{"id":3399,"date":"2010-06-04T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2010-06-04T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:18:23","slug":"rusty-nails-sco-v-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"Rusty Nails (SCO v. 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in the day, at my blog New Covenant<\/a>, I would periodically run a set of posts highlighting various current events or issues at hand, known as Rusty Nails<\/a>. Similar to Mark’s Things Heard<\/a> and Doug’s Friday Link Wrap-Up<\/a>, I’ll be starting up a Stones Cry Out version of Rusty Nails.<\/p>\n

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I’m looking through you.<\/strong> So, Sir Paul is happy to have a President who knows what a library is<\/a>? Has Sir Paul become a U.S. citizen or is he simply giving us some unsolicited opinion? Anyway, maybe our current President knows what a library is, but he also thought:\u00a0 we have 58 states, Switzerland has its own language, England and the U.K. are interchangeable, the word “Orion” is pronounced “Ore-EEon”, the U.S. constitution was written 22 centuries ago, the word “corpsman” is pronounced “corpse-man”, and… Please, Paul, stick to singing.<\/p>\n

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Why do I need to learn math, after all, I’ll NEVER use it!<\/strong> Maybe. Or maybe not<\/a>. It seems that 20% of borrowers with poor math skills experienced foreclosure, while only 5% of those with strong math skills did.<\/p>\n

The inability to perform simple mathematical calculations is likely to negatively impact a borrower\u2019s ability to manage a household budget. In addition, such an inability may adversely affect the borrower\u2019s ability to choose the appropriate type of mortgage given his or her current financial status and expected future financial situation. Both of these scenarios would likely put a borrower at risk of falling behind on his or her mortgage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, then, take a numeracy quiz<\/a>. <\/strong>Better yet, have your children take the quiz.
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What happens when the populace has more guns?<\/strong> 14,000,000 guns sold in the U.S. in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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