It also means it’s less likely that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will attempt to use the power of the Senate to change the results of the pending election recount in Minnesota between Norm Coleman and comedian Al Franken.  Such a fight would require significant political capital, and with the 60-seat super majority no longer in play, I suspect Reid will choose to retain that capital for other purposes.

What’s really curious is how many democrats and liberals chose to vote for Chambliss.  Apparently, there was quite a bit of fear involved in the notion of Democrats having absolute power - and that fear seemed to pervade the liberal side as evidenced by the huge margin of victory that Chambliss experienced over Martin.

After a 7-year drought against the Georgia Bulldogs, my beloved Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have emerged victorious over the Clarke County Correctional Squad.

Here’s what makes this so sweet:

• Exactly ZERO people would have predicted Tech could beat Georgia this year (except for maybe Coach Paul Johnson)
• Virtually NOBODY predicted Georgia Tech would win more than 5 or 6 games - and certainly not end the regular season with a 9-3 record and prospects for a major bowl game
• The triple option - the new offense installed by 1st year head coach (and GENIUS) Paul Johnson - was criticized as being a “high school offensive scheme that would never work in major college football” - yet we averaged 41.5 points per game against SEC opponents - supposedly the toughest conference in football
• Our team is VERY young - if my stats are right, only 4 of our defensive starters are seniors.  Virtually the entire offensive unit are freshmen or sophomores.
• The incredibly arrogant Georgia running back Knowshon Moreno had 94 yards of rushing and one touchdown - yet he was only the 3rd most productive back on the field today, despite his showboating.  Georgia Tech’s Roddy Jones had 214 yards and 2 touchdowns and Tech’s Jonathan Dwyer ran for 144 yards and two scores.

Lest I be criticized for being a poor sport like the Clark County Correctional Squad, allow me to say for the record:  Well done on the offensive side of the ball, bulldogs.

But let’s all be clear about something:  There’s a new day dawning where Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football is concerned.  It’s all about Coach Paul Johnson, and the attitude that he’s put into this team.

And he’s done it in his FIRST YEAR as a head coach at Georgia Tech!  The thing that’s so special and so unique about this team is that they just won’t quit! That’s not the style that former coach Chan Gailey pursued.  That guy didn’t give a damn about winning.  He was clearly happy with 7 win seasons, because that’s all he ever got with the exception of one year.  And our teams under him were not FIGHTERS…

…Not so with Coach Johnson.  This guy has put the heart of a fighter in our team.  Remember Rocky III and the song “The Eye of the Tiger”?  It’s as if Coach Johnson has created the football version of “The Eye of the Tiger” in the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Wow.

Congratulations Yellow Jackets.  Congratulations Coach Johnson.  Very good things to come.

This has been a fairy tale season for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets though in an unconventional sense.  We’re certainly not going to a national championship and have only an outside chance at reaching the ACC championship game.

But just consider:

• We have a brand new coach - a mastermind, no less - in Paul Johnson
• Johnson has installed a completely new offense - the triple option - and has made it work instantly
• It was widely HOPED at the beginning of the season that we’d win 6 or 7 games, but expected to win only 3 or 4
• We have one of the youngest teams in all of college football
• Two of our 3 losses were very close, and the one remainder came as a result of a wide array of injuries leaving us with mostly 2nd and 3rd string players on the field for most of the game

There is much to be thankful for and excited about in Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football.

My Fantasy Goddess (aka “wife”) Carole and I visited Savannah over the weekend on business but took some of our spare moments to enjoy some of the local flavor.

And what flavor there is in Savannah!

My two recommendations from this visit are:

• Huey’s - this is a really great seafood restaurant on River Street.  The shrimp and grits and the seafood omelet are both to die for!
• Savannah Smiles - this is a dueling piano bar on Williamson near River Street.  Carole and I went there to watch the Georgia Bulldogs get DESTROYED by the Alabama Crimson Tide (which thrilled me and made Carole very unhappy) and got to enjoy a really great show and lively atmosphere.

