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After the first few days of doing free offers, and taking a few surveys I forgot all about it...until my check came in the mail yesterday! I guess once you pass $20.00 they send you a check. Once you sign up you can refer people, and earn 20% of what they earn, (and 5% of what their referrals earn).

Oh, and did I mention that it is free?

They are giving away over 100 prizes today. Just sign up and use blingo for your searches.

I signed up for this a few days ago. I'm up to almost $10.00, and it is one of the easier ones that I've found.

Click here to sign up. I just suggest using a special e-mail address for this, just to avoid the spam.

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

With Lucent, you would have $3.50 left of the original $1,000.00.

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND you would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

It's called the 401-Keg Plan.

It seemed like a good idea -- spreading the gospel on what would look like a $1 million bill.

But the Secret Service thought the gospel tracts being handed out by a Texas ministry looked too much like real money, and has seized $800,300 of the fake bills.

Great News Network president Darrel Rundus objects that there's no such thing as a $1 million bill, so you can't counterfeit something that doesn't exist.V But a Secret Service spokesman said someone tried to deposit one of the tracts at a bank, and close facsimiles of currency are illegal, although no charges were filed.

Rundus figures the publicity will spread the gospel more than the seized tracts, but he still plans to file a federal lawsuit to stop the Secret Service from sweeping in again.

http://www.local6.com/news/9331534/detail.html

Unfortunately, I'm just finding this out now, but the on-line Wall Street Journal is free this week.

celebrities_deadceleb05_land.html?partner=msn TARGET=_blank>See the whole list here.

For some insane reason, the state of Louisiana agreed to pay the New Orleans Saints $15 million a year for 10 years and now they can't come up with the money... LOL!!
They should put in toll roads like Illinois. They'd have $15 million in about 3 days.
Hey RAT! Can't you get some of your Cajun home-boys to donate a buck or two?

Take a Closer Look at the Top 10 Richest People in the World

Rank:		Name	Net Worth:
10.		S Robson Walton	$18.3 bil.
9.		Lawrence Ellison	$18.4 bil.
8.		Karl Albrecht	$18.5 bil.
7.		Paul Allen	$21 bil.
6.		Ingvar Kamprad	$23 bil.
5.		Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	$23.7 bil.
4.		Carlos Slim Helu	$23.8 bil.
3.		Lakshmi Mittal	$25 bil.
2.		Warren Buffett	$44 bil.
1.		William Gates III	$46.5 bil.

I'll tell you how...... When I see an investment, of any type, could be a stock, could be a racehorse, a football bet, AND the key is.... I don't make the investment! Then you have guaranteed gold.
The latest example of this has been stock options in a company called Dominion Resources. April 70 Call options to be exact. They were .60 cents a piece on January 12th, today they are worth....... $5.30 a piece.
If any of you loyal IHMC readers actually bought these when I first posted this idea 2 months ago, lemme know in the comments.
There's still over a month left on these things. Sky's the limit.

ok, IHMC reader James thinks my 500% increase in my stock pick, Dominion Resources is a fluke and he wants me to pick some more winners to prove that I am a stock market genius.
Here's one for all of you that you would have made a lot more money on if I had told you about it back when I first wanted to buy it, but I think it still has upside potential.
The company is called Shuffle Master. They started out by making the automatic card shuffling machines you see at the tables in Vegas. They've moved on now to many other things. The most exciting being the Table Master pictured above, which can be a blackjack table or many other games depending on how you program it and there is a virtual babe dealer.
Their other exciting area of development is putting RFID chips inside of casino chips. They hold the patent for doing this and this is going to be big!
Now about last September SHFL was around $20 share. It went up to $30. It split and went back down to like $18, now it's back up to $32 again.
So, you're thinkin you missed the boat on this one. I don't think so. I think there's still a lot of upside potential here.
So, as Hot Pocket LeRoy would say, "Bid now, and bid high".

