Recently KFC released a new commercial in Australia and it is causing quite the uproar, with many people calling it “Racist” as it depicts a single white Aussie easing an “awkward situation” with a bucket of chicken.
I’m surprised during the making of the video, not one person in marketing had any inclination of the possible uproar this would cause, and how it could, or would, [ continue reading... ]

Just wanted to say happy new years too all the readers.
Hope you have your 2010 goals in mind, your drinks ready and chilled, and be sure to stay safe.

Pictures from bigfoto.com, not mine.. I couldn’t afford a camera that took pictures like that.

The other day while watching the Sharks game, one of the funniest first goals I’ve ever seen was made.
Stars had pulled the goalie, and the face off was outside of the Sharks blue line. The puck came to rookie Ivan Vishnevskiy from a push from Ryan Clowe and well, the rest will be in Ivan’s mind forever (you have to remember this is his first [ continue reading... ]

Keeping the truth alive. It’s been a while since I read this letter which was sent to Glenn Beck back in June, but re-read it again today and wanted to make sure we keep the truth alive.
In the months since the letter was sent, the problems have only gotten worse. We have more czar’s which are directly appointed, and don’t have to follow normal procedural [ continue reading... ]

So recently I had a problem with my Comcast bill, and went onto their website to check out their FAQ. That is when I saw the question:
What Should I Do If My Cable Is Out?
The question in itself made me wonder about the answers, and well the most obvious answer I was looking for was missing, but why?
First, here’s a picture of the question and [ continue reading... ]

As some of you may know, I follow hockey. Although I typically don’t blog about hockey on my site, I just couldn’t pass this one up:

Yes.. That’s Keith Ballard nearly Decapitating his Team Mate Tomas Vokoun. I could only imagine what it would have been like if he did that to the opposing teams Goalie.

This week we had 7 bank closures, you heard that right, 7 bank closures. To make matters worse ALL 7 bank failures named the FDIC as the receiver. Here’s a list of all the banks:
Founders Bank, Worth, IL
Millennium State Bank of Texas, Dallas, TX
The First National Bank of Danville, Danville, IL
The Elizabeth State Bank, Elizabeth, IL
Rock River Bank, Oregon, IL
The First State Bank of Winchester, [ continue reading... ]

I am blown away at this. With all the “green shoots” (thank you Ben Bernanke for that term) and supposed health of the financial systems, we continue to have a high rate of bank failures, and have now totaled 45 banks for 2009.
The banks closed on June 26th were:
Mirae Bank, Los Angeles, CA
MetroPacific Bank Irvine, CA
Horizon Bank, Pine City, MN
Neighborhood Community Bank, Newnan, GA
Community Bank [ continue reading... ]

Right off the ropes of Travis Fury comes the Beale Beatdown at Beale AFB: Here’s a snip of some of the fighters (I train at Combat Fitness which is part of the Rapacon Martial Arts school) which is cornering Rob Witlock.
The World Fighting Coalition & 9 Force Support Squadron Presents “Beale Beatdown”
10 bouts of full contact MMA fighting, right off the heels of “Travis Fury” [ continue reading... ]

As of June 10th lawmakers were trying to revive the $15,000 housing credit. Here’s a snip from a bloomberg.com[1] article:
“Senator Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican, introduced a bill today that would increase the tax credit to $15,000 and remove income and other restrictions on who can qualify, according to his spokeswoman, Sheridan Watson. The Treasury Department declined to comment on the proposal.”
With the major increase [ continue reading... ]

-Mike Brown (21-4) vs. Urijah Faber (22-2)
There aren’t many people that can beat Urijah Faber, but Mike Brown has, and he’s ready to do it again. Their first fight was pretty even until the reckless Urijah Faber came off the cage with a no-look back elbow, which ended up giving him a date with the canvas. However, I don’t think that will be the outcome [ continue reading... ]

So the Strikeforce fights have completed and here is how they lined up with my predictions (my predictions are in bold)
-Robbie Lawler (16-4) vs. Jake Shields (22-4-1)
-Nick Diaz (19-7) vs. Scott Smith (15-5)
-Andrei Arlovski (15-6) vs. Brett Rogers (9-0)
-Joe Riggs (29-10) vs. Phil Baroni (13-10)
-Kevin Randleman (17-12) vs. Mike Whitehead (23-6)
Actual Results:
Jake Shields def. Robbie Lawler via submission (guillotine choke) – Round 1, 2:02.
Nick Diaz [ continue reading... ]

With all the recent news of “green shoots” (thank you Ben Bernanke for that quoted phrase), I thought I’d give some of my thoughts and views and why I think some of the green shoots are giving some false views.
#1. Consumer Confidence has been following the stock market:
When the markets were going down and peoples 401k’s were getting depleted consumer confidence was at record [ continue reading... ]

-Robbie Lawler (16-4) vs. Jake Shields (22-4-1):
I’m going to have to go with my local guy Jake Shields here. I think his wrestling is far superior and he’s alot smarter then to get punched by a looping overhand that Robbie is going to try to throw at him. Robbie is no slouch, I just don’t think he’ll be able to handle the ground game of [ continue reading... ]

As some of you may know I watch the markets quite closely, and day before yesterday I noticed some changes happening. Google Finance no longer had the Beta tag. I figured it was some late April fools joke, because everything Google has is Beta, long going and forever beta.. but that seems to be changing.
Is GMAIL next?
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