DECEMBER
19, 2006 --
Last
week, LPR gathered images of this Christmas season, and of events
at clubs, among other things.
The photo of the Chase sign is not really a seasonal image -- because it's
continued
use of the 29.99% interest rate is in effect
throughout the year, not just for Christmas.
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Chase
sign
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As
previously noted, here, though, this usurious interest rate certainly
reflects the "crush the rabble" business approach of the
cinematic Henry F. Potter, the banker
in "It's a Wonderful Life."
The difference between Potter and Scrooge, of "A Christmas Carol"?
--Scrooge returned to humanity.
New York's thoroughfares seem particularly tied up Christmas time, but, alas,
the practice of double double-parking -- reducing three lane avenues to one
lane -- also occurs throughout the year.
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Double,
double parking on Lexington Avenue.
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One
Lane on Madison Avenue.
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Where,
Mayor Bloomberg, are your Parking Violations ticket-issuers when they
are really needed? Note that even school buses add to the double double
parking problem.
LPR recently saw a school bus with an ad on the side.
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School
bus and ad
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Ads in schools --
the next advertising frontier? How about getting corporations to purchase
name rights to individual schools? There are, after all, only a small
number of ballparks to name for our large
corporations. This program, to bring a new source of dollars to education could
be called EDUCATE. (LPR leaves it to clicksters to come up with the words for
this anagram.)
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