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Let me buy you another cup of coffee since we have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-14107101542185062502018-06-11T08:25:00.001-04:002018-06-11T12:08:01.798-04:00My Twitter Online Dating SCAM Experience with Mariam Johnson aka @MariamJ10860059<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am frequently a target for dating scams on Twitter. Usually, you can see them from a mile away; however, one slipped through the cracks on my Twitter account through a DM (direct message).<br />
When someone targets you on Twitter, they often send a barrage of sexy photos making them easy to weed out. I usually unfollow them or block them when they make it obvious they have an agenda.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago, I was targeted by a Twitter follower named Mariam Johnson who uses the Twitter profile:<br />
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<span class="username u-dir" dir="ltr"><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MariamJ10860059">@<b class="u-linkComplex-target">MariamJ10860059</b></a></span><a class="ProfileHeaderCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/MariamJ10860059"> </a> </h2>
She introduces herself like she supports your views on Twitter, then she gives you a long story about her life. Her story in a nutshell is as follows:<br />
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<li>I was born in Russia</li>
<li>My parents were both killed in a car accident when I was 10 years old</li>
<li>I was adopted by an American family and I moved to the United States</li>
<li>I have been especially close to my foster mother in my adult life</li>
<li>My husband cheated on me, so I divorced him</li>
<li>My foster mother encourages me to try again and find true love</li>
<li>However, my foster mother is in poor health, so I am now living with her</li>
<li>I'm a wildlife photographer and love animals</li>
<li>I had to sell all my camera equipment to support my ill foster mother</li>
<li>She longs for the money to buy a new camera system</li>
<li>Her cellphone is malfunctioning and she needs a new one to talk with you</li>
<li>She is willing to come see you in person very soon</li>
<li>She pretends to live in a state nearby you, even though profile intimates she's in Dallas</li>
<li>Her birthday is coming up the week she meets you online</li>
<li>She pushes you to tell her what you are getting her for her birthday</li>
<li>Her visit to see you in person will happen after you buy her a birthday gift online</li>
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I suspected Mariam Johnson was an online dating scammer from the start, but she did one thing that set her apart. She never sent provocative photos and her profile had her wearing a modest dress. That got me curious what her MO was. This put her in a cut above the rest, so I played along trying to figure out her system.</div>
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After a week of toying with her, I got tired and it was taking up too much of my time, so I told her its just been a game for me to learn how the scam works. I tell her I'm done. She protests that she's a sincere woman. Sure.</div>
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Her impending birthday puts pressure on you to buy her something. Your purchase of a gift will proceed her visit in person. </div>
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I made up a BS story of how I was going to buy her a new iPhone and a complete Canon camera system worth thousands of dollars so she could get back into her wildlife photography.</div>
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Her Online Dating SCAM Techniques Entertained Me:</h3>
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<li>When you do a live chat with her, there are long silences</li>
<li>During silences, she's juggling several other Twitter DMs</li>
<li>She calls you <b>hun</b> constantly and never uses your name, because...</li>
<li>She could get confused and call you by the wrong name, so its hun hun hun</li>
<li>She wants you to buy her a $100 iTunes card, but has no reason for you to do it</li>
<li>When she feels like you're getting wise to her scam, she wants to take a shower</li>
<li>Or, she's very sleepy at 6 pm her time and must go to bed</li>
<li>She wants you to send her thousands through a Walmart Visa/MasterCard system</li>
<li>She speaks broken English even though she says she's lived in US for 20 years</li>
<li>She takes a break from your chat saying she has to take care of her sick foster mom</li>
<li>She wants you to buy all her gifts through her friend, Sandra, for great deals</li>
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Anyway, like taking the time to chat with her got old, the time it is taking me to write this post is getting old, so I'm going to bow out and move on to things that have real value to me, and if she contacts you, consider doing the same.</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/MariamJ10860059" target="_blank">Mariam Johnson Twitter Profile (Click Here)</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MariamJ10860059" target="_blank">Mariam Johnson Twitter Profile MariamJ10860059</a><br />
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Here is Mariam Johnson's response after I exposed her Twitter online dating scam:<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-58424917579946373752016-10-06T19:43:00.001-04:002016-10-06T19:44:49.068-04:00Trump and Hillary Walk in to a Bakery<br />
Donald and Hillary Go Into A Bakery on the Campaign Trail.<br />
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As soon as they enter the bakery, Hillary steals three pastries and puts them in her pocket. She says to Donald, "See how clever I am? The owner didn't see anything and I don't even need to lie! I will definitely win the election.<br />
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The Donald says to Hillary, "That's the typical dishonesty you have displayed throughout your entire life, trickery and deceit. I am going to show you an honest way to get the same result." Donald goes to the owner of the bakery and says, "Give me a pastry and I will show you a magic trick." Intrigued, the owner accepts and gives him a pastry. Trump swallows it and asks for another one. The owner gives him another one. Then Donald asks for a third pastry and eats that, too.<br />
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The owner is starting to wonder where the magic trick is and asks, "What did you do with the pastries?"<br />
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Trump replies, "Look in Hillary's pocket." <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-69460997460728917962013-11-28T00:38:00.000-05:002013-11-28T00:56:09.980-05:00America Would Worship Hitler & Become a Nazi State<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7j3FkRJMgA4iu5Oq289uuXGss4mMCu1YgYmx8w5NM6jEJf3qLflqJamtGdAZ6XZwPAW266LMzayMavR7OqO5t7R5RvneQeB0KN0mB_uOHKnhij15mmwPTtIzJS1r-9Jw79F_CgzzGxrl/s1600/Adolf+Hitler+in+Paris+France+Under+the+Eiffel+Tower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7j3FkRJMgA4iu5Oq289uuXGss4mMCu1YgYmx8w5NM6jEJf3qLflqJamtGdAZ6XZwPAW266LMzayMavR7OqO5t7R5RvneQeB0KN0mB_uOHKnhij15mmwPTtIzJS1r-9Jw79F_CgzzGxrl/s1600/Adolf+Hitler+in+Paris+France+Under+the+Eiffel+Tower.jpg" /></a></div>So, you think those stupid Germans were blind sighted by Adolf Hitler and that America is too sophisticated to bow to the rising dictatorship of the Nazi regime? Think again.<br />
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On closer inspection, you'll see that as Aldous Huxley predicted, we will learn to "love our slavery".<br />
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After looking at photos of Hitler in front of the Eiffel Tower and claiming it as his own during my father's lifetime, I see that an alternate reality could instantly rape freedom from us right before our eyes.<br />
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I think it was well said in this little selection of prose as to how Germany fell to totalitarianism in a handful of years...<br />
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<i>First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--<br />
Because I was not a Socialist. <br />
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Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- <br />
Because I was not a Trade Unionist. <br />
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Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- <br />
Because I was not a Jew. <br />
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Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me. </i><br />
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Freedom isn't free.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-83551127937986106532013-03-16T00:03:00.002-04:002013-03-16T00:06:57.054-04:00Kitty Takes Cat Naps in the Day So She Can Play All Night<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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No need to worry about your cat while sleeping, you need to worry about getting any sleep.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-91784285095466695332012-11-10T18:12:00.001-05:002012-11-12T00:31:03.039-05:00Block Ads on Amazon Kindle FIre HD by Opt-Out<br />
