Don Shipley sent us an email message that he received recently from a prospective phoney who was influenced by Don’s soothing tones to not continue on his downward spiraling path to phony-baloney-ness;
Hi Don,
This is a tough and awkward message for me to send.
Your work, exposing fraudsters, has a preventative effect.
A little over 10 years ago my life crumbled, and slipped through my fingers. I had injured my back in a workplace accident. At the time I was working in healthcare as an RN in Seattle.
This injury lead me to having surgery to correct the damage, and thankfully it was successful; something you don\’t hear to often when it comes to back problems.The unfortunate problem was that I developed an addiction to oxycontin. Even though the pain had stopped after the surgery, I continued to abuse the drug. I became one of the 1000\’s of people whose lives were so negatively impacted by this drug. I became a drug seeker.
The ironic part of that is the fact that I had done a lot of work in ER as a Nurse, and prided myself in spotting the drug seekers and getting them out of the ER, so that we could treat legitimate medical emergency\’s.
The fallout was horrendous – my marriage broke down, I lost my kids, close friends and other family members.
My ex-wife ended up meeting someone from Sweden; she relocated there with our daughters shortly after we split. I haven\’t seen nor talked to my daughters since 5:00 pm on September 22 of 2002 – frankly speaking I don\’t deserve their love and attention. My failure was far too great, I have tried to reach out, but there is no response. That confirms it for me as well – my failure was far too great.
Anyway, I gave you that information not to gain your pity, or to have a pity party for myself. It forms the background of something stupid I nearly did.
Recently I found myself thinking wouldn\’t it be nice to be respected and well regarded by those around me. What would it be like to not be thought of as a loser druggy? I was starting to formulate a new identity for myself, and that included a past of being a highly decorated Special Forces member. Some how, I stumbled across one of your youtube videos, was it by chance? who knows. All I can say is that after listening to the passion and anger in your voice when you are confronting these people, something inside me \”clicked\”, and I have not stopped thinking about what a fool I was for even entertaining the idea.
This has been tough to put out there, and I am embarrassed in myself.
Why am I telling you this?
I want you to know that your work has a preventative effect as well.
I am trying to rebuild myself, first and foremost so that I can enjoy life, then second for my daughters – who I hope and pray one day will forgive me and want to know me.Thank you Don, I hope to attend your program one day. I think that it would be a great way for me to challenge myself into getting back my sense of accomplishment and pride as a person.
I would dearly love to be put out of business by a lack of phonies, but that probably won’t happen – we sent in three more yesterday for FOIAs, but at least none of them were this guy.
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44 responses to “Don Shipley and his healing effect”
Don Cures Phonies.
The Hair cures Ebola, Cancer, AIDS, world hunger and PMS.
You had me going up to that last, ChipNASA. (smile)
Nothing cures PMS… which I thought was the worst, but now we have the “change” going here. Please help me Lord!
You guys at least want some chocolate?!?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXL8QPWLbBo
richg, having been through the change, I can tell you that it is different for each one of us who must put up with it.
There is nothing worse than facing hot flashes when the outdoor temperature is in the 90s and your A/C has broken down.
But the counterpart to that was that I could stand at the bus stop in a freezing wind with my coat open, hoping something would cool me off, and also go cross-country trail skiing in a t-shirt when the wind was blowing and the wind chill was somewhere around 19F.
Be patient. It will pass. And suggest, in a kind way, that she try traditional Chinese medicine, because it DOES work for menopausal symptoms.
Oh yeah…hot flash the other night, -5 degrees outside, I’m standing in my summer cotton pj’s at the open window going, “God, this feels GOOD!!” 😀
richg -it gets better, trust me.
The best thing that ever happened to the wife was going through it. Tough while it lasted, but worth it in the end.
‘Course I think it helped that I had her teeth floated…..
OC
richg…Please have no doubt when I say this, that I love my wife with all my heart and the fact she has endured ME, for so long speaks volumes about her love, patience and forgiving heart.
