Rants and Ramblings

The Republican facists have gone and back doored a bill to ban online gambling (Conference Report on H.R. 4954, the SAFE Port Act). I will never, ever vote for Bill Frist for anything, not even dog catcher. He would not stop until he got this bill through as he is trying to set up his "conservative" agenda for a presidential run in 2008. I think he cut off his nose to spite his face. The religious conservatives would have voted for him whether or not he got this legislation passed but a lot of voters that play poker will not vote for him now and as close as the last two elections have been, the poker vote could swing it from him to the democrats.

I thought I would never, ever say this but I will vote for Hillary Clinton before I will vote for Bill Frist.
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I have withdrawn my money from Party Poker, Poker Stars and Mansion Poker. I did not play them too much anyway. I still have money in a couple of sites and am trying to be patient and see how this all shakes out.

I am not sure how this will effect my Savvy Points as I have not been to that site to check on it. I assume it should have no effect on that site but the lack of american players may end up shutting down sites like PokerSavvy and Poker Source Online.
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I have proximity to Canada as I live in Michigan but I don't believe that getting a Canadian Bank account gets around the new law. You still have to get the poker sites to let you play and, I guess, you can give a fake address but they may want copy of driver's license and utility bill to prove that you do not live in the U.S.A which would effectively stop many people from playing. I know it would effectively stop me.
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I believe there are 62 countries that allow on-line gambling. How can our country be so puritan compared to the rest of the world? Are we really that out of touch?
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Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page.

How can the republican legislature be so anti on-line poker but tolerate this type of behavior? What sanctimonious bastards they all are. If they were paying more attention to their own instead of on-line gambling, maybe this wouldn't be coming back to haunt them. I hope they all lose the November elections.
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Let me see if I get this straight. No on-line gambling but you can still buy Lotto tickets in every state for a chance to win. The one type of gambling that has the absolute biggest odds for you to lose and it is all right. What a bunch of crap. You are virtually guranteed to lose your money when you buy a lotto ticket. You might as well light it on fire as to buy a lotto ticket.
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All right Senator Frist, I understand it is all right for me to go out onto the internet and pay a site that allows me to see a donkey and a woman having sex, or two men, or two women, or a bunch of men and women, and that is all right? But I can't pay MY money and go to a poker site and put .60 cents on a SitNgo game that, because of my skill, I have a chance of winning and making a small amount of money? Why that makes perfect sense. Why didn't I think of that earlier.
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On a lighter note, my Michigan Wolverines took control of the game early and hung on for a 28 to 14 win over the Minnesota Golden Gophers. They now have to play arch rival Michigan State who couldn't get their act together and lost to a mediocre Illinois team. I hate this cliche but it is true that you can throw out the records when Michigan and Michigan State play each other because it is an instate rivalry. The Wolverines defense will have to shut down the Spartans so that Michigan can continue undefeated. Prediction to come later.