Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Bah Humbug...
I had a post planned about Ted Nugent's comments in the Washington Examiner...then I found a video of Paul Ryan schooling Chris Matthews...but those will wait till next year. Other things can't wait...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Clear as Mud...
Newt or Romney?
Romney or Obama?
Obama or Newt?
I am hoping that Newt Gingrich wins the Republican nomination. For several reasons. None of which are "Newt is the best possible choice for President of the United States."
There are so many pundits out there offering their 'expertise' on the matter. I disagree with most of the assumptions that are made, and therefore the reasoning behind the opinions of the pundits. Most of the time, they have to deal with the lowest common denominator. But, as it turns out, it is not that type of math.
Do you think Newt will beat Romney?
Do you think Newt can beat Obama?
Do you think Romney can beat Obama?
How much of it comes down to the campaigns? How much of it comes down to the perception of the economy?
If you are a Liberal - the answer in the General Election is clear.
If you are a Conservative - the answer in the General Election is clear.
So our future will come down to:
1) The people who don't have a political belief system
...and
2) Who shows up to vote
[If you have made up your mind, and it was easy - does it blow your mind that some people can't decide, or that the election will go no more than 54%-46%, and that would be considered a landslide?]
People will have to decide who they want to vote for, and other people will have to decide if they are going to vote. How they go about that is where the water gets murky:
Romney or Obama?
Obama or Newt?
I am hoping that Newt Gingrich wins the Republican nomination. For several reasons. None of which are "Newt is the best possible choice for President of the United States."
There are so many pundits out there offering their 'expertise' on the matter. I disagree with most of the assumptions that are made, and therefore the reasoning behind the opinions of the pundits. Most of the time, they have to deal with the lowest common denominator. But, as it turns out, it is not that type of math.
Do you think Newt will beat Romney?
Do you think Newt can beat Obama?
Do you think Romney can beat Obama?
How much of it comes down to the campaigns? How much of it comes down to the perception of the economy?
If you are a Liberal - the answer in the General Election is clear.
If you are a Conservative - the answer in the General Election is clear.
So our future will come down to:
1) The people who don't have a political belief system
...and
2) Who shows up to vote
[If you have made up your mind, and it was easy - does it blow your mind that some people can't decide, or that the election will go no more than 54%-46%, and that would be considered a landslide?]
People will have to decide who they want to vote for, and other people will have to decide if they are going to vote. How they go about that is where the water gets murky:
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
If Only Congress...
...were so bold and honest:
4:15 p.m., LAST FRIDAY
Daughter Georgia becomes aware that Addison Murphy from next door is placing a recently refurbished dollhouse on the market at an asking price of $30. Because Georgia barely earns enough from her weekly chores to eke out the occasional candy purchase, she has never really considered herself a candidate for doll-homeownership. Nevertheless, she elects to pursue the classic dollhouse dream and begins to explore financing options.
4:24 p.m., LAST FRIDAY
Georgia consults older sister Johanna, the manager of a local piggybank with reserves totaling some $30.12, about the possibility of securing a mortgage. Although Johanna is aware of the meagerness of Georgia's allowance, she feels that the recent precipitous expansion of the neighborhood doll-housing market, coupled with the effects of informational asymmetries—namely, that Georgia can't really add yet—are enough to justify the risk.
4:31 p.m., LAST FRIDAY
Georgia closes on Addison's dollhouse. She moves two naked Barbies and a velociraptor into it.
12:00 p.m., SUNDAY
After receiving her allowance, Georgia makes her inaugural mortgage payment to the First Piggybank of Johanna's Room. Suddenly left with no funds with which to buy M&Ms on the weekly outing to Pathmark, Georgia begins to realize the enormity of her situation.
12:32 p.m., SUNDAY
Georgia lists her dollhouse with a local pretend-estate agent, Addison's older sister Emma.
7:04 p.m., MONDAY
Dumbledore, the family hamster, is found dead in his cage. Georgia is laid off from her job as chief pellet-refiller.
4:19 p.m., TUESDAY
Despite a promising open dollhouse with the twins from up on Fifth Street, Georgia still has not found a buyer. Facing the prospect of missing a mortgage payment, Georgia decides to walk away from her underwater dollhouse. She relocates her tenants to the big toy chest in the basement rumpus room.
4:22 p.m., TUESDAY
While Johanna is out at the swingset negotiating the sale of Georgia's subprime dollhouse mortgage to Jackson Meyers from two houses down, Georgia apprises Johanna that she is defaulting on her debt. Johanna announces immediate plans to foreclose on the dollhouse.
