

I don't have children but I applaud any black woman, no matter how many kids or baby daddy's, who is trying to better herself so that her kids can have a role model to look up to. The look up to Beyonce why not you?

I pray that all races can one day learn to live in harmony. Do I believe that it will happen? Not really. We probably can't change those of us who have already been programmed to believe that we can't do any better and that the white man is always right but we can start from here. We can teach our children better. Just because your parents were statistics does not mean that you have to be one no matter what anyone says. It has to start somewhere. Why not here? Why not now?

You go Regina!!! God Bless you!

Comments solicited on this draft

Letter to Dr Moore

Gifts for the campaigns of Kay Bailey Hutchison and Barbara Radnofsky

This is not intended to be an endorsement of Ms Radnofsky for Texas Attorney General. It's just that I am against Attorney General Gregg Abbott because he told me he would accept my criminal evidence against persons in several state agencies: the Texas Medical Board, the Texas Board of Nursing, the Texas Department of Public Safety,and now he refuses to honor his word.

Open letter to Taylor Cooper, who works for Barbara Radnofsky's campaign for Texas Attorney General (challenging Gregg Abbott)

Dear Mr. Cooper,

I founded Texas Medical Board Watch to expose corruption at the TMB. I have evidence of malfeasance at several Texas agencies about which I have spoken to you before. Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott refuses to take my evidence.

On Feb 6, 2009, I was allowed to testify to the whole medical board at its regular meeting. My surprise 10 minute testimony listed half a dozen specific (causing US mail to be destroyed, other examples) and general ("abuse of power", etc.) criminal actions of TMB Executive Director Mari Robinson of which I was personally aware or could provide affidavit testimony. About two weeks later, I received notice that the medical board intended to suspend my medical license in an upcoming hearing. With no new complaint or evidence and no complaint or evidence ever regarding the quality of my medical care, my license was fraudulently suspended on March 24, 2009, on an emergency basis, a month later.

A slanderous press release from the TMB was published in my hometown newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, the following day.

The simplest, most direct evidence I have of agency malfeasance of which both the current attorney general and Governor Perry are aware, is an order/affidavit demonstrating inaction (aiding and abetting public corruption) of the Board of Nursing and the Texas Department of Public Safety in the case of a nurse practitioner who works for a former TMB member, Keith E Miller MD, in Shelby County, Texas. See attachment #1.

Texas licensed nurse, Bridget Yvette Hughes admits to over 50 forged narcotic prescriptions and is not disciplined or arrested.

Bridget Yvette Hughes non-disciplinary order with the Texas Board of Nursing

Nurse Bridget Hughes admits to the forgery of over 50 prescriptions of Schedule II Controlled Substances. Hughes was never arrested by DPS (or anyone else) and not disciplined by the BON at the time.

On the other hand, Hughes, self-prescribed antibiotics this year and received a public disciplinary order. See attachment #2. The forgery of narcotics prescriptions is a much more serious offense than the act of self-prescribing antibiotics.

Briget Hughes disciplined for self prescribing antibiotics.

Bridget_Hughes RN, Disciplinary Order


During the time in question (while she was being investigated for the first crimes), Hughes worked for Dr. Miller, her supervising physician. He continues to supervise her to this day. The BON order #2 assigns Dr. Miller to continue to monitor her nursing activities, after he has proven himself, multiple times, not to be adequate for the job. Dr. Miller appears to be aiding and abetting the felonies of Bridget Hughes.

The third attachment is a letter to me from Kent Mawyer, Chief of Criminal Law Enforcement, for Colonel Thomas Davis, former executive director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He copies it to the medical, nursing, and pharmacy boards. My interpretation of the letter is that DPS does not plan further investigation of alleged criminal actions of Hughes and/or her boss, Dr. Miller for aiding and abetting.


Kent Mawyer's letter to me and three Texas healthcare licensing agencies indicating no further actions are anticipated against Bridget Hughes, who is supervised by Texas TMB licensee Keith E Miller MD.


Kent Mawyer letter to Shirley Pigott MD


Based on attachments #4 and #5, showing over 80 times where Dr. Miller has testified, in eight states, as a plaintiff's expert, I have written that he is a "court whore". The term is used by doctors to describe other doctors who will say whatever they are paid to say in a court of law under oath. My organization, Texas Medical Board Watch, gave him the "Red Devil Award", two years in a row. Miller is spending a lot of time and money suing me for slander. He will lose, because the truth is an affirmative defense against allegations of slander, as you know.

A portion of the cases where Keith E Miller claims to be an expert

Expert Testimony - Keith E Miller MD

Expert Testimony - Keith E Miller MD, Updated

The Wharton County District Attorney, Republican Josh McCown, has prosecuted me fraudulently for three very serious felonies which were alleged to have occurred Sept 29, 2007. There is circumstantial evidence that the involved DPS officers staged the scene. A Wharton County jury found me guilty of two first degree felonies, but acquitted me of the third. Sentencing is still pending for Jan 25, 2010, two years and three months after the precipitating events; the case will be appealed at that time.

