Books fro Amazon

 Colleen McCullough

Arnold cold cocked

What the ...

Schwarzenegger weakened in special election - Politics - MSNBC.com
LOS ANGELES - In a stinging rebuke from voters who elected him two years ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reshape state government were rejected during a special election that darkened his prospects for a second term next year.

Make you want to move to a "real"
country, doesn't it. Why vote the guy in to get some changes made because government sucks in this chicken shit state and then stick him in the ass.Only goes to prove as long as the voters are for sale, this is going to be the results. the message is : Don't touch my handouts.

Fortunately the unions spent most of their war chest and have fewer dollars for next year. Later.

Another day in Paradise....

Well been an epensive day. $700 on  truck repairs all together. These shops rip your ass alright. At least no real bills are due so we'll just cruise until next week end.

This is still the best book on poker. AS soon as I finish I'm going to write a review. Later

Why am I not surprised....

You have to hand to these people.Here's the deal: just wait til the government saves you from disaster and you'll get your drugs provided free. Of course, first you'll have to commit a crime, but what the hell, you've nothing else to do all day, so why not. here's the story from the independant conservative:

......And that s not all they bought with FEMA and Red Cross money! Three New Orleans men arrested on drug charges at a Gwinnett County hotel told officers that they supported their drug habit with money from the American Red Cross and FEMA, police said.

Makes you wonder if this is done on purpose. As long as they (poor blacks) don't riot, give them money. After all drugs are cheaper than riot police. Na, we need these voters. No wait a minute, they don't vote (at least not for Republicans) so why do we kiss their asses? Guilt? O.k I'm mean and not nice to bums....Sue me!!

Big week end at the Hide out Saloon....

Great week end. Big crowd at the Hideout Saloon. Patti and I got back late. Need to count my money and go to bed. Later

Bad news according to the New York Times

According to the Times, a drop in the unemployment rate is "not as predicted". (i.e. Bush sucks and we ain't going to give the guy a break.)You got to read the enemy once in a while to understand where they are coming from.

U.S. Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Expected in October - New York Times: "The national unemployment rate eased to 5 percent from 5.1 percent in September as the national labor force shrank for the first time since January."

Check out this book I'm reading:

Patti and I are headed to La to get more glasses and other merchandise to sell this week end .

Later

Charles Krauthammer. Post op-ed columnist made fun of....

Went back to Pokerstars after a couple of weeks off. Kicked ass. They took away all my chips while I was gone so I have to start over.  Anyway, Patti's painting the place and I just got done with inventory, so we're ready for the last (small) show of the season. Samo samo in Washington. Dems added rider to Drilling in Alaska so the oil compants will have to sell it  in the U.S.A. We've heard tha before.I thought only Republicans get caught printings something like this as Michelle points out: 

Michelle Malkin: "POOR TASTE AWARD OF THE WEEK By Michelle Malkin · November 03, 2005 08:54 AM ...goes to Washington Post writer Emily Messner. Reader E.D. wrote yesterday: Please see Emily Messner' s column at the Washington Post. In it, she talks about conservatives doing touchdown dances at Judge Alito' s nomination (the bottom of the 2nd paragraph). In the third paragraph Messner writes in parenthesis: " Nonetheless, it is amusing to imagine Charles Krauthammer doing a touchdown dance." After readers informed the clueless Messner that Krauthammer has been a paraplegic since 1972, Messner substituted Krauthammer's name with George Will's. Messner added a footnote: *My sincerest apologies for the Krauthammer touchdown dance remark. It was unintentionally insensitive -- I had no idea he was disabled. ..."

 she is a Washington Post politics writer, for God's sake.  You would think she would know a little about a fellow employee, wouldn't you?..."</blockquote>

Great book coming out....

Michele has a new book out. Here's a taste:

It’s not Republicans taking chainsaws to Democrat campaign signs and running down political opponents with their cars. It’s not conservatives burning Democrats in effigy, defacing war memorials, and supporting the fragging of American troops. And it’s not conservatives producing a bullet-riddled bumper crop of assassination-themed musicals, books and collectible stamps.

It’s not a Republican who invoked Pol Pot and Nazis and Soviet gulag operators when discussing American troops at Guantanamo Bay. That was Democrat Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who kept his Senate Minority Whip position and who continues to blame an “orchestrated right-wing attack” for what came out of his mouth.

It’s not Republicans who suggested that President Bush had advance knowledge of the September 11th attacks or that Osama bin Laden has already been captured. Those notions were advanced by former Secretary of State Madeline Albright and current Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean.

And it wasn’t a Republican who asserted that the war Iraq was “just as bad as six million Jews being killed.” That was Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel, who has refused to apologize and whom no Democrat leader has denounced.

The views of unhinged liberals are no longer relegated to the private remarks of a few Democrat politicians or the bloviations of a few fringe figures on the far Left. The syndrome is far more pervasive, intense, and sanctimoniously self-delusional than anything on the Right.

I might add that we have never owned a black person, nor voted for or supported, "Jim Crow" laws nor have we beat up and used water cannons on black people.

War

Alito the supreme nominee. Democrats claim end of the world. Stay tuned. Shumer rumored to wet his pants. Kennedy gives up drinking. (shit) Harry reid to become nun. Yeaaaaa.

The Black Republican

I like the way this guy thinks:

The Black Republican: "Become famous, gain 100 IQ points...

It seems that Global Meteorologic expert Barbara Streisand (What, you thought she was just a singer and a mediocre actress?) has some dire warnings about the effect Global Warming is having on global weather patterns.

Ms. Streisand, who earned her PhD Masters Bachelors Associates Degree Certification... something (TBA - I'm still sifting the Internet for that information) in Meteorology from Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford Berkeley San Francisco Community College University of Phoenix Online The National School of Meteorology well somewhere (I'm still looking for that information too, but I was sure that last one was it!), is warning the world...

