Controversy

Speaker Wire is a Confusing Product!

Recently I decided to buy some new speaker wire for my A/V Receiver. According to reports and brochures, the top-rated speaker wire you should use with an A/V Receiver is 12-gauge wire. The 12-gauge wire is useful for long wire runs and also useful on shorter wire runs because the larger amount of copper provides less resistance for electricity (a very good thing). But while doing research and examining products, I became very disappointed by the fact that key pieces of information are usually left out of speaker wire products.

I would like to clarify a few things about speaker wire. Ironically, as the "gauge" of the wire becomes smaller, the speaker wire actually increases in size. This improves the quality of the wire because it decreases the electrical resistance. Taking advantage of high-quality speaker wire can actually help give added life to your A/V Receiver or Amplifier.

One of the primary qualities often advertised by manufacturers of speaker wire is something called "Oxygen-Free" wire. The reason this feature is important is because oxygen can "oxidize" the copper in the wire. When speaker wire becomes oxidized (similar to rusted), it will increase the electrical resistance in the wire. Consequently, the sound quality will decrease and electrical problems in an amplifier may be generated.

I recently learned that one of the biggest problems with speaker wire is the way products are falsely advertised. I'm referring to the fact that a countless number of manufacturers advertise "Copper" speaker wire. But in reality the copper speaker wire has an aluminum core that is only "coated" with copper. If you buy 12-gauge aluminum wire that is coated with copper, it may only offer the benefits of 16-gauge "pure copper" wire.

Believe it or not, speaker wire gets even more confusing! The 12-gauge speaker wire that is recommended by home theater magazines is usually referring to the AWG (American Wire Gauge) standard of measurement. There are other forms of standards that are not universal in their measurements. For example, a manufacturer of speaker wire may advertise a 10-gauge speaker wire, but in reality it may only offer measurements seen by an AWG 12-gauge or AWG 14-gauge wire.

There are also dirty tactics that can be used in the world of speaker wire. Obviously the copper is the most expensive material used in speaker wire. Aluminum is the second most expensive material used in speaker wire, while plastic is the least expensive material used in speaker wire. Some manufacturer's of speaker wire use very thin copper wire or copper-coated wire, but they still advertise their product as 12-gauge.

The reason these manufacturers do this is because they use incredibly thick plastic wire to coat the metal in a cheap way. These manufacturers don't make their final standard of measurement until after the plastic has been placed over the wire. This is a very immoral thing to do because speaker wire is being sold for a higher price as if it were offering the quality of a higher product. In reality, the speaker wire is not offering high quality performance at all.

I still have not been able to find the following product that I truly do have a desire to purchase: AWG 12-Gauge Oxygen-Free 100% Copper Wire

I can tell you two things from personal experience, though. First, the speaker wire company called Monster Cable charges way too much money for their speaker wire product. Monster Cable doesn't even bother to list the gauge on their product! People who have measured the Monster Cable speaker wire have found it to be somewhere between 15-gauge and 16-gauge. I highly recommend that you purchase a different brand, simply because the only thing you are paying for is the advertisements of this company.

RCA actually makes the best speaker wire. This speaker wire is an AWG 14-Gauge Oxygen-Free 100% Copper Speaker Wire. This product is rated incredibly high by all users on websites such as Amazon.com. The speaker wire sold online costs far less than the prices seen in most retail stores. If you do need to buy this product at a retail store, I recommend ABC Warehouse because they are willing to negotiate with you if you buy several rolls. If only RCA were to release this product in AWG 12-Gauge, I would be the happiest camper in the world!

Does anyone know who makes an AWG 12-Gauge Oxygen-Free 100% Copper Speaker Wire?

Will You Be Left Behind May 21, 2011 When and If the Rapture Happens, as Predicted?

 

The Rapture is a topic debated amongst Christians. Many Christians believe that since they have been saved by the blood of Jesus Christ they will not be forced to live through seven years of apocalyptic tribulation before the Lord returns. Other Christians believe that since God's people were forced to live through tribulation in the Old Testament era under leaders such as Moses, it means they will be forced to live through tribulation in this New Testament era we currently live in. But one thing is clear, the majority of Christians never put an exact time on the moment the Rapture will take place or the moment we will see the return of Jesus Christ.

However, once in a while we do see a group of Christians put a date on when these so-called Judgment Day events will take place. May 21, 2011 is the day that Christians at wecanknow.com have said they believe Jesus Christ will return to save His followers, taking all of those born-again followers with Him. The Rapture will cause everyone else who was not born-again to be left behind, wondering how millions of people could have just magically disappeared right before their eyes. This prediction has generated a lot of publicity with the media and also given atheists something new to target as evidence that there is no god.

