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Why are illegal aliens getting free medical care while Americans must pay or face legal action ? Because many immigrant mothers cannot afford to pay for prenatal care or delivery services, New Orleans’s newest citizens are adding an unexpected load to the decimated health infrastructure in a city abandoned by many of its doctors after the hurricane. Some 18 months after the hurricane struck, much of the public hospital system, remains closed. But pregnant immigrant women who don’t have health insurance don’t have that choice anymore. “Prenatal care is our daily nightmare,” said Shaula Lovera, programme coordinator for the Latino Health Access Network. The two health units providing prenatal care run by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals saw more than 1,200 pregnant women — almost all Latino immigrants — from January to mid-November. Before the hurricane, only two per cent of patients were Hispanic. That figure is now 96 per cent. The maternity clinic, previously held two days a week, is now held five days a week. Figures from the Louisiana Health and Population Survey in late 2006 showed the number of Hispanics in Orleans and Jefferson parishes had increased from 10,000 in 2004 to 60,000 in 2006, while the state’s total population fell by some 25 per cent. Figures from the Louisiana Health and Population Survey in late 2006 showed the number of Hispanics in Orleans and Jefferson parishes had increased from 10,000 in 2004 to 60,000 in 2006, while the state’s total population fell by some 25 per cent. Does this show that illegal aliens are getting free health care costing tax payers millions of dollars? How can illegal aliens afford to have such large families when we are told they make $ 3.00 an hour ?

What is Amerikkkas healthcare rating? Introduction to Risk Factors Personal Behaviors Prevalence of Smoking Motor Vehicle Deaths Prevalence of Obesity High School Graduation Community Environment Violent Crime Lack of Health Insurance Infectious Disease Children in Poverty Occupational Fatalities Health Policies Per Capita Public Health Spending Immunization Coverage Adequacy of Prenatal Care Introduction to Outcomes Limited Activity Days Cardiovascular Deaths Cancer Deaths Total Mortality Infant Mortality Premature Death Intro and Findings Components State Snapshots Methodology Commentaries and Special Features Foreword and Introduction Selection of Components State-by-State Snapshots Methodology Letter from Michael Leavitt, Secretary, US Health and Human Services Measures of Success Combined Measures: Risk Factors/Outcomes All State Snapshots Weighting of Components Putting Patients First with Personal Health Information Technology by Myrl Weinberg, President, National Health Council 2005 Results Appendices How do Health Care Systems Recover, and Even Improve, After a Catastrophe? by Frederick Cerise, MD, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Changes from 2004, 1990 Risk Factors Index of Tables Healthy Workforce = Healthy Business = Healthy State by John Clymer, President, Partnership for Prevention Comparison to Other Nations Outcomes Health Disparities Investing in Prevention to Improve Our Health by Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association Importance of Creating a Smokefree Environment Great Progress, More Work Ahead by John Kirkwood, President and CEO, American Lung Association Teen Pregnancy in America by Sarah Brown, Executive Director, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Findings 2005 Results America’s Health Rankings™ – 2005 Edition shows Minnesota at the top of the list of healthiest states. Minnesota has been among the top two states since 1990. Vermont is ranked second this year and has consistently moved up in the rankings for the last five years. New Hampshire is number three, followed by Utah, Hawaii and North Dakota. Mississippi is 50th and the least healthy state, while Louisiana is 49th. Tennessee, South Carolina and Arkansas complete the bottom five states. Minnesota is first this year, a position it has held for 10 of the 16 years since the 1990 Edition. Minnesota’s strengths include ranking first for a low rate of cardiovascular deaths, a low premature death rate and a low percentage of uninsured population. It is also in the top five states for a low percentage of children in poverty, a low total mortality rate, a