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What’s a Website Worth?
Recently, I had to investigate the potential worth of a website. Bottom line; there’s a ton of factors and a website is really just worth what someone is willing to pay for it that entices someone else to want to sell it. That said, most are based on annual revenue with a variety of other [...]
Severe Concussion
I haven’t really written anything lately as I had a bit of an accident in October where I took a rather harsh blow to the skull and nearly two months later, I’m still suffering the effects of a severe concussion. I’m seriously lucky to even be alive. I’ve been dealing with dizzy spells and some [...]
Presidential Straw Poll Delivers Win for Christie
With attendance estimates ranging from 2,000 to 2,800 the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention was held in Richmond, VA over the past two days (Friday/Saturday) with keynote speakers such as Lou Dobbs, Dick Morris, George Allen, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul. There were 1,560 participants in a 2012 Presidential Straw Poll. I’ve found some discrepancies [...]
Cargo Shorts Banned by Homeland Security?
This sounds ridicules doesn’t it? And, I’ll probably be put on a no-fly list just for writing this article. In all seriousness, officials at Kansas City Airport tell me they are required to search anyone wearing cargo shorts. Seemed really strange since I flew out of Greenville wearing cargo shorts four days earlier and I [...]
Touring the NAFTA Super Highway
As I toured hundreds of miles of I-35 through Missouri and Iowa, the construction could not possibly have gone unnoticed. The fact that they were completely ripping up a concrete road to replace it with another concrete road quickly got my attention. Isn’t concrete supposed to last 50+ years? Most of I-35 was built in [...]
Iowa Speedway – Build It and They Will Come
I attended my first NASCAR race over the weekend and between the cars and culture at the Iowa Speedway, there was a lot to take in. I was able to learn a lot about the process the teams go through, leading up to the race. Each car represents a ton of work on more levels [...]
I’m Not the Only One
I’ve never understood people who can seem justify ANYTHING with statements like: “I’m not the only one doing it.” “Everyone else is doing it.” “It’s always been done that way.” How do people rationalize and create some moral threshold based on behavior of others? Bad behavior is bad behavior, it doesn’t somehow get better just [...]
This Is My Battle
Politically, most people remain focused on all the fallout from the Obama Administration (health care, bailouts, government takeovers, etc, etc, etc…) and see the best solution to stopping the Obama agenda is to elect enough conservatives to Congress to (hopefully) stop him by reversing some legislation or pulling the plug on the funding of. While [...]
Going Green Bites!
A couple of weeks ago my washing machine stopped working (and it’s difficult to go very long without one). For awhile I pondered if I should try to fix it, have someone else try to fix it, or just buy another one as it is only three years old. In the meantime I had clothes [...]