The term atheist is often confused with the term agnostic. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an agnostic person is "One who is not committed to believing in either the existence or nonexistence of God or a god. A person who is unwilling to commit to an opinion about something." But an atheist is more hardcore in beliefs, which is why the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the term atheist as "One who believes that there is no deity." In other words, an atheist knows exactly what he or she believes and acts on those beliefs -- similar to the ways religious people such as Christians act on beliefs and call it faith.

A group of atheists that host a radio show on KLAY AM 1180 have said they are hosting a party for those "Left Behind." These atheists are referring to everyone on the planet, since they believe nobody will be taken during any form of Rapture on May 21, 2011. Put differently, this is the atheists way of saying everyone is invited to the party. There is an official invite from these radio hosts that says:

"The night that we’re all Left Behind, May 21st, 2011 at 8:00 PM, the producers and crew of Ask An Atheist would love to see you at Dorky’s Arcade in Tacoma. We’re throwing an awesome party in Tacoma’s new retro arcade and bringing in our favorite Seattle bands to rock the place as we celebrate the END… of the countdown to backpedaling."

What are your thoughts on this subject? ... Do you believe there will be a Rapture on May 21, 2011?

 

President Obama has Trumped Donald Trump

I am very pleased to report that President Barack Obama has trumped Mr. Donald Trump. For the last several weeks we saw Donald Trump form a political following making false claims about Barack Obama. Everything from whether or not Barack Obama was really born in America to whether he possessed the status of a "natural-born citizen" was brought into question. All of this was caused by the loud mouth and selfish attitude of Donald Trump. Of course, it did help that millions of people were dumb enough to believe what Trump was saying without investigating the facts.

Normally, a hospital will not allow a birth certificate to be shown to the public. But President Obama asked the hospital he was born at in Hawaii to make an exception this time. The hospital did as President Obama asked and officially put an end to whether or not President Obama was born in America. Now that President Obama has "shown us his birth certificate" there is absolutely no doubt Barack Obama Jr. was born in America and is a natural-born citizen of the United States of America.

I also want to make something clear about the term "natural-born" citizen. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is the term "natural-born citizen" defined. And nowhere in our current law is there a requirement that a person be born on American soil and possess two parents that were both American citizens.

The way "birthers" claim people are required to have two American parents in order to be classified as a "natural-born" citizen is nonsense based on a document that related specifically to John McCain. This document talked about the life of John McCain and his American parents (plural) and made a specific reference to him as a "natural-born" citizen. But this document was talking about John McCain and only John McCain! This document was never labeled as a definition of what a "natural-born" citizen is! Barack Obama even helped write that document for John McCain!

Again, I want to make it 100% clear that in no part of the universally accepted law applying to all Americans (plural) is the term "natural-born citizen" defined in any way capable of preventing Barack Obama from being President of the United States of America. If that were the case, a lot of American citizens would lose eligibility to run for president. Those same people would lose the right to call themselves "natural-born" citizens, even though they were born on American soil as a child to an American parent.

I'm pointing this out because Donald Trump doesn't know when to fold. This is why millionaire Donald Trump has gone bankrupt in the past while running businesses worth billions of dollars. In a book about Donald Trump, it has been reliably reported that Donald Trump is worth approximately $150 Million right now. But when this was reported we saw that Donald Trump took the author of that book to court because he claimed that this report damaged the "brand" of the name Trump. Donald Trump "claims" to be a billionaire, but his tax records would obviously reveal that he is not anything close to being a billionaire. Thus, the revelation of tax records would show that Donald Trump is a liar.

Previously, Donald Trump had said that the only way he would be willing to reveal his personal tax information is if President Obama is willing to reveal his birth certificate. This means the ball is now in the court of Donald Trump. Will Donald Trump do as he promised? Or will Donald Trump once again make a fool of himself when America is reminded that his foot is just as big as his mouth -- proven by the fact that every once in a while Donald Trump manages to put that foot in his big mouth.

Fold Donald...You were trumped last week by me, Michael Zoran. And this week you have been trumped by President Barack Obama!

Sacred Heart of McMahon Nepotism

Vince McMahon and his entire family are 100% liars, cheaters, thieves, and hypocrites. The same can be said about the board members of Sacred Heart University. I’m not just referring to “entertainment” forms of wrestling; I’m also talking about real life. I’m going to talk about several subjects that really anger me, since I play fairly by the rules but often seem to come up short in the game of life.

Recently I was watching some old wrestling matches on YouTube and I saw something that absolutely amazed me. I saw that Vince McMahon was being given an honorary doctorate degree. This really upset me because student loans placed me over $30,000 in debt while investing in my bachelor’s degree. I have no idea how much it would cost me to invest in a doctorate degree. I also spent a countless amount of time studying in order to graduate at the top of my class. But Mr. Vince McMahon gets a doctorate degree given to him for free, without investing any time other than showing up at the graduation ceremony!

