How Much Free Speech Can You Afford

The Supreme Court has not only re affirmed a 2003 decision that money some how equates to free speech, they took the limits off how much money can be free speech. At the root of the debate is how much money a Corporations can spend on election campaigns of political officials. Now first keeping mind [...]

California Mud Slides May Have Been Preventable

I am surprised the greenest state in the union has not yet learned anything from these events in the past. As it has been their history the mud slides get started after a large wildfire clears out major areas of forest and brush and with nothing to absorb a major rainfall and nothing holding the [...]

Massachusetts Senate Upset About Health Care? Yes, but Not Like You Think

So the Republicans putting their spin on the surprise win and loss of Democratic control of Ted Kennedy’s former seat in a special election are telling everyone it is about Obama Health care that the public is rejecting. Well, They are right, it is about health care but that is because the state of Massachusetts [...]

Why Tiger Woods Kept The Headline More Than A Week !

First, it must be said, I find it insulting that with as much turmoil in the world and in this country that a golfer can be the most news worthy event for more than a week.

So, instead of switching the TV off and the WEB ON to get the news I was looking for, I watch with curiosity and the above point in mind.

Result:

It is because it is cheap news (if news at all). How did I draw that conclusion?

Michael Lewis Slams Wall Street’s Political Infuluence

This Clip is several months old. It just did not make its way through the media.

Comcast, GE & Content – Can’t manage your super merged company so merge some more!

We are all so sick of hearing these mega mergers and acquisitions and the few that believe in them are folks that have a vested interest.  They will do a very good job selling this to you but you will regret it in latter years. Lets try to put some perspective on this. Why should [...]

Web Sites to replace “brick and mortar” stores soon? Cyber Monday shows a big picture

We have herd this prediction before and know that things just got a little ahead of themselves. Some time has passed and many years after the .Com bubble has burst, a new reality has emerged that has been hurried by the resent economic downturn. It is plain to see if you have been watching what [...]

Global Warming hits News Again with Hackers Scandal

There are some important points to be made in the aftermath of this scandal and I must point out, if it matters, that I consider myself an environmentalist by practice not by preaching to others and I must say, “I told you so”. Looking at this from a science point of view as I always [...]

Just the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number Please…

I am sure you hear this at least once a month unless you are dead!
Do you think you are safe and/or more secure by verifying yourself with countless services by using the last 4 digits of your SSN?
I am here to explain to you why this makes things less secure!

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Why do most non-social security, non-banking services even have it to begin with. It has nothing to do with my taxes or SS so why do you keep it stored in a Database somewhere that it is even more exposed to hackers?

A Look Back and Forward At The Banks – Socialism for the RICH !

As you have herd it said before, sometimes you must step out from the trees to see the forest. So lets do that in a 20 year step back and see how this mess evolved and where it may lead. The Banks with the aid of the Federal Reserve wanted to get much of the [...]