My grandfather, Jesse Augustus Perkins (Oct 18, 1872 – Apr 19, 1951), was an engineer on the Central of Georgia Railway. The family moved back and forth between Columbus, GA where my mom was born to Savannah, GA where she graduated high school. Then the family did an amazing thing. They sent my mom to [...]
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Blogging to Live
September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · blogging
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How to Beat the Death Panels
August 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, US House, US Senate
Dog days, mid August. Congress is out, health care reform is a hot topic. This is a great time to scare seniors with talk of death panels and euthanasia. These imaginary death panels seem to be the work of Betsy McCaughey, a thinktanker at the right-leaning Hudson Institute. There is a provision in one of [...]
McDonalds Flunks Spoof Test
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · corporations
There is an Internet spoof going on. Do not fall for it. You get an email promising to add $200 to your account for filling out an eight question survey. As with email like this I turned on full message headers and forwarded it to spoof@mcdonalds.com. Two days later I got an unknown user message [...]
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