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It's easy to remove the ads on your Amazon Kindle Fire HD, simply log in to your Amazon account and click on the place in the top right hand corner of your account page where it says, "Hello (your name) Your Account". It's got a drop down arrow. Select: "Manage Your Kindle".<br />
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Then, in the left column of Category links, click: "Manage Your Kindle" under the Header: Your Kindle Devices.<br />
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Look for "Special Offers" Header. Click "edit" where it says, "Subscribed".<br />
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A pop up window will explain their advertising subsidy program where they have reduced the cost of your unit by $15 by adding ads to the screensaver and other places.<br />
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At point of sale, they also offer the option to pay $15 more for your Kindle Fire without ads in the first place. If you opted for the lesser price, you can still opt-out in your Amazon account if you pay the $15 + tax even after you purchased it.<br />
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Here's what the pop-up window looks like:<br />
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Also, in order to save money, they stopped shipping the units with a charger. They now include a usb cable that you can attach to your computer to recharge it, but the charger you can buy as an option is much faster. They sell it seperately for $19.95, but I saw an option to purchase it when you're buying your Kindle for a discounted price of $9.95. That's a good way to go. I simply used my AC power charger from my previous Kindle Fire. They used to include it in their older version.<br />
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With other headers on this page, you can deregister your Kindle and give it to someone else. You should also go to the actual Kindle device and reset your device to Factory Settings. The new user will be able to register like it's never been used before.<br />
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You can also change your Send-To-Kindle email address, and change the name of your Kindle. For example, you could say: Joe's Kindle.<br />
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I find that with the new Kindle Fire HD, it's got highly desirable advantages like bluetooth, a far superior built in speaker system that is awesome. They now have dual drivers on each of their stereo speakers. With their new design, the sound comes through loud and clear even if you have your fingers over the speakers due to their improved wrap around design. Their new speakers are many times better when watching a Prime movie or Netflix movie. The older design just didn't cut it.<br />
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The HD model has higher resolution and is much snappier due to a faster dual core processor and downloads are much quicker too utilizing their dual wifi wireless connection. You'll find you can be much futher from your wifi router and still go to pages much faster and more reliable.<br />
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I'm having trouble watching YouTube videos, even when I go to the YouTube mobile section. They should fix that in their next update. <br />
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I love my new Kindle Fire HD 7". It's a big step forward.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0Spartanburg, SC, USA34.9495672 -81.932048234.8975072 -82.0110122 35.001627199999994 -81.8530842tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-2473604167323553552012-09-18T20:51:00.000-04:002012-09-18T20:58:24.908-04:00Best Debit Card or Secured Credit Card with Frequent Flier Mile Program<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you've got bad credit and you've lost your credit cards, you may find it difficult to get a debit card or secured credit card that offers a frequent flier mile program. However, all is not lost after I did some research. You can rebuild your credit with a secured Visa credit card with a powerful worldwide frequent flier mile bonus program by Korean Air SKYPASS.<br />
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It works similar to a debit card, but it's classified as a secure credit card, so rather than just having your account hit with a debit, it is simply billed to you based on the credit you've built back. The more often you use the card and pay on a timely basis, you'll be earning your way back to be a citizen. You are simply billed at the end of each month for new charges. The more you have on deposit, the more credit you'll have. Usage will also extend beyond what you have on deposit if you remain a good customer.<br />
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<strong>Advantages of Using Frequent Flier Miles Instead of Buying Retail Airfare:</strong><br />
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If it's more convenient to fly out of a smaller airport near you rather than an extended drive to a larger airpost, then it's much easier and cheaper to do so with frequent flier miles. Typically, if you drive and park at a regional hub airport to get a better airfare rate, then you usually have the expense of driving there and paying a higher price to park your car in larger cites. So, the cost of driving there and the premium they put on parking offsets the discounted airfare, so you end up paying the difference anyway not to mention the inconvenience and added travel time of flying out of a major hub.<br />
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Usually, flying out of a smaller airport using frequent flier miles is more economical because they don't charge a premium for the commuter plane to a larger airport. When purchasing that additonal leg to your itinerary so you can fly from a local airport, it can add another third to your ticket price when simply buying the ticket at retail even if you're using a discount site like Priceline.<br />
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You have another advantage when paying your normal utility bills like electricity, cell phones and landlines because you get bonus miles when you pay your bills using your credit card. So, you're able to kill two birds with one stone. Since you have to pay for your regular bills anyway, why not rack up frequent flier miles to boot?<br />
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With the Korean Air Secured Credit Card, you not only access their flights, but you also can tap into their partner program to have access to using your bonus miles on a large network of other airlines around the world.<br />
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<strong>Korean Air SKYPASS Parter Worldwide Network:</strong><br />
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Mileage accrual is available naturally via Korean Air operated flights as well as flights serviced by fellow SkyTeam carriers (Aeroflot, Aerolineas Argentinas, Aeromexico, Air Europa, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Kenya Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Middle East Airlines, Saudia Airlines, TAROM and Vietnam Airlines) and other affiliated carriers (Alaska Airlines, Emirates, Garuda Indonesia and Hawaiian Airlines).<br />
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<strong>SKYPASS Visa Secured cardmembers experience these essential benefits and features:</strong><br />
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<li>SKYPASS Bonus Miles after your first purchase<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_1" id="foot_1" name="foot_1"></a>1</sup></li>
<li>1 mile for every net $1 in purchases</li>
<li>Credit limit based on your deposit, from $300 to $5,000</li>
<li>1,000 Bonus Miles at renewal<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_2" id="foot_2" name="foot_2"></a>2</sup></li>
<li>$250,000 in Travel Accident Insurance<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_3" id="foot_3" name="foot_3"></a>3</sup></li>
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<strong>Additional SKYPASS Visa benefits:</strong><br />
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<li>Redeem miles for reward travel and upgrades on Korean Air and SkyTeam partners<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_4" id="foot_4" name="foot_4"></a>4</sup></li>
<li>SKYPASS Visa card purchases help you reach and maintain Morning Calm Club Membership<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_5" id="foot_5" name="foot_5"></a>5</sup></li>
<li>EMV chip technology for added security abroad<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_6" id="foot_6" name="foot_6"></a>6</sup></li>
<li>Visa payWave technology for contactless purchases<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_7" id="foot_7" name="foot_7"></a>7</sup></li>
<li>Use your card at millions of locations worldwide</li>
<li>Cash access at more than one million ATMs</li>
<li>Bilingual automated 24-hour account access</li>
<li>Bilingual customer service available</li>
<li>No cap on miles you can earn</li>
<li>Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_8" id="foot_8" name="foot_8"></a>8</sup></li>
<li>Online purchase security<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_8" id="foot_8" name="foot_8"></a>8</sup></li>
<li>Earn SKYPASS miles even faster with Automatic Bill Payment</li>
<li>Get your monthly credit score – at no cost!</li>
<li>Lost and stolen card reporting</li>
