Controversy

Ramsey Digital Designs the Best Videos!

I live in a blight-filled area of Michigan called Cottrellville Township. Over the last five years, Cottrellville Township has turned into an extremely ugly place to live in throughout quite a few areas. No matter where you live in Cottrellville Township, you don't need to look far to find blight. This is why I -- Michael Zoran -- have decided to run for Trustee and also Precinct Delegate in the upcoming Cottrellville Township election on August 7, 2012. (By the way, my political signs are going to cost over $750. If anyone would like to make a donation using PayPal, please look on the right side of your screen to do so.)

Morris of Ramsey Digital is a close friend of mine. As soon as Morris found out how I was doing things such as signing contracts with Comcast to bring township meetings into the homes of residents on public access TV channel 12 and also on YouTube channel michaelzoran, Morris decided to help me out.

This new video is dedicated to my Fight Against Blight. The high-quality video clearly shows the talent and skill Morris and his staff at Ramsey Digital possess. When people saw the impressive video, I started getting emails asking me how to contact Ramsey Digital.

Ramsey Digital can be contacted here: http://www.theaskeweffect.com/KRUZ8ER/

Ramsey Digital is also a great place to visit if you are a videogame fan and enjoy chatting online with other gamers in online forums.

You can contact Morris Ramsey at morris.ramsey@gmail.com

The prices are very reasonable for these videos. All you need to do is send Morris some pictures and/or videos. You also need to tell him what the theme of your video needs to be. Morris will take over from there, and for the low price of $50 to $200, Morris will have a Hollywood style video for you in just a few days.

............UPDATE: WE DID IT! ................ Please Help This Family! ....... Boycott Key Bank & Sign the Petition to Make Key Bank Stop Chasing His Family Now that He is Dead!

UPDATE: WE DID IT!

I found out today with a personal "Thank You." After over 80,000 signatures were acquired, Key Bank decided to lift the terrible demands placed on the Bryski family. All of the people who decided to close their accounts at Key Bank, and all of the people who decided to sign the petition helped! Everyone can say "I was part of helping the Bryski family.

Congratulations everyone!

Sincerely,
Michael Zoran

For the record, I will be writing an article very soon about a terrible situation I am facing with student loans. The student loan companies literally prevented me from running for Supervisor of the Township I live in!

I need your help to overcome that problem, and I need your help to find a way to make Cottrellville Township in Michigan enforce ordinance violations.

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Student Loans are a TERRIBLE thing in the 21st century! The loan companies and banks abuse the rules associated with student loans. Student loans haunt you and your family, even AFTER you are DEAD!

Please help put an end to this! ... Please sign this Petition Online! ... It takes less than 60 seconds!

A man named Christopher Bryski was in a traumatic accident in 2004. This caused him to go into a coma, and he passed away in 2006.

Key Bank entered a student loan contract with Christopher Bryski while he was still alive. But obviously the employees of Key Bank and the shareholders of Key Bank do not understand that extenuating circumstances such as disabilities and death interfere with contracts being fulfilled!

The greedy representatives of Key Bank continue to force the debts associated with the dead man's student loan to be repaid! This forced Christopher's father to come out of retirement in order to make monthly payments.

Christopher's brother, U.S. Air Force Veteran Ryan Bryski , has used Change.org to create a petition asking Key Bank to forgive the debt of his dead brother. Please take less than 60 seconds to sign this petition supporting Christopher Bryski and his family.

Click here or visit this website: http://www.change.org/petitions/key-bank-stop-forcing-my-family-to-pay-my-dead-brother-s-student-loans?utm_campaign=tTzdDongfi&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert

Boycott Key Bank and Close Accounts at Key Bank!

If you have an account at Key Bank, I strongly encourage you to close your account at Key Bank! When you are asked why you are closing your account, I encourage you to explain this situation involving the harassment of a dead man's family as your motive.

This form of boycott is the only way we will ever show the evil Key Bank and their evil employees such as Beth E. Mooney -- the Chairwoman and CEO of Key Bank -- how terrible it is for a $90 billion bank to stalk a dead man's family.

Please click below to share this article with your Friends on facebook and Twitter. Encourage them to do the same. This will help a family in need of our support! By helping others in need, you will be in a position to expect help when you need it.

Please Sign this Petition for Fair Taxes

I was always taught how the Republican philosophy is based on the concept that says low taxes should exist so the tax savings can then be invested in the American society by wealthy entrepreneurs who have made a proven success of themselves. This would theoretically create well-paying jobs for Americans living in America. But you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to realize this has not happened, even with the Bush Tax Cuts. Instead, the wealthy people are greedy and invest in foreign markets.