low infant mortality rate, a low occupational fatalities rate, a low rate of motor vehicle deaths and a high rate of high school graduation. Minnesota’s biggest challenges are a high prevalence of smoking at 20.7 percent of the population, a high prevalence of obesity at 22.6 percent of the population and limited access to adequate prenatal care with 75.8 percent of pregnant women receiving adequate prenatal care. Mississippi is 50th this year, down from 49th in the 2004 Edition. It has been in the bottom three states since the 1990 Edition. The state ranks well in all three health policy measures: 8th for access to adequate prenatal care, which is available to 81.8 percent of pregnant women; 11th for per capita public health spending, at $197 per person; and 14th for immunization coverage, with 84.0 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations. It ranks in the bottom five states on nine of the 18 measures: a high premature death rate, a high infant mortality rate, a high total mortality rate, a high rate of cardiovascular deaths, a high percentage of children in poverty, a high prevalence of obesity, a high rate of motor vehicle deaths, a high occupational fatalities rate, and a high number of limited activity days. It also ranks in the bottom 10 states for two other measures. Table 4 lists the score and ranking for each of the 50 states. Scores presented in the tables indicate the percentage a state is above or below the national norm. For example, a state with a score of 20 is 20 percent above the national average for that component. A negative score means the state is below the national average. When comparing states from year to year, differences in score are more important than changes in ranking. Table 4 2005 Overall America's Health Rankings ALPHABETICAL BY STATE RANK ORDER 2005 RANK (1-50) STATE SCORE* 2005 RANK (1-50) STATE SCORE* 45 Alabama -12.8 1 Minnesota 22.2 30 Alaska -1.2 2 Vermont 21.3 31 Arizona -1.6 3 New Hampshire 18.3 47 Arkansas -16.1 4 Utah 17.4 22 California 6.0 5 Hawaii 16.9 17 Colorado 9.7 6 North Dakota 16.6 7 Connecticut 15.9 7 Connecticut 15.7 33 Delaware -2.6 8 Maine 15.4 40 Florida -8.6 9 Massachusetts 15.2 43 Georgia -10.2 10 Iowa 15.0 5 Hawaii 17.0 11 Nebraska 12.5 16 Idaho 10.4 12 Rhode Island 11.2 28 Illinois 0.9 13 Wisconsin 10.9 32 Indiana -2.1 14 Washington 10.8 10 Iowa 14.9 15 New Jersey 10.6 23 Kansas 5.8 16 Idaho 10.4 42 Kentucky -9.7 17 Colorado 10.1 49 Louisiana -18.4 18 Oregon 8.4 8 Maine 15.5 19 South Dakota 6.7 34 Maryland -3.6 19 Wyoming 6.7 9 Massachusetts 15.2 21 Montana 5.9 29 Michigan 0.3 22 California 5.8 1 Minnesota 22.1 23 Kansas 5.7 50 Mississippi -19.1 24 Virginia 5.5 35 Missouri -4.1 25 Pennsylvania 2.1 21 Montana 6.6 26 Ohio 1.3 11 Nebraska 12.2 27 New York 1.0 37 Nevada -5.9 28 Illinois 0.9 3 New Hampshire 18.1 29 Michigan 0.1 15 New Jersey 10.6 30 Alaska -0.6 38 New Mexico -6.2 31 Arizona -1.5 26 New York 1.2 32 Indiana -2.3 36 North Carolina -5.6 33 Delaware -3.4 6 North Dakota 16.6 34 Maryland -3.5 27 Ohio 1.1 35 Missouri -3.8 44 Oklahoma -11.4 36 North Carolina -5.6 18 Oregon 8.3 37 Nevada -5.7 25 Pennsylvania 1.9 38 New Mexico -5.9 12 Rhode Island 11.5 39 Texas -6.7 46 South Carolina -15.8 40 Florida -8.6 20 South Dakota 6.7 41 West Virginia -9.1 48 Tennessee -17.1 42 Kentucky -9.8 39 Texas -6.7 43 Georgia -10.1 4 Utah 17.5 44 Oklahoma -11.4 2 Vermont 21.3 45 Alabama -12.7 24 Virginia 5.5 46 Arkansas -15.6 14 Washington 10.7 47 South Carolina -15.7 41 West Virginia -9.3 48 Tennessee -16.8 13 Wisconsin 11.0 49 Louisiana -18.3 19 Wyoming 7.0 50 Mississippi -19.4

Does Goerge Bush care about black people? (CNSNews.com) - Statistics released by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals suggest that fewer than half of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were black, and that whites died at the highest rate of all races in New Orleans. The surprisingly low death rate for black Katrina victims comes despite the fact that New Orleans itself was more than two-thirds black [67 percent] when the storm hit. White residents made up less than a third [28 percent] of the city's population, according to U.S. Census bureau numbers. http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/publications/pubs-145/DECEASED%20Victims%20released_11-14-2005_publication.pdf Thank you Kanye for continuing the divide. Louie and Al would be proud. http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1604601/

