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In the course of human events it becomes inevitable to stand up and take action. Some actions require
the dissemination of information to inform and educate the masses.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is at a crossroads. First there was tha Mashpee Wampanoag Middleborough
Resort Casino that has failed under a February US Supreme Court ruling. Our Governor Deval Patrick set out last year to bring 3 commercial resort casinos. That crashed and burned
under senior legislative weight. Now gambling bills arise again. Casinos, racinos and/or slot parlors. The
battle is continual. I hope to display and comment upon effectively quotations from various individuals their convictions
and attitudes on this pressing subject. May it educate, inform and entertain you thoroughly.
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Slap on the Back Quote
"The public has an important and substantial interest in curtailing the proliferation of illegal gambling,"
- Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum
Don't you know it. Keep up the good work AG. Don't let wishy washy governors cave to
casino tribes and their enablers at the federal level. Read the whole story here.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Who is the Lobby Quote
"So, why on earth are some of our elected officials working so hard to bring to Pennsylvania (or
even here in Massachusetts) an industry that profits from the spread of gambling addiction and bankrupts the cities
that host them? Because, they have been seduced by industry-sponsored reports, flashy powerpoint presentations and the endless
lobbying of the casino industry." - Anne Dicker, Candidate for State Senate, Co-founder of Casino-Free Philadelphia
Defending several lawsuits brought by allegedly compulsive gamblers, and helping many clients develop
meaningful, responsible gaming programs. (So much for helping
the little guy.)
Defending against U.S. Treasury enforcement proceedings for failures to file currency transaction
reports, and pressing the industry’s concerns before Treasury on "suspicious activity reporting." (Being
in the banking industry, this concerns me.)
Advocating before the U.S. Interior Department concerning tribal gaming compacts and the designation
of initial reservations. (I wonder what tribes they have helped con the BIA into recognition.)
Defending a casino developer against a multimillion dollar claim by a local government for failing
to win a state license for a proposed casino project.
Defending a gaming company before the Federal Election Commission against charges of improper campaign
donations.
Ropes & Gray is the only national law firm that is a member of the American Gaming Association,
which also is a client of the firm on a number of matters. (This tells it all.)
I think by their own admission, we know who these lawyers stand for on the issues in caasino
gambling. They are for the growth of gaming at all possible expense. The problem gambler
is nothing, the local municipalities are nothing and election and banking laws are to be worked around, not enforced.
Is it any wonder that in the last 2 years employees of Ropes & Gray have given over $30,000.00 to both Patrick's &
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray's political campaigns. They would give more if it weren't for $500.00 cap per year. But who
needs to give more money to campaigns when you help them make a name for them with casino gambling saving the commonwealth
and who knows what else long after being out of office. Diane is already a partner at the firm. I wonder what
benefits she gets for just being there at the right place at the right time. There will be nothing coming back to the rest
of us, if casinos come here except the headaches. This is all about big casino companies, their investors, their
lawyers and their political puppets doing their bidding.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Corruption & Crime Quotes
"(gambling) has more of a history of involvement in corruption than any other industry." - Former Illinois
Sen. Paul Simon in testimony before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission in 1997
"There are certain businesses that many would say government should not be involved in. Government should
not be manufacturing guns ... growing tobacco and selling cigarettes. This is selling a service that is potentially addictive
where the house always wins. Government shouldn't ever be the house." - Jeannette Tamayo, general counsel for
the Chicago Crime Commission.
If any place knows about crime and corruption, it is Chicago. Not that if full of it now.
I'm talking about its history. As reported here in the Chicago Journal, it seems they are going through very similar political pains in advancing casino gaming agendas. Illinois just so
happens to be the home state of Steve Norton. Mr. Norton is a casino developer who owns options on 30 acres in the Hicks-Logan
section of New Bedford. He lives in Alton, Ill. He likes to opin on how lucky we would be to have casinos. He should stay at home and keep his trap out of our business. He probably
is making hay over there too, but hey, over here he doesn't have to live next to one. As my friend and CasinoFacts cohort Frank Dunphy states:
"Let me see, I own land which is part of a proposed casino site, in which I could make a substancial amount of money.
