It is a travel agency operating under the badly fitting disguise of a college program for bright people.

Do your research on People to People, Ambassador programs, Envision EMI, or the thousands o funsuspecting parents and children who fell prey to these outfits at the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

How Jim is this a scam?

#1 0 How did they find your information? In my case, they purchased a mailing list from a college scholarship honor society. Do they tell you this? Why no, that would be facts and truth. Instead they say you are nominated for your awesomeness of being, well awesome. What is the criteria for this awesomeness? Is it just your name on the mailing list they purchased?

#2 – The big scam lie that continues from the high school scam to the college years — YOU, yes you and all your awesomeness were nominated. That is so amazing, because everyone of my high school teachers and college professors has my home name and address, and secretly sits at home at night sending out this personal information to third party outfits who will then ask me for money to go on a trip

#3 – and this is the biggest part of this scam — you did not win anything. You were not awarded anything. What you have in your email or snail mail hannds is a slick, colorful, raised seal piece of crap asking you and your parents to pay money to send you on a vacation / field trip.

But, but they said I was nominated and I won a major award. Until the crate from Italy shows up, you won the chance to pay them to be your travel agent. Because as everyone knows, college kids are too shy to go anywhere by themselves. They need a paid outfit to arrange things that are complicated and hard, like airfare and hotel.

#4 — in this modern age, here is an interesting twist. How much is it to attend if I pay my own travel directly? I mean, since I was nominated, and won, shouldn’t that portion be free?

DO NOT FALL VICTIM TO THIS SCAM.

International Scholar Laureate Program
1919 Gallows Road, Suite 700
Vienna, VA 22182

Contact them and ask these questions. And please share the honest truth of the answers. Your in college, so your bright, right?

BTW – be sure to ask WHO gave them your info, and ask if they paid for it. Then decide if its real. No one accepts nominations from instructors, professors or teachers and coaches and doesn’t keep track of who that nominator was. It doesn’t make good sense in days of paper, and in days of computers and databases, its free contact information. So why won’t they tell you?
phone: (800) 778-0164
e-mail: admissions@scholarlaureate.org
web: www.scholarlaureate.org

Well, he was your best friend, and if she slept with him, she is a whore, so she would have slept with anybody anyway. This isn’t about the whore, who may still be your lovely wife, your friendly ex-wife, or that bitter nasty piece of trash you can’t wait till the kids turn 18 to be done with her skank ass forever.

This is about the guy who you called a friend. He may have been your best friend, dude, guy, main man, hommie, amigo, kaypassa. Whatever he was, you and him where friends. You chatted over coffee, doughnuts, pizza or burgers, or beer or drinks. He has been to your house, or you have been to his, if even just to swap cars for a road trip to go hunting or see a game.

Is he sorry for it? Did he apologize for getting drunk and falling for the call of the wild? If so, why can’t you in some sense look at the guy and appreciate the fact that he got some trim. Granted it was yours, but I refer you to the first section on skanks and whores.

Did he marry her? – If yes, then tell the story about his marrying a skanky whore and describe all the shit she did with you on that trip to Jamaica, letting the world know he’s on a short trip to VD or HIV. But still buy him a drink or at least a toast at the bowling league holiday party.

Did he just get to kick boots once, and its done? – While he might not be your best friend anymore, does this mean you can’t wish him a happy birthday? You don’t have to send him an anniversary card every year with a picture on the front of a belt with notches in it. But you can still say hello and clink mugs at the party.

If your best friend did something as offensive as bag your old lady, or something worse like ask to borrow your car and do it in your car, leaving you to clean the mess up, he was still your friend one time. It will never go back to the way it was, but will you go to say your last respects at his funeral? Well of course, you will. Then why say your final words at the funeral where he can’t hear them. Show him your the bigger man, no matter what that whore moaned in his ear, and call him to wish him Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2013!

If he did something less offensive like well, anything else you can think of, can’t you do the same anyway?

Want to sing along the ending? Here are the Lyrics to Optical Illusion by William Orbit

words
hanging in the air
frozen
from you i never forget
you propose that that i never regret
so i call your name
you never neglect
loneliness
that we both suffer from
your eyes capture mine
i feel nothing’s wrong
instant increased amounts of poise
less anxious
you’re my counterpoint
my counterpart, we fall down and laugh together
fuse and connect our hearts together
the path is never clear
but i take guidance from your words
the sound of your voice leads me
your example teaches me
from now until fates hands reach for me
making our way through leaves and green and grey scenes
headed to the blue light beams lead us

1 – Obviouslly, being dickless
2 – Dated my wife before me
3 – Failed to understand how much a prize she is
4 – Do everything they could to win her hand

From our first date, I did everything I could to impress her.

