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WTF is going on (and other general WTFs)?
Thank GAWD she lives 45 minutes away from Little Rock. I'd be embarrassed to admit she's one of the politicians we'd voted into office. :/Stupid politician quote of the year: Hot Springs Mayor Ruth Carney: “ If my sons had been on those two planes there would not have been 9/11.”
Reflections on 9/11: Hot Springs mayor-style
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I don't even use AC! I use fans!
What, 757%?? I laughed because that's so outrageous. Say it ain't so. Is it a mistake?
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Incompetent meter reader? New employee? Bad eyesight? Intoxicated? Who knows.
The nice thing is that we have government agencies to help, if the utilities are denying anything's wrong, or refusing to do anything about it. The Citizens Utility Board or the Illinois Commerce Commission will help you. I called the latter and the woman used her special clout to get ComEd on the phone with me, bypassing the wait times, so I was able to talk to someone competent from corporate, rather than the first person at ComEd call center I talked to, who wouldn't admit that a 757% increase was at all bizarre. Then the corporate person called me back to apologize.
So: yay government.
Government? You mean that giant wet blanket that prevents businesses from creating all the jobs they are desperate to create?
Our utility bills show consumption from a year ago, and my water usage last month was up almost 30% from last August. Can't think of a reason for the increase. Just doing the same old thing at the same rate.
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I was talking to my dad a few days ago and learned a crap fact. I know that people who can't make their car payments have to return the car to the dealership. I DIDN'T KNOW that they still have to pay off the loan. They don't have the car. They don't have anything. But they're paying off a $20,000 loan. WTF? If I could type that in bigger letters, I would.
Is there some requirement that the dealership then try to mitigate the damage and sell the car? Like in a rental agreement for an apartment, where if you leave early there's a penalty and the rent for the rest of the term, but if the landlord leases out the apartment, you are given a setoff?
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Any difference between what you owe on your contract (plus certain expenses) and what your creditor gets for reselling the vehicle is called a “deficiency.” For example, if you owe $10,000 on the car and your creditor sells it for $7,500, the deficiency is $2,500 plus any other fees you owe under the contract. Those might include fees related to the repossession and early termination of your lease or early payoff of your financing. In most states, your creditor is allowed to sue you for a deficiency judgment to collect the remaining amount owed as long as it followed the proper procedures for repossession and sale. Similarly, your creditor must pay you if there are surplus funds after the sale proceeds are applied to the outstanding contract obligation and related expenses, but this situation is less common. (Federal Trade Commission)
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My understanding is that no credit was given when the car was repossessed and resold, but that surely would be more fair than having to pay back the entire amount of the loan. I'll ask more questions next time I talk to my dad.
HELP..Can someone please tell me how to take off my new postings to my bookshelf on FACEBOOK??? I cannot find it. If some one wants to see what I'm reading, let me join Goodreads.
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"Matrimonial Mayhem is an anthology of wedding stories, to benefit the Governor of Alabama's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, for the hardest hit areas of the state."
So....to benefit victims of tornadoes - via a "faith-based" agency - the state of Alabama is selling a book of stories about weddings? Weddings where mayhem occurs? WTF? Sometimes I just don't know what's going on anymore, or why.
http://www.amazon.com/Matrimonial-May...
Ahhh! Now I know what I had such a bizarre dream about a wedding last night. When I read LG's post last night, I was thinking that it was likely that mayhem at their Faith-Based weddings was pretty tame.In my dream, anything and everything did happen. Somehow the groom changed into David Arquette who was wearing only the jacket to his tux. I was watching to see if he got an erection any time during the ceremony. The JP was drunk. One of the bridesmaids ended up in a fight and had dirt and blood all over her face. That's mayhem for you!
WTF? Mattel Toy Company has bought Thomas the Tank Engine! Manchester United, Cadbury Chocolate and now Thomas? Is nothing off limits that can't be sold off for a few bob? It's a small country, can't they keep something that is their heritage? sigh.
[image error]WTF: this photo from an ad campaign has been banned for the too-skinny model. I'm not WTFing the ban, just the fact that anyone would use someone that looks like this to sell something. Maybe this is her "natural" body type, but I doubt it. Even if it is, I don't get the appeal. Hello fashion advertising world: there's nothing attractive about being a walking anatomy class skeleton. She has a pretty face, but her body is freaking me out. The reason for the ban is "social irresponsibility," which I both agree and disagree with (but mostly agree). It's time to really look at what we are teaching young girls about their bodies and stop encouraging this obsession with body size determining worth.
