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May 26, 2008Memorial Day 2008
May 26, 2008
Memorial day … The young folks that live next door thought that this was some sort of party type day. They were discomfited a bit when I told them otherwise. But, what can one expect in this day and age where public schools only teach that the United States is nothing but a predator nation that was founded by men that were hypocrites, and worse.
Anyways, I told them about the holiday, and a little about some of the men that died so that they could be lied to by teachers. Men like my father, that fought in World War Two, and then was killed during the Korean War. Men like Mark Adams that I went to school with that joined the Army upon graduation from High school because he believed that Americans were a good and noble people, and died when the helicopter that he was riding in was hit by an RPG in Vietnam. Men like “Sonny” David Carlson that turned in a Harbour Trestle Special surfboard for an M16 and a hitch in the Marine Corps. His was a closed casket funeral.
Memorial day is a day for celebration. Celebrate the courage, honor, and sacrifice that was given by those that gave their very lives for the rest of us.
We Have Forgotten
May 24, 2008This list was put together by Ablur. After he got fed up with all the “we deserve the terrorism” bovine feces that we were never attacked before 9/11/01. Additional liks are here, but he did the sweat work for this.
http://ablursspot.blogspot.com/
It seems the lessons of history are quickly forgotten. Perhaps conveniently or simply the pain is more then our memory can bare. I keep having people tell me that terrorism wasn’t a problem prior to 9/11. Some say that we didn’t have terrorism until George Bush took the office of President.
So let us set the record straight and look at the many acts of terrorism that pre-dated 9/11 carried out against Americans.
It began in November 1979.
That was shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini had seized power in Iran, riding the slogan “Death to America” – and sure enough, the attacks on Americans soon began. In November 1979, a militant Islamic mob took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital, and held 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days.
April 1983: 63 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.
January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.
April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.
September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).
November 1984: A bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia kills a passer-by. The attack was preceded by death threats against U.S. officials by drug traffickers.
December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.
April 1985: A bomb explodes in a restaurant near a U.S. air base in Madrid, Spain, killing 18, all Spaniards, and wounding 82, including 15 Americans.
June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.
June 1985: In San Salvador, El Salvador, 13 people are killed in a machine gun attack at an outdoor café, including four U.S. Marines and two American businessmen.
August 1985: A car bomb at a U.S. military base in Frankfurt, Germany kills two and injures 20. A U.S. soldier murdered for his identity papers is found a day after the explosion.
October 1985: Palestinian terrorists hijack the cruise liner Achille Lauro (in response to the Israeli attack on PLO headquarters in Tunisia) Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly, wheelchair-bound American, is killed and thrown overboard.
November 1985: Hijackers aboard an Egyptair flight kill one American. Egyptian commandos later storm the aircraft on the isle of Malta, and 60 people are killed.
December 1985: Simultaneous suicide attacks are carried out against U.S. and Israeli check-in desks at Rome and Vienna international airports. 20 people are killed in the two attacks, including four terrorists.
April 5, 1986: A bomb destroys the LaBelle discotheque in West Berlin. The disco was known to be frequented by U.S. servicemen. The attack kills one American and one German woman and wounds 150, including 44 Americans.
April 1986: An explosion damages a TWA flight as it prepares to land in Athens, Greece. Four people are killed when they are sucked out of the aircraft.
Dec. 21, 1988: A bomb destroys Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 people aboard the Boeing 747 are killed including 189 Americans, as are 11 people on the ground.
January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
February 1993: A bomb in a van explodes in the underground parking garage in New York’s World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,042.
April 19, 1995: A car bomb destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding over 600.
Nov. 13, 1995: A car-bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven people, five of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training.
June 25, 1996: A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S. air force installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 19 U.S. military personnel are killed in the Khubar Towers housing facility, and 515 are wounded, including 240 Americans.
July 27, 1996: A pipe bomb explodes during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and wounding 111.
June 21, 1998: Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
Aug. 7, 1998: Terrorist bombs destroy the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Nairobi, 12 Americans are among the 291 killed, and over 5,000 are wounded, including 6 Americans. In Dar es Salaam, one U.S. citizen is wounded among the 10 killed and 77 injured.
