Thomas Jensen, 68, of Braintree, said the state broke a contract with him and everyone else who bought tokens by refusing to accept them after January of last year. He was convicted of theft of services for continuing to use tokens after they were phased out.

‘‘I gave the state of New Hampshire money for the tokens, and I expect to be able to use them,’’ Jensen told The Patriot Ledger.

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Basically… Man buys tokens from state for Highway toll. State says we wont use these anymore. Many says you’ve robbed me and I’m not going to pay a dime more!

HELL YEA! This is a man who lives by principles, I respect that. Luckily he is 68 and could spare the 3 days… I on the other hand would loose hundreds of dollars by missing work… but I agree totally with his stance. Rock it out old man, rock it out!

I recently reported that CNN had posted a heart wrenching story about a young boy (Youssif) who had been set on fire by masked men. I scolded them for not providing information to their readers on how they could help (the story was all but a direct request for support).

This morning, CNN has made good and posted a follow up story providing information for a fund that has been set up by the Children’s Burn Foundation based in Sherman Oaks California.

You can read the follow up here, and donate here. Make sure you select Youssif’s Fund from the drop down menu under the “Honor/Memorial Gift Information” section.

Good job CNN. Way to follow up and do the right thing.

(FOX NEWS…. are you reading this?)

My Safe Following distance is NOT your crazy driving, tail gating, weave in and out of traffic and cut me off space. A$$holes

My rear suspension blew outtoday. The lucky two riders with me in the HOV lanes had an amazing 50 minute wait on the side of the road for their emergency ride. We kept the talk lively.

My car is at the dealer, they should get to it monday… oh joy. Hopefully it will be under warranty.

Good times people. Good Times.

We won!!! 5 to 1. Stay tuned.

I’ve been through it so many times, Each time you think its run its course. Things are looking up and you’ve left that solitude to rot by itself.
Suddenly an event occurs and you realize, even while looking it striaght through the eyes, you had been fooled.
It trick however relies on a common human weakness. Don’t once doubt yourself. Because just how this cycle has taught you before, all you indeed have is, yourself.

When times press me that seems to be my only source of encouragement. I’ve got my own self… And even if that’s not enough at least its not dependant upon anything else.

India, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, stills has villages that are without power, without water and without direct government involvement.

A single man, chosen by the village elders, attended a specially designed college for those living in such villages. There he learned of ways to improve life for his family and friends back home. What did he bring them?

Solar light of course!

Many people don’t realize the impact a reliable source of light can have. If you have no light and the sun sets, the day is over. Your workable hours have been exhausted. Now with a source of “free” light, these villagers can be productive past the setting of the sun.

The college where this young man (Hanuman Ram) acuired the skills to help bring Solar power to this remote village (Gudda) has also inspired an entrepreneurial spark. A group of women, also taught at the nearby college, have formed to build & sell a solar cooker which is able to quickly and cheaply boil water.

It wasn’t clear from the article what the cost of attendance is at this college entitled the “Barefoot College” or who financially backs it but it seems to be bring about positive change; even if it is a bit slow compared to the rapid growth of capitalist India.

Ok, so I have moved around alot and I have several bank accounts. Wachovia, B of A and USAA. I dont have overdraft protection on all 3 accounts and because of my direct deposits I use my accounts accordingly.

Here is where I get angry. I recently used my Wachovia account for a “delayed” purchase for my kickball registration. It was suppose to cost 60 bucks. Somewhere along the way I became a captain of a team instead of merely joining a preexisting team. I am not sure how the issue was brought up, but it was mentioned / read somewhere that team captains don’t have to pay the registration fee. I thought WOHOOO! and thus spent a portion of that 60 dollars from that account. Well, either A) Waka messed up and charged me incorrectly (I am waiting to hear back) or B) I was misinformed / misread on this issue. In either situation I become over drawn on my account after that 60 and those other purchases came through. A charge for 20, 3 and 10 dollars all put me over. Each of them had a $35 dollar fee attached to them plus some extra random fee of $35 with comes to a whopping $140 dollars!!!! That is RIDICULOUS! These banks are out of their damn minds. Its simple really, cards get declined all the time, if the money is not in the account DO NOT APPROVE THE TRANSACTION. But of course why would the banks work that way? They would rather let the 3 dollar charge at 7/11 go through and take out their outrageous fees than to act as a prudent financial institution.

Now please, don’t get me wrong, I do think their should be a penalty / fee for over drawing your account if funds come out on the same day or while transactions are pending, but for future transactions it should simply say DENIED. Also, the fees should be a percentage of the charge, not a flat fee. Hell I could have bought a 500 dollar dinner and still had only a 35 fee. How in earth is that fair?

I think Wachovia is taking advantage of people and it burns me up! What do they think, that we are made of Monopoly money?

Its not as good as my all time ranking of 800k something but its another bump for my rankings. I have an authority ranking of 4 now, haha WOW.

I need to stop checking out technorati so often. Its becoming unhealthly. Thanks go out to Jerome & Tart for the most recent incoming links.

P.S Don’t add water to progresso, you’ll mess that crap up!

I am on the mall (writing this on my crackberry) where I and a friend are waiting for the “Screen on the Green” to start. We have been here since 7:05 and they just announced that the film will play till 10:55!! Who picks such a long movie for an event like this? Also one of the sponsors is HBO so what’s up with all of the old movies? Let’s get something after 1975 shall we? No, actually I don’t mind the old films. They add a sense of class to the whole event.

One thing I have noticed though, as I’ve sat her for the last hour is while we have probably 2000 plus people here I can only count a handful of African Americans… Isn’t DC primarily black? Does that community not know about the event? Or does it just not appeal to them to sit on the grass in the heat humidity and wait forever for this stupid film to start. Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe I should go find them, they might be doing something more enjoyable.