Billguard also looks like a very useful app, but it doesn't do expense tracking (apparently), only monitors for potential fraudulent charges.  And neither service is free. WiseOne, This is some additional info about Billguard.  The iPhone App is more functional than the desktop version.  The App do...

Is Reality Secular? What are the roots and assumptions of secularism and why does this system of belief maintain such a stronghold in Western culture? Why are the other worldviews competing for our acceptance and how are we to know which one is true? On this program, Michael Horton will be speaking...

NB I don't like many/most of the right's social views. This, in a nutshell, is the problem with the Republican Party. The social views of mainstream America are moving further to the left with each passing day. As long as the Rs continue to cling to their far-right social agenda, it will become inc...

You might like Billguard; depends on the functionality you are looking for.  https://www.billguard.com

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Taxes - When you tax something, you discourage it; why do we tax earning income and creating jobs!? These are the things we want most! How to fix it: - If we repealed income, sales, and corporate taxes, we could incentivize greater positive economic activity. - If anything should be taxed, it shoul...

Interesting article in National Geographic about Middle Eastern religions.  Even more interesting comments - some quite vitriolic.  What it is about a discussion of religion that brings out the worst in people?  A religious discussion seems to provoke a visceral reaction that is much deeper than &qu...

What a weird article.  They missed the completely obvious. Don't eat carbs.  Nothing I eat ever turns to glucose.  My blood sugar stays constant whether I eat three meals a day or three meals a week.  No ups and downs. Sip on coffee and wine until you smell some meat on a grill somewhere and then w...

We had better stock up on hatchets before the "hatchet control" mantra begins.  Next up:  knives and forks.  It is always better to ban the tool than go after deviant behavior. 

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I've worked with hundreds of physicians and surgeons in a previous life in medical device sales and consulting.  I would say the vast majority of them would put the burden of our government (medicare/medicaid) and trial lawyers right up there with insurance carriers as the biggest problem with medi...

Benko, Alright... Let's leave the semantics aside, shall we?  Why would a socialist engage in activities that he believes will have marginal benefits to the safety and stability of a country if he desires to make it marginally less stable and safe? Perhaps the issue is that labeling people, althoug...

That is, of course, your opinion. If Obama is truly a Socialist AND hates U.S. power, he would believe that the dismantling of our government would be the ultimate blow to our country's power... and given Benko's assertion about his intentions, he would have moved in that direction, rather than tha...

That was impressive. And eloquent. And on the money.

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Barf!  Double Barf!!  Tripple Barf!!!

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Sunday, October 19, 2014 Thoughts On Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice Ideology "Life" [as a gift from God] is the standard (i.e., norm) that informs and guides the "choices" that we make in regard to the issues of life, whereas “choice”? [as a derivative of mankind] cannot be the standard...

I thought this was a thread about ship building. 

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Here is some additional information on two factor authentication: Yesterday's news that hackers might've stolen some 7 million Dropbox credentials should've scared you into changing your password. And if you didn't already have two-step authentication enabled on your account, it should be pretty goo...

A hacker group (sorry can't remember the name and I closed the web page already) has posted a partial list of their collection of 7 million username/passwords that were hacked from Dropbox (per them) vs somewhere else (per Dropbox).  They say they will post more when they get sufficient bitcoin &qu...

Can you imagine what this world would be like if everybody believed in Jesus? Now, many of you who have been brought to faith in Jesus as your Savior can probably think of nothing better than to have everyone believe the same. Because we believe as we do, it is difficult for us to understand why the...

So, a communist, a Muslim, and an illegal alien walk into a bar. 


The bartender says ............ "Hello, Mr. President."

dualstow wrote: Very interesting article. I'd type more about it, but I'm on a tiny little kindle.

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

Interesting but sad on so many levels.

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When was the last time that the USA has been this unequivocally unsuccessful when intervening militarily? And against a JV team no less! One could make a really good argument the answer to your question is .... drum roll,  ..... WWII for our last success.  Even then things were quite "tight&qu...

I have not thought a lot about this, but my observation is that Congress seems to act like a bunch of disgruntled children much of the time (not to mention the president's behavior  :) ).  So, I'm becoming more aligned with the view we really just have one big disfunctional political party and it do...

I was reading a newsletter article which described how there is a virtual iron curtain between red and blue states in the US.  According to Pew polling, various attitudes about politics and choices of media, friends, and locales have become more hard line and more left or right than in past history...

This is an interesting episode (try to listen to the message and overlook Fisk's animated style if it bothers you) on “Cheap Grace”?, and the false idea that man has to add his works to the saving work of Jesus.  One of the things Fisk covers is how preaching only the Law to the unbeliever from the ...

Here is an interesting bit of history.  Do you know what the first food and drink consumed on the moon was?

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/ ... munion.htm

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