October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
Oct. 12, 2000: A terrorist bomb damages the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39.
This totals 1,019 American Deaths and 2,194 Americans were injured. We can count thousands of others killed or injured as well by these attacks.
How come it took us so long to declare war on an enemy who was actively pursuing war against us?
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Republican Leadership ..? Republican Leaders Must Resign
May 21, 2008http://amcon.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=repubs&action=display&thread=458
| The Republican Party must replace its leadership or conservatives will continue to withhold support and the GOP will face “disaster” in November, leading conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie declared. “Republican Party leaders must resign,” said Viguerie, publisher of ConservativeHQ.com and the pioneer of political direct mail. “Leaders in the White House, the Congress, and the Republican National Committee and its affiliates, along with most Republican leaders at the state level, have failed — or outright betrayed — the conservative voters who put them in their positions. “The result is that the Republican Party’s brand has become a negative to an extent greater than in the Watergate era, perhaps even worse than in the days of Herbert Hoover.” Viguerie made these points: • The number of new Republican voters is flat while Democratic voter registration is soaring. • Contributions to Republican candidates and committees are way off, while donations to Democrats are “setting records.” • In this year’s primaries, votes for GOP candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats. • In recent special elections, Republicans lost House seats in Illinois, Louisiana, and Mississippi that had long been in GOP hands — all in districts carried overwhelmingly by President Bush. A single election can be a fluke, but when Republicans lose three seemingly safe seats in a row, “disaster is looming.” “The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed,” he said. “The conservative movement has been set back 10 to 20 years — possibly even permanently — by politicians consumed by power.” He named a number of prominent Republicans, including President Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt. “Some deserve more of the blame than others, but they are all part of an establishment that has brought the Republican Party down,” added Viguerie, whose latest book is “Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big-Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.” “For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in once again giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately. “Republicans are doomed to wander in the political wilderness until this generation of weak-kneed, no-vision, inarticulate, afraid-of-the-liberal-media politicians are replaced with principled conservatives in the mold of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.” Viguerie has this message for the current GOP leadership: “For the future of the Republican Party, for America, and the cause of freedom: Go!” |
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Arizona and Illegal Immigration
May 21, 2008Hat Tip to Ablur! 😀
Arizona is leading the nation in local enforcement of laws against illegal immigration. As illegal immigrants leave the state, the state’s most serious problems such as traffic congestion and the expense of teaching English Language Learner classes are dissipating.
Since Arizona’s local law enforcement began enforcing illegal immigration laws and an employer sanctions law went into effect, illegal immigrants have been fleeing the state in large numbers. The effects have been far-ranging. Commuters are reporting fewer vehicles on the freeways, shortening their rush-hour commutes. What had become a serious transportation problem in Arizona is losing its urgency. English Learner Language (ELL) students started dropping out of school. This helped end a confrontation between the state legislature and a liberal federal judge who had ordered the state to spend more money on ELL classes.
Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital emergency rooms, so waiting times have decreased. Although the rest of the country is in an economic slump, unemployment is going down in Arizona, from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in March. Day laborers loitering outside of Home Depot and other stores have mostly disappeared, ending months of confrontation between illegal immigrant sympathizers and protesters. Desert lands near the border are returning to their pristine condition and the wildlife is coming back. Identity theft and car thefts are decreasing. No one showed up on May 1 to march in immigrant rallies.
With illegal immigrants leaving, the state will see huge savings as fewer illegal immigrants use social welfare programs and the cost of arresting, prosecuting, incarcerating and deporting them decreases. Arizona is facing one of the worst budget deficits ever, looming as high as $2 billion in 2009, but the situation may resolve itself.
CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Stupid is as stupid does classic!
May 19, 2008Casting aside his normal logical thinking Lou Dobbs put on his trusty tin foil hats and waxed eloquent about drug prohibition. He should have read up, I suppose, on William F. Buckley Jr. or Paul Craig Roberts about the “War on Drugs.”
