SOME TRAVEL SCAMS TO WATCH FOR… I’VE SEEN SOME OF THESE
There is also the one I got stung with in NYC where you’re getting in a cab and somebody is looking for change for a hundred. He did change my hundred but for $0…
THE FLAT TIRE SCAM:
Not all moving vehicle scams involve taxi drivers, suggests Robert Siciliano, head of IDTheftSecurity.com. “My wife was traveling in Spain and stopped at a red light,” he recounts. “Someone knocked on her passenger window and kept pointing towards [the car] and saying ‘tire flat, tire flat.’ She got out of the car to look and they opened up the passenger door and took her purse off the seat.”
THE TROJAN HORSE SCAM:
Tour guide Ann Lombardi of the Trip Chicks says she “recently watched a schemer in action in Frankfurt Germany train station” perform the classic hollow suitcase with rollers and frame trick, which Lombardi says works thusly: “A distracted tourist takes his eyes off his bag for a second. Behind the tourist lurks a guy with an enormous suitcase. In a flash, the thief lifts the enormous hollow luggage, puts it over the tourist’s bag, and calmly wheels away with his prized catch.” Avoid such schemers by always protecting your luggage between your legs while in crowded transportation areas, she says.
THE BASKSHEESH SCAM:
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February 24, 2010
TOUGH MORNING… ALREADY
We’re putting Satchmo to sleep in about 1 hour. He seems to know for some reason. He is crying and he has never done that before.
He can’t drink water anymore and he has a tough time swallowing… I imagine it’s like if I had a super bad sore throat. He has been unable to clean himself like he used to… He was a meticulously clean cat. He was crusty and stinky yesterday so Mariann and I gave him a warm bath and shampooed him. After he was dried he seemed to be very happy with how he looked. It’ll be real tough at the vet office but we both know we’re doing the right thing… He is just beginning to be unhappy and unable to function. Our other cat, Ella, doesn’t give a crap…
Anyway, that is what is happening on this 35 degree rainy Wednesday morning…
February 12, 2010
IS NOTHING SACRED? THIS IS ONE STEP MORE DEADLY THAN MACHINE GUN JUBBLIES… EXPLODING TERROR TITS:
January 20, 2010
Forty one! Forty one! Forty one!
In a stunning upset, Massachusetts now has a Republican Senator, Mark Brown, the new lion of the Senate. His first victim? Martha Coakley. He came from behind and upset the supermajority that the democrats have enjoyed and also upsetting the one year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration.
Well done
Mr.Senator Brown![BlogLord Comment]:
Thank You
Massachusetts!
January 8, 2010
WHILE THIS IS OLD, IT’S GRAT AND THE WENCH HAD THIS COMING…
This is SNOPES.com: TRUE!
www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/boxer.asp
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From my Email:
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Read the letter sent to Sen. Barbara Boxer from an Alaskan Airlines pilot below. Many of us witnessed the arrogance of Barbara Boxer on June 18, 2009 as she admonished Brigadier General Michael Walsh because he addressed her as “ma’am” and not “Senator” before a Senate hearing. This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines named Jim Hill. I wonder what he would have said if he were really angry. Long fly Alaska !!!!!Babs:
You were so right on when you scolded the general on TV for using the term, “ma’am,” instead of “Senator”. After all, in the military, “ma’am” is a term of respect when addressing a female of superior rank or position. The general was totally wrong. You are not a person of superior rank or position.. You are a member of one of the world’s most corrupt organizations, the U.S. Senate, equaled only by the U.S. House of Representatives.Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected. Many democrats even want American troops killed by releasing photographs. How many of you could honestly say, “We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor”? None? One? Two?
Your reaction to the general shows several things. First is your abysmal ignorance of all things military. Your treatment of the general shows you to be an elitist of the worst kind.. When the general entered the military (as most of us who served) he wrote the government a blank check, offering his life to protect your derriere, now safely and comfortably ensconced in a 20 thousand dollar leather chair, paid for by the general’s taxes. You repaid him for this by humiliating him in front of millions.
Second is your puerile character, lack of sophistication, and arrogance, which borders on the hubristic. This display of brattish behavior shows you to be a virago, termagant, harridan, nag, scold or shrew, unfit for your position, regardless of the support of the unwashed, uneducated masses who have made California into the laughing stock of the nation.
What I am writing, are the same thoughts countless millions of Americans have toward Congress, but who lack the energy, ability or time to convey them. Regardless of their thoughts, most realize that politicians are pretty much the same, and will vote for the one who will bring home the most bacon, even if they do consider how corrupt that person is. Lord Acton (1834 – 1902) so aptly charged, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Unbeknownst to you and your colleagues, “Mr. Power” has had his way with all of you, and we are all the worse for it.
Finally Senator, I, too, have a title. It is “Right Wing Extremist Potential Terrorist Threat.” It is not of my choosing, but was given to me by your Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. And you were offended by “ma’am”?
Have a fine day. Cheers!
Jim Hill
16808 – 103rd Avenue Court East
South Hill , WA 98374
December 31, 2009
.708 IS PRETTY BUZZED… OF COURSE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A MIRROR IN THE AREA AND SHE HAD TO DRINK THAT MUCH…
December 29, 2009
TALK ABOUT SKID MARKS… THIS GUY IS ONE GIANT SKID MARK…
December 16, 2009
A pic from warmer times
I was uploading pics from a recent ski vacation, and found this pic of my boy and one of his first fish.
Busy busy in the new job. Never in front of the computer anymore.





















