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This thing is incredible… http://www.iwood3b.com/

I was in Texas last week and was able to see a number of “Tea Party” protests that are generally against big government, and are fed up with the currently elected government and the recent bailout monies allocated for these large banks. Since I fancy myself as a person who agrees with these ideals, I started researching into what really is going on with the recent bailouts. I’ve learned about how republican hardcore conservative political bodies suddenly were asking congress to pony up billions of dollars to shore up companies like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and AIG due to this newly discovered economic nightmare called, “Systemic Risk”. Republicans…. Asking for money? Seriously? So while the “Tea Baggers” have valid points, why is there such difference in handling the current economic crisis from the typical repulican platform? People generally thought that huge corporations are less likely to go belly up simply because their portfolios are so large no one event could cause total failure. With the housing market we all know and love these days, the US found out the hard way that not only are these extremely large corporations suseptable in their own right, they’re so interconnected in the markets now that when one goes down like Lehman Brothers, it causes a whole cascade effect. Example: Lehman has all these assets and bonds that go to hell because of the housing bubble popping. The government doesn’t intervene because of fears from “Moral Hazard”, so Lehman goes to bankruptcy. So why does AIG suddenly fail? So if you are AIG, and you’ve been selling insurance on Bonds and such where if a bond goes to crap and AIG will insure you against the risk - AIG is now required to honor all these insurance policies for bonds in the tank. AIG’s assets are also hurt by the market in general, and now with the prospect of having to pay all these insurance claims on bonds from companies like Lehmans, AIG is now in dire straits…. The trend goes on and on to the point now where there are entire countries like Iceland who are completely bankrupt! The best program by far I’ve seen regarding this whole deal is the Frontline episode, “Inside the Meltdown”. While this is a PBS show, I’m a firm believer that every American needs to watch this at least once. Agree or Disagree with the details, but watch the program and educate yourself - Please! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/

I just found cool automater actions at http://junecloud.com The action I’m especially please with is the “Create Clean Archive” action. This will create a archive zip file that does not have the usualy .DS_Store files and crap. Excellent stuff!

Off to the Glenn to Celebrate Rachelle’s B-day. Earlier I started work on my main wing assembly for the F4U Corsair. 2 weeks to flight! # Just got to my hotel in Ft. Lauderdale Florida. Feeling kinda sick. Hopefully it’s just jet crud # Wrapping up at the customer site in Ft Lauderdale. Going home tomorrow! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Living the dream. In Tampa for work this week. # Using Digsby for IM, Email, and Twitter - http://twitter.digsby.com # Just sitting at home resting after digging out the Driveway from snow. Blizzard yesterday - 60 degree sunny weather today - Colorado is … # Working on RC planes today - Hope to get my F4U Corsair on it’s way to it’s first flight. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

This is a frontline episode that talks about the national debt and how the country’s deficit is exploding. It also talks about how both political parties are at fault, and how the US needs to come to terms on the problem to start working on fixing it. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tentrillion/view/

Just flew my RC planes again. Love this stuff! # Powered by Twitter Tools.

This cat is funny! Thanks Rob for the recommendation.

In case you’ve been in a bubble and are in dire need of decent music, I highly recommend John Mayer. There’s a few songs from him below. If you happen to be a singer/songwriter, check out John’s web site blog @ http://www.johnmayer.com/battlestudies/. A recent post called “Conscious Composition” is very cool. Good Stuff. So what album is his best? Well I like Continuum, but probably just because it’s his latest studio album. I have seriously enjoyed every album to date. Frankly you can’t go wrong with John. One album that never had big press that I enjoy is, “Inside Wants Out". Check him out! The song, “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”, is in my humble opinion is a masterpiece: “Belief” is another great tune from John…