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People I recommend without reservation

In a service business reputation means everything! There is a very short list of people who I would recommend without reservation, here is the list. Mark Musser - for personal & business insurance BancFirst - for business banking Craig Hand - Electrician Neal Gillis - Plumbing RJ Butefish - Graphic and Web Design Becky Rampey - Estate Sales Felipe Mendoza - Brick & Rock work Surfaces in Bixby - Granite David Byte - Server & Hosting Administration I only recommend these people because I have used them. I have hired them. They have treated me right & I trust them. Please contact me for the contact information for any of these people.

Cutting the Cable

I "cut the cable" in 2009. Initially there were some "set up" costs to bring my equipment up to date to accommodate the set up I had in mind. I wanted to only pay for the content I was really interested in. I was tired of paying way too much each month for a bunch of content we didn't watch. When we did watch television it was via the DVR so we could skip right over the commercials. In this article I'll tell you about the set up that I have found that has worked great for me and my family for the past 4 years or so. We were interested in: Local programming and content on demand. So, we decided to pay only for Netflix because it was and is on demand and commercial free. With the exception of one season of MLS, Netflix is the only paid content we have used for the past 4 years and I don't predict that will change anytime soon. So, what do we watch and how to do we watch it? We watch our local programming including sports, news, and a few broadcast netw

Capitalism and Love?

When I first set up my Facebook profile many years ago it asked for my Political Views and being dissatisfied with the politics that I have experienced growing up in the US I put "Capitalism". Capitalism may not have been an official political party or political platform at the time I thought it was still a pretty solid political view. There are lots of different types of governments and even more political parties across the world. Our economy is certainly more "global" than it has ever been and with the changing face of technology it seems we are all becoming more and more effected by one another. With all of the different types of government out there and all the different political parties I wonder if Capitalism might hold some common thread we could all hold onto together? I maybe naive but I say that Capitalism when paired with Love would really work as a political platform for our global society. Some may say that Capitalism promotes selfishness and greed a