Rare Political Post: A Senator Is Made Out To Be An Oddball For Insisting That A Bill Is Paid For Before He Votes On It.

Kentucky Republican Senator Jim Bunning:

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Superbowl Sunday Pizza Deals / Coupons

One of the first ideas for scoring a deal on pizza is a quick search through your junk mail for VALPAK or other direct marketing. Read on if you don't have anything good in your junk mail.

Papa John's will charge $10 for all large pizzas and $11.99 for an extra-large pizza with four toppings. Pizza Hut is selling any pizza for $10.

Here's some links which may also be of use as you look to score a deal:

VALPAK. You'll have to type your zip code, choose pizza/restaurant.

Dominos Pizza. Enter zip code to get local deals. Retailmenot coupons.

Papajohn's. Click on menu & specials, then enter your location. Also, retailmenot's Papajohn's coupons.

Pizzahut. Also, retailmenot's coupons.

List of 99 restaurants offering free pizza delivery today (sorted by state).

Brutal Month for Net Worth... Down 6% ($27.3k)... Plus Other Updates

January was a brutal month for our household net worth. My spreadsheets go back as far as August 2008. Since then, this is the first month we booked a loss.

During January, two of our investment properties dropped significantly in value per Zillow.com. Additionally, we booked expenses for:

(1.) Body work for one of our cars
(2.) Bought our first flat screen TV
(3.) Made annual insurance payment on investment property
(4.) Rent

Our investments in the stock market also dropped in value, but by a small amount relative to the total $27.3k decrease. Unless the stock market tanks, our Net Worth should increase to where it was last month in 3-4 months.

On a positive note, we paid off the mortgage on one of our three investment properties this past December. We bought the house in 2005 for $86.8k.

Our next major purchase will be a new/used car to replace our '98 Acura with 141k miles. This summer we will be able to buy our next car TAX FREE. I'm looking forward to this upcoming purchase since our household operates two high mileage cars (wife's car has 86k miles) and want a low mileage car for road trips.

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TMZ says Tiger's Wife Caused Accident

I know this is not personal finance related. But, pulled this article from one of my favorite fantasy sports websites (Rotoworld).

TMZ.com is reporting that Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, caused his SUV accident when she distracted him by hitting the vehicle with a golf club as he was driving away after an argument regarding another woman.

TMZ says that Elin confronted him after seeing a report about him seeing another woman and then went after him and the SUV when he bolted from the house around 2:30 a.m. on Friday morning. Oh, the drama. TMZ has become a fairly reliable source about these kind of reports, but we'll have to see what the police say after interviewing him over the weekend." (TMZ)

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