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81 Year Old Lawrence Rickman tells the Credit Card company to shove it.

The credit card companies are at war with consumers. They have taken preemptive action to keep its profits from turning to losses. The credit card companies have rushed to change all fixed rate ca…

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Happy Holidays! =)

Thank you for stopping by. I wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday. Cheers! Happy New Year! It’s great to see what is available on youtube. The Linus and Lucy theme.

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My First Boss

I think this year has been a challenging one for most people including myself. The recession has really affected most everyone I know. After a few years of this economic downturn, it’s imp…

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Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr in jeopardy:

My friend Anthony emailed me about this fight. I think the super fight Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather Jr will eventually go through, but I think this was more a statement than anything else. Th…

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Las Vegas Woman Victim of Foreclosure Mistake has her home Trashed Out!

With so many foreclosures taking place in America, I am surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen often but when it does happen I think there should be se…

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CBS 60 Minutes: Wilmington’s Long Recession

When I watch videos like this on 60 Minutes, I realize the Great Recession that has been declared over by many economists is wrong. They may take some reports to rationalize that things are better,…

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Video of DC – Cop Waves Gun at Snowball Fight!

During the holidays, some people get stressed out or excessively emotional. This video seems to capture a detective having a bad day. It’s already snowing so I don’t think a snowball hi…

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Ron Paul: Bernanke is World’s Greatest Counterfeiter 12.16.2009

It’s funny to me that people still believe that Bernanke has done a good job. The media makes it sound like he saved the world, when he actually contributed to the global recession. He was nom…

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2009 Bank Closures Update 140 Year To Date

Every Friday after 5 pm, the FDIC comes in like a ninja in the night and starts taking over failed banks. This last Friday it was very busy as it took over 7 failed banks bringing the total to 140 y…

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Investment Net Gains and Losses

Whether your investment is a stock, bond, commodity, or even a house it is important to understand percentages as investment net gains and losses. Especially once you have purchased an asset than is…

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79.99% Interest Rate Cards

You have to read the fine print to make sure you don't get something that is not beneficial to you. In a recent article, it mentions a credit card that charges 79.99% interest rates!NEW YORK — It's…

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Daily Show Jon Stewart: Clusterf@#k To The Poorhouse – Flight Delay

The post of the title says it all. Enjoy! The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

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Why Does Our Current Congress Suck?

Most of our elected politicians claim they are trying to make things better for most Americans. Why is it they always have actions that contradict their words and promises. All you have to do is f…

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Bernanke: the know it all who knew nothing

Ben Bernanke is a Princeton professor and an expert on the Great Depression. Yet, everything he has touched has turned to crap. President Bush nominated him and the economy went into the worse rec…

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Ellen Pompeo and Michelle Monaghan

It was funny that I saw a movie with Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. Once I saw here she immediately reminded me of Ellen Pompeo. She could of easily played that character's role with being M…

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Why is American Express asking me to pay earlier than the due date?

American Express is becoming very aggressive in their approach to raising revenues as well as reducing their risk. How are they doing that? They are calling credit card members (not late or past d…

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Las Vegas City Center – ( Time-Lapse Build )

I saw this on the local news as we are about to have a few brand new casinos open up. The timing is awful and I don’t know if that saying “better late than never” applies to this p…

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November Credit Card Delinquency Up

Do you find it odd that banks are paying back TARP, unemployment supposedly went down from 10.3% to 10%, and GDP expanded by 3.5% and yet the credit card delinquency is still rising? At least for th…

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Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Big Sellout

This writer puts together a very cohesive view of Wall Street and all the back room deals made with our government. Taibbi offers insight to why corrupt banks were able to get bailout funds from the t…

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Kate Winslet and Rachel Weisz

I don't know how much they look alike or if they just play similar roles that make me think they could be related.Kate WinsletRachel Weisz

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Julie & Julia gets an A+

I had low expectations of this movie based on the preview. I know it had some big talent such as Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, and Stanley Tucci. They are all great actors. However, there are many mo…

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"The Class" gets a D minus

The Class (Entre les murs) is a foreign French movie that had many great raving reviews on Netflix. I watched this movie with high expectations and when I finished I have to be honest and say it was…

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Bank REOs from a real estate agent\'s point of view

Jim the realtor has a bunch of youtube videos of bank REOs that are about to hit the court steps for auction. If you listen to him in the video, he will give you the stats like square footage, openin…

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Bachelor Jake Pavelka Premiere 01.04.2010 + Bachelor Updates

First of all, I guess the rumors were wrong about Kip from the Bachelorette Jillian season being the next bachelor. Instead they went with Jake the Pilot from that same season. There was a clip fr…

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Afghanistan’s High Price Tag

This is a good video highlighting the costs of our war. I don’t think most people realize how much money is funneled away from our economy to maintain these wars.

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How Do You Get A Loan Modification?

