From a phone conversation with a mother of one of my daughters’ friends about a possible sleep-over: “I don’t want to interfere with your time with the kids on ‘your weekend’ with them…” Huh?! My weekend? I have the kids with me roughly 24 days of every month. Why did she assume I only see them…
Rants
Credit Card Companies Raising Rates As New Limits Go Into Effect
Cool. Glad that I am not the only one who noticed the banks were given a “grace period” in which they can continue to screw the consumer. I wrote my representatives, etc about it and got form letters back, patting themselves on the back for supporting the reform. Did they seriously not know that the…
Big Money Pulling the Strings of Protests | Video Cafe | Rachel Maddow
How low we have sunk as a nation that fear, misinformation and outright lies are no longer just one of many factors in the public opinion battles – they are the main factor. The 2008 election brought us the boogie men of socialism, ridiculous questions of citizenship and bogus “real” people like Joe the Plumber.…
Update on my Credit Card Reform rant
A while ago I wrote a letter to the gummint folks about the credit card companies. Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. has weighed in with an email in which he (or his staff) seem to understand what I was getting at: After restating what was in The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of…
Letter to my Representative, Congressman and President re: abusive practices of credit card companies
I have been pretty pissed off that the banks are STILL allowed to screw over the consumers even after the passage of H.R. 627, the “Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009.” I am especially upset because I took on a lot of debt in the last couple years due to divorce, and…
Economic recovery?
Maybe we have just sunk so low that it seems like there is nowhere to go but up. But personally, even though I am without an employer, I have actually seen some significant gains in my investments for the first time in, well, too long. Maybe it is because I have more time during the…
Simple pleasures from footwear
Ok, maybe I am easily pleased. While cleaning out my closet I came across a brand new, still in the box pair of black Chuck Taylors. Why is this a big deal? Because some time in the last couple of years Nike, or some other mega-national corp with shoddy chinese manufacturing bought the name. Don’t…