That said, after years of marriage, the monthly “visitor” and then “the change”, I came to a conclusion.
The reason women get PMS is because…they deserve it. 😀 😀 😀
I thank the Lord my wife does not know about TAH! 😀
That was a joke folks. Any of you suffering from PMS or currently having a hot flash, please try to refrain from hateful thoughts and the desire to kill me. 😀
(Ahem)
The Hair (TM) also cured female human (specificity matters a great deal in certain cases) virgins and has also been proven to maintain female nymphomania at controllable levels of Crazy.
Or as the awesome old-school Teamguy business card said (amongst many other things):
Virgins Converted
Nymphomaniacs Cured
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Wars fought for reasonable rates
Wars won for slightly more
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The impossible done by appointment only
I need to dig through a bunch of boxes and find that old card. It’s a classic.
Shaia Lebuff had a very interesting discussion that echoes my own previous thoughts – our current society as a whole has no rite of passage to manhood. There’s no American version of a bar Mitzvah – except for (in the eyes of civilians at least) men who have seen combat.
Of course this does not excuse their actions… but maybe we could fix this somehow…
My wife has often commented on that as well.
I think that it is simply that americans have too much fascination with maintaining childhood.
I teach karate in the evenings and I tell my teen students that they are adults while they are in the dojo. I will treat them as such and expect them to act as such.
They have troulbe understanding what I mean but after a while there is a change. I persojnally believe that people will rise to the challenge they are given…and if that standard is maintained by those around them.
As a whole society has let that standard slip. Folks aren’t expected to do anything any more.
When I was younger, in our neck of the woods getting your drivers license was a “rite of passage”. Silly, I know, but it sure beats torching a building or mugging someone to prove your manliness like in some neighborhoods today.
What Drivers License? By age 12 I was already driving the single axle grain truck with a 300 bushel box back and forth from the farm to the elevator in town. That was only a small part of my rite of passage.
A proper rite of passage for males is being taken on a “Snipe Hunt”.
Great king of the hill episode!
I must have matured early then, cause my father and grandfather took us kids out one night when I was all of 8-9 years old.
Didn’t understand at the time why Dad wouldn’t let me take the .22 out and just shoot em.
Then again, my grandpa also taught me how to take the fart out of beans.
CLAW131…The proper right of passage for males is when they get their…”Red Wings”.
We can’t fix it when we continue to move the goalposts involving personal responsibility and age. We now have Obamacare, which lets adults stay on their parents insurance until the age 26. By the time I was 26 I had already spent 4 years in the Army, was married and had a 2 year old daughter. In fact, I was learning to kill commies, being responsible for several million dollars worth of weapon systems, etc., when most of those my age were still partying and bitching how tough it was in college.
Let’s not forget the end of violent schoolyard games, calling every wise crack and shove bullying, and sensitizing the youngsters to alternative lifestyles and cultures.
Yep,too much non contact soccer and not enough combat football.
Well placed apology and rundown on the dangers of Oxy.
The guy is on his way to recovery from the addiction and I hope that he makes it.
That is a very powerful addiction to deal with and I have seen a ton of Nurses get their asses in a sling with it.
I really hope that he does and again, thanks to the Hair Club for Posers on his good work. I would bet that many others have had a like experience with the thought of a stolen valor claim and decided… Naaaaahhhhh…
But in the meantime, I am glad we have the ones that don’t to kick around, If you can’t kick people when they are down, when can you kick them ???
The tears of Don Shipley’s hair cures cancer.
Too bad it never cries.
I just opened a bag of chips and I swore I saw Chief Shipley – it’s a miracle to go with the crying Virgin Mary statue.
No wait – the “best by” date on the chips is 1996; that’s mold I see.
Never mind.
Hate to trump you NBC guy but I saw Chief Shipley’s image on a tortilla and called the local TV station.
Can anyone out there tell me how to get all these illegals out of my yard?
