Apparently Popeyes Chicken had some kind of promotion and they wound up getting cleaned out of their main product much to the chagrin of a bunch of regular patrons.
Now I’ve never had Popyeyes chicken in fact there aren’t any of these establishments around my neck of the woods so I’m not sure if it’s the food itself or these people just happened to miss out on one heck of a deal. I do know the KFC restaurant in town cranks out what I consider to be a subpar excuse for chicken so we haven’t been there is quite some time.
That said what in the world is going on when people think they can’t feed their kids or family because some fast food joint is closed for the day? Come on folks, head to the grocery store, pick up something for dinner and go home and cook it for crying out loud!
A 22-month-old child from Mexico who was taken to Houston, Texas, for medical treatment is the first confirmed U.S. fatality from swine flu, health authorities said Wednesday. The toddler was not a U.S. citizen, said Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, adding she could provide no other details.
A House committee chairman said Tuesday that he wants Congress to enact a mileage-based tax on cars and trucks to pay for highway programs now rather than wait years to test the idea. Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., said he believes the technology exists to implement a mileage tax. He said he sees no point in waiting years for the results of pilot programs since such a tax system is inevitable as federal gasoline tax revenues decline. “Why do we need a pilot program? Why don’t we just phase it in?” said Oberstar, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman. Oberstar is drafting a six-year transportation bill to fund highway and transit programs that is expected to total around a half trillion dollars.
With Congress bailing out the auto industry and financial institutions, black farmers are pressing the federal government to pay money owed to thousands of black farmers as part of a discrimination settlement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “This is an issue that has been going on for years,” said John Boyd Jr., president of the National Black Farmers Association. “(The government) ought to pay the black farmers what you owe us.” About 200 black farmers, mostly from Southern states, protested today in front of the Department of Agriculture, calling on lawmakers, President Barack Obama and federal agriculture officials to live up to a promise last year to pay black farmers $100 million for years of discrimination by the agency.
What’s in a name? U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu. At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.” “This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that’s not what this is about,” Vilsack said.
High school students, beware! College admissions and financial aid officers in California and elsewhere may be peeking over your digital shoulder at the personal information you post on your Facebook or MySpace page. And they might decide to toss out your application after reading what you wrote about that cool party last week or how you want to conduct your romantic life at college. According to a new report by the National Assn. for College Admission Counseling, about a quarter of U.S. colleges reported doing some research about applicants on social networking sites or through Internet search engines.
The manager of General Motors’ employee stock fund has sold off all remaining shares of the troubled auto maker, which is closing plants and slashing costs in a bid to avoid bankruptcy. General Motors revealed in a regulatory filing late Friday that its employee stock-purchase plan has unloaded all shares of the company in favor of short-term and money market investments. The plan’s financial manager, State Street Bank and Trust Co., said it began selling off shares of the Detroit automaker in late March “due to the economic climate and the circumstances surrounding GM’s business.” GM disclosed the development in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition the FAA issued threats of federal sanctions if word about this stunt was leaked by New York City officials and law enforcement to the public so they also knew ahead of time of what was about to transpire.
May I take this opportunity to ask Obama to spare us the same kind of absolutely phony outrage over this issue concerning the VC-25 flying low over New York City that he displayed concerning the A.I.G. bonuses that his administration had previously approved?
Anyone who thinks Obama had no idea what was going on until he saw news reports of the airplane that goes with him any time he flies somewhere soaring low over NYC needs their head examined. In order for that plane to be in the air someone HAD to have cleared it with the White House to be sure Obama didn’t have any travel plans. For those who don’t know, whenever the president is aboard the VC-25 it becomes Air Force One and an identical plane always goes along for the ride. For one of these planes to be flying around without Obama knowing about it is impossible and no federal employee at any level would make the decision nor take the risk of putting that thing in the air without prior knowledge of the president’s travel schedule.
What I would like to know is if the federal government was well aware of the kind of panic this stunt would cause when people looked up and saw a huge airliner flying 1,000 feet off the ground over New York City trailed by F-16 fighter jets, why in the heck did they do it? Is this the kind of twisted behavior we can expect out of the juveniles running the show in Washington DC and will the owner of the Democrat party, George Soros, reimburse the taxpayers for the $360,000 this little slice of stupid just cost them? Continue reading »
I cannot locate any news source to corroborate this young man’s version of what is going on here but his explanation is certainly within the realm of possibility. By the looks of the surrounding area the location looks like it could be in the upper desert, one of the few places left in southern California with access to employment centers in San Bernardino, Riverside, (albeit a very long drive to these locales>) Orange and Los Angeles counties that still has quite a bit of buildable land.
