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ohb0b

- 29 Jan 08
- 1:03 pm
I'm managing to beat them at their own game... so far. I put all my purchases on one card, I balance the credit card just like a checking account; keep track of all debits, and send in a full payment each payday (bi-weekly for me) I have never been charged any interest on this account, and sometimes the statement shows a credit balance. I also transferred all my other outstanding balances to a card with a low interest "teaser" rate. When the teaser rate expires, someone else offers me another one. (I'm down to owing less than $1000) I once lost …

Posted to Killer Credit
- 31 Jan 08
- 7:56 pm
Thanks, Sailmariner. That explains a lot... like why I get my statement a few days before the payment is due!

Posted to Killer Credit
- 18 Apr 07
- 9:44 pm
Here in Washington State, we had a very close governor's race in 2006. The Democratic candidate won after a second re-count (the one Gore never got in 2000) The election was certified by the Republican Secretary of State, who found no evidence of voter fraud. Then the state Republican Party filed suit in a hand-picked venue: a rural county, with a Republican leaning judge. The judge dismissed their complaint WITH PREJUDICE (which means "you don't have a case, quit wasting the court's time) Still the local rant-wingers can't leave it alone. Talk radio is full of "voter fraud" allegations. (In the …

Posted to The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud
- 23 Apr 07
- 2:09 pm
Some people suffer from irony deficiencies, Aunty.

Posted to The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud
- 26 Apr 07
- 2:42 pm
Wordsalad? What a wonderful term! I am all for turning the tables on the rant-wing, and using their own terms against them. Anyone remember "Nixon's the One?" It can be surprisingly easy.... for years the adjective "knee-jerk" prefixed the noun "liberal." But the mere mention of gay marriage, abortion rights, estate tax, and about a dozen other wedgie issues causes the average rant-winger to suffer chest pains from their knees hitting their rib cages.

Posted to The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud
- 27 Apr 07
- 3:54 am
Aunty; Occasionally, someone else notices what I have been observing for several years: If you control the language, you can control the debate. Katrina Vanden Huevel over at The Nation wrote an article several months back touching on it. For awhile I thought the "Paris Hilton Tax was going to make it big. I call it Republican Newspeak. Like Orwell's Newspeak, its purpose is to make dissenting thought literally unthinkable, because there will be no words to express it. The real test seems to be if you can get NPR to use the word or phrase. Their best success so far …

Posted to The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud