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By now you have probably heard about Osama Bin Laden being killed. It would be hard to have missed a story about it in the news, and it is all over the internet right now.

Besides being a little sudden and somewhat unexpected after all these years the thing I find rather strange is where he was actually found.

It is hard to believe Osama Bin Laden was found right in the middle of a city of decent size. And, on top of that within a few hundred yards of a Pakastani military facility. Strange that nobody noticed or suspected anything out of the ordinary surrounding the place where he apparently called home.

I didn't catch how long he had been living at that location. Whether it was for years, or just more recently. If he had been living there for an extended amount of time it is very strange, and almost unreal that someone didn't suspect something sooner.

I guess I just assumed that Osama Bin Laden would likely never be found not to mention killed. If he were found, captured, or killed I was expecting it to be more like a remote location. Maybe a bunker, underground, or in one of these caves we often heard about in media reports.

At any rate it is nice to see the Osama Bin Laden chapter finally come to a close. Not that there will not be others to worry about and deal with, but at least this one is finally over.

President Obama released his long form birth certificate the other day and once again the internet is buzzing about it.

The White House previously released the official Certification Of Live Birth that showed he was born in Hawaii. Which apparently wasn't good enough for a lot of people out there.

On top of that Hawaiian officials have said they personally examined Obama's Birth Cirtificate. And guess what? That wasn't good enough either.

So President Obama released his long form birth certificate all the Birther Movement and conspiracy theory folks have been demanding.

It seemed to finally satisfy a larger group of individuals, but there is already tons of conspiracy websites screaming fake. Which is hard to take anything some of those conspiracy websites claim serious. One site I visited had a thread some 50 pages long with comments and growing by the hour. So as long as I was at this website that was pushing Obama's Birth Cirtificate is a fake I thought I would see what else the site had to offer.

It didn't take long to figure out most of the pictures and video posted on the site to a variety of conspiracy theories were themselves likely fake. I swear some of these sites and people commenting will believe almost anything.

At any rate I don't know what more Obama can do to finally prove he was indeed born in Hawaii. Believe what you want, but it looks like the mystery, conspiracy, or whatever you want to call it is finally over. Thank goodness too. It was starting to get annoying and old.

Netflix recently raised the price of their most popular plan from $8.99 to $9.99 per month. They also added a streaming only plan for $7.99 per month, at least in the U.S. anyway.

Shortly after news of this increase in price people were immediately complaining. Sure a price increase is a bummer, but we are talking about $1 per month for most people. And, with the streaming only plan they could actually save $1 per month. That is just barely over 3 cents per day more.

I guess people don't realize that it does cost Netflix money to license and distribute all those movies or something. They need a vast network of computers and an impressive system to distribute them which isn't cheap either. Not to mention they do have to pay employees. All so the end user can sit on netflix and watch a movie 24-7 from many electronic gizmo's. They have to pay for it somehow right!

Now I could see if they were doubling or tripling the price or something, but a whole $1 per month! If you ask me the price is still extremely cheap for what you get.

Oh well, it's impossible to please everyone!

One day I read or hear about the economy recovering or improving, and the next day it's the opposite. I don't quite understand how or why it varies so much from one day to another in the news.

As I read some of these news stories I have noticed a lot of comments regarding jobs. Some of the more common comments I read are from people suggesting that factory jobs are disappearing here in the U.S. which they probably are somewhat. The other thing I hear a lot is jobs are being outsourced to other countries, which they probably are to some extent too.

I rarely or almost never see anyone mention jobs disappearing or being lost to technology. We have computers and machines that can now do the job of an employee. In some cases the computer or machine can do the job of several employees now.

The thing about this is they don't have to pay the computer or machine. They do initially have to purchase it, and maybe spend a little on upkeep and maintenance. Usually it will more than pay for itself in a year or two.

On top of that there is no complaining from the computer or machine. No insurance or other benefits to pay. And you don't have to pay it overtime.

I would really be curious to see some accurate numbers or some kind of study about job loss due to technology.

Since technology is constantly evolving, getting faster, and more efficient there is a good possibility we will see more job loss because of it.

Some folks claim it helps create jobs. It might create a few, but I lean towards more are lost than created.

Apparently the media and internet world is buzzing about this mysterious missile launch near Los Angeles.

Pentagon, Military, and Norad so far have denied any involvement or knowledge about it. Which, is somewhat typical or expected from them.

After reviewing the various online video footage, it is very apparent that whatever it is it's not a small little object or missile. The thing is rather large, and leaning towards huge in fact.

If the various U.S. government and military organizations are denying any involvement or knowledge one has to stop and think. The military regularly denies things they are testing or doing. We all know that by now. Perhaps there was something planned which they intended to follow up with a statement or release, but maybe it didn't turn out so well, and now they need to come up with some line of crap to feed the American public.

Maybe we will never know, or more likely never know the whole story.

I am kind of leaning towards the military had something to do with this. Otherwise, I would assume there would be a bunch of military fighter jets scrambled to the area to check it out.

Heck they scrambled a couple of military fighters not long ago when a small prop plane unknowingly flew to close to air force one when it was on the ground in Seattle. They were scrambled by Norad out of Portland, and many people in the Seattle area reported sonic booms. If they went that far over a little prop plane, surely you could expect a similar scenario over a potential missile or other unusual object.

I would guess it was the military. Whether it went as planned is another story though.