6 Things Everyone Needs to Know About E-Mail & Internet

1. No one in Nigeria is going to give you $12 million to help them transfer hundreds of millions of dollars into the U.S.

2. No restaurant or business is giving away free gift cards - not Target, not Applebees - none of them.

3. No bank is going to send you an email and ask you for your account information, your PIN number, or your social security number.

4. No password is completely safe. Strengthen your passwords by including upper and lower case letters, at least one number, and at least one punctuation mark, particularly for online banking or credit account access.

5. If you have a facebook or myspace account, don't post any personal information that you don't want the whole world to know, such as your email address, your real address, or your phone number.

6. Any email you are not expecting should be treated as suspicious, even if it's from someone you know. If you ever get an email from, for example, me, with a subject line of, "You've GOT to see this!" or "This is the funniest thing I've ever seen" - DON'T open it. (And by the way, don't be offended if you send me something and I don't open it - if I'm not sure it's safe, I don't open it. And neither should you.)

And always remember, if you want to check out a story before passing it along, just go to snopes.com and type what you are looking for in their search box. More often than not, you will discover the truth about that missing girl, the guy who is drugging ladies with perfume samples in parking lots, or the patient who will receive 3 cents for every forwarded email.

Stay safe!

Fight the Freedom of Choice Act Petition

There are so many phony petitions floating around the internet - everything from "Madelyn Murray O'Hare is trying to take religious programming off the air" to "x amount of signatures will help cure this sick child" - that I hesitate to even mention one. But this one is real, and I think it deserves our attention.

 

During an address to Planned Parenthood in July of 2007, then-candidate Senator Barack Obama said, "The first thing I'd do, as president, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do." Well, he's president now, and he is waiting on the House and the Senate to send him the Freedom of Choice Act, a lethal piece of legislation that has been floundering in committee for five years, but will possibly make it to President Obama's desk. This act will lift all federal restrictions on abortion, including partial birth abortions, and could possibly be used to force faith-based hospitals to perform abortions against their will.

 

The group Americans United for Life has started an online petition drive, and has collected over 600,000 signatures to date. Their intention is to have this petition ready to deliver to Congress as soon as the bill comes out of committee. I urge all of you who read this to go to their website, http://www.fightfoca.com, and add your name to the list.

 

Signing the Freedom of Choice Act, it turns out, was not the first thing President Obama did when he took office. But he clearly indicated his stance and his intentions by overturning the Bush administration's ban on using federal funds to subsidize abortions in other countries.

 

Please visit this site and sign the petition.

 

P.S. - Madelyn Murray O'Hare is not trying to take religious programming off the air - she's dead. But those who would seek to destroy the moral fabric of our nation, unfortunately, are still quite active.