In preparation for my criminal case, I and two other witnesses saw an email exchange between Nurse Bridget Hughes and DPS Captain Patrick Mulligan in Joshie's evidence file. The two should never have heard of each other and their communications imply (!) collusion. Captain Mulligan forwarded the email to the judge's administrator, Cassie Ritter, who forwarded it to the DA. I do not believe that the judge knew of the circulation of these emails or that his office was assisting the DA in an ex parte collection of evidence.

At a time during preparation for trial, when I was pro se, I filed and was granted a motion to cause the DA to produce what I believed to be exculpatory evidence. The DA failed to produce it, in violation of a direct court order. My motion to hold him in contempt of court was denied.

Attachments #1 and #2 are public information. Number 3 is a personal letter to me from DPS. Attachments #4 and #5 are obtained from a service which tracks expert testimony. I believe my evidence, in these documents, will prove to be indisputable confirmation of corruption in Attorney General Abbott's office, Governor Perry's office, the Texas Medical Board, Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Texas Board of Nursing. All your campaign needs to do is to prove that our Texas Attorney General refuses to acknowledge it, and once you prove they are aware of the information I have provided, if they continue to do nothing, perhaps you can assist me in getting them indicted for "misprision of felonies", a felony.

Could we seek an Attorney General's OPINION in these matters?

Shirley Pigott MD
Director, Texas Medical Board Watch


An interesting aside is that Keith E Miller MD has testified under oath that criminal charges are pending against me in Shelby County, Texas. He expects the DA, Lynda K Russell, his patient, to prosecute me. She is alleged to have been running the asset forfeiture scam by Tenaha police which has made the national news:

CNN's version

LA Times' version

The ACLU wants the Texas Attorney General to keep her from using money to defend herself against a class action lawsuit alleging her to be behind these illegal seizures.

This is it for today

Mr. Meritz:


Mike Volpe blogs the Provocateur: please google [volpe "shirley pigott"] You should see about 5 stories - good background, but not up-to-date. Mike's phone number is 312-622-6546.

Craig Malisow wrote one story about me in the Houston Press. He did not know me at the time. He says he is trying to digest some of what I've been sending him. I'm not totally sure he believes me, because he's not interacted with me that much. His direct line is 713-280-2481.

Safaa Hakim MD is a good friend, a psychiatrist, in Connecticut, who was sham peer reviewed but is back to work. (phone number inserted) Medical Whistleblower, who is traumatized, was sham peer reviewed in another state. Her loved ones were harmed. She has been physically and emotionally abused. Rene Umali MD (phone number inserted) was sham peer reviewed in California. He has five young children and is trying to redirect his career, which has been destroyed. Hil Rizvi MD was sham peer reviewed in Maryland but is still working, fortunately. Eric Gluck MD, in Connecticut, has been destroyed emotionally after exposing the false credentials of former Navy Vice Admiral Donald Arthur.

Dave Johnson (phone number inserted), retired, formerly a regional head of IT for the Department of Labor, was diagnosed with heart disease several years ago. The doctor who saved his life was sham peer reviewed and her career was destroyed. Geraldine Mills MD, a pediatrician in Rhode Island, had her career destroyed a number of years ago after she reported, as a mandated reporter, two cases of child abuse.

Pastor Paul Sims (phone number inserted) has been a good e-friend. I've introduced him to some of the above doctors for emotional support. Curious Cat has been the victim of bad doctors, whose medical boards, apparently, protect them. I surmise that, because those doctors and the bad ones the rest of us have reported are still practicing medicine.

Susan Diamond MD was emotionally abused by her physician husband and his expert witness, Mark Blotcky MD. As a result, she lost custody of her five children.

Dr. Blotcky, like Dr. Keith Miller, is a court whore, in doctors-lounge parlance.

Bill Duff, tries to defend us by writing letters to journalists who don't get the picture. His wife, who stays out of it, is a physician.

This is just a start. Please help tell our stories truthfully - I've been trying over four years to break into the mainstream media, but no one has the courage, it seems, to tell our stories. We are some of the reasons health care is in its current dismal shape. Most people don't hear about us because sham peer review is so horribly humiliating and destructive. My sham peer review caused my husband to commit suicide on the day I was fraudulently indicted for two felonies in Wharton County on January 8, 2008. My lawyer, Jerry Payne, (Houston) has my permission to say whatever he wants to say about my cases.

Carol Davis (Houston) has been a tremendous emotional support for me and other crime victims.

When (if) you follow up on what I'm telling you, keep in mind that most of us are severely emotionally traumatized; with some of us the trauma is on-going. We are desperate and not always composed. The country must know what is happening to doctors who speak out.

