Wednesday, May 28, 2014

What are good savings options for an 'emergency savings fund'?

What are good savings options for an 'emergency savings fund'?
I am in the unenviable position, where I live in the US my parents live in South Africa, and many other important family members live in New Zealand. Unenviable because as family members are getting older I am realizing sadly that I may need to have to make emergency trips to either South Africa or New Zealand in the coming months, years or perhaps even weeks. So since it costs so much money for airfare and especially on short notice, I want to save money in some emergency trip account (which probably doesn't even exist) or have some sort of insurance that can get me these travel arrangements on short notice. If anyone has any info or advice, to this regard I would be really happy, Thank you.
Insurance - 2 Answers
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Well, you can't buy insurance that will buy you airline tickets to go visit people in other countries. No such horse. You're probably best off using a money market account to save your money in. I like Schwab . . .www.schwab.com
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There is no insurance for this. And you do not need any special type of savings account. A regular, normal savings account is fine. So is a checking account.


Wednesday, May 14, 2014

What’s Wrong with America?

What’s Wrong with America?
What’s Wrong with America? I sure hope you like C-SPAN, reruns, and reality shows, because if we the Hollywood proletariat have our way, every writer in town is going on strike, perhaps as soon as this Thursday. If you ask me, it’s not a moment too soon. Technically, we’re striking against the producers, the studios, and the networks — the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers — who have been trying to screw us out of our fair share of VHS and DVD residuals for years, and whose initial offer was to screw us even harder. With a brave new world of iPhone technology on its way, we want to make sure we don’t get fooled again. But everyone knows we’re really striking against you, the ungrateful, reactionary, and probably crypto-fascist audience. You’ve let us all down by not going to see our movies. The Kingdom? A disappointment at $46 million. Rendition? A huge antiwar belly flop for Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, and the guy from Brokeback Mountain playing in 2,250 theaters that hasn’t yet managed $8 million. Elizabeth: The Golden Age? The Catholic-bashing costume party with Cate Blanchett in high dudgeon and higher drag is a flopola at $14 million. In the Valley of Elah, from scribe du jour Paul Haggis? It’ll be lucky to make $7 million. At this rate, you probably won’t even go to see Brian De Palma’s Redacted. Frankly, we’re tired of throwing our pearls before you swine. So we’re firing you. I mean, come on: the fourth installment of a torture-porn series, a Steve Carell laugher, a vampire movie set in Alaska and a comedy aimed at the, ahem, “urban audience” are opening up cans of cinematic whup-ass on the finest, most passionate anti-American movies our smartest, snarkiest Harvard grads can think up. And Lions for Lambs hasn’t even opened yet! Heck, The Rock’s family-values comedy The Game Plan has made $77 million, more than all the antiwar movies put together. It’s so sad: Here we were, on a roll, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in command of Congress, the Clinton Restoration practically a fait accompli, and Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize to use as a doorstop alongside his Oscar — and this is the thanks we get. Well, I just don’t get it. It’s not like our patriotism is questionable or anything. Like Bonosera the undertaker in The Godfather, we love U.S.-America, we believe in U.S.-America, just not U.S.-America the way she is now: a racist, sexist, homophobic bastion of white male privilege, built on the backs of Africans and Native Americans and exploited immigrants, seeking to export its murderous rage to the Middle East and beyond. And all right-thinking people — by which I mean “left-thinking” people, of course — agree with us. You certainly won’t get any argument on the west side of Los Angeles, and wherever I travel in this great land of ours — to places as diverse as San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and the Upper West Side — it’s unanimous. America stinks! So we want to change this country into something new and beautiful and socialist, a liberated America in which we middle-class Hollywood people (for so we like to think of ourselves; we’re not really rich) can live safely in our patrolled communities and send our kids to private schools while making sure your tax money goes to pacify the howling mob beyond the gates. An America, in other words, that looks more like South America or South Africa than Bedford Falls, condemned to eternal punishment for its moral turpitude. Who could possibly object to that? Another reason we’re striking is that there’s just too much competition these days from journalists. Who does this clown Scott Thomas Beauchamp think he is, pitching anti-war movies in the guise of writing a “Baghdad Diary” for The New Republic? He might have fooled his editors into thinking he was doing straight reporting, but anyone who lives within 50 miles of the intersection of Fairfax and Melrose can smell a scenario when he steps in it. It’s hard enough to make your bones and get into the Writers Guild of America, a closed-shop union that civilians can’t join, without worrying about a bunch of hacks making stuff up that makes America look bad and passing it off as truth in the hopes that some producer will come calling. That’s our job! So as the days dwindle down to a precious few, it’s looking more and more like we’re going out. The studios have stockpiled all the bad scripts they can get their hands on, the writers’ rooms are going 24/7 to churn out enough episodes to get the networks through Festivus, and nobody’s taking any pitches until this thing is over. It may be a while. Last Thursday, the producers have told us to forget about upgrading the DVD residuals, or any other residuals. For our part, the Guild membership