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Avoiding the obvious

Corey Charette — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:12:36 +0000

I’ve seen this commercial a few times on the local TV stations and there is one thing that is glaring me in the eyes that they avoid talking about.

The mother in the commercial talks about “making ends meat is a struggle” and goes on to complain how the (New York) governor wants to add new taxes on juice, sports drinks and sodas.

Of course this commercial is against that, but the one thing I can’t figure out – if you are struggling to make ends meat why in the hell are you buying all these unhealthy drinks?!!?

The first thing you would cut out is the luxuries. Buying high calorie, sugar flooded drinks are not something that any child should have in excess, and by not buying it encourages them to drink less of it.

I look at this woman and see that she can save a few bucks by not buying that crap. This commercial doesn’t make the governor look bad for taxing something that we shouldn’t be drinking a lot of, it makes it look like that people are stupid and don’t know how to handle their finances.

Why I added the DONATE button

Corey Charette — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:12:32 +0000

Today, I added a donate button to my latest podcast Talk Duo. I wanted to put a post up and explain why I did this.

First, I want to thank everyone for the kind words and support for the shows that I do. Those really help make me happy and make me want to make every episode so much better than the one before.

The reason that I put a donation button on my podcast is because I felt comfortable enough to be able to do it. As most of you know, this is my third podcast. (The other two are Average Joe Show and Tech Gang Show.) I figured that putting a donate button on the site won’t look like I’m in this for the money. If I was, it would have been done a long time ago.

Everything that is being done with these shows comes out of my pocket and the through the help of others. Without them, the shoes wouldn’t exist.

With these donations we could help pay the co-hosts for their time and help get better equipment so we can produce better quality shows, get quicker turn around times on the releases and maybe start to do live video casts.

If you have any questions, please let me know. I’ll answer any questions that you have.

Thanks,
Corey Charette

Point of view

Corey Charette — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:00:42 +0000

As I driving to work this week I finally saw that gas had gotten under the $2 mark. I was so excited that it got down that far.

I thought that it was funny that a few years ago the gas prices were climbing to the $2 mark quickly. I remember how we all panicked about it and were cutting back on unnecesary trips to anywhere.

Strange on how the same event happens and how we react different to it now than we did then.

Guess it all depends on which “side of the fence” you look at things.