Obama to Cancel Bush's Stem Cell Ban

 
In yet another batch of great news to come from the recent election win of Barack Obama, it appears that Bush's old ban on stem cell research will finally be lifted.  More on it from CNN here.

This will of course upset the very white, very conservative and very angry part of this country that for all too long has had their cultist say in things.  I hate to come back from my lack of blog posts with such a bashing but it had to be said.  The conservative part of this country are just the western equivalent to the extremeist islamic terrorists of the mid-east, but mind you, like anywhere else, it's not the whole group of people. 

Listen, I'm not for abortion and really neither are the scientific groups involved in stem-cell research but we have to grow up as a nation and see a blessing in science when its right there in front of us.  The cure for cancer and many other illnesses is staring us in the face but because of dark-ages old thought, it has been prevented. Abortion is wrong in my opinion if the sex that lead to the conception was a mutual agreement, if the pregnancy is far too late in progression, or if the pregnancy doesn't endanger the mother.  I'll leave it at that and hopefully the amount of hate mail below won't be so much, but what can I do; there are still people in this modern age who believe in talking snakes, who are stubborn as mules, and who will cut their nose off despite their face.  Remember, umbilical cords also have stem cells and if we don't act quickly in this research, many more people will be living needlessly short lives because some 2000+ year old cult wanted them to supposedly meet their maker sooner then later.

New Bailout Plan Passes

Looks like as of a few minutes ago, the House of Representatives passed the new, revised $700 Billion bailout plan 263-171. Though much better than the ridiculous plan proposed by Paulson and Bush, still I bet some people will be questioning if this will be a plan for them or just the 1% of the country that has more than $100,000 in the bank. I listened in to the hearing and I was glad to hear the house actually bashing Wall Street CEOs for their obvious mess ups (lets not forget the greedy Realtors who bumped up house prices beyond anyone's reach). I didn't get to read the entire new bill that I believe can be read at house.gov but stuff like pushing for more money into green businesses for new jobs, the hope of credit flow to small and private businesses (not just the idiots on Wall Street), tax breaks for business owners who keep jobs here, tax breaks for many homeowners, and renegotiations for homeowners in trouble seem to be what is needed. Thankfully they claimed that this will erase those CEO "golden parachutes" but we'll see about that in the coming months. The FDIC limit increase I feel is not really necessary since again, only 1% of Americans even reach the old $100,000 mark in the bank, but at least the horrible bottle-feeding, trickle down economics plans of Bush and Paulson was somewhat stopped. This maybe shows that this country is not a communist/socialist country as of yet but it sure is coming close to with the minority rich still having too much of a say over everyone else. I'll admit I got a bit of worries about this but I was about to pack my bags for Japan if the first bill passed. If McCain comes into office or if Obama blows it...I'll have to rethink that plan again.


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Chuck Gaffney (Me) on BusinessWeek.com

Looks like my comments about the US economy got me on the front page of businessweek.com! My anime business and my old health business got me to realize different sides of the financial spectrum and as some of you know, many of us (including myself) were furious about that now failed Paulson $700 bailout plan that was going give the crooks who stole from the US the money back. I know this isn't really otaku related but I would assume that man of you can't avoid the news on it so I''m extra happy to see that my comments got me to the front page of the biggest business site on the web. You have to be living under a rock to not know that the US economy is in the crapper. Caused by the nepotism between Wall Street and the government, greedy Real Estate agents and loan sharks and an overpriced and overrated college system that teaches everyone to be worthless 9-5 cubical-slaves, this economy was just a house of cards that was ready to fall. All isn't doom and gloom though; one of my anime wholesalers, Diamond Comics did a report on the increase in sales anime and collectible goods and the turnout at the New York Anime Festival 2008 sure doesn't show signs of a recession there. Thankfully the internet has given all of us a voice and I'm very humbled and honored that I'm featured on the front page of one of the biggest business sites in the world. I of course commented about the incompetence of Treasury Secretary Paulson. Here's my entire comment:

"Secretary of Treasury Paulson was the CEO of Goldman Sachs, turned the company's $30 Billion debt into $100 Billion. The guy is not even qualified to count your cash as a teller at any bank let alone come up with anything that deals with money or in this case, have the US taxpayers write him a blank check. The guy hardly qualifies enough to flip burgers since there would need to be someone there to make sure he doesn't miscount the orders!"

