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I am a happily maried father of 7 dogs one cat and 5 humans. 5 of the dogs are supprise puppies from the most miss matched pair you would ever think possible but here they are and no two look alike. I am 55 years old and still have two of the humans living

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Autos > Mechanics & Repair Shops Is there such a thing as a trustworthy mechanic: 3 of 17

The question of is there such a thing as a trustworthy mechanic is more true than anyone knows. The answer is yes with a capital "BUT". The term ASE certified now more often than not means license to steal than it is a promise of quality service. I am a mechanic of some 30+ years experience and up until I heard the term "I f...
Business > Marketing The ins and outs of viral marketing: 1 of 5

OK We have all seen the ads promising to flood your web site with more traffic than you can handle and all you have to do is put their link in your favorite traffic exchange or God forbid Google AdWords. Sounds fantastic and the way they explain it even makes sense. The truth however is that the only ones getting the traffic...
Business > Starting an Online Business High failure rates in online marketing businesses: 1 of 4

As promising as on-line businesses are the failure rate is almost to the one hundred percent mark. The biggest reason is the belief that all you have to do is put a site on-line and millions of people will instantly see it and start throwing money at you. Then you find out that it involves a great deal of work and planning t...
Business > Entrepreneurship Business planning: What is the breakeven point?: 1 of 3

As a home based business I am constantly looking at the break even point of any and all projects that we consider undertaking in our expanding business. The main problem for a home based business is that almost all of the costs involved are not easily identified especially if that business is in the information service or ho...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Reflections: Taxed into mediocrity: Earning money for the government?: 3 of 5

They are talking about bailing out the banks and wall street to the tune of $700,000,000,000.00! The result will be that all the banks and financial institutions that loaned money, mostly for home mortgages, will get paid for their foreclosure debts. Now they will still keep the homes that they foreclosed on and can resell t...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Life lessons learned from dogs: 11 of 17

We are the proud or crazy owners (or pets) of 7 dogs. Yes I said SEVEN, the mother, daddy and five puppies that should not have been possible. The daddy is a miniature dobby/beagle mix and the mommy is a greyhound/lab/dalmation mix. Two more unlikely mates you can not find. In fact it was the size difference that had me maki...
Business > Entrepreneurship Starting a business: Setting expectations: 4 of 5

Getting Started On-line without Going Broke Hello again and let's start this like we all have never operated an on-line business and we are stone broke. What we need is a way to earn an income to use as a source for building a more stable long term business. Here comes Click-Bank.com and using Hop links in traffic exchanges....
Autos > Auto Repair (Other) How to know if you need that expensive car repair: 12 of 14

OK this may only be for my own conscious and maybe one other reader but here is mechanics uncovered. This is a possible horror story turned good by the use of a second opinion. A customer contacted my shop requesting the price for replacing the heads on his Bonneville. This car had a 3.8 liter engine in which the water pump ...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Corruption: A contagious social disease.: 10 of 10

Some Interesting Points to Ponder Hello everyone I have been thinking of how to put these thoughts into words without the risk of disappearing for some time. Never have come up with a solution so what the heck here goes. We all complain about the cost of gas and heating oil. We live in a world with terrorist killing at will ...