We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense, there could be more droughts, dust bowls, you know it's amazing to hear these facts...

This is quite shocking stuff, specially coming from such a well known and highly regarded expert in the field of Global Meteorology. George Bush should quit ignoring the advice of such highly educated and experienced experts!

And in a related story, the nation's leading authority on Foreign Affairs and Military Strategy also has some advice for the President. I would suggest that unless the President listens to this sage advice from one of the worlds leading Foreign Policy experts, then he's likely to lose the 2008 Presidential election to this man."

Technorati : "black republican" "global warming" Barbara Streisand ""

Why am I not surprised..

Why am I not surprised? Strange decision here. We need an avowed conservative so we can duke it out with the left-wing nuts. This will smoke out the Republican liberals and prove again that Row will never be over turned. Too many Republicans and too many Democrats make careers and money on this issue. Groups on both side need this travesty to continue. Babies must die instead of society fixing the underlying problem of loose morals and catering to the "do it if it feels good" mentality. No country following this path in history is still in existence

>AP - Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats accused him of bowing to the "radical right wing of the Republican Party."

Bush Abandons Push for Miers Nomination (AP)

Taxes punish the rich....

Found this on Larry Kudlow's site:

A recent Bruce Bartlett column reportson class warfare charges by the New York Times. Looking at the latest IRS data for 2003, the top 1% of income taxpayers paid 34.3% of personal receipts at the top marginal tax-rate of 35% (which went into effect in July, I believe), though they earned only 16.8% of adjusted gross income:

Inside the top 1% group, the top one-tenth (top 0.1%) paid 15.3% of income taxes. ' These 129,000 tax filers earned 7.6% of the income and paid an average tax rate of 23.6%. This came to $114.6 billion -- four times more than all the taxes paid by the 64 million taxpayers in the bottom 50%-- who paid an average tax rate of 2.9%. '

Noteworthy is the fact that the top earners paid much less when the top tax-rate was 70% at the beginning of Ronald Reagan's presidency. At the end of the Carter era, the richest paid only 19.7% of taxes, and the very richest paid only 7.6%.

The Times, of course, continues to editorialize that Republican tax policy totally favors the rich.

Yet the facts speak otherwise. Lower marginal tax rates induce changes in economic behavior. These behavioral responses lead to more risktaking, more capital formation and more work. That is what the income tax payment data show. The most successful economic
activists earn more and pay far more in taxes. The ladder of upward mobility is jam packed with non-rich folks who become rich."

Maybe tomorrow I'll write my pro-capitalist rant and clear the air for my readers on how capitalism saved the world and made it safe for democracy

Canadian rebels....why not?

 

I couldn't have said it any better about GOVERNMENT of all stripes. You'd think these guys were rock rib right winger's. One wonders though how serious we fat asses are in our revolutionary fervor. It's easy to bitch but with full bellies and comfortable seats, one can run their mouths but when it comes to crunch time every body heads for the tall grass. What do you think?

Boswarlos Daily : "..The magnetic attraction of the capital city is merely increased by the introduction of new technology for spreading the word about the comfortable life that awaits the rancid lot who master the art of careers on the government tab. After all, a big-haired, capped-tooth shill for government-funded business is as useful in Newfoundland as in Toronto. There is plenty of demand in the bowels of state capitalism for those who, through either stupidity or self-interest, are content to hold their tongues and noses as money goes to waste in the service of useless and insulting substitutes for the real work of the industries eliminated by government folly and malice...."

 Canadian, rebels

 

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Ain't it wonderfull...

Found this at 8o below:

"MEXICO CITY Oct 21, 2005 — Police discovered on Friday that a passenger on a motorcycle involved in an accident in the rough Mexican border city of Tijuana was in fact a corpse which the driver had been carrying through the city strapped to his back.

The motorcycle driver lost control and skidded in the downtown area and when a policeman approached to investigate the mishap, the driver fled.

The police officer checked the passenger, who had been seated behind the driver, and found it was the corpse of a man who had died some time before.

No insurance on the Bastard either.

Top Poker Books... Must read.

Slow business today. Next week end, Phoenix show hopefully make a little money for winter savings. Here's some more books I find useful :

Read this at Barnes & Noble. Pretty good. This guy  has finished in all the main poker tourney's on t.v. Winter coming on we all need to study a little, right?

Genius at poker really understands the math.

Barry lives on t.v. This book is fascinating as it details how he got into the game and tells a lot about how the pro-circuit works.

Deep in math and strategy. Not for poor people or newbies.

Probably all the book you need.

Another TV personality. Not much success lately. Knows his math.

Texas Dolly... nuff said

Similar to Rounders. Story of a big money game.

Crazy Mike tells all of our secrets.

Need new poker site.....

   I got this stuff down pat. Looking for new poker sites. Need lots of different tournaments and stupid players. Yea, real stupid hold'em players (heh heh). Haven't hesard anything from cause 2 or El Baldo, Too much football I guess. Usc still winning, me happy. Find out later today if we're still undefeated.

Later'

More Walter Williams please 

    "Just as in my grocer example, there is a balance of trade. The deficit in our nation's goods and services account, sometimes called current account, is matched by a surplus of equal magnitude in our capital account. A large portion of surpluses in our capital account consists of U.S. Treasury debt instruments held by foreigners. As of June 2004, China held nearly $200 billion, Japan over $1 trillion, and Europe combined held over $2 trillion.

