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Re: Credit Cards
Fishspanker
23 minutes ago
I have several of them. Chase Sapphire, United Explorer card, and an Amex that my wife gets thru her job at Morgan Stanley. The Amex has a $750 annual fee but she gets it free. It’s got a bunch of perks.
Pay them all off every month. Run a bunch of money through them. Collect points for Airlines. Usually get about 6 Airline tickets or so a year. I have used the points to buy international tickets like for our trip to Scotland. Those tickets would have been $3,500 for two.
We probably average $2,500 to $3,500 a year in free Alirine tickets. Card fees total $250:yr so at least $2,250 net each year.
We won’t put anything on the card that charges a percentage to take the card.
United card give fee baggage plus group 2 boarding. Amex give free Precheck and Global entry. Also, free Clear which I haven’t gotten yet.
Works for us.
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Re: Lake Fork Trophy Lures
buda13
1 hour ago
Another vote for Bring Back the Craw tube!!! I bought a gallon zip lock of white ones many years ago, incredible bed fishing bait. Hard to beat a green pumpkin craw tube pitched in the junk… was my favorite flipping bait.
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Re: Pavilion
hopalong
2 hours ago
Had to leave town to help son with his fixer upper he purchased. Crew worked a little on stone exterior while I was gone. I got 75% of electrical and plumbing completed before leaving. Not looking like completion prior to Easter but were getting closer. Firebox kit for fireplace going in this Friday, then my guys can start on the stone inside. I can start on interior walls this weekend. Of course work has gotten busy so any free time we have, I'm working to complete it ASAP. awesome as always. now, when is the get together for the ot miscreants? asking for a miscreant. Hop when we get it finished, maybe we can get Bryan at 407BBQ to cook for a get together. I'm only 5 miles west of his establishment.
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Re: Beach Vacations
Duke 22
5 hours ago
Do yourself and family a favor and try out Ana Maria Island, awesome beaches great food and your not elbow to elbow with tourists. It's not on the cheap side, but you get what you pay for.
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Re: Teacher Shortage?
patriot07
5 hours ago
I don’t reply to some posts because I learned long ago you can’t argue with stupid because you’ll never win. Yeah...fair enough yep electing old donnie will solve world hunger, we will find a cure for cancer, and cats will sleep with dogs and our education problems will be solved bigley...:) And old joe...well he will do something....just ain't sure what..:)
I don't care who is elected President. It will take state governments participation to fix the issues being discussed here with support from the US Congress. Now if anyone really thinks either one of the two old pharts running for President really has a clue or can really do something about our education system....I've got some nice ocean front property in Arizona I can let you have for a good price...:)
90% of education funding and teacher pay is controlled by your state legislatures. And you elect those people...so you are getting just what you asked and voted for. So while everybody is hollering to put religion back into schools (not that it was ever really there..or at least it wasn't when I was in school in the 60's and 70's) , or let them say gay ( it wasn't made a big deal of it in those years either), or whatever your issue hot button is that won't fix anything when it comes to how we educate people.
I'll say this again...and will probably get jumped on....stop with the whole liberal/conservative nonsense and teach literature, science, mathematics and humanities and let kids ask questions you might be uncomfortable with and let them learn to discern what to believe or not believe. Because both sides are equally guilty of trying to indoctrinate kids whether they acknowledge it or not. Basic human values of right and wrong aren't liberal or conservative and we don't need religion or government to know that.
They will survive....we all did and built the country we have enjoyed for the last 50 years.
The problem is that legislatures are made of lawyers and politicians that know exactly nothing about public education. They shouldn't be in the business of funding something they have no clue about. We didn't used to have an NEA and TEA. Need to go back to letting education be run at the local level.
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Re: Cowboys Vander Esch retiring
patriot07
5 hours ago
He's a young man with major health issues. I'm glad for his own sake that he's retiring I do not believe he has major health issues, as long as he does not play NFL football I think he will be just fine health wise. Great guy, wish him the best, maybe he will get into coaching. What I meant (but didn't say) was that I think he's headed for major health issues if he doesn't do the smart thing and get out now. I agree he's fine now. And I agree I wouldn't hate to see him on staff as a position coach
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Re: Lake Baccarac
Clearwater7
6 hours ago
Congrats! Sounds like the trip of a lifetime. I would love to go there one day. Was safety a concern? I've heard that it's not that safe down there.
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