The waitress nodded "yes," so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, on him.

 The next patron to come in was a Libertarian with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?"

 The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "My treat."

 The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Democrat on crutches.

 He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there, honey!

How's about getting' me a cold glass of Miller Light?"

 He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that God's boy over there?"

 The waitress once more nodded, so the Democrat directed her to give Jesus a cold glass of beer.  "On my tab," he said.

 As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.

 Jesus also passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed."  The Libertarian felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.

 Then Jesus walked towards the Democrat.  The Democrat jumped to his feet and yelled, "Don't touch me, I'm collecting disability!"

The birth of Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach has come to be very distorted, even by Christian pastors. We see the manger scene in nativity and see Joseph, Mary and the baby and then we see three wise men standing there with their gifts for the Messiah. The error is seen clearly if we look to the Book of books, the Bible. In Matthew chapter two and Luke chapter two we find the birth of Jesus/Yeshua and the wise men or Magi coming to worship Him.

2. The wise men were NOT at the manger scene but came as much as one to two years later.

3. The star comes into play to guide the wise men to the HOUSE where Jesus/Yeshua was living.

4. We know the approximate age of Jesus by the change of words used to describe the baby and child.    
    
Brephos is an infant, Luke 2:12, 16, which spoke of His birth and then Matthew 2:9, 11 uses the word paidion to describe a child up to age seven. So what other clues do we have as to His accurate age when the wise men came to visit Him?

1. Jesus was living in a house when the wise men arrived.

2. When Herod went on his killing rampage he killed all male babies two years and younger. Why two years? This must have been the      approximate age of the child at the arrival of the Magi. He certainly was not an infant when they came. Then Joseph and Mary were warned to leave the land and go to Egypt for safety.

My goal here is merely to set the record straight so that we will not continue telling the story incorrectly.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963

2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after

3. Jack Ruby-who killed Oswald, died there a few years later. 

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 is 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 is 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 in maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. Law cannot deny pregnant women denied medical care based on their immigration status or ability to pay.

OK, that does not mean they should receive better care than everyday, middle-class American citizens. However, 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 t he delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. The hospital will not turn her away, not that it matters. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)

"How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects?

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 is right; she is technically a US citizen.) 

These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and childcare 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.)

About 140 patients received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is going to sue them! Illegal's get it all free!  However, U. S citizens who live outside of Dallas County are likely to be sued! How stupid is this?

As if that is not 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 tried to explain the situation to the family that required the mother 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.

(This needs wide circulation particularly to our "employees" in Congress, sorry for the length.)

Remember that this is about only ONE hospital in Dallas, Texas. There are many more hospitals across our country that must also deal with this.