<li>SKYPASS Visa miles can be combined with your SKYPASS flight miles</li>
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<li>Complete an application.</li>
<li>Print and sign the application.</li>
<li>Write a check for $300 to $5,000 made payable to U.S. Bank National Association. The check MUST BE a <strong>certified check, money order, or cashier's check</strong>.</li>
<li>Mail your application along with your check to: U.S. Bank National Association ND P.O. Box 6363 Fargo, ND 58125-6363</li>
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<strong>Is a Secured Credit Card for me?</strong><br />
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Yes, if you haven't had the chance to establish credit<sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=672007583597609915#default_9" id="foot_9" name="foot_9"></a>9</sup> in the United States yet.<br />
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It's Easy, Safe, and Practical:<br />
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<li>It's easy. All you need to do is send us a cashier's check, a certified check, or a money order with your credit card application (from $300 to $5,000) to open a savings account. Then, once you're approved, we'll send you a credit card. Your credit line will be the same amount as your deposit. It looks and works just like any other credit card when you use it at a restaurant or store.</li>
<li>Your deposit is used to open a savings account which assures your credit card can be paid. The money in your savings account is there to "secure" your credit line. The money in your savings account is FDIC insured and won't be touched as long as you make all of your credit card payments on time and your account remains open. Plus, you will earn interest on the money in your savings account.</li>
<li>Your purchases are billed to you each month. <strong>Payments are not automatically deducted from your savings account.</strong> You are responsible for making at least your minimum payment by the due date each month.</li>
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I sincerely hope this tip on how to get airline frequent flier miles even when you've got bad credit makes a huge difference in you getting your mojo back. I think the Korean Air Secured Credit Card by Visa with frequent flier bonus miles is a great tip because paying retail prices on airlines tickets will surely take a bite out of your budget. Now you can fly in style even when many consider you a second class citizen.<br />
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I believe US Bank issues the Korean Air Secured Visa Credit Card with the SKYPASS frequent flier bonus points. Please contact me with other options on my contact page: <a href="http://www.empowernetwork.com/glenwoodfin">http://www.EmpowerNetwork.com/glenwoodfin</a>. I hope this proves to be a great travel tip for you during hard times.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0Spartanburg, SC, USA34.9495672 -81.932048234.8975667 -82.0110122 35.001567699999995 -81.8530842tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-4940450082106770152012-08-29T04:43:00.000-04:002012-08-30T01:36:28.103-04:00Shopping for the Best Empower Network Sponsor?
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<b><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/17/technology/zeek-rewards-ponzi-scheme/index.html">http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/17/technology/zeek-rewards-ponzi-scheme/index.html</a></b>
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The SEC post on the closing of Zeek Rewards:
<a href="http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-160.htm"><strong>http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-160.htm</strong></a>
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The biggest challenge appears to be the daily commissions were coming from new recruits rather than the daily profit sharing on their penny auction site. There are two chances Zeek Rewards will reopen: slim & none.<br />
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At this point, the is a civil action and not a criminal action.<br />
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The following was written the day of the news where I'm trying to make sense of the breaking story. It's still worth reading even after the breaking news update above.
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I just got a call from a friend involved in the Zeek Rewards business that runs the Zeekler penny auction site and he said that the SEC has shut them down. No other details were offered. They were closed on the afternoon of Thursday, August 16th, 2012. I'll put up more details as I learn them.<br />
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Seems like it's too early to say the SEC is involved, seems like this is a North Carolina matter, so forgive the title of this blog post. <br />
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The rumor is that the North Carolina Department of Justice, the NC DOJ, has simply started an investigation. No charges or specific accusations have been officially made, rather it seems like they are simply doing an investigation because they've received 8 formal complaints and 23 inquiries over the past year, so they probably just want to open the books and see what's going on because Zeek has been so secretive about the actual numbers with the field. Sounds like this action is a Civil Investigative Demand, rather than a specific finding.<br />
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More thoughts from Troy Dooly, an mlm advocate:<br />
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If you are involved with the Zeek Rewards business, probably the best thing to do is to sit tight and wait to find out what the specifics are.<br />
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Will they make it through this? It's way too early to tell. They are probably well funded and they have worked hard in the compliance area for the last 6 months to avoid their current challenge.
Amway's been around for nearly 60 years and they are still getting lawsuits to this day, so it doesn't mean that it's the end of the road, only that there is a hurdle that must be crossed.<br />
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It's interesting to note recently Zeek's COO, Dawn Wright-Olivares, has been replaced. She has worked with the owner, Paul Burks, for many years, so it's hard to make anything of it except that it does shake things up a little. An new temporary COO has come on Board as a replacement.<br />
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I saw the following on the BusinessForHome.org site:<br />
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Update R. S. Foreman :<br />
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I took the initiative to CALL Roy Cooper's office (the North Carolina AG, whoose office issued the CID), I spoke with Gloria in Consumer Affairs, who said their switchboard has been lit up since opening their doors at 8:00 AM. She spoke on behalf of the AG and their office, and emphatically stated that in no way did they shut down Rex Venture Group, Zeekler, or ZeekRewards; that their office did NOT confiscate computers, nor did they issue a Cease and Desist Order. They have not scheduled the administrative hearing yet, and are at this stage simply awaiting a reply from Zeek and Rex Venture Group.</blockquote>
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My contacts say North Carolina has a history of attacking mlms. They say that they know that they can get money out of any rising star company so they go after them in a shake down hoping the company will simply settle and give them some cash. That's sad if it's true. 8 formal complaints in a year seems like small potatoes to me. Also, there is plenty of turnover at all State Attorney General offices, so what was done in the past doesn't mean that their present staff has the same modus operandi.<br />
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Troy Dooly says that a Supreme Court Justice was an affiliate of Zeek Rewards, so in seems wise to lay off your friends with ridicule if they were involved with the company.<br />
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With our country and states being broke, nothing surprises me in this hyper regulatory environment. Obama states repeatedly if you are successful in business, you did it because government was your partner and that you owe your success to the collective. Frightening words to a person raised with the American Spirit of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. His words roll out with Marxist overtones that scare the hell out of entrepreneurs. He basically says that he's going to punish success.<br />
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Little girls lemonade stands are being shut down countrywide saying they have to be approved by the governement and health codes. After the relentless raids of businesses throughout the United States with government SWAT teams coming in with guns drawn on innocent workers, a chill is in the air for small businesses. <br />
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Just one look at the videos on YouTube were Obama's goons raided Gibson Guitar with guns drawn on the peaceful workers just quietly making guitars which they have done for over 100 years and it reminds of the horrors of other free countries when taken over by those that promise a brighter future by playing Robinhood.
