- GOOD » GOOD Sheet: The First 100 Days» – “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” Franklin D. Roosevelt told supporters in 1932 while accepting the presidential nomination. When he took office the following year, he spent his first 100 days enacting a dizzying number of reforms designed to stabilize an economically depressed nation. Since then, a president’s first 100 days have been an indicator of what he is able to accomplish. In January 2009, the clock starts again.
Posts Tagged: poker
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Oct 06
New Law Cripples Internet Gambling
No, not the war, not the 655,000 Iraqi non-combatant deaths, not the torture, record energy prices, domestic spying, the child predators, Katrina, or any one of other innumerable failures will lead to the monumental failure of modern conservatism (and conversely NOT some success of the liberal alternative). It's the moral prejorative that the elitist few attempt to mandate on the masses, with the greater story being how this is actually an emblamatic problem of American culture, ideology, and politics, and not a thin, isolated example.
Placing bets over the Internet was effectively criminalized by the federal government yesterday, as lawmakers work to eliminate an activity enjoyed by as many as 23 million Americans who wagered an estimated $6 billion last year.
How does this happen? Who has pushed for this ban? Who loses, who wins, and why?
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Oct 06
Life in Crazyland…
Here in crazyland…
- the school shooting in Lancaster, PA were caused by the teaching of evolution and abortion. (In all fairness, the lunatic saying this lost a child at Columbine).
- Mike Drudge reports that the teen that was preyed upon is more responsible than Grand-Old-Pedophile Mark Foley.
- one of the most pressing issues for this session of Congress is the banning of online poker (not really, just making it more difficult to do with an overseas bank).
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Dec 08
Daily Links for December 1st