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Feed Store Free Appliance Pickup: Convenience, or Raw Deal?
If you’ve ever heard those commercials from your local power company urging you to use less electricity, then you’ve heard the plea to use wisely, conserve energy, and they even offer to pick up your old appliances for free if you buy new energy efficiency ones. Sometimes they even offer to pay you a small amount of money to pick them up for you. It seems like a decent gesture on the surface of it, why else would they want to haul away your broken appliances?
Fence Line Memorial Day: Promises Broken
The list of broken promises to our nations heroes is growing longer every day, the resignations within the VA will not raise those veterans who died at the hands of the own caregivers. ...And but for a proud few; as a nation we have yet to do anything but stand aside and watch it unfold… Unmoved, unstirred and apparently uncaring: United we stand, our integrity stolen, our honor besmirched, our heroes forgotten…
Out to Pasture How to secure your home computer without the scare tactics
Every time an advertisement on a website declares they’ve found a “Weird new trick” that will magically evade all car insurance rules, or will make you rich “while you work at home,” you open the door yourself to invite disaster in for a free meal.
Feed Store The Magical Mystery Batch, how bank’s use it to rip you off.
Some banks have changed how they process payables, and by payables I mean those checks or other types of transactions that pay funds from your bank account to other people or businesses. This type of processing, which for simplicity’s sake I’ll call the Magical Mystery Batch...
Out to Pasture What you (or your IT department) should do right now to secure Windows XP
Everyone keeps telling you how every hacker on the planet is now targeting you and your XP machine. But is it really the end of the road for Windows XP? Are you left hanging in the breeze with no recourse? The answer may surprise you.
Out to Pasture Microsoft: Digging out of the XP hole.
Recently, Microsoft has been faced with several major problems: We’ll take a look at each of those problems, how Microsoft appears to be overcoming them, and how that’s going to…
Pecking Order 2014 Conservative Policy Summit: An Agenda to Unite America
2014 is a crucial year for our country. This fall the American people will go to the polls and choose between two vastly different visions for the future. The…
Front Porch What “defines” you?
Someone asked me today "What defines you?" I thought about that for a minute... Here's my answer:
Pecking Order Common Core: A Principal’s response
As a follow up to my previous article, I asked the Principal at an Idaho school some rather pointed questions about Common Core and how it relates to my instruction for my child in particular. I have placed some of those questions and answers here for your review.
Pecking Order Common Core: What does it mean for parents?
So far, the teachers I’ve talked to express more resignation regarding the common core standards than anything else. In the case of my oldest daughter’s school, the teachers of AP…
Pecking Order Our Historic President
You know, when people across the country touted Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency as “Historic” I bet they never dreamed that this President would actually slap one third of the entire population right across the face and kill their medical coverage in one fell swoop…
Fence Line Minus One Leg, Wounded Vet from Lake Orion Tears it Up on the Ice
Wounded vets “have overcome just about every obstacle you can think of to get back on the ice,” says a Marine who played in last week’s Wounded Veterans Hockey Classic at Comerica Park. The Canadians beat the United States in the first Wounded…
