Thus is the world changed, one little DUmmie at a time.
Posted on 05/13/2005 7:36:25 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Thus is the world changed, one little DUmmie at a time.
Yes, depending on your standing with the bank. If he is a "known customer", he would be given a lot of leeway. He could fax in a signed request for a check to be mailed. Or have overnighted a notarized document of the same. It's all a judgement call by the manager. Or, who is to say there isn't someone in Seattle that sent the checks? No one knows who purchased the checks. Could be anyone. But, that is information that the bank DOES collect, but would be quite unlikely to release when you call to verify funds.
The problem being, the felonious Andy is a "known customer," but not in the good sense.
That $5,000 check to Johns Hopkins that he bounced, wasn't the first one he's ever rubbered.
Not by far.
That's also why this is so much fun! It's like a scavenger hunt for all the missing pieces to the puzzle! A real-time drama-mystery one could say.
& franksolich, it doesn't necessarily have to of been Undie who purchased those checks. If someone else in on this is in good standing with the credit union, THEY could have purchased those.
Okay, movie is on now, see you guys tomorrow!
Glad to have you here!
Well, again, it "depends". This could be his "clean" bank. The bank that he keeps on the up & up while he defrauds others-- there is a reporting mechanism (chexsystems) but there could be lag time in the banks he kites checks to reporting him and his opening of the "clean" bank's account. Besides, anyone could have purchased the checks. My best tin-foil hat guess right now is that one of his pals here in Seattle came through with some money to purchase the checks, with a promise to get that back with "interest" after the scam is finished.
However, it is also possible that he truly is sick/ had a fundraiser for cancer (even though he was diagnosed with something "pre-cancerous"), etc... Again, I think there is SO MUCH wrong with this andyscam, starting with the fact that the DUmp allows the mental cripples who frequent their site to be preyed upon by a con artist-- or ANYONE AT ALL who fund-raises on the site (of seriously mentally ill people). And seriously, it sets them up for a nice lawsuit if the scam was in any way endorsed by DU.
This - - means it is your problem. You are the captain, and right now it doesn't feel like anyone is at the helm here.
I guess Pied Piper Pitt lost his copy of How To Win Friends and Influence People.
As Rush said, feminism is a way for ugly women to get revenge. Liberalism is a way for powerless, doormat nerds to get revenge and feel the power they were "denied" as adolescents.
Wow. You know all this for a fact? Or is some of it conjecture and filling in the gaps?
Thanks! And I like your home page. But, what's a "chupe of mate"? A cup of... what?
By the way, I totally understand the suspicion of some. There are lots of lurkers and trolls. At this point, I'm convinced I lurk at DU more than PJ or Frank or the others. But that's because I can't get out of the house to do "regular" things-- I'm STUCK to the internet.
You have a pic of sfexpat2000? I'd love to have a copy.
Yerba Mate is an herbal tea popular (VERY popular) in Argentina, Paraguay and parts of Brazil. It's a nasty, bitter, green drink that smells suspiciously like you're drinking hot alfalfa water. Of course, I love it.
A "chupe" of mate is a bit of Spanglish. "Chupar" means "to suck." You have to suck the hot water through a metal straw with a filter on the end of it (so you only get the flavored water, not the flecks of leaves), as the gaucho is doing on that photo. I just made a noun out of it: chupe. A good suck of mate. Here's more info than you eveer wanted to know about mate (mah-tay):
Yerba Mate is a tea, and can be used like any other tea. Its most popular form comes in 500 gram (17.6 oz.) bags of loose-leaf tea that is dried and ground. In some places it is available in tea bags, called Mate Cocido, but these do not provide the strength and full benefit of the more traditional methods for drinking it.
Yerba Mate (literally, the "Mate Herb") gets its name from the traditional cup (called Mate as well) used to drink it. This cup, originally a dried and decorated gourd, can be made out of almost anything these days. In South America, where Maté was introduced to the world, Maté is still sipped from the Maté cup using a metal or wood decorative straw & filter called a bombilla.
