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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:30:40 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 24 20:23:30 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Who the fuck cares what you saw? Who are you? Halliburton made tens-of-millions. Republicans have always liked a wartime economy. They love getting us into conflicts. A few thousand New Yorkers mean nothing to men like them.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 24 20:34:38 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:30:40 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
So you really DO believe that delusional crap! Unreal!

Oh, and thanks for totally trashing one of the most traumatic experiences of my life, and that of millions of real Americans.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jul 24 20:34:45 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 24 20:25:04 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
I think one of his production assistants eated it before they mic'd it. :)

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Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 20:35:58 2012, in response to Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:26:11 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"HIV patients are infamous for selling drugs they get through Medicaid, on the illegal market."


So little love in your heart these days for the sick and afflicted....hmmmm.



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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 20:38:22 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:30:40 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"Halliburton made tens-of-millions."

Yea.....off the POOR TAXPAYERS!

"Republicans have always liked a wartime economy. "

That doesn't mean it's right!

"They love getting us into conflicts. "

That's GOP arrogance for ya.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 20:39:34 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 24 20:34:38 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"So you really DO believe that delusional crap! Unreal!"

It is either that or believe in the truth....which he often runs away from :) almost like he's afraid of his shadow :)



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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jul 24 20:44:00 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 20:19:53 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Everyone knew Chick-Fil-A is run by a devout Christian.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 20:49:10 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jul 24 20:44:00 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"Everyone knew Chick-Fil-A is run by a devout Christian."

So.....5 years ago you knew Chick-Fil-A is run by a devout Christian?

Come on now...last year you found out the Earth was not flat and is round like an orange......

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 24 21:05:08 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Jul 24 20:44:00 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Correct. If you did not know that, then you've never heard of Chick-Fil-A.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 21:14:31 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 24 21:05:08 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"Correct. If you did not know that, then you've never heard of Chick-Fil-A. "


Does the Pope know? I mean.....he does eat chicken.....


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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 24 21:17:36 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 21:14:31 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Does the Pope shit in the woods?

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 21:19:48 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 24 21:17:36 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"Does the Pope shit in the woods?"

If he has to....he will.....I dont see your point though.

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So how do you explain this....Lucy...I mean Luchie...lol

Posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 21:28:35 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:08:32 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
From the NYTIMES.COM:


July 24, 2012

Over 10,000 Couples Were Given Licenses in the First Year of Gay Marriage

By KATE TAYLOR

More than 10,000 gay and lesbian couples were issued marriage licenses in New York State in the year since same-sex marriage was legalized.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that at least 7,184 same-sex couples had been issued licenses in New York City since July 24, 2011, when the state’s Marriage Equality Act took effect. In the rest of the state, as of July 16, at least 3,424 same-sex couples had received licenses, according to the State Health Department.

The actual numbers, though, are probably higher, since people are not required to report their sex on marriage license applications.

Mr. Bloomberg noted the anniversary of the Marriage Equality Act at a news conference outside the city clerk’s office in Lower Manhattan, where he was joined by several gay lawmakers: the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, whose wedding in May was attended by the mayor and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo; Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell of Manhattan, who married in New York City in January; and City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, who plans to marry on Saturday.

The mayor said the city had become a destination for same-sex weddings, benefiting the economy. Of the same-sex couples who were issued marriage licenses here, he said, 35 percent lived outside the Middle Atlantic States and 7 percent lived outside the United States.

“New York has always been a great place to get married,” he said. “Now that we’ve achieved marriage equality, more and more couples from around the country and around the world are coming here to get hitched.”

Even as he celebrated a year of same-sex marriages in New York, Mr. Bloomberg said there was still work to be done in achieving equality, citing in particular the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which means that same-sex marriages are not recognized by the federal government.

He said, “Speaker Christine Quinn believes that government should bestow upon her marriage license all the rights and privileges that come with any other marriage license, and I could not agree more.”

