Free Identity Theft Monitoring for AAA Members

If you’re an AAA member in California, Hawaii, New Mexico or Texas, you’re suddenly eligible for a free credit monitoring service, provided by Experian. While I was looking through the fine print (a free service for you provided by ConsumerismCommentary.com), I found this, which gave me pause: You are receiving a complimentary credit monitoring membership. Your membership is effective for the period disclosed to you when you received your activation code. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 11:56:15

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Update: SIX Flagging

Dan Snyder’s belly-uppish theme park chain, Six Flags, took yet another fiscal knee to the naughties from Wall Street analysts ... deeper into junk status” because of “concerns about a potential future default,” says a Forbes’ report. Snyder’s company is more than $2.2 billion in debt, and according to the report, two notes totaling [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 13:40:37

Is Bush Tanking Stocks to Grab the Remaining $350 Billion TARP? Remember the much decried end-of-Clinton- era pardons, the most controversial of which involved tax cheat and storied trader Marc Rich? Well, if I am reading the tea leaves right, those shenanigans pales compared to the nonsense Bush is trying to pull in his last week in office [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 21:43:00

Illinois releasing Barack Obama's records

by Mark Silva DENVER -- As the Democratic Party prepares to unleash its presidential nominating convention here, ... TV ad focusing on Ayers, whose Weatherman group took credit for bombings that included nonfatal ... financed by Harold Simmons, a billionaire financier from Texas, listed as one of 235 fundraisers [more...]

Date: 2008-08-23 02:20:45

Soimething to offend Everyone

Political satire or reality?We will do something a little different in today’s post. Rather that blather about our own political views, let me share with you the contents of an email I received from dear friend and colleague Dr. Jerry. We’ve omitted the illustrations from the original since my technical knowledge is not sophisticated enough to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 00:17:00

DrumBeat: July 6, 2008

UK: Government asks stores to stockpile food to overcome hauliers strike Ministers are in talks with supermarkets about emergency food reserves in case fuel protests lead to shortages at shops. The government wants to ensure retailers and suppliers can continue to sell basics such as meat, bread and milk if hauliers bring the country to a halt [more...]

Date: 2008-07-06 13:02:56

One Nation Divisible Under Obama? Not Indivisible Under God.

“I would have hoped that if the Union were ever again to be imperiled it might at least be in a cause as noble as the Abolition of Slavery. To imperil it for the vanity of a single individual is unimaginably petty!” By Judah Benjamin, Guest Author Before I do anything else, I want to re-state my position on the subject of Barack Hussein Obama II, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 22:43:41

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

Floatin' Powa News Service: The Stunningest Gunnists!

Hamas Seeks New Doctrine after Gaza War Failures It is too different than the old doctrine, you harram Zionist shoe, instead of Kill All the Jews we will now say Perish all the Juden! EU sued for funding Hamas air strikes on Israel Hamas slams Obama for backing down on demand for settlement freeze Palestinians want peace deal but don't reject Hamas Right. PEACE means DIE JUDEN DIE to them. Netanyahu: Israel seeks peace with Palestinians BiBi... [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 19:08:00

Standing up to Christian bullies

IT’S always heartening to hear news that bully-boy tactics, so beloved of religious organisations like our very own Christian Voice, ... Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. According to this report, the play has enraged the Phelps clan – Kansas’ real-life equivalent of the ghastly inbreds who raged across the screen in The Texas Chainsaw [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 22:29:32

Hot Stocks: Canadian Ford Dealer Offers Ford Shares to Buyers of Ford Vehicles

If you like the car, will you love the company? When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise ... are pressing both U.S. and Canadian lawmakers for emergency aid. All three are to submit turnaround ... ), according to a report that runs elsewhere in today’s (Wednesday’s) issue of Money Morning. Among other [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 15:01:09

Considered Forthwith: House Transportation Committee

Welcome to the 23rd installment of "Considered Forthwith." This weekly series looks at the various committees in the House and the Senate. Committees are the workshops of our democracy. This is where bills are considered, revised, and occasionally advance for consideration by the House and Senate. Most committees also have the authority to exercise oversight of related executive branch agencies. This week's entry discusses the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee . [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 01:03:44

