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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Happy New Year

So my Obama-depression inspired bout of “nothing I want to write about” fugue has gone on long enough. Let’s see what’s interesting in the world. There’s fighting in Gaza… and in case you forgot, Israel’s enemies are the same fanatical assholes that are our enemies. They are liars and deceivers (if you believe people like …

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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 the hell do SPAIN and PORTUGAL care about our borders?

Am I reading too much into this, or is there something deeper going on here? Latin Leaders Set to Condemn U.S. Border Fence A draft of a final declaration by the leaders of Spain, Portugal and Latin America gathering in Montevideo includes a special statement rejecting the fence plan. “We express our deep concern over …

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