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Is this guy really worth $10,000 an hour? Is this the best the GOP can do? Normal 0 Mitt Romney, according to some sources, made $20 million last year. $20,000,000 equates to $54,794.52 per day, or $2,354.05...
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Victim Mentality
Normal 0 I wrote previously about Romney’s 47% comment, and how he got it all wrong, but not necessarily in the way Democrats want to portray it. Many of these 47% are ardent Republicans, even if they are suckling at...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Was Romney Right?
Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth, to be sure. But even if he stated it poorly, did he say things that were essentially correct?Gaffe is as gaffe does. And in this political environment, when you make a "Gaffe" or...
Friday, September 14, 2012
The Unbanked
These folks are squandering what little they have by avoiding banks.A recent article on CNN discusses the number of people in the USA who are "unbanked" - that is to say, have no bank accounts whatsoever.Who are these people? ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Keyboard Shortcuts in Firefox - How to Disable
One annoying feature of Firefox are the keyboard shortcuts. If you hit the "CTRL" key instead of "SHIFT" by accident, you may find your computer doing very odd things.One problem I have when typing using Firefox, is that since...
The new SMART PHONES are here!
NOTE: This is a re-posting from October 2011. Every year, a new version of a smart phone comes out, and the media acts like it is the second coming of Christ. America was this way about "the new model cars!" back...
Time Enough For Love
Suppose you could know the exact date you are going to die. Would you live your life differently if you knew? In a way, you already know, so why not act on this information?In one of Robert Heinlein's early science-fiction...
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Makes You Wonder What Else They Are Lying About....
People are forwarding e-mails that say all sorts of things about President Obama that are easily proven as not true. One e-mail claims that Obama mistook this Wisconsin banner for a Union banner. But that never happened. ...
Spam Search Tools and Toolbars
Browser extensions may hijack your browser. The best approach is to have NONE of these on your computer. Getting rid of them, once they are on your computer, can be problematic.I wrote before about ASK (formerly...
Friday, September 7, 2012
Dream Sequence
Are dreams just nonsense, or a functional part of your brain?I was having a dream the other night, and in the middle of the dream, they interrupted it to have advertisements. It went something like this...DREAM: "We pause...
Monday, September 3, 2012
BUY NOW! PAY LATER!
Why does nearly every merchant offer you to "Buy Now, Pay Later!"? Well, it ain't in your best interest, that's for sure.Shopping online recently, I was chagrined to be bombarded with offers from Amazon and PayPal to "Buy...
The Late Bus
Tight School Budgets are nothing new. But in the past, we were more willing to sacrifice unimportant things. Today, we chuck the important to save the trivial.When I was in Elementary school, we lived briefly in a town...
Out Behind the Barn...
Our High School had a barn like this out back, and I spent many a Spring afternoon out there, just staring at the sky, rather than going to class."Robert could be a great success, if he would just learn to apply himself" one of my...
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