Obama says H1N1 a National Emergency

On Friday, President Barack Obama declared that the H1N1 virus(a/k/a swine flu) an national emergency. By the declaration it allows the health and human services secretary to move emergency rooms to rev up the pace of treatment and to protect the non-infected.

The White House announced on Saturday the declaration the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius authority to bypass federal laws to allow hospitals open off site facilities to inoculate the public from Swine Flu. The  hospitals and clinics must ask permission to open off site clinics at places such as schools, community centers and senior centers.

46 states have been recorded as the flu as widespread. Only 11 million does have been made available to doctors, clinics, health departments. There is back log of the flu vaccine.

A few hospitals have open drive through clinics to screen and treat patients infected with H1N1 virus.

The process may also relieve hospitals and clinics for ask for extensive  background information of patients to speed up doctor and medical professional ability to treat people.

The declaration allows hospitals to seen reimbursement from Federal Government. Federal law state if a hospital set a temporary facility it must be no more than 300 feet from a hospital entrance or no reimbursement . With the declaration hospital will be paid for off site facilities.

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Judges in New York State has Put a Halt to Manditory Flu Shots for Medical Professionals

A New York state supreme court judge has stopped the mandatory flu vaccination for medical industry in that state.  The judge has a restraining order to stop the law that the state health department has implemented.

The order came as a result as the Public Employee Federation sued  to stop the enforcement of the regulation who would fine or ever terminate medical workers if the were vaccinated against H1N1(Swine Flu) Virus. The judge ruled that New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines over step his bounds.

There were three plaintiffs involved including New York State United Teachers, an attorney for representing four nurses from Albany as well the Public Employees union opposed the mandatory regulation. The vaccination will now be voluntary for  Medical Assistants,  Nurses and Doctors.

The health department give workers till November 30 to comply with the regulation or face disciplinary action including termination.

Public Employee spokesperson Debbie Mies says a court hearing on the case is scheduled For October 30th.

One woman Paula Small protested the forced vaccinations

“I don’t even tend to the sick. I am in the nutrition field. They are telling me I must get the shot because I work in a health clinic setting,” said Paula Small, a Women, Infants and Children health care worker.

Small recalls the 1976 vaccination which was untested which led to some deaths.

There also protest by hundreds  in at the state capitol in Albany against mandatory vaccinations. The say are constantly washing their hands most say don’t come in contact with the general public.
“It’s certainly their prerogative to voice their opinion,” said Dr. Susan Donelan of Stony Brook University Hospital.

Most workers understand the benefits,safety and the need for flu shots.

“Our hospital is committed to following the mandate to have our personnel vaccinated,” she said.

WCBS-TV “CBS 2 NEWS” has more.

Colorado Balloon Boy Story Hoax

A story  about a 6 old boy from Ft. Collins drifted away in a balloon turns out to be a hoax. The story  of Falcon Heene who was allegedly climbed in the basket of the UFO  shaped balloon and floated away. The truth the boy was in box in attic above the garage of his family’s home.

The boy’s parents Richard Heene said Falcon’s brother Brad has seen his brother climbed the basket of the balloon and the rope mysteriously untied and the balloon floated away around  11:00AM.

Heene said the family was in the backyard tinkering with balloon when Falcon climbed in. The father chastise his son for climbing into the balloon.

The family  contacted authorities. The authorities say the balloon floated as high 15,ooo ft in the air and landed some 50 miles away near Brighton, Co.; in suburban Denver.

The boy’s family contacted Larimer County Sheriff Office which then put out a manhunt for the child. Military helicopter searched and followed the U.F. O. shaped balloon while the story is became an international sensation.

After the balloon crashed officials searched the craft and the child was not found the the hunt for Falcon Heene intensified. There were reports that basket attached to the balloon came apart and crashed to the ground thankfully that wasn’t the case.

Two hours later word came that little Falcon Heene was at home safe and sound.

“He’s been located. He’s alive. He’s at the house,” Larimer County Sheriff Alderden told reporters, giving a ‘thumbs-up.’

Apparently, Falcon was hiding in a box in the attic in the garage.

The Heene family held the press conference later.
“It was in the really early stages of the invention,” Richard Heene said of the experimental aircraft, holding Falcon in his arms. “This little guy got inside of it…I thought he did anyway, according to Brad.”

“He videotaped it and we watched it back and, sure enough, he got in,” He said. “But obviously he got out.”