Some politicians gripe about all the U.S. debt held by foreigners. Only a politician can have that kind of audacity. Guess who's creating the debt instruments that foreigners hold? If you said it's our profligate Congress, go to the head of the class. If foreigners didn't purchase so much of our debt, we'd be worse off in terms of higher inflation and interest rates. What about the possibility of foreigners dumping our debt? Foreigners aren't stupid. Dumping large amounts of Treasury bonds would drive down their value. Foreigners as well as we would take a hit.

The fact that foreigners are willing to exchange massive amounts of goods in exchange for slips of paper in the forms of currency, stocks and bonds should be a source of pride. It means America, with its wealth, rule of law and the sanctity of contracts, inspires foreigners to hold large amounts of their wealth in U.S. obligations.

Their willingness to do so means something else: Trade increases competition. Ultimately it's competition, many producers competing for his dollar, that truly protects the consumer. What protects producers, at the expense of consumers, are restrictions on competition. The quest to restrict competition is what lies at the heart of the trade deficit demagoguery. When's the last time you heard a consumer complaining about his buying more from a Chinese or Japanese producer than that producer buys from him?

Walter Williams and ecomomics 101.......

You have to see this guy on t.v. I can watch Fox news while I write this. Really cool. I'm actually writing this on Wednesday and am scheduling it for Friday. I'm using a new tool called Ellicit, it allows me to post to a calendar (has spell check too) and allows auto-post. I'll try anything once. So far so good

You have to see this guy on t.v.

Walter Williams

Our trade deficit :

I buy more from my grocer than he buys from me, and I bet it's the same with you and your grocer. That means we have a trade deficit with our grocers. Does our perpetual grocer trade deficit portend doom? If we heeded some pundits and politicians who are talking about our national trade deficit, we might think so. But do we have a trade deficit in the first place? Let's look at it.

Insofar as the grocer example, there are two accounts that I hold. One is my 'goods' account, which consists of groceries. The other is my 'capital' account, which consists of money. Let's look at what happens when I purchase groceries. Say I purchase $100 worth of groceries. The value of my goods account rises by $100. That rise is matched by an equal $100 decline in my capital account. Adding a plus $100 to a minus $100 yields a perfect trade balance. That transaction, from my grocer's point of view, results in his goods account falling by $100, but when he accepts my cash, his capital account rises by $100, again a trade balance.

The principle here differs not one iota if my grocer was located in another country as opposed to down the street. There'd still be a trade balance when both the goods account and the capital account are considered. Imbalances in goods accounts are all over the place. For example, my grocer buys more from his wholesaler than his wholesaler buys from him. The wholesaler buys more from the manufacturer than the manufacturer buys from him, but when we put capital accounts into the mix, in each case, trade is balanced.

International trade operates under the identical principle. When we as consumers purchase goods from China, and the Chinese don't purchase a like amount of goods from us, it is said that there's a trade deficit. But instead of purchasing goods, the Chinese might purchase corporate stocks, bonds or U.S. Treasury debt instruments."

Queen of Hearts

Queen of Hearts,
originally uploaded by tfrank8176.

Testing Flikr a new photo service I can use to upload pictures. Works great. No poker today I'm redoing my commercial site
ThunderEyez. A lot of changes coming.

Bluff this.....

  This site has a lot of info on poker. 

All in Poker Resource:  Bluffing

'You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.' - Abraham Lincoln

One element of poker is deception. Bluffing is the quintessential trick in poker. Of course, the reasoning for a bluff is to deceive the other players into thinking you have a better hand when you actually do not. For a bluff to work, you need the other players to think you actually have that better hand. Many beginning poker players love this idea of bluffing and often misuse it."

Here's a pretty good poker book I've read....

Check this Viking pussy out for a real blast.

  Heres the book by the guy who is considered the best poker player of all time.

Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win  It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It doesn't matter if you think it's true or not. Intelligent Design theory is destined to supplant Darwinism as the primary scientific explanation for the origin of human life. ID will be taught in public schools as a matter of course. It will happen in our lifetime. It's happening right now, actually.

Here's why:

1) ID will win because it's a religion-friendly, conservative-friendly, red-state kind of theory, and no one will lose money betting on the success of red-state theories in the next fifty to one hundred years.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: families that reproduce people tend to reproduce ideas, as well. The most vocal non-scientist proponents of ID are those delightfully fertile Catholics, Evangelicals, and similarly right-leaning middle-class college-educated folk -- the kind whose children will inherit the country. Eventually, the social right will have the sheer manpower to teach ID wherever they please."

Back on line.....

Nothing worse than a Dell computer. I'm going to build another box because these type of computers can't be upgraded. I gave the last one I built to Jeremy (my son) so he could build me a new website and took this piece of shit home with me because it was trashed by a virus. I saved it by installing Linux on it then installed a fresh copy($200)of Windows. last week I set up a tv card with Mandriva Linux and lost Windows. Reinstall meant I had to download new drivers at Jeremy's house . Dial up!!!! Jesus , all night. Get with the 21 century boy.

Any way I bought a new tv card (Hauppauge tv 150 usb2) Works great except when I record. On play back no sound. Probably the integrated sound card. To rub it in I bought a video card to use thinking it would improve the picture. Won't fit. Back to the store shortly for a new computer. Dell sucks.

Found this the other day:

David Horowitz: "It is true that Vietnam eventually became a trading partner ('friend' is another matter). But this was not 'once we left and quit bombing its people.' Before that took place, a Republican President confronted the Soviet Union in Europe and Afghanistan and forced the collapse of the Soviet empire. It was only then, after the Cold War enemy and support of the Vietnamese Communists had been defeated that they accommodated themselves to co-existence with the United States.