Link to the comment here.

Blogger is Finally Fixed

Holy frecken ass-crackers! For some of you that were wondering... yes this blog was down for exactly one week. Why, should you ask? Because Blogger goofed up last Friday. There has been so much news going on and I've been sitting like a middle-class person at the recent financial hearings. So glad to be back. I was sick last weekend with the flu and my webhost kicks the bucket the same time blogger got clogged yet they denied that they didn't work for one week. Anyways, today is a huge day since I'm taking the train now for New York Anime Festival 2008. More on that and FREE Death Note II: Last Name Tickets!!

Monsters Everywhere in the News: Bigfoot Found, Montauk Monster, Chupacabra Chase

Some of you might have heard of all the weird things that recently been going on in the past few weeks. At the end of July there was the now famous Montauk Monster that washed ashore only an hour away from my home over in Montauk, Long Island. View my other blog post on it if you dare to keep reading on this raccoon/pig/turtle/WTF is it?

Now, just two days ago a Texas deputy catches video of what appears to be the Chupacabra. History channel's Monster Quest recently had a report on the creature with actual bodies that have been kept and tested on so its only a matter of time before this once legendary creature becomes a part of the real list of animals. Check out the video here. Head from one of the bodies found below.

If that's not all, as of two days ago apparently two hunters in Georgia found a dead body of Big Foot and they have it in a freezer. To hopefully calm the scepticism I also have, there is going to be a news conference tomorrow apparently on this whole this so maybe this is actually legit. Alleged picture below:

With the Internet age well embedded in our culture and daily lives, information and technology has brought things to a point where we could finally solve these riddles but it also means if any of this is to be real, much more has to be done to prove to us because the Internet has made it so easy for hoaxes to be done and spread.

BusinessWeek and My Anime Business

Looks like things are starting to finally pay off in my anime business. As of a few days ago I finally got the capital needed to put the nails on my job's coffin. Chuck's Anime Shrine matched 2007's gross sales in late April and early May, and with a goal of $10,000/week sales in the next few weeks, 2008's numbers will be looking very nice with 2009's profits all the more sweeter. A recent deal with Japanese manufacturer, Milestone is going to upgrade the business from anime retailer to anime wholesaler and even BusinessWeek wants to get an idea on what I'm doing with a future excerpt from me and a little featured deal. If it wasn't for my involvement in Amway, I would have never thought of diversifying myself, getting free from my job and being truly happy. As I'm hammering the nails to the coffin that holds my college-degree job, I'll probably return to more involvement in Amway since, lets face it, royalty income is the way to go and no MLM is better for it.

Hope that adds some lemon juice and salt in the wounds the naysayers of Amway got from their boss whipping them for being 1 minute late to their job.

Amway and the Naysayers Who Grind My Gears

Congrats to Cathy Cross for becoming an IBO ^_^

Ok, most people know me as the anime loving otaku who was part of the Anime Music Video movement a few years back that lead to all those crazy AMVs you see on youtube. As of last year some people will also note that I turned my high school anime fandom into a anime figure business that will have me completely out of the job world by next month or before my 25th birthday in November. I will also make sure everyone knows that I'm a proud Amway/Quixtar IBO. Most of my 2-3 year time off on my anime site is thanks to my involvement in Amway. It can also be thanks to the stupid job I had at Friendly's Ice Cream here in Selden, NY... that also made me realize that I was feeding the mentally challenged. Now I simply work for one at my college-degree job of at a certain camera store as the website bitch..I mean co-webmaster. A Flash series is oh so needed to depict the utter stupidity of the common folk in this area and my current boss at BB.

