Protect your religious liberty and freedom of conscience!

A recent edict by the US Department of Health & Human Services is “literally unconscionable.” It demands that sterilization, abortive drugs and contraception be included and mandated in all company health plans in the U.S. Including those of religious organizations! Conveniently this will go into effect in early 2013 — after the Presidential election under “Obama Care”. This mandate, which includes religious organizations who offer insurance to their employees, is an assault on religious beliefs being imposed upon a religion by the state. Hopefully it will be struck down by the Supreme Court sometime this year…  but in the meantime in an unprecedented fashion, Roman Catholic bishops are fighting back with the help of the House of Representatives.

To correct the threats to religious liberty and rights of conscience posed by PPACA (Obama Care), the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act has been introduced in Congress (H.R. 1179, S. 1467). This measure will ensure that those who participate in the health care system “retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that is consistent with their religious beliefs and moral convictions.” It is more important than ever that Members of Congress be urged to co-sponsor this measure. 

Study the issue & then write to Congress urging support for the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act here.

Read on to see and hear the thoughtful and articulate video response from one Catholic bishop in the U.S. that should make all of us open our eyes regardless of our faith – or non-faith…

Waking Up the Sleeping Religious Giant in America !

Key Campaign Issue? — You bet !

Watch the statement from Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., Diocese of Trenton, on the Threat to Religious Freedom:

This reaction is just the tip of the iceberg as this Obama Health Care bill, which conveniently goes into effect in AFTER the election this November. It will surely be raised as a central issue in the Presidential campaign with perhaps the first election where religious institutions decide not to turn the other cheek and openly fight back using their bully pulpit!  Who will lead the charge against the Obama administration’s nanny state agenda in the fall?  The American People !!

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Some of our readers have asked us to recommend a review of popular, reliable and user friendly software applications and services for expanding the power and use of your iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Especially as it relates to iTunes software and managing music to get the most out of your Apple products.  We have recently been provided with a short list of some excellent software from an email newsletter recently published over at Rockbridge Reviews. We have reprinted it here with their permission.

We hope you fine the information and links useful… especially to help you get the most out of your “i” investments!

- Reprinted with permission from Rockbridge Reviews Newsletter

You can investigate and learn more details from the More Information / Developer’s Homepage links. There is also a reprint of an article submitted here at ZZ News and Reviews about Media Monkey as an iTunes alternative if you want to evaluate a more advanced and user friendly alternative to iTunes software for your Apple and Android devices!

One of our readers wondered why we would bring this up again…  Here’s why. We bring it up again to illustrate the types of bonehead tactics that were (and still are) being used by this current Administration. Its underlying philosophy and tactics are indirectly related and linked to the actions that Bank of America took this week to pass along increased regulatory costs to the consumer as a result of past Frank / Dodd bills enacted and proposed by Democrats.  All affected banks will follow.  You can thank the President Obama, the Democrats, and his neo-socialist “Finance Team”  for this crazy idea that thankfully has been shot down!  These new age “progressives” will have us at tax rates in excess of 60% for middle class Americans similar to the neo-socialist European country middle class tax rate if they continue to have their way!  Increased Federal Taxes = Redistribution of Wealth and is a core objective by so called progressive “central government” ideologues.   Say NO to this political ideology next November at the polls… I don’t need to tell you how.

FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW — THESE WERE THE TACTICS THAT WERE ACTUALLY BEING SERIOUSLY PROPOSED BY THE PAST NANCY PELOSI CONTROLLED CONGRESS LAST YEAR!

Would you really want the thinking that authored this bill back in power again ???

Submitted by Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA2]  Feb 2010 in an effort to hijack the American banking system to increase government spending and entitlements.   (Could not pass thanks to last summer’s “Tea Party” groundswell.    Thank God!)

A 1% tax on all bank transactions proposed by Democrats in HR 4646.  Check out HR 4646. (Now DEAD !)

President Obama’s finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee (TAX). Obama’s plan is to sneak it in after the November elections to keep it under the radar. (Fortunately it failed thanks to Republicans and “blue dog” Democrats that were not willing to fall on their swords for Obama! — ed.)

This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution – banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer within your account, will have a 1% tax charged. ~If your paycheck or your social security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction. ~If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand carry your paycheck or any check into your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be charged. ~You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50 just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank.. ~If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged.

Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax. Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn about this guy’s under-the-table moves to increase the number of ways you are taxed.

Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank. Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank.

