Category: Rants
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Bank of America Screws Its Small Customers
All your money are belong to us… You think Bank America really cares about its customers? In mid-August, B of A notified me that there’d been a breech of data with some retailer I do business with, and because of that, they were issuing me a new debit card. A couple days later, I got…
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Safeco Insurance Sucks
What’s the difference between a bookie and an insurance company? The bookie won’t welsh on paying if you try to collect. We just got done with a long, troubling fight with Safeco Insurance. Early last April, my oldest kid’s car – a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo – was sitting in front of his house one…
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Manke Clean Burn Wood Pellets = Shorter Pellet Stove Firepot Life
I just replaced the firepot on my pellet stove last week. $300. I’ve heated my home with wood pellets for the last five years. I have a Quadrafire Santa Fe stove. In a typical year, we’ll use about two tons of pellets in the heating season. When I got the stove, that’d cost about $300,…
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Mid-week Rants
Once Crook Down…Bunches To Go… Yesterday’s guilty verdict in the trial of Lewis “Scooter” Libby for lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice is an important victory for Americans – after six reckless years of governing with impunity, the Bush administration has finally been held accountable for its criminal actions. Perhaps the tide of…