Do you like to read about Good News concerning all Babies? Good News: Restraining Order on Louisiana Ultrasound Law Lifted James Tillman (August 24, 2010) "For the first time in Louisiana's history, abortionists will be required to offer women seeking an abortion the opportunity to see the ultrasound image, hear a description of the image, and receive a print-out of the ultrasound. We look forward to seeing the positive results of this legislation in our state." (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)—On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson dissolved a temporary restraining order that he had placed on the Louisiana "Ultrasound Before Abortion Act." The order, which had been instituted at the request of lawyers with the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, was dissolved after the involved parties signed a stipulation eliminating ambiguities in the Act. "As we expected, the baseless lawsuit promoted by the Louisiana abortion industry to temporarily stall our 'Ultrasound Before Abortion Act' has been cleared up," said Benjamin Clapper, Executive Director of the Louisiana Right to Life Federation. "This life-saving piece of legislation will now go into effect in abortion facilities across Louisiana." Ultrasound picThe law requires abortionists to perform an ultrasound on a woman at least two hours before her child is aborted. Abortion facility employees will be required to follow a detailed script, which will instruct them to inform mothers that they have the option at any time to see the ultrasound image, to hear a description of it, or to receive a printout. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, representing six abortion facilities and an abortionist, had filed suit against the law, alleging that the law was "unconstitutionally vague" and did not specify whether the law required the abortuary to force the woman to receive the printout. Judge Tyson's decision followed a joint stipulation filed by the plaintiffs and by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), which specifies that Louisiana's ultrasound law requires the printout to be offered but does not require the provider to compel the woman to accept it. "For the first time in Louisiana's history," said Clapper, "abortionists will be required to offer women seeking an abortion the opportunity to see the ultrasound image, hear a description of the image, and receive a print-out of the ultrasound. We look forward to seeing the positive results of this legislation in our state." The order dismisses the Louisiana officials named as defendants, including Attorney General James D. Caldwell and Interim Secretary Tony Keck of the Department of Health and Hospitals. "We congratulate the Louisiana Attorney General's office for successfully obtaining a judgment that clears the way for informed decisions," said Dorina Bordlee, Senior Counsel of the Bioethics Defense Fund, which drafted the legislation and provided pro bono legal advice to the Attorney General's office. "Science tells us when life begins," she continued, "but the real question is when love begins. Legislative testimony confirmed that for many abortion-minded women, love began when they had the opportunity to see their unborn child on an ultrasound screen." The law also requires abortion facilities to provide the woman with a list of facilities that provide free ultrasound services at least 24 hours before a scheduled abortion. Clinics had argued that they were going to be forced to shut down for violating the law, as the state had not yet supplied the list. The joint stipulation provides that this provision will be enforced only after the Louisiana DHH distributes the list. "Once we have the list of providers we can send out, then it is enforceable and we will enforce it. Until then, it is our position that the law is unenforceable," DHH spokeswoman Lisa Faust said. Another CRR challenge remains extant; this one regards the constitutionality of a state law exempting abortionists from malpractice coverage when conducting abortions on "an uncomplicated and viable pregnancy" posing no risk to the life of the mother. Source: LifeSiteNews.com SAVE BABIES AND THAT IS ALWAYS GOOD NEWS. MURDERING BABIES IS AT ALL TIME HIGH FOR A NATION THAT IS FOR FREEDOM FOR ALL. GOD LOVES YOU AND THE BABIES. LET THEM LIVE AND LET THEM BE ADOPTED NOT KILLED.

