Rake King A clarification of "Made in the USA". Only products where all, materials and labor are by U.S. companies/workers inside the USA and it's territories (i.e. Guam ).
Assembled in America, sctually should read "Assembled in the U.S.A. from U.S. and foreign sourced parts or materials".
KIA automobiles and the Sunsetter Awning company's are advertising their products as "Built in America". Per the Federal Trade Commission there is no such designation, only the afore can be legally used. If you wish to complain to the FTC, their website is: www.FTC.gov
April 24 at 11:37 EST .
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Rake King If you see others, report them here and we can all complain.
April 24 at 11:38 EST .
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Balogreene I love my Hyundais and Kias. Some are completely made in the U.S. and shipped to Korea for sale.
Several members of my family have bought both. My very liberal sister couldn't believe us right wingers were right. She did her homework, and ended up with a Hyundai. It was a best buy. Even "American" cars have foreign parts.
I don't care about much other than price.
April 24 at 20:56 EST .
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Rake King Balo: I was discussing the legal terms permitted by the Federal Trade Commission as to the advertised origin of products. KIA's use of the terms "Built in America" is not legal, as there is no such statement permitted. The fact you love your cars has nothing to do with legal terms.
April 26 at 09:04 EST .
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Balogreene You're right. I love my cars because of the warranties, and they work, and they are the right size for me, and more importantly the right price. I really want to buy American, but, get better deals from other countries.
April 26 at 18:18 EST .
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Rake King My statements above had nothing to do with buying American. I was trying to educate posters to the two different product descriptions allowed by the FTC. I don't know about you Balo, but I don't like be lied to, be it cars or awnings. That's what my post was about and posted on the proper wall "Shopper's Beware".
Bettijo Thanks for update. Remember my problem with Bumble Bee tuna around Thanksgiving. Maybe my cans had this problem. I have not bought any since.
March 10 at 09:46 EST .
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BirdsNest EC, I thought about rotten tuna when I was mixing up tuna salad the other day. Bought one can of chunk light to mix with a can of albacore. I must say it was tasty but I can't eat it on a regular basis. I mix the 2 because Hagar does not like the mealiness of the albacore. It is kind of dry.
March 18 at 11:10 EST .
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Balogreene Another Be-love. My sister talked me into getting rid of all my pampered chef stoneware because it was too heavy and too hard to store.
We bought "Temptations" stoneware from QVC. It is lighter, it is made to stack together, and it has beautiful designs that go in the freezer, the refrigerator, the oven, and the microwave, and the table. It's less than half the price of pampered chef. It cleans up beautifully, better than pampered chef. We now have much more room in our cabinets, and much more beautiful dishes to serve in and take out in public.
Give it a chance, QVC, Temptations stoneware.
March 3 at 23:11 EST .
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Ynaught I am the proud owner of my mother's and my mother-in-law's cast aluminum cookware. These pieces are 60-75 years old and I have had to wrap a couple wooden handles with electrical tape to keep them together, but they are just the best! I can't imagine using anything different. We were given some Le Creuset when we were married and I hated it. When I must use other cookware I miss mine all the more. Sadly, I expect, when the time comes, the next generation in our family will dump this at Goodwill as not being modern enough.
April 12 at 13:36 EST .
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Balogreene I loved my great-grandmother's cast iron the best. We gave it to Goodwill, cause we all have arthritis in the hands. We now have cast aluminum, I don't like it as well, but, at least I can lift it.
Our stoneware used to be Pampered Chef, but it too is heavy, and is very hard to store, it doesn't fit one inside the other. The new Temptations does. It is for baking, not stovetop.
April 16 at 19:34 EST .
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Rake King This one is more like "STORES BEWARE". When your President takes more money for taxes and he does nothing about rising gasoline prices (the XL pipeline ), no wonder Walmart's secret document defining Feb as the worst sales start in their history, and little restaurants closing left and right, Baker shoes closing all their remaining stores...get ready for more empty spaces in your local strip malls. Also to those Boeing Engineers,( all 25,000 of them ) thinking about going on strike....I would re-think killing off your jobs and maybe you company suffering from new plane problems. If you do, don't get on the T.V. news crying about having no money to live on....I don't want to hear it.
February 22 at 10:16 EST .
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Linder RK, I hear your frustration. It seems common sense no longer prevails. Remember the adage, "as goes GM, goes the rest of the country." So you are saying today's application of that would be to replace GM with Walmart.
February 24 at 19:35 EST .
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Rake King Since GMC now stands for "Government Motor Co., I think you may be on to something. "Times they are a changing".
February 25 at 11:52 EST .
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Rake King I'm searching around to find an op-ed piece I saw back in the 1970's that was titled "What My Job Means To Me"...or something to that effect. It was outstanding.
Gerty This is enough to make you become a vegetarian---now there's a pregnant thought!
February 12 at 17:32 EST .
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Carmen Is this the process they use for McNuggets and for canned ham that always looks like a solid perfectly shaped to fit the can?