The modern Maté drinker can choose any number of ways to extract the beneficial tea from the herb. It can be brewed like normal loose-leaf tea and filtered before pouring into a cup. It can be use in a coffee press, where the herb is infused with hot water, and then the herb is pressed out of the way of the tea. It can be made into a flavorful iced tea to drink on a hot summer day. It can be made like coffee, in a standard automatic coffee maker (make sure you use a large amount of the herb). And, if you have a Maté cup and a bombilla, you can follow in the foot steps of the ancients by sipping Maté the traditional way.
How to prepare a traditional Maté infusion
To prepare the Maté infusion, the dried minced leaves of the Yerba Maté are placed inside the Maté cup and hot water (approx. 70 C) is added (this is called "cebar el Maté"). The infusion is sucked through a metal pipe called "bombilla," which has a strainer at its lower end to prevent the minced leaves from reaching the mouth. There are as many different techniques to prepare Maté as Maté drinkers, here is a fairly traditional method:
Fill the Maté cup with Yerba Maté up to 3/4 of its capacity. A variation that will give you more tea per infusion and a less potent taste is to fill the Maté cup only half way, or even a little less than that.
Pour some hot water in until it nearly fills the cup. Don't worry if some of the leaves remain dry, floating on the top. They will eventually absorb water in subsequent infusions.
Let it stand a few seconds and replenish with hot water when the previous one is absorbed by the dry Maté leaves.
When the water is not absorbed anymore, close the bombilla's "mouthpiece" with your thumb and insert it firmly into the Maté.
Some people add sugar and/or some herbs (like mint, for example). Some replace the water with milk, specially for the children. You drink and replenish the Maté with hot water many times till the liquid comes out with almost no taste. The repetitive extraction with hot water seems to be an efficient way of extracting the beneficial properties of the herb.
Enjoy! Although the first taste will be an unusual flavor for newcomers, it is a haunting taste that beckons you back time and time again. It's almost as if the body knows how good Maté is for you and calls out for you to take in more.
http://www.noborders.net/mate/how.html
You're stuck to the net because you stay at home with the youngsters, I take it? How many, what ages, etc.?
For the record: My wife and I have three: 12, 10 and 5. Our 12-year-old son is autistic and doesn't speak, but his sisters more than make up for his silence.
Again, I think there is SO MUCH wrong with this andyscam, starting with the fact that the DUmp allows the mental cripples who frequent their site to be preyed upon by a con artist-- or ANYONE AT ALL who fund-raises on the site (of seriously mentally ill people).
LOL! A site founded by mental cripples can't protect mental cripples.
I remember reading someplace that hobos had a secret code they would leave near the houses of people it was easy to scam. Someone left a huge mark on the front door of the Dummie Underground.
I only post when I get into a story. Or when I have pretty solid info on a topic.
I am not a marathon poster by any means. You have been here 10 months and whether or not you post heavily should not matter.
While I like Halieus'posts about the Undie Saga, and know his/hers intentions are probably good, but having only been around a month, he/she should not be calling you out, or any other posters.
Halieus, not trying to start trouble with you, you have had good info on the Undiegate saga. But being new here yourself, just be careful who you accuse of things. People might start thinking you are a troll ;)
Move Over Coffee, Yerba Mate Has Arrived
To hear Carolina Tyler tell it, yerba mate is a veritable fountain of youth.
"I drink it in the morning, during work breaks, during lunch and supper, and I just feel like a kid afterwards," said the 33-year-old Houston-area housecleaner.
Known to South Americans as the "Drink of the Gods," yerba mate is a hot beverage made from the dried leaves of the Ilex Paraguariense bush indigenous to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. And thanks to its caffeine content, the drink is a natural stimulant.
Traditionally steeped and served in a hollowed-out gourd and sipped through a metal straw designed to filter out stems and leaf bits, yerba mate was first consumed by the Guarani Indians centuries ago.
