You wanna talk politics, current events, or the economy? Be our guest.
With March Madness in full swing - and other sporting events - have at it.
As my Blue Devils lost yesterday, I've sworn off basketball this season - until I find a Cinderella to leap on.
Trust me, it WON'T be Lehigh!!!
Have a great weekend, folks.
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⇒ March Madness
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:10pm.
I hope the team with the most points wins.
But ... but ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:30pm.
Doesn't having more points lead to a disparate impact on the outcome? Why should the point-makers get things the point-missers don't get? Shouldn't Obamacare have a provision to force referees to give points to teams that try to make them? Maybe teams who start two players of high albedo should be granted protected status (but if they start three high-albedo players, they would be hit with a technical foul from the diversity official).
I don't know why they're keeping score.
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:42pm.
Just give everyone a trophy.
32 ... 40 ... 48 ... 64 ... 65 ... 68 ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:39pm.
They keep adding teams to the tournament. They're even talking about 128 teams, which would be another weekend of mega revenue for CBS and allies. The NCAA has 345 Division I teams. Right now, the tournament takes up 1/5 of those teams; at 128, the fraction rises to more than 1/3. When that happens, the regular season will become nothing but a fancier version of the professional preseason warm-up games. Already conference tournaments are being devalued, because highly ranked teams that lose their tournaments know they will be going "dancing."
And the poor NIT is left to pick their teams from the leftovers.
Ain't TV grand? (If you don't think so, I leave you with two words: Brent Musburger, a sanctimonious dweeb exceeded only by Dick Vitale for annoying audiences. But both of them are living [?] proof that anybody can make lots of money in televised sports.)
You know how happy I was last
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:17pm.
You know how happy I was last night when DOOK lost. I don't care if they are from the ACC. I wouldn't pull for them if they were playing a team sponsored by Obama.
If you have not watched the pregame or halftime show you have missed Charles Barkly. i suggested yesterday that he co- host with the unreverend Al. It would raise the IQ on that shpw by 10 points.
32 ... 40 ... 48 ... 64 ... 65 ... 68 ...
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 4:20pm.
Redacted
Sorry about the duplicate.
Woo hoo, Lehigh!
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:10pm.
LOL - Sorry, as I juzz cain't hep mah seff.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
O'bama is the Green algae lepercon....
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:19pm.
Good Luck
You Didn't Build That.
Lord save us.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 4:23pm.
No need to wonder who dis bunch be votin' fo come November, yo?
Okay, put your drinks down
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:23pm.
And click this link.
I dare you not to laugh.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
~That was great
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:29pm.
Right when he put his thumb across the screen I thought, "Dumb move". And then I laughed.
How can you not laugh?
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:43pm.
I felt so sorry for that frog, trying to eat the electronic ants.
But as the saying goes, he who laughs last, laughs best.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Had to be a Democrat frog. It
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:59pm.
Had to be a Democrat frog. It wasn't very smart.
"Niggardly" is OK again
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:16pm.
As long as a Democrat says "niggardly" it's just fine.
I expect ESPN to refer to Duke "niggardly defending the board" , don't you.
How about Eenie Meenie Minie Moe ?
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:48pm.
Is that Okay now too ?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
I remember when my 1st grade
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:01pm.
I remember when my 1st grade teacher read us Little Black Sambo. I found it on the internet and read it to my grandkids. They loved it. Guess it is considered racsist today.
Only if you catch a ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 6:33pm.
WASP male by his eenie meenie toe.
MD
Imagine.......
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 7:37pm.
.......if a Republican had said it. The Left would again display their ignorance, I'm sure. The word isn't used for obvious reasons. People don't know the meaning, but know what it sounds like, so it's pretty much never used. But along comes a Democrat, and it's fine. Yes, it IS fine, but ya'll know what I mean.
Facebook
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:58pm.
I have found Cool Arrow and Heavy chevy as friends on Facebook.. Want to jion us? www.facebook.com/enctarheel. Send a message to be a friend and I'll confirm it. I want to warn you I use my facebook page for politics and sports mostly.
Rick
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 7:48pm.
Sent you a request. I'm the guy in my family that annoys everyone else with political postings. Not so much sports.
In his radio adrress today
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:12pm.
Obama says he is going to end siubsidies for big oil. As far as I know no money actually changes hands between the\ treasury and the oil companies. Hundreds of millions has changed hands between the treasury, big solar power, big wind power and big algae. Will he end that?
Just want to say that I am really bummed!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:49pm.
One of my other favorite blogs, Verum Serum, has gone dormant :(
OTOH, a couple of the bloggers, John Sexton and Morgen Richmond, will be blogging at Breitbart. com :)
So all is not lost.
What if Obamacare really was like auto insurance
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 4:12pm.
http://moonbattery.com/?p=9370
hay Rick that's right off this site!!!
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 12:49am.
Lots of work around here updating web pages right here on this very MRC site, heck i didn't know that ... same house link here page... nice job MRC gang!
Now here is a another video: Andrew Breitbart revealed video of Barack Obama praising radical law professor Derrick Bell. Zo tells you why this is proof that liberals are peddling hate and lies under the guise of tolerance and a clean environment.
You Didn't Build That.
Schumer to Women.......
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 6:00pm.
Schumer to Women: "I believe you are all idiots, and I'm out to prove it."
So Schumer is putting crap in the Violence Against Women Act, which would otherwise pass easily, to make Republicans vote against it so Democrats can run out and claim "see, Republicans hate women." He passes himself off as a US Senator?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74041.html
Agenda 21? What's that?
Submitted by lrgon on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 8:01pm.
Agenda 21 goes down in Tennessee House; travels to Senate for a showdown.
