Could use a tv box to allow consumers to reorganize the usual tv channel disorder

So many channels ,,,and so disorganized,,,seems a box or some unit could allow consumers to cluster channels that they use close together,,,so we wouldn't have to waste so much time ,,,clicking by stations in foreign languages or ones we are not paying for,,,

You could also have a way of controlling the volume , so that commericals would not be louder than shows,,,

New car search websites do not let you search by engine,ie, diesel,,,what gives?

Tried several new car search websites ,like Vehix, and all do not let you search by engine type first !

You can't even describe your own parameters, but have to pick a brand !! What nonsense sites.

American Express, the credit card company, continues to deal with tiny fraudulent companies that STEAL YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBERS and use them !!

Acouple months ago i was looking at the monthly AX credit card bill ,as i often have to use it for work and get reimbursed. I notice a strange company name- parent/subsidiary?- and a strange charge for like $69.99. So i called American Express and asked about the company, what did they sell, were they the name i might have dealt with or a subsidiary, and what did i buy. AX said they did not know but if i wanted to go to the trouble of opening a formal investigation, they would. So i did , not thinking much of it for so small an amount.

About a week later i got a form letter saying the charge was FRAUDULENT and American Express had already taken it off my account/bill that i had paid in full anyway !! I phoned and AGAIN asked what does this company sell and how did they get my c/c number ! AX did not know,,,Well, are you going to check my past bills for such a FRAUDULENT CHARGE from the same company? Yes, oh here is another one from the previous month,,,and we can investigate that one too,,,

That one turned out to be FRAUDULENT as well !! And still , American Express did not offer me a new credit card number that might or might not be safer . Shocking. Did they turn this company in to the FBI? Probably not. So i looked in my pile of previous monthly bills and 6 months back i found another one from the same company !! Immediately phoned AX and they said they would look into that charge as well... But why had they not gone back in my records the first or second time, but waited for me to find this 3 questionable charge ?

Later, another form letter that yes the third charge was FRAUDULENT and was deducted from my account. No big deal. No 'we are sorry this happened' . No 'we will stop doing business as usual with this totally illegal, unethical and thieving company'.

I had the new credit card sent snail mail , but the next time i will have it shipped next day air as it seems American Express is perfectly comfortable continuing to take fees,,, business as usual,,, from a company(s) that has tried to steal and use my credit card fraudulently 3 TIMES THIS YEAR !!

So how do you like "deregulation" now ? I will contact the FBI, if they care. And maybe a Senator, if they care. Doubtful. The company is "classic closeouts".

30 years in the back of my closet,,,and my leather hightop Nikes soles fell off !!

OK, so i have a lots of shoes. I clean out the closet at least once every year ,,,or so! So in my last Spring Cleaning,,,maybe it was late summer,,,I find my long lost Nikes !! That i have only worn about 5days,,,ok 7 days MAX as these were my not-every-day-dress-up-casual Nikes,,,

I was so EXCITED ! I thot one of my many many x's had stolen them, like the British blonde who knicked my 70s bleach-weathered Levi's,,,thank God she did not get my 60s 501s. So there i had these hot leather hightops with PURPLE LINING,,,purple tongue end,,,and even a purple edge to the sole,,,with purple inserts in the white hard white rubber sole,,,size 12s,,,even a purple insole !
Talk about great whiteboy stylin' !!

"Made in Korea" nowadays is not that bad , i thot,,,Model #891 202 D1,,,by inspector '15'. I was sooo excited. Then,,,i noticed the soles were COMING UNGLUED FROM JUST SITTING IN THE BACK OF MY BIG CLOSET !! Man, was i bummed. I phoned the local Nike store, Niketown on Union Square in S.F., and the assistant manager said that Nike only stands behind their shoes for "a year, or two max. ". Bummer.

I have had-owned-bought a LOT of Nike's in my long and exciting life. But i NEVER expected a pair of expensive trainers from Nike to just fall apart ,,,sitting in the back of my closet. The really sick part was looking inside the Nike's sole and seeing this brown mystery foam !! disgusting,,,hidden,,, INSIDE the hard white quality rubber sole box !! It was such a design hide.

