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No News is Good News!

Some of the time...

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Parkland Hospital Immigration Information

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 is 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. 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 is Dallas , Texas . There are many more hospitals across our country that also have to deal with this.

PLEASE SEND LET EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.

If you want to verify accuracy:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp

Another helping of SPAM! Yummy

Hello again,

Another helping of email spam littered with fun.

Ok I will try to add some tidbit of information on this spam.

One Lagos is in Nigeria which this email forgot to mention in his address, but does state the Nigerian government.
An Engineering Company that employs a Reverend?
Oooh and I won through a ballot system on the internet yet I never EVER submit stuff like that on the internet. Hmmmm... Ok, the fun continues.
THE Biggest error and fun one is that he starts off stating that he is Reverend Williams Brian of Canada and Signs the letter Rev. Thomas Solomon. Then he asks to get in touch with my Secretary Mr. Justin Albert - BELOW IS THE CONTACT OF MY SECRETARY his assistant John Smith Albert - interesting name at thomsolomon088@hackside.net - Funny email address plus I guess he could not afford the thomassolomon088@hackside.net. HACKSIDE. Gotta love that name. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA He tries incoherently to sway by stating he be a Rev instead of Reverend - HMmmmm.
This is littered with Bad Bad Spam...
I guess they put too much pepper in the Spam. HAHA

Ok Ok - I won't take all the fun out of this spam, I should let you get to the spam -
Enjoy:

Subject: YOUR BANK DRAFT IS READY CONTACT MY SECRETARY..........

WILLIAMS ENGINEERING COMPANY
152 ISLAND WAY
VICTORIA PARK
LAGOS.

Dear Friend

I am Rev. Williams Brian from Canada, I have been an international contractor that collect contract from Big Company and countries, I get involve in one contract in Nigeria which I was refuse my payment, I was down and almost lose hope.

After 2 years of this contract I later talk to God to assist me in getting this money that if this money for this contract can be pay to me I promise to benefit someone with the sum of $500,000.00 draft payment to my surprise I was called upon by the Nigeria Government something last month that my contact file have been look into and it is ready for payment.

I never believe until I was advise by my Pastor and later move down to Nigeria to my unbelievable surprise I was paid this money.

Due to my pledge to God i have agreed to show the person that i will be sending the $500,000.00 through ballot system on the internet which happen to be your email so you are lucky so what you have to do now get in touch with my Secretary Mr. Justin Albert and instruct him on how to send your $500,000.00 Bank draft to you.

BELOW IS THE CONTACT OF MY SECRETARY
Mr. JOHN SMITH Albert
Phone: +234-8083378147
E-mail:thomsolomon088@hackside.net

Send to my secretary your contact address and telephone number let him make arrangement for the shipment of your draft to your doorstep and also you can give him a call to confirm you address again after sending it to him i do not want you to feel any thing scam because i am a Rev and i will never do anything like that i have promise God and what i want you to believe now is that this is the opportunity which God have promise you this year so it is better you have it in time before it went again from you so contact my secretary in time.

And for your information presently i am in the United Kingdom for another contract so i want you to go into prayer with me for the successfully of this contact

With Best Regards,
Rev thomas solomon

Poop Senders sent me an email.

Not sure if it was spam - but I received an email from Poopsenders.com.
I did not click on the link provided in the email, been burned once that way... I opened the email, clicked the link, It opened a thousands links to porn and I was at work. Do'oh! Guess I should read this kinda stuff at home but oh well. No harm no foul. I told the IT Guy sorry I was a dumb user and launched a link in a email.

Well, onto the email... It was one about the best practical joke. It looks to be very funny.

Go to poopsenders.com and see for yourself. It is definitely the Ultimate Gag gift. Some of the testimonies had me laughing.

HAHAHAHAHAHA Too funny - well enjoy the rest of the day...

SPAM SPAM SPAM

Whoo Hoo,

Just what you all have been waiting for. Another installment of SPAM! Yes that lovely pink meat like substance that is good with cheese and bread. No, sorry not that Spam... Wishful thinking. No it is that ANNOYING Spam.

