Rx for Arizona Consumers’ [HomeBuyers} Credit
Find out what’s in their file. Every U.S. consumer is now entitled to one free credit report annually from each of the three credit bureaus: Experian, ... a collection agency. Excise outdated information. By law, credit bureaus are supposed to remove information ... is to write a letter to all three credit bureaus detailing the dispute. (Some states [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 19:30:07
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Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
AP | Jul 11, 2009 By TODD LEWAN Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker’s gold. Zipping past Fisherman’s Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians’ electronic U.S. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-04 16:38:33
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
By TODD LEWAN Jul 11 Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker’s gold. Zipping past Fisherman’s Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians’ electronic U.S. [more...]
Date: 2009-07-11 21:32:33
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car. It took him 20 minutes to strike hacker’s gold. Zipping past Fisherman’s Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians’ electronic U.S. [more...]
Date: 2009-07-12 02:05:03
The Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference: Secretary Napolitano Speaks About Our Security
Let's face it: the Department of Homeland Security should be called the Department of Really Bad Stuff. Combating terrorist networks bent on injuring Americans? DHS is on the job. Half of Kentucky without power for a week after an ice storm? Yup, DHS. Smuggling of people and drugs across a porous and dangerous border? That's also DHS's beat. Basically, 9/11, Katrina, and the immigration beat rolled into one. Where other agencies provide education, veterans' services, and environmental [more...]
Date: 2009-07-22 06:19:39
Top Three USA Destinations to Take a Pit Stop At
Boasting a plethora of golden beaches, breathtaking landscapes and an eclectic array of lively cities, the USA is a magnificent country, bursting with a unique sense of character and style. Offering up a varied and exciting travel experience, visitors’ taste buds cannot fail to be tickled by the sheer amount of sights, iconic attractions and activities on offer.Argued to be the only way to see the USA, driving holidays are extremely popular. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-22 03:58:17
My Advice for Stephen Strasburg
August 19, 2009 | By Sammy Gertzman In Finance | by Mika TravestaMr. Strasburg: I understand how much hype you’ve gotten as a pitching prospect and I know how dominant you were in college. I, too, believe that you have an amazing set of pitches and could go really far in the majors. At the same time, I think you’re being utterly ridiculous to insist on $50 million when you’ve never played a baseball game as a pro. I have many reasons for the basis of my opinion.One example is Mark Prior. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-20 04:14:31
Feds To Consider Tortoise for Endangered Species Act Listing
Groups Applaud Finding for Rapidly Declining Desert Icon Desert Tortoise - photo: USFWS Desert tortoise advocates have been waiting for this good news for a very long time. Should a listing take place, many human intrusions into the desert tortoise’s southwest desert habitat, including livestock grazing and excessive development, will be largely halted. The benefit of such will be enjoyed by a great number of desert wildlife species. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-28 21:03:59
Feds To Consider Tortoise for Endangered Species Act Listing
Groups Applaud Finding for Rapidly Declining Desert Icon Desert tortoise advocates have been waiting for this good news for a very long time. Should a listing take place, many human intrusions into the desert tortoise’s southwest desert habitat, including livestock grazing, excessive development, and abusive ORV use will be largely halted. The benefit of such will be enjoyed by a great number of desert wildlife species. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-29 06:32:11
August 18 2009: You are using the wrong image
Lewis Wickes Hine Doffer Donnie November 1910 Donnie Cole. 'Our baby doffer,' they called him. This is one of the machines he has been working at for some months at the Avondale Mills, Birmingham, Alabama. Said, after hesitation, 'I'm 12,' and another small boy added, 'He can't work unless he's twelve.' Child labor regulations conspicuously posted in the mill Ilargi: I see all sorts of people claim that Germany, France and Japan are now no longer in a recession. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-18 15:36:00
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
filed in Business on Jul.15, 2009(07-11) 21:01 PDT (AP) –Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he’d bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with this objective: To read the identity cards of strangers, wirelessly, without ever leaving his car.Get QuoteSymbol LookupMore BusinessObama home from whirlwind Ghana trip 07.11.09Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears 07.11.09Special alloy sleeves urged to block hackers? [more...]