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Watch this terrifying raid with guns drawn at a health food company called Rawsome Foods:
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Now, even little girls aren't allowed to sell lemonade without a business license:
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Obama's Administration has called for Executive Privilege to coverup Eric Holder and his Department of Justice's involvement in shipping guns to Mexican drug lords while making the false claim that his is the "most transparent Administration" ever. To date, no one has been fired for running guns to Mexico's drug cartels.
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Other shocking stories came out this week where the Obama Admin says they will not go after criminal charges for Jon Corzine who can't account for nearly 2 billion of losses for gambling with investors' money. Not only that, but they said there would be no criminal charges for Goldman Sachs taking junk mortgages and repackaging them and selling them as AAA paper around the world. Fraud is written all over that, but if you are tight with Obama as a bundler or supporter, you are above the Law.
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One last example that is alarming...Wachovia Bank was caught red handed laundering billions in Mexican drug cartel money and even purchasing commercial jets to help them transport into the United States tons of cocaine. The Obama Administration said there would be no criminal charges, only a slap on the wrist of a small fine. Bankers are above the Law in the Obama Administration though he campaigned on cleaning up Wall Street. Right.
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs</a>
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So, bottom line, let's wait for the details to come out in the Zeek Rewards - Zeekler investigation.
It appears that the closing of the doors of Zeek Rewards and Zeekler was a voluntary action of the company and not a government takeover. It is only an investigation at this point.<br />
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<b>A Zeek Rewards alternative is this new <a href="http://www.bidambassadors.com/glenwoodfin">Penny Auction Affiliate Program</a>.</b>
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This was shared with me in an email...<br />
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History Unfolding</strong><br />
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I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus..<br />
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Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. <br />
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We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
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We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
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We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy... Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
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We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? <br />
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Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
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And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)<br />
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Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
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This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
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And that is only the beginning.. <br />
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As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.
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And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course.
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How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .... . ... change. And the people surely got what they voted for.<br />
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If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.
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So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to. <br />
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Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course.. The road to Hell is paved with them.
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As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.. <br />
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I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it. <br />
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I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections. <br />
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FYI; Peron did the same in Argentina.<br />
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David Kaiser<br />
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Snopes says that Dr. David Kaiser denies writing this piece. The original author has not been found.<br />
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David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal . He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. In history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.
He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press.
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<span style="font-size: small;">Canyonville Christian Academy (CCA), the private school that blew the whistle on its city government, now believes it is a target of retaliation. </span> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the city is apparently settling with other wronged churches and non profits it is making CCA the exception. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">wo years ago, during an in-house audit</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">CCA stumbled onto the fact that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> being charged double water rates and surcharges on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">its</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> sewage bill. The extra charges had been ongoing for almost forty years. The total amount of overcharges ha</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> been estimated as close to $200,000. When </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CCA</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> confronted the city </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> told that th</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">e practice was</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> justified by a city ordinance </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">levied double water c</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">harges </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on all churches and non-profits </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">"in lieu of taxes." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> They were also required to pay surcharges for sewer usage. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ccording to </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">so</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">m</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">e news report</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">, the government of Canyonville had found a back door way to tax</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> churches and</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"> the tax-exempt.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Curiously, the municipal code seemed to exempt mosques, synagogues, Masonic temples, and Jehovah's Witnesses kingdom halls from the sewer surcharges. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In June, 2011, CCA asked the city to stop the double charges. It p</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">ointed</span><span style="background-color: white;"> out that for years it was subsidizing much of the water bill for downtown Canyonville. But CCA's request</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was ignored. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">In October, 2011, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the school</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> offered to settle for a small fraction of the over-payments. By <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the school's</span> calculations <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they</span> would be letting the city keep almost $160,000 in improper charges. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CCA's</span> offer was refused.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Meanwhile, month by month, the surcharges continued. When the school asked one of the city councilmen, why the city continued to do this, he answered, "Because we can."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"I should point out that at no time have we asked for refund money from the city," says Roger Shaffer, a CCA board-member and spokesman. "We did not want to be a burden for them. We felt it could be resolved by giving the school credits toward future water use."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After eight months of seeking to resolve the situation and continued double billing by the city, on February 24, 2012 CCA sought to resolve the matter in court. Within less than 60 days the city responded.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The school was</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> allowed to have a sit-down meeting. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">What confronted us was stunning</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">," says CCA president, Doug Wead</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">The city had consulted with three firms from Eugene, Oregon. Lawyers from two of the firms were present. We were told that the city ordinance calling for double water bills had been changed. Making our court test moot. And then we were given the bad news.