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huevonkiller · Jun 1, 2009

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Had a great weekend. Why does my work week have to start again today?

Anyways, so I went to Lazerfest yesterday and saw Korn and whole plethora of other bands. It was a good time, as was the entire weekend. But to the point here, at Lazerfest, I saw some of the most messed up shit I've seen in a long time. First, while The Veer Union was playing, 2 ladies squatted down in front of me and started peeing. This might not have been too bad if it weren't for the fact that we were about 3 feet from the stage in the middle of about 10,000 or so people.

Second, me, my girlfriend, my brother and his girlfriend were all just sitting in between bands eating some food, when all of the sudden we hear this guy just cursing up a storm, threatening to beat the shit out of some guy because he had bumped in to him. Seriously, it's a concert. There were 20,000 people or so there by this time, so you're bound to get bumped in to by someone. Anyways, so all the sudden, this dude that was screaming this shit just fucking pounces on a dude, punching him in the back of the head first. When the guy went down, he slammed his knee in his face and just continued to wail on him as he went down, hitting him another 5 or 6 times on the back of the head. Why? Because he bumped in to him. I seriously hope security found that piece of shit, called the cops and arrested him. People like him absolutely deserve to spend some time in jail, there's no reason to just pounce on someone because they bumped in to you.

But yea...interesting shit apparently happen in the middle of a cornfield in rural Iowa.
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Sounds insane dude, hope you had a good time otherwise at least.

Man violence like that sucks, did anyone help identify that guy? Crazy.

Moo2K4 · Jun 1, 2009

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Sounds insane dude, hope you had a good time otherwise at least.

Man violence like that sucks, did anyone help identify that guy? Crazy.
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I had a hell of a good time, so it didn't ruin it.

As far as identifying that guy, I have no idea. Me and my friends helped describe the guy to security, but the description could have fit thousands of other guys there that day. Seeing as how there around 20,000 people there, it was going to be like finding a needle in a haystack, but who knows.

Lost One · Jun 1, 2009

do any of you guys listen to weezer?

huevonkiller · Jun 2, 2009

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do any of you guys listen to weezer?
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I don't know that much about them but when I hear them they sound dope. :O

Mamba · Jun 2, 2009

I was in Anaheim today, and I went into the BSPN Zone.

Fucking Southern Cal, Anaheim...there was....I'm disgusted...CELTIC POSTERS EVERY WHERE!. Garnett hugging the trophy. Pierce hugging it. Coasters of Pierce hugging it, and even a poster of LBJ.

I didn't see one Laker-related item.

huevonkiller · Jun 2, 2009

The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M.
by David E. Sanger
Monday, June 1, 2009

provided by
The New York Times

It is not every 31-year-old who, in a first government job, finds himself dismantling General Motors and rewriting the rules of American capitalism.

But that, in short, is the job description for Brian Deese, a not-quite graduate of Yale Law School who had never set foot in an automotive assembly plant until he took on his nearly unseen role in remaking the American automotive industry.

Nor, for that matter, had he given much thought to what ailed an industry that had been in decline ever since he was born. A bit laconic and looking every bit the just-out-of-graduate-school student adjusting to life in the West Wing — “he’s got this beard that appears and disappears,” says Steven Rattner, one of the leaders of President Obama’s automotive task force — Mr. Deese was thrown into the auto industry’s maelstrom as soon the election-night parties ended.

“There was a time between Nov. 4 and mid-February when I was the only full-time member of the auto task force,” Mr. Deese, a special assistant to the president for economic policy, acknowledged recently as he hurried between his desk at the White House and the Treasury building next door. “It was a little scary.”

But now, according to those who joined him in the middle of his crash course about the automakers’ downward spiral, he has emerged as one of the most influential voices in what may become President Obama’s biggest experiment yet in federal economic intervention.

While far more prominent members of the administration are making the big decisions about Detroit, it is Mr. Deese who is often narrowing their options.

A month ago, when the administration was divided over whether to support Fiat’s bid to take over much of Chrysler, it was Mr. Deese who spoke out strongly against simply letting the company go into liquidation, according to several people who were present for the debate.

