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  • Threat of disconnection of Microsoft 10 license

    10/01/2018 5:03:10 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 59 replies
    October 1, 2018 | self
    I just got a phone call saying that my Microsoft 10 account has been compromised by any of several foreign sources, and that I should contact the phone number they have to set up a firewall against it being taken down or loss of all information they have on the cloud under this account. I small a rat.
  • Ryan slams Paul for 'publicity stunt' (Truncated)

    03/04/2017 3:39:44 AM PST · by alloysteel · 19 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/03/2017 | Lisa Hagen
    1.1K Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Friday blasted Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) hunt for House Republicans’ closely held draft bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare as a “publicity stunt.” “I like Rand, but I think he’s looking for a publicity stunt here,” Ryan told Fox News' Bret Baier. “The things he described are just not accurate.” Paul tweeted on Thursday that the ObamaCare legislation was being kept under “lock and key” in a “secure location.” He then went to the House side of the Capitol to try and enter the room where he said the bill was located — with...
  • Obama nominates former Pentagon official Ashton Carter for defense secretary

    12/05/2014 11:41:32 AM PST · by alloysteel · 5 replies
    Fox News Network ^ | December 5, 2014 | Fox News Staff
    President Obama on Friday announced former Pentagon official Ashton Carter as his choice to lead the Defense Department, calling him one of America's top national security leaders who has a "relentless dedication to our armed services." The president's selection of Carter, 60, who was deputy defense secretary from October 2011 to December 2013, was widely rumored but not confirmed by the White House until now. If confirmed by the Senate, Carter would be Obama's fourth Pentagon chief in his roughly six-year administration.
  • Circuit Court invalidates Obamacare subsidies

    07/22/2014 9:28:16 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 17 replies
    American Thinker ^ | July 22, 2014 | Rick Moran
    A surprising ruling from the notoriously liberal DC Circuit Court. By a 2-1 vote, judges ruled that the subsidies received by purchasing insurance through healthcare.gov website are invalid. In a potentially crippling blow to Obamacare, a federal appeals court panel declared Tuesday that government subsidies worth billions of dollars that helped 4.7 million people buy insurance on HealthCare.gov are illegal. A judicial panel in a 2-1 ruling said such subsidies can be granted only to those people who bought insurance in an Obamacare exchange run by an individual state or the District of Columbia — not on the federally run...
  • Senators accuse GM of trying to cover up defective switch tied to 13 deaths

    04/02/2014 3:35:15 PM PDT · by alloysteel · 34 replies
    Foxnews.com ^ | April 2, 2014 | AP release
    Members of a Senate subcommittee accused General Motors of trying to cover up problems with an ignition switch that is now tied to 13 deaths, and pressed CEO Mary Barra to commit to punishing anyone involved. Panel members also told Barra that GM should tell owners to stop driving all the 2.6 million cars being recalled for the faulty switch until they are repaired. GM is currently telling owners the cars, mainly Chevrolet Cobalts and Saturn Ions, are fine to drive as long as nothing is placed on the key chain.
  • New Poll: Alex Sink Leads David Jolly For District 13 (Florida Congressional Race)

    02/14/2014 8:44:48 AM PST · by alloysteel · 8 replies
    WUSF Media ^ | February 12, 2014 | Steve Newborn
    A new poll shows Democrat Alex Sink has a good-sized lead over Republican David Jolly in the race to replace Bill Young in Congress. The poll shows Sink with a seven-percentage-point lead over Jolly. The poll was commissioned by WUSF Public Media, Bay News 9 and the Tampa Bay Times and surveyed 603 registered voters in Congressional District 13 - all who say they're likely to vote in the March 11 election. Forty-two percent of those surveyed are planning or leaning toward voting for Sink, with Jolly picking up 35 percent. Libertarian Lucas Overby is way back of the pack,...
  • Former WellCare executives found guilty,<br> acquitted of fraud charges

    06/11/2013 7:10:10 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 4 replies
    Tampa Tribune ^ | June 10, 2013 | Keith Morelli
    The 10-woman, two-man jury deliberating for weeks in the WellCare medical fraud trial delivered a mixed bag of verdicts at noon Monday, finding all four health care corporation executives guilty of a some of criminal charges against them while acquitting the same defendants of many others. On the more serious charge of conspiracy to commit medical fraud on each defendant, the jury was unable to reach verdicts and told U.S. District Judge James Moody they were deadlocked on those counts. "We respect the jury's verdict," said Lee Bentley, with the U.S.Attorney's Office in Tampa, though prosecutors will meet to decide...
  • The Wrong Prescription for America

