Shooting at Las Vegas casino

I don’t get it? They say let’s ban them, and you’re pissed at them?

 

As always, the killing industry benefits from tragedy. Another reason nothing will get done.

 

You can break close to even in it, over the long haul, once you figure it out. But definitely not the road to affluence, like Texas Hold 'Em or something where you compete against other players would be.

 

They didn't say ban them. They said "regulate" them, while blaming Obama.

Then they used this occasion to call for a national right-to-carry law, which would have saved ... let me add this up ... zero people who were being machine-gunned down from a hidden nest 32 stories in the sky.

Fuck the NRA.

 

Wake me up when Planned Parenthood agrees that late term abortions need to be regulated.

 

I appreciate the link, but I'm not sure it answers the question.

I think these vague descriptions of his real estate success skirt around a central question: how did he first come to own all these properties? Brief stints as a mailman and IRS agent aren't a normal launching point for being able to buy up real estate across the Southwest. It just feels like there's a significant connector missing from the story told thus far.

 

I gambled at Mandalay Bay one Saturday morning a long time ago when MommaQuant was in LV for an AIA convention and I had tagged along to provide emotional support. One of the other conventions going on -- in LV there's always more than one -- was some shopping center owner/manager event, mostly attended by people who owned retail real estate. A handful of early-30s types from that convention -- they had their nametags on -- were playing at my table and I was struck by how much cash these guys were putting out there.

I was, am and will remain a red-chip ($5) bettor. These guys were betting $200, $300 a hand and not batting an eye as they got their asses handed to them. Time and time again that weekend, I saw people from that convention -- young, old and in-between -- having a grand old time at an awfully expensive rate. I came to the conclusion that there must be a lot of money -- likely a lot of untaxed cash -- in that business.

 

No, we really haven't, but damn you are determined to back his play on this one.

 

Deflect! Deny! Run away!

Once again, proof that we have found a position that YF can't defend, so he is trying to change the subject.

 

I don't know what that has to do with the price of tea in China, but OK.

 

New thread. ISIS continues to claim credit.

 

They’re a single issue advocacy group. Groups like this rarely compromise at all.

Hell, it would be like the ACLU refusing to defend speech they don’t like.

This is a big deal, and I’d think you would give them credit.