DO you think They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf? The media is hiding this very important news. ML, Jack They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf The private, foreign International Monetary/Banking Cartel controls its puppets in Washington as it controls its oil company executives. And everything the Cartel does is anti-life, there are absolutely no exceptions; and their pretended Gulf oil clean-up is a glaring case in point. Instead of cleaning up the unprecedented catastrophe created by the Cartel’s mega-corporations (Halliburton, Transocean, and British Petroleum), these very same companies are purposely killing our Gulf of Mexico, under the pretense of cleaning it up. Instead of using safe, non-toxic ways to gather up the rogue oil gushing from their incompetence, or planned cataclysm, the private Cartel is using an extremely toxic chemical dispersant, with the approval of the Obama administration. Alan Levine, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, said: “We don’t have any data or evidence behind the use of these chemicals in the water. We’re now basically using one of the richest ecosystems in the world as a laboratory.” As reported in Britain’s Telegraph, Louisiana state Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Robert Barham reported: “We’re very disappointed in their [EPA and oil company executives] approach. The federal procedures call for a consensus between federal authorities, the responsible party and the states involved. When we met and expressed our concerns [over the use of dispersants] , apparently they decided to go without us.” And go they did. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency allowed BP to turn our Gulf of Mexico into a toxic testing ground, instead of removing the crude oil. British Petroleum (BP) has even refused to use their own oil tankers, lying in the Gulf, to suck up most of the runaway oil, and possibly salvage it for sale later, as was done after a Saudi spill in the ‘90’s. That method was so successful, it vacuumed up about 85 percent of that renegade oil. Nick Pozzi, a former oil pipeline engineering and operations project manager is puzzled why BP did not salvage perfectly good crude oil for later sale, and to thereby protect marine and wildlife. What Mr. Pozzi does not know is the oil companies are owned by the world’s only legal counterfeiters – the International Monetary/Banking Cartel - who can “print” all the money they want, so making money on Gulf oil was not important to them. Killing the Gulf of Mexico is, apparently, important to them, for their own cryptic and esoteric reasons. If the Cartel had wanted to save marine life, any oil they had not vacuumed up could have been mulched with any number of non-toxic materials, such as “Oil Sponge,” a name trademarked by Phase III, Inc. Rated as the “best performing” absorbent by the US Army Corp of Engineers, Oil Sponge is 100% organic, and is made from renewable resources. Oil Sponge is built using a microbial and nutrient package, capable of transforming oil hydrocarbons into a safe bi-product of carbon dioxide and water. But, the governmental bureaucrats of the Obama administration, and the Cartel’s oil executives, had no interest in using an environmentally friendly product to clean up what is the greatest man-made environmental disaster of all time … they were intent on making this unbelievable cataclysm far, far worse, and one that could never be cleaned up. It cannot yet be proven that the Monetary Cartel purposely blew up their own wellhead, but the crimes they have committed in their so-called “clean-up” efforts are well documented, in spite of no corporate media outrage. After the Exxon Valdez incident of March 1989, Mycelx of Georgia developed what looks like a paper towel to soak up to 50 times its weight in oil. And while this product is used from the Middle East to Europe to Canada it was of no interest to the parties Obama charged with cleaning up the Gulf of the floating oil those very same parties caused. Even hair naturally separates oil from water, leaving large tar globs, in which mushrooms can then be seeded. And as the mushrooms grow, they digest the oil, leaving non-toxic organics, which can then be composed into soil, great for growing healthy vegetables. Anyone who has ever had a bad hair day knows how well hair will retain oil. In fact, Lisa Gautier, president of Matter of Fact (website for hair salons) has collected 400,000 pounds of hair, and stuffed it all into nylons to be used as booms near Gulf shores. This idea could have been a shot in the arm of our dying economy, by creating organic compose for the millions of nutrient depleted farm acres in the world. Also there could have been a viable cottage industry of collecting hair from salons. And, hair is certainly a renewable resource, with most of us contributing. But neither Obama or the Cartel will ever do anything for our dying US and world economy, but ensure it dies, while feebly prete

Isn't this frustrating? Louisiana wants thousands of state and local government workers to send back $10 million in unemployment pay they received while still collecting regular pay after Hurricane Katrina. A state audit found lax control by the state Department of Labor was the main reason the 5,439 ineligible workers were able to collect up to $258 a week, Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot said. Administrative workers with the City of New Orleans received the most money with 2,233 wrongfully collecting $4.3 million. There were 1,638 state workers, many with the state Department of Health and Hospitals, who got $2.7 million. The money was a small portion of the overall $560 million the department pay out in unemployment benefits to public and private workers in the four months after Katrina. With residents spread nationwide and difficult to contact, state labor officials suspended the requirement for unemployment applicants to contact the department weekly to verify they are looking for jobs and to report any earnings, said assistant Labor Secretary Marianne Sullivan. She said the agency suspended the call-in rule for 12 weeks based on meetings with officials from the governor's office, the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the state AFL-CIO and the Council for a Better Louisiana. The department has gotten back $3.3 million of improper payments so far, mostly from unused benefit debit cards. It seems unlikely the state will get all the money. Some recipients interviewed by Theriot's office said they had notified the Labor Department they were working. Others said they were entitled to the money as disaster relief. One said he couldn't recall applying for the benefits and spent the unemployment aid without realizing from where it came. State labor officials will not pursue fraud charges against those who got the extra unemployment money unless there is strong evidence that applicants tried to defraud the state.

