SOFTWARE: Add emergency-contact info to your iPhone lock screen

Thursday, March 17, 2016

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-add-emergency-contact-info-to-your-iphone-lock-screen/

Add emergency-contact info to your iPhone lock screen
A simple tweak to your existing wallpaper might just save your life — or at least help recover a lost phone.
by Rick Broida  @cheapskateblog / December 17, 20149:07 AM PST

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The reason we password-protect our phones is simple: If it gets stolen, the thief can’t access all our data. But there’s a flipside: If your phone is lost, or you’ve been injured and someone is trying to call your family, there’s no way to access your ICE (In Case of Emergency) info.

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I did it to mine. What about you?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: NYS vehicle charging stations

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

FROM MY EZPASS STATEMENT

NY’s 1st high-speed electric vehicle charging stations are open on the NYS Thruway. High-speed stations power in 30 minutes, 10x-20x faster than standard chargers. Northbound locations: Plattekill & Malden Service Areas between exits 17 & 21. Southbound locations: Ulster & Modena Service Areas between exits 20 & 17.For more information, visit: http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/travelplazas/

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Does anyone think this is DUMB!

30 minutes to “fill up” your electric car?

Think of the “gas lines” in the summer!

Only in the Pepuls Republic of Nu Jerk!!!

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Overpriced Drugs?

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/03/joseph-mercola/medical-cover-ups/

Hospital-Acquired Infections, Dangerous Tests and Other Medical Cover-Ups
By Joseph Mercola Mercola.com
March 9, 2016

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Drug Companies Siphon Tax Dollars for Dangerous, Useless, Overpriced Drugs

As if it wasn’t enough that you pay with your health for the drug industry’s lackadaisical approach to side effects — both by their downplaying the risk of death or serious injury in their ads, and by their filing adverse event reports that are useless for predicting risk to other patients — you also pay for their crimes with your tax dollars.

Sovaldi, a hepatitis C drug made by Gilead was under investigation for 18 months by the Senate Finance Committee. In the end, the Committee decided that the price of the drug — $1,000 per pill, or $84,000 per treatment — “did not reflect the cost of research and development and that Gilead cared about ‘revenue’ not ‘affordability and accessibility,’” the Epoch Times writes.

In 2014 alone, Medicare and Medicaid shelled out more than $5 BILLION for Sovaldi and another hepatitis C drug called Harvoni.

Writing for the New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof notes that in the year 2015, the drug industry “spent $272,000 in campaign donations per member of Congress … to bar the government from bargaining for drug prices in Medicare. That amounts to a $50 billion annual gift to pharmaceutical companies.”

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Sorry but this is what you get when the Gooferment picks winners and losers.

Unfortunately, when folks pay for their own medical care. it may hurt in the pocketbook, but the bills get careful scrutiny.

Waste, fraud, and abuse are REGULARLY reported in Gooferment “programs”. None more wasteful than “medicine”. I remember reading an article that asserted a huge percentage of “medical spending” in Florida was due to FRAUD.

Sigh!

The only way to cure that is to incentivize the patients to spend wisely. How can we do that? Make them pay 1%. Ever seen seniors look at an early bird special dinner check? Vultures would admire their attention to detail. 

Argh!

Doubt it will ever happen. Seniors vote!

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LIBERTARIAN: Tom Woods #608 Nullification

Monday, March 14, 2016

http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-608-nullification-and-the-withdrawal-of-consent/

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Here’s a talk I gave in Kansas City in 2011 about state nullification, a topic I’d written a whole book about the previous year. The audience had a good many Tea Party people in it, so listen and see how I bring them over to the idea of really breaking with the Establishment and entertaining unconventional thoughts and strategies.

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“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow”
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

With nullification, we have that tool.

Just like speed limits are “nullified” every day on the nation’s highways, we too can “nullify”.

Argh!

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RANT: Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good

Sunday, March 13, 2016

FROM SNOPES

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lifelessons.asp

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio 
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. 
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:  
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch. 
5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. 
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone. 
8. It’s OK to get angry. 
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck. 
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. 
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present. 
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry. 
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it. 
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks. 
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. 
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful. 
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger. 
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. 
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer. 
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special. 
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow. 
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple. 
24. The most important sex organ is the brain. 
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you. 
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’ 
27. Always choose life. 
28. Forgive everyone everything. 
29. What other people think of you is none of your business. 
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time some time. 
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change. 
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does. 
33. Believe in miracles. 
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do. 
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. 
36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young. 
37. Your children get only one childhood. 
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. 
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. 
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back. 
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. 
42. The best is yet to come. 
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. 44. Yield. 
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift. 

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RANT: YOU’VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM

Saturday, March 12, 2016

from an email “chain letter” forward to me by a young relative

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“IF YOU CAN’T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU’VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM”
WRITTEN BY A 21 YEAR OLD FEMALE. Wow, this girl has a great plan! Love the last thing
she would do – the best.

This was written by a 21 yr. old female who gets it. It’s her future she’s worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big government state that she’s being forced to live in! These solutions are just common sense in her opinion.