Terrorists on Murderous Rampage in Mumbai: As Muslims, We Condemn it

these events.  SubhanAllah.  If you need something completely different, try this. Otherwise, I’ve left the article below intact, but there is no doubt that recent events affect the way one reads what had been the very first words of this post: India Calling to a whole generation — the sons and daughters of expatriates who left India seeking [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 01:17:13

Still no plan for fixing billing system for youth in L.A. County detention

Earlier this year, Los Angeles County probation officials vowed to fix their system for billing parents of youth in county detention after county supervisors questioned why the department had mistakenly billed low-income and foster parents. Supervisors gave a group of probation and other county officials three months to propose changes, but six months later the group has yet to present a proposal. Probation officials declared a moratorium on new probation billing Feb. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 22:43:35

Editorial: We Must Be the Change We Want to See

Standing here, the old man said to me Long before these crowded streets, here stood my dreaming tree Below it he would sit, ... " by the Dave Matthews Band Twenty weeks ago, on February 13, we at Burnt Orange Report endorsed ... , to his credit, has pledged to either remove from the bill or vote against. Many others in the Senate [more...]

Date: 2008-06-26 12:15:00

Stanley Kurtz: HOW ACORN & ITS DEM ALLIES BUILT THE MORTGAGE DISASTER, and how Obama is right in the middle of it

UPDATED Please scroll down I didn’t have a chance to post on it yesterday, but Maria and a couple of friends sent this, ... to force banks into making high-risk loans to low-credit customers is still active. None ... , was worried that charges of discrimination had become an excuse for lowering credit standards. She warned [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 12:37:34

News - Views - Commentary

Uncle Jay Explains the Year 2008Gaza: Leaders Lie, Civilians Die and the Lessons of History Are IgnoredBy Robert Fisk, Independent UK - AlternetQuite a lot of the dead this weekend appear to have been Hamas members, but what is it supposed to solve? We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more -- providing we [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:37:00

States struggling to meet renewable energy standards

A front page story in today’s New York Times’ business section looked at what the paper called a “moving target” — the renewable energy standards in ... and our neighbor to the east, Texas, are closer to reach the goals than many other states. New Mexico’s big ... and a co-author of a recent report on the targets. He said that things may be good in [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 18:40:21

THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA - No joke

What is going on here?http://www.youtube.com/user/sharpsteve2003Secretly, North American governance is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, ... with Mexico and Canada.Abrogation of Canadian/U.S.A./Mexican sovereignty to the North American Union ... blueprint President Bush and Prime Minister Harper is following was laid out in a 2005 report entit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:49:00

Green revolution: still possible amid deep recession?

In 2008, oil prices spiked then collapsed, climate-change talks stuttered, and nuclear power reemerged ... -cutting cause by reducing energy usage. A recent Deutsche Bank report predicts that EU emissions ... technologies need. Investment has tapered off and will continue to do so while credit is tight in 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 02:08:00

SC Diocese Appears to Repudiates Catechism; SC Priest Is ‘Reined In,’ But Right (Update: Full Text of Letter)

BizzyBlog), I noted news that Fr. Newman, a Catholic priest and pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Greenville, South Carolina, had informed parishoners who voted for Barack Obama in full knowledge of the Illinois Senator’s aggressively proabortion positions that they “should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 14:15:55

The Mailbag

Welcome to a quick, year-end mailbag; a sampling of reactions to some recent ombudsman's columns and some letters from earlier in the month that I ... , Alexander, ND I just finished watching the "Now" program (Dec. 26) on the credit rating agencies ... of credit default swaps in this area. I am not a financial professional, but it seems [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 18:58:17

“I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen. And I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration. That’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:37:59

News and Views

Expert Predictions: Stock Market Could be Good in 2009USA TodayNEW YORK — Stock market forecasts tend to be sunny, and 2009 is no exception. Wall Street gurus are again predicting gains. But this year's bullish market call comes with an asterisk.Wary stock strategists, unsure how the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression will play out, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 13:43:00

DrumBeat: July 20, 2008

To Save Gas, Shoppers Stay Home and Click To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree. A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and J. C [more...]