After working with people in my job and in Amway I've come to the conclusion that many many people are simply tools to society. We are forced to believe that a college education is the key to the finacial and overall success in life. Check out my previous posts, the most successful people in the world, the successful youtube generation entrepreneurs like myself and plain old common sense and you'll see that's a bunch of smoke and mirrors. The reality is that many people end up working for the rest of their life for a few jobs they don't want to be in. They will rush to work and cause car accidents and needless traffic congestion because their boss will practically ass-rape them if they arrive at 9:01.

Today's society and economy can be depicted like lemmings falling off the cliff because the other ones did ahead of them did, too. The lemmings being society and the ones ahead of them being their parents before them. Otaku and the youtube generation has seen enough of our parents fall victim to common stupidity as you can easily see across the net. People who have put down Amway, Mary-Kay, anime, the internet and the like are going to be extinct in the next 20 years as the youth of America and the world today realizes they've been duped to be nothing but my oh so favorite coined-by-me word, cubical-slaves.
Oh, and don't be surprised if you find me at Comic-Con, the Tokyo Game show, on the G4 network and other famous otaku places in the world drinking my XS Energy drinks and eating an Amway meal bar. Being an entrepreneur in my companies proves I'm no fool and nobody's tool and I would probably be right if most of my otaku friends also agree with that, too.

-Image thanks to business week's take on Amway. Look through the comments for "Chuck G." That's me

What's Your Cubical Like?

On a number of occasions I will point out that a job is equal to "cubical-slavery" but whether you plan on leaving it like I am or living in it your whole life, its the place you are at the most so why not make it look cool. CNN did this awesome article on some nice cubicals. The picture shown there is very interesting but a bit small so here you can see another nice cubical design from LifeAfterCoffee. I would show mine but I emptied it since it'll soon be vacant. Just simple papers and tasks there now. If you got a cool cubical post a link to its picture in the comments section.

My iPhone 3G Waiting Time

Yesterday before going out to see the amazing Dark Knight Movie I went to go buy a 3G iPhone but with no luck since every place here on Long Island was completely sold out. Its not much of a surprise because of how hot the item is and being a store owner myself I completely understand running out of a hot item. Yet, the wait times for the 3G here is about 20 business days from time of purchase! I thought Apple was making enough 3Gs to accommodate the obvious huge surge in sales...which I think they did but the retail stores sure didn't note it from the looks of it. Luckily I did get to test it out a bit as a demo and my anime site came up pretty fast indeed. I simply love the apps and might join in the apple dev group to make my own. Other than not having one yet, I've seen no issues with the 3G. Any issues on your end? (if any of you do indeed read this)

BTW for CAS (Chuck's Anime Shrine) I will make a mobile version for iPhones and other phones.

College and Its Credit Bedfellows

I know, yet another post about college but I simply had to put this out. Looks like the country's financial issue stems alot more into the whole University-to-Cubical-Slave dogma then even I thought. Check out this article just posted by BusinessWeek. In it they show that colleges and alumni associations get paid HUGE money by banks if the they sell student contact info to them for of course credit card applications and student loans. It continues to amaze me how we continue to throw our kids (and our wallets) into universities like sheep to the slaughter (as seen in the articles lovely pics shown here).
As stated in my previous post about how worthless a college education is now and the sort-of hidden motives by colleges; this article just shows that this country's lack of money stems right at that focal point. $400K homes and the ever raise in the cost of living wouldn't have fallen to this economic depression we are in if people were taught the truth that the best point of wealth is not to rot in a cubical of a job (jackass of boss) all their life but instead be their own boss down the road with a job as a buffer. I did post a length comment on this story under the name Chuck G. of course, so if you want to add on to this here or on BusinessWeek...be my guest. The picture below shows the amount of money some universities get. Its absolutely sickening.

-Pictures are illustrated by J. Alex Stamos and couldn't be any truer.