Two questions about state budgets? I need the answers to the two following questions for a homework assignment: 1)Name one way money in the Department of Public Safety is spent. 2)The budgets for the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health and Hospitals totaled over $7.5 billion in the 2005-2006 fiscal year. Identify one way these department may spend money in your community. If you can answer one of either question or both, I will appreciate it. If it helps any, This is about the Louisiana state budget.

Childhood immunizations records? My boyfriend went to a technical school to get his associates and now is going to a university. He needs his childhood immunization records but he is from New Orleans and they got lost in Katrina. The hospital where he was born was torn down and his mother does not remember his doctors name. How can he get his records? Does the Department of Health and Hospitals have that?? We live in Louisiana by the way?

whats an analysis?? how would i write an analysis bout this how do you start? Date: February 20, 2005 Contact: David Partenheimer Public Affairs Office (202) 336-5706 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS GREATLY UNDERDIAGNOSED IN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS, STUDY FINDS Underdiagnosis Contributing to Needless Emotional Suffering, Especially for Minorities and the Poor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON — New research offers dramatic evidence of how psychiatric disorders are underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments, affecting an increasing number of Americans who rely on such facilities for much of their primary health care needs. The research appears in this month’s issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association (APA). In their study involving more than 33,000 Caucasian and African American patients from three hospital emergency departments in the Midwest and South, psychologist Seth Kunen, Ph.D., Psy.D., from the Earl K. Long Medical Center and the Louisiana State University Emergency Medicine Residency Program and colleagues confirm earlier reports that a significant psychiatric underdiagnosis is taking place. The researchers observed a psychiatric rate of 5.27% among the emergency department patients, a rate far below the national prevalence rate of 20% to 28%. Comparing national rates of various psychiatric disorders versus the observed emergency department rates, the researchers found the following: mood disorders= 4% (national rate) versus 0.70% (emergency department rate) anxiety= 11-16% versus 1.19% substance use disorders = 7% versus 2.05% tobacco use disorder= 25% versus .23% organic psychosis (psychosis due to brain injury or disease)= diagnostic ratios ranging from 3:1 to 25:1 depending on age group and method of estimation schizophrenia= 1.30% versus 0.32% Both Caucasians and African Americans were underdiagnosed in the emergency departments, but the study found a much larger underdiagnosis for African Americans. The odds of Caucasians having a psychiatric diagnosis were 1.85 times that of African Americans and almost twice as many Caucasians as African Americans received a psychiatric diagnosis as the primary diagnosis. The researchers say there are several possible reasons for this disparity, including Caucasian physicians being more familiar with the mental disorder symptoms of Caucasians, the tendency of African Americans to be less trusting and less willing to disclose emotional problems to people of different racial groups, and physician bias. The authors say it is possible that African Americans simply have fewer psychiatric disorders than Caucasians and that is the reason for the race disparity. “However, because a much greater percentage of African Americans live in poverty than Caucasians and because there are strong correlations among variable such as poverty and illness, it would be more reasonable to expect the rate of psychiatric disorders among African Americans to be as high or higher than the rate among Caucasians,” according to the authors. The authors also note that the observed race disparity may be limited to emergency departments that have a predominantly African American census. To get a better understanding of the underdiagnosis phenomenon, the researchers conducted informal interviews with more than 50 emergency department physicians. The physicians cited lack of psychiatric expertise, a belief that many mental disorders are relatively unimportant threats to health, and the inability to provide continuity of care for their patients as major reasons that may contribute to underdiagnosis. As emergency medicine moves from its historical origin as a trauma specialty to its developing role as a primary care provider for millions of people each year, the researchers say it’s imperative that emergency departments expand their staffs to include mental health professionals such as psychologists because hospital-based physicians may not have the training, interest, or time to deal with mental health issues. “The psychiatric underdiagnosing we have documented is potentially the most damaging for the more vulnerable minorities and the poor who