I live in Illinois, so I won't have to deal with any of the impacts. Maybe thats why the head of the A.G.A. (American Gamming
Assoc.) said he would not want a casino in his community (listen here)? Mr. Norton you must be dizzy from all that spinning."
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
It's only Business Quote
“While we want to expand our business, we also want to combat compulsive gambling and expand access to those services,”
- Dan Rosenfeld, a spokesman for the Massachusetts state lottery.
In today's Boston Herald. This is so outrageous. I would like State Treasurer Tim Cahill to answer this one question: How many more gambling
addicts is an acceptable amount to have in the state and treated with taxpayer funds, some of which is received through gambling
revenue?
Why do people have to stand in line waiting to get their coffee and donuts so some poor soul blows
his SSI check on more scratch tickets? The state is already saturated with lottery agents. How can the state sell
anymore? This all seems to be a ploy to try and cut the loses that could occur if class III gaming w/ slots are allowed
in the state. There will be a significant loss in revenue. Cahill is trying to hedge his bets.
The Taunton/Raynham Dog Track owned by George Carney is on of the top, if not the #1, lottery sales
agents in the state. He wants at least slots and at the most a casino resort. Slots, being the poor man's gamble
of choice will suck the life out of the current #1 choice in the state, the scratch and game tickets put out by the Mass.
State Lottery. Why save your change to scratch when you can go for broke by putting it into a slot. Some lottery
money partly goes back to cities & towns where they are generated, but a slot will be the gift that keeps on giving to
the gambling tycoons like Carney.
Also:
The primary effort would be to sell scratch tickets in vending machines, but officials said they would
be open to sales of Megabucks, Mass Millions and other games.
Vending machines? You mean the ones where any under aged person can go up to the machine
and buy a ticket and not get carded. Let's have vending machines for liquor sales too. And, let's bring back the
cigarette vending machines, also. I've been through this already with my previous post for the day.
Insidious Quotes
"With all the growth going on, every casino has to bring in new players or we'll see a drop in everyone's market
share. It's critical to keep bringing new players into casinos rather than recycle those who are already there."
- Frank Legato, managing editor of Global Gaming Business.
"The slot makers need to figure out how to develop these younger players. We need it for the bottom line."
- George Maloof Jr., president of the Palms Casino Resort, a popular Las Vegas hangout for people under 40.
Read it all here. Let's brainwash... I mean "develop" young gamblers. Why is it in this country it is not okay (and against the
law in many cases) to lure the young and impressionable with cigarettes and alcohol, but it is okay to get them into a casino
with slot machines geared specifically for the video game crowd? Having 4 children who adore video games and since
I personally have grown up from Pong to Super Mario Galaxy, this is the most insidious thing that anyone could ever come
to mind. Do these people ever stop figuring out ways to invent more evil for a quick buck in their pocket? I have
a hard enough time with game rooms giving tickets to win cheaply manufactured toys from video games and such. What
more do these greedy tycoons need? These tycoons are lower than the odds of actually winning at these things.
They will do whatever it takes for a buck from your pocket to theirs. They sucker indian tribes into bad deals and now they want my first, second, third and fourth born, also. ERRRRRRRRR! Can you tell I'm mad?
Monday, December 24, 2007
What I Want for Christmas
11:41 am est
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Slap on the Back Quote
2:08 pm est
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Public Health Trust Fund Math
Dr. Judy Ann Bigby, secretary of health and human services, testified in favor of the casinos, stating
that the proposal includes 2.5 percent of the casinos' gross revenues -- or an estimated $50 million -- toward a Public Health
Trust Fund that would help negate the negative impact of the casinos, such as supporting compulsive gambling programs.
Let's do some more calculations added on to my previous Casino Math. We will have only "a few" problem gamblers in the state according to Devalue Patrick. That would be approximately
158,727 people. With $50 million estimated for the trust fund, that makes a total of $315.01 allotment for each problem
gambler in the state. WOW! what a payoff... not. Of course, that number does not mention if that is per year. But
even if it was, that is a drop in the bucket. I thought Dr. Bigby was to first do no harm when she
took her oath. She is supposed to be treating people, not the ills.
