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I was up a bit early this morning watching the news and eating fruit loops and this AD caught my eye. It was a commercial or should I say another commercial released by a non-profit organization trashing walmart again. This time the organization it called WakeupWalmart. They are accusing Walmart Of the following

• That 70% of the items in their stores are from China
• Wal-Mart Associates don’t earn enough to support a family
• Wage increases would cost Wal-Mart relatively little
• Wal-Mart forces employees to work off-the-clock
• Wal-Mart executives did not act on warnings they were violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• Wal-Mart’s Health Care Plan Fails to Cover Over 775,000 Employees
• Wal-Mart’s Health Insurance Falls Far Short of Other Large Companies

and the list goes on…

I for one am guilty of shopping at Wal-mart. Hell I worked on numerous IT contracts for them over the last few years. Basically the only reason that I shop there is because they

1. Have almost all the necessities that you need in one place

2. They are cheap

3. You can get a haircut, eat subway and get your eyes examined in one location

4. Sometimes there might be a hot chick behind the register

5. its cheap

6. its cheap

7. they are everywhere

8. I can buy a gun and A Dora the explorer doll in one place

9. its cheap

10. They are open 24 hours.

I agree with what WakeupWalmart is doing. I wish I had the balls to do that myself but I guess for now all we can do is try to support them and shop elsewhere.

Wakeup walmart can befound at wakeupwalmart.com

So I’m pinging a web-server tonight to find out the IP address and I receive this message.  The last time that I checked PING was a valid windows command!.

Yesterday I took the plunge and decided to sign up with a review site oddly enough called review me. For those of you that do not already know about Reviewme.com its simple. You as an advertiser search the market place for for blogs using keywords of your product that you are looking to promote. Once you find a match for what you are looking for, you then select the blog and create an assignment for the blogger. For example your company makes flash websites, you will create an assignment for the blogger to write a review about your flash websites.

Once the assignment is complete the blogger will check in with you and then get paid. Each blogger can set their own price of their review service. Here at Astawerks.net we charge $80 per review but there are other bloggers who charge up to $500. Now blogers before you panic you can write anything that you want about the product. Its not have to be all positive, you can slam the product worse then a new Britney Spears album. The blogger will still get paid. In the end the product will still get a backlink from your blog which means G**GLE Juice.

I really like what this program has to offer being that at times I completely suffer from writers block. This will feed me idea’s and wake up my creativity like when I was 19 and in college getting high every night!. I have been a musician and artist for a long time in my life and the creative part is there, it just needs to be waken up!. For God sake I write with my left hand!.

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Hey All,

Each day around 12pm EST I am going to post the stories that I am working on getting popular on Digg. Right now there are two that I am working with . Take a look at these two they are both good quality submissions!.

GPS Cellphone tracking
Amy Winehouse that coke whore!

I am going to switch gears now and rant on a subject that pisses me off  each year around this time.   It is how everyone has to be politically correct and say happy holidays instead of  merry Christmas or happy hanukkah  or even happy kwanzaa.  I am Jewish and now I am a born again Christian and I never had a problem with Christmas, either did my family.   It seems in the past three or four years it has gotten very bad.

Corporate A-holes are spreading this garbage.  Basically what they are trying to do is take Christ out of Christmas and its getting ridiculous already.   Just the other day I was drinking a can of coke and took a look at a picture of Jolly ol’ Saint Nick on the can and there it is.  A BIG OL HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2007.  Now correct me if I am wrong  but didn’t it say  Christmas  2006 on Coke cans last year?   Same thing with office parties when I used to work for the man we would have a Christmas party each year.  Now its a Holiday party and there are no more Halloween parties that is now called a Autumn Party or Fall Party.

Now when did all of this start?  probably the past 5 years I think don’t get me wrong.   It just gets worse each year for all things.  Everyone is afraid to not be politically correct,  well I can care less I call everything as I see it and you can ask anyone who knows me that I am not afraid to say whats on my mind.

So here’s a big

• Buone Feste - Italian
• Felices Fiestas - Spanish
• Happy Halloween - United States, Canada
• Trick or Treat - United States, Canada, the combined threat and request for candy of children at each door they visit on Halloween.
• The sky is blue, the grass is green, may we have our Halloween - Scotland
• A common greeting on Halloween is to make any form of what would be considered a spooky sound or greeting such as Goood Eeeeveniiiing. Often, a goal is to catch someone by surprise there by scaring them.
• Happy Thanksgiving - United States, Canada
• Happy Turkey, short for Happy Turkey Day - United States (informal), referencing the traditional meal.
• Merry Christmas - Australia, United States, The phrase is often immediately followed by and a Happy New Year.
• Happy Christmas - United Kingdom
• Merry Xmas - Written English (often informal), referencing the Greek word ???????, for Christ.
• Merry Yuletide, Good Yuletide or Happy Yuletide - English, can generally refer to the period of cultural festivities surrounding Yule, Winter solstice, Christmas and the New Year.
• God jul - Swedish, lit. “Good Yule”
• Joyeux Noël - France, Quebec, Louisiana, Switzerland
• Buon Natale - Italy
• Mele Kalikimaka - Hawaiian, is preferred over the traditional American “Merry Christmas” in the U.S. state of Hawaii; made popular worldwide by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950 in song
• Nollaig Shona Duit - Ireland, (Irish Language), lit. “You have a happy Christmas”.
• S’Rozhdestvom Kristovym! (? ?????????? ?????????!) or, more commonly, simply S Rozhdestvom! for the informal Christmas greeting, while the traditional religious greeting is Khrystos razhdayetsya! (??????? ?????????, meaning “Christ is born!”) and the traditional response is Slavite! (C??????!, meaning “Let us glorify him!”). - Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic countries
• Feliz Navidad - Spanish lit. “Happy Nativity”
• Happy Kwanzaa - English greeting used before Kwanzaa.
• Weso?ych ?wi?t - Polish greeting used before Christmas (literally ‘Happy Christmas’).
• Habari Gani - Swahili for “What’s the news?” is the daily greeting for each of the seven days of Kwanzaa.
• Happy Hanukkah or Happy Chanukah - English
• Chag Sameach - Hebrew for “Joyous festival”, used for most Jewish festivals.
• Gut Yontiff - Yiddish for “good holiday” used for non festival holidays.
• L’Shanah Tovah - Hebrew, Lit. “a good year”. Common greeting during Rosh Hashanah and Days of Awe. It is derived from L’shanah tovah tikatev v’taihatem, lit. “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year”.
• Have an easy fast - the solemn greeting for Yom Kippur.
• Happy New Year - often yelled at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
• Kul ‘am wa enta bi-khair - Arabic for “May every year find you in good health”
• Taqabbala Allahu minna wa minkum. - “May God accept from us, and from you.”
• ‘?d mub?rak - “Blessed Eid” is used to greet at the end of Ramadan on Eid ul-Fitr
• ‘?d sa‘?d - “Happy Eid”
• Bayram?n?z Mübarek Olsun - Turkey
• Selamat Hari Raya or Salam Aidilfitri - Malay and Indonesian
• maaf zahir dan batin - Lit. “Forgive my physical and emotional (wrongdoings)”
• Bon Carnival - A French, Creole, or Cajun carnival greeting often used for Mardi Gras.
• Happy Easter -English
• Christ is Risen, replied to with He is Risen Indeed - Spoken in various languages, Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic countries

and to all a good night!.   I’m done rant over :)  Lets get paid.