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Table of Contents:     (a menu) (links to groups of blog-post-links, below) COMPUTING posts (on spam, desirable search engine features, etc.) CONSUMER posts (on bad products/experiences , good products/experiences) ECONOMY posts (on banking, business, finance, investing, stocks, money) ENERGY posts (esp. alternative --- wind, solar, geothermal, ocean) ENVIRONMENT posts (population levels ; clean drinking-water and clean aquifers, rivers, bays, oceans, air ; temperature stabilization ; wild and domesticated life ; etc.) GOVERNMENT-CITIZEN posts (examples: Senate & House contact info, nuclear radiation & terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the French & Fox-News, predators circling social-security funds, too many political donation requests, ...) HEALTH posts (including diet issues ... such as added, refined sugar-and-starch --- and medical issues ... such as medical errors and medical ethics) MEDIA posts (on television, newspapers, radio, internet, etc.) PEOPLE-in-the-news posts (esp. scumbags, like Jerry Sandusky, etc.) POLITICS posts (on politicians as well as policies) SCIENCE-and-MATH posts (Newton's contributions, etc.) SPORTS posts (biking, running, hiking, etc.) TWEETS Some SEARCH engines (to find info on issues in the above categories)

End of Table of Contents. Start of links. Note1: You can use the 'Find' option of your browser to find keywords in blog titles on this page, such as 'sugar' or 'starch' or 'linux' or 'windows' or 'oil' or 'solar'. Note2: Many postings could be classified into more than one of the categories above. For example, a post on 'Sugars' could touch on topics of health, as well as government-and-citizenship. For simplicity, each post is put in one category. You can use 'Find' to help find posts that may be cross-category.

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Links to COMPUTING posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Gnome 2 'Network Manager' - quick disconnect - so nice (2014 Feb) (with comments on Gnome 3, MATE, and Google Chromebooks) Gnome 2 desktop - the top panel - so nice (2014 Jan) (wtih comments on Gnome 3, Ubuntu Unity, and Linux Mint desktops) Google - I'm Unfriending You (2011 Dec) (merging sponsored ads into search results is the last straw) U.S. ISP's put low-ball caps on Internet speed (2010 Jun) (South Korea puts U.S. ISP's to shame) Zbot computer virus - on Microsoft Windows - ALERT (2009 Mar) (alias the "Spyware Protect 2009" virus, or the "sysguard.exe" virus ; shame on Microsoft --- a story of another trojan-horse infection ; see the 2007 Oct post below.) Spammer IP Addresses - a List (2009 Feb) (via my spam receipts) Spam - I Want an Email Client that filters by 'first' 'Received-from' IP address (2008 Feb) (includes a rant on why IPv6 Internet addresses should be grouped by country. To demonstrate, includes a list of the 'first-octet' of IPv4-addresses --- the 256 'first' octets - N.*.*.* --- with the country assignments scattered through those IPv4-address ranges. Useless.) Microsoft Security --- an oxymoron (2007 Oct) (a story of a Microsoft Windows ME computer virus infection) Proposed Search Engines Enhancement .... searchwords-max-distance (2007 Jan) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to CONSUMER posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > (This section needs to be re-organized, someday.) List of Bad Products (2008 Jan) (ice cream, computer power supplies, CD's, shoes, etc.) Plasma TVs - Blacker Blacks means Grayer Whites (2010 Jun) (an example of magicians' trickery in the advertising field) Tennis Shoes - wide widths - hard to find (2008 Feb) (Come on, Adidas and Nike. Do you really believe one-width fits all?) Running Shoes - Neutral Bias - ASICS models (2008 Jan) (some shoes for UNDER-pronators --- the bow-legged) Earbuds - a search for the perfect ones (2009 Jan) (rated on comfort, stay-in-place-ability, and sound reproduction) shower Grab Bars - esp. Liberty Hardware corrosion issue (2009 to 2013) (corrosion issues, install-and-specs documentation issues, user review