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Christopher,

And yes, anyone can contact you via PM or posting on this site… and if you choose to reply and provide whatever information you want, it is your decision… we ALL can say whatever we want and if someone has a problem with it they can also contact us directly via PM…

My point was, and is still unanswered (but since the point has been made, time to let it go after this) was that whether you use Christopher W vs. CW, it does not change ANYTHING related to your posting… IOW, a red herring…

Huffington Post… I would check into it… as someone may be donating in your name (and that could be anyone)…

Lifelock will not protect you from your bank account being drained with online purchases… that’s what happened to us, and it was quite an eye opener… all you need is the information to input… It will also not protect you from the crazies… considering you are in mortgage financing, and ALOT of people are pissed at banks, you might want to consider minimizing ANY risk to you or your family… The percentages are low that something would happen but why take a chance?

The kicker is, the bank said THEY were the victim (did nothing and would not even file a police report)… we did ALL the work in getting our funds back (which took almost a week getting affadavits, closing accounts, new checks, etc…) and it was a major PITA… When you find yourself vunerable like that, you either learn from it or you don’t…

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Positive,

Let me spell it out for you slowly.

No matter what name I post under my contact information is free for everyone to see. So no matter what I say or type if someone does not like it they have the ability to call or email or text me and let me know. There fore I should be very truthful in what I say and do. DO YOU GET IT NOW?

You on the other hand can sit and hide behind your fake internet name and post all your abortion rhetoric and your anti-government rants, and no one has any ability to call you out on it. No one can track you down no matter what you say. So you are free to post whatever you want without fear of retribution or being turned into the police or whatever. Once again…DO YOU GET IT NOW?

Damn dude and Hooch accuses me of being thick. :banghead

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I was stalked once, briefly. This was in the days before internet (DBI :smile). I’d met this person at a discussion group I was going to I didn’t know this person well at all and they started calling my work obsessively. When I didn’t answer the phone and I left work at the end of the day he was standing outside in front of the exit waiting for me. I don’t even know if he was gay, or what the deal was, he just said he gets fixated on people (male or female) from time to time. He quickly disappeared and I never heard from him again.

I knew another person for a about a year and found out they had stalked someone at the school we attended and was forced to withdraw by the school in order to avoid a big scene. There was a restraining order involved.

Unfortunately I’ve found that some of the most unbalanced people I’ve met have been people I already knew for a while, not strangers. I just didn’t know enough about them.

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Oooh that sucks Positive. Do you know how they were able to get your bank info–through a debit card?

Years ago I was down in the Miami area for a few days and about a month after I came back there about $100 worth of crap charged to my credit card which I’d never authorized. Someone had stolen the CC information when I’d used it a restaurant (or somewhere) down there. But that was a piece of cake to get fixed because it was a credit card.

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[b]Positive,

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Hooch,

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Hooch

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Were we talking about CZARS? I heard on the news last night that they were talking about a pay CZAR. Is the government now going to decide how much I can make?

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please tell me your joking

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Here’s a link to the pay czar!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/business/11pay.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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What will they think of next?

I guess if they own more than a 50% stake in these companies now it’s their right to do this, but the effect would be mostly symbolic.

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Only the beginning of “change” you’ll be forced into.We really need all these thieves and tax cheats gone,then put them on trial to make examples out of them starting with mr. fraud obama.

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On the other hand, AIG and friends caused so much trouble with their greed and bad decisions. Then they asked to be bailed out. If the federal government is going to own an 80% stake in AIG, why wouldn’t they wan to manage and control what goes on there? Anyone would. But I think creating a new Pay Czar with a big salary might be going overboard.

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The pay Czar receives no compensation from the Government.

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[i][b]“Let me spell it out for you slowly.”

No matter what name I post under my contact information is free for everyone to see. So no matter what I say or type if someone does not like it they have the ability to call or email or text me and let me know. There fore I should be very truthful in what I say and do. DO YOU GET IT NOW?"[/b][/i]

No, Christopher, because no matter how “slowly” you spell it out for us, it is the same inanity… because ANYONE can contact me or others on this forum via posting OR PM’ing… Up until this point, your phone is listed as a marketing tool, which I don’t believe any begrudges you for, but to pretend that it is there for any other reason, is absurd…

On top of this, just like with FDjake… you challenged my integrity by calling me a liar… I asked you to PROVE it using my words from my posts, and you did not, just like FDjake didn’t… so your “truthful” statement rings quite hollow…

“…no one has any ability to call you out on it. No one can track you down no matter what you say.”

They absolutely CAN call me or anyone else out on anything, publicly by posting, or privately by PM’ing… As far as “tracking me down” goes… the only reason this would be necessary, is if I did something illegal… are you sayin that I have?.. If you want me to expose my family to the ID thieves or crazies out there for your sense of self-rightousness, that is your lack of judgement, not mine… I will do ANYTHING to protect my family, especiallly common sense things like not sharing personal information on the Internet, which internet EXPERTS causion EVERYONE not to do INCLUDING kids… basic information…

“So you are free to post whatever you want without fear of retribution or being turned into the police or whatever.”

That is where you are wrong, and as a moderator, you should know better… The owner of the site, and I assume moderators, can view my email, and even if they couldn’t, basic understanding of the internet allows for IP tracking… Maybe you are just misinformed, but you are incorrect on this…

So if I do anything illegal in your mind, please feel free to call the police… :rolleyes

It is interesting you are ready to report people to the POLICE for free speech… As a moderator, you should be more careful with your words…

“Once again…DO YOU GET IT NOW?”

Yes, I get it, you are just avoiding the obvious, as ANYONE can contact ANYONE on this site, whether it be via posting (public) or PM’ing (private), or in your example of calling the POLICE for people exercising their free speech, the owner has access to the email AND the POLICE have access to IP Tracking…

BTW, if you really have a problem with people not posting their email addresses, you as a moderator can bring it up with the owner or the other moderators… something tells me that your reasoning will fall flat…

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“Te pay Czar receives no compensation from the Government.”

And this makes it right?

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Pay czar does’nt get paid?The car czar sure must get paid well since he’s building a $15mill beach house.My point in starting this topic was the move away from democracy is these czars.They have power over all & only answer to the president,this does’nt scare the hell out of yall?You see we elect people to represent us and now they have no say.Come on,wake up.He’s bad for our economy and our country!!!

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sellnbama, it’s a good volunteer job to put on their resume for a young college grad who can’t get their foot in the door in this job market:

2009 - 2012 Pay Czar, US Government (Internship)
Determined the fates of failing companies. Used Excel “scenario” feature to decide what salaries CEOs should receive. Created Powerpoint presentations for Timothy Geithner. Utilized organizational and filing skills. Employed interpersonal communication skills to order food and refreshments for high level staff meetings from “Lucky Li’s Carryout”.

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Positive,

You don’t agree that the majority of stockholders in a company should have a say in what their top executives get paid? It only makes sense. Instead of looking at it as more government why not look at it as a majority stockholder looking out for the company?

Nothing is going to make neo-cons happy right now. If the President caps earnings on the officers of companies that we the people of this country have bailed out he is a socialist. If he does nothing all he hears about is AIG bonuses and throwing money at a problem with no oversight.

So which is it? The bad solution or the worse solution? There is no winning solution at this point.