It is the national drink of Argentina, where drinkers of yerba mate (pronounced yair-ba mah-tay) are even more ubiquitous than coffee drinkers in the United States. It is not uncommon to see Argentines walking down the street sipping out of a mate gourd.
In recent years, its popularity has spread to the United States, where countless online vendors and teahouses, coffee shops and restaurants from Boston to Los Angeles are catering to an adapting palate. Those who drink it, like Tyler, say they have turned to the beverage as an alternative pick-me-up with less caffeine and acidity than coffee and a host of supposed health benefits. Sales of yerba mate in the last decade have grown from a negligible amount into a $250 million a year business, by some estimates, or about 5 percent of the tea market.
"I’ve been amazed with the speed of its growth and popularity," said Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council, a market research foundation. "I think it has the potential to rival tea in popularity in America."
Restaurateurs certainly hope so. Atlanta’s R Thomas Deluxe Grill, a 24-hour vegetarian restaurant, serves 14 different varieties of yerba mate drinks, with names like Cranberry Ginger Groove and Cinnamon Nirvana. The traditional yerba mate drink costs a whopping $6. At Tempo, a continental restaurant in Boston, customers are gulping down 20-30 of the $3.50 yerba mate drinks each month, said Scott Apone, a bar manager. "People like the social aspect--it’s a very relaxing way to enjoy a drink," he said. "One drink can last about an hour, people just pass it around."
More bitter than English or Indian teas, yerba mate is by all accounts an acquired taste. "Most Americans wouldn’t like it the way Argentinians drink it, it’s too earthy and grassy tasting," said David Karr, founder of the online herb vendor Guayaki. For that reason, many sellers are blending yerba mate with mint, vanilla, orange or other flavorings.
"People are seeking out alternatives to coffee for getting a lift, and yerba mate is mild and not as acidic," said Karr. "People are burning out on coffee."
Others extol yerba mate’s health benefits. Web vendors claim the beverage, which contains a mix of vitamins and amino acids, can "boost immunity, restore youthful hair color, retard aging, combat fatigue, control the appetite and eliminate insomnia," to name a few.
"I like the fact that it’s healthier than coffee or soda and it doesn’t upset my stomach," said Kenneth Bridge, 29, a Denver-area sanitation worker who drinks about two to three cups of brewed yerba mate each day.
Some, like Dr. Bradley Bennett, a researcher with the Center for Ethnobiology and Natural Products at Florida International University, say yerba mate’s supposed medicinal qualities are not proven. "A lot of people think it’s healthy, and there’s just no evidence for that," Bennett said, plus, "it has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of tea, which is a fair amount."
Indeed, yerba mate contains about 30 milligrams of caffeine in an eight ounce cup, according to a recent Health Canada report, compared with 47 milligrams in a cup of tea and 100 milligrams in a cup of coffee. "However you get your caffeine--whether it’s two cups of yerba mate or one cup of coffee--it may be addictive and cause some side effects," like restlessness and anxiety," Bennett said.
Tyler said she was pretty sure her yerba mate affinity had turned into an addiction. "I can’t really start my day without it. It takes the edge off and it gives me a lot of energy," said Tyler, who sometimes drinks her yerba mate brewed from a French press and with an added sweetener and always from a coffee mug.
Her way of drinking the beverage made Jorge Rios cringe. "Mate in a mug, with sugar, with no [straw]. That’s just disgusting, it’s sacrilege," said Rios, 45, a Queens, N.Y., resident originally from Argentina who has his family send him a few pounds of loose leaf yerba mate every couple of months from Buenos Aires.
"There is only one way to drink mate," he said.
Actually I am supposed to be shampooing my carpets but I HAD to check in and see how things are progressing.
I'd REALLY like to know who Principle is over at CU. That guy is waist-deep in the dreck of this whole mess. He's like Baghdad Bob with all the spin. Nutty.
To be fair, I think that particular article (judging from the URL) may have been 10 years old. But darn it, I can't find the link.
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