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OLD SCAM BACK AGAIN





There are two scams coming back that have been around.
The first is leaving a call back message on your phone. If you return the call it automatically bills you $20.00 and $9.00 for each minute afterwards.
If you don't recognize the number don't call back.
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The second is the Obama Utilities help.



SENIOR CITIZENS DISCOUNTS LIST





SENIOR DISCOUNTS

Keep this list and send a copy to your senior friends and relatives.
As I was waiting in line behind an older gentleman at Wendy's recently, I heard him ask for his senior discount. The girl at the register apologized and charged him less. When I asked the man what the discount was, he told me that seniors over age 55 get 10% off everything on the menu, every day.
Being of 'that' age myself, I figured I might as well ask for the discount too.
This incident prompted me to do some research, and I came across a list of restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, travel deals and other types of offers giving various discounts with different age requirements. I was actually surprised to see how many there are and how some of them start at the young age of 50 .
This list may not only be useful for you, but for your friends and family too.
Dunkin Donuts gives free coffee to people over 55 .
If you're paying for a cup every day, you might want to start getting it for FREE.

YOU ;mustASK for your discount !

RESTAURANTS:
Applebee's: 15% off with Golden Apple Card (60+)
Arby's: 10% off ( 55 +)
Ben & Jerry's: 10% off (60+)
Bennigan's: discount varies by location (60+)
Bob's Big Boy: discount varies by location (60+)
Boston Market: 10% off (65+)
Burger King: 10% off (60+)
Chick-Fil-A: 10% off or free small drink or coffee ( 55+)
Chili's: 10% off ( 55+)
CiCi's Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Denny's: 10% off, 20% off for AARP members ( 55 +)
Dunkin' Donuts: 10% off or free coffee ( 55+)
Einstein's Bagels: 10% off baker's dozen of bagels (60+)
Fuddrucker's: 10% off any senior platter ( 55+)
Gatti's Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Golden Corral: 10% off (60+)
Hardee's: $0.33 beverages everyday (65+)
IHOP: 10% off ( 55+)
Jack in the Box: up to 20% off ( 55+)
KFC: free small drink with any meal ( 55+)
Krispy Kreme: 10% off ( 50+)
Long John Silver's: various discounts at locations ( 55+)
McDonald's: discounts on coffee everyday ( 55+)
Mrs. Fields: 10% off at participating locations (60+)
Shoney's: 10% off
Sonic: 10% off or free beverage (60+)
Steak 'n Shake: 10% off every Monday & Tuesday ( 50+)
Subway: 10% off (60+)
Sweet Tomatoes: 10% off (62+)
Taco Bell : 5% off; free beverages for seniors (65+)
TCBY: 10% off ( 55+)
Tea Room Cafe: 10% off ( 50+)
Village Inn: 10% off (60+)
Waffle House: 10% off every Monday (60+)
Wendy's: 10% off ( 55 +)
Whataburger: 10% off (62+)
White Castle: 10% off (62+) This is for me ... if I ever see one again.

RETAIL & APPAREL :
Banana Republic: 30% off ( 50 +)
Bealls: 20% off first Tuesday of each month ( 50 +)
Belk's: 15% off first Tuesday of every month ( 55 +)
Big Lots: 30% off
Bon-Ton Department Stores: 15% off on senior discount days ( 55 +)
C.J. Banks: 10% off every Wednesday (50+)
Clarks : 10% off (62+)
Dress Barn: 20% off ( 55+)
Goodwill: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Hallmark: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kmart: 40% off (Wednesdays only) ( 50+)
Kohl's: 15% off (60+)Modell's Sporting Goods: 30% off
Rite Aid: 10% off on Tuesdays & 10% off prescriptions
Ross Stores: 10% off every Tuesday ( 55+)
The Salvation Army Thrift Stores: up to 50% off ( 55+)
Stein Mart: 20% off red dot/clearance items first Monday of every month ( 55 +)

GROCERY :
Albertson's: 10% off first Wednesday of each month ( 55 +)
American Discount Stores: 10% off every Monday ( 50 +)
Compare Foods Supermarket: 10% off every Wednesday (60+)
DeCicco Family Markets: 5% off every Wednesday (60+)
Food Lion: 60% off every Monday (60+)
Fry's Supermarket: free Fry's VIP Club Membership & 10% off every Monday ( 55 +)
Great Valu Food Store: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Gristedes Supermarket: 10% off every Tuesday (60+)
Harris Teeter: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Hy-Vee: 5% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kroger: 10% off (date varies by location)
Morton Williams Supermarket: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
The Plant Shed: 10% off every Tuesday ( 50 +)
Publix: 15% off every Wednesday ( 55 +)
Rogers Marketplace: 5% off every Thursday (60+)
Uncle Guiseppe's Marketplace: 15% off (62+)

TRAVEL :
Airlines:
Alaska Airlines: 50% off (65+)
American Airlines: various discounts for 50% off non-peak periods (Tuesdays - Thursdays) (62+)and up (call before booking for discount)
Continental Airlines: no initiation fee for Continental Presidents Club & special fares for select destinations
Southwest Airlines: various discounts for ages 65 and up (call before booking for discount)
United Airlines: various discounts for ages 65 and up (call before booking for discount)
U.S. Airways: various discounts for ages 65 and up (call before booking for discount)
Rail:
Amtrak: 15% off (62+)
Bus:
Greyhound: 15% off (62+)
Trailways Transportation System: various discounts for ages 50+

Car Rental:
Alamo Car Rental: up to 25% off for AARP members
Avis: up to 25% off for AARP members
Budget Rental Cars: 40% off; up to 50% off for AARP members ( 50+)
Dollar Rent-A-Car: 10% off ( 50+) Enterprise Rent-A-Car: 5% off for AARP members Hertz: up to 25% off for AARP members
National Rent-A-Car: up to 30% off for AARP members

Overnight Accommodations:
Holiday Inn: 20-40% off depending on location (62+)
Best Western: 40% off (55+)
Cambria Suites: 20%-30% off (60+)
Waldorf Astoria - NYC $5,000 off nightly rate for Presidential Suite (55 +)
Clarion Motels: 20%-30% off (60+)
Comfort Inn: 20%-30% off (60+)
Comfort Suites: 20%-30% off (60+)
Econo Lodge: 40% off (60+)
Hampton Inns & Suites: 40% off when booked 72 hours in advance
Hyatt Hotels: 25%-50% off (62+)
InterContinental Hotels Group: various discounts at all hotels (65+)
Mainstay Suites: 10% off with Mature Traveler's Discount (50+); 20%-30% off (60+)
Marriott Hotels: 25% off (62+)
Motel 6: Stay Free Sunday nights (60+)
Myrtle Beach Resort: 30% off ( 55 +)
Quality Inn: 40%-50% off (60+)
Rodeway Inn: 20%-30% off (60+)
Sleep Inn: 40% off (60+)

ACTIVITIES & ENTERTAINMENT ;:
AMC Theaters: up to 30% off ( 55 +)
Bally Total Fitness: $100 off memberships (62+)
Busch Gardens Tampa, FL: $13 off one-day tickets ( 50 +)
Carmike Cinemas: 35% off (65+)
Cinemark/Century Theaters: up to 35% off
Massage Envy - NYC 20% off all "Happy Endings" (62 +)
U.S. National Parks: $10 lifetime pass; 50% off additional services including camping (62+)
Regal Cinemas: 50% off Ripley's Believe it or Not: @ off one-day ticket ( 55 +)
SeaWorld, Orlando , FL : $3 off one-day tickets ( 50 +)

CELL PHONE DISCOUNTS :
AT&T: Special Senior Nation 200 Plan $19.99/month (65+)
Jitterbug: $10/month cell phone service ( 50 +)
Verizon Wireless: Verizon Nationwide 65 Plus Plan $29.99/month (65+).

MISCELLANEOUS:
Great Clips: $8 off hair cuts (60+)
Supercuts: $8 off haircuts (60+)

NOW, go out there and claim your discounts - - - - and remember ----

YOU must ASK for your discount ---- no ask, no discount.
I Know everyone knows someone over 50 please pass the one on






Baby Barred Owl Siteing Cameron, Texas

Mac's pics soon to come.
Ron McWilliams is a Contributing Photo Journalist for this blog. He is also a Certified Master Gardener. This is part of his email. 

 This makes 7 years in a row I've had them in my backyard and in the stream bathing!


Subject: 2012 Baby Barred Owl....

Made its first appearance today when I was sitting on the back deck. It was taking a bath about 15-20' below the falls in the stream. It flew to the entrance arbor to rock patio then started limb hopp'n till I lost sight of it about 4:30 PM. That made my day except our hopes were for more than one baby, but knew after last year she'd probably have to be in good shape to have one. Thats the 8th St. News......


