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Author Archives: Scott Allan

Not one dime=Read my lips

When the Bush Tax Cuts expire everybody will pay more taxes:
The 35% tax rate will become 39.6%
The 33% tax rate will become 36%
The 28% tax rate will become 31%
The 25% tax rate will become 28%
The 10% tax rate is eliminated
Tax on dividends will increase from 15% to 39.6%
The cap-gains tax goes from 15% to [...]

Stick a fork in her

The final nail in the Coakley coffin. In a recent radio interview, Martha Coakley, who wants to be Senator from Massachusetts, called Curt Schilling “a Yankee fan”. Curt Schilling?? The Hall of Fame pitcher who beat the Yankees in the playoffs with his bloody sock and brought the first World [...]

Happy Anniversary to my gorgeous wife

Today is our 7th wedding anniversary.   I can honestly say that we are more in love every day.  I truly understand how lucky I am to have her in my life.   I have never been happier. 
Happy Anniversary Babycakes!

Birmingham Works

A few months ago, I received an email from the publishers at Birmingham Works Magazine.  They had stumbled across my blog and asked me if I would consider writing for them.  Since flattery works incredibly well with me, I agreed right away.  The online version of the magazine is at www.bhamworks.com.  My first article is [...]

Blogging vs. Facebook

I have not blogged about much of anything in a while.  Like many bloggers, I have fallen into the Facebook trap.  It’s so easy to share a link and make a quick comment on there that I no longer take the time to duplicate or expand upon it in the blog.   Most of my [...]

My new eBook Reader

Plastic Logic finally unveiled their Que Reader today at CES 2010.   It was the final eBook Reader I had been waiting on to see if I should get one.   I had been reading books on my Windows Mobile phone which was not ideal but I already owned it, the software was free, it was portable, [...]

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

The twins

My wife flirted with disaster today. She has often told friends and family that her husband (that’s me) would leave her if she ever cut her hair short. I have to admit her long hair was really beautiful and probably the only reason I married her. Ok, there were [...]

Screw you Directv

Since I promised the billing representative I just talked to at Directv that I would blog about this, here we go.
OPEN LETTER TO DIRECTV:
I recently switched from Directv to Dish Network.  My bill dropped from $140/month to $66/month and I get all the same channels.  When the promotional period ends after 1 year I will [...]

Have we gone mad??

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the EPA (Obama administration) is going to classify Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous pollutant next week so that it can be regulated even without Congress passing any climate change legislation. This is the same Carbon Dioxide that we exhale when we breathe. This is the same [...]