I don’t know about the numbers and I’m sure those figures were collected pre-iTunes store. Personally, buying music has become so stupid simple that I don’t even think to go find a free song anymore. Throw in spy-ware, mal-ware, porn popups, and time spent and I figure .99 cents is a no-brainer price to pay for a song.

If that’s not enough listening material, there’s Pandora, Spotify, and Stitcher to keep me entertained. I use Spotify to scratch that musical itch when I can’t shake the magic eight ball of Pandora to get the song I want and I use Pandora to give me that mindless DJ effect when I’m working and don’t want to think about my music. Stitcher isn’t necessarily for music, but I can stream a ton of podcasts through the app, so if music doesn’t hit the spot, something on Stitcher usually does.

So what does $8 billion worth of stolen goods look like? I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s offset somewhere by all the jobs created to develop paid music services, cloud storage, and mobile apps.

None of which were very big before the iPod.

Stick that in your slid deck Rob!

BubbleThoughts.com

That’s the opening line of the pep talk I want to hear from every leader who ever expects to lead me anywhere. Twenty years ago I spent 1 year in 29 Palms California as part of Uncle Sams Misguided Children (USMC) and while I was there one Marine Sergeant impressed me so much that to this day I can still see his face and I still believe that I’d charge head long with him into the flames of hell. While other so called “leaders” were just getting by and “keeping their noses clean”, this Marine was speaking plainly and expecting results. He was ready to take the heat for any mistakes so long as we worked hard and followed orders. Now, I’m not much of a follower at heart so the fact that he influenced me so much says a lot in my book.

So today, when you go out in the world remember two things: 1) people are listening to what you say, 2) try not to suck!

Chaz
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According to a story published on the BBC website, she had two Yahoo email accounts.

I don’t know about you, but all I use my old Yahoo account for is trapping spam sites that make me give an address to download something. Yahoo hasn’t had my business since they sold out their customer base for some quick cash back when the dot com bubble burst and ad revenue went in the toilet.

Apparently there are some issues to consider since Palin is under investigation for her activities while governing the fine state of Alaska. Somewhere during all of this hacking business her accounts were deleted. I don’t know about you, but that is pretty convenient timing. Oh, I’m not saying she planned it. I’m just saying it sure is convenient.

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Please leave a comment if you find a better version or have other references to throw in. I will update this post if I find anything new.

Signed,

John McCain

PS. Call me, we’ll do lunch sometime. Dutch of course.

Buying campaign buttons can be a little adictive and that’s why you might want to shop for buttons at DemocraticStuff.com. All their buttons are one dollar each and they have some pretty creative designs. Some are funny, some are serious, and all are worth at least a buck, so check them out.

Wouldn’t it be fun if you could create your own political team from a pool of draft picks sort of like fantasy football? I mean what would happen if you took two of the most controversial figures in this years presidential race and put them together on the same stage. Well, here’s a short video to help us both visualize what a Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton political team would look like.

Yes, there a little creepy. But tell me you wouldn’t dunk one of these in peanut butter and go to town?