Ok here goes. You know I try to set it up a bit. Sorry not much information on this one, except maybe the email address in the Spam differs from the senders. To include the fact that they are trying to say I won a Microsoft Prize. Hmmmm - Microsoft being a US Company paying me in British Sterling Pounds and I have to email my information to a German email address????? Germany uses the Euro... Odd I know - but don't fall prey to this one. It is totally fake.

So here's your helping today:

Email Sender: Microsoft Lottery Board [info@mslb.org]
Subject: PRIZE NOTIFICATION


We wish to congratulate and inform you On the selection today,You Won the sum of £250,000 you must contact the appointed agent with your Full Names,Age,Address, Occupation,Telephone No.
Contact Mrs Cindi Gerrard With the email address below:
cindimsninfodesk_01@yahoo.de

Odd I know!

I WON!!! A Sweepstakes I never entered?

How can that be you ask? How can I win a Sweepstakes without ever entering one? In addition, I received this email not once, not twice, but three times today alone.
Well, it 'tis be another cleaver attack from the SPAM kings of the world. Yes, SPAM and not the seasoned Ham-like meat that we all love... Yummy, No I am speaking of the more malicious type. The Spam that fills up your inbox and possibly may corrupt your system. THE NASTY SPAM. But as my self-appointed duty is to help rid the world of such spam. My blacklist for my spam filter is so long that I am no longer able to add to my list.

Oh well, so lets analyze this one: The email address was tip number 1: Western Union Money Transfer [westernunionagent3@myway.com] - why was it not from westernunion.com???
The Phone number any of them is the wrong format for England. It does start +44 as the country code and that is where it dies. There are not enough numbers left. Then a hotmail account to the person who verifies the funds... LAUGHABLE. Then they don't know to whom they are sending an email stating that I had won a million pounds.
Well here is the example:

Western Union Money Transfer Sweepstakes:

ADDRESS: PLOT 1, SOUTHWARK BRIDGE,SE 19 HL UNITED KINGDOM.
PHONE NUMBER: +44702-405-8125
Mobile: +44-702-405-8106
REF NO: 250-153
Dear Sir/Madam
There is an issue with the Western Union Money Transfer in the amount of £1,000,000.00 POUNDS STERLING directed in cash credited to file KTU/ 9023118308/03, at the owner of this email address. The INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND contacted us for your conpensation a couple of hours ago due to your allocated security code.
We are unable to complete a transfer directed at an email address, so we require some more information in order to complete this transfer.
In order to effect this payment, please call our offices at +44702-405-8125/+44-702-405-8106 or at this email via Western Union Solicitors Fund Verification Department: billjohnson888@hotmail.com
As soon as this information is received, your payment will be made to you over the counter or wired to your nominated bank account directly from The Western Union Transfering Bank as soon as you comply with the requirements of 0.1 percent western union charges. When calling or emailing , please use reference number 250-153 for our mutual convenience.
THE MANAGEMENT OF WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER. OFFICE UK BRANCH.
Sincerely,
Bill Johnson.
+44702-405-8125
Mobile: +44-702-405-8106

Enjoy this new helping of SPAM....

Ann Coulter - FROM THE HALLS OF MALIBU TO THE SHORES OF KENNEDY

I found this one a pretty good summation:
FROM THE HALLS OF MALIBU TO THE SHORES OF KENNEDY
By Ann Coulter Thu Sep 13, 11:08 AM ET WorldNetDaily.com