rely on emergency departments for much of their primary health care needs,” say the authors. “This underdiagnosing contributes to needless emotional suffering because many of the more common disorders, such as depression and anxiety, respond well to psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions.” Article: “Race Disparities in Psychiatric Rates in Emergency Departments," Seth Kunen, Earl K. Long Medical Center, Ronda Niederhauser, Regional West Medical Center, Patrick O. Smith, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jerry A. Morris, Nevada Mental Health Services, and Brian D. Marx, Louisiana State University; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 73, No. 1. Full text of the article is available from the APA Public Affairs Office or at http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/ccp731116.pdf Reporters: Lead author Seth Kunen, Ph.D., Psy.D., can be reached at (225) 358-3942 (LSU Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Baton Rouge) or by Email. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The American Psychological Association (APA), in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world’s largest association of psychologists. APA’s membership includes more than 150,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. 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What are my chances of getting in these public universities? Schools: San Diego State, Florida state, South Florida, university of Florida, Louisiana state, SUNY, Binghamton, SUNY Buffalo, Texas a&m, UT. Austin GPA 4.0 as of right now ACT: Taking (Dec 11th) Programs: Dual credit enrollment- I attended college as a full-time student after my sophomore year in high school. Shadowing- Shadowed multiple physicians in the hospital/clinic environment. Extracurricular activities Phi Theta Kappa (Honor Society)- Member Premed club- Creator/officer Health professions club- member Captain of varsity wrestling team freshman/sophomore year in high school. Volunteer work: Emergency Department (and probably more areas such as ICU) Do i sound like a strong applicant? What can i do to improve, maybe? :

DO you think They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf? The media is hiding this very important news. ML, Jack They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf The private, foreign International Monetary/Banking Cartel controls its puppets in Washington as it controls its oil company executives. And everything the Cartel does is anti-life, there are absolutely no exceptions; and their pretended Gulf oil clean-up is a glaring case in point. Instead of cleaning up the unprecedented catastrophe created by the Cartel’s mega-corporations (Halliburton, Transocean, and British Petroleum), these very same companies are purposely killing our Gulf of Mexico, under the pretense of cleaning it up. Instead of using safe, non-toxic ways to gather up the rogue oil gushing from their incompetence, or planned cataclysm, the private Cartel is using an extremely toxic chemical dispersant, with the approval of the Obama administration. Alan Levine, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, said: “We don’t have any data or evidence behind the use of these chemicals in the water. We’re now basically using one of the richest ecosystems in the world as a laboratory.” As reported in Britain’s Telegraph, Louisiana state Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Robert Barham reported: “We’re very disappointed in their [EPA and oil company executives] approach. The federal procedures call for a consensus between federal authorities, the responsible party and the states involved. When we met and expressed our concerns [over the use of dispersants] , apparently they decided to go without us.” And go they did. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency allowed BP to turn our Gulf of Mexico into a toxic testing ground, instead of removing the crude oil. British Petroleum (BP) has even refused to use their own oil tankers, lying in the Gulf, to suck up most of the runaway oil, and possibly salvage it for sale later, as was done after a Saudi spill in the ‘90’s. That method was so successful, it vacuumed up about 85 percent of that renegade oil. Nick Pozzi, a former oil pipeline engineering and operations project manager is puzzled why BP did not salvage perfectly good crude oil for later sale, and to thereby protect marine and wildlife. What Mr. Pozzi does not know is the oil companies are owned by the world’s only legal counterfeiters – the International Monetary/Banking Cartel - who can “print” all the money they want, so making money on Gulf oil was not important to them. Killing the Gulf of Mexico is, apparently, important to them, for their own cryptic and esoteric reasons. If the Cartel had wanted to save marine life, any oil they had not vacuumed up could have been mulched with any number of non-toxic materials, such as “Oil Sponge,” a name trademarked by Phase III, Inc. Rated as the “best performing” absorbent by the US Army Corp of Engineers, Oil Sponge is 100% organic, and is made from renewable resources. Oil Sponge is built using a microbial and nutrient