A North Texas man has a 17-figure credit card statement after a bank glitch resulted in an eye-popping charge.
This is what it looks like: $23,148,855,308,184,500.00.
Here’s how to say it: 23 quadrillion,148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184,000 and 500 dollars.
It’s more than 2,000 times the national debt — and, according to Jon Seale’s online credit card statement, it’s what he spent July 13 at Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck.
“For that amount of money, I could actually own Wolfgang Puck himself,” Seale said.
Seale, a husband and father of five from Trophy Club, spent much of Tuesday making calls to Wachovia and Visa in hopes of getting the exorbitant charge removed from his Wachovia Visa Buxx credit card. Both companies told him they were working to resolve the issue.
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, the reserve soldier who says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because he believes Barack Obama was never eligible to be president, has had his deployment orders revoked, Army officials said.
Lt. Col. Maria Quon, U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Army Human Resources Command-St. Louis, said Tuesday evening, Cook was no longer expected to report Wednesday to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization to active duty.
U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go.
His reason?
Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.
Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for her client.
In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. … simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”
Star Wars: A New Hope was divided into 15 second clips. People from the online community each took and clip, and recreated the scene at home. Creativity ensues.
So far, only three vidoes have been completed, and it’s a mix of real people and action figures.
VANCOUVER – A 3-year-old boy was unhurt and apparently unfazed after he floated 12 kilometres down a British Columbia river riding atop his toy truck, police said yesterday.
As a tween or teen, I use to like watching the first game show on MTV, Remote Control.
One thing I always liked about the host, Ken Ober, was that he had framed pictures of game show host greats behind him.
Even though I never watched a single episode, I loved the title of MTV’s Half Hour Comedy Hour.
I have a friend whose entire childhood was shaped by that show.
A while back I mentioned something about yogurt and pumpkin for dogs, here’s some more detail.
WifeGeeding’s doctor doesn’t accept out health insurance, looks like it’s time to dip into savings.
This is pretty cool, I remember Denzel did something similar: Reports are emerging that, on June 26, Angelina Jolie made an un-publicized, under-the-radar trip to visit wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
She did not have an entourage. She gave out gift bags with $1000 Best Buy gift certificates. All this is only coming out now because a wife of a wounded soldier blogged about it and a few people took pictures. Link
Watching the All Star Game last night, I couldn’t help but think how special of a moment it must have been for home town boy Joe Buck to be announcing.
I loved how Ozzie Smith use to do the backflip.
Obama wearing his Sox jacket cracked me up. And if the All Star Game was in Texas and he wore the same jacket, I’d boo him as well.
Yes, I know, many of you would boo him for other reasons, which would be your right . . . God bless, freedom of speech.
Normally you see politicians trying to play to fans, so I actually like how Obama represented his team.
