Tom Saari

She broke her own record this year, 27 hours 42 minutes.  Congrats.  Covering 135 miles (217km) non-stop from Death Valley to Mt. Whitney, CA, the Badwater Ultramarathon is the most demanding and extreme running race offered anywhere on the planet. The Badwater course covers three mountain ranges for a total of 13,000’ (3962m) of cumulative vertical ascent and 4,700’ (1433m) of cumulative descent.

So the big question whats life looking like after Favre for the Packers?  They came into the week leading the weakest division in the NFL, which the Bears should be leading 3-0 but are playing to inconsistent.  So lets see how umm I forgot the packers qb’s name, let me go look it up.  Oh yeah I remember, that qb that seems to get hurt all the time.

B. Favre

24/34passing

289yds

6td

1int

A. Rodgers

14/27passing

165yds

2td

3int

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Wait there’s more.

“After leaving with a shoulder injury in the third quarter, Aaron Rodgers returned late in the fourth quarter. He threw an interception on his second pass following his return, which led to a touchdown for the Bucs.

Rodgers sat out the remainder of the game and was replaced by rookie Matt Flynn at quarterback.”

So let me get this straight, Packers traded away Favre, the injury ridden Rodgers gets hurt, and now Matt? who, born in 1985, might be starting? Wow first time presidential voter turned into Favre replacement. The rest of the season ought to be good. LOL

Well thanks to a insightful reader I have been introduced into one of the better youtube clips.  Carter started the subprime push, then clinton busted it wide open, followed by several republican pushes to regulate it better that were all defeated by the democratic congress.

Law of Uninteded Consequences, the main reason why economist, like Greenspan never moved very fast, and had real small changes and adjustments.  I guess this is the main reason why I disagree with a lot of democrat sponsored “government needs to help the small people”.  To much to quickly without realizing what you are doing.  The free market is very good at finding equilibrium of where market demand and price meet.  Any manipulations of this by the government or anyone over the long run will really mess with the market and could cause potential failure.Two more major examples of this is labor unions(setting wage floors) and minimum wage(setting wage floors).  However well intended these practices are, throwing a free market out of equilibrium causes problems in the long run.  It’s odd the U.S. car makers are lobbying for a 25 billion bailout from the government, while the foreign car makers opening new plants in the U.S. to make cars, don’t need the bailout.  The one difference is labor unions controlling the supply of labor to the U.S. makers and the foreign makers not using the unions.   Who’s better off, the union autoworkers who are unemployed or fearing for there jobs or the non union workers and plants looking at hiring more people and expanding?  I guess if the short term benefits last your whole life, then screw whatever consequences they might have in the future, oh hello Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.  Moral of the story, stop fiddling with the markets and work hard don’t look for government handouts.  More useful comments here.

I just didn’t want to show you the big guys right away. *Photos courtesy of Chase Palosaari.

Answer: Bill CLinton <————————

Ah that makes sense, democrats trying to help out people who should never be given as much money at such good rates to buy homes.  The democratic president who wanted to help the poor people out, you all should be able to get loans……

To bad since then no one stopped the sub-prime mortgage policy the Clinton administration pushed through.

N.Y. Times archives —

Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

By STEVEN A. HOLMES

Published: September 30, 1999

In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.

Can’t wait for October 1st. Finally got a buck picture on the trailcam, even if it isn’t much.