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H1N1 – When You Get It, Stay Off The Internet – Please.

US government report recommends blocking popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak

(NaturalNews) The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations.

The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.

This isn’t a joke. It’s all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf

This report in question is entitled, “GAO Report to Congressional Requesters, INFLUENZA PANDEMIC” and includes this subtitle: Key Securities Market Participants Are Making Progress, but Agencies Could Do More to Address Potential Internet Congestion and Encourage Readiness.

As the report explains:

In a severe pandemic, governments may close schools, shut down public transportation systems, and ban public gatherings such as concerts or sporting events. In such scenarios, many more people than usual may be at home during the day, and Internet use in residential neighborhoods could increase significantly as a result of people seeking news, entertainment, or social contact from home computers. Concerns have been raised that this additional traffic could lead to congestion on the Internet that would significantly affect businesses in local neighborhoods, such as small doctors’ offices or business employees attempting to telework by connecting to their employers’ enterprise networks.

I don’t know about you, but when I get H1N1 I will do my part and stay away from the Internet.

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Vancouver Criminal Of The Week

The Police in Langley, British Columbia are looking for a woman who kicked a man in the groin so hard he lost a testicle — and it’s not the first time.

B.C. police seek serial groin-kicker after series of attacks

LANGLEY, B.C. — Police in Langley are investigating after a woman kicked a man in the groin so hard he lost a testicle — the latest in a series of similar assaults.

“I just want to know what her problem is,” victim Anthony Clark, 22, said this week. “People like her shouldn’t be on the streets.”

Mr. Clark was walking in the Brookswood area of Langley  when he passed his assailant on the sidewalk.

“I was looking down and then I took a passing glance and saw her walk up to me,” he said.

That’s when the young woman inexplicably kicked him in the groin hard enough to send one of his testicles into his abdomen.

Constables have told him there have been three or four similar assaults on other men, Mr. Clark said.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian woman, in her late teens or early 20s. She was between five-foot-five and five-foot-seven and 130 pounds with a slim build and brown hair.

Gird your loins.

Coincidence?…

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Forcing Kids Into Poverty

Quebec group demands apology francophone ‘ethnocide’

MONTREAL — Prince Charles should use the occasion of his visit to Quebec next month to apologize on behalf of the British Crown for past harm caused to French culture in North America, says the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit Montreal during the couple’s visit to Canada from Nov. 2 to Nov. 12.

The group says it wrote the Prince on Friday to say he will be welcome in Quebec if he apologizes for “ethnocide” of francophones after New France passed into the hands of Britain in 1763.

Among the alleged acts of oppression: Acadian deportations; deporting or executing the leaders of the Patriote rebellions of 1837-1838; instituting a majority-English Canada in 1840; execution of Metis leader Louis Riel in 1885; and repatriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982 without Quebec approval.

The hardline French-language rights organization says it will support anti-British demonstrations during the visit if an apology is not forthcoming.

I’ve always wondered why a province would isolate itself with a language that the marketplace can’t understand. By keeping kids in french-only school they deprive them of the opportunity to earn an income outside of Quebec, and limit their opportunity.

Considering the opportunity that lies to the south and a little bit to the west, Quebec should apologize to their people for not making English its primary language, causing a cycle of poverty for french-only Quebecers.

Ask a separatist why they want to separate... there is no rational answer.

The separatist movement is about extorting Canada for money – every time there is a downturn, separatist rhetoric rackets up. And we pay them off with government contracts and handouts. Works every time.

Considering the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste slogan when they formed was “help yourself and Heaven will help you”… they may just want to reflect on that for a bit.

The French culture is a lot more than the language – the Quebecers I’ve met have a unique perspective on life, value social engagement over material goods, and are generally beautiful people. The ones that are using this culture as a political tool do them great damage.

If they would come to understand that teaching their kids English as a primary language is beneficial for them economically and culturally, they might discover that North America would come to appreciate the french culture – if they could just understand them. 

Just like the Irish.

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Obama Gets A Win!

Obama Scores Win over Military Lobby

President Obama has successfully pared back almost all of the expensive weapons systems cut earlier this year, setting a tone of greater restraint than the Pentagon had seen in many years, the New York Times reports. “They probably got all of them but one or maybe two, and that’s an extraordinarily high score,” said Fred Downey of the Aerospace Industries Association.

