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nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Kir...

Granny, you took the words right out of my mouth. I did a little checking and if you want a good laugh, go to the wikipedia page on this guy and check out his picture. It's well worth a chuckle. Seems he was a guest on the Jerry Springer show if that tells you anything... this made me think of "Paulson for President" but I think old Pat had a lot better following. :)

On Jackson Grimes 0n Various Political Systems & Forms of Government

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Native,
The two listings I see for Phillips are
BP/Phillips and ConocoPhillips Co., so I am guessing here that Phillips 66 is one of these two and it looks like they are good.

On US Oil Companies to buy your fuel from .....

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

I thought this was interesting information for those of us who would rather not support the Middle East's oil producers.

This info was sent to me in an email, and the full information is available from the US Department of Energy. I checked that site myself and found this info to be reliable. If you want the link, I posted it below.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum...

This is good information for you to see where your fuel dollars are going and who they are supporting...

While the DOE says it cannot guarantee where the gas you put in your car comes from since refineries sell their gas to other companies, at least we can support those US oil companies who do not buy direct from the Middle East.

"Some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco..................0 barrels

Sinclair..................0 barrels

BP/Phillips.............0 barrels

Hess......................0 barrels

ARC0.....................0 barrels

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels

Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels

Exxon/Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels

Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels

Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels

Citgo gas is from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans. "

On US Oil Companies to buy your fuel from .....

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Update...

I have been in communication with TMH on this issue. It appears they have actually gotten most of the problem resolved. They have verified that NCO did get my payment and it was turned over to the EMCARE ER docs as it should have been, although quite a while after I sent it to NCO. It appears that when TMH followed up with EMCARE verifying that they had their money and told EMCARE that NCO was still calling me demanding payment on a paid account, EMCARE must have told NCO to back off because as of last week, the telephone calls from NCO have mysteriously stopped.

I also received an explanation of how this happened in the first place that I think is well worth posting here. This is an excerpt from the letter I got from TMH:

"Back in November of 2005, TMH contracted with Northwest Colorado
Emergency Room Physician (EMCARE) to staff the ER physician coverage & handle the billing for the ER physician charges. EMCARE, unfortunately, uses NCO Financial as their collection agent. That contract is between EMCARE & NCO Financial. Please understand, NCO Financial is NOT a collection agency for The Memorial Hospital and TMH has no influence on their handling of EMCARE patient accounts. As of May 1, 2007 we no longer contracted with EMCARE and all ER Physician charges now are included with your billing from TMH."

So it appears that it wasn't TMH's choice to end up with NCO collecting bills, but EMCARE's choice that caused the problem. At any rate, at least now I understand what happened, and TMH did a good job for me of getting most of the problem resolved...

As to the listing on my credit report, well, I guess that's just going to sit there until it expires in 2011. Not to worry though, I found out through a recent transaction that lenders are fully aware of NCO's lousy intimidation tactics and if you have otherwise a clean credit history, they tend to ignore NCO's "harassment postings." Aggravating, but it isn't ending up hurting me and it is pretty clear that NCO's disgustingly crappy reputation is widely known throughout the lending industry.

Bottom line is this...I got a quick response from TMH, they did everything to resolve as much of the problem as they were able, and they kept me updated during the process. My recommendation to anyone with NCO harassing them is to document the hell out of your payments and let EMCARE or TMH know if they're hassling you for money you already paid.

On NCO Financial AGAIN!! Consumers beware!

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Native, I agree with you that this is not TMH's fault. I'm pretty sure if they had known then what they probably know now about NCO they would never have signed them on. Unfortunately I'm betting a bunch of other people are having problems with them that are a lot worse than this petty crap they're pulling on me.

I have cooled off quite a bit since this got to me last night, and now I have to say that when I look over my credit report how ridiculous this NCO bunch is. By putting a 68 buck notation on a 30 year history of consistently reliable credit, they really, in all honesty, look absolutely like the pathetic, vindictive losers they must really be. I can't imagine a company with any integrity whatsoever acting like these people are. Pretty ugly bunch in my opinion.

Having said that, how they're going to get this genie back into the bottle, I don't know.

On NCO Financial AGAIN!! Consumers beware!

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Dempsey, anyone who has info on drug dealers or any other crime information can easily get that information to the police. The PD takes information through dispatch 824-8111, through Crimestoppers 824-3535, you can walk in to the PD and talk to an officer, request an officer to call you or come speak with you, or you can e-mail a crime tip by going to www.craigpolice.org and looking on the home page for the link. A person does not have to give their name when reporting a crime, but may do so if they choose to.

