The End??
Saturday, September 30, 2006

WOW...What a shitty way to wake up. I am almost numb...Since I read almost everything most all day, I was surprisingly unaware of Sen. Frist's latest underhanded (and successful) attempt to outlaw online gaming. Many other folks have written and commented on this, and they are all better writers than I. Check out http://www.upforanything.net/poker/ and of course http://www.pokerblog.com/ . As usual, Pauly manages to inject some humor on a serious subject with this gem--- http://taopoker.blogspot.com/ .

Some random (and personal) thoughts---

---I feel bad for some friends of mine who play online poker as a full-time career

---you have to wonder if this legislation will stick

---I have no doubt that the hard core players (like me and some friends) will be able to work around this. The problem is that the recreational player (aka fish) will not go to that much trouble.

---I think we have seen the top of the poker boom...I believe it was last Thursday...

There is more, but I'm already tired...

Re: Frist, I did find this little gem earlier this morning...It's great to know we are looked after by such an upstanding an honorable man...

Frist is an animal lover who said his decision to become a doctor was clinched when he helped heal a friend's dog. But Frist now found himself forced to kill animals during medical research. And his new dilemma was finding enough animals to kill. Soon, he began lying to obtain more animals. He went to the animal shelters around Boston and promised he would care for the cats as pets. Then he killed them during experiments. "It was a heinous and dishonest thing to do," Frist wrote. "I was going a little crazy." Killing, dishonesty, insanity. Sounds like he was a good Republican even back then.

I found the above at http://www.dailykos.net/archives/000715.html