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New Orleans Landlords After Katrina

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Following is a letter I wrote to a landlord that I think you ALL need to read. Something has to give with these rent increases, before despair starts taking more lives. I want you all to understand that this is not meant as an attack. This is a plea to those of you who have doubled and tripled your rents since katrina to PLEASE reconsider what you're doing. Thank youfor reading the following:

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Louisiana Mayor Under Investigation After Dad's Land Grab

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Kenner Mayor Phil Capitano initially implied that he didn't see it as any conflict-of-interest or ethics issue when his father managed to snap up almost all tax delinquent properties in his county, at least 40 homes, for around $10,000, with virtually no competition or bidding process.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee and many others do have a problem, including some who showed up to participate in a bidding process on the property only to be told the lots were sold to the Mayor's dad. Too bad! What? You mean this is an ethics violation? No way! This couldn't happen in Louisiana?!?

Wait, it gets better. The Kenner mayor defended his dad's "first-come-first-served" land grab by claiming the Parish's computer system can't handle multiple bidders!

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Million Dollar Home Page Idea

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Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a million dollars in four months on the Internet. And, astonishingly enough, it's legal, and does not involve food items shaped vaguely like religious icons.

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Marriott Compromises 200,000+ Peoples' Privacy

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The timeshare unit of Marriott International is notifying more than 200,000 people that their personal data are missing after backup computer tapes went missing from a Florida office.

The data relates to 206,000 employees, timeshare owners and timeshare customers of Marriott Vacation Club International, the company said Tuesday. The computer tapes were stored in Orlando, where the unit is based.

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Worst Drug Deal Ever

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Attracted by what she thought was a large block of cocaine, a Florida woman hired what she thought was a hit man to kill four people and take the cocaine for herself. She even instructed the hit man to rub out any children in the house who might be old enough to testify. This gal was a serious drug kingpin, right?

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Woman Bought Lottery Ticket With Stolen Credit Card

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A woman bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted, police said.

Instant Karma's gonna get you...

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Lobbyist Employs Christians To Shill For eLottery

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The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal continues to unravel. In a page one story, the Washington Post shows how Abramoff helped eLottery, a company that sells lottery tickets online, defeat the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act of 2000 by paying a coalition of Christian and other conservative groups to oppose the bill on the grounds that it would promote gambling. (Huh?!)

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Grandma Sues Game Manufacturer

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I had to create a new category just for this story it got me so worked up.

Florence Cohen, 85, of New York, upset that she bought the video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" for her 14-year-old grandson without knowing it contained hidden, sexually explicit scenes sued the manufacturer Wednesday on behalf of consumers nationwide.

Never mind that the game depicts prostitution, murder, cop-killing, rampant violence, illegality and anarchy in urban streets. This irresponsible parental figure got the game for her grandson and only got upset when it was discovered that there was nudity within? Nudity that couldn't be accessed without major modifications to the game?

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Movie Studios Use Foreign Tax Loops To Make Big Bucks

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As paradoxical and absurd as it sounds, it's cheaper for a Hollywood studio to make a big-budget action movie than to make a shoestring art film like Sideways. The reason for this has a lot to do with various regions around the world that offer tax incentives to studios and those investing in movie production. In many cases, the big studios have concocted elaborate schemes to temporarily transfer ownership of films to foreign holders to generate millions of dollars in instant profit, especially when the actual movies often cost a fraction of their so-called "big budget."

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eBay, Western Union Becoming Scam Accomplices of Choice

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Most of the online scams that are running these days involve duping the gullible consumer into using Western Union to wire money to various parties. In a new twist, ebay auctions are being set up as a launching pad for more scams using Western Union.

It's about time that people begin to realize that if someone asks you to wire them money, especially with Western Union (who does virtually nothing to help people who have been scammed using their resources), you should just say no. Stop using Western Union.

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Slashdot/Ziff-Davis Becoming "Scareware" Promoters

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There are a number of certainties in life: Death, Taxes and companies with lots of resources and little innovation will try to patent derivative technology and push others around legally. The story of Microsoft's patent-mania is renown, but in a new twist we have both Ziff-Davis and Slashdot who seem to have been hoodwinked by a group that likes to spread FUD about the threat of patent litigation to sell 'Linux Insurance' to foolish corporations. Congrats. You all have been punked.

Allow me to christen this new tactic, "Scareware", the art of intimidating people through the impending threat of IP litigation.

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Tattoo Artist Up In Arms Over Display Of His Work

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A Portland, Ore., man who put a tattoo on the right arm of Pistons forward Rasheed Wallace is suing to stop Wallace from displaying the work in ads for Nike basketball shoes.

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Spyware Program Disables Microsoft's New Anti-Spyware System

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The first piece of malware to attack Microsoft's new prototype anti-spyware product has emerged. The BankAsh-A Trojan disables Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta in an attempt to suppress any warning messages the package might display. It also deletes files within the program's folder. Unlike other items of malware, BankAsh-A makes no attempt to turn off anti-virus apps. It's purpose is to intercept passwords and other important information from users' computers, specifically for banking system access.

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Smogbuster Blows Big Smokescreen

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A new "money-saving" device for your car won't clean the air or improve your mileage, but it might clean out your checkbook.

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Identity Theft Crook Gets 14 Years

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Philip Cummings, 35, believed to be the ringleader of the largest identity theft effort to date, used his job as a computer helpdesk employee at Teledata Communications, and a stolen password from Ford Motor Credit, to pilfer personal information from more than 30,000 unwitting customers. Supposedly the losses are estimated to be between $50M-$100M. In New York, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

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Karl Rove: convince public Social Security is doomed

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Good news for day traders! Bad news for everyone else on the freakin' planet: The Bush administration wants to scare you into losing your Social Security money in the stock market.

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CharityUSA not a charity, misleading e-mail campaigns

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A friend the other day got an e-mail, one of those annoying "save a kitten, forward this to all your friends" type BS. I decided to look up the web site that this tripe was promoting to find out a new scheme is commercial businesses exploiting charities to make money. For-profit organizations collecting money under the auspice of distributing money to non-profits? Now we have a Seattle company called CharityUSA, which really isn't a non-profit, operating a host of "charity-related" web sites as a commercial entity.

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Homeland security nominee was once a bankrupt NYPD cop

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UPDATE: Kerik has withdrawn himself from consideration citing a "nanny problem". Others feel this is the tip of the iceburg.

According to the Smoking Gun, Bush's nominee to head up the Dept. of Homeland Security, Bernard Kerik, now a millionaire, hasn't always been so flush. In fact, Kerik was once a deadbeat who declared bankruptcy when he couldn't handle his credit card bills, loan repayments, or Sears and J.C. Penney tabs. Think about that when you're declaring bankruptcy: it could be the first step on the path towards working in the Bush administration!

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Family loyalty and service don't come cheap for Richard Pombo

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Federal records show that Rep. Richard Pombo used campaign funds to pay his wife and brother a total of $255,916 over the past two years -- or 25 cents for every dollar the Tracy Republican raised for his re-election effort.

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The Michael Larsen Story - Pressing His Luck

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There's a very fun read about the infamous "Press Your Luck" game show contestant, Michael Larsen, who managed to (or so he thought) employ a winning strategy that had the network freaking out.

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