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Thought that "Synchrony Financial" rang a bell. Wickipedia: "prior to its 2014 initial public offering, which raised $2.88 billion, Synchrony operated as a subsidiary of GE Capital".
I deny everything. I wasn't there when it happened and I have no idea even what happened, if in fact anything did happen. I don't speak Russian and have no idea how my name became involved in this fake witch hunt. I was only talking about adopting o…
Lord, preserve us from the "Tampa Bays"! But there was another guy, went by the name of "Dex" (among a few others... he posted under a variety of names, sometimes praising his own posts) who was even worse. This new poster reminded some of us of "De…
Reminds me of an experience in Turkey years ago- asked directions to a good local coffee shop, got pointed to a Starbucks located right behind me next to the ship dock. Finally convinced the young policeman that we wanted the real thing- then we had…
I was unaware that a monopoly on posting is in force at MFO.
@Ted: Thanks for commenting on Hanks' post, thus kicking it into the "Discussions +" category!
Allstate never was much for customer support, but some years ago they decided to actively shed customers, and did so with a selective barrage of customer-unfriendly actions. They couldn't just cancel customers outright for no good reason, so they ge…
Add, from WSJ, 6:41PM, EST:
North Korea Threat Comes After Trump Vows ‘Fire and Fury’... North Korea ‘carefully examining’ plan to launch missiles at Guam
As tensions rose, a senior Trump administration official said Tuesday that Washington should…
UPDATE, Per the Wall Street Journal: (5:55 PM, EST)
North Korea Makes Rare Explicit, Specific Threat on Guam: North Korean Military “Carefully Examining” Operational Plan to Launch Missiles at Guam
Kim Jong Ordered Guam Plan After U.S. Air Force F…
"It's really a shame about the Europeans not making the diesel passenger cars clean. I have driven diesel rentals in GB, France, Germany, Spain, etc. at different times in the past 20 years and I was always impressed with performance and mileage."
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We have two houses to insure: a100-year old SF home, and a 20-year old Russian River home. Vehicle-wise, there is one 8-year old Toyota Tacoma pickup, and one 30-year old Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. The Tacoma has 75k on it, the Olds about 72k(!). A…
@Edmond- I don't have any direct knowledge re Barrons but I would be surprised if you're not right re their "dumbing down". It's endemic, from The Smithsonian right on down through the Wall Street Journal. One of the few that still maintain a decent…
It's true that "many discussions go into directions that the original poster and others didn't intended them to go".
However, that's not the case with respect to my posts where the subject under discussion is Trump's obvious inability to follow the…
@Maurice: "Trump understands the conversation with Turnbull very well."
Odd. Here's the article title, and a few samples of the annotated editorial comments:
"Australia’s Prime Minister Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot "
• "In the trans…
"Then blame davidmoran for the deviation of the conversation. My comments were a direct rebuke of the article he linked. So either you didn't read his link, or you are heaping your dissatisfaction in the wrong direction."
@Maurice: David's link is…
Not worthy of you Mo. That conversation clearly reveals a man who cannot listen accurately, cannot understand repeated clarification when presented in plain, simple language, and is more interested in expounding on his own preconceived prejudice tha…
