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Another VA Scandal: GI Bill Funnels Taxpayer Money To Masturbation Classes, "Hate Churches" & More
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Iraq War veteran David Rodriguez steps into a softly lit classroom at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, crosses his legs and sits on a pillow in front of an altar decorated with a rope, a model of a penis and a statue of a Hindu god.
Rodriguez, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who led an engineering battalion that dismantled roadside bombs, is here for a class on “sexual bodywork.” When instruction begins, he will join his classmates in practicing different forms of masturbation.
“They do vulva massage and penis massage and anal massage,” said instructor Ariadne H. Luya, who holds a Ph.D. from the institute, an unaccredited graduate school founded in 1976 by an iconoclastic Methodist minister who amassed a large collection of erotic art and pornographic films, including child pornography, that is kept at the school.
“We want to get people out of their ruts. Have you been masturbating the same way for 20 years?” she asked rhetorically. “How’s that going for you? Would you like to try something new?”
Rodriguez is funding his studies with the GI Bill, which means taxpayers are covering his tuition to pursue a doctorate in human sexuality – more than $20,000 over the past two years.
But in the absence of strong government oversight, Reveal has found a gold rush of 2,000 schools cashing in on the exemption. The list includes schools set up to make a profit by teaching blackjack, scuba diving, dog grooming, taxidermy and yoga. Many are owned by individuals who’ve gone bankrupt or failed to pay their taxes. A handful are owned by convicted felons…
Back at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, the Rev. Ted McIlvenna, the school’s president, walks down a narrow hallway cluttered with erotic paintings and sculptures, pornographic magazines and reel after reel of pornographic films.
“This is where we keep the kiddie porn,” he said, pointing at a 10-foot-long locked cabinet. “You have to have a doctorate to open it.”
– From the Reveal article: GI Bill Pays for Unaccredited Sex, Bible and Massage Schools
If you feel you’ve had enough Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) related scandals for one lifetime, you’ve come to the wrong place. I’m sure all Liberty Blitzkrieg readers will recall the huge outcry last year when it was revealed that some of those unfortunate Americans who sacrificed themselves in wars for imperial dominance and overseas profits, were left hung out to dry by the VA. So much so, that some vets even died while waiting for healthcare within the VA system.
Not to worry though. Under the GI Bill, taxpayers are funding all sorts of “learning” at unaccredited schools, including masturbation classes at San Francisco’s Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, hate sermons at places such as the Oklahoma Baptist College and Institute, and all sorts of other scams run by convicted felons. I wish I was making this up.
From the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal:
Iraq War veteran David Rodriguez steps into a softly lit classroom at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, crosses his legs and sits on a pillow in front of an altar decorated with a rope, a model of a penis and a statue of a Hindu god.
Rodriguez, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who led an engineering battalion that dismantled roadside bombs, is here for a class on “sexual bodywork.” When instruction begins, he will join his classmates in practicing different forms of masturbation.
“They do vulva massage and penis massage and anal massage,” said instructor Ariadne H. Luya, who holds a Ph.D. from the institute, an unaccredited graduate school founded in 1976 by an iconoclastic Methodist minister who amassed a large collection of erotic art and pornographic films, including child pornography, that is kept at the school.
“We want to get people out of their ruts. Have you been masturbating the same way for 20 years?” she asked rhetorically. “How’s that going for you? Would you like to try something new?”
Rodriguez is funding his studies with the GI Bill, which means taxpayers are covering his tuition to pursue a doctorate in human sexuality – more than $20,000 over the past two years. He says he wants to counsel veterans with sexual problems.
Opinions may differ about whether Rodriguez’s degree is more or less valuable than other academic pursuits. But one thing is clear: His school does not meet the minimum standards that the U.S. Department of Education requires for receipt of other federal funds.
The institute is eligible to receive money directly from the U.S. Treasury because the GI Bill does not require schools to be accredited – a formal process that typically includes extensive site visits and audits by an independent organization charged with upholding academic standards.
But in the absence of strong government oversight, Reveal has found a gold rush of 2,000 schools cashing in on the exemption. The list includes schools set up to make a profit by teaching blackjack, scuba diving, dog grooming, taxidermy and yoga. Many are owned by individuals who’ve gone bankrupt or failed to pay their taxes. A handful are owned by convicted felons.
The cost to taxpayers: more than $260 million from the time the new GI Bill took effect in 2009 until the end of 2014.