Loretta Romo is a resident of Wharton, Texas. The DA there, Josh McCown, prosecuted me for fleeing arrest "with a deadly weapon", in my car, which he seized on September 29, 2007. He asked for, and received, a superseding indictment nine months after the event, apparently because I won't let him have my car (he's held it since Sept 29, 2007) without a fight, for "aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty with a deadly weapon (my car)". He was trying to put me in prison for life, but the jury wouldn't go along. He did convict me of the two counts of fleeing arrest. I was actually fleeing from two Texas DPS officers, in fear for my safety.

Loretta's son-in-law was found dead this year, hung by a hose wrapped around his neck. Josh McCown ruled it suicide and instructed authorities not to investigate. Hispanics and blacks have much more to say about white Republican Josh McCown.

Nurse Practitioner Bridget Hughes, who is still working for Dr. Keith Miller in Shelby County, Texas, admits to the forgery of over 50 Schedule II Controlled Substances prescriptions in an affidavit prepared for the Board of Nursing. Those are strong narcotics in the same class as propofol, the general anesthetic which was given IV, criminally, to Michael Jackson, at home, by Houston doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray.

The Texas Medical Board has allowed Dr. Murray to continue working. We cannot find out if the TMB is even investigating him, but DPS has not arrested him. Neither has DPS arrested Bridget Hughes for her felonies. The order she signed is not disciplinary.

On February 6, 2009, I was allowed to testify to the medical board about the half dozen state and federal crimes perpetrated by their current executive director, Mari Robinson, about which I have personal knowledge. A couple weeks later, with no new evidence and no evidence or complaints about me ever concerning the quality of patient care, the board sent me a letter telling me they were going to suspend my medical license (on an emergency basis) a month later. A month later they suspended my license on an emergency basis after finding me to be, they said, "mentally impaired". (I do have a disability, bipolar disorder, but it has been treated for many years, and is stable, according to my psychiatrist, Matthew Brams MD.) Prior to my surprise testimony, I had written the former medical board president, Roberta Kalafut DO and the medical board itself several times alleging the same crimes by Robinson.

Dr. Chris Kuhne (phone number inserted) can provide you with additional information on one of her crimes about which he has personal knowledge.

Jill Wiggins is the spokesperson for the Texas Medical Board. She should corroborate, at least, that I testified before the board on February 6th. My attorney won't let me communicate with the board, or I would copy this letter to them, but you can find their number on the Internet. If not, perhaps you can confirm, by open records request, that I testified on that date (unless the board changes its records).

Ms Wiggins sent a press release to my hometown newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, which printed it. The editor responsible, Chris Cobler, did not have time, he said, to listen to my side of the story. I'm copying this letter to him. I had kept Victoria Advocate reporter, Gabe Semenza, up-to-date on medical board issues and begged him to tell my story for about two years, but his bosses refused to allow him to print it. I'm sending a copy of this letter to him. I believe he will substantiate that I have kept him informed. I do not know whether Mr. Semenza ever investigated. You can ask him; his phone number and email address are listed below:
gsemenza@vicad.com 361-574-1220 - Work Fax; 361-580-6519 direct line - Work

You have enough information, Mr. Meritz, to verify independently some of what I am writing you. I believe the public has a right to know. The story of the TMB and Dr. Conrad Murray is of even wider interest. The Texas Medical Board is the "worst in the country", according to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which is suing it in federal court for violating the civil rights of its licensees.

Shirley Pigott MD

copies: Mike Volpe Illinois , Craig Malisow Texas , Safaa Hakim MD Connecticut , Hil Rizvi MD Maryland , Jerry Payne JD AttorneyTexas , Bill Duff Texas , Chris Kuhne MD Texas , Curious Cat , Chris Cobler Victoria Advocate , Victoria Advocate Newsroom , Loretta Romo Wharton Texas , "Susan Diamond MD Texas" ,

Open letters (today) to Darren Meritz, El Paso Times News Reporter

Darren Meritz, El Paso Times

Dear Mr. Meritz,

Keith E Miller MD was Chairman of the Texas Medical Board Disciplinary Process Review Committee. I exposed some conflicts of interest which I'll tell you about later.

http://texasphoenix007.blogspot.com/2009/11/keith-e-miller-md-is-suing-me-for.html

Please read this first. Call me if you have problems. I'll send you more as soon as my computer will cooperate.

SP

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Mr. Meritz:

I suggest you read this next:

http://texasphoenix007.blogspot.com/2009/11/has-former-henchman-of-texas-medical.html

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Dear Mr. Meritz,

And next:

http://texasphoenix007.blogspot.com/2009/11/dr-millers-retaliation-against-dr.html

If you're interested, there is lots more. Let me know which direction you want to go.

An arrow points to the best number by which to reach me, below.


Shirley Pigott MD, Executive Director
Texas Medical Board Watch
www.TexasMedicalBoardWatch.com
361-652-9474 cell
361-894-6464 home <-

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