8:12 p.m., TUESDAY
Confronting a shortfall of Piggybank liquidity, Johanna appears before Mommy and Daddy and requests a bailout. (See minutes from "Tantrum before the Parental Subcommittee on Finance.")
8:14 p.m., TUESDAY
Members of the fiscally liberal Daddy Party announce support for a short-term emergency loan to the First Piggybank. The Mommy Party adopts the view that, though Johanna is a big girl now, she is not too big to fail. Following a vigorous debate in both the house and the carport, the Daddy Party unilaterally authorizes the lending of $30 to Johanna from the Disney World savings jar on top of the fridge.
10:26 a.m., WEDNESDAY
During morning recess, Johanna acquires $30 through the perpetration of a Ponzi scheme involving the fraudulent trade of Silly Bandz commodities.
3:31 p.m., THURSDAY
Georgia files a choreless claim with Daddy during the Pathmark trip. Daddy grants Georgia a distribution of candy benefits.
5:42 p.m., FRIDAY
Johanna repays the Disney World treasury in full. In spite of this, the Mommy Party attacks the opposition during mid-dinner debate, castigating it for its failure to live up to its promises to create new chores, as well as for its wasteful candy entitlement programs. Desperate to shore up support among daughters of all backgrounds, the Daddy Party announces that the Disney World vacation will happen next month—and that he'll just charge the trip on his MasterCard.
The Mommy Party opposes this increase in the household debt ceiling. Talks quickly stall, and the Daddy Party is forced to sleep on the smelly couch in the rumpus room.
6:30 p.m., FRIDAY
Aiming to draw attention to the disparity of wealth that exists between younger sisters and greedy investment piggybankers, Georgia decides to occupy Johanna's room with a blanket fort. Johanna soon finds herself mildly inconvenienced by Georgia's vague, ineffectual whining and chants of "I am the 50 percent!"
11:30 a.m., SATURDAY
The Daddy Party calls for an end to unproductive inter-party bickering as well as for his return to the Mommy Party's bed because his back hurts from that damn couch.
CONCLUSIONS
The parental government would like all daughters—regardless of socioeconomic status—to know that even if these conflicts ultimately prove insoluble and in time precipitate a complete parental shutdown, none of this is actually the fault of the general populace of children, and the Mommy Party and the Daddy Party love them both very, very much.
Report on the Recent Piggybanking Crisis by Eric Hague
The following report, prepared by a bipartisan committee comprising both Mommy and Daddy, lays out a timeline of the principal events of last week's Piggybanking Crisis and its aftermath.4:15 p.m., LAST FRIDAY
Daughter Georgia becomes aware that Addison Murphy from next door is placing a recently refurbished dollhouse on the market at an asking price of $30. Because Georgia barely earns enough from her weekly chores to eke out the occasional candy purchase, she has never really considered herself a candidate for doll-homeownership. Nevertheless, she elects to pursue the classic dollhouse dream and begins to explore financing options.
4:24 p.m., LAST FRIDAY
Georgia consults older sister Johanna, the manager of a local piggybank with reserves totaling some $30.12, about the possibility of securing a mortgage. Although Johanna is aware of the meagerness of Georgia's allowance, she feels that the recent precipitous expansion of the neighborhood doll-housing market, coupled with the effects of informational asymmetries—namely, that Georgia can't really add yet—are enough to justify the risk.
4:31 p.m., LAST FRIDAY
Georgia closes on Addison's dollhouse. She moves two naked Barbies and a velociraptor into it.
12:00 p.m., SUNDAY
After receiving her allowance, Georgia makes her inaugural mortgage payment to the First Piggybank of Johanna's Room. Suddenly left with no funds with which to buy M&Ms on the weekly outing to Pathmark, Georgia begins to realize the enormity of her situation.
12:32 p.m., SUNDAY
Georgia lists her dollhouse with a local pretend-estate agent, Addison's older sister Emma.
7:04 p.m., MONDAY
Dumbledore, the family hamster, is found dead in his cage. Georgia is laid off from her job as chief pellet-refiller.
4:19 p.m., TUESDAY
Despite a promising open dollhouse with the twins from up on Fifth Street, Georgia still has not found a buyer. Facing the prospect of missing a mortgage payment, Georgia decides to walk away from her underwater dollhouse. She relocates her tenants to the big toy chest in the basement rumpus room.
4:22 p.m., TUESDAY
While Johanna is out at the swingset negotiating the sale of Georgia's subprime dollhouse mortgage to Jackson Meyers from two houses down, Georgia apprises Johanna that she is defaulting on her debt. Johanna announces immediate plans to foreclose on the dollhouse.