In other news:

Ethics probe so big lawmakers have to take a number — half the Pentagon spending committee caught in net

One step forward. one step back…

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Spending Too Much Time Indoors?

Great ad… and from Canada.

Extreme Weather Forecast For Vancouver Olympic Games

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New Law Lets Police Force Homeless to Visit Shelter

Controversial legislation assailed by civil liberties advocates, NDP.

Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman introduced legislation today that will allow police to force homeless people to go to shelters during extreme weather.

“This act will give police a tool to say, ‘You have to go to the shelter,’” said Coleman. Once offered a bed and a meal, most people will choose to stay, he said. “We just think we need the tool to get them there.”

It defines a “person at risk” as someone who is at least 19 years old who “in the opinion of the police officer is suffering physical harm or is at risk of suffering physical harm because of the extreme weather conditions.”

My guess is the week before the games begin, we’ll be hit by extreme weather. It’s now the only way to deal with the embarassing homeless situation we’ve allowed to thrive in Vancouver.

The bill comes to the legislature the day before the Olympic torch relay begins. Asked if it is part of a plan to sweep the streets of homeless people before and during the Olympic Games in Vancouver, Coleman said. “That always comes up but I’m going to tell you it’s absolutely wrong… This has got nothing to do with the Olympics.”

Yeah, right.

Funny what a culture of accommodation does. They can’t (won’t) arrest them for smoking crack, selling drugs, prostitution, or behavior that would get anyone else locked up for the night.

By creating a law of compassion, it now gives the police the power to get homeless people off the street. My guess is that they’ll use it for the bad actors, so we’re not completely embarrassed by the world’s cameras.

Bring on the games…

You Expect Them To Add?

I heard a million jobs today… another great reason to run for cover when you hear stimulus:

Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands

WASHINGTON (AP) – An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.

The government’s first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 (today 1,000,000 jobs saved) positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.

The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.

For example:

- A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.

- A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.

- A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.

- Colorado-based Teletech Government Solutions on a $28.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission for creation of a call center, reported creating 4,231 jobs, although 3,000 of those workers were paid for five weeks or less.

“We all felt it was an appropriate way to represent the data at the time” and the reporting error has been corrected, said company president Mariano Tan.

- The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months.

The FCC spotted the problem. The company’s owner, Steve Holland, acknowledged the actual job count is closer to five and blamed the problem on confusion about the reporting.

The AP’s review identified nearly 600 contracts claiming stimulus money for more than 2,700 jobs that appear to have similar duplicated counts.

- Barbara Moore, executive director of the Child Care Association of Brevard County in Cocoa, Fla., reported that the $98,669 she received in stimulus money saved 129 jobs at her center, though the cash was used to give her 129 employees a 3.9 percent cost-of-living raise. She said she needed to boost their salaries because some workers had left “because we had not been able to give them a raise in four years.”

- Officials at East Central Technical College in Douglas, Ga., said they now know they shouldn’t have claimed 280 stimulus jobs linked to more than $200,000 to buy trucks and trailers for commercial driving instruction, and a modular classroom and bathroom for a health education program.

“It was an error on someone’s part,” said Mike Light, spokesman for the Technical College System of Georgia. The 280 were not jobs, but the number of students who would benefit, he said.

- The San Joaquin, Calif., Regional Rail Commission reported creating or saving 125 jobs as part of a stimulus project to lay railroad track. Because the project drew from two pools of money, the commission reported the jobs figure twice, bringing the total to 250 on the government report. Spokesman Thomas Reeves said the commission corrected the data Tuesday.

This is what happens when tax cheats run a country.

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The Perfect Halloween Costume For Your Boy

If I had this advice a few years ago, it would have saved me from all that embarrassment. A must see for parents.

Should We Worry When Obama Sells Out The US

This man makes a very good case of how Obama is set to sell-out the US  with the United Nations Climate Change Treaty scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen this December 2009.

I don’t think that he is overstating what this means… and in Canada we should also consider what happens when the US is done with it’s transformation to quasi-Marxist socialist regime. The impact on us could be staggering.

Add to the mess the expansion (explosion in size) of the US government, the cap and trade bill, Obamacare, and the decline of the US currency… it will impact us more than we can imagine with the decline in trade… less money to spend, means less for Canada.

Don’t expect to hear anything about this from our socialist media or left-wing parties… they have been waiting for this to happen. I can’t imagine what their reaction will be when Canada is sucked into the abyss Obama is creating.

Christopher Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, at Bethel University explains:

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