Sunday, February 13, 2011
Pretty Girl 02.13.11 - Katherine Heigl
Saturday, February 12, 2011
All This And Dig the Hair
But Do I Have to Pay S&H?
6.8 million views on youtube and 10,000 likes on Facebook, but I'm gonna bet that the 4 people who read this are watching it for the first time. Gimmie a break, it's 5am, I must be crazy.
Cheers.
Remember That Crow?
Yeah, well it was all bout Jeremy Sowers. Prior to the 2007 season I predicted, for J, the type of success that Cliff Lee enjoyed in '08. I think I went on record with "22-3 and a 2.25." Ouch. And now we have certainly hit rock bottom. After struggling through minor shoulder issues last season, Sowers is on the shelf for the next 9-12 months after having rotator cuff surgery on his pitching shoulder.
I always believed that Jeremy had the right mixture of command and baseball smarts to make it big. Eventually his undoing came via the scourge of over-analysis. A Vandy grad, Sowers has admitted that some of his starts were detrimented as he tried to overcompensated for a prior poor performance. Oh well, maybe the kid will get a shot somewhere else. Yes, I would believe that his time with Tribe is over.
Here's a card from back in the day -
I always believed that Jeremy had the right mixture of command and baseball smarts to make it big. Eventually his undoing came via the scourge of over-analysis. A Vandy grad, Sowers has admitted that some of his starts were detrimented as he tried to overcompensated for a prior poor performance. Oh well, maybe the kid will get a shot somewhere else. Yes, I would believe that his time with Tribe is over.
Here's a card from back in the day -
Because It Feels So Good When I Stop
Here's the formula for Cavaliers' success -
Healthy Mo Williams + Antawn Jamison: game of the season + JJ Hickson: game of his life (past, present and future) + lottery opponent that can't play defense = WIN! If only we can get those stars to align again.
p.s. Finally, a highlight! This is the first win since I installed the window.
Cheers.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Maybe He Should Play Blindfolded
This cat has yet to throw a pass in 2 years as the Huskies 3rd string signal caller. He should probably spend more time learning the playbook and less time miming for the camera. Still, this is pretty cool. And, honestly, I tried to resist posting this, but it's a very slow content day.
Arm Chair Economics
So E poses the question: What would happen if everyone started paying off their consumer debt all at once?
Would inflation happen? Nope. The amount of money isn't increasing, only the what the money is being used for.
Would a recession happen? You betcha. Consumer spending would decline steeply, and quickly. Not only would credit card financed consumer spending stop, but so then the money used to pay off the debt would also exit the consumer spending realm. We'd see a decrease in demand across the board for nearly everything leading to a dropoff in output and employment.
But that would be the short term pain. The long term gain is that banks would be flush with capital they would need to lend, and they'd have to find a productive way to lend it, rather then lending it for consumer spending at high interest rates. It is likely you would see the beginning of a boom cycle as access to capital would open to all kinds of companies and entrepreneurs. This would of course lead to more jobs, more income and more spending.
Also, in the long run, as people became debt free, they would be able to put a higher percent of their income towards purchasing, helping create demand for all those new companies. Right now plenty of income is being spent on paying interest on consumer debt - not actually purchasing goods.
To summarize, banks lending capital for consumer purchases does little to increase our means of production, and in the long run, saps the purchasing power of the consumer. Eliminating consumer debt would cause a short term disruption in the economy, but would lead to a long term economic boom.
Would inflation happen? Nope. The amount of money isn't increasing, only the what the money is being used for.
Would a recession happen? You betcha. Consumer spending would decline steeply, and quickly. Not only would credit card financed consumer spending stop, but so then the money used to pay off the debt would also exit the consumer spending realm. We'd see a decrease in demand across the board for nearly everything leading to a dropoff in output and employment.
But that would be the short term pain. The long term gain is that banks would be flush with capital they would need to lend, and they'd have to find a productive way to lend it, rather then lending it for consumer spending at high interest rates. It is likely you would see the beginning of a boom cycle as access to capital would open to all kinds of companies and entrepreneurs. This would of course lead to more jobs, more income and more spending.
Also, in the long run, as people became debt free, they would be able to put a higher percent of their income towards purchasing, helping create demand for all those new companies. Right now plenty of income is being spent on paying interest on consumer debt - not actually purchasing goods.
To summarize, banks lending capital for consumer purchases does little to increase our means of production, and in the long run, saps the purchasing power of the consumer. Eliminating consumer debt would cause a short term disruption in the economy, but would lead to a long term economic boom.
Pretty Girl Update! - Michelle Trachtenberg
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When is the super-unrated cut of Euro-Trip coming out?
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