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Attention leftists: hypocrisy is not a failure to live up to one’s own ideals. Hypocrisy is a willful professing of a belief, that one that does not truly believe. An outspoken Christian who commits adultery is not a hypocrite. An outspoken atheist who prays is a hypocrite. In today’s extended lesson Google must either accept that it is undermining the Internet, or be a hypocrite.

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For all those Americans looking to put more money in their pockets and give less money to health insurers, a Health Savings Account is the plan for you.  You pay a lower premium, and put the cash that would have been going to an insurer in a tax-free account with your name on it.  You own the money, which you spend tax-free to meet your health insurance deductible.  HSAs, which have been around since 2004, and have grown by 31 percent from 2007 to 2008.  Eight million Americans now have an HSA.

In a shocker poll, there is a health care plan that nearly three quarters of those using them would recommend to their friends and families:  it is an Health Savings Account.

84 percent of HSA owners say more Americans should be able to have an HSA.

91 percent say HSAs should remain an option for all Americans.

About 80% of the survey participants said the ability to save for future health care expenses is the primary reason for using an HSA.

For those who do not believe Medicare will be in the same shape it is in now, mainly because of the baby-boomers who are beginning to hit the system, then perhaps sending less cash to insurers and keeping some of it for your future health care expenses is a good idea.

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Instead of the blue screen of death, let’s call it the blue span of death. Like the bridge to nowhere, Microsoft has somehow gotten its hands on $11 million of the stimulus dollars to build a bridge that will connect Microsoft to . . . well . . . Microsoft.

This is another example of Obama deciding he knows what’s best and us winding up with a raw deal.

According to CNN:

“It’s going create just under 400 jobs for 18 months constructing the bridge,” says Redmond Mayor John Marchione. “It’s also connecting our technical sector with our retail and commercial sectors so people can cross the freeway to shop and help traffic flow.”

Marchione applied for federal stimulus money after costs jumped on the project from $25 million to $36 million. Marchione says the increase in costs were due to a rise in construction prices and because the bridge will be built on a diagonal in order to connect Microsoft’s original East campus with a newer West campus that are split by a public highway.

Microsoft is hardly getting the bridge for free. The company is contributing $17.5 million or a little less than half the tab of the $36 million bridge, which would be open for public use.

In other words, the taxpayers of this nation are buying Microsoft a bridge that Microsoft could afford to buy itself.

Let’s hope the bridge doesn’t crash like Vista or it really will be a span of death.