21 squats in a row with 185lbs.
Tabata Run 12% grade at 10mph. Ran 1.5 miles warmup and 1 mile quick after. Then did 2 more iterations just to see what it would feel like.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday
Monday was spent recovering from Bay To Breakers.
Franken Chipper
500m row
hydrant run
21 Kettlebell swings 54lbs.
50 thrusters, 45lbs
3 rounds of Cindy
30 box jumps
21 handstand pushups
30 Knee To elbows
30 Double Unders
Franken Chipper
500m row
hydrant run
21 Kettlebell swings 54lbs.
50 thrusters, 45lbs
3 rounds of Cindy
30 box jumps
21 handstand pushups
30 Knee To elbows
30 Double Unders
Saturday
We did 9-1 of Push Press followed by Out and Backs (sprints). I used 135lbs. It was hard and left most of my upper body sore.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Politics
SPEND! SPEND! SPEND! That's how you win an election. These assholes have the playbook down pat. Let's offer subsidies to everyone! We'll pay them to vote for us! What a concept! There is no deficit. There is no debt. This is the United States! We never run out of money. We can just print it!!!!!!! And then, other countries will just give us stuff for it!@!!@!#$!@ This is great!#$!@$!~#@!~#!~@#
This is a story from the New York Times, so God only knows how accurate it is. I think my 6 year old nephew might do a more accurate job of reporting, but in any case, while providing food for the poor is a good thing, I'm sick of seeing all these spending measures pass. When are they going to start cutting things? I mean, we're spending a lot more money than we take in. We just have to pay for it later. China owns half our debt. Do you know what people do to other people when they can't pay their debts? It's not pretty.
This is a story from the New York Times, so God only knows how accurate it is. I think my 6 year old nephew might do a more accurate job of reporting, but in any case, while providing food for the poor is a good thing, I'm sick of seeing all these spending measures pass. When are they going to start cutting things? I mean, we're spending a lot more money than we take in. We just have to pay for it later. China owns half our debt. Do you know what people do to other people when they can't pay their debts? It's not pretty.
Defying President Bush, Senate Passes Farm Bill
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a five-year, $307 billion farm bill, sending it to President Bush for what is expected to be his futile veto.
The 81-to-15 Senate vote, like the 318-to-106 House vote on Wednesday, attracted broad bipartisan support and received far more than the two-thirds that would be needed to override Mr. Bush’s veto, should he keep his pledge to wield his pen.
Mr. Bush has said he wants to sharply limit government subsidies to farmers at a time of near-record commodity prices and soaring global demand for grain. Most legislators were not swayed by Mr. Bush’s description of the bill as bloated, expensive and packed with “a variety of gimmicks.”
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, defended the measure as “one of compromise.”
“That’s what legislation is all about,” Mr. Reid said just before the vote.
The bill includes a $10.3 billion increase in spending on nutrition programs, including food stamps, that supporters called “historic,” as well as increases for rural development and land conservation programs.
It also extends many existing federal subsidies that the president and other critics say are difficult to justify in such flush times for agricultural producers.
Mr. Bush had sought an adjusted gross income limit of $200,000 above which farmers could not qualify for any subsidy payments. The bill passed by the Senate and House, however, allows farm income of up to $750,000 and nonfarm income of $500,000 per individual.
That $750,000 limit applies to only one subsidy program, so-called direct payments that are disbursed based on land acreage and regardless of current market conditions or even whether the land is still actively farmed.
While Mr. Bush has long called for curtailing subsidy programs, the farm bill is viewed as vital legislation both across rural America and in impoverished urban centers.
Only two Democratic senators, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, both of Rhode Island, voted against the bill. The 13 Republicans who voted against it included Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, a former chairman of the Agriculture Committee, who has called the measure fiscally irresponsible.
The three presidential candidates, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, both Democrats, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona, were absent. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, also did not vote.
The willingness of so many Republicans to break with the White House reflected both the strong support for the bill and a growing alarm among many lawmakers about their election prospects in November.
Mr. Bush himself made a similar political calculation in 2002, ultimately deciding to sign the farm bill that year even though he had strongly opposed it. A senior official at the time said the White House had concluded it would be “political suicide” in the midterm elections to veto the bill that year.
This year, though, Mr. Bush seems intent on refusing to sign the bill. He has criticized it for months, and on Wednesday he issued a forceful veto threat. He urged Congress to approve a one-year extension of current law, which he said would be better than adopting the new measure.