I am very anti drug use, but I am even more anti drug war, period. During my more than twenty years working the streets and other hell holes of greater Denver I saw precisely three, that is correct three, people die from drugs, as in a personal overdose. I saw many more harmed by the drug war. From a fine father, and Sergeant from Adams County Sheriff’s Department, to small children hit by Drug Gang pistoleros fighting over turf. It all comes down to some very simple things. If you are for the drug war, you are for making the worlds miscreants into rich people. End the damned thing, the drug war. least some great moralizer like Dan Caplis (KHOW.com ) come and say that the end of alcohol prohibition led to greater abuse look at the bigger picture. Yes, it is true that alcohol abuse rose to record levels after prohibition was lifted. But, after a year and a few months, it dropped, and has never reached that level among the populace again. in other words, it lowered the percentage, and actual numbers of abusers. That would lead me to believe that something along the same lines would happen with drugs, should they be legalized. I would still like regulation of medicinal drugs, heck, Doctors need to be able to trust the medicines that they prescribe.
In any case, enjoy what follows.
CNN’s Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War
Mexico is experiencing a bloodbath right now thanks to drug prohibition. Drug wars are killing more Mexicans each year than Americans are perishing in Iraq. Three thousand Mexicans have died since January 2007. Lou Dobbs addressed the issue on Friday, May 9, after Esteban Robles Espinosa, the head of Mexico City’s investigative police was assassinated. Mr. Espinosa’s death came on the heels of Federal Police Chief Edgar Millan being gunned down Thursday outside his Mexico City home — the tenth federal police officer killed by suspected drug cartel members in three weeks. Lou Dobbs was outraged by the mass killings and wondered whether Washington is paying attention.
While I appreciate Lou Dobbs’ frustration with the mass killings, his analysis is totally clueless and his “solutions” will no doubt cause more harm than good. Here are three myths from Lou Dobbs that deserve attention.
Dobbs Myth No. 1 — Washington Is Not Paying Enough Attention and Needs to Step Up Drug War
Lou Dobbs talks about our elected officials not paying attention and then quotes the White House press secretary calling on Congress to approve the Merida initiative. The law would provide funding to the Mexican government to “break the drug pipeline that ends up on America’s streets.” Far from not doing anything, our government’s policy actually fuels the killings. For forty years we have been waging a “war on drugs” and “pushing” our failed zero-tolerance policies on other countries. Just what does our $40 billion-a-year drug war get us? Our prisons are exploding with nonviolent drug offenders, thousands die from street violence generated by prohibition’s black market along the border, and drugs remain as plentiful and easy to obtain as ever.
In 2006, Mexican President Vicente Fox urged a bill that would drop criminal penalties for small amounts of drugs, but backed down after the uproar from the Bush administration. The problem is not what Washington is not doing, but what it is doing.
Dobbs Myth No. 2 — We Need to Amplify the Drug War to Protect the Kids
Lou Dobbs and the Drug War Industrial Complex routinely argue that drug prohibition is there to “protect” the kids. Dobbs’ correspondent Carrie Lee recycled the talking points from the ONDCP’s press release and said in the same Mexico violence segment, “A new report from the White House finds teens in this country using marijuana are putting themselves at higher risk for serious mental health disorders and even suicide.” Ms. Lee then goes on to say, “Most of the marijuana produced in Mexico is destined for U.S. drug markets.”
Far from protecting kids, drug war-funded education programs have consistently misinformed our youth, creating an atmosphere of mistrust and disbelief. Despite 30 years of “Just Say No” rhetoric, half of all high-school seniors will smoke marijuana before they graduate. Teens say it is easier to get marijuana than alcohol, as drug dealers never check identification. The bitter irony of the drug war is that the same week the high-level Mexican police were murdered in the streets, 75 college students at San Diego State University were arrested for selling drugs. Yeah, the drug war is really protecting the kids.