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the new policies of the city, neither </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CCA nor any of the other churches and non profits in Canyonville will henceforth be charged </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">double for </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> water<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but</span> there<span class="yiv1452801666apple-converted-space"> </span><i>would</i><span class="yiv1452801666apple-converted-space"> be new changes that would exclusively effect CCA. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning in June, 2012, e</span>ach room of CCA's dormitories would be treated as "an apartment" or "condominium." <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="yiv1452801666apple-converted-space">Beginning in June, <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CCA will</span> be paying almost double the water bill <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they</span> had been paying before <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they</span> blew the whistle.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">According to the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">school's</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> calculations</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"> new charges will likely amount to $240,000 over the next ten years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"I think it is important for people to know that we applaud the city for changing its policy," says Roger Shaffer, a CCA board member. "We also, just want to be treated fairly as well."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The city of Canyonville still insists that is policy of double charges for water to churches and non profits was legal. It offers no explanation for why, if it was legal, it has now abandoned the forty year practice and why it has sought settlements with $40,000 in refunds to other churches and non profits in the city. CCA says that it was been unable to find another city in the United States that has instituted a similar city ordinance, nor has it found any public official who will agree that the practice in Canyonville was proper. As to the new charges, which CCA believes to be retaliatory, the school says that it has not yet found another city government that treats rooms in boarding schools or university dormitories, without water or sewage connections, as apartments or condominiums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On May 16, 2012, CCA asked to </span><span style="font-size: small;">resolve</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> the issue in mediation. It is still awaiting a response from the city.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A) In 2010 the present CCA administration was shocked to discover that they were subject to double water fees and substantially elevated sewer charges by the City of Canyonville and that these costs were imposed solely on the basis of our non-property tax paying status. Of course, these rate and fees structures also applied to the public school, churches, and others who were exempt from certain taxes under the law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">B) After due diligence and careful study, CCA came to the conclusion that the actions of the city were not allowed under Oregon law and our constitutional protections that provide citizens with equal rights and treatment under the 14th amendment. Our due diligence included talking with the Oregon Attorney General, a state legislator, multiple mayors from Douglas county, and a number of law firms. None of the many people we consulted advised us that city could devise a double tiered rate scheme for goods and services based solely on the tax exempt status of the academy and other water users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">C) In June of 2011, CCA filed a letter merely requesting that the city provide us with the legal justification for their rate structure and we briefly stated Oregon case law showing that the excess utility charges might be open to debate. We chose this route because of the complexity of the case, 40 years of overcharges involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, and possible constitutional law issues. For matters like this, we felt we needed professional legal counsel to guide us through the process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">D) The city did not reply to our request in a timely fashion. But after several months, we were offered a settlement that was equal to appoximately one half of one year of our peak excess charges. Given that we had presented case law that was not refuted supporting our position and that the school had been subject to the overcharges for a very extended period of time, the board of CCA felt the city setlement offer was not a serious attempt to fairly resolve the matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">E) In October 2011 CCA made what we felt was a generous offer to settle the matter and avoid future legal costs for the city and the school. The amount was a small fraction of the overcharges of the last six years. The city council rejected our offer to resolve the matter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">F) In January 2012 CCA was presented a letter from one of the city's three law firms that have worked on this case. The letter clearly stated that the position of the city was they believed CCA's case had no merit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">G) From June of 2011 through the January letter of 2012 the city continued the double water billing and sewer surcharges. (These charges continued up through the April 1 statements.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">H) At this point we were still paying unjust charges and it appeared that the city contended these charges should go on forever, the city is not responding to the legal issues, the city does not acknowledge there is anything wrong with the ordinances, and the matter has seen virtually no movement in nearly seven months. Based on these factors, the CCA board felt they had no choice but to file suit and attempt to resolve the matters in court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I) After many months of inaction, within less than 60 days after the suit was filed the city had repealed the ordinances in question and was now offering settlements to the seven churches in town, the South Umpqua School District and the other affected parties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">J) However, at the same city council meeting (April 16) where water/sewer ordinances were replaced, a new ordinance (number 616) was approved by the council members</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">that would reclassify CCA's three dormitories as if they were condominiums or apartment houses. This means that after nearly 100 years of classifying CCA as a school that included dorms as an integral part of our functions, we were now to be radiacally reclassified in a scheme designed to explode what the city would charge us for sewer fees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each dorm room is now going to be treated as if it were a full family apartment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like typical dorm rooms at the University of Oregon or Oregon State University, our rooms are essentially bedrooms with a study desk. Many of our rooms are for a single students and they do not have water going in or out, as a condo or apartment certainly would have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">15 of our dorm rooms will be charged $43.00 per month plus overage charges for use above 1,200 cublic feet per month. Each additional bedroom will be charged $27.02.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This means that a 100 square foot room at CCA will now be treated the same as a three-bedroom house with two baths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">CCA's calculations show that ordinance 616 will raise our sewer fees by an estimated $240,000 over the next ten years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">K) For 88 years the City of Canyonville accepted CCA under the definition of a school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just minutes after removing the unjust charges that CCA questioned, the city council voted to make our school a 60-unit apartment complex attached to a restaurant. (To be logically consistent, the city has notified us that our school cafeteria will no longer be treated as a cafeteria but it will be treated as free-standing commercial restaurant.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">L) Based on our historical useage levels, each CCA dorm consumes approximately four times what a typical equivalent dwelling unit (EDU) or home would use. Under the new ordinance, each full-sized dorm will now be charged sewer fees that are equivalent to approximately 20 homes. This means that our sewer rates will be roughly 5 times what a typical family pays for the same quantity of service. We believe that reasonable citizens will find this to be unjust and we also contend that it is likely that the courts will find it is not permitted by Oregon law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">M) The settlement offers provided to the schools, churches, and others cover only the last two years of overpayments, going back to June 15, 2010. However, CCA has never been presented with statutes or compelling legal agruments limiting settlements to this time frame. We feel a little like someone checking out at Wal-mart who has given a $20 bill to the cashier for a $7.99 item. We would like to have whatever change (refund) we are entitled to. And in the spirit of good community relations, we offered in October 2011 to settle for far less than our overpayments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">N) On May 16 CCA offered to the city to resolve the matter in mediation. This is currently under review by the city and we have not yet received an answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">O) At no time has CCA ever asked for a refund check from the city. The school has always offered to accept any settlement the city might offer in