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Visit Studio City in Los Angeles California !

Visit Studio City !

I’m here in Cleveland looking at the gray sky, and wondering when I will make my move to L.A. particularly Studio City. I love Cleveland and all, but the idea of moving to L.A. has been with me for a long, long time. I really like the craziness of the West Coast and of course the 360 days of SUNSHINE ! I found this video online while searching for Hot Dog videos (By the way,I have another Blog about Hot Dog’s – check it out  http://topsecretworldfamoushotdogrecipes.wordpress.com/ and I have an Ezine as well: http://www.ezinespace.com/hotdogrecipes   )  Ok , sorry for the sidetrack.  I do have plans to go back to L.A. but for now I get to watch videos’ like this one !

Funny How Things Change…

It’s been forever since I’ve posted anything on this Blog–I know, I know, where does the time go? Well I came across this article online and just had to check it out. It’s about LeBum James, an update on his decision to leave the City of Cleveland the way he did. Seems to me he is back-peddling just a bit-HA! You fool ! All you had to do is do the City and the Fans and the Cav’s Owner the right way and you would not be in this predicament. Now that everyone hates you, you want to change it back the way it was… you want to be “King James” again. Sorry, too late for that. You made your bed, now lie in it. You burned bridges that should’nt have been burned. You spoke when you should have shut up. You’ve taken your “talents” far south, keep them there. Enjoy the sunshine LeBum ! We don’t want you, we don’t need you, and mostly we don’t miss you ! Here’s the video, take a look. LeBum Regrets Decision…

It’s Raining in Cleveland, Ohio

It’s raining here in Cleveland, OH and a good time to catch up on my blogging. It’s been quite a while since I’ve added a post so let me catch you up. I spent 14 months in the Greater Columbus area, not much down there I care to talk about, I’m from Cleveland and that’s the Town I Love, good or bad. Since I’ve been gone, Mr. James has left the building and I am actually happy about that. I feel he wimped out in the playoffs and did not play up to par, with leaving to Miami on his mind, how could he have? I say “Good Riddence”. As far as the Countryside down there, well, the tallest thing is a cow. Great if you’re into milk…
I was never happier to see the Cleveland skyline back in August. Progressive Field, Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland Browns Stadium, even the William S. Mathers looked sensational !
I’ve been sorting out alot of things and wondering exactly what I will do as I am still unemployed. I thought long and hard and have definately decided to go into Real Estate Investing, Flipping, Rehab, whatever you like to call it. That is where my heart is, always has been so why not finally just do it?! I say-go for it ! This has got to be the most opportune time to invest as there are countless foreclosures out there in the market, few qualify for mortgages anymore so renters or rent to owns should be on the upswing. I will be looking for houses that people need to get out of, and investor’s that would like to purchase them, me being in the middle earning a tidy profit. Win-Win-Win.
For right now though I will be studying my Real Estate Books. If you get a minute, check out my Real Estate Website, let me know what you think. http://www.bobdproperties.usapropertywholesale.com/

Make Me Laugh !

 

A friend posted this and I nearly choked on my morning coffee as I read them…see what you think…

Some great ways to annoy people at work…

1. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. (Don’t disguise your voice.)

3. Insist that your e-mail address be xena-goddess-of-fire@companyname.com or elvis-the-king@companyname.com.

4. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

5. Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.

6. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it ‘IN.’

7. Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.

8. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

9. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favours”

10. Reply to everything someone says with, “That’s what you think.”

11. Finish all your sentences with “In accordance with the prophecy.”

12. Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness level lights up the entire working area. Insist to others that you like it that way.

13. Don’t use any punctuation

14. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

15. Ask people what sex they are.

16. Specify that your drive through order is “to go.”

19. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is the opposite gender.)

20. Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them what you’re doing. For example: “If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the bathroom.”

21. Put mosquito netting around your cubicle.

22. Five days in advance tell your co-workers you can’t attend the social event because you’re not in the mood.

23. Pretend your phone is a CB when talking with clients.

King James left the playoffs as a loser

Once again the stirr in Cleveland has been the Cleveland Cavaliers. I noticed this article written by By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports to sum up the feelings of many of us in Cleveland. Here’s his article in full.

