When I bought groceries this week, I bought a bag of shredded "Mexican" blend cheese. I arrived home and started putting away my purchases and I took a good look at the cheese. It contains Cheddar Cheese (British), Monterey Jack (US), Asedero (Mexican) and Queso Quesadilla (Mexican). Wouldn't you think a Mexican blend would have all Mexican cheeses? There were at least 5 more cheeses they could have chosen from, although some are cheeses that soften but don't melt. I have a friend who gets upset because she thinks those of us who live in the US believe Taco Bell serves Mexican food. I told her that surely no one over 14 believes that, but she could be right. If you go to any non-Mexican, non-fast food eatery and order a "Mexican" dish, quesadillo, burrito, taco, ect. It will be covered in cheddar cheese. She keeps telling me Mexican's don't have yellow cheese. She isn't 100% accurate, Chihuahua can have a pale yellow color and supposedly tastes similar to a mild cheddar. She also says taco shells are not supposed to be hard. She says the taco is like a sandwich. They either wrap or roll the filling in a tortilla or sandwich it between two tortillas. I am not sure, but I believe the hard "U" shaped tortilla called a taco shell originated in the state of New Mexico in the 1940's.
Anyway, I have recently been annoyed by a commercial for a website called Been Verified dot Com. I finally checked it out. I guess, other than being a medium quality commercial, what annoys me is that while this commercial promises one thing it sort of makes people think they are getting something else. Basically they prey on a common misconception. There are 3 terms people kind of use interchangeably. This commercial is for a website that offers a background check on people, but they way the commercial is worded it seems like you would be getting a criminal background check. I have had, in my job to do criminal background checks as well as criminal history checks. They are similar, but not exactly the same. A background check is a completely different animal.
A background check is basically a list of where people have lived and went to school. It may include whether they graduated, what jobs they had, marital status, land ownership, business ownership, ect. Most of which should be public record. A criminal background check would have all of this plus arrest records (not public information), conviction records (public record but not always easy to get), outstanding warrants. A criminal history would only be interested in the arrest, conviction and warrants part of this. A very thorough background check done for a security clearance, bonding purposes, ect, would probably include a credit check.
This commercial seems to be promising to give you the info to keep your family safe. I visited the site. I read the disclaimer and info at the bottom of the page and in really small print. This site basically charges you $16 monthly or $96 yearly to run unlimited searches of public information. You aren't getting any confidential or criminal information you couldn't easily get anyway. This site is a convenience site. If you Google everyone you meet, this might save you some time and money, but really if you are worried about going into business with someone, taking a large job where you might take a risk on getting paid, or hiring someone to do a big money job, hire a company that can do an actual criminal background check. In Tennessee, for $25 the TBI will run a criminal history for you. That and a check with the better business bureau and good, old-fashion asking around are probably more accurate.
The mentioned website basically simplifies searching through the major search sites, the social networks, the various sex offender data bases, and the free people finder sites. They also let you run special searches like the social networks, reverse address and phone look ups, ect. All of this you can do for free. Unless you look up a lot of people pretty often, it seems like a rip off.
Coming Soon....local dumb crook story.
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