the form of credits to future utility bills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">P) Spokespersons for the city have repeatedly indicated that the city was fully justified in their water & sewer rates and fees. With all due respect, CCA would point out the following:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 1) The offending ordinances have now been replaced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 2) The city has now made more than $40,000 in settlement offers to the affected parties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 3) At no time has the city ever used the defense of naming other cities, water, or sanitary districts that have similar rate structures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 4) In our due diligence, CCA was unable to find a single expert that believed it was permissible to base a rate structure solely on the tax status of organization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 5) Had CCA not filed suit, it appeared to us that the city fully intended to carry these unjust charges indefinitely into the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Q) CCA understands that providing water and sewer service is an expensive proposition and we are perfectly willing to pay a fair and equitable share of these costs. However, board members have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the school from unjust and excessive charges. At this time our board members believe the many years of excess charges based on our tax status were probably unjust and the law may provide for redress. Also, we believe that the new dorm charges at least have some appearance of being retaliatory and they will result in charges that are vastly in excess of what would be justified by our actual level of usage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">R) This does not pretend to be an exaustive listing of the issues involved in this matter. There are a great number of items not referenced in the above list that will need to be resolved at some point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Among these are possible errors in billing by the city, years of charges to CCA for a home not connected to the school, excessive sewer cublic foot rates for schools and churches, and multiple buildings on CCA's east campus use septic systems but are billed for sewer fees, and other issues.</span></div>
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** In the January letter from the city and at the April 17 meeting with city lawyers and others, CCA was threatened with $53,500 in back charges for water and sewer fees that were based on alleged errors in Canyonville's billing.</div>
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These new charges may go back as far as 15 years,this is while the city is contending that non-profits are limited to asking for only the last two years of overpayments. We understand that matters of "statute of limitations" will be decided by law, but as a matter of equal treatment and fairness under the law, two years vs.15 years is hardly equitable.</div>
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** The city has had THREE Eugene law firms working on the case. Only two were represented at the April 17 four hour negotiating meeting with the city.</div>
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** When the city council passed a new water ordinance on April 16, along with eliminating the unjust double water charges, they retroactively (ex post facto) increased water rates on CCA and other property tax exempt entities back to March 15.</div>
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** Because of the treatment of cubic foot charges, some CCA dorm rooms will actually be subject to highier sewer fees than a family of eight living in a four-bedroom house with 2 1/2 baths.</div>
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** On Feb. 14, 2011, the Cow Creek casino & RV park had a water line break and the city provided them with water at no charge. This was reported in the March 21, 2011 city council minutes. There was no indication of the time frame required to fix the break or the number of cubic feet of water that was provided. The Cow Creek Band did not ask for any relief from water charges but the city council voted to provide the water at no charge "as a goodwill gesture."</div>
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When CCA went before the council in November of 2008 asking for relief on sewer charges related to two water line breaks, CCA's request was denied. As the water from the breaks clearly flowed into the ground and the city did not provide sewer treatment for this water, the payments to the city constituted a windfall profit. CCA asked for $5,000 relief and presented evidence of more than $25,000 in unearned sewer fees paid to the city. </div>
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** 30 days after CCA filed the letter of complaint in June 2011, the City of Canyonville quit posting agendas to their website. 90 days after CCA filed the complaint, the city quit posting council meeting minutes. This continues.</div>
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The city no longer regularly posts meeting and agenda notices on the website or the News-Review (the local daily newspaper). Citizens are now expected to check the post office bulletin board and sort through the notices for yard sales and misisng cats.</div>
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** We received the new water/sewer billing today (June 1) - and the city continues to bill CCA for the councilman's house.</div>
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A point of offense to the city leaders has been that CCA first came to them through a letter from our legal counsel and did not come directly to them. This is a point of offense and may deserve a reply.</div>
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1) CCA believed the probems to be highly tangled (decades of overcharges involving hundreds of thousands of dollars and involving very complex legal issues - perhaps even constitutional matters). CCA's board felt their fiduciary responsibility to the school required them to obtain professional legal counsel.</div>
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3) When an officer of the Seventh Day Adventist Church & Elementary School, and a former official of the city, approached the city on several occasons over the past five years concerning the water/sewer rate issues, he felt the city was unwilling to take a serious look at his complaints.</div>
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4) When CCA approached the city for relief in late 2008 for massive unearned sewer fees, we found the city unwilling to even consider a token refund. But when the Cow Creek Band has a similar line break, the council voted to provide them with free water, even though the Indians did not ask for gratis water. The council minutes state "...the emergency water [was provided] at no charge to the tribe as a good will gesture."</div>
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Bed Bath and Beyond had Topsy Turvy upside down planters on clearance last Winter for $5 a piece. I bought ten of them and planted them this year inside of an 8 foot by 10 foot chain link dog pen to protect them from deer or anything else that might be a tomato fan.<br />
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Several years ago, I had grown nice big red tomatoes, but when I harvested them, it turned out they were all black on the bottom. I found out it was called blight and I was supposed to have treated them for that. I had no idea.
I read somewhere that the upside down method reduced the likelyhood of the fruit developing blight.
Other friends have advised me to add Epson salts to the soil as well as calcium to produce stronger stems and prevent blight. I watched a PBS show the other day that confirmed it. I'm much more comfortable using Epsom salts and calcium to fight blight as opposed to some chemical that I'll injest later.
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Epsom salt is not like regular table salt, it doesn't burn the plants or the roots like sodium chloride would. It consists largely of minerals like magnesium and other trace elements and are beneficial to the plants and fruit.
Some have recommended that I use lime or eggshells for adding calcium. I bought a bag of lime. I'll check what the calcium content is before I put it in the soil. Usually lime is used to reduce the acidity of the soil. I haven't checked the ph of the soil and probably won't since the plants seem to be thriving.
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Also, it's recommended for bigger tomatoes to prune off the sucker stems. These are extra tiny stems that grow in the elbow of regular stems. Eventually they themselves can become large. The theory is that they take the plants energy to produce stems rather than giving it to the fruit. I haven't suckered my 10 plants this year, so we'll see.
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The amazing thing is that as soon as you transplant the Tomato plants into the Topsy Turvy planters and give them a good watering, they start explosive growth in two days. Even lifeless transplants seem to grow like weeds in just a few days. They recommed full sunlight of at least 6 to 8 hours a day.<br />
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The Topsy-Turvy instructions say to water the plants daily especially during the hot dry season. Also, they encourage you to put appropriate fertilizer on them from time to time.<br />
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I'll take some more pictures later in the season and especially when the tomatoes start ripening.<br />
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One thing I know for sure, there's nothing like a ripe vine grown fresh tomato compared to the green cardboard ones you buy at the supermarket.<br />
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One more interesting thing. You'll notice a distinctive smell around the tomato plants as you're working on them. It is memorable. Caring for them has been therapuetic for me and I highly recommend growing something. I've got ten terracotta pots growing herb on my porch this year too!
