August 29, 2002 journal, local inventions revealed, Budget's satellite tracking, Infrared.

I feel lead to play consumer advocate when Budget rent A car is reported to have charged their customers some $4,000 extra for driving their cars across the state line.  I believe this is a division of Sears and I am not surprised at any unscrupulous thing Sear's does/dollars.  Satellite tracking is installed in most of their cars now and they can tell where you have been in their cars and automatically bill you for a ton of money as a surprise. I think that everyone should know their rights in such a case and not just be run over by them.  NBC News reported a number of lawsuits filed against Budget on/for these cases.  I believe you could refuse to pay but even if on your credit-card I believe you can deny them payment by writing your credit card company and contest the charges.  I believe they are required by federal law to take the charges off your credit card. They are getting free advertisement of the kind I am sure they do not want.  Cheat your customer and get found out all about.

  A lady with a most beautiful live bird from Indonesia runs Rainbow Bird rescue here and has written a book about bird nutrition.  A bird's required diet is similar to that of humans.

We went down to the Poinsett Hotel to meet with QVC in their product search and saw many inventions people brought to show them off with the hopes to mass-marketing on television.  There were the simple ones to very sophisticated ones brought in to offer.

People are very creative and most in manners and no place to show their inventions.  We had lunch in the newly remodeled $20 million restored hotel built in 1924 bearing the name of Joel R Poinsett, Ambassador to Mexico who brought the poinsettia plant back from the Andes mountains to this area.  The Poinsett highway and many other things in this area are named after him.  I wish I could of purchased this hotel before it was vacated and destroyed with the original furniture intact but I did not or could not buy it.  It is not practical to think of it today under the weight of $20 million.  It once sold for 1 million as an operating hotel but never made any money.  They made a tiny dining room out of what was the entrance to the Piedmont Room which they tore away to build a parking building which belongs to the city.  During construction ask the city for one quarter of the money to complete and I suspect they will ask them for support in the future.  Lots of the work looks tacky.  The $20 million I am sure went through here but did not stick and stay.  It 

looks unfinished.  Most guest staying here would require alcohol be served.  This hotel could not survive as a Christian hotel in this vicious economic world.  Had I have been involved, I would have missed the window of truth as it passed my way and still been in religious darkness to live on a low level with the churches today at large without vision.

   Lead us in the light and return us to the original plan of God for worship and praise.

 Do not poor mouth too much or people will pass you up without knowing your potential.

I may have got too much infrared treatment this week and I seem to have some adverse reaction.  I have decided to discontinue the infrared treatment and see if it will clear up.

The description is as "Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end-used of thermal radiation of wavelengths longer than those of visible light. 2: Relating to, producing, or employing infrared radiation. 3: Sensitive to infrared radiation- infrared".  Sounds bad.

During the course of a day, I see many people in desperate need of prayer. I pray now

for all those in need that you make your presence known to them Lord in a special way.

Revelation 2-2 "I know thy works, and thy Labor, and thy patience, and how thou can not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:3-And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my namesake".