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MARCH MADNESS AND THE AMBITIOUS SOLDIER




My head is spinning, and not playing roulette or russian-roulette.  Happens when I realize the game is rigged.  Odds and it all goes in favor of the number-man.  But then again, has become more and more difficult to be gender specific.  Ban on this and that.  Court Martial and even The General is being held accountable.  My task for today is to write this blog and not go sideways, meaning fall over from a spin that makes the world on its axis, be detrimental, to me.  So I can’t be gender specific and make it through this day.  Make one slip and the fingers point towards you, and this is something I truly want to avoid.  So darkness and subliminal void, we can talk around the subject and come up with alternatives. 


 

And this I will try to do, in this blog.   Take the familiar and package it, for maximum attention by the readership.  And is my idea in the first place.  To be ambitious.  To soldier on.  To be in the game on the way to the end, and have a chance to win, and maybe if I play my cards right, will have a good day.  Brother often plays poker with the guys, and has fun.  As for me, I like the opposite sex.  And now congratulate myself for being able to say all that, without being gender specific.  And wonder how long I can stay with the hot dice and be on a roll, and never leave with my pockets empty.




  Difficult to make my cause and tell this as I wish to, when there is a ban on almost everything.  The hammer comes down, and the bell rings, and we are put on alert, there is a penalty for all this, and there will be more losers than winners.  Count on that.  But for the moment I’d like to play.  Take on the role of the ambitious soldier, or the one focused on March Madness and picking The Perfect Bracket.  Now that introduces the subject of this blog.  There will be more.




It will be difficult getting this right.  Start with The-Ambitious-Soldier, and being gender-non-specific, we have no clue if this player is stacked, or said better, is playing with a stack of chips and hence is able to bluff through a difficult hand, to win.  Bluffing is part of the game.  Having said that, I need to do more homework on the subject.  And part of the homework will be to determine what is important here, and state the subject clear.  But most of the time we don’t do that.  We have our special way, to talk about you and I, but not endure a libel suit or end up on hot seat, with punitive action sure to come. 





And that is why its such a challenge to write this blog today.  Can’t really challenge the powers that be.  But will mention, that it is not often that a General goes to court, to fight the battle that will make or break a long and productive career.  And for the moment I remind myself.  It will be difficult getting this right.  Who is or was the ambitious soldier.  Will have to wait for the judge and jury on that one.  Can’t state my opinion, until it all over. 



And this I know.  Picking the perfect bracket is never easy.  But then again, that is what makes me get excited.  College basketball.  Difficult to win.  Difficult to know who will actually play in the finals.  Who will win.  Ambitious-soldier or the-empowered-general.  Who will win a billion dollars, when its all over. ?  Does anybody care?




Took me awhile to figure out what this blog is about.  But now I feel better.  Its about reading the small print.  Halfway through the blog, and it dawns on me.  I have no clue how this all works.  Adultery.  Cheating.  Defying all odds.  And winning depends on how ambitious you are, and of course it depends on reading the contract or rules for the game.  In this case, I am going back to March Madness, which is a branded way of talking about a specific basketball tournament that involves college teams.  Turns out the billionaire Warren Buffett has partnered with the Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and Quicken Loans, to offer to anyone who fills out a perfect bracket for the 2014 Men’s Collegiate Basketball Tournament.  Now we are clear.  And its all about the small print.  How you win.  How you make your money. 




And that of course is an impressive feat.  How do you offer a billion dollars for picking the perfect bracket, and still make money on the game you play? 



And that is what interests me most.  Read the small print and you discover.  The-Ambitious-Soldier is a women.  Now that blows my cover.  Cards on the table.  Now you see them.  One is a women. The other a man.  And so now perhaps you will lose interest now.  And I will spend the rest of the day, wondering if I should have been gender-non-specific, from beginning to end, as I had intended to. But I took the bait.  Billion dollars for picking the perfect march madness bracket.  Then to read the small print, and realize that the billion dollars is spread over 40 years of pay-outs.





 
 And of course, if you want to touch all the money, you have to live another 40 years.  And chances are it will all end up in court and that is what interests me the most.  Who really wins.  Ambitious-Soldier.  Betting it all.  March Madness.  And its exciting.  Billion dollars for getting it right.  And what happens when you get it wrong.  Guess that’s where the small print comes into play, and that we will leave for another day.  Shall we?

Hung Jury.  Gender Non-Specific.