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Gore Photoshops Hurricanes, Snow, Water into/out of Globe
Check out the link, where Al Gore shows in his new book, a photoshopped globe. Of particular note, the hurricane off the coast of Florida is spinning the wrong direction, Cuba is completely underwater (about 2000 meters/6000 feet of water – meaning Denver would be too) etc.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/with-hurricanes-at-thirty-year-low-gore-turns-to-photoshop.html
For most Americans, the world beyond the US’s borders is nothing more than an irritating nuisance
For most Americans, the world beyond the US’s borders is nothing more than an irritating nuisance. Hence arguments based on appeals about drowning Bangladeshis, starving Africans and flooded islands in Indonesia have little effect. … Many Americans clearly also believe that real climate change is just something dreamt up by the entertainment industry. – Der Spiegel. (See article).
You have to wonder about the author of the article with such short-sighted and ignorant comments. We might say something like the following: “The people that brought us two world wars now want to control the rest of the world through climate change agreements instead of by force, but controlling us is what they want.”
Then again, we wouldn’t want to step down to anywhere near the level of Der Spiegel, but the authors comments are still some of the most ignorant we’ve heard from Germany in a while. Der Spiegel might want to encourage to give freedom a try instead of pushing a socialist agenda. Freedom does not sit well with much of Europe. Seeing a country that still is much freer than all of Europe can’t sit well when looking in the mirror. Freedom in a country that saved them from complete totalitarianism twice in the last century can’t sit well when they have slowly given away their freedoms to unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Slavery for a good cause is still slavery. Being manipulated into believing in man-made global warming may be comforting in that you can be “for” a “good cause,” but it is still being manipulated.
Best Buy sends credit card info!
Following in the footsteps of others, Best Buy and HSBC Bank send private information without a method of notifying them of their mistake. They obviously do not bother to verify email addresses. So, Tom H***** is getting information from Best Buy about his account ending in 8954 sent to us.
The kicker is that Best Buy and HSBC included the statement that “We maintain strict security standards and procedures to prevent unauthorized access to information about you.” I guess that is, unless of course HSBC and Best Buy send it to the wrong email address they do not bother to verify them.
After speaking with a supervisor, they intended to “try to find the account number” and delete it, but apparently there is no method for them to look up an account number by email address, name or last four digits.
BMW Financial Still sends private information!
After our update from last week and 3 calls to BMW FInancial, BMW is still sending Sandra A’s private information to us. Now, BMW Financial assured me that they would look into the problem of why they were sending someone else’s private information to me and correct it. Alas it appears they did not. And they still provide no simple means of notifying them of their mistake.
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Dear Sandra Axxxxxxxx:
The payment for your 2006 BMW 325xi was received on 11/15/2009 and applied to your account.
Payment Amount : $430.57
Confirmation Code : 939159xx
Please allow up to 3-5 additional business days for your payment to be reflected on your bank account statement.
Please do not reply to this message. Replies to this message are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. If you have questions regarding your account, please go to the My Account website http://www.bmwusa.com/myaccount and click the ‘Priority Email’ link or call 1-800-578-5000, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. ET.
Continental Sends someone else’s Flight check-in information
And yet another example for poor privacy practices by Continental Airlines sending me flight check-in information for “Annmrs Zgonena”. Now it seems a bit strange that someone would be using an email address that does not belong to them to book a flight and the airlines wouldn’t know it. But it is also amazing the amount of information they share including the confirmation number, complete itinerary and the food selection with a complete stranger.
To make matters worse, Continental provides no method to notify them that someone is not using their own email address to book a flight.
HomeDepot and private information
As a follow-up, HomeDepot is yet another company that plays fast and lose with your privacy. Check the email out below.
Now in this same email, the Subject says “DO NOT REPLY.” In the text HomeDepot says “This is an unmonitored mailbox; please do not reply directly to this e-mail.” Then a few sentences further, it says “if this message has been sent to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail.” The do include a link to their privacy policy (http://www.homedepot.com/privacy). Fortunately OUR terms of service that apply to email sent to us, is that we may quote it here. Otherwise, emailing us is strictly forbidden.
HomeDepot should be including a link to report problems that are either fraud or honest errors. Likewise, HomeDepot should take the time to proofread their emails in order to ensure that they make sense.
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Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM
subject DO NOT REPLY: The Home Depot Home Services Appointment Details [47638xx]
Dear: Paul Jxxxxxx,
Thank you for submitting your information with The Home Depot’s Installation Services:
Home Insulation
Our representatives will contact you within 24 to 48 hours.
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This is an unmonitored mailbox; please do not reply directly to this e-mail.
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If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been sent to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments.
The Bribe
Nice article here on the ObamaCare bribe.
The Un-Constitutionality of Health Care ‘Reform’
The Un-Constitutionality of Health Care ‘Reform’ was detailed September 29, 1993 in the Wall Street Journal, page A19. One of the few locations of the article on-line is here. Some selected quotations:
If the legality of a health-care package featuring federally mandated universal participation is litigated (and we can bet it will be), and the system is upheld, it will mark the final extension of this originally modest grant of federal authority. Thereafter, Congress will be able to regulate you not because of who you are, what you do for a living, or whether you use the interstate highways, but merely because you exist. …
One of the fundamental tenets underlying the Constitution of 1787 was that the federal government was a government of limited powers. Unlike the states, which had more general authority to regulate their citizens, the federal government was to be limited to those powers found within the four corners of the Constitution. In particular, Congress could exercise only that authority specifically granted to it by the people and the states.
There was a list — and not a very long list. One of the powers enumerated on it was the “Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations and among the several States.”
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If the courts uphold Congress’s authority to impose this system, they must once and for all draw the curtain on the Constitution of 1787 and admit that there isnothing that Congress cannot do under the Commerce Clause. The polite fiction that we live under a government of limited powers must be discarded — Leviathan must be embraced.
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The implications of this final extension of the commerce power are frightening. If Congress can regulate you because you are , then it can do anything to you not forbidden by the handful of restraints contained in the Bill of Rights. For example, if Congress thinks Americans are too fat — many are — and this somehow will affect interstate commerce — who’s to say it doesn’t? — can it not decree that Americans shall lose weight? Indeed, under the new system, any activity that might increase the costs of health care might be regulatable.
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Once Congress’s power is extended to every individual not because of his activities, but because he is, limits on its power will depend upon the fortitude and creativity of the courts. No American, whatever his policy views on health-care reform, should rejoice at the disappearance of the last fragments of the principle that the federal government is one of limited powers. It is indeed ironic, and sad, that as the rest of the world is discovering the virtues of limiting their governments, the U.S. seems hellbent on unleashing its own.
From our perspective, we won last night – Pelosi
From our perspective, we won last night – Nancy Pelosi, Wednesday, November 4, 2009
After Democrats lost the Governors of NJ and VA while winning a race in NY. A few more “wins” like that, and Nancy Pelosi won’t be on the interview circuit!