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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I spend all my spare evenings in Vegas at the miX Nightclub because of our shared liberal views.
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Archive for September 20th, 2008
“I’m no economist” rant
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I have read some comments around the blogosphere blaming our current financial crisis on people who took out home mortgages that they had no real ability to pay off. In my opinion that’s a cop out. The focus should be on the banks that made the loans to customers who they knew would not have the ability to pay unless home values continued to go up. The focus should also be on the security firms that consolidated these questionable mortgages and sold them off as some kind of easy money investment. Don’t forget about the insurance companies that provided policies to the banks guaranteeing that if the mortgages went into default the bank could collect from the insurance company. These policies provided the bogus “safety net” for the banks and the security firms. Everyone thought home values would always go up too, like the real estate market is some kind of magical financial one way street. They never considered the risk because, as opposed to other types of insurance, the policy providers were not required to consider this risk by the US government. The message is: If you are looking for an asshole aim high because there is usually a bigger asshole to be found. You want to blame someone then blame the dumb ass Republicans and their deregulation that created the opportunity for this mess. Funny how huge profits always remain in the private sector but huge losses always get pawned off on the tax payer. The next person that tells me that our free market is a beautiful thing gets a free slap in the face. Any guess as to which presidential candidate, a past champion of deregulation, is now talking about “reforming” Wall Street? Please… A hint: it’s not the guy from the party that pulled this country’s ass out of hock after the Great Depression.
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pro mechanic
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Finally, after literally tens of minutes working on this problem, I solved the front brake chatter issue.
I took the pads off and used a knife to shave down the trailing edge (as the wheel turns) of the pads. Since I could not adjust the toe-in on these TRP cross cantilevers I just modified the pads to assure that the front of the pad hit the rim first.
Problem solved.
Just because I hate working on bikes does not mean that I am totally pro at this junk.
