The Tough Go Shopping
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Business

This blog told me a few days ago that I was out of disc space and I couldn't even edit a previous entry. And now it is letting me post with abandon!

Anyway, lots of anticipation in BC and wayward eyes towards the introduction of a "Harmonized Sales Tax" here in BC. I have to admit,the actual idea of a single 12% percent tax on the bill and at checkout is gratifying in a way and somewhat, if I can get away with this in the same sentence as a tax: tantalizing.

But this whole public relations maneuver and showboating a promised savings to consumers I think is a little like wrapping a smelly fish.

I remain convinced that if the government were not so plagued with a  general sense of mistrust in far too many corners of government, the new tax would be a little like voters and consumers happily taking some fruit flavored cough medicine, not the bitter pill they are taking now. Accepting it feels like a moral compromise (even if it isn't).

 But anway, apart from the most basic opinion about that as a consumer, the tie in for todays entry is that this morning as I tuned into Voiceprint on my television (my trade secret is Voiceprint. I urge every reader to support this enterprise. There is no more pleasurable way of keeping up to date and informed than having the news read to you. ) a story ran about internet shopping.

To save you the trouble of wading through my commentary on this story, the link is directly below this paragraph.

Happy shopping!

Internet shaping the way people buy, retailers told-  - --

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Personally my self, I find the best way to 'save' cash  while shopping (inevitably to spend on other things; I find)  is to go downtown or the mall without my wallet or debit card and make a mental list of which store is offering the best deals on the things I really need. The return trip is mostly worth it (I proffer a hesitation only because at the moment I habituate a city 1/10th the size of a large city like Vancouver.) 

and not only 'prevents' impulse buys (and sometime buyer remorse) but also puts a stop gap mechanism in "shoppers ouch" when you discover your best bargain-lol,.....advertised even cheaper later on at a different section of the shopping-sphere.

 

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Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) has launched what it says is Canada’s first online financial management tool integrated into an online banking system.

 

Investmentexec.com/rb-offers-new-service

 

 

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It's hard to disagree that the Internet is changing and shaping  the way we think about shopping and buying things.

Meanwhile, lest we be considered dozers at the wheel when it comes to feeling alive and awake about climate change, Gary Mason of the Globe and Mail offers this thoughtful summarization about how the spirited future of business might be kept alive and well even as the new models of doing business and reducing our collective impacts on Mother Nature are thrust upon us.

The way he puts it, the key is: to just be really,really sneaky. And that's using government as an example. There's still money to be made yet.

But be careful for cripes sake...what if consumers got word.

"A strange silence has fallen over much of the climate-change debate,  .." - Gary Mason

Carbon trading system will have profound implications for B.C. businesses

http://tiny.cc/zi850

 

 

 

 

 

Have a great summer...do you remember??
Mood:  cool
Topic: Just4Fun

Oh yeah? Watch this!<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxKxjXZcqs

It's another world at night.

 

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Whats -on- *your* mind?
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Science and Health

Are you kidding? There is probably not a blog out there with out at least some jibe,mentioning of Britney Spears. Its practically synonymous with mickey mouse ears...and hey, it rhymes. Sort of.

Anyway! On with the show this is it..in a world crammed with shows like Desperate Housewives, MAd MEn, Sexy and the City programing and 1 and 2, and films like My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Mamma Mia screaming for our attention

It would be a real tragedy if we didnt set aside some quality time to reeducate ourselves-,... in this thoroughly modern age-,... about this newly introduced contradiction on the paradigm of successful sexual achievement satisfaction (called for our purposes: SSAS! laughs)

 

You absolutely must see the web site...if not the film it self.

