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Posted by admin on September 4th, 2009 in Finance | Printer Friendly

American Express has got to be one of the worst run companies around.

For the past few years I’ve used an AMEX Corporate Platinum card and have always paid my bill in full on time (usually pretty early). I recently decided that it would behoove me to get a card that reports to my personal credit due to our country’s retarded credit system – you know, the one that exclusively deems people with large debts worthy of acquiring even more debt while screwing over responsible people like myself who actually purchase only what they can afford (more on this in a future post). Anyhow, I applied for and received a shiny new American Express Gold Card. So far, so good.

So, like the responsible person that I am, I spent a couple of hours switching over my many, many auto billed services to my new card. Well, after a day or two of minimal use, I get my first declined charge. I immediately called the bold faced liars at American Express and, believe it or not, they tell me that they want to verify me via a conference call with my bank. A bit confused, I say ok and tell them they could call my main bank; however, after a few minutes on hold, the rep tells me that the bank is closed and we would need to wait until the following day (and the card would be blocked until then). I suggest they try another bank where I have accounts and, after a few more minutes on hold, I am told that everything checks out and that the card would start working again.

The next morning, I get a call from American Express stating that they are putting a hold on my account and that they need me to fill out a form allowing them to receive my IRS information. Mind you, I personally spend close to $10,000 a month on my other card and pay it in full each and every month. A quick review of my charges and the source of my payments would quickly tell them everything they need to know. Nonetheless, I fill out the form and send it back to them within an hour.

A few days have passed and my account, still being on hold, begins rejecting the automatic charges I’ve setup even though many of those charges are tiny and amount to under $20. What a pain in the ASS!!! Naturally, I have to ask who in the right mind would think it is a good idea to send someone a card and then try verifying information? No wonder they needed $3.5 Billion in taxpayer funds plus untold billions more in TALF and shady Federal Reserve programs.

All I can say is that at this point I think I will be cancelling both my cards and really wish I had the balls to just not pay them (but I’m going to). My advice to others is to simply AVOID THE IDIOTS AT AMERICAN EXPRESS.

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Posted by admin on June 29th, 2009 in Politics | Printer Friendly

Predictably, President Barack Obama quickly moved today to placate his Latin American pals (Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Daniel Ortega). In his statement on the exiling of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the President stated:

    “We believe that the coup was not legal…”

    “It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections.”

    “our goal now is on restoring democratic order in Honduras.”

Now, let’s look at the undeniable facts behind what happened in Honduras:

Constitutionally barred from running for a second term, Honduran President Zelaya unilaterally moved for a referendum to have the constitution changed. Unfortunately for Zelaya, he HAD NO LEGAL RIGHT to call for such a referendum (that right rests solely in the hands of its democratically elected Congress).

Nonetheless, Zelaya had his dear friend Hugo Chavez ship him the illegal ballots from Venezuela. The Honduran Supreme Court then ruled the referendum illegal and instructed the Honduran military to refuse its duty of carrying out the illegal vote.

When the military’s ranking General (Romeo Vásquez Velásquez) informed Zelaya that, naturally, he would obey the country’s top court, Zelaya fired him. Well, you can imagine that the court was none too pleased with this most un-presidential firing and promptly ordered that the general be reinstated. Zelaya refused.

The next day, Zelaya led a mob to the building where those Venezuelan ballots were being stored, stormed it and instructed his supporters to distribute the illegal ballots.

Finally, all branches of the democratic Honduran government-from the Supreme Court to Congress to Attorney General-decided that enough was enough and ordered the military to fulfill its mandate and protect the country’s democracy.

So, what exactly was President Obama’s referring to as “an illegal coup”? Also, when he states “we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition…” he shows off his ignorance of the situation in Honduras.

The Honduran military, acting at the bi-partisan request of a democratically elected Congress and Court was, to quote Barack, doing nothing less than “restoring democratic order in Honduras.”

In his usual rush to placate socialist dictators that wish only the worst for America, President Obama has done nothing less than undermine a burgeoning democracy.

