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thumbnailA  Texas Representative for the House of Representatives has scheduled a Health Care Town Meeting in a Funeral Home. Ted Poe is a conservative congressman.

From:www.hcnonline.com

“Rep. Ted Poe will hold a town hall meeting at Brookside Funeral Home on Saturday, Aug. 22 at 10 a.m. with the primary focusing being health care reform.

Brookside Funeral Home is located at 3410 FM 1960, Houston.”

From the Congressman’s Website in a speech on the the Floor of the US House of Representatives.

“Mr. Speaker, when government runs health care, senior citizens sometimes are refused treatment because of their age. In Sweden, an 83-year-old woman was refused medical surgery by the government-run hospital. They said she was just too old for treatment. Marianne Skogh had pain and numbness in her legs for 5 years. She waited more than a year trying to get approval for back surgery to cure the problem. She was rejected by the government”

No matter what side of the issue you are on it is a creative stunt (Health Care Town Hall in a Funeral Home) that should be applauded. Will there be a funeral for our health care system or the health care bill? Or both?

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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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Authorities have been searching Burr Oak Cemetery For Graves and remains

Authorities have been searching Burr Oak Cemetery For Graves and remains

Those responsible for the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal in Alsip,IL were those arrested and the owners of the cemetery in Texas and Arizona.Perpetua Holdings is the Arizona company  who is ultimatlely responsible. There address is 6614 E Villa Dorado Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715-4725 Their phone is 480-985-2495.

In the Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal up to  Three Hundred Graves were desecrated. Over 100,000 graves and loved ones will need to be identified. Records were moldy and stuck together, and maps of the cemetery either did not exist or were not accurate. The FBI and the Cook County Sheriff in Illinois  are having a difficult time sorting this out.  Body parts were found piled up at the cemetery.

Perpetua Holdings,  an Arizona company, appears  to be the parent company of Perpetua Holdings of Illinois. Melvin Bryant is the CEO of Perpetua Holdings of Illinois who as directly responsible for the the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip,Illinois.

According to dallasnews.com

“Perpetua Holdings of Illinois, Inc. has owned the cemetery since 2001 and the company president is Melvin Bryant of Richardson, Texas. An attorney for Bryant told the newspaper that the company went to police, triggering the investigation.”

It is very important to  know who you are dealing with when making funeral arrangements at the cemetery or at the funeral home.

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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
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First USA H1N1 Swine FLU Death reported: Baby in Texas

First USA H1N1 Swine FLU Death reported: Baby in Texas

Sadly it has been reported that the first USA swine  flu death was a toddler in Texas. The H1N1 Swine flu virus was determined to be the cause.

According to the CDC , H1N1 and the Department of Homeland Security is the virus name. It is a mix of bird flu, swine flu, and human flu.  In Houston the victim died Monday night April 27th 2009 .

Immune systems in young children sometimes are not developed enough to handle new viruses.

Sometimes new flu strains pop up at the end of flu season but return again in the fall. If this is how the H1N1 Virus plays out there will be enough time to come up and produce a vaccine.  If the spread becomes a full pandemic now there will not be a  “true”vaccine for 5 Months.

Yahoo news has reported that the center for disease control is trying to take a short cut to a vaccine. This was tried in the 1970’s but resulted in more people dying from the vaccine than the disease.

A Snippet From Yahoo News:

“Using samples of the flu taken from people who fell ill in Mexico and the U.S., scientists are engineering a strain that could trigger the immune system without causing illness. The hope is to get that ingredient — called a “reference strain” in vaccine jargon — to manufacturers around the second week of May, so they can begin their own laborious production work, said CDC’s Dr. Ruben Donis, who is leading that effort.”

This not  what the world needs right now but  a possible pandemic  is here.

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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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