12:15 pm est
MRA Quote
9:55 am est
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Massachusetts Economy Quote
"I wouldn't want to build an economy around that. What you want to have is a long-term sustainable economy with
high wages and income growth, and I'd rather be Massachusetts than Nevada." - Robert D. Atkinson, the president
of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Casinos are what they are. Suppliers of low paying service jobs. You can't build an economy
in Mass. on low paying jobs. It is not just the number of jobs in the state, but the value of those jobs. As also
stated below from the same article:
Income is a better measure, giving a sense of the quality and quantity of jobs, they said. For example,
Nevada leads the nation in job growth, but much of it comes from lower-paying service jobs in casinos, hotels, and restaurants.
With a less than 5% unemployment rate, job growth in this state can only be accomplished by
increasing higher paying jobs to be able to afford the high cost of living here and increasing the wages of those who are
already here. Casino economies are fools gold.
Quote of the Day
"the most regressive form of taxation ever invented by mankind." - Sen. Susan Tucker, D-Andover,
called casinos at the Beacon Hill hearing of the Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets Committee.
Sue, is there any way you can be more blunt?
Lies and the Liars that tell them
If the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe continues along the federal route, there will be no stopping a casino
because the “door is already open” to Class III gaming, according to the U.S. Department of Interior.
Because the state
allows Class III gaming with casino nights, then the tribe can have a Class III casino, said Gary Garrison, a spokesman for
the federal Office of Indian Affairs.
“If we put our heads in the sand and sit on our hands and do nothing, in the
next three to seven years we'll have a full-blown Indian casino,” said state Sen. Michael Morrissey, a Quincy Democrat and
gambling proponent.
Lies, all lies. No, the casino Mashpees cannot have class III gaming
because the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says they can't. In Texas v. US Dept. of Interior the tribes in Texas had the same argument and the court shut them down. No class III
if only class II is allowed, even with minor exceptions that both Texas & Mass. have. The court concluded:
The Secretarial Procedures violate the unambiguous language of IGRA and congressional intent by bypassing the
neutral judicial process that centrally protects the state’s role in authorizing tribal Class III gaming... The Secretarial Procedures are invalid and constitute an unreasonable interpretation of IGRA. When, as here, “the intent
of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously
expressed intent of Congress."
No deal, no dice, NO CASINO!
10:43 am est
Stupid is... Quote
"There's been gambling in this state since I was a child. When I was a kid, a teenager growing up in Dorchester
60 years ago, my father used to go to Suffolk (Downs) almost every day. Gambling has been going on here forever."
- Sheldon Adelson, chief executive of gambling giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. Testifying on Beacon Hill yesterday.
Sheldon, how can I explain this so your simple, greedy mind can understand? Just because others
are doing it, that does not mean everyone else should do it or even be encouraged to do it. Prostitution has been around
forever, let's legalize that too. Recreational drugs have been around forever, should we legalize those?
We know the havoc and destruction these things leave on many of those who participate in those things, not to mention their
families. You don't get it because your sad life has been full of it since you were a child. You want casinos
because it makes you rich. You don't give a rat's you know what about the rest of us.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Tourist Destinations and Casino Math
"As you know, we proposed to authorize up to three resorts with casinos in the Commonwealth. They would be destinations
for tourists, business travelers and conventioneers as well as residents. They would be dispersed in different regions of
the state to take advantage of differences in the tourist market." - Gov. Deval Patrick, Testimony to the Joint
Legislative Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets 12/18/2007
Devalue, you mean we are going to divide our entire tourism industry between 3 resorts? How
will this be done evenly? Will their convention centers take away from Bayside Expo, Tsongas Arena or Dunk'n Donuts
Center? Of course they will. I didn't know Palmer had a booming tourism industry. What is there to see?
"Hey honey! Let's go to downtown Springfield after we finish at the craps table." This is no slam on Springfield
or any other town in the state, but there is nothing else to see out in these places. Besides, resort casinos are self
contained and I don't think you would ever get the traffic wandering out especially with the weather we have had the past
week. The towns around Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun are not experiencing real economic growth or revival.
"The communities around the Connecticut casinos are functioning. In fact, you may have seen in the news recently
that in response to our proposal, economic leaders in Connecticut are suggesting that their state authorize the construction
of another casino.They see the upside that we do."