Today, we have been together for 1 score and a number of years. We cuddled in bed together, took a ride talking, went to the store together and talked to each other about items we were shopping for. A few items, and some Christmas gifts. We talked about budgets, gits that are the most fun and best value for our money. And the things for our kids, family and friends to spread holiday cheer. She is so wonderful.

And giggling, laughing, rubbing her back, and holding and kissing her hand.

So today, I will give my thanks to all the eunuchs, for that is the only reason someone could have passed on such a prize.

We came home today to find ourselves unable to park in front of our house. The entire front of our house was blocked, including the handicapped parking, by a pickup truck and the enclosed tow behind trailer by the two guys fron On The Edge Lnadscaping of Bellmawr, NJ.

On The Edge Landscaping Maintenance Inc
715 Carter Ave
Bellmawr, NJ. 08031
Tel: 856-931-2885

I walked over to them, had to wait until one of them would stop mowing a lawn two doors down and across the street, and explain to them that they were parked illegally.

After a few minutes, the one guy flagged down the guy on the riding mower, who then finished mowing the lawn he was at. Then, drove his riding mower up into the trailer, and finally moved his truck.

As I write this, I don’t know if he is still parked 3′ off of the curb, but at least he isn’t parked in a handicapped spot anymore.

This behavior is first and foremost, illegal.
Did he offer an apology of any kind? Nope. Not a single word.

Was he parked next to the curb and just a foot into the blue painted curb?
Nope – he was 3′ off of the curb, and the entire pickup front wheels and door were inside the blue painted curbs of the handicapped parking spot.

Is this guy a retired Bellmawr cop and he is allowed to park like a total asshole without fear of a ticket?
Let’s hope not. If it was the case, then it speaks volumes about the lack of character of his fellow officers.

Could I have called the cops?
Yep – but instead we tried ot be polite, give him the benefit of the doubt that the drive of the pick-up truck is just simply a moron who only finished the 5th grade in school, and failed to understand the color blue.

So to the moron driving the truck, I hope you can find your way to Wal-Mart or Staples, pick up a box of 8 colored crayons for $0.89 and learn to tell the difference between all the colors before you park like a douche again and this time get a ticket, a fine, and find yourself doing landscaping on a State, County or municipal project for free as part of your community service project.

As for anyone who finds this guy in court on a similiar offense, and need a witness against him, please call us at any time. Once is for some people more then a fair warning.

To break down the lies and misdirection by Sarah Dusek, lets go step by step

1 – If you aren’t on NPS land areas, why are you under their control? To be specific, this location isn’t owned, it is leased sub letting on an existing ranch. But the overridding restrictions still come from the area NPS control.

2 – You just found out about it that day, but still didn’t have time to call us? Didn’t instruct your staff to offer a discount right at the desk upon check-in and notification? Didn’t have time to update your website for 5 days?

3 – Right now on last check, your website doesn’t mention the common summertime NPS fire restriction. Instead you put in a toilet lawyer disclaimer to CYA and screw the unsuspecting customers.

4 – Please tell us exactly how my sweet wife Anna and our two girls, 11 and 7, were so rude while getting the check-in tour, or during the lovely chat with the guy working for you during the sun downer? The only rude in this is your stubborn attitude towards common sense as a business owner.

5 – Thanks for issuing a refund. I withdrew my charge back. Your attempt to try and bribe me to only give a refund if we removed our review didn’t work out to well.

6 – 30 degrees isn’t cold enough to need heat?

Help Desk staff across the globe have reported this annoyance issue, and none of the Microsoft customers I have spoken to about this issue like the answer we have had for the past 2 years “We are looking into it”

How do you stop the outlook 2010 sync issues folder from filling up with log entires? You can go into logging and turn off every setting, but the event entries will still appear. There is no UI or GPO setting as of yet to disable this annoying feature from our friends in Redmond.

Microsoft internal support logs show numerous calls, opened support incidents, and account TAM’s getting formal requests for resolution. None of these have done anything to nudge Microsoft into fixing the issue. This is yet another in the long line of things that are broken at the core of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange, and yet never get a positive resolution.

Why don’t we have a follow through on the commitment from the days of Bill Gates when we were told every feature being developed would have a GPO to enable or disable? Where is the org, domain or DC based GPO options to let enterprise customers turn this feature off?

How to fix the outlook 2010 sync issues folder problems, step by step from a retired Microsoft Senior Enterprise Strategy Consultant
The only way to delete the outlook 2010 sync issues folder entries is one of three options:
1. Let it pile up and ignore it – let’s call this the Redmond approach
2. Create a script to run on client side to delete the folder contents. We can call this the local work around
3. Tell the clients you are working on it WITH Microsoft. Produce a long document in the 50 page range with full screen shots formatted with headers and footers explaining the issue, giving warnings about scripts and the possibilities of the harm potential they may cause. And then recommend the delete it themselves, ignore it, or run the script; the choice of the three options to have been decided in version 1.0 of the document, which then after their decision is made, you document that and release the updated version 1.1 of the same document. And don’t forget bill the customer $285.00 per hour plus travel time and expenses. We will call this the Microsoft Consulting Services option.

