PayPal Credit

PayPal Credit

Pay Pal web site communication sent November 24, 2015:

“I made an E-Bay purchase.  I thought my credit card on file was good but evidently it was not.  Home Depot was hacked and I was issued a new credit card.  I must have failed to update my E-Bay account, not sure.  I get a bill by mail telling me I owe $17.  Evidently my charges were made into a loan.  I never use loans.  I pay everything by credit card and am against starting any loan.  I checked my past e-mail and found no notice of this.  The original purchase was for $20 but I got a $10 credit for some reason.  In just a couple of months the bill rose up by $7.  I consider that a criminal interest rate.  I am sent an opportunity to respond to a survey but when I tried to use it it had timed out.  I recently sent a check for $20 to cover any other alleged criminal level interest rates.”

Quite some time later I got a check in the mail for $3 from Pay Pal Credit.

PayPal Credit is not recommended.

 

Trap Door Option For Donald Trump

Trap Door Option For Donald Trump

It is quite possible and recommended for Donald Trump to consider a trap door option.  He could secretly meet with the Republican oligarchs and make a deal that both sides might wish for.  Donald could offer to bow out of the primary process and endorse a candidate that Trump and the oligarchs both approve.  But, only if Donald gets a huge payment.  He would appear to the world as falling upon his sword for the party.

Advantages:

  • Donald’s chances of becoming the next president are exceedingly slim.  He would avoid being a looser.
  • Donald can achieve even more popularity for saving the Republican Party.  His approval rating might even go higher.
  • Donald could walk away with a lot more money.  He could even bargain for future  political favors and influence in the Republican Party.
  • His chances of running for president in the next election might improve.  He could even play this gambit again for future gain.
  • Donald gets some of his income for just applying his name to businesses.  His name just might be worth more to more customers after he resigns to “save the party”.

Disadvantages:

  • Can’t think of any.

Please note: If Trump becomes the United States president, he should consider that his holdings, which are in a lot of foreign countries, puts those assets at possible risk.  His name is emblazoned on a lot of foreign properties.  It is conceivable that those properties could be targets for radical groups who wish to make a political statement.  The actual property owners might wish to remove Trump’s name and along with that his payment for placing his name on the business.  It is reported that some of the businesses that has Trump’s name on them are branded and Trump gets payment for his name but fails to actually own the business.  It would be real interesting to read all the escape clauses in the branding contracts to see how easy and quickly any business could remove Trump’s name.

DCCC E-Mail Apparently Flawed And No One To Report Too.

DCCC E-Mail Apparently Flawed And No One To Report Too.

Date: February 25, 2016

I received an e-mail from the DCCC with an interesting enticement.

“You could watch Bernie or Hillary accept the nomination IN PERSON!”

“You could be on your way to the convention to see our nominee! We’ll put you up in a hotel and buy your flight — so you just need to worry about who you’ll bring!”

I got hooked.  I tried following the steps but something wrong took place.  I decided to notify the DCCC about an apparent problem they might have.

Following is an e-mail I composed and then tried to send on to the DCCC.  I could not find a single workable e-mail address for the DCCC or any of its members.  I found names of candidates and DCCC members and they seem to be out of touch using e-mail from my application, Mac Mail.  The best it got was for me to fill in a web site message which I took to mean that no one would read it but they were farming my contact information.  I could not add images of the Firefox error using their web page mail.  So being a blogger, I decided to send the DCCC the e-mail right from this web page.  Here it is:

“Good going guys.  You do not seem to know how to put up a working web site.
I get an e-mail from this address: [email protected].  It shows an apparent campaign gimmick.
I click on  the words: FIRST: “Fill out a bracket and pick the Republicans you believe will win on Super Tuesday.   (See image below)”

But-First

I am directed to a web site which I can not share with you as it has my personal information inside that web address (which is weird)!  This may be a method for them to automate who is actually reading their sales advertisements.
What is shocking for me and why I wanted to let the DCCC know they apparently have a problem as follows.

“My Firefox notifies me that your web site is NOT SECURE!”  (See image below).

 

Firefox-Error

I decided to bail out of this DCCC sales pitch and NOT complete their process.

Using Privacy Badger, an extension that I installed into Firefox, I reported this problem after not being able to communicate directly with the DCCC.

“This will automatically send the following information to EFF: the site you’re currently visiting, your browser version, the version of Privacy Badger, and the state of all the sliders for this site.”

 

NOTE:  I found out that when I sent a donation to the DCCC, I then got a LOT of e-mail.  Many of these political sources do not allow you to unsubscribe.  I really recommend that you create a separate e-mail account for spammers to use.