“I was in the attic and he scared me because he yelled at me,” Falcon said. “That’s why I went in the attic.”

“I yelled at him. I’m really sorry I yelled at him,” Heene said, choking up and hugging Falcon to him during the news conference.

Heene said the balloon wasn’t tethered properly, and “it was a mishap. I’m not going to lay blame on anybody.”

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Pres. Obama World Apology Tour has benefits: President Wins Noble Peace Prize

Breaking News: Who says bashing your own country hurts? Not the Barack Obama, who just won the Nobel Prize for Peace.  The Norwegian Nobel  committee said “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.

The president who calls for nuclear disarmament, and restart the middle peace talks.

The Irony is that Obama may order 40,000 troop deployment to Afghanistan. Still have soldier in Iran. Also he never spoke with pride with about the United States and American Exceptionalism and the greatness of People. Plus making friends with our enemies and treating our friends as enemies.

Congratulations Mr. President!

UNBELIEVABLE! FRICKEN UNBELIEVABLE!

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Amazing Story From Northern California:Kiddnapped Girl(now Woman)Turns Up at Antioch Police Station Nearly 20 Years Later

Shocking! A wild story from Northern California about a series events in the last 48 hours a kidnapped girl from South Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County walk in the Antioch, CA Police Department ending  a nearly two decade ordeal for a family Southern California couple.

Jaycee Duggard was kidnapped in the Summer of 1991 in South Lake Tahoe at the school bus stop when a in late in 1980’s Ford stop and a man now know as Phillip Garrido snatched Jaycee and put her in his car and drove away. The abduction split up Duggard’s mom and step father.

Fast Forward to Garrido and the two daughters that he fathered with Jaycee was on the campus of University of California, Berkeley trying to obtain a permit to assembly on the college campus. UC Berkeley campus police officers ask questions of Garrido  including who are the children. Garrido said the children belong to his sister Alyssa. Campus police did a background check on Garrido and contact his parole officer.

Garrido showed up at the parole officer  office at the Antioch Police Department on Wednesday . He was asked extensively about the children the children and he eventually confess that the girls was his and their mother  he named Alyssa was actually the missing Jaycee Duggard.

Garrido was arrested along with is wife Nancy are charged with kidnapping, Garrido was also charged sexual abuse in fathering the two children with Duggard.

Duggard parents who were separated  because of the kidnapping. Her stepfather Carl Probyn 60 was contacted by his estrange wife with the news. For many years Probyn was the prime suspect was relieved with the news that is step daughter was alive and he and his wife both talk to her. Probyn had maintain his innocence and at long last he and his wife can know have a peace of mind that their daughter is alive.

For years Duggard and her children one fifteen and and second eleven (ironic that Duggard was  11 years old and that she has a daughter 11)was hidden in Garrido’s yard a one acre plot in Antioch in a series of tents, sheds split off from the main property by a eight foot fence also the lot has mature tree and a long driveway. Duggard and her children were prevented from seeing doctors and attending schools.

Now Duggard, her kids, parents, and friend will need to seek counseling therapist  suggest to help overcome the year of imprisonment and the separation from her family and friends.

Garrido was a federal parolee was has a rap sheet a mile long he was arrested with rape and kidnapping back in the 1970’s  and served time.

For More check out these local tv stations coverage.

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Minimum Wage Rises to $7.25 per Hour

Minimum Wage went to $7.25 which is good news and bad news. The good news is for those who are low skilled( maybe poorly educated)  bring need money to them. While its true it boost incomes. Generally education (including job training/re-training)is the best way to move up the ladder.

When work Wal-Mart in 1994 I saw people how laid off people who used to earn anywhere $25,000 to $60,000 at companies like McDonnell-Douglas(nee’ Boeing Company) and Rockwell. It was something that I didn’t expect. I expected low income and entry-level teen workers.  Some lasted  6 months or they lasted a couple of years or more. It help to pay for bills except car payment or rent( unless  Section 8 or Private Low Income housing programs). The people had to take 2nd or 3rd jobs to get by.

For employers however it a burden for small business in particular. For very small businesses in order to oblige the federal law(let alone the various state minimums) that complicate the hiring of employees; employers either layoff workers or more often then not reduce hours or even raise prices.  That way the poor can survive in some of the most expensive  cities such as: Los Angeles.; Chicago, San Francisco or New York(even still these cities have higher minimum wages due to high cost of living in these locales.  (San Francisco has the second highest minimum wage in the nation at $9.79 and hour.)

