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Sep
24
New e-mail hoax
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Forget Nigeria, this one’s even better.
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
The new e-mail hoax:
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s.
This transaction is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson
Thanks Alan
Sep
18
Jimmy Orr at The Christain Science Monitor has a take on this.
The comments too, are priceless.
Sep
18
Palin hacked by Anonymous
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Anonymous, the same hacker group that broke into Scientology, hacked Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail.
Time has an article here. In the article they reference the site, www.wikileaks.org on which the e-mails were posted. Reaching that site is another story all together. The site has either been taken down, or overloaded. Another site, www.wikileak.org (no “s”), has posted a message for people who reach that site by mistake. The blogger on wikileak seems to be very upset by what ever happens on wikileakS.
The site’s (the one with no “s”) intent is to discuss what’s happening on the other site (with an “s”) and now he’s pissed off that people are on his site.
As one commenter put it, “… obviously tyrannical people who would dedicate a blog, to be a copy cat of another blog are just asking to be found here.”
I would kill for more traffic (not literally) and this guy is upset that he’s getting it. Why not politely tell people they’re in the wrong place, but hang out in the mean time?
He would have been better off posting ads.
Posting comments on his site, however, are subject to his approval, so who knows whether mine will show up. starting my comment with, “You ignorant douche,” may not have been the best idea, in retrospect.
As far as Palin’s e-mails … I’m still looking for those.
Sep
16
Unfair Comparisons
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Normally I don’t care for these sort of e-mails, but this one does illustrate how we get sucked into the media’s interpretation of the facts. Not to mention the campaign spin doctors.
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents — you’re “exotic, different.”
Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers — a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend 8 years as a state senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the US Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second-highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches (not Muslim!!!), you’re not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a good Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while Governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now
As far as the Sex Ed part though … Obama’s being accused of wanting to teach sex ed to kindergartners. Actually he wanted to educate kindergarteners about sexual predators. There’s a big difference between, “Here’s a vagina and here’s how to use one,” and, “Here’s a van. Don’t get in it.”
Here’s a seemingly unbiased comparison.
Jul
31
And the Poland Springs water debacle continuous. Here’s a piece of an e-mail that I got back:
Further, our records indicate that we delivered
3 bottles at no charge on 07/16/08 for the
replacement delivery of June.If you have any further questions regarding the
Pure Savings Plan, please
call our Customer Service Center.
A Customer Service Representative is
available at 800-950-9396,
Monday - Friday, 8 am - 9 pm EST and
Saturday, 8 am - 4 pm EST.We appreciate you for choosing Poland Spring
as your water serviceprovider.Sincerely,
E-Service Support Representative
Poland Spring Water
www.polandspring.com/service
Fantastic! Except this makes no sense. There’s really no need for me to go into a rant here, as I did it in an e-mail back to them:
In response to the numerous confusing e-mails, phone calls and uninformative website,
You said in your last e-mail: “Further, our records indicate that we delivered 3 bottles at no charge on 07/16/08 for the replacement delivery of June.”
But you did charge me. You charged me! $28.93 in May, which you said you’d credit me.
As your e-mail from 06/06/08 states: “Thank you for using polandspring.com. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. Please note, a credit in the amount of $28.98 will be applied to your account.”I had canceled deliveries from May until September. The charge in May was your error when you charged me and didn’t deliver any water. Now you’re claiming that we somehow received “free” water, which isn’t the case. You simply delivered water that I paid for and didn’t want.
In addition, I’m seeing a current balance of $26.98 that I supposedly owe you. For what? Our next delivery should be in September.
My wife has also spent too much time on the phone with your “service” department and was informed that canceling a delivery doesn’t actually cancel the delivery, but in fact defers the delivery to a later time. A later time that you charge for before delivering the product. And if we defer (we’ll call it that) delivery for more than three months (because we have enough water to irrigate Arizona) you charge us regardless of whether you deliver water or not.
The oil surcharge is another matter that needs to be addressed on a different forum, but sufficed to say, that informing customers that they’ll be chipping in to help pay for gas to deliver water is a bit much. Your rate has now gone up to $3.00 per customer, per delivery, which if you plan your deliveries carefully could actually be profitable.
I’m sure this e-mail has been less than clear and may even be a bit confusing … welcome to my world.
Jul
31
Poland Springs Scam
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Aside from the fact that I’m a complete jackass for having bottled water delivered to my house and that the actual price of that water is more than what I would willingly pay for gas (approximately $2.00/gallon) I’m beginning to question the accounting practices of Poland Springs. Now owned by Nestle and was sued for fraud in 2003.
I have three 5-gallon jugs of water delivered every month. More than enough for two people and a cat. Yes, we have such an abundance of water that the cat drinks “spring water”. It’s on quotes because I question whether it is in fact spring water. You can check out this post for more on that.
