June 21, 2009 08:00 AM
Mike's Blog Round Up
Words of Power: A message for the progressive media and citizen journalists.
Brad Blog: Head of CA GOP voter registration firm pleads guilty to voter registration fraud.
Poor Man Institute: Jonah Goldberg – your brain on dumb.
Satirical Political Report: Iran and Bush v. Gore.
Scholars & Rogues: Dad and the law.
Days with My Father: A poignant photo journal in Flash. (Scroll down; seems to work best in IE.)
Guest post by Batocchio. Temporarily e-mail tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com.
I was wondering if there had been any observations made about the proliferation of gambling and the contributions that has made to our sick economy.
You think about how the majority of gambling was in Las Vegas and Atlantic City twenty years ago, but now even relatively small counties can have 3 casinos, not to mention lottery and internet gambling from home.
What would all that disposable income have been spent on if gambling wasn't so easy?
investing in the stock market is a gamble also. Should we shut down Wall Street?
So your position is the proliferation of gambling is a good thing, creates jobs, etc.?
Stock market is different. One does not lose everything at once and is usually paid dividends when invested reasonably. (I know the market is somewhat fixed too, but it is not a casino unless you are an options trader)
Plus the stock market has been around for quite some time. My time reference goes back 20 years or so and I was trying to correlate it with the current economic sickness.
others have an addiction. The same is for some of the oligarchy that manipulate the market. Many legitimate pension funds have lost heavily because of those that manipulate the market and they weren't gambling for entertainment.
now that is disgusting, degrading, demoralizing, and socially toxic -- from our suicidal diet of processed fat, salt, and corn syrup byproducts to the spiritually punishing everyday realm of the highway strip to the fantastic loneliness and alienation of a people made hostage to a TV-consumer nexus of corporate colonialism.
It's not going away anytime soon.
US facts and extremes
European facts and extremes
I would go back.
Hawaii would be great. .
No where on this site is there a mention that today is Litha...
Oh wait...
There it is...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Is Litha what it sounds like when Bart tries to talk to his sister when he has a chipped tooth?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
When are they gonna come out with a line of scratch-n-sniff pornographic books?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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Only American-style, though. It's more like anti-feng shui. And you're already doing it.
Carry on.
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After they lost their cable acess show Wayne and Garth became Feng Shui consultants:
"No Shui?"
"Yes Shui!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBoOd7JQtk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
(1) Don’t let large numbers of Americans starve, or they will act out politically and unpredictably. (2) Resecure the bases of US global power sufficient to ensure adequate flow from the periphery to keep that domestic population calm. (3) Get elected again.
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