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The hit song from from Rihanna “Please Don’t Stop The Music,” could not have came at a better time.
The FCC is supposed to vote on the XM Sirius Merger soon and there is absolutely no reason this should be stopped. It is true they are competitors but the competition they face is much more worrisome and they need a combined company to survive. Look at the stock prices and you can get a bitter taste of what I am talking about.

I recommend everyone write or call their reps to help get this merger through. I wrote a letter through the Yahoo version of Capwiz.com which can send a email or written letter just by a few clicks of the mouse. The letter was regarding this merger to Sen. Byron Dorgan, a high-ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, who wrote to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission saying the agency should not follow the “illogical” decision of the Justice Department.

I am a registered democrat and small business owner in North Texas. I am proud to be a democrat but when it comes to mergers and taxes for some reason you just do not get it.

I used to work in radio for Clear Channel and made horrible wages there. They are the monopoly of radio and they want this merger stopped just like you do. I noticed Jim Cramer pointing out both democrats and republicans that are being lobbied to stop this merger. It is sad that such a great merger cannot go through. This merger is taking longer than Exxon and Mobil. That is ridiculous.

I have to pay both Sirius and XM radio and pay for two separate devices because I have channels on both that I enjoy listening to. Besides my personal problem with these companies not being together there is one major problem… reduced competition. They have the possibility of going bankrupt and making way for Clear Channel Radio and CBS Radio to take over.

You need to get in touch with what the people want. Your voters. American’s who believe in free business. The people want the XM Sirius Merger. Please do not let us down.

You can now purchase “terror-free oil” at one gas station at least in the US.  A Coral Springs, Florida based company opened a station this week in Omaha, Nebraska that pledged to sell oil that is terror-free.  This gas station group plans to expand to other US cities while supplying its consumer’s oil bought from Sinclair Oil Corporation and oil traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The drawbacks to this are that some oil is mixed by suppliers and it could result in oil from the Middle East being mixed in with Canada oil for example.   This is definitely a great concept and consumer advantage to have a higher oil price over another gas station.  This would be similar to Wal-Mart selling organic products and mixing it in with their other vegetables but not completely like the real organic foods you would get at Whole Foods.  The concept is not 100% terror free from how I read into this.

I think the better way of doing business would be to offer other fuel alternatives besides “terror free oil”.  They should provide the real terror free oils which are ethanol, hydrogen cells, bio-diesel, and electricity hookups for those types of vehicles.  I will say at least this gas station group is trying to do something as opposed King Exxon.

Fortune magazine had the funniest political quote of the week in my opinion.  They were speaking of Senator John McCain having a problem with ethanol.  I agree with the flip-flopping and presidential brown-nosing senator on this one issue.  Even though McCain just seems so fake in what he says that nothing is believable.

McCain’s argument says that gasoline prices are higher because of the government support for ethanol.  I agree, there are better alternatives we should be promoting besides ethanol but every other politician wants the votes from farmers.  In reality, Hawaii could probably produce sugar into ethanol cheaper than the Iowa farmers could use their corn resources like they do at Archer Midland Daniels (ADM).

Mike “Heckuva Job” Brown would stand a better chance of winning an election in New Orleans than an anti-ethanol candidate would of winning Iowa’s caucus.

- QUOTE from Jon Birger, Fortune senior writer

Coca-Cola and Nestle are going to partner to bring us a new green tea calorie burning drink this fall in some states.  I first heard about this watching On The Money with Dylan Ratigan.  CNBC’s On The Money likes to take credit when they break the news first .  I will say they are the best news show on TV right now with great reporting following the Daily Show (for real news briefs).  I am glad to see Coke finally innovate with something that looks healthy as the trend for alternative healthy beverages gets more mainstream.
The drink proven to burn calories named Enviga will hit the U.S. market in the Northeast in November and will roll out nationally in January 2007.  “A delicious sparkling green tea containing green tea extracts, calcium, and caffeine.”

Enviga increases calorie burning. It represents the perfect partnership of science and nature,” said Dr. Rhona Applebaum, chief scientist, The Coca-Cola Company. “Enviga contains the optimum blend of green tea extracts (EGCG), caffeine and naturally active plant micronutrients designed to work with your body to increase calorie burning, thus creating a negative calorie effect. It makes this product stand out as unique. Enviga brings the benefits of green tea to the forefront in a convenient and accessible, great tasting beverage.

A better quality life, better roads, better paid teachers, better schools, better airports, better with billions in America without spending billions in a worthless Iraq? I think I would rather have terrorists trying to bomb us over here on our turf since that is what the Republicans are saying is the reason American soldiers are there. Although they wouldn’t be able to since we would have invested more money in better terrorist fighting technology.

I don’t like to think how different our country would be these last six years, it makes me so sad I can hardly stand it. It’s going to take years to undo the mess the Republicans have made, with this war, the government so in debt, the programs you’re talking about slashed to ribbons, the REAL economy (read real people’s economic lives) destroyed. The sad thing is the terrorists don’t need to bomb us; the Republicans have destroyed our country far more effectively than our enemies ever could.