You know, I think it will still start and run with a bad alternator; it will just run the battery down, so it will eventually stop running. But it would run long enough for... a demolition derby!!

Can you Cash For Clunker it?

Wouldn't qualify, too much mpg.

Vendor FAIL for not contact anyone sooner. They were sending invoices to an employee that was fired in October, never noticed the emailed were getting bounced.

At my uni, we kept recieving an invoice from a company we never dealt with, with no phone number or contact name. They were not in the phone book. The only number we could find for the address was the rental agency and they could not/would not tell us who was there.

It turned out that they had changed their name and didn't tell anyone and we did owe them, but it was still stupid. And for some reason, my university has a policy that we do not pay late fees. Ever. Even if we are, in fact, late.

Thanks, gang.

I'll see what I can do. I just want rid of it; I don't care about making money off it at this point (which would be nice, but I have no idea how much it's worth, it has several problems I just cope with but will seriously reduce it's value to someone who wants a nice pristine GTI, and I can't afford to fix THOSE problems, either.)

Ah, the joy of pending bankruptcy.

Definitely look into donating it. The American Lung Association will haul it away for you and give you the receipt for the tax deduction, so that'll help you next year.

which would be nice, but I have no idea how much it's worth, it has several problems I just cope with but will seriously reduce it's value

Something is better than nothing. I don't know what the miles are, but someone might be willing to risk a few hundred dollars to get a GTI they could get running well with a few repairs. A tax deduction won't do you much good if you don't itemize.

Obama birthplace flap evokes Chester Arthur debate:

Nearly five miles up the winding two-lane country road, past rolling hills and dairy farms, is the tiny Chester A. Arthur Historic Site, proclaiming the spot where the nation's 21st president was born in a cottage.

Or was he?

Nearly 123 years after his death, doubts about his U.S. citizenship linger, thanks to lack of documentation and a political foe's claim that Arthur was really born in Canada — and was therefore ineligible for the White House, where he served from 1881 to 1885.

Wow.

You know, Kang wasn't born in the US either....

Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos.

Didn't they do a West Wing episode where Donna lost her security clearance because her hometown got rezoned or resurveyed and ended up in Canada?