Today I am thankful for 501c3 financials....the press...and being a brat.
This morning I tried yet again to speak with Michael about what was going on,
why I am afraid,
what he wanted,
what he expected,
and what I can do to put an end to the crazy crap.
As I sat there talking to him about being afraid to answer the door....
there was a knock at the door...
it was forceful but not the scary three pound knock that usually precedes some type of property damage.
It is Thursday. The stalker rarely bugs me on Thursdays.
Michael answered the door.
A man wanted me to accept a subpoena. I told him that I had a stalker and that I was afraid to name my identity. I asked who hired him.
He refused to tell me.
I was shaken.
I was pissed.
I prepared for war.
I dialed the lawyer who sent it to me.....without reading it. I was furious.
I wanted to know.....
Who....hired him?
What....were they bugging me for....at home?
Why....are they bugging me?
Well....it appears that I use a word on my website, on my business cards, in my marketing and just about everywhere that a Catholic non-profit thinks they own.
That word is "ascension."
That word is "ascension."
It's a common word. An insurance agency is using that word. A Catholic non-profit is suing the insurance agency claiming that they get to be the sole users of this particular word.
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/missouri/moedce/4:2015cv00283/138117
The insurance agency subpoenaed me so I could prove I've been using that word for years.
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/missouri/moedce/4:2015cv00283/138117
The insurance agency subpoenaed me so I could prove I've been using that word for years.
The Catholic non-profit, Ascension Health, also claims to be the biggest non profit health provider network in the US. Well, that claim would depend upon how one defines the term "biggest."
Um......remember that after the divorce, I took a job selling health insurance in numerous states? I did that so I could purchase my own health insurance and keep my small business.
Ascension Health may have the most hospitals but they are NOT the biggest not for profit health care provider in the US. Kaiser Permanente is the biggest non-profit healthcare system in the US. Ask an insurance salesperson.....she'll know. This sales person also knows that CMS doesn't approve of the use of superlatives (e.g. biggest) nor are they forgiving when misinformation is being given to people in the community.
What Ascension Health wrote on their website may be a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) violation. Maybe I can calm down by scouring their website for more potential CMS violations and reporting them.
I'm too late. CMS already has them on their radar. This story is sad. They neglected impoverished elders enrolled in a government funded all inclusive care program! Ooooh.....I'm even angrier now.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151123/NEWS/151129974
They've been sued by the Department of Justice.
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/doj-settles-450-hospitals-250m-over-false-claims-act-allegations/2015-10-30
The sad thing is that I'm not sure CMS cares. I am being told by elders that sales people for a rather large Medicare Part C insurer are trying to trick them into enrolling on outbound calls in Virginia. They are called with a robotic pitch and told to push on two in order to enroll now. That's a CMS violation. No one at the Virginia Department of Insurance bothered to return my inquiries as to how to report.
I thought it was my duty to report these types of things.
On the bright side, I heard those stories during open enrollment. They could simply choose another Part C plan and enroll cancelling out the one they didn't want. Medicare has a list of options on their website (or they could call 800-633-4227 24/7 for options). Now their only option to switch is to choose a five star plan or qualify for a special enrollment period.
Elders have more life experience than we do; many of them won't tolerate these kind of abuses.
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It appears that I have been subpoenaed in a Trademark Bullying case. The last thing someone like myself should do is stand silent.
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/813-trademark-enforcement-bullying.html
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Um......remember that after the divorce, I took a job selling health insurance in numerous states? I did that so I could purchase my own health insurance and keep my small business.
Ascension Health may have the most hospitals but they are NOT the biggest not for profit health care provider in the US. Kaiser Permanente is the biggest non-profit healthcare system in the US. Ask an insurance salesperson.....she'll know. This sales person also knows that CMS doesn't approve of the use of superlatives (e.g. biggest) nor are they forgiving when misinformation is being given to people in the community.
What Ascension Health wrote on their website may be a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) violation. Maybe I can calm down by scouring their website for more potential CMS violations and reporting them.
I'm too late. CMS already has them on their radar. This story is sad. They neglected impoverished elders enrolled in a government funded all inclusive care program! Ooooh.....I'm even angrier now.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151123/NEWS/151129974
They've been sued by the Department of Justice.
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/doj-settles-450-hospitals-250m-over-false-claims-act-allegations/2015-10-30
The sad thing is that I'm not sure CMS cares. I am being told by elders that sales people for a rather large Medicare Part C insurer are trying to trick them into enrolling on outbound calls in Virginia. They are called with a robotic pitch and told to push on two in order to enroll now. That's a CMS violation. No one at the Virginia Department of Insurance bothered to return my inquiries as to how to report.