BTW – the rip off report and negative review of Yellowstone Under Canvas www.mtundercanvas.com is still valid.

As of right now, their website still shows this scam / false statement:

1 July 2012
Weather:
As with all outdoor businesses, we cannot control the weather and unfortunately do not issue refunds for guests wishing to cancel because of bad weather unless we have a direct safety concern.
Please be aware that Yellowstone temperatures often dip into the 30′s at night even in the summer. We provide bedding which is rated below 0, but still advise our guests to bring warm clothes to sleep in. Only our deluxe tents have heating.

When you check-in, they plead ignorant, offer you no option to cancel your reservation. They don’t even offer you the courtesy of a call an hour before you arrive. Why? Why would they wait until you arrive from a long day on the road, tired with a car load of family wanting to get into their tent for a fun night of “glamping”? To force you to pay for something they can’t provide, bend you over and take you, or to be concerned and compassionate merchants who want your repeat business?

Want a complete review of mtundercanvas, our stay in a deluxe tent and our stay at Yellowstone Under Canvas? The soft, good and bad I will leave to my wife Anna. I unfortunately have to deal with the ugly side of this outfit. The one that gets a review of “Do not stay here” until they fix their business practices. If you have a stay coming up try your best to get out of it now. Do let this organization get away with this type of poor service in any economy, let alone our current economy. They need to earn our dollars not rip you off.

06/22/2012 – National Park Service declares Fire State I, making it impossible to smoke cigarettes, run engines or have a campfire or fire inside a tent unless it is inside a Forest Service provided metal ring.

07/01/2012 – There is a news update at http://www.mtundercanvas.com to remind you of the low temperatures at night. And that their deluxe tents have heat.

As with all outdoor businesses, we cannot control the weather and unfortunately do not issue refunds for guests wishing to cancel because of bad weather unless we have a direct safety concern.

Please be aware that Yellowstone temperatures often dip into the 30′s at night even in the summer. We provide bedding which is rated below 0, but still advise our guests to bring warm clothes to sleep in. Only our deluxe tents have heating.

07/03/2012 – We arrive at Yellowstone Under Canvas, and are presented with a photocopied or printed sheet of paper taped to the counter. And informed that “Oh my, we are so sorry, but we are unable to use the wood burning stoves in our deluxe tents due to an order. You know, with all the forest fires in the news.”

We are also handed a sheet and told all adult guests must sign this waiver saying we understand that this is a camp ground and trip and ankle hazards are at our own risk. This must be signed before you are let into the campground. We sign it, and she does not have a copy of it for us to keep.

We watched the sunset, and stayed until the temperature got so cold that we could not stay in our tent. Our car was covered in frost, our girls were cold, dressed wearing their North Face jackets. And we paid for a tent with heat but could not turn it on.

The SPAM from
DEFENSE NETWORK ALLIANCE, LLC
2 Winter St Ste 102
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone: 1-781-330-9195

Be sure to give them a call and ask them very politely “Hi, I am a veteran. Where and where did YOU serve, and why do you think that makes it okay for you to spam email me?” Take 30 seconds of your time to let them know what sort of scum they are for resorting to this crap.

Where did they purchase their e-mail list? “Did you join an opt-in database?” was the ignorant answer the unnamed gentleman on the phone provided. How ignorant? It is a well know fact of Internet marketing that there is no such thing as an optin database for sale. You are buying a harvested, sold or transfered marketing list. No one ever opts-in to some random site on the Internet and says “Here Mr or Mrs email marketing company, take my info and sell it to others to spam me.”

Where did he purchase the e-mai list? From infousa.com “I think I may have bought it from them three years ago.”
1-800-794-1404 – the number to call to be removed from telephone and email marketing campaigns by this spam outfit through their content feedback line.

Throw it away.

Better yet, send it back to them and let them throw it away.

Pharmacy Discount Card
4410 Massachusetts Ave
Suite 106
Washington, D.C. 20016

Google maps says this address is on the campus of a University, right next to the admissions and student building. WARNING

Standford Health Alliance
12201 L Street NW
#100-467
Washington, D.C. 20005
1-800-986-1104

Google maps says this address is also on the campus of a University, in the middle of a clump of buildings

A pound of cure and a penny in their pocket?

. WARNING

http://stanfordhealthalliance.com

Whats the scam? They send you a junk mail card. You use it to get a supposed unverified discount. They turn your info over to a pharmaceutical company to try and get a kickback on referrals to their brand of medicine.

