But He's On Vacation!

President Bush was in TEXAS for a weekend getaway, but that damn economy keeps ruining things ... , a automobile repair shop, a restauranteurs -- two restauranteurs. And it's clear that these small business owners are dealing with the effects of a credit crunch. And by that I mean that they're having trouble [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 18:00:23

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Reliant Energy considering seeking buyer even as credit crisis spreads (Reliant-Energy)

HOUSTON _ Reliant Energy, which supplies electricity to nearly two million customers in Texas and the Mid-Atlantic region, served notice that it may be shopping for a buyer Monday as a credit crisis that has reshaped Wall ... last month and will likely have to spend millions to repair damages.Some analysts believe Reliant may [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 01:37:07

CASINO WALL STREET

Bill Werner is an Engineer in Missouri City, Texas. The following is his attempt to Encapsulate All of Modern Economic History ( ... The Vast Matrix of Models of Mind-stuff” we abide in. ~~~ “Credit-default swaps… have become mainly side ... the United States government will go bust.” -Michael Lewis & David Einhorn in How to Repair [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 23:28:11

Why Wearing a Sports Mouth Guard While Participating in Athletics Is Not Overrated

[Editor's Note: As you know, from time to time we like to divert our attention away from coverage of specific sports events and fantasy sports to provide useful health and fitness information for the sportsman (or woman). One way that we do this is with our Trainer's Room series .  In this post, guest author Dr. Lee Fitzgerald, a Dallas dental implants specialist, discusses a topic that probably at one time or another annoyed us all back when we played high school athletics: mouthguards. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-19 15:28:19

Christopher Brauchli: Three Strikes and You're in

Won't be fine. Th' Govermint gives us too little amusemint nowadays. Th' fav'rite pastime iv civilized man is croolty to other civilized man. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Corporal Punishment It is always refreshing when awareness and consequences catch up with the absurd. For more than 40 years, some thought that the way to reduce criminal activity was to limit the number of crimes a person was permitted to commit before life in prison without parole became the imperative alternative. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-06 15:41:22

d. Marital Status Discrimination

The ECOA and many state laws prohibit discrimination based on marital status. The FHA has a similar provision which prohibits discrimination based on familial status. These laws require that a married person be allowed to apply for credit in her name only. A creditor cannot require an applicant’s spouse to cosign when the applicant requests an individual account as long as no jointly held or community property is involved and the applicant can meet the creditor’s standards on her own. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-13 01:30:54

Morning Coffee - 18 August 2009

Starting 5 Top Story:  Title:  TRUCK BOMB IN RUSSIA KILLS 20 Body:  TRUCK BOMB IN RUSSIA KILLS 20 At least 20 people were killed by a car bomb detonated outside a police station in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. The blast created a 13-foot crater. Regional leadership blamed militants (a safe bet). [more...]

Date: 2009-08-18 13:45:41

September 9 2009: A crime that will forever go unpunished

Dorothea Lange The Road June 1938 Outskirts of El Paso, Texas. "Young Negro wife cooking breakfast. 'Do you suppose I'd be out on the highway cooking my steak if I had it good at home?' Occupations: hotel maid, cook, laundress" Ilargi: Whenever I try to avoid the subject of Fannie and Freddie these days, I seem to get drawn right back into the topic of troubled US states. And when avoiding them, somehow I'm back with Fan and Fred. Got to go with the flow,I guess. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-09 04:01:00

Austin Bike Culture Calendar Events: 9/3- 9/9/09

If you are ready to suit up, there is a whole lot of racing going on this week. In addition to the old standby Driveway Crits, the twice monthly RunFar Time Trial, and the return of the Dirt Derby, the Tour of Austin cranks up with some serious road racing all holiday weekend. Here’s a quick run down of recommended events for the coming week from our comprehensive calendar of all cycling events . Thanks to Jason at ATXBS for letting us know about some events we couldn’t find elsewhere. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-03 10:30:10

Drumbeat: August 26, 2009

The Future of Transportation by Shai Agassi Projecting the future of energy, transportation, and environment. The time is now, and the change is already in motion. In the words of Lee Iacoca “It’s time to lead, follow or get out of the way.” In 2005 the world entered the “post peak-oil” era, as predicted by many oil experts years before reaching this situation. The price of oil is dominated by two factors, new discoveries of oil fields and global demand for oil, falsely called production. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-26 14:11:49

Biden’s Stimulus Speech: A Context Check

by Christopher Flavelle and Amanda Michel , ProPublica - September 3, 2009 4:37 pm EDT Vice President Joe Biden marked the 200-day point of the stimulus package today with a speech at the Brookings Institution, where he spent nearly an hour ticking off its achievements so far. Among other things, Biden said some economists had given the $787 billion stimulus bill credit for creating 500,000 to 750,000 jobs and boosting the gross domestic product in the two most recent quarters. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-03 21:37:09