Orgasm Inc.

 http://www.orgasminc.org/

 

 (note: she had initially took a job editing erotic video for a pharmaceutical company's clinical trial of a Viagra-type drug for women, of course not knwoing the end result would be ten year sojourn documenting pharmas search to unlock the secret to unlocking female sexual desire)

FDA considers endorsement of drug that some call a Viagra for women

The New Panty-Dropping Pill from Germany

 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/you-it/201005/the-new-panty-dropping-pill-germany

 

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I dont care if its from Monrovia.
I am a firm beleiver that in our increasingly modernized and tech dependent society, in a sea of sexualized images through advertising and magazine covers, stress and hormones have more to do with unacknowledged impact on such conditions than we care to admit. Stress is probably a bigger precursor that leads to such things as depression and other conditions more than we have time to contemplate. From lack of interest in sex to depression....effectively countering stress with bolstering back ups is probably such a wonderful simple effective solution that is not well examined enough because its just too boring.

At least thats what I used to think. Lol. Note: you can watch the whole film here. Fascinating stuff.

Bet Facebook is glad they dont have user controls for design schemes. Heh. Not as happy as I would be though, joke,joke.

 

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Took this screen capture from one of 'the Brit`ster's videos. The design elements are good. Rich.

 

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I thought this was good, too. Brit leaves a salon. Must be her bg behind her. Clicking pic below enlargens photo.

 

http://hydraulx.com/2008/03mv/music.html

 

Tina Turner, Vancouver BC PLACE STADIUM 2000

The angels were definitely on my side that night.

Honestly, I thought I was going to suffer a lot of pain

...perhaps even die :),....if I never made it in that night.

Very rare for me to report that kind of feeling:)

But as I said, someone was looking out for me that t ime I think.

I owe someone a lot for not making me have that kind of pain.

Were you at the Tina Turner concert in Vancouver?

Tell me, wouldnt you?Just look at this woman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=VFgeOc25y8M 

 

Okay this is it...last one:)
Mood:  party time!
Topic: Entertainment

 

Flashdance - I`ll be here where the heart is

https://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=1QpCpUbmQl0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Without a doubt this is the original

So You Thought You KNew How to Dance

lol

 

 

Deep dish version.^^^^

 

 

Jeez,  this song... moves.

 

 Hes a Dream. Funny version.

 

This ones fun to watch.

 

Machs Cafe is closed
Topic: CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER

/-~H e l l o  a n d  w e l c o m e ~-\

If you have just landed here i.e. surfed on in, I have been running this little online endeavour for almost a full five years. Half a decade.

You ever notice when you land on a blog for the first time, it is like opening a book and starting to read on the last page ?

Do you?:)

Having run out of free disc space from Tripod this marks a long pit stop for my entries until I go pro. But once I do I beleive it will be the equivalent of pushing of from a different portion of the shore, so I will start again with a different theme, template, and direction. Without ads of course.

This blog I believe has been a online hobby horse of mine and is a personal way form finder and tracker for all sorts of world events, large and small, with a little bit of personal background history thrown in. I am glad I started it. Its been fun. Thanks for visiting

and hope to see you on my next blog undertaking with that extra dab of professionalism.

 This one is off to the printers ...

 

\~-So long... .-~/

Actually
Mood:  happy
Topic: CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER

I want to make it fast with one more thing:)

IN case you wonder where I'd gone--- :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll Fall in Love Again - Sammy Hagar

Shout to the Top - Style Council

 

Only the Young - Journey

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Soak up the Sun This Summer with Confidence

 

 

Always trying to leave on a postive note. Hope any visitors who drop in feel better for the experience. This means YOU!

I would hope you would leave through Friends, Cool Folk and Allies at the left! Shes on the zoom.....

:)

The Question that Lost the Election
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Politics

Please note:

The question was asked to a man who was not running in the previously held election (he is right for not answering a question not geared for him, he is right for asking the question to be re-asked and he is right for not trying to answer a question that was at best: poorly posed and poltically motivated at worst.) and so should never have even been posed a question to which he has not the credentials to correctly answer and to which, this is something the interviewer already knows.

The media cannot be seen as anything but trustworthy and in this case their slithering sound is identical in nature to the ("sssssssss") from the politicians they report on.

 

Watch the CTV news reporter fail to even correctly quote his own self.

(A tragic slip or a terrific lie? Incompetence or untruthfulness?)