Really? Is that how they make money? Can it really work that way? Are drug companies paying people to use discount cards when its already being sold as generics at Wegman’s, Target and Wal Mart?

How is it a scam Jim, I got a card with my name on it. Err no, wait its not a card with my name on it. Its a card with numbers and codes that the phone operators can’t use to look you up. Your name is printed on the envelope the cards are mailed to you.

And you will get the speech that someone referred you, or you signed up for the card. And befor eyou can say “No way” they continue with the speel till you go away. Don’t go away. Keep them on the phone on speaker while your doing something productive and eat into their operating costs. Programs that are scams need to die. If they just tell you “We bought your name in a mailing list.” or “We went through public records of everyone with a divers license in your state.” It would be better. But the scammers want to lie. And that should raise the hair on the back of your neck in warning.

What do they get? They get your name, address, prescription, doctrs name, dosage, date of birth. Wow, and its all protected under HIPAA? Well since they lie about who they are, where they are, and how they got your info to get you the card, would you really trust them with anything of your personal information?

But I will save “Up to 75%”. 75% off of full retail? Who pays that? Go to Wegman’s, Target, Wal Mart or other stores and get a photocopied printout of their generic drug prices. And then you know what the real price is. Then see if you get a discount from that number.

The envelope, with the obvious bogus Official Use Do Not Bend label, says it was mailed from 60515. Which is Downers Grove, IL. Which means, that small drug company is sending it? Hmm, thats not likely. But by having that addres,s it increases the chances if you do some casual research you will be fooled or duped.

Added to the list today is this song, which is a dozy, but when you watch this video, woo boy

Tom T Hall Fast Horses (The cowby and the poet)

<insert other songs here as i remember them, or better yet people comment who remmber this list as I told them. I mean, if I liked you, or loved you, or both, enough to share this list, I would hope you would have remembered.

and of course

George Jones He stopped loving her today
and
Alcazar Crying at the Discoteque

And songs not to play

Amazing Grace or anything else on bag pipes. I love this song, but it’s overdone and it so says funeral it has no character to it.

What did the dive boat Captain Tina died on say to the next group of divers?

“Hey, you’re the first guest since…’the accident’.”

What did the Captain of the dive boat Spoilsport  say about taking divers out to the site of the SS Yongala, a passenger ship that sank in 1911?

“Sorry, we can’t take reservations until last week’s group is found.”

What are the names of the dive boats Tina and Gabe Watson dove from?

The Spoilsport I and the Spoilsport III. The Spoilsport II is our first dive for the day, located in 130 feet, five miles out.”

What did the Captain and Dive Master onboard the Spolisport say about the strong currents that day?

“Don’t worry about the currents, if we don’t find you I’m sure Search and Rescue will.”

What did Gabe Watson’s new wive say about planning their honeymoon?
“Hey honey lets go to the mountains, the ocean is so last year.”

What did the Captain of the Spoilsport and the Dive Master tell Tina Watson about the metric system gauges when she was diving in Australia?

I know you don’t understand metric gauges, “YOU’LL KNOW WHEN YOU’RE OUT OF AIR!!”

What did Gabe Watson tell Tina Watson right before they jumped into the ocean?
“Honey be sure to smile for the souvenier picture”

Smile! We also sell souvenir frames

From: jim@skamarakas.com
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:46 AM
To: ‘craig.beaty@btinternet.com’
Subject: RE: Your Blog regarding USAReunited.com

Hello Craig,

Just checking – your letter via your real Nigerian barrister hasn’t arrived yet with our court date.

With you,

Your better

From: Craig Beaty [mailto:craig.beaty@btinternet.com]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 9:12 AM
To: jim@skamarakas.com
Subject: Your Blog regarding USAReunited.com

Mr Skamarakas,

Your blog regarding “do no use usareunited.com” has been brought to my attention.  As the owner of this website, I am deeply disturbed by your defamatory statements which are completely untrue and damaging to say the least.  I cannot recall being contacted by yourself at any point regarding issues that you may have had, and it appears that you have arrived at incorrect conclusions without any regard to the actual facts.

I therefore request that you remove this blog with immediate effect and I would like to receive confirmation from you within 5 working days that this has been done.  If you do not confirm that the libellous blog has been removed, I shall instruct my lawyers to proceed down the legal route of defamation without any further notice.

Your Sincerely

Craig Beaty

craig.beaty@btinternet.com

Waves of the soft spring wind
Love’s flood tide is rising full
The moon of love is rising full
Sea of beauty.
The moon of love is rising full
Love’s flood tide.

Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
My mind craves nectar day and night.

Like a blue lotus floating on the sea of love.
Lingering in ashantically
Lingering in the akashic realms
Lingering in the realms.

Blue lotus floats, floating, floating..

Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
Some laugh, some weep, some dance for joy.
My mind craves nectar day and night