Don Shipley’s beard lost it’s virginity before Don Shipley.
hair not beard. I need an edit button.
Don Shipley has the heart of a young boy.
He keeps it in a jar on his desk.
Jonn and Don and all the other SV hunters provide a valuable public service. May they all hunt phonies for many years to come! 😉
On a more serious note…I live with a back injury. As I write this, I’m wearing my brace, because I pulled my back this weekend. The only drug I take for it is Advil. I injured it in 2006, and for one week I was flat on my back on painkillers and muscle relaxers. For one week. Then my doctor sent me to a physical therapist, and I learned the hardest lesson of all, living with a bad back: exercise is the only way to bring it back, and maintain it — and that means PAIN. All painkillers do is cut off the pain impulse to the brain; they don’t do anything for the injury at all, so I don’t use them. I exercise, do yoga, use a chiropractor, and sometimes just live with pain. That’s my only choice — unless I want to go down the road that this man did, and I don’t want that nightmare. It is an ugly choice, and it’s one that no one wants to make, but I choose pain over painkillers. It’s the only way I can continue to function as a person and have anything like a normal life.
Same thing for arthritis.
The short of it
1977 5.56mm ricochet L4L5 region 1/4in from spine
1980 Downloading M40 106mm RR from M151A1C
w/ 2 FNG’s, they lost their grip and I got the better part of a 460lb weapon system as my load.
Various other times uploading and downloading G.P. Tents, 4.2 Mortars, M2 50 Cals, racks of Small Arms and all the other shit Supply Sgt’s get to handle.
Find a practicing D.O. who will apply heat, then massage then do any adjustments, unlike Chiro’s who do them cold. Chiro’s are fine for maintaining, (seen one for years) but not when you have a blowout.
Shitcan the Advil, it will kill your liver. Try Enteric Coated Aspirin, it is absorbed in the intestine so it will not burn up your stomach, and it is a great anti-inflammatory.
Like most old grunts, arthritis is my constant companion, NSAID’s are my friend.
Not a fan of braces, body forgets it’s limits.
Just MHO
Thanks for the input!
I’m going to try your suggestion with the Aspirin, because I’m not happy with the Advil side effects.
I work at a computer all day, and I only use the brace to help prevent the compression in my lower back from sitting all day. It comes off when I get home, and can stretch and do my yoga, which is the best thing I use with my back.
PN, one of the things that helps me with my back (Degenerative Disc disease and arthritis in my spine) is to lay on my stomach on an inflayed exercise ball, let the ball absorb my weight, and rock back and forth for a few misutes. It stretches the back and relieves the pain a litil. Use your hands and toes to balance yourself. Hope this helps.
A note to potential posers out there: Be proud of what you have actually accomplished. If you have accomplished little or nothing, go out there and actually accomplish something good for society. If you suffer setbacks and failures, regroup and go out there and try again. Don’t play the victim and try to shift blame to something else, and DON’T EVER BE A POSER !!!
…because being a poser is just one more thing that you’ll fail at.
The Hair also has a soothing effect when he plays the piano. Is there no end to his talent? Semper Fi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2CIpTDbP8
Are you suggesting that Don’s hair is gay?
Hey, what Don and his ‘hair do’ in the privacy of their own home is none of my business. If they do have issues, they haven’t ‘comb out’ yet. I just like to ‘tease’ it sometimes.
well, I’m thinking of Lady Di. They’re always the last to know. Wait! I wonder if Don knows.
Dude that is a very dangerous association to be making! 🙂
You had better pray that some Frog doesn’t relate to Senior Chief Shipley that he is being compared to Liberace!
I once consulted Don on an issue I had. We were at a function. He kicked me so hard in the ass …since that day my hemoroids have never given my a problem.
Yes … He has a gift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ravi4YtUTxo
Does Don give absolution or does he just hear confessions and that’s it?
He probably just stares at you until you shrivel into yourself and slink away.
The Hair merely rips the sin out of your soul and sets it on fire.