This greed seen by millionaires really defeats the whole purpose of what the Republicans once stood for. Based on my observations, millionaires are far greedier than billionaires. This is probably why millionaires are still fighting for every penny, even if it means taking advantage of tax loopholes and trying to create tax loopholes where they don’t currently exist. But billionaires such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have proven that they truly care about all Americans – both the rich and the poor.

Like many working people, you probably pay 20, 25 or even 30 percent of your hard-earned dollars in taxes. Billionaire Warren Buffett paid a lower rate than that, a lower rate than his own secretary! By Buffett's own admission, that just isn't fair.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Tammy Baldwin have introduced the "Paying a Fair Share Act" in Congress, requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay at least a 30 percent effective tax rate. The Senate will be voting on it Monday and they need to hear from you!

Click below to let your representatives know that you support tax fairness:

http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=116

During 2010, the first year of economic recovery, 93 percent of income gains went to the top one percent. Everyone else's income stalled. Obviously this is NOT FAIR! Quantitative measurements of accounting, statistics, and every other form of mathematics PROVE this is NOT FAIR!

Since the top one percent pay such low tax rates on what may be millions of dollars in investment income, sometimes as little as 15 percent, government has been forced to close schools, tell seniors to live on less money and less food, and avoid repairing unsafe bridges that could be deadly to anyone at any time – similar to the way a bridge over an expressway collapsed on top of drivers in Minnesota!

What does it say about our values as a country that the only thing we can afford anymore is a handful of millionaires and billionaires? This is not what our Founding Fathers were all about!

Enough is enough! Let's have a fair tax code again. The simple fact is, we do not currently live in a country offering a fair tax code!

http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=116

The majority of Americans oppose the recent tax code changes that let billionaires pay lower rates than secretaries. This is why we’re working with our friends at DailyKos to say loud and clear that it’s time for our wealthy members of Congress to with us rather than against us. We want Congress to hear our voices in order to make sure the message is heard: “We want the ‘Paying a Fair Share Act’ to be fully supported!”

Remember, the amount of tyranny we put up with is the amount of tyranny we end up with! If you do not stand up for yourself with fellow Americans paying high taxes, you deserve to be put down and walked on by the much smaller number of millionaires and billionaires. We have the opposition outnumbered, but EVERY VOTE COUNTS!

Please, DO NOT BE LAZY! Take ONE MINUTE to sign this Petition online! I, Michael Zoran, have already done so. The only information that will be asked is your name, email address, and zip code. This will be done in order to verify that your signature is real.

Click below to tell your representatives to support the Paying a Fair Share Act.

Tell Congress to Support Fair Taxes!

In solidarity,
Mary Kay Henry
President, Service Employees International Union

Thank you,
Michael Zoran
Owner of Résumé Design Service, Web Force Now, and Controversy
michaelzoran@hotmail.com

Why is Sony Worth Only 10% its Former Value?

Sony To Cut 10,000 More Jobs

By Greg Tarr -- TWICE, 4/9/2012

Tokyo - Sony is planning to reduce its workforce by 6 percent, or about 10,000 jobs, as new CEO Kazuo Hirai takes action in the wake of the company's fourth straight projected loss, according to a Nikkei news report.

About 5,000 of the job cuts are expected to come from a reorganization of operations producing chemicals and small- and medium-sized panels, according to the report.

Hirai had previously stated that "painful" steps would be necessary to turn the company around. Hirai is scheduled to hold a press conference on the management plan, April 12.

Valued at $200 billion as recently as September 2000, Sony is now estimated to be worth just $20 billion, compared with $591 billion for Apple and $170 billion of Samsung, according to Bloomberg.

In February, Sony predicted a loss of $2.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31. A fourth consecutive annual loss would be a first for the company since it listed in 1958.

Hirai, who has put himself in direct charge of the company's flagging TV business, divested much of its holdings in an LCD panel plant co-owned by Samsung as a cost-saving measure.

Donald Trump Endorses Mitt Romney: Now We Know NOT to Vote for Mitt Romney!

CNN just got done saying Donald Trump doesn't care anything at all about the Republican party, the Democrat party, or any Independent party. CNN pointed out that Donald Trump is nothing more than a "Clown" who cares about the media -- making sure that the spotlight of free publicity always remains on himself. This "endorsement" of Mitt Romney is just another method Donald Trump has used to put himself on TV.

