GAINING IN POPULARITY: Kettlebell Workouts. I use kettlebells a lot for shoulders and arms. Like ’em. Kettlebell jump-squats are a nice routine-change for legs, too.
Archive for 2012
November 2, 2012
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FOUR MORE!: Days!!!
IF THE CAMPAIGN WENT ON ANOTHER WEEK, OBAMA WOULD BE WEARING FULL MILITARY OUTFIT: Obama’s Leather Bomber Jacket Is One Pair Of Aviators Away From ‘Top Gun’ (PHOTOS) . This would be cuter if the coward hadn’t left those who depended on him to die abandoned so as not to risk his precious electability.
KRAUTHAMMER: A STARK CHOICE: “Every four years we are told that the coming election is the most important of one’s life. This time it might actually be true. At stake is the relation between citizen and state, the very nature of the American social contract.”
TO BE HONEST HER REAL ENEMY ARE THE TEA PARTY AND THE GOP: Pelosi headlined fundraiser tied to Islamists.
NATE SILVER IN THE RAT LAB: Statistics.
STATEN ISLAND BOROUGH PRESIDENT: Don’t Give Money To The Red Cross. Mitt should show up with a boatload of supplies.
“STOP THE MARATHON” FACEBOOK PAGE JUST WENT LIVE: This can’t be good news for Mayor Bloomberg.
VIDEO: Staten Island Resident Confronts Chuck Schumer; ‘We Are Gonna Die!’
Schumer’s reply: “I know what you’re going through, sweetheart.”
DID BLOOMBERG RUN OVER OBAMA’S LAST CHANCE AT A FINAL SPRINT? Boston talk radio host Michael Graham notes:
Sunday, America is going to watch a bunch of skinny, self-righteous, left-leaning joggers snatching bottles of water from the hands of Bloomberg’s NYC marathon crew—while families in Staten Island who have no power OR water sit amid the wreckage of their homes, still waiting for help.
All thanks to Mike Bloomberg. You want him, Obots? You can have him.
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: “When disaster strikes, you can count on Michael Bloomberg to endorse the Democrat for president, hold a marathon, and take away your soda,” Jim Treacher writes. “You have to admit, Kathleen Parker called it:”
Forget Romney/Obama. I’m betting lots are thinking President Bloomberg this morning.
— kathleenparker (@kathleenparker) October 30, 2012
Brutal.
MORE HOPE ‘N CHANGE: UNEMPLOYMENT RISES TO 7.9%: Still wallowing around 31 year lows.
IN THE MAIL: From Michael Townsend, Where Do Presidents Come From?: And Other Presidential Stuff of Super Great Importance.
BILL WHITTLE: Firewall: Falling On Principle. Why you shouldn’t vote for Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, etc.
BLOOMBERG: Power To The One Percent! “As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24/7 in Central Park — to juice a media tent for Sunday’s New York City Marathon. And a third ‘backup’ unit sits idle, in case one of the generators fails. The three diesel-powered generators crank out 800 kilowatts — enough to power 400 homes in ravaged areas like Staten Island, the Rockaways and downtown Manhattan.”
Meanwhile: Nonunion Power Crews Turned Away From Sandy Recovery Effort.
UPDATE: Nonunion story untrue? “That’s a rumor.”
BARACK OBAMA’S KATRINA, WITH BLOOMBERG IN THE ROLE OF RAY NAGIN? This Depressing NBC Segment On Staten Island Could Change The Way The World Sees Hurricane Sandy. “This NBC segment on the situation this week on Staten Island is awful, and makes the response look horrible.”
UPDATE: A New York reader emails: “The demographic of the folks devastated in low-lying Staten Island is that of Obama’s ‘bitter clingers’; white, working class, play-by-the-rules folks. The feeble non-response to their suffering is a perfect mirror image of the allegations leveled against W for his alleged indifference during Katrina.”
Indeed. And we already know that Obama has written off the white working class. My NYC reader adds: “Personal note: Those are ‘my’ people…I grew up on the other side of the Verrazano Bridge among the same demographic: primarily Catholic blue collar folks, very family oriented. It is painful watching them suffer.”
SIX ENORMOUS STAKES IN ELECTION: If you needed any extra motivation to vote in the presidential election, these stakes should do it for you.
MEGAN MCARDLE: Treat The Symptom, Not The Measurement.
Do the wealthy get to live in nicer houses and drive nicer cars than the poor? Yes, but I’m not sure how much this matters. I find the absolute quality of the housing stock and cars available to the poor much more important than the relative fanciness. Are their abodes warm and dry and safe? Are their cars reliable? As PJ O’Rourke once remarked, “The biblical injunction is to clothe the poor, not style them.” You can argue that the poor do not have enough–enough safe homes, education, health care, reliable automobiles, etc. But they wouldn’t have enough even if Bill Gates lost half his money.
Are the jobs available to the poor decent jobs, capable of supporting a family, and a decent family life? That’s the million dollar question. And there is no number that will tell us the answer.
Read the whole thing. And bear in mind Reynolds’ Law.
DEREK THOMPSON: The Hurricane Sandy Guide To Working From Home.
#SANDYFAIL: In Brooklyn, unhappy with Bloomberg: “Yo asshole mayor, turn on your television (instead of being so greedy to get on it) the city is in full blown crisis mode, there are huge disorganized lines for buses, gas, food, water, no trains into Manhattan from Brooklyn, tunnels shut, half the city without power, smoldering ruins in queens, hungry, sick, grieving, fed up human beings, THESE ARE YOUR FELLOW NEW YORKERS (even though your life reflects nothing of theirs). AND YOU WANT TO SHIT ON THEM BY ALLOWING THE MARATHON! THIS IS YOUR LEGACY BERMUDABERG, the mayor that doesn’t give a shit about his people, oh, except to ban big gulps.”
Related: New York’s Incredible Shrinking Mayor. “What would the world have thought of Mayor Nagin if he’d diverted resources from Katrina relief efforts to holding a Mardi Gras parade? Mayor Bloomberg may be about to find out. . . . . As the true dimensions of the damage in New York gradually appear, as the death toll mounts and as chaos at the gas stations and devastation in Staten Island undercut the narrative that the city has responded effectively to the challenge, Mayor Bloomberg looks more like the hapless officials of New Orleans than Rudy Giuliani or Chris Christie. The decision to divert badly needed resources to the Marathon looks callow. Big talk about climate change fails to impress; surely if the Mayor was so concerned about climate change he could have invested more time in flood preparations.”
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HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? U.S. JOBLESS RATE CLIMBS TO 7.9%.