Who doesn’t love the sock commercial by Hanes where the kid says “Sick of it!” I posted the video below. It is worth a look.

One of my favorite vehicles of all time is the Land Rover Defender. Defenders have not been sold in the US since 1997.

Through my investigation, I have found it was due to two issues. The first is airbags and side impact doors. Due to a lack of airbags and side impact door tests, they are not sold here. The other issue is that they were not selling too well here in the US.

I recently called two Land Rover dealerships. One here in the US and the other in the UK. Both spoke of the recent news, unreported as of yet, that Land Rover would be selling Defenders in the US again within 3 years. If you are considering buying one of the few older Defenders for sale at the exorbitant prices, we think you should hold out and wait. I have added some pictures and videso of the 2012 Defender 90 and 110.

There is a new political advertisement where Mitt Romney talks about some of his top accomplishments.

During the commercial Romney mentions how he “saved the Olympics.” The way he makes his pronouncement sounds like an arrogant way to state this fact. Shouldn’t he have been a little more contrite. Maybe saying, “I was brought in to help bring the Olympics to the US.” This sounds much more preferable than stating he “saved the Olympics.”

I figured I would investigate the issue in general of him saving the Olympics.

The Olympics Romney was speaking of was the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002. After the September 11th attack in 2001, there were a lot of issues including financial that started talks about the possible cancellation of the Olympics.

The thought of cancellation of the Olympics was halted after the Governor of Utah, Mike Leavitt, flew out to Washington and met with President Bush.

Romney was the head of the Salt Lake Olympics organizing committee, but how he personally ‘saved’ these Olympics seems like political rhetoric.

We all know that Mitt Romney is very wealthy. We know he was a ‘businessman’ who worked at Bain Capital. The question remains is how did he accumulate this kind of wealth while working anywhere? How?

Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, hired Mitt in 1977 at the age of 30. After one year, Mitt was made a vice president. Vice president at 31, after 1 year. Then in 1984 Romney went to the spin off Bain Capital. Bain Capital was a venture capital firm. Venture Capital firms invest in new companies providing needed capital. Staples Inc was one of Bains first successes.

Bain Capital later morphed in to leverage buyouts. Leveraged buyout firms acquire controlling interests in a company’s equity where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through leverage borrowing. After buying these firms, Bain Capital would soon sell them.

Romney reaped so much money through this buying and selling of companies to make himself a multimillionaire.

Did Mitt (real first name Willard) earn his money? Yes, he did. De he take an inordinate amount of money for someone who just finagled with the bottom line of buying and selling a company? Yes.

My question is why did someone who really did not contribute anything to the bottom line of any of these companies make so much money? Why did someone who never spent one minute working on a real product get rich? Romney did not create any product. Mitt just worked for a company that figured out how to buy a company that needed money on the cheap. Then, not long after, sell the company for more than they paid for it.

Mitt Romney good businessman? Maybe. Good salesman. Definitely. Is that what the US needs? Another good salesman?

You would certainly think it is safe to going shopping at the Mall of America. That was not the case this past Monday. There were large crowds out shopping and very often when you have large crowds you can have trouble. After Christmas sales were the draw at the Mall of America.
Sometime shortly after 4 pm about 20 individuals started fighting in the food court area. Drinks and food as well as chairs were being thrown. People were actually running towards the fight instead of away from it. At the same time, in other areas of the mall more fights were breaking out, causing police to arrest nine individuals.
No one was seriously injured and it is not known what started the mayhem. Only minor injuries occurred.
It seems that just going shopping at the mall can be a danger these days. Families are no longer safe strolling in the Mall of America. You may want to find an alternative to be safe.

Here are some videos of the event:

I recently switched OpenPressRoom.com to become an open article submission website. I figured this would be a great opportunity to build content and webmasters to link drop in their articles.

The only thing I asked is that the articles be original content (not found elsewhere on the Internet) and not a pure sales pitch. Ex: Buy my product, buy my stuff, buy it, it is a great deal! The article has to be newsworthy at least in some part.

So far since switching to this Open Source Article Submission, I have had about 20 articles submitted. I approved 2 so far and basically they were crap.

Come on webmasters! Do you guys want a nice backlink to improve your search engine results or not? Submit something that isn’t pure crap!

Now I can see why most websites are always languishing at the bottom of the SERPS. It is pure laziness.

Michael

I found a new website today where bloggers can get paid to post. I am making $12 to post this quick article from ImaginAds.com.

ImaginAds is basically a place that sets a price per blog, you learn this when you log in, then you get notified by email when they find advertisers that want you to review a website or mention it in your blog.

There are other websites out there and I have applied to a few. I was denied for one reason or another. PayPerPost.com and Blogvertise. I kept looking and found that ImaginAds.com paid me just as much and I was immediately approved. Sweet! Fastest $12 bucks I ever made.

Keeping on the same topic as my last post. I found another goodie. WomenShelters.org (Women’s Shelters), goal is to provide lists of homeless and abuse shelters.

I do not see any advertising on the website and that even makes it better. Cudos to whoever is putting out WomenShelters.org.

In these tough times I thought I would mention a rent assistance website I just found. I was looking for some information for a friend of my wifes that is possibly getting evicted from her home.

I Googled rent assstance and found www.rentassistance.us, Rent Assistance. They provided me with a few options to continue searching for help.

There appears to be only 1 place in the LA area that can help. I am sure as the price of oil keeps going higher, we are going to need more of these places.

Now there is a website to find out. It is called www.CoworkerSalaries.com. This is a new website I just found.

The concept is this: Post anonymous the name, company and salary of the people you want to list on the website.

I am not too sure about this.. legally speaking. What happens when people Google their names and see their salaries? That can be scary.

The website owner says that he created the website to create a level playing field for employees. Why should one employee who works less get more money? Coworker Salaries also says that once you find out which companies pay the best, people should then apply to those companies. The website can also let you know which companies you should avoid applying to… as in.. they pay low.

Check it out if you dare, www.CoworkerSalaries.com.