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Posted by admin on June 16th, 2009 in Politics | Printer Friendly

In a previous post, I wrote about how President Barack Obama was repaying his wealthy campaign financiers with prime ambassadorships in Japan, France, Denmark, and the United Kingdom.

Well, last week the President continued his payback:

  · Belgium: Washington lawyer Howard Gutman, who raised over $500,000 for Obama’s campaign.

  · Switzerland: Donald Beyer, who also raised more than $500,000 for the campaign.

  · Belize: Vinai Thummalapally, Colorado business executive, raised up to $200,000 for the campaign.

Obama also named Washington lawyer Mark Gitenstein to an ambassadorial post. Gitenstein, who personally donated the maximum allowed contribution of $4,500 to V.P. Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and $1,500 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign was given the far less desirable post in Romania. Don’t worry Mark, you’ll still get the free travel, meals, parties and expenses.

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Posted by admin on June 8th, 2009 in Politics | Printer Friendly

In an interview with Barack Obama, NBC’s Tom Brokaw displayed his ignorance of history and his anti-Israel bias when he disgracefully asked the President:

    Brokaw: What can the Israelis learn from your visit to Buchenwald? And what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?

    Obama: Well, look, there’s no equivalency here.

All I can say is Bravo President Obama, Bravo.

For more, including a video, check out HonestReporting.com

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Posted by admin on June 2nd, 2009 in Politics | Printer Friendly

Though President Obama campaigned on a platform of change and made lofty promises of all sorts, it looks like politcs as usual as the President has no problem selling off a few of our prime ambassadorships.

When it comes to handing out diplomatic posts, it seems the prime qualification for Obama is how much cash you donated to his presidential campaign and inauguration. Here are just a few, compliments of Bloomberg News:

  · Japan: John Roos, CEO of a Palo Alto, California-based law firm. He raised more than $500,000 for Obama.

  · France: Charles Rivkin, CEO of Wildbrain Inc. Rivkin collected more than $500,000 for Obama’s campaign and an additional $300,000 for his inauguration.

  · Denmark: Laurie Fulton, a partner with Williams & Connolly LLP. Raised up to $200,000.

  · United Kingdom: Louis Susman, retired Citigroup Inc. senior investment banker. Susman raised up to $500,000 for Obama’s presidential campaign and another $300,000 for his inauguration.

Sure, why shouldn’t taxpayers pay for a bunch of millionaires to live it up abroad in government owned mansions? Let’s fly them and their families around the world on the taxpayer’s dime and fund their elaborate parties and lifestyle abroad. That way, come the next election, they’ll have plenty of cash left to fund more campaigns!

Personally, based on the way the Obama Administration is treating the Brits, I don’t know if I would even take that job! In the latest flap between what used to be unflappable allies, Obama’s joke of a press secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at the British media stating “You’re not going to find very many of these newspapers and truth within 25 words of each other.”

Of course, when it came to placating Obama’s King in Saudi Arabia, the President wasted no time this week in petitioning the Supreme Court to protect Saudi Arabia and four of its princes from being held accountable for their role in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At this point, does it surprise anyone that he would side with the terrorist enablers instead of the 9/11 victims and their families who are simply seeking justice? Come on, not only did he bow before King Abdullah, but he is currently working as hard as possible to give terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay prison full access to the US court system! So, to review, full access to the US court system for terrorists, full immunity in the US courts for Saudi financiers of 9/11, BUT no legal recourse against the former by the victims of terrorism.

Moving back to Obama’s political appointments, it seems that some of those he put in the Justice Department just don’t care at all about racists who performed what civil rights icon Bartle Bull called “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had ever seen. How could this be? Simple, because the perpetrators were not white, they were the African American founders of the New Blank Panthers. So, even though career lawyers had secured a case against the 3 lowlifes for wielding weapons and intimidating voters at a polling place last Election Day, Obama’s political appointments opted not to pursue charges. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr, YOU are the coward, not the American people! (as he suggested on MLK day)

Finally, it looks like Obama has made good on another campaign promise. Costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, the Obama’s flew to NY for dinner and a show. As always, the President showed wonderful timing, choosing to do this about 36 hours before pushing GM into bankruptcy.