“Today’s farm economy is very strong, and that is something to celebrate,” he said. “It is also an appropriate time to better target subsidies and put forth real reform.” The bill, he said, “spends too much and fails to reform farm programs for the future.”
On Wednesday evening, Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, reiterated the president’s opposition. “With its massive expansion of subsidies, special interest earmarks and budget gimmicks, this bill is wrong for American taxpayers,” he said. “The president will veto it.”
But in debate on the House floor on Wednesday, some Republicans were just as forceful in pledging to defy Mr. Bush should he use his veto pen.
“I know there is a veto threat from the White House,” said Representative Robin Hayes, Republican of North Carolina. “If the president decides to follow through I will be there voting to override him because we need this update for our nation’s policies.”
Should it reach that point, it would be only the second veto overriden during Mr. Bush’s presidency. The first was in November when Congress overwhelmingly rejected the president’s veto of a $23.2 billion water resources bill that authorized popular projects around the country.
In the House chamber on Wednesday, longtime critics of farm subsidies in both parties echoed Mr. Bush’s complaints about the current bill.
“Where’s the beef?” asked Representative Ron Kind, Democrat of Wisconsin, standing in the House floor next to a poster showing sharp increases in commodity prices — 126 percent for wheat, 57 percent for soybeans, 45 percent for corn. “Where’s the real reform?” he said.
Some critics have also pointed to earmarks in the bill, including a tax break for racehorse owners added by the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and $170 million to benefit the salmon industry inserted by House Democrats from the West Coast.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, in her own speech on the House floor, responded directly to Mr. Kind, whose proposals would drastically overhauling farm subsidies she had supported before the Democrats regained control of Congress in 2006.
Although the legislation is universally known as the farm bill, it actually directs far more money to feeding the poor than it does to helping farmers — about $209 billion for nutrition programs like food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office, compared with $35 billion for agricultural commodity programs.
In her speech, Ms. Pelosi praised the bill and said the increase on food stamps alone was reason to support it. She said that while more change would be needed, the bill made important improvements to farm policy.
“With this legislation we will help families facing high food prices,” she said.
At a news conference, the Agriculture Committee chairman, Representative Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, said he expected the bill to reach the president by May 20 and a veto override to be approved before Congress leaves for a Memorial Day recess.
Both Mr. Peterson and the committee’s senior Republican, Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, said the bill represented a strong bipartisan compromise.
“I am very pleased that both parties cast a majority of votes for this farm bill,” Mr. Goodlatte said. “We don’t have a two-to-one majority. We have a three-to-one majority.”
He added: “I believe that we now have the opportunity to say to America that this is a farm bill that truly does assure that we continue to have the safest, most affordable, most abundant food supply in the world. We have addressed the needs of America’s farmers and ranchers.”
Wednesday
Still a little under the weather, decided to head on down and regretted it. We did Elizabeth.
21-15-9
Squat Cleans
Ring Dips
I used 115lbs. The prescribed weight is 135. It took me 14 minutes flat. No doubt I can go faster and probably can go faster with the heavier weight, but I felt sooooooo weak. Oh well.
21-15-9
Squat Cleans
Ring Dips
I used 115lbs. The prescribed weight is 135. It took me 14 minutes flat. No doubt I can go faster and probably can go faster with the heavier weight, but I felt sooooooo weak. Oh well.
Tuesday
Despite reeling from the flu/disease that I had since Thursday and made worse by trying to do a 50 mile race, I just HAD to get out of the house. So I did crossfit and we did a Front Squat max. I got 215lbs, which is a 35lb improvement for me I think. Still exhausted.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Lions For Lambs - Review
I saw this movie while recovering from the disaster at Quicksilver. Several people have mentioned it to me, saying that it reminded them of me.
It's a fairly shoddy movie. Too many plot lines running around and not very engaging. That's the end of the formal review.
Now I rant! Move over Bill O'Reilly.
However, the points that Redford is trying to make have never been truer. Unfortunately, I think most Americans are:
1. Too stupid to understand the points that Redford is making
2. Could care less (the majority fall in this category)
3. Unwilling to step up to the plate
4. Don't like being lectured by Redford (nor do I, but I can't deny the validity of his claims)
"Rome is burning!" Redford exclaims. You're damn right it is. And nobody is doing anything about it. I've heard several references to The Rise And Fall Of the Roman Empire in the last couple of weeks, alluding to the United States' difficulties.
