Gambling

I like to gamble. Therefore I am a future potential temporary millionaire. If I could just get a dollar for a ticket...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Your Intrepid Reporter is Eye-Ball Deep in it Again

Image
This whole mess can be found here. David Betras July 1 at 3:19pm · Youngstown, OH · This is what I found most objectionable in yesterdays decision besides the woman's issue. the Supreme Court found that closely held corporation are equivalent to a person under the constitution. this has far reaching consequences. Like Like · · Share Roger M. Chamberlain , Mona Rouser , Leo Jennings and 30 others like this. 1 share Maggie Wellington Just you wait...... July 1 at 3:28pm · Like Veronica Lowe Salreno I agree. This is just the beginning. July 1 at 3:46pm · Like Ron Solove Does it follow that the corporate veil is gone for closely-helds? Seems logical. July 1 at 3:49pm · Like Ryan Neely i read viagra and other male "enhancements" are covered. July 1 at 3:57pm · Like · 1 Debbie Donatelli Ryan Does that surprise you!? July 1 at 4:00pm · Like
Read more

Vershire School

Image
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/05/us/education-vermont-seeks-tighter-rules-for-prviate-schools.html We made the New York Times http://marthamoxley.com/news/042802gt.htm And our OTHER claim to infamy : Micheal Skakel and the Moxley murder This was one of the places I went to school. A very unique place in a very unique time. Pictured, the dining hall in the main building, "The Lodge", and a few years after the place closed down. For Vershireites with foggy memories (for whatever reasons), or nostalgia: http://web.archive.org/web/20080624190520/http://www.vershireschool.org/ I think Chip Allee put this together, but it's no longer maintained.
Read more

Bad Guys, Good Guys, and Critical Thinking

Image
  Bad guys can convince most of a nation that they're the good guys. Happens all the time. It's why we have advertizing, and why TV ads are so powerful. They can lie straight to you and make you believe they're the most honest people on the planet.   The only bulwark against that is critical thinking. Experiment, observation, reason. Not a preacher's authority, not what "feels right".  And, most definitely NOT authority.   We can get the Bush White House telling us Hussein was part of Al Quaida, and that cutting taxes on "job creators" is the route to a strong economy.   BP can run all the ads they want about how they're helping the Gulf come back, but they're doing everything they can to not spend a penny more than they're legally obligated to unless it's in PR dollars. When they do their job right, you almost forget that the damage was due to their criminal negligence.    The Koch brothers can hide all their ads and pr
Read more