An outbreak of swine flu occurred at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey in 1976. This outbreak took the life of a young private and the virus wound up infecting hundreds of his fellow soldiers. Worried that an epidemic was about to spread across the country President Gerald Ford ordered an immediate mandatory vaccination program. In short order reports began to surface of people developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease that was believed to be brought about by the vaccine. Within a month or so of the outbreak dozens of people had died and many more were suffering from the terrible side effects of the vaccines that were being administered. By the end of the year and with the public up in arms over the deaths and injuries the government put an end to the program. The expected epidemic never developed as the government expected and the only death due to this particular swine flu outbreak was the one Fort Dix soldier.
As I was looking around for information about this latest influenza strain I came across this interesting 2006 article that presents the case for vitamin D to help strengthen the immune system, the fact that most of us don’t get anywhere near enough of this vitamin and why vitamin D may be a large part of the answer to fighting the flu bug and many other health maladies.
In early April of 2005, after a particularly rainy spring, an influenza epidemic (epi: upon, demic: people) exploded through the maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane where I have worked for the last ten years. It was not the pandemic (pan: all, demic: people) we all fear, just an epidemic. The world is waiting and governments are preparing for the next pandemic. A severe influenza pandemic will kill many more Americans than died in the World Trade Centers, the Iraq war, the Vietnam War, and Hurricane Katrina combined, perhaps a million people in the USA alone. Such a disaster would tear the fabric of American society. Our entire country might resemble the Superdome or Bourbon Street after Hurricane Katrina.
It’s only a question of when a pandemic will come, not if it will come. Influenza A pandemics come every 30 years or so, severe ones every hundred years or so. The last pandemic, the Hong Kong flu, occurred in 1968 – killing 34,000 Americans. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic killed more than 500,000 Americans. So many millions died in other countries, they couldn’t bury the bodies. Young healthy adults, in the prime of their lives in the morning, drowning in their own inflammation by noon, grossly discolored by sunset, were dead at midnight. Their body’s own broad-spectrum natural antibiotics, called antimicrobial peptides, seemed nowhere to be found. An overwhelming immune response to the influenza virus – white blood cells releasing large amounts of inflammatory agents called cytokines and chemokines into the lungs of the doomed – resulted in millions of deaths in 1918.
As I am now a psychiatrist, and no longer a general practitioner, I was not directly involved in fighting the influenza epidemic in our hospital. However, our internal medicine specialists worked overtime as they diagnosed and treated a rapidly increasing number of stricken patients. Our Chief Medical Officer quarantined one ward after another as more and more patients were gripped with the chills, fever, cough, and severe body aches that typifies the clinical presentation of influenza A.
Epidemic influenza kills a million people in the world every year by causing pneumonia, “the captain of the men of death.” These epidemics are often explosive; the word influenza comes from Italian (Medieval Latin ?nfluentia) or influence, because of the belief that the sudden and abrupt epidemics were due to the influence of some extraterrestrial force. One seventeenth century observer described it well when he wrote, “suddenly a Distemper arose, as if sent by some blast from the stars, which laid hold on very many together: that in some towns, in the space of a week, above a thousand people fell sick together.”
Please read the rest of this lengthy but informative article here>>>
Workers demolishing the wall of a building that once belonged to the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners 65 years ago, Auschwitz museum officials said. “We know two of the Auschwitz prisoners who signed the message survived the camp, but their later fate isn’t known,” Auschwitz-Birkenau museum historian Jerzy Mensfelt told AFP in a telephone interview. “If they are alive, they would be in their 80s now. Perhaps the publicity surrounding this discovery will lead to more information,” he said.
With unemployment rates soaring, the days when you could be assured of finding a job in your preferred location are long gone. In these times of economic uncertainty, you may be forced to relocate, either to chase a new employment opportunity, or to reduce your living expenses.
In April 2003, the world seemed on the brink of a killer pandemic. After simmering for months in Guangdong, China, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus had exploded in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, the U.S. and 14 other countries. It had a seriously scary fatality rate of 10%. But as quickly as it came, it just as quickly faded away. The virus turned out not to be as contagious as feared.
This is sure to fire up liberals who believe Fox is nothing more than a Republican mouthpiece. Fox announced this afternoon that it will not air President Obama’s news conference on Wednesday night, marking his 100th day in office and the third primetime Q&A session of his administration.
[Notice that Fox NEWS will carry the yawner. And how come we never hear msnbc, abc, nbc, cbs and cnn are nothing more than Democrat mouthpieces because that is exactly what they are…ed]
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended the government’s response at a press conference Monday afternoon as reporters asked her about the risk of asymptomatic swine flu carriers entering the country. Napolitano said the strategy of identifying and isolating those who seem ill and try to cross into the United States was adequate given the circumstances, as a reporter asked if closure of the border had been considered. “We’re already doing passive surveillance at the border,” Napolitano said.