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I’m a winner, King James proclaimed. So, there you go. That’s his reason for rushing out of the conference finals without so much as a nod to Dwight Howard(notes) and the Orlando Magic. That’s his reason for marching to the bus and letting the Cleveland Cavaliers’ spare parts take care of his responsibilities in the interview room. Funny, but James stayed on the court to make sure the Detroit Pistons and Atlanta Hawks paid respect to him. As it turns out, there’s one thing allowed to happen at the end of a playoff series: Everyone bows down and kisses the King’s ring. Only, LeBron doesn’t have a ring. He’s never won a game in the NBA Finals. So, yes, maybe they just have to kiss his feet. “It’s not being a poor sport or anything like that,” James said. No, nothing like that. Yes, James cares so much that it isn’t possible to be gracious and humbled. You know me, he told the reporters in Cleveland on Sunday. I’m a competitor. “If somebody beats you up, you’re not going to congratulate them,” James said. “It doesn’t make sense for me to go over and shake somebody’s hand.” Here’s the question: Who has the guts to tell him that he sounds like an immature, self-absorbed brat? Here’s the problem for the Cavaliers and James: No one. It won’t be Cleveland Cavaliers ownership, front office and coaches. It won’t be the NBA. It won’t be Nike. And it sure won’t be those childhood sycophants who surround James and tell everyone what a brilliant businessman LeBron is because they can answer the phone when corporations call for a famous pitchman. LeBron doesn’t want to win more than Michael Jordan did, but Jordan could stop and shake a winner’s hand. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird could, too. Julius Erving did. Kobe Bryant(notes). Isiah Thomas led a walkout after losing to the Chicago Bulls after winning two NBA titles, but Joe Dumars never followed him. He stayed and shook Jordan’s hand, the way Jordan had always shook his when the Pistons had beaten him. “M.J. had stopped, shook my hand and hugged me three straight years that we had beaten them in the playoffs,” Dumars once told me. “There was no way I was walking off the court without shaking the Bulls’ hands.” Within the Cavs, someone needed to tell James that he embarrassed himself and the franchise, but that won’t happen. They’re too scared of him. Most league executives with knowledge of Cleveland’s operation believe it’s far more of an ownership issue, than basketball operations. If general manager Danny Ferry and coach Mike Brown privately disdain the ridiculous posing for pictures that James started with his teammates on a 13-game winning streak, the owner is believed to see the foolishness as a marketing dream. Someone should’ve told James that the pregame Polaroid act was belittling and beneath a championship contender, but it never happened. All season, the Cavaliers acted too entitled, too arrogant for a team that’s won nothing. They ran out demanding that Mo Williams(notes) be made an All-Star, when the truth bore itself out in the playoffs: Cleveland has one All-Star. Nevertheless, Williams still embarrassed the Cavs with foolish proclamations and guarantees his middling talent couldn’t deliver. “If you believe in karma with that nonsense,” one Western Conference executive said, “then Cleveland got what was coming to them.” The Cavaliers are terrified of James. When you’re around them, it’s sometimes embarrassing to watch the way they tip-toe and grovel with him. In their defense, that’s how James wants it. As a childhood prodigy, that’s all LeBron’s ever known. The Cavs are at his mercy until he becomes a free agent in July of 2010, and that isn’t going to change. There’s no chance that he signs an extension this summer, because that would be the end of the drama, the intrigue and LeBron James(notes) isn’t letting that go away. Now, Ferry goes back to the phones and starts work on surrounding James with championship talent. Cleveland is sure to revisit the Shaquille O’Neal(notes) talks with the Phoenix Suns, and James and his associates will send out word that, hey, we’ll go to New York unless the Cavs deliver him his title. Well, they’ve reached the NBA Finals and had the best record in the NBA within the past three seasons, so they must have surrounded James with something that works there. Nevertheless, James distanced himself in losing again, after a season in which he sold himself as all for one, and one for all. James had been an MVP until the very final moments of the basketball season, and then, he embarrassed himself and acted like a petulant kid. In a world where everyone in his life is too fearful or too dependent, LeBron James goes into the summer believing his own nonsense that he walked out of this season a winner. As usual, there’s no one to tell him. Except maybe now, Kobe’s puppet.

Former King of Kars Finally Folds !

This is quite a lengthy post today as General Motors is no longer the King of Kars. In my reading, Michael Moore says it most eloquently so I have copied his article here. For more information on Michael, go to his website : MichaelMoore.com
Here’s the article:Monday, June 1st, 2009
Goodbye, GM

I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.

