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Gambling is just an affair.".....Mark Benvenga (8.30.03) that there is no value in a losing ticket"...Dan Powell (10.30.03) "THE INTEGRITY OF THE SPORT IS EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY"
____________ The people who make the money in racing are the bookies, the boarding farms, the bloodstock agents, the auction comapanies, the vets,and the stallion owners. A small number of trainers get rich, but most, like breeders, have a marginal existence."...Stsimon (11.07.03) ____________
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"...Quack, Quack!....US Supreme Court Justice Scalia...02/11/04
"Outscourcing is probably a plus for the economy in the long run"..Gregory Mankiw (White House Chief Economist)..02/10/04
In reference to the funding and promotion of events like the Sunshine Millions (which pitted Florida and California breds competing for $3.6 million in prize money) at the expense of the overnight races and the traditional stakes events, "My opinion is that to see inferior horses running for that amount of money is wrong,".... "They could have had quality horses running for the purses they deserve to run for, not inferior horses running for unrealistic purses. Quality horses should run for quality purses.".....Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally (Jan 2004) ____________
"Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It's not fair that some men should be happier than others."... Oscar Wilde
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear as it is, infinite"....William Blake
"there are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors"......Jim Morrison
The Democratic presidential hopeful used the government's latest unemployment numbers to criticize Bush's job record. The figures show the jobless rate stayed at 5.6 percent last month, with the economy creating just 21,000 new jobs Kerry said at that rate, "The Bush administration won't create its first job for more than 10 years." Democrats have noted that more than 2 million jobs have been lost during the administration. ____________
"One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age."......Danny McGoorty, Irish Pool Player
"We have horses. We just have to make sure the horses are healthy. Horses are good but if they're hurt they don't run the race. They get scratched"- -- Manager Felipe Alou, speaking about the SF Giants pitchers ____________ ____________
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"Look back at man's struggle for freedom, trace his
present day strength to its source, and you'll find the his pathway to glory is
strewn with the bones of the horse."....(Anonymous)
___________ "Every day I walk into a track I know this could .____________ "A longshot is just a favorite that got overlooked".....Randy Brownlee (07.04.04) ___________
as Winning on others"........bobby z (07.09.04) .____________
"I'm sure glad we were able to liberate Kuwait and make it a free country!" - Michael Moore ____________
____________ 'A successful comedian is someone who can make fun of themselves and allow others to laugh with them (and not at them). This is perhaps the difference between Bush and Kerry. Bush attempts to include humour in his speeches, but they are usually jokes aimed at others (rivals and world leaders) and are normally accompanied by his trademark "smirk". This kind of humour is more insulting than funny. If the American voters consider humour an important factor in a President it would seem they have a choice. The subtle humour of John Kerry or the condescending jokes of George Bush.' Excerpt from: http://www.profindpages.com/news/2004/08/26/MN319.htm August 28, 2004 ____________
Every gun that is made, every warship
launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953 ____________ "Only the educated are free." "To announce that there must be no President Theodore Roosevelt __________ "The Republicans have a history of
promoting Pa.
Governor
Ed Rendell on FOX NEWS __________ "Force always attracts those of low morality." -- Albert Einstein ___________ "A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future." .......Leonard Bernstein ___________ "The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf ___________ "Naturally
the common people don't want war....but after all it is the leaders of a country
who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament, or a
communist dictatorship. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to
danger. It works the same in every country." __________ "The
lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from
the political, economic and military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes
vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for
the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth
becomes the greatest enemy of the State." _________ "We
should not march into Baghdad....To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our
coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant
into a latter-day Arab hero....assigning young soldiers into a fruitless hunt
for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be
an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world
into even greater instability." _______ "I see in the
near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me to tremble for
the safety of my country. The money powers prays upon the nation in times of
peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It denounces, as public
enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by
working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the
hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." _______ "I am one of
those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather
a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the
administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the
country." _______ "A patriot must
always be ready to defend his country against his government." _______ "Those who cast
the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." ________ "The public has a duty to watch its Government closely and keep it on the right track." --Lieutenant Gen. Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, Director, NSA, _NSA Newsletter_, June 1997 ________ "To see a world in a grain of sand and a
heaven in a wildflower, _________
Jon Steward on Bush's Inauguration: _________
In a 1946 essay titled "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell observed that all political language is designed "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." __________
"Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?" - 1876 OED __________
"Después de ver a Estado de presidente Bush del discurso de la unión,
ahora sé que desarreglan al hombre." Fidel Castro De Febrero El 2
De 2005
__________ "Between the iron gates of fate, KING CRIMSON: Epitaph Including March For No
Reason And _________ "Boy, I feel safer now that Martha Stewart is behind bars. O.J. & Kobe are walking around; Ossama Bin Laden is still out there, and they take the one woman in America willing to cook, clean and work in the yard and haul her ass to jail." ....Tim Allen 2004 __________ “From time to time everyone goes bust – you will be back in the game before you know it”...................... from the movie, Rounders _________ "The life of a gambler can exist only if he/she truly
believes that he/she can _________ "There are worse things than war until you've actually
been in one."...trof .6/28/05.