In the film, two college students volunteer for the Army. One person commented that they should not have done that, implying that most people who join the Army have no other opportunities available to them. Now, certainly, the Army can be an opportunity for many people that don't have many options available to them. But to claim that those with opportunities (and that probably means job opportunities), should not join the Army is indicative of exactly what Robert Redford is talking about in this movie. Personally, if anyone I knew (or didn't know) told me they were trying to join the Army, I would try to talk them out of it, but not for the reasons you might think. I still admire people that lay it on the line.
Here is my response to the person that says the two characters in the film should not have joined the Army. I changed the name of the person.
"Well, Amanda's comments are unfortunately reflective of most of the country, which is why our country is fucked. Unfortunately it won't be until 20 years from now when her children are starving or getting beheaded that she thinks back and wonders if maybe some real people with smarts actually started caring about what was going on, that things might have been different. In this day and age, it's all about looking out for #1 and how much money do I get. Me, me, me. Very few people sacrifice for something other, bigger than themselves. The question Redford referred to, "What have I contributed?" is a hard question only I don't think many people are even asking themselves that let alone being troubled by the answer. I'm stereotyping, but I don't see a lot of soul searching going on at Balboa Cafe or anywhere else in the Marina or the San Francisco Bay Area. What could possibly happen to these people? These wealthy, highly educated, morally bankrupt people? As long as they continue to look out for themselves, probably nothing. They can surf on others peoples backs.
But yeah, maybe those two shouldn't have volunteered. I mean, I am totally cool with societies that stone people to death, kill women for leaving the house without permission or not wearing the appropriate attire, and take advantage of poor people by telling them who to blame for their state and having them commit suicide to kill others. Those two, dying for something they believed in, they mustn't have gotten the memo because a $100k job was waiting for them shuffling paper somewhere. Hell, they may have ended up working for a big investment bank adding real value to the world like advising clients on wonderful transactions like the AOL-Time Warner merger. That was a doozy. But hey, they'd make out and that's all that matters.
Nor should George Washington have volunteered to command the army in 1776. What a worthless cause that was. Chump. How much more money could he have made running his plantation? Didn't he know the English put a bounty on his head? Who would volunteer for that? And that American army. So pesky. So unorganized and unfunded. And the soldiers were fighting for FREE! Because Congress couldn't authorize enough money. Many deserted, but many stayed. I sure do applaud those deserters. At least they were smart. They didn't need the Army. They had other things they could do with their lives. Something other than fight for a country that didn't even have a name.
John Adams walked away from a really high paying job offered by the English government to join a terrorist group. What an idiot.
Thomas Jefferson-what a fucking dilittante. Same thing for him and his plantation. What did he get out of working in government except criticism? Fool.
Abraham Lincoln left a perfectly successful law practice to become a politician and he ended up dead. What a moron!
And Col. Joshua Chamberlain volunteered for the Civil War (not even pressed into service!) and commanded the 20th Maine regiment on the left flank of the Union Army at Gettysburg, ordering a bayonet charge at the desperate moment, saving the flank, the Union army and perhaps the Union itself. What an idiot. I wished he had stayed home because frankly my room is messy and I need me some slaves up here to clean it. He lived up in Maine. Maine! Like the confederacy ever intended to go all the way to Maine. He was perfectly safe and sound. Might have well been living in the Marina.
And the average 900 Americans that died every day during WWII. Wow, if only some of them had used their connections to get less dangerous jobs, they wouldn't have been killed. Losers. Like Auschwitz ever happened. And that whole idea that Stalin let 40 million people die of starvation.....That's just an exaggeration. we should have just let him take Europe.
When I flew Americans in body bags back from convoys that got attacked, all I could think was "fucking idiot." When I went after the Apache helicopters that crashed because of bad weather and there were Taliban moving on them, all I could think was, "Why didn't they just fly some news helicopter? We need some more traffic news back home. The NEWS BITCHES!"
I am disappointed when smart people like Amanda, and she is so far from alone, make comments like that. I'm also a bit irritated.
It's a fairly shoddy movie. Too many plot lines running around and not very engaging. That's the end of the formal review.
Now I rant! Move over Bill O'Reilly.
