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Credit Cards
SCREAMING EAGLE-66 replied to eulesseagle's topic in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)
---Most of those Bank-type credit cards issued are actually operated by a larger bank and just offered by a local unit. Locals don't have that kind of resourses. One big advantage of a nation-wide bank is the ability to get cash in many many cities..... It reduces the need for a credit card or carrying large amounts of cash. Big national banks are good if you travel a lot... if not ... not much advantage so use a local type bank. -
---GE also does military contracts ... but not any trucks, other vehicles, or tanks... GE doesn't make them but they may make some parts used in them... The automobile companies manufacturer them. Did you ever wonder why no cars were made during the early 1940's.... Auto companies made materials for the military.
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---You do realize that GM does make things other than cars and trucks including home appliances.. The big problem is that they manufacture a lot of materials for the military. It was American heavy industry that allowed the USA, Britain and other allies to keep Germany from winning WWII. We can not allow this entire sector to fail or we would be exactly like Iraq was after the Gulf War... They had no way to replace the tanks, artillery etc. that they lost in the Gulf War. The Bush Jr. Iraq invasion faced a rather fangless military thus we had almost no invasion casualties. We need heavy industry for defense purposes. ---And yes the GM/Chrysler/Ford problem existed months before Obama was even elected or took office. Some here think it just appeared since then, it didn't, the problem appeared during the last administration and whoever was been elected was going to have to deal it. Obama is just trying to make the best of a bad situation as would have McCain or whoever. He may do ok or he may do terrible but you better hope he succeeds because this is your country. Our "conservative" Pres that overran his budget (doubled the national debt) by more than the previous 42 presidents COMBINED gets a lot of credit plus the lack of financial controls after they were removed has messed that up as well. Face reality, he was a failure as no other President has been. ---We do not want to placed into a situation that we need to depend on Honda or Mercedes-Benz to provide us basic military weapons which includes trucks..
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Credit Cards
SCREAMING EAGLE-66 replied to eulesseagle's topic in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)
Suggest you find another card if rate is that high. They used that as an excuse to raise it I'll bet. I am assuming auto payment doesn't mean car-payment. Public libraries have computers... I use them when traveling....(just need to be careful with them) A stamp and envelope works as well....Just send in an estimate or maybe an overestimate.. you have the address. So what if you have a few dollars balance the next month. It is not wasted money and beats penalities. -
Credit Cards
SCREAMING EAGLE-66 replied to eulesseagle's topic in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)
---The regulations on bank-cards proposed by this administration are needed to protect card users... read them.... don't assume what they are proposing is bad, they are needed. . The banks are now trying to figure out other ways to get to the consumer now. Personally I don't care what the "leading rate" is. . I pay them off every month.... and if they try to impose usage fees then it will back to cash and checks for me except when traveling. I never use them in restaurants now..... too many cases of number theft by employees... No one makes people use them.. Bank cards did not exist before the 60's and few credits cards did. People can survive without them and most people people would be better off without one. I would like to the think all of the "credit-card stupid" people for the perks that I have received. (free gasoline, airline tickets etc.) ---If you pay them off every month... why would you even care what the rate was ??? ---What is with the "Thank Prez" comment. His actions and proposals have all been about protecting the card user... not the bank. They are trying to stop banks from raising rates on balances that currently exist... and limit the higher rates to new purchases. At the same time, payments are to applied to the older purchases... sounds fair to me. -
--Should we require all police to get a law degree first... after all they deal with America's laws every day.???? ---Perhaps they just need to know the laws that they are asked to enforce... just as teachers need to know well the content of the subject they are to teach... and not everything about subjects they do not teach. I manage to teach math (includes Calculus) without knowing much the about advanced studies of Chaucer and Wadsworth (thank goodness) or the history of Tibet.