8:12 p.m., TUESDAY
Confronting a shortfall of Piggybank liquidity, Johanna appears before Mommy and Daddy and requests a bailout. (See minutes from "Tantrum before the Parental Subcommittee on Finance.")
8:14 p.m., TUESDAY
Members of the fiscally liberal Daddy Party announce support for a short-term emergency loan to the First Piggybank. The Mommy Party adopts the view that, though Johanna is a big girl now, she is not too big to fail. Following a vigorous debate in both the house and the carport, the Daddy Party unilaterally authorizes the lending of $30 to Johanna from the Disney World savings jar on top of the fridge.
10:26 a.m., WEDNESDAY
During morning recess, Johanna acquires $30 through the perpetration of a Ponzi scheme involving the fraudulent trade of Silly Bandz commodities.
3:31 p.m., THURSDAY
Georgia files a choreless claim with Daddy during the Pathmark trip. Daddy grants Georgia a distribution of candy benefits.
5:42 p.m., FRIDAY
Johanna repays the Disney World treasury in full. In spite of this, the Mommy Party attacks the opposition during mid-dinner debate, castigating it for its failure to live up to its promises to create new chores, as well as for its wasteful candy entitlement programs. Desperate to shore up support among daughters of all backgrounds, the Daddy Party announces that the Disney World vacation will happen next month—and that he'll just charge the trip on his MasterCard.
The Mommy Party opposes this increase in the household debt ceiling. Talks quickly stall, and the Daddy Party is forced to sleep on the smelly couch in the rumpus room.
6:30 p.m., FRIDAY
Aiming to draw attention to the disparity of wealth that exists between younger sisters and greedy investment piggybankers, Georgia decides to occupy Johanna's room with a blanket fort. Johanna soon finds herself mildly inconvenienced by Georgia's vague, ineffectual whining and chants of "I am the 50 percent!"
11:30 a.m., SATURDAY
The Daddy Party calls for an end to unproductive inter-party bickering as well as for his return to the Mommy Party's bed because his back hurts from that damn couch.
CONCLUSIONS
The parental government would like all daughters—regardless of socioeconomic status—to know that even if these conflicts ultimately prove insoluble and in time precipitate a complete parental shutdown, none of this is actually the fault of the general populace of children, and the Mommy Party and the Daddy Party love them both very, very much.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Healthy Justice...
Do you like going for a 30 minute run? How about an hour? Unless I am trying to get somewhere, I get bored after about 3 minutes.
Years ago, I attended a police academy. Two or three times a week we would do Physical Training (PT). We would run at a moderate pace (though with stress stimuli added, making it seem like a faster pace) for approximately 45 minutes. We ran through the hills and in the desert. (Sometimes, we would run through the sand of a dry creek bed, and the staff would yell, "It's like running on the beach...you just have to imagine the ocean part!").
At the end of the academy, a recruit asked the staff why we did all the PT, when we would (most likely) not be running after a bad guy for 6-7 miles at a moderate pace. The answer was - they were not training us to catch bad guys, they were training us for a healthy lifestyle.
“Retirement is tough for cops. Their average life expectancy after retirement is five years, according to '91 FBI statistics. Psychotherapist and former police officer Albert Seng says a number of cops go through a grief process in disconnecting from "a lifestyle rather than a job." Once you're out of it, you're really out of it. You're on the outside.”
"In the U.S., non-police males have a life-expectancy of 73 years. Policemen in the U.S. have a life expectancy of 53-66 years, depending on which research one decides to embrace."
Longevity Vs. Retirement Age
“Dr. Ephrem (Siao Chung) Cheng provided the important results in the following table from an actuarial study of life span vs. age at retirement. The study was based on the number of pension checks sent to retirees of Boeing Aerospace.“
Age at Retirement (Column A) Average Age at Death (Colmun B)
A B
49.9 86.0
51.2 85.3
52.5 84.6
53.8 83.9
55.1 83.2
56.4 82.5
57.2 81.4
58.3 80.0
59.2 78.5
60.1 76.8
61.0 74.5
62.1 71.8
63.1 69.3
64.1 67.9
65.2 66.8
“This indicates that for people retired at the age of 50, their average life span is 86; whereas for people retired at the age of 65, their average life span is only 66.8. An important conclusion from this study is that for every year one works beyond age 55, one loses 2 years of life span on average.”
Years ago, I attended a police academy. Two or three times a week we would do Physical Training (PT). We would run at a moderate pace (though with stress stimuli added, making it seem like a faster pace) for approximately 45 minutes. We ran through the hills and in the desert. (Sometimes, we would run through the sand of a dry creek bed, and the staff would yell, "It's like running on the beach...you just have to imagine the ocean part!").