Some will say, oh well, it’s just 1%. Are you kidding me? It’s a 1% tax increase across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at will. And if anyone protests, they will just say, “Oh,that’s not really a tax, it’s a user fee”! Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made from on year’s banking statements. Then add the total of all those transactions and deduct 1%. Still think it’s no big deal?

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” – Barry Goldwater
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Most of the time computer slowdown and sluggishness is due to problems in your Windows registry, especially if you are still using a Microsoft operating system like XP or Vista.  Windows 7 does do a much better job of performing this type of care and feeding maintenance behind the scenes for you. However, if you are still on an Windows XP or 7 operating system you might want to learn a bit more about the benefits of keeping both your PC Registry and your hard drive maintained properly with low cost automated cleanup software. Learn more about what the Windows PC Registry does and why in fact you need to be concerned about its health as well in this recent FAQ article associated with PC Health Advisor…  this is a super utility that does a great job of pinpointing what parts of your PC system need clean up and optimization to make it run faster…  !  

There are many products on the internet that claim to do these services for you. Some are not worth even the few dollars they charge for their products. Many however are exceptional.You should always do some comparison shopping and find out more about PC utilities and compare for more in depth information.

Won’t you help him out ???

Ever wonder what it was like working and managing at a leading edge high tech firms during the rise of the Silicon Valley in the 80s and 90s?  Ever wonder what’s changed and why?  If you are interested in the history of Silicon Valley, and the management theories and philosophies (both good and bad) that sprang from the very heart and soul of the information technology revolution, then you will like Managing By Process: A Silicon Valley Retrospective.  It provides some very interesting insights written in an unusually stealthy essay by an insider, Scott Adams with over 30 years of business management experience at not one but two of the top Fortune 100 companies in Silicon Valley. Its instructive, informative and also pointedly sarcastic and critical of the management style that sprang from Silicon Valley during the past two decades. If you are a new manager or even a seasoned manager — whether you work for a large company or a small one — we recommend you take a look There is a free sample  link here for Kindle readers and also at the bottom of the review article.

Reprinted with permission from BlogCritics:

Article first published as Book Review: Managing by Process: A Silicon Valley Retrospective by Scott Adams on Blogcritics.

Managing by Process: A Silicon Valley Retrospective, written by Scott Adams, a senior manager at two top Fortune 100 companies located in the hot-bed of the 1990s Silicon Valley technology explosion, provides an interesting and sometimes humorous retrospective on the changes in culture that took place in the heart of Silicon Valley over the past three decades. With over 30 years of experience managing in this once unique culture, Mr. Adams successfully traces back the evolution of the once employee-centric business culture which dominated the Silicon Valley corporate environment into a culture that  now remains only in a handful of firms in the surrounding Bay Area.  Why the change? Adams takes you on both an informative and entertaining journey to answer this very question… and provide some insight and lessons for managers seeking to change culture within their organizations today.

The reader is transported back 30 years to a healthier time where a set of five key employee-centric business process principles reigned supreme. These were the hallmark principles at several leading edge Silicon Valley firms during the dawn of the digital information revolution. The author traces the changes and factors which led up to the erosion of these very same principles over the course of the last two decades. Adams offers both seasoned and novice managers alike several worthwhile insights on the value of learning from the mistakes of the past in order to lay a solid foundation for the future.

Managing by Process is cleverly written and interlaced with a number of true stories and humorous anecdotes which illustrate the pros and cons of the paradoxical management theories and fads spawned in Silicon Valley during past several decades: MBO (Management by Objective), Team and Individual “Self Appraisals,” complex performance evaluations, ISO 9000 hysteria, Hoshin and other overly convoluted planning practices. The rise of outsourcing, “leadership training,” Six Sigma, TQM and the questionable liberal use of new age MBA consultants who at times redirected the course of major multinational organizations based solely on “theory” with little or no real world business management experience are just a few phenomena examined!

Original Article Located Here: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-managing-by-process-a/#ixzz1YXoojmQY

The best registry cleaner software programs are designed specifically to speed up your PC and stop error messages. They do this by scanning the Windows registry and removing broken or obsolete registry entries.

This article is aimed at providing you information in a registry cleaner review so that you can make an informed decision when deciding on which registry repair tool tol use.

The registry is an important part of your PC, and you should only use the best products when dealing with it. (Failure to follow directions by removing registry keys without knowing what you are doing can cause your computer to fail on boot up. Always make a backup BEFORE using any PC registry cleaner for the first time.)

