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Daily Archives: Saturday, November 15, 2008
I don’t understand finance…
I just had a discussion with MM. We were watching the so-called “news” which isn’t really news at all. It is just some idiotic babbling about the weather, followed by idiotic babbling about sports, followed by idiotic Christmas commercials. Yup, this is the state of the news media in Canada. Try comparing that to a BBC news broadcast sometime. Anyway, it seems as if we both feel pretty stupid in regards to the financial crisis. We always thought: work hard, save your money, and retire to enjoy life when you are 50 or whatever. We had it all wrong. Apparently, we are supposed to spend as much money as we can, even if we have to get into debt to do it. If we don’t have enough money, borrow some and keep spending like degenerate freeloaders. Thank god we have the American and Canadian governments to show us how to … Continue reading
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Karate 69
Today’s class was a lot more interesting. Everything seemed to slow down, meaning that we spent a lot of time looking at various stretching techniques. We stretched (assisted stretches) into our kicks. We used static assisted stretches. Normally, assisted stretches are frowned upon as dangerous because it takes so very little to do some serious damage. However, the person being stretched was in complete control. It requires the person assisting the stretch to pay very close attention to the person they are helping to stretch out. After the stretch we did the kicks. Then we practiced some katas and some kumite. Again, what seemed so simple actually is quite complex when broken down. Beginning belts can low block and punch. More advanced belts have to put their hips into it. Beginning belts can step back into stance then block and punch. More advanced belts take almost the same move , … Continue reading
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