Never mind the dogs...look at the size of that beetle.

... The video is false.

Alberta Budget 2008 Speech

Calling health care the number one priority for Albertans, she's eliminated health care premiums as of next January 1. The government has also set aside $145 million to attract and retain doctors, and other health care professionals. Health care spending takes up one-third of the provincial budget.

Evans announced $800 million set aside for the Water for Life strategy, $600 million to combat climate change,and $55 million to defeat the pine beetle.

In an appeal to families, Alberta will create 14,000 new care spaces and give tax breaks to those who care for elderly parents at home. After school care will also receive more financing.

Calgary’s mayor Dave Bronconnier got some of what he hoped; the province guaranteed 41 more police officers for Calgary, and more Crown prosecutors.

In all, the province of Alberta will spend $37 billion dollars next budget year, and save $279 million for the Heritage Fund.

The Stelmach governtment is anticippating it will take in more than 38.6-billion dollars this year and spend 37-billion dollars.

That's nearly 10 per cent more than last year.

Right now the surplus is estimated to be 1.6-billion dollars.

The biggest reason for the increase in spending is the health system which will get nearly 10 per cent more money. The Calgary Health Region's budget goes up nearly 200-million dollars.

The 2008 Alberta budget was based on increased oil royalty revenues of $1.8 billion yearly, and a $78 per barrel oil price.

Budget Critics Eye Surplus

Alberta's opposition parties are offering some rare words of praise for the new provincial budget, but others are more critical.

Liberal Leader Kevin Taft says he's delighted to see Premier Ed Stelmach's Tory government eliminate health-care premiums in the new year, although Taft claims this was a Liberal idea.

N-D-P Leader Brian Mason agrees, but he has some problems with the government's modest surplus projection of $1.6 billion.

Mason says if oil remains around the current price, the surplus could end up being five billion dollars higher.

Scott Hennig, with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says a record 37 billion dollars in spending-12 per cent more than last year-is a recipe for disaster if revenues don't keep pace.

Lloyd Bertschi, president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association, says communities will be happy with increased funding and more cash for affordable housing.

But he has concerns about whether the province will continue to pay the cost of 300 new police officers after a three-year hiring program ends.

Today's budget also includes billions to address Alberta's rapid growth-money for hospitals, schools, roads, crime reduction and efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

can be fixed from this source: http://www.videosift.com/video/Enormous-Beetle-Robot?noredirect

seems like that cheers!

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Japanese-Man-Builds-11-Meter-15-Ton-Beetle-Robot

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by Laekroth.

I think it's a dupe of this video I just declared dead:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Japanese-Man-Builds-11-Meter-15-Ton-Beetle-Robot

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>> ^dgandhi:

Is not mentioning their product the only way for Microsoft to make an effective ad campaign?


Duh.. You think VW goes around bragging their cute VW Beetle was designed by Hitler? So Microsoft is so hated and such crap through monopoly their just need to sell the widgets in their monopoly supply chain. (Ok, I guess a duopoly since they are kinda competing with Apple)

"Are we sure those are actually ladybugs?"

From http://www.ipm.msu.edu/beetleFAQ.htm

How can I tell a multi-colored Asian lady beetle apart from the ladybugs (or lady beetles) most of us are familiar with in Michigan?
This can be a little confusing because multi-colored Asian lady beetles are highly variable. While they all have the same shape they do not all share the same coloration and pattern of black dot marks. The color of their wing covers range from pumpkin-orange to mustard-yellow and even jet-black. They may have no black spots or as many as 20 of the ebony polka dots. In Michigan, the vast majority seem to be mustard-yellow and the number of spots range from zero to eighteen. Despite the wide variation in background color and number of spots, they all share a distinguishing mark on their pronotum. Viewing the beetle from it's topside, the pronotum is that small section that separates the head area from the abdomen (where the wing covers start). There is a mark on the pronotum that looks like a "W" or "M" depending upon whether you are looking at it from the front or rear. All multi-colored Asian lady beetles have this mark that domestic ladybugs lack.

Yeah, OBVIOUSLY there's no "M" or "W" marks on their pronotums.
/sarcasm

Those look like the the devil's beetle (my term), the asian variety. They have to natural predators around here and are vastly overpopulated. I've vacuumed up more of those than I care to remember.

Are we sure those are actually ladybugs? We get huge numbers of beetles that look like ladybugs, but are actually some sort of related beetle from Asia. I mean, *lots* of them, but not that many of course. I was once sucking them up with a vacuum cleaner and counting as I went and I ended up with over two-hundred after only a few minutes and I was still just working the one bay window. Legend has it that if you see that many in your room, inside the walls they're swarming.

When you squish them they leave some sort of stain and a foul odor and I've heard they bite though I've never actually been bitten. The most annoying thing is that because there are so many, they're all half dead and they fly drunkenly around the room running into things. It's actually a little amusing when the ceiling fan is running, but those things would probably put your eye out at such velocities.

Still, if you're going to be infested with bugs, it could be worse. At least they aren't earwigs or cockroaches or something gross looking like that. Still, an invasive species reproducing so prodigiously has to be screwing up some ecological balance or other.

wait, why would you want to flip a bird over? Then it couldn't fly. It's like tipping over a beetle, they just lay there kicking their legs looking really pitiful so you'll want to flip it back over...you know?

i bet there's a lot of beetles pissed off that they had their wings torn off.

I don't know if there's a suitable video version. Don't have the wherewithal anyhow. A gift if you deem any of it worthy.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
They'll fit in perfectly with The Beetles and The Rutles. Hurry up before someone beats/beets/ruts you to it!

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
A quick search of Siflandia reveals no Beastles. Can this be?

They'll fit in perfectly with The Beetles and The Rutles. Hurry up before someone beats/beets/ruts you to it!

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
A quick search of Siflandia reveals no Beastles. Can this be?