Indulge your green thumb; plant something and care for it!<br />
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Amazon has been under attack by socialist state governments like California's headed up by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and even North Carolina to create new taxes on out of state commerce that have never been done before in America. Amazon's solution to their Soviet inspired anti-business taxation is to take their ball to pro business states like South Carolina thus destroying the government expanding tax schemes of those anti capitalist states. Ha! When California tried to do a tax grab on Amazon it backfired on the liberal legislators because not only did they lose the shakedown money, they lost the entrepreneurs and money that supported the out of state affiliate sales thereby accelerating the financial collapse of their state's empending bankruptcy.<br />
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On a national scale, when the U.S. government forces more taxation and regulations on domestic entrepreneurs, they simply go overseas creating prosperity in other countries while destroying jobs in America. Obama is the poster child for this with his raids on small farms producing raw milk and Gibson Guitar for finishing exotic woods in America. Even 8 year old girls with lemonade stands are under unprecedented attack by the Obama Administration's policies. With Obama's drive to expand government and shrink the private sector, it has become a spitting in the face of our nation's founding fathers which made America the greatest nation in the world which has now dropped to number 15 of the countries with the most freedom: <a href="http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm" target="_blank">http://www.worldaudit.org/democracy.htm</a>, and we now rank in 17th place in the world for corruption. We are well on our way to becoming a third world country.<br />
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Nikki Haley doesn't support Amazon's move to California, but she hasn't stopped it. Governor Haley ran on a Tea Party platform, but now that she's in power, it looks like she's becoming just another phony politician that wants to expand government and squash the little guy. I just wrote her for a response at: <a href="http://www.governor.sc.gov/ContactUs/Pages/index.aspx" target="_blank">Contact Nikki Haley</a>.<br />
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By the way, it's been over two weeks since I asked about Nikki Haley's position on this matter and she nor her staff have bothered to respond to me in any way and I voted for her. <br />
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Obama and his Czars (more than Russia) are trying to block South Carolina from bringing in non union jobs at a Boeing plant. In the last 30 years, unions have destroyed manufacturing in America and forced jobs overseas. American unions want more and more benefits for producing less and less and can't compete on a world market. American unions produce inferior products and are the epidemy of fat lazy entitlement demanding Americans. Every industry they touch becomes a graveyard like Detroit, MI. I've never purchased an American car because as I teenager I noticed my classmates that had them suffered with repair bills galore while my Toyotas and Hondas just kept running nearly maintenance free. American union produced cars rattled as they chugged down the road. Their Delco radios sounded like something made in the 50s and were always missing knobs and door handles. This become obvious when Obama gave billions in bailout money to US car manufacturers while Toyota and Honda's American plants continued to thrive. Jeez, when foreign companies kick the butts of American Labor Unions on our own soil, it can't get any more obvisou that unions are like a black hole on the economy.Yet, they protest like an angry mob when you shine a light on their shame.<br />
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I was a public school teacher and I saw first hand how the main purpose of the Teachers Union was to increase their pay and reduce their teaching standards while public school grades and testing became the laughingstock of the world. Anyone that is pro Teachers Union is a selfish anti student slob that is destroying our future in America. If you support unions, you have become part of the problem, not the solution. I have never seen an exception to this rule (UPS of all the unions seems the least offensive). It makes me sick when they say that our declining scores are because we don't pay teachers enough when we pay them more than any country in the world.<br />
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The SIEU union robs disabled children who are living on the poverty level. They have no conscience, they are despicable bloodsuckers from hell. Watch how they rip off this poor family that is struggling to raise their handicapped child. They have no shame.<br />
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Businesses all across the United States are in complete agreement that Obama is completely clueless and in over head rowning in his own lack of understanding of the world and the economy; therefore, American entrepreneurship is striking back in clever ways.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-76581075472023955382011-09-17T22:57:00.003-04:002011-09-17T23:05:58.254-04:00A Cup of Tea for Grandpa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndH6_LJ6nGGS66y9O3WNTj_kIBUDNVD0CUY-mGotB8b45jJthoq-4KiBnMaZKiPwz1otc1xh9JOy2VwHt6To4NmMYf7xGUi8e033EHC9hIvXqk0Aj9FENumGWaopTUBcQfukn5lbsTI1w/s1600/grandchildren.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjndH6_LJ6nGGS66y9O3WNTj_kIBUDNVD0CUY-mGotB8b45jJthoq-4KiBnMaZKiPwz1otc1xh9JOy2VwHt6To4NmMYf7xGUi8e033EHC9hIvXqk0Aj9FENumGWaopTUBcQfukn5lbsTI1w/s1600/grandchildren.jpg" /></a></div>One day my Gramma was out, and my Grampa was in charge of me.I was maybe 2 1/2 years old. Someone had given me a little 'tea set' as a gift, and it was one of my favorite toys.<br />
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Grampa was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when I brought him a little cup of 'tea', which was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Gramma came home.<br />
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My Grampa made her wait in the living room to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because it was'just the cutest thing!' Gramma waited, and sure enough, here I came down the hall with a cup of tea for Grampa, and she watched him drink it up. <br />
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Then she said, (as only a gramma would know),"'Did it ever occur to you that the only place she can reach to get water, is the toilet?"<br />
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I received this as a recipient of a chain email.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-11616783469218484732011-09-11T20:15:00.009-04:002011-10-19T20:17:56.420-04:00General Wesley Clark Predicted the Arab Spring in 2007 as the Pathway to Persia<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/45fhxLLdCLM?rel=0" width="480"></iframe><br />
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The clip below includes the clip above, but with a bit more of a big picture perspective. If you believe in the US Constitution, this unelected secret power of our military and intelligence agengies are offensive.<br />
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Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is running around the world with on the ground destabilization institutions set up in all these countries that we desire to topple. These include training in how to use social media to plan events and gain momentum. We are meddling in the affairs of other countries 24/7.<br />
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In fact, they made up the propaganda that Gaddafi's soldiers were given Viagra by the state to go out and repeatedly rape the rebels women. This was all bs to win over world sympathy. <br />
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There is a huge cloud over discovery on whether or not Ghadafi had anything to do with the Pan Am flight 103 downing. Papers in the UK said that the plane was full of secret drug shipments by the CIA. No surprise as the CIA was dealing drugs in Vietnam, and recently were shot down running 4 tons of coccaine over Mexico.<br />
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Now, the Brits and our military and intelligence community are supporting the opium crops in Afghanistan. In fact, since our military took over, opium production is up 90%. <br />
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Karzai's brother was hired by the CIA to run the opium trade in Afghanistan, but when he got too big for his britches, the CIA decided they wanted all the profit for themselves, so they paid his bodyguard to assasinate him. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?pagewanted=all</a><br />