According to a recent poll, 64% of people said that the endorsement of Donald Trump doesn't impact their vote one way or another. But it did not surprise me that a larger percentage of people actually said that if a person received an endorsement from Donald Trump, it would result in not voting for that person! In other words, an "endorsement" from Donald Trump is more likely to cause harm to a presidential candidate than it is to do good.

In my opinion, voters need to forget about Donald Trump. When it comes time to vote at the polls, please do not let the statements of Donald Trump influence your vote.

Something is Fishy in Massachussetts

A Massachusetts fisherman pulled in an 881-pound tuna this week only to have the federal authorities take it away. It sounds like a libertarian twist on the classic novella by Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, but for Carlos Rafael, the saga is completely true.

Rafael and his crew were using nets to catch bottom-dwellers when they inadvertently snagged the giant tuna. However, federal fishery enforcement agents took control of the behemoth when the boat returned to port. The reason for the seizure was procedural: While Rafael had the appropriate permits, fishermen are only allowed to catch tuna with a rod and reel.

It would seem that unlike the fictional New England shark hunters in Jaws, Rafael didn't need a bigger boat, just a better permit.

In an interview with the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Rafael disputes the claims from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) enforcement division that the humungous tuna was trawled from the bottom of the Atlantic. They didn't catch that fish on the bottom," he said. "They probably got it in the mid-water when they were setting out and it just got corralled in the net. That only happens once in a blue moon."

And while Rafael is denied the mother of all fish stories, the federal impoundment of his catch also means he's probably losing out on a giant payday. A 754-pound tuna recently sold for nearly $396,000. NOAA regulators will not share any of the proceeds in the fish's eventual sale with a fisherman found in violation of the federal rules.

"They said it had to be caught with rod and reel," a frustrated Rafael said. "We didn't try to hide anything. We did everything by the book. Nobody ever told me we couldn't catch it with a net."

Rafael says he has meticulously prepared for a giant catch like this, purchasing 15 tuna permits over the past four years for his groundfish boats. He even immediately called a "bluefin tuna hot line" (yes, such things exist) to report his catch. "I wanted to sell the fish while it was fresh instead of letting it age on the boat," he said. "It was a beautiful fish."

Proceeds of the sale from the fish will be held in an account until the case is resolved, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Law Enforcement. "The matter is still under investigation," said Monica Allen, deputy director with NOAA Fisheries public affairs. "If it's determined that there has been a violation, the money will go into the asset forfeiture fund."

Watch Rafael explain what happened below.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/27364030

Article written by Eric Pfeiffer

I, Michael Zoran, share my thoughts below, and your opinions are also welcome.

Nintendo Faces First Financial Loss in It's Long Japanese History

Japanese game giant Nintendo’s financial fears were proven correct when the official results for the six months to September 30 were released. Nintendo has seen a massive drop in sales revenue, causing financial losses to rise by a factor of 35. Nintendo now forecasts an annual loss for the first time in its history in the videogame business.

Nintendo’s financial reports show that the company's six-monthly net sales revenue fell 40.6 per cent year on year to ¥215.7 billion (£1.78 billion), a drop of ¥147.4 billion (£1.2 billion) that naturally hit its bottom line hard – putting Nintendo in a very deep red hole. This time last year net loss was a slight ¥2.01 billion (£16.6 million). This year that has increased by a factor of almost 35, to a staggering ¥70.3 billion (£579.8 million).

Almost two thirds of that came in the last three months - Nintendo's loss at the end of the first fiscal quarter of the year was ¥25.5 billion - which may go some way to showing the impact on Nintendo's finances of making a loss on hardware sales following the global 3DS price drop in August.

The results are even worse than those reported by Nikkei yesterday. It claimed Nintendo would report a pre-tax loss of ¥100 billion (£821 million); in fact the company's losses before income tax totaled ¥107.9 billion (£890.16 million).

Nintendo's balance sheet shows that its woes are almost entirely down to falling sales. Despite the impending launch of Wii U, R&D costs were broadly consistent with last year's, rising just 1.8 per cent. Similarly, its renewed efforts in marketing 3DS have had no impact; with its advertising expenditure actually falling 9.1 by per cent year on year. Exchange rate fluctuations, which are hitting Japanese companies across the board due to the strength of the yen, caused losses of ¥52.4 billion (£432.4 million).

The biggest drop in sales came from the United States, where revenue fell by ¥85.9 billion (£708.9 million). This is a drop of 53.8 per cent that accounts for 58 per cent of the overall drop in revenue. In Japan, sales fell by 33.7 per cent; in Europe, 25.7 per cent, and in other territories, 39.9 per cent.

