Stop Eating Yogurt, IT IS TERRIBLE FOR YOU!!!

Look, I am going to be blunt with all of you. I know there is a lot of hype surrounding yogurt. How great it is for you, how it has all these health benefits and so-called "pro-biotics" (which havent been proven to work, look it up people, its true) but the truth is YOGURT IS AS BAD FOR YOU AS ICE CREAM IS!

There I said it. Everyone loves it, and thinks its part of a good diet, but it has sugar and lots of sugar. REMEMBER PEOPLE, FAT IS NOT THE ENEMY. SUGAR IS THE ENEMY. FAT IS OK, SUGAR IS WHAT MAKES YOU FAT. FAT JUST HAS A BAD RAP BECAUSE ITS CALLED FAT, BUT IT IS NOT WHAT MAKES YOU FAT, AT ALL!!

According to my friend a diet specialist at Weight Loss Center Inc. If you want yogurt, have greek yogurt. It has a lot of protein and not a lot of sugar. Sure it tastes gross, just add some equal and there ya go!

But enough with the frozen yogurt B.S.

People have been making millions off of this so-called healthy alternative to ice cream because they know most people are too ignorant to look at the label and see how much sugar is in there, or they just do not know. So remember this.

Fact: Sugar is the enemy. Yogurt is as bad for you as ice cream is, end of story.

The New Domino Theory in South East Asia

We all read about the Domino Theory, the principle cause of justifying the Vietnam war. It meant that if we allowed South Vietnam to fall, Cambodia, Laos and other nations would fall to communism as well

The truth is, it did happen and most of those south east Asian countries fell to communism. But what about now? China is capitalist, Vietnam is capitalist, so is Cambodia. So what does all of this mean?

What this means is that we are experiencing a new Domino Effect. This one however is where communist run, central economic systems are falling in favor of capitalist, free enterprise systems.

So the bottom line is, by the communists winning in the Vietnam war, all they really did was prevent the inevitable from happening. All they did was delay, what the United States and her allies tried so desperately to enforce during those treacherous years of conflict. That capitalism, not communism is the way to hope and prosperity.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn starting to resemble Miami...and I dont mean in a good way!

Well I said this 3 years ago.. Noone listened to me... Izzydomus predicted that Williamsburg would overbuild and noone listened.

Well lets see if I was right. According to the New York Times today, atleast 17 buildings in Williamsburg that overlook the amazing waterfront of Manhattan are now vacant!

NOT 17 APARTMENTS, BUT 17 BUILDINGS!!!!

The New York Times, stealing a quote from me, went on to say that Williamsburg is starting to resemble Miami in terms of the amount of buildings taking up the skyline that are literally empty!

And it is.

A few years ago everyone thought that Miami was the place to buy. For the life of me I dont understand why they didnt just ask their parents about the early 1980s when everyone thought the same thing as the drug dealers were being kicked out. By the early 1990s, Miami had gone bust along with the rest of the real estate market. Its a pattern that happens every 20 years in Miami, it happened in the 1960s before the drug dealers took over... and now I believe the same thing is happening in the outer boroughs of New York City.

In 1987 everyone raved that Long Island City was the place to buy. They put up a big ugly green Citi bank building and thats about all that changed for atleast 20 years until the recent real estate boom put so many yuppies in there it now resembles a small version of Hoboken, New Jersey with a really cool skyline. But it took 20 years...

Williamsburg was one of the most disgusting, dispicable places anyone could ever walk through. The crime was horrible and the projects were overwhelming. Then, over the past 10 years it developed into a really cool hipster spot for the art loving crowd. Heck, young people from all walks of life have been flocking there and now the Williamsburg Bridge is one of the coolest and safest places to walk to Manhattan from. Its like an artsy Hoboken. And the crazy part is, some of the prices in Williamsburg are more than Manhattan!!!! I USED TO LIVE IN BROOKLYN, ITS SHOCKING THAT THIS IS HAPPENING!!

However, greedy real estate tycoons like Waterson inc. thought it was smart to buy up 10 or 12 buildings with the wonderful philosophy, if you build it, they will come... well... they built it, but only half of them actually came and bought. Waterson, like many others, are feeling the pinch of the real estate bust and now, like theyre bretheren in Miami, they can either choose to wait until the storm passes within 5 years or go bankrupt, there really is no other alternative... We just have to hope that long gone are the days when landlords in Brooklyn and the Bronx would resort to burning down their shell of a building in hopes of getting atleast some of their money back... that would be...really bad...

Season opener of Entourage was great, Hung was..... surprisingly....

Season opener of Entourage was great, Hung was..... surprisingly....

Surprisingly good. I must say, the idea of a show about a male gigilo brings me back to the Schneider movies that had plenty of laughs.. for a movie... but to make it into a serious (sort of) series? well that was something that I thought would for sure bomb.

But in my opinion it didnt and it wont. The flashback sequences, the character development all worked perfectly. Thomas Jane, the guy who portrayed the Punisher, does an outstanding job as a teacher whos luck forced him to call for desperate measures in order to make money. The kids were funny and the way his wife is portrayed as an annoying mom who the kids want to get away from is genuinely, perfectly done.... I actually felt bad for her.

Two thumbs up for the newest surprise hit for HBO (apparently it was more watched than Entourage and everyone that I know of who watched it, said it was great and were as surprised as I was in how good it was!)