As the interviewer, he tells the viewing audience that he had asked the Prime Ministerial candidate ::(quote):: "If you were Prime Minister now , what would you have done that Mr.Harper has not done".

https://www.youtube.com/user/AtlanticFrankMag#p/a/f/1/K3X_BUUZkZ8

 

Later on, watching for proof of this ourselves, we see that this is not even what he had said.

But even if was, it is so obviously an impossible question to even answer.

 

Since Mr.Stephane Dion was not even in the last election prior , he can't possibly say what he would have done in an upcoming election where the public has not yet even voted.

Compared to one that he was not even in the running?

 The correct way to ask such a question would have been to ask: "If you were Prime Minister tommorow (now) , what would you have done do for Canada that Mr.Harper has not done (as of today)".?

I cannot stand to see someone being taken for a fool merely by pretending to be so stupid.

 

But anyway, as we can see as proof for ourselves, as we watch the interview unfold and ignore the wrong prejudicial inference from the beginning, what he actually says, i.e. the exact wording is :::quote::: thus:

"If you were Prime Minister now,  what would you have done about the economy,.... and this crisis ....that Mr . Harper has not done?"

Compared to:

  "If you were Prime Minister now , what would you have done that Mr.Harper has not done".

Can you spot the difference?

Remember this, that when he posed the question in this way, he was asking it immediately prior to introducing the context of Mr.Dion referals to Prime Minister Harper as someone who isn't acting fast enough in addition to not doing enough.

 The only way to show that you are effectively listening and understood the question is to re-phrase it and pose it back to the person asking for clarification.

(Nothing wrong with that. We actually appreciate that very much when someone obliges us and pardons us if we do not understand their question at the first run.)

So he does try to re-phrase the (un-intelligent sounding) question and poses it back for clarification. Good!

So (!!) , the interviewer, in a split second,  then agrees with him and all but says : (yes I agree the question is : what would you have done if you were Prime Minister for the last two and half years.)

Fair enough! So, he answers: "If I would had been the Prime Minister,.. two and half years ago?"

 So then, after ignoring that very straight forward clarification request, the interviewer switches it and reverses it to the albeit even more forthwith what would you do if you were prime minister today? (So why did he just not say or ask this the first time round?)

(Mr. Interview whats wrong with you? Read the tape and transcript if you don't trust your ears reader, he had just prior asked Dion what he would have done and then he switched and then changed the question to what would he do today.)

There is a huuuge difference in asking someone what they would have done and asking them what they plan to do today or tommorow. Or why am I even repeating myself?

But I am telling you this. It takes a pretty small mind to deliberately set out to trick or trip someone up for not having English as a first langauge. Devious as well, but small gives a person more the credentials they need to get away with something like this, as in with the case of CTV.

 The real thing germane to the economic crisis to remember is that back then and at that time, many people were barely cognizant as to what had hit them (crisis? what crisis?) and didn't know if the worst had come, if the worst was over with, or if the worst was yet to come.Everyone was concerend and consumed and obsessed with the future: steady or unsteady? Sure or uncertain?

This interviewer had the chance to directly ask what the bold Liberal plan was for the immediate future , thereby educationg the vast majority of Canadians , but chose not to. Tthey lost their chance and oportunity do so and its not coming back again real soon.

They blew it! No chances the secoind time around and it will come around again. Guaranteed every four years and unless your a man who can tinker with election dates to suit your self.

I for one, who would have liked to have heard Mr Dions reply. Not be overly concerend with lies about what he either supposedly said or did not say. It insults my intelligence.

I think it's fair to say that on that day that is what CTV did, like it or not.

Insulted the intelligence of a future Prime Minister as well as the intelligence of every Canadian citizen of age to think. And that includes a great many and number of Canadians not all of them old enough to vote.

But at least they understand English.

 

 Even after all of that, he ends up asking him, if you were Prime Minister today what would you have done by now that the present Prime Minister has not done?

Sorry CTV youre wrong. The man cannot answer the quesiton of what a Conservative would do. It wasnt right then, and its not right now.