Sales of 3DS hardware, at least, are going in the right direction. In the first quarter of the year Nintendo sold just 710,000 units of its new handheld; in the three months to September 30 it sold 2.36 million systems. Worldwide, lifetime 3DS sales now total 6.68 million.

It's depressing stuff, and will have made for nervous reading for Satoru Iwata. The company president asked investors to give him four months to turn things around following the announcement of the 3DS price drop and the lukewarm reaction to the unveiling of Wii U at E3 in June, which caused Nintendo's share price to fall 5.7 per cent in a single day.

Nintendo's prospects of reducing losses to that ¥20 billion target rest on its predictions of a Christmas rush on 3DS driven by two titles starring its talisman, Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7. Iwata, more than most, will hope those forecasts are proven right.

Sony Projects $1.2 Billion Financial Loss!

Sony is struggling financially. This financial struggling has been going on for seven years at Sony. Last quarter, Sony lost $346 million due to poor sales in electronics (especially TV sets) and videogames, in addition to disappointing results in the movie industry.

Now, Sony has readjusted its fiscal year earnings to show an even more devastating loss than originally expected. Previously, Sony had projected a yearly lost of $769 million, but this has now risen to a loss of $1.2 billion!

Kaz Hirai, Executive Deputy President of Sony, announced “Management is feeling a serious sense of crisis about the seven years of losses.” Hirai continued by saying that he “Promises to lead the turnaround to get Sony out of the red.”

Good Sam Offers the Best Emergency Roadside Assistance

“Good Samaritan” is the best way of describing someone who offers help when you need it. I recently learned this is actually the reason why Good Sam received a memorable brand name like that. When you are driving your RV or any other form of vehicle, you can expect to receive high-quality roadside assistance from the people at Good Sam. I was amazed to see some of the excellent deals and high-quality services Good Sam is currently offering to subscribers.

No matter what type of assistance you need, Good Sam can help you out. Good Sam even takes advantage of modern technology to make things easier for you. If you lose your keys, run out of gas, or end up with a flat tire, you can simply call Good Sam’s toll-free telephone number to ask for assistance. What’s even more amazing is that you can even use the Good Sam ERS Mobile Application to request service.

Good Sam offers 24-hour roadside assistance throughout North America. In other words, it doesn’t matter if you live in the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or even the U.S. Virgin Islands, you can receive these types of emergency roadside assistance from Good Sam! Good Sam has an excellent reputation for offering high-quality service within reasonable amounts of time. Good Sam has earned this quality reputation by offering these forms of quality service for over 25 years.

I strongly suggest you take a look at the roadside services offered by Good Sam for yourself. This is particularly true if you enjoy RVs and camping. You can actually receive bonuses and rewards that will make camping more interesting for you if you become a member. When you have an RV, camping can be fun all times of year – especially when you won’t be dealing with stressful situations that Good Sam has eliminated.

Jeff Ashton is Also Someone We Need to Boycott!

Today I saw a statement Jeff Ashton made while being interviewed on TV. This criminal prosecutor specifically said:

"Everybody just needs to turn the energy that they have into something positive. If you want to do something to honor Caylee then do something to help other children. Don't try to turn it into rage. Turn it into something positive because that honors her. Anything other than that dishonors her."

I, Michael Zoran, am a businessman who graduated at the top of my class. The way I translate the statements made by Mr. Ashton have the following meaning:

"I want to write a book about Caylee Anthony in order to profit from her death. If people are expressing their rage by boycotting products associated with the financial gain of Caylee's death, it means I will be making less money. I want you to stop focusing on helping Caylee gain the justice she deserves. Instead, focus on other children and charities that I may give some of the proceeds of my book to support in an effort to try and increase sales. I will be using the tag line of 'Honoring Caylee' in order to generate positive publicity, but in reality I am doing this to simply gain financially for myself and my publisher."

I learned that the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case earned over $1 million from her first book. This prosecutor continues to write new books about the O.J. Simpson case! Books like that need to be boycotted! This is particularly true for any product or TV show that tries to gain financially from the death of innocent little Caylee Anthony.

The fact of the matter is that the best way we can help "honor" Caylee Anthony is by helping her receive the justice that she deserves -- the justice that Prosecutor Jeff Ashton and his legal staff were not capable of providing to Caylee Anthony in the court room. This is the reason why I wrote an article titled "Boycott Of Casey Anthony Starts Here - Sign Up NOW!" This article gives you an opportunity to write a pledge to boycott any product or TV show from anyone or any business attempting to gain financially from the death of Caylee Anthony.

