Loose Cannon Style

Some one once asked me, what makes me think I’m special, or unique?  I think the answer is that I never abandoned my childhood dreams.  I still think if I work hard enough, that one day, at least some of them can come true.  I believe this, to the very core of my existence, and I will never give up.

“We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.”

“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

I started thinking about a memorable quote that one of my professors uttered to me.  He told me (us, the class) that all of his years of experience and financial savvy did not help him to identify that he himself was in a bubble market (2005 which was the peak of the housing boom).  He says that he only realized that the real estate market had peaked when even the most lowly [sic] of people, even those who are uneducated and those who normally would lose their pants in complicated financial investments were making unheard of amounts of money.
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It looks like due to the credit card debacle, FICO scores have been steadily increasing for consumers nationwide. I am basing this hypothesis on a 3 month 30 point increase in my own credit score.

How is it possible that in 3 months my fico score increased significantly?
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Who’s Fault is it that the economy is the way it is today?

It’s Eddie Barzoon’s fault:

Eddie Barzoon, I nursed him through 2 divorces, a cocaine rehab, and a pregnant receptionist! God’s Creature right? God’s special creature? .. and I warned him , I warned him every step of the way. Watching him bounce around like a game, like a wind up toy, like 250 pounds of self serving GREED on wheels. The next 1000 years is right around the corner, and Eddie Barzoon, take a good look, because he’s the poster child for the next millennium.

You, sharpen the human appetite to where it can split atoms with its desire, you build egos the size of cathedrals, fiber optically connect the world to every eager impulse, grease even the dullest dreams, with these dollar green gold plated fantasy’s, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God! Where do we go from there?

And as we are scrambling from one deal to the next, who’s got his eye on the planet? As the air thickens, the water sours, even the Bee’s honey takes on the metallic taste of radioactivity, and it just keeps coming, faster and faster, there is no chance to think, to prepare, its buy futures, sell futures, when there is no future!!!

We got a run away train boy, we got a billion Eddie Barzoons all jogging into the future, every one of them getting ready to rape Gods ex-planet, lick their fingers clean, as they reach out to their pristine cybernetic keyboards to total up their billable hours.

And then it hits home! You gotta pay your own way Eddie, it’s a little late in the game to buy out now! Your Bellys too full, your body is sore, your eyes are bloodshot, and you’re screaming for someone to help! But guess what? There’s no one there!

Your all alone Eddie, your Gods special little creature. Maybe its true, maybe God threw the dice once too often, maybe he let us all down.

According to this news article being reported by The Consumerist, Credit card companies ganged up on the discovery channel to prevent the popular Mythbusters show from airing a segment on how easy it really is to steal RFID Credit Card Data.
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Under the guise and pretense of “risk-based” pricing, chase puts the screws to its credit card holders by applying all payments under their credit card holder agreements to lower interest balances first.

I too soon found out what this means, as I have a Chase credit card with a regular balance and a cash advance balance. My cash advance balance is about $400.00, and on my statement i noticed they were charging me 20.99% for this balance, compared to 8.99% for my regular what they call “purchase balance”.

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Finally,

Some one with some common sense exposes the hypocrisy that is religion.

How does one human being say with certainty that they are right and their own god is the real god over another?

I mean, “for christ’s sake”, westerners all believe in jesus christ. Then you’ve got the jews, the muslims, so on and so forth. Hey Christians, all these other guys believe that your god is not the real god, they’re god is the real god.
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After buying a Garmin Nuvi 760 for christmas for almost 600 freaking dollars, I came to realize what an idiot I really am. This has got to be the newest most lucrative money making business I have ever seen, most retailers were marketing this unit during christmas 2007 for about 750 dollars. I found a little known authorized internet reseller who sold it to me for 579. I thought i was getting a good deal. I know, i’m a real big retard. Not a couple of months later this thing was selling for well under 500.
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