I encourage everyone to sign this online petition. It is to encourage the Federal government to add additional surplus military rifles (Korea era) to the Civilian Marksman program already running. This is instead of paying contractors hundreds of millions of dollars to destroy surplus rifles. In these days, we need to government to continue to find ways of conserving funds rather than wasting funds on destroying materials for which taxpayers have already paid.
Here is the financial crux of the matter (from the petition itself):
Practical Savings What then is the bottom line on all this? The answer is: money. The U. S. Treasury could be fattened considerably by the sale of these rifles in two ways. First, a contract to demilitarize the rifles would not have to be let thereby saving approximately $500,000 per contract. Second, assuming the Secretary of the Army authorizes the sale of M14’s in the same quantity as M1 rifles, about 1200 per year, and a price is established that is commensurate with their collector’s value (the Carson City Silver Dollar Sale is recent precedent), the government can expect $400 to $650 per weapon. The M1 rifle sale held yearly has never failed to attract thousands more buyers than there are available weapons. Since the M14 is a prized collector’s weapon, I would expect nothing less to happen during an M14 sale.
Recently, tried of individually posting link backs to my blog on individual social bookmark pages like Facebook, twitter, technorati etc, I started looking for a way of doing a push en masse to all the sites I use. First, I tried using the service by “Share This” whose plugin I had been using for WordPress, however it didn’t offer what I was looking for, only the ability to consolidate my bookmarks. I did some more searching, and though many web pages were offering book mark consolidation, very few were offering (free) posting consolidation. Then, I stumbled upon (pun intended) OnlyWire which works GREAT! I can create a single page of entry for all the places I post to, and from one button click, post out updates to any of my subscribed social bookmark services.
This also gives my readership the same exact ability — if you like my article, and want to share it with your friends on twitter, furl, facebook or myspace (all or any) you can with the simple click of a button — forget all that logging into separate pages like some of the other services demand.
The best part is it’s FREE (if you post a small link on your webpage), but it save an incredible amount of time if you use social bookmarking as a part of your website marketing.
Here is a picture with some of my social bookmarking services selected for publishing:
Here is what the “add” looks like in WordPress (pretty minimal):
I posted some pictures from our Spring Vacation in Grants New Mexico. Fun in the desert! Check out the horned lizards we found along with pictures of the off-road trailer in action (is maiden voyage)!
Found this GREAT page maintained by Kevin Savetz HERE. It maintains a current list of vendors that allow free faxing via email along with other services (and some for cost sites). The wonderful thing is that the site is actively maintained so you need not worry about all those dead links…
I used to use MyFax but I paid $10/month and only faxed infrequently. Now, on the occasion when I need to fax, I use FaxZero to send my fax, and the page number exceeds the free version, I simply pay per fax. Its a lot cheaper, and in most cases ends up being free.
THIS page also mentions something called “The Phone Company” or TPC for short which seems like a great idea, except they except sometimes they don’t have coverage where you need to fax. However, if they have coverage, its a very nice service. I haven’t gotten a valid test yet even though I have tried a couple time, both with and without attachments.
