We bring you a comprehensive post all about ChaseInk Cards, research Hyatt SLH Extreme Loyalty properties, warn you about Gift Card Pitfalls, learn about Lyme Disease, go check out the grave of legend Massoud, travel to the US Southwest, check out what real wealth is, warn you about crypto crap, a weird story about bees treating lyme disease, a touching and tragic story involving Auburn football, how China is taking Hong Kong to the shed, Aegean miles get clobbered and more!
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MILES & POINTS
DansDeals has a massively comprehensive post: Battle of the Ink Cards: Which Chase Ink Business Cards You Should Have. Everything you needed to ask about these valuable cards is in this post! Along with a dizzying number of affiliate links. If you decide to apply for one, please throw me a bone as it appears I am not even half way in meeting this month’s conversion quota here again, sad!
Some interesting research here if you have gazillions of Chase Ultimate Rewards or World of Hyatt points to blow. Searching for Hyatt SLH Extreme Luxury. I don’t know, blowing 40,000 Hyatt points for just one night is a bit much for me. But we are all different I guess.
Be careful about them gift cards, ok? 7 Pitfalls of Gift Cards Which Can Cost You Serious Money. When it comes to gift cards in large volumes, you must be not just organized but an organization super freak!
TRAVEL
GlobalGaz visited the Tomb of Ahmad Shah Massoud. I remember this dude, legendary Afghan warrior who kicked some Soviet and then Taliban ass. But he was killed in a a suicide operation organized by Bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks. He had some of his followers pretend they were legit journalists and wanting an interview and the bomb was hidden in a camera. I remember watching the news about this…and I guess these phuckers then graduated to suicide martyrs aboard three US airliners…
Another beautiful post at An Ode To The Road. A week in the American Southwest: Water’s Artistic Majestry.
PERSONAL FINANCE
It is no coincidence that crypto stuff attracts so many scammers. It is by design. Here is another wild story: Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished. It never amazes me how many fools are out there falling for that stuff. Blog troll Ingy would say “they are responsible!”. Sure. But maybe the phucking scammers should have been responsible not to scam others hey? (HT:off2paradise).
Break! I had to go outside for a walk before my blood pressure went way up after coming to terms with my fragile emotions while writing the above paragraph. Thanks for sticking around though 🙂 By the way, I was thinking, maybe The Points Guy himself may have seen her as they probably have been on the same yachts cruising around the hip places me and you are not invited. Actually not sad for us lol.
Ok, lets get back on track…Watch this, it is very cool: This 1-Minute Animation Puts $110 Billion of Wealth In Perspective.
ODDZ & ENDZ
This made me scream WTF! I did not know much about Lyme disease. But I am starting to sense there is something wrong about these women. Or maybe they got this. Actually, I am not sure about anything anymore. Can Bee Stings Treat Lyme Disease? Another gem by Texas Monthly.
An unbelievably story about two buddies. Loss, love and a promise kept for the voice of Auburn football. Can you imagine having to call the kids of your best friend to tell them that their parents did not make it? Wow…This is why you take care of the mundane estate planning documents you guys. To prepare in case…the unthinkable happens!
Hong Kong is not what it used to be. And certainly the destruction amid the protests is not helping any. How China’s Rise Has Forced Hong Kong’s Decline. It is kind of sad but when China took over in 1997 what did you expect? It was a matter of time…Travel there should be much cheaper ahead though!
Debating these contingent points, though, may cause one to miss something more important: that the protesters’ anger stems from the structural violence that Beijing has stealthily inflicted on them over the past decade. This includes the gradual but steady erosion of liberties, from putting Chinese customs officers in the territory and limiting use of the local dialect to the kidnapping of critical book publishers. Combined with Beijing’s unwillingness to follow through on written promises of universal suffrage, these measures make clear that China intends to assert control now and not in 2047, as promised in the 1997 handover agreement with Britain.
The Milan Cathedral. In fog. What a shot!
BLOG BUZZ
We are now entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veterans of this fast imploding hobby and also a section where I go on and on about some stuff that happens in my life because it helps me feel better about myself.
Anybody counting the devaluations lately? Bad News: Aegean’s Miles +Bonus Just Devalued Their Best Awards for Star Alliance Carriers. We should despise programs that devalue without notice. Looking at you Wyndham and…others.
I could go off on Ingy again but I won’t. I don’t want to ruin his parade, he obviously needs the money because he sold first/too early!
My left glute/ass is still sore dang it!
And I leave you with this…
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Good morning!
Lots to read this morning. Thank you!
Silver! For Bologna, Italy!
I’ve read of people using bee stings for all sorts of stuff. I figure there is some truth in amongst the hype on the things. Worth looking into, I think as Lyme disease is awful!
Devaluations will continue and it’s going to get harder to get good redemptions because of it.
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Added two $ links to the post, thank you. I feel like the other bloggers now, sad! 🙂
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We move slow here!
Don’t want to get into a fight about politics but HK basic law says “The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be selected by election or through consultations held locally and be appointed by the Central People’s Government.” Right now it is selected by the consultations held locally, the local consultation ends up choosing a really incompetent CEO, though.
Hong Kong people had none/zero/nada voting rights under UK before 1997 to choose the leader, by the way. They accept whatever UK appoints. For 99 years they did not protest against that and suddenly they are fighting for something not promised by the central government?
By 2047 it won’t make any difference. At all. Anyway.
Brandon, Is it the premise that: you didnt have voting rights before so you shouldnt have them now?
What is happening in 2047, destruction of the Earth? Is there something I don’t Know about?
HK becomes part of China in 2047.
Little know fact IIRC – we (Brits) had the island forever. However we decided it was pretty useless without the rest of HK and so gave it all back.
History according to Raffles.
More like fractured fairy tales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVzktzcBQAE
Raffles did the Indigenous Native Inhabitants of Hong Kong want to be ruled by the Crown?
The promise is that the CEO is either elected or by appointment. Currently the CEO is elected from a pool of candidates approved by central government (any HK citizen is qualified as long as he is not a separatist). This is a step forward from direct appointment in colonial era as recent as 1997.
Brandon-
How does that square up with “One Country, Two Systems”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
Wikipedia to the rescue! Good link.
Interesting that the system worked well in Macau but not in Hong Kong with Macau’s GDP per capita overtaking HK in 2006. I don’t have insights as to why it works in one former colony but encountered so much trouble in another.
+1
Group F looks tough in Euro 2020 with France, Germany and Portugal in the same group. I’m hoping Germany will be 3rd.