WELL, 3 CHEERS FOR SENATOR POTHOLE

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/technology/05poker.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=4cad50fc0a619402&ex=1173762000&emc=eta1

Is Kelso's Nuts becoming a right-wing blog? Omigod. But who's better than D'Amato, Dick Armey and Bob Barr?

As for the Tissue Of Lies article linked above, a few points. Where was Senator Pothole's vigor as the Internet Gambling ban came up in each Congress, every year, sponsored by his co-religionists, McCrazy, Kyl, Coats and Leach. Why is I. Nelson Rose the go-to source on gambling law. He's merely a shill for the casino industry and stone-cold prude besides. If he were so great, why is he still teaching at Whittier?

When Kelso sees the name I. Nelson Rose quoted in an article about gambling, K merely assumes the opposite is true. A small disclaimer here: Professor Rose was of no help whatsoever to Kelso as K researched his master's thesis.

Rose is wrong again. D'Amato and the poker players' alliance are holding great cards. How was it that a majority of men voted Democratic in last fall's mid-term election for the first time in whoh knows when? The wars? Bullshit; men love war. The economy? Bullshit, the economy's actually not terrible. Men took a look at the Republican party and saw they were in company with a bunch of church ladies and gay preachers and said "fuck it." They either stayed away or changed their vote.

This law is never coming off the books because criminal laws never do. McCrazy's signature issue is anti-gambling because of shame over his own gambling disease. Giuliani's gets off on as much law-enforcement as possible; his attorney general would push it harder than Taco-Boy has. Obama? Another church lady. Again, and this is the consensus of gamblers today, the only hope for some relaxation of the enforcement of this law is Hillary, and only because gambling isn't even on her radar screen.

So, until she lets us know otherwise, this corner's with Hillary all the way. How crazy is that given that we've spent the better part of two years ripping her apart!

A final note on this: internet gambling has sweet fuck-all to do with terrorist money-laundering or the corruption of youth. The UIGEA got pushed through to satisfy the Fundamentalist Crazies and because Harrah's lost the poker and sports betting franchise to off-shore interests and gave massive donations to Bill Frist to make this happen, so that they might reclaim some lost business with no risk. The Fundamentalist Crazies' lives still suck. And Harrah's hasn't benefitted in the slightest. Kelso's crying a river.

None of this matters anyway. Uncle Sam is going to force Israel to send a midgetman into Iran and Russian and China are going to plant the serious shit up Washington, NYC, and Omaha's asses and we all better hope to die quickly. Three weeks of radiation sickness doesn't sound like a whole of fun.

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