No, Devalue, their growth is not in the casino communities. The only way for the
state's economy will grow is to add more casinos. It is like any addict. To survive is to increase the dosage.
Look to what is happening in Illinois. Conn. does not want to lose it's suppliers. They lost sight of finding and keeping productive industies for their
state. Devalue is heading down the same track. Once you get casinos, you can't get rid of them.
"Hundreds of thousands of our residents visit Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun regularly and 1 in 4 Massachusetts
residents says they make an annual trip to the casinos. The point is: Massachusetts gambles today. For over 90% of those who
do, it is harmless entertainment."
Time for casino math. 25% of Mass. residents gamble, approx. 1,587,275 people.
10% have a gambling problem, 158,727 people. Only a few people according to Gov. Patrick. Define few,
governor? We do know only a few problem gamblers get treatment and at what cost to us all, let alone their
friends and family that are affected? 158 thousand is an epidemic, not a harmless few to say the least.
Whose numbers should we trust?
"There's no shortage of hyperbole, but, excuse the pun, we're not betting on hyperbole; we're betting on real revenues. "If
there ever was a need for numbers, it's certainly around the casino debate. But we need independent numbers." - Michael
J. Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation
Article Here
There is no logical reason we should only trust the casino industry for casino revenue numbers.
They have the ethical integrity of Ebenezor Scrooge (before 3 spirits). We already know that the investors will milk
the cow dry before giving the state a dime. What do deval and all other pro-casino pols look to gain on the backs of
the common man. I trust those who have seen what casinos have done to their communities first, before any paid lobbyist
and Kool-Aid juiced pol.
Monday, December 17, 2007
The Sky is Falling Quote:
“I'm sick and tired of the pace it's been going. And I don't believe that a casino can
get into Middleboro for at least 10 or 12 years. I want to bridge the gap between the governor's five-year proposal for casinos
by allowing slot machines at the four tracks. Without this, there's going to be nothing for five years. Chapter 70 aid
to education could suffer, irretrievably." - State Rep. David Flynn, D-Bridgewater
On filing legislation
to add 2,500 slot machines in the state's dog & horse tracks.
The Brockton Enterprise 11/7/2007
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Children are not going to get educated!
We can save the state's dying racetrack gaming industry, we have the technology. Doctor get me slots now! Save
the racetracks, save the world.
What is the rush Rep. Chicken Flynn? Since when does anything rush through on Beacon
Hill? I think you need to rush to the men's room and relieve yourself of all the Kool-Aid you've been drinking. |
10:23 pm est
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Quote & Counter Quote
"I'm all for it. It's a way to bring
some money back into the Commonwealth." – State Rep. Robert Nyman, Hanover
Some money, but never enough to counter the other things casino resorts bring, like excessive
traffic, crime, beaurocracy, back room deals, bankruptcies, broken homes, over burdened services, addiction, etc. There are some things you just cannot mitigate. Quality of
life is the big one.
“But at the end of the day, the house wins. And the state isn't the house."
– State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, Boston
“The house” always wins. Check out here what the beloved investors of the casino Mashpees do in Connecticut and will do here, if they get their
way in Middleborough. They will make their money first, tribe second, state third
and residents in any form of mitigation or tax relief.. dead last with empty pockets.
11:57 am est
Friday, December 14, 2007
Fortune Teller Quote
In today's Boston Glob:
State Treasurer Tim Cahill predicted casinos could "produce
a tremendous amount of revenue" & "I think they will be very, very successful," he said.
Oooh Magic Conch, will I ever make millions of dollars at one of these grand casinos?
NO! But the casino investors will... and more.
Casino revenues are not the panacea in solving the so called budget short falls. It hasn't helped
any state yet. Mass. DOR is going to take in more money this year than they did last year and the only reason
it is not enough is because the morons on Beacon Hill keep making the budget bigger than what comes in. For crying out
loud. Cut the spending or at least only increase it by the amount of the increased revenue to be taken in.
