Robert in Seattle

Aug

25

2010

The Reality of Sales

Author: RobertinSeattle

Tags: Robertinseattle, The Joy of a Salesman, YouTube
Posted in Humor, YouTube, animation | No Comments »

Aug

23

2010

You have to watch and listen to the whole thing to appreciate this real horse race broadcast from Monmouth Park Race Track in New Jersey. The announcer never once chuckles at the names of the horses.

Tags: horse race, Monmouth Park Race Track, New Jersey, Robertinseattle, Wife Knows Everything, Wife Knows Nothing, YouTube
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Aug

16

2010

Mandelbox Zoom

Author: RobertinSeattle

Tags: Mandelbox Zoom, Robertinseattle, YouTube
Posted in Commentary | 2 Comments »

Aug

15

2010

A New Favorite Commercial

Author: RobertinSeattle

This new commercial from GEICO is so annoying, it’s hilarious!

Tags: GEICO, Robertinseattle, wee wee wee all the way home, YouTube
Posted in Commercials, Video, YouTube | No Comments »

Aug

11

2010

Oh Boy! The JetBlue Story in Taiwanese Animation

Author: RobertinSeattle

It had to happen – here’s JetBlue: The Animation from the same folks who brought you Tiger Woods and Al Gore the crazed sex poodle!

Tags: JetBlue, Robertinseattle, Steven Slater, YouTube
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Aug

5

2010

On “Greed” and Capitalism

Author: RobertinSeattle

I recently joined a new Facebook page called Create the Good that the AARP started to put a social network approach to helping others in big and small ways by connecting people and causes. They posted a link to a recent article about how Bill Gates and Warren Buffett were encouraging the other billionaires in America to pledge half of their wealth to charity. You can read one piece about that on Huffington Post – click HERE to read the post.

Well, it didn’t take very long before the wealth re-distribution trolls came out and tried to rain on the parade. Here are some of the comments that I couldn’t help finally answering personally. (Honestly – WTF is wrong with some people?!!)

A friend just sent me this very old interview (Thanx, Mike) from the Phil Donahue Show in 1979 with the late, great economist, Milton Friedman (check out that snazzy pink jacket!). Somehow I don’t think this was quite the answer Donahue was looking for but I do suspect he was enlightened. And under that clip is another short piece from John Stossel on Capitalism.