By Pete on Dec 3, 2009 in Bad Spending Habits | Post a comment
Remember Cabbage Patch Dolls, people? Or Tickle Me Elmos? Furbies even?

Well from that same corporate greedy well has sprung up a new plastic hunk of junk named the Zhu Zhu pet … and it’s the talk of the town this holiday season! This plastic hamster is the hot new “here today, gone in a closet tomorrow” product that the media is telling the general public they want and need for Christmas, so they can call the toy stores daily (to see if they came in yet) or spend countless hours online looking for them like little sheep? What a sad, and very pathetic, society we live in when we don’t even realize that these hunks of junk are going to go on sale December 26th, when they’ll be found everywhere (for less than their regular price, I should add here)! Continued
By Pete on Aug 6, 2009 in Life & Health, Money Management | Post a comment
Hey ladies … are you seriously going to let the designers tell you what’s sexy?
How in the hell would they know what type of women men like … they’re into other dudes! Here’s a secret, that’s actually not so secret in a man’s world (when none of you are around to hear how piggish we can really get): women who have the best curves (breasts, hips & booties) get the most attention from 98% of the straight male population (the other 2% will eventually get their turn on Chris Hansen’s To Catch A Predator … seriously). The phony belief that women should be super-skinny is a myth created by the ignorant people who don’t know what a real woman’s body should look like (those same gay designers and the greed-drenched media are confusing you for one purpose: pure profit).
Being curvy and having different plumbing are the two biggest differences between females and males (remember Health Class?)! So if a guy finds a girl who has no breasts, no butt, and no hips attractive; does this mean that he is also attracted to prepubescent males physically? The truth of the matter is that women are definitely meant to have lots of curves, and normal men, without any pent-up pedophilia, know this for a fact (note: we’re not the ones talking crap on how you look … that’s what shallow women and those 2% of sick men, who you shouldn’t give a rat’s ass about anyways, do for kicks). Continued
By Pete on Aug 4, 2009 in Career, Life & Health | Post a comment
Why do the best new ideas come from people who aren’t being paid for them?
The simple answer: the average inventor is not really interested in that one very important social aspect of career success: money. The most extreme forms of creative thinkers live on the outer edges of society norms (at least in some way) and the only real difference between making lots of money or none at all could be determined by which side of the edge they’re standing on: the side that sells out for peanuts, or the side that does it merely to advance humanity. Now here goes the s@#tty news: society will only evolve if enough creative people take this second path.
During rough patches (like the one we’re currently in) it’s bound to have more of these edges and more creative people living near those edges. That’s why recessions and national disasters usually lead to explosions in both art and technology. For example: the almost-completely-broken financial market has seriously been given a mulligan! This gigantic problem has actually created a very large opportunity to reinvent the banking industry for the better, and some very smart people have been stepping up to do their part. Now, do you seriously think the greedy bankers and speculators are the ones that I am talking about (God, I hope you answered “NO”)? Continued
By Pete on Aug 3, 2009 in Credit & Debt | Post a comment
Got your eye on a new laptop, or a flashy, overpriced digital camera?
Now, at the same time are you low on funds, and seriously contemplating taking those damn credit card companies (who have been flooding your mailbox recently) up on their offer to secure a way too heavy APR line of credit out for it? Well, you better stop right there … before you do anything stupid (truth is: those cards and their companies suck, and they rip people off at the same time) and read the rest of this article. Ready? Ok, let’s move on … Continued
By Pete on Jul 31, 2009 in Reviews | 2 comments
“The Week in Review: Money Issues” is my weekly blog research on financial topics that define us as Americans, and shape the way we should do business.
What a difference a week makes!
Last Friday I was tired as hell around this time, and now? Whew … I’m like a huge ball of energy! I have been writing non-stop over the last couple hours, pounding out my work way ahead of schedule (I love this new coffee blend that we got brewing all day long) and I don’t even feel like stopping (ok, I have to from time to time … I throw out the spelling and grammar errors on a pretty regular basis … and these need to be fixed, due to the fact that I’m a perfectionist! I know, I know … sucks to be me)! Plus, that coffee has to go somewhere … sometimes (I go like 15 times a day) …
Well, here goes the stuff you crave! If you could only see me now, I’d probably look like the squirrel on Over the Hedge to you (I don’t know if that’s funny or not … but it’s definitely true). Enjoy: Continued