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Reality TV is soooo over-stretched

VERY REAL Reality TV…Joan persists in pigeon-holing Annie until the squeaky wheel, and with blind loyalty from her supporters wins out. Par for the course, politics as usual in American Corporations. Performance again loses to politics. Another reason to love working for ones self, and another reason Corporate America is a failure.

What we witnessed this 8th season on Celebrity Apprentice was very realistic. It has also been my experience watching, co-workers, like children, bicker and fight until the “more popular” of them wins out among their peers. Be consistent, break someone down over time and gain popularity through friendship and humor. Being more effective in business, more experienced at the task at hand and more productive has nothing to do with it. Which is unfortunate, because it’s a business they’re both working for.
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When will the analysts get it?  How many straight quarters does Apple (AAPL) have to outperform the market?  How many years of consistency will it take before analysts give Apple a fair shake?  After not only surviving this recession Apple has again in it’s Q2 Earnings Report released today shown it has what it takes to be a strong, short-term as well as long-term investment.  Or is it something else?  Is there some other reason analysts are reactive and not proactively confident about (more…)

Bad Luck?

American culture truly is falling apart when an emotionally unstable individual named “Perez Hilton” dressed like a character from Mary Poppins throws the most deserving Miss USA a very controversial curve ball, ultimately costing her the crown. (more…)

Today Apple unveiled iPhone OS 3.0. What seems to be a major update. With over 13 million users worldwide, the iPhone now has a real, unstoppable following and with iPhone OS 3.0 seems to have a real platform to support those users. And if you include the iPod Touch (which also runs iPhone OS) the total number of users is an overwhelming 30 million devices. Apple has finally addressed some major concerns for users and developers and added some amazing new innovations improving the experience for developers and users alike.

Starting with the “it’s about time” features (more…)

Today, Apple unveiled a new iPod Shuffle. What was their smallest model in their line of iPods has gotten even smaller. And yes, the packaging does offer a warning, for those of you who would rather taste your tunes, DO NOT EAT. Who is this warning for anyway? It can’t be for very small children since a child young enough to want to put this in their mouth probably can’t read. So is it for the parents who might otherwise feed this to their children? Anyway, Apple had this warning on the previous generation shuffle as well. Wonder what frivolous lawsuit caused this ridiculous, unnecessary modification to the packaging.

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Considering the GOP and their corporate tax breaks, short-sighted policies of greed and gross, multi-pronged mismanagement of the economy.  And!  That it was their administration directly responsible for the financial meltdown we are all now drowning in…

I would say it’s a blessing and a sign that we are doing the right thing that these very people are almost entirely against the new economic stimulus package!  Doesn’t that, by definition, mean it will work!? (more…)

Things aren’t all bad during a recession and if you’re still here in 2009, you’re doing better than some!  You should use this time to prepare for a recovering economy.  And here are two reasons why there’s no better time to do it.

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Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, raised further concerns about his health after releasing a statement yesterday that seemed to back-peddle over his previous statement that portrayed his health problems as maybe being not so bad. After this new announcement, with what seems like a contradiction shareholders want an explanation, some alleging serious legal infringement. Do they want Apple’s CEO to pronounce his own death sentence before even his doctors are able to?
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After watching the Keynote Address given by Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, Philip Schiller, I realized they still have the ability to innovate and put powerful, practical features into the hands of even a casual  user, making computing not only productive but fun…even after it seems like everything cool has been invented already.  Somehow, I seem to be the only one impressed by some of these great new tools and toys or maybe it was just the absence of Steve Jobs unveiling these tech treats, but the keynote crowd seemed less than thrilled. (more…)

On May 25, 2008, several news organizations reported that militant Islamic groups may be recruiting mentally disturbed or disabled people to carry out suicide bombings.

Today, November 24, 2008, a mentally disabled female’s bomb vest was triggered by remote in Iraq killing 5 people just outside the Green Zone in Baghdad.

Despite biblical notions of demons and monsters and ’satanic combinations of numbers’…in case you’re still kept awake at night by those bedtime stories know there is a REAL EVIL out there. (more…)