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Good news:

An adorable Beagle won at Westminster for the first time ever

The writers' strike is over!

It should be sunny all weekend (Yay! Bring on the Vitamin D!)

Even in losing, Hillary still brought in more voters in Maryland than the entire GOP field combined (minus Romney's votes).

Australia finally officially apologizes for mistreatment of natives


Not-so-good news:

Bank of America is randomly hiking rates for some credit customers


Bad news, then good:

Blue Cross attempts to extract patient info from doctors to deny coverage; outrage makes them stop


Funny in a creepy way:

McCain still dogged by Kristians (Creepy that these people are so numerous that they have such a huge effect; funny that they're probably going to abandon him in November.)

Comments

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

That Bank of America story is pretty rotten, I'd say. I just got my credit card bill from my bank (Bank of Montreal) and find I've been charged interest on the total bill, which also happened last month (for the very first time ever). Reading the fine print on the back of the bill, apparently their policy is that if you miss a deadline one month, then you get charged interest for the next two months, no matter what. Now, I did miss the Dec. 26 due date of a bill, but that's because I didn't get the bill until December 24th and of course the Post Office doesn't work here for several days around Christmas. So I'm feeling a bit miffed about it all at the moment....

As for the Blue Cross debacle, nasty nasty! I always worry about that sort of thing, not for myself obviously, but because of my s-i-l - she has extremely severe rheumatoid arthritis and is dependent on my brother's health insurance for treatment, but until very recently my bro has tended to move from job to job frequently, with concomitant changes in health care. I think he must be able to negotiate that matter, because certainly no health insurance provider would want to pay for S's very costly and ongoing-for-life treatment!