Mr. Bloomberg called Ms. Quinn, a likely candidate to succeed him, “one of the strongest leaders” in the push for same-sex marriage.

She returned the compliment, calling Mr. Bloomberg “by far the best mayor the L.G.B.T. community has ever had in the city’s history.”

During the news conference, Rich Lamb, a reporter for WCBS radio, started to ask a question about same-sex divorce. The mayor cut him off, saying it was “much too early to tell” what the rate of divorce would be among same-sex couples.

When Mr. Lamb persisted, Ms. Quinn took the microphone.

“Let’s just reflect, Rich, you are the Debbie Downer of this news conference,” she said.



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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Easy on Tue Jul 24 21:38:14 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 24 21:05:08 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Yup. They're closed on Sunday's and people that have heard of them know why.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 00:56:06 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Jul 24 20:21:22 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Really? I never knew that. Thanks for telling me. What would subchat do without you?

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Jul 25 01:22:02 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 00:56:06 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d


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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Edwards! on Wed Jul 25 01:50:32 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by streetcarman1 on Tue Jul 24 21:19:48 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
C'mon dude...

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Wed Jul 25 04:10:59 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 24 20:12:07 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
+1

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jul 25 04:12:07 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:30:40 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Republicans have always liked a wartime economy. They love getting us into conflicts

Eh? It wasn't the GOP that escalated the Vietnam conflict into a war. It was a GOP president who backed out of that war, too.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Edwards! on Wed Jul 25 04:19:44 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:17:56 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Oh well...
You are a fucking lunatic..your ravings are regulated to bullshit asstalkers status.
But Thank you for playing.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by Edwards! on Wed Jul 25 04:25:35 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Tue Jul 24 20:12:07 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Hah..by now..You know what I've known for sometime..
He's a total fucking lunatic bridge troll...

so that would explain his bullshit..
Kick him like you would any raving maniac...

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Jul 25 04:33:24 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jul 25 04:12:07 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Eisenhower wasn't GOP? Do tell ...

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Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A

Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 25 07:26:50 2012, in response to Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A, posted by Easy on Sat Jul 21 18:52:57 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
I never heard of Chick-fil-A until they began to sponsor one of those many NCAA football bowl games. Guess they don't have any stores in NY (yet).

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Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 09:17:49 2012, in response to Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 25 07:26:50 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Yes, they do. There is a Chick-Fil-A on the campus of NYU.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 09:22:05 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 19:54:42 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Chick-Fil-A has, and continues to make, big donations to known anti-gay groups like NOM and the Family research Council. It therefore is in the best interest of the LGBT community to boycott them, so that they don't have as much revenue to give to organizations that are dedicated to doing us harm.

God protect us from self-proclaimed "real Americans" like you. You are everything that is wrong with our country today.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jul 25 09:43:25 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 19:54:42 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
"True Americans" are what Nazis of the German-American Bund called themselves in the 1930's.

You are them.




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Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jul 25 09:52:19 2012, in response to Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 09:26:34 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
I give WF my business every Thursday morning at 2:30 AM.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 10:51:17 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 09:22:05 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
If you have a problem with Chick-fil-A don't go there. Just like I won't support Ben N Jerry's for their support of Mumia. That's as far as I take it.

But don't organize a kiss-in at Chick-fil-A. There's no reason to go that far. That is the kind of civil disobedience that frustrates people, turns them off to your cause, and is why I'll eat a bunch of meals in support of Chick-fil-A this week.

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Re: Hey, LuchAAA! Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 10:53:04 2012, in response to Re: Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 24 20:26:11 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
I'm still waiting for you to post proof, from a legitimate media source, of your rabid assertion that people living with HIV are "selling drugs they get through Medicaid on the black market"

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:00:47 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 10:51:17 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Since gay and lesbian couples have been known to be ejected from Chick-Fil-A for things like holding hands or kissing, I think a "kiss-in" is wholly appropriate.

You'll support Chick-Fil-A because they fit your anti-gay ideals.