This picture belongs to: http://www.songbirdprairie.com/

Steffy: Worst of both worlds likely for Texas power consumers


Steffy: Worst of both worlds likely for Texas power consumers

Texas purports to have a free market for electricity, but to solve the problems with electric deregulation, regulators are turning more and more to a controlled market.
While we’re unlikely to return to the days of monopoly utilities, regulators seem to be encouraging an oligopoly in which market power is concentrated among a few big companies.
Deregulation has been a flop for consumers, but this could actually make it worse. “Deregulation,” of course, was never an accurate term. It was a sales pitch, a way to convince the public of benefits that never materialized.
By the end of the summer, any lingering pretense of a free market is likely to have melted away.
As concerns about reliability mount, the Public Utility Commission is acting much as it would have in the old days of regulation — enacting policies to direct a specific market outcome.
If the PUC succeeds with its plan, improved reliability will come with higher prices and fewer choices for consumers — the exact opposite of the benefits promised when deregulation was introduced more than a decade ago.
“At every stage, they go further and further from competitive markets,” Robert McCullough, a Portland, Ore.-based energy analyst who follows deregulation issues, told me recently.
Last week, I wrote about “voluntary mitigation plans,” one of which has already been approved, under which the PUC will pre-emptively rule on potential market manipulation by big generating companies.
Those plans, combined with the PUC’s earlier vote to raise the price limits on the wholesale market by 50 percent, will give big generators greater potential to control the market.
Meanwhile, the higher prices that are supposed to encourage companies to build additional generation haven’t attracted any new capital.
In fact, NRG, the state’s biggest power producer, just agreed to spend $1.7 billion for Houston-based GenOn, another generating company. NRG President David Crane hailed it as “a new era of scale, scope, and market and fuel diversification in the competitive power industry,” but it’s unlikely to bring many of those benefits to Texas.
Crane, in a conference call with reporters, said the merger won’t result in new generation here.
“We stand ready at our sites to build more as soon as pricing tells us it’s time to build,” he said. “The pricing point hasn’t been there yet.”
Don’t expect it to get there anytime soon.
The PUC already has indicated it intends to double the cap on wholesale rates again next year. If you were NRG, would you be in a rush to build generation when you know you have the potential to sell power at double the current price limits next year?
As I’ve written before, the higher price caps mean more volatility in the wholesale market, which will make it more expensive for retailers — companies that sell you your electricity — to hedge against price swings.
Already, one retailer, Epcot Electric, has gone under since the higher caps took effect. (YEP Energy acquired its customers and assumed their contracts.) More may follow.
In a free market, of course, weak competitors get driven out, but in this case, the PUC is adding volatility to the market and causing a shakeout of smaller retail competitors.
Companies with deep pockets — primarily retailers backed by generators such as NRG and TXU — are better able to weather the volatile market.
We’ve seen this happen before. In early 2009, NRG bought retailer Reliant for a song after Reliant got upside down on its hedges. It was the classic offer that couldn’t be refused. NRG topped that deal by buying two other retailers: Green Mountain Energy and Energy Plus.
Even if the PUC succeeds in driving prices high enough to encourage more generation demand in a few years, the market by then will be more concentrated, less competitive and dominated by a few large players that share pricing power in both the wholesale and retail sides.
That may not be re-regulation, but it isn’t deregulation, either. It’s the worst of both.

ALL CREDITS BELONG TO PEOPLE BELOW.
Loren Steffy, loren.steffy@chron.com, is the Chronicle’s business columnist. His commentary appears Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Follow him online at blog.chron.com/lorensteffy, www.facebook.com/LorenSteffypage and twitter.com/lsteffy

Obama Handshake Snubbed by Russian Delegation





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You didn't see this on our government controlled media.


 Interesting.....they  don't seem to like him......
WATCH CLOSELY.   IT IS QUICK BUT HE GETS THE MESSAGE.  TOO BAD THE NIGHTLY NEWS DID NOT COVER THIS.
Watch this 10-second video, where a lineup of leading Russians refuse to shake Obama's hand.
Did you see this on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or MSNBC?  I guess I must have missed it.
This is "hard ball", Soviet Style.  After the third handshake refusal, it becomes obvious.
The facial expression is priceless.
I guess we're no longer in Chicago, Toto...
Has anyone ever seen a Head of State snubbed like this? Speaks volumes!

