Somebody stole my Starbucks card?

The transaction history below shows that somebody spent $50 on my account. I did not do it or my wife. So who? About three months ago I bought a $80 for $110 Starbucks gift card from a website named https://www.cardcash.com/ and paid by Paypal.

Is there a possibility that the seller wait after $45 days so that Paypal cannot take money from him to take back the gift card secretly? Or is there a chance that somebody know my Starbucks account? Impossibly I believe!

Anyway, Starbucks coffee is just so bland anyway. Local coffee shops are way better!

Hien

Violin long hours

Life out of the window – Ferguson

Source: Give us new eyes

<<It’s been said that our politics are often shaped by what we see out the window. Twenty years ago if you’d asked me if I think police treat people fairly regardless of race, I would have said confidently “Yes” – just like 70% of white folks in the recent Pew survey. In fact, 30 years ago if you’d asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I’d have said “a policeman”.

Shane’s sharing on Ferguson is interesting.

My two cents:

– A friend who got a law degree from New York shared that his law professors classmates who discuss and potentially work on international issues never got out of America and did not see or know international people.Things got done on paper and inside the window.

– Another professor in Econ shared that an economic researcher on an economics issue of a South American country spent too much money of the grant on economic model and missed the assumption. He wished that the researcher just spent few $K to visit the nation and did some original research there.Things get done on computer models inside the window.

– Years ago, I was so much inspired by a story of a black man and the poor people that Dr. Tony Campolo spoke about that I decided to quit a mainstream white church for a while (I do not mean that the white church is not good!) and hang out at a black church for over a year. And I also decided to check out a homeless center to eat and befriend with the homeless. One morning, the homeless next to me shouted to a man coming in, John the Baptist, John the Baptist, pointing to a man in rags!

Later on, I was so curious about my former good and kind housemate who was an AA that I visited AA meetings for a month to understand her now that we are apart.

Life out of the window really mess me up!

– My short Ferguson story: I was fortunate enough to accompany Grace an activist in CoMo town to visit the march in St Louis in October. As a full time parent student, I was busy, just like the rest of us, so I did not care much. But I was concerned about Grace going alone so I decided to go with her. The experience was fascinating messed me up again.

My bias-aware basic sense is that the police treatment of the black people has been cruel for such a long time all over the US. And now the Mike Brown case hit the mass nerve for demonstration to bring up the issue. Where do I get this? From out of the window.

That is not to say that Mike Brown is good. But well if people practice an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth then why did the police shot him with many bullets?

Hien