has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike — the last one was in 1988, and lasted five months — and all over town, people are consulting their accountants and business managers over how they’re going to make their $20,000 a month mortgage nut if they’re not working. Both sides have called in a federal mediator when negotiations resume tomorrow. But unless this stooge of the Bush Administration waterboards us, it’s on to the picket lines at Paramount, ABC, and Warner Bros. We’re going to hit the AMPTP where it hurts, right in the pocketbook, and make ‘em remember that it all starts with the writer and if you think actors can invent stories and ad-lib dialogue, you’re a die-hard Robert Altman fan. But, even more, we’re going to hit you where you live: on your sofas. No more Letterman. No more Leno. No more Lost. No more great movies like Rendition to alert you to the evils of the Chimp-in-Chief and the Grand Vizier and their Illegal War in Iraq. The hell with you. We’ve knocked ourselves out for you, and this is how you repay us. Serves you right
Politics - 8 Answers
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Trust me. It's no big loss.
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Too many brainwashed right-wing moonbats who are unable to think for yourselves, so you regurgitate the prefabricated fairy tales fed to you by the lunatic right-wing crackpot party and its propaganda mill.
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The current administration holding The Executive Branch of Government.
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I prefer reading anyway. Look at it as an opportunity for screen writers to become best selling authors. And set design people to design book and cd covers. Camera people can create beautiful coffee table books...etc Quit whining!
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Does not matter to me as I dont go to movies or watch much television. What I do watch is usually documentaries.
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Nice cut & paste, intellectual property theft is still theft and quite frankly if you knew squat about the subject, which even the pundit you ripped off doesn't, you'd know this is ridiculous tripe and there are reasons why the American public isn't into drama's about the failures of Conservatism at the moment, after idiotically vesting themselves in two terms of a business and now political failure all they really want to do is take off the old head and not think about it for awhile, afterall they are just coming to terms with the painful reality that not only were they wrong, they've been had and not just them thier childrens futures as well, so while you may think the author you robbed was witty you're both just flat out as wrong as hollywoods timing, had these come out oh say 4 years ago they may have made a difference, now they are just so much of what we already know and quite frankly it's too depressing to want to rehash at the moment
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Doesn't sound to me you believe in every person's worth and dignity like you copy and paste in so many of your answers.
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I myself have wondered "What happened to the United in the United States of America? What ever happened to the days when Americans stood United as ONE and not DIVIDED. I believe the United States of America has United in front of the States of America because it means to stand together. Americans stood UNITED gainst the British Empire during the American Revolution, Federalist and Anti-Federalist stood UNITED and wrote the Constitution of the United States of America, and Americans stood UNITED to rebuild the United States of America after the Civil War. During the time of when my parents and grandparents were growing up, Americans were UNITED. Parents stood UNITED and took responsiblities to raising their children. Children were UNITED and respected their elders, and a man and a women were UNITED before marriage before they had children. Today, America is not UNITED as we use to be. Parents are not always taking responsiblities of their children, not all children have respect for their eleders, and there are more boyfriend & girlfriend couples having children when they are not married in the United States of America. Why is there no UNITED in the United States of America? I believe it is because of Liberalism. Liberalism is destroying the UNITED in the United States of America because it is based off lies. Because of Liberalism, America is divided on just about everything from who responsiblities to raise children to the saying "One Nation Under God." The Founders of the United States of America were Christian Men and Women who stood UNITED under God. Today, while Conservatives stand UNITED under God and know America is "One Nation Under God," Liberals stand united under liberalism and know that America is "One Nation Under Liberalism." I hope and pray that one day, the UNITED comes back to the United States of America. I hope that Americans can stand UNITED and realize that is it THEIR responibility to raise their children and not have pop culture raise their children. I hope that Americans can stand UNITED and support our Armed Forces all over the world and appreciate the hard work and sacrafices these Men and Women make for the United States of America. I hope that one day Americans will stand UNITED and have respect for the man or woman who is the President of the United States of America because this is the most challenging job in the history of the world. I hope that one day, children will be UNITED and respect their elders. This includes their parents, sibilings, their teachers, and elected officials and that children will look to these elders as an influence and guidance for successs. I hope that one day, both Republicans, Democrats, and Independents stand UNITED and know that America was founded by Christian Principles from the Men and Women who Founded the United States of America. My hope for the future is that America can be a UNITED country and not a D I V I D E D Country. I pray that America is "One Nation Under God" and does not become "One Nation Under Liberalism."