UN "sustainability" schemes had been wracking up city after city to join the UN agenda 21. Agenda 21 is basically a redesign of urban communites to fit UN formula to meet "global warming" models.
NB has of yet not informed its readers about this UN politically driven plot.
Chris Matthews of MSNBC equates agenda 21 to "black helicopters," as per this NB article: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/10/12/chris-matthews-moth...
But it's not a joke. The Tennesse legislature which is mostly Republican controlled see no helicopters black or otherwise: http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/11224-tenness...
Yep
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 9:54pm.
I have read some about Agenda 21. It needs much more exposure. The mainstream media certainly isn't going to do it.
I was driving in an area not long ago, passed by an office/industrial park, and the big sign at it's entrance was "The Sustainability Park." Unreal.
Recently my town (NOT a liberal town whatsoever) had a Board of Supervisors meeting, in which they discussed a 20 year plan. Local TEA party group attended and helped expose the Agenda 21 push that was well embedded in the proposals. It was defeated.
Coincidence?
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 9:54pm.
Fabian Socialist Stuart Chase wrote a book many decades ago, called "The Road We're Traveling"
http://www.archive.org/details/TheRoadWeAreTraveling
The new 17 minute Obama propaganda video is entitled, "The Road We've Traveled"
http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/will-this-tom-hanks-and-davis-guggenheim...
Looks like Obama learned
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:12am.
Looks like Obama learned another lesson well from a soclalist bastard.
Martial Law in Friday Document Dump? Hot link!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 9:46am.
This was included in Friday's "Document Dump."
Executive Order National Defense Resources Preparedness
This Fellowship of the Minds coverage of it includes several money quotes, but this one is the most frightening, because of the two words I have in bold.
Sec. 102. Policy. The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency.
IOW, all the authority of the president to take over as a dictator which might be needed in war or in a national emergency apllies in peacetime also.
HELLO......Congress.....is anybody home????
Best Keep
Submitted by kilrod on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:36pm.
Best keep ya eyes open and ya powder dry.
kilrod "the Birther"
"Let The Good Times Roll"
If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,??
Heck of a Friday dump.
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 4:43pm.
Transparency.
'In times of national
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 4:51pm.
'In times of national emergency' being defined as Boy Baraka possibly losing the 2012 election, or LOOKING like he is going to lose - whichever comes first.
mb, I have no idea how I missed your post
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 6:59pm.
LOL - Must be these 47yo eyes of mine.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
On Friday, while no one was looking, Obama made it official
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:14pm.
He is now the for-real Dear Ruler.
If we are still America, it is in name only.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Looks like motherbelt beat you to it, Dave
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:42pm.
^^
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Thank you Dave*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 1:44pm.
With that link, you just offered a new diagnosis of my mental state. For 4 years I have been wearing this useless tin foil hat. I can now throw it away and look for armor instead.
Anyone else planning a series of frantic
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 6:00pm.
Phone calls to Congress over this? I'll be calling Toomey's office to demand he proposes a bill makIng Obama's power grab illegal.
Edit
It's already illegal, but I want Congress to DO something!
Another article about it
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 7:45pm.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/executive-order-panic-martial-law-in-america/
Media - Prepare Thyself
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 4:28pm.
Very interested to see how the media runs this one, and how much. He's not a national spokesman so it may not be too much, but let's just see.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/former-tea-party-spokesman-arrested-on-k...
SCJ Clarence Thomas
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 6:51pm.
Excellent video of a conversation Justice Thomas has with law students at Wake Forest earlier this month.
LISTEN TO THIS!!!!!!!
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 7:34pm.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/holder-in-1995-we-must-brainwash-people-...
The DHS has apparently ordered 450 million rounds of .40 ammo
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 9:49pm.
Are they really that bad at the shooting range?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Related?
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:17pm.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2012/03/13/atk-expects-lower-...
Manning going to Denver
Submitted by Seashell on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:26pm.
http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/7709195/barring-snag-peyton-manning-picks-denver-broncos-sources-sayOMG-Gotta feel bad for Tebow. Makes me sad.
I know, Seashell
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:26pm.
My reaction wasn't exactly jumping for joy.
But Timmy, being Timmy, will suck it up, no matter which way it goes. He has flatly refused to be sucked in by the media into making disparaging comments about the Broncos management (although I can easily say Elway sucks!).
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. First, does Elway infuriate the fans and trade The Tebow? The Tebow is a merchandising magnet....his Bronco's jersey outsold everything else last year by a long shot. So if they don't trade Tim, and Manning is awful, do the fans scream TEBOW? (Yep!!!)....does the coach put him in?
Tim will be fine. I hope that if they do trade him, he goes to a halfway decent team.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Well, the Broncs will want to
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:36pm.
Trade Tebow, but I doubt they will get what they want for him. Denver has a good line for the run game, kinda rarity for the NFL. Most teams use a successful Pass game to Run. So they are set at QB
Lets just hope, he goes where they can catch the ball.
Good evening Blonde
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:36pm.
I expect that Tim will react with class and survive as he always does. The morons passing themselves off as sportscasters will rake him over the coals and Tim will also take this in stride.
Elway may have taken a few too many to the head in his day.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Blonde
Submitted by Seashell on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 12:42pm.
I think Tim will ultimately be fine, but it has to be discouraging for him to have pulled off what he did last season and get NO RESPECT WHATSOEVER from Elway or Fox. I just think if Tim had the TRUE backing from his coaches and teammates, and with some experience, he has incredible potential.
In some ways I hope he is traded to a team that will support him, but if he stays in Denver, he could learn a lot from Manning, but that means no playing time.
I don't know. I'm just kind of depressed over it. All I can do is wish Tim the best and pray for him.
What a class act throughout though.
Maybe he lands with the Jaguars. Would be nice for you to have him back in Florida!!