I thought it was my duty to report these types of things.
On the bright side, I heard those stories during open enrollment. They could simply choose another Part C plan and enroll cancelling out the one they didn't want. Medicare has a list of options on their website (or they could call 800-633-4227 24/7 for options). Now their only option to switch is to choose a five star plan or qualify for a special enrollment period.
Elders have more life experience than we do; many of them won't tolerate these kind of abuses.
*****
It appears that I have been subpoenaed in a Trademark Bullying case. The last thing someone like myself should do is stand silent.
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/813-trademark-enforcement-bullying.html
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I'm debating going to the press with the subpoena. You know what? It's Christmas. This health care network takes in millions of dollars of donations. People are so very generous this time of year. If they knew this organization was hassling people over a word....spending thousands of dollars suing them.....would they choose to send their money elsewhere?
Money used to sue people is not going to their stated mission.
When it comes to donations, I wish I had more money to give to the local union of taxpayers.
Money used to sue people is not going to their stated mission.
When it comes to donations, I wish I had more money to give to the local union of taxpayers.
The reason is that this health care network.....this religious organization.....is accepting taxpayer funds.
I'm trying to get ahold of their financials now.
I'm trying to get ahold of their financials now.
I'm scheming.
I'm incredibly pissed.
The group sued a fellow group of insurance agents. Their lawyer subpoenaed me because my hypnosis business name has the same word in it that both businesses use.
They scared the holy crap out of me. It was mostly about the timing.
They could have sent me a letter to my business. They could have shot me an email. They could have called.
No, they had to come to my house....when I'm talking to the guy behind the stalking trying to resolve it...and I'm used to being punished by his relatives when I try to talk to him and figure out what is going on.
I'm terrified of answering the door at home.
The lawyer apologized for scaring me and told me to go to the police. I have. I've gone numerous times. What I need is hard core proof for a judge. I need a camera that won't break or go missing or whatever the heck happens to them. I'll deal with it. I don't feel like I'm ever going to get away. Since Tuesday, I've found that I can't stop shaking or crying.
The last thing I need is dinky harassment from an entitled charity. The word this so-called charity thinks it owns is a common word.
The group sued a fellow group of insurance agents. Their lawyer subpoenaed me because my hypnosis business name has the same word in it that both businesses use.
They scared the holy crap out of me. It was mostly about the timing.
They could have sent me a letter to my business. They could have shot me an email. They could have called.
No, they had to come to my house....when I'm talking to the guy behind the stalking trying to resolve it...and I'm used to being punished by his relatives when I try to talk to him and figure out what is going on.
I'm terrified of answering the door at home.
The lawyer apologized for scaring me and told me to go to the police. I have. I've gone numerous times. What I need is hard core proof for a judge. I need a camera that won't break or go missing or whatever the heck happens to them. I'll deal with it. I don't feel like I'm ever going to get away. Since Tuesday, I've found that I can't stop shaking or crying.
The last thing I need is dinky harassment from an entitled charity. The word this so-called charity thinks it owns is a common word.
This little drama caused a process server to interrupt me while trying to talk to Michael to set up a timeframe for moving on with the hopes of fixing the stalking in my life. Ugh...now I am being given the impression that a very old word meaning "rising up" cannot be used in my business because some Catholic organization thinks it owns the rights to the sole use of it. They are harassing other health insurance producers for using this word that I use in my hypnosis practice.
The lawyer who subpoenaed me didn't know I was a licensed insurance agent. He found my hypnosis websites.
You cannot....let me repeat....you cannot hold others to obeying your trademark for common words. You can get away with harassing people over trademark coined words and coined phrases. If you have a distinctive meaning to the word, you could get away with that. To go and harass people over a word that is commonly used in health care, psychiatric circles and among self-help gurus is a tad bit over the top.
Sure, you can open the dictionary and trademark "is" or "transformation" or "ascension" - but you can't run around suing people for using those words in sentences. Lawyers are happy to take your money.
Activists and people who don't want to be harassed will balk if they find you're wasting taxpayer funds bugging the heck out of them. Hint - never boss around a self-described libertarian activist.
I was livid with the knock on my front door. When I saw who was behind it, I was even angrier.
A non-profit? Seriously?
The lawyer who subpoenaed me didn't know I was a licensed insurance agent. He found my hypnosis websites.
You cannot....let me repeat....you cannot hold others to obeying your trademark for common words. You can get away with harassing people over trademark coined words and coined phrases. If you have a distinctive meaning to the word, you could get away with that. To go and harass people over a word that is commonly used in health care, psychiatric circles and among self-help gurus is a tad bit over the top.
