3rd Party Candidates Presidential Debate – Tonight 9 PM – CSPAN

If you’re sick of what the two major political parties are offering for Presidential Candidates this year……
There are other choices on the menu……..

Third Party Presidential Debate to be Aired Live by C-SPAN

Watch tonight (Thursday, October 23) at 9pm ET

Check your local listings for the channel.

The Third Party Presidential Candidates Debate will be held at 9 p.m. (EST) at the Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave., NW, in Washington, D.C.

A total of six presidential candidates who are on enough state ballots to be eligible to win the election have been invited to participate.

Invited candidates are Chuck Baldwin – nominee of the Constitution Party, Republican Party nominee John McCain, Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama, Independent Ralph Nader, the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney, and the Libertarian Party’s Bob Barr.

Bank Fees – Outrageous

Dear Readers,

It’s been about 20 days since my last Update.  In between I emailed you the fully featured October edition of The Acronym.

Today I will be brief because I think this simple experience I encountered last weekend speaks volumes.

I took a friend to Bank of America to cash a $700 check that he got from a State funded rent rebate program.   The checks were drawn on B of A.   My friend did not have an account there, so he brought two forms of ID.

#1  The second form of ID is not really necessary.  They make you stamp your finger in ink and apply it to the check.   A little different….OK.  Actually, I’ve encountered that at Wachovia before.   Perhaps they should have been fingerprinting some of the executives who dreamed up their Pick Your Payment mortgages.

#2 Effective September 26th, Bank of America now charges a $6 fee for all checks cashed by non-customers.  Wow.   This is not illegal, but I think it represents gouging.  It is one way B of A is trying to make up for its losses and expenditures due to the mortgage crisis.   I have no problem with banks refusing to cash checks for non-customers.  A few of you may remember a Hudson United Bank that used to have a few branches in CT, including West Hartford.   They would not cash one of their checks unless you were a customer.   I don’t take issue with banks charging $1 or $2 to cash a check for a non-customer.  However, $6 is crazy!!

What do you think?    Respond on http://www.theacronym.com I’d love to hear from you.

-Kevin

The Acronym – October 2008

The Acronym October 2008 – WEB

Your bi-monthly October 2008 edition of The Acronym is here.  Click on the link above to download.

-Kevin

Bob Dylan: Alive and Well, Still Singing

For those of you who say The Acronym isn’t artsy enough…

National Public Radio’s website NPR.com is streaming Bob Dylan’s entire new 2-CD album for free, starting today.   Entitled TELL TALE SIGNS, this 2 disc set covers Dylans bootleg recordings (rare songs and outtakes) from the past 20 years.

With the links provided on the following page, you can listed to each disc in its entirety for free, for a limited time.   Turn you speakers on!  You shouldn’t have any trouble playing the audio streams, but if you do, let me know.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95047293

Enjoy!