Apparently there’s an election coming up sometime in the not-too-distant future. I’ve begun to hear some ads on the radio in support of legalized gambling in Texas. I’m somewhat on the fence on this.
First, if you want to essentially take your own hard-earned money, pile it up in the street, and set fire to it (figuratively speaking), then you should have every right to do so. Who am I to tell you what to do? Others claim that there will be this tremendous windfall of tax revenues resulting from legalizing and taxing gambling (sound familiar?).
On the other hand, gambling (legal and otherwise) has been shown to have a detrimental impact on the social fabric of the areas in which it appears. This effect is most pronounced in areas where there is little tourism to draw people in from outside the area. Las Vegas and to a lesser extent Atlantic City are exceptions to this generality, because they have become tourist destinations in their own rights due to gambling.
They are however, not exactly “family friendly” cities. Regardless of the legality and high degree of government regulation involved, there is still a high degree of corruption of the governments there and significant organized crime involvement as casinos offer opportunities to launder money.
What do you people think?
btw – Why is it that political ads tend to be some combination of brain-damaged and seriously annoying? The ads I’ve heard on the radio have been horrible; “Louisiana” and “Oklahoma” saying how thankful they are that Texas sends its money to them in the form of gambling dollars. They don’t thank Texas for the less savory side-effects of gambling…
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#188 – You gots Katfishy mail DAHLINK
Katfish: Close enough to not have an excuse to see me. I’ve got strawberry preserves for ya. And last years stuff, ta boot. We know how you “don’t follow the rules” on my canning and wouldn’t dare try to pawn it off on anyone else, other than you. 🙂
#180 –
ST DAHLINK – whattya mean ALMOST?
and
#175 – I’ll be in Conroe on BACA biz the 17th……………….how close will I be Deah?
Oh, and to be clear…..I also know how to make x-lax hot chocolate. And brownies. 😈
LOL! Y’all will never catch on. Heck, I can’t even catch on. I’m in love, dangit! I’m in love………TT at least graps-es-es some of this new emotion. I cain’t kill these 2……I’d never get away with hiding these 2 new mens-folk. Seriously, I know when to make a sammich and get him a beer.
toe dig – flirting movement
hair twirl – eye catching movement, leading to toe digs and other flirty movements
eye bat – a way of flirting up close, designed to make the male feel sooooo good about himself
toe curl – what results from the flirty movements
I hope that clears things up fer ya.
Toe digs go with eye bats, hair twirls, and puppy dog eyes to get her way. She uses them to get her way.
Toe curls are caused on her by others whom she is sweet on for one reason or another.
I’m so confused. Is the toe dig different than the toe curl? And where does the hair twirl and eye bat fall into all this?
/hands tissues and hugs….I cannot imagine. YET……
RAISING CAIN IN TEXAS PS….both make my toes curl. I could not even imagine me, burying them. I’d be in some serious trouble. I have met my match. And I’m a racist, ta boot!!! Imagine that…… Even though this particular tea pary is the one I split on because they are a PAC, I’m going to see Herman Cain and… Read more »
ARRRRGGGHHH! I would love to go and see Herman Cain! Lovely has requested my presence for a mommy/daughter sorority event that weekend. And I may bring some of her stuff back. She’ll be leaving her last dorm room soon….and be on her own before I know it.
Somebody – quick – hand me a tissue.
I’m pretty sure Herman Cain would curl her toes as well.
ST, I see now why you are going to The Woodlands event:
RAISING CAIN IN TEXAS
eventbrite.com
Herman Cain is at the Woodlands Tax Day Tea Party – April 16 6pm. Join Us in Restoring the American Dream. $15 Tickets Still Available.
Or am I confused? It wasn’t Herman Cain who curled your toes, it was Allen West. Never mind.
#173 ST
I don’t know. They’s got some big wiss butts. If you can tell where the head ends and the butt begins, anyway. And I never misunderestimate the ability of the left to lie, cheat, and steal.
Especially when it comes to elections.
My farmer galfriend just slaughtered processed all of her rabbits. She’s also a good cook. Anyone interested in attending???? Time Sunday, April 17 · 1:00pm – 4:00pm ——————————————————————————– Location 15885 Fm 2090, 77306 ——————————————————————————– Created By St. Fairsted Farm ——————————————————————————– More Info Fryers (rabbit meat), Limited jellies and jams, Garibaldi’s breads, & possibly Hammond farm cheeses will be available to… Read more »
#169 ST
When *WE* were kids? Photography had not been invented yet when *I* was a kid. 🙂
#172 Gto: I know, right????
Ain’t no way they can pull 10K votes outa the libs butts. Heh. /Again, Thank you, Lord.
Oh, and I’d like to add: Never got this much media questions before. Norn Coleman/Al Franken ring a bell? WI also has “back up” verification. he he he!!!!
Maybe the Republicans finally learned something. Let the demomcrats sneak in all their votes, as needed, before releasing their tallies.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/08/us-wisconsin-election-idUSTRE7350J920110408
#170 – SquwaksterTOOTER!