The 'blame America first' mentality so manifest in this McGovern statement is endemic to the appeasement mentality that the progressive Senator so typifies: 'Iraq has been nestled along the Tigris and Euphrates for 6,000 years. It will be there 6,000 more whether we stay or leave, as earlier conquerors learned.' In McGovern's Alice-in-Wonderland universe, Iraq did not invade two countries, use chemical weapons on its Kurdish population, attempt to assassinate a U.S. president, spend tens of billions of dollars on banned weapons programs, aid and abet Islamic terrorists bent on destroying the West, and defy 17 UN resolutions to disarm itself, open its borders to UN inspectors, and adhere to the terms of the UN truce it had signed when its aggression in Kuwait was thwarted."

Rained out so I killed Windows.......

I installed a new Linux operating system, Mandriva, and obliterated my Windows system. Reinstalled both and it happened again. So I installed Redhat and reinstalled Windows. No Windows. Take me all day to fix it. Well, no poker for a while. With out Windows I can't download the clients to play with. Maybe I find a Java site and play there. Anyone know of a good one?

Found this from the ex mayor of New York, a democrat from wayback, who supports Bush, talking about Islamo-terrorists:

Ed Koch: "'Over the years these extremists have used a litany of excuses for violence — the Israeli presence on the West Bank, or the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia, or the defeat of the Taliban, or the Crusades of a thousand years ago. In fact, we're not facing a set of grievances that can be soothed and addressed. We're facing a radical ideology with inalterable objectives: to enslave whole nations and intimidate the world. No act of ours invited the rage of the killers — and no concession, bribe, or act of appeasement would change or limit their plans for murder.'

' we're determined to deny radical groups the support and sanctuary of outlaw regimes. State sponsors like Syria and Iran have a long history of collaboration with terrorists, and they deserve no patience from the victims of terror. The United States makes no distinction between those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor them, because they're equally as guilty of murder. Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror must hold those regimes to account.'"

P.S Farakhan assembled a huge pile of nut cases in Washington. Good way for the government to photograph and keep an eye on them. You got to hear this weirdo to believe it.
Later

terrorists amoung us

You have to love minority right wing nut chicks:

Michelle Malkin: "http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Oct. 12 marks the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole. Seventeen American sailors were murdered in the attack. They were casualties of a war with radical Islamic terror that America hadn't yet declared and which the mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge today.

Too many of us were blind in 2000 — unable or unwilling or simply too uninterested to connect such blood-stained dots as al Qaeda's 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack, the 1996 Khobar Tower bombings, the 1998 African embassy bombings, and the attack on the Cole. After Sept. 11, 2001, all of our eyes should have been pried wide open to the evils of Muslim extremism that exist among us in both organized and freelance form.

The watchdogs in the national press, however, insist on clouding our vision.

Since 9/11, I've reported on the media's reluctance to highlight the convicted Washington, D.C.-area snipers' Islamist proclivities and journalists' refusal to call Egyptian gunman Hesham Hadayet's acts of murder at the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, 'terrorism.'

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted how quickly the media sought to whitewash the bloody bus-hijacking by Croatian illegal alien Damir Igric a month after 9/11. Although the incident 'echoed similar attacks by Palestinians on Israeli buses,' Pipes observed, the 'media attributed the violence to post-traumatic stress syndrome.'

National Guardsman Ryan Anderson (a.k.a. Amir Talhah), a Muslim convert who allegedly attempted to pass sensitive military information to al Qaeda over the Internet, rated barely a blip on the media radar screen.

Similarly, press accounts have downplayed the disruption of terrorist cells on American soil: The Lackawanna Six were just nice Muslim boys led astray. The Virginia Jihad Network was just a group of weekend paintball enthusiasts. Those indicted imams in Lodi, Calif., are just misunderstood 'moderates.' Terror suspects deported on immigration charges are just victims of discrimination.

Now, many of my readers wonder why the MSM won't touch the strange and troubling story of the University of Oklahoma bomber, Joel Henry Hinrichs III. On Oct. 1, Hinrichs died on a park bench outside the school's packed football stadium when a homemade bomb in his possession exploded. The Justice Department has sealed a search warrant in the case. The university's president, David Boren, is pooh-poohing local media and Internet blog reports of possible jihadist influences on Hinrichs. The dead bomber was, we are being told, simply a depressed and troubled young man with 'no known ties' to terrorism.

Never mind that, according to local news reporters, the bomb-making material found in Hinrichs' apartment was triacetone triperoxide — the explosive chemical of choice of shoe bomber Richard Reid and the London 7/7 subway bombers.

Never mind the local police department's confirmation that Hinrichs had attempted to buy ammonium nitrate a few days before his death.

Never mind the concerns of Oklahoma University student journalist Rachael Kahne, who told me this week in a call for the media's help:

'I've been working on this story since the night it happened, and have been stonewalled at every turn. . . . Minutes after the explosion, police busted into a student's apartment and arrested four Muslim students who were there for a small gathering (the president of the Muslim Student Association assures me this was in no way a 'party'). Among those arrested [and later released] was Fazal Cheema, Joel Henry Hinrichs' Pakistani roommate. I was baffled when I heard this. I didn't know how police would be able to identify who Hinrichs was, where he lived, who his roommate was, and then find where his roommate was in a matter of minutes. Something isn't adding up, and I've been wracking my brain for the past week trying to figure out what happened here. OU isn't saying anything more than the typical PR spin, and the FBI won't talk.'

Nothing to see here. Move along. Islam is a peaceful religion. Stop asking so many damned questions.

Such is the attitude of the national media, which seems to believe that 'tis better to live in ignorance and indulge in hindsight later than to offend the gods of political correctness.

Is she hot or what?