Sure, you can open the dictionary and trademark "is" or "transformation" or "ascension" - but you can't run around suing people for using those words in sentences. Lawyers are happy to take your money.
Activists and people who don't want to be harassed will balk if they find you're wasting taxpayer funds bugging the heck out of them. Hint - never boss around a self-described libertarian activist.
I was livid with the knock on my front door. When I saw who was behind it, I was even angrier.
A non-profit? Seriously?
THEY ARE WASTING TAXPAYER DOLLARS!! They could put the money they are using causing legal trouble back into the care of their patients....but no....let's harass small business owners, who in turn, annoy some pissed off stalking victim trapped with her ex. Let's waste her time. Let's scare her.
I guess it's easy for an organization to behave that way with other people's money.
If they were a for profit enterprise, would they be a little more fiscally astute?
They claim to be a non-profit. I need to find their legal expenses. I live with an unemployed stalker....maybe he can find some hidden tidbit for me. I don't sit and stew. I take action.
http://ascension.org/about/community-and-investor-relations
I'm scheming....It also looks like I'm going to need to do more research on 501c3s. I never knew they could have investors. It would seem like something a political activist needs to know.
I wonder if this Catholic organization has ties to an expensive tax proposition in Colorado to fund something they call Colorado Care. I guess I can research that, too. Perhaps both groups have many of the same donors or board members. Maybe I have just discovered the means to kill the measure. I met with a Catholic charity five years ago and they were trying to influence lawmakers into helping them increase taxes for a healthcare organization. If Ascension Health exemplifies the care Coloradoans would get under such systems, it'll be easy to beat the measure.
Here's a tip: Don't harass strangers, especially when you have no clue who they are. If you do that, at least Google their names and scroll down to see the common search terms used to find them.
I wonder if this Catholic organization has ties to an expensive tax proposition in Colorado to fund something they call Colorado Care. I guess I can research that, too. Perhaps both groups have many of the same donors or board members. Maybe I have just discovered the means to kill the measure. I met with a Catholic charity five years ago and they were trying to influence lawmakers into helping them increase taxes for a healthcare organization. If Ascension Health exemplifies the care Coloradoans would get under such systems, it'll be easy to beat the measure.
Here's a tip: Don't harass strangers, especially when you have no clue who they are. If you do that, at least Google their names and scroll down to see the common search terms used to find them.
I'm sure there is something that can be done. Taking away money from these idiots and their lawyers would be a huge task and certain to keep me too busy to deal with my ex and his family.
Mike scared the heck out of me. The lawyers just got in my face at the worst possible moment.
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Mike is maintaining his innocence. I don't believe him anymore. Too much has happened in recent months. I was told that he was fired because I called him during his business trip minutes after I hung up with the police after a guy banged on the door, turned on the water spigot and cut the hose. Ten minutes after he said that....he denied saying that.
It's been like this all week. The emotional abuse had been tough to bear. I feel like a stranger in my own home.
I notice things that are moved around in the garden. I hear all the knocks on the windows and I don't know if it is my imagination or not. I am in fear. I want to move. I am afraid.
For now.......
Mike scared the heck out of me. The lawyers just got in my face at the worst possible moment.
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Mike is maintaining his innocence. I don't believe him anymore. Too much has happened in recent months. I was told that he was fired because I called him during his business trip minutes after I hung up with the police after a guy banged on the door, turned on the water spigot and cut the hose. Ten minutes after he said that....he denied saying that.
It's been like this all week. The emotional abuse had been tough to bear. I feel like a stranger in my own home.
I notice things that are moved around in the garden. I hear all the knocks on the windows and I don't know if it is my imagination or not. I am in fear. I want to move. I am afraid.
For now.......
I have to dig up my documents, put them on a zip drive, drive to a copy shop, and mail them to a lawyer.
Consider it done.
However......my ire is with a Catholic organization ......engaging in trademark bullying......that is accepting large donations.....and taxpayer funds....and putting our elders at risk.
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I have a better idea.
Let's take away their mad lawyer money. Let's gut their funding. Let's educate the taxpayers.
They picked the wrong name to claim to own. It would have been best if I had been left ignorant of the lawsuit and able to spend this morning planning a mediation with my ex.
But no.....
I had to dig up documents to submit to a lawyer defending someone in a similar occupation from a trademark bully.
I have a more pressing legal problem at the moment. I'm terrified. I have to play meek and quiet to survive. To survive, I have to be isolated and hidden. I'm hurting right now.
I think there is some mental issue at play with Michael. I am realizing that mediation won't work. I'll have to sell the house out from under him.