I balance my budget every year. Businesses have to balance their budget every year. Why can't the government do
that? Oh, that's right, I'm talking about the government. I predict there will be not crisis, if the state government
would spend within it's means.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
It is all in Gov. Devalue Patrick's plan as we can see from this Boston Globe article about commuter rail expansion to the south coast:
Patrick is committed to a $1.4 billion rail expansion in the southeast region, saying it is critical
to the area's economy. The new service is not expected to be up and running until December 2016.
During a session in Stoughton last week, (South Coast Rail manager Kristina) Egan
referred to the casino proposed for Middleborough as well as the governor's plan for three geographically placed casinos
as "the elephant in the room." She said consideration of the casino issue and rail issue are currently
independent of each other (I don't believe it).
(Greg) Guimond (of SRPEDD) pointed out that rail
already runs from Boston down to Middleborough, with a station nearby on the Lakeville line.
"There's actually a potential to have two casinos in this region, with another being in Raynham, Fall
River, or New Bedford," Guimond said. "We would want public transportation to large facilities like that."
The "elephant in the room" is that the administration is practically expecting 2 casinos for
the south coast, one for the casino Mashpees in Middleborough and the other in another up for bid community. We all
know what elephants can do. They look very entertaining at the circus, right up until the elephant figures out
what is really going on and starts trampling the trainers and any other unsuspecting soul in its way. It will continue
to destroy, maim and kill only until you do one thing, KILL IT DEAD! I don't see anything in Patrick's 3 casino plan that calls for the eventual demise of casino gambling if it gets out of hand, do you? The new gaming commission is
supposed to be able to rein in troubling elephants, but surely they will be disarmed with no 12 gage to rid the wild beasts.
Middleborough's agreement with the casino Mashpees also has no exit strategy. Once the elephant is in the room, forget about trying to get it out.
Devalue's plan for rail expansion and casinos are interconnected. He falsely believes
that casinos will bring prosperous economic development and the rail expansion will feed that development, at least Greg Guimond
of SRPEDD thinks so. Gov. Patrick and New Bedford Scott Lang need the casino to feed the rail extension and the rail
extension to feed the casino elephant. For the life of me I don't see how extending the rail to New Bedford will help
them economically even without a casino in the mix. In theory it looks like it would work, but the majority of people
taking the rail will be heading up to Boston to work, not the other way around. There is no business in New Bedford that
attracts workers. An example is the rail line to Providence (Twin Rivers next door). The majority of riders
come up to work in Boston, not the other way around. New Bedford pols want a casino because they have been incapable
of attracting productive industries or businesses to the area. Their warped thinking is if you can't bring in good economic
businesses, then let's bring in an elephant instead. Grab your extra large pooper scooper and your 12 gage, Casey
Junior is coming down the track.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Outrageous Quote
“In a state of Massachusetts’ size and per capita personal income, tax revenue and economic development
could be significantly increased by creating at least one additional license.” - Christiansen Capital Advisors
As reported in the Boston Herald, that is all we need is someone to say we need more. Three from Patrick, one from the casino Mashpees and one more
so they can suck the state's already allocated economy dollars to give it to some greedy casino investors. I wouldn't
take advise from these guys on how to use the toilet, let alone how to spend our hard earned cash at a casino. Idiots!
Too Little, Too Late Quote
"I am highly opposed to Connecticut becoming the gambling capital of the world. We need
to continue to look at the social impacts of the people in this state." - Conn. state Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford
from the Hartford Courant & The Boston Globe
The battle is on and we don't have a "done deal" anywhere in Massachusetts yet. It is a little
late for the saps in Conn. They really didn't see it coming when Foxwoods only started as a bingo hall. Now they
are trying to stop the bleeding. They list all the pain that casinos have caused (article here) in their state and are now trying deperately to contain it, to no avail.
The creation of Foxwoods, located on the Mashantucket Pequots' sovereign land, has resulted in a "dramatic
increase" in calls to the Ledyard police since its 1986 debut and subsequent expansions, said Sgt. John Rich, the resident
state trooper who runs the Ledyard Police Department.
Ledyard, which had fewer than 15,000 residents in 2000, according to that year's census, is not only
home to Foxwoods, but sits a stone's throw away from Montville's Mohegan Sun casino.
