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Good Tuesday morning!
Here's your
Dose of Dover...
Still
your most
reliable source for
un-common
sense insight and
cover-your-backside strategies this new year
and beyond.
Take
your best shot...try to put
me out of a job!
How?
Make everyone a little lot
smarter:
Forward this to
everyone
in your Address Book!
[C'mon...be
a big shot!]
Spread the wealth and share the
Tao of
Dover:
Lots
of eye-opening
information
posted on
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
"When the mouse laughs at the
cat, there's a hole nearby."
Darn! The U.S.
Postal Service just shot the
wheels off of millions of
proud parents, grandparents
and pet owners.
Here's
how.
This story remind me
about the commemorative
postage stamp the state of
Nevada proposed several
years ago:
Apparently they were trying
to get a special stamp to
honor the prostitution
industry. The stamp was
going to cost the usual
37¢...but if you wanted
to lick it, the price went
up to $50.....
Bottoms up? (This story
made me think of that song from
"Mary Poppins": Just a
spoonful of sugar makes the
syrup of ipecac go down...)
NostraDover predicts that if
this tragedy strikes a few homes
and kills a few kids, you can be
sure the attorneys are gonna get
involved and start shaking down
household products manufacturers
for big bucks. Check
those child-proof caps and read
more.....
If
you live in North Texas,
I've already found the
first/last/only reliable (and
bonded) locksmith you'll ever
use! Chief
Lock & Safe
(214) 827-7535 (answered
24/7/365)
April 15th is only
30
days away. Are you one of the
millions of Americans with
IRS-related troubles hanging
over your head?
Personal or business challenges
aren't as hard to work out as
you might think, especially if
you hire the right
representation to cut a deal
with the world's most powerful
debt collection agency.
Take a deep breath and read more
about it here.....
Now that Dish and Viacom
have worked out their
differences, it can only spell
more trouble for the cable
industry:
Here's
why.
Dontcha love the amazing
resources I compile every
week in the Dose of Dover?
Good! Then don't whine about
having to sign-up for free
access: Like
anything in life, there's
always gonna be a trade-off
on some level. I embed
dozens of links in every
edition of this newsletter,
and my frequent sources,
The New York Times,
The Dallas Morning News,
The Los Angeles Times,
The Orange County Register
and
USA Today
require varying levels of
registration in order to
access their websites for
free...with
one small caveat: If you try
to hit an older story,
there's a reasonable chance
that the news organization
has either moved the story
to a new URL, or to their
archives. If it's archived,
there's a high probability
that they'll charge you for
access to the
story...usually under $3.
Don't whine about it...just
pay 'em if you wanna read
it--or not. It's always
your choice.
Also
worth noting:
Nowhere is
it written that you have to
give accurate information
when you sign up for free
access on their website.
They'd like you to, but
they'll never really know.
So use a disposable e-mail
address (like
Hotmail
or
Yahoo)
and get creative when
you register. But just
remember: They/we are giving
you a tremendous service for
a great price...free! So
no
complaining.....
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