Wednesday, May 7, 2014

white folk, how many of you take vacations to the motherland?

white folk, how many of you take vacations to the motherland?
after all, yall are from the motherland too. why dont you all take vacations to zimbabwe and south africa and let these places get some of that tourist money so they can flourish as tourist centres. it is your duty as descendants from the motherland to take 2 vacations a year in africa. so white folk what do you say ? lets make it happen. white folk it is your civic duty to spend your dollars in the motherland. the cradle of civilizashaun. lol marissa dont hate
Other - Cultures & Groups - 13 Answers
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Gross, I don't want to get raped or killed. Btw the cradle of civilization is Mesopotamia (the middle east), not Africa.
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i visit MY motherland witch is italy. i was born there and have been back 5 times. why the hell would i want to to zimbabwe or south africa. south africa has the most rape cases in the world i wouldn't want to go somewhere where i wouldn't feel safe or can't speak the language. plus i don't have any family down there or real reason to go... no offense or anything p.s the homeland is more likely in the middle east. probably yeman. & how many times have you been there or africa for that matter if it's so great why don't you go live there
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The Ebola virus is always in the back of my mind when thinking of such travel plans.
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am a native American, so i stay home if you think its so great go there, & live
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lol most White people cringe when they enter a Black neighbourhood, imagine when they go to a Black majority Continent lol.
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I went to Morocco once (and I was briefly in Egypt that same vacation). Also, I'm going to South Africa for the world cup this summer. However; going to Africa is quite expensive. It is a lot cheaper for me to just cross the chanel into France and then go somewhere in Europe. That's why I mostly stay in Europe.
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I'm not "White Folk", Im Human. I take vacations where I will have the most fun for my money. Not fond of taking vacations that involve risking life, limb or my bank account. Besides, my "Motherland" is Texas. That's where my mother was when she gave birth to me...
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lmao @ "civlizashaun."
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I disagree brother. Africa is already in bad enough shape from the historical and present day oppresion by these devils. The last thing the motherland needs is a more prevelant devil influence. I say we should try getting rid of the ones currently there first to give our people time to heal and then maybe and only under the strictest of regulations should the white devils be allowed to come amongst the civilized people.
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Why do so many Blacks believe that people started in Africa? Who's telling you this nonsense? Civilization started in Mesopotamia, which is the Middle East, not Africa, more like Iraq. "Historically, the ancient city states of Mesopotamia in the fertile crescent are most cited by Western and Middle Eastern scholars as the cradle of civilization. The convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers produced rich fertile soil and a supply of water for irrigation. The civilizations that emerged around these rivers are among the earliest known attempts humanity made at establishing non-nomadic agrarian societies. But it is because Ubaid, Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylon civilizations all emerged around the Tigris-Euphrates, the theory that Mesopotamia is the cradle of civilizations might be the strongest." Wikipedia Tell whoever's telling you that nonsense that they're wrong and making fools out of those who believe the,--like you.
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The birth of "Humanity" was in Central Africa, The cradle of civilization was in Babylon. I was born in Tacoma and have no civic duty to any society that has refused to keep pace with the rest of the world. The use of the term White Folk is inherently bigoted. I am Caucasian.
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What if I drink rancid water and get intestinal parasites that will cause my tummy to bloat out? What if a tribe a cannibals kidnaps me? What if I'm out in wilderness camping, and I have to go pee, and then as I'm peeing in the bush, a mamba snake bites my pee pee. What if I try to go across the road to the little food hut to buy a can of mopa (canned caterpillars) and as I'm crossing the road, a renegade elephant then seizes the opportunity to run over me, you know like those crazed elephants on the discovery channel? What if I wake up early in the morning only to find myself covered in fire ants who've already been chewing away at my flesh? I mean it would be a hell of a thing to go look at my face in the mirror and not have any lips or eyelids! What if a witch doctor finds me, and then kills me, and then shrinks my head which he will then add to his collection? And look at how expensive it is to travel such a long distance, I could never afford to go even if I tried!
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My vacations have been to the southern Caribbean 5-6 times, and to Las Vegas and to southern Baja last March. I'd love to go to England. I hope this answers your question.




Thursday, May 1, 2014

Do we have a litle thief in us all?

Do we have a litle thief in us all?
I was watching a documentory on ATMs being blown off in South Africa. What would you do if you're at the scene the thugs fled and the cops are after them you've got a duffle bag money is all over the place enough to make you a milnaire
Words & Wordplay - 2 Answers
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Of course, we all have a little of every vice which is the opposite of the Ten Commandments. A little of the seven capitol sins. That's what the need for redemption is all about.
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I heard of a gentleman once that found a bank bag full of money from a brinks truck... He returned it and was rewarded... The temptation is pretty high in this situation, but the bottom line is that I would always know that I had taken something that did not belong to me... While I might be tempted I would hope to return the money... After all I am ok without it, so I can't see it making my life better...