Dobbs Myth No. 3 — “Open Border Advocates Are Responsible for a Losing Role in Our Drug War”
What is a Lou Dobbs segment without slamming the “open border” advocates? Now Dobbs is blaming them for drugs coming into the country. We can’t keep drugs out of maximum security prisons, but he thinks we are going to keep drugs out of the United States? Drug prohibition makes plants like marijuana and coca incredibly valuable. We can build as many fences and place as many agents on the border as we want, but as there are huge profits to be made, there will be people ready to smuggle and even to kill over the control of the massive, global drug market.
Lou Dobbs and the drug czar have huge platforms to spin their version of the drug war and their desire for a “Drug-Free America.” We have tried to eradicate and incarcerate our way out of this problem for 40 years. There is nothing in the coca or marijuana plant that caused the 3,000 deaths in Mexico since 2007. Rather, it is prohibition that creates a profit motive that people are willing to kill for. Remember, when alcohol consumption was illegal in this country, we had Al Capone and shootouts in the streets. Today, no one dies over the sale of a beer.
It is time for an honest and open international debate about controlling, taxing and regulating illegal drugs so we can find an exit strategy from this unwinnable war. The health and well-being of the people of Mexico and the United States depends on it.
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Tony Newman is director of media relations for the Drug Policy Alliance.
On Anchor Babies
May 19, 2008source: Earl1911
The problem we have today of “anchor” children (of illegal aliens) being granted citizenship, then providing the means for families of these illegal aliens to be allowed to enter our country – would not be an issue if the Constitution were being observed and applied.
The law that permits children born here to have immediate citizenship is contained in the 14th Amendment.
But was the Fourteenth Amendment Constitutionally Adopted? Not only NO, but HELL NO!
Many illegal methods were used by the radical, anti-Constitutional congress that followed the War between the States to force a major change in the balance of power between the federal and state governments. One method was by illegally injecting unratified amendments into our constitution.
When the concept of “State’s Rights” (10th Amendment to the Constitution) is brought up, generally people consider the issue belonging to the Southern states. However the South was not the exclusive advocate of the concept of State’s Rights and interposition. In earlier days it was the New England and Northern states that were the first to advocate and stand for these principles. They were also more successful in their efforts to use such to protect their vested interests. In 1808 Connecticut and Massachusetts endorsed interposition; the famous New England Secession Convention was held at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1814; the House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1846 declared the war with Mexico to be unconstitutional; and many Northern states successfully nullified the fugitive slave acts, thereby overruling both the federal Congress and the federal Supreme Court.
Following the War between the States, the radical congress had revenge in mind. In its zeal to punish, plunder, and reconstruct the South, it greatly increased the congress at the expense of the states. Part of its tactics was the imposition of “forced” amendments, adopted without Constitutional justification and procedure. The process of adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, was an example of repeated irregularities that gives insight into the glaring arguments regarding the legitimacy of all of the reconstruction era congressional acts.
In Ex parte Milligan, for example, the United States Supreme Court ruled that martial law could not be constitutionally imposed in the absence of war or rebellion and in areas where the civilian courts were functioning. The Reconstruction Act of March 1867 was a brazen and flagrant violation of this decision. Also, since congress had declared that the Southern states were without legal governments, it had trapped itself in a contradiction. Earlier Congress had accepted the ratification by the Southern states to the Thirteenth Amendment, but now Congress had declared these same states to be illegal. It was also apparent that this act denied civil rights to upwards of nine million Southerners. As such, it violated the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process and was in direct violation of constitutional prohibitions against bills of attainder.*
To make the point of just how absurd it is to contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was legally ratified, assume the following:
1. Assume that the amendment had been constitutionally proposed, then;
2. Assume that the ratifications of Tennessee, Oregon and West Virginia were proper, then:
3. Assume that the rescission by New Jersey and Ohio were illegal.
THEN you are left with the problem that still Congress is six votes short of the number necessary for ratification.
Now comes the interesting part. To obtain the ratification of the remaining states, Congress required the Southern states to ratify in order to get back into the Union. But remember, states can vote on ratification of a constitutional amendment only if they were duly recognized as governments at the time they acted on the amendment. But Congress had already declared these “states” to be illegal governments and not a part of the Union – therefore their ratifications, according to constitutional principle, cannot be counted toward final ratification. Thus we are left with an amendment that was never ratified!