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Does it really say "Drop Dead' in the lower right corner?
Cheri wrote: "Does it really say "Drop Dead' in the lower right corner?"Yeah. The company that put out the ad is called "Drop Dead." It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
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"What we're hearing about is teenagers utilizing tampons, soak them in vodka first before using them," Thomas said.
"It gets absorbed directly into the bloodstream. There's no barrier, there's no stomach acid to prevent it," Thomas said.
"I would expect it to absorb pretty quickly as well, because it's a very vascular structure," Quan told CBS 5.
"This is definitely not just girls," Thomas said. "Guys will also use it and they'll insert it into their rectums."
And that's not all.
"Using a beer bong rectally is the same concept as a vodka soaked tampon," Thomas said.
Rather than the traditional beer bong you'd find at a college party, kids are sticking the tube elsewhere to get wasted.
They're calling it "butt chugging."
http://www.kpho.com/story/15981315/te...
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Work hard and think creatively. Some people do it to get drugs; some do it to get money; some do it to get love.
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Actually that is just for a lease situation, right? How much do they have to be financing at the current moment? I bought our car last August, but paid in cash with a fund from my personal bank.
I never got back to my dad about this, but the way I understood it was that my brother's wife is still paying off a loan on a car that she co-signed for and that was repossessed three years ago. Dad also has a guy working for him whose truck was repossessed, yet he's still paying off the loan. It doesn't sound right to me. I'll ask for more details when I see my dad on Monday.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Teens using vodka tampons to get drunk"What we're hearing about is teenagers utilizing tampons, soak them in vodka first before using them," Thomas said.
"It gets absorbed directly into the bloo..."
I prefer injecting oranges with vodka.
Sally, repossessed cars are sold at auction and the net profit applied to the loan. The original borrower (and/or co-signer) is then responsible for the balance.
WTF: Crotchless panties sold in a store called "Kids N Teens." That's just wrong.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11...
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Remember Dominique Strauss-kahn and the hotel maid? In the end no one believed her, despite other allegations that he'd done similar things in the past, because she had a tainted history.Now we have Jerry Sandusky, accused by boys, with only one eye-witness who's changing his testimony, and everyone believes the boys.
The difference between these cases is that no one is looking into Sandusky's accusers' pasts and trying to discredit them.
In both cases, the presentiment should be the same: Innocent until proven guilty.
Sandusky's wife says he's innocent and that all ten boys are lying.
Rape is a terrible violation. In both of these cases, the alleged perpetrators have been accused by several people. What I'm saying is that Strauss-kahn got off easy because he's a powerful man and could hire fancy lawyers to discredit or intimidate female accusers. This pisses me off. I'll be interested to see what happens in Sandusky's case - if the accusers will be put on trial. And if he'll walk off scot-free. And, if so, what the reaction to that might be. Probably more memorable than the reaction to Strauss-kahn's walking free.
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....on April 5, the 84-year-old drove five miles to Central Continental Bakery in Mount Prospect.
He selected a coffee cake, then opened his wallet and pulled out his "emergency" check, the solitary check he carried with him at all times in case a need arose.
In the numeric area, he clearly wrote "$8.65," but on the line where you write out the number, things got a tad fuzzy.
In loopy cursive, Cullen wrote "Eight sixty five and 00/00" dollars.
It wasn't until early February that his family discovered a problem. Cullen's daughter-in-law was reviewing his 2011 finances to see if he and his wife could afford to move into an assisted-living facility. While looking at his April expenditures, she discovered Cullen's check had been cashed not for $8.65, but for $865.
The bakery gave him the runaround for a long time.
He said the bakery would work on a refund after it finished its Paczki Fest 2012, which ended Tuesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busines...
That's disgusting. And when it's pointed out to them, they say, "sorry, we can't do anything about it until we finish celebrating donuts."
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Or rather, should I say, who the fuck eats that?
Sally wrote: "Served to whom? Or rather, should I say, who the fuck eats that?"
Lots of people in New England.
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One of our kids - or the dog herself - accidently shut one of the dogs in my library yesterday morning!
When I got home, she had clawed all the books on the bottom shelve next to the door, including 4 books that I can't re-aquire - they were mint condition first edition graphic novels, and I can't find them anywhere online (they're Danish and was printed in very few copies...). I threw one of the bookrags at the dog and left her out in the rain for 2 hours, while I cleaned. That helped, a little.
I usually don't care if they destroy a towel or whatever, but my BOOKS?!?!