Coming up With a Marketing Plan

Coming up with a marketing plan should be one of the first things on your “To Do” list if you are a business owner-especially during these trying economic times. Not only is marketing important to the survival and thrival of your business, but it helps to “create a buzz” about your name or brand. For example, many of us who were around in the 1980s still remember the jingles to certain commercials such as the Tootsie Roll commercial, etc. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-15 16:15:22

Top 10 Gary Busey Performances

Warren J. Cantrell ’s Top 10 lists are becoming a regular feature here at Scene-Stealers. Cantrell’s unique voice has already given us Top 10 Reasons Why “Predator 2″ is the Best of the Franchise and Top 10 Movies Ruined by a Female Presence , so it’s only fitting that he follow those man-tastic lists up with a tribute to freakazoid actor Gary Busey. If you have a Top 10 list of your own you’d like to contribute, email me at eric@scene-stealers.com . [more...]

Date: 2009-07-28 05:02:21

Biden's Bullshit

By Christopher Flavelle and Amanda Michael/ Courtesy of ProPublica Vice President Joe Biden marked the 200-day point of the stimulus package today with a speech at the Brookings Institution, where he spent nearly an hour ticking off its achievements so far. Among other things, Biden said some economists had given the $787 billion stimulus bill credit for creating 500,000 to 750,000 jobs and boosting the gross domestic product in the two most recent quarters. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-04 06:11:58

MORE ON INTERNMENT CAMPS ~ By Chuck Baldwin

MORE ON INTERNMENT CAMPSBy Chuck BaldwinAugust 28, 2009NewsWithViews.comAdditional TitlesA couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column questioning why it was necessary for our federal government to be constructing internment camps all over America. See the original column here.I felt it was time for someone such as me to publicly broach the subject. Needless to say, the response was overwhelming. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-28 01:51:18

Best Car Maintenance and Repair Services at Lucas Car Care

Cypress, Texas (Press Release- 14 September, 2009) – Reliable car owners never compromise with the quality of maintenance services to be provided to their cars. Therefore, it is a concern for them to buy services from a reliable car care agency. Lucas Car Care is known to provide reliable car maintenance services to its clients. They offer a five-point preventive maintenance program that enhances car’s life and keep it running smoothly for longer. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-14 07:09:21

Black Empowerment: The rapid decline of South African Airways.

by Arthur Kemp This is pretty scary reading for someone that regularly travels with SAA, like myself... The South African government holds out its airline as a shining example of black empowerment, which carries the name and symbolism of the “new” South Africa far and wide. Indeed, for decades, South African Airways ( SAA ) was famous as one of the best airlines in the world, consistently winning industry awards for service. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-21 21:16:00

Best Auto Maintenance and Repair Services at Lucas Auto Care

Cypress, Texas (Press Release- 14 September, 2009) – Reliable car owners never compromise with the quality of maintenance services to be provided to their cars. Therefore, it is a concern for them to buy services from a reliable auto care agency. Lucas Auto Care is known to provide reliable car maintenance services to its clients. They offer a five-point preventive maintenance program that enhances car’s life and keep it running smoothly for longer. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-17 00:17:07

Health Care Reform: Memories of 1994

The Week : After President Clinton's 43 percent plurality victory in the presidential election of 1992, I worked as a spear carrier in the U.S. Treasury Department under Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. The plurality view in the Treasury Department throughout 1993 and up through the middle of 1994 regarding the health-care reform situation had six analytical pieces: (1) There were not even 50 votes available in the U.S. Senate for any health-care reform bill sponsored by President Clinton. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-03 22:55:19

Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the circle is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11

Thursday Morning Rangers Notes: Hot Stove Fever

Life Annoyance/Irritant #3,481: buying a $35 black-and-white ink cartridge for your out-of-warranty two-year-old printer and witnessing what one could only accurately characterize as a "catastrophic early-morning mechanical failure" less than a week after making your credit card scream a little bit in agony. One profanity-laced tirade [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 06:50:53

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 18, 2009

The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. WASHINGTON/POLITICAL For the latest political news: www.CNNPolitics.com. CNN: Obama aide says president still favors public health plan The White House sought to reassure jittery supporters Monday that President Obama is not abandoning the fight for a public health insurance option. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-18 08:54:18

Austin Real Estate Broker Kenn Renner Signs National Book Deal With Intermedia Publishing Group

Austin, Texas ( PressReelasePad ) July 29, 2009 – Top Austin real estate broker Kenn Renner recently signed a publishing and distribution deal to promote his first book with Intermedia Publishing Group out of Phoenix, AZ. The book is entitled: “ First Time Home Buying Secrets Revealed.” Intermedia will be publishing and distributing the book in bookstores such as Barnes & Nobles and Borders as well as Internet portals such as Amazon.com and Target.Com. [more...]