 

Garmin Forerunner 411 Screen Frozen

Garmin Forerunner 411 Screen Frozen

I have owned my Garmin for years but one day the screen froze.  The watch only showed date and time but both failed to advance.  I went to the Internet to find a solution.  Each solution given required different buttons to be pressed at the same time.  Nothing worked.  Out of desperation I put the device back on the charger and started to press different button combinations.  What worked for me was to press all four buttons at the same time while it was being charged.  The frozen date time disappeared and “Garmin” splashed on the screen followed by the battery charge image.

One Of Many Republican Conundrums – Appointment Of A Supreme Court Justice

One Of Many Republican Conundrums – Appointment Of A Supreme Court Justice

The Republican Party has a lot of nasty issues facing it at the beginning of 2016, most brought upon itself.  The issue I wish to address is an apparent conundrum which now allows President Obama to recommend a “Supreme Court” justice to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.  The Republican leadership obviously wants their specific choice for oligarch boot licker to be sitting in that court and not one appointed by a Democrat.  For the more intelligent but rather small Republican strategists it might occur that if they thwart Obama from making his choice a lot of Democrats and independents might drift toward voting for a Democrat president, in the next presidential election, in the hopes of thwart the “Supreme Court”, the US Senate, and the House of Representatives from obtaining a Republican majority.  This nation really needs a balance of power and not a dictatorship.  The problem for the Republican strategists is which is more important to them and their oligarch masters?  Do they allow President Obama to make his appointment so as to pacify voters on the fence or do they stop any Democrat appointments to the Supreme Court in the hopes that a Republican president gets in office and then they can pick the next “Supreme Court justice?  My bet is that they will try to put a toady into the “Supreme Court” as soon as possible because if they are successful  that results in a longer term trajectory of pleasing the oligarch class.  What is interesting is if the Republicans miscalculate and attempt to put in their lickspittle and fail in this attempt and the American public witness this charade then they might piss off the American public and loose the presidential election.  Then, the next president might very well slide in much more progressive Supreme Court candidate because he or she will have four years to accomplish this appointment and not just nine months for President Obama.  The progressives, who have been amazingly asleep about the importance of a balanced “Supreme Court” hopefully will now take strong measures to appoint one of their choices and less likely try to accommodate the Republicans.

Having Trouble With Learning Math?

Having Trouble With Learning Math?

A women working at a Starbucks told me that her son was having problems with math.  I said I would try to find a book for her son that might help.   I did find a number of Internet book recommendations but none of the local used book stores or new book sellers had the books I was looking for.  My wife wanted to go to Barnes and Noble Book Store and I took that opportunity to look for what they had in stock.  They only had one book in the kids section which seemed to have good reviews and I purchased it.  I then went into the adult math book section and by chance found an astonishing math book called “Help Your Kids With Math“.    When I was very young my parents purchased an electronic theory book set that instructed the reader mainly with pictures.  Those books helped me become self taught in electronics.  I had never seen a math book teaching the reader by using images like this book.  Even though this book says it is aimed at teaching kids, I bought me a copy.  A few days later I purchased another copy for the Starbucks barista’s son.  I slipped in a letter to this by which I will show you below:

Dear xxxxx,

Your mom told me you are having difficulty in math.  I am giving you this book in the hope it helps you comprehend math in a new visual way.  Some tricks I have learned about problem solving I will now share with you.  First, do not give up.  Second, walk around the problem to view it from a different perspective.  Third, try to understand the problem using different methods.  Fourth, when facing a near impossible problem, turn it into a challenge, a contest.

Some times just going to school and listening to a teacher and reading a school text book will fail you.  Some times you need to seek out a different method if you are not understanding the material.

I am giving you this book because it offers you all of these solutions.  This book shows you all of math visually.  The book should look scary to you beyond the first few chapters.  This is because it shows you the whole math path and you are at its beginning.  Use it as a reference book.  It should help you all your life to “see” math relationships.  I have never seen this method used for math before.  I am really impressed with this book.   I have my own copy.

Why study math?  Math is a language; it is a method; it is a tool; it is a long struggle; it is tough to learn and it offers wonderful rewards when you understand it.  Because it is tough to learn, it can determine how successful you might be in some professions and how much money you will make.  For example, if you can comprehend trigonometry, you can better become a computer game designer.  If you pass calculus you can get a degree in business, engineering and science making $50,000 to $100,000 or more.  If you go further and become an actuary, you should make $150,000 to $250,000 a year.

As you can see, the math path has more rewards the further you can travel its length.  I do hope this book helps you get further.   Please remember not to give up.

Update:  3-6-19:  The web link needed to be replaced because I got a “404 Not Found”.