It’s time to take America back. I want to live in the USA, not the USSA.
Here’s what we need to do:
Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country to apply equally to members of congress.
Remove elite privledges of congress.
Repeal congress’s right to vote for their own raises.
Balance the Federal Budget.
Make congress pay into the social security system.
Limit congress from serving more than two terms.
Make congress get their own 401k and elimiate their lifetime salary after only one term.
Stop paying for congressional health insurance and force them into the insurance market.
Throw out all congressmen who didn’t bother to read to the biggest spending bill in US history before voting on it.
Put the savings from congressional perks into salaries and benefits for the armed forces.
Start NO war unless you intend to win it.
Make English the official language of America.
Stop all taxpayer money to illegal aliens.
Abolish the electoral college.
Bring back Universal Service, two years in the military or two years of community involvement.
The world’s only superpower cannot defend its borders, win its wars, balance its budget, manufacture its own products or protect its own currency. The government’s total debt obligation over the next few years is approaching the gross domestic product of the entire world.
At some point in time we have to learn to live within our means.
Two hundred and thirty-three years ago the silent majority in Boston got fed up with taxation without representation and held a little tea party to prove that the anger of We the People was on the march. This started the first American Revolution. Now its time to start the second American Revolution.
Take an envelope, put a tea bag inside, seal it and send it to your congressmen and senators. They’ll get the idea - we’re mad as hell and we want our country back.
According to USA Today, 2008 forclosures are up 81.2% over 2007. The article lists the states in order by their foreclosure rates . As it turns out, over 20% of all foreclosures are confined to just four states; Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California. Over 30% of all foreclosures are confined to just 10 states.
Read through the USA Today article and glide your mouse of their interactive state map.
But, I’m not going to stand by and watch the Democrats get away with bold-faced lies.
They are lying about what’s been happening with the economy and who caused the problems and who didn’t catch the problems!
The backstory:
A few years ago I tried to get a home loan to purchase a house. At the time I didn’t have enough cash in the bank for the downpayment (20% down) and began looking for mortgage help. I was told by realtors, bankers and government agencies that I was NOT eligible for assistance from Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae because my income was too high. [click to continue…]
You can store things like domain information, passwords, program set-ups and registration keys, credit card information and family records (insurance policy numbers, bank account information, lawyer Information) and general information in a password encrypted database that doesn’t break and will fit on a thumb drive. It is totally portable and secure!
My past opinion was that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft had sufficient resources to protect my computer when I connected to one of their properties. That may not be true!
I use both Yahoo mail and gMail to handle most of my email communications since I thought their platforms were well protected by industrial grade spam and virus protection. After all, these are the “big guys” with vast resources.
It appears as though spammers have found a way around Google’s CAPTCHA routines on Blogger after having hit gMail and Hotmail.
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that spammers, in their recent tactics, have targeted Google’s well-known blog publishing system “Blogger” aka “Blogspot”, following the streamlined Microsoft’s Live Mail Anti-CAPTCHA, Google’s Gmail Anti-CAPTCHA and Microsoft’s Live Hotmail Anti-CAPTCHA operations.
The big problem now is the new danger of going to a blogspot.com web site which may be set up by a spammer. The site may redirect you to the spammer’s web site or another web site that they want to advertise.
For those of us who can’t come up with a pleasant color scheme to save our socks, there’s an online tool that may help save your “visual bacon.”
It is called “ColorSchemer” and it allows you to pick a primary color and will then generate a 16-color matching palette showing the actual colors, hex color notation and RGB values.
It also has “Lighten Scheme” and “Darken Scheme” buttons that change the entire palette one color at a time.
You may love him or hate him, but he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here’s some advice.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created
Well friends…Here’s a quick look at what illegal aliens are costing us (us as in the American Taxpayer which is the foundation of the U.S. government.) This is such a depressing topic, I have to tip my hat to Newsvine.com for their article “Estimated 30 Million illegal aliens and the cost to U.S. taxpayers,” by Curtis Low.
I can not imagine why the presidential candidates (and my representatives) are not talking about this? Why isn’t this covered more thoroughly in the media? Add up these amounts. The total is $421,790,000,000. That’s $421.79 billion.
With the US population somewhere around 304,025,000 people, that means each man, woman and child will have to pay $1,387.00 in ADDITIONAL federal taxes to offset [click to continue…]
Caroline Middlebrook blogged about a topic that hits close to home and has been a burr under my saddle for some time…forced continuity marketing.
By definition, “forced continuity” means setting up a system where the consumer purchasing a product also incurs a recurring charge for some service or additional product. Usually it’s in the fine print of a sales page, or very briefly mentioned over the phone.
Direct-mail marketers selling books and CD’s used this approach with great success for years. They would offer 5 to 10 titles at a fantastic discount with the requirement that customer would accept monthly “review copies” of additional titles. If the customer didn’t want to keep the book or CD, they could simply mail it back to the publisher. Most publishers started adding minimum purchase requirements to their offers once they figured out that the consumers would purchase their discount offer, receive the next month’s offer, then cancel their “subscription.”
With the advent of the internet, the profit potential of “forced continuity” skyrocketed since, [click to continue…]
The next time you hear some “guru” tell you “anyone can do it” or they recite the Nike theme Just-Do-It, take note. You are about to be “conned”.
If you think you can quickly become an internet marketer, or make fast money on the internet you are exactly what the “gurus” are looking for — an easy sale. There are a number of “experts” who have the gift of gab and no remorse about selling you the ball glove, bat and promise of a skyrocketing major league career. They don’t care if you’re blind or in a wheel chair or have never played the game before. They know, without doubt, that their product will make you a champion! You may be dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to business, but you’ll be slugging out new products and joint venture deals like a pro!
It’s the on-line version of the snake-oil salesman. Be wary and stay vigilant or you’ll be parting with more money than you would ever admit to. [click to continue…]
Terry Didcott put together a simple tutorial that takes you step-by-step through the process of creating an HTML web page, using a little PHP to make building a web site easy, and connects it all with CSS.
I know there are plenty of books on the subject (I own a lot of them) but, I’ve never run across a more straight forward approach that easily shows the relationship between HTML, PHP and CSS. Now don’t get all concerned about the PHP. Terry only uses a single command to “include” other HTML page information, like pulling in the navigation links without constantly having to worry about them.
Frankly, his teaching style helped me understand why CSS is preferable, and how easy it is to build a style sheet from scratch.
Microsofts latest venture into the psyche of the Windows computer user is called SP1. It’s bad enough that MS "loses so much revenue" that they strong-arm the installation of the "Genuine Microsoft" software checker. Now, they’ve taken it a step further by coming out with a service pack that has the effect of bringing your computer to its knees. If you think I’m kidding, take a look at the MS Support Site. They are offering F*R*E*E support to anyone who installed SP1. Luckily after my last update experience, I checked the net before I allowed the update. Hit Google with "Vista SP1 complaints" and being reading. It’s a real eye-opener.
Now, before you think I’m being overly harsh on poor little M$, check out the SP1 blocker they created for their corporate clients. This little gem will block the installation of SP1. Must be pretty bad when you have to create software to protect your customers from your own software!
Paul McDougall at Information Week wrote an article highlighting the woes of an SP1 update. You can read it at http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905389
Here’s a shot of the MS Support page for Vista SP1. Good luck if you’ve attempted the update.