Date: 2009-07-15 04:32:07
Disabled Veteran Throws Lifeline to Others on Brink of Financial Ruin
Building and maintaining good credit is a puzzling task for many individuals. Evil Money Evil Credit , a book by motivational speaker, author and disabled veteran Alton Jones, provides an explanation and guidelines for enhancing individual credit performance. Jones wrote Evil Money Evil Credit (High Tower Books, October 2005) for individuals with fair to very poor credit, those who have been denied credit, anyone who rents an apartment or furniture or who has used a payday lending facility. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-25 17:00:48
FOIA Information Reveals More Problems With Coal Ash Sites
Aug 31: According to a release from the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice, U.S. EPA has released information to environmental groups about America’s toxic coal ash dumps after months of data collection and inquiry. The groups, after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, discovered that there are 584 coal ash dump sites across the country -- almost twice as many as previously identified. These sites pose significant cancer and health risks that so far have gone unchecked. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-01 20:33:00
Commentary: A Clarence Thomas Fantasy
Farrah Fawcett, the Burning Bed Fighter by Robert Greenwald - Huffington Post / Common Dreams Farrah and Ryan came to visit me about a month ago. Her spirit and passion and intelligence were as sharp as ever. The deep connection between Farrah and Ryan stronger then ever, with the teasing and humor in full throttle. But her body was being destroyed by the cancer. And it showed. Painfully. Farrah is an amazing fighter and she was in full fight mode. With Ryan right beside her. [more...]
Date: 2009-06-27 16:37:00
Floatin' Powa News Service: The Joker Is Wild...
In the image below The Joker is clearly depicted as an evil knife wielding Jewish demon of the Zohar who is about to impale all that is holy in Gotham City. The Joker sports a star of David with an inverted pentagram (a symbol of Satanic worship) emblazoned on it's center, and written on the wheel behind him you can clearly see the words HASHEM and SABBAOTH. Somehow I fail to recall the public outcry and media outrage over this depiction. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-19 01:42:00
Public Private Competition in Garbage Collection
The public option for health care appears to be dead , so this is a bit late, but I keep hearing that there are no examples of public-private competition, let alone successful ones. But there are examples of this, and they have been successful. We are used to the argument that the private sector can discipline and usually beat the government in terms of providing services at minimum cost (though I should note that is not always true). [more...]
Date: 2009-08-16 18:11:17
Floatin' Powa News Service: Better Run Through The Jungle...
Poll: 70% of Americans see Israel as US friend This is how we treat a friend? Iraqi PM to visit Syria for security talks Oh I feel more secure already. US military delegation starts visit to Syria A U.S. military delegation arrived in Damascus on Wednesday to hold talks with Syrian officials on the possibility of cooperation on regional issues, the independent Syria-News website reported. The visit has bee confirmed by U.S. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-15 15:18:00
Clean Energy Summit and the Toxic Environment left from the last thirty years of paying for University Research and Engineering that has little been used –
National Clean Energy Summit 2.0: Jobs and the New Economy *** My Note – We are the grandchildren that were left with it. When I hear politicians and business people from corporations say how we don’t want to leave our grandchildren with air that isn’t breathable, global climate change, water that is polluted and soil filled with lead and pollution, I know they are dicking around and talking shit because we are the generation that were the grandchildren left with it already. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-10 15:30:55
Interesting information found at the Trilateral Commission website about Afghanistan – where to find the speakers that delivered analysis for their conferences
My Note - Has anybody asked the people of Afghanistan if they mind the destruction of their lives, their livelihoods, their safety, their villages, their country with the efforts being made on their behalf to go after the Taliban? Are their views and considerations being given voice or has the fact that tanks and military personnel, drones and humvees, exploding bombs and assault rifle fire battles escaped their notice? [more...]
Date: 2009-07-09 19:03:45
Daily Mail UK: Drivers’ details sold by DVLA are used in bizarre roadside adverts for Castrol
The Daily Mail UK reports that the car registration data of millions of motorists were sold to an oil company that used the data for marketing. Giant digital billboards from Castrol scanned motorists’ license plates, ran the plates through a database and instantly displayed on the billboards what the best oil was for that specific driver’s car.It’s not surprising that data collected for one use was also used — without the motorists’ consent — for another use. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-28 18:01:56
Conservative churches unite to challenge IRS rule
The conservative Alliance Defense Fund is planning to have conservative pastors all over the country endorse political candidates ( ... by the Arizona-based legal consortium is designed to trigger an IRS investigation that ADF lawyers would ... to mandate the role of church in society." Yet an opposing collection of Christian and Jewish clergy [more...]
Date: 2008-09-08 16:00:08
The Snarky Files - Euripides' Views on the Week (August 8)
Vanity Fair and many in the US didn't have a problem "Jokerizing" Bush. But when an unnamed artist does the same to Obama, suddenly the Left gets a conscience? The Snarky Files . Snarky means several things. I prefer the definition of "sharply critical." Here's my take on some news stories this past week. No real news here, just snark. The Joker's on Us The posters with Obama as the Joker invaded LA this last week. That's old news. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-08 23:10:00
Faint Praise Indeed...
