WHEN SPORT BECOMES BUSINESS
The recent NFL draft reminded me sport is definitely not entertainment or a recreational pastime anymore, it is a business. Fancy twenty-one year olds being signed up for $50 million contracts and society thinks that is quite okay. Many just answer, “Man, this is America. It is simply capitalism at work!” This disease has spread [...]
AUSTRALIAN LETTER OF THE YEAR
One of the many qualities of my Australian Brethren is their ability to speak and write how they feel. Their language is colorful and they are brilliant in their ability to sort out the wheat from the chaff and inject a sense of humor into their prosaic. An Aussie friend sent me up this letter [...]
YOU HAVE TO LOVE AUSTRALIA
Because the western world is mired in political correctness this has allowed unfettered wholesale illegal entry of so many peoples who become nothing but a huge social problem once they set foot in their newly chosen homeland. Western European countries in many respects have had their cultures all but destroyed by sitting back and allowing [...]
GOOD NEWS FROM THE CII FRONT
For the third time in our seventeen year history we recorded a profitable January. Business was strong into American Samoa and even though it was holiday time in New Zealand and Australia we saw a 20% jump in revenues over 2009. Graham Burford, our VP sales and marketing, has made two trips to Texas and [...]