Date: 2009-07-29 21:38:26

Sears’ Blue Electronics Crew Fires up Football Fans

Sears’ Blue Electronics Crew Fires up Football Fans Retailer Partners with Panasonic VIERA HDTV for Mobile Marketing Tour HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — For most American football fans, football season is a time to catch their favorite football game either in person or on TV. Now, a new mobile marketing tour sponsored by Sears and Panasonic combines the best of both. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-11 01:22:58

Daily Dose: 10/01/08

» AsianWeek Market Report » North American Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Day 2008 » Obama Celebrates Filipino American History Month » Assemblyman’s Constituent Turns Personal Tragedy into Positive Change » CORA Kumares, Kumpares to Stage Abuse Prevention Presentation in Daly City » Edison Chen Refuses to Testify in Sex-Tape Trial » [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 21:04:21

West Virginia - More or Less Pollution?

West Virginia was the first state to begin implementing a statewide Smart Grid Plan. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory teamed up with Horizon Energy Group out of Tennessee – where Nashville has had their “Green Power Switch” in place for some time – to begin a study for a possible West Virginia state Smart Grid. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-03 16:00:48

Biden’s Stimulus Speech: A Context Check

Vice President Joe Biden at the Brookings Institute in Washington on Thursday. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) This story was reported by ProPublica reporters Christopher Flavelle and Amanda Michel Vice President Joe Biden marked the 200-day point of the stimulus package Thursday with a speech at the Brookings Institution, where he spent nearly an hour ticking off its achievements so far. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-04 21:27:50

Biden’s Stimulus Speech: A Context Check

Vice President Joe Biden at the Brookings Institute in Washington on Thursday. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) This story was reported by ProPublica reporters Christopher Flavelle and Amanda Michel Vice President Joe Biden marked the 200-day point of the stimulus package Thursday with a speech at the Brookings Institution, where he spent nearly an hour ticking off its achievements so far. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-04 21:27:50

Texas First Time House Buyer Programs

Home buyers and their Realtors ought to be informed of programs available to help out first time home buyers with down payment help. As of July 7, 2009, The State of Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) released $7.5 million in finances offered for two new loan programs for first time home buyers. The first program will provide an advance on the $8,000 first time home buyer federal tax incentive that can be used towards their down payment. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-06 15:36:04

Stem Cells Undo Birth Defects

Repairing damage: Neural stem cells, tagged green with a fluorescent dye, have been transplanted among the brain cells (red) ... suffered by heroin-damaged mice. Credit: Joseph Yanai By injecting stem cells ... into what's needed to repair the defect. They are doing my job, in a way."Yanai and his colleagues [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 16:23:00

Googel Developers Day US - Testing Distributed Systems

Click here to view the embedded video. Attention! API Garbage (might be unreadable): Google test checkout 10 yes this is a testing history systems with Ajax XML lessons learned from Google check out hundred hundreds and they ll be presenting out today with Mario Mentor from the checkout team and nosedive in your so mutable love to do everything [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 12:49:52

2 Cars to 1 Car to No Car? Redefining “Financial Crisis”

Unlike most of America - we have no car payments. And we love it. We keep an emergency fund of $1,000 for car repairs. And we use it. Lately we use it a lot. Over the summer we drained it - more than once. Lately, we’ve been replacing batteries, alternators, air conditioning compressors, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 12:00:00

When You Vote Republican, This Is What You Get

It's no surprise that Ike victims can't get enough out of their flood and homeowner's insurance to cover their losses ... she says the federal flood insurance program's $79,291.07 offer isn't enough to repair her 41-year-old ... limit," he said.and this:Putman has applied for an SBA loan, borrowed some money from her credit union [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 20:21:00

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 2009

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, ... ANIMATED DOPPLER STORM RADARNortheast Next Snowstorm CANADA WEATHER WARNINGSNEW BRUNSWICK & MAINE BORDER WAIT TIMESALL OF ATLANTIC CANADA STORM WARNINGS:This Site GIVES you the news as it happens, 24 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:21:00

Economic news - school fund hurting, construction slowing

Texas public schools are hurting even more.  On top of the budget problems they are already facing, are now starting to feel the current economic conditions, School fund hit hard by recession. The ailing economy could make it more expensive for Texas school districts and their taxpayers to borrow money, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 16:48:25

Corporate Acquisition Group - Scam or Business Opportunity?

