I'll never understand why sports gambling is the pariah of all gambling. Schools are funded by the worst forms of gambling- lotteries. Sports betting allows people to do actual research to be successful. Sports gambling awards smart people. Lotteries require zero skill (and therefore are much more prone to addiction).

But keep farking that chicken America.

downstairs: I'll never understand why sports gambling is the pariah of all gambling. Schools are funded by the worst forms of gambling- lotteries. Sports betting allows people to do actual research to be successful. Sports gambling awards smart people. Lotteries require zero skill (and therefore are much more prone to addiction).

But keep farking that chicken America.

It's a lot harder to cheat a lottery

/google "black sox scandal" for one reason sports betting got a bad rap

Insert obligatory Governor Christie FAT joke here.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: downstairs: I'll never understand why sports gambling is the pariah of all gambling. Schools are funded by the worst forms of gambling- lotteries. Sports betting allows people to do actual research to be successful. Sports gambling awards smart people. Lotteries require zero skill (and therefore are much more prone to addiction).

But keep farking that chicken America.

It's a lot harder to cheat a lottery

/google "black sox scandal" for one reason sports betting got a bad rap

As a White Sox fan since 1981, I am pretty well aware of what went down in 1919. And as a sports fan, I'm well aware it didn't stop there and continutes today. Legalizing it for the rest of America beyond Clark County won't increase or decrease throwing of games or points shaving by players, coaches, and refs.

Outside of hardcore republican cirles Christie is just not likable. His considerable record as a prosecutor is the only thing that gave him the popularity to win the governors office and it did not hurt that everyone hated Corzine.The only doom he would spell is for the Rmoney campaign. It might motivate the base a little bit but the problem is he would motivate democrats almost as much as Palin did.

This paragraph from TFA should tell you everything you need to know about the reasons behind the hatred for online gaming...

Lesniak said he believed Christie did not want to offend billionaire Adelson, Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s chairman and chief executive, who adamantly opposes online wagering and gave more than $21 million to Gingrich's abortive GOP presidential campaign. Gingrich dropped out Wednesday, and Romney may now be courting Adelson's support.

"You don't want a casino in every home," Adelson said in a recent interview with the Las Vegas Sun. He said online gaming would result in a 10 to 20 percent decrease in land-based casino revenue.

Remember folks, they're only for small government when they want it out of the way to screw over the little guy. When they need legislation to protect their business model (I'm looking at you RIAA, and you too, MPAA), they're all for big government.

Somacandra: Insert obligatory Governor Christie FAT joke here.

it will also spell doom for pudding...

thurstonxhowell: The idea of Chris Christie as VIP is a conservative masturbation fantasy, nothing more.

He called bullshiat on Sharia Law happening in the US. He already lost the support.

Somacandra: Insert obligatory Governor Christie FAT joke here.

He's playing Russian Roulette with his heart everyday.

TV's Vinnie: Like I described a R'MONEY/Christie match in an earlier thread: "Jerk and the Fat Man".

It's "Fake and the Fat Man", dammit!

Somacandra: Insert obligatory Governor Christie FAT joke here.

Governor Christie is so fat! When he sits around New Jersey, he sits AROUND New Jersey!

PLEASE take him off our hands.

We're crumbling under his weight. *waka waka*

Somacandra: Insert obligatory Governor Christie FAT joke here.

If Chris Christie gets the VP nod from Romney, it will spell doom.....

..... for All-You-Can-Eat buffets all across America.

No way they go with a white male.

YHIHF

For the second consecutive survey, registered voters say the state is headed in the right direction. Poll director Peter Woolley says that's a phenomenon not seen in eleven years of polling through four Governors.

Public employees disapprove of the Governor (35-52), but non-public employees approve by a 2-to-1 margin (60-29).

Awww....let me get my violin for the NJ public employees trough parasites.......


Y'all mad?

Citrate1007: Chris is just like any other Neocon governor. They only balance a state's budget by pushing the tax burdon to county and local governements which in turn have to raise property taxes, but at least the states books look good.

Combined with a new cap of only a maximum 2% increase allowed for local property taxes.

Geotpf: Giltric: For the second consecutive survey, registered voters say the state is headed in the right direction. Poll director Peter Woolley says that's a phenomenon not seen in eleven years of polling through four Governors.

Public employees disapprove of the Governor (35-52), but non-public employees approve by a 2-to-1 margin (60-29).

Awww....let me get my violin for the NJ public employees trough parasites.......


Y'all mad?

Teachers, police officers, and fire fighters are parasites now, apparently.

Yeah especially when longevity dictates pay and not ability.

Over 600 school districts each negotiating seperately...each with multiple layers of administrative management.

Pretty soon you have teachers making over 100k and only half their class graduating......and cops making 150k in areas with negligible crime....

Maybe the state needs to combine services...or share services...like what Democrat Steve Sweeney is proposing....seems like even democrats in NJ think there is a problem.

Average property tax n NJ is about 8k a year, do you live in NJ? If not, would you be comfortable paying more for the same services you get where you live now?

whidbey: Giltric: For the second consecutive survey, registered voters say the state is headed in the right direction. Poll director Peter Woolley says that's a phenomenon not seen in eleven years of polling through four Governors.

Public employees disapprove of the Governor (35-52), but non-public employees approve by a 2-to-1 margin (60-29).

Awww....let me get my violin for the NJ public employees trough parasites.......


Y'all mad?

Yes people working jobs to support their families are "parasites" if they work for the govt. Funny how your cleverly-out comment just backfires miserably in the end.

You ever live in NJ and have to go to the DMV or use any other office staffed with civil servants?

It's wierd how out one side of peoples mouths they complain about the ability of civil servants but then have to toe the party line when it comes to paying them large sums of money, and benefits that get passed to their spouse when they die, for terrible service.

The GOP uses tax cuts as a solution for evey problem...the democrats want to throw more money at every problem as a solution....and guarantee someone has a job despite their performance on the job.

Hot Rod Zoidberg: Giltric: For the second consecutive survey, registered voters say the state is headed in the right direction. Poll director Peter Woolley says that's a phenomenon not seen in eleven years of polling through four Governors.

Public employees disapprove of the Governor (35-52), but non-public employees approve by a 2-to-1 margin (60-29).

Awww....let me get my violin for the NJ public employees trough parasites.......


Y'all mad?

The only people who like Christie are the racist, sexist, homophobic, small-potatoes "businessmen" who scarf down more Fox News than Christie does with burgers. The assholes who whine about the property taxes on their overpriced McMansions, who whine about the public schools yet vote for their failure. Christie stole from the public schools and gave huge tax breaks to that disgusting mega-mall travesty in the Meadowlands. He made his career on being a lackey for the Bush Administration. I don't wish ill on most people, but I do with him and his supporters.

You mean the democratic sponsored legislation that passed with a veto proof majority by the democrat held house and senate that Christie signed into law?

I'll give you 2/10 for revisionist history

If you could have someohow blamed him for all the breaks and bailouts given to the Xanadu complex from 2003 on by Democratic govenors I could have given you an extra point or 2.

Do you have citations as him being a lackey for the Bush administration....or is that the tinfoil hat thing about how his name was on a list of people recommended for replacement but he wasn;t replaced?

My taxes were 16k on a 3/4 acre lot with a 1800 square foot home. Would you call that a McMansion? My double wide trailer "hunting lodge" in Potter County is 1900 square feet.