Carmen Makes Her Move

Game on.  The Police are now involved.

From Bill Carter - ZF Movers and Logistics  INC

Hi Rod Melotte ,

Thanks for your email . I will like to inform you that we will be taking care of the insurance , tax , packaging and shipping of the artworks ( two 20x30 inch canvas prints  ). My agent will take care of every other details.

I will also like you to confirm your phone number and the pick up address so we can make all necessary  arrangement for the pick up between 3 and 4 pm Friday, January 27.  Pls Confirm if the time is OK.

 From my best friend Carmen

Hi ,
I got the attached email from the movers today. Try and make shipping
arrangement with them and keep me posted with updates. I will also
like you to acknowledge this email as soon as possible. Thanks.

Carmen.

 Printed out all the emails with the check and FedEx package. Delivered to my buddy the chief of police.

He handed it off to the dude that SHOULD be the chief (at least he lives in Columbus) and the investigation moves north to Minneapolis.  Seems the check came from a real bank - HOWEVER - the bank never issued the check and this was the first they had heard of it.  Now they have their team looking into the scam.  I was told the people this REALLY hurts are the banks (can this be confirmed?) .  So we have a real check from a real bank that did NOT issue the check.

What typically happens is that for some unexplained reason the movers will not get to my house to take the prints.  They are waiting for my check to them and will stall until they get it.

In the mean time I'm all happy and am telling them the check is in the mail.
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For anyone who did not see TV last night DJ and I were on the news last night in a piece about Hydro Street Brewery.

http://video.channel3000.com/watch.php?id=39803



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Obama explained.

A couple of my tea partyish friends were all upset about Obama cancelling the Keystone Pipeline that was suppose to go from Canada to Houston.  Seems all of the talking right heads on FOX were calling him names and a job killer and so forth.  Here is the real story that they seem to leave out.  I got some of this from a guy that worked on a pipeline.

First of all the pipeline would create at MOST 1500 temporary jobs.  Pipelines are very low maintenance.  The "oil" if you can call it that would go to Houston where the refinery's are up and running and after being process it would be shipped to China.

None of that oil was going to Americans and you will notice that after the pipeline was cancelled - OUR oil prices actually went DOWN. 

BUT WAIT!!  THERE IS MORE.

It was not even oil, more like low grade sludge.  Very bad stuff and if there was a leak, an environmental nightmare. It's the filthiest petroleum there is.  If there was any sort of leak as the sludge moved through Nebraska it would poison the only aquifer Nebraska has.  They get ALL of their water from one aquifer.

So why is their such a stink?  Because Obama wanted to find an alternate route after the election. The Republicans thought that by forcing Obama to make a decision he would look bad.  They were hoping that WHEN he canceled it gas would zoom and they could point fingers.

Once again - the Republicans show they are clueless on how to win elections.  Not only do they run a bad county but when they play dirty, THEY ARE BAD AT IT.

This is why Walker will lose.  The Republicans are not in touch with the rest of the human race.

Six years ago I was making $10 grand a year playing low stakes online poker and another $2 grand playing online blackjack as a bonus whore.  Had been doing it for a number of years.

Then the conservative right decided that this was evil so 10 Republicans banded together and in a 2000 page anti-terrorist bill, at the LAST MINUTE put in 1 one page addendum making it illegal for banks to handle gambling money.

Long story shorter.  This killed a LOT of online gambling ( for a few months), hurt the economy with all of the spin off businesses, and about 10 million poker players stopped playing poker.  (Walker stuff is coming, wait for it).

WELL - I believe about 5 million of those guys NEVER voted, yet NOW they are REALLY pissed off.  Now they had a reason to vote.  Who do you think that voted AGAINST? . . . .not one of those senators and congressmen won and the Democrats took over the house and Senate because of that.  The races were actually pretty close which should have been locks for the Republicans.

What Walker does not or has never realized is that he pissed off a LOT of people and many of them never vote.  Plus many of those have spouses that also never vote.  Guess who they will vote AGAINST.

I did not watch the State of the State speech last night.   I got an email from him touting all the great things he has done and I was SHOCKED.

He said "The results of my reforms are now being seen. School tax levies dropped for the first time in six years while keeping our average classroom size lower than the national average."

All lies. Class sizes are smaller???  WHAT - not according to actual numbers.

According to the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators- nine of every 10 students attend districts that had net staffing losses in at least one area, like teachers or administrators – and four-of-every-10 youngsters attend districts where elementary class sizes grew this fall.  334 teachers were laid off.

According to WI Taxpayers Alliance and I have their spreadsheet - The average school district tax rate went UP 14%.   The Columbus tax rate (which is pretty high already compared to other districts) only went UP 12.7%  By the way under Doyle's administration they actually did drop.(not that I was a Doyle fan at all).

Perhaps we need to pass the the "highly qualified voter law" where citizens must pass a test on locating verifiable research to uphold or debunk a candidate's statement of fact.

Both sides twist the facts but at least Democrats just don't make crap up! I would not mind being a republican with some of their ideas but MAN - they are total buffoons at times.

Both sides have good and bad ideas - I don't agree with Obama on many things but at least I know he would not totally botch things up. Hell, Newt wants to go to war with Iran, INVADE - REGIME CHANGE. And he promised to have a moon colony by 2020. WOW - where's THAT money coming from Newt? Seriously??

He said,  "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon. And it will be American,". YEA BABY USA! USA! USA!
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BTW - you can call me Juror #345!! BRING IT!!!