A+ two thumbs up...


As far as Entourage goes... last season it was really cool seeing Vince struggling as he fell from the mountain top, only to regain his momentum and land a movie role, just as it started to appear he was finished... showing that one must never give up in life no matter how many boulders are put into ones path....

so..... for the new season opener of Entourage, it appears that Eric has decided it’s time to spread his wings and is looking to move into his own place, but it doesn’t go that easy for him. Last night’s episode also saw Lloyd and Ari battle with each other, over Lloyd’s future.

And as for Vince, the premiere saw him keeping busy. Not only was he seen trying to get his driving license and prepare, but last night, we also saw him in a starring role of a new Martin Scorsese movie “The Great Gatsby,” which he was promoting on Jay Leno.

A+ for both premiers..

next week I will give my opinion on a show that all my friends are begging me to get into...

True Blood. ive watched a few episodes, its good and I am very surprised a show based on modern vampires made it this far, but I promise, next week I will give a fair and honest review.

It's the Maginot line all over again!

It's the Maginot line all over again!

I want you to really quickly click on this link.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260

Now the thing I want you to notice is that this article is from 10 years ago. It talks about how the Clinton Administration put all of this pressure on the republican congress to pass housing reform in order to make it easier for the banks to approve mortgages. The roots of the mess we are all in today.

I have always blamed both parties. I blamed President Bush and the democratic controlled congress for approving disasterous bail out packages that, for some reason, noone can figure out where the money went. And I blame the Clinton Administration and the republican controlled congress back then for giving banks the power to give mortgages to anyone and anything that happened to be capable of picking up a pen and signing their name. To make a long story short. It is 1990s Japan all over again.

Let's make some analogies. The Maginot line, a supposedly well thought of defensive barrier built by the French before World War 2 was supposed to stop the Germans from invading France. The Germans simply went around it and the Maginot line was useless. The Israelis repeated that same mistake all those years later in थे 1973 वर with the Bar Lev line when the Egyptians simply went around and over the line, consequently making it useless. The Israelis simply failed to learn from past mistakes.

So here we are in 2009, repeating the same economic mistakes Japan made in the 1990s. It is truly incredible. Japan was suffering from a huge contraction in their economy. So in order to fix it, the economists over there decided the government should pump billions into Japan, nationalize a whole bunch of institutions and well.... fast forward to 2009 and they are still suffering. WHY did we not learn from their example???

Why are we giving billions of dollars to companies that screwed up??? Why are we giving billions to CEOs who destroyed their company??
The obvious solution would be to buy up the mortgages, make them into 30 year FHA loans and, yes, MAYBEEEE, we should give money to companies in order to cover their losses, but they should fill some prerequisites first. They should fire the people who screwed up the company instead of giving them bonuses and they should change their business model before getting a dime.

Once upon a time in the late 70s, Lee Iococca, who was in charge of Chrysler, asked the government for a billion dollar loan. There was a great debate about it. They agreed to change their business model, fire some people, and eventually the company got its money and paid the American people back. This is how it shouldve been done all these years later. Instead we are giving pointless amounts of blind dollars to companies that will die eventually.
GM should just declare bankruptcy so that they can renegotiate the union contracts because if they dont, then no matter what happens, they will always be behind the 8ball and die as well because their profits just cannot cover the money they owe to people in the union, whether its to retirees or people who were laid off. The contracts are just too unrealistic and need to be renegotiated, and this can only happen if they declare bankruptcy.

It's time to get some economists who know what they are doing. Its too soon to tell if Obama will be great, but if he keeps repeating the same past mistakes, then I can guarantee we will still be in the same mess 4 years from now, with little chance of a swift recovery.

The Iraq War, similar to another war... NOT The Vietnam War (not even close)

The Iraq War, similar to another war in history... but not The Vietnam War (not even close)

For the past few years I noticed how people in the media, especially the New York Times have this fascination with comparing the Iraq War to the Vietnam War. People are so obsessed with comparing this war to the Vietnam war that they forget to look at the real facts.

There really is no basis for the New York Times' comparisons other than the Iraq War is unpopular to many people. The interesting thing, is that the Iraq war does parallel another war in history. The Philippine–American War.

Interesting right?

• Both wars were almost exactly a hundred years from each other 1902- 1913
• Both wars involved about 130,000 troops.
• Both wars had over four thousand US troops killed.
• Both wars were/are unpopular.
  
• Both wars were fought against a stubborn insurgency that ended when the population tired of the death and destruction and helped US forces put and end to it once and for all.
  
• Both wars involved Republican US Presidents.

Another interesting thing to note is that in 1902, the US declared victory over there, only to have to fight the Phillippine insurgents until 1913. All of this sounds familiar right?

Now we all know that the end goals in both wars were different. One goal was to colonize while the other is to stabilize the place and leave. However from a military point of view, they are incredibly similar.

The insurgency in Iraq had a similar strategy that terrorists used against the French in Algeria. A strategy that worked and the French left. A strategy the Philippine insurgency used. It seemed like a sound theory. De-stabilize the whole place and maybe the occupying forces will leave. Fortunately for us, the Iraq insurgents strategy completely backfired and it looks like we are finally on the road to achieving a democratic, stable Iraq and victory. Again, similar to how the US gained the upper hand in defeating the Philippine insurgency.

Interesting how the New York Times refuses to acknowledge these logical comparisions.