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You're not a human being

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:08:17 2012, in response to Re: Hey, LuchAAA! Boston mayor vows to ban Chick-fil-A, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 10:53:04 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
You're not a human being. Now leave me alone and stop overreacting to every thing.

WABC 7 did a story about HIV drugs being sold on the black market. I'll look for it later this week. But HIV patients desperate for cash, or just plain greedy, have been selling their goodies.

Here's another story

link here

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:10:11 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:00:47 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
No. I am supporting them because a group of radicals are threatening with disobedience. Just like I supported Whole Foods.

Kiss-in is inappropriate. Just don't support the franchise if you don't like them.

All kiss-in does is get people angry and on the side of Chick-fil-A.

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Re: I'm more of a human being than you will EVER be

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:11:05 2012, in response to You're not a human being, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:08:17 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
ABC7 did a story about HIV drugs being sold on the black market by poor HIV patients desperate for money to pay for life necessities, not (as you claim) steroids to gym rats.

You are such a hateful troll.



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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:12:15 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:10:11 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
How is a "kiss-in" = "disobedience"?

Oh, because it's those "radical, militant gays" you seem to fear so much, that are doing it.

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Re: You're not a human being

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:18:01 2012, in response to Re: I'm more of a human being than you will EVER be, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:11:05 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Steroids are an HIV drug. They are meant to increase muscle loss and loss of RBC cause by +.

There are other HIV drugs sold to bodybuilders.

Like I said, you are no longer human. Find someone else to harass here.

"Pumped by AIDS drug"

Illegal injections give gym rats their incredible bulk

By THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


"Every topnotch bodybuilder in the world uses" Serostim, said Dave Palumbo, editor in chief of RxMuscle magazine.


Bodybuilder Shawn says Serostim, meant to fight AIDS wasting, helped him pack on 20 pounds of muscle for a competition.




Psssst! Wanna buy an AIDS drug?
Bodybuilders across the city are saying yes to that offer and injecting millions of dollars' worth of an AIDS drug that helps them build rippling, competition-ready muscles.

In the past year, state investigators have uncovered a number of schemes to cash in on the underground demand for Serostim, a bioengineered human growth hormone that costs $6,300 for a month's supply and was approved to counteract the loss of weight and body mass that AIDS patients can experience.

One recent scam directed by an official at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx swindled Medicaid out of at least $1.7 million to funnel the drug to the sweat-and-barbell set.

Serostim has become one of the hottest sellers on New York's multimillion-dollar black market in prescription drugs.

"Drug diversion schemes are a nationwide problem that not only robs the city, the state and federal government of millions of dollars each year but places the public in jeopardy," said state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

His office estimates that fraudulent sales of Serostim and other prescription pharmaceuticals amounted to 10% of the state's $3 billion Medicaid drug tab last year.

"If you were to make a list of the top 10 diverted drugs, Serostim would be at the top and it would make up 40 to 50% of the cost of all diverted drugs," said Ken Karp, an investigator with Spitzer's Medicaid fraud control unit.

Despite efforts by Serostim's maker and law enforcement officials to ensure the drug gets into the right hands, it remains plentiful in the city's gyms.

"Every topnotch bodybuilder in the world uses it," said Dave Palumbo, a champion bodybuilder from Long Island and the editor in chief of the muscle magazine RxMuscle.

AIDS patients are often the suppliers, according to some of the city's leading AIDS doctors. One Manhattan doctor told the Daily News he recently caught a patient trying to sell the drug to bodybuilders. Since then, he has required the patient to come to his Manhattan office for his daily injection.

"He was selling it to pay his rent," said the doctor, who did not want his name used.

Via AIDS grapevine

Word of Serostim's swift muscle-massing powers swept through city gyms almost from the day the Food and Drug Administration approved it in 1996 for use in treating the condition known as AIDS wasting.

Bodybuilders, who often work as weight trainers, may have first heard about it from clients with AIDS.

