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Monday, November 7. 2011Monday morning links10 Unbelievable Things the Chinese Believe What is quirky about the United States? BestGear's women's wellies The lost Leonardo - London's National Gallery will exhibit 'Salvator Mundi' in a show of Leonardo da Vinci. The painting has attributes suggesting it's of the period, and experts have weighed in positively. The big college scam - It's bad enough; the president's loan initiative will make it that much worse Huge asteroid headed for close encounter with Earth The Inadequate Political Magick of Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney Osama 'Bert' Laden: angry Seals claim Obama blew intel:
McDonald's chief : Curb spending and cut taxes Europe too socialist for the Chinese:
Markets In Everything: Home Sales in Cuba During Obama’s tenure, Wall Street has roared back, even as the broader economy has struggled.
She is infantile. Purchases a service, but doesn't want to pay for it. Borrows money, but doesn't want to pay it back. Boo hoo. From reading the transcript of Thompson’s report, it appears that Thompson knows nothing about the 2005 climate study by climate scientists which says that anthropogenic global warming will result in less snow, not more snow. We have all learned by now that weather is climate, except when it's not Comments
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RE - Osama 'Bert' Laden - almost had get a new keyboard, due to to an oral coffee explosion, when I read that article - and, remembering all those old Intertube shots of 'Bert is Evil'. Good to see the SEALs haven't lost their humor...
Bird Dog: "Global warming or DDT? "
Turns out most countries can walk and chew bubble gum—at the same time! http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/06465.html (Unrestricted use of DDT would not be effective as mosquitoes quickly develop resistance. This is due to widespread historical use of DDT for agricultural purposes. WHO has approved DDT for indoor residual spraying, where it can be effective. Malathion is generally more effective for general vector control, but DDT can also be used if it is carefully control to prevent the evolution of resistant populations of insects.) - xposted to Dinocrat Find the truth about DDT here:
http://junkscience.com/ddt-and-malaria/ Ms. Katchpole:
"Starting in December, the art and architectural history major has to figure out a way to start paying off her student loans, which she says will require payments of at least $200 a month. “I don’t know what I am going to do!” said Katchpole, a freelance account manager at a political consulting firm called Winning Over Washington. (Its main client is the progressive group MoveOn.org.) “I am going to have to defer my loans. I have no idea. Why should I be expected to pay them off now? Why are colleges charging interest on that stuff? Give us a break. Really.” ... She has sent job applications to Planned Parenthood, the Center for American Progress and SEIU but has heard nothing. She is fretting that a grace period for her student loans ends in December. “I’ll owe about $200 to $250 a month,” she said. “Oh, she’s got more than close to $400-$500 a month,” her mother said. “She has well over $40,000 in student loans.” They did give you a break. They lent you $40K so that you could get a college degree when you couldn't afford to do so yourself. Now instead of being grateful you're complaining that they owe you another break. When someone lends you money they're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They're doing it to make money. If they don't charge you interest, they can't pay back the people who gave them the money to loan to you. And if you don't pay the money back you are defrauding the people who lent you that money. They don't owe you. You owe them. The question then becomes why you borrowed $40K to get a degree in art and architectural history if you had no means of paying it back? And here's another question that no one like you seems ever to ask - what business did the school have charging you such large amounts of money for that degree? Good for you RonF... you make the point I was going to make. "They don't owe you, lady. You owe them." Apparently, you didn't bother to assess whether what you took as courses would give you a viable earnings profile. I suspect that most of the rowdies demonstrating in "Occupy" displays throughout the country ever thought, during their more sober moments, "I wonder if this course will give me more viable knowledge to succeed in the marketplace.
Bet they didn't. Marianne P.S. Bird Dog ... sorry for the use of my husband's computer rather than my own. Mine is 'hors de combat' and will take a few more days to complete the uninstall/reinstall rodeo to bring it back to its senses. MM |
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