The banks are still breaking foreclosure records and the inventory is growing. I have heard references that it costs the banks between $30,000 to $50,000 per foreclosure. That is a lot of money ju…

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7.1 Million Foreclosures 2008-2009

That’s how many foreclosures the United States has had which is bigger than the population of most countries. Many media outlets are trying to focus on the positive that there are less forec…

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Is spending the solution to get out of a recession?

I blogged about this when President Bush was still officially in office. We already had a stimulus package and a bailout that year under President Bush and a Democratic majority of the House and Sena…

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Upcoming December 2009 MMA Fights

There are 2 major MMA events this month. The first one is another UFC which seems like they are on every week. They seemed to have saturated their name brand so much that people just don’t g…

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“Mish” Shedlock: unemployment rate will be over 10% all the way through 2015

This is very bearish news and if it proves to be true, I recommend preparing for the worse. We have only had 10% unemployment for 2 months officially, so if it maintains double digits for 5 years, t…

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Meredith Whitney latest video on the economy 12.08.2009

This is the latest Meredith Whitney video I could find with her assessment on the current economy. I have to agree with her. She has been accurate with her previous forecasts and based on what sh…

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The Obama Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)

I think the idea and the intent is good. The execution is terrible. I sincerely think Obama needs to surround himself with more hands-on result oriented people than academic professors on his econ…

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Dexter,Californication, and Top Chef season finales

I have really enjoyed Dexter again this season. Next week is the finale and the preview looked quite good. John Lithgow has portrayed his Trinity killer very well. I am not sure if this is the l…

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Are Debtors Revolting Against the Bailed Out Banks and Credit Card Companies?

Awhile back, I saw this video from Rockerchic4God and posted her video here on my blog. I will repost her video below so you can listen to her explanation of why she has decided to withhold her paym…

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Omar Epps and Wesley Snipes

I just finished watching this vampire movie called Dracula 2000 and in this movie, at times I thought Omar Epps really looked like Wesley Snipes of Blade fame. Of course another vampire movie franchi…

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Dracula 2000

I love vampire movies even if most of them are bad. I am glad they are more popular now than ever before. This oldie but goodie had many stars that have become big names now. Dracula was played by…

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Holiday shopping online and saving money

I know everyone already shops online, but for some reason it is not an automatic habit to start at certain sites that pay you to shop if you begin the search on their website. To clarify what I mean…

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K-1 *17th Annual World Grand Prix

If you enjoy watching mixed martial arts but get bored during the wrestling parts, then I recommend you watching K-1 which is strictly strikes and leg kicks. They just had the championship last nigh…

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HBO Boxing Megafight Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Manny Pacquiao 3.13.2010

Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao (Trailer) This is going to be a great fight between 2 pound for pound high caliber fighters. In case you don’t know, I am rooting for Pacquiao. However…

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CNBC The Gold Standard Kevin Cook video

Today, the unemployment report came out better than expected which made the US dollar go up and knocked gold down about 5%. I am long gold and silver ETFs so any downward move is worrisome. Howeve…

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Wall Street Cheers Unemployment Numbers

The unemployment number went down which should be a good thing no matter what. Right? The question is how accurate are the numbers and which reports are they reporting. Just a week ago, the TV m…

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Senator Jim Bunning: failures of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

I do hope we have enough senators like Senator Bunning with courage to do the right thing for the American people and get rid of the establishment that created this financial debacle we are in. Senato…

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The Federal Reserve, 0% interest rates, and the housing crisis.

The same economist Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust, has another video on his views on the Federal Reserve, the origin of the housing crisis, and the weaknesses he sees with the Fed’…

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Larry King: Ron Paul on Michael Moore

I think Ron Paul gets his views across easily. He has consistently said the same message about the wars and nation building. I think his analysis on Michael Moore’s views are accurate. Per…

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Michael Moore: An Open Letter To President Obama On Afghanistan 12.02.2009

This was a good Larry King interview of Michael Moore. Michael Moore and other Obamabots now realize and regret that their votes were not for a leader of change, but of another politician of brok…

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$30 Billion for 30,000 troops to get 100 Al Qaeda

I just had to reprint this because it is frustrating to have President Obama, who campaigned against the wars, put in another surge of troops to get 100 al Qaeda. Here is the reprint of the facts: A…

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Ron Paul video: Obama Preparing for Perpetual War 12.02.2009

12/2/09 Ron Paul on Fox Business: Obama Preparing for Perpetual War First of all, I hate these FOX Replublitards on there. They always come across as being righteous and premise questions with s…

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Why is my interest rate going up?

The laws have passed and will soon be in effect. There will be many emails and letters sent out to numerous customers letting them know their interest rates will be going up.You might be wondering wh…

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Run Fatboy Run

I wasn't actually looking for this movie and it wasn't in my netflix queue. I actually had seen the commercials a long time ago, and just thought it would be corny. In fact it was corny, but surpris…

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US Housing Foreclosures and Recovery

Foreclosures in the United States have not stopped. It is still increasing and there is a shadow inventory of bank REOs sitting empty and not for sale. This is probably due to accounting rules of…

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