Month: November 2011

UFC 140: Jon Jones Pre-Fight Interview

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UFC 140: Jon Jones Pre-Fight Interview.

Light Heavy Weight Champ Jon “Bones” Jones vs. Lyoto Machida

I’m really looking forward to this fight. It has the potential to be a classic. Lyoto Machida should be a formidable opponent for Jon Jones. It will be an interesting clash of styles. Each fighter is multi-dimensional, but Machida’s base is karate, while Jones’s base is wrestling. I predict that Jones will win because I think his 6’4″ frame, overall athletic ability and quickness gives him a distinct advantage over every other LHW in the UFC. I also think Jones is always extremely well prepared by Greg Jackson and Mike Winklejohn for all fights. I don’t think this fight will be an exception.

Jones by TKO in the 3rd Rd.

My new blog: gmf Market Perspective.

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I have a new blog, called gmf Market Perpective. This blog reflects my current thoughts on the financial markets. I constructed this blog over one year ago, but I put it on the back burner for a while. It is still a work in progress, but I am now posting items on that blog on a regular basis. I hope to put up at least three or four posts a week on that blog. Many of the posts will be relatively short and easy to read quickly.

Here is the link for my new blog:

gmf Market Perspective

Please take look at it and bookmark it if you have an interest in the financial markets.

Santa Fe Depot at night

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Here are a couple of pictures I took at Santa Fe Depot in downtown San Diego last night. The Depot is the main train station for San Diego and services the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner, the Coaster train (San Diego commuter train) and the San Diego Trolly. The Spanish Colonial Revival building was opened in 1915 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A few pictures from Christo’s last project, The Gates in Central Park

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Back in 2005 I was living in San Diego, but I made a trip back to New York in February of that year to see Christo’s last project, which was located in Central Park. The project, called The Gates, was comprised of 7,503 gates, which were installed over the entire length of the park. The gates were 16 ft tall and varied in width, from 5 feet 6 inches to 18 feet. Each gate had a saffron-colored panel of nylon fabric hanging from it. The Gates Project had a life span of two weeks (12 Feb to 25 Feb) and that was it, it was gone after that, never to return. Seeing the Gates was a once in a life time opportunity.

Here are a few of the pictures I took of The Gates….

Asia Times Online :: The economics of polarization

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Asia Times Online :: The economics of polarization.

Great article by Spengler. Hat tip to Michael Savage for bringing this to my attention today. I’ve read Spengler before in the AT, but it has been a while.

Has America become irrational? Not since the 1930s have politics been so polarized, from the Tea Party movement on one side of the spectrum to the Occupy Wall Street protesters on the other. Why does the right object so vehemently to government spending? And why does the left attack private capital with parallel passion? The answer lies not in the American psyche, but in the statistics.

The Tea Party is a middle-class movement, older, better educated and wealthier than average, but it is not a party of the very wealthy, who are conspicuously absent among its activists. They know from personal or family experience that taxation is destroying the American middle class. They are approaching retirement, and most of their wealth is in the family home, as it is for the great majority of Americans: