Awesome wkout HL by 50+ folks. Bonus points for the USMC cadence soundtrack.

Via http://rosstraining.com/blog/2010/08/18/age-treachery-tough-mudder-training/

"The point is I was wrong and [Charlton] Heston was right. And if you replace NRA with Muslim community and 2nd Amendment with 1st Amendment, he's still right." - Jon Stewart.

Via Jon Stewart on Protecting Our Rights After a Tragedy | The Agitator

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“There is a difference, Jon, between what you can do and what you should do. You can build a Catholic Church next to a playground. Should you?”

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"It is no consolation to know that the victims were riddled with bullets in accordance with military protocol."

Americans should know the reality of those things done, supposedly, on their behalf, around the world. They should know the actions taken in their name and truth of what we ask our military to bear. But it'll never happen because, you know, an informed electorate might disagree with decisions of the elected.  And it makes for bad PR.

Bradley Manning's guilt — and ours - The Week:

"This idea – that Manning and WikiLeaks have imperiled Afghani informants or American troops– is now the leading charge against them. “We know for a fact that people will likely be killed because of this information being disclosed," Rep. Rogers said.

Rogers did not provide evidence for his “fact,” but one fact beyond dispute in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is this: they have killed people by the thousands. In fact, the two wars combined have produced well more than 100,000 corpses. If putting people in harm's way is a damning criticism of Manning, then what are we to make of those who have cheered on, voted for, and managed America's wars? Is all this killing justified or not? Is there a legitimate aim that will somehow redeem all this death? These questions are the backdrop against which we judge the deeds of Bradley Manning and the efforts of WikiLeaks.

The bloody events portrayed in the WikiLeaks' “Collateral Murder” video seem gratuitously malign. It is no consolation to know that the victims were riddled with bullets in accordance with military protocol...

...Private Manning and WikiLeaks have also created the possibility that millions of Americans will now come face to face with the same ugly truths that led Manning to conclude that he had obligations to humanity weightier than an oath to the state. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have left Americans with blood on our hands, and on our wallets -- a truth most of us prefer to avoid. Unfiltered facts and uncensored video about what has been done on our behalf, on our dime, are “dangerous” precisely because they lead to mortifying moral clarity when it is face-saving obfuscation that we crave. Secrets sold by a grasping turncoat would not threaten America's wars. It is Manning's idealistic exercise of conscience, and the faint possibility that we are as good as he thinks we are, that has agitated the lords of war."

The classic Westside Genki Sudo highlight. I never get tired of this one. He's a bad, bad dude.

Via We Are All One

Man, can't even make fun of capoeira anymore.

Bloody Elbow Judo Chop: Anthony Pettis Unleashes the ABatido on Shane Roller at WEC 50 - Bloody Elbow:

"...the first of two capoeira kicks that Pettis threw late in the first round. The second one is captured in Tracy Lee's spectacular photograph..."

Older capoeira KO.  Just goes to show, it can be the art, but it's more often the practitioner.

Japan used to be cooler, too.

America used to be cooler.

Via 1960s toy gun commercial - Boing Boing

Personally, I think that's genius.

Brazil Wins.

I know cool kids.

"Superman really isn't earning that key to the city these days."

"...In retrospect, it felt unregulated. And was."

Seems better, in some respects.

Fred On Everything:

"...In retrospect, it felt unregulated. And was. In today’s world of over-policing by militarized hostile cops, of metal-detectors and police in schools and compulsory anger-management classes and enforced ingestion of Ritalin or Prozac, King George sounds, well, dangerous. I mean, how can you let kids run around as they like, with…with….guns, (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!) and beer, and unregistered canoes without supervision by a caring adult, and…?

...The wretechedness we see today—the kid who shoots ten classmates to death, the alleged students strung out on crystal meth, the suicides, the frequent pregnancies—just didn’t happen. Why? Because (I strongly suspect) we were left the hell alone. The boys were allowed to be boys and the girls, girls. We grew like weeds, as our natures directed, and so did not have anorexia or bulimia or the sullen smoldering anger that comes of being a guy kid forced to be a girl or androgyne or flower.

...The brighter of us read voraciously. Some took up ham radio or read physiology texts. But we needed physical exertion, adventure, and freedom.

...The foregoing will enrage the whole sodden bolus of therapists, psychological beard-scratchers, counselors, feminists, fruit-juice drinkers, and congenitally insecure promoters of sun block. But it worked."

"Ninja Say What?!" - now that's funny.

"Best roleplayers in history."

"Arizona turns off speed cameras... designed to generate revenue rather than promote road safety."

Lesson learned? Civil disobedience and vandalism work. Cameras don't increase safety, and are just a revenue scheme. Like damn near all traffic violations. I'm paraphrasing someone, but can't find the quote, but the essence is a multiplicity of bad laws destroys the respect for the rule of law, and the law enforcers. See also, the War on [some] Drug [users.]

Arizona turns off speed cameras - Telegraph:

"...after complaints that they violated privacy and were designed to generate revenue rather than promote road safety.

...Opening in October 2008, the scheme was first in the United States to use speed cameras across a whole state. Amid objections of Big Brother-ism, numerous cameras were vandalised...

The 76 cameras took 2.7 million photographs, but only 16 per cent of drivers who received a speeding ticket paid up..."

New Study: Speed Cameras Cause Bad Driving, Increase Crashes - CameraFRAUD.com – The Cameras are Coming Down:

"We’ve known since they first appeared, but now it’s official: Speed cameras cause bad driving.

“…while they may reduce speed they also appear to impair driving ability or, at the least, concentration on the road. As this report shows some drivers behave erratically and, at worst, dangerously around speed cameras.”

We agree, as free-flowing traffic with driver’s attention on the road is safer than having even a small portion of drivers distracted and driving erratically.

...To prove the point that the opposite is true – that removing cameras reduces accidents – the Telegraph reported Saturday on newly reduced data from Swindon (UK). Swindon turned off their cameras 9 months ago, and similar to Arizona, experts predicted a bloodbath. Redflex’s Shoba Vaitheeswaran predicted, “…watch for a large increase in aggressive, dangerous driving” after Arizona ended its statewide contract. Instead, the opposite has happened. Since the cameras were turned off, injury and fatality crashes were down by 4% and 50% respectively in the entire area. At the camera sites themselves, fatalities dropped from 1 to 0 and non-injury accidents dropped from 13 to 12. We expect similar results in Arizona."

Training.

30m Rutten MMA Wkout/Boxing 2m rounds

GUTS - PU 11 SU 20 HS 30 SU 13 PU 9 MILO 20/15

Man, after 2.5 mos of partying, alcohol, junk food and laziness, it's like starting from zero again.

Training.

Little over an hour of having my ass kicked by the jump rope, the heavy bag, the speed bag and the double end bag.  + footwork.  Man, am I outta shape.

Max...

...is not amused.

Also, is always up for a nice round of petting.

Excellent graffiti.