I cannot disagree more. I earn a living answering difficult questions by: A) Being right most of the time. B) Having my clients tell their friends that I am right most of the time. C) Challenging skeptics to challenge me with a project. The rest of his BS correlates to just paying attention to real stuff and not to anything.cultural/political.
The bullion value of silver is about $15 per ounce, so for $340 the "investor" receives $50 in silver in what the Mint describes as a "fun-filled design", presented in a "beauty box" with a numbered certificate, in a gesture described as a "patriotic first" designed to "celebrate Canada" with a "coin" shaped like a .... coelacanth? For extra fun, pair this up with one of the MInt's glow-in-the-dark coins... perhaps the one that glows with the Bat signal...
eBooks are great - and you can't beat online lending from your local library (I just found out that I could borrow eBooks and audiobooks from my local library network last year).
When I was 9, the books that I was allowed to borrow were such that I could read any of them in an hour or two. Only a few of the unedited "classics" like Twain took longer than that. I had to ride my bike several miles twice a week just to have enough to read during the summer.
I exhausted the libraries of my school, the local branch and the regional library before I entered high school, and had to order then from the main branch of the Chicago Public Library. Now in my 70's I still find time to read a book per day and though authors are more numerous and prolific, each year it gets harder to find new ones worth reading.
I would NEVER discourage a 9 year old, who loves reading so much that she thinks about what she'd do in an emergency, from taking as many books at a time as permitted by the library. The only dangers are that she may run out of books to borrow that she wants to read, or she'll learn to read a lot better than her peers. That second danger will give her a big boost as she progresses through school.
I WOULD get her a tablet and set her up with online access to a free lending collection ASAP.
What a load of bollocks. The US military, if fully unleashed to wage total war, would crush anyone. The problem isn’t with the armed forces it is with the political construct of ‘proportional response’ and misguided adventures in ‘democracy building’ in nations who could care less about it. Truman stopped MacArthur from expanding the war in Korea. Johnson, Westmoreland and MacNamara limited the military to a holding action in Vietnam. Iraq 2 was a stupid, misguided political decision.
For extra fun, pair this up with one of the MInt's glow-in-the-dark coins... perhaps the one that glows with the Bat signal...
I exhausted the libraries of my school, the local branch and the regional library before I entered high school, and had to order then from the main branch of the Chicago Public Library. Now in my 70's I still find time to read a book per day and though authors are more numerous and prolific, each year it gets harder to find new ones worth reading.
I would NEVER discourage a 9 year old, who loves reading so much that she thinks about what she'd do in an emergency, from taking as many books at a time as permitted by the library. The only dangers are that she may run out of books to borrow that she wants to read, or she'll learn to read a lot better than her peers. That second danger will give her a big boost as she progresses through school.
I WOULD get her a tablet and set her up with online access to a free lending collection ASAP.