ISN'T TEXTING WHILE DRIVING FUN









The Year Was 1955




THE YEAR WAS 1955.........
  (DON'T MISS THE GUY IN THE BARBER CHAIR ! ) 
NOW FOR A GOOD LAUGH !!!!!!
REMEMBER 1955 ?
57 YEAR'S AGO WOW!
IF THEY RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $1.00,
NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO HIRE OUTSIDE HELP AT THE STORE.
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WHEN I FIRST STARTED DRIVING, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT GAS WOULD SOMEDAY COST 25 CENTS A GALLON.
GUESS WE'D BE BETTER OFF LEAVING THE CAR IN THE GARAGE.
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I'M AFRAID TO SEND MY KIDS TO THE MOVIES ANY MORE. EVER SINCE THEY LET CLARK GABLE GET BY WITH SAYING DAMN IN GONE WITH THE WIND, IT SEEMS EVERY NEW MOVIE HAS EITHER HELL OR DAMN IN IT.
I READ THE OTHER DAY WHERE SOME SCIENTIST THINKS IT'S POSSIBLE TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON BY THE END OF THE CENTURY.THEY EVEN HAVE SOME FELLOWS THEY CALL ASTRONAUTS PREPARING FOR IT DOWN IN TEXAS.
DID YOU SEE WHERE SOME BASE BALLPLAYER
JUST SIGNED A CONTRACT FOR $50,000 A YEAR JUST TO PLAY BALL? IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME IF SOMEDAY THEY'LL BE MAKING MORE THAN THE PRESIDENT.
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I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY ALL OUR
KITCHEN APPLIANCES WOULD BE ELECTRIC. THEY'RE EVEN MAKING ELECTRIC
TYPEWRITERS NOW.
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IT'S TOO BAD THINGS ARE SO TOUGH NOWADAYS. I SEE WHERE A FEW MARRIED WOMEN ARE HAVING TO WORK TO MAKE ENDS MEET.
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IT WON'T BE LONG BEFORE YOUNG COUPLES ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HIRE SOMEONE TO WATCH THEIR KIDS SO THEY CAN BOTH WORK.
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I'M AFRAID THE VOLKSWAGEN CAR IS GOING TO
OPEN THE DOOR TO A WHOLE LOT OF FOREIGN BUSINESS.
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THANK GOODNESS I WON'T LIVE TO SEE THE DAY WHEN THE
GOVERNMENT TAKES HALF OUR INCOME IN TAXES. I SOMETIMES WONDER
IF WE ARE ELECTING THE BEST PEOPLE TO GOVERNMENT.
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THE FAST FOOD RESTAURANT IS CONVENIENT FOR A QUICK MEAL,
BUT I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THEY WILL EVER CATCH ON.
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THERE IS NO SENSE GOING ON SHORT TRIPS ANYMORE FOR A WEEKEND.
IT COSTS NEARLY $2.00 A NIGHT TO STAY IN A HOTEL.
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NO ONE CAN AFFORD TO BE SICK ANYMORE.
AT $15.00 A DAY IN THE HOSPITAL, IT'S TOO RICH FOR MY BLOOD.
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IF THEY THINK I'LL PAY 30 CENTS FOR A HAIRCUT, FORGET IT.
KNOW ANY FRIENDS WHO
WOULD GET A KICK OUT OF THESE?
PASS THIS ON!
BE SURE AND SEND IT TO YOUR KIDS AND GRAND KIDS, TOO!

Texas Faces Power Shortages Possibly 10 Years Out


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via Texas Commercial Electricity by admin on 5/29/12


A new study suggests Texas may be having to deal with with power shortages for the next 10 years or so (source:  The Statesman) . These power shortages would happen during peak demand periods each year. So for instance, on a very hot summer or very cold winter you can expect that would be the time when everybody's power goes out.
This worse case scenario occurs because too many people are demanding electricity at the same time. Combine this increase in demand from an expanding population and economy in Texas with EPA actions preventing coal fired power plants from being built. It isn't that Texas wants to pollute the environment, kill the elderly and poison small children.
The fact of the matter is that new coal technology allows for clean burning cheap coal to meet demand for electricity and still let everyone have affordable electricity.
It will always sound great to protect the elderly and the children and like you I want to do this as well but when the elderly and children are used in propaganda by green activists to the eventual hardship of every Texas power consumer someone needs to say something.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has hired an outside consultant that will be delivering a report on June 1 on how Texas can encourage the construction of new power plants.
Right now wholesale electricity prices are too low to attract investors in new electricity generation plants and you have the EPA to contend with if you mention the word, coal.
Remember at one time TXU was planning to create at least 11 new state of the art coal fired power plants and now look at the situation?
For now Texas must work to get more commercial and industrial customers to agree to interrupt their electricity usage during peak demand times in exchange for payment.
A noteworthy aspect to getting businesses to automate electricity curtailment is that in the process they sometimes create complete backup generation systems that can produce onsite electricity through natural gas and remain completely off the grid long term.
Hopefully we will see more off the grid electricity systems that are built for these individual facilities alleviating Texas electricity demand troubles.
You can learn more about commercial distributed generation systems and implementation in Texas by watching the video below.




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Community Garden Workday


Calling all volunteers!
We will be working in the garden Sunday, April 1
at 5:30 pm.
Come join us! Lots to do!
The garden is located at the back of Southwinds Baptist Church
16811 FM 2920   Tomball, TX 77377

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