Month of August, 2009

As you can tell by my blog I am a FairTax supporter. I did some research recently and found the congress members who "oppose" the H.R. 25 and/or the S 296 bills. (read more)

Everyone needs compassion,
Love that's never failing;
Let mercy fall on me. (read more)

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Here is the fax I sent today to our representatives. If you haven't started reading the Health Care Reform bill (HR 3200), you should. This is the only way we can question the legislation and ask our representatives what different parts of the bill mean and why they support it. I tried to remain professional and party neutral throughout the questions. The questions are real and should not depend on which party I support.

I know you can't believe everything you hear in the media, but from the past 8 months history of bailouts, stimuluses etc, many congress members admitted they didn't read those bills. Let's keep them honest this time around. If they need more time, plead with the Whitehouse and ask President Obama to grant more time to for the Congress to read the entire bill before voting. (read more)

I have spent some time trying to find a complete list of phone numbers, fax, and emails to contact any or all of our US Representatives and Senators. With all the congress related websites, I am surprised no one has compiled such a list. (read more)

I thought I would share with the rest of the community this great little time saver. FireQuery, needs Firebug, allows you to query the DOM and see what changes take place - without saving a file or refreshing the page. Just like testing  CSS changes in Firebug.

I am not a whiz with jQuery, though the logic is simple, the syntax is still new . Trail and error can be a slow method to learn a new language / technology but, Firequery got me to the point of failing quicker - to learn more quickly. If that makes sense... Before I knew it I was writing my own jQuery plugins.

A big thanks to binaryage for this very needed tool! I am know jQuery newbies find it useful and am sure jQuery pros do too! (read more)

American Express Executive Office
( aka Executive Customer Service)

American Express
200 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10285
(800) 297-6197
or (212) 640 - 2000

Card holders, tired of getting no where with American Express customer service? Give the Executive Offices a call and raise your issue. (read more)