As I sit here in GM’s birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will happen to them and to the town. Forty percent of the homes and businesses in the city have been abandoned. Imagine what it would be like if you lived in a city where almost every other house is empty. What would be your state of mind?

It is with sad irony that the company which invented “planned obsolescence” — the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one — has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh — and that wouldn’t start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the “inferior” Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to “improve” the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits, it moved countless jobs to Mexico and elsewhere, thus destroying the lives of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. The glaring stupidity of this policy was that, when they eliminated the income of so many middle class families, who did they think was going to be able to afford to buy their cars? History will record this blunder in the same way it now writes about the French building the Maginot Line or how the Romans cluelessly poisoned their own water system with lethal lead in its pipes.

So here we are at the deathbed of General Motors. The company’s body not yet cold, and I find myself filled with — dare I say it — joy. It is not the joy of revenge against a corporation that ruined my hometown and brought misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction to the people I grew up with. Nor do I, obviously, claim any joy in knowing that 21,000 more GM workers will be told that they, too, are without a job.

But you and I and the rest of America now own a car company! I know, I know — who on earth wants to run a car company? Who among us wants $50 billion of our tax dollars thrown down the rat hole of still trying to save GM? Let’s be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority. If we allow the shutting down and tearing down of our auto plants, we will sorely wish we still had them when we realize that those factories could have built the alternative energy systems we now desperately need. And when we realize that the best way to transport ourselves is on light rail and bullet trains and cleaner buses, how will we do this if we’ve allowed our industrial capacity and its skilled workforce to disappear?

Thus, as GM is “reorganized” by the federal government and the bankruptcy court, here is the plan I am asking President Obama to implement for the good of the workers, the GM communities, and the nation as a whole. Twenty years ago when I made “Roger & Me,” I tried to warn people about what was ahead for General Motors. Had the power structure and the punditocracy listened, maybe much of this could have been avoided. Based on my track record, I request an honest and sincere consideration of the following suggestions:

1. Just as President Roosevelt did after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the President must tell the nation that we are at war and we must immediately convert our auto factories to factories that build mass transit vehicles and alternative energy devices. Within months in Flint in 1942, GM halted all car production and immediately used the assembly lines to build planes, tanks and machine guns. The conversion took no time at all. Everyone pitched in. The fascists were defeated.

We are now in a different kind of war — a war that we have conducted against the ecosystem and has been conducted by our very own corporate leaders. This current war has two fronts. One is headquartered in Detroit. The products built in the factories of GM, Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. The things we call “cars” may have been fun to drive, but they are like a million daggers into the heart of Mother Nature. To continue to build them would only lead to the ruin of our species and much of the planet.

The other front in this war is being waged by the oil companies against you and me. They are committed to fleecing us whenever they can, and they have been reckless stewards of the finite amount of oil that is located under the surface of the earth. They know they are sucking it bone dry. And like the lumber tycoons of the early 20th century who didn’t give a damn about future generations as they tore down every forest they could get their hands on, these oil barons are not telling the public what they know to be true — that there are only a few more decades of useable oil on this planet. And as the end days of oil approach us, get ready for some very desperate people willing to kill and be killed just to get their hands on a gallon can of gasoline.

President Obama, now that he has taken control of GM, needs to convert the factories to new and needed uses immediately.

2. Don’t put another $30 billion into the coffers of GM to build cars. Instead, use that money to keep the current workforce — and most of those who have been laid off — employed so that they can build the new modes of 21st century transportation. Let them start the conversion work now.

3. Announce that we will have bullet trains criss-crossing this country in the next five years. Japan is celebrating the 45th anniversary of its first bullet train this year. Now they have dozens of them. Average speed: 165 mph. Average time a train is late: under 30 seconds. They have had these high speed trains for nearly five decades — and we don’t even have one! The fact that the technology already exists for us to go from New York to L.A. in 17 hours by train, and that we haven’t used it, is criminal. Let’s hire the unemployed to build the new high speed lines all over the country. Chicago to Detroit in less than two hours. Miami to DC in under 7 hours. Denver to Dallas in five and a half. This can be done and done now.

4. Initiate a program to put light rail mass transit lines in all our large and medium-sized cities. Build those trains in the GM factories. And hire local people everywhere to install and run this system.