The drug - which works by mimicking natural human growth hormone, the complex biochemical compound the body uses to build muscle, bone and organ tissue - can add pounds of muscle in a few months.

Bodybuilders love it because they say it has few of the unpleasant side effects - nausea, or skeletal distortions such as protruding foreheads - that come from steroids or other growth hormones.

During a break from training a client at a downtown Manhattan gym, Shawn, a 30-year-old bodybuilder, said he paid a pittance - $450 - for a six-week supply of Serostim. He used it in the months leading up to a competition a few years ago and said he put on 20 pounds of muscle.

"I've tried a lot but this works the best," said Shawn, a former high school football player who agreed to discuss his use of Serostim as long as his last name was not used.

"It gets you there a little faster," he said. "It's clean. It doesn't alter your skeletal structure. If I could afford it, I'd use it year-round."

Because Serostim is not classified as a controlled substance, possessing the drug is legal. But it is illegal to sell the drug for anything other than its approved use.

Serostim is one of the most expensive AIDS drugs on the market. But in the locker rooms of city gyms, it goes for about $3,200 for a month's supply - considerably less than its retail value. That usually means four boxes, each containing seven 6-milligram doses in powder form that are mixed with a solution before being injected.

"It's so overprescribed that AIDS patients take one box and sell three boxes," said Palumbo, 35, who placed second in the superheavyweight division at last year's Dallas bodybuilding championships.

Because of the drug's pority, the maker of Serostim, Swiss-based Serono Laboratories, has been dogged by questions about distribution.

Investigators with the U.S. attorney's office in Boston wanted to know whether the company promoted Serostim for AIDS patients who had been losing weight but may not have been experiencing AIDS wasting, according to a doctor who was questioned.

The disorder causes the body to consume muscle and organ tissue, instead of stored fat, for energy. Those suffering from AIDS wasting have lost 10% or more of their body weight, mostly from the loss of lean body mass.

The state Health Department, responding to complaints that New York doctors were incorrectly prescribing the drug, began requiring physicians last year to get state approval before prescribing it.

"This was a new, sophisticated drug," said state Health Department spokeswoman Kristine Smith. "It was not always being prescribed appropriately. Some patients were not having a wasting syndrome."

Stepped-up security

New York's Medicaid tab for Serostim dipped to $20 million last year from $50 million in 2001. Karp, who is also president of the New York chapter of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators, said the effort has limited the amount of Serostim on the street.

To counter fraud, Serono revamped its distribution network to track the drug from warehouse to patient. The result was a drop in sales to $95 million last year from $124 million in 2001. The company attributed the loss to its increased security.

But despite efforts to control sales, illegal shipments of Serostim continue. Spitzer said his investigators are continually adapting to counteract new schemes to funnel legitimate drugs onto the black market.

"Health care professionals and others who sell this drug on the black market are on notice," Spitzer said. "My office will continue to investigate and prosecute those who engage in this dangerous and unlawful enterprise."



$1.7M Medicaid scheme

When a box of Serostim turns up in the gym bag of a New York City bodybuilder, there's a good chance that Enrique Rojas had a hand in putting it there.

Almost single-handedly, Rojas has been responsible for dumping at least $1.7 million of the por human growth hormone onto the city's underground drug market.

Rojas, 43, was an HIV education coordinator for clinics run by Montefiore Medical Center a few years back when he came up with a scheme to use the drug to bilk Medicaid.

According to investigators from the state attorney general's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the scam worked like this: Rojas took the names and identification numbers of legitimate Medicaid patients, as well as those of hospital physicians, to generate fake prescriptions for Serostim.

He then would pay Medicaid recipients and friends $50 to $100 to agree to have the drugs shipped to their home and business addresses. When the packages arrived, he would gather up the drugs and sell them on the black market to bodybuilders and others.

State Health Department auditors became suious after Medicaid billings for a Pittsburgh pharmacy used by Rojas jumped to $4.5 million in 2000 from less than $1 million in 1999.

