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Do you eat all the smarties?

The Smarties candy commercial is on. There’s blue ones. There’s yellow ones. There’s red ones. I just like how they got a bunch of young people to sing parts of the same song in their own different style. It’s a catchy tune. originally performed by Sly and the Family Stone called “Everyday people”. We are [...]

Obama wants you to buy stocks

I don’t know about you but when the president of the United States starts telling everyone that they should be buying stocks you have to wonder. If Warren Buffet was wrong just a few months ago when said the same thing and the market began to unravel last November, why should we listen to Obama [...]

US continues to drag down the rest of the world… further.

Now that the American Banks (and companies) have all announced further losses, more huge job cuts, closures and scandals, one can only assume that the asian markets will be hurt just as bad. Japan has already announced the same due to their heavy dependance on foreign sales and exports. It’ll be back to the 90’s [...]

Reducing paper waste in an Engineering office.

I had a request yesterday from a friend. One of his clients had asked him for insight into how they could reduce the amount of paper being used by an engineering company by using computers with large monitors such. My friend had asked me because I used to be an engineer myself and might have [...]

Only in the California does a doctor show no sense for octuplet production factory.

So everyone by now has probably already heard of Nadya Suleman and her octuplets. This in addition to the six other children she already has bringing the total to 14 littles ones all for the tax payers to foot the bill for. She has a fifty thousand dollar outstanding student loan, receives food stamps between [...]

Who wants a $500k Job?

Obama’s move to limit salaries and bonuses for companies receiving taxpayer funds seems like a no brainer in the political popularity game and one wonders why it was never put in place in the beginning. Why are such high salaries expected by executives when they’ve allowed their companies to get into so much trouble. One [...]

Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Induction of U2 - 2005

This blog entry is just about four years too late. So while you are reading this, please pretend that you are back in 2005. I didn’t realize this until the other day but thanks to YouTube, one of my all time favourite bands consisting of Bono, Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. and Adam Clayton was inducted [...]

Bushism

Many people have made fun of George Bush over what has come to be known as Bushism. That is his botchery of the english language. Here are some of his famous quotes throughout the years.
-”The fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it [...]

Holiday Donations from a Small Business - Just one meal

Today I was asked to host the family business for the annual company christmas dinner. The staff had already gone ahead and decided on a day for the dinner. The problem was that the official family rep couldn’t agree with the date and I didn’t want to take his place. Why? Well its not really [...]

What’s the point of an RRSP contribution?

My friend asked me this question the other day and in normal times the answer would seem to make sense. However in the current economic environment, what investments would you want to risk your money on regardless if it is in or out of a tax shelter?
There are three reasons people should maximize their registered [...]