Before falling in love with this guy, you might take a moment and find out a bit about who he is and how he got elected. Specifically, he was head of ES&S - the voting machine company. And he was elected in an election that used those specific machines. And won by a large margin. And the results didn't match the exit polls.

Rated 100% by the Christian Coalition
Rated 0% by NARAL
• Voted NO on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada.
• Voted YES on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)
• Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
• Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001)
• Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
• Voted NO on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 1998)
• Voted YES on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
• Supports anti-flag desecration amendment.
• Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore.
• Voted YES on restricting rules on personal bankruptcy.
• Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
• Voted YES on Bush Administration Energy Policy.
• Voted NO on including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations.
• Voted NO on establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity.

funny story from my days as a wage-slave at a store specializing in anime... as this cartoon has never aired here in america most people know domo-jun from this fun little viral .jpeg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:God-kills-kitten.jpg) that made its rounds in email about four years ago. As a result, we moved quite a lot of domo-kun product: key chains, plushies, notepads, etc... snapped up by a lot of high schoolers who had no idea what the cartoon was other than it was that big brown square guy from the masturbation ad, ha ha! What fun!!
Anyway, long story short, we kept reordering domo-kun products at a fairly fast rate, to the point that the distributor asked the store's translator several times why domo was so popular in a country that had never aired it... unfortunatly, she never had the balls to tell him.

Well said, Empire. Farhad2000, if you'd like to read up more on the argument against capoeira as an effective martial art, you should check out Bullshido.com, a website dedicated to revealing the BS in many "martial arts" today.

And please, the more you train in a good martial art, the better a fighter you become. All that talk about taking a long time for a huge payoff is just BS to explain why most of the practitioners can't hold their own. And besides, most of the best pro fighters today started training in at least one martial art at a very young age too. So, the question still is, how come no capoeira fighters can be found in the ring?

And, well, anecdotes aren't evidence, but I sparred a capoeira player a few days ago and choked him out to tap.

And since when have kali and JKD been rare? (I assume you mean Jun Fan JKD, since there are so many interpretations of the name.) Kali isn't found the ring because it's very well developed for weapon fighting, but isn't as good as say boxing or Muay Thai for striking. But outside of unarmed hand-to-hand MMA, kali is extremely popular, and is growing in popularity if anything, thanks to guys like the Dog Brothers who are making it even more effective as a system.

And bits and pieces of Bruce Lee's personal style of JKD can be found in MMA, it's just that fighters' knowledge has expanded so far beyond what Bruce Lee knew, as in grappling, takedowns, and non-linear attacks, that effective fighting as a whole has evolved beyond his concepts.

Anyways, EMPIRE, where do you train? And are you on Bullshido? It seems like I've met you somewhere...