I am so used to Gmail working all the time for me that I was shocked when I woke up from a little nap and decided to check my Gmail and I got the message:
“We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.”
Oh NO Temporary Error 500 and numeric code 21.
Others are having the problem. I am sure they will have it fixed soon.
I am looking around at what I can cut to save a few dollars. I cancelled a wiget site that I was paying a few dollar each month to for their wegets.
I just cancelled the hosting company that I been using for years and years. That was Hostgator. I have had excellent service from them for many years. But my blogs are now running on TypePad and Blogger. I think I can put photos, images and other stuff that I need access to on other sites such as Google Drive. We will see how it works out.
Killing the two things saves me less than $15.00 a month. But it is a start.
Well at end of last month my Google commission was $90.00 and so I will not get any money from them this month. You have to have a commission of at least $100.00 before they pay you.
I am not even sure why I use Google AdSense. The last time I got any money from them was January 25, 2012 and that was $100.91 so I am not making any money from them. Keep in mind that includes YouTube money. I am a “partner”, of course now they say everyone is a partner, so I am not making money from my videos. I did get a lot of hits from the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman videos but I did not turn on advertising for those videos. I did feel that would be right.
There are people doing YouTube videos that are making a living. Also YouTube had given thousands of dollars from time to time to partners to help them make better videos.
I am not sure if they have done it or not yet but they are giving some partners $15K, I think was the amount, so they can buy hardware and software. I signed up for that give away but I am sure I will not get it.
If I got it I would buy a desktop computer, a couple of monitors, a new camera and lights and green screen hardware. I have never owned an Apple I wonder if that would be the type of computer to get.
I live on a very limited income.
There is something you do not know about me. I don’t tell anyone… I am a liberal Democrat and I feel guilty about it. I own some stocks! Please don’t tell anyone… I feel so guilty about it.
Am I a rich fat cat? No, far from it. I own a few penny stocks. I own a number of stocks and my total investment is less than $1000.00 (in fact less than $750.00 to be honest). That is the total amount of savings and investments that I have. If I died my family would have to use that for my cremation. Why do I say “if I died” because I should say when I die.
I am new to penny stocks. I been doing it less than six months. They are very speculative and very high risk but I am thinking now that people would be better off buying penny stocks than buying lottery tickets. What do you think?
I been sleeping, a lot, during the day time and then I am up all night not able to sleep. It is 2:36 AM. I guess I will go outside and take a little walk. I hope I do not run into a George Zimmerman.
“Washington (CNN) -- More than 100 people have been charged and an estimated $450 million in false billings uncovered by federal agents in a nationwide operation that authorities say is the largest bust in recent history.
Top law enforcement officials announced the charges were lodged in seven metropolitan areas, capping an investigation of several months into efforts to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health programs.
At least 91 of the defendants in the case have been taken into custody following an early morning roundup and the execution of 20 search warrants, the officials said.
In Miami, 59 people were charged. Seven defendants were charged in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, nine were charged in Houston, eight were charged in Los Angeles, 22 were charged in Detroit, one was charged in Chicago and one in Tampa…”
Well it is about time. But it is to little and to late.
The amount of Medicare and Medicaid fraud is massive. Doctors and other health care corporations are stealing billions of dollars.
If we add more federal agents to this sort investigation it does not cost us money. It saves us money.
The problem is not old people on Medicare or poor people on Medicaid. They are not the crooks. The crooks are “doctors” and lawyers and medical corporations.
The Republican Governor of Florida is just one sample of the fraud and crime taking place in the United States.
“…In 1987, at age 34, he co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation with two business partners; this merged with Hospital Corporation of America in 1989 to form Columbia/HCA and eventually became the largest private for-profit health care company in the U.S. He resigned as Chief Executive of Columbia/HCA in 1997 amid a controversy over the company's business and Medicare billing practices; the company ultimately admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the federal government over $600 million; Scott was not implicated. Scott later became a venture capitalist…”
A handful of these people get arrested from time to time. So the FBI and the government can take credit for doing something. I wonder how often these arrests just happen to take place before an election?
Do you get the picture. A guy is the head of a massive corporation that steals billions of dollars from the American people and nothing happens to him. Well something happens to him he get elected the Republican Governor of Florida.
Some of you may remember that when I was living in Orlando (FL) that I took a job with a contract guard company. They were so happy when I walked in the door.
They had the contract to provide security for a Columbia/HCA hospital.
So they put me in charge and sent me out to the Columbia/HCA hospital.
I had to work there a few months. It was the worst hospital I have even seen. They could do nothing correct. I guess the only thing that a Columbia/HCA do is steal money.
