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What is good for America, FREEDOM!!!

In a resent press conference President Obama stated that they believe “now that Health Care is passing they can get back to making life better for Americans”.  It appears that behind that statement is that they want to get back to deciding what is good for Americans. This is where the difference between myself and many Americas differ from the current administration.  I want Washington to give me the freedom to make life better for myself, not decide what is better for me.

Personally I am a conservative liberal.  On many issues I find that I believe in a liberal frame of mind and on many others issues  I am extremely conservative.  I also find that many of my associates, friends, and family differ in my views on many issues.  I think this is great and what this country was founded on and the government should keep it’s nose out of it.

I believe Washington needs to stay out of the business of legislating morals.  My values are my own.  My neighbors values are different.  It is absolutely imperative that we live our lives in alignment with our values.  That is an individual assessment, not a government dictate.

Washington needs to stay out of the business of limiting the success of Americans. This Robinhood mentality of stiffing the successful for the sake of elevating the unsuccessful has been a fairy tale that doesn’t work in the real world.  The economics is that at some point the rich will run out of money and you can’t keep printing more money without some sort of value behind it.

So in short, to give American’s a secure future and a better life, give them encouragement, motivation and opportunity to be successful and they will.

3 Ways to Add Security to Your Christmas

image1. The 12 Scams of Christmas

These 12 scams of Christmas from McAfee and published on CNet are a good review and practice for all of us.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10403100-238.html?tag=mncol;title

2.  Beef up Your Password

Sometimes setting passwords and remember them is one of the harder things we do, but it is one of the most important thing we do.  Protecting our personal information from cyber predators is critical in keeping our identity secure.  I suggest using strong passwords.  You don’t need 500 individual passwords, you just need a few that are good.  Here are a few rules to follow:

  • Use letters and numbers from a phrase that is meaningful to you.
  • Add special characters.
  • Mix upper case characters with lower case characters.
  • If you don’t us the first or last characters of the phase it is harder to break. Develop your own formula.  Remember the formula and the phase.
  • It should always be at least 7 characters, but longer is better.

Here is an example (for your safety be original. Don’t use this example)

  • Phase: “I always forget my stinking password”
  • Formula is:
    • exchange the character I for !,
    • Use 2nd letter of words in phase.
    • Capitalize odd letters (1st, 3rd, 5th…).
    • There are 22 characters in the phase. I’m using the numbers of the total after every 2nd word.

Password!Lo2Yt2A – (Use any formula you like, just remember your formula).

This may seem complicated, but if you become consistent you will remember it very easily. Just be careful to not make it so complicated that you spend most of your waking hours resetting your passwords, because you will start to get lazy and make your passwords to easy for you to remember (i.e. password1) and it will be easy for someone to hack.

3.   Search and expand your education on Security

There are many websites where you can expand your security knowledge.  Let me give you a few, but feel free to search the web for others.

There are many others. 

 

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image So give yourself the gift of security for Christmas and add it to your New Years resolution list. 

Merry Christmas to all of you and Happy New Year. 

Make it a safe and successful 2010.