Post Scripts

by Jack

I’ve been having computer problems, however the fix is near. Sorry I have not be able to respond to many of your comments like I wanted, nor post all the great stories I have been finding. But, that will change soon with a new puter. Seems these addictive toys only last about 3 years now and that’s just long enough to be outdated…I think it’s a big marketing ploy. They want to keep selling us the latest wizziest toys. Anyone have any ideas what’s a good computer these days? I’m told HP is not so good, Gateway is fair, Dell’s just okay.

Posted by Tina

Jackson is broken and can’t work but he’s got the system down. PJ Media reports:

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was re-elected on Nov. 6 despite being both under ethics investigation and in rehab at the Mayo Clinic. He has not actually been on the job in Congress for the better part of a year. Now that the ethics investigation seems to be heating up again, he’s negotiating for a way out that would put him on the dole, forever.

Rep. Jackson struggles with addiction and other disorders but has threatened he will not step down from his position in Congress unless he is guaranteed permanent disability insurance, claiming that disability payments would be “his only source of income”.

Can you spell entitlement mentality? It pervades in our nation.

Congress has a couple of weeks to respond to his demand. Guess how?

Jacksons “reverend” father is reportedly worth $10 million. (How wealthy are his perishoners that they can give so much?)

No longer are we the home of the free….we have become the home of the spoiled rotten, demanding dependent.

Posted by Tina

Jobs! We need jobs. There isn’t much hope that many new jobs will be created now that President Obama has been re-elected and will double down on his anti-business agenda. The news out this morning about unemployment is a bitter pill for those of us who understand how jobs are created; people are hurting, America is in decline, and the ranks of the poor will continue to grow wiping out gains made in the middle class.

The Labor Department reported today that new jobless claims rose by 78,000 in the first week after the election. Breitbart reports

Some of the new claims, especially in New Jersey, were due to Hurricane Sandy–but these were offset by a decline in claims filed in New York. The highest numbers of new filings came from Pennsylvania and Ohio, where there were thousands of layoffs in the construction, manufacturing, and automobile industries.

Both states had been targeted by the presidential campaigns. President Obama highlighted his record of job creation in Ohio in particular, focusing on the automobile industry. The state reported 6,450 new jobless claims in the week after the election–second-highest after Pennsylvania, which recorded 7,766 new claims.

How long will it take for the people to figure it out exactly who is the author of this decline in American progress and exceptionalism? Even if they figure it out will it be too late?

By Jack

Now the truth comes out. It seems the Regents of California took out some risky investments and now they put the UC system billions in debt. I knew the money wouldn’t go to the pockets it was intended, but I thought it might take longer than this to find out. Here’s you new tax dollars at work folks! (This is why you read PS)

According to a report released Tuesday by researchers at UC Berkeley:

Over the last decade, the UC Board of Regents has engaged in risky deals with Wall Street banks called interest rate swaps. Banks sold swaps to the university and other public institutions as insurance against rising interest rates on variable rate bonds. Under a swap agreement, borrowers such as the university paid a fixed rate to the bank in exchange for the bank paying the university a variable rate based on the markets’ interest rates for borrowing.

Now these swaps have turned out to be losing bets. UC is taking huge losses because interest rates plummeted following the financial crisis of 2008 – allegedly in part because of illegal manipulation by the same banks that sold the swaps – and have stayed at record lows. Swap deals already have cost UC nearly $57 million, with $200 million more in losses anticipated. Of the $250 million UC expects to receive from Prop. 30, some $10 million a year will go to swaps payments unless the deals are ended.

In other words, the UC Regents forgot the first rule of casino gambling: The house always wins!

There goes a big part of Prop 30 money and you wondered why we said no more money until you guys get your house in order? This is why!

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Prop-30-funds-for-UC-will-go-to-Wall-Street-4031472.php#ixzz2CDsGwm23

Posted by Tina

Jennifer Griffen at FOX News today confirmed that the US was holding prisoners at the Benghazi annex near the consulate compound. US agents handed three prisoners over to Libyan authorities on their way out of the city on September 12. The prisoners may have been held in the compound for several days.

We have more questions than we have answers about the Benghazi Terror attack. We deserve answers!

Fast Fact: One in five Americans now on medicaide designed only for the poor.

Source:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/record-704-million-enrolled-medicaid-2011-1-out-every-5-americans

Fast fact #2: Spending in the last year of life accounted for 27.4 percent of all Medicare outlays for the elderly. minorities and for those living in ZIP code areas with high poverty rates. Medicare per capita spending for minority decedents was about 28 percent higher than for others, while spending for beneficiaries in high-poverty ZIP codes was 43 percent higher than in ZIP codes with the lowest poverty rates.

Source: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/20/4/188.full

A Florida judge said on Wednesday that the trial of George Zimmerman, who is charged in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, will begin next spring — nearly a year and a half after Mr. Martin’s death prompted nationwide protests. Not such a big deal now is it? Once the media moved to the next story du jur it’s all ancient history. Nobody really cared all that much, it was all about getting attention, maybe some media time and exploiting an event for their real agenda, in most cases this was racism.

by Jack

When you are having trouble loading a new product on your computer one of the first things we do is try to contact tech support from the internet. There are numereous websites that look like the factory site, but if you read closely they arereally re-directing you to another commercial site usually in India. You open your chat window and you think you’re talking to the authorized tech support, but what you may have reached is y someone trying to selling you computer repair software and typically at an inflated price of up to 3X what you could normally buy it for direct.

The tech asks you to download a file that lets them scan you computer in order to detect the problem. Then they run a diagnostic which always turns up something horrible and they tell you they can’t proceed with the repair unless you clean up all the bugs in your computer first. Of course this requires the purchase of additional software, then they can help you.

Typically they ask $100 for the product download and if you balk at that price they always say well, let’s see if my manager will allow me to help you with a lower price. Lucky you, they’re going to help you alright. They put the phone on hold for 30 seconds and then come back with a $50 dollar offer. Chances are the actual software costs between $19-$30. It’s all done as a sales scam, even though you may actually get some assistance with the original problem.

Typical products for this scam is software that cleans up old files, malware, cookies, an your register. There are any number of brands out here that will all do the same thing, but few new computers need this software, it’s already in Win 7 and Win 8.

So beware of that website! Make sure that site is for legitimate support by reading their address. For example: A good website will read, www.microsoft.com, the fake site will look like this www.microsoft/precision/repair.com But, be samrt, please don’task the tech if they are legit because you know what the answer will be.

Yes, there are worse scams out here, at least this one gives you something for your money…although its at an inflated price and worse yet, it may not fix your problem.

This Saturday, the Midwest Marxist Conference was held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The event was teeming with teachers who spoke about the new found bond between the radical socialists and their Teachers Union. The all-day event, which collected money to support Chicago Socialists and featured a communist bookstore, provided students on-campus along with the radical left community to plan the next phase in their activism.

Becca Barnes, a Chicago Teachers Union teacher and organizer with Chicago Socialists, proclaimed at the beginning of the conference that “the struggle here in the United States has entered a new phase. Nowhere have we pointed the way forward more clearly than here in Chicago with the teachers union strike.”

Read more here.