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As you can see, I turned on the Christmas theme again

I just added a small chunk of code to get snow working again, and changed my background to green.

You can now click on the link in the menu bar titled ‘Launch MP3 Player’ to open my jukebox, filled with some of my favorite holiday music! I hope you enjoy it!

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!!

Holy cow!! This guy was dead on about the recession!! This video apparently was broadcast on 8/28/2006.

I find it amazing that Peter Schiff got outright laughed at by Art Laffer. What an idiot – I will never listen to a word he has to say again.

Anyway, here are some more Ron Paul videos. I don’t know why anyone would not support these principals… they are just so fundamentally right!

Great video demonstrating all the stuff going on and his stance on all of them.

This is him taking on Rudi Giuliani at the SC debate. It’s amazing Giuliani got a round of applause. He must not understand that poking at a bee’s nest will get you stung. If you accept that Arab’s are irrational, then you can’t expect to go into their territory, or their neighbor’s territory, and not get them pissed off. But w/e, water under the bridge – he now knows he was an idiot

This is most likely the start of the revolution for most people. He did a great job in the face of being a dark horse. He never once got extra time to respond to a question – they don’t show if the other candidates did, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they did.

See! He speaks the truth to those who matter! And they still don’t follow his message. Hmmm, oh well, you got what you asked for!

This is probably Ron Paul’s most eloquent interview. He did some of the best debate right there I have ever seen, and it was civil and cordial throughout. I’m proud to support this man

Man, this is one of the funniest and greatest video’s of a hockey fight I have seen in a long time!! Man this is great!!

Another great night for the Bruins!! Gotta love Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley, bringin’ the heat!!!

This is perhaps PJ Stock’s greatest hockey fight I have ever seen. Just PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH…….

Milan Lucic decided that this pane of glass needed to be replaced… WHAT A HIT!!!

Some more great PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH action!!!

Gotta be the hit of the year right here!!

Basically these are some of the better moments in hockey that I have found. I will post some more videos when I find them

I was reading TMQ from ESPN.com when I happened upon this section. This is not my work and it totally belongs to Gregg Easterbrook (assuming of course that he wrote it).

So it begins…

Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” Alan Greenspan told Congress last week. Greenspan devoted much of his career as Fed chair to fighting the very regulations that might have prevented the 2008 financial meltdown and saved taxpayers $1 trillion; few high-and-mighty persons have ever been discredited more thoroughly. TMQ proposes that in slang, “greenspanning” should mean “putting a pompous dupe in charge of something” while “a greenspan” will mean “a colossal screw-up” and “to greenspan” will mean “to say in full seriousness such utter nonsense you should giggle.” Comparisons to Captain Renault being “shocked, shocked” to discover gambling in the casino in Casablanca are not apt, because Renault knew exactly what he was doing. Greenspan, we now learn, had no idea what he was doing. In 2003 Greenspan fought to prevent regulation of credit derivatives, which in 2008 caused the collapse of AIG; in 2004 he fought attempts to impose stricter credit monitoring rules on commercial banks, investment banks and mortgage brokers, saying “the financial system as a whole has become [so] resilient” that a meltdown was impossible. Despite these vastly wrong views, Greenspan was treated reverentially by Congress, the White House and the media as a super-ultra-genius.

Greenspan’s excuse to Congress last week was that he believed executives of banking and Wall Street firms would not take crazy risks with debt because market forces would pressure them to protect their shareholders. There’s a small problem and a big problem with this flimsy excuse. The small problem was that in 1998, Greenspan arranged a bailout of Long Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that took crazy risks in order to run up bonuses for its executives. Market systems respond to incentives, and Greenspan’s message to top executives of the financial markets via the LTCM bailout was — no matter how poorly you perform, there will never be any consequences. Now Greenspan is “shocked” to discover the result was that financial executives took more crazy risks to enrich themselves, confident they personally would never face any consequences. Which, so far, they have not.

The big problem is that Greenspan, the uber-guru of market economics, seems to have little grasp of what actually happens in many modern businesses. According to econ textbooks, top corporate managers are employees of shareholders, serving the shareholders’ interest, while boards of directors are the watchdogs that make sure top managers aren’t cheating. In well-run companies with corporate-governance standards, this does occur. But Greenspan seemed to think the entire economy operated according to the textbook model, despite extensive evidence (LTCM, Enron, Tyco, WorldCom) that top managers routinely lie to shareholders in order to justify management bonuses. Human beings respond to incentives. Dishonest CEOs realized that if they lied about earnings or took crazy risks, they could use phony numbers to award themselves hundreds of millions of dollars. What they were doing was stealing from shareholders, who would eventually lose equity when the truth was revealed. But by then top managers would have their bags of gold and, experience shows, never be required to give the money back.

The chair of the Federal Reserve had no idea that top executives and fund managers would game the system to their own personal financial benefit? He feels “shocked disbelief” they would care more about stuffing their own pockets than protecting shareholders? And Greenspan’s contention that boards of directors should have stopped fraud or crazy risks strains credulity. Well-run companies have active boards of directors, but in many firms, the board is strictly a rubber stamp. Many corporate board members are paid huge sums for virtually no work — when Lawrence Small was head of the Smithsonian Institution, he earned $89,000 a day for sitting on various corporate boards. Board members know they will be lavished with money only if they are lapdogs who wag their tails for management on cue. If Greenspan had said to Congress, “I was a fool and I apologize,” the public might respect that. Instead he greenspanned.

