Under a Gibbous Moon

Occupy Wall Street, the protest against the economic policies that allowed Wall Street to destroy this countries economy (and still benefit from it), turned ugly this past weekend as the NYPD started getting violent with some of the protesters. This hasn’t been covered well in the media but here is a collection of some of the videos that I have found of what is going on.

Looks like the NYPD is trying to run through all the goodwill they built up after 9/11.

Recently, I don’t know how it got started, but we were supposed to have the rapture. The Christian event from the book of Revelations where half of the believers ascend to heaven and the rest are stuck with the apocalypse. Well, it seems that once again uber christians were wrong in predicting the end. I have a theory as to what happened and why the rapture didn’t happen. Here is an artists rendering of what took place.

For whatever reason I can’t figure out, I was watching some program with Nancy Grace. Listening to her talk and spout her stupidity made me want to go outside and punch a squirrel.

Then upon reflection, I realized that listening to Nancy Grace made me want to go outside and punch Nancy Grace. Everything she said was loud, baseless and alarmist. Henceforth, she shall be referred to as girl Bill O’reilly.

I did a raw meet yesterday. I wasn’t expecting much of a performance since I have been killing my lifts with this whole weight loss thing. Also, due to being short handed, I set up the meet venue (the platform, equipment, and weights) and spotted and loaded as well as competing.

Anyway, I weighed in at 135 kg flat. (297.6 lbs) This puts me 10 kg from the top of my weight class and 10 kgs from the bottom. Needless to say, I wasn’t worried about what weight class I was going to be in. I haven’t competed or been under 300 lbs for about 3 years. The weightloss/ dieting has made my performance a little hit or miss, so I opened conservatively to make sure I stayed in the game.

Squats
1st – 230 kg (507 lbs) good and easy
2nd -250 kg (551 lbs) good- slow but smooth
3rd -265 kg (584 lbs) miss – bad techique and too slow

Bench
1st – 185 kg (407 lbs) good and easy
2nd -195 kg (430 lbs) good but slow
3rd -197.5kg(435 lbs) miss

My right shoulder has been giving me a lot of trouble and squat just took too much out of it. It was hurting a lot during these. Maybe I could have got the third, but it hurt and this meet isn’t that important. Too bad. I did a solid pause with 200 kg on Monday, but of course I didn’t squat right before that.

Deadlift
1st – 250 kg (551 lbs) Good and easy
2nd -275 kg (607 lbs) Good and easy
3rd -295 kg (650 lbs) Miss.

I was tired. Plain and simple. I have been having trouble with deadlift lately and 600 lbs has been a hard pull. The 607 went well enough that I thought I could get the 650. I got it off the floor and I could feel my middle traps just give out and relax and I hunched over. I decided not to risk it and just set it back down.

Total was 720 kg or 1588 lbs. If I was paying attention, I would have called somewhere around 630 instead and cleared 1600. Anyway this is about a 100 lbs less than my best raw total. No pictures and no video. When the meet was done, disassemble everything and load the trailer and take the equipment back to Macomb and unload it that. I had much more help for the disassembly, so that wasn’t so bad. I was still pretty beat. In my usual fashion, I also did not sleep the night before because that just isn’t my style, apparently.

I can’t seem to post an updated comment on this so I will put up a new post. I watched a long version of the video here and there is one brief episode of speeding when there is no traffic in the way and no weaving between cars or anything that would make the off duty officer’s actions appropriate.

Anyway, the wiretapping charge got thrown out on the grounds that it wasn’t wiretapping you fucktards. I would really like to know what, if anything happened to the officer as a consequence of his retardation.