Toon truer than you might want to think

Tab

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Tue Jun-30-09 02:46 AM
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Toon truer than you might want to think

I know I could give directions like this in my town.

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Norrin Radd

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Tue Jun-30-09 02:58 AM
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1. Same here.

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Greyhound

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Tue Jun-30-09 03:00 AM
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2. Add "the empty casino" and you've got us. n/t

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zbdent

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Tue Jun-30-09 05:30 AM
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3. at least you had casinos ...

all the blue hair crowd leave Ohio on buses every day ... those that win enough in bingo to buy a bus ticket to "Almost Level" West Virginia

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Berry Cool

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Tue Jun-30-09 06:26 AM
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4. I fail to see how casinos would make life in Ohio better in the long run.

Edited on Tue Jun-30-09 06:29 AM by Berry Cool

People have no money left to gamble away.

ed to add: One of this country's problems is that instead of making things, we're trying to survive on service jobs. And that's what casinos create for the most part: service jobs. State after state has fallen for the idea that a casino will solve its money problems. Well, what happens after the country becomes nothing but one great big Pottersville? How much casino tourism can you draw when every state in the country has casinos?

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patrice

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Tue Jun-30-09 07:21 AM
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6. hasn't here according to my bankruptcy attorney BIL - who is busier than he's ever been in his life.

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zbdent

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Tue Jun-30-09 07:54 AM
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7. I always laugh ... bitching about how nobody creates jobs ...

and then, when they try to create jobs, bitched at ...

and then you hear how, if you close the "kwikee loan" business (predatory lending), "YOU'LL KILL JOBS!!!"

Of course, people are more than happy to literally burn money ... cigarettes ... and that's protected, despite the health issues they create ...

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Pharlo

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Tue Jun-30-09 08:20 AM
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8. Can't outlaw cigarettes, those are some of the

few manufacturing jobs (even if it is damn near a fully automated process) left in the US.

Which is why it's critical US smokers continue to smoke American made cigarettes.

It's also key to US agribusiness and the chemical industry.

Wait, that argument FOR smoking is coming. It may not be here yet, but soon.

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zbdent

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Tue Jun-30-09 08:33 AM
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10. that argument has long been used ...

Edited on Tue Jun-30-09 08:34 AM by zbdent

"Oh, you eliminate smoking ... you'll kill all the (low-paying) jobs of the (migrant/illegal immigrant) workers!"

(and don't forget the attack on Al Gore ... he owned stock in tobacco! - but didn't a bible-thumping Repug have an interest in the porno industry? The "liberal media" left that out quite often as he pontificated ...)

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patrice

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Tue Jun-30-09 07:19 AM
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5. He left out "the un-occupied strip mall".

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Pacifist Patriot

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Tue Jun-30-09 08:28 AM
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9. Yep.

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