Politicians are quick to lay down your life for their country ...instead of arguing about dignity, the justices disagreed about the practical question of whether invasive strip-searches are reasonably necessary to serve the interests of the jails and prisons. Kennedy’s majority opinion said that they were. Justice Stephen Breyer in dissent, pointed to studies finding the opposite. In one, … [Read more...]
Food Insecurity: Rusty Grocery Shopping Carts Endanger Your Food, Health & Children
Rusty Grocery Shopping Carts: How safe is your food? Here's looking at you Publix. Rusty grocery shopping carts endanger your food and health - along with children who sit in the carts and touch the rusty edges. I recently grabbed a cart at Publix, only to find a jagged, rusty piece of the handle sticking into my palm. I called over the manager on duty - Jorge, the assistant grocery manager - who … [Read more...]
How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing with Toxic People
Negative Energy - Toxic People - You Know the Type. Let's make one joint resolution for 2012. We won't let toxic people - persistently negative personalities - dictate our lives. I chanced on a book that can't be judged by the black border that swallowed the original cover...or the year it was first published (1999) and thankfully, since updated. The content is more current than the evening … [Read more...]
Condo Security Guards: Your Rights – Their Responsibilities
Condo Security Guards: What are the duties and obligations of security guards? What can an owner in distress expect? What exactly are condo owners and HOA members paying for? I wrote the following letter to our property manager following an incident with our condo security company. The security company owner apologized and the guard in question was removed from our property. Both the property … [Read more...]
Warning: Is LinkedIn using spyware to harvest private email contacts?
LinkedIn Email Security: It all began when LinkedIn sent an email asking if I knew a certain individual. I was shocked, because there was no public connection between us. Our "private" communications were limited to a half-dozen recent emails about my latest book project. He had a LinkedIn account/profile, but hadn't updated it for over a year. When I told him about the LinkedIn email, " … [Read more...]
Airport Scanners – European Commission Bans US Backscatter Scanners – Cancer Risks
We warned you months ago about new airport backscatter body scanners being forced on the American public. Now the European Commission has banned them at ALL European airports - though the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) hopes you won't pay attention. According to the Sun-Sentinel. Europeans ban US body scanners. The controversy over airport body scanners – and how safe they are – … [Read more...]
Credit Card Company Beats Wall Street Estimates by Raising Interest Rates
Master Card and Visa have been gouging cardholders for years, while American Express remained consumer and small business-owner friendly. Not any more. American Express raised interest rates about a year ago. Rates were hiked by over 5 percent annually in our low interest economy. The purported reason: Too many cardholders were walking away from their obligations. Or so American Express … [Read more...]
Thomas Jefferson – Banks are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson warned that the people will wake up homeless. Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the … [Read more...]
Pride of Lions, Gaggle of Geese, Exaltation of Doves & Congress of…
We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls. Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most … [Read more...]
US Economic Crisis Options: Dabble, dither, dump, default, destroy or be daring
US Economic Crisis by Dr. David Goldenberg: Strategies to Deal with the Economy (before late is too late.) [Dr. Goldenberg is the author of Creating Condo & Homeowner Association Documents and The Art of War 3: Canons of Commerce.] Here’s a mutually exclusive and exhaustive list of the broad families of strategies to deal with the current U.S. economic crisis. Which would you prefer? Tell … [Read more...]