Archive for November, 2008

Understanding the Balance Transfer Credit Cards

November 29, 2008

Balance transfer credit cards can seem like simple and easy tools for you to use. There are a number of cards still on the market offering deals with zero percent. Despite the lenders making it more difficult to get these cards, consumers can apply for them. If you are looking for a new credit card you have to ask yourself a few questions to apply for the right one. This applies to getting a credit card or to getting what the Spanish call a Tarjetas De Credito where finance trends seem to be following those
of the UK and America .

The first thing to look at is whether or not the credit card lender has difficult restrictions. For example does the credit card company allow bad credit customers to apply? Are there tough penalties for missing a payment? Credit card companies have specific consumers they are looking for right now. It is best to know who they will lend to before applying.

The next thing you have to look at is the balance transfer fee. Many credit cards are raising these fees. Lastly when you consider a zero percent balance transfer card consider the length of time the deal will last. If you cannot pay the card off in twelve months is it worth it? For many it could be worth the fee, as long as there is an option trading to a new balance transfer card at the end.

US Pres. Obama and Stevie Wonder

November 5, 2008

“Make no mistake, [this] jazz music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen…” Christian McBride

True indeed that jazz music is appreciated not only by a few but surprisingly by many people. They enjoy the unique creativitity of this musical genre of syncopated rhythm of the famous blues.

Jazz fans in Chicago include even the highest official of the USA. Yes, Barack Obama himself!

An article posted in msnbc.com last Feb. 26,2009 had a glaring headline: “Obamas honor Stevie Wonder at White House” and is herein cited:

” WASHINGTON [AP]- President Barack Obama on Wednesday thanked musician Stevie Wonder  for creating “a style that’s uniquely American” as he presented the singer-songwriter the nation’s  highest award for pop music.
Obama, who called Wonder the soundtrack of his youth, gave the star the Library of  Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an East Room tribute that featured Tony Bennett, Martina McBride and Wonder himself. The president joked that the group was “the most accomplished Stevie Wonder cover band in history.”

Not only the President but also the First lady Michelle Obama called Wonder as “one of the world’s greatest artists.” She related how her grandfather would play Stevie’s  music all throughout the house, and would together they listened to his song over and over.

And Stevie may have played a big role in Michelle and Barack’s love story!The couple’s wedding song was “You and I”, and the President was quoted saying “… had I not been a Stevie Wonder fan, Michelle might not have dated me, we might not have married”.

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