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 a similar notice for my Visa account with them. The one thing the notices didn’t contain was the name of the retailer who’d been hacked. Because the breeches involved both my Visa and debit cards, I was able to narrow it down to only three…
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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 night at 2 AM. A drunk lady leaving a nearby bar plowed into it and split without stopping. Luckily, my son heard tires squealing and ran outside in time to get her license number as she sped off. He gave the information to the police,…
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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, which is a helluva good deal. Last year, I spent just over $500 – which is still really inexpensive compared to any other form of heat. For most of that five-year period, I’ve used Manke Clean Burn Pellets, which are produced here locally in Tacoma.…
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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 their lies has finally started to turn. The only unfortunate thing is that Vice President Cheney and Karl Rove were not also indicted. Although perhaps that too, will also eventually come to pass. A Cop on Every Corner in Baghdad… News reports suggest that President…