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Just a note to warn you about an online company. Back in September I ordered a supply from Hearguardian for cholesterol tablets. After thinking about the order before receiving it, I had decided to return it. When it was delivered to my post office box, I did return it unopened in the same box it had been shipped in. Now the problem begins. They had taken the amount for the tablets out of my checking account. After having written to them three e-mails and two letters, I still have not had a return check or refund of any kind.
So beware folks. I have written another letter today, sent another e-mail and now have posted the information on my web sites.
Diane

I’m going to do a FlipHere! Yes a FlipHere! When I originally started this blog I wanted to do a different technical blog, but didn’t tag it correctly. Therefore, from here on out the technical information will be on Techno1.wordpress.com the new blog specifically for that information.

Sincerely,

Diane Knaus

Scooter Libby former White House Aide has been convicted on 4 out of the five charges in the CIA leak case in U.S. District Court. The short story is that the jury didn’t believe him that he couldn’t remember the details. He and his lawyer will probably appeal the case. However, even the judge said that he had made a wrong ruling during some part of the trial. The reality is that Scooter Libby may eventually get real jail time. How much jail time can vary, as he is guilty of obstruction of justice. The eventual severity is foggy, even though he was a formal official of the US government. I guess it depends on how much integrity the final jusdge has and how far he or she is willing to go to make things right to the American public.

Scooter Libby can’t blame technology for this one, because it all boils down to him and what he said to other people. What is most important to other politicians should be that they need to remember conversations, or tape them to back themselves up.

What Apple iPod should make is a way to tape conversations between people. That way people cannot deny what they say. Of course there is the problem of big brother getting too much into peoples private lives. Wonder is they could change that to make it legal to tape conversations in the working place. I mean employers now can look into private emails when you do that on company time.

Martha Stewart only got six months in jail for her part in lying about her business stock information and sales.

You say you want to switch from your cable company because the rates are too high for your programming, and not only that, but, the digital broadband company has a triple play deal! Welcome to reality of commerce. A hundred bucks a month for internet, tv, and your phone with free local calls anywhere in the U.S., such a deal. It really is a deal these days, because your phone used to cost you $60.00 monthly or more, the tv cable $60.00 or more and the internet $25.00 a month which totals $145.00. They also do not have to dig up your yard to install cable wires. Good deal, You are now saving $45.00 per month, which equals $783.00 a year. That is enough to go away for a good weekend somewhere where it is warm, in January or February. Next year that savings might even be enough to get one of those fancy flat screen tvs that you can hang on a wall. Remember, put the savings away for something else that next year will save you even more money. Or you could even use the money now toward a laptop computer, which you can use to get more work done, and make more money$$$$. Ah capitalism!

 Remember when you were younger and Ma Bell used to charge  hundreds of dollars to your parents when you would ring up hundreds of dollars in long distance calls to your new romance partner. Those special hours on the phone which would erupt in giggles and sometimes tears you would eventually have to pay for in one way or another may or may not have been worth the trouble in retrospect.

Your mothers face got all red and she almost cussed you out when she saw the bill. Well in my house, I had to get a part time job to pay it off. If my dad had seen the bill, my bottom would have been real red, with handprints decorating it, and hot at the same time. I spent some time staying to myself when Dad was home before I paid the bill off.

Screech, swoosh, and fly on by the toll taker, but, don’t forget to pay the toll. Although these days states are trying to make money by sending you violations that are not accurate, they say oh yes you went in this lane on that day, at this time. Well, maybe you better check with whoever else was riding with you. Do you know that a photograph is taken of each vehicle that goes through a toll booth?

Your feet are also going to go screech, and swoosh when you get the violation bill, in fact you might want to sit down in a chair before you open the envelope. The envelope please! Oh just $2.50 toll, that isn’t bad, but check out the whopping fine of $15.00 as a violation fee. You could end up owing the state of Maryland hundreds of dollars just because of their EZ Pass technology which isn’t working correctly.

Ah oh yes, you have turned in the ID strip that you bought when you first signed up for the pass. Yet, you are still getting violation notices, and yes, you are paying cash when you go through a booth. AGRRHHH!!