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Posted by admin on May 25th, 2009 in Tech | Printer Friendly

Travelocity, besides transparently ripping off their roaming gnome advertising campaign from a movie, is without question the most deceitful travel website.

On multiple occasions I’ve visited their site due to both online and offline offers only to find that, at the last step of the booking process, they give me some kind of error and then increase the trips’ price by over 30%.

Here is an example from just a few minutes ago (5/25/2009):


Great price, so I go to checkout and receive:


Naturally, I called the number and was told there would be a $25 fee for booking over the phone. Not only that, the giggling representative told me they couldn’t get me the same price because the flights were no longer available. So, I put in the same exact information into the online search and get:


Mind you, this is all in the course of just a few minutes! Of course, there is nothing the rep could do for me other than tell me to check tonight after 9pm. I mention that it is a bit extreme for the price to go from $1,268 to $1,658 in a matter of seconds and she says there is massive demand right now. What? Clearly she has no clue we’re in the midst of the worst recession in 75 years and Vegas specifically is in a Great Depression situation (just ask any of their elective representatives or business leaders).

The truth is, should I expect anything better from this hack of a travel agency that has banner advertising for weight watchers and capital one on top of almost every page?

To make matters worse, when I went to book my trip I noticed that they had actually CHANGED MY TRAVEL DATES. I called them and they told me that the only way I could cancel was if I booked a new trip at an even more expensive rate. This, even though they acknowledged that the hotel wasn’t even booked yet!

Thankfully, American Express came to the rescue and assured me that they would take care of everything.

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Posted by admin on April 21st, 2009 in Politics | Printer Friendly

By the looks of it, President Barack Obama seemed tickled pink to meet his new friend, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela last weekend:

The US President seemed all to happy to shake the evil dictator’s hand and greet him warmly with a huge smile (at least he didn’t bow). Obama even seemed to have a good laugh with him. Maybe he was listening to some of Chavez’s more famous quotes:

On the United States of America:
    “Let’s save the human race, let’s finish off the U.S. empire.”

    “Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”

    “The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat is represented by U.S. imperialism.”

    “It is an imperialist government, one that says it fights against terrorism but protects it.”

    In Iran: “The United States Empire is on its way down and will be finished in the near future, inshallah (arabic for god willing)”

    “I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.”

    “We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.”

    “You are a coward, a killer, a perpetrator of genocide…”

    “Terrorism, putting fear into other nations, putting fear into their own people.”

    “The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush.”

    “Go to hell, gringos! Go home!…What does the empire want?”

On Capitalism:
    “Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.”

    “Capitalism leads us straight to hell.”

    “Those who want to go directly to hell can follow capitalism.”

    “The planet is being destroyed under our own noses by the capitalist model, the destructive engine of development, every day there is more hunger, more misery thanks to the neo-liberal, capitalist model.”

On Israel:
    “Israel has gone mad. It’s attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that it has criticised – and with reason – in the case of the Holocaust. But this is a new Holocaust.”

    “The Hebrew people do not deserve this genocidal, murderous government.”

    “We have broken (diplomatic) relations with Israel and have no plans to restore them, even less so now.”

On Zimbabwe’s Mass Murdering Tyrant Robert Mugabe:
    “I give you a replica of liberator Simon Bolivar’s sword. For you who, like Bolivar, took up arms to liberate your people. For you who, like Bolivar, are and will always be a true freedom fighter. Mugabe continues, alongside his people, to confront the pretensions of new imperialists.”

Clearly it didn’t bother President Obama that Hugo Chavez recently hosted a delegation of Hizballah (you know, that internationally branded terrorist organization with American blood on its hands). I guess it’s no big deal that Chavez has been heavily funding anti-American groups throughout South and Central America. No matter that he’s been aiding drug cartels and is even accused of helping them smuggle billions of dollars of cocaine into the US in an effort to undermine our war on drugs.

I guess we can just hope that Barack’s playing nice gets Chavez to change everything he believes in.

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