On Biden and his suggestion to use a shotgun!

Before you run out and get a shotgun to protect you and yours, please check out this video! Personally, I think I'll stick with an assault rifle!

Wearable gesture control from Thalmic Labs! Amazing!

Is the future of drones rapidly getting ahead of us as a culture?

Click here for the You Tube video. Prepare to be amazed!

You (I) have zero friends!

After watching an episode of South Park called ‘You have zero friends’ and after I stopped laughing myself sick, I began to understand a little more about Facebook as a site and as a persona and why it’s so popular among the younger set. It’s actually just another hi-tech tool by which young kids can drive each other crazy and become ever increasingly more isolated.

Sequestration begins day after tomorrow! Am I prepared? No!

I’ve promised myself not to panic, but according to my President ‘all hell is going to bust lose’ come March 1^st. A date I’m sure will live in infamy as the economy will begin to look more and more like the Titanic did on April the 15^th 1912. Only, damn it all, at least they had a band!

By way of preparation, I went to the grocery store, yesterday, and spent almost all my remaining money on canned goods and other foods that could help last me through the dark times to come! (While I was there, I was very surprised to see that there were no crowds). Didn’t everyone get the President’s memo of impending catastrophe?

I’ve also made it a point this past month to buy as many guns and ammo as my dwindling pile of cash would permit. All in order that I would be ready for the ‘day the economy crashes’. An event that the Democrats and the President have pretty much guaranteed as a direct result of the interference of a Republican Party gone crazy!

Man oh man; I can’t believe this is actually happening! And, all because of those traitorous Republicans who want to wreck everything and really shouldn’t be in Congress in the first place. No sir, they should be kicked out so that President Obama and the Democrats can work smoothly together to re-shape our country so that people like me won’t have to worry about our personal finances. Isn’t that what he means by a FREE Society? I mean why should anything I need have to cost me something when I like need it? Duh.

Well, now it’s all about over. I hope you Republicans are happy. You’ve ruined what was a great party (pun intended) and now it’s the end. Goodbye all….

A lucky couple is chosen to go to Mars!

Dear Mr. Patrick Betz,

Congratulations! You have been specially selected by Bas Landsdorper et al. to participate in a manned fly-by of Mars which will take place on the morning January 2, 2018 from Cape Kennedy Florida in a space vehicle designed exclusively by Spaced-OutX.

Cosmonaut Burswadle

Mr. Betz, this honor has been afforded to you after the failure of anyone to willingly step forward as a volunteer for a 501 day journey in a cramped space capsule where spartan conditions will definitely prevail. However, Mr. Betz, you will not go alone! Mr. Landsdorper is also proud to announce that Russian Cosmonaut Helga Burswadle has agreed to accompany you on this most auspicious mission for all of humankind!

This epic journey of over a year and a half will pit; human endurance, extremely cramped quarters (not to mention the likely advances of one very determined cosmonaut) against all possible odds of survival! We also would like to advise you, Mr. Betz, that you will be exposed to extremely high levels of radiation for most of the trip and will therefore be encouraged to wear our custom designed metal athletic supporter at all times.

Mr. Betzel shortly after receiving word!

Mr. Betz, we request that you get prepared mentally and then present yourself to the space terminal no later than December 31, 2017. Please note that there will be no need for a doctor's physical or other preparations prior to us placing you (by force, if necessary) into that cozy little capsule with Helga! God speed and good luck!

If you make it back, Mr. Betz, a party will be held in your honor. (If you don't make it back, we will hold one anyway).

Bas Landsdorper
CEO Mars One

It’s called CRE and it kills!

The scientific name is Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae or CRE, and it’s a killer with virtually no drugs to stop it! Even the CDC is currently at a loss to describe the scope of the problem; having issued an alert this date to clinicians nationwide.

This superbug belongs to a once obscure family of drug-resistant bacteria that has stalked the corridors of U.S. hospitals and nursing homes for over a decade. Today it is a persistent and growing problem all across the country with doctors trying one antibiotic after another to no avail. The bacteria are named for their ability to fight off carbapenem antibiotics -- the last line of defense in the medical toolbox. Death rates among patients with CRE infections can be as high as 40%, far worse than other, better-known health care infections such as MRSA or C-Diff, which have plagued hospitals and nursing homes for many years.

Since the first known case, at a North Carolina hospital, was reported in 2001, CRE’s have spread to at least 41 other states, according to the CDC. And many cases still go unrecognized, because it can be tough to do the proper laboratory analysis, particularly at smaller hospitals or nursing homes!

The question in everyone’s mind is will this elusive bacteria escape the confines of health facilities to set up shop in local communities and so with potentially devastating effects!

An Imperfect Man!