One of my favorite sitcom jokes goes something like this ... was a good man...he was certainly very...punctual, and his Pez dispenser collection was the envy of office ... ..."incompetent." Thanks largely to her efforts, those adjectives can also be applied to Arizona. Big [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 16:52:44
Of Mice and Caribou (and Men and Wolves)
Genetic Diversity Is Fool’s Gold and a Foolish Goal Much ado has been made lately regarding “genetic diversity” in wildlife species. But genetic diversity is, for the most part, a pseudo-scientific concept. Like “cultural diversity” in human societies, genetic diversity is a subjective judgment, not a measurement [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 05:32:53
Is Fascism an Impeachable Offense?
By David Swanson House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers consistently lists among his reasons for not holding impeachment hearings, his fear of the corporate media. But last week the corporate media exhibited its fear of impeachment. Only those voices in support of Congressman Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment spoke [more...]
Date: 2008-06-15 04:11:37
MLA style Citations
Works Cited: Electronic Sources Some Tips on Handling Electronic Sources It is always a good idea to maintain personal copies of electronic information, when possible. It is good practice to print or save Web pages or, better, using a program like Adobe Acrobat, to keep your own copies for future reference [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 15:02:11
IRS revoked an offer in compromise David W. Trout v. Commissioner. Dkt. No. 5690-05L , 131 TC --, No. 16, December 16, 2008. [ ... Levy and distraint: Returns: Mailing date: Offer-in-compromise agreement: Collection due process ... agreements was supported by three factors: federal government agency as litigant, contracts entered [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 09:18:06
Greens galvanize behind Grijalva for Interior Sec.
GREEN GROUPS GALVANIZE BEHIND GRIJALVA FOR INTERIOR SECRETARY 107 Groups Say AZ Congressman Is Right Personto Reform Troubled Agency WASHINGTON -- ... and conservation,” stated Southwest PEER Director Daniel Patterson, who is a newly elected Arizona ... the most acreage of any Interior agency. “Congressman Grijalva understands wildlife and outdoors [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 15:00:00
IRS - Time to Come Clean - a “Private Collection Agency”
by Walter Burien - http://CAFR1.com 11/05/08 From within the Federal Government’s own Consolidated Financial Statement (FCFS) ... as a “Civilian” “Private” operation, or a “Private Collection Company” contracted out by Congress ... with any Federal agency by ownership or authority over the IRS. All federal documentation ONLY [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:41:58
Project Blue Beam
JGT Editor: The original research in this article was presented over a decade ago, and it amazing how has come to pass. We now have concrete evidence of this technology and there has been a increase of UFO reporting in the mainstream media, even Larry King has had several shows on it [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:09:56
Politics-as-Usual While the Planet Burns
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Politics-as-Usual While the Planet Burns By Brian Tokar A palpable sense of triumph accompanied the passage last month of a first-of-its-kind global warming bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of the bill’s [H.R. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-03 21:30:29
NEW WINDSOR JAIL ANGST IS AN EXERCISE IN OLD NEWS
The old news is that in about 80 percent of prison construction experiences there is some initial resistance by area residents. The usual concerns fall into the categories of safety and financial issues. Obvious things like increased crime in the immediate area, the threat of escapes, impacts on property values, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:00:00
Illegal Gun Trafficking, Including Sale Of Machine Guns, Leads To Arrest Of Four Men On Federal Charges
Illegal Gun Trafficking, Including Sale Of Machine Guns, Leads To Arrest Of Four Men On Federal Charges One Defendant Claims to be Local Operative for a Mexican Drug Cartel BATFE Los Angeles, CA - -(AmmoLand.com)- An investigation into guns being trafficked from Arizona to California has led to the arrest of four individuals, one of whom sold several machine guns to a undercover operative and claimed to be tied to a Mexican drug cartel. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-01 17:11:11
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/17/2008
Take a look at the Islamic terror plot uncovered in Arizona, with a connection to the “Flying Imams”.Also look at the financial news from Spain — not good. Unemployment over 11%.Thanks to C. Cantoni, Insubria, JD, Paul Green, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 04:53:00
It’s News To M_A - 12/10/08
cross-posted at WWL, M_A’s & OWL Stories of note from the WakeTheFuckUp news desk…. Here’s a glimpse of some of the headlines featured below the fold: Obama,“This is a matter of urgency and national security” - CLIMATE PROGRESS Don’t Call it a Culture War - Ann Friedman Frugality: [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 13:08:24
Obama fills key posts on environment, energy teams
By Darren Samuelsohn Greenwire: President-elect Barack Obama filled out several key energy and environmental positions for his transition team Friday while also staffing up a few select White House jobs. Obama named more than a dozen people to craft policy positions and monitor the Bush administration’s efforts at U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-11-17 18:10:46
First Cup: Tuesday
Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press: "The Pistons have an important decision coming. Either Rip Hamilton or Allen Iverson must become the sixth man. Neither will like the demotion, but there's no alternative. This is becoming Rodney Stuckey's team much faster than anybody envisioned [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 13:49:31
FBI Issues 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report , mortgage fraud Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) referred to law enforcement increased 36 percent to 63,713 during fiscal year (FY) 2008, compared to 46,717 reports in FY 2007. While the total dollar loss attributed to mortgage fraud is unknown, financial institutions reported losses of at least $1.4 billion, an increase of 83.4 percent from FY 2007. [more...]