The answer is that Ty Tymkovich and Corporate Acquisition Group is on the level and is a viable way to find an investor for your business ... - a computer repair company, a website content company, and an internet marketing company.  Ty Tymkovich ... was the first potential red flag - I had to pay $7,500 to have a Texas company conduct an evaluation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 21:00:55

SATURDAY JANUARY 10 & SUNDAY 11, 2009

THIS SITE SUPPORTS ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, EMS CREWS, IN ADDITION TO ALL SERVING IN THE CANADIAN ARMED FORCES, ... UP FOR SOME NB AREASSnowfall warning in effectEnvironment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for metro ... BRUNSWICK & MAINE BORDER WAIT TIMESALL OF ATLANTIC CANADA STORM WARNINGS:This Site GIVES you the news [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 02:22:00

DrumBeat: July 19, 2008

Small, developing nations feel impact of food and energy crisis The Marshall Islands said Friday electrical power in the small Pacific nation may be switched off in September when its fuel supplies are expected to run out, as high food and energy prices have begun to hit hard some developing countries, [more...]

Date: 2008-07-19 13:19:50

Bet Lines: Palin nominee in 2012?

Bet Lines: Palin nominee in 2012? Superbook.com puts the odds on favorite to be the GOP nominee in 2012 with Sarah Palin, odds of 3.5:1 ... Giuliani are 15-1 dark horses while Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and McCain ... , the Democrats will be positioned well.  The far right, conservative brand is broken and beyond repair [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 01:58:55

Women’s Festival Monthly Dec. Edition

Welcome to the December 21, 2008 edition of women’s festival. Linda W. presents Recognizing Verbal Abuse in Relationships posted at The Eclectic Female, saying, “Words can hurt, and it is important to recognize when verbal abuse occurs.” Amy @ The Q Family presents Get out and enjoy free admission in Atlanta posted at The Q Family [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 18:00:43

Satan Has a 350 Credit Score

The lowest credit score you can have is a 350. I am fairly certain that if the Devil had one it would most certainly be the worst possible ... , gluttony and being a debtor with outright disrespect to the creditor can earn you a bad credit rating. I have personally never seen a 350 credit score but supposedly they do exist. If you have bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:08:26

Bailout (of rum, arrows, race tracks)

by Frank James What do rum, motorsport race tracks and wooden arrows used by kids all have in common? The financial markets bailout bill, that's what. Taxpayers for Common Sense has compiled a handy list of what it called the top ten tax-related provisions in the financial-markets bailout bill passed yesterday by the Senate and they include [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 19:05:21

Review: TechRestore Mac Repair

Not too long ago I accidentally dropped my MacBook Air onto a hard floor and the screen cracked. I knew that I did not have the time or patience to let Apple take it away for repair ... Label TechRestore pride themselves with affordable service and fast turnaround time. For a standard [more...]

Date: 2008-08-11 05:08:43

Obama Town Hall Meeting on Healthcare Reform in Montana (transcript)

The following is an official White House transcript from Pres. Obama’s town hall meeting to address the issue of healthcare reform at Gallatin Field Airport in Belgrade, Montana, 14 August 2009 12:05 P.M. MDT THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Montana! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It’s great to be here. Please, everybody have a seat, have a seat. Thank you so much. Thank you. I am excited to be back in Montana. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-14 23:05:55

Confusing Consumption With Investment

People are now waking up to the fact that what that real estate investment guru was pitching at the seminar wasn’t necessarily an "investment": ... credit report Mortgage for people with bad credit Credit card machine to buy Free credit report ... home loan rate refinance Bad credit home improvement loan Bad credit personal loan 1 Home interest [more...]

Date: 2008-06-24 14:10:35

News Of The Day

As governor, David Paterson finds himself at war with his former allies, ... OpEd that he gave her "an opening to repair her image with the anti-war base." Barack Obama's ... ' finance chairman, a powerful Texas lawyer, tried to cover up the ex-candidate's affair. John McCain [more...]

Date: 2008-08-15 13:08:41

Friday Digest - Vol. 09 No. 02

Friday Digest — Vol. 09 No. 0216 January 2009THE FOUNDATION"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:15:00

Psychiatric Technicians, Psychologists Among Health Workers Not Checked For Criminal Pasts

Health & ScienceMany California Health Workers Not Checked for Criminal Pastsby Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber December 29, 2008 9:25 pm EST Tags: California, NursesThis story was co-published with the Los Angeles Times and also will appear in the Times‘ Dec. 30, 2008 edition.  Michael Marcus, a dentist from San Jose, Calif., was arrested [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 04:55:51

TRAVEL - fresh news by plazoo.com

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Date: 2009-01-10 04:37:00

Danger Signs of Bad Credit Repair Companies

By: John Rasor If you are considering legitimate credit repair and restoration, then good for you ... Organizations Act state that credit restoration companies cannot charge you fees until after they’ve completed ... out there that promise ridiculous results. Beware of credit repair companies that ask you to pay [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:35:54

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