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The Catholic Church has provided "sanctuary" for those in need of it. It would not be out of character of the Catholic Church to provide safe haven to children dependent on care within the borders of the USA if they are immigrants and not necessarily residents of the USA. There are many fine hospitals under the ownership of the Catholic Church. In seeking "sanctuary" parents should be seeking hospitals that are owned by the Catholic Church and/or directed by the faith. The Catholic Church can directly intervene in such instances. I do believe most hospitals have their own housing for families with children that need constant care. It probably would not be a burden to help these families for the church. What concerns me about the path the Trump administration is following carries brevity to these families when considering he is imposing a new standard on immigrants to the USA in having their own ability to pay for their care (click here). I don't want to see ICE suddenly show up at their homes and demand the families surrender to prison and then insist on bringing the children to be in a detention facility. I think everyone, including Congressional people, needs to realize this president doesn't care about the dignity or quality of life. I think the families need to have a "Plan B" in case things get ugly. Yes, an underground movement must be prepared to act to protect the innocent against the cruel and dangerous policies of Trump.
May 5, 2016 By Paige Minemyer This map appears on "Reddit" and states it is dated 2016. (click here) The number of Catholic-owned (click here) or affiliated hospitals in the United States has grown by 22 percent since 2001, and now 1 in 6 acute care beds is in a hospital connected to the church, according to a report released by MergerWatch. The watchdog group found that due to mergers and acquisitions over the past 15 years, 14.5 percent of all acute care hospitals in the nation are now either owned by or affiliated with the Catholic church, according to the study. In 10 U.S. states, the number of Catholic hospitals is more than 30 percent. The latest report updates a 2013 study and adjusts the methodology for what researchers consider a Catholic hospital, adding in facilities that were acquired by secular systems but still follow religious guidelines....
March 20, 2018 By Jan Lopatka Prague - A Russian man on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges he hacked three U.S. technology companies, potentially compromising personal details of more than 100 million users, including on LinkedIn, after being extradited from the Czech Republic. Yevgeniy Nikulin, 30, of Moscow, entered his plea in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, after having fought his extradition following his 2016 arrest in Prague. His case had turned into a battle over whether he should be sent to the United States or Russia, where a Moscow court had in November 2016 issued an arrest warrant for his alleged theft seven years earlier of $3,450 via a site called Webmoney. The U.S. Department of Justice accused Nikulin of illegally accessing computers belonging to U.S.-based social media firms LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring in 2012, including by using the credentials of LinkedIn and Formspring employees. LinkedIn, now owned by Microsoft Corp, has said the case was related to a breach that might have compromised information of at least 100 million users. “Computer hacking is not just a crime, it is a direct threat to the security and privacy of Americans,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement....
Alex Trebek has an astounding message. The five-year survival rate of people globally is in the single digits. Americans and their physicians need to pay attention to his vital message. Personal story: A friend's mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent a Whipple procedure (click here). She was one of the survivors. The procedure takes time to heal and return to any level of normalcy, but, in some people, it works. She is alive today and it has been 10 years. Kindly notice, the "head" of the pancreas is removed in the Whipple Procedure. If the cancer is in the "body or tail" of the organ it has a poorer outcome and Whipple may not be indicated (click here). A word from the Cleveland Clinic (click here). Mayo Clinic on Risk Factors (click here) Factors that may increase your risk of pancreatic cancer include: - Chronic inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis) - Diabetes - Family history of genetic syndromes that can increase cancer risk, including a BRCA2 gene mutation, Lynch syndrome and familial atypical mole-malignant melanoma (FAMMM) syndrome - Family history of pancreatic cancer - Smoking - Obesity - Older age, as most people are diagnosed after age 65 A large study demonstrated that the combination of smoking, long-standing diabetes and a poor diet increases the risk of pancreatic cancer beyond the risk of any one of these factors alone. Alex Trebek is correct, a much earlier detection needs to be developed into a part of Preventive Medicine. Physicians should not be so dismissive of the symptoms he discusses. New onset of diabetes should be alarming enough to at least perform an abdominal x-ray. Persistent stomach pain, mid-back pain without a clear reason such as an injury should also be better scrutinized. We have emerged from the application of Diagnostic Codes for Payment with physicians somewhat restricted in the application of their own knowledge. The physician should be the one to decide a complete diagnosis, not just one that pays the bills.
I don't really see this as a wrench so much as an act of compassion. President Trump has been saying all sorts of things in his defense on Twitter. I really believe Speaker Pelosi decided she would carry out a more pleasing approach in the light that this is Trump's impending impeachment. I think she is trying to overcome his discomfort with their process. McConnell, of course, is carrying on as if it is his impeachment which could very well mean he is not so much a legislator as an obstructor. Does McConnell understand the legislative process at all? McConnell is saying the US House Impeachment Inquiry legislation falls far short of a good process. I think Speaker Pelosi and her committees have addressed these issues exactly correctly. It isn't any of their faults that Trump lies constantly, violates the trust of the US Constitution and has witnesses that come forward after being subpoenaed to state the truth. Sorry, Mitch, but no one is going to lie to benefit your partisan divide. October 29, 2019 By Grace Panetta On Tuesday, (click here) House Democrats officially filed a resolution outlining the terms and parameters of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, throwing a wrench into many of the Republican criticisms of the impeachment process....
The USA's government is a representative democracy. The USA has borrowed very good policies that the political right-wing says is socialism to create Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP. Those are excellent ideas and Americans have benefited from them. These policies would be bad policies if they were not beneficial to Americans, but, they are and we all should be grateful for that fact. In the USA legislation has to be passed with a majority of votes. I will remind those that fear socialism or democratic - socialism; the number of members of Congress that fall into those categories can be counted on one hand. They don't even have a caucus. HOWEVER. On the political right in the USA, there is the extremist caucus called the Freedom Caucus and Rep. Chris Stewart wants an Anti-Socialism Caucus (click here). I think we know that socialism as a method of governance in the USA is never going to happen. There are excellent policies that come out of an understanding that as a country we should be guaranteed our health and at the very least a high school education. I would like to see the Anti-Socialism Caucus try to end basic education in the USA, their donors would not be happy.
I might point out that FOX News had no problem with "Lock her up." They parlayed their lies about not just Hillary Clinton, but, Robert S. Mueller III and now today they are defaming loyal members of the armed forces and diplomatic corps. There were a lot of people in that baseball stadium. They love their country. They found a way to tell Trump he doesn't. It is called Freedom of Speech. There were no barroom brawls or crowd riot. They were expressing their feelings about a president that primarily uses OUR country as a means to improve his own priorities, not the priorities of the country. It is time Trump resigns.
