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SurfRecon is a new tool that you can use to quickly and discreetly scan almost any computer system for pornographic content.

Home users may be interested in this tool as a new level of Internet safety. This would allow them to actively scan any computer to see whether there is pornographic content.

Business owners can use it to make sure their employees are not surfing porn and to make sure that their employees are not reviewing porn-cluttered computers as part of their job.

In addition, law enforcement is using it to perform various searches.

This is a multi-faceted tool that can be invaluable for just about any sector of the computer using population.

Welcoming the US’s newest naturalized citizens! These folks did it legally!  Congratulations to them!

I love the look of nice, gold, chunky cuff links. To me, they show a very well put together man who pays attention to detail.

Cuff Daddy has some really great looking cufflinks and I would have no trouble at all finding a really nice pair of gold cufflinks for my husband. There are some great prices on this site, too!

The midwestern floods…these are not your daddy’s or granddaddy’s floods. These are 500-year floods. Events not seen before non-Indian people started living out on that stretch of the North American prairie. Most of the homeowners in Eastern Iowa did not have flood insurance because the likelihood of being affected above the 500-year-line was so small that their insurance agents actually advised them against getting it.

The personal ruin out there will be comprehensive and profound. It will be a wet version of the 1930s Dust Bowl. Families will be facing total loss and perhaps being forced to move elsewhere.

Iowa in 2008 will be an even slower-motion disaster than Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Much more than the troubles of 25,000 people who have lost all their material possessions is the status of our grain reserve. The crop losses in Iowa will aggravate what is already a bad situation.

Cheap corn is behind the magic of the American processed food industry. All the convenience food that Americans need because they have no time between two jobs and family-chauffeur duties to actually cook.

Behind that magic is the agribusiness model of farming that is high on cheap oil and cheap natural-gas-based fertilizer. Both of these have recently become non-cheap, though. Fossil-fuel-based farming was already at a crisis stage before the flood of Iowa. Diesel fuel is a dollar higher per gallon than gasoline. Natural gas prices have doubled over the past year.

Are we seeing the possibility that the world population has surpassed world food production capacity?

I think we’re heading into a season of hoarding. As the presidential campaign moves into its final round, Americans are going to be wanting for both food and fuel. As far as oil, the next event on the horizon is not just higher prices but shortages. It’s likely that this will occur first in the Southeast states because exports from Mexico and Venezuela that feed the Gulf of Mexico refineries are down considerably.

I mentioned in another post that truckers are going bankrupt because they unable to carry on their business while getting paid $2,000 for loads that cost them $3,000 to deliver. Did you know that if the day comes that we have a mass trucker revolt, that America has only about a three-day supply of food in any of its supermarkets?

Shortages of food and oil are two situations that are pretty clearly predictable for the second half of the year. Let’s now forget that the hurricane season just got underway now as well.

Off to New York? I would love to see the sights in the Big Apple. I’m not crazy about the prospect of riding the subway, though.

If I were going to vacation in New York, I would use a limo service Manhattan for sure.

NYC Car Service provides affordable transportation to and from Manhattan, Brooklyn, NJ and New York City. They have a fleet of over 450 late model sedans and Town Cars. This sounds to me to be a safe and reliable transportation option that just makes sense. When you are in unfamiliar territory, why not just play it safe and go with something that is high quality like this?