Links and Minifeatures 03 22 Wednesday

Carnival of Investing



Carnival of Liberty Recommended: State of Flux



Carnival Of The Vanities



Carnival of the Clueless Recommended: Nose on Your Face



By my reading of the schedule, I've got the Carnival of Liberty next week. Email to me or use the Conservative Cat Submission form. BlogCarnival may also work if the proprietor updates it.

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I just got a response to when the new VantageScore credit scoring will be implemented. The goal is for June. Here is the response I got:

Thank you for your recent inquiry about our VantageScore announcement of last week. I apologize for the tardiness of my response but the consumer, business and press interest in this topic was such that we were unable to answer all of the inquires in a timely manner.



With regard to your questions, we're planning to offer VantageScore to consumers in the June timeframe. At that time we'll begin to distribute consumer-facing materials which will answer all consumer questions. Until then, we're focusing on our business clients and their adoption of this new and revolutionary score.

Revolutionary? Well if consistent evaluations among the big 3 can be considered revolutionary, I suppose. Next week: Driving in the correct direction down a one way street and occasionally adhering to speed limits!



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Just want to say a quick thank you to Casey Software and Educating the Wheelers, who have both put in plugs for this site recently. Thank You both.



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I keep talking about the scam artists, liars, and thieves I encounter in the business I'm in. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people trying their best to do the right thing as well. Most of the crooks simply don't know any better, but some of them are intentional crooks, looking for the shortest route between two large scores.



Mortgage Fraud Blog writes about this last group. I'm adding him to the right hand roll as a useful place to check out when you start to get complacent.



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Moslems practicing polygamy in the United States. Law Enforcement does nothing to them, while persecuting the Mormons (and any other polygamists)



HT to Wizbang



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Iraq the Model had some good thoughts on the three year anniversary of the invasion.



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Yesterday, there was a successful jailbreak that killed 17 cops in Iraq. Today, they tried the same tactic and got their heads handed to them.



Also, Israel May Be Next al-Qaida Battleground.



Somebody must be feeding Zarqawi stupid pills. Good job, whoever you are. They can't beat the americans, so they're going after the one country with more experience against their tactics, and that doesn't handicap it's military in dealing with their enemies, either. Okay, it's a recruiting coup - those who've heard Israel slandered since they were born will sign up right and left. But Israel doesn't fool around about this stuff, and there's no way al-Qaeda will break their will.