Why is Obama fear mongering? The tone of his weekly presidential address is dark and dire at best. I almost feel like he is building the level of fear in the country in preparation for the announcement of something very "big".
We'll see!

(P.S - maneuvering to garner public support for the 800bn+ stimulus bill?)

Directly from Wikipedia's entry on the Japanese asset price bubble

In the decades following World War II, Japan implemented stringent tariffs and policies to encourage people to save their income. With more money in banks, loans and credit became easier to obtain, and with Japan running large trade surpluses, the yen appreciated against foreign ( Read more... )

Okay so this whole bike 150-200 miles a week thing isn't working out for me. The whole working 40 hours a week things gets in the way .

Time to realize I'm out of college and that means I've converted free time into money (ever notice that no matter how much you make it never seems like it's enough?). This means it's time to give up pure bike races ( Read more... )

Title says it all, I've come to realize that we're no longer the innovative, hard working and honest country that we once were (not that I was old enough to really appreciate what 'good ol America really was about).

I keep on going back to the same quote:

"A democracy will last until the voters realize that they can vote themselves money out of the ( Read more... )

I have witnessed the making of history, the first black president of the United States of America. I was confident that I would see this within my lifetime but I would've never imagined it happening so soon ( Read more... )

 October 18th 2008, my first 100 mile bike ride.It was only 10 months ago when Adam called me up and we rode to Hawthorne and back (around 30 miles). That Hawthorne ride nearly killed me, by the end of it I could barely hold 6mph, the next two days were spent recovering.

I'm so very proud of myself, I trained hard for a good 6 months before the ( Read more... )

Absolutely amazing how it was possible to take a healthy country in 2000 that underwent steady economic growth and completely sink it within 8 years ( Read more... )

I started cycling a bit too late to jump on this bus but it's a goal for 2009. I have one year to improve enough to survive six gap.

103.8 miles in a single day in the mountains, quite a feat for a Florida cyclist.

http://www.cyclenorthgeorgia.com/images/stories/maps__profiles/six%20gap%20elevation.png

Over 11,000 feet of climbing.
Best time in 2007? ( Read more... )

"The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $25bn package of low-cost loans to help hard-pressed carmakers and their suppliers finance plant modernisation at a time of restricted access to public capital markets.
The automotive loans are separate from the proposed $700bn bail-out for the banking sector.......
The industry’s case has been ( Read more... )

Not dead - just been moving around to different blogging services and now I'm back. It's been about two years and just about everything in my life has changed ( Read more... )