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[27 Jul 2010 | Comments | ]
Why the Poor Stay Poor – Bleeding Hearts Need Not Apply

This is one of my “pinhead” posts. Posts I write when I’m tired of stupidity. This time, I’m tired of the ongoing debate about whether homeless people “SHOULD” have cellphones, as if there was a law that made communication illegal for the poor or homeless!
People in general are cruel when it comes to the homeless. On the one hand they want to help them, but ONLY if the person is TOTALLY without resources and destitute. And THEN they blame them for being that way! Damned if you do, damned …

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[7 Apr 2010 | Comments | ]
Gulfstream RV Owners Consider Class Action Suit

Some time back I wrote about Michelle Gagne and the problems she was having with her Gulfstream trailer (RV). She created a webpage, posted to various social media sites about her problems and did more than just bitch. She backed up her complaints with photos, letters, emails, a calendar and testimony from Gulfstream employees themselves that confirmed to any reasonable person that Gulfstream has SCREWED her and her husband royally – to the tune of MORE than $53,000.
Now she’s starting to get momentum. Other people who are having Gulfstream Trailer …

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[24 Dec 2009 | Comments | ]

United Breaks Guitars

Ever wanted to really stick it to an airline or company who screwed you over, broke something, or caused you undue grief? This band did – writing a VERY catchy song after United AIrlines broke their guitars, then passed the buck in admitting they were wrong. I’m sure the resulting viral song will be around a long time. Lesson? DO THE RIGHT THING.

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[14 Dec 2009 | Comments | ]

(photo from Change.org website).
In some Choice Hotels in America, children are being forced into prostitution. According to Change.org, the Choice Hotel Chain and other hotels across America, may be “unintentionally facilitating this prostitution by ignoring this growing problem.”
Vandwellers face dangers living on the streets, but nothing like the children of drug addicted parents and hotels who don’t care what goes on in their chains, face.
Change.org says “The recent tragedy of Shaniya Davis’s rape and murder, part of which took place at a Comfort Inn in North Carolina, …