Thursday, April 30, 2009

Is She The Zodiac Killer's Daughter?

Today Deborah Perez made a claim that she was the daughter of California's Zodiac killer. 40 years ago, there was a killer who was suspected to be responsible for the deaths of at least 5 people in Cali. Perez claims that for one or two of the murders, her father would take her with for thrills.
Many other people have tried to claim the same thing over the years, but Deborah puts a new spin on this story.
She is apparently trying "to right his wrongs." She didn't know better at the time. "I was a child and just thought I was helping my father," said Perez. "He told me he killed many people."
But perhaps even more interesting is her declaration that she has a pair of horn-rimmed glasses that the killer took from his last victim, a cab driver.
At the age of 7, she also supposedly wrote a letter to the famed lawyer, Melvin Belli, to get help for her father, Guy Ward Hendrickson. The letter, with many misspellings and improper punctuation states "Dear Melvin This is the Zodiac speaking I wish you a happy Christmass. ... please help me."

Here's what CBS has to say on this topic:


Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Swine Flu Just a Publicity Stunt?


I've heard dozens of people in Mexico have died from this newly developed disease, but I was curious so I did a little research online. According to what I read, the swine flu has the same symptoms as the regular influenza, but is obviously much more deadly. Some sources even argued it was treated the same way. With a vaccine.
I also just read here, Swine Influenza, the swine flu is actually a strain of the human virus, the common cold. But if this is true, then how come many people are dying because of it? Like the human flu, it changes to avoid the beat down our antibodies deliver to most viruses. However, this disease is supposedly still just either Influenza A or C. As previously mentioned, this disease has very similar if not the same symptoms as the flu. If this is true, why is this disease so deadly? Not to mention how fast it seems to spread. There are already several hundred New York students who are suspected to have it. On average, 36 thousand people die every year from the seasonal flu.
So... How many do you think the swine flu will hit? Hopefully not many. Obama asked Congress earlier today for $1.5 billion to spend on fighting this illness. He plans to spend that money on stocking up the nation's medical treatment stock and also for developing a vaccine.



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