Excuse me for my foul language, but the direction this country’s direction is bullshit. I am 22 years old. I REFUSE TO PAY FOR THE MISTAKES OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

In case you didn’t know, and thank you Tuesday Morning Quarterback for enlightening me, we have successfully DOUBLED our national debt in the course of 10 years.

Oh, 2x doesn’t sound like that much? Well how about these figures: after-inflation adjusted national debt in 1979 was $1.5 trillion. That isn’t 1979 dollars, that is today’s dollars value.

So over the summer our country decided that an $800 billion increase to our national debt was in order, to fund things like the war in Iraq. Mind you, I have a counter at the top of my website, and it shows that at this moment in time that $556,543,210,000 has been spent on the war in Iraq, TOTAL.

That’s 5 years guys! I mean that’s a lot of money, but that’s hardly over half of the increase the government asked for! I mean what else are they spending MY MONEY ON???

Now if this didn’t directly affect me, I wouldn’t care so much – but when I put in hundreds of dollars a month in something I am supposed to see every penny of back, if not more, in Social Security, I get pissed. But no…. the government just takes, takes, takes.

Now my social security is one thing, and I am PISSED BEYOND BELIEF about the income taxes and everything – but I mean seriously, I get my wages taxed, indiscriminately, and then all my other shit gets taxed too? I have to pay taxes twice? And our debt is higher than ever??

I refuse to pay for our government’s mistakes. I will do everything I can to bitch and moan and bring light to this issue. I am not going to get social security, I know that. Besides the fact that I put in thousands upon thousands of dollars in it, I will never see it again.

Taxes are high. The state of California takes hundreds of dollars a month from me, the Federal Government even more so. Now our debt is out of control, we are fighting a war long since it was worth fighting.

Industries refuse to make new cars running oil free. We are FORCED to pay for foreign oil. We literally pay for it with blood, sweat, and tears. Washington is f’ed up. Washington needs to change. What will either of these two candidates do for us? What will they do for me?

Yay, I managed to get YouTube videos on here now!!

Well, everyone seems to think this guy is an idiot, and everyone seems to think this guy is on his soapbox to some level equal to Bill Maher, or anything like that.

Well, honestly, for all you people who are ripping him for giving his opinion, you are the biggest hypocrites in the world. How dare you try to shut him up and call him an idiot for speaking his mind, when you are doing the exact same thing by ripping him! And beyond that, this is an AP released video, which means he was being INTERVIEWED. Someone ASKED him what he thought, so he answered. Who asked any of you guys what you thought about Matt Damon? NO ONE! So why are you sharing? I didn’t ask you what you thought about it.

Now beyond the merits of whether we all have the right to debate anything (which the Constitution joyfully allows all of us Americans to do), people seemed turned off at the fact that some ‘do-nothing’ $20 million-a-movie actor who spends a ton of time doing charity work that no one else wants to do, donates money to causes no one else does, actually speaks his mind. I think we owe it to him to actually understand his argument.

The whole time he is not getting on Palin so much in the sense of who she is, how much experience she has, or what party she runs for. He does not once say he is in love with the Obama campaign.

What does he say? I will quote it for you guys, “I don’t know anything about her. I don’t think in 8 weeks I will know anything about her.” Does that sentence sound like he disagrees with the strategy put forth by the McCain/Palin ticket? NO! He is simply stating that it is an absurd idea to vote for someone who you have not gotten to know within 8 weeks.

No one saw this pick coming, probably not even Palin. The point is she has not gone through the primary process, she has not gone through the rigors of a campaign across the country.

She could very well be the perfect person for Vice President, but the point is WE DON’T KNOW, or at least I don’t (and neither does Matt Damon).

If she does become Vice President, I wish her luck, and I would hope she is the right candidate, but I agree, the notion of electing someone 8 weeks after we get introduced to her is a little bit of a crazy idea.

I just wish she threw her hat in the ring a year ago so we all could get to know each other a little bit better .

Peace

Well, it happened. Just like we all knew it would. We all knew just how lucky we are to have a Hall of Fame quarterback to lead us to the promised land year after year. No one needs to remind us that.

But for anyone who saw this coming – on this day – at this moment – well, they might not be lying after all.

There are many times that I, or my dad, will ‘predict’ exactly what is about to happen in any given Patriots or Red Sox game. Whether it be the home run we need that doesn’t happen, or the pick-6 that will turn the game around, we all try to ‘sense’ what is about to happen.

This year was one of those years, that I think everyone had a feeling would come back to bite us in the ass. After the whole Super Bowl XLII debacle (infamously simplified by beloved Bill Simmons as ’17-14′), this upcoming season has had the black cloud hanging over it.

To be honest, we were due. You would imagine that Green Bay would have been due a while ago with their run with Brett Favre, or Indianapolis with Peyton Manning, but in reality Favre suffered through some very awful teams, and Indy has lived in New England’s shadow the whole time, while constantly taking the high road.

I hate the Colts – they are truly my enemy. But I have a ton of respect for them. They have not had such a catastrophic injury ‘due’ to them by any means.

With the whole spygate scandal following the team, and Bill Belichick’s less than friendly attitude to the media, or other coaches, lightning was bound to strike us.

I hope to goodness that Tom Brady is going to be fine. He is one helluva football player, and gets the spotlight turned on him pretty unfairly.

TMZ follows him around with his uber-babe Giselle, when it appears all he does is run ‘errands.’ He doesn’t do a million commercials like Peyton Manning, or Tony Romo. He keeps to himself, and does everything he can to win.

Routinely he does the most to be prepared the best. If his season truly is over, I feel bad not only for our fans, but for him as well.

Our franchise quarterback is on the shelf – hopefully Matty Cassel can carry us on his back…