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Date of Article: 2014-04-14
Source of Article: AL.com
As a new client to Medicare this article is very disturbing. First the current administration violates its word about people being able to keep their plans and doctors if they like them and eliminates perfectly good health plans that many Americans chose in a free marketplace. Now they seem to be intent on destroying a program that is serving seniors well. Its hard to understand.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-04-17
Source of Article: AL.com
"If you like your current plan you can keep it, period!"
This is a candidate for the lie of the year and maybe even of the decade. I don't know about other peoples plans but I will remember this for quite a few election days and vote accordingly.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-04-14
Source of Article: InfoWorld
This article exposes a flaw in the DMCA which needs to be fixed ASAP. One part of the fix needs to make the party that filed the merit-less take-down order should be subject to reimbursing for lost income and paying damages for harming the reputation of the victim. A second part would be4 to require there be documentation accompanying the take-down order proving the validity of the claim. Currently DCMA creates not only a guilty until proven innocent situation but also a guilty without any proof situation. To me that is an assault on our Constitutional rights.]
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-04-11
Source of Article: Creators Syndicate
So using a drone to spy on or assassinate individuals is fine as long as the government is doing it but let a group of volunteers attempt to use a drone to locate and maybe save the life of a missing child and they are violating federal rules. In this case I am in total agreement with Mr Chapman.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-04-02
Source of Article: AL.com
Interesting opinion about our chief executive who doesn't honor his own word and is never in charge of things that go wrong.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-04-02
Source of Article: AL.com
The members of the city government who voted to pass this dumb law should be made to spend a couple of weeks living on the streets with no help surviving. Shame, shame, shame.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-03-20
Source of Article: Al.com
A good thing happened today. A law was passed that did no harm and laid the groundwork to do a lot of good for many people who have been suffering unnecessarily for too long. I'm hoping that Carly gets the relief she needs now that the law no longer stands in the way.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-03-20
Source of Article: Al.com
This is a good example of how stupid rules like this are. The student did the right thing by preventing harm but the idiot powers that be chose to punish her.
Years ago I had a friend whose son was receiving a beating from a bully. According to witnesses his son did not attempt to defend himself until after over 10 blows had landed on him. Yet the idiot powers that were chose to expel him for practicing a right that all humans have to defend themselves from attack.
For reasons like this Zero Tolerance Rules have to be written with care and enforced with common sense.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-03-16
Source of Article: Creaators Syndicate
An interesting piece on what the author thinks will be the end result of Putin's latest muscle flexing. I hope he is right in the long run.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-03-13
Source of Article: Crerators Syndicate
Some interesting questions raised here. To me the big one is do we want one person having so much power to change our lives. To me that seems to reverse the system that the founding fathers set up with power spread across three branches of government to prevent tyranny.
W.C.
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Date of Article: 2014-03-14
Source of Article: Creators Syndicate
Pat Buchanan starts with a very interesting question here and then presents some convincing arguments as why he is asking it.
W.C.
Link To Article
Orig Post Date: 2014.03.14.
Source: GEEK.com.
My Comments:
It's bad enough that in the past a member of congress introduced a change to copyright law which extended the term of copyright protection for a recorded performance from which he and his family directly benefited, and that the then congress passed it, but now the current congress is again attempting to extend the power of copyright holders at the people's expense.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.02.13
Source: Creators Syncicate
My Comments:
Another example of crony capitalism where the majority suffers to enrich the few.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.02.12
Source: Creators Syndicate
My Comments:
A good piece on what is really one of the biggest problems we face in the United States and I believe Mr Stossel is right when he states that keeping government small is the best way to minimize this problem.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.02.11
Source: Creators Syndicate
My Comments:
Interesting study results which adds weight to what many conservatives have been saying for a long time.
I have known several brilliant people who moved to the US from European welfare state countries because there were few incentives to work and study hard in their countries. They moved here to get ahead and as a result contributed thier tallents to our countries success. Now we are developing our own welfare state and I wonder where our most brilliant people will be moving so they can get ahead?
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.02.12
Source: TechRepublic
My Comments:
Interesting article which raises some good questions. Should Microsoft follow the author's advice? I don't know but I know several XP users that have moved their systems over to Unix rather than pay for an upgrade to Windows. To facilitate this they took the time to convert their data over to open source applications that are available on both Linux and Windows. IE using either Open Office or Libre Office in place of Microsoft Office, Thunderbird in place of Outlook, GIMP for photo editing, and Audacity for audio track editing.
Disclaimer: I still use Windows (7 & 8.1) and Microsoft Office though not Outlook. I also use the named open source apps on Windows and Linux and have used several other operating systems and office productivity applications in the past.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.02.06
Source: techcrunch.com
My Comments:
This article raises quite a few questions about who is telling us the truth. Congress claims to be looking out for and protecting the consumer. The Executive claims to support allowing unlocking while secretly negotiating a treaty which would outlaw it.
My personal preference is for Congress to pass a law which allows unlimited unlocking after the initial contract period is over and makes provision to allow for paying a disclosed at signing time prorated fee to allow for early ending of the contract and allowing unlocking. it seems to me that the consumer owns their phone once the provisions of that contract have been met.
To disclose any personal interest: I have no knowledge of any personal ownership of any telecommunications stock and have been with the same cell phone provider (through several corporate name changes and mergers) since I bought my first one many years ago.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.01.31
Source: AL.com
My Comments:
This is not my city but I find this article resonates with me. I can see preventing a public nuance but poultry can be cage raised in a city without any problems. When I was much younger I had cage raised quail in Mobile and none of our neighbors had a problem with it. We moved the cages around over parts of our garden that were between crops giving us free fertalizer the next time we planted there.
The fact that these commissioners ignored the medical and science experts disturbs me. It sounds to me like some of these appointed commissioners need to be fired including the one who dozed off with official business in progress.
By the way in my opinion having someone in the real estate business has no business being on a planning commission. There is too much conflict of interest there from what I have observed in more than one city.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.01.30
Source: AL.com
My Comments:
A doctor who is willing to face some discomfort and inconvenience to save a patients life. Definitely a hero in my book. Thank you Dr Zenko Hrynkiw.
W.C.
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Orig Post Date: 2014.01.30
Source: Creators.com
My Comments:
Interesting reading and likely a part of the reason. In my opinion another major part of the reason was the embracing of far right agendas and abandoning moderate views.
W.C.
