After working for a major credit-card company for many years and seeing how the C.C. (Cash-Cow) debacle is milked, anyone who believes we are not being raped using plastic is sadly mistaken. It is just a Transaction Tax, plain and simple.

Anyone who has tried to do cross-currency transactions know how much of a headache it is (costly too). A One-World-Currency will emerge out of necessity sooner rather than later due to globalization of goods and services.

Marriage (or civil union) is a commitment that is personal, religious and legal, and largely inseparable between these concepts. In Biblical terms, it is morally connected to making Judgments, Charges, and Casting Stones:      Jesus came to the temple and the people came to him, to hear his teachings. The Pharisees br...more

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone: Do not judge or condemn people; we are all sinners, so what right do we have to judge anyone other than ourselves. Only God has the ultimate right to judge us, and when that day comes, we are judged on  our thoughts, actions and words.      Judge not, that ye be not jud...more

Love thy neighbor here on Earth; let God decide the consequences of their actions for Eternity.

Best Buy is a very good store to shop and buy at; a welcome environment that makes makes one feel like valued customer rather than a wallet waiting to be emptied. Never regretted walking through the door, or leaving with a purchase =)

Insurance companies that appear to ignore over-billing and erroneous charges are passively and indirectly encouraging these practices for profit. A 15% "administrative" fee based on trillions of dollars is vastly greater than on billions, and infinitely greater than the zero they collect when a patient pays out of thei...more

Big picture: A widget at WM costs $1, and the money feeds a monster that robs all Americans by supporting a few mega-billionaires, and slave labor in some other country, not to mention the abysmal wages they pay here. A similar widget bought from a locally owned and operated business for $2 keeps the money close to hom...more

Big picture: A widget at WM costs $1, and the money feeds a monster that robs all Americans by supporting a few mega-billionaires, and slave labor in some other country. A similar widget bought from a locally owned and operated business for $2 keeps the money close to home, and supports local community enterprise which...more