Ann Coulter

Democrats claim Gen. David Petraeus' report to Congress on the surge was a put-up job with a pre-ordained conclusion. As if their response wasn't.
Democrats yearn for America to be defeated on the battlefield and oppose any use of the military -- except when they can find individual malcontents in the military willing to denounce the war and call for a humiliating retreat.
It's been the same naysaying from these people since before we even invaded Iraq -- despite the fact that their representatives in Congress voted in favor of that war.
Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down," warned Americans in the Aug. 30, 2002, Los Angeles Times of 60,000 to 100,000 dead American troops if we invaded Iraq -- comparing an Iraq war to Vietnam and a Russian battle in Chechnya. He said Iraqis would fight the Americans "tenaciously" and raised the prospect of Saddam using weapons of mass destruction against our troops, an attack on Israel "and possibly in the United States."
On Sept. 14, 2002, The New York Times' Frank Rich warned of another al-Qaida attack in the U.S. if we invaded Iraq, noting that since "major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we've been distracted soon enough."
This week makes it six years since a major al-Qaida attack. I guess we weren't distracted. But it looks like al-Qaida has been.
Weeks before the invasion, in March 2003, the Times' Nicholas Kristof warned in a couple of columns that if we invaded Iraq, "the Turks, Kurds, Iraqis and Americans will all end up fighting over the oil fields of Kirkuk or Mosul." He said: "The world has turned its back on the Kurds more times than I can count, and there are signs that we're planning to betray them again." He announced that "the United States is perceived as the world's newest Libya."
The day after we invaded, Kristof cited a Muslim scholar for the proposition that if Iraqis felt defeated, they would embrace Islamic fundamentalism.
We took Baghdad in about 17 days flat with amazingly few casualties. There were no al-Qaida attacks in America, no attacks on Israel, no invasion by Turkey, no attacks on our troops with chemical weapons, no ayatollahs running Iraq. We didn't turn our back on the Kurds. There were certainly not 100,000 dead American troops.
But liberals soon began raising yet more pointless quibbles. For most of 2003, they said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Saddam Hussein. Then we captured Saddam, and Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean complained that "the capture of Saddam has not made America safer." (On the other hand, Howard Dean's failure to be elected president definitely made America safer.)
Next, liberals said the war was a failure because we hadn't captured Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Then we killed al-Zarqawi and a half-dozen of his aides in an air raid. Then they said the war was a failure because ... you get the picture.
The Democrats' current talking point is that "there can be no military solution in Iraq without a political solution." But back when we were imposing a political solution, Democrats' talking point was that there could be no political solution without a military solution.
They said the first Iraqi election, scheduled for January 2005, wouldn't happen because there was no "security."
Noted Middle East peace and security expert Jimmy Carter told NBC's "Today" show in September 2004 that he was confident the elections would not take place. "I personally do not believe they're going to be ready for the election in January ... because there's no security there," he said.
At the first presidential debate in September 2004, Sen. John Kerry used his closing statement to criticize the scheduled Iraqi elections saying: "They can't have an election right now. The president's not getting the job done."
About the same time, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he doubted there would be elections in January, saying, "You cannot have credible elections if the security conditions continue as they are now" -- although he may have been referring here to a possible vote of the U.N. Security Council.
In October 2004, Nicholas Lemann wrote in The New Yorker that "it may not be safe enough there for the scheduled elections to be held in January."
Days before the first election in Iraq in January 2005, The New York Times began an article on the election this way:
"Hejaz Hazim, a computer engineer who could not find a job in computers and now cleans clothes, slammed his iron into a dress shirt the other day and let off a burst of steam about the coming election.
"'This election is bogus,' Mr. Hazim said. 'There is no drinking water in this city. There is no security. Why should I vote?'"
If there's a more artful articulation of the time-honored linkage between drinking water and voting, I have yet to hear it.
And then, as scheduled, in January 2005, millions of citizens in a country that has never had a free election risked their lives to cast ballots in a free democratic election. They've voted twice more since then.
Now our forces are killing lots of al-Qaida jihadists, preventing another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and giving democracy in Iraq a chance -- and Democrats say we are "losing" this war. I think that's a direct quote from their leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, but it may have been the Osama bin Laden tape released this week. I always get those two confused.
OK, they knew what Petraeus was going to say. But we knew what the Democrats were going to say. If liberals are not traitors, their only fallback argument at this point is that they're really stupid.