Personal Credit Repair Tales

A friend of mine recently contacted a credit-card company and, basically, said, "Sorry, but no can do on payments as-is. Is there anything your benevolent institution could do for me?" After 2 rounds of no-please hold, he got his interest dropped two-thirds and the monthly payments down 60 percent for a year. He refused to name names, and so do I in this matter, but, it paid to tell the truth. So, that's a happy ending. They updated his files; and he upped theirs. Yep.

The tale of the banker and the beaner

STONE COLD CRAZY--"Time to wake up and sell the coffee," said the banker to the beaner." FU, banker, the beaner replied, as the banker drove off in his red 2010 BMW, laughing fiendishly. The music blaring from the car speeding off ominously filled the air. The beaner smirked, as a man in a suit, exiting from a recently... parked Bentley Continental approached him. Another day Juan Valdez thought ... another day.

The photo is a from Bikini Barista, a drive-through gourmet coffee stand, Everett, Washington. Why not. Clean up in expresso aisle, please.

Remember Rosewood, not K West's PR stunt to exploit it

He has a right to be him. I have a right not to care for it and to have a thought on it if desired. You do too. That's the best part of liberty ... maybe the only part that is possible to save. Read about what happened to an all-black community in Rosewood, Fla., in 1923, and compare it to K West and Taylor Swift incident without sounding superficial and vapid simultaneously. Go ahead and try it.

What does a fashionable uniformed dress code have to do with anything but showing off nice duds by a big designer? It's cool. But why so much press?

Liberty ... wonderful isn't it?

While Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream, Kanye West has a scheme. Go read about what happened in 1923 at Rosewood and tell me how a tiny rich man with a super-sized ego making his male employees wear "Men in Black" Dior Homme suits doesn't exploit that tragic event.

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