Dozens of unaccredited Bible colleges benefit from the loophole, including one, the Oklahoma Baptist College and Institute, that is part of a church that was placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups. Its president, the Rev. Tom Vineyard, once declared that “50 to 60 percent of homosexuals are infected with intestinal parasites” and that “homosexuals account for half of the murders in large cities.” In December, Vineyard shot and killed a 14-year-old boy during what police said was an attempted burglary at his home. No charges were filed.
“It boils down to this,” Van Buren said. “Your tax money paid me to fight a war and to sacrifice my family. For the rest of my life, I’ll be feeling the weight of that war. The education benefit I receive is part of that package, that I have the liberty to go where I want to go.”
But some veterans advocates say such choices run counter to the purpose of the GI Bill, which is designed to help veterans succeed in civilian life.
Reveal conducted extensive background checks on 100 unaccredited schools in 10 states that receive GI Bill money, including all of the top recipients and a sampling of others. More than a third were owned or run by individuals who had declared bankruptcy or failed to pay their taxes.
In Georgia, GI Bill funds flowed to a construction academy whose president has declared bankruptcy twice and been arrested for assault. In New Jersey, they funded a for-profit nursing program whose president has faced five liens for unpaid taxes. In Pennsylvania, taxpayers paid for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend a commercial trucking program whose president has lodged eight guilty pleas in traffic court, including driving an unregistered vehicle, driving a vehicle without proper inspection and speeding in a school zone.
A handful of unaccredited schools are owned by convicted felons, including Royal Image Barber College, a Chicago-area beauty school whose founder, Corey Lewis, served four years in prison on charges of vehicular invasion and aggravated robbery. He also has declared bankruptcy twice in the past four years.
The VA declined to discuss specific problems with any school, but in a statement, the agency argued that the “law sets no specific prohibitions against approving a program due to a school’s owner having declared bankruptcy, owed back taxes, or having been convicted of a crime in the past.”
Back at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, the Rev. Ted McIlvenna, the school’s president, walks down a narrow hallway cluttered with erotic paintings and sculptures, pornographic magazines and reel after reel of pornographic films.
“This is where we keep the kiddie porn,” he said, pointing at a 10-foot-long locked cabinet. “You have to have a doctorate to open it.”
McIlvenna, who has been in business since 1976, says he will never seek accreditation from an organization approved by the Department of Education.
“Accreditation is a bunch of crap,” he said. “They would never let me keep my library.”
“We don’t take any federal money,” he said, “except for the veterans,” he quickly added – because it comes with no strings attached.
Your taxpayer money at work. Speechless.
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Auto-erotic asphyxiation classes for bankers, pols and crats!
Gonna get my wife to join the American armed forces so's she can learn to have decent sex with me.
“It boils down to this,” Van Buren said. “Your tax money paid me to fight a war and to sacrifice my family. For the rest of my life, I’ll be feeling the weight of that war. The education benefit I receive is part of that package, that I have the liberty to go where I want to go.”
And THIS is the entitled thinking that makes this country great.
Right out of a Woody Allen movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ1eBzOLE0g
<---- The Stranger
<---- The Rabbit
Assessing gender demographic.
Egads! It's on the SPLC list of hate groups!? I definitely have to send my children there.
I am Chumbawamba.
Up Vote (hide the membership roster well)
I can see it now.
The first vet says to the question......"Yeah, sure, I'd like to masturbate differently. But you see, I went off to war thinking I was doing something for the country. And not only did nothing change.....but MY MOTHERFUCKING HANDS WERE BLOWN OFF."
The second vet chimes in....."Dude.....at least you still have a dick. Mine was blown off along with my legs by a road side bomb. Now I shit and piss in a bag hanging from my gut."
For the love of GOD !! Please...anyone reading this who has a son or daughter seriously contemplating joining ANY branch of the military. DON'T LET THEM DO IT !!!! Fuck this country and fuck the military's civilian leadership. And a LOT of the military brass running it also.
DO NOT SACRIFICE YOUR CHILD TO THIS EVIL, CORRUPT SYSTEM !!!!
The Coast Guard is a respectable organization. Boats are good.
Tom Vineyard greased a black criminal. Give him a medal as well as some fedgov money lol.
The government just keeps on jerking us off
Major Jerkoff
Mayór Jerkov
The instructor, and his Russian counterpart.
"You mean I've doing it wrong all this time?"
Only if u didn't get off...Don't let them tell u any different.
Depends. Do you put a revolver in your mouth?
And to think, all this time I've been tugging on my thumb.
HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!
+ 1000 strokes !!
Now if y3maxx sends his wife round to you perhaps you both could be mutually benficial?
The VA = A Preview of gummint run healthcare.
Pre-view?
Well....we aren't quite there yet. Patience grasshopper. Everything in due time.
Invest in da utes, dem old guys spent.
Did you think Idiocracy would play out so clean, or as long?
Gear up bitchez. Be Ready.
The government needs to raise taxes because there's not enough money for basic social services. Next time some ignorant asshole tells you that, give them a copy of this article
Government provocation.
Nice. I liked sliding my brain around that one.
It's all too sad for a comment so here's a joke?
Which of your senses do you use the most when you are masturbating?
Your sense of hearing.
Might as well get multiple PhD's in jerking off, pulling a thumb out of your ass, etc. in todays job market.
The purpose is to destroy America, Americans and the dollar. Spending stupidly is one way to do it.
True story from my shool years. Our school teacher years ago announced that we would be having a debate when some wise ass called out, "how about a maths debate." needless to say back then that was too risque so we all ended up on detention.
I had to read that 3 times AND sound it out.
Getting old sucks.
WTF? Who do you think has access to the legislation, that allows these loopholes in the first place?
Demented sociopath lawyers, and career criminal un-elected political hacks.
Rome is burning, and the flames are just not quite hot enough "yet" to melt the thin veneer of social fabric.
this story is cute and all but we should periodically gently remind ourselves that, say whatever you will about people who joined the military - the us federal government has virtually abandoned seriously wounded vets, leaving it up to private groups like wounded warrior project to do a lot the government should do.
But there's never enough money.
There's always plenty of money for fucking Israel, or to kill people in Ukraine or Syria... but not for guys missing legs because they were naive enough to believe the military is about defending these United States.
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
Government has never kept its promises to the people, unless it had promised to kill them.
Let the US federal soldiers starve in the gutter, where they belong. What part of "the gov't is evil and corrupt" don't you geniuses understand?
The US armed forces, and the government at large, are but a bunch of people. Just people doing things. Instititutions are fictions. When blame is placed on the US armed forces for all sorts of crimes, it is placed on its members (soldiers and commanders). The army as an actual entity, does not exist.
Other entities that do not exist but are used in informal speech are "nations", "countries", "economies" and "forests" (a bunch of trees).
BRAVO
Whom are we going to blame now?, The government, veterans, or the society?
Remember George Carlin: "Maybe it's the public that sucks"
So it shows where AMERIKA stands today (you need a PHD for kids porn?????)
and these freaking veterans (watching too many movies with Chuck Norris) after a total disappointment coming from war?
This is what AMERIKA can produce best - Garbage in / Garbage out.
To all AMERIKANS enjoy for many many years
Here's the clip of good 'ol George saying that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUywG-VXhug
Never gets old.
Of course he didn't exactly say if there were any specific requirements on the type of PhD.
Do any institutions of higher learning still offer degreed programs in basket weaving? Queer theory? Gender studies.
I'm sure you could wave a paper mill degree from the Caribbean at him and it would be enough to unlock the cabinet.
Maybe they need to teach the poor bastards with flipper arms how to jerk off again. Freedom isn't free and all that right? They should bill President Cheney directly!
Maybe they should have performed my friend's biopsy instead of putting it off over and over for a year, then telling him he didn't have cancer, then six months later telling him he had advanced cancer and they needed to chop up his face.
doesn't this story beat all...
I'm telling yoy that between bankers and wankers this world has little chance of not ending badly.
Well, between the bankers funding wars to kill off everyone and the wankers wanking off not reproducing another one its quite possible the human population will become extinct in no time at all.
Guess that's the new JAG officer
Fuck me. I need Fedgov to teach me how to Beat the Bishop? Have I been using improper technique all these years?
Who knew?
Ha.
I think we're getting close...
Has a Rusty Ring To It.
"Society" itself is just one big circle jerk. Who cares what the VA does? It's all fake "money" anyway.
I'm a vet that uses the VA and these types of things completely disgust me. We - America - have countless vets literally dying in line to see a doctor and this kind of shit is going on at our expense. Fucking bureaucrats. No wonder people go off the deep end sometimes. The only problem I have with these 'mass shooters' is they always shoot the wrong fucking people.
It's not off the deep end if it is focused....
Just gotta focus.
No shit!