Registry cleaners are a great maintenance tool for your PC. The registry is like the central nervous system of your PC, and problems with the registry can bring even the most robust computer to its knees. Even small registry errors can cause your PC to stop running normally.

About 99% of the time, the reason that computer performance decreases and errors become more prevalent is because of software not hardware problems. That is, problems arising from your operating system (i.e. Windows) and all the programs that are installed on your computer. The remaining 1% of the time, it’s due to a malfunctioning part of your hardware.

Cleaning and optimizing the Windows registry is a good place to start. For more information about what the registry is and how and why it should be cleaned, see our Registry Repair FAQ.

However, computer errors and poor performance can also be the result of a number of other issues including a fragmented hard drive, too many junk files and unnecessary programs running in the background.

ALL IN ONE SOLUTIONS:  We have found that an all-in-one suite of tools like PC Health Advisor which addresses all these problem-areas costs virtually the same as a ‘normal’ registry cleaner is a great value.

STAND ALONE SOLUTIONS: However for specialty work in your registry, products like RegCure are superior.  Both “all-in-one” and “Stand Alone” work great but one is more focused on a particular area of your PC’s health than the other. There are usually additional benefits to this. More in depth diagnosis and clean up for one.

Note: If you’re sure you only want a simple registry cleaner, consult our review below for help finding the right one.

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PC Health Advisor is a Comprehensive Suite of Tools That:

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Why pay a repair shop to basically run the same program?

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Registry Repair Software

Reg Cure is an excellent registry scanner and repair tool designed by ParetoLogic Inc. It is perhaps the hands down leading registry cleaner in the stand alone category!  One of the most reliable registry cleaners downloadable on the internet.

Because of it’s quick and comprehensive scanning and repair process, RegCure is one of the most popular registry cleaners in use today. It is arguably one of the more comprehensive and effective automated registry cleaners you can use to protect your PC
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RegistryEasy flies somewhat “under the radar”, not quite as widely used as some of the other registry cleaners although it has been downloaded by thousands of people and is very capable aswell.

RegistryEasy isn’t watered down with a bunch of bells and whistles, so it relies on it’s rock-solid registry editor & cleaner.

Direct Download Demo >>
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RegGenie has quickly become one of the most popular registry cleaning and PC-Optimization utilities on the market.

If you own a website… do you have a website server uptime monitoring and notification service?

A good website uptime / downtime monitoring and notification service is essential. We recommend trying out some of these new notification services reviewed below. Especially if you run a website that generates revenue!

If you have a website of any type or a blog running under ANY server or content management system platform, it’s always a good idea to be alerted if your site is down for any reason! Rockbridge Monitoring has introduced a new website monitoring system that can provide you that instant notification.  We have added some links here for our readers where you can go directly to their site and test it out for yourself using any website URL. You can also sign up your own website for free and then try out their notification service in real time before subscribing…  Sweet! They offer both a free trial version as well as multiple upgrades based on monitoring intervals you desire…

These services are affordable and are worth checking out if you don’t have any online method of monitoring your website’s uptime. They are excellent if you want to be alerted on your cell phone or Blackberry if your site ever goes down…

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Question: When did the U.S. Executive Branch become subservient to the UN and NATO and not the American people through our representatives in Congress?  Answer: Under President Barack Obama 2011.

TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO acknowledged Saturday that its aircraft had mistakenly hit a column of rebel military vehicles last week near the Libyan oil port of Brega, and early Sunday morning the Qaddafi government showed reporters a destroyed cinder-block house that neighbors and the government said was hit by an errant NATO airstrike in the capital.

In Libya, More Novice Soldiers in Defense of Qaddafi (June 18, 2011)
Times Topic: Libya — Protests and Revolt (2011)

Rescue workers searched for survivors amid the rubble.

Two bodies were pulled from the rubble, and at the Tripoli Central Hospital, government officials showed reporters three others, including an infant and a child, who they said were killed in the house.

It was the first time in three months of airstrikes that the Qaddafi government has presented credible evidence of what appeared to be direct civilian casualties of NATO attacks. Although the government has often claimed large numbers of civilian deaths, it has never previously presented bodies or consistent facts about the dead.

The destroyed building was far from any obvious military facility, in the Souq al Juma area, which is known for its hostility to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and some neighbors who said they opposed him nonetheless confirmed the government’s account of an airstrike. Still, journalists visiting the site found no pieces of a bomb. NATO could not be reached for comment, and it was impossible to rule out another explanation.