At the end of the academy, a recruit asked the staff why we did all the PT, when we would (most likely) not be running after a bad guy for 6-7 miles at a moderate pace. The answer was - they were not training us to catch bad guys, they were training us for a healthy lifestyle.
“Retirement is tough for cops. Their average life expectancy after retirement is five years, according to '91 FBI statistics. Psychotherapist and former police officer Albert Seng says a number of cops go through a grief process in disconnecting from "a lifestyle rather than a job." Once you're out of it, you're really out of it. You're on the outside.”
"In the U.S., non-police males have a life-expectancy of 73 years. Policemen in the U.S. have a life expectancy of 53-66 years, depending on which research one decides to embrace."
Longevity Vs. Retirement Age
“Dr. Ephrem (Siao Chung) Cheng provided the important results in the following table from an actuarial study of life span vs. age at retirement. The study was based on the number of pension checks sent to retirees of Boeing Aerospace.“
Age at Retirement (Column A) Average Age at Death (Colmun B)
A B
49.9 86.0
51.2 85.3
52.5 84.6
53.8 83.9
55.1 83.2
56.4 82.5
57.2 81.4
58.3 80.0
59.2 78.5
60.1 76.8
61.0 74.5
62.1 71.8
63.1 69.3
64.1 67.9
65.2 66.8
“This indicates that for people retired at the age of 50, their average life span is 86; whereas for people retired at the age of 65, their average life span is only 66.8. An important conclusion from this study is that for every year one works beyond age 55, one loses 2 years of life span on average.”
So...as of this posting, I'm announcing my retirement! Just kidding. However, back to the original point - "Long Distance Running" and a "Healthy Life."
From Wikipedia:
"The Tabata Method uses 20 seconds of ultra-intense exercise followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated continuously for 4 minutes (8 cycles). In the original study, athletes using this method trained 4 times per week, plus another day of steady-state training, and obtained gains similar to a group of athletes who did steady state training 5 times per week. The steady state group had a higher VO2max at the end, but the Tabata group had started lower and gained more overall. Also, only the Tabata group had gained anaerobic capacity benefits..."
"...increases the resting metabolic rate for the following 24 hours due to excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, and may improve maximal oxygen consumption more effectively than doing only traditional, long aerobic workouts..."
"...Long aerobic workouts have been promoted as the best method to reduce fat, as fatty acid utilization usually occurs after at least 30 minutes of training. High Intensity Interval Training is somewhat counterintuitive in this regard, but has nonetheless been shown to burn fat more effectively..."
I prefer the "Tabata" method because 1) It may actually be better for you and 2) the rest part is like a small nap in the middle of the workout, and I like naps...
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sunday Tebow...
I fear that Tebow will lose today. I hope I'm wrong. Anyway, lets play PICK THE RIGHT CAPTION:
A) This is Tebow on a recruiting trip to Penn State. He didn't like it.
B) This is right after Tebow got a life sized tattoo of his own chest, on his chest.
C) "Tim, I have good news and bad news. Good news, you're actually right handed. Bad news, you can't throw with that arm either."
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A) Tebow was actually built by a team of vast-right-wing-conspiracy engineers on leave from the Tea Party.
B) "Tim we just need to see if you are really on the straight and narrow."
C) "Now after I insert this boomerang, you will be able to throw the ball down field to yourself."
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A) This is Tebow on a recruiting trip to Penn State. He didn't like it.
B) This is right after Tebow got a life sized tattoo of his own chest, on his chest.
C) "Tim, I have good news and bad news. Good news, you're actually right handed. Bad news, you can't throw with that arm either."
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A) Tebow is the kind of guy that would give you the shirt off his back. Literally.
B) Shoulder pads? Tebow doesn't need no stinkin' shoulder pads.
C) Tebow stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the drastic effects of Global Climate Warming Change on NFL relaxed uniform policies.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda....
FBI Director Denies Cover-Up Involving 'Fast and Furious' Guns Found at Border Agent's Murder
"...Speaking to Grassley's committee, Mueller promised the FBI "will bring to justice those persons who are in any way involved in the killing of Officer Brian Terry..."
"As for whether Holder ends up resigning..."
"I think he knew..."
"...you shouldn't be doing this job."
"In September, a spokeswoman for Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News it was "pretty clear"..."
(There was more to the article, I just hit the highlights).
"...Speaking to Grassley's committee, Mueller promised the FBI "will bring to justice those persons who are in any way involved in the killing of Officer Brian Terry..."
"I think he knew..."
"...you shouldn't be doing this job."
"In September, a spokeswoman for Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News it was "pretty clear"..."
(There was more to the article, I just hit the highlights).
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