I guess it just took some pork.

At least my representative opposed it.

The market dropped yesterday, and today is recovering.

No big deal.

For the record, I’m not just a single crazy conspiracy theroist.  There a lot of people thought it was a stupid idea to bail out the rich, including 200 economists who sent a letter to Congress saying it was a bad idea.

It was “rewarding greed and stupidity” or “The Great Bank Robbery of 2008“

It’s like that saying, if you lend me a hundred dollars and I can’t pay you back, I’ve got a problem.  If you lend me 100 million dollars and I can’t pay you back, you’ve got the problem.

The banks have the problem.  Let them go out of business.  That is what the FDIC is for, to pick up the pieces when banks fail.  So let them.  Let the “free markets” cull the herd of sick financial institutions.

This is another example of socialism for the rich, with the bill going to the poor.

Matt, don’t pretend you haven’t read this, I’ll say it again, in case you don’t read so good: I challenge you to fight me.

You pick the rules. I prefer a no-holds-barred contest.  You pick the location: be it a ring, cage, octagon, or shark filled waters, those are all fine with me, but I prefer something within walking distance of my home.

I eagerly await your response.

Chicken …. bawk bawk bawk.

The greed of the banking class knows no bounds, and they have proven it again and again.

The liabilities of Barclays PLC, at £1.3 trillion - with a leverage ratio of 60 - exceed the entire U.K. economy, they say. – Matthew Dalton

But now we the arrival of peak oil, the looming resource wars, our planet of slums and garbage, and our non-stop lust for slave-made Chinese goods, we are truly entering a New World Order.

Let’s bury neoliberalism beside Milton Friedman and move on.

At this point, any other economic policy should be an improvement.

I’m excited for the new future.

“The (Brazilian) Navy plays an important role in protecting our subsalt reserves, because the men of Fourth Fleet are almost there on top of the subsalt areas,” Lula said in a speech inaugurating a new oil platform in southern Brazil.”

“Our Navy has to be the guardian of our offshore oil platforms to protect our patrimony, because before you know it some wise guy will come along and say: ‘This is mine, it’s at the bottom of the ocean anyway, so it’s mine.’”

Please let’s not have another war, and not have it been over oil… again!  I thought we were finished with this crap.

(That said, I like the use of the phrase “wise guy”, it harknes back to an age when gangsters at least had snappy lingo.)

This is one that I thought was awesome. It is about giant squids and the Undersea Voyager Project.

See at the moment, the only writing that I am doing is what I learn at jiu-jitsu and emails to people, but I should probably try to branch out from there.

The goal is to do this from Monday through Friday, like a real job, and to try and take it a bit seriously.   That way after a while, I will both a.) get back into practice writing, and b.) have a collection of recent work — some of which will hopefully be decent!  But if I can find time on the weekend to write, I certainly won’t hold myself back.

The goal may have to be a bit flexible, because my mileage may vary, but 1k/day is the general idea.

I’ll post my research.

See, I think it is regional so it might be a bit of a challenge.

For example, what is a “carioca”, or “pingado”?

And would you order a carioca in Rio?

Any advice would be welcome.

Or, in other words, if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

I start to lose focus on the gestalt of what is going on and keep looking for something to hammer nail.

So I am trying to back off the techniques and stick to basic movements, that way, I’ll be able to get into positions to find the nail.
I’m going to just go to class with goals like: “today I will Elvis-ize my hips”.  They are a bit too stuck to the mat.

All that said, training is going well.  I’ve basically recovered from all my injuries and the new cracks and creaks in my formerly injured joints are just the soundtrack to me rolling around trying to hammer things.