I am working on a post to describe the terror I felt on Tuesday while trying to solve the stalking issue. It was six hours of frustration and horror. In sum, when I try to ask what he wants, he'll rotate between silent tears, defensive yelling, guilt tripping me or hitting things. I should have called the police. I can't find the words to describe it. When I do...I'll share. Mike is still living here. I am frightened. He isn't working now. If I demand that he leaves will bad things happen?
He says he wants me back. Years ago, I told him he would need therapy to stay with me. It's never going to happen. He's never going to go. I need to find a way out of this mess.
He told me that he had found a new therapist. I was hoping his new therapist would help him gain clarity. He never saw this new therapist.
I am trying to get us into mediation again. The deadline for that is January 9th, 2016.
The stalking takes precedence over everything in my life. I am feeling trapped with my ex; he lost his job and has no where else to go. I am feeling trapped by the stalking; if I do things my stalkers don't like I get harassed. I'll be damned if some self-righteous tools bug me. I have a bias. I think of the Catholic church as a "demonic" organization. I light candles, incense, and pray to immortals, too. I'm called demonic for that.
As a Pagan, I don't have an issue with "demons." I do have an issue with self-righteous Catholics - as my stalkers claim to be Catholics who never go to church. I also take issue with a-holes who waste taxpayer funds on frivolous lawsuits.
I wish Ascension Health loses an anti-trust lawsuit and is forced to sell off some of its holdings swiftly. They keep buying other health companies up. I saw an article saying that they were eyeing the insurance market. For this reason, I suspect that this Ascension Insurance business is their next target. They couldn't buy them out because they're privately held. I'm wondering if they're trying to sue them to end them.
This is a little bit weird....Whenever religious people bug me, I secretly wonder if they'll buy the same crap Steve spouted about me? Will they stop being stupid if they think a possessed Pagan sent demons after them? If I'm called to testify, I'll wear an upside down Pentagram.
Again....if I could control demons....the world would be a better place...because they'd be banished. That was a silly piece of gossip for Steve to spread. If you see the car I drive, you'd know I have no supernatural power.
Demons don't scare me.
Crazy, self-entitled people scare me.
They scare me more when I am stuck within a crazier situation.
Maybe my thinking would be clearer if I weren't freaked out and crying.
An apology and a dropped lawsuit might calm me down. If they can sue one business or group of insurance agents, what is stopping them from suing me?
Now that I think about it....with all the legal trouble they're seeing, perhaps it would be best for Ascension Health to rebrand.
I want to rebrand.....after the stalking ends. I'm keeping my name until then. I don't know if I want to share the word ascension with a group that neglects their elderly patients.
I'd be shocked if these sue happy lawyers win a lawsuit forbidding insurance agents from using the word "ascension."
http://www.lanepowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/glazera_007.pdf
This is the wrong time to harass me.
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I've been crying since Tuesday. I need to find a way to stop. I hate to say it but I may simply need to sell my house out from under my ex. The lies confuse me. I know I'm never going to get away.
I don't need any other self-righteous weirdoes making things harder for me.
Let me get out my vexation box and comb a website for CMS violations. It'll calm me down.
Hell hath no fury like an angry redhead.
Love ya,
They picked the wrong name to claim to own. It would have been best if I had been left ignorant of the lawsuit and able to spend this morning planning a mediation with my ex.
But no.....
I had to dig up documents to submit to a lawyer defending someone in a similar occupation from a trademark bully.
I have a more pressing legal problem at the moment. I'm terrified. I have to play meek and quiet to survive. To survive, I have to be isolated and hidden. I'm hurting right now.
I think there is some mental issue at play with Michael. I am realizing that mediation won't work. I'll have to sell the house out from under him.
I am working on a post to describe the terror I felt on Tuesday while trying to solve the stalking issue. It was six hours of frustration and horror. In sum, when I try to ask what he wants, he'll rotate between silent tears, defensive yelling, guilt tripping me or hitting things. I should have called the police. I can't find the words to describe it. When I do...I'll share. Mike is still living here. I am frightened. He isn't working now. If I demand that he leaves will bad things happen?
He says he wants me back. Years ago, I told him he would need therapy to stay with me. It's never going to happen. He's never going to go. I need to find a way out of this mess.
He told me that he had found a new therapist. I was hoping his new therapist would help him gain clarity. He never saw this new therapist.
I am trying to get us into mediation again. The deadline for that is January 9th, 2016.
The stalking takes precedence over everything in my life. I am feeling trapped with my ex; he lost his job and has no where else to go. I am feeling trapped by the stalking; if I do things my stalkers don't like I get harassed. I'll be damned if some self-righteous tools bug me. I have a bias. I think of the Catholic church as a "demonic" organization. I light candles, incense, and pray to immortals, too. I'm called demonic for that.