However, the points that Redford is trying to make have never been truer. Unfortunately, I think most Americans are:
1. Too stupid to understand the points that Redford is making
2. Could care less (the majority fall in this category)
3. Unwilling to step up to the plate
4. Don't like being lectured by Redford (nor do I, but I can't deny the validity of his claims)
"Rome is burning!" Redford exclaims. You're damn right it is. And nobody is doing anything about it. I've heard several references to The Rise And Fall Of the Roman Empire in the last couple of weeks, alluding to the United States' difficulties.
In the film, two college students volunteer for the Army. One person commented that they should not have done that, implying that most people who join the Army have no other opportunities available to them. Now, certainly, the Army can be an opportunity for many people that don't have many options available to them. But to claim that those with opportunities (and that probably means job opportunities), should not join the Army is indicative of exactly what Robert Redford is talking about in this movie. Personally, if anyone I knew (or didn't know) told me they were trying to join the Army, I would try to talk them out of it, but not for the reasons you might think. I still admire people that lay it on the line.
Here is my response to the person that says the two characters in the film should not have joined the Army. I changed the name of the person.
"Well, Amanda's comments are unfortunately reflective of most of the country, which is why our country is fucked. Unfortunately it won't be until 20 years from now when her children are starving or getting beheaded that she thinks back and wonders if maybe some real people with smarts actually started caring about what was going on, that things might have been different. In this day and age, it's all about looking out for #1 and how much money do I get. Me, me, me. Very few people sacrifice for something other, bigger than themselves. The question Redford referred to, "What have I contributed?" is a hard question only I don't think many people are even asking themselves that let alone being troubled by the answer. I'm stereotyping, but I don't see a lot of soul searching going on at Balboa Cafe or anywhere else in the Marina or the San Francisco Bay Area. What could possibly happen to these people? These wealthy, highly educated, morally bankrupt people? As long as they continue to look out for themselves, probably nothing. They can surf on others peoples backs.
But yeah, maybe those two shouldn't have volunteered. I mean, I am totally cool with societies that stone people to death, kill women for leaving the house without permission or not wearing the appropriate attire, and take advantage of poor people by telling them who to blame for their state and having them commit suicide to kill others. Those two, dying for something they believed in, they mustn't have gotten the memo because a $100k job was waiting for them shuffling paper somewhere. Hell, they may have ended up working for a big investment bank adding real value to the world like advising clients on wonderful transactions like the AOL-Time Warner merger. That was a doozy. But hey, they'd make out and that's all that matters.
Nor should George Washington have volunteered to command the army in 1776. What a worthless cause that was. Chump. How much more money could he have made running his plantation? Didn't he know the English put a bounty on his head? Who would volunteer for that? And that American army. So pesky. So unorganized and unfunded. And the soldiers were fighting for FREE! Because Congress couldn't authorize enough money. Many deserted, but many stayed. I sure do applaud those deserters. At least they were smart. They didn't need the Army. They had other things they could do with their lives. Something other than fight for a country that didn't even have a name.
John Adams walked away from a really high paying job offered by the English government to join a terrorist group. What an idiot.
Thomas Jefferson-what a fucking dilittante. Same thing for him and his plantation. What did he get out of working in government except criticism? Fool.
Abraham Lincoln left a perfectly successful law practice to become a politician and he ended up dead. What a moron!
And Col. Joshua Chamberlain volunteered for the Civil War (not even pressed into service!) and commanded the 20th Maine regiment on the left flank of the Union Army at Gettysburg, ordering a bayonet charge at the desperate moment, saving the flank, the Union army and perhaps the Union itself. What an idiot. I wished he had stayed home because frankly my room is messy and I need me some slaves up here to clean it. He lived up in Maine. Maine! Like the confederacy ever intended to go all the way to Maine. He was perfectly safe and sound. Might have well been living in the Marina.
And the average 900 Americans that died every day during WWII. Wow, if only some of them had used their connections to get less dangerous jobs, they wouldn't have been killed. Losers. Like Auschwitz ever happened. And that whole idea that Stalin let 40 million people die of starvation.....That's just an exaggeration. we should have just let him take Europe.
When I flew Americans in body bags back from convoys that got attacked, all I could think was "fucking idiot." When I went after the Apache helicopters that crashed because of bad weather and there were Taliban moving on them, all I could think was, "Why didn't they just fly some news helicopter? We need some more traffic news back home. The NEWS BITCHES!"
I am disappointed when smart people like Amanda, and she is so far from alone, make comments like that. I'm also a bit irritated.
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