My oldguy friend called then to say he needed someone to go up and clean his gutters out. Here i had found Nikes that i thot some wench had stolen,,, so i duct taped the soles to the still good leather uppers and walked over to the ladder and spent two days hand scooping glop of decayed leaves out of my neighbors rain gutters (with the too small downspout pipe hidden inside the rectangular downspout=huge design flaw also). My hands got all cut up from the edge of the gutters,,,and i used lots and lots of his water enjoying the 2nd and 3rd floor views of the Bay,,,and i got to wear what i had long thot were a quality-based brand of shoes.

Now i am wearing Asics.

Comcast's constant "This channel should be available shortly" = " F " grade

Comcast has so many channel failures ,,,and channel flaws with 'snow' or some other visual or audio flaw.
Many,,, and frequently. You call them in 2008 and they "want to schedule a service call to your apartment" so you can loose a day of work,,,cleaning up the apartment first, and ANOTHER waiting for Comcast to come look in your private space and tell you "yep, everything looks ok,,do you always leave your shoes out like that ?".

When the problem is Comcast. They, not us, have a terribe attitude about apartment clutter and customer service !! Regional monopolies are such a bad idea,,,

13 November 2008,,,and still,,,the lowly Republicans and Bush2 will not outlaw A.R.M. ajustable mortgages that partially caused all this pain !!

Everyone should know by this late date ,,,that the Republicans are sooo greedy and selfish as to imperil the USA even further by not at least outlawing A.R.M.s !! Just give away BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS to the same pirates and theives of Wall Street that got us into this huge international financial mess !!

May the Republicans never hold another seat of public trust again.

How can Chevron make all this 2007-2008 profit,,,and have such small dividends ??

Wall Street is full of thieves like the Gordon Gecko character in the movie with Michael Douglas. The usa media is letting these risk-shifters off the hook for the responsibility of our current and past economic woes. They are even asking these theives for ADVICE on how to fix the problemS Wall Street created, with the help of lobbyist-bought Congress !!

I had a series 6 mutual fund license with the n.a.s.d. and saw first hand ,up close how corrupt and with full knowledge Corporate America got us into this mess. I complained to the s.e.c. that a coworker was forging 'with customer phone permission' the signatures on mutual fund change of allocation paperwork, a simple and obvious no-no, and the s.e.c. did not prosecute this guy who was the no.1 salesman for an insurance company now owned by a.i.g. , yikes. Sooo glad i got out before the company buyout by aig!! Reeks.

While still in the insurance racket ,i talked years ago with a rep. from Arthur Andersen about his accounting company and he told me EVERYONE ,including Senators, knew that they were paid to lie just like s+p, moody's, and a.m.best and all the other financial rating agencies,,,and paid very very well thank you very much ,as he and his wife were going around the usa looking for a vacation home to purchase.

The usa media may show shock and surprise at the depth of the dishonesty and outright fraud on Wall Street and Corporate usa, but these newcasters have college degrees and inside contacts like i did before giving up my series 6 license, and have no excuse for being used as propaganda tools and character assassins like we saw on Frontline's show on Lee Atwater and the Republican lying 'stealth' scum he worked for,,, Reagan,,,Bush 1,,,Bush 2,,,etc.

Ca. "Yes on 8" voters forgot The Golden Rule

It is amazing that blacks and latinos who have experienced discrimination first hand in the USA were so willing to try to force their religion and beliefs on others.

As if the Catholic or Jewish or Biblical faith and way were the only way !! Such intolerance and self-centered foolishness !! Religion is there for you to guide You in Your life, not control or punish others who choose another or no faith, both of which WE OBVIOUSLY NEED TO REMIND THESE RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS ARE PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION.

Religious intolerance is no better than any other,ethnic or racial or rural or red-hair, intolerance. The Bible does not give you as a true believer any power over others, so let your own life be your example and stop trying to run everyone else's life because of your Hindu, or Christian or Muslim or Animist religion.

Shame, shame, shame on your too proud and selfish ego.

John McCain is WAY TOO OLD AND SICKLY to be President

Give the old Veteran and Keating-tainted Senator a break and let him live out his last few years with his pretty wife in peace . Being President would kill him in his first term, then where the Incompetent hell would we all be ? The Republicans are so desparate, as to put up a man near his death bed, to continue the unending chain of lies and theft that has ruined our economy and threatens to damage the USA ,after two stolen national elections in 2000 in florida and 2004 in ohio.

Enough ! You vote for any Republican at this declining Nations peril !!