This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX

PUT ME IN CHARGE . . .

Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicaid.The first thing I’d do is to get women Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations.Then, we’ll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your “home” will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your own place.

In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or you will report to a “government” job. It may be cleaning the roadways of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22-inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”

Before you write that I’ve violated someone’s rights, realize that all of the above is voluntary.

If you want our money, accept our rules. Before you say that this would be “demeaning” and ruin their “self esteem,” consider that it wasn’t that long ago that taking someone else’s money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people’s mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.

AND

While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes, that is correct. For you to vote would be
a conflict of interest. You will voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.

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RANT: The murder of a poor cook in northern China

Friday, March 11, 2016

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_DEADLY_POLLUTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-07-08-54-05

Mar 7, 8:54 AM EST

CHINESE COOK DIES FROM TOXIC WASTE DUMPED AT PARKING LOT

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BEIJING (AP) — Police in a northern Chinese city have broken up a major toxic waste case that came to light when a restaurant owner died after inhaling poisonous gases coming from his kitchen drain, state media said Monday.

Police discovered that the operator of a parking lot near the restaurant in Baoding city had allowed factories to dump highly toxic waste into its drain pipes for illegal gains, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The parking lot operator allowed a total of more than 3,400 tons of toxic waste to be dumped between August 2014 and May 2015, Xinhua said.

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Sounds like murder!

And how did they think they were going to get away with this?

At the very least, the parking lot operator was going to be caught! And, then sing like a canary!!!

Given the Chinese and their use of the “death penalty”, if I were these folks, then I’d be saying my prayers and calling in all the bribes I’d ever given for help.

What a shame for the poor cook.

Requiescat In Pacem

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ECONOMICS: “The Bureau of Lies & Scams”?

Thursday, March 10, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/03/jim-quinn/lies-damn-lies-bls-statistics/

Lies, Damn Lies, & BLS Statistics
By Jim QuinnThe Burning Platform
March 5, 2016

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So, we have the BLS reporting tremendous job growth over the first two months of 2016, while actual payroll tax data and actual corporate layoff announcements showing little or no growth. Who to believe? Wages are dropping. The number of hours worked is dropping. The number of part-time jobs is soaring. The number of self-employed Ebay sellers is going up. Retail sales are terrible. Polls show most people think the economy is on the wrong track. Corporate profits and all economic indicators indicate recession. Establishment politicians are being tarred and feathered. Do you believe the facts or do you believe the government manufactured propaganda, propagated by their corporate MSM mouthpieces, and peddled by the Wall Street criminal bankers?

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He correctly calls it the “The Bureau of Lies & Scams”!

It should be unnecessary to estimate anything!

Use the tax withholding data — number of people paying taxes and how much they pay — and there is no need for fudging (i.e., adjustments).

Over time all the “seasonal effects” will sort themselves out.

Unfortunately, “We, The Sheeple” are fooled by all the “adjustments”.

But you just have to look with your own eyes. Just yesterday, I rode by several half empty shopping centers and several completely empty one. Add all the stand alone sites that are empty and available!

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Where are the photos of the people of those who can’t?

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

http://www.cato.org/blog/oregon-legislature-repeals-laws-supply-demand

MARCH 4, 2016 9:50AM
Oregon Legislature Repeals Laws of Supply & Demand
By RANDAL O’TOOLE

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Buoyed by its success, the legislature yesterday passed a law legalizing inclusionary zoning, that is, forcing homebuilders to sell a certain percentage of their products below cost. This will also lead them to build fewer homes and to sell the market-rate homes they do build for higher prices to offset their losses on the “affordable” homes. In other words, this law relies on the counterintuitive notion that making housing more expensive will make it more affordable.

Once again, the legislature is playing a balancing game. A few people will get–and be very grateful for–more affordable housing. Every other homebuyer and renter will end up paying more, but not enough more for them (the legislature hopes) to complain about it.

The Oregonian, for example, accompanied my article criticizing the urban-growth boundary with a photo of a man who enjoys “affordable” housing provided by the city of Bend that was funded by taxing all other new homes in the city. Where are the photos of the people having to pay higher taxes or who can’t afford to buy a new home because of that tax?

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This is just a variation of Bastiat’s Broken Window fallacy.

“The broken window fallacy” — Frédéric Bastiat Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen) 1850 

The politicians and bureaucrats are always “giving” but we don’t see those “taken from”.

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LINKEDIN: “Save to Contacts” feature removed silently

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/43372

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Note: As part of our ongoing efforts to invest our resources in building a better LinkedIn, we’re retiring the Save to Contacts feature on February 25, 2016. You’ll still access all of the Contacts you’ve previously saved by going to your Connections list, choosing the Filter By Tag option, and selecting the Saved_Contacts tag.

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I used this feature a lot.

It just disappeared. 

Hence I’m dropping the premium feature of LinkedIn.

Sad, when these “services” go rogue.

Guess they don’t need my money!

Too bad. Argh!

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