Arkansas Blog

Thanks John! Good article/information!
I have downloaded it and sending to all my addressee especially the ones that just the mention of ACLU gets their prejudiced libido's in a twit.

My HIPAA radar went crazy when I read this. Call or e-mail your senators and friends. How could anybody think this is a good idea? Oh right, it's from Bush-Cheney-Rove.

Good commentary from People's Tribune, likely from our pal DBI:

What can I say? Hitler had a home town, Osama had a home town, Sadam, Pee Wee Herman, that Carrot Top fellow.....everyone has a home town.

Maybe Fort Smith gets Altes as punishment for never picking a side in the Civil War...when it was over both sides hated us. Maybe we get Altes as punishment for being the home of Braxton B. Sawyer and the Radio Pulpit for 50 years. Or for lynching a black guy from the light post in front of 1st National Bank back in 1919....yes..1919, not 1819.

There's been some evil walk thru our town, but Denny's not evil, he's just stupid. With the exception of Buddy Blair and now Tracy Pennartz who took his seat, the rest of the folks in Fort Smith are elected because 1st Baptist and the rest get out the most vote on election day. Ya can't beat em! There are far too many of them to whip at the polls.

While those elected may be strong on God (oh goody!) they're always short on brains. I'm tempted to go down the list..but I think not. And while I'm thinking of it...has anyone ever known a Denny that wasn't goofy as hell? I thought not.

I don't know what we're going to do with him. With him and Medley and Glidewell and John Boozman all hailing from Fort Smith...I wouldn't blame you'all for cutting us loose and giving us to Oklahoma.

It's not the water here...I have a brilliant wife and 2 brilliant daughters! (Today the youngest and I won 1st place at the Jr/Sr high Science Fair in the team category)

My first question to Denny is why the FK would I want the government to build a database of my medicine and medical problems? None Ya, I say!

But more importantly...whose putting Denny up to this? He's not bright enough to have dreamed this up at home playing Bible Sword Drill on the Internets. My first thought is Medley's put him up to this. Something about a database might help Medley with his true purpose in being an Arkansas legislator.....scooping up goodies for his own business. But I don't know......you can bet Denny didn't come up with this himself. There is an African American* in the woodpile somewhere.

figure of speech in honor of Black History Month...which should take place 12 months a year like white history seem to do.

PVN has it right. Follow the money.

Then there's the possibility of political sabotage that could emerge from having such information readily available to politicians.

There's one very farRight close to the luny fringe public issues preacher in this corner of Arkyville who happens to be addicted to certain meds. His damage control would be out the window if his drug history falls into the wrong hands.

two words

Jerry Jones ......AHD ,he wants those Fed Duckies ( DOLLARS) for his department ,
Denny Altes is his mules to get them..

widj, for you and everyone else who is relying on HIPAA to protect you, here's something to consider. I work with a guy who used to do HIPAA auditing for a large health care system. A common practice nowadays is to budget for HIPAA fines. Yep, it's cheaper to plan for getting busted because you're not compliant than actually BE compliant.

Being compliant means you'd have to look at your processes, think about the regulations, change the way you do things and then come back to make sure no one has "changed back" to the way things were before. Mighty expensive.

Is there a way to start proceedings to deport Denny Altes? I want him out of United States airspace. And why don't we get some experts to come up with an IQ test for all those running for office in the future.

One must pass a test to drive a car, why not a test to weed out those too stupid to govern? We could fence Utah and put all the mental midgets there. Come on....we did it to the Japanese-Americans at the start of WWII, why not do it now to all the Idiot-Americans? I mean we're at war. Habeas corpus is suspended. Hold Altes in Utah until the War for Oil is over.

Or perhaps Tracy Pennartz can introduce a bill to create a giant database containing the names, facts and figures on every office holder in Arkansas....or America! We could browse the database every now and then and find out whose putting words in Denny's purty mouth. We could find out whose funding Huckabuck. Might even find out who likes oranges thrown at their butt during sex.

Those who live by the database, die by the database! Or we could just deport Denny Altes. Grab him, spray some dark MaryKay makeup on him and drop him in front of a Tyson plant just before a raid. Let him cook his database idea over a campfire in old Mexico for a few years.

ACLU opposes Altes SB20, now he catches it from the extreme right wackos back home in Ft. Smith.

From: Joe and Barb McCutchen [mailto:joeusa@cox.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 11:35 AM
To: Denny Altes (aaltes@aol.com)
Cc: 'jbrummet@arkansasnews.com'
Subject: SB 20

Denny,

Your Senate Bill 20 destroys the physician/patient/pharmacist relationship. Pharmacists are acutely aware when physician driven abuses occur and appropriate authorities are so notified.

Please visit one of our pharmacies or the one you patronize and allow the pharmacist in charge to acquaint you with the mountains of state and federal laws that we must abide by, and the records we keep. Your Bill does not address the true crisis.

Your Bill is an invasion of citizen privacy and the distribution of a patient's health records would become conversation pieces across the state.

It is the ILLEGAL distribution of your mentioned medications that is the crisis, most of which are brought in and distributed through Mexican drug cartels in NW Arkansas. Innervate the Agency, FBI, BATFE, and the host of other law enforcement agencies to go after the real criminals. What we have here is a serious case of selective law enforcement.

Please withdraw your Bill. We have more than enough government intrusion from Washington, and thanks to Huckabee and the legislature, our state is beginning to flex its invasive muscle.

I do not believe you have an understanding of the duties of pharmacists' and the demands placed upon us.

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen

Here are the members of the Senate Public Health Committee that approved this sorry bill - they are a public menace. Jack Critcher, Tracy Steele, Percy Malone, Hank Wilkins, Barbara Horn, Randy Laverty, Bill Pritchard, Jack Crumbly

Brummett will not see that e-mail unless he happens across it here--note spelling of his name in the cc: address.