I decided to do some research to see what college was offering this doctorate degree to Vince McMahon and what their motive might be for doing so. The name of the college giving this doctorate degree to Mr. McMahon is Sacred Heart University. I wanted to see why Sacred Heart University was willing to give Mr. McMahon a doctorate degree, even though no other college in the world was willing to do such a thing.

It didn’t take me long to find out why Mr. McMahon was being given a degree that he didn’t earn. I found out that Mrs. Linda McMahon, the wife if Vince, is a board member of Sacred Heart University. This type of environment is the perfect type of place for nepotism to rear its ugly head. For those of you that don’t know, nepotism is a form of bias and favoritism shown to a family member.

This means the reason why Vincent McMahon was not being offered a free doctorate degree by any other college on the entire planet is because Mrs. Linda McMahon is not a board member of those other schools. However, I think it’s pretty safe to say that if Linda McMahon were a board member of any other college, she would make sure that her hubby—Vince—got some form of degree that he didn’t earn, and therefore did not deserve to receive.

This type of immoral behavior is no surprise coming from the McMahon family. We saw a perfect example of this when Linda McMahon was running for governor of Connecticut. Linda repeatedly dodged questions about whether or not people employed as wrestlers for the WWE organization she owns are being given steroids. Linda McMahon looked like an acrobat the way she tried to dodge answering that question.

For example, when Linda McMahon was asked if her WWE wrestlers were being given steroids and using them, she repeatedly said “The health of our athletes is carefully monitored.”

Well, in the world of business and realism that statement is interpreted as “Yeah, we pay our doctors to ‘prescribe’ steroids to our employees; that way, we can get away with doing it legally. And if the blood-level measurements of our athletes start to exceed what we believe are safe, we stop giving them steroids for a while.”

The problem for Mrs. McMahon is that everyone else in the sports world and the world of moral ethics believes that what she and her husband are doing is unethical and puts the lives of the wrestlers at risks (something the selfish McMahon family is known for doing, as proven by the deaths of various wrestlers).

This problem upsets me even more when you think about the fact that Vince McMahon was recently on the cover of Muscle & Fitness Magazine because he looks so good, even though he is in his 60’s. If Vince McMahon had accomplished this achievement in a fair way, it might have been an inspiration to readers of the magazine. Sadly, Vince McMahon is definitely not someone readers of any fitness magazine would want to pattern their life after. Vince McMahon ended up with a muscular physique thanks to taking illegal steroids – something he has admitted to doing in a court of law.

What’s even worse is that Shane McMahon, the son of Vince and Linda, is also a user of steroids. What father in the world would actually be proud of his son being a steroid user? One minute Vince McMahon and his wife Linda are telling kids in Connecticut and across the world “Not to take steroids,” while the next minute Vince and Shane are injecting each other with illegal steroids. The only good thing is that Linda McMahon was not elected as governor of Connecticut.

Sadly, Vince McMahon’s whole reason for telling people not to take steroids is because he also markets nutritional supplements. Forms of protein, vitamins, and other supplements are the real reason why McMahon tells people to do things honestly. In reality, Vince McMahon wants you to buy his products in order to help him gain money. McMahon and his son will still take those illegal steroids in order to be better than you.

The difference is that McMahon employs doctors and can constantly monitor his health levels in safer ways that normal people can’t. But McMahon isn’t “normal,” he is “special,” since he takes steroids – cheating at the game of life, yet being rewarded for breaking the rules.

During his commencement speech at Sacred Heart University, Vince McMahon told the hard-working high-paying graduates “It’s important in life that you’re not afraid to fail. If you are not afraid to fail then you will be successful in life.”

The actions of Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon prove that they certainly weren’t afraid of taking illegal steroids. And the actions of Linda McMahon certainly proved she wasn’t afraid to lie about whether or not her family and her employees are given steroids. The message Dr. Vince McMahon is sending to graduates is that if you play by immoral rules like that, you will succeed in life.

The really sad thing is that Vince McMahon is correct. Hard-working people in today’s society put themselves hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in debt with student loans, only to find out that they can’t find a decent-paying job. This is something I personally experienced in life. What’s worse is that so many people play by the rules and do things fairly, yet end up as losers in the game of life.

The real losers of this situation are the students of Sacred Heart University. Due to the fact that they allowed Vince McMahon to receive a doctorate degree he didn’t earn and didn’t deserve, it means Sacred Heart University has lost accreditation. Sacred Heart University students have board members that illegally provide employees and family members with steroids and give undeserving family members degrees they didn’t earn.

Any student considering Sacred Heart University should definitely not attend that school. If you have not yet wasted money on Sacred Heart University, you should be thankful you still have the ability to avoid that bias-filled college. It’s the former graduates who paid money and worked hard for degrees that truly suffer thanks to Linda McMahon and Vince McMahon. It is these hard-working graduates that now possess degrees with less value thanks to the McMahon family.