But let’s not stop there. The Southern States were forced to ratify the amendments. After learning that the South had rejected the Fourteenth Amendment, Senator James R. Doolittle of Wisconsin declared that the north would “march upon the them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet.” Their ratification was therefore also illegal on the basis of duress.
Clearly, the Fourteenth Amendment was never constitutionally ratified, even if it had ever been constitutionally proposed.
* NOTE: A Bill of Attainder is described as a legislative act, no matter what its form, that applies either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial.
Kennedy hospitalized
May 17, 2008So, has the Chappaquiddick swimmer going to meet his maker perhaps? The Kennedy family has had a lot to bear in life for sure. But don’t delude yourselves one little bit. From manipulating the liquor industry, to disarming Americans, that family has called all the bad Karma onto itself as far as I am concerned. Jack was a charismatic President, and I cried just like everyone else when he was killed. I was twelve years old, and in sixth grade though. later, I think his greatest accomplishments were in the realm of womanizing. At least outside the World War Two arena. Bobby was not much better really. I hear things about Republican Constitutional abuses every day from the left, but never about the things Bobby Kennedy did. Probably why I don’t belong to either party since I look at them both as different sides of the same double edged sword. What about Edward..? He has done more damage to America than any other sitting Senator with the possible exceptions of Schumer and Lautenberg. Together, they formed an evil triumvirate that needs to go away. I just hope that Ed’s stroke is a vascular blow out, and not occlusion based. They have a lower survival rate. No, I am not the least bit remorseful for feeling like that toward anyone that has done so much to harm this nation that my father died on a hillside near Chosin for.
source:
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Sen. Kennedy hospitalized with symptoms of stroke
BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was hospitalized Saturday after becoming ill at his home, his office said. There was no immediate word on his condition.
A knowledgeable official said the Massachusetts Democrat was in the hospital after suffering stroke-like symptoms. The official declined to be identified by name, citing the sensitivity of the events.
Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter confirmed in a statement that Kennedy went to Cape Cod Hospital on Saturday morning “after feeling ill at his home.” After discussion with his doctors in Boston, Kennedy was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for further examination.
“He is currently under evaluation that information will be released as it becomes available,” she said.
Hyannis Fire Lt. Bill Rex told The Associated Press that a 911 call came in from the Kennedy family compound at 8:19 a.m. A man was transported to Cape Cod Hospital and transferred by air at 10:10 a.m. from Barnstable Municipal Airport to Massachusetts General.
David Reilly, a spokesman for Cape Cod Hospital, said that Kennedy was brought to the hospital at about 9 a.m. and stayed for about an hour before being flown by helicopter to the Boston hospital. He said he could not comment on Kennedy’s condition or treatment because of medical privacy laws.
Kennedy, 76, has been in the Senate since election in 1962, filling out the term won by his brother, John F. Kennedy.
In October, Kennedy had surgery to repair a nearly complete blockage in a major neck artery. The discovery was made during a routine examination of a decades-old back injury.
The hourlong procedure on his left carotid artery — a main supplier of blood to the face and brain — was performed at Massachusetts General. This type of operation is performed on more than 180,000 people a year to prevent a stroke.
The doctor who operated on Kennedy said at the time that surgery is reserved for those with more than 70 percent blockage, and Kennedy had “a very high-grade blockage.”
Weeks after the surgery, he returned to work in the Senate and told the AP, “I’m feeling fine. I think it’s just about getting the energy level back. … The strength has been coming back daily.”
One of Kennedy’s doctors said after the surgery that the senator’s overall health was excellent. Kennedy is on blood-pressure and cholesterol medication. Kennedy has been bothered by an aching back since a 1964 plane crash, which killed a pilot and one of Kennedy’s aides.
Kennedy is the lone surviving son in a famed political family. His eldest brother, Joseph, was killed in a World War II airplane crash. President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and his brother Robert was assassinated in 1968.
