Flu Advertising Blitz

I’ve noticed that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched a new ad campaign Monday to encourage Americans to get vaccinated against Swine Flu. The campaign, titled “Together We Can All Fight the Flu,” features television, radio, online and outdoor banner public service announcements that target specific at-risk groups, such as pregnant women and young people, as well as the general public. HHS will also release Spanish-language versions of several ads.

So what gives? I thought the flu deal was on the wane! Is this another case where I need to read between the lines? There have been hints and rumors of a deadly form of bird flu occurring in some regions of China. Also some new reports of a deadly form of dog flu called H2N8! One report even had it that doctors feared a coming together of the current swine flu with a form of MRSA or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that is responsible for many deaths in hospitals (see Docs Fear Deadly Combo of Flu, MRSA). This could be very disturbing news as we are yet to get into the meat of the flu season in America and already ten thousand are dead! I am, however, very impressed with the way in the the Chinese have proven resistant to the Swine Flu. While America has suffered about ten thousand deaths out of a population of 304 million citizens, China has only had 125 of its citizens die out of a population of 1.3 billion! What do they know we don’t? Could it be they are lying? Naw!

MiFi 2200 Wireless Internet a Good Bargain

Originally developed by Novatel Wireless and released in May 2009. The Intelligent Mobile Hotspot or MiFi 2200 was made available to me recently from a Verizon supplier to check out. The little black device is intended to create a ‘mobile cloud of communication’ ability for those on the run. It will connect up to five Wi-Fi devices together to enable a laptop, for instance, to communicate to other Wifi enabled devices like printers and cameras. The unit also can allow the users to surf the internet by communicating over nearby cell towers. The actual performance is access speeds that are comparable to DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) connections that many people use. (This speed is good for casual surfing of the internet and allows the user to upload or download documents and pictures for storage or printing but lags behind if you try to manage particularly large file sizes like Hi-Def video for instance). Still, for some people who literally work out of their autos, this is a very cool device to own as they can access to the internet cheaply and while they are onsite. Real Estate agents, for instance, would find it very nice to be able to transmit legal documents back and forth to their home office and to customers. For anyone living in the Forsyth Missouri area, I would encourage them to pay a visit to the Verizon office in town. Ask for the agent named Kelly as she treated me very professionally and was able to answer all my questions.

Let’s Hope Those Obama Dollars Keep On a Coming!

At a time in our nation’s history when so much seems to happening all at one time. I am ever so thankful that we have installed, as our leader, a man with such deep pockets. I am referring to, of course, the apparently limitless money he is able to throw at all sorts of problems currently faced by the America people. Just recently the amount borrowed by the General Fund stands at  $12,193,059,906,592 (that’s 12 trillion) and it’s increasing at the rate of about half a million every ten seconds! Yes, sir, it will take some mighty deep pockets to get us out of this mess.

US, UK and France Ready to Seek New Sanctions Against Iran

Now here is a real surprise. Iran has done just about every thing it could possibly do to alienate the rest of the civilized world in its protracted, constant and intentional deceptions concerning the goal of nuclear weapon capability. Nothing coming out of the leadership bears any resemblance to the truth as they really don’t understand the difference between telling the truth and lying their asses off. I’m sorry, but everyone I think suspects what the eventual outcome on this issue will be. I do not have to speak it or write about it, but let me make myself clear. I would not trust an Iranian official with the cleaning of a cesspool much less the governing of a people. It’s very sad to me that the citizens Iran are forced to put up with nut jobs year after year.

The Real Solution to Global Warming

After listening now to politicians, scientists and other so-called experts like Al Gore, I have come to a conclusion sort of. When you clear away all the claims that we need to reduce this or clean up that, the principal cause of the world’s problem not only is not addressed but gets worst ever day. I’m speaking of the out of control growth of human beings on a planet that, at some point will reach critical level no matter what else might be done. The world population stands at somewhere close to 7 billion! No one really knows for sure and it is growing at close to 2% per year. Now I am no scientist but it seems to me that at some point we will have just too many people competing for too few resources. At that point, I would guess a mass die off the likes of which this world has never seen will occur. Like a California fire in a forest with centuries of accumulated brush, once a ‘viral fire’ gets really going it will be very hard to stop. Then, with millions upon millions of dead and dying there will occur additional not so great to think about consequences. Water supplies will become tainted. New forms of disease will become prevalent and those who exist in the midst of choas will essentially stampede to new locations. Like a macabre Romper Room run amok!

What I have not heard from anyone of note are the plans for doing something about slowing the population growth especially in those countries that already are stressed to the limit. While here in America we do consume a disproportionate amount of resources per captia, part of that reason is the fact that we have kept our numbers relatively low on a square mile per human basis. (In America we have a population density of something like 85 people per square mile while places like India are standing elbow to elbow with 851 per square mile and and even china with all its land mass is at choaked at 352). Just imagine 851 hungry and needy standing in a single square mile section of land! How do you properyl feed and care for such a mass of humanity? Now imagine that number skyrocketing to over a thousand in just ten years which it will at a 2% rate of growth! My feeling is at the end of the day, it will not matter how much money developed nations throw their way, the end result will be the same. So next time someone is on their soapbox spewing the need to this or that, ask them what the population of earth will be in another 20 years?