I thought Democrats were against bullying?

According to a story on the New York Post website, Democrats have sent out a letter to their constituents that could be seen as threatening.

“Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the letter says.

“We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014.”

It ends with a line better suited to a mob movie than a major political party: “If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not.”

Many voters were outraged, but Peter Kauffmann, a spokesman for the New York State Democratic Committee, which is chaired by former Gov. David Paterson was quoted as saying,

“This flier is part of the nationwide Democratic response to traditional Republican voter-suppression efforts, because Democrats believe our democracy works better when more people vote, not less.”

Even though this letter was sent out to "...1 million registered Democrats who had failed to vote in previous midterm elections..."

So what they really meant was democracy works better when more DEMOCRATS vote.
And of course it's Republicans fault that they have to resort to threatening their constituents. Got it? Good. Don't forget it.

More details at http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/democrats-threaten-voters-to-get-to-the-polls/

Found on Facebook

I checked this out and found that it is a hoax. For the most part.
McAfee says it's just a hoax.


But Snopes says it has some truth to it. But not for consumers or cell phone customers. Only for businesses that still use PBX to place calls. That means if you have to "Dial 9" to place an outside call, then someone could tap into your line and use it to make long distance calls.


An old article from AT&T confirms this. (via The Wayback Machine) and provides some tips to avoid being scammed.

• This scam doesn't affect residential customers; its target is businesses.
• An AT&T service technician would never call customers and ask them to help check phone lines.
• The scam is generating a lot of interest in the media and over the Internet, but our network fraud experts report no increase in the number of fraud cases as a result of this notoriety.
• The best prevention against this type of fraud is for business managers to make their office staffs aware of it and to review what to do if it happens.
• If someone receives such a call, he or she should ask the "technician" for a call-back number or for the name and number of the caller's supervisor. Then hang up.
• To report this or any other phone scams AT&T business customers should call their account representatives. You also can call the AT&T Business Customer Care Center at 1-800-222-0400, or report the scam to your local law enforcement agency.

Either way, it's never a good idea to do anything online or on your phone that even seems suspicious. 

Some people don't even deserve to be named

Selietha Parker, and her brave daughter Alexis Goggins,who was shot 6 times by a dirtbag who was trying to kill her mother.

All too often we hear about cops shooting unarmed dogs (pets), shooting and killing innocent people for minor infractions, or beating down people that are old and feeble or mentally challenged.

But this waste of skin, A FOUR TIME CONVICTED FELON, is "...disarmed by police and arrested at the scene...". Why couldn't HE have been the one that was "accidentally" shot by police? Thus, saving the city of Detroit money they don't have, putting him on trial and then sucking up oxygen in a prison for 25- 60 years?

More of the story here.

Maybe I am just stupid.

Maybe I am just stupid. But if Qatar "...has been designated by the State Department as a “significant terrorist financing risk...” And has "... pledged more than $400 million to Hamas in 2012 and promised another $60 million last month." Then why has "Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently inked an $11 billion deal with Qatar to provide it with Apache helicopters and the Patriot and Javelin defense systems."?

Maybe it's just me....but aren't these the same people that were always bi-chin about the "Military Industrial Complex"? Are they now hoping to profit from Israel's destruction?

You want to save the Planet? Compost.

After 5 years at wordpress I've decided to move my blog to blogger. This was my first post there. 

(Originally) Posted on September 25, 2007 by mrmolehill

 

Could I have chosen a more boring subject for my first ever blogpost? Maybe.

But this is important enough to, well, be important. I know that you have heard about Cfl's and French fry grease for fuel. But the truth is that Gasoline, For all its faults is pretty much the best thing going right now. Will that change in the future? Man, I hope so. But for about the last 40 or so years, we have been hearing about solar and wind being the future of energy. And while most technologies have gotten better and less expensive, Solar is still not the panacea it was promised to be.

Since solar cells were originally made from slag (waste) from the silicon chip industry,and chips are now being made more efficiently, the solar folks have to actually manufacture their own raw materials, Thus solar is now MORE expensive than ever. And if you live in a neighborhood with trees as I do, you may find that you have to cut some down in order to get full capacity from them. (I would have to cut down two. A huge live oak and a ficus tree.) According to one website that sells solar power systems, “Solar Power accounts for 0.001% of the electricity generated in this country.” and as I have looked at various sites I have yet to find one that says that their manufacturing plant is powered by Solar electricity.

Wind power is somewhat better. The problem with Wind is that in order for it to provide power for even a small community a Wind machine has to be Huge, And properly sited. There is saying in Germany that “wind machines don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies.” Or you can have the small backyard machine. You don’t need an Electrical Engineering degree to install one, But it helps. So if your city's building code allows it and your neighbors don’t complain about the noise and you get enough, but not Too Much Wind and the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down in a thunderstorm, Then you may be able to supplement your grid power.

Which brings me to the subject at hand. (you knew I would get there eventually, right?) As I keep hearing, The main problem is an excess of CO2. Carbon Dioxide. There is just too much of it. Now I am not going to go into the sources of it, Be it SUVs’, electrical power plants or moose farts. The fact remains it’s there and we need to get rid of it. Sure we should find ways to reduce emissions in the future but Hey, I want to get the dirt out of my house now, then I’ll worry about tracking more in, OK.

So what can we do, what can anyone do right now without a great outlay of cash, To help get rid of some of this gas? Well, plants and trees breathe it, right? But the real problem is that we are stripping away the fertile topsoil and replacing it with chemical fertilizers. So you Vegans are not off the hook yet either. We throw away garbage everyday that can be turned into the best plant food on the earth. We seal it in plastic bags and truck It to centralized locations to be buried and, when the hill is big enough, turned into a golf course or a nice sled run. Then we truck in more plastic bags filled with COMPOST.



So why not stop wasting all that fuel and just make it yourself? It’s not hard, there are plenty of books on the subject, Although you can learn pretty much all you need to know in an article not much longer than this one. And those chemically fed plants? A plant that is not getting the proper Nutrients is not an efficient Co2 Processing machine. And compost is a much better and more balanced source of those nutrients than any chemist.

Chemical pesticides often kill natural adversaries of the bugs you are trying to get rid of. How many pounds of coffee grounds does the average coffee shop throw away each day? I’m sure you could get all you want just for the asking. Florists have dumpsters full of scrap plant material that they would much rather not have to pay to have hauled away. Recycled Plastic would make very good Compost bins. It just takes a little thought.