issues) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to ECONOMY posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Open Letter to Jim Cramer (2012 Jun) (on his LAMEntable investment ethics) The 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement, 2011 - Some Concerns (2011 Nov) (Hopefully a few bad eggs will not derail this call for long-overdue justice --- years after the 2008 world-economic melt-down.) Economy Humor - An Updated Glossary of Terms (2009 Jan) (with some cartoons) Ideas for T-shirt messages on the Economy (2009 Jan) Revealed - Why Congress is Doing Little Good (2008 Nov) (Extremists outnumber Moderates --- resulting in strange laws loaded with earmarks --- laws filled with lobbyist-serving line items --- and resulting in laws motivating all the wrong behaviors.) The Financial Candy Store -- and need for Oversight, Regulation, Legal-Recourse (2008 Nov) (in which a 'Bill of Financial Responsibilities' is proposed --- similar to the 'Bill of Rights') Savers and Fools, Ants and Grasshoppers --- and the Perfect Storm (2008 Nov) (A Letter to an Editor --- concerning the old fable of the grasshopper and the ant --- as it relates to the 2008 economic 'meltdown' -- a perfect storm of irresponsibilities.) House Republican Insurance Plan --- for 'bailout' of a Pre-Existing Economic Condition (irresponsible financial institutions) (2008 Nov) (in which a rough calculation of the required premiums is made --- and the most likely private insurer candidate, AIG, is on the ropes) Banks Bailout - Sep 2008 - the Paulson Plan (2008 Nov) (A letter to Senators of the Senate Banking Committee, spurred by an Associated Press news article on the bailout/rescue --- mentioning Credit Card Debt & Auto Loans.) 'Toxic' Mortgage Lenders - Bad Credit? Bankruptcy? No Problem! (2008 Oct) (A wall-of-shame for lenders with no apparent concern for the financial health of this country. They are blinded by greed. Where are the umpires & line-callers? Including a 'Meltdown 101' course by Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.) Kudlow et. al. - Let Your Guests Finish A Sentence (2008 Oct) (The 3 methods used to muffle guests who do not spout the Kudlow creed.) Kudlow's Flawed Ideas on Free Enterprise (2008 Feb) (Briefly, 'free enterprise' = 'free greed'. On the other hand, 'competition with oversight' ... there's a concept worth fighting for. Where are the referees and umpires in this free-greed system? Stealing is not just an activity of the poor! The rich and non-poor steal ... big time.) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to ENERGY posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Fossil Fuel Companies Versus Solar (2014 Oct) --- The Oklahoma example, 2014 (with example utility bill, a better billing proposal, and some strange-solar-bedfellows) Earth Crust Is Very Thin - Limiting Oil Resources (2012 May) (with diagrams and graphs) Wind Turbines - Chesapeake Bay (2012 May) (Dominion Resources utility company blocking them) Solar Attic Fans - an Ideal Solar Application (2009 Feb) (no batteries needed) Ideas for T-shirt messages on Energy (2009 Jan) Ocean Energy Capture (2007 Jan) (an interesting design) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to ENVIRONMENT posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > A Calculation of Atmospheric Temperature Rise due to heat from burning of Fossil Fuels (2019 Nov) (using 3 factors: Specific-Heat, Air-Mass, and Energy-from-Fossil-Fuels) Hey, Climate Change Deniers --- Sign Up for an Arctic Passage Cruise (2017 Feb) (The long-searched-for Northwest Passage has been revealed.) Hey, Japan! When is the whale 'research' going to be done? (2014 Oct) (Maybe Fukushima, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcano eruptions are Mother Nature's way of saying 'Cut it out.') cap-OR-JAIL ... NOT cap-AND-TRADE! (2010 Jun) (or, 'pollution is the new gold') Oil Spill - BP - 2010 April (2010 Jun) (Kevin Costner for Interior Secretary ... Energy Secretary ... President.) Ideas for T-shirt messages on Environment (2009 Jan) World Population Growth - MORE Than Exponential (2009 Jan) (graphs and maps) Open Letter to Jim Cramer - on Oil Spills (2008 Oct) (I beg to differ) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to GOVERNMENT-CITIZEN posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > T-Shirt Designs on Government/Citizen Issues (2014 Nov) (For example, t-shirts on 'human rights' and 'freedoms'.) Republican One-Percenters --- Reap What They Have Sown (2014 Oct) (Hey, Koch Brothers. Look what you have wrought. Are you proud?) 