Cellular phones are maybe the worst invention of the 20th Century or maybe the best. It depends on who you ask. Cell phones were created so adults could carry phones with them, in their pockets and purses, and make calls from wherever they happened to be. No longer would they have to search for a phone booth and could now take their business connections to the world with them, wherever they went. But today, according to a Pew Resource Center survey conducted in 2011, 77% of American teens own a phone. A separate survey by Nielsen revealed that teens, on average, send more than three thousand texts per month. The practicality of the cell phone has turned into an out-of-control craze. If you ask school officials they will tell you they are the worst inventions.
According to an article written by x.I.Bart1 of Bath, ME:
"The average cost of a phone is $47.16 per month, according to the CTIA Wireless Association. In some cases, Smartphones can cost double, triple, even quadruple that. Most teens with phones are not able to pay such a hefty bill, so it falls onto their parents, who have to shoulder costs of up to five hundred dollars a year, just so kids can have fun and talk with friends.
Another problem with a cell phone is that, for young teens especially, it can become dangerous. Phones can be a gateway to interactions with undesirable individuals. Inappropriate images or messages put children in uncomfortable and unsafe conditions, and cyberbullying and sexting occur more than most parents realize."
If you have every walked behind a female shopper in WalMart or any big box store, you have seen these people in constant chatter while they push their carts through the isles and sooner or later run them into the ankles of some unsuspecting customer. Now I can see a man calling his wife about an item on her list, but that takes maybe 30 seconds. The gals talk incennantly about everything but groceries.
Of course, cel phone use by the drive of a vehicle is dangerous and texting is banned in most states for obvious reasons. Still you see people get into their cars in parking lots, start the engine then dial the phone and begin talking all the while trying to back out of a spot without hitting someone or some thing. Totally oblivious to their surroundings.
It is estimated that cell phone distracted drivers are four times more likely to be in a car wreck. According to a Harvard University study, cell phones cause over 200 deaths and half a million injuries each year.
A useless unnecessary device in the hand of all except as I said above; by law enforcement, fire depts and medical personnel.
So, folks, don't buy one and if you have one...Hang Up and Drive, or shop or or or
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Saturday, October 24, 2015
'Serial liar': Families of Benghazi victims blast Clinton as she continues to lie.
Michael Ingmire watched as Hillary Clinton was grilled for 11 hours Thursday about the 2012 attack in Benghazi that left his nephew and three other Americans dead and saw not a future president, but a "serial liar."
As a congressional panel pressed the former Secretary of State over the attack on the consulate facility in the Libyan city, Ingmire, uncle of Sean Smith, and relatives of former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty watched from their homes, hoping Clinton's testimony would yield answers about why additional security was not granted and why she initially blamed the attack on a YouTube video instead of a coordinated act of terrorism.
"The thing that was shocking – one of the pinnacle moments – was the revelation she told her family there was a terrorist attack while she told America something else," Smith's uncle, Michael Ingmire, told FoxNews.com. "Mrs. Clinton is a serial liar."
Smith, an information officer, and Woods, a former Navy SEAL, died along with Doherty and U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens when Islamic militants stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and set it ablaze before attacking a nearby CIA compound with machine guns and rockets.
Stevens, the first U.S. Ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979, had repeatedly asked the State Department for increased security at the consulate prior to the attack but his requests were not granted.
In the hours following the attacks, the Obama administration learned they were carefully planned assaults by Al Qaeda-related militants but Clinton and others would go on to tell a different tale: an anti-Muslim YouTube video caused spontaneous protests and angry mobs were to blame for the attacks.
"So if there's no evidence for a video-inspired protest, then where did the false narrative start?" Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan asked Clinton during the hearing Thursday.
"It started with you, Madam Secretary," he said. "You could live with a protest about a video, that won't hurt you, but a terror attack would."
Clinton rejected Jordan's claim, describing the situation in the hours after the attack as "fluid" and the details unclear.
"I am sorry that it doesn't fit your narrative congressman, I can only tell you what the facts are," Clinton said.
During the marathon hours of questioning -- which Democrats claim was a partisan attack on the Democratic presidential frontrunner -- Clinton said Stevens understood the risks involved and that his requests for additional security never crossed her desk.
"Those requests for security were rightly reviewed by the security professionals," Clinton told the committee. "I did not see them. I did not approve them. I did not deny them."
Clinton also described Stevens as a friend, saying the 52-year-old ambassador "understood that most people in Libya or anywhere reject the extremists' argument that violence can ever be a path to dignity or justice."
