Posted on 11/28/2004 7:25:47 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Hi, J... How about taking a picture of the "festive boat
Christmas decor" and posting it.. I would love to see his
idea of tasteful. Martha he is not! :o) B
I'm surprised that the neighbors haven't called a towing service to remove the street-art.
Homeland Security Should Protect Us From Diseases by Phyllis Schlafly, December 1, 2004
Media headlines are blaming the House leadership for preventing passage of the giant Intelligence bill designed to restructure homeland security, but negotiations bogged down on the question of what to do about illegal aliens. How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
Senate negotiators refused to agree to stop the entry of 4,000 illegals a day across our southern border, including OTMs (Other Than Mexicans) from the Middle East. This refusal to face reality makes ridiculous the regulations that immigrants, in order to enter our country legally, must show proof that they are free from communicable diseases and drug addiction. I'm indebted to medical attorney Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Ph.D., J.D., for her expose of some of the health threats and costs of the diseases brought in by illegal aliens. She is president of Medical Equity Inc., a national medical law consultancy since 1980.
Tuberculosis had virtually disappeared from the United States, thanks to our excellent hygiene and modern medications. A new TB called Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), until recently endemic only to Mexico, is expanding rapidly in our country as each alien infects 10 to 30 others. TB suddenly had a 17 percent increase in Virginia in 2002, and TB in Prince William County rose 188 percent. Public health officials traced this rise to illegal aliens from Mexico.
The Centers for Disease Control ascribes 50 percent of all new TB cases to "foreign born" persons, with 66 percent of those coming from Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam. The Queens, New York health department attributed 81 percent of new TB cases in 2001 to aliens, and other TB outbreaks have occurred in Minnesota, Maine and Florida.
Chagas, known as the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors infection on the face, infects 18 million people in Latin America and causes 500,000 deaths annually. There is no effective cure, and up to 40 percent die when their hearts or intestines explode. Unknown in the United States until recently, Chagas has infiltrated America's blood supply and hundreds of blood recipients may already be infected. In 2001, three people received Chagas-infected organ transplants, two of whom died.
The U.S. has always been practically free of Leprosy, that fearful disfiguring disease known since Biblical days. Suddenly, 7,000 cases of leprosy have appeared, especially in the northeastern states, brought in by illegal aliens from India, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
Dengue Fever, another very rare disease, recently had a virulent outbreak in a Texas county on our southern border.
West Nile Virus was unheard of in the United States prior to 1998. Brought to our country from Africa, this mosquito-borne disease now infects tens of thousands of people in 21 states, and many have died.
Malaria had been obliterated from the U.S., but is now reemerging in Texas. Since 1991, the U.S. hasn't had a case of a native-born American getting polio (except from the oral polio vaccine) but aliens are bringing back polio, too.
E-coli intestinal parasites are widespread in Latin America and are now coming into the United States. A restaurant worker in Pennsylvania exposed 3,000 people to Hepatitis A, and two died.
Over 50 percent of Hepatitis B cases in the U.S. are found among Asian-Americans. Yet, nearly all American newborns are inoculated with the Hepatitis B vaccine, subjecting low-risk babies to possibly dangerous side effects.
Think about the entry into our country of these deadly and expensive time-bomb diseases every time you breathe the air in public places or are attacked by mosquitoes in your backyard. Think about this every time you pay the income and property taxes you are forced to pay because of Congress's unfunded mandate (EMTALA, Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) that all hospitals treat all illegal aliens who show up at the Emergency Room.
Think about these costs when you find the maternity wards filled by illegal pregnant women giving birth to "anchor babies" who are granted instant U.S. citizenship plus generous welfare benefits for the newborn and the whole illegal family. Think about these foreign diseases when you knock on the door of any of the dozens of hospitals that have closed because they can't cover the costs of these non-paying illegal patients.
In Los Angeles County alone, 10 trauma centers and 18 emergency rooms have closed. Arizona's Cochise County Health Department spends 30 percent of its annual budget on uncompensated care of illegal aliens. Then ask your two Senators why they tried to exclude border security from the homeland security bill. And thank your Representative for standing firm against such deception.