So what do you do? Mail a well written letter to your governor who has been newly elected to void and null all violations because the technology just isn’t working. That might work if the rest of the people who are having problems also decide to take action.

Technology isn’t working the way it is supposed to, because people are getting fined when they should not be. Ah technology, now we really need people power to take the techies to task to fix the buggies. I say march on but, send letters to the Governor, and the press, yes they will get published.

Have a great day!

FEMA in Hot Water 11-30-2006

According to the Public Citizens Lawsuit Yesterday, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, granted the organizations request for a preliminary injunction against Federal Emergency Management Agency to prevent that agency from terminating housing benefits for hurricane survivors without first adequately explaining its decisions.

He ordered the agency to restore short-term housing assistance to all evacuees whom FEMA found ineligible since Aug. 31, 2006, until they receive adequate explanation for the decision and time to appeal. In a further rebuke, FEMA was also required to pay the short-term housing assistance benefits that evacuees would have received between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30.

“FEMA’s intransigence in the face of such overwhelming tragedy and need was truly stunning,” said Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen. “Now victims of these horrible natural disasters will have the tools they need to receive the assistance that they are entitled to.”

In the face of the worst natural disaster that the states have ever seen, I still can’t believe that officials and the Bush administration had the guts/cowardice to react so badly when televised evidence was so much in evidence as to what was going on.

“It is unfortunate, if not incredible, that FEMA and its counsel could not devise a sufficient notice system to spare these beleaguered evacuees the added burden of federal litigation to vindicate their constitutional rights,” Leon wrote in the decision.

The judge found that the Katrina evacuees’ “interest in continued housing assistance… could not be more fundamental and overarching than it is here” and that FEMA’s procedures for notifying evacuees of the reasons for denying them assistance fell short of constitutionally minimum standards. He concluded that FEMA’s notice procedures were “unconstitutionally vague and uninformative,” and described them as “Kafkaesque” and “cryptic.”

“This decision is a clear vindication of the evacuees’ entitlement to critical housing benefits that Congress guaranteed them in the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act,” said Michael Kirkpatrick, an attorney for Public Citizen.

The hurricane actually hit Florida on August 26, and left nine people dead in an area that knows what to do in a bad storm. As the storm moved in to the Gulf of Mexico it gathered strength, and the meteorologists began to speculate Katrina could hit the beaches of Louisiana and Mississipi with 25’ waves. Other experts warned that winds could reach Category 4 status with winds as much as 130 mph. Not only that, but, NASA had seen the storm coming on their instruments and radar screens. Were they told to keep quiet? No one will ever know that unless someone talks about it. At this point they have not done so. There are still agencies that I believe knew about the storm and its potential disaster capabilities and I still want to know why they did not speak up!

Mark Driscoll a Mars Hill (Washington State) pastor, is prompting women quit their jobs and become housewives again. However, he is getting real and down to the nitty gritty which some preachers won’t even think about doing. He realizes that because of the many problems society places on the larger numbers of low wage workers, they are getting zapped in the paycheck and in the benefits packages, jobs are still going overseas, and they are feeling helpless.

This pastor talks about Snoop Dogg and his lyrics, he applies it to his congregations daily lives. So what else does he do, well for one he goes back to the basics of discipline and hell hath no fury type of sermons. He espouses working together, helping each other build fences, share babysitting duties, etc.

Another guy professing women should just have babies in the news recently Warren Jeffs, who is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was arrested for his sexual assault on a minor. He has been a leader of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints church and he arranges marriages for rich men to 16 year old girls. In a televised report last week, the women are often left to apply for welfare while the men go out and make money which the women don’t have access to. Why, because they give a major portion of it back to the church of the LDS.

There are other fronts where women’s equality is at risk. Thomas S. Monaghan wants to build a town in Florida, where there are no abortion services, birth control, or pornography. It has been reported that he is willing to spend $250 million dollars to get his town built.

So women are still being asked to sacrifice, again an again because of what men think are their inalienable rights. The one thing to remember is that women don’t have to move to Monaghans city, they also don’t have to quit their jobs, and some young women in Utah can escape the Mormons practices of multiple wives, by taking an escape when they can. Mind you it isn’t always easy, it is sometimes downright dangerous. We women need to help each other build fences to protect us from predators.
Diane Knaus
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