Good News, Bad News

Thumbs up: Studies show that smoking weed might help prevent alzheimers disease, so do your grandparents/parents a favor and roll them a joint!

Thumbs down: Many states, including my own have banned or are planning to ban the AWOL, or alcohol without liquid. This device turns alcohol into a vapor so you can inhale it. No bad taste, no hangovers. The liquor industry was scared to death by this gizmo, since it suddenly made their product look like a drug...

But seriously, since alcohol is 100% legal for adults, why shouldn't they be able to consume it however they want? If I want to inject alcohol into my veins, why not? Not that I have done that, or inhale it, but why should we really care what other people are doing with their alcohol? Not just in bars, this law prohibits you from using alcohol like this in your own home.

GOP Scandal

It was just announced today that former Congressman Mark Foley (R, FL) is gay. Evidence has recently showed that he was having cyber sex with teenage boys who served as his pages in recent years. I think this is an interesting development for several reasons. Though it seems many people knew about this recently it was only revealed a month before the election, which I believe is unethical; this should have been released when the information was known. Also, the press is calling Foley a pedophile, but the boys were 16-17, which is of the age of consent in DC.

Some things for all of you readers to watch are the midterm elections in November, it will be interesting to see how this affects the Republicans fighting for re-election.

As a side note, to those of you who are unfamiliar with how House elections work, districts have been gerrymandered to the point where just about all seats are practically uncontested since each party has a clear majority in each district.

More Congressional Medling In Our Lives

Over the weekend, Congress did their best to ban online gambling, making it illegal for banks to process money used for such a purpose.  This new bill (which should become law soon), cost the industry billions of dollars and will make it very hard for casual sports bettors like myself (I play a few $5 bets a month) to have fun betting on the football games. 

 

The way this law was passed is also very odious.  Most of The Senate did not want to pass this legislation, but a few Senators like Bill Frist added it to a bill to enhance port security, so the only way to vote against the ban on gaming would be to vote against port security.  Congress uses large bills like these to do everything from banning gaming to giving some hick a million dollars to study the feces production of catfish. 

 

888.com has already suspended betting operations in the US and most others are probably going to follow soon.  So now living in America means that you are in one of the only countries that will not allow you to place a bet online!!!

 

Of course Congress is just as corrupt as any other organization, so they are allowing gambling online for state lotteries and horse racing, since those industries have already filled the Congressmen's pockets with money.