Gambling

[zzigzzag]

I have a beef with the Obama administration. Yeah....I know....

I am sick of government promoting gambling. It's destructive, addictive and not so long ago was considered criminal activity. But now that many states have deemed it a cash cow, it's suddenly just harmless recreation.

I wish the administration hadn't weighed in on this one....or taken the opposite stance. They don't have the balls to speak out against the persecution of pot smokers and the collateral damage of the laws, but are all for an activity that demeans and diminishes largely the poorest and most desperate among us.

Pot has been proven harmless and in many cases beneficial by decades of study. Gambling is demonstrably destructive to people's lives in every form with simple math. I don't care if people engage in it, but it shouldn't be sanctified and used to raise revenue for government. Leave it to Las Vegas and the Mob where it is morally appropriate.

 

[Friday13]

Gotta agree with you, ZZ.

Pot has been proven harmless and in many cases beneficial by decades of study. Gambling is demonstrably destructive to people's lives in every form with simple math. I don't care if people engage in it, but it shouldn't be sanctified and used to raise revenue for government. Leave it to Las Vegas and the Mob where it is morally appropriate.

 

[888888]

I am not going so far to say that there aren't any problems with POP but yes Gambling is not worth the destruction it is causing.

Like my old daddy once said all your doing is taking something from some else who most likely needed it as bad or worse than you. You haven't created anything, you havent done anything of use, you just took some thing from someone else.

 

[Boca]

Where the hell have you been?

 

[Queen Titania]

Where the hell have you been?

Posted in 2012 Boca

 

[Boca]

Yeah

Posted in 2012 Boca

I remember Ziggy. It's been a long time. If I recall he left in a huff claiming it was a waste of his time...which if I recall, it was.

 

[Queen Titania]

Yeah


I remember Ziggy. It's been a long time. If I recall he left in a huff claiming it was a waste of his time...which if I recall, it was.

Max - it was in the end down to Max - that poster had an insidious way of getting under the skin - one didn't necessarily see it by reading his posts as an observer, it wasn't always obvious - and he worded his insults and threats in such away that they were not direct - Ziggy was getting more angry, loosing his sense of humour and obviously needed 'time out' but Max just kept baiting him and he snapped and big time, insulting everyone in sight, I think his goodbye thread is in The Best of PJ still - The posts were deleted by some one ???? so there is no real way of knowing exactly what Max said but I'd come up against him more than once! He stalked - so I can guess how he did it - Shame, when he kept it together ziggy was fun - Friday is in this thread too eh? She went with the mass walk out of Libs when the moderation became more even - they didn't like it

Shame eh?