Most internet users are familiar with spam – unwanted email. People who maintain websites which allow people to post are familiar with another kind of spam – forum or comment spam. A comment spammer’s goal in life is to get their (or their customers) website more traffic by posting links to them, wherever and however …
UPDATE 10-28-2011 Pizza hut in the Midlands area of SC currently has the $10 special for any pizza, eat-in or carry out. UPDATE 7-17-2011 The latest Pizza Hut $10 any way you want it pizza FOR CARRYOUT does include Supreme and Super Supreme. ——————————————————– I’m rather disappointed with Pizza Hut due to an experience I …
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With the approach of spring and summer, more people are out and about, therefore land and property owners are more likely to experience problems with trespassers. Exactly what is a trespasser? A trespasser is someone who enters the property of another without permission. An amazing amount of people think it’s perfectly okay to trespass at …
Cell phone subscribers, check your bills carefully. Some phones come with pre-loaded applications that are NOT free and you could be getting billed for ‘services’ you have never subscribed to, used or signed up for.
Just as the economy appears to be showing signs of improvement, more unrest in oil producing countries is causing crude oil prices to sharply increase. The increase doesn’t just hit consumers in the pocket at the gas pumps – it causes prices for everything to rise due to transportation costs. Farmers pay more in fuel …
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You may say I’m an tea addict. I love tea! Where some folks crawl out of bed in the morning and head for the coffee pot, I head for my refrigerator and a big old glass of tea.
I’m all for freedom of speech. I can understand why the Supreme Court had to side with the disrespectful military funeral protesters – had they ruled otherwise it could have endangered the right to free speech of everyone – but at the same time I am sad that those fanatics “won.”
In November 2010, voters in Richland County, SC said no to a one cent sales tax increase, part of which would have been used to fund the failing bus system. Now, Columbia City Council is raising electric company franchise fees within the city limits from 3% to 5%, a fee which will be passed on …
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Have you noticed the contents of a lot of packages have become smaller? Prices haven’t been reduced, though, and in some cases have gone up. When a pound of meat or vegetables goes up in price it’s obvious, but the real “gotcha” is in canned and packaged products.
Now you can buy a place in line at some hospital emergency rooms! A new online service allows you to make an appointment with participating hospital emergency rooms. If you aren’t seen within 15 minutes of the scheduled time, you don’t pay for the online registration, and at some hospitals you may not have to …
I detest telemarketers. I don’t care if they are trying to sell something, conducting market research /opinion polls, political or charities, I detest them equally. The FCC implemented the “Do Not Call” list to give people relief from telemarketer harrassment but unfortunately political calls, those claming to be doing market research, and charities are exempt …
UPDATE 6-27-2012 The Heritage Classic Foundation is asking that around $29,000 in interest owed on a loan to them by Beaufort County be waived. Beaufort County lent the Heritage Classic Foundation $1 million for their 2011 gold tournament. The base loan was paid back ahead of time by $250,000 in September and “$750,000 on June …
In the scramble to figure out how to pay for the health care bill, the senate has replaced a proposed 5% tax on elective plastic surgery procedures with a 10% tax on tanning bed services. The tanning tax is projected to raise 2.7 billion over 10 years compared to 5.8 billion the elective cosmetic surgery …
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Oh goody! Ebay is going to let you list up to 100 items a month FREE…….as long as your starting price is 99 cent or under. They’ve even reduced listing fees for the other price ranged…….but they’ve also increased final value fees (fvf) – a LOT. Good going Ebay, try to cover up fee increases …
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Thaddeus McCotter has introduced a bill into The House of Representatives , HR 3501 – ‘Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act to amend the IRS Tax Code of 1986 to allow for deduction of up to $3,500 for pet care expenses.
UPDATE In October of 2017 Big Fish games announced on their website that they no longer offer or support this game. Even if you have the game, you can no longer access the user made puzzles. I’m very disappointed in their decision. If you are a fan of Mahjong puzzle games, Mahjong Towers of Eternity …
I’ll admit it. When I signed up for telephone service through VOIPO I had my doubts. I was a wary of voice over internet protocol phone service to begin with and I couldn’t see how this company could offer the service they do, with all the bells and whistles, for such inexpensive rates. I tried …
Years ago I paid my phone company, Windstream, formerly Alltel, $25 to block, and have paid them $4.99 a month ever since, simply to NOT have long distance on my landline. Imagine my surprise when I opened a phone bill to find $5.63 for “carrier change charge” and $19.37 billed from ILD Teleservices on behalf …
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It’s obvious to all that the US is in a heck of a financial mess. Numerous businesses and financial institutions have their hands stuck out wanting money from the government – from the TAXPAYERS- to bail them out. Could it be possible that their own financial problems are the result of poor business decisions and …
I haven’t listed anything on Ebay in quite some time – I wasn’t happy about their fee increases or the fact that while a buyer can leave negative feedback for sellers, sellers can’t leave negative for buyers. Now I notice something else about their feedback system that, well, quite frankly annoys me more than the …