Considered a liberal lion in the Senate, Edward Kennedy was re-elected in 2006. His current term ends in 2013. The senator made a failed run for the presidency in 1980.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, beginning a tour of hospitals in Eugene, Ore., told reporters that he had been in touch with the senator’s family. “Ted Kennedy is a giant in American political history. He’s done more for health care than just about anybody in history. We are going to be rooting for him. I insist on being optimistic about how it’s going to turn out.”
Kennedy gave Obama’s presidential campaign a big boost this year with his endorsement and has campaigned actively for the Illinois senator.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said he awaited word on Kennedy’s condition. “Senator Kennedy’s role in the U.S. Senate cannot be overstated. He is a legendary lawmaker, and I have the highest respect for him. When we have worked together, he has been a skillful, fair and generous partner.”
John McCain, the best man that the Democrats can field…
The cost of being humanitarian?
May 17, 2008Interesting how one of the top issues that confront the people of America has been swept under the table by all three presidential candidates. National sovereignty just is not on the table. Not a one of them thinks that there is anything wrong at all with being over run by people that take advantage of our generosity while breaking our laws. That innate kindness toward the downtrodden could very well be the catalyst that leads to an actual civil war here in these United States. Not all that surprisingly, Americans of Mexican decent that I grew up with are among the most outspoken of our brethren on the subject. One, a green eyed red haired Latina has been quite specific: “My father was a Marine, my brothers have all been Marines, Camp Pendleton is built on what was our family ranch since before California was a state. Now these people are coming here and destroying our way of life. They commit crimes against us, and then run back across the border where nothing is done to them. Tell you what? Out here in Fallbrook, we are gunning up, and pretty soon, we are just going to start shooting. Enough is enough.” *note; Her families land was the part of Camp Pendleton near Temecula, and what is the Navel Weapons Station.
Illegal immigration is still a serious problem whether the major candidates recognize it or not. Racist separatist groups such as La Raza are intent on overthrowing the United States, at least the western portion, and even into the southern regions of Canada in some places. How will they do it? As much as many would love for them to try a direct assault, which would doom them to oblivion, they will, and are using fifth column methodology’s, including using our strength (kindness) against ourselves. One method? Read below…
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is a fairly
famous institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in
1963.
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly
after.
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few
years later..by coincidence.
‘On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second
busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving
each year. (That’s almost 44 per day—every day)
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave
birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal
immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies
born every year just in Dallas .
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7
million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8
million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas
County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5
million.
The average patient in Parkland in maternity wards is
25 years old, married and giving birth to her second
child.
She is also an illegal
immigrant.
By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care
based on their immigration status or ability to pay. OK, fine. That
doesn’t mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class
American citizens. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. ‘ Parkland Memorial
Hospital has nine prenatal clinics’.
That’s right !!!!
NINE.
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a
patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child—her previous
two were also born at Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the
Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost
$200 to have them in Mexico
This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the
delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it
matters, the hospital won’t turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking
at this point.)
‘How long has this been going on? What are the long-term
affects?
Well, another subject of the article was born at
Parkland in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally – now she is
having her own child there as well. (That’s right, she’s technically a US
citizen.)
These women receive free prenatal care including
medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get
freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and
formula.
Most of these things are available to American
citizens as well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the red tape
involved is almost insurmountable.
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do
not have to provide any sort of legitimate identification – no proof of income.
An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would
reveal their annual income – an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and
the hospital must take them at their word.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less
than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health
coverage at their current job. Yeah, the ‘free’ care is not so easy for
Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for
un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free
treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital
is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U. S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How
stupid
is this?
As if that isn’t annoying enough,
the illegal immigrant patients are actually complaining about hospital staff
not speaking Spanish . In this AP story, the author speaks with a
woman who is upset that she had to translate comments from the hospital staff
into Spanish for her husband. The doctor was trying to explain the situation to
the family and the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke
Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to
her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff,
Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for
applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students at the University
of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will
now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed
curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous
multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.
( Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation
particularly to our’employees’ in Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE
hospital in Dallas , Texas There are many more hospitals across our
country that also have to deal with this.
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