Found this on Wednsday on Michelle Malkin's site

Michelle Malkin: "Today is the fifth anniversary of the U.S.S. Cole bombing. Please take a moment to note the event on your blogs today if you have a chance. Stars and Stripes pays tribute to the 17 sailors killed in the terrorist attack, the dozens wounded, the survivors, and the families affected. Command Master Chief James Parlier will never forget the decision he was forced to make in leaving a mortally wounded sailor to die:

“That’s the first time in my Navy career that I had to let someone die, so I did,” Parlier said. “I made the call. I said last rites. I said a prayer and then we put him on the side somewhere so he wouldn’t be in a position where he was dying in front of the crew and demoralizing the crew.”

What did demoralize the crew was Yemenis celebrating the attack in view of Cole crewmembers for a couple of nights following the attack, Parlier said. They felt the Cole was their trophy, he said.

“Boy, that sticks [with me], seeing all these guys in white outfits jumping up and down, partying music blaring,” he said.

For the Cole’s sailors, it was tough not to retaliate, he said.

The Cole incident was one of a series of terrorist attacks in the 1990s that were not adequately answered by the United States, said Marc Genest, an associate professor of strategy and policy at the Naval War College.

“Measured responses against terrorist organizations are seen as a sign of weakness, not strength,” he said.

Genest said the overall lesson from the Cole is that not responding to terrorists’ attacks only emboldens them.

“The time to attack terrorists is at the very beginning of their strategy,” he
said."

Also:
Michelle Malkin: "The Democrat-run Washington D.C., government has been caught with its hand in the taxpayer-funded cookie jar. Jim McElhatton of the Washington Times reports:

The D.C. government employees tasked with providing care to the city's poor have taken home nearly half of the more than $1 million in bonus money awarded by the District during the first half of fiscal 2005.

Nearly 400 employees in the D.C. Department of Human Services (DHS) received approximately $479,000 in extra money in their paychecks from Oct. 1, 2004, to March 31, 2005, according to D.C. Office of Personnel records.

Citywide, the D.C. government awarded 565 bonus payments for $1.06 million.

D.C. City Council member Adrian M. Fenty, chairman of the council's Committee on Human Services, which oversees the Department of Human Services, yesterday said he's going to conduct an inquiry of the department's bonuses.

'The Department of Human Services is not one of our better-running agencies right now,' said Mr. Fenty, Ward 4 Democrat and mayoral candidate. 'We're going to do a full scrubbing of this.'"

Stuff for thought............

Pokerstars sucks. moving on to something else. Like somebody threw a switch and it's bad beat city. Oh well.

Every once in a while, I find some one famous that has a non-politically correct viewpoint. One of the great movements in modern history is exposed here and put in it's proper perspective. You have to read the whole speech to get it all. I've been convinced of this for quite a while:

"Environmentalism as Religion: "There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.

Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday---these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don't want to talk anybody out of them, as I don't want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don't want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can't talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith."

Environmentalism as Religion: "So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn."

Bill Bennett under attack

Bill Bennett said that if you abort all black babies you cure the crime problem in the black community. DUH.. You abort all babies you cure all problems in society in our life times. How about Moslem kids? Now there's a program. Bennett, Republican becomes a racist and must be punished for racism. This stupidity just reinforces my pet theory (been paranoid for ever of course) commented upon by Noam Chomski:

The rich and the powerful convey the illusion of a truly democratic society in which we are granted certain inalienable rights, but our very thought processes and opinions are channeled and shaped by propaganda so that we do not challenge the real control by the corporate elite and their government appointees.

Poker has improved. Kicked ass this morning. Have to do an inventory this morning which means tear apart the truck and reorder (reorder means "made money" a good thing)

Yankees choke.........

Another 45 yrs of these guys and I'll see them win one I guess. First Yankee game I listened to was in 1960, fourth grade. Should have saved my time for something else.

Had shitty week at Pokerstars, lost 12 tourney's in a row. No matter what I had I was toast. Makes me want to go back to pinouchle. (Yea right)

Bush sinks in pols. Democrats right below him. These guys are hostage to beauracrats and groups with money. Secret to politics is belonging to one party or the other and not rocking the boat. Since more of us get a government check than not, this the only way to play it. Promise bigger checks, and deliver. Tax, spend and borrow keeps you in power. As long as we share the wealth with foreigners, (free trade and high oil prices) They'll finance the debt. The government simply sells bonds, mostly to Japan and Saudi Arabia governments and to the rich of the world and stay in power. This means that other than rhetoric, not a whole lot of reform or difference will ever come out of Washington. Until the Nukes go off. Or some real disease is unleashed. Of course, big shots will be taken care of don't worry. The system seems pretty safe to me.

The non-monetary or non-security issue big deal for most voters is abortion. Millions of Republican voters only care for this in a candidate. Solving it will probably take a big chunk out of their base. Christians that I know of aren't to crazy about politics any way(render unto Caeser I guess)tells me that legal abortion will always be with us. The Dems receive millions over this and it is after all a big money maker as an industry. Bush could be serious with Harriet. She might be a serious threat to tipping over the boat. Should be a war from both sides.

Favorite bumpersticker on an old ford pick up:

Keep honkin asshole, I'm reloading.

You have to be in so cal to get it. Evey nutcase who watches t.v. comes here to shoot up the interstates.

Later.

Can't be about ratings......

Accidently turned on NBC this morning. They had a Prince Charles exclusive. Give me a minute to stop laughing. THIS IS NOT NEWS!!! Two days in a row they come up with this crap. And his wife's hat, Jesus but it's ridiculous to take this woman anywhere. Fox and CNN are covering bomb scares on the East coast. Hmmm.....

Poker sucks this morning. Bad beat city. Getting rivered every game. Guess I'll have to get to a casino and do it right. Looking some idiot in the eye as he gives me his mortgage payment really starting to sound good. Of course, I can't afford the stakes but........

