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  1. 5 No BS Ways To Get Your Credit Score For Free [Equifax]<\/a>
    Useful information for all.<\/li>\n
  2. WND Up in Arms Over Law They Haven’t Read<\/a>
    The Colorado Pervert Bathroom Users Law has been much in the super-heated punditry here in Colorado of late. Though all it says is that you can’t discriminate in public accommodation on basis of sexual orientation or transgender status (sort of like in the Civil Rights Act of 1964), the right-wing talking heads have somehow decided that the bill actually is all about making it legal for gay sexual predators to hang out in ladies restrooms and prey upon our children and womenfolk.<\/li>\n
  3. \u25cf Indiana Jones and Nuke the Fridge<\/a>
    The making of the meme. (Warning — apparently has some spoiler info for the latest Indy <\/em>movie.)<\/li>\n
  4. Phoenix Mars Mission –<\/a>
    Water! They found water on Mars! Next up, canals, tharks, and Total Recall!<\/em> <\/li>\n
  5. Washington Post writer admits to having a fantasy…<\/a>
    The risks of spell-checkers.<\/li>\n
  6. YouTube – Lady Spins on an Escalator<\/a>
    Kids, do not try this at home. No, really, don’t. Just … don’t.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    5 No BS Ways To Get Your Credit Score For Free [Equifax] Useful information for all. WND Up in Arms Over Law They Haven’t Read The Colorado Pervert Bathroom…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,25,41,9,16,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-gay-stuff","category-media-movies","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-science","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132507,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/if-you-cant-trust-a-credit-reporting-agency-who-can-you-trust.html","url_meta":{"origin":13199,"position":0},"title":"If you can't trust a credit reporting agency, who can you trust?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jan-17 2:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, apparently, nobody.'[O]n Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced that two of the three major credit-reporting agencies responsible for doling out those scores\u2014Equifax and Transunion\u2014have been deceiving and taking advantage of Americans. 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Things continue to change so fast in terms of (a) things Equifax is doing and (b) ways Equifax is being criticized for stuff they are doing, that taking any steps for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/equifax-comic.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":134808,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/equifax-breach-round.html","url_meta":{"origin":13199,"position":2},"title":"My Equifax Breach Round-Up","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Sep-17 8:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"The news cycle on all of this has settled down finally, so I feel like I can determine some coherent recommendations of what to do. That's different from what we need to do nationally (stop treating the SSN as a secret password and unique identifier, for one), but that's a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Equifax%2BHQ.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":136310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/so-last-years-equifax-breach-was-even-more-awful-than-previously-revealed.html","url_meta":{"origin":13199,"position":3},"title":"So last year’s Equifax breach was even more awful than previously revealed","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-May-18 6:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Largely because Equifax didn't reveal a lot of the details because state laws didn't require them to. 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