The only disappointment was that we didn’t have time to do a “pub crawl” like we did once before.  If you’ve never done it, you really must.  The way it works in Savannah is like this:  You join an organized group at some restaurant, and you then follow that group (who has a specific leader familiar with the area) from pub to pub at which two things happen:

1. The leader tells a ghost story about the history of the particular building you’re visiting (since Savannah is of course the “most haunted city in America”) and
2. You get a drink at each pub

As you can imagine, as the evening wears on, the quality of the ghost stories become less and less important, and the social environment among fellow pub crawlers grows ever more cordial.

All in all, a really good trip.  I’m thankful to be married to Carole.

Regardless, the news today is that the government is seriously considering forming a new Resolution Trust Corporation, ala the Savings & Loan Crisis of the 1980’s.

The small remainders of free market capitalism in America are dead.

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Let’s be clear:  The evidence is overwhelmingly abundant that Barack Obama’s only skill is in reading from a teleprompter.  I’m no fan of his, and I think the man is the worst news for our country in years.

But even so, I felt a sympathy pain for the guy when I saw the ad below.  Not because he deserves sympathy.  But because the content of this ad is so powerful that it can’t help but shed more light on Obama’s radical anti-life policies.

Here’s the ad:

I don’t know anything about this group called BornAliveTruth.org.  They may be wackos, or they may be good salt-of-the-earth people.  Either way, if the statement of Gianna Jessen in that video is true - and I have no reason to doubt it - then Obama has just taken another serious body blow.

Being a privacy-conscious person, it seemed like a good idea at the time.  Big mistake.

Here I am, six years later, and I need to transfer those domains to another registrar.  No problem.  I click the “Privacy” options in my control panel to turn off the privacy featured (required to transfer a domain), and am informed I have to log into my account at Domains By Proxy, GoDaddy’s privacy service, and turn off the feature within that account.

No problem.  Only, it’s been six years and I no longer have the login information.  So they ask me to enter a bunch of information EXACTLY (like an address)… only I don’t know which address or have failed to enter it EXACTLY as they want.

No problem.  I can have the login information reset by printing out a form they provide and faxing them a copy of my driver’s license.

I’m getting annoyed by this point, but hey - they’re being careful.  So I do that.

Next I receive an email from them saying that the copy of my license is illegible and they need me to scan it and email it to them.  (The copy of my license that was faxed to them was PERFECTLY legible, by the way.)  Furthermore, they need one of several different types of documentation about the COMPANY listed as the “current account holder”.

So I checked my account.  My account shows no company name, it shows only my name.  So maybe they are referring to the name of the company I was using when I originally registered the domain.  No problem - I’ll go find out what that company is and find documentation for it.

Except - that information is protected by the PRIVACY feature, and even I can not see it, even though the domain clearly belongs to me.  So there’s no way I can find out which of the several companies I’ve been involved with may still show on the registration record.

Here’s the kicker:  These people are happy to take my money to extend the registration of the domain names.  They’ve done it for years.  But they absolutely, positively refuse to unlock these domains so that I can have access to them myself and transfer them to another registrar.

I used to be a reseller for GoDaddy, and my clients have registered hundreds of domains through them.  So have I.  But never again.

I use NameCheap.com now.  As far as I’m concerned, the only value of GoDaddy is the hot women in their TV commercials.  Because GoDaddy’s domain registration service SUCKS.

Oil dropped below $95 per barrel for a while this morning, and $100 proved not to be any sort of psychological floor for that market.

The real question is:  When will gas prices catch up to the decline in oil prices?  Oil is now down over 35% off its highs of just a few weeks ago.  While there’s not a direct correlation between oil prices and gas prices, the problem for consumers is that the disparity in that relationship ALWAYS benefits gas producers, and continues to do so right now.

The stock market will probably have a bad day today, and that’s ok.  We need to experience failure for major investment firms who made bad decisions, and Lehman certainly fits that bill.  But if oil continues to decline, the economy in the United States will be on increasingly sound footing anyway.