Lulz at the cheating pull-up marketed to marketing victims as a "more effective pull-up." More effective at straining your writs elbows and shoulders perhaps.

"transferring horizontal momentum into vertical momentum" IS CHEATING WHEN YOU'RE DOING PULL-UPS.

What a load of trendy bullshit. "The kipping pullup is BRAND X's official pull-up." OH SIGN ME UP THEN PLEASE LET ME HAVE TWO MEMBERSHIPS I'LL BE TWICE AS FIT!!!!111! I bet "lady push-ups" are their official push-up.

If you want core and hip strength from pull-ups, incorporate L-sits and torso rotations into your pull-ups.

>> ^Abducted:
Was waiting for JB to jump forth and start doing cock pushups.

Sorry, you can only do one cock push-up.

As I said, through my studies of the great depression one fact became overwhelming clear there is hardly one concrete factor in its emergence nor in it's continuation.

Yes it's always postulated that FDR's policies prolonged it which is silly considering the effects of the TVA and eventually war economy used to prop up Britain and eventually joining WW2. This is military Keynesian or war economy.

My personal belief is that but you must look at the political landscape at the time in context, Smoot-Hawley Act signed in 1930s especially with regards to trade, my belief is that this act had a lot to do with the severity of the depression.

However this is pissing contest, any further studies brings forth more and more layers of the problem, eventually we come to a realization that there was endemic structural weaknesses in the economy as a whole due to incomplete economic understanding. Which lead to Keynesian economic theory in the first place in 1936, revised constantly through neo-classical economics, criticized into New Keynesian Economics.

The Austrian school of economics is an obscure field for a very good reason, because it cannot sustain its theories through empirical evidence, everyone from Sachs to Krugman to Milton Friedman have found fault with it. This is not a critique of your personal study of your field through reading but reading books captures a specific point of view, there is little inter relational work between the different theories of economics.

As I said we went over and over this in your blog posts, where you couldn't even grasp a possibility of informational asymmetry as a free market eliminator between consumers within an economy.

Now for Deedub81.

Sorry but that's called economic re balancing, first of all Obama isn't the perfect president for economic recovery at all as he has to maintain (rather appease) corporate and middle class America at the same time. Which is very hard to do, he is not raising taxation in the over 250,000 bracket, as he needs to maintain a middle class, he needs to push up taxation for those earning over that.

A continuous cut tax from 2000 is simply unsustainable with the federal debt, and the continuous spending in Iraq and Afghanistan. There needs to be a fundamental re balance to allow the US economy to get back on a more stable less profit driven path to recovery.

Am going to stop here because you think that the US economy is driven by small business, you obviously have no idea what you are talking about, FOX news is not the best source for economic discourse.

Look at it more simply. She LIED in her speech to the RNC. Plain and simple. She lied then. She will lie again to the US should she become VP, and (scarily enough) President should McSame decide to push up daisies.

#36 A duck's quack doesn't echo

#37 A snail breathes through its foot

#38 Fish cough.

#39 An ant's smell is stronger then a dog's

#40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down

#41 Shrimp can only swim backward

#42 Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open

#43 A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways

#44 The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps

#45 Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day

#46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump

#47 Giraffes have no vocal chords

#48 Cats can hear ultrasound

#49 Despite its hump...camels has a straight spine

#50 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth

#51 There is 63,360 inches in a mile

#52 11% of people in the world are left-handed

#53 The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime

#54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms *

#55 A human brain weighs about 3lbs

#56 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet

#57 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year

#58 A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100mph

#59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train

#60 The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body

#61 Pigs get sunburn

#62 The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days

#63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime

#64 Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges

#65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations

#66 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day

#67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo

#68 The longest one syllable word is "screeched"

#69 No word in the English language rhymes with month

#70 A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second

#71 There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia

#72 The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use

#73 The average person spends 2 weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change

#74 You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world

#75 The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year

#76 The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime

#77 No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times

#78 Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US

#79 There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter

#80 About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet

#81 Alaska has more caribou then people

#82 August has the highest percent of births

#83 Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)

#84 Oysters can change genders back and forth

#85 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

#86 Until the 19th century solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia

#87 A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance

#88 A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid

#89 The average American walks 18,000 steps a day

#90 The average raindrop falls at 7mph

#91 There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.