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Sorry..I should clarify one thing. He has a small circular drive out front. The boat is not parked in the street. (I'm sure it would not have survived THAT for 2 months!)
While Phyllis has a point on some of those diseases, they pale in comparison to the importance of keeping out Al Qaeda. Why come in legally when you can come in illegally.
If she thinks Chagas (which is endemic in South America and Mexico and has been slowly working its way up into Texas - we're seeing it now in dogs in Texas), drug resistant malaria, and West Nile are horrible, she hasn't seen anything yet. We will be seeing many more bizarre diseases coming from third world countries. Everyone in the medical and veterinary world is dreading this stuff but they are looking for it. What worries me is what bio WMD's are headed our way. They will be really dangerous, moreso than things that get introduced into the US from your average illegal.
Whew, what a day. We've been having high winds and they knocked out our power from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (thankfully, not before I made the morning pot of coffee, or it would have gotten ugly). I'll try to do some Christmas decorating today as soon as my fingers thaw out from having no heat in the house all morning.
Hey, Sweets,
If I was there, I'd help you. We unfortunately, sent those winds your direction. Iowa Granny passed them on to us and then we handed them off to the east! It was so bad last Wed when my dad and I visited the local Lowes that I thought the wind was gonna rip the doors off the car as we got out. You should have seen us trying to make our way back out to the car -- true geometry was involved in calculating the angle to wind just to approximate getting back to the car. We are used to such stuff here on the plains but it sure did surprise my dad. We don't get those kinds of winds in north central Texas!
Glad to hear your heat is back on. Some parts of town here lost power last week due to the weather.
I need to get my lights up this weekend. Any chance you and Mr. Mountaineer will be out this way? You know, Wash U is just down the road. You could make it out as part of an alumnus tour!
Sadly, we have no trips planned for the great midwest any time soon, although Mr. M considered running the Chicago marathon this year, choosing Richmond instead. I haven't visited STL since 1997 or so, when a friend got married. I showed Mr. M all the high points, including Ted Drewes' frozen custard stand, the Arch and the Mo. Botanical Garden. Oh yes, and my alma mater, which pales in comparison to the foregoing.
Don't be shy. Your Alma Mater is one of the most outstanding schools in the nation. See the lates US News. You have every right to be very proud of yourself and your University.
I'm sad to here you won't be headed this way, altho we're past the date for the Chi-town Marathon by several weeks. I should start trying to sway you and Mr. M. this direction much earlier next year. You know, of course, (cause you've been here before) that Chi-town has so much more to offer than Richmond could ever dream of (be still, my Southern heritage). I like Richmond, but it in NO WAY compares to Chicago. Even as a stalwart Southerner, I must say that I love Chicago as if I was born there. It is such a wonderful town -- truly a town, not a massive city like NYC. It is so wonderful in all aspects. I wish we could move it to Dallas - it is everything that Dallas isn't. It would make Texas totally untouchable if it could be moved down to Big D.
I hope I don't get disinherited because of the above comments! Chi-town is one great place. Anyone who hasn't visited should put it on your must-see list. The people are great (you can be totally lost in downtown Chicago and Chicagoans will stop and ask how they can help you -- no kidding). Come see us!
s/b ... "latest," "hear" et al.
Our school district did not see fit to cancel classes, but we kept our children home. Can you imagine kids standing at the bus stop, or walking to school in today's weather? It really wasn't safe to be out driving around either.
Marc Rich may re-appear in a new scandal just in time for the Guild's 4th Anniversary!
When I lived in STL, my friends and I would make the trek each September for the Cubs-Cards series at Wrigley, which was lots of fun. Baseball, dining out and shopping, that's the ticket.
It's just never ending with those people, isn't it? It's probably too much to hope this latest revelation will hurt the Hildebeaste's plans, I suppose.
Page Six reports:
NO sooner had John Kerry finished his concession speech in Boston on Nov. 3 than phones started ringing in the offices of his heavy-hitting fund-raisers. Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest confidants were already calling the big Kerry backers to ask for their support. The pitch was for her 2006 Senate re-election race with a twist: "We need to send a message," the Clintonistas said, strongly implying there would be a 2008 presidential run in the future.