2nd Amendment --- the 'forgotten' qualifier (2011 Nov) "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ..." --- the case for SOME reasonable gun laws Obama - Resurrector and Killer of Hope (2010 Jun 22) (a blog post triggered by the slow, pitifully weak Obama response to the million-plus of barrels of oil that have erupted into the Gulf since mid-April 2010) Renaming the Republican Party: Proposed names (2009 Jul 28) (preliminary - more names to be added) Michelle Bachmann sez: Carbon Dioxide is Good for You (2009 Jul 28) (another Republican nut-case) Senate - Contact Info (2008 Nov 16) (preliminary) House of Representatives - Contact Info (2008 Nov 16) (preliminary) T-shirts, buttons, etc. - Political 2008 (2008 Nov 02) Lobbyists - in McCain's 2008 Presidential Campaign corps (2008 Oct) Political Donation Requests/Demands --- a FORM LETTER for response (2008 Feb) Notice: Predators Smell the Blood of Social Security (2007 Oct) (Bush2 and his cronies are coming after peoples' retirement savings) Old-1770's-News Flash: Cheese-Eating Surrender-Monkeys Save American Revolution (2007 Oct) (Hey FoxNews: Because of the French, you are not saying 'aluminium' instead of 'aluminum'.) Observation: Osama Bin Laden Dead ... Died Laughing (2007 Oct) (Bin Laden had the last laugh. U.S. billions being spend for decades.) Proposal: Radiation Detectors for Citizens (2007 Jan) (a warning system populated by citizens) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to HEALTH posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Twitching-Left-Thumb & Poor-Arm-Control associated with Drink Additives & Preservatives (2021 Jun) (some drink-additives to avoid) Simple Math for Epidemics (using simple multiplication and addition, applied to the 2019-virus 'pandemic') (2020 Mar) (math that even Trump MIGHT be able to do) (PRELIMINARY. Needs updating based on data from the 2nd year of the Covid19-pandemic. Needs a 2-or-3 compartment model, instead of 1 compartment.) Ebola and nurse Hickox (2014 Nov) (an open letter to her) Ebola and Rachel Maddow's Distortions (2014 Nov) (Like Lennon said: "Gimme some truth.") Ebola and CDC Obfuscation - 2014 (2014 Oct) (Why don't U.S. news reporters ask the CDC about where urine and feces go --- for victims in the U.S.?) Bad Chemicals in Bread (2014 Oct) (especially 'dough conditioners') Provide Toys with Veggies (2010 Jul) (an idea triggered by reported removal of toys from 'Happy Meals') Needed Medical Experiments (2010 Jun) (relatively inexpensive ones --- to counter the 'dark-side medicine' of 1950-2010) 'Public Option' for Health Care (2009 Aug) (Funding Methods including sugars-taxes --- and Cost Reduction via 'skin in the game') Veggies and Fruits Lists (2009 Feb) (replacements for junk foods) Carrots - Mother Nature's Metamucil (2009 Feb) (reducing bad side-effect of pain-deadening drugs) Ideas for T-shirt messages on health (2008 Dec) Amyloid Info (preliminary) (2008 Dec) (info on 'amyloidosis', which a friend, or two, suffers from --- a search for a cure --- or at least mitigation ; dietary oils??) Bibliography of Food and Health (and Drugs and Supplements) Books (2008 Feb) (with quotes from the books --- i.e. this page is a multi-book digest) I was a Sugar Guinea Pig --- an Inadvertent Medical Experiment (2008 Jan) (lessons for other sugar-lovers) Drug Stores and Sugar --- and the Obesity Epidemic in the U.S.A. (2007 Jan) (insulin and Halloween candies sold in the same store --- kinda goofy, to say the least, huh?) Atkins Misrepresented --- even in obituaries (2005 Oct) (includes the text of the papers on which his diet was based) Proposed SugarS Tax --- a proposed method of implementation (2005 Oct) (with taxes collected going to Medicaid and Medicare --- to help care for diabetics, kidney failure, etc. --- and preferably to a more efficient, 'single payer' system) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to MEDIA posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > The Word 'Countless' is WAY Overused (There are more meaningful and instructive alternatives.) (2019 Nov 25) WAY Too Many Ads On Cable TV (2013 Apr 16) Satan OR Obama - in 'The Bible' TV show (alternatives) (2013 Apr 16) Liberal Media Everywhere ? On TV, Where ? (2009 Aug 25) An Open Letter to Jim Cramer - Thanks for the Call for "Perp Walks" (2008 Feb 20) An Open Letter to CNBC -- especially Rick Santelli (2008 Feb 20) Ann Coulter, a hate-monger extraordinaire (2008 Dec 28) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to PEOPLE-in-the-news posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Jerry Sandusky and the Pennsylvania schools' lending-library of little boys (2012 Jun) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to POLITICS (and politician) posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > The 'cannot indict a sitting President' NONSENSE (2019 Nov) (with many 'use cases' to demonstrate the ridiculousness of the 'ruling') Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up, Lock Him Up (2019 Nov) (at least 8 serious crimes Trump has committed, including Treason, Tax Evasion, Fraud, and more) (With respect to Kurds and Ukrainians, you can add Murder.) Trump Nicknames (2019 Nov) ('He started it!') Republicans are Reaping What They've Sown (2018 Nov) (Deplorable-ness and Grotesque-ness -- in the Trump era) Two Letters from David Bossie of 'Citizens United for a Secure America' (2017 Apr) (a bunch of political HOGWASH --- just one of Bossie's money raising scams) Two Letters from Michael Needham of 'Heritage Action for America' (2017 Apr) (Needham's 18,000+ 'Sentinels' = 'brown shirts'? for Trump?) Trump's Creation of Jobs --- in the Sign-Supplies Industry (2017 Apr) (Lots of images of signs using those supplies) Trump's Coal Jobs Scam (2017 Feb) (Those coal jobs are gone --- wave good-bye, West Virginia.) Trump --- and vetting of only 7 Muslim countries (2017 Feb) (the courts are NOT the problem . . . Trump is playing favorites) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to RELIGION posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Right-Wing Preachers Against (real) Religious Freedom (posted 2021 Jun) (including a list of preacher-pastor-prophets) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to SCIENCE (and Math) posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > 'Boiling Away' Questions on Molecular Components of Earth's Atmosphere (posted in 2018) (Are they answered by physicists yet?) Thought Experiments on 'Repulsive Gravity Particles' (posted in 2018) ('dark' thoughts --- as in 'dark energy' and 'dark matter') Let's rename IMAGINARY Numbers to PERPENDICULAR numbers (posted in 2017 Feb) (and 'complex' numbers to 'compound' numbers --- and 'real' numbers to 'limit' numbers) Hey, Scientists. Stop Trying To Contact Aliens. (posted 2014 Nov) (You go there. I will wait here.) Isaac Newton - Amazing Contributions (posted in 2014 Sep) (contributions that changed social and scientific history) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to SPORTS posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > NFL football, Thuggery, Commissioner and Owners (2014 Sep) ("What would Jesus --- or Mickey --- do?") Dream Hikes --- with Maps (2008 Dec) Runs on Amtrak Routes (2008 Dec) (beginnings of an attempt to map out 5K and 10K and half-marathon runs across the U.S. --- along Amtrak routes) Bicycling -- a Strategy for Truth in Drug Tests of professionals (2008 Dec) Lance Armstrong Harrassed by French Newspaper (2005 Dec) (commentary) Go to Table of Contents, above.

Links to TWEETS posts < Go to Table of Contents, above. > < Go to Top of page. > Tweets of 'freedomenv' (starting in 2020 Sep) (an easily-searchable backup of those tweets) Go to Table of Contents, above.

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