Please take the time to visit the article where you take an act of faith by writing a pledge to boycott products, TV shows, or anything else developed by anyone or any business attempting to gain financially from the death of Caylee Anthony.

Jeff Ashton knows Caylee Anthony already has all of the honor she would ever need. Caylee Anthony simple needs one thing -- Justice! The way we help Caylee Anthony receive that justice is by working together as a team, writing official pledges to boycott anything associated with a financial gain from the death of Caylee Anthony. Afterwards, we need to make sure we live up to our promise to Caylee Anthony.

I no longer watch Jeff Ashton, Jose Baez, or anyone else being interviewed on TV on any of the news channels, especially Barbara Walters of ABC in her interview with Jose Baez. Anything associated with Barbara Walters is something I personally plan on boycotting. You sold out Caylee, Barbara! Sadly, every person doing any form of interview gaining financial profit is also selling out Caylee. TV shows need to set a new industry standard where people will only be interviewed if they volunteer to come on the show for free in a commercial-free environment. That way, we know no form of financial gain at any level is occurring.

Boycott of Casey Anthony Starts Here – Sign Up NOW!

Casey Anthony was found not guilty for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. But there is no doubt Casey Anthony is guilty of this crime; she murdered her daughter. The very disturbing thing about the American justice system and the American media is that at this point in time Casey Anthony essentially has won the lottery! Casey Anthony has the potential to receive unlimited amounts of money from interviews, signing book deals, signing movie contracts, TV show appearances, and even being part of reality TV shows.

But there is one way we can prevent Casey Anthony from earning huge amounts of money at the expense of her daughter’s life. I am referring to what is defined as a boycott. We can work together to make sure that Casey Anthony does not earn money when books and interviews are published. Similarly, we can work together to make sure Casey Anthony does not earn money when movies and other programs appear on television.

The way to achieve a successful boycott is with numbers; we need to work together as a team. We need to encourage all of our family members and friends to sign up for this boycott. By officially signing up for a boycott, you are committing an action based on faith – your pledge that you will stay true to your personal belief that Casey Anthony does not deserve your money!

I, Michael Zoran, will be the first to officially pledge not to buy any book or magazine associated with Casey Anthony. I will also be the first to pledge not to watch any movie or TV show that is associated with Casey Anthony in any way. Even if Casey Anthony is not an actor in the movie, I still pledge not to watch that movie because I realize Casey Anthony will receive some form of income.

I encourage anyone and everyone reading this article to make a similar pledge, saying you "Pledge to boycott anything from anyone or any business trying to benefit financially from the death of innocent Caylee Anthony." If enough people make this commitment, the result will be a successful boycott. It is very important that we achieve this goal, working together as a society. This boycott will be the last opportunity for 2-year-old Caylee Anthony to receive the justice she deserves.

The simple fact is, there is a very sensitive part of a person’s body located below the belt. This part of the human body is more sensitive than any other body part. It is capable of producing large amounts of both pleasure and pain. I am referring to the wallet!

Caylee Anthony can have justice! But she desperately needs our help! Please, sign up for this boycott by writing a brief pledge similar to the one I wrote. By making this pledge and living up to your promise, you will provide a form of justice to Caylee Anthony.

Thank you for your time and your help. And thank you for signing up for this boycott. I encourage any celebrity or anyone else with lots of followers on Twitter or Facebook to spread the word about this boycott. God bless you, and God bless little Caylee.

Update: If anyone finds out about any particular products that need to be boycotted, please write to me in order to let me know. Then, I will post an update here in order to help people know which products to avoid purchasing. My email address is: michaelzoran@hotmail.com

Update 2: Our pledges to boycott anything associated with the financial gain of the death of Caylee Anthony are working. Today I learned that a pornographic company has officially withdrawn its offer to hire Casey Anthony to star in an XXX-rated movie. The executive said, "It has become obvious to us that Vivid fans, and people in general, want nothing to do with her and that includes a XXX movie."

As a Christian, I never thought I'd be saying this, but the pornographic film industry has set an excellent example for the rest of society to follow. Book publishers need to realize that if they sign a deal with the goal of financial gain from the death of Caylee Anthony, we will not just avoid the purchase of that product. We will boycott products from that entire company from that point on!

The same can be said for retailers such as Barnes & Noble and Amazon. If retailers sell a book dedicated to the financial gain of Caylee's death, it means they get a share of the money. Thus, we will be boycotting that store from that point on! We live in a free society, so if Casey wants to sell a book let her build a website and mail it to you. Retailers will lose our business if they try to financially gain from the death of Caylee Anthony.