package, capable of transforming oil hydrocarbons into a safe bi-product of carbon dioxide and water. But, the governmental bureaucrats of the Obama administration, and the Cartel’s oil executives, had no interest in using an environmentally friendly product to clean up what is the greatest man-made environmental disaster of all time … they were intent on making this unbelievable cataclysm far, far worse, and one that could never be cleaned up. It cannot yet be proven that the Monetary Cartel purposely blew up their own wellhead, but the crimes they have committed in their so-called “clean-up” efforts are well documented, in spite of no corporate media outrage. After the Exxon Valdez incident of March 1989, Mycelx of Georgia developed what looks like a paper towel to soak up to 50 times its weight in oil. And while this product is used from the Middle East to Europe to Canada it was of no interest to the parties Obama charged with cleaning up the Gulf of the floating oil those very same parties caused. Even hair naturally separates oil from water, leaving large tar globs, in which mushrooms can then be seeded. And as the mushrooms grow, they digest the oil, leaving non-toxic organics, which can then be composed into soil, great for growing healthy vegetables. Anyone who has ever had a bad hair day knows how well hair will retain oil. In fact, Lisa Gautier, president of Matter of Fact (website for hair salons) has collected 400,000 pounds of hair, and stuffed it all into nylons to be used as booms near Gulf shores. This idea could have been a shot in the arm of our dying economy, by creating organic compose for the millions of nutrient depleted farm acres in the world. Also there could have been a viable cottage industry of collecting hair from salons. And, hair is certainly a renewable resource, with most of us contributing. But neither Obama or the Cartel will ever do anything for our dying US and world economy, but ensure it dies, while feebly prete

Education or Bonding? My son is almost 4 years old. I have custody of him but I live in Louisiana while I'm getting "on the job" training and education for both the Fire Department and Sheriffs Office. Since being in Louisiana, I've done a 180 from who I used to be. I'm more stable and I'm excelling in both education and career. When in court it was determined that I was to make the best possible decisions for my sons future. One of which is education. Last year, my son was examined and it was determined that he needed to start school early for speech, motor skill development and comprehension. I researched the educational options in both my ex-husbands and my areas. In Texas, he is able to attend one of the top 10 districts in the nation. The school that he attended last year had several indoor and out door activities for motor skill development, including: a personal laptop, an indoor fort type playground with a swing rope and several exercise balls and devices to aid him. The Texas school also offers trained, one on one, professionals in Child Psychology, Early Child Development and Speech Therapy. My Louisiana district does not offer personal one on one professionals of any sort in the particular district that I reside. The district shares one speech therapy professional. So it wouldn’t be a daily practice sort of thing. They don’t provide an advanced motor skill development room or anything close to what Texas has to offer. I’ve searched for a comparable school in my area, both public and private. But I’ve found nothing. His father is a GREAT father and a very good person. We honestly just went separate ways in life. So there are no “at home” concerns about that. But is it best to put my sons education in front of my need to have him here? Or should I keep him here and make due? Additional Details We are bonded, very much so. But sadly, he's already pretty used to me being gone physically. He was born, I stayed home for a year and took care of him. Afterwards, I got back to work since his father and I needed the money coming in. During the divorce his father and I both took very active interest in his life even though I was in and out of the hospital for my health. (I'm 100% now) We would and still do often spend time just the three of us. I want him to know that his father and I love him. I don't see him as often as I'd like, but we call each other everyday and he knows who hes talking to. I try to make trips out to visit him about once a month for about 3-4 days. When I show up he's always excited to see me. He just spent the past 2 months with me and we spent alot of real quality time together reading books and going to the Zoo. He's asked to go back to daddys house and asked if we could go see Mrs. Matutae, his teacher, because he wants to tell her all about the Zoo. He did attend the Texas school last year for one semester and used to call me 4-5 times a week to tell me how much fun he had in school that day. So the attachment isnt as much as an issue as it would typically be. His father and I have discussed it, he agrees that the Texas school is much better for him and is more than willing and able to care for him while he is there. His father works in law-enforcement as well.