“Brian grasps both the economics and the politics about as quickly as I’ve seen anyone do this,” said Lawrence H. Summers, the head of the National Economic Council who is not known for being patient whenever he believes an analysis is sub-par — or disagrees with his own. “And there he was in the Roosevelt Room, speaking up vigorously to make the point that the costs we were going to incur giving Fiat a chance were no greater than some of the hidden costs of liquidation.”

Mr. Deese was not the only one favoring the Fiat deal, but his lengthy memorandum on how liquidation would increase Medicaid costs, unemployment insurance and municipal bankruptcies ended the debate. The administration supported the deal, and it seems likely to become a reality on Monday, if a federal judge handling the high-speed bankruptcy proceeding approves the sale of Chrysler’s best assets to the Italian carmaker.

Mr. Deese’s role is unusual for someone who is neither a formally trained economist nor a business school graduate, and who never spent much time flipping through the endless studies about the future of the American and Japanese auto industries.

He lives a dual life these days. He starts the day at a desk wedged just outside of Mr. Summers’s office, where he can hear what young members of the economic team have come to know as “the Summers bellow.” From there, he can make it quickly to the press office to help devise explanations for why taxpayers are spending more than $50 billion on what polls show is a very unpopular bailout of the auto industry.

Several times a day he speed-walks to Treasury, taking a shortcut through the tunnel under the colonnade, near the kitchens. The other day he talked about how sharply perceptions of the industry’s future changed after Mr. Obama’s election.

“At the first meeting with Rick Wagoner,” he said, referring to G.M.’s recently deposed chief executive, “they were in a very different place. He said publicly that bankruptcy was not a viable option. It’s been a long process getting everyone to look at the options differently.”

In fact, from before Inauguration Day, few in Mr. Obama’s circle saw any other choice. Every time Mr. Deese ran the numbers on G.M. and Chrysler, he came back with the now-obvious conclusion that neither was a viable business, and that their plans to revive themselves did not address the erosion of their revenues. But it took the support of Mr. Rattner and Ron Bloom, senior advisers to the task force charged with restructuring the automobile industry, to help turn Mr. Deese’s positions into policy.

“The president’s instruction to us was that we had to come up with a solution that would work on a commercial basis, that didn’t involve indefinite federal financing,” Mr. Deese said. “But we didn’t want liquidation, which would have even worse effects. So the question was how do you design a very substantial restructuring, and do it fast.”

Mr. Deese’s route to the auto table at the White House was anything but a straight line. He is the son of a political science professor at Boston College (his father) and an engineer who works in renewable energy (his mother). He grew up in the Boston suburb of Belmont and attended Middlebury College in Vermont. He went to Washington to work on aid issues and was quickly hired by Nancy Birdsall, a widely respected authority on the effectiveness of international aid and the founder of the Center for Global Development.

But he wanted to learn domestic issues as well, and soon ended up working as an assistant for Gene Sperling, who 17 years ago in the Clinton White House played a similar role as economic policy prodigy. Eventually, Mr. Deese headed to Yale for his law degree. But his e-mail box was constantly filled with messages from friends in Washington who were signing up to work for the Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigns. Mr. Deese chose Senator Clinton’s.

“He was pretty quickly functioning as the top economic policy staffer through her campaign,” Mr. Sperling said. “He could blend the policy needs and the political needs pretty seamlessly.” On the day that the Clinton campaign ended, Mr. Deese left her concession speech and received a message on his BlackBerry from a friend in the Obama campaign urging him to sign on immediately to Mr. Obama’s team.

He resumed his policy work there, and found himself stuck in Chicago — unable to fly to Washington with his dog — as the economic crisis deepened. Finally, one night, he decided to get into his car with his dog and just started driving back to Washington. Tired, he pulled over to catch some sleep in the car.

“I slept in the parking lot of the G. M. plant in Lordstown, Ohio,” he recalled. The giant plant, opened during G.M.’s heyday in the mid-1960s, is where the Pontiac G5 is produced. Under the plan Mr. Deese worked on when he arrived in Washington, Pontiac will disappear.

“I guess that was prophetic,” he said, shaking his head.
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Moo2K4 · Jun 2, 2009

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I was in Anaheim today, and I went into the BSPN Zone.

Fucking Southern Cal, Anaheim...there was....I'm disgusted...CELTIC POSTERS EVERY WHERE!. Garnett hugging the trophy. Pierce hugging it. Coasters of Pierce hugging it, and even a poster of LBJ.