Ledyard's 21-officer department typically investigates nearly 400 car accidents each year, and saw
six fatal crashes in the 14 months between February 2006 and April 2007, Rich said.
"It would logically follow that if there are more visitors coming to Foxwoods because of the MGM expansion,
we will have more traffic and more accidents or traffic-related-type incidents (OUIs maybe),"
he said.
As the casino has grown in scope and popularity, so has the demand on the Police Department, which
received 1,700 more calls in 2006 than it did in 2003, Rich said. It has since hired two new officers and plans to add two
more next year, Rich said.
Look what we have to look forward to becoming, if we let just one casino in this state.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Slap on the Back Quote
"Casinos are necessarily parasitic from other economic activity -- and indeed from families'
savings." - Frederick Clarkson
Beautiful Vaults
Slot machines are sometimes called "beautiful vaults" in the industry because they bring in nearly
three-quarters of the roughly $60 billion in gambling revenue at American casinos. - Boston Globe, 12/10/2007
75% of gambling revenues are from the slots, the most addictive form of gambling. Get the kids
while their young. If the media and the bleeding hearts would go after the gaming industry like they do the tobacco
industry in targeting young people, we wouldn't be having this discussion. It is bad enough that the elderly and the
lower class throw their futures away into these machines, now they want our children also.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
The New Buffalo
"The casino is the new buffalo and the hard-won property holdings of the tribes are now up for
grabs in the high stakes world of gaming. Today’s General George Armstrong Custer would be armed with a calculator and contracts.
His regiment would consist of lawyers, accountants and lobbyists." - Peter Kenney, Cape Cod News
Peter Kenney has it right. It is amazing how even the casino wamps (I have no problem with real Wampanoag indians)
are so high strung and so high on their sovereignty, that any critique of their position is considered racist to them. If
they want to be a true sovereign nation and not want their neighbors butting in or the federal government, then I suggest
they renounce their US citizenship rights and apply for foreign visas to get around. Then we can put up a fence around their
reservation, have boarder control agents and make them live as a real sovereign nation.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Slap on the Back Quote
“That’s one of the most productive rejections I’ve ever had in my life. Now, maybe this hearing
will be just a magic show, rather than a three-ring circus.” - State Sen. Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford),
a gaming skeptic who agreed to co-chair the hearing to examine casino economics
The Herald reports that the Donald is not going to show up to the December 18 hearing at the state house with all the other dealers of
casino Kool-Aid. Good! This hearing will be a magic show. All pro-casino promises are smoke & mirrors.
I am sure we can expect some hard questions coming from Sen. Montigny. Sic'm Mark!
Friday, December 7, 2007
Quote from our northern neighbor.
"When I was part of an anti-poverty organization called the Association for the Defence of Social
Rights, there was a concern about impact of gambling had on people's lives. We wanted to understand what was going on
at the Casino de Lac Leamy. By its obstinacy and refusal to provide any information, Loto-Québec created the issue of
government transparency. If there is to be any form of honest public debate on the issue of the role of the state in promoting
gambling this debate must have all the information, otherwise it will be limited." - Antipoverty activist Bill
Clennett
From The Ottawa Citizen on how a casino in Canada is unwilling to disclose the number of suicide attempts that occur at their oh so fine
establishments. I thought these places were, as our governor calls, "entertainment".
Don't kill the job quote.
"We don't take a side on the issue. We're looking to help people with problems." - Margot
Cahoon, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling
From the same article,
Keno, scratch tickets, and casino slot machines can be the most addictive to play, said Margot
Cahoon, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling, a quasi-public agency that provides support to
gambling addicts. Games where a person sees instant results can lead to compulsive betting and can cause a person to "chase
losses," as he or she tries to continually make up a deficit by betting more, she said.
Despite these facts, Cahoon said, the organization takes a neutral stance on various forms of
gambling.
The last thing they want to do is lose their jobs and tax-payer funding by coming out
against gambling period. Nothing like feeding off other people's misery.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Carverchick vs Factfinder
"So in my humble opinion, factfinder's statement “The aquifer is not diminished. It is sustained and unless it stops raining forever, it will
recharge again and again and again” is not only shortsighted and irresponsible, it is inaccurate."