Heres a quote I made up:

If your ass stinks, wash it.

Another 7,4 off suit, I'm on a roll here.

Fall is a time to get ready.........

Need a tough guy for president. Imagine Gore or Kerry taking this guys place. Patti and I are getting the house ready for winter. We always stock up with food and seal the roof etc. Winter is slow for business so I'll have to play more poker (heh heh).

Waiting for the Supreme court to be settled. Most Republicans figure that the powers that be will change abortion rulings and send the matter back to the states. Not in my lifetime. They'd lose 10 or 15 percent of their vote. If we want big spenders in congress might as well vote democrat and get Hillary in for pres. Big government is big government. Must be libertarianism catching up with me.

Tried playing on poker.com. Not impressed so far. Pokerstars still has better selection of tournaments. Later...

Vegas profitable but poker ...........

Got back no problem. El Baldo left a small winner. Yours truely has no luck at pot

limit. O well next time. Check this site out!

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Not enough bodys?

If you listen to the democrats you would think their disappointed that their weren't more bodys.
Bush needs to resign because the hurricane made fools out of "Big Government." No I know, elect
Sharpton that will work. Or Jackson, yea. Hey good thing theres no state government down their, Maybe some of this disaster could have been avoided.

Shitty day at the tables. On to Vegas

Slaughter time Monday

Man did I get killed. Down 200,000 chips. Seems weird saying that knowing most people have never seen that may chips.

Having weird thoughts today. Like many many Republican voters I only care about Supreme Court justices. We lost the small government arguement because power still corrupts and everyone wants something for nothing (bread and Circuses). Just wait until you see the pork spending on New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama (Red states). Got to stay in Power, right?

Though I'm a social Liberal(I don't care what you do in the privacy of your home just do no harm and don't tell me about it). I don't believe its the Federal governments business promoting or enabling abortion. The states license doctors so its in their court. If we disagree then we amend the Constitution not create law to make us feel good and impress the neighbors. So two justices make interesting thoughts. If the court swings away to the right, who needs to vote for big government. hmmm? Democrats have to learn to be patient because Uncle Sugar is has bought to many of us. Take away something you lose votes, money, power and a "Sixty Minutes" interview. Or is it The Oreilly Factor?

Big government to the rescue.....almost

Now who would of thought that big government doesn't work? Maybe throwing more money at it will help. No, let's add more personnel and give them more power. Hey, why not turn over everything to our government after all it's now run by Republicans, right? Good God, next thing you know a nuke will go off and it'll be raining Democrats to the rescue.

Like the flood of '72

Reminds me of Agnes back home in upstate New York. Wiped out by flood is a weired

feeling. I still remember walking along the dike accross from my house, staring at 11

feet of water and wondering what happened to Patty and the baby.

Shooting at helicopters in New Orleans?

Who would have thought that inner city blacks would be stealing and shooting at

rescuers. Shoot back sounds like a valid response. Oops not politically correct.

If they would be patient the government will give them big checks to be nice to

everybody. Right?

Too bad about the casinos down there. I can't be their this year for the Steel Pony

Express Motorcycle show because of the "global warming" disaster (yea, right).

Got to be Bush's fault, not signing the Kyoto treaty you understand. (Or maybe it's

those evil oil barons).

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Got a hit on George

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708,000 on Pokerstars

Finally got a hand or two and slaughtered some good players (heh heh)

Bisiness is slow, not going anywhere with diesel selling $ 3.20 a gallon. Going to be a long winter right now. Later.

Back from disaster at Pokerstars

Lost $300,000 in Omaha H/L earlier this week. Got it all Back this morning.(Patti insists I'm obsessed) Practicing for my retirement

Back from Sturgis

Sales down but what the hell.
Up to 660,000 today on Pokerstars.

off for three weeks in Sturgis, SD

Just hit 540000 at Pokerstars. Lot of fun. Now got to go to work. Later

Rained out

Weired weather this week. Poured on us the last two weeks. oh well. Sturgis here we come.

444,000 and counting

Omaha is a good game for me. Be leaving for Sturgis Tuesday and will not be able to play for a couple of weeks.

omaha?

Read this:

Two cards, always two cards... Omaha hands consist of three of the five community board cards, plus two cards from each player's hand -- always three off the board, always two out of the hand. You can use the same or different card combinations to make your high hand and your low hand (if any), but you always use two from your hand, three from the board. This is important not just from the perspective that it is a rule and you have to do it, but also in thinking about how your hand must integrate with the board. Your hand must cooperate with the board. (Cooperation is a recurrent Omaha principle.) You should never think of your hand in isolation. It needs three cards from the board for high, and needs three cards for low. (Some new players find it helpful to focus more on "three from the board" rather than "two from the hand.")

(Thanks to Playwiningpoker.com)

$338,000 and counting.....

One more week untill Sturgis. Been killing them playing Omaha.

40,000 more at Pokerstars

Omaha H/L has been a blast. More foolish players. Try it.

al must have changed his email

Tried to send email to hotmail. didn't go thru

Finally passed 100,000 on Pokerstars.com

119,000 and counting on Pokerstars.com. Very busy in my business. Home only occasionally.

Happy Birthday

Yeah, right.

Pokerstars is where it's at

After $110,000 at Pokerroom, I moved to Pokerstars. Have hit 18000 playing $300 holdem

tables. Went to Laughlin last month and barely broke even on the $4 . Wild play for

limit. bad beat after bad beat. But it was poker.

Next week I try Pachanga casino in Temecula. Keep you posted.

back on line

Got dsl and hope to be able to update more often

Back on line

Had to go verizon dsl to get on line

Milestone at pokerroom.com

Past the 100,000 mark at pokerroom. I started here feb. 1 and have played 500$ tables. 6 weeks is not a long enough trial but I think I know tournament strategies pretty well.Review this site and practice befor you put serious money on the tables. Good Luck!