Date: 2009-07-07 22:59:32
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Information – Counterterrorism Resources, Databases and Information – Portals to military simulation definitions and weapons resources databases –
United States Weapon Systems Space Systems Aircraft Land Systems Ships Smart Weapons Aircraft Systems Dumb Bombs Naval Combat Systems Missiles Nuclear Systems Missile Defense Intelligence Systems Rest-Of-World Weapon Systems Space Systems Aircraft Land Systems Ships Missiles Nuclear Systems Missile Defense Intelligence Systems Sources and Methods Equipment and Weapons @ DefenseLINK Director, [more...]
Date: 2009-07-05 17:53:21
FCC's Plans to Boost Public Safety Wireless Interoperability Face Obstacles.
Government Technology recently published my latest article on the FCC's plans for a national public safety network. Here's the text: Emergency communications save lives. The unfortunate corollary to this maxim: Communication failures kill. More attention is being focused on how to improve communication, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:16:47
AGFD kills mountain lion in Forest Service fee area
Learn to respect and live with mountain lions.UPDATE, 10/31: A necropsy on the killed lion showed the animal was healthy and not rabid.TUCSON -- A warning to Arizona mountain lions from this hunter: stay hidden, cougars, or you'll ... with hunting dogs and shot it dead.In Arizona, it seems like any seen lion is a dead lion. It's very sad [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 14:35:00
CDC Awards $22 Million for Colorectal Cancer Screening Program
CDC Awards $22 Million for Colorectal Cancer Screening Program The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a total of $22 million to 26 states and tribal organizations to provide colorectal cancer screening services for low-income people aged 50-64 years, who are underinsured or uninsured. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men and women aged 50 and older in the United States. The awards range from $358,283 to $1.1 million. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-08 15:22:51
The Secret Government: FEMA
FEMA has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, ... Agency, they are subject to Congress. The organization is called FEMA, which stands for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Originally conceived in the Richard Nixon Administration [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 15:47:33
Quantum of Strangeness: Intelligence Community was shaken, not stirred
Gary S. Bekkum November 21, 2008 Weird science has infected American intelligence efforts past and present ... the past decade, the NSA (National Security Agency) faced numerous challenges, including ... , “the NSA’s lack of oversight, and billions in post-9/11 dollars have combined to give the agency [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 12:14:14
Microsoft Great Plains Integration Manager - Advanced Techniques
Great Plains Integration Manager scripting and translation - overview for programmer, software developer, database administrator, IT specialist Microsoft Business Solutions main middle market ERP application - Microsoft Great Plains has multiple integration options: MS SQL Scripting (stored procedures and views), ADO [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 00:22:15
Green Car Rental Round Up: Who’s Going Green and Who’s Missing the Boat
Want to rent a car, but wishing you had more green choices? As it stands, you’re in luck ... a Car has been offering consumers a ‘Green Collection’, which includes the Toyota Prius hybrid ... and the Toyota Corolla. The Green Collection fleet is comprised of 35,000 vehicles. All of them are reservable [more...]
Date: 2008-07-08 16:00:05
Vietnam 'War Hero' McCain Covering Up Massive Files on His Fellow POWs/MIAs
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Reveals GOP Presidential Nominee Has Spent Years Keeping Vital Information on Hundreds of Vietnam War POWs Secret ... at a campaign rally Monday in Media, Pennsylvania. The Arizona senator has made the story of his experience [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 11:46:45
Quantum of Strangeness: Intelligence Community was shaken, not stirred
Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape Monday, December 1, 2008 by Gary S ... the past decade, the NSA (National Security Agency) faced numerous challenges, including accusations ... the NSA’s lack of oversight, and billions in post-9/11 dollars have combined to give the agency [more...]
Date: 2008-12-02 16:46:48
Where to see kachinas locally
Synchronicity! I had not been to the library for more than a month; today, ... -to-photograph location on the main floor. Not there. Turned out that the library's collection had been moved ... are from a small collection that you'll probably never see. They are at the home of my Sson and family [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 07:26:45
Stock Market Dictionary - A
A Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying Class A shares.AAIISee: American Association of Individual InvestorsABOSee: Accumulated Benefit ObligationABSSee: Automated Bond SystemACATSee: Automated Customer Account TransferACESSee: Advance Computerized Execution SystemACHSee: Automated Clearing HouseACRSSee: [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 16:28:00
