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Refer Your Friends for the New Marriott Card Offer for Up to 100,000 Points a Year and more...  In This Issue...  Refer Your Friends for the New Marriott Card Offer for Up to 100,000 Points a Year  Saudi Arabia Allows Flights to Israel to Use its Airspace  Comedian Tells Conan About Finding Poop in Her Blanket on Delta Airlines  Stay Twice Get a Free Night and Two Great Comedians in First Class  What Are The Most Rewarding Cards to Actually Use For Your Spending  Did an American Airlines Flight Attendant Steal a Passenger’s iPhone & Post Selfies?  Chase Credit Cards Can Now Fund Horseracing Bets  Amtrak Acela Train Separated in Maryland This Morning  Family Attacks Airport Security, Body Slamming One to the Ground  More Recent Articles Refer Your Friends for the New Marriott Card Offer for Up to 100,000 Points a Year The Marriott Rewards® Premier Credit Card has a new, better signup offer: 75,000 points after spending $3,000 on purchases in your first 3 months from account opening — with the key improvement being a $0 annual fee the first year ($85 thereafter). Cardmembers can now refer friends and receive 20,000 points per person you refer who applies and is approved for the card, up to 100,000 points per year. Continue reading Refer Your Friends for the New Marriott Card Offer for Up to 100,000 Points a Year...          • Email to a friend •   Saudi Arabia Allows Flights to Israel to Use its Airspace As I pointed out with the launch of the blockade against Qatar last June, there's a huge shift going on in the Mideast. While conflict with Israel gets the most press in the U.S., the primary conflict is between Saudi Arabia (along with Turkey) seeking Sunni influence in the region and working to counter Shia Iran. The conflict in Syria, for instance, is largely a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Saudis have fought Iran-backed rebels in Yemen over the past several years. Continue reading Saudi Arabia Allows Flights to Israel to Use its Airspace...          • Email to a friend •   Comedian Tells Conan About Finding Poop in Her Blanket on Delta Airlines Comedian Nicole Byer went on Conan last night and told the story about finding poop in a sealed blanket on Delta last March. She pulled her first class blanket out of sealed plastic and "brown crumble falls on me" then she saw a "brown thing" and the smell hit her. She told a flight attendant... whose first reaction was to get his phone and take pictures. Continue reading Comedian Tells Conan About Finding Poop in Her Blanket on Delta Airlines...          • Email to a friend •   Stay Twice Get a Free Night and Two Great Comedians in First Class A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips. Continue reading Stay Twice Get a Free Night and Two Great Comedians in First Class...          • Email to a friend •   What Are The Most Rewarding Cards to Actually Use For Your Spending I often list the best signup bonuses, or lists of which card is best for which category of spending. But what are the best cards for ongoing spend, spend that isn't needed to earn a signup bonus? Hint: it isn't an airline miles card, for two reasons. First you're locked into earning miles with one airline rather than having points that transfer to a variety of airlines. But second and more importantly because they simply don't earn the most points. Continue reading What Are The Most Rewarding Cards to Actually Use For Your Spending...          • Email to a friend •   Did an American Airlines Flight Attendant Steal a Passenger’s iPhone & Post Selfies? An American Airlines passenger reportedly got off her flight and realized she left her iPhone behind. She wanted to get back on the aircraft, but a flight attendant told her to continue down the jetway and and "she'd look and bring it to her." However the flight attendant is said to have claimed she couldn't find the phone. Days later though the passenger says that selfies of the flight attendant began showing up in the passenger's iCloud. Continue reading Did an American Airlines Flight Attendant Steal a Passenger’s iPhone & Post Selfies?...          • Email to a friend •   Chase Credit Cards Can Now Fund Horseracing Bets The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 provides penalties for financial institutions who allow themselves to fund illegal online gambling activities. However fantasy sports, state lotteries, and horse racing are not clearly included activities in the law. Most financial institutions have stayed well on the 'safe side' of the law and prohibited customer activity that isn't actually illegal under the Act. Continue reading Chase Credit Cards Can Now Fund Horseracing Bets...          • Email to a friend •   Amtrak Acela Train Separated in Maryland This Morning Amtrak's train 2150 from Washington Union Station to New York Penn Station broke apart between the first (first class) and second (quiet) cars this morning and "sparks and smoke went everywhere." There have been four fatal Amtrak incident since December. Fortunately no one was walking between cars when this incident occurred today or we'd be looking at a fifth. Continue reading Amtrak Acela Train Separated in Maryland This Morning...          • Email to a friend •   Family Attacks Airport Security, Body Slamming One to the Ground Ricardo Vidal and his family landed at Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport. He was stopped by security "as he tried to return airside after discovering baggage handlers were on strike and attempted to return to pick up his luggage." He wasn't having any of it. 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