I’m posting this partly because I’ve received 5 summons to appear on jury duty in the past 2 years - you’d think that there are more eligible jurors in the cycle. Luckily, I don’t have a land line so I’m unlikely to experience this jury scam that bullies me into giving SSN & other info over the phone. But, for those of you who do have home phones (or ever wished you weren’t plagued by jury duty), watch out for this…
The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.
The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois and Colorado. This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.
Check FBI warning here.
And on Snopes here.
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My favorite part about blogging with pictures, as in the “Sarah Palin Revealed in Shocking Photos” post, is how many commenters never bothered to read what I hard written. Both pro-Palin and anti-Palin folks came to the post with their preconceptions, and then commented without actually reading the post.
Amazing.
I’ll file “commenting on things you haven’t read” as a pet peeve.
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The use of the word Hypocrisy is one of my pet peeves. Just for fun, I did a google search for Hypocrisy.
Here’s the first result from princeton.edu:
an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
Hypocrisy is saying things you don’t believe.
If a person believes that divorce is a sin and counsels people against divorce and subsequently gets divorced, this is NOT hypocrisy. That is failing to live up to one’s ideals; a moral failing, but not hypocritical.
If a person derides someone who believes that divorce is a sin for getting divorced, yet they have no philosophical problem with divorce, that IS hypocrisy.
The question is, should we have ideals that we strive for that we sometimes, or even most times, do not attain or should we have no ideals whatsoever.
A preacher is supposed to point towards the good. They are not perfect. If they rip people to shreds for their failings, they are fools. When people fail, that’s where forgiveness comes into play. When people have made mistakes that they have to live with, that is where sympathy is needed.
Some conservatives are far too judgmental of others. This makes them easy fodder when they inevitably fall. Does it make what they were talking about invalid?
Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant. I guess she could have beat the crap out of her, screamed and yelled at her, and treated her like dirt. But, it’s done now. She’s pregnant. They can either abort the baby or work together through the tough times ahead for the baby, the father, and Palin’s daughter. They chose the latter.
Isn’t that part of a woman’s right to choose?
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