I didn't see one Laker-related item.
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That's because it's the BSPN Zone. Of course they're gonna show that crap.

huevonkiller · Jun 2, 2009

NEW YORK -- TV viewership is way up for the NBA playoffs.

Ratings for the Western Conference finals on ESPN increased 32 percent from the network's conference finals coverage last year. The Eastern Conference finals on TNT were up 30 percent from its conference finals coverage in 2008.

For the entire playoffs, TNT's ratings were up 19 percent from a year ago. ESPN's increased 12 percent.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4222827

ivey · Jun 2, 2009

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4222827
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Looks like they didn't need a Lebron vs Kobe finals ;D. Superman vs Mamba will do it.

huevonkiller · Jun 2, 2009

ivey said: ↑

Looks like they didn't need a Lebron vs Kobe finals ;D. Superman vs Mamba will do it.
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Yeah no complaints here man.

Moo2K4 · Jun 2, 2009

Imagine what the ratings would have been if it were a Lakers vs. Cavs Finals. I imagine it would have been highest in the post-Jordan era of the NBA.

Mamba · Jun 2, 2009

I just got back from the gym after taking a week off. Fuck my life. I'm so tired.

Now I get to go to work.

huevonkiller · Jun 2, 2009

Black Mamba said: ↑

I just got back from the gym after taking a week off. Fuck my life. I'm so tired.

Now I get to go to work.
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Hey that's what has to be done to stay in shape, it's worth it.

Shapecity · Jun 2, 2009

My "two scoops won't hurt and neither will these french fries" approach to eating doesn't lend itself well to swimsuit season. Although the beach treks may have begun, there is time to make change. So, let me have it. What's that ice cream going to cost me in workout minutes? To tell us is Charles Stuart Platkin, also known as the Diet Detective. He is the author of five books and and host of WE TV's I Want To Save Your Life. Here is his report on what some of our chain-food favorites should cost us in time spent doing common exercises...

Note: Calorie content of foods are based on official website information at the time of publication. Minutes of exercise are averages based on a 155-pound person. The greater the weight of the person the more calories burned per minute.

DONUT
Dunkin Donuts Chocolate Frosted Donut (230 calories)
59 minutes of walking (3 mph).

BREAKFAST SANDWICH
McDonald's Egg McMuffin (300 calories)
32 winutes of running (5 mph).

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE
Panera Chocolate Chipper (440 calories)
62 minutes of biking (10-11.9 mph).

PIZZA
Pizza Hut Large Hand-Tossed Style Cheese Pizza (1 slice; 320 calories)
39 minutes of swimming (slow to moderate laps).

CINNAMON ROLL
Starbucks Cinnamon Roll (500 calories, varies by location)
85 minutes of dancing.

HAMBURGER
Burger King Original Whopper With Cheese (770 calories)
94 minutes of swimming (slow to moderate laps).

BROWNIE
Au Bon Pain Chocolate Chip Brownie (380 calories).
129 minutes of yoga (Hatha style).

FRIES
Wendy's Large French Fries (540 calories)
77 minutes of biking (10-11.9 mph).

ICE CREAM
Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream (0.5 cup; 270 calories)
29 minutes of running (5 mph).

BURRITO
Taco Bell Burrito Supreme, Beef (410 calories)
70 minutes of dancing.
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Speaking of working out check those numbers out.

Mamba · Jun 2, 2009

Yeah, I've been bad lately when it comes to beer + hard alcohol + food. I need to get back on track.

Mamba · Jun 3, 2009

Look at the ass on Carmelo's bitch!

Mamba · Jun 3, 2009

Is it true that the thunderstorms and lightning rolling over Riverside right now are the thunder storms that supposedly took down that Air France flight?

tim · Jun 3, 2009

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Look at the ass on Carmelo's bitch!
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Wowzers

(I'm not a Laker fan and I'm posting in this thread...I feel so rebellious!!!)

Lost One · Jun 3, 2009

lol

Kobe beat Carmelo on his birthday and stole his girl.

Happy birthday Carmelo!

Lost One · Jun 3, 2009

For Mamba:

http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/petersFashionPage.html

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