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Your tax dollars are hard at work. We may never go back to the moon, but this is an expense “need to expand from three to six crew members” at the International Space Station.

I couldn’t make up stuff like this if I tried.

No wonder the State of CT is suing Best Buy. Yesterday, I checked all the Internet ads for a microSD card for my cell phone. Best Buy had a 2GB Sandisk card plus adapter for 49.99 less 5.00 sale price.

I live 5 minutes from the local Best Buy Store. So I drive to the store and two sales clerks try to help me out by showing me a $75 2GB microSD Sandisk card “that came in last night”. (In the process I walk by hangers of Sandisk 1GB cards at two different prices). I hold my ground and eventually a third clerk says, oh you want the phone card and pulls out the Sandisk 2GB microSD card with adapter marked $49.99. I grumble my thanks and walk to a register.

At the register, the checkout clerk only cares about trying to push rewards cards and service plans. She refuses to honor the $5.00 sale price I mention that is online and tells me I can always come back to the store and see Customer Service. I pay her the $50.

I left the register and walked over to Customer Service where three nice ladies listen to me complain about the $75/$49 bait and switch and my request for the $5.00 back.

All three mention without any prompting that online pricing is “different”.

I get $5.00 cash. I leave the store.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released part three of their doomsday reports on greenhouse gas and global warming. If we don’t drop back 4 degrees by 2015, then it’s the point of no return.

CNN Money’s “The Race to save Mother Earth in 8 Years” has the details.

Sometimes I think that a death penalty for spammers would be too lenient.

Robert Alan Soloway crying poverty and using a public defender until slapped down. And driving his Mercedes convertible to court.

This guy should be deported. To another solar system.