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Are you people serious?!?!?!? ...you don't have a problem if the people teaching our kids these skills can't do PHYSICS problems? ....What difference does it make if an elementary school kid would see PHYSICS problem? How about a Jr. High student? Should we demand that our teachers can do PHYSICS at a Jr. High level in order to be able to teach? Or, maybe a HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS LEVEL EVEN?!? The bar is set WAAAAAAAAAAAY too low if you guys are just OK with this. THIS is why our Public Schools are failing. THIS is why. They don't understand basic PHYSICS. _______________ ---------same difference----- everyone should be able to understand electricity, electric currents, and atomic material, it is around them everyday..even this computer and the internet is based on those principles.... everyone you should obviously fully understand anything they use..!! How can teacher's possibility teach using computers when they can't really understand them and how they work. ... LOL ... English teachers should be able to explain the inner workings of the internet... since they obviously have good writing skills. Even electricians and computer techies who have no college educations understand a lot about these things.... therefore it is expected teachers should know them as well. ........ get real.
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--I can promise you that the average elementary or likely middle school student in Japan never sees this type of problems ... very advanced students maybe a few of them. That is BS put out by a few people. Granted they do better than we do but politicians likely let teachers teach.. Also comparisons are a bit strange too since most scores reported from other countries are not from the masses of population. Some have "college bound tracks" and that is what you are often seeing as typical scores. --- I really haven't noticed that the students that I have had from foreign schools have excelled in my classes.. A few yes... but so have many of my American students also. PS: if you have kids I welcome you to explain to them how to work those problems with all those fractional and negative exponents plus the more complicated geometry problems..... good luck. ..after all you said they were rather easy so you should have no trouble explaining them to your elementary kids who no doubt also has the great mathematics genes you have.
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--- Did you actually look at the sample problems... ??? The word Elementary is a bit misleading. Not one of those problems would ever appear in a elementary school school setting and few even in a junior high class. . Most secondary teachers should do ok on it but even then most of them are well past what anyone would encounter even in Algebra I. This should be a rather easy (aka elementary) exam for those with a math degree but maybe not for some who are just certified to teach junior high and below. They would not need to know how to do most of them anyway to be effective at that level. --- I would not have any trouble with them but then again I teach college mathematics. --- I also hate the testing program in Texas.. a lot of what is tested on is "horse manure" and not really all that practical to many people. It takes away from real instruction and is in place mostly so politicians can brag that they are doing something about education... They are .. they are ruining it. Besides... not every kid in public high schools is bound for college and those students will never have any use for much of items tested. --This is coming from a person that has nothing at stake in the public school testing... I don't teach there... I just get to teach those that graduated under this idiot system. ---Teachers don't need math degrees to teach elementary math, but they do need a very good knowledge of basic mathematics...that is not what this test was testing.
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--The defense was bad but special teams was even worse. Too many turn-overs and TD returns. That allowed a lot of points in very quick time.
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Father At 12
SCREAMING EAGLE-66 replied to hickoryhouse's topic in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)
---I detest abortions but there are times it makes sense. I once had a student (age 13, almost 14) that got already had one kid and was pregnant for a second time. We tax payers were getting to pay for those kids and will for years. Plus do you think this was the best thing for that girl... She kept those kids and I am sure that they are likely to be social problems later as well. [ rumor was her mother was a prostitute ] I have no idea who the father(s) were. I know, here comes the right to life folks. .... -
--- I completely vote with the cop. He might could have handled it better (seemed pretty patient to me) but he had the right to get her to move out of a public area because she was interfering with the right of others to use the walk. . Teachers suffer the same problem in classroom. Some kids think can do anything. Those who are siding with her probably have never been in charge of anything. She was a total idiot. Her real problem was not sitting on the sidewalk but ignoring a lawful request. --- Cops, firemen, etc., and educators have to have the authority to be in control of their situation or just do away with them. Obviously they have to follow certain rules but his request for her to move and later to provide identification was lawful.
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---Despite his "claims" he was the most liberal (leftist) president financially we ever had... He doubled the national debt which means he increased the national debt as must as the previous 42 Presidents COMBINED. He was great at spending a whole lot more than he took in income (taxes). Wish I could do that... spend a lot more than I make. We kept saying that but some would not listen and kept believing his claims that" he was a conservative". Now we have this financial mess he left us. ---Our other "right-wing" president (Reagan) was once the president of a labor union [screen Actrs Guild in liberal Hollywood California] and he managed a to more than double the national debt. Some things just aren't as they are claimed.
