Muscle Flex, Inc. announced earlier this morning that its Muscle Flex VATA Brasil Sports & Active Wear Line will be included in the “Andre Agassi’s 14th Annual Grand Slam for Children” Gift Basket by Lash Fary and Distinctive Assets. Hosted by tennis legend and philanthropist Andre Agassi and presented by Genworth Financial, the 2009 Grand Slam for Children has been scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 26 at Wynn Las Vegas.

As part of the Distinctive Assets Gift Basket, Muscle Flex will gift thirty Muscle Flex VATA Brasil Sports and Active Wear ensembles to the presenters and performers of the event. Past entertainers include: Barbra Streisand, Sir Elton John, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Jerry Seinfeld, Stevie Wonder, Ellen DeGeneres, Jamie Foxx, Robin Williams, Celine Dion, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Rod Stewart, Tony Bennett, Luther Vandross, Usher, Matchbox Twenty, Goo Goo Dolls, Faith Hill, Tim

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a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZckZ-8naz0/SeoR7M1ERHI/AAAAAAAACiE/K8qb29LcEho/s1600-h/Cusick.jpg"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZckZ-8naz0/SeoR7M1ERHI/AAAAAAAACiE/K8qb29LcEho/s400/Cusick.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326089218072790130" border="0" //aThe second portion of the a href="http://online.barrons.com/article/SB124000828983730469.html"Barron's editorial commentary/a contained this little nugget;br /br /span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"The Congressional Budget Office reported that payroll-tax receipts will barely cover Social Security benefits next fiscal year./spanbr /br /To repeat a href="http://twitter.com/randomroger"my tweet/a from yesterday about this; uh-oh.br /br /Entitlements loom as a $50 trillion problem. The estimates about when it starts to run into trouble starts, I believe, in 2018 with some estimates call for it going under in 2042, if memory serves. Of course there are other folks who come up with much rosier scenarios. I don't know what is right all I can tell you is that I am not planning on having it--if I am wrong then all the better.br /br /I write about this ...

Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Miss Shouldn’t Surprise

Yesterday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announcement it missed earnings projections by 11% came as a shock to the market, which immediately send the stock down almost 10%.

A shock. Really? We’re surprised.

Even if we completely ignore the entire credit crisis, the weak economy, the financial bailouts and the coolness of the Apple (Nasdaq: APPL) iPhone, lets face it, Microsoft had a bad year.

It wasn’t recession bad, it wasn’t depression bad, but it was definitely not a great year. And any surprise at that news, well… comes as a surprise.

Let’s touch on the failed merger talks with Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO). The on-again, off-again buyout talks were a boon to financial writers and PR officials, but not the MSFT bottom line. And at the end of the day, they still have nothing to show for all of it.

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Last year, I developed the Eva Longoria Stock Index. Since Eva is now appearing on the new Microsoft (MSFT) TV commercials, replacing Jerry Seinfeld, I thought it would be appropriate to update her index for this year. Components of the Eva Longoria Stock Index: Hanes (HBI) celebrity endorsement New York & Company (NWY) celebrity endorsement BEBE (BEBE) SPORT celebrity endorsement Magnum ice cream brand owned by Unilever (UN) - celebrity endorsement Pepsi (PEP) celebrity endorsement Range Rover made by Land Rover, subsidiary of Ford Premier Automotive Group, a division of the Ford Motor Company (F) - celebrity endorsement Starred in Desperate Housewives produced by ABC Television owned by Disney (DIS), also starred in ABC's remake of Dragnet Starred in The ...

Jerry Seinfeld is out, Eva Longoria is in, in the new Microsoft (MSFT) television commercials. The new ads are more mainstream, more in the style of the 'Come to California' commercials. In the Microsoft ad, a series of people, including Eva Longoria, say 'I'm a PC'. If you watch much TV, you'll see the ad.

The above is a spoof of what the Yahoo home page might look like if Microsoft took over Yahoo. Can you see where to log into Yahoo mail? Can you see where to do a web search?It may sound heresy to say this, especially since I own Yahoo (YHOO) at a loss, but maybe it is just as well that the company didn't get taken over by Microsoft (MSFT), which I also own. Have you looked at the Vista operating system? No wonder so many companies are unwilling to upgrade. Or even Office 2007. Have you upgraded from 2003? Do you like losing all the menus? Have you tried looking for Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2007? Have you tried looking for cell borders in Excel 2007, or tried doing charts the old fashioned way? Why would Microsoft ...

In case you missed the news and don't watch TV, the TV star and comedian Jerry Seinfeld was hired by Microsoft (MSFT) to appear in commercials promoting the company's software. The new Jerry Seinfeld Bill Gates commercial starting running a couple days ago. I guess I just don't get it.Author owns MSFT.

Pretty soon, you will see on the news and all over the Internet that Jerry Seinfeld will be the comedian representative for Microsoft (MSFT) in upcoming commercials that the company is planning. These commercials to promote Microsoft's software will also be a challenge to Apple's (AAPL) 'Get A Mac' commercials.By the way, Microsoft just went ex-dividend a couple days ago.Author owns both MSFT and AAPL.