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Another example is Operation Fast and Furious where several agencies shipped weapons directly to our hand picked drug lords in Mexico in an attempt to eliminate competition from other independant drug lords so that the US agencies could have the business all to themselves. While at the same time blaming all this corruption on loose American gun laws so they could shut down the freedom of the right to bare arms. Eric Holder recently testified that he just heard about the operation, when in fact there are videos of him a couple of years ago where he is braggging about the operation at government conferences in Mexico. Emails about the US sponsored criminal operation have been tracked to 3 people in the White House, yet Obama came out and lied and said that Eric Holder knew nothing. Every get sick of government as usual?<br />
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Yes, this is what the government if focusing on now, the shutting down of wholesome businesses of hard working Americans while they promote the criminal insiders.<br />
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Did you see how the poor simple workers at the Gibson Guitar factory with machine guns pointing at their heads. Obama hates American workers. <br />
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To show that Obama and the FEDS only reward businesses being shipped overseas are that the head of his jobs commitee is Jeffery Immelt with GE.<br />
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Xray machine business shipped overseas and Obama rewards them by putting Jeffery Immelt at the head of his jobs commitee:<br />
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All the while GE pays zero Federal Income Taxes:<br />
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Torture is not allowed on terrorists in Gitmo, yet police are given the authority to tase and torture American citizens to obey their every whim. With over 500 taser deaths now, it is clearly attempted murder to use a taser on anyone: <a href="http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html">http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html</a> Cops are routinely involved in criminal behavior, yet their dept., fellow officers and the prosecuting attorneys protect the officers from any consequences. If the public cry is to great, then they will be suspended for a few days WITH PAY.<br />
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I'll finish with a video of a minsiter who traveled to San Diego back to Arizona, went through a checkpoint and asked to have his constitutional rights upheld because these agents were turned down from searching his car without suspicion, then they said he was suspicious for not freely opening his car up for inspection (Catch 22). Watch how these men violate the Bill of Rights because this minister would bow down and kiss their boots. These men have decided not only are they above the law and the US Consitituion, they ARE THE LAW. For anyone that loves America, The Bill of Rights and appreciates the men who died to make us free, this video will break your heart...<br />
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By the way, all the charges against the pastor from the criminal officers were dropped in court. What makes you sick is when all the way up the line, their superiors and the state's legal system supported their criminal behavior. Criminals are running our system.<br />
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Killer perspective of your odds in life to do anything great, yet this ad agency breaks it down, complete with an in your face look at what your odds are you'll ever sit in the seat of the new Reventon Roadster by Lamborghini.<br />
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Take the keys and drive...<br />
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As they say, diamonds are a girl's best friend, yet a dog is man's best friend!<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-31534352981708820982011-09-05T23:13:00.002-04:002011-09-05T23:26:11.313-04:00Best Lawn Sprinkler I've Used: Melnor Turbo Oscillating Sprinkler 4200<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyFfJD5aBIUmi_84-aOjPjVeF5cl20xHn_DNzXjqxPx23hlSE_BXhIyNqIsUgVbg4N9DhtJuinNCcEEUCHt7X_aXqi85M6ar8mWFwSDxSTD03uMaksv7YYkrItyNql5uud5uj5-R5aePq7/s1600/Melnor+4200+Oscillating+Lawn+Sprinkler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="273" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyFfJD5aBIUmi_84-aOjPjVeF5cl20xHn_DNzXjqxPx23hlSE_BXhIyNqIsUgVbg4N9DhtJuinNCcEEUCHt7X_aXqi85M6ar8mWFwSDxSTD03uMaksv7YYkrItyNql5uud5uj5-R5aePq7/s400/Melnor+4200+Oscillating+Lawn+Sprinkler.jpg" /></a></div><br />
One hates to get excited about a lawn sprinkler, but I am flat out excited about a lawn sprinkler. I had some from from Sharper Image or Brookstones by Claiborne or something like that. They were decent for 5 years but now they're falling apart and I need something good for my annual overseeding of fescue and maybe some rye grass to chase away the dreariness of dead grass in the Winter.<br />
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I bought the Melnor Premium Turbo Oscillating Sprinkler 4200 and I love it. It does everything I want out of a sprinkler except it doesn't have an auto shut off timer. The overage is a mindblowing 3900 square feet or you can quickly make adjustments to fit even cramped spaces.<br />
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<b>Features and Benefits:<br />
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You'd just have to see this thing in action. It zooms through smooth even passes like a light rain which is perfect for overseeding as it doesn't relocate your grass seed and fertilizers. I'm not sure how the turbo motor works because it puts out consistant pattern of water with no pauses or delays like those oscillation sprinklers I've used with the metal arch that swings back and forth with a system of moving joints that always get jammed. Every one I've ever bought will lock up and water in one spot causing puddling. It's such a joy to see this Melnor 4200 in action because it moves with precision.<br />
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If you do need a timer with auto shut off, you can get their Melnor 4110 Time-A-Matic® Turbo Oscillating Sprinkler. You can set the timer for up to two hours of set it and forget it watering.<br />
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You can also get it in metal, but I'm completely happy with the plastic one, it stays exactly where you put it while in use.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-1881627327684811432011-08-17T00:35:00.002-04:002011-08-17T20:03:24.305-04:00Woman Makes $1250 a Day Breastfeeding Adults<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyithUaMMU7rl2Q2gAp5nMubHim2mSf5hJjdrMNhsxSbrRRtBFSh6_Za9NU_ZRgKZo8B5z4opxY5c2LPtMXQpIpKSRJ3fin1ywWW5bgoVHjJnZ648cP3vMJb2_4WWGE916MJnjUeLkuYY/s1600/Woman+Breastfeeds+Adults+for+Money.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="338" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyithUaMMU7rl2Q2gAp5nMubHim2mSf5hJjdrMNhsxSbrRRtBFSh6_Za9NU_ZRgKZo8B5z4opxY5c2LPtMXQpIpKSRJ3fin1ywWW5bgoVHjJnZ648cP3vMJb2_4WWGE916MJnjUeLkuYY/s400/Woman+Breastfeeds+Adults+for+Money.jpg" /></a></div> <br />
Lady Selling Margaritas on the Beach in a novel container. She charges $10 a minute. 10 minutes=$100 Reportedly, she is clearing $1250.00 per day. <br />
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Talk about a stimulus package!<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Let me buy you another cup of coffee since you & I have a lot to talk about. I want to chat about things that help us achieve our dreams in business, life & relationships. I will share as if you & I were just sitting in our favorite cafe on our 5th cup of coffee.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16434074348756778502noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-672007583597609915.post-40720863117230343272011-08-16T03:27:00.003-04:002011-08-16T03:51:30.145-04:00Man Gets Kicked in the Face by a Horse<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SHZdr26nEuc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Just as Obama supporters regret their choice, this man regrets the decision he made right before he gets kicked in the face by a horse.<br />
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The regret set in for Obama supporters almost as fast.<br />
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Feeling like a dope for believing in his hope...I mean hype?<br />
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Notice how he tries to get up like nothing happened...yeah yeah, be cool. Hey you forgot your hat. Obama forgot the economy.<br />
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