#92 Fish can drown

#93 A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet

#94 Lizards communicate by doing push-ups

#95 Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs

#96 The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime

#97 A turkey can run at 20mph

#98 When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less

#99 You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum

#100 In a year, the average person walks 4 miles making their bed

#101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time

#102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories

#103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling

#104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record

#105 You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement

#106 You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level

#107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV

#108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories

#109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight

#110 Frogs never drink

#111 Only male turkeys gobble

#112 At birth, a Dalmation is always pure white

#113 The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43 mph

#114 The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old

#115 Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet

#116 The largest fish is the whale shark - It can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons

#117 The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out

#118 Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans

#119 The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards

#120 The only continent without native reptiles or snakes is Antarctica

#121 The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin

#122 A duck can't walk without bobbing its head

#123 Beavers were once the size of bears

#124 Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time

You're very ignorant if you think that everyone has the same rights and opportunities. And degrading attitudes about women still exist today. The stereotypes that label men as rational, strong, decisive, and protective and women as emotional (irrational), submissive, weak, and nurturing are still very much alive. Just look at the top sifts of all time:
1. A very talented MAN playing the ukelele
2. Two talented BOYS' well-made lightsaber video
3. Autistic BOY being awesome at a b-ball game
4. Talented MALE robot dancer
5. Prairie Dog, generally accepted as MALE. Thus: Drama KING
6. Very clever rant about Pachebel. Again, a talented and clever MAN.
7. FINALLY, an intelligent WOMAN with integrity. But, wait! She's also very beautiful. Do you think this would be the #7 sift if she hadn't been so gorgeous? I don't think so. Listen to some of the comments:
"Plus, uhmm - she's like a hot Christiane Amanpour. But I like her integrity too."
"She's 40% Kylie Minogue and 60% Naomi Watts."
"...Plus, shes hot."
"Is there anything better than a hot, articulate, angry blonde ... I don't think so."
"Lara Logan is hot. Not only is she drop dead pretty, she is smart, she has an acerbic tongue and she tells the truth. Lately, she has been wearing tight tops with a push-up bra that really make her tits looks great. More Iraq stories, please............"
"shes hot and reaaaaaaly intelligent..."
"I want this woman to have my children."
"Lara Logan, will you marry me?"

I give major props to the guys of videosift for focusing FAR more on her integrity, intelligence, and how articulate she is. They really were very good about that. But I really, really think that a lot of those votes had everything to do with the COMBINATION of brains and looks. If this had been an ugly woman, it would not have received NEARLY as many votes, I'd bet you anything. Moving on.

8. Awesome commercial. The wind is a tall MAN doing funny things. Love this sift.
9. Drug spiders. MALE spiders (Mr. Crack Spider, etc.), Male narrator.
10. Quantum Physics narrated and explained by a MALE scientist.
11. Clever prank, talented FEMALES. (Yay!) All old/overweight women are the ones being tricked, all beautiful and young females are the tricksters. Some sample comments:
"...also, they were hot."
"Those twins could prank me in the bathroom anytime."
"Twin hot German chicks in a bathroom is guaranteed to make #1."

Again, the majority of the comments had nothing to do with the way the girls looked, but on the prank itself. Cool. Movin on.

12. Jon Stewart (MAN) being funny and clever and awesome.
13. A pretty GIRL with a great bod doing something pretty cool. Comments:

"She can spin on my escalator any day she likes."
"This is cool and I think it's pure science. For example, it would be interesting also to rub her down in various oils and see how it affects the results. Or underwear versus no underwear for example. What would happen?"
"She's a hottie."
"oh and this is *nature too because humans are part of nature.
and *sexuality because those tight jeans make her look sexy to me."
"I predict a chubby girl stuck between the glass railings of a shopping mall escalator near you."
"Indeed, perhaps she will leave a trail of freshly erected posts behind her as she spins her way from town to town."
"I suspect she already left a trail of freshly erected posts, both at the original venue and among some of the male sift viewers judging by the comments."
"Videosift seems to have an immense fondness for rotating women."
"You males are all full of bull putty. If this was a 15 year old pimply faced fella doing this it have about 20 votes and an eia tag immediately."

14. Dolphins blowing bubbles
15. Cool music video. MALE band, MALE hands.

Most people see the world through the eyes of a man and they don't even know it. Men look, women are looked upon.

Top Box-Office Movies of all time: (I'm going to point out the gender of JUST the main character (protagonist).

Titanic (1997)- As far as I can tell, not having seen the movie, the MALE/FEMALE share the main character spot.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - Male
Shrek 2 (2004) - Male
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)- Male
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - Male
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Male/Female?
Spider-Man (2002) - Male
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)- Male
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)- Male
Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Male
The Passion of the Christ (2004)- Male
Jurassic Park (1993) - Male
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)- Male
Finding Nemo (2003) - Male
Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Male
Forrest Gump (1994) - Male
The Lion King (1994) - Male
Shrek the Third (2007) - Male
Transformers (2007) - Male
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) - Male
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Male
Iron Man (2008) - Male
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - Male
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) - Male
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Male
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) - Male
Independence Day (1996) - Male
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Male
The Sixth Sense (1999) - Male
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) - Male
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) Male/Female
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Male
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) - Male
Home Alone (1990) - Male
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) - Male
Meet the Fockers (2004) - Male
Shrek (2001) - Male
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - Male
The Incredibles (2004) - Male
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - Male

I could keep going, but I think you get the picture.

In reply to this comment by Shepppard:
Alright, this is a video of someone doing what they love.
I don't understand the controversy. Just because I watched this doesn't make me think of a woman as an object. I see her dancing, and I see her doing something she loves to do. I'm not sitting here thinking "I'd hit that so hard she'd walk funny for a week" I'm actually sitting here enjoying it because it's a dance.