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nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Geez... what a day! I don't know whether to laugh or kick myself. At any rate, I intend to follow this through to the bitter end and get these jerks off my back. I just hope anyone else having this problem can at least learn from my experience. Honestly I can't blame TMH for the way NCO is acting. From reading the complaints online (and there are more than one person could read in a lifetime, trust me) it looks like these clowns have been doing dirty business for years and years. If you wonder what I'm talking about just do a web search for them and boy, will you get more info you want to know. From what I've seen as far as complaints, it looks like companies and hospitals get lured in and then NCO sets about ruining their business relationships by harassing, making untold numbers of phone calls, disregarding Cease and Desist notices, and breaking every rule the law has governing collection agencies. It also looks like the companies that hire them dump them pdq due to customer complaints. FYI I have let TMH know what NCO is doing and am giving them a change to help get these goons out of my hair. Pending the outcome of that request, I'll withhold judgement and see what they're going to do to clean up this mess. Talk about opening Pandora's box!

On NCO Financial AGAIN!! Consumers beware!

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Ok, here's an update on good old NCO Financial. I posted a problem I had with their billing practices a while back. I got that resolved, and was assured that my account was paid in full. I had that confirmed by TMH. It was all good.....
Until this week. I'm now getting nightly computer generated phone calls from NCO Financial, stating they are trying to collect a debt. Great! Except that I don't owe anything. Not a dime, not a cent, nothing, zip, zilch! I know financial issues aren't usually made public, but I am not in the habit of having to deal with credit collection folks and didn't realize how scummy this particular agency is until tonight. Anyway, then I check my credit report. No big surprise there, I find that AFTER I PAID THE BILL IN FULL (in Feb 08) , NCO FInancial placed a negative listing on my credit report for the same lousy $68 bucks on 04-08 they received from me back on Feb. 25, 2008, claiming the bill is unpaid as of this date. Sound fishy? I say this stinks. So anyway, just as a warning to anyone still dealing with these people...document, document, document. I plan to cover all of my bases, starting with the complaint I filed tonight with the FTC.
I decided to do a little search of the internet for NCO Financial. No surprise here either. They come up on a list of thousands of websites for engaging in illegal and unethical billing and collection practices.
I'm posting this to warn people who may be dealing with this company. My experience with them has been pretty disgusting, they are lowlifes of the worst order because they lie, lie, and lie some more.
What they do is this: They send out bills, then you pay, then they tell you everything is ok. Then they wait a couple or a few months, send out another bill stating you still owe. By this time, I guess they figure you either forgot you already paid the bill, or they pull this separate account number crap that they pulled on me, and re-charge the same bill more than once. If you do manage to catch on, and document that you have paid everything owed, they then wait a little longer, put the paid bill on your credit report and hope you'll be forced to pay it yet again to get the darned thing off.
Well, obviously my next communication is going to be with the credit reporting agencies to get this bogus notation off my credit history. If all of this documentation doesn't clear things up I may be forced to hire a lawyer to get these people to stop trying to scam me out of money I clearly do not owe them.
Bottom line is this: If NCO is hounding you and you don't owe any bills, fight them. Fight them with documentation, don't talk to them on the phone, insist all communication be through mail, and most importantly, once you have everything documented, report them!
I hope this helps others who are being scammed by this lousy excuse for a credit collections company!

On NCO Financial AGAIN!! Consumers beware!

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

Just to list another option, I've heard Brother's meats are very good too. Can't confirm this as I haven't been out there yet myself, but I have heard glowing reports. I do know from personal experience that Mountain Meats steaks are really good. Just be prepared to pay a little more for the quality. They're definitely better than the chain supermarkets, and they'll cut them to your specs.

On Warning To All Consummers-You Vote With Your Money

nativegirl (Anonymous) says…

I just have to pitch in my 2 cents worth on this one. Native is right that shooting anything in town is 1. illegal and 2. dangerously stupid because not everyone would take the trouble to make sure they weren't going to hit something they don't intend.

I have my share of critters chomping on my shrubbery, and while I don't get too wound up about it, I have found a couple things that seem to help keep them from doing much damage.

One really effective thing I've used in the past that seems to be simple and inexpensive is to cover shrubs with the plastic netting they sell to keep birds of berries. All you have to do is toss it over the shrub. For some reason, when the deer feel that against their noses they tend to leave whatever is under it alone. With some wooden stakes and a staple gun you can do this around trees too, and it doesn't show like chicken wire does.

Another thing you can do is to get chicken feathers (I got them from a feed store) and spread them around the edges of flowerbeds. They work until the chicken scent wears off so you have to keep putting them out periodically.

But the thing I do that helps the most is to plant things they don't seem to like to eat. Some of the specific plants I have had real good luck with are white daisies, cosmos, coneflowers and blanket flowers. They seem to leave those alone unless they're starving.

It seems to me, and I may be wrong cause I'm not in the wildlife business, but with the huge herds that have developed over the past twenty odd years that the DOW could do a little more in the way of harvesting by putting out more licenses. If more hunters took more deer at least for a few seasons, it would help ease the pressure on them all to find enough food (which might get them to migrate out of town more) and would help keep their numbers more managable. At least it wouldn't be a waste of the deer, since hunters usually do eat what they shoot, and it would bring in extra revenue as a bonus.

On Deer shot at Craig city street intersection