“(CNN) -- Steps were being taken to guard against a new threat of "body bombs" planted inside passengers aboard flights heading to the United States from overseas, a government official with knowledge of the threat said Tuesday.
Authorities have increased aviation security, especially on air carriers heading to the United States from the United Kingdom, other parts of Europe and the Middle East in the days surrounding the one-year anniversary of the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said the official, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the information and to protect the specifics of how the risk came to light…”
A lot of people give TSA hell over security steps taken at airports. They object to the scanners and pat downs. Part of it is politics. The Republicans hate government employees and they do not want any jobs with well paid employees and sure as hell not employees that are in a union.
If there is a threat from al Qaeda putting bombs inside people and then getting them on a U. S. flight just think about the steps that TSA will have to take to counter that threat.
What will they do?
They could do full body X-rays of everyone.
They could put the person in a bomb box of some sort and then blast them with signals that will set off any bomb.
I am glad that I do not fly.
I feel sorry for people that do fly.
We need a national ID card. One that is 110% secure. We could then could not worry about those people. Then we could turn our attention to all the real risks.
I was here at my computer… Like I am all the time.
I saw notice of an email that just came in and it was a email from PayPal saying that it was a receipt for my payment of $32.98 to the iTunes Store.
I never got anything from the iTunes Store.
I do have an Android cell phone and I think that I have it setup so that I can buy an android application or music or something using my cell phone and have them take it out of my PayPal account.
Well I went to PayPal and filed a report of an unauthorized transaction.
I also went into the PayPal settings and cancelled my billing agreement with the iTunes Store (Pro/Virtual Terminal).
This time of the month, end of the month, I am always broke. Thank God this withdraw did not cause my bank account to have a over draft.
If you are setup with the ITunes Store you better be careful.
I do not like having things taken direct out of my bank account.
In order to be a approved PayPal, I forget what they call it, user you have to have a bank account setup with them so that they can take money out of your bank account. If you are not a certified or whatever they call it user then it causes problems for you as a PayPal user.
Update: 05/04/2012
PayPal Says that they have finished their investigation of my dispute. They have issued a refund of the payment to me.
I do not see the refund in my account. I will wait a few days and see it it turns up.
I still do not know what I was charged for or who created the charge.
I saw a show yesterday on Bourbon whiskey. I do not drink. I have never drank.
But I watched all of the show. It was very interesting.
Makes me want to try Bourbon whiskey.
But with my family history I should not be drinking.
“Bourbon is a type of American whiskey – a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn. The name of the spirit derives from its historical association with an area known as Old Bourbon, around what is now Bourbon County, Kentucky (which, in turn, was named after the French House of Bourbon royal family). It has been produced since the 18th century. While it may be made anywhere in the United States, it is strongly associated with the American South in general, and Kentucky in particular…”
I been using Virgin Mobile for my cell phone service. I started with them when the 300 minute plan a month was $25.00 and when they increased the plan rate to $35.00 a month all of us that were paying $25.00 went on paying the $25.00 a month plus even if we got a new phone we kept paying the $25.00 a month.
Well Virgin Mobile just sent out a text message to everyone:
“New smartphones are any phones launching in May 2012 and thereafter.
To best complete a phone swap, we recommend waiting until your plan month is finished. This will avoid you having to pay for one month of service twice.
The Beyond Talk Plan rates that would apply are as follows:
$35/mo
Web, Data, Messaging, & Email: Unlimited
Anytime Minutes: 300 min.
$45/mo
Web, Data, Messaging, & Email: Unlimited
Anytime Minutes: 1200 min.
$55/mo
Web, Data, Messaging, & Email: Unlimited
Anytime Minutes: Unlimited
All plans include 2.5GB per month of full-speed data. Customers will continue to have data access but maximum speeds may be limited to 256Kbps or below for the remainder of the monthly plan cycle. During this time, customers may experience slower page loads, file downloads, and degraded streaming media. Throughput speeds will be restored when your new monthly plan begins.
2.5GB gets you 400,000 mobile Internet page views, or 91 hours of streaming music, or 20 hours of video clips, or 36,000 emails without attachments. Data usage per activity is based on average. Bandwidth varies by website, video, email and other Internet application.”
I have the $25.00 a month plan, as I said before, so if I keep my current phone I will keep paying $25.00 a month. But, of course, all of us keep looking at the new phones and will want to upgrade at some point.
I guess, for me, when that time comes that I am going to get a new phone I may move to MetroPCS or some other phone service. It does not appear that Virgin Mobile is going to be loyal to old customers and wants to keep old customers.