Poker profit today 4000$

Poker room has been good to me. 10000$ this week so far.

online poker tells

Internet Poker Gambling - Winner's Guide to Online Poker: "The largest group of online poker tells can be found in opponent's betting patterns. People who think there are no tells online simply can't be paying attention (and often they aren't because they are playing multiple games and thus are genuinely 'missing' much of the game). Betting patterns also reveal a lot in casinos, but online they are more critical to observe for a simple reason: people bet more often. In particular, people playing multiple games make an awful lot of bets in an hour, or a career. Such a volume of anything leads to repetition, as any assembly line worker can attest. Watch an opponent long enough and you should have solid clues to their holdings, and especially their interest level in the current pot.

A different look at No Limit Holdem tournament play

No Limit Hold'em Tournaments - No Limit Texas Holdem: "Frankly, No Limit Hold'em is just about the worst game to play with huge tournament fields. Skill will contribute to victory, but luck will be the greater influence. Again, this is the way Holdem is designed. It is a game of small edges. Even 'dominating' situations like AcKs versus Ah7d are less than 3-1. Imagine playing 3-1 situations fifty times for all your chips. Eventually you will lose, unless you get outlandishly lucky. Of course, in the real world often times in all-in situations you will have more chips than your opponent, and thus won't be eliminated when you lose, but still it is a humbling reality to understand that even the greatest player will need a huge amount of luck to win a large No Limit Holdem event. (Luck is not nearly so central to Limit poker, or other games like Draw poker, where dominating situations are 100% to zero, like a pat full house versus a pat flush.)

Lots of people play poorly, and will gladly shove all their chips in as 1-3 underdogs. Part of their poor play is that they have no clue that they are such dogs!

Major No Limit Holdem tournaments are becoming like $3/6 Holdem games in Los Angeles... a large chunk of the skill required to win is very basic and simple, but it is absolute, pure skill where you consistently take the best of it into showdown situations and absorb fluctuations when you have bad luck. Some folks have always claimed they can't beat loose LA $3/6 games, and the reason for that simply is they don't adapt and don't play well. Some skills that work in tougher games are useless, and the way to win is fairly mechanical, but over time it is enormously profitable... even if the psychic pain of often losing to goofball play is hard for almost everyone to stomach.

The game is being revolutionized... good play is being rewarded significantly more than two years ago. But in some cases it is not so easy to see, and in fact, in some circumstances you may never now it."

Playing Pocket Pairs

Poker Wisdom of the Day:

The Easy Example: A pocket pair

You start with a pair of Jacks in the pocket. Not too shabby. The flop however, doesn't contain another Jack.

Lesson 1: What's my chance of getting a Jack on the turn?

You need to just figure out the number of outs and divide it by the number of cards in the deck. There's

2 more Jacks. There's 47 more cards since you've seen five already. The answer is 2/47, or .0426, close to 4.3%.

Lesson 2: No luck on the turn, how 'bout the river?

Still 2 Jacks left, but one less card in the deck bringing the grand total to 46. What's 2/46? That's .0434, which is also close to 4.3% Your chances didn't change much.

Lesson 3: Screw getting just one Jack! I want them both! What are my chances?!

Since we're trying to figure out the chances of getting one on the turn AND the river, and not getting one on EITHER the turn or river, we don't have to reverse our thinking. Just multiply the probability of each event happening. Chances of getting that first Jack on the turn was .0426, remember? The chance of getting a second Jack on the river would be 1/46, because there'll only be one Jack left in the deck. That's about .0217, or 2.2%. To get the answer, multiply 'em.

.0426 X .0217 is about .0009! That's around one-tenth of a percent. I wouldn't bank on that one.

Lesson 4: Hey, what were my chances of getting a pair of Jacks anyway?

To figure that out, think of it as getting dealt one card, then another. What are your chances of the second card matching the first one? There will be 3 cards left like the one you have. There's 51 cards left in the deck.

3/51 is .059 or 5.9%. What the chance that it'll be Jacks? Well, there's 13 different cards. .049/13 is about .0045, a little less than half a percent.

Poker Wisdom again

Poker Wisdom: "The straight draw'

You start with a Jack of Spades and a Ten of Spades. You get a rainbow flop with a Queen of Spades, a Three of Diamonds, and a Nine of Clubs. You've got a straight draw.

Lesson 1: What are my chances of hitting it on the next card?

Same as before, but with different outs. A King or an Eight will complete your hand. There are presumably four of each left in the deck. You've got 8 outs. The chance of getting one of them on the turn is 8 over 47, because there's 47 cards left in the deck. That comes out to about .170, or around 17%.

Lesson 2: I didn't get it on the turn! What are my chances now!?

There's still 8 cards left in the deck that'll help you, but 46 cards left in the deck. That's 8 over 46.

It changes to .174. It's improved to a whopping 17.4%!

Lesson 3: I should of thought about my total chances first, I'm such an idiot. What are my chances of getting that card on the turn OR the river?

Once again we'll have to calculate the chances of a King or Eight NOT appearing, so we can do it like the last problem (in this case, {39/47} X {38/46}).

Or, since we've already figured out our chances in the previous two lessons, we can just invert the probabilities and multiply 'em. You had a .170 chance on the turn, and a .174 on the river. By inverting, I mean subtracting them from one. Now we've got .830 and .826! Multiply and get .686! That's our chance of NOT hitting our card at all. So invert it again and get .314, or 31.4%





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Poker Wisdom

Poker Wisdom : "Top two pair'

You get dealt a King of Diamonds and a Nine of Hearts.