Update 3: The Wall street journal has an article explaining that Jose Baez was signed by Paradigm Talent agency then dropped within 6 hours. Obviously, the capitalist business world we live in is feeling the heat from pledges to boycott any person or any business trying to gain financially from the death of innocent Caylee Anthony. Many of us are hitting the Advertisers and Media now to head off any future deals. Make your voice heard using the two links below to contact Advertisers and Media:

http://www.keepcaseybroke.com/boycott-letter.html - In particular, boycott ABC & Disney, since they have already given Casey Anthony and those associated with her $200,000. If it wasn't for ABC (using Disney as a form of dummy corporation), Casey Anthony would not have been able to pay for a defense team. Please do not watch ABC news or TV shows. And please do not watch Disney TV shows, attend Disney movies, or buy Disney movies on DVD.

http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/networks/main.asp - Contact Media networks to share your thoughts. Let them know that making a made-for-TV movie trying to benefit from the death of Cayle is a bad idea! I will eventually contact every one of them, proudly showing our group of pledges to boycott!

Update 4: Jerry Springer has offered Casey Anthony $1 Million if she and her family – George, Cindy, and Lee – will come on his show for an interview. We absolutely must boycott the Jerry Springer show starting NOW! Until Jerry Springer cancels this offer, we will not watch his program. If you want to contact the Jerry Springer show in order to point out you will never watch his show again if he tries to benefit financially from the death of Caylee Anthony, you can do so at this email address: jerry.fan@nbcuni.com. I will be writing a message to Jerry Springer very soon using the power of our group of pledges to knock his greedy socks off.

Personally, I believe Jerry Springer doesn't have the ability to pay $1 million dollars if his life depended on it. I believe Jerry Springer is only using this $1 million offer as a form of publicity in order to increase his ratings. I believe Jerry Springer's plan is to eventually cancel the offer, saying he listened to the "fans," in an effort to increase his ratings. I believe this is a "form" of trying to benefit financially from the death of Caylee Anthony. This means, whether Jerry Springer withdraws his offer or not, it is a good idea to never watch Jerry Springer's TV show again.

Update 5: I just saw on TV that Jerry Springer has officially announced they never made an offer of $1 million to Casey Anthony. If Jerry says so, I guess we can believe him. Of course, the important thing is that Jerry Springer has made it clear that he wants no part of Casey Anthony. This is another round won by Caylee Anthony. If anyone or any business tries to gain financially from the death of Caylee Anthony, it means they will be boycotted!

Update 6: Please visit Change.org in order to sign two petitions to force government to do two things. First, enact Caylee’s Law – requiring parents to report missing children with 24 hours without facing felony charges. Second, keep Casey Anthony from being able to profit off the death of her child by signing “Say NO to Offering Casey Anthony Movie and Book Deals for Profit.”

Update 7: We need to visit Change.org and sign the petition called “The U.S. Supreme Court: Try Casey Anthony in Federal Court.” If this case is brought before the Federal Court, it will be an exception to double jeopardy. From the moment Casey Anthony lied to the FBI she was in violation of The Martha Stewart law. This is a federal offense that comes with a 5-year sentence for each count. First Degree Murder is also a federal offense. Please, we must not let this crime go unpunished. Sign this petition and give Caylee the justice she deserves.

Update 8: There is a new petition in place that prevents jurors from ever profiting from a court case. This will prevent bias associated with finance in the court room. Please sign this petition at this website: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-jurors-from-profiting/

Update 9: I was shopping for some mandatory groceries and medical supplies at Meijer tonight with my mother. In the grocery line, my mom immediately noticed something. Absolutely none of the magazines or newspapers had anything to say about Casey Anthony! This is excellent news; it shows that reputable retailers like Meijer are listening to us. This also shows that magazines and newspapers don't want to risk losing customers as a result of trying to gain financially from the death of innocent Caylee Anthony. (Note: The rumor that Wal-Mart has signed a contract with Casey Anthony for a shirt deal is false).

Update 10: Boycott any and all books published by Trident Media Group. It's very easy to remember if you use some form of association. For example, if Casey Anthony were here you would "Try" to "Dent" her face with a punch. This is a long story, and you can read about it here. 

Update 11: Retailers beware! If you make the mistake of carrying Casey Anthony books, it will cost you! If either Barnes & Noble or Amazon sell one of those books, I will cancel memberships and cancel credit cards. If any store like Wal-Mart, Meijer, or Kroger sells a book about Casey Anthony, I will make sure to buy ALL grocery products from a smaller grocery store even if it means paying higher prices. I encourage each of you to do the same.

