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H1N1 Precautions

Today I went to my doctor for a medical follow-up. Sitting in his waiting area were approximately eight people of which three were sneezing and coughing. I know the Ministry and the medical community wants to curb the outbreak of influenza but why are there no precautions taken in clinics such as this and perhaps in hospitals and clinics throughout Canada.

Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market

When patients visit a physician or hospital, they know that anyone involved in providing their health care can lawfully see their medical records.

Dad accused of strangling kids

Petros Williams Mwashita, 37, is charged with killing his son, Theo Molemohi, 2, and his four-year-old daughter, Yolanda.

Much ad about nothing

Barack Obama's Nobel Prize for doing nothing would have made him a perfect fit for Jerry Seinfeld's late show about nothing. But the members of the Norwegian Nobel committee may not be all that noble.

4 recommended by topless bar owner got hired by Blagojevich administration

Perry Mandera might not be a well-known name in most circles. But when he tried to get people a job in then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration, it seems his name carried weight, according to records kept by Blagojevich aides.

Obama lobbies his own congress Tuesday

Friend -- Tomorrow -- Tuesday, October 20th -- change is coming to your neighborhood. Just minutes from your house, local Organizing for America, OFA volunteers will be gathering in living rooms and community centers, reaching out to key voters and asking them to call on their representatives to support reform and thank those already doing so.

Satellite photos may provide answers in Madeleine McCann case

The U.K.’s Sunday Express reports it has intervened in the search for missing Madeleine McCann, prompting officials to request satellite images from “US spy chiefs.”

AIM’s Kincaid Applauds FOX News Channel’s Firing of Marc Lamont Hill

WASHINGTON, October 16, 2009—Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid today welcomed FOX News Channel’s decision to fire cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a paid analyst. Kincaid learned of Hill’s firing this morning at the annual meeting of News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News, in New York City. Accuracy in Media is a News Corp. shareholder.

Bill shills for Global Warming with an IQ Test

Dear Friend, I don't have to tell you that we're in the middle of a climate crisis. Or that HIV/AIDS still claims far too many lives. You're already acutely aware of these realities.

Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord

-Fighting Words The Minnesota Free Market Institute hosted an event at Bethel University in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gave a scathing and lengthy presentation, complete with detailed charts, graphs, facts, and figures which culminated in the utter decimation of both the pop culture concept of global warming and the credible threat of any significant anthropomorphic climate change.

Smoking at work

Pierre Trudeau, who proclaimed that the state had no place in the nations' bedrooms, must be turning in his grave at the news that the state now has the right to police our kitchens. After all, a kitchen is even more of a workplace than the cab of a truck.

Putting Green Politics Above the Interests of Shareholders

The Wall Street Journal- The recent corporate resignations from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have played in the media as a case of enlightened corporate stewardship vs. blinkered old businesses. But there's far more to this story-not least the way that Apple and Nike are putting green political correctness above the long-term interests of their own shareholders.

Investigators search for Swedish girl they believe may be Madeleine McCann (photo link)

Madeleine McCann investigators are attempting to find a girl who was photographed in Sweden, after computer-matching indicated she could be the missing little girl, according to Click Liverpool.

Sceptics welcome BBC report on ‘global cooling’

Under the headline `Whatever happened to Global Warming?’, the BBC has reported that the warmest year recorded globally was 1998, and for the last 11 years no increase in global temperatures has been observed.

What happened to global warming?

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

Nobel Peace Prize

So, Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

What’s a few millions?

Since we are on the subject of a 'few millions' been wasted on a futile computer program, I cannot help but wonder if the consultants working on Ontario EHealth are the same consultants that worded on the Canadian Long Gun Registry?

What’s a few millions?

Ahhh here we go again, fall is in the air and the Anti-gun crowd are scrambling to make themselves seen to the media and the Canadian public. This time they are using the economic down turn to prop up their calls for a return to registering firearms. I fail to understand their reasoning that the present Amnesty will "cost" the government 15 million dollars in lost revenue.

Rob Lamb’s letter to the loons at the Norwegian Nobel Institute

October 9, 2009 The Norwegian Nobel Institute Henrik Ibsens gate 51 0255 Oslo Via email: postmaster@nobel.no

Baffoon quality public discourse

The Braidwood inquiry into the tasering death of Robert Dziekanski is about as serious a wake up call as a nation can face.