You might find this very interesting… I did! Who owns the media? That’s to say newspapers, radio, TV, those who give us the news supposedly from an independent point of view? Well if you didn’t know already, most of it’s owned by General Electric. That’s right! http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/media-ownership/dashboard.php So with that said, who owns General Electric? [...]
December 29, 2010
Ron Paul recently gave an interview to a reporter from Fortune magazine. The headline of the story reads, “Will the Fed be able to survive Ron Paul?” Ron Paul used to be considered an extremist whose views were so far out on the fringe that nobody took him seriously. There is a little bit of [...]
November 23, 2010
I never really do a lot of shopping on “Black Friday” because of the lines. Well, mainly it’s because one year I got up realllly early to catch a deal on a laptop at Best Buy. They had half off these special HP laptops and I wanted one bad! But when I got there, they [...]
October 13, 2010
This video from ABC may disturb me simply because I work in the retail automotive industry. Or maybe it’s how smug they act throughout the process… but either way, ABC released a special on how to haggle for cars and it really caught my attention. Now, I do have to say some of their tips [...]
September 29, 2010
This new Blackberry Playbook tablet is looking pretty cool! I have to say the multi-core processor really has me excited about it. I’m honestly not really on the tablet bandwagon yet, despite having owned many handheld computers WAAAAYYY before they were ever cool! But this definitely makes for an interested submission into the category, and [...]
September 3, 2010
I love Google for one main reason: they innovate. And it’s usually the little things they will improve that make them so awesome. In the time since I’ve been a GMail user, the look of it hasn’t really changed much. But a lot of innovation has indeed gone on. The addition of chat, easy add [...]
July 20, 2010
What the crap is network marketing? I’m sort of thinking of the exact definition tonight for a few reasons. Today, I spoke with a friend who I met through the network marketing company I’m a part of. And as we spoke, and I explained to her all the different things about how to get started, [...]
February 22, 2010
I was surprised, but pleasantly so, to hear about a local SC politician trying to re-impress the value of gold and silver coinage in today’s society of the dollar losing more value more quickly than ever. Rep Pitts from SC introduced a bill in the South Carolina that would make not just federal reserve notes [...]
December 31, 2009
Tonight our world enters a new year, new chance, opportunity, resolutions. This is YOUR opportunity YOUR new chance YOUR new resolutions What are your resolutions? This year, I resolve to spend more time with my family, and more one-on-one time with my daughter, Molly. I resolve to progress my health further this year than last. [...]
January 16, 2011