    09/24/2012 9:12:19 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 7 replies
    Service Employees International Union ^ | September 20, 2012 | Staff
    Millions of Americans are faced with tough choices in this economy and millions more find themselves unable to find work and their life savings depleted. At a time when far too many working families are struggling to afford gas, groceries and rising healthcare costs, the Romney/Ryan healthcare plan for America would: 1. End Medicare as we know it - shifting more costs onto seniors and giving tax breaks to big corporations. 2. End Medicaid as we know it - forcing many seniors to be kicked out of their nursing homes. 3. Hand out $4.6 trillion in tax breaks over the...
  • Gas Prices Moving to All-Time High

    08/18/2012 1:29:29 PM PDT · by alloysteel · 29 replies
    The New American ^ | August 16, 2012 | Bruce Walker
    The prices that Americans pay for gas at the pump may reach an all-time high this summer. The average price is $3.70 per gallon, which is an increase of 30 cents since July and the climb in price from July to August was 9 percent. The increase is particularly concerning because a reduction in global demand, caused by a persistent world-wide recession, has kept demand for gas relatively low. Some have predicted that the price of gas will reach $3.90 per gallon before Labor Day. Gas prices have risen each month for seven straight months this year.
  • Using Smokestack Gases to Pump Oil

    02/17/2010 7:03:27 AM PST · by alloysteel · 9 replies · 304+ views
    The Wall Street Journal. ^ | February 8, 2010 | Ann Davis
    Carbon dioxide pouring from smokestacks hardly has a reputation as a valuable commodity. But one company has launched a series of projects to see if it can use the refuse of the industrial economy to breathe new life into tired oil fields. How well Denbury Resources Inc.'s projects go will be closely watched not just by environmentalists but other oil producers. For decades, companies have pumped naturally-occurring carbon dioxide from geological basins into existing oil wells. The gas acts like a solvent for the oil, removing it from rock formations.
  • Obama's AmeriCrooks and Cronies Scandal

    06/17/2009 11:26:20 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 12 replies · 806+ views
    Creators Syndicate ^ | June 17, 2009 | Michelle Malkin
    President Obama promised he would end "Washington games." But his abrupt firing of the AmeriCorps inspector general is more of the same. The brewing scandal smells like the Beltway cronyism of the Bush years. And the apparent meddling of first lady Michelle Obama in the matter smacks of the corruption of the Clinton years. If Obama keeps up with this "change," we'll be back to the Watergate era by Christmas. News of AmeriCorps watchdog Gerald Walpin's unceremonious dismissal first broke last week in Youth Today, an independent national publication focused on the volunteerism sector. Walpin was appointed by President George...
  • Sen. Storms Scolded for Obama Insult

    03/13/2009 6:38:35 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 40 replies · 1,746+ views
    Tampa Tribune from Associated Press ^ | March 13, 2009 | Staff Writer
    TALLAHASSEE - The debate over Florida's public campaign financing program turned ugly Thursday when Republican Sen. Ronda Storms mocked President Barack Obama as "The Messiah" and a Democratic colleague made a vulgar retort. It didn't escalate beyond that, and they agreed that voters should be able to decide whether to get rid of the program that gave statewide candidates more than $11 million in taxpayer money during 2006 elections. The Senate Transportation and Economic Development Appropriations Committee unanimously approved putting a proposal to repeal the public campaign financing program on the 2010 ballot.
  • Greene: Could Mike Ditka have altered U.S. history?

    10/18/2008 2:11:18 PM PDT · by alloysteel · 44 replies · 1,732+ views
    cnn.com ^ | Oct. 18, 2008 | Bob Greene
    HAGERSTOWN, Maryland (CNN)– With barely over two weeks left until Election Day, and Barack Obama ahead in the polls, a sudden thought occurred as we were rolling through Pennsylvania and Maryland: Could Mike Ditka, the former head coach of the Chicago Bears, have changed the course of U.S. history? It’s not that farfetched a question. Briefly, in the summer of 2004, Ditka was being pursued by Illinois and national Republican leaders to step in and run for the United States Senate against a newcomer to the political big leagues: Barack Obama, an Illinois state senator. Jack Ryan, who was expected...
  • FBI Agents Raid WellCare

