SHANE OUCHI I do what I love and fake the rest…
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Why Minority Groups Don’t Help Their Own Cause…
What I’ve been noticing a lot about minority groups is that their attempts at blending in with society and being treated equally has been partially been stubbed by their own doings. Usually, in attempting to conform to society or have society understand your point of view, you must first understand society…kind of like walking their [...]
Links for 11/6/2009
Here are great links for 11/6/2009: Finance / Trading: Private Equity’s Distressed Firm Investments Thus Far Fed Reverse Repo Failure? Consumer Credit Down To $2.456T for September Credit Cards Affected By Upcoming TLGP Expiration Science & Technology: First Implementation of Carbon Capture Techniques In West Virginia Power Plant Sports: Where Will Lebron End Up Next [...]
Links for 11/5/2009
Here are my favorite links for 11/5/2009: Science & Techonology: Is Droid (& Android) Taking Down Apple? Can We Use CO2 to Stop Global Warming? Does Dark Matter Really Exist?
Links for 11/4/2009
Here are some very good links for today: Financial News: Good Daily Highlight of Important Events Wall Street Uses TALF as collateral for CMBS US Treasury Minutes for 11/4 Interpretation of Treasury Mins States Excess Reserves Removed By Q1’10 Ratigan Tells US How To Fix Financials Goldman’s Miraculously Accurate Q2 & Q3 Trading Streak Non-Manufacturing [...]
Links for 11/3/2009
This is the first installment of daily links and I will tag the topics on the side so that it will be easy to find information… Also, I will highlight the general subject-matter of the group of links. Financial News: Ben Bernanke’s Speech from 2007 — analyzed Daily Highlights from Today Treasury Marketable Debt Forecasts [...]
Scouting Report: What’s So Good About the Tampa 2 Defense?
I am definitely not a fan of the Tampa 2 defense which is just a glorified version of the Cover 2 defense adjusted for the West Coast Offense. The West Coast Offense is a pass-first offense of outs, slants, posts and corner routes and utilizes the running backs off the blocks and for screen passes. [...]
Legalities Of Marriage
A couple months back, I posted about the institution of marriage and what it meant to most people. However, as I thought about it more, I don’t believe that I covered everything that I wanted to. You see, I still believe that marriage is a choice to proclaim your love for that one special person [...]
Scouting Report: What is Crabtree to the Niners?
Last year, I saw Michael Crabtree make some of the most amazing catches in college football, and I was stoked to see that he was drafted by my Niners. However, this whole issue of getting paid like the upper echelon of the draft has put his value in perspective. It’s definitely made me go back [...]
Pascal’s Wager Re-Done…
As a sophomore in college, I first heard of Pascal’s wager and it always bothered me because the basis of his wager was a philosophical proposition of a joint probability that convinced the general population that they should believe in God. The wager went something like this: If you believe in God and he doesn’t [...]
Brady Quinn Struggles…Again…
In the first 3 weeks of play, Brady Quinn has struggled with a passer rating of 58.3 and has thrown for only 400 yards total. His completion percentage is 60.8% which shows he has some accuracy, but most of his passes have been completed for very short yardage. He has failed to produce a TD [...]
Scouting Report: The Quest That Is…Brett Favre
Brett Favre is a machine…albeit an old one, but the aged wonder has shown some resiliency these past 2 years and after week 2, Favre looks like he’s about ready to lead the Vikings to the NFC North Championship for the 2nd straight season. After a sluggish 1st game and first half of this past [...]
Pre-Season: NFC North Favorite — Vikings!!
The fun thing about this time of the year is that we all get to make wild predictions about who’s the crazy pick of the year and who’s going to win the division etc… Well, I’ll give you my top 10 reasons for each division in this and some following posts for why I believe [...]
Pre-Season: NFC West Favorite — 49ers!!
The fun thing about this time of the year is that we all get to make wild predictions about who’s the crazy pick of the year and who’s going to win the division etc… Well, I’ll give you my top 10 reasons for each division in this and some following posts for why I believe [...]
The Institution of Marriage
I’ve always had this argument about the institution of marriage with a lot of girls, those that I’ve dated and those that I haven’t…and it always comes back to that question, “Why don’t you believe in marriage?” Now, don’t get me wrong…I’ll start with my disclaimer: If the girl wants to get married, I’ll get [...]
Fate, Faith, Luck and…Probability?
What do all of these words have in common? One thing…Opportunity. Fate is destiny…a pre-determined path…something designated for you by whatever higher being decided that it was your “stars” to do something, live somewhere, and inevitably…be someone… Faith is that feeling you have when you believe that everything in your life has a greater purpose…that [...]
Universal Healthcare’s a Bust…
The problem with all the varieties of universal healthcare that I have heard are threefold: 1. They create disparities in market pricing which inevitably prevent innovation funding from big companies (R&D is cut first usually) and often decrease certain comparative advantages/disadvantages to the point of companies going out of business or significantly downsizing resources. 2. [...]
Then and Now…
I’ve noticed a few things as I’ve rummaged through news articles, blogs and economic data that has made me think the outcome of 1930s is not upon us, but that we are susceptible to something completely different: 1. We had a 3% increase in GDP in 2007 and 2% in 2008 vs -8% in 1930 [...]
The Obama Play
Well. It’s official folks. We have a government who has officially stated that they will do everything in their power to keep banks from dying, credit from smashing, unemployment from rising and IN ADDITION, keep US automakers from bankruptcy. If we are really going to prevent companies from going bankrupt, why do we have such [...]
Here’s the Deal…
Okay…I wanted my first post to be in an organized fashion with flashing lights, fireworks and loud bumpin subs with the newest kanye track…but this will have to do… I am definitely not a fan of the new proposed toxic bank plan that got unveiled today. Basically, the plan went something like this: 1. Highest [...]