March Madness, Georgia-style
One by one, the field gets smaller. Some advance, while others don’t. Long-shot dreams are realized, while some sure-fire bets fall by the wayside.
Yes, the Georgia legislative session is winding down.
Hey, I couldn’t have been talking about basketball in Georgia this time of year. (Thanks for nothing, Bulldogs, Yellow Jackets, Panthers, Eagles, Bears, and any other Division I schools I left out.) But if you read the foregoing and thought of the usual kind of March Madness, feel free to discuss how your brackets are doing in the thread below. I hope they’re doing better than mine; they almost have to be.
Or use the thread below to talk about whatever else is on your mind.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Numbers-R-US
March 23rd, 2013
3:44 pm
Cons apparently have difficulty with words that have multiple meanings. Amongst other things.
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
3:47 pm
Our President’s speech for the Iranian people was brilliant. He said they are a great civilization that would do great for all the Iranians in the global market instead of playing games with us and the world.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
3:48 pm
“What is so mind-numbing about this is we don’t have this kind of stuff happen here,” Mayes said. “You expect that kind of crap in Atlanta.”
Like I always say, the savages will find you unless you eliminate them first.
southpaw
March 23rd, 2013
3:51 pm
“Cons apparently have difficulty with words that have multiple meanings.”
True, when Humpty Dumpty wannabes are assigning the meanings.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
3:53 pm
great civilizations don’t bury women in the ground and throw stones at them until they’re dead because they were raped.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
3:55 pm
Anybody else notice that the dummycrats accuse Christians of doing things the iranians actually do and then they call the iranians great?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
4:00 pm
It wasn’t too long ago that iranians were maiming and killing brave American soldiers on the field of battle, now the dummycrats call them great.
Numbers-R-US
March 23rd, 2013
4:11 pm
Humpty Dumpty wannabes
I know of none other than cons that aspire to be a “Humpty Dumpty”. Their unintended humor does crack me up at times though.
Numbers-R-US
March 23rd, 2013
4:14 pm
Cons make good little Christian soldiers.
southpaw
March 23rd, 2013
4:18 pm
Numbers-R-US
March 23rd, 2013
4:11 pm
Would you call getalife a “con?” If not, check his 2:06 post. “Bow down means let the Obama Derangement Syndrome go,” which I rebutted at 2:17. An aspiring Humpty Dumpty if ever there was one.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
4:27 pm
I yeild the Beyonce throwdown over to our liberal freinds, the low information experts.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
4:29 pm
Or should I say yield and friends, geez
curious
March 23rd, 2013
4:33 pm
“It wasn’t too long ago that iranians were maiming and killing brave American soldiers on the field of battle, now the dummycrats call them great.”
Which war was that?
Liberals are low information only because they want to present information that conservatives can understand. Pretty considerate, right?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
4:39 pm
There were actually two of them, curious, Iraq and Afghanistan. pmsnbc must not have gotten around to telling you low infos about these things.
You do know they found al qaeda in Iraq, don’t ya?
Just Saying..
March 23rd, 2013
5:08 pm
“It wasn’t too long ago that iranians were maiming and killing brave American soldiers on the field of battle, now the dummycrats call them great.”
Mercedes Benz is not a great car?
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
5:08 pm
corporate media calls it a vote-a-Rama but it is the senate actually working.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
5:10 pm
pmsnbc didn’t tell y’all about nazi germany’s total defeat in World War Two?!?!?
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
5:12 pm
Melt down.
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
5:15 pm
Lets discuss fixing the gop party.
Whig party.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
5:16 pm
lame duck, quack, quack
Just Saying..
March 23rd, 2013
5:19 pm
“lame duck, quack, quack”
That only happens in the second term…
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
5:19 pm
I think if we can get you cons to join the real world that would be a huge accomplishment.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
5:21 pm
I got a suggestion for a good blog pool, let’s all try to guess what obozo’s approval number will fall to. I’ve added up all the sods and other low info types who couldn’t care less what obozo does, at least they won’t until the chinese soldiers shutdown their gay bath houses, so I have a pretty solid number to beat.
Winner takes it all.
17%.
Not quite as low as the senate but close.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
5:22 pm
pmsnbc didn’t tell y’all obozo won his second term?!?!?
Just Saying..
March 23rd, 2013
5:23 pm
“pmsnbc didn’t tell y’all obozo won his second term?!?!?”
I only care that you know it…
bluecoat
March 23rd, 2013
5:31 pm
A little more time and Iran and Germany will go at it.
@@
March 23rd, 2013
6:23 pm
Keynes’ disciples are sending a canary into the coal mine.
Forget Cyprus, Japan Is The Real Crisis
The overwhelming consensus among the world’s economists is that quantitative easing (QE) has saved the day in the U.S. and that Japan needs to follow suit, on a larger scale. I beg to differ and suggest this policy will almost certainly lead to a hyperinflationary disaster in Japan. If that’s right, it will have serious ramifications for other countries, dragged down by an acceleration of the so-called currency wars. More broadly though, it is likely to destroy the myth pushed by today’s economists that QE is a cure-all for downtrodden economies. It isn’t and Japan will become the template to prove it.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
6:24 pm
Indeed, as Avik Roy and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, argued recently at Reuters, “The great irony of Obama’s triumph . . . is that it can pave the way for Republicans to adopt a comprehensive, market-oriented health care agenda.”
