MUNY: Politicians “protect” us from the evil WalMart bank!

Sunday, July 9, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/owqrc

Bills aim to keep big retailers out of banking
Sun Jul 9, 2006 11:47am ET
By John Poirier

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers this week will propose restricting ownership of banks by commercial companies in a legislative push to derail the efforts of retailing giants to move into financial services.

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Yeah, it’d be terrible if WalMart came in and competed with the banks! WalMart might “cheat”. Imagine the WalMart credit card that charged 12% interest instead of the 24% that some Visa cards do. Imagine that WalMart could immediately give a customer a 6% discount if you use their card as opposed them giving the 6% fee to Visa. Imagine that WalMart Certificates of Deposits paying more so that they didn’t have to borrow money from banks and Wall Street to finance tehir operations. Yup, just imagine the possibilities.

And, who would make all those campaign contributions to the politicians?

So, I am sure “our” politicians are just “protecting” us from the evil WalMart.

Message to the politicans, please don’t protect us any more. I can’t afford it!

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TECH: GOOGLE puts a new better version of PAGES out

Sunday, July 9, 2006

http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.googlepages.com/home

Neat way to throw up pages.

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RANT: It has been brought to my attention that I don’t “spel so gud”

Sunday, July 9, 2006

Hey, I r an injineer!

If you don’t care for my innovative spelling techniques, or {gasp} if you think I have made a  mistake, or {gasp}{gasp} that I might be wrong, you might consider leaving a comment!

I’ll figure out how to fix it in such a way so as not to detract from you overall high opinion of my blog.

(Although, I do wonder why you are reading my blog as opposed to the many great ones out there.)

Arghhh, have to try to “spel more bettr”!

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TURKEY: I don’t understand … if you’re “out”, make yourself “findable”?

Sunday, July 9, 2006

I don’t understand baby turkeys. I usually stress “getting connected”. That is a triple cocktail of LinkedIn, Plaxo, and webpage. LinkedIn and Plaxo should be self-explanatory. Once you have a webpage with your own name on it, it’s not long (usually a few hours to at most a few days) before the vacuum cleaner search engines come in, suck it up, and index it. Everybody is worried about “privacy”. Now don’t get me wrong, I am NOT suggesting that one post your SSN on the web or even your real email address. But heck, if you want to be found by a recruiter of any ilk, you have to try a little. Like that joke about “hlep me out here. buy  a ticket”. Arghhh!

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