During one nine-month period, from January to September 2000, a network of pharmacies linked to Rojas improperly received more than $1.7 million in Medicaid funds.

Rojas pleaded guilty to his role in the scheme in July and was sentenced in March to 1 2/3 years to five years in state prison and ordered to pay back what he stole.

A spokesman for the hospital said Rojas left for another job in September 2000, before the scheme was uncovered.

Only a few packages of Serostim were recovered.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:22:57 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:12:15 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
LOL. Not a human.

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Re: I'm STILL more of a human being than YOU will EVER be.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:29:41 2012, in response to Re: You're not a human being, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:18:01 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
OK, I stand corrected on the NYDN article. But it does fit with your narrative of gays doing illegal, "deviant" and/or socialy "unacceptable things.

But you're still a contemptible excuse for a human being, so filled with hate and vinegar.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:30:21 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:22:57 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
LOL @ you dodging my question.

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You never were human

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:37:35 2012, in response to Re: I'm STILL more of a human being than YOU will EVER be., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:29:41 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Selling drugs for cash is greed. Nothing to do with sexual preference. Only a non-human like you would suggest it.

In fact, I originally stated that AIDS patients were selling their drugs to people who want to muscle up. I didn't say gays. You assumed that's who I meant. That says a lot about your view of the world, and gays.

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:38:56 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:30:21 2012.

fiogf49gjkf0d
Ok. How is a kiss-in not disobedience? It's a restaurant. Going there just to kiss is clearly meant to cause a stir.

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Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by R30A on Wed Jul 25 11:42:44 2012, in response to Re: Chick-fil-A Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:00:47 2012.

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A kiss-in would legitimately get people kicked out. Not a good way to positively portray a cause...

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:46:23 2012, in response to Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:38:56 2012.

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But what are they "disobeying"?

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:46:23 2012, in response to Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:38:56 2012.

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But what are they "disobeying"?

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Re: You're not a human being, Luch

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jul 25 11:47:42 2012, in response to Re: You're not a human being, posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:18:01 2012.

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Having read the article, it appears that the black marketeer was someone involved with AIDS patients,not the patients themselves.

So it appears that there is a black market in these steroid based AIDS drugs, but it isn't the infirm themselves selling it on the street, as you,Luch characterized. That was one hateful characterization of AIDS sufferers. The problem actually is opportunistic profiteers that would take access to needed medicine from the sick to their profit on the street.

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Re: You're not a human being, bingbong

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:50:29 2012, in response to Re: You're not a human being, Luch, posted by bingbong on Wed Jul 25 11:47:42 2012.

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You're a nut. You make shit up like you did with the Zimmerman girl being 8 years younger when she was less than 2. It shows everyone here how wacked out you are.

Obviously patients are going along with the scam for money.

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Re: You're not a human being, bingbong

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:51:10 2012, in response to Re: You're not a human being, Luch, posted by bingbong on Wed Jul 25 11:47:42 2012.

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You're a nut. You make shit up like you did with the Zimmerman girl being 8 years younger when she was less than 2. It shows everyone here how wacked out you are.

Obviously patients are going along with the scam for money.

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by R30A on Wed Jul 25 11:51:30 2012, in response to Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:46:23 2012.

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General decency. If you have a bunch of heterosexual couples staging a "Kiss in" they'd rightfully get kicked out too.

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:51:33 2012, in response to Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:46:23 2012.

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LOL. You think it's normal behavior to go to a restaurant to kiss because you don't like the owner? I don't know what they are disobeying, but it's wrong.

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:55:45 2012, in response to Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:51:33 2012.

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You're the one who characterized this as "disobedience".

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Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co.

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jul 25 11:57:43 2012, in response to Re: Human being Fires Back At Jim Henson Co., posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Jul 25 11:55:45 2012.

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actually many of the supporters on the FB page are, and they're comparing it to black civil rights sit-ins.

either way the kiss-in is wrong. just don't support Chick-fil-A if you don't like their politics. I do the same with Ben and Jerry's for supporting Mumia.

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