 "Comment" below to write your personal Pledge to Boycott anything from any man, woman, or business trying to gain financially from the death of innocent Caylee Anthony.

Should K-12 School Teachers Be Required to Work During the Summer?

I live in the state of Michigan. I also live in one of the most overpaid school districts in the entire country filled with racism (African Americans are not hired). The school district where I live is known as the East China School District, because it is based in East China Township – a geographic area supporting both Marine City schools and St. Clair schools. A teacher with a bachelor’s degree will earn over $70,000 per year, and receive an automatic increase in pay when a master’s degree is earned!

But is it really fair for a high school gym teacher with a bachelor’s degree working only about 50% of the days of the year to be paid $30,000 more per year than a General Motors engineer with a master’s degree working the entire year? I say this is absolutely not fair at all! I realize there is nothing that can be done about Christmas vacation, Thanksgiving vacation, and several other holidays. However, the incredibly long three months of summer vacation stands out from the crowd.

I believe high school teachers, middle school teachers, and elementary school teachers should be required to work during the summer in order to earn their salary. It is unbelievable the way teachers are paid over $70,000 per year in the school district I live in, and then will go apply for a job as a coach or as a summer school teacher in another school district during the summer. This helps these overpaid teachers receive even higher rates of pay than ever.

Other teachers with a bachelor’s degree use their first several years of summer vacation as time to enroll in summer semester college classes in order to work towards a master’s degree in education. The instant a master’s degree is attained, the rate of pay shoots up by a large percentage. Once a teacher has earned a master’s degree, the teacher has free time in the summer again. If the teacher decides to teach summer school classes, it means cheating someone else out of a job and earning even more money.

What I believe is that high school teachers, middle school teachers, and elementary school teachers should be required to work during the summer! Rather than hiring “new” summer school teachers, school districts could easily reduce expenses by making sure their existing employees simply do their job – teach, during the summer that represents 25% of the year these teachers are paid for!

In all probability, no school district will need that many summer school teachers. But I believe these teachers should still be required to work during the summer, since they are being paid. Even if the teachers are told to do basic things such as street patrol in order to help reduce crime, at least it would represent some form of productive action. Paying teachers three months of wages to do absolutely nothing during the summer is not a good idea and has helped put school districts into debt.

What are your thoughts on this subject? Do you believe it’s fair for teachers to be paid three months of wages, even though they essentially aren’t doing their job? Some schools offer brief training programs during the summer, but what about when those programs are over? And couldn’t those training updates take place during the long Christmas vacation the teachers are paid for? When you add up the summer vacation, weekends, and the other vacations, K-12 teachers only work about half the days of the year. Is this fair?

New England College of Business and Finance - Setting New Standards Online

In 1999 when I was 19 years old, I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I lost the ability to drive, which was truly disappointing considering I live in a small town with no public transportation. What’s worse is that I live in a country area where nothing is within walking distance. But thanks to online education, I was able to acquire various degrees and certificates at several different colleges and universities.

At the time I was diagnosed with epilepsy, I was enrolled in two classes at a local community college and the semester was about halfway over. Even though I was previously able to drive, I often complained that it took me so long to drive to the college and then drive back home. This was time which could have been used to study. Unfortunately, I was forced to drop one class since I could not find anyone to take me and pick me back up. But, I was able to get a ride from my mother in order to complete the other class.

After that semester was over, everyone I knew made it clear to me they would not be available to take me to college classes and then do grocery shopping or wait in a parking lot while I was in school. Back in 1999, I had absolutely no options available to further my college education. I didn’t know about online education at the time. I basically was forced to sit around the house very disappointed all day (just as I often do now, since I am still unemployed).

But in 2003 when I learned about online education, it really sparked an interest in my life! I enrolled online at Lansing Community College, where I eventually earned two associate’s degrees, in addition to three Microsoft Office Specialist certificates. I completed an online program where I earned a certificate in Time Management. I then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a minor in Process Management from Franklin University – a school my sister and I graduated from and recommend you do NOT attend!

While I attended college online, I was very happy. I thought there was hope for the future. I literally was a double-time student – enrolled in up to nine classes at a time, earning a 4.0 in all of them! I saw this as a way to make up for lost time over the previous four years. I used this enthusiasm and hope as a source of fuel to study, do homework, and perform well on proctored tests.

Ever since I graduated, I have been trying to find work online. Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I can definitely confirm college improved all my skills associated with writing, math, finance, marketing, management, and entrepreneurial business. But I know that one in three degrees received by students each year is in some way related to business. In other words, business is an area with tough competition and may require a master’s degree in order to give you a competitive edge.

