July 2012 • McLarenblog.com

Mac Mountain Lion (Mac Version 10.8) shows a Computer Screen Box Problem

July 25, 2012 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

At the very end of my installation process for upgrading my laptop to Mountain Lion I suddenly found that my mouse cursor on my computer screen had an annoying black box associated with it. My son helped me determine that the installation defaulted with a system preference set incorrectly. If you find you have a black box following your mouse cursor all over the computer screen just go to System Preferences (top left corner of your computer screen and select…

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Close To Half Of The U.S. Households Currently Do Not Owe Federal Income Tax. Truth or Fiction?

July 9, 2012 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

“Close to half of U.S. households currently do not owe federal income tax.” How accurate is this statement? This statement is cited as evidence, typically by Republicans, that lower income families do not pay their fair share of income taxes. This viewpoint is flawed because it specifies income tax. There are other forms of taxation. Let us list them one by one and see who pays and at what rate. Income Tax The recession of 2008 and beyond has vastly…

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Supreme Court Ruling: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

July 6, 2012 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Wikipedia: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations and unions. Wikipedia: The First Amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning…

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Albertson’s Top Management Deals With Big Picture Problems But Fails To See Smaller Issues

July 2, 2012 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Albertson’s is owned by a big box house operation, Supervalue Inc. This may have set up top management to think in terms of resolving company and store performance issues from a twenty thousand feet top down view and not take the time or interest to view street level uniqueness for each individual store and how each store interfaces with the local community. One approach does not fit all (stores), is the point I am making. In a Business Week web…

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