Ben Carson Is Correct About Muslims Holding Public Office

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by ebcorde

ha ha ha your Location is NY. Back up your talk and move to a red state that has no racing. Like get a real taste of Red State living.

You could have saved yourself a lot of typing and just wrote "You know, you're right."

[ebcorde]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

You could have saved yourself a lot of typing and just wrote "You know, you're right."

Maybe, like I'm here to argue with the moderator. Look I hated Bush for the war and I could not play my college football and soccer games anymore. The Canadian sites offer no good opportunities. I have no place to bet my games since 2006. Where can I bet that's safe and does not take the easy bets off the board?

And don't expect congress to do anything, once they pass a bill, it's not overturned a few years later.

as "red" as you are even you have to admit Republicans are not Horse racing friendly, come on man "fatso" Christie trying to kill Jersey Racing. I lived in Iowa , those dudes go crazy about gambling of any kind. They killed VLT's when I lived there after 3 months. I lived in Texas, near Sam Houston race track and gulf greyhound, thank god. The only game in town, 5k claimers back then and still today (come on man admit it 5k claimers suck).

oh and Virginia , please last time i was there a cop (with a big ole gun) told me to stop using the little $2.00 TV's if I was not paying and added in a "get your foot off the table" too. Dude, I never ever saw a cop with a gun enforce a TV rule in a OTB. Talking about "a turnoff" Every OTB in Virgina has an armed Cop walking around, don't get too loud, don't turn on a TV without paying, they send the cop after you. Talking about ruining the vibes! See they expect the bettors to start shooting and robbing patrons of their $2 winning tickets. That's red state thinking. I never went to a Horse race or OTB in Virgina after that.

[PaceAdvantage]

One would think the "freedom loving Democrats who embrace everyone and everything" could have easily opened up the gambling floodgates sometime after January 2009.

Are you telling me the evangelicals have a death grip on the Democrats too?

Or was it really something else pulling the strings behind the online gambling ban? Like maybe the casino lobby? Oh now...that couldn't be? And who is one of the biggest water carriers for the Casino lobby? The top Dem at the time back in 2009...Harry Reid? Oh no, that couldn't have had ANYTHING to do with it, could it?

But keep blaming George Bush and the evangelical right-wingers for preventing you from being able to bet everything online...I get a good laugh every time one of you lefties brings this up on here...

[ebcorde]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

One would think the "freedom loving Democrats who embrace everyone and everything" could have easily opened up the gambling floodgates sometime after January 2009.

Are you telling me the evangelicals have a death grip on the Democrats too?

Or was it really something else pulling the strings behind the online gambling ban? Like maybe the casino lobby? Oh now...that couldn't be? And who is one of the biggest water carriers for the Casino lobby? The top Dem at the time back in 2009...Harry Reid? Oh no, that couldn't have had ANYTHING to do with it, could it?

But keep blaming George Bush and the evangelical right-wingers for preventing you from being able to bet everything online...I get a good laugh every time one of you lefties brings this up on here...

I'm done with this conversation I won't win you over.

[PaceAdvantage]

There's nothing to win over. The facts aren't on your side.

I am talking specifically about this false notion that has been repeated here over and over again that Republicans and Evangelicals are the one responsible for our dearth of online gambling choices these days.

The fact that the Democrats were in pretty much complete control for years and nothing changed regarding this proves the point.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

The fact that the Democrats were in pretty much complete control for years and nothing changed regarding this proves the point.

Democrats are highly conflicted by legalized gambling, so it is hard to get a consensus on the issue. They are opposed to gambling because people don't know what is good for them, so the libs have to protect them from their own stupidity. On the other hand, they like legalize gambling because it provides more money for the libs to spend. Most libs can strongly support both views at the same time, and their vote depends on which way the wind is blowing at the moment.

[ebcorde]

Originally Posted by Clocker

Democrats are highly conflicted by legalized gambling, so it is hard to get a consensus on the issue. They are opposed to gambling because people don't know what is good for them, so the libs have to protect them from their own stupidity. On the other hand, they like legalize gambling because it provides more money for the libs to spend. Most libs can strongly support both views at the same time, and their vote depends on which way the wind is blowing at the moment.

yada yada yada. let's stay n the real world. why are there no racetracks in Virgina(Colonial closed), North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kansas?

[ebcorde]

complaining about democrats and social security. Do what my Amish neighbors do. Opt out of social security. They don't pay it.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by ebcorde

why are there no racetracks in Virgina(Colonial closed), North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kansas?

Bible Belt, where folks have historically liked their drinking and gambling under cover, unregulated, and untaxed.

[ebcorde]

David Brooks is fed up with today's Republican Party.

In a blistering New York Times column, Brooks accuses today's Republican Party of betraying the actual tenets of conservatism. "By traditional definitions," he writes, "conservatism stands for intellectual humility, a belief in steady, incremental change, a preference for reform rather than revolution, a respect for hierarchy, precedence, balance and order, and a tone of voice that is prudent, measured and responsible."

Over the past 30 years, or at least since Rush Limbaugh came on the scene, the Republican rhetorical tone has grown ever more bombastic, hyperbolic and imbalanced. Public figures are prisoners of their own prose styles, and Republicans from Newt Gingrich through Ben Carson have become addicted to a crisis mentality. Civilization was always on the brink of collapse. Every setback, like the passage of Obamacare, became the ruination of the republic. Comparisons to Nazi Germany became a staple.

This produced a radical mind-set.


Let me clear my throat. uhh hmmm.

[PaceAdvantage]

It probably started when every Republican or slightly right-leaning white person was branded a racist by Democrats...every Republican was branded "borderline brain-dead," John McCain, we were told, would be dead before his first term ended if he were elected, because he was TOO OLD, and all the other bullshit garbage that the left and its sycophantic media rammed down our throats ever since poor Al Gore had the election "stolen" from him back in 2000.

Or maybe it started when poor, poor Willie J. Clinton was being railroaded because of his poor choice in philandering partners.

David Brooks can suck it nonetheless.

[Clocker]

Originally Posted by ebcorde

Let me clear my throat. uhh hmmm.

Maybe when you finish clearing your throat you can cite the author and source of the unattributed material you posted there.

[NJ Stinks]

Originally Posted by Clocker

Democrats are highly conflicted by legalized gambling, so it is hard to get a consensus on the issue. They are opposed to gambling because people don't know what is good for them, so the libs have to protect them from their own stupidity. On the other hand, they like legalize gambling because it provides more money for the libs to spend. Most libs can strongly support both views at the same time, and their vote depends on which way the wind is blowing at the moment.

You haven't a clue. Big, bad, and Blue NJ passes every gambling referendum put before it. Even legalized sports betting received over 60% of the votes cast.

"highly conflicted" - hope you don't pay anybody to write this drivel for you.

[ArlJim78]

When is David Brooks not upset with the Republican party? what else bothers him? If you polled conservatives not many would identify with his definition from a by gone era. "Respect for hierarchy"? yeah right.

[Tom]

Let me clear my throat. uhh hmmm.

Very good.
Now try your head.