One of the best accredited online MBA programs I’ve seen is from the New England College of Business and Finance. I know having an online degree in finance can help you get a good job, because my sister worked at a bank where the manager of the entire bank had this type of degree. However, it really does seem like most of the jobs today list a bachelor’s degree as a requirement while saying a master’s degree is preferred.

I really like the way the New England College of Business and Finance is the first school in the United States to offer a compliance training program dedicated to ethics in the world of business. This graduate course allows you to receive a Master of Science in Business Ethics and Compliance – also known as an MBE. When you complete this program you significantly increase your opportunity for employment working as a financial consultant, compliance officer, or corporate auditor. You will be the one setting the cultural standards relating to business ethics for non-profit organizations you work with.

I also noticed the hospitality degree offered by the New England College of Business and Finance. This is essentially a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a specific focus on Hospitality Management. After doing some research, I learned this means you will be focused on gaining skills associated with hotel management, catering of food and beverages, event planning, and human resources.

I’ve known several people who worked at hotels and eventually worked their way up the ladder to impressive careers, enjoying their job the whole time. If this is an area you are interested in, it seems like this program will help you acquire all the skills needed in order to achieve your objectives. Plus, placing the emphasis of Hospitality on this bachelor’s degree can give your résumé an advantage over others in this niche market.

I can tell you that attending school online really is a great thing. You don’t need to waste money on gas, and you don’t need to waste time driving. I realize some people enjoy learning in a classroom – sometimes considering it a social activity. I also realize some people are involved in programs such as medicine and surgery where you need to see things in person. But I can tell from personal experience that the subjects associated with business are very enjoyable online.

Based on what I’ve seen online, it looks like the New England College of Business and Finance will be an excellent experience for students. If you have any thoughts or experiences to share about the New England College of Business and Finance, please do!

Gifts from Myron Offer Personalization and Promotion

Personalized gifts and rewards add a lot of importance to most people. This is the time of year when students graduate and many marriages take place. Once, when I was the best man at a friends wedding, I received a nice pocket knife with my initials placed on it. This element of personalization really meant a lot to me.

Business is also an area of life that benefits from personalized forms of promotional products. When you look at a custom-designed business logo placed onto items such as promotional USB cards, pens, calendars and notepads, you feel a sense of pride. A business organization can also reward employees by personalizing USB cards, flashlights, key chains, mugs, and even a computer mouse! This form of employee recognition honors employees for doing a good job while simultaneously providing promotion for the business.

Myron is an excellent online website to buy these forms of personalized items for your friends and loved ones. A romantic couple can buy personalized gifts saying “Thank You” or “I Love You.” Children can celebrate the anniversary of their parents by purchasing gifts saying “Congratulations” or “Best Wishes Mom & Dad.” These forms of personalized items really do add a special feeling when a gift is given to a loved one.

Myron is also an excellent place to buy promotional items purchased for your business. Your business logo and initials can be professionally placed on executive items such as portfolios, journals, calculators, photo frames, and daily desktop calendars. Even items such as umbrellas and nail clippers can carry your business logo in order to help build brand recognition! If you are looking to advertise and promote your business for reasonable prices, I believe Myron will probably be able to help you out.

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Used Cars for Sale by Owner – Excellent Deals at Hertz Car Sales

New and used car sales and rentals are a very big part of the state of Michigan I live in, since Detroit is known as the “Motor City.” Used cars represent a market where you really need to buy from a trustworthy source. Hertz Car Sales is one of the most trustworthy brands in the auto industry. I’m very impressed with the pricing and guarantees of Hertz Car Sales.

Used cars for sale by owner is a concept that eliminates the middleman, which obviously saves you a lot of money. Hertz Car Sales merely steps in as the sales organization allowing this sale to occur, while simultaneously adding elements of protection and reliability. When you visit Hertz Car Sales, you will be amazed how reliable information associated with mileage, models, and fuel efficiency is. No matter what you need, Hertz Car Sales has the resources to help you.

I also like the way Hertz Car Sales has an excellent Rent2Buy program. If you drive a car and like it, there are plenty of finance options available for you to purchase the vehicle at an excellent price. There is even a Memorial Day deal where you can save $1,000 on any car!

Please feel free to share your thoughts about Hertz Car Sales. I know my sister needed to rent a car on two separate occasions while her automobile was being repaired. On both occasions she rented from Hertz Car Sales and was very pleased with the automobile product and service of Hertz Car Sales employees.