WLIO-TV has  more.

Smashing the myth on California’s Prop.13

For thirty years, politicians, school districts, teachers and liberals in general have bemoaned the voter initiative Proposition 13 which limit the property tax rates as robbing from the poor, children, and the elderly. But an editorial commentary in Wednesday’s editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune says otherwise.

San Diego UnionTribune editorial writer Chris Reed has discovered That prop.13  collects revenue and it adjusts with population increases, economic conditions.Under Prop 13 the state of California has collected in the tax year of 2009 $43.16 Billion  of revenue. 1981 the thrid year of Prop. 13 recieved $6.36 Billion. That’s an increase of get this 579%. 579 P-E-R-C-E-N-T-!-!-!-!

Unfortunately the myth of Prop 13 will stand because it has been so entrenched  by the media and the political classes.  No matter the truth is revealed,the old maxim remains tell a lie long enough and it becomes the truth  and sadly Prop. 13 lies  has become the truth in 30 years of it existence.

Hat Tip:John and Ken Show/KFI-AM 640

Free at Last, Free at Last, thank God Almighty Capt. Richard Phillips is Free at Last with Help Navy Seals

God Bless the Navy Seals.  They killed three of four pirates who holding a American cargo ship captain on a lifeboat Sunday Evening off the Somalia coast. While the Navy was negotiating with one of the four pirates an alert seamen on the deck of the USS Bainbridge notice  pirates holding a gun at the head of Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama. The  one scene commander had  only seconds to act said Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

Nearly an hour later, the Bainbridge had the lifeboat under its power and Capt. was on board the guided missile destroyer.

We thank God that this rescue went well and the Captain is safe, sound, and healthy. All are Heroes!! And Boy we could more heroes in the world.

Bloomberg News has More.

Death of Journalism sort of: Seattle Post-Intelligencer becomes an Online Edition Only.

An end of an era of sorts in Seattle as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer became an online newspaper only today. The P-I  as it called by its many readers both fans and critics printed it last  edition on St. Patrick’s Day March 17, 2009. Leaving the Seattle Times as the daily broadsheet of Seattle.

Citing  nearly 10 years of losses, the Hearst Corporation which own the publication had put the P-I up for sale as one of the few ways to save the paper. The other options included shutting the paper completely or the current option of  shutting the papers printing press laying off  about 75 percent of staff including  most reporters, columnists;  layout artists, pressmen(and women) advertising executives and others  which brought out the paper to homes, stores and news stands/ news boxes(machines).

This comes on the heels of the complete shut down of the Rocky Mountain News the oldest newspaper in the Inter-mountain west. The Rocky based in Denver closed two week ago after suffering losses leaving the Denver Post the city’s main newspaper;  and the Detroit Media Partnership  owners of the Detroit  Free Press and Detroit News changed their delivery structure: home delivery on Thursdays and Fridays; shrink the layout to 32 pages and redesign the papers layouts the news paper remains available newsstands/newspaper machine daily as well as online.

By the  end of the week  we’ll find out fate of Tucson Citizen the afternoon. Gannett Company which owns the Detroit  Free Press and Tucson Citizen.  Gannett  is the nations largest newspaper publishing  group.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the end of the troubles for the newspaper industry there’s  more on the way. Hopefully the P-I will survive, only time will tell.  For the moment the Irish  eyes are smiling on the P-I , It could been               O’ Danny Boy.

Inland Empire may recover from recession by sometime in 2011.

Inland Empire may recover from the recession some time in 2011; economist John Husing, said  during the Inland Empire Economic Partnerships  23rd annual members’ meeting on Wednesday.  Pinning hopes on the recovery the success of the President Barrack Obama’s Stimulus Package.

In addition, San Bernadino and Riverside  Counties  need to re-examine  policies  including developer  fees  and clearing the glut of  foreclosed homes in the region. Husing say the Bankruptcy cram-down law will help drive down the housing crisis.

Also,  Husing say the Inland Empire communities need to lure White Collar jobs to the region.  Which goes counter to Husing previous analysis  where the I.E.’s strengh was blue collar jobs such as warehousing , and distribution  because of the cheap plentiful land; and jobs that do not a college diploma.

If that cram doesn’t help the recession may last into 2012

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