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Lawmakers aim to cut interest rates of payday lenders Two House bills, one for those in the military and another for everyone, would cap interest rates at 36 percent annually. Our elected representatives are sending a message to the moneylenders, which is "HEY! Screw those people more gently!!"

From the Snohomish County Freecycle Yahoo list. Good grief, what else is fermenting in there? Not that I'm one to talk, I think we have some vintage cola in the pantry. My son came out of his room with a case+++ of misc. pop with dates of 05 & 06. I don't know if that is the mfg. dates or the pull dates. (The diet coke I am drinking now says Dec. 06) He used to have it in the mini fridge in his room but now he drinks no pop at all now & I only drink reg.diet coke! There is: Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper--Never opened 12pk, + 8 single cans--- Sept. 05 Diet Orange Tropicana Twister--Never opened 12pk---July 06 Diet Vanilla Coke--8 cans--Oct. 05 Diet Pepsi--3 cans--Sept. 05 Diet Rite Cola--1 can--Sept. 05 Minute Maid lite Raspberry Passion--1 can--Aug. 06 7-Up Plus Island Fruit--12 cans---Feb. 06 7-Up Plus Mixed Berry--1 can--Aug. 06 Lipton Brisk Raspberry Iced Tea--10 cans--Dec. 06 (this one I know I just bought, but no one is drinking it) If you, or someone you know wou...

Got a customer looking for a giant sized clear piggy bank, at least 12" high. I've also been unable to find for customers; noiseless smoke-eating ashtrays, and those little crates that bounce around and yell LET ME OUT. Also glow in the dark monkeys, but I'm sort of glad I can't find those. Any tips on wholesale or retail sources for those first three items would be greatly appreciated.

Jokesgalore.com keeps sending my these psychiatrist jokes. They are making dream about the old Twin Teepees restaurant in Seattle. (I do that when I get too tense.) Patient: "Doctor, sometimes I feel like I'm invisible." Psychiatrist: "What!...who said that?"

I posted this suggestion at the Netflix site. I hope a lot of other people complain about this too, a "This Movie is also for sale!" box below a large number of the movies in my to watch Queue. Now they've gone and made me use the word "queue". I hate that word. It's a LIST. Anyway, here's that note to the netflix folks. Feel free to use any part. Power in numbers and all that. I love Netflix, just one thing- Hating the new "This movie is also for sale" box below some of the movies. We use Netflix precisely so we WON'T buy watch-once-and-forget movies. It clutters up my movie list. Is there any way I can turn that off? -John

One time in the middle of the week in summer, when the kids were little, we were on vacation in the Cascades, went up a long dirt road to check out a remote campground. There was a couple with a VW bug, no one else up there; and they had a flat, and a spare but no jack. They were trying to do a thing with a log and a rock. I dug all the camping crud out of the way and got the jack that resides under the floor of the cargo area in my SW, and let him use that (He wouldn't let me help; I think he had packets of hashish in the wheel well and didn't want me to see) That was my good deed of the day, it was later rewarded by being inundated with chipmunks at an overlook, and in the evening just before dusk we were driving down a gravel road through a field, and a bunch of (Groundhogs? Moles? Gophers? Prairie Dogs?) whatever they were- popped up out of their little hills to have a look at us. I think that was one of my favorite trips. Someday all this snow, wind, rain, and cold will g...

I have an old metal detector I got at a garage sale... I think it's the cheapest one Radio Shack sells, it is not particular at all about finding metal junk. I was using it on an old service station site my dad owns, it's mostly just woods now (A good place for a Geo-Cache!) - All we found was several oil-can lids, a bent spoon, and a quarter, which I had dropped in there on purpose to entertain my son. Hence a really crummy metal detector would be perfect for honing in on goecaches in metal boxes. I am thinking about putting a more compact telescoping pole on it, maybe even making a smaller control box for it (There's really not much to the guts of it) and adding it to the Geo-caching backpack I plan to make; with swag, extra pens, some plastic bags to fix wrecked caches, EXTRA GPS BATTERIES, a super-bright LED flashlight, what else? That's all I can think of, just woke up.