The flop is lookin' pretty good for you with a King of Spades, a Nine of Clubs, and a Four of Clubs. Top two pair!

Lesson 1: What are my chances of getting a full house on the turn?

To get a full house, you need another King or Nine to pop up. There are presumably two of each left in the deck.

So you've got 4 outs. After the flop there's always 47 cards unaccounted for. 4/47 is around .085 or an 8.5% chance of you getting that boat.

Lesson 2: What are my chances of getting a full house on the river?

If it didn't happen on the turn, your chances usually don't change all too much, but let's check. You've still got 4 outs and now 46 unseen cards left. 4/46 is about

.087 or around an 8.7% chance of hitting it on the river.

A .2% difference. Sorry.

Lesson 3: How about the chances of getting the boat on the turn OR the river?

Like the previous examples, to figure your chance of something happening on multiple events, you need to calculate the chance of it NOT happening first. On the turn it won't happen 43/47 times. On the river it won't happen 42/46 times. 43/47 is .915, and 42/46 is .913. Multiply them and get .835, or 83.5% chance of it not happening. Invert that and you get a 16.5% of getting at least a full house by the showdown.

Lesson 4: What do you mean by 'at least'?

Since we figured the chances to NOT get dealt a full house, the chances are built in if the turn and river are two Kings, two Nines, or a King and a Nine. If you are dealt two cards both of either King or Nine, it'll be four-of-a-kind and not a King and Nine 33% of the time. Think of it as being dealt one card then the other.

What are the chances of the first card matching the second? Whether it's a King or Nine, there will be only one unaccounted for, but two of the other.

That's 1/3, or 33%.

The Rake--- Expenses need to be minimized

"Beating the Rake

To be realistic, the house already has an edge on you.

The rake is built in so that the house takes money from you in small, unnoticed amounts. There are a few guidelines you can go by to minimize this...

Some poker rooms will only rake the pot once it has reached a certain amount, so you want to play opposite the style of the table in these cases...

You can exploit tight players through tactics such as blind stealing and through buying free cards. Blind stealing is simply betting when only blinds are left in the game pre-flop. You can raise from the small blind position or from the position just before the small blind (usually the dealer's position) to try and steal the cost of the two blinds. Buying a free card is a trick best used in last position. If no one else has raised post-flop, then you bet. This will most likely cut down on the number of players (and potential money in the pot), but everyone who stays will tend to check to you. Then on the turn, after everyone has checked you don't necessarily have to bet again. That is why it's called a free card. It's best used with drawing hands, too.

When playing against aggressive players, you tighten up"More

Betting Tip----The check-raise

Check raising is checking to your opponent, with the intention of luring them to bet, so that you can raise them back. Your intention is to lure them into a false sense of security so that you can raise them and increase the pot (remember, after one bet is committed, its more likely they'll commit to two).

Betting Tip----The steal-raise

If you are last to act and all players have checked to you, betting to simply limit the number of players or take the pot is called a steal-raise. Don't use this exclusively, as better players will be onto you quickly and begin check-raising against your (most likely) poor hand. It is good to use a steal raise when you have an excellent drawing hand such as a nut flush draw. Players will tend to 'check to the raiser'. Many times you'll get a free card if you have to draw to your hand.

bet tips-Blind-stealing

Words to play by here by Pokerchain.com

When you are in the dealer's position, and only you and the blinds are remaining in the game, a raise is often called 'blind-stealing'. This is because the blinds may fold, whereas if you didn't raise but simply called, the blinds would simply check. Its a good way to make a buck or two, but will never make you rich.

It's more of a way to end the game fast and have a new hand dealt with more players (and more money).

"In the words of the Tao Ti Ching, 'If you aren't afraid of dying there is nothing you can't achieve.'"

Improve your game daily by reading about the game of Poker a little bit each day: "Successful Betting

A bet is a declaration that either a) 'I have the best hand and I'll wager money on it' or b) 'You have a poor hand, and you will fold if you are forced to wager on it'.

Typically, players are supposed to bet when they have a good hand. Players who don't have good hands are supposed to fold. Of course, if it was this simple, there would be no need for this page. You might as well wager on Tic-Tac-Toe. Most players play contrary to this idea, attempting to be a cunning or deceptive player. Don't fall into this trap when you are just learning to play.

Your betting strategy should be built upon this simple idea, but you must know when to stray and bet in situations when you otherwise wouldn't. Here are some situations you should start looking at to improve your

game:"

Another rule to live by

"The First Golden Rule of Poker
Maximize the size of the pots that you win; minimize the amount of your money in the pots that you lose.

Pretty anti-climactic, eh? Expecting quite a bit more, weren't you? And why wouldn't you...to be told to expect the golden rule of your favourite game is bound to straighten you up to attention in your seat. And to be told something so simple, something so base that you already knew, has got to hurt. Read more here.

18000$ ahead at pokerroom

Not a bad week at Pokerroom. Lostcause is at pokerchamps an hit 18000$ tonight. We must be doing something right . Congratulations Lostcause. Here's the secret formula:

Patience

and knowledge of course.

3500$ more at PokerRoom

Pokerroom been real good to me. A first and a third place. here's a tip on how I do it:

"Opponent's stacks are extremely important � you're more likely to be called on an all-in by someone who possesses substantially more chips than you are by someone with substantially less. Be aggressive against short-stacked players."

Pound them, raise, keep them running. They have to make a stand eventually and tap out. They beat you they beat you, but you have to have your best hands in the pot with the most money against them. If you don't get them out hopefully someone else will. You need to place in a top spot in tourneys to get paid.

2500 $ win at pokerroom

Big day at Pokerroom. Won 2500 from maniacs who only know raise and jam. You have to know when to fold people. Review this site and learn how. It's free info.