"I knew and admired Chris Stevens," she said in her opening remarks Thursday. "He was one of our nation's most accomplished diplomats. Chris' mother liked to say he had 'sand in his shoes,' because he was always moving, always working, especially in the Middle East that he came to know so well."
But Clinton's closeness to Stevens was called into question by Rep Susan Brooks, R-Ill., who asked: "Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in in May? Yes or no please."
"Yes, I believe I did," Clinton replied. "I don't recall."
Ingmire described Clinton's choice of words about Stevens as jarring.
"How could she say 'Chris thought this' and 'Chris felt that' when she basically had nothing to do with him?" Ingmire said.
Tyrone Woods' father, Charles, recalled meeting Clinton when his son's body arrived at Andrews Air Force Base two days after the attacks.
"I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand and she said, 'We are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son," Woods said, reading the account from his journal.
"That was a complete bald-faced lie," he told FoxNews.com Friday. "The day after the attack, she was talking to the Prime Minister of Egypt and she said the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the video."
Smith's mother, Patricia, gave a similar account, saying she was told by the administration "it was a video when they knew it was not a video."
"They told me lies," she said Friday. "My son told me the night before that he has been asking for security and he hasn’t heard anything
As a congressional panel pressed the former Secretary of State over the attack on the consulate facility in the Libyan city, Ingmire, uncle of Sean Smith, and relatives of former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty watched from their homes, hoping Clinton's testimony would yield answers about why additional security was not granted and why she initially blamed the attack on a YouTube video instead of a coordinated act of terrorism.
"The thing that was shocking – one of the pinnacle moments – was the revelation she told her family there was a terrorist attack while she told America something else," Smith's uncle, Michael Ingmire, told FoxNews.com. "Mrs. Clinton is a serial liar."
Smith, an information officer, and Woods, a former Navy SEAL, died along with Doherty and U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens when Islamic militants stormed the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi and set it ablaze before attacking a nearby CIA compound with machine guns and rockets.
Stevens, the first U.S. Ambassador killed in the line of duty since 1979, had repeatedly asked the State Department for increased security at the consulate prior to the attack but his requests were not granted.
In the hours following the attacks, the Obama administration learned they were carefully planned assaults by Al Qaeda-related militants but Clinton and others would go on to tell a different tale: an anti-Muslim YouTube video caused spontaneous protests and angry mobs were to blame for the attacks.
"So if there's no evidence for a video-inspired protest, then where did the false narrative start?" Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan asked Clinton during the hearing Thursday.
"It started with you, Madam Secretary," he said. "You could live with a protest about a video, that won't hurt you, but a terror attack would."
Clinton rejected Jordan's claim, describing the situation in the hours after the attack as "fluid" and the details unclear.
"I am sorry that it doesn't fit your narrative congressman, I can only tell you what the facts are," Clinton said.
During the marathon hours of questioning -- which Democrats claim was a partisan attack on the Democratic presidential frontrunner -- Clinton said Stevens understood the risks involved and that his requests for additional security never crossed her desk.
"Those requests for security were rightly reviewed by the security professionals," Clinton told the committee. "I did not see them. I did not approve them. I did not deny them."
Clinton also described Stevens as a friend, saying the 52-year-old ambassador "understood that most people in Libya or anywhere reject the extremists' argument that violence can ever be a path to dignity or justice."
"I knew and admired Chris Stevens," she said in her opening remarks Thursday. "He was one of our nation's most accomplished diplomats. Chris' mother liked to say he had 'sand in his shoes,' because he was always moving, always working, especially in the Middle East that he came to know so well."
But Clinton's closeness to Stevens was called into question by Rep Susan Brooks, R-Ill., who asked: "Did you ever personally speak to him after you swore him in in May? Yes or no please."
"Yes, I believe I did," Clinton replied. "I don't recall."
Ingmire described Clinton's choice of words about Stevens as jarring.
"How could she say 'Chris thought this' and 'Chris felt that' when she basically had nothing to do with him?" Ingmire said.
Tyrone Woods' father, Charles, recalled meeting Clinton when his son's body arrived at Andrews Air Force Base two days after the attacks.
"I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand and she said, 'We are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son," Woods said, reading the account from his journal.
"That was a complete bald-faced lie," he told FoxNews.com Friday. "The day after the attack, she was talking to the Prime Minister of Egypt and she said the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the video."
Smith's mother, Patricia, gave a similar account, saying she was told by the administration "it was a video when they knew it was not a video."
"They told me lies," she said Friday. "My son told me the night before that he has been asking for security and he hasn’t heard anything
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