As a Pagan, I don't have an issue with "demons." I do have an issue with self-righteous Catholics - as my stalkers claim to be Catholics who never go to church. I also take issue with a-holes who waste taxpayer funds on frivolous lawsuits.
I wish Ascension Health loses an anti-trust lawsuit and is forced to sell off some of its holdings swiftly. They keep buying other health companies up. I saw an article saying that they were eyeing the insurance market. For this reason, I suspect that this Ascension Insurance business is their next target. They couldn't buy them out because they're privately held. I'm wondering if they're trying to sue them to end them.
This is a little bit weird....Whenever religious people bug me, I secretly wonder if they'll buy the same crap Steve spouted about me? Will they stop being stupid if they think a possessed Pagan sent demons after them? If I'm called to testify, I'll wear an upside down Pentagram.
Again....if I could control demons....the world would be a better place...because they'd be banished. That was a silly piece of gossip for Steve to spread. If you see the car I drive, you'd know I have no supernatural power.
Demons don't scare me.
Crazy, self-entitled people scare me.
They scare me more when I am stuck within a crazier situation.
Maybe my thinking would be clearer if I weren't freaked out and crying.
An apology and a dropped lawsuit might calm me down. If they can sue one business or group of insurance agents, what is stopping them from suing me?
Now that I think about it....with all the legal trouble they're seeing, perhaps it would be best for Ascension Health to rebrand.
I want to rebrand.....after the stalking ends. I'm keeping my name until then. I don't know if I want to share the word ascension with a group that neglects their elderly patients.
I'd be shocked if these sue happy lawyers win a lawsuit forbidding insurance agents from using the word "ascension."
http://www.lanepowell.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/glazera_007.pdf
This is the wrong time to harass me.
*****
I've been crying since Tuesday. I need to find a way to stop. I hate to say it but I may simply need to sell my house out from under my ex. The lies confuse me. I know I'm never going to get away.
I don't need any other self-righteous weirdoes making things harder for me.
Let me get out my vexation box and comb a website for CMS violations. It'll calm me down.
Hell hath no fury like an angry redhead.
Love ya,
S.
Edit: This is interesting. Ascension Health has a trademark for "Ascension Health" and "Ascension Health, Inc."
Maybe I'll see what it takes to snag the trademark for "Ascension."
$275 intaxes legal fees and my lawyer will do it for $69.
I'm a licensed health insurance agent (40 hours per week). I am also a behavioral health provider (30 hours per week). I use the word ascension on all of my business cards.
The color of their logo resembles mine. Can I sue?
No, I'm not a wasteful a-hole.
My beef is with the wastefulness and the neglect of our seniors. Pagans revere our elders. I'm pissed at the disrespect shown towards those who made this country great.
I miss being an activist fighting tax hikes. Maybe this Ascension lawsuit business woke me up. You don't get to rip off the taxpayers and act like unrepentant a-holes.
Never.....wake up sleeping activists....ever.
I guess it's time for me to resurrect the bully blog. I shut it down because the city lawyers who broke the law asked me to. I decided that it would be easier to embark on a campaign for mayor and tell the community what they were doing.
The election has been over for four years. People are still coming to me with stories of illegal fines meant to bully people over 40 into quitting their jobs.
I'll put it back up with a new post next week.
I'm tired of staying quiet due to bullies.
I'm too old to play games.
Edit: This is interesting. Ascension Health has a trademark for "Ascension Health" and "Ascension Health, Inc."
Maybe I'll see what it takes to snag the trademark for "Ascension."
$275 in
I'm a licensed health insurance agent (40 hours per week). I am also a behavioral health provider (30 hours per week). I use the word ascension on all of my business cards.
The color of their logo resembles mine. Can I sue?
No, I'm not a wasteful a-hole.
My beef is with the wastefulness and the neglect of our seniors. Pagans revere our elders. I'm pissed at the disrespect shown towards those who made this country great.
I miss being an activist fighting tax hikes. Maybe this Ascension lawsuit business woke me up. You don't get to rip off the taxpayers and act like unrepentant a-holes.
Never.....wake up sleeping activists....ever.
I guess it's time for me to resurrect the bully blog. I shut it down because the city lawyers who broke the law asked me to. I decided that it would be easier to embark on a campaign for mayor and tell the community what they were doing.
The election has been over for four years. People are still coming to me with stories of illegal fines meant to bully people over 40 into quitting their jobs.
I'll put it back up with a new post next week.
I'm tired of staying quiet due to bullies.
I'm too old to play games.