    10/25/2007 5:08:00 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 13 replies · 1,279+ views
    Tampa Tribune ^ | October 25, 2007 | Carol Gentry
    TAMPA - About 200 agents from the FBI and other federal and state agencies descended on the headquarters of WellCare Health Plans on Wednesday morning in a raid, seizing laptop computers, files and boxes of documents. The company declined to comment on the raid, other than to confirm that state and federal agents searched its four-building campus on Henderson Road and to assure clients that services would not be affected. None of the agencies involved in the raid would comment on the reason for the search of the company, one of the nation's largest health insurers for government programs. Agents...
  • Iran's President Held Americans Hostage

    09/24/2007 6:03:13 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 11 replies · 972+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | September 23, 2007 | John LeBoutillier
    On Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York and the United Nations: isn’t it amazing that no one in Congress, the White House or the so-called mainstream media - or even talk radio or Fox, for that matter - ever mentions the fact that most of the remaining 52 American hostages from the 1979 illegal seizure by so-called Iranian 'students' are certain that Ahmadinejad was one of their captors? In fact, most remember him quite well as one of the toughest and roughest anti-Americans who advocated torturing the hostages and discussed executing some of them - within earshot of...
  • The Martyrs No One Cares About

    08/01/2007 10:37:56 AM PDT · by alloysteel · 25 replies · 751+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | August 1, 2007 | Michelle Malkin
    The blood of innocent Christian missionaries spills on Afghan sands. The world watches and yawns. The United Nations offers nothing more than a formal expression of "concern." Where is the global uproar over the human rights abuses unfolding before our eyes? For two weeks, a group of South Korean Christians has been held hostage by Taliban thugs in Afghanistan. This is the largest group of foreign hostages taken in Afghanistan since Operation Enduring Freedom began in 2001. What was their offense? Were they smuggling arms into the country? No. Inciting violence? No. They were peaceful believers in Christ on short-term...
  • Obama: Wasting His Own Breath

    02/14/2007 9:53:12 AM PST · by alloysteel · 27 replies · 1,221+ views
    Creators Syndicate ^ | Feb 14, 2007 | Michelle Malkin
    I have good news for everyone offended by the description of Sen. Barack Obama as "articulate." He has quickly shed any claim to that label. Indeed, Obama's remarks this week about American troops killed in Iraq were a bumbling, incoherent mess. You may now refer to him officially as the Inarticulate Barack Obama. (As for judging his current level of cleanliness and brightness, you know that's Joe Biden's milieu.) At one of his opening presidential campaign events on the Iowa State University campus this weekend, Obama pandered energetically to the anti-war crowd. With his smooth voice rising and thousands of...
  • Top general in Mideast to retire

    12/20/2006 7:24:06 AM PST · by alloysteel · 3 replies · 418+ views
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | Dec 20, 2006 | Peter Spiegel
    WASHINGTON — Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, has submitted plans to retire and will leave his post in March, a step likely to make way for a change in military strategy at a time the Bush administration is seeking a new plan for Iraq. Abizaid has been the primary architect of U.S. military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan since becoming head of the U.S. Central Command more than three years ago. He has strenuously resisted calls to increase troop levels to quell rising violence in Baghdad, arguing it would increase Iraqi dependence...
  • Gwynnie's anti-American script

    12/06/2006 7:10:13 AM PST · by alloysteel · 15 replies · 600+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | December 6, 2006 | Michelle Malkin
    And the Oscar for Most Dishonest Performance By a Spoiled Expatriate American Actress Trying to Dig Herself Out of a Public Relations Hole goes to . . . Gwyneth Paltrow. Over the weekend, the international press sent out word that Paltrow had trashed her native country during a press event in Spain. "I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America. People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner," the Shallow Gal was quoted as telling NS, the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias. "I like living here...
  • Why only Darfur?

    12/03/2006 6:15:53 AM PST · by alloysteel · 43 replies · 1,170+ views
    Tampa Tribune (from Washington Post) ^ | December 3, 2006 | Ann Applebaum
    There was a photograph: a weeping Sudanese woman, standing before a freshly dug grave. There were statistics: 400,000 people dead, 2.5 million driven from their homes, "untold thousands" raped. There was an appeal: "Innocent civilians are being slaughtered in Darfur. You can end it," and a Web address, www.dayfordarfur.org. This advertisement - which appeared recently on a full page of the International Herald Tribune and previously in other newspapers in Europe and the United States - was truly arresting. But what really made me look twice was the slogan across the top: "When all the bodies have been buried in...