Won’t we all be laughing out loud when that happens, oh, that obozo, what a clown he was.
indigo
March 23rd, 2013
6:31 pm
Aesop – 11:09 am
Let me try to put this in a way that even you can understand.
Almost everything in our culture has been and is subject to scientific inquiry.
The author is simply saying that religion should not be an exception and should be subject to scientific inquiry just like everything else.
Do you understand now?
Do you object? If so, why?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
6:54 pm
2013 some years and the scientists haven’t figured it out yet?
Um, what are they after?
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
6:54 pm
“is that it can pave the way for Republicans to adopt a comprehensive, market-oriented health care agenda.”
CanadaCare.
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
6:59 pm
How are you 401 k’s looking?
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
7:02 pm
your.
Hillbilly D
March 23rd, 2013
7:13 pm
How are you 401 k’s looking?
Don’t have one; don’t want one.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
7:13 pm
Should we check the value of our 401K in dollars or yuan?
bluecoat
March 23rd, 2013
7:18 pm
Faith hope/Science reason.
@@
March 23rd, 2013
7:19 pm
indigo:
I NEVER make any anti-religious comments UNTIL someone here makes a pro-religious one.
Earlier today, I offered this in response to your claim that Christians reject reason:
indigo:
But, when it comes to religion most people just throw reason out the window. Why this is I do not know.
Wrong!
One of the four pillars of John Wesley’s “Quadrilateral” is REASON. Methodists apply it in our theological reflection. There are four in all:
1.Scripture
2.Tradition
3.Reason
4.Experience
Just so you know….
To which you responded:
@@ – 9:29
Aesop – 9:36
Read this and try to reduce your abysmal level of ignorance.
My abysmal level of ignorance
I dunno……sure looks like an attack to me, not that it mattered much.
Winning converts ain’t your forte, is it?
So…..have you been able to ascertain (scientifically speaking, of course) why people shoot and kill innocent babies? What’s missing in their DNA?
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
7:26 pm
“Should we check the value of our 401K in dollars or yuan?”
Dollars but don’t hide it in Cyprus like the Russians.
bluecoat
March 23rd, 2013
7:30 pm
I suppose you could check value in either.With proper conversion.
Hillbilly D
March 23rd, 2013
7:32 pm
Dollars but don’t hide it in Cyprus like the Russians.
But the Russians might make Cyprus a loan. Protects their investments, gets their foot in the door, and starts a wedge into the EU. And when the EU comes apart, which it will, whether it’s sooner or later, guess who is planning on being there to pick up the pieces? Power vacuums always get filled.
@@
March 23rd, 2013
7:39 pm
Hillbilly:
Looks like you’ve been watching Putin too.
bluecoat
March 23rd, 2013
7:39 pm
Faith of a grain of mustard seed you could move yonder mtn. I say give me several cases of explosives,and earth moving equipment.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
7:41 pm
That all depends on when the Germans get the ole war machine fired back up. The ruskies may not survive this next run at it.
getalife
March 23rd, 2013
7:42 pm
putin knocked off his competition.
When I look into his eyes I see KGB.
Brosephus™
March 23rd, 2013
7:43 pm
Don’t have one; don’t want one.
Hillbilly D
I still have that link you provided ages ago about the reality of the 401k. If only people knew how they were being taken advantage of.
Hillbilly D
March 23rd, 2013
7:45 pm
Brosephus
At least I have one follower.
When I look into his eyes I see KGB.
So do I; all the more reason to keep an eye on them.
Brosephus™
March 23rd, 2013
7:49 pm
Hillbilly D
It’s just common sense once you look at the facts. It doesn’t hurt when the founder of a mutual fund is the one telling you that compounded costs are going to hurt you. We need more honesty like that. Also, I kinda miss chatting with you, but this place isn’t one I’d frequent too often.
Hillbilly D
March 23rd, 2013
7:52 pm
Brosephus
In seriousness, they’ve got you every way you turn now. We agree the 401k isn’t set up for the person who has it, with the interest rates so low, it’s useless putting your money in the bank, i.e. a secure investment, so that forces people to move their investments into something with a higher risk, even though they might not want to take a risk or be able to afford it. That works to the advantage of the money changers, who win, whether Joe Public makes a profit or loses his ass. You’re screwed anyway you turn.
My uncle, played poker all his life, and though I’m not a poker player, I always remember what he told me, if you get into a game, keep your eyes open to see if the game is straight, if it’s not, take your money and walk out. Wise advice, I think.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
March 23rd, 2013
7:53 pm
Gun deaths are shaped by race in America. Whites are far more likely to shoot themselves, and African Americans are far more likely to be shot by someone else.
It’s a 151 to 15, by the way.
Hillbilly D
March 23rd, 2013
7:54 pm
but this place isn’t one I’d frequent too often.
Yeah this place is getting worse by the day; getting like the old place. Nothing good ever lasts, it seems.