Category: Dumb

Well isn’t this bloody great. Who do I have to thank for this brilliant move? Oh, it’s the government.

Within the next month, Bank of America, MBNA and Citigroup will raise minimum monthly payments on their cards from 2 percent of the balance to up to 4 percent, not including interest. Other card issuers are expected to make similar changes by the end of the year.

The good news is that the time it takes to pay off a balance will take much less time — if you have the money to make the minimum payments.

“On the good side of that, they will get out of debt faster, but on the down side, it’s gonna be a squeeze,” Greg Burgess, of Compass of Carolina, told WYFF News 4’s Tim Waller.

Credit card companies are under mounting pressure by the government to raise the minimum monthly payments to help Americans get out of debt more quickly. If you can’t afford the increase, experts recommend that you contact your credit card company and try to negotiate a lower interest rate, which could offer some relief.

You know, this comes at a time where I was just starting to get a good grip on my finances and pay all this crap down. Figures. I hope this fails miserably and it never comes to pass. Then again, the way things are going it will be lauded as the greatest thing ever. Right now I’m trying to find more information about this story to see if my future will be more screwed up than it already is.
This is what I’ve found so far:

Minimum payments on credit cards about to double
The new credit card squeeze

By the way, I think that this could ultimately lead to the United States becoming a land of better spenders in the long run but in the short run it will have devastating effects.

New Credit Card Payment Requirements Bring Good, Bad News

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Things like this make my brain hurt. What kind of parent would take their children to a place like this?

…Bolted to the wall in both the boys and girls rooms are chains with tracts by the cartoonist/evangelist Jack Chick hanging from them. The pages are laminated and set on rings for ease of reading while using the toilet.

Well at least they are in the right location. But this isn’t about the Chick Tracks, its about the ploy that the regious nuts are using to push their point.

Lets look at something for a moment. A theory is defined as “a model or idea that has undergone testing or validation from careful observations and can be used to make a variety of predictions of what will happen under different circumstances”. Evolution meets that pretty well.
Hovind’s dino land distorts the scientific observations of evolution so badly that it passes the point of absurdity and becomes somthing that is just sad. This write up sheds quite a bit of light on Dino Adventure Land and the man behind the scenes of it all. And before you call it a baseless personal attack on Hovind look at the information put forward by the authors investigation. County and IRS records should speak volumes about the guy.

This can be found in a display case next to a sandpit in the childrens ‘fossil dig’ area:

One dramatizes a scene from the Old English epic poem Beowulf (an inexpensive Dover Books edition of the poem is for sale in the bookstore.) The plaque explains that this is one of many examples of dinosaurs living contemporaneously with humans; apparently, Beowulf is a historical documentary and not just a legend.

Your kidding right? This is wrong on sooo many levels.
You have got to read this article and see just how crazy this place is.

Stupid Dino Tricks

Here is the ‘parks’ web page if you want to see this for yourself. I can not in good conscience reccoment that you go there except to see what kind of dreck people are exposed to there.

Dinosaur Adventure Land

If you go remember to shut your mouth, nod your head a lot, and don’t even think of mentioning critical thinking!
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… or “Why you should stay off the track during competition!”

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