Hi Honey, I’m home, miss me Well it’s official, hopefully the wheels of justice (or a close proximity to) grind ahead. As of October 25th of 2010 a Notice of Claim was filed with the Small Claims Court Registry in Vancouver. and all involved parties have been served. The Ambassador My Ass vid has had it’s comments section closed but more are invited here if not beating a dead horse. As with the last clip view this update with a grain of salt and broad mindedness and bare in mind, only analytical critiques will be allowed in the comments section. Though keep the idiotic comments coming too, good for sh*ts and giggles but be warned, they won’t get posted. Wish me luck… or don’t
Another HD version of an earlier video. Understanding how Social Security works is vital to seeing what a horrible scheme it is and how we need to end it before we all go broke. Here’s a link explaining Galveston County’s benefits system: www.ncpa.org
www.theytoldyou.com On one side of the issue, the Federal Trade Commission offers tips to prevent and react to identity theft. Chief among the tips: Keep your personal identifying information secure. Yet another federal Web site makes the Social Security numbers of North Carolinians who file for bankruptcy readily available.
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Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) on MSNBC Live explains the profit motive behind certain security measures at airports. ______ At what price? American rights. Airport security? Right? Huh? Americans are losing rights and who is making money? The lobbyists. Members of Congress. Well, their campaign funds — What’s the difference? None. The body scanner industry with the help of lobbyists are heightened the scare, magnifying the threat. The threat is real, but is the body scanner industry’s profit making reaction to it the solution? K Street, that thick and wicked place, where the agents of darkness keep their hands deep into America’s pocket, is behind the naked body scanner push. And who is surprised? Reports USA Today — “The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance their causes in Washington, government records show. L-3 Communications, which has sold .7 million worth of the machines to the federal government, spent .3 million trying to influence Congress and federal agencies during the first nine months of this year, up from .1 million in 2005, lobbying data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show. Its lobbyists include Linda Daschle, a former Federal Aviation Administration official. Rapiscan Systems, meanwhile, has spent 1500 on lobbying so far …