Date: 2008-07-20 13:14:15

Bush and the Recipe for “New Americans”

About 10 years ago, the reputation of George W. Bush was not as a staunch Evangelical neo-conservative but as a moderate Republican with measurable ... the Latino population of Texas, many of whom voted for him.Now, after two consecutive terms ... relating to immigrants comes this report, released just weeks before Bush is to ride off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 22:09:41

And Where It Will Stop, Nobody Knows

Headlines / economic news of the past 48 hours: Global trade (combined exports & imports) dropped 18% in the four months ended November 2008 ... of Finance. China’s report was its worst in at least a decade and Germany had its worst export drop ... in December as job losses and the choking-off of credit led Americans to cut back on everything [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:22:05

The Media Circus

Just when you think the NFL has found every way to exploit its game, it goes and does this. Next week, a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3-D to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston. It is a preliminary step on what is likely a long road to any regular 3-D broadcasts of football games [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 16:10:00

Global Warming solutions proposed … in Texas? Beyond the smog… H-town: breeding ground for climate change action? What the world knows about Texas: J.R. Ewing was one ruthless son of a bitch. George Jr. can bob ... that is destabilizing the planet’s natural systems will devastate the Texas economy. In a prepared [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 22:36:17

Understanding Background Checks

Background check is what everybody nowadays seems to be interested in, be it employer wishing to make an informed hiring decision, ... broker business. Information requested in most cases includes past employment, credit worthiness, and due ... and Credentials Verification Gaps in employment history Credit History - bankruptcies Identity and Address [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 00:20:30

Combined Gay News Headlines (T5T-1)

New Year's Q of the day: what are the things you can't live without? According to a recent Pew poll, the number of things that Americans say are necessities has grown.Some of these goods, such as home computers, are relatively recent information era innovations that have been rapidly transformed in the public's eyes from luxury toward [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 13:32:00

DEMS SEEK TO BLAME BUSH FOR THEIR MISMANAGEMENT

Submitted by: Clark Havard Fannie, Freddie And Now, Hannie By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009  Subprime Crisis: The media have pounded President Bush for a wave of Hispanic home foreclosures. But it was Democrats who launched a drive to loosen credit for Hispanics — many of them illegals.   Democrats [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:40:15

An Alternative Plan for Fixing Credit & Housing

Bill King, who I have quoted many times in this space, puts forth an intelligent alternative to the two plans circulating D.C ... has been a small, often insignificant part of their business. They made money by trading and through ... premises: • The US credit system is broken. • The Paulsen-Bernanke Bailout Plan does not insure [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 22:30:00

Christmas Vacation Memories: The Good, and the Getting Better

Madeleine Sophie, Isabella, and cousin Elia in front of the Christmas tree at Christ the KingOur time in Tulsa was fabulous. Aside from everyone having colds/fevers and being too nasty to take the babies outside, that is! I finally got to hold my newest nephew, baby Timothy, and I just loved seeing my kiddos playing so well with their cousins [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 16:36:00

Check Out Peter King’s Recent SI Article on Derrick Brooks

What makes an NFL All-Pro tick? SI got inside the clockwork mind of Bucs veteran linebacker Derrick Brooks as he faced his biggest challenge of the 2008 season: stopping Adrian Peterson By Peter King The biggest play of an NFL game can happen at any time—in the fourth quarter (David Tyree’s against-the-helmet catch in last year’s Super Bowl) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 19:01:33

Fannie teed up. Are you teed off?

Housing headlines of note in today's Los Angeles Times Business section: --"Fannie regrets golf excursion," ... not dispute the report, described the event as a mortgage industry customer meeting held twice ... for the quarter would fall by half to $1.5 billion. -- Lauren Beale Your thoughts? Comments? Photo credit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 20:53:11

All Things Divine in '09

It's amazing to think back at just how fast 2008 passed by. So many special things happened to our family this past year ... and moved us to South Texas for Residency.Josiah was blessed with another year of life; and turning ... tasks gives me. Last year, I set out to accomplish 6 goals. And I'm sad to report that I'll [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 20:13:00

Housing Prices Are Still Going Down

Yes, dear reader, we are going where no man ever went before...into the wild. All around us is virgin territory. No one has ever been here before ... disappear in such a short time. The latest report from MSCI shows the planet's losses from the sell ... ! And this is just stocks. Reported write-downs, write-offs and credit losses have reached almost [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:55:42

