Online gaming OK in US next year????

JM · #11 (**permalink**) 09-26-2007, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JCTC

That was a bi-partison bumming of my high if I remember correctly. My democratic congressman was trying to protect all of the poor people who would be conned out of their life savings.

May have been bipartisan sponsoring, but the GOP was in full control of congress then and could have stopped it and W could have vetoed it. Some poker magazine I was reading had an article that said that's why the GOP lost control of the house and senate in the election last year. Backlash from that stupid law.

I love how the state legislators here are so against letting the indian tribes or anyone else open a casino here while at least half the cars in the foxwoods parking lot have Mass plates on them. They claim that somehow allowing casinos here will create more gambling addicts

HUH?? Obviously they haven't been to a convenience store and seen all the idiots scratching lottery tickets or the keno zombies watching the monitors all day and wearing a path back and forth to the cash register to buy more tickets. They love the lottery when its giving money back to their towns, and claim that casinos will hurt the lottery. Newsflash - real gamblers don't play the lottery because they know that's the worst odds you could find. I'd rather play slots!

shadesofgrey · #12 (**permalink**) 09-27-2007, 03:17 AM

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I think its going to be a long time before its "legal" online again... my guess, it'll be up for a vote in 5-years, right about when the demo's get voted back out of the whitehouse...[/quote]

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Originally Posted by JM

Are you forgetting, it was the GOP that banned it in the first place. Kyle from AZ has been pushing for a ban on online gaming for years now. Its as evil as gay marriage you know! Just ask Senator "Happy Feet" Craig.

@ JM: Thats my problem, i have a hard time forgetting...

What i meant off handedly, was that the democrats are going to win the white house in 08, and do absolutely nothing wrt to online poker until right before relection time... +2012 was my guess..

I am as liberal as they come wrt to letting people spend their money on whatever "legal" thing they want to... do whatever they want in their bedrooms... saying free things

things are free?!!? like your 10k-post thread - LOL

Honestly, I just dont have a lot of faith in government... in ORs next election, we have 2 measures on the ballot... the voters manual is 90-freaking pages!!!! its insane.

OR is voting to add a cigarette tax to their constitution to ensure health coverage for the children of OR. AAAAALLLL the lobbyists are coming out of the wood work! its pretty disgusting whats going on.. yea or nay the citizens lose again...

WTF is wrong when you can play poker in a OR bar, but not online? its big money vs. players. like i said, i have little faith in government due to currently elected politicians.... UNLESS THEY FIGURE OUT HOW TO TAX IT...

EDIT: whoops, that was long.. i'm with you 100% JM.

rule #84: Ye shall not picketh ANYTHING off of the floor near a public shitter unless Yar the cleaner of said shitter...

LMAO i missed talked like a pirate day on CT

Ikkans · #13 (**permalink**) 09-27-2007, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by JM

May have been bipartisan sponsoring, but the GOP was in full control of congress then and could have stopped it and W could have vetoed it. Some poker magazine I was reading had an article that said that's why the GOP lost control of the house and senate in the election last year. Backlash from that stupid law.

I love how the state legislators here are so against letting the indian tribes or anyone else open a casino here while at least half the cars in the foxwoods parking lot have Mass plates on them. They claim that somehow allowing casinos here will create more gambling addicts

HUH?? Obviously they haven't been to a convenience store and seen all the idiots scratching lottery tickets or the keno zombies watching the monitors all day and wearing a path back and forth to the cash register to buy more tickets. They love the lottery when its giving money back to their towns, and claim that casinos will hurt the lottery. Newsflash - real gamblers don't play the lottery because they know that's the worst odds you could find. I'd rather play slots!

It's not really as easy as "He could have vetoed it". The law was not a law itself, but was what's known as "Pork Fat Legislation". What this is is legislation that is put onto current bills in the House and/or Senate, that usually has nothing to do with one another. The reason that Bush senior vetoed the 1991 Civil Rights Act was because there was something like 9.2 Billion dollars worth of Pork Fat Legislation on there, including a 425 million dollar study on the methane levels released by Cattle.

This legislation was put onto the Port Security Bill, and in this day and age when everyone is ultra worried about terrorism, any President with half a brain would pass that law, even if it had some pork fat legislation on it that they didn't necessarily agree with.

Such is the ways of Capitol Hill.

shadesofgrey · #14 (**permalink**) 09-27-2007, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Ikkans

This legislation was put onto the Port Security Bill, and in this day and age when everyone is ultra worried about terrorism, any President with half a brain would pass that law, even if it had some pork fat legislation on it that they didn't necessarily agree with.

Such is the ways of Capitol Hill.

spot on... thats how it slipstreamed into legislation swiftly.

shadesofgrey · #15 (**permalink**) 09-27-2007, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by dad604

I would if the line up at the border doesn't take so long. I went across the border to Seattle to board cruise ship Saturday and it took 3 hours drive plus 3 hours wait at border.

well thats brilliant... lets see... crappy dollar... restrictive borders... US protected native casinos with no one calling from antigua?!!?

hmmm....