They don't need help, they need a map!
yea laugh all you want, but have any of you ever tried to jag off or wipe yer arse with a couple of pirate hooks for hands? Takes some serious retraining and mental concentration, because one slip and.................
Destroy the image and you will destroy the enemy...
Years ago, maybe 10... I wanted to start a business, and was looking at various funding methods.
I went to a seminar for government grants and walked out before the tool was 1/2 way through it.
It was obvious that this guy was a career tax payer skimmer, that had been ,or was employed by some obscure dept. of lendiing. (.gov)
These fucking leeches will stop at nothing to extract every ounce of money and humanity out of a person.
Meanwhile we have honest destitute, down on their luck Veterans that need help. This shit makes my stomach turn. These people are mentally decapacitated from war, and they're being swindled out of their money for this shit!
I hope every illegal fuck that wants to fight for the USSA, reads this article. You're just fodder, and a vote.
What a bunch of jackoffs
I'm proud to announce that I have graduated Smegma Cum Loudly, top of my class from Masturbation Matriculation. No applause please. Could you hand me a tissue. Long Kleenex.
This time...not only will Uncle Sam fuck you...but he will give you the reach around....finally the bastard isnt being so selfish.....
He's only giving you the reach around so he can make believe he went all the way through.
The only problem with his reach around is he's reaching around with a pair of bolt cutters to turn you into Caitlyn.
I'm self taught, thank you very much.
Now that the military embraces gays, they have made some rules. NO sex in the foxholes but french kissing and wanking each other allowed, but only in the prescribed manner.
Bankers and polticians get the hookers and blow, and veterans get a box of Kleenex.
Same as it ever was.
Meanwhile.....the eBenefits website used by vets to file and monitor claims and appeals has been 'down for an upgrade' since circa May 2015. No worries though, its scheduled to be available again.....in September 2015.
Ya simply kanna make this shite up, Cap'n!
Let those patriotic girls give free blowjobs to those freedom defenders on regular basis.
I was in the Navy. I could have used this.
Hahaha.
Yet another reason not to enlist in the MIC.
When they graduate proclaiming they're the best they've ever had, the controllers will know it's safe for arms seizure.
Eat your Kelloggs Corn Flakes and STFU. Don't forget ingesting Graham Crackers.
Corn Flakes Were Invented as Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade ...
Nude,hot & steamy yoga is getting popular I've heard.Mix it in with the Rodrigues program.
They extorted money from me so I guess I should not be surprised they are using it to support jacking off and child porn education.
.
I'll say this as plainly as possible SHUT THE GODDAMNED VA DOWN!, and fire everyone the mother fucking crooked pieces of shit that work there
VA is some kind of free ride for the employees, but evil that they take salary, TDY, Office Remodeling, and bonus money for denial of care. And by the way, the denial of care is systemic.
See the routing of funds. IT is major problem in VA, but ... $13 Billion is not enough. WTF. Time for Jail ass-wipes.
Total—Dept of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2014 = $154.05 Billion
Total—Dept of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2013 = $143.6 Billion
Total—Dept of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2000 = $50.1 Billion
Total—Dept of Veterans Affairs Outlays 1998 = $45.6 Billion
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2014 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.432 Billion
2013 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.218 Billion
2012 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.266 Billion
2011 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.355 Billion
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TOTAL VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $13.27. Billion in 4 Years
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2014 VA Medical Care = $46.04 Billion
2013 VA Medical Care = $44.7 Billion
2010 VA Medical Care = $36.9 Billion
2008 VA Medical Care = $30.0 Billion
2004 VA Medical Care = $24.4 Billion
2002 VA Medical Care = $22.6 Billion
1999 VA Medical Care = $17.8 Billion
1998 VA Medical Care = $17.3 Billion
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2014 VA Compensation and Pensions = $69.82 Billion
2013 VA Compensation and Pensions = $64.76 Billion
2010 VA Compensation and Pensions = $47.90 Billion
2008 VA Compensation and Pensions = $40.24 Billion
2004 VA Compensation and Pensions = $29.78 Billion
2002 VA Compensation and Pensions = $25.68 Billion
2000 VA Compensation and Pensions = $23.82 Billion
1999 VA Compensation and Pensions = $21.15 Billion
1998 VA Compensation and Pensions = $20.29 Billion
Nice that salaries & pensions don't get review of Investors!!!!!
Right!!
30 September 2014, Final Monthly Treasury Statement, Outlays and Revenues, Table 5.
If you do that, you'll go blind.
But as long as you practice it on your own, you'll drain yourself and not the tax payer.