Well, here we are about a month and a half after my original posting where I told you all that there were some stock options that I wanted to buy, but because I am cursed, I was unable to do it.
On that day, January 12th, Dominion Resources April 70 Call Options were selling for $.60 per option. I strongly encouraged you to all liquidate your assests and buy as many as you could because my inability to purchase them guaranteed that they would go through the roof.
Just one week later, as I reported to you, they had more than doubled to $1.25 and I was seriously depressed.
Well, I have more good news, for you anyway if you bought some......... They are now $3.30 a piece!!!!! That's a 500% increase!! AND, there's still a month and a half left for it to go even higher!
If you are participating in a dead pool at your office you may want to include me because I'm GOING TO KILL MYSELF!!!!!

Ever wonder what money from other countries looks like? This site has pictures of a lot of them. In my opinion, the Cook Islands, (pictured above), has the coolest looking money, (maybe Captain Cook thought so too?). I'm not goin to Cape Verde. They have a mosquito on their 1,000 Escuedo bill.

Flawed with lower leaf on left pointing down.

Flawed with lower leaf on left pointing up.

Correct version of the corn stalk.

Some of these flawed quarters which have been found around Texas and Arizona have sold for more than $500. Check out what's in your pocket now!!

A JURY has awarded $20.1 million to a kindergarten teacher whose image was used on Nescafe coffee labels for years without his permission.

Russell Christoff, a former model from northern California, posed for a two-hour Nestle photo shoot in 1986, but figured nothing came of it – until he stumbled across his likeness on a coffee jar while shopping in 2002. A legal dispute with Nestle USA ensued, during which Mr Christoff, 58, declined the company's $129,000 settlement offer, and Nestle USA turned down his offer to settle for $10.9 million.

Last week, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury ordered Nestle USA to pay Mr Christoff $20.1 million for using his likeness without his permission and profiting from it. The award includes 5 per cent of the Glendale-based company's profit from Taster's Choice coffee sales from 1997 to 2003. He first came across his picture while shopping for Bloody Mary mix, and says there's a good reason he didn't spot it sooner. "I don't buy Taster's Choice; I do beans," he said.

If you didn't see my previous posting on January 12th, I wanted to buy 1,000 April 2005 $70 call options in a company called Dominion Resources, but I was unable to line up the money and a broker, so I didn't do it. At that time I guaranteed you all, much like Joe Namath, that they would go up just because I was unable to buy them.
Well, as my mother used to say, "sure as shit" they went up, way up! They were .60 cents a call that day. Today, less than one week later, they are $1.25 a call.... More than doubled!.....AND there's 2 more months until they expire!!
I HATE MY LIFE!!!!!

Other than the fact that I have 3 happy healthy children, I have gotten totally screwed in the luck department.
I love gambling...... Vegas...horses.....sports.....Lotto, it doesn't matter. The problem is that I lose about 98% of the time.
When I get in sports betting pools like March Madness, etc., people even comment to me, "I should just pick all the opposites of the teams you picked and I would probably win." When I get in the checkout line at the grocery store it's always the one with the person who is divding their order into 3 orders and something doesn't have a price and they want to pay for half with a check and half with S&H Green Stamps. No matter what lane I get in while driving the guy in front of me is on his God Damned cell phone driving 15 MPH below the speed limit... etc. etc. etc.

Well, I am about to do you all a big favor. Like many other people, from time to time I hear about a company that sounds like they are really going places and I think, boy! I should buy some stock in that company. Of course I never get around to it and those companies always end up being the next Microsoft.

I had one of those moments today and uncharicteristically I decided to really act on it. Unfortunately, for a bunch of reasons I'm not going to go into here I was unable to actually make the purchase.

So, you know what that means...... This stock is going to go through the ROOF!

So, call your brokers and buy some now.

I was acutually going to buy options. If you don't know what stock options are, go here.

I was going to buy 1,000 April 15 2005 $70 Calls of Dominion Resources.

When I was going to buy them this morning that would have cost me $600.

So, let's just watch and see what happens.

Good Luck!