I went to an Elliott’s Hardware Store here in Dallas, TX on Sunday afternoon to purchase a new outdoor US flag and a Texas state flag. As a proud US Navy veteran I fly them almost constantly on my home. Not just for holidays. My wife and I have purchased our flags from Elliott’s for 20 years as they were of good quality. Not so anymore. The store was bought out by new owners (the reason they...
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WOW! I just want to break free…
…from the Borg. Starting from the early days of the then truly horrendous America On Line (AOL) who were one of the earliest and perhaps first Internet Services that attempted to totally control my Internet experience. They went as far as secretly modifying my computers’ MS browser and operating system to suit their purposes and billing me with a non cancelable monthly “service” fee. I had to cancel my credit card to stop the charges....
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I earned my place on the Internet as one of the earliest pioneers. I didn’t invent it or anything so preposterous as one political idiot claimed, but I was there as a user in the early days. So I knew it when it was a free and honorable place for communication by simple text messaging and I and have watched it mature into the backbone of the socialistic marketing beast it is today. So be...
Continue reading...Except for viewing my family activities I have become extremely annoyed with the management and total control Facebook has over many people’s lives. For me it has become the false profit of Satan and destroying cultural values and the right (or is it now become a privilege) of personal privacy. Yeah, I am an old fogey and damn well proud of it. I shared as little personal information as possible in Facebook “registration”. I even...
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