Reflections
Woman Has Stroke As The Result Of A Hickey And Is Partially Paralyzed
It always is said that facts are stranger than fiction and this medical case seems to prove it once again. The case involves a woman who goes to the hospital and is partially paralyzed. The doctors take great care in examining the woman to try to determine the cause of her paralysis. After numerous neurological [...]
Were You A Vonage Customer Before January 3, 2011? You May Be Entitled To Some Cash
The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey has reached an agreement with Vonage America, Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., and Vonage Marketing LLC, in the amount of $4.75 million dollars. Vonage is accused of deceptive and unlawful activities when it came to promotional gimmicks and disconnection charges the company charged to customers. [...]
‘Fountain Girl’ Who Fell Into Mall Fountain While Texting Identified And May Be Suing
The video of a woman texting while walking through a mall and then falling into a fountain, is priceless. Like many of you, I had a hardy chuckle when I first saw the video on TV, and wondered how anyone could be so stupid. Lets face it, the size of the fountain was huge and fairly hard to miss. [...]
Office Depot, Frontier Airlines, Gateway, eTrade & Sara Lee May Disappear In 2011
So it’s not so Mr. Bill. But some of the brand name products we have come to know and love may be on their way out this year, as companies either fail or are merged into other corporations. No surprise about Gateway. Acer bought the Gateway brand number to bump up its image and sale [...]
New York Times Online For Less Than $20 A Month – Maybe $19.95?
The New York Times is going to place much of their online content behind a pay wall. The newspaper is trying to determine how much of their content will remain free and how much subscribers will be willing to pay to subscribe to the full features of the newspaper. Currently Amazon charges $19.99 a month [...]
BioFreeze Pain Relief Gel – Reviewed
There are many over the counter relief medications and my wife has tried them all. My bride of over 20 years suffers from Lupus and suffers miserably from joint pain associated with the disease. Many of the over the counter medications have such a strong smell, that I jokingly mention that when she applies them, [...]
Super Street Traffic Design Reroutes Left Turn Traffic
Where I live, we have two recently redesigned intersections, in which left hand turns have been eliminated. Called double crossover diamond interchange, it basically eliminates the need for left hand turns in front of oncoming traffic. At the North Carolina State University they have a similar proposal to reroute traffic by eliminating left turns at [...]
Can You Switch Your iPhone From AT&T To Verizon And Make Money?
I always enjoy reading articles about how you can make money by buying something and then selling it to someone else. In this scheme it involves the selling of your old jailbroken iPhone from AT&T and selling it on eBay. The theory being that there are people outside of the U.S. who would be willing [...]
WikiLeaks – Next On Our Hit List Are Politicians & Companies That Evade Taxes
Should Politicians & Companies That Evade Taxes Be Exposed? Here in the U.S. it is time once again when we start to put together our income and expenses for the annual ritual of filing our federal and state income tax returns. In a time when people on social security have not received an increase in [...]
Banks Want To Help Subprime Borrowers Get Credit Cards
Sometimes I have to wonder how we as a nation tolerate schemes that are designed to bilk those who are less fortunate. It even surprises me that we have a government that bails out people who have invested their money in loans that were designed to fail. We’re a nation where some propose less restrictive [...]
