That ID theft protection commercial

Not going to mention their name, since I’m not sure they deserve the little free publicity I could provide… but here’s one to think about: In their commercial, they feature a cop who’s identity had been stolen by a fellow cop. He mentions that he noticed something on a credit card bill that he didn’t …

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Saturday Night Politics

Nancy kept the House in session late on a Saturday in order to twist enough arms to get her nearly 2000 page POS passed. Harry is planning to do the same to the Senate this weekend. Does anyone still believe this health care fiasco is above board, proper, legal, and necessary? BOHICA, America. This is …

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The repeated lie

If you say it often enough, and with enough conviction, sooner or later people will believe it – even if they know it’s an outright lie. “If you like your current insurance, you will be able to keep it” Forget the fact that a government-sponsored plan, paid for out of tax dollars, will inevitably put …

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Scary but true… IRS is as stupid as you think

Do they hire morons off the street to work at the IRS? Sure looks like it… IRS bureaucrats duped into exposing passwords According to a report released Friday (PDF) by the Treasury Department’s inspector general, 60 percent of a sampling of 102 Internal Revenue Service employees, when contacted by government auditors posing as help-desk employees, …

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Mastercard’s Fraud Detection Service

I had an “anonymous” call registered on my phone today… the sort I normally ignore. I listened to the message before deleting it – it claimed to be from my credit-card issuing bank – and promptly forgot about it. When I got home, I had an email from the same bank. That one I read… …

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Why does this read like a plea for a class-action lawsuit?

I got this crap in the mail today from a bloodsucking bank to which I owe money. Like most people, I don’t generally read these things thoroughly, although every time I do, I realize I really should. This one announced a fairly insignificant “minimum finance charge”, but it’s not the charge that has me curious, …

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