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Doctor Oz Goes After Fraudulent Advertisers
My wife is a big Dr. Oz fan. She’s been watching his show for a while and she never misses an episode. Although my wife and I seldom agree when it comes to what’s worth watching on TV, I do sit and watch the Dr. Oz show with her once in a while. What I…
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Will New FICO Score Help Borrowers?
Times are changing and mortgage lenders and other related industries are making changes to keep pace. The company behind the well-known FICO credit scoring system has recently rolled out a new scoring system and some are questioning whether it will help or harm borrowers. FICO joined forces with CoreLogic to develop the new system with…
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Chick-Fil-A At Center of Same-sex Marriage Debate
Whether he intended for it to happen or not, the president of fast food chain Chick-Fil-A, Dan Cathy, reportedly made some comments that were not taken kindly by supporters of same-sex marriage. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve never been to a Chick-Fil-A restaurant but that doesn’t have anything to do with politics. I…
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Blue Bunny Doesn’t Want To Talk About Ingredients
[See the update below for the latest on this story] It’s taken me far too long but I’m finally “awake.” I was just like most average folks out there who believed that the food that lined supermarket shelves was safe to eat. A lot has happened in the food industry over the last decade or…
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Ideal Tax Solution Strikes Again!
When we first discussed the fine folks at “Ideal Tax Solution,” it was right after my wife had received a notice in the mail that was obviously designed to create some alarm on her part and make her believe the IRS or some other government entity had levied a tax lien against her. My suspicion…
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AT&T Throttles Data For Heaviest Phone Users
“That’s so twenty-seven seconds ago,” says the annoying football fan in that annoying AT&T commercial touting the “blazing fast speed” of their 4G LTE phones. The problem with all that bragging is that some users may be best served by limiting their surfing to bland, text-only web pages like this one. AT&T customers whom the…
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Ideal Tax Solutions Sends Latest ‘Pink Nightmare’
It’s been a while since I’ve received anything in the mail that screams out for attention more than this latest “pink nightmare.” I encountered my first instance of this type of attention-getting tripe when I received a “OFFICAL NOTICE” from a sleazy outfit known as National Magazine Exchange some years ago. This time, however, the…
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Automated Millionaires Marketing System Phone Spam
There are thousands of scam artists with thousands – if not millions – of websites out there promoting various “systems” that they claim will make you rich. I normally don’t seek these websites out to write about them here, but when someone calls and leaves a message on my voicemail promoting a get-rich-quick scheme, I’m…
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Hey Text’nDrive, Quit The Spamming Will Ya?
I’m quite accustomed to seeing the little advertisements at the end of e-mail messages I get from various folks who use either a free e-mail service or one that they pay for that is obnoxious enough to include these advertisements in each e-mail message that their customers send. For example, our real estate agent carries…
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Bank of America Backs Down
Although it has not been officially reported by the company, a Wall Street Journal report says that Bank of America had decided to drop its plans to impose a $5-per-month fee on customers for using their debit cards. A $5-per-month fee may not sound like a large amount and many customers may just shrug it…
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