DO you think They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf? The media is hiding this very important news. ML, Jack They Are Purposely Killing the Gulf The private, foreign International Monetary/Banking Cartel controls its puppets in Washington as it controls its oil company executives. And everything the Cartel does is anti-life, there are absolutely no exceptions; and their pretended Gulf oil clean-up is a glaring case in point. Instead of cleaning up the unprecedented catastrophe created by the Cartel’s mega-corporations (Halliburton, Transocean, and British Petroleum), these very same companies are purposely killing our Gulf of Mexico, under the pretense of cleaning it up. Instead of using safe, non-toxic ways to gather up the rogue oil gushing from their incompetence, or planned cataclysm, the private Cartel is using an extremely toxic chemical dispersant, with the approval of the Obama administration. Alan Levine, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, said: “We don’t have any data or evidence behind the use of these chemicals in the water. We’re now basically using one of the richest ecosystems in the world as a laboratory.” As reported in Britain’s Telegraph, Louisiana state Secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Robert Barham reported: “We’re very disappointed in their [EPA and oil company executives] approach. The federal procedures call for a consensus between federal authorities, the responsible party and the states involved. When we met and expressed our concerns [over the use of dispersants] , apparently they decided to go without us.” And go they did. Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency allowed BP to turn our Gulf of Mexico into a toxic testing ground, instead of removing the crude oil. British Petroleum (BP) has even refused to use their own oil tankers, lying in the Gulf, to suck up most of the runaway oil, and possibly salvage it for sale later, as was done after a Saudi spill in the ‘90’s. That method was so successful, it vacuumed up about 85 percent of that renegade oil. Nick Pozzi, a former oil pipeline engineering and operations project manager is puzzled why BP did not salvage perfectly good crude oil for later sale, and to thereby protect marine and wildlife. What Mr. Pozzi does not know is the oil companies are owned by the world’s only legal counterfeiters – the International Monetary/Banking Cartel - who can “print” all the money they want, so making money on Gulf oil was not important to them. Killing the Gulf of Mexico is, apparently, important to them, for their own cryptic and esoteric reasons. If the Cartel had wanted to save marine life, any oil they had not vacuumed up could have been mulched with any number of non-toxic materials, such as “Oil Sponge,” a name trademarked by Phase III, Inc. Rated as the “best performing” absorbent by the US Army Corp of Engineers, Oil Sponge is 100% organic, and is made from renewable resources. Oil Sponge is built using a microbial and nutrient package, capable of transforming oil hydrocarbons into a safe bi-product of carbon dioxide and water. But, the governmental bureaucrats of the Obama administration, and the Cartel’s oil executives, had no interest in using an environmentally friendly product to clean up what is the greatest man-made environmental disaster of all time … they were intent on making this unbelievable cataclysm far, far worse, and one that could never be cleaned up. It cannot yet be proven that the Monetary Cartel purposely blew up their own wellhead, but the crimes they have committed in their so-called “clean-up” efforts are well documented, in spite of no corporate media outrage. After the Exxon Valdez incident of March 1989, Mycelx of Georgia developed what looks like a paper towel to soak up to 50 times its weight in oil. And while this product is used from the Middle East to Europe to Canada it was of no interest to the parties Obama charged with cleaning up the Gulf of the floating oil those very same parties caused. Even hair naturally separates oil from water, leaving large tar globs, in which mushrooms can then be seeded. And as the mushrooms grow, they digest the oil, leaving non-toxic organics, which can then be composed into soil, great for growing healthy vegetables. Anyone who has ever had a bad hair day knows how well hair will retain oil. In fact, Lisa Gautier, president of Matter of Fact (website for hair salons) has collected 400,000 pounds of hair, and stuffed it all into nylons to be used as booms near Gulf shores. This idea could have been a shot in the arm of our dying economy, by creating organic compose for the millions of nutrient depleted farm acres in the world. Also there could have been a viable cottage industry of collecting hair from salons. And, hair is certainly a renewable resource, with most of us contributing. But neither Obama or the Cartel will ever do anything for our dying US and world economy, but ensure it dies, while feebly prete