Another political insider wasting no time is journalist Paul Alexander, who is already shopping to publishers a proposal for "Hillary Rodham Clinton After the White House," a book about how Clinton is carefully building the foundation for a 2008 run.
MEMO TO THE LEFT:
To Michael Moore: Sit down and shut up.. And do something about your hair. And the ball cap.
To Jimmy Carter: big mistake to sit down and shut up next to Michael Moore at the convention. Spend more time with drywall and the glue gun.
To Tom Daschle: If you lean too far to the left, voters will tend to lean right for a while, but will eventually push you out of the boat.
To Al Gore: Please, sir, before it's too late .. Seek an experienced mental health professional. You're beginning to make Christopher Lloyd in "Back To The Future" look downright Rotarian-like.
To Dan Rather: Enjoy your early retirement. The next memo you get will be real.
To the DNC: Your platform must not have lurched far enough to the left. Keep it tilting southpaw. Read more Marx. P.S. Keep insulting the voters with your moral and intellectual condescension too. It goes well with that warp speed registering of folks in plaid wool blankets pushing shopping carts. Lovely constituency.
To Bill Clinton: Thanks for hitting the campaign trail for Kerry. Some of us needed a reminder of what we were trying to avoid.
To Hillary Clinton: PLEASE run in '08. The Heartland will be hungry for more hors d'oeuvres by then.
To the MTV Kidz: Vote or die - or not. Like, whatever, dude.
To John "Breck Girl" Edwards: Can you help Michael Moore and Whoopi Goldberg with a little basic grooming?
To Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Bono, etc.: We still like your music, but if you ever want to sell another record, just sing and don't go where you don't know. We don't pay to hear Colin Powell or Condie Rice do air guitar either.
To George Soros: Want to buy an election? Not in *MY* America, you monomaniacal, socialistic buffoon.
To the Mainstream Media: Congratulations on getting Kerry at least thirty more electoral votes than he would have gotten without your covert support. Imagine how badly he would have lost if you were actually unbiased.
To the United Nations: Your worst nightmare will continue for another four years. Deal with it.
To Howard "I Have A Scream" Dean: stick with something you understand; like proctology for instance.
To Richard Holbrooke: learn to tell a joke. Learn to laugh at one. Gawd.
To John Zogby: monster.com will post your resume.
To Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Robert Scheer, and your minor league imitators, Greg Plast and Mark Morford: you have no red states readers.
To Teddy Kennedy: sigh, it's still the blonde in the pond that leads your highlight reel.
To Ron Reagan "Junior:" Do you have talent for anything? Nexxxxxxxxxxxxxxt ...?
To the Exit Pollsters: As long as you keep skewing the results in an attempt to influence the election, we'll keep lying to you. If you quit, so will we. Deal?
To Osama bin Laden: Bring it on, you sonofabitch, What's that? The only attack you can muster now is on videotape? Hmm... No surprise there, I guess.
To Teresa HEINZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Kerry: teaching is a real job. The Teachers Union, who supported your husband, can clarify any continuing confusion. Oh, and it's not a "real job" to sleep with a third generation ketchup heir and then cash the plane crash check.
To the European Union: See message for Michael Moore.
To Terry McAuliffe: See message for Dan Rather. And pay a little attention to what Zell Miller reminds us of: 20 Democratic senators from the south in 1960 and only six from the GOP. Today, 22 Republicans and four Dems.
To MoveOn.org: See message for George Soros
To James Carville: you're the only guy who seems to get it; and you're very smart. Good luck finding an audience that's neither medicated nor mendacious.
And finally, to John Kerry: Thank you for reporting for duty. You are hereby DIS-missed.
HAPPY W-1 + 30!
Well put! Speaking of Jimmy Carter, my father-in-law received a solicitation from the Carter foundation to send money to "make the world a better place." I took the postage-prepaid business reply envelope and inserted a note saying, "Mr. Carter: You'd make the world a better place if you'd stop supporting dictators and start supporting our president and our troops." He should receive it tomorrow.
Heheh - good job, FIL.
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