Crisis Deepens; Asian Exports Plunge

For anyone who thinks the Credit Crisis has retired. The rest of the world seems now to be tanking worse than the US ... have been struggling to secure letters of credit, the lubricant of the trading system. Even large banks in Asia ... in an emergency move to unlock the credit market. It cut interest rates to 0.01% on Friday, tantamount [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 23:48:00

Tuition Crunch by Pedro de la Torre III

Students are often the last ones given a seat at the budget table when times are good, and the first to be put on the table when bearish economies ( ... report awarded every state in the country, except for California, an “F” when it comes to college ... market, real estate market, and other markets plummet. The near-frozen credit markets are causing cash [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 09:20:49

The Napster Of Newspapers

It's no secret that I tend to think folks who worry about plagiarism quite often blow the issue out of proportion ... similar to everyday collaboration. Yes, the failure to properly credit the original author is a bit ... of plagiarism ever discovered: an entire Texas-based free alternative weekly newspaper that appears [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 18:09:11

Identity Thieves often Pitch Great Deals to lure their Victims in Quickly.

by: William Roberts Identity theft can impact you as an insurance consumer because insurers often use an individual’s credit score to determine ... of your credit report to determine if any accounts were opened without your consent and request the agency remove inquiries and/or fraudulent accounts stemming from theft. Request a free credit report [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:17

Oversight Panel Report Grim, Tough, Inviting

Americans are being formally invited to participate in discussingthe ongoing federal program to stabilize the ... the program’s implementation. The panel also issued its first report yesterday, signed by the panel’s Chair ... and New York Superintendent of Banking, Richard Neiman. (One panel member, Rep. Jeb Hensarling [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:13:12

Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks Draft 2008

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (American Society of Landscape Architects, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas at Austin, United States Botanic Garden)http://www.sustainablesites.org/report/SSI_Guidelines_Draft_2008.pdf ... comment on a new report that offered what they claim is the most comprehensive set of voluntary [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 20:48:44

DrumBeat: August 12, 2008

High gas prices make motorists click on carpool sites NEW YORK — Robert Gilliland didn't think much about carpooling until gas prices got out of control. Now, he's happy to trade his motoring freedom for $120 in weekly savings. Gilliland found one rider through the classifieds website Craigslist and another using the carpool-matching service [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 12:54:13

Racist Murder of Oscar Grant: An Update

The BART cop, Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed an unarmed Oscar Grant in Oakland on New Year’s Day, ... about the incident in Houston, Texas and the pervasiveness of police brutality encountered by emergency ... it in the report, “over-stopped, over-frisked, over-searched and over-arrested.” emphasis added    After [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:29:48

South Carolina Attorney General Reacts to ISTTF’s Report

So here is some follow-up to this week’s Internet Safety Technical Task Force report that downplayed predators on social networks and encouraged ... Carolina has withdrawn from the group (which was collective of 49 of the state AGs – only Texas chose not to participate). He has left based on the fact that the report downplays the threat of sexual [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:33:28

It should come as no surprise that the power companies have undue power in Arkansas. They want a poison-spewing coal-fired plant, they get 'it ... is that some states have made it easier for homes and businesses to generate electricity and to get credit ... , expensive power plants. Here's a snippet from a blog item on a Stateline.org report on states [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 10:44:02

Special Report: Credit Crisis and the Industry - From Dealer News

“I think it’s the sheep effect,” says Carlo Hansen, co-owner of Riverside Kawasaki in Somerville, Mass. “Everybody is scared at the same time. All the news is bad.” Hansen is referring to the nationwide credit crunch. He says even his local credit unions are spooked. One of them is not accepting any applicant with a score below 650 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 17:04:52

TCJC on probation officer turnover, 'revisiting treatment basics,' and whether a public defender can work in Harris County

There was so much good stuff in this month's e-newsletter from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition I wanted to share these portions for the poor, ... Advisory Committee's latest report, titled 2008 Texas Adult Probation Turnover Intention Study: Line ... among Texas adult probation officers. Also check out TCJC's summary of this report here. (Grits' note [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 17:57:13

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