5. For people in rural areas not served by the train lines, have the GM plants produce energy efficient clean buses.

6. For the time being, have some factories build hybrid or all-electric cars (and batteries). It will take a few years for people to get used to the new ways to transport ourselves, so if we’re going to have automobiles, let’s have kinder, gentler ones. We can be building these next month (do not believe anyone who tells you it will take years to retool the factories — that simply isn’t true).

7. Transform some of the empty GM factories to facilities that build windmills, solar panels and other means of alternate forms of energy. We need tens of millions of solar panels right now. And there is an eager and skilled workforce who can build them.

8. Provide tax incentives for those who travel by hybrid car or bus or train. Also, credits for those who convert their home to alternative energy.

9. To help pay for this, impose a two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline. This will get people to switch to more energy saving cars or to use the new rail lines and rail cars the former autoworkers have built for them.

Well, that’s a start. Please, please, please don’t save GM so that a smaller version of it will simply do nothing more than build Chevys or Cadillacs. This is not a long-term solution. Don’t throw bad money into a company whose tailpipe is malfunctioning, causing a strange odor to fill the car.

100 years ago this year, the founders of General Motors convinced the world to give up their horses and saddles and buggy whips to try a new form of transportation. Now it is time for us to say goodbye to the internal combustion engine. It seemed to serve us well for so long. We enjoyed the car hops at the A&W. We made out in the front — and the back — seat. We watched movies on large outdoor screens, went to the races at NASCAR tracks across the country, and saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time through the window down Hwy. 1. And now it’s over. It’s a new day and a new century. The President — and the UAW — must seize this moment and create a big batch of lemonade from this very sour and sad lemon.

Yesterday, the last surviving person from the Titanic disaster passed away. She escaped certain death that night and went on to live another 97 years.

So can we survive our own Titanic in all the Flint Michigans of this country. 60% of GM is ours. I think we can do a better job.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

Enormous Deposits of Natural Gas …

Today I have decided to post a letter I have sent to my State Representatives concerning the use of Foreign Oil. I am a member of T. Boone Pickens Group and encourage you to join (free) as well. Visit www.PickensGroup.com . Here’s the letter:

May xx, 2009

Dear [recipient name was inserted here],

While the price per barrel of oil has fallen over the past nine months it
is beginning to rise again.  Not only that, but the percentage of oil we
import has remained the same.  Over the past 12 months we have continued
to import nearly two-thirds of the oil we use.

Most of the oil we import is used as a transportation fuel – cars, trucks,
aircraft, boats and trains.  About one barrel out of every five is used as
diesel fuel to power heavy trucks – 18-wheelers.

I am all for developing battery and fuel cell technology – or some other
technology which is still in the laboratory stage.  But neither batteries
nor hydrogen are ready for widespread distribution to our national fleet
of approximately 250 million cars and light trucks.  A battery also won’t
push an 18-wheeler.  The only fuel which is available to reduce our
dependence on foreign oil is domestic natural gas.

Due to recent advances in technology, we now have the ability to recover
natural gas from the enormous deposits in Texas, Louisiana and Appalachia
in the lower 48 states.  A recent CERA study showed there are enough
proven reserves in the Continental United States to supply our needs for
the foreseeable future.  As the Wall Street Journal recently put it, “the
U.S. is now swimming in natural gas.”

Natural gas is cheaper than diesel fuel.  Natural gas is cleaner than
diesel.  It’s abundant.  And it’s ours.

Oil prices are rising.  You’re seeing it at the pump and prices will
continue to go up from here.  The time to act is now and H.R. 1835 is the
best tool we’ve had in decades to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

Congressmen Boren (D-OK), Larson (D-CT) and Sullivan (R-OK) recently
introduced a bipartisan bill, the NAT GAS Act of 2009 (H.R. 1835), to
incent industry to replace older diesel trucks with newer natural gas
vehicles – it’s a great step in the right direction.  They’ve been joined
by more than 40 of their colleagues from both sides of the aisle in
supporting this important bill.  It will provide the momentum for engine
manufacturers, natural gas producers and natural gas distributors to ramp
up and make a real difference in our dependence on foreign oil.

I hope you will sign up as a cosponsor to support this important
legislation.  I will be watching your press and floor remarks for
statements of support.

Sincerely,

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