CLASSIC Croonin!
OH and ignore the linky in the email I sentcha – I was focusin on the truckin aspect
Here Bob this little song describes just how I feel about what you want for this country and where I see this country today.
Sing it Merle
Y’all are in rare form today. /looks out window for a full moon #77 Ms. Harper: Senior portraits are not the same as when we were kids. Neither are proms, homecomings, etc. High School portraits are done on location or with some really bad-a backgrounds. I’m poor. I can’t hire a photographer but am doing trade-out with a wonderful friend… Read more »
#166 Tedtam, your geek credentials are clearly unquestionable.
I was only x’0C’ years old when I first shoved a stack of cards into the reader and IPL’d the beast. You, on the other hand, cut your teeth on a WANG. Nobody can beat that (without risking blindness.)
Time to run. This has been fun. And I needed a distraction.
OK The country is going to he!! in a hand basket, the Gub’met WILL shut down on Friday night and what does our fearless leader do?…..ROAD TRIP!! Of course!
#162 Bob
Am I that much of a geek that that joke has been one of my favorites for so long?
Hey! I have that T-shirt! Enjoy seeing people read it and then look puzzled. You know they don’t get it as soon as they say “ten” and not “one zero”.
Hamous – As the one in the family with an interest in genealogy, I received the family history from the German (mother’s) side of the family. One of my most prized items is a set of letters. They are not the original handwritten ones, but one set is typed up in German and they are translated into English. It is… Read more »
And I said gambling is not prohibited by the federal government, and that is a fact. If it were we wouldn’t have thousands of casinos, racetracks, Jai Alai frontons, etc. scattered all over the dang country. Duh!
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
At first, was puzzled, then frustrated, and then the light went on…
Very good dooooodster.
1100 xor 1010 = 0110 (exclusive or)
1100 or 1010 = 1110
1100 nor 1010 = 0001 (not or)
1100 and 1010 = 1000
1100 nand 1010 = 0111 (not and)
#157 Sounds like a bunch of Bool to me. 😉
/not really, been there, done that.
Hamous, your Granny looks like a very nice lady and I apologize for anything nasty I’ve said here. I’d also like to pre-apologize for the nasty things I’ll surely say at some point in the future.
Sincerely,
Dude
Quad packaged, dual input Exclusive Or logic gates on 14 pin DIP chips (insert favorite potty joke) have been around since since the early ages of semiconductor technology. Yes, and as a boolean operator XOR exists in the instruction set of pretty much all processors if I’m not mistaken. So bang through the math using Pyro’s example where: x =… Read more »
Nice pics Hamous. It interesting to remember the environment that our parents and grandparents lived in.
We could use some, Lord…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA0_bSZAfLg&sns=em
#150 DIP Chipous, can you even read?
I said that the federal gubmint banned online gambling, and that is a fact. Duh!
Granny & Grandpa Hamous
Great Hamous Grandparents Everett and Bertha with baby Granny Hamous
Granny Hamous as a young Flapper
There are sure a lot of operating casinos scattered all around the country. Somebody better tell them the federal government banned gambling.
#147 Quad packaged, dual input Exclusive Or logic gates on 14 pin DIP chips (insert favorite potty joke) have been around since since the early ages of semiconductor technology. I can still breadboard a flip flop from a couple of NAND gates. #145 Speaking of DIP Chips, Hamous, you’re completely wrong, again (but at least you’re consistent.) Gambling is not… Read more »
Things is gettin downright interesting in Wisconsin. Update: Randy Melchert says Prosser’s netted another 200 votes in New Berlin while Kloppenburg’s only picked up a few in the (still ongoing) re-canvassing of Madison. Good lord. We might actually win this. Update: Whoops, tiny mistake in the last post. New Berlin isn’t a county but a city in Waukesha County (which… Read more »
So Wagonburner, can you just sequentially XOR the bytes as shown?
a = a xor b
b = b xor a
a = a xor b
Yeah, I cheated and Googled, but it seems like that would work. XOR is a function common to pretty much all processors, no?
You’ll go blind doing that.
Gambling is not prohibited by the federal gubment, ergo: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. States can decide whether they want to prohibit, regulate, or open the whole thing up for a gambling free-for-all. It’s not up to… Read more »
Speaking of gibberish, Monty Python fans might enjoy this.
You ain’t gotta be no MP fan to enjoy it. Go ahead and click it.
#139 I used a single instruction compare/swap “hand loop” (called such because you dialed it into core using binary switches) to diagnose intermittent register failures on now ancient mainframes that kept registers in separate hardware from other storage, in the interest of speed. Once it was looping at full machine speed, you had to put the scope on all 9… Read more »
Shannon
#137
dorga orpha dorga billa
dorga orpha stifaleare
dorga orpha dorga billa
tonalation fonamere
Been way too long since I messed w/ assembly code. Nowadays I just draw purty pitchers all the live long day. And what Shannon said too.
texanadian
#129
🙂