By the way.. It is rare for me to use more than 10 minutes of voice time a month and I use almost zero data. So I do not need a new phone but on the other hand I am not putting any drain on the VM service. VM should treat me better.
“BY ANNA M. TINSLEY
Huge numbers of trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from dozens of states will soon travel highways nationwide -- including those in the Metroplex -- on their way to a remote disposal site in West Texas.
Shipments from up to 36 states will head to a dump in Andrews County near the New Mexico border, owned by Dallas billionaire and generous Republican political donor Harold Simmons, despite concerns from environmentalists and others worried about potential accidents or contamination once the loads are left at the Waste Control Specialists facility.
"Texas is going to become a nuclear waste dump if everything happens under their plans," said state Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, an opponent of the facility. "We will be the major route for nuclear waste…”
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/15/3884220/radioactive-waste-may-soon-travel.html#storylink=cpy
You got to come and visit Texas. If the heat does not kill you or the gas or water from fracking then the radioactive waste will get you.
“…In the past eight years, 72 incidents nationwide involving trucks carrying radioactive material on highways have caused $2.4 million in damage and one death, the Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration says…”
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/15/3884220/radioactive-waste-may-soon-travel.html#storylink=cpy
Thank you Harold Simmons for making donations to Gov. Rick Perry (R) and thank you Rick Perry for approving of the medical waste and radioactive contamination waste so that we can bury it in the red clay of Texas.
Rick Parry and the Republicans are so right. We do not need an EPA or any other federal agencies.
Lubbock Fantasy Maid Service offers to clean your home in the nude, but the service may be illegal. KCBD has more.
The business should not be illegal. NOW if there is any selling of sex well then arrest them and shut them down.
I would bet you money that the DA and the police are ordering the service and trying to get the girls to agree to have sex. If they get one girl to agree then they can make their case.
I did not see one of the girls that I would want to see topless or nude in the video.
The cost is $100.00 an hour. Hell if you got four guys willing to kick in $25.00 for one hour a pretty good deal.
“The Miami Marlins have suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games, effective immediately, the team said Tuesday.
Guillen sparked a firestorm when he told Time magazine recently that he respected Fidel Castro for being able to lead Cuba for six decades.
"I respect Fidel Castro," Guillen said in the article. "You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that son of a bitch is still there."
Guillen apologized during a press conference Tuesday, speaking in Spanish.
Guillen said he had "betrayed a Latin community" and that he was speaking to "ask for forgiveness with my heart in my hand."
But, he said, he originallly spoke of Castro in Spanish and "the translation to English was a bit confusing."
In response to questions in English on Tuesday, Guillen said he'd let down the community…”
As I have said in the past many times Miami is a third world city. It is not like an a city of the United States. The problem is the Cubans.
The Cubans that came from Cuba have ruined the city and the state.
They have also messed up the politics of the United States.
We should have worked out a deal many years ago with Cuba. But we are held hostage to their feelings and their hates and they being the Cubans that left Cuba and their children and grandchildren.
This is the United States of America. If someone wants to say they like, love or hate Fidel Castro they should be allowed to do so. Hell, if someone wants to say that Communism is great they should be allowed to do so.
We have freedom of speech in the United States.
I loved the weather in FL. I lived in Orlando for about a year and I lived in Miami for five years. I love the beaches and the weather and many things about Miami but I did not like the people. I do not recommend you live in Miami unless you speak Spanish. Everyone talks Spanish. I went into many businesses and no one spoke English. The cable TV install guy that came did not speak one word of English. Many drivers and even truck drivers not only do not speak English they can not read signs in English.
Even when you are dealing with people that speak English many of them only understand 20% or 30% of English. You will think they speak English but they are not understanding everything. I worked in Miami and had a supervisor tell me how he worked for a company that had him fire an excellent English speaking only worker just so they could hire someone from their country (not the US).
Also the people that speak Spanish fucking hate each other. Someone from one country would tell me that the other guy was no good because he came from some other country. That was a surprise and shock to me. Someone from Cuba would say oh that other guy is from Peru and they are no good. I was surprised. I was thinking since they all spoke Spanish the would all support each other. (Yes, I know Brazil does not speak Spanish.)
It would be nice if freedom would come to Cuba. But even when it does the “Cubans” are not going to go back to Cuba. They are doing to stay in Miami and ruin it and fuck up our politics.
The Cubans in FL that have money will go and buy up some property and businesses in Cuba but they will stay in FL.
Would the last American when they leave FL please bring our flag with them?
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