“King Kong Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Me!” "It tasks me. It tasks me..." In case you missed it, President Obama has swatted a fly. And PETA, ever the grandstanding political ghoul, has called him on it. Mr. President, if the economic recession has made casualties of No-Pest strips and fly swatters, I will contribute online loans for ...

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Buy everything from cars to lumber at GovDeals Want to buy a fire truck? There are several for sale at GovDeals. It seems every day more services make their way onto the Internet, and GovDeals is yet another example of that. Nowadays you can do anything from play Scrabble with a friend to get a no fax ...

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Today’s Consumerism Commentary Podcast features an interview with Greg Grunberg, star of the NBC television series Heroes and drummer in Band From TV, a celebrity band to benefit charities. Greg, Tom Dziubek, and I discuss Yowza!!, the new iPhone (and iPod Touch) app for saving money co-created by Greg. We also discuss ...

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Cross-country crime For a while, all was quiet on the “payday loan store robbery” front. However, yesterday I got reports of two robberies — in different states. The first, in which a payday loan store in South Carolina was robbed, fit the regular description of a payday loan store robbery. However, a story out of California had ...

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Drink in this little number Toot toot! “Yeah, it’s on the rocks Well it’s me you gotta detox ‘Cause baby, it’s on the rocks!” From “It’s On the Rocks” by The Donnas I do not endorse drinking and driving. Those two things should be practiced separately, far away from each other. If you drink and then discover the need to get ...

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