Synthetic Adjuvants on the Horizon...

So are you worried about not being able to get your Swine Flu shot?  A lot of people are... if you watched 60 Minutes tonight they talked up the scare of not being able to make enough vaccine in order to vaccinate people fast enough.

I'm predicting here that in the next 3 to 6 weeks we will hear the news that because the supply of vaccine is so slow to market that the FDA will have to fast track the use of Synthetic Adjuvents in order to make the vaccine faster.

This is a big deal because these synthetic adjuvants have not been sufficiently tested.

You may also want to buy Novartis stock. ($51.95 today), they make a synthetic adjuvant.

I just wanted to make a record of this prediction... we'll see how much of a nut job I am in a few weeks.

UPDATE: On November 26th I came across this article about Adjuvants that was posted on November 20th. It was a Reuters article about why we should be using adjuvants. Oh, and Novartis stock was $55.85 at the end of day November 24th.

Things I Want in Final Cut Pro

i'm gonna be adding to this post a lot.  Hopefully someone from Apple will read it and take note.

1. Editable Guides in the Canvas for compositing, and while your at it, give me guides like I have in Keynote and Motion that do all that snaping and centerlines  and baselines.

2. Let me grab more than one keyframe at a time in the Viewer.

3. Real honest to goodness background rendering of the timeline that i'm working on. Maybe I can set a region of where I want to work and it won't mess with that section but everything else is fare game, Render Away!

Do Your Kids Drink Milk?

Do your kids drink milk and do you care about their health?  Do have any idea what is IN that milk? Watch this video and your eyes will be opened up to how corporate lawyers can control what we see on the evening news...

"This is news, this is important, this stuff people need to know."

"We just paid 3 Billion Dollars for these Televisions Stations, we'll tell YOU what the news is."

No Flags For You!!!

First go read this story.

So what do you think?  Its an apartment complex called the Oaks Apartments in Albany Oregon. The manager of this apartment complex has been telling all the residents that if they don't remove any American Flags from their windows or balconies or even their CARS, that they will be evicted.

Sounds wrong doesn't it?

Well if you think so do us ALL a favor, call the Oak Apartments Manager at 541-967-1284. And let them know how you feel. The local news who reported on this story tried to ask the woman who had made the decision and she said that she was "not going to answer any questions."

Oh really?, But will you take a few phone calls?

Cost of Secret Service to Taxpayers.

I've often thought about this and just wanted to write it down while I was thinking about it.  

Since 1997 there has been legislation that covers ex presidents for a 10 year period after the finish serving their term.  I don't even want to imagine how much money that costs the US tax payers and I bet if I was more patient I could find out just how much it is.

It occurred to me last November as we were voting for the new President that George Bush and Dick Cheney would be receiving this 'perk' for a long time and I began to wonder... "do I want to pay for that?" The answer was, of course... "NO".

So I had an idea... why don't we vote for presidential protection of the OUT GOING president while we are voting for the new president.  It could be just one more check box we get to select. They already ask us if we want to contribute to campaign funds, why not allow us to have a say in this as well.

Also, think about what it would mean to the way a president does his job.  If they new that after their term that A. "The people were not happy with them" B. "The people voted to NOT pay for their security detail" Something tells me that our elected officials would think twice about the decisions they make while in office it meant that if they did a crap job that they would be handed a DC bus token to leave the white house if they didn't receive enough votes to pay for security.

I don't know, just a thought...

What do you think?