- Carverchick, water blogger extrodinaire.
Carverchick, our resident water expert, wins hands down. Factfinder is no expert.
Finding selective facts to bolster your point is not hard. He is a jack of all trades, master of none.
Job creation from casinos.
11:30 am est
King Philip's Revenge: They know what they are doing and how bad it is.
"I love the irony that Indians are making money off of white man's greed.
They gave us alcohol that tore families apart, and we're giving them another addiction... gambling." - Greg Sarris,
Chairman of the Federated Indians of Gaton Rancheria, The San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2000
Can Casino Chips give you cancer?
"Although the manufacturer has stated that their chips meet all safety standards, we are working
with health authorities to determine whether the chips pose any threat to our employees or the public at large. I can
assure you that, should it be determined there is a health concern, the industry will move rapidly to remedy the situation."
- Las Vegas Gaming Association CEO Frank Fahrenkopf
Great! So is it a double threat if you work the 3rd shift at a casino too? What more hazards are there at these casinos we don't know about.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Deval are you watching?
''I served on the Maine Gambling Control Board, but I resigned so I could talk about what I saw.
Millions of dollars from the Bangor casino are going to off-track betting parlors and other gambling interests with no accountability.
The corporate owner made millions last year while Bangor's share was a drop in the bucket.'' - Michael Peters,
former Maine Gambling Control Board member.
The casino tribe in Maine got "swift-boated" and from the quote above, can you see why they lost the vote? Devalue and all pro-casino legislators out there
better be watching. Revenue projections from casino interests will never be what they say they are.
We are strong!
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so
that you can stand against Satan's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
- Paul, the apostle, Ephesians 6:10-12
For those of you who may not be spiritually inclined, please apply the spirit of this to our mission.
As much as some may hate (and rightly so) certain individuals on the pro side involved in the Casino debate, they
are only pawns to the greater evil. Glenn Marshal becomes exposed and disappears. But, guess what, we are still fighting a casino. Our fight is with the casino, not
with Middleborough Selectman, Adam Bond, as pompous as he seems or with any of "the others" who align themselves
with him. Adam gets a justifiable tongue lashing from my good friend Gladys Kravitz and he resents her bitterly and publicly for her fact telling. I repeat, they are pawns and will
be replaced by the investors to do their bidding. "The Others" are just pimples on the backside of a one ton warthog.
Our focus stays, NO CASINO. Gov. Devalue Patrick is no better, he appears as blind, deaf and dumb to the issues of real
casino impacts. He calls it, "entertainment". A non-scientific Boston.com poll shows 63% of respondents think he is off his rocker. Devalue appears as a knight in this
chess game, but he drinks from the same pitcher of Kool-Aid. Taking down the king worthog and the casino kingdom falls
in Massachusetts, even though it may take popping one zit at a time. Feel the pain Pumba. CFO is strong.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Slap on the Back Quote
4:35 pm est
Is this what we can expect from the casino Mashpee tribe?
Two federal agencies oversee American Indian gambling operations. Within the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
the Office of Indian Gaming Management approves how tribes spend gambling money if tribal members get dividends from that
income, but plays no role in enforcement. - Sun-Sentinel, 11/30/2007
It appears that what is happening in Florida is what we can expect here in Massachusetts. According
to an investigative series the Sun-Sentinel published this past week, the Seminoles are inffected with corruption and the federal agencies in charge of keeping them
on the straight and narrow are doing practically nothing about it. Is there any federal agency that can do anything
right?
We can already see the parallels with the casino tribe in Mashpee. Former chief, Glenn Marshall
is a convicted rapist and liar before congress. His finances are being investigated by the FBI and the IRS for lavish
personal spending and improper diversion of federal grants.
This with the combination of Sol Kerzner's and Les Wolman's involvement is and should be the #1 reason to oppose a casino in Middleborough or anywhere else that they
are involved.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
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"I am convinced the casino owner/operators alone will benefit long term as the casino grows and begins to own and
operate the restaurants, hotels, and shops leaving the locality with little way to continue to make much money," Chairperson
of the Hopkinton Board of Selectmen, Muriel Kramer
http://www.wickedlocal.com/hopkinton/homepage/x1086976385
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