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Jose Canseco - Immoral Man

Jose Canseco has sent his twin brother, Ozzie, to fight in his place in a celebrity boxing match he was being paid $5,000 to participate in. This was an illegal thing to do, and it happened because Jose Canseco wasn’t willing to take any pain. Jose Canseco has always been the type of person who tries to take shortcuts to reach glory. As a baseball player and now as a celebrity host, Jose Canseco takes illegal shortcuts that ultimately result in his name and the name of his employer being disgraced.

Jose Canseco originally started out as an excellent baseball player. He possessed excellent strength and speed – a combination that is rare in major league baseball. Jose Canseco was the founding member of the 40/40 club. This means he was the first player in history to ever hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in one season (42 home runs, 40 stolen bases). As long as people thought Jose Canseco had worked hard to earn this glory on his own, everything was fine.

People were very disappointed to learn that Jose Canseco had used performance-enhancing drugs as a player. The sport of baseball lost popularity thanks to selfish players such as Jose Canseco. Ratings and attendance dropped because people don’t want to be around cheaters and liars inspired by tarnished records set by Jose Canseco. The only thing Jose Canseco can say he did was cheat people out of money and use illegal substances to unfairly get to the top.

The simple fact is that if a man uses steroids but doesn’t lift weights, he will still generate muscle faster than a non-steroid-using man that works hard lifting weights. It truly is a disgrace when a steroid-using man such as Vince McMahon ends up on the cover of Muscle and Fitness magazine, since McMahon admits to being a steroid user! Jose Canseco used those performance-enhancing drugs while training in excellent facilities, all while monitoring the health of his body professionally to minimize health risks (a page out of the playbook of the McMahon family).

I think it is an absolute disgrace when men like Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hulk Hogan, and Jose Canseco tell kids not to take steroids because of health risks. Each of those men would be absolutely nothing if it wasn’t for performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids! These men probably wake up every day and thank the Lord for anabolic steroids. And when these men speak to kids in California, they probably are thinking “Kid, if you want to make it as an actor in the 21st century, do yourself a favor and start taking steroids now!”

Think about how performance-enhancing drugs affected the careers of Jose Canseco, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Hulk Hogan. If it wasn’t for those drugs, Jose Canseco would not have possessed the strength needed to hit 42 home runs or the speed to steal 40 bases. If it wasn’t for those drugs, Schwarzenegger never would have been able to become a Mr. Olympia bodybuilder. Schwarzenegger would never have been cast to play Conan or star in movies such as Commando or Predator. And we certainly would never have seen Hulk Hogan become a wrestling star without steroids.

People realized that Ozzie Canseco was not Jose Canseco for two main reasons. First, people noticed that Ozzie Canseco is smaller than Jose. This initially wasn’t enough, though, because some people hadn’t seen Jose in as long as 18 months. The big piece of evidence was found when Ozzie did not have the tattoos on his arm that Jose Canseco is known to have.

Ultimately, the people to feel bad for in this situation are the fans that purchased tickets specifically to see Jose Canseco get his butt kicked. The fans were not given a refund by the promoter. Instead, the fans were given tickets to the next event. If that was me, I would be demanding my money back!

Currently, the promoter probably doesn’t care. He will actually make money as a result of this situation. He gets to have all those tickets sold along with a lot of expensive food and beverages. The promoter also gets to sell lots of expensive money-making food and drinks at the next event. This isn’t fair to the people who only wanted to see one thing: Jose Canseco get beaten up for being an immoral idiot!

People really should stand up for themselves and DEMAND their money back! This would cost the promoter of the event a lot of money, but he would get it back. The promoter of the event would take Jose Canseco to court for that huge financial loss. This financial loss along with punitive damages would motivate Jose Canseco not to commit crimes like that in the future.

Believe it or not, this is actually not the first time Jose Canseco and his twin brother Ozzie have worked in illegal and immoral ways like this. The Canseco family tries to take advantage of every possible opportunity to take money from people. Apparently, Jose did not believe the smaller events were worth his time, but he still acknowledged the value of the smaller events. Ozzie handled the smaller stuff and kept the money for himself. This was something Jose approved of, since Ozzie is his brother.

There have been times in the past when Jose and Ozzie have used this type of illegal bait-n-switch advertising before. For example, hard-working loyal fans would pay hard-earned money for the autograph of Jose Canseco. But Ozzie is the one that would show up in place of Jose. What’s worse is that Ozzie would actually sign the name of “Jose Canseco” and claim to be his brother!

Jose Canseco should be fired by any employer that values a quality reputation. The same can be said about Ozzie Canseco. If you have any items that were ever autographed by Jose Canseco, I suggest you confirm it was really Jose Canseco who did the signing. History has proven there is a chance Ozzie may have been the one playing the role of Jose Canseco!

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