Year: 2014

CBS Denver

Erin tried to buy her first car when she was young and had no credit history.

“I didn’t have anybody to cosign,” she said.

The interest rate on a car loan for her was going to be astronomical. But a device called Passtime helped her establish credit and buy a car.

Passtime is affixed to a car and prevents it from starting if the owner doesn’t make loan payments on time. It’s targeted toward people with no credit history or poor credit scores.    Continue reading “Device Prevents Cars From Starting If Loans Aren’t Paid, Helps Drivers Establish Credit”

The Right Scoop

You know I’ve had about enough of Michael Brown’s parents. I know they are grieving and what not, but they are going too far in their desire to prosecute Darren Wilson for the death of their son. After all, the grand jury is still hearing evidence and hasn’t released a verdict yet on that evidence.

Michael Brown’s parents are not reasonable people nor have they surrounded themselves with reasonable people. They claim they want justice yet what they really want is to believe that their son couldn’t be the thug that led him to attack an officer and get killed. And if it means prosecuting Darren Wilson and sending him to jail to keep that dream alive, that’s what they’ll do.   Continue reading “STUPID: Michael Brown parents want UN to recommend IMMEDIATE arrest of Officer Darren Wilson”

Poor Richard’s News

Obama is trying to rush the confirmation of his new Attorney General through the Senate before the newly elected Republican majority takes over.  But there are plenty of reasons why Senators on both sides of the aisle should have great pause before approving Loretta Lynch.

In recent months, much has been written about the concept of “civil asset forfeiture,” in which police routinely steal billions of dollars worth of private property without even so much as criminal charges.  As it turns out, Loretta Lynch is all for it, and her US attorney’s office has benefited from it to the tune of nearly a BILLION dollars.    Continue reading “Obama’s AG nominee has seized $904 million in private property through “civil asset forfeiture””

Huffington Post – by Eleanor Goldberg

A new Alabama fraternity has already redefined what it means to be a “brother.”

Phi Kappa Psi has only had a presence at the University of Alabama in Huntsville for less than a year, but they already have big plans to help improve their community, WHNT reported. Inspired by a chance meeting with a local homeless person, Taylor Reed — president of the frat — decided to establish an organization to build tiny homes for people without a place to live.   Continue reading “Alabama Frat Is Building Tiny Houses For Homeless Because They’re Their Brothers Too”

This really works and will only take you about ten seconds!!!

Amazing it really works this is my all-time favorite movie.

I am very good at math, so I did it in my head, then on paper, and finally on a calculator just to confirm my numerical capabilities.

Each time I got the same answer, and sure enough it IS my very favorite movie EVER!

DO NOT cheat. DO YOUR math, THEN compare the results to the list of movies at the bottom.   Continue reading “Math Trick”

Alliance for Natural Health

Patent protection means you get to charge whatever the market will bear. In this case, it bears a 935% increase in the price tag.

Xyrem is the brand name for sodium oxybate. Sodium oxybate is the sodium salt of γ-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB—the “date rape drug.” It’s an old drug—even older than aspirin—and it’s FDA-approved for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness caused by narcolepsy.   Continue reading “How a Monopoly Is Turning the Date Rape Drug into a Blockbuster Moneymaker”

Press TV

“America is now investing endless troops, endless time, endless treasury, exceeding trillions of dollars now, in fighting wars for Israel,” said James Henry Fetzer, who’s also an editor at Veterans Today and a retired professor in Madison, Wisconsin.   Continue reading “US investing ‘trillions’ to fight wars for Israel: Scholar”

RT

Scientists have found traces of leaked radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident off the coast of California. Radiation experts, though, say the levels are harmless.

Trace amounts of isotopes linked to Fukushima radiation were detected about 100 miles (160km) west of Eureka, a city in northern California, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a Massachusetts-based research organization, announced Monday in a press release.   Continue reading “Fukushima radiation detected 100 miles off California coast”

Mail.com

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — After being buried under more than a foot of snow, parts of the Rockies and Upper Midwest were getting their first icy touch of arctic air on Tuesday. And the rest of the Midwest and the East are expecting a dose later in the week, with temperatures forecast as much as 40 degrees below average.

The frigid air was pushed in by a powerful storm that hit Alaska with hurricane-force winds over the weekend. A look at the storm and its effects:   Continue reading “Arctic blast descends on Rockies, Upper Midwest”

Mail.com

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Enraged parents wept and screamed as a judge sentenced a South Korean ferry captain to 36 years in prison Tuesday for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank earlier this year, killing more than 300 people, mostly high school students.

The highly anticipated verdict came on the same day officials called off searches for the final nine victims and reflects the continuing grief and finger-pointing over one of the worst disasters in South Korean history. Victims’ relatives immediately criticized the sentences for Capt. Lee Joon-seok and 14 other crew members as too lenient. Lee was acquitted of a homicide charge, which could have carried a death sentence, because the court said there wasn’t proof that he knew his actions would cause such a massive loss of life.   Continue reading “Grief, rage at 36-year sentence for ferry captain”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army statistician whose research informed battlefield treatment decisions was quietly forced to resign in January after admitting she did not earn the doctoral degree she had been claiming.

Inquiries by The Associated Press revealed that not only did she deceive the Army about her Ph.D., but she didn’t earn the master’s degree on her resume either, something Army officials said they had not realized.   Continue reading “Army trauma expert quit after admitting PhD fraud”