http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamas-midnight-regulation-express-1482451192
BHO is really “some piece of work”. And that’s being polite!
Obama’s Midnight Regulation Express
Friday, December 23, 2016
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Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Killed in Shootout
Friday, December 23, 2016Too bad. It would have been good to find out why? Now we’ll never know.
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LESSONS LEARNED: Sending stuff by priority mail
Friday, December 23, 2016- Since at crunch times, like Christmas, the mailers “disappear” no matter how hard the Postal Workers try to keep them stocked. So keep a few of those mailers in your car for when they are needed.
- You can use the PO kiosk with a credit card. Sometimes these are available when the windows are closed.
- After seeing some PO disasters, I have been putting my contents inside a zip lock bag with the addressing information where I hope it’s supposed to wind up.
- The PO uses automatic scanning the zip code. If you are going to put phone numbers in the address, which I’ve been told is a good idea, then you need to put it under the name, but before the address.
For example:
John Q. Public
(212) 555-1212
123 Anystreet Place
Anywhere XX 01010-1234 - When you get the receipt, confirm the tracking number asap. Then, alert the recipient with the link. Ask for them to confirm they received it. But you’ll still have to check. (I had to tell one person to look outside their front door!)
- Check the “to” and “from”. (I’ve more that once reversed that. DUH!) Might also help to verify the addresses, I’ve sent stuff to the old address by accident and by my own stupidity.
- It’s also useful to print the from/to info then put it on the Priority Address label covering it with clear tape. Then all you have to do is put the self-adhesive Priority Address label on the envelope or box. Works nicely.
Feel free to add your own observations.
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Aleppo Evacuation Nears End, Say Red Cross, State TV
Thursday, December 22, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/aleppo-evacuation-nears-end-red-cross-says-1482402010
Not a minute too soon. Dona Nobis Pacem
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AT&T’s DirecTV Now Gets Off to a Bumpy Start
Thursday, December 22, 2016
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Daniel Henninger: Michelle’s Trump Despair
Thursday, December 22, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/michelles-trump-despair-1482363263
They say that being elected President ages. Let’s hope that DJT keeps his word. I’m hoping for the best.
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VETERANS: Why can’t a vet start his own waiting list site?
Thursday, December 22, 2016http://www.mygovcost.org/2016/12/15/the-vas-secret-hospital-rankings/
The VA’s Secret Hospital Rankings
Thursday December 15th, 2016 • Posted by Craig Eyermann at 7:28am PST
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The most disturbing part of the story, however, was a revelation about the VA hospitals most closely associated with its secret waitlist scandal. (Bear in mind that veterans seeking medical treatment at those facilities were placed on secret lists that hid how long they were waiting to receive treatment, while VA administrators and supervisors used the VA’s official waiting lists to claim bonuses for meeting the VA’s goals for providing speedy service.)
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After more than two years of President Obama’s feckless and ineffective management of the veterans health care rationing scandal and his failure to see through needed reforms, the VA is in desperate need of real reform and a management turnaround, starting with major changes in the VA’s leadership throughout its bureaucracy.
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It would seem easy for a vet to start a blog and their comrades can report their actual waiting times?
That would create a counter weight to falsified stats!
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The Best New Ways to Scan Your Old Photos
Wednesday, December 21, 2016http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-new-ways-to-scan-your-old-photos-1482256768
I think I’d like to something. The app seems like a good choice.
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ISP: Leave Yahoo email ASAP
Wednesday, December 21, 2016http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/leave-yahoo-quit-move-gmail/
It’s Time to Leave Yahoo: How to Quit and Move to Gmail Right Now
Ben Stegner December 20, 2016
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For the second time in recent months, Yahoo has been hit with a security breach. This time, Yahoo announced that hackers stole details from a billion accounts in August 2013.
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I’m not a fan of giving control of your email to anyone even GMAIL.
That being said you should leave Yahoo. It’s going the way of Blackberry.
May I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) It gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap.
I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use.
It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
I use my own domain to receive mail and GMAIL to “handle it”.
Works very nicely.
YMMV. FWIW.
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RANT: Time for individual responsibility
Tuesday, December 20, 2016https://gearjunkie.com/rescue-fine-steamboat-springs-backcountry-skiers
December 19, 2016, 12:50 pm By: Adam Ruggiero
Rescue Fine: Steamboat Springs Warns Backcountry Skiers
New signs around the Steamboat Ski Area warn adventurous skiers of newly-implemented rescue fine.
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Ski patrol is putting up the signs, proclaiming the $500-per-person rescue fine, on out-of-bounds access gates at edges of the Steamboat Springs, Colo., ski area. The resort’s new trail maps also carry the warning.
The purpose is to deter inexperienced skiers from getting in over their heads (sometimes literally). It is also a response to an uptick in trespassers not heeding the current boundary signs.
According to a report in Steamboat Today, ski patrol director John Kohnke estimates 500 people a day slip through the access gates. This is up from about 20 when he began 40 years ago.
Neither Routt County Search and Rescue, which sometimes aids in ski area rescues, nor the Forest Service objected to the fines.
Rescue Fines In Steamboat Springs
By Colorado state law, Search and Rescue cannot charge for operations because it may deter skiers from calling for help when they need it. However, this fine appears to be directed specifically at skiers who leave through the resort gates.
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Sorry, but if you have to have the “Search and Rescue” to haul your sorry butt out, then you should pay for it.
At the very least, they could sell “insurance”. Buy it and need us, OK. Don’t and you do, you pay.
If you spread the cost across lots of skiers, it’s probably reasonable.
No one has a “right” to be rescued.
Wonder how many of these were “repeats” or “obvious beyond their skills”.
Argh!
Time for individual responsibility.
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