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--We agree completely... four wins doesn't make me happy but I might not be irate either...if we are competitive in most of the other games and don't just mail it in during the second half. Never give up and keep trying and I will respect them.
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Nancy Pelosi
SCREAMING EAGLE-66 replied to hickoryhouse's topic in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)
---Funny....... that is amazing... I was cleaning out old emails yesterday that I had sent/received after Dodge's first season and one in Jan 2008 was about how terrible the NT football situation was and how many points we had allowed... We both agreed it could not get any worse.... well it did.... last fall we had one less win and we allowed about 30 points more. ...LOL... Clearly you are right... it can get worse... let us hope 2009 is not even worse still. -
Acorn
SCREAMING EAGLE-66 replied to eulesseagle's topic in The Eagles Nest (There Should be Pie For Everyone Forum)
--Acorn is a nutty organization.... (could not resist) -
-- That even makes less sense. Colter: "It's not just Christianity – it's women liberals hate." Holy Moly and then she goes on to mention, Bill Clinton and John Edwards etc. and those terrrible liberals... It seems liking women was their problem. She is a complete idiot. ok which is it... ?? She always calls Carter a Liberal but at the same time he is a Sunday school teacher and very much a Bible thumper.. pick one. According to her it is impossible to be both. ......LOL.. She is a joke.
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---Did you just say the Taliban is LIBERAL....?? Holy Moly .... I can't think of a group that is more conservative**.. the women totally have to cover themselves up including a screen over their eyes and if you don't believe as they so they try to kill you.... that is Liberal.... ??? Extremely Liberal is-- everything is allowed... drugs, alcohol, sexual misconduct etc. The Taliban doesn't just punish people for that... they kill them. ** One person may be more conservative than the Taliban.... Colter..... who even thinks the Taliban are Liberals..... unbelievable.
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---Socialized medicine...?? It hasn't passed and no bill has been written. ....... and you have numbers for it.... interesting... One thing you tend to forget..the GOP tends to vote in lock-step... the Democrats don't and are more independent thinking and don't just support everything they are asked to support. .... there is a lot of opposition to it.
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--- You just don't get it.. My "team" is about what about what is best for America and being honest ...not about any party I am not about to defend Obama. He is trying correct the problems created by Bush... It may not work at all but stick around and see what happens. Doing nothing sure isn't going to work. OVERSPENT.... ??? That is an understatement... he incresaed the national debt as much maybe more than all of the other 42 Presidents combined and you still think he was a conservative as he claimed and you defend him ... get real.
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---Did the GOP forget Clinton was President and about his actions..... NOPE. What is good for one is good for the other. ---Besides we are still having to live with the problems Bush left us and some of you are now trying to push the blame onto Obama. I am not big fan of him but let us at least be honest. ... Like I said the truth hurts when it involves your hero of the past eight years. You were told what was happening.... but did not listen. ---I am far from a liberal... (few Democrats are as some try to picture them...which is gay, un-Christian, unpatriotic, or wanting to run up the debt...(which Bush did) . Personally I do support telling the truth and not invading countries on flimsy excuses which were not even true and rspending money you don't have and letting financial instutions run wild like a classroom of unsupervised kids. ..... which is exactly what they did once so many controls were removed. --- As said above, releasing those pictures can do no good ..... and it might cause us harm... This is not about keeping any promises.... Grow up.
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--The first paragraph is very good and those laws should have been passed long ago. With the system we have now companies should be able to refuse their use when the balance exceeds the limit. The idiots here are both the idiots that run them up and the companies for accepting them when the balance is so high. Payments should always apply to the oldest charges... which may or may not be the part with the lowest interest rate. ---People need to learn that the easy money (credit) received is not that easily paid. I have little pity for them. Get smarter.