Casinos shut on Christmas Day? Don't bet on it

[gerryh]

Gerryh:

I guess I'm not gonna get any kind of apology from you, am I?

This speaks quite clearly about you.

Pangloss

an apology from me makes a difference? I missed the one single post you made. Even that contribution by you did not justify you ragging my ass about the way I deport myself. You don't like the way "I" choose to "debate", then tough ****, don't read it. If I had been "talking" to you it would be different.


And I really have never given a rats ass what anybody thinks about me.....read my sig.

 

[Pangloss]

I have. . .and yes indeed you're right.

Pangloss

 

[mt_pockets1000]

ahem *grin*
Getting back on track...I don't know if this number is correct but I just read where the gambling 'industry' is a $1billion a year cash cow for the Alberta government. How can we expect them to make any solid moves to eradicate this canker when the pot is simply overflowing with wealth? Only a concerted effort at the grassroots level can put these thieves out of business. We can't count on our elected officials.
The population of problem gamblers stands at around 3% in our country. That's not much in the grand scheme of things. Just enough for the government to say oh well, we can tolerate that much of a loss to our citizens in order to gain this incredible windfall. Like hell. Where did our society go wrong to allow this to happen? Where is the collective outcry? You won't hear it because it's easier for folks to bury their heads in the sand and download the problem onto the victim when in fact we should be pulling together to rid society of this scourge.

 

[Pangloss]

And yet I buy lottery tickets. . .

I suspect casinos are worse than lotteries, and VLTs being the worst of all, but I have no data to back me up. Maybe I just want to think that whatever I do isn't so bad, the problem is always with someone else's behaviour.

At least that seems to be the North American approach to morality.

Sigh.

Pangloss

 

[Unforgiven]

I don't get why it's the best thing for everyone to ban cigarette ads and not alcohol and casino ads.

 

[missile]

The governments are more addicted to gambling than we are:smile:

 

[jimshort19]

MileyDB, "While this same engine is fully capable of enabling poison food and lead-lined toys to flow onto store shelves and revels in multi-billion dollar profits by employing slave-wage business strategies to appease the world market for lingerie and claps gleefully at baseball stadiums filled to celebrate the myth of drug-free atheletes, anything that makes a buck is OK...."

Mikey, you write this same tripe incessantly. The engine that enables poison while revelling in profits by employing slave wages blah blah blah. Do you think you're writing poetry? This is nonsense.

Fain, when Dark Beaver says 'you', he doesn't mean youn you, he means everybody you. Don't take it pesonally. But just because you are not under personal attack doesn't mean that you shouldn't get revenge. Go for it. Dark Beaver is not the sensitive type in my exxperience. Zarchov is a a crybaby. Mikey DB is a whiner. The leftists are everywhere. You are all arse holes! I hate everyone!

Sorry 'bout that Fain. You'll catch on.

Casinos are the hope of Indian future. Young people are being trained at community colleges near casinos. There is a future in roulette. The government runs the numbers and the drugs, and has a spare token of prosperity and hope to trade to the Indians for peace. There is hope in blackjack. There is prosperity in hosting white gamblers with too much money, or simply addicted, as the case may profitably be.

 

[darkbeaver]

Morning Jim, nice post, almost leftist rhetoric, I liked it, I'm close to awarding you a rep point.

 

[jimshort19]

Dark Beaver, youn saintly bastard, it does sound a little whiney doesn't it?

Well, we were pontificating upon the four day work week and the evils of the old modern day, such as gambling, pontificating at length, when the incomes doubled and everybody just bought more and went to Vegas with the family slush funds then went straight back to work and called it entertainment.

So, it's one type of entertainment or another and gambling is not eating the work ethic alive, nor is it polluting, nor did Jesus ever speak a word against it, but there's something a little seedy about it and organized crime. Oh, I forgot, it was the illegality of booze and gambling that built organized crime in Aamerica. Government created a victimless crime and the mob ran with it to profitable effect.

This sounds like the war on drugs, but even when the reefer confiscators stopped sending the youth to prison, because they weren't all so youthful any more, and there was no moral crime to start with, the police didn't start selling grass, but the government promotes gambling now, and I don't think it's good, classy, smart, profitable or anything else positive. It's government rackateering, plain and simple.

 

[MikeyDB]

Gymshorts

You've mistaken me for someone who cares what you have to say about anything...

Why don't you get those two still operting synapses to a good neurologist who can help you to understand where your arrogance and flat-line understanding of nearly everything comes from...

You're the sprigboard of one of my New Years Resolutions pal...

I'll write what I want and some will read it and disagree and some will read it and agree and then there'll be folk like you....

Unable to form a cogent thought about anything more complicated than figuring out which shoe goes on which foot...

Just pass my contributions there GYM..... there way waaaaay too complicated for you and I understand that indeed not all men were created equal....

Sorry about yer luck...

 

[jimshort19]

Mikey, you are too kind.

"You're the sprigboard of one of my New Years Resolutions pal..."

Before I take this as a compliment, I might ask you what resolution is so inspired by my mastery of it. Whatever thing it is, you may take all benefits for free because I've got lots of it if I read you right. It's like the more I giove away the more I get in return!

Mikey, are we in love?

 

[MikeyDB]

Sure you're in love Gym with yourself!

You prattle on to others about how they ought to interpret contributors remarks and the depth of your internalization about nearly everything is as deep and as broad as the punctuation at the end of this sentence.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Instead of the usual card games/slots, I think there should be "specials events" held at Casino's over stat holidays. Namely; I think they should set up a gladiator ring and have politicians fight to the death, and if they don't die during the course of the fight, they can have Michael Vick come in to put them out of their misery.