_________ “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you
commit atrocities.” --Voltaire “The words 'LOCK' and 'MEADOWS' should never appear in the same sentence!” "Amen" --Roy McMahon 01.21.06 _________ But there is another explanation for what is happening at Gulfstream, and it can be gleaned from another of the track's features, the Horse Wizard. Stronach conceived of a device that marries horse racing with a slot machine and championed its development by Magna engineers. The result is farcical. Bettors can wager only to win, place, and show on races that the Horse Wizard selects. A year ago, Laurel unveiled an upscale room filled with Horse Wizards and quietly closed the facility because nobody played the machines..... The explanation for the Horse Wizards' presence is the same as the reason for everything else that doesn't make sense here - and it's not because of a rational master plan. Speaking about the Horse Wizards, Magna executives acknowledged privately that no one can ever tell the chairman, "Frank, this is a bad idea." When one of my friends surveyed the facilities here, he asked, bewildered, "Whom did they build this place for?" That's the $171 million question. It's not for people who love Thoroughbreds. It's not for people who come to Florida to enjoy the weather. It's certainly not for the retirees who have always constituted a large segment of Gulfstream's clientele. The new Gulfstream is a monument to misguided ideas about what a racetrack should be ...............excerpts from Andy Beyer Column January 2006 Wash. Post. _________ "Unless an older horse is of graded stakes caliber or limited to racing on grass, the winter meeting in Florida is no longer attractive or practical. Nine races today at Aqueduct offer purses totaling $330,000. Ten races at Gulfstream total $211,000. For many owners and trainers, the stark economics of racing have caught and overtaken the luxury of sunshine"........Paul Moran at Newsday in NY 02.20.06 _________ The answer Swami says: "Week 17" The question: "What is the only way the Cleveland Browns will play in January?" ....Dave Powell January 2006 _________
_________ "You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but _________ "If I sound ticked off, I apologize. But if there's one
thing that chaps my _________ "The race is not to the swift; nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet" Murphy's Law _________ "In my opinion, maybe the worst ally Israel has had in Washington has been the George W. Bush administration, which hasn't worked to bring a permanent peace to Israel," ...President Carter said Friday during a stop in West Michigan. 08.04.06 _________
"Sixty percent of our business resides in the Pittsburgh market, and they drive past The Meadows to get to us," ........Robert Marshall, President and General Manager of Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center said on 07.21.06 _________ "I've spent most of my life around horse
racing and racehorses, _________ The 1st time the USA was to "cut and run". US President Ronald Reagan ordered military personnel to begin pulling out of the area over a week ago following a recent upsurge in terrorist attacks. The withdrawal ends 18 months of conflict in a country which has been torn apart by war with Israel. February 23rd, 1984. "Once the terrorist attacks started there was no way that we could really contribute to the original mission by staying there as a target just bunkering down and waiting for further attacks............I don't think we have lost as yet, although I know things don't look too bright. As long as there is a chance we are not bugging out. ...............We are moving to deploy into a more defensive position.".......US President Ronald Reagan 1984
_________ "...It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man............." ...US President Franklin D Roosevelt, June 27, 1936
_________ "I don't care where stupidity comes from, it is still funny" Dave Powell, February 05, 2008 _________ When asked about which track was his favorite at
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