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Storm named Fay really dumped on Florida, didn’t she?
I suppose it’s been a pretty good year for Orlando vacations, despite tropical storms and hurricane threats. I guess if you live in Florida or visit their much, you get accustomed to those things. (I live in southwest Missouri, and I guarantee you I’ve never gotten accustomed to tornadoes, but who knows?)
But looking around the [...]
Most of America’s homeowners hope for ‘Fannie’ and ‘Freddie’ to stay well
I know very little about mortgages, mortgage lenders, and the whole mortgage industry. We’ve lived in the same old house (built in 1911, I think?) since 1980. Although we’ve refinanced it a few times, we haven’t done so lately. But I do know this: When Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in trouble, we’re all [...]
As I get older, I worry more and more about Medicare surviving
Let me say up front — I currently have NO medical insurance. Since I quit the old “day job” last fall to work full time at this Internet adventure, I have not had medical insurance. I’ve been sufficiently healthy that it hasn’t worried me so far. I’ve figured either I would 1) start making enough [...]
So why are the San Diego U drug busts so newsworthy?
We were sitting here enjoying our new patio furniture and watching the evening news when our son came by. He works at a local university, and he came in just as we saw coverage of the big drug/weapons bust in which 75 students were arrested at San Diego University. Now admittedly, the arrest of 75 [...]
Looks like ‘Dr. Phil’ has messed up again — or at least one of his producers did
Remember last year when Britney Spears was doing drug rehabilitation or alcohol rehab or whatever it was, and TV’s famous Dr. Phil went to visit her? Then got himself in a ton of hot water for talking about it on television?
Some folks just don’t seem to “get it,” do they? How he stays on TV [...]
Beware of the increase in metal thefts — lock up all your fillings
Okay, so metal theft hasn’t become a big enough problem to require you to lock up your silver and/or gold fillings yet (unless your a dental lab?), but it might soon.
I hadn’t given much thought to this until my daughter came by the house and mentioned that her contacts “on the street” tell her that [...]
Would you believe — 63,000 lost their jobs during February??
So, really — do they make up these unemployment numbers as they go along and try to change them to look better? Or is there an honest system of statistics involved?
The report I’m reading says that 63,000 non-farm jobs were eliminated in our fine country in February. The report goes on to say that was [...]
Here’s a useful website for credit and identity protection — with an odd story, too
If you read my last post, you understand that I’m a bit angry right now over the way corporations feel they can get away with pretty much anything and treat the “little people” of the world — probably most of us, that is — pretty much any way they want. And, unfortunately, they’re often right. [...]
Nice shooting — missle blows up broken spy satellite on the first shot
Well, whether you support the long-running, multi-trillion dollar “Star Wars Missile Defense Project,” or whatever the recent name is for it, you’ve got to admit that satellite “kill” was some mighty good shooting, as my Western writer friends might say.
Friends and foes alike are saying it lends credibility to the much maligned incredibly expensive project [...]
Sounds pretty sci-fi to me — shooting down our broken satellites
Wow, this is just like something out of a sci-fi novel or movie of my childhood. We have a broken satellite headed to hit the Earth sometime in early March. According to a breaking news story from the Associated Press, we’re planning to shoot the satellite down — apparently to avoid having it injury anyone [...]