February 28 at 09:58 EST .
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Carmen Is this the process they use for McNuggets and for canned ham that always looks like a solid perfectly shaped to fit the can?
February 28 at 09:59 EST .
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Carmen Sorry about that (badly worded ) double post. This video is just the more reason for my husband and I to kill and process our own meat. We only hunt deer because cleaning squirrel, rabbit and turkey seems like more trouble than it is worth.
February 28 at 10:09 EST .
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Balogreene Not a beware, a be love. I love my Apple products, but face it, their computers are expensive. My last computer was an ACER netbook. I needed to buy one for me and one for mom, so the price was right. As a writer/Illustrator I needed more screen resolution than the ACER had to offer. I mostly work at work, so this wasn't that big a deal. But, I'm trying to build my own website and need to be able to do more. Friday, the 7th I was able to finally order a MacBook Pro (I kept trying to win one from Rush, but just wasn't successful:D ). I ordered the computer, a mouse, and Microsoft Software, so I can do my work at home after noon the 7th. Before noon the 8th, the FedEx guy was at my door with my computer. How fast can you get?
December 8 at 20:58 EST .
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Yottyhere I got my first Mac desk computer in 1996 and have always experienced fast turn around times whenever I had any dealings with Apple. Other companies I have been really pleased with their customer service is Amazon and Kindle. Half the family is PC people the other half are Apple people so we have some lively discussions around the table :D
December 10 at 12:43 EST .
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Rake King I run Windows at work (the standard for business software ), and an iMac at home (desktop publishing and entertainment ). I love my Mac the best.
December 11 at 08:12 EST .
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Balogreene I love my Mac too, but sometimes they are just too expensive. I hope I never have to go back (except at work ).
December 12 at 19:37 EST .
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Rake King Opening the stores on Thanksgiving night a 8:00 PM is terrible for the workers and their families. While Walmart is our favoriete customer, they sometimes do some really stupid things. Mr. Sam (Walton ) must be rolling in his grave.
November 14 at 08:45 EST .
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BirdsNest I'm with you Gram. Even then we won't be shopping. Only Christmas gifts from us will be homemade goodies and those are only to a select few. I loathe Black Friday. I know people are greedy and mean I just don't want to be around them.
November 16 at 09:23 EST .
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Balogreene I think it's all personal choice. I've worked restaurants that served Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. As long as you can beg off work on those days.
November 16 at 14:59 EST .
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BirdsNest Remember, many of the deals especially electronics are specially made models for this sale, meaning they are not exactly like that one you've been looking at that is $100 more. They very discreetly leave out certain specs making you think you are getting that $500 TV for $299. Compare "apples to apples".
As for restaurants, I always wanted to work Holidays, better tips and people were more cheerful. But I came from a restaurant background and working any day was not an issue for me. I loved it when I worked in the business.
November 17 at 08:30 EST .
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Balogreene Bird, I was the worlds worst waitress. I once spilled a pitcher of ice tea on the franchise owner's lap. I was good enough to not be fired, but not really very good. But, it paid my way in college, and kept me off unemployment after college.
November 17 at 11:57 EST .
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BirdsNest I was a great waitress. My mother made me wait on everyone when we worked together, the locals would not tip her, but would tip me. She was my back up! It was not til I was close to 30 that I stopped being so shy, after that I became a really good waitress!! I worked in my cousin's restaurant for many years, then we moved and I worked other places. My last job was at a corporate restaurant, the computer order screen was almost my downfall. It took me forever to get it mastered, but I came in early every day to practice. Finally the kitchen manager stopped yelling at me and hating me. Soon I was employee of the month. Management loved me. The "servers" were grousing about company policy, I simply told them that when the sign out front said "Heather's Restaurant", then she could make her own rules. As I said, management loved me.
November 19 at 08:30 EST .
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Safetydude Over the years that I served I missed many holidays, graduations and weddings with my family. I know there are essential services and businesses that have to stay open on holidays, but I wish we could reel in the years to a more gentle time that allowed dapartment stores, malls and, even, restaurants to close and let their staff have time with their families. Black Friday ? is saving a buck so important...I don't get it.
November 27 at 21:52 EST .
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Nugoddess Picked up the Music Bullet at my local drugstore (spent about $15.00 ). This darned thing really sounds good! I use it to listen to streaming music or my You Tube station. It's worth every penny.
November 9 at 13:09 EST .
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Balogreene I thought you were kidding, but I looked it up on Amazon. Would make a good stocking stuffer.
November 13 at 19:24 EST .
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Rake King Bacon has reached a price for wealthy folks. As I've said in the past "back it across them" but boycotting it till the prices comes down. SUPPLY AND DEMAND...take away the demand, and the supply increases and they start lowering the prices.
October 16 at 11:02 EST .
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Bebece Does anyone here have a NU Wave oven. I got one at a yard sale and no instructions, but have them on internet. I haven't got up the nerve to try yet. Any suggestions, recipes ,etc
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November 9 at 13:09 EST .
