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Emergency Stop: Honest Reliable Automobile Repair in Washington DC

Went to Washington DC.  While there the serpentine belt broke on the magic bus.  Cherrydales Motors helped me out same day so I did not have to stay overnight which would incur the high Washington DC hotel rates.

Cherrydale Motors
3412 Lee Highway
Arlington, Virginia  22207

Phone= 703-527-5511

Fax=703-527-0344

To anyone that finds this I recommend highly.  Honest treatment when you are in less than optimum circumstances for shopping around for service is a good thing to find.

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

I bought an item from a compromised Ebay account

In my case I was lucky in that Paypal somehow "knew" to put a hold on the payment.  Now I am curious what will happen to the Ebay profile.   I recently talked to a person was permanently banned from ebay / paypal for using multiple Green Dot Paypal prepaid cards.  He was totally legitimate so I have a hard time understanding why particularly because these were Paypal's very own products.  Thus I am going to do a stake out on the ebay profile to see if the rightful owner can ever use it again.

SilverSpoon4me

The PayPal email address was: dnkvqrlm24852@163.com

That looks like a Chinese email address and is thus suspect on the face of it due to the user ID being USA based.

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Book: Americas 60 Families

This book was published in 1937 and written by Ferdinand Lundberg.

"The United States is owned and dominated today by a hierarchy of its sixty richest families, buttressed by no more than ninety families of lesser wealth… These families are the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States, functioning discreetly under a de jure democratic form of government behind which a de facto government, absolutist and plutocratic in its lineaments, has gradually taken form since the Civil War. Thisde facto government is actually the government of the United States — informal, invisible, shadowy. It is the government of money in a dollar democracy."

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By Fudgy McFarlen, ago

Canadian Tire Money

Canadian Tire money or CTM is a loyalty program operated by the Canadian retail chain Canadian Tire. It consists of coupons issued by the company which resemble real banknotes. It can be used as scrip in Canadian Tire stores, but is not considered a private currency. The notes are printed on paper similar to what Canadian currency was printed on when they were still paper, and were jointly produced by two of the country's long-established security printers, British American Banknote Company (BABN) and Canadian Bank Note Company (CBN). Some privately owned businesses in Canada accept CTM as payment since the owners of many such businesses shop at Canadian Tire. In Canadian Tire stores CTM is accepted for Canadian money at par.

Wikipedia: Canadian Tire Money

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Wads and boodles on ebay:

But of course there is my favorite

By Fudgy McFarlen, ago