Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July!

This is so outrageous I can hardly stand it. Our generation has played a large part in allowing this to happen-we need to put a stop to it. NOW!
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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 fun ding. 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 's 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 f or 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 U.S. illegally---now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right, she's technically a U.S. 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. "My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in Iraq ) and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don't get any of these perks! Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens? Yes it does! As I mentioned, the care I have received is perfectly adequate but it's bare bones, meat and potato medical care---not top of line. Their (the illegals) medical care is free---simply because they are illegal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to verify their income. 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. In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat." Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation----particularly to our "employees" in Congress.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY US
CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp

I could not resist. This is just to funny.

Parents Be Aware................
There is a very scary thing going on in the schools right now that allneed to be aware of.

There is a type of crystal meth going around thatlooks like strawberry pop rocks. It smells like strawberry also and it is being handed out to kids in school yards in AR. I'm sure it will make its way around the country if it hasn't already. Kids are ingesting this thinking that it is candy and being rushed off to theE.R. in dire condition.It also comes in chocolate, peanut butter, cola, cherry, grape and orange ~` it looks just like pop rocks.

Please instruct your children to not accept candy that looks like this even from a friend and to take any that they may have to a teacher, principal, etc.

Please pass this around it could save some family a lot of heartache!

That is what they are calling strawberry meth or strawberry quick.

Drinking Bottled Water Kept in Car....

a friend whose mother recently got diagnosed with breast cancer.

The doctor told her: women should notdrink bottled water that has been left in a car. The doctor said that the heat and the plastic of the bottle have certain chemicals that canlead to breast cancer. So please be careful and do not drink that water bottle that has been left in a car and pass this on to all the women in your life. This information is the kind we need to know and be aware and just might save us!!!!

The heat causes toxins from the plastic to leak into the water and they have found these toxins in breast tissue. Use a stainless steel Canteen or a glass bottle when you can!!!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO MY DAD.....

TO MY GRANDFATHER.....

AND TO MY HUSBAND.

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." -- Gabriel García Márquez

"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." -- Mario Cuomo

Dave, Grace, Gabby, & I went to Skamania, Wa

yesterday and visited with family. The kids have grown so much.

Dave helped Bill slaughter and hang 4 pigs. Dave ended up

being the only one who showed up to help.

We will have 1/2 a pig in the freezer for the winter.

Very nice.

Grace & Matthew decided to go watch the action and

hid in the hay loft. They thought they were sneaky. Not.

Chrisitina= Dorfus FarkleTush
Dave= Sneezy FarkleTush

Here is your dose of humor...

Follow the instructions to find your new name.

1. Use the third letter of your first name to determine your new first

Name:

A = snickle

B = doombah

C = goober

D = cheesey

E = crusty

F = greasy

G = dumbo

H = farcus

I = dorky

J = doofus

K = funky

L = boobie

M = sleezy

N = sloopy

O = fluffy

P = stinky

Q = slimy

R = dorfus

S = snooty

T = tootsie

U = dipsy

V = sneezy

W = liver

X = skippy

Y = dinky

Z = zippy

2. Use the second letter of your last name to determine the first half

Of your new last name:

A = dippin

B = feather

C = batty

D = burger

E = chicken

F = barffy

G = lizard

H = waffle

I = farkle

J = monkey

K = flippin

L = fricken

M = bubble

N = rhino

O = potty

P = hamster

Q = buckle

R = gizzard

S = lickin

T = snickle

U = chuckle

V = pickle

W = lickin

X = dingle

Y = gorilla

Z = girdle

3. Use the third letter of your last name to determine the second half

Of your new last name:

A = butt

B = boob

C = face

D = nose

E = hump

F = breath

G = pants

H = shorts

I = lips

J = honker

K = head

L = tush

M = chunks

N = dunkin

O = brains

P = biscuits

Q = toes

R = doodle

S = fanny

T = sniffer

U = sprinkles

V = frack

W = squirt

X = humperdinck

Y = hiney

Z = juice

Thus, for example, George W. Bush's new name is: Fluffy Chucklefanny.

Now when you SEND THIS ON...use your new name as the subject.

And remember that children laugh an average of 146 times a day; adults

Laugh an average of 4 times a day. Put more laughter in your day .

The Only Flag That Doesn't Fly

Between the fields where the flag is planted, there are 9+ miles of flower fields that go all the way to the ocean. The flowers are grown by seed companies. It's a beautiful place, close to Vandenberg AFB. Check out the dimensions of the flag. The Floral Flag is 740 feet long and 390 feet wide and maintains the proper Flag dimensions, as described in Executive Order #10834.

This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars, comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants, with 4-5 flower stems each, for a total of more than 2 million flowers. Ocean Ave in Lompoc , CA! ..

REESE’S Elvis Cup
Exclusive Sneak Preview!
The King will arrive in stores starting on
July 6th, so be on the lookout for all of our Reese’s
Elvis Collector Edition products!
Plus, look for your chance to “Live Like the King” and instantly win
great Elvis prizes—just look inside the labels of Reese’s Elvis double
cups and Reese’s Elvis miniatures for your chance to win!
Be warned - the peanut butter, banana creme, and chocolate combination
has been known to make lips gyrate!

Our Bank Account

This is AWESOME...something we should all remember.

A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, the attendant provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window.

"I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

"Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."

"That doesn't have anything to do with it," he replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged .. it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. "It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.

Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories!

Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank...I am still depositing.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2 Free your mind from worries.
3 Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.