People need to seriously reconsider what they want to pick fights with. Society on the whole has come to terms of equality. Black, White, Yellow, Purple, brown, male or female, everybody has equal rights and opportunities.
No race is better then the other, and same goes for the Sexes.

People don't treat women as brainless objects anymore. You can vote, you can drive, you can work, the only thing you can't do is pee standing up. People have accepted that women are NOT objects anymore, and therefore can actually watch something like this and appreciate it as art.

Because we (at least not all of us), don't have our head in the gutter anymore and can accept it.

Look how close that glass came to getting smashed into his face when he fell.

When I was a 13 my classmates and I were walking back from church to school one day. (I went to a Catholic school, and we went to church once a week during school hours.) The church was less than a block away from school, but it was winter and the sidewalks were icy. One kid came sliding up behind me and deliberately pushed me. Not having any idea what was happening, when he pushed me I slipped and fell face forward, landing square on my front teeth. My top incisors both broke at the roots, so my front teeth were basically hanging by the nerves. I was scheduled to get braces in a few months, but that had to be pushed up on an emergency basis. I had to see a dentist first, who basically just jammed my top incisors back into my gums with his bare hands (which was excruciatingly painful), then jammed a huge wad of cotton in my mouth, then told me to bite down and not release, and then sent me to the orthodontist to wire up my front teeth so that my incisors wouldn't fall out of my face. Thankfully neither of my incisors were lost. Did I mention that while all this was happening I wasn't laughing, not once?

That's also what could have happened to this guy. All things considered it could have been a lot worse. If a "friend" played this prank on me he would no longer be my friend afterward, ESPECIALLY after he posted a video of the incident on the internet.

I intend to record the following and require in my will that it be my cell-phone voice-mail message for 5 years following my oh-so-unfortunate demise hopefully by way of ninja assassins or at least ebola.

"Thank you for calling but, I've passed on! I am no more! I have ceased to be! I've expired and gone to meet my maker! I'm a stiff! Bereft of life, I
rest in peace! I'm pushing up the daisies! My metabolic processes are now history! I'm off the twig! I've kicked the bucket, I've shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible!! I AM AN EX-PARROT... I mean, I AM AN EX-HUMAN!!"

>> ^rychan:
Wow I didn't know a boat that size would pitch so much in the waves.


Oh yeah! I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise some years ago and the boat pitched a lot when crossing into mexican waters. When walking down the hall you would feel the floor push up on you then all of the sudden feel it lift away, like a yo-yo elevator. It's great fun especially with alcohol =D

if you are in the ocean, the wave is gonna push you up and down a bit. that's all, as far as i know. it's not going to push you much towards shore, you're only little, there's not much to push on, and the wave won't be very high until it gets close to land. so it's pushing up, not shoreward. water isn't actually moving towards the shore, it's just rising and falling. of course when it gets to land it runs out of space and rises up and overtakes itself and produces turbulence underneath and starts to fall/roll over, pushing everything inland. getting hit in the ankles by a small wave on a previously dry street is very different to bobbing up and down on a huge wave out at sea.

and yes, this is scary. especially with the translation of the last line.

I had no idea there could be a rational explanation for this scene until I went through boot camp and the NCOs harangued us and doled out push-ups when we'd incorrectly call our rifles "guns" (they aren't; handguns are guns, machine guns are guns, various other weapons are guns, but rifles are rifles).

>> ^rottenseed:
why didn't he just slide the bar? fuckin' moron. Slide or push down on one side and push up on the other. Let gravity work its magic.


I don't know why either. At first to me it looked like there were collars on the barbell, so I thought he couldn't slide them off. However now that I reviewed it, I see he wasn't using collars. Maybe he didn't know about sliding the plates off.

why didn't he just slide the bar? fuckin' moron. Slide or push down on one side and push up on the other. Let gravity work its magic.

Further reading:

Wikipedia: 2007–2008 world food price crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_price_crisis

-United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
http://www.righttofood.org/
-EBIO
http://www.ebio.org/home.php

EU: An EU Strategy for Biofuels
http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/biomass/biofuel/index_en.htm
EU rethinks biofuels guidelines (14 January 2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7186380.stm

BBC: Biofuels 'crime against humanity' (27 October 2007)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7065061.stm
At the end this article refers to
IMF: Biofuel Demand Pushes Up Food Prices
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2007/RES1017A.htm

this reminds me of my middle school days in Daegu, Korea where local students had to take the city bus to get to school. Every morning the bus would be jam packed with school kids and if the buses are full, then the driver just skips his stops.

And the rest of us would have to wait another 30 minutes for an empty one. So by the time we get to school we're nearly 1 hour late. And teachers are waiting at the gates to punish you (usually they force you to a push-up position on the floor until the classes start. But before you get off the floor, teacher whacks your butt 10 times with a 2 by 4 or a baseball bat).

Good times...