America at war...

• All and all, not a good week for the country...The USA that is:/
  Fox up from Mexico, promoting the take over of the USA by millions more Mexicans,
  B&B, that's Bush and Blair at the Casa Blanca for war strategy session
  as usual, more bad news from Iraq,
  Not easy times for the USA I'm sure...What next...

Bird Flu Virus, important link

http://www.inforingpress.com/articles/fluplan.pdf

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world troubles....

Nothing much new, the immigration thing, Iraq, congress troubles...same old.
Figured I stop by and post a little picture....I just love pictures...Duerer this time!

this and that...

Oshawa/Courtice Autotown then / painting by Diana / Black Creek runs thru my backyard

Fraud

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Watch out, Nigeria Fraud, usually the Central Bank of Nigeria is mentioned, with a name of a high official...a General or Professor or something.

So if you get one of those stupid fraud notices, inviting you to collect your overdue money owing ( usually from 7 to 35 Million Dollars),Just send a copy of this shit to the bank. If they get about 1,000 e mails a day they are bound to take action some day

• ...Re the picture, call it a no brainer.
  
  Comments added since publishing this blog.
  Nigeria, central west coast of Africa is a beautiful country. Oilrich with a population of 134 Million (almost as many as Russia) this country is and has for many years been one of the most corrupt places on earth.

try this ;You will be astonished / it figures...

Have you ever, well, sort of given some thought to taking a penny, one cent ok? And then the next day, double it. Two cents. Third day, double that and you arrive at four cents.
Well, if you keep this up for a few days by day 10 you will have a figure of 510, that would be 5 bucks.
Suppose you keep this up for say 30 days, just one month, how much would you accumulate.
Astonishingly by day day 30, you arrive at over 5 million Dollars. I dropped the penny decimalpoint somewhere and still arrive at $5,368,705. Well that's figures. Hard to believe. And no wonder some of the pyramid schemes have made some people very rich indeed.

Does anybody care

does anybody care?

I learned a couple of weeks back that every second of the day ( and night for that matter) 4.1 new people arrive in this world. Newborns, Babies, of all colors, races etc., human beings.
The same little news item also claims that every 1.8 seconds somebody dies.
Old age, Murder, Famine, Hunger War...Whatever every 1.8 seconds, zip, another one bites the dust.
So I started figuring, these would be my calculations I could be off a bit but as a point of interest, here it is:
Current World Population is estimated to be 6.5 Billion ( almost half of this in Asia alone).
So if you figure 2.3 added per second x 60 (hour) x 24 (day) x 365 (year) I come up with about 75,000,000 a year... That is 75 Million
Or if this is easier to grasp over 200,000 a day...

In the meantime, we are burning the rain forests the glaziers are melting, haven't heard about the ozone layer lately, we are using up whatever oil and gas may be left in the ground. We are also creating nuclear waste and don't know what to do with it..

Quite frankly I am not a gloom and doom kind of guy but this must make you think.

Fraud

This Morning I removed 3 (three) posts from this blog....
I did not remove them in anger, I rarely allow myself to get angry. I did not write them in the first place because of anger being annoyed or god knows what reason. I simply received about 8 of these stupid communications in my E mail one day and somehow reacted to responding with what I figured is exposure to these illegal schemes. To all future requests for fake money laundering, agency offers, incredible world wide lotto winnings and related garbage:-(

I will henceforth respond as follows:

Name: Fritz Bixler
Address: 19 Division Street, Oshawa Ontario Canada, Postal Code is L1G 5L7
Telephone & Fax Numbers: The fax is switched on when needed and the phone rings far too much for my taste, so therefore if you insist you want to communicate with me, send a letter, give your phone number and I may call you back...or fax you.

Sex: Hard (pun) to believe I would be asked this question. The answer is about twice a week not that this is any of anybodies business. I suspect that the question should be
Salutation: like in Mr. Mrs. Miss it appears the originators of these questions are not too conversant in the english language.
Other items frequently asked for are: Bank and Bank account; Copy of Passport , a few other goodies I can't quite recall at the moment. So, forget all that.

This fraud nonsense is not new. The most common is the Nigeria thing. This used to be in letter/ chainletter form, then faxes and wouldn't you know, now e-mail.

There is in fact so much of this going on, and so many people are milked out of so much money that appropriate warnings are easily available from the web. Just Google fraud and you will see.

Oh Canada....The war...And hockey..

Today the USA has 8,000 Generals. Combined, retired and on active duty. That includes the Admirals, but for the purpose of this short note I lump them together. After the war in Vietnam ( that's the one the USA lost, to China really ) the Generals were severely criticized for not speaking out. To a large extend the war came to an end because of the ever increasing number of anti war protesters. The generals, then, remained largely silent. It is possibly for that reasons some of them, retired, are now speaking out. And good for them. The battle was won, the war is over, occupation does not work so well, get out now, because you will not make a working democracy out of this place called Iraq.

On to Canada now. The only good thing Cretien ( former prime minister who stayed on too long) ever did was to keep Canada out of this mis- adventure called Iraq war.

There is some argument about where hockey came from....Was it Nova Scotia? Or Quebec? The natives perhaps (Indians). Or was it somewhere else in Canada this sport was first played.

Relax, hockey is a Chinese thing. The picture is from 1375, featuring Chinese hockey players.
Marco Polo didn't tell us about this one. And how do you like the spiffy outfits?