[Meanwhile European Union Health Commissioner Andorra Vassiliou warned people to avoid travelling to areas where a health threat is posed by swine flu. “I would try to avoid non-essential travel to the areas which are reported to be in the center of the cluster,” she said…..ed]
Scooter Libby went to prison for the “outing” of a desk-jockey CIA agent. He forgot conversations. Pelosi forgets briefings. And the outing of our entire intelligence apparatus by Democrats is OK. Remember the thrilling days of yesteryear and the alleged outing of the already known CIA officer Valerie Plame? We were told then that the Vanity Fair cover girl’s 15 minutes of fame jeopardized our national security even if everybody already knew who she was.
Let’s be honest few people pay any attention to the pre flight announcements provided by the flight attendants and they rarely make an effort to present them in an interesting fashion anyway…until this gentleman came along that is.
Once again that rascally TOTUS pulls some shenanigans with Obama’s prepared speech. We have seen what happens when the “great orator” is TOTUSless and it isn’t pretty so a flub every once in a while while reading from the glass panels is acceptable I suppose.
Normally news crews stopping at the scene of an accident is no big deal especially when someone has gone above and beyond to help remove the driver from the wrecked vehicle, in this case it was a couple of military personnel.
A KVIA two man news team came across a semi truck roll over wreck and decided to check it out, after all that’s part of their job. Things seem to have gone downhill quickly after that.
It’s one thing to tell the average motorist to keep moving along but I don’t see any reason to take the approach police Sgt. Raul Ramirez did with these reporters especially with slamming them into the center divider fence after being handcuffed. Can you imagine what would have happened if the reporters were Hispanic and a white cop treated them in the same fashion? That said Ramirez has been put on administrative leave until the heat dies down.
One thing that may have escaped the thoughts of this officer as he was flipping out is the fact that the media can either be with you or against you and if it’s against your department it can certainly become an uphill battle when it comes to public perception on how law enforcement is doing their job in the community. This video sure doesn’t help.
EL PASO, Texas — An ABC-7 crew covering a crash on I-10 on Monday unwillingly became part of the story.
Motorists stuck in traffic witnessed veteran journalist Darren Hunt and photojournalist Ric Dupont being handcuffed and detained.
Just after 1:30 p.m., the two arrived to report on a flipped semi-truck on I-10 West near the Sunland Park exit. They parked on the left shoulder of the eastbound lanes of I-10 as witnesses ran toward victims to offer help.
A pregnant woman sat on the side of the freeway, sobbing, and, according to a witness, several men in military fatigues helped pull the driver of the semi-truck out of the cab.
As emergency crews tended to the driver, police Sgt. Raul Ramirez told the ABC-7 crew from across the barrier to leave. Several people and half a dozen cars were also stopped on the eastbound shoulder.
The outbreak of swine flu in North America is not a cause for alarm, President Obama said Monday, calling the government’s decision to declare a health emergency a “precautionary tool.” Obama said the government is “closely monitoring” emerging cases of the strain, as the United States launches border screening for swine flu exposure. “This is obviously a cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert,” Obama said. “But it’s not a cause for alarm.”
A Moscow police chief went on a killing spree early today after arguing with his wife at a celebration for his 32nd birthday. Major Denis Yevsyukov killed three people and injured six at a supermarket after first returning home to change into his police uniform. Russian television broadcast CCTV footage from inside the supermarket showing Mr Yevsyukov calmly reloading his weapon as he walked down one of the food aisles.
Circulation at U.S. newspapers continues to fall. The Audit Bureau of Circulations said Monday that average daily circulation declined 7.1 percent in the October-March period from the same six-month span in 2007-2008. The latest figure represents data from 395 daily U.S. newspapers that reported in both the current and year-ago periods. The most recent drop was faster than the 4.6 percent fall recorded in the April-September period of 2008, and the 3.6 percent fall recorded in the October 2007-March 2008 span.
A plane circling Lower Manhattan escorted by two fighter jets is part of a “photo op,” said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters. The event caused some evacuations of office buildings in Lower Manhattan and Jersey City, N.J., on Monday morning. Mr. Peters said the Defense Department is conducting a photo op that involves deploying two F-16s and escorting a Boeing 747 [Air Force One look alike…ed] in the vicinity of Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty.
The U.S. pork industry shifted into rapid-response mode following the news of an outbreak of swine flu in humans, trying to quell disease fears and protect an already weak pork market. Although there appears to be no evidence yet tying the flu to human contact with pigs, Russia banned meat imports from Mexico, several U.S. states and nine Latin American nations. In a news release Sunday, the National Pork Producers Council said, “Pork is safe to eat.” The producers council, citing the Centers for Disease Control, said “preliminary investigations have determined that none of the people infected with the hybrid flu had contact with hogs.”
A team, led by crash specialists at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, has devised a new design which is fitted under the bonnet. When it believes the car is about to hit a pedestrian the u-shaped airbag inflates, providing extra protection while not interfering with the driver’s field of vision. The design protects pedestrians by pushing up the bonnet beneath the windscreen, increasing the gap from the engine below so the bonnet is better able to absorb some of the energy on impact.
