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I’d rather get a root canal. I’d rather have the flu. I hate getting my driver’s license renewed. I hate it. I hate it. Nebraska is horrible –  Arizona was worse. The examiner in AZ was a crank who couldn’t believe that I didn’t see his dots line up in the stereoscope. He all but [...]

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Storms have pounded the Nebraska Panhandle with giant hail, and swept north and south of the Platte in wave after wave, but Kearney has only seen  (knock on wood) frequent rains, a bit of lightning and thunder, but no sirens wailing or warnings. As the jet stream moves northward, we might expect fewer, and less [...]

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A nice summary from NYT staff specialist on healthcare issues, Reed Abelson: The Cost of Doing Nothing on Health Care.   “It is a course that is literally bankrupting the federal government and businesses and individuals across the country.”

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Yes Virginia, (and Maryland) “Global warming” can mean MORE snow. Link: “Get This: Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow” Snow storms may be a somewhat unintuitive consequence of climate change, and it’s understandable that the unwelcome snow storms would be the butt of jokes, but did people in Washington really think that the crisis would [...]

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Conservatives have one tool to control the economy: interest rates, Those rates were run into the ground early in the last decade. That left the Republican administration and their allies with no option but magical thinking “thing will improve-they always do.” Republicans, the party of “deregulation” let the Wall Street Bull go tearing through the [...]

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http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/0737210/GameStop-Other-Retailers-Subpoenaed-Over-Credit-Card-Information-Sharing : MSNBC explains the scenario thus: “You’re on the site of a well-known retailer and you make a purchase. As soon as you complete the transaction a pop-up window appears. It offers a discount on your next purchase. Click on the ad and you are automatically redirected to another company’s site where you are [...]

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I wasn’t really following the Mac tablet rumors with baited breath, but when I heard an NPR brief about the unveiling, I visited Apple to look-see. Yeah. Okay. So the pay-per-opinion crowd will pan it (actually, they started weeks ago), but they are so wrong. This is another game changer, and the price is not [...]

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Viewing those wretched Haitian earthquake images provokes a outpouring of desire to help. The organization, Doctors Without Borders, is “on the ground” and has operated facilities in Haiti for years. That makes them an excellent choice for donations that will alleviate some of the current suffering. Before the earthquake, Haiti was not so much a [...]

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I logged  back into my Win-laptop Monday and spent a couple of hours getting the frisbee up to speed. I downloaded all the current anti-malware definitions, then I turned to those critical Microsoft updates again.  I manually selected just the titles that looked appropriate to my setup to avoid  the 94% problem. Still feel  irked [...]

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RANT ALERT II: I sometimes run across articles with references to Mac “Fanboys,” the people who prefer Macs to Windows. The pejorative is hogwash, bunk, poppycock, horsefeathers, hooey, twattle, a shibboleth of those with Mac envy. If it wasn’t just a more pleasant experience working on a Mac, I’d still have to keep one around [...]

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