Picked up this news item today:
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Picked up this news item today:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...O7FzCmaIVXlS3r
Although that would be great news, I wouldn't count on it.
I said this YEARS ago that the Jackpot should be raised from $1200 to $5,000 since we do NOT live in 1977 when the $1200 Jackpot Threshold was $1200 . $1200 in 1977 WAS a big deal... In Current and recent times, $1200 is NOT all that much anymore... Sad that it took 43 YEARS to seriously consider putting the Jackpot Threshold to $5,000Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
The only irritating thing about the $1200 threshold is waiting for the paperwork and having to deal with the floor minions. Changing it to $5k makes a lot more sense (it should be $10k) but you would still be met with stoppages for handpays so the greedy floor slugs could intimidate tips out of the weaker players.
We stayed at Circa 3 days last week and I got 2 signers. Both times the handpays weenies acted mortified that I didn't tip them. Other than that, we went to both Saginaw's Deli and Barry's Prime twice each, and everything was top notch, esp. Barry's. Reservations were required everywhere. The best part was the places were only 25% capacity because of Sissylak's restrictions.
We only went to see the place and don't expect to stay there again. I didn't even get a slot card. I valet parked which was $15/night, and yikes! I actually PAID for our really nice room, which was $139 + $34/night. First time I've ever paid for parking or a resort fee--anywhere. Times have changed and accept, adapt, and adjust are the key words now.
So don't let the W2G threshold stop you from enjoying yourself. But if you go to Circa, ignore the losers, bums and lowlifes on Freemont.
Speaking of which, I haven't watched the NFL yet this year until I turned it on today to watch Josh Allen play. Great game, but WTF is up with the commercials? Are black people REALLY 50% to 60% of our population? Do that many white men REALLY like the prickly-haired pubies and rough bumpy skin of black women? Just turned off football for good. Good riddance.
Hang in there Rob, Brady..Brees and Rogers are still around.
Yeah, it was better when blacks and mulattos were slaves, right, Rob?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Especially the mamas: work em hard in the day and plough your fill at night, right, Rob?
Slaves are a thing of the past and nobody really cares about what went down then today. Ask any high school student without a hoodie or pants down around his knees. These commercials are pushing some sort of racial agenda at us when they don't need to. Football games are played by 75% blacks, but even that doesn't appease the idiots. Besides, when the stands are full it's nearly all white people paying to see them play, and the vast majority of people watching the games on tv are also white. How about just serving up commercials with the actual % of blacks in our population, which is under 14%.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
This is so true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
Mr V...what world do you live in?
Most of Rob's hate, is self hate. In this case, he hates that he is descent from black Africans. ;)
We are all descended from the same place...if that's what you believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by kewlJ
Marketing departments bending over backwards to a fault to be inclusive. The only group they’re not worried about is straight white males.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.SingerSlaves are a thing of the past and nobody really cares about what went down then today. Ask any high school student without a hoodie or pants down around his knees. These commercials are pushing some sort of racial agenda at us when they don't need to. Football games are played by 75% blacks, but even that doesn't appease the idiots. Besides, when the stands are full it's nearly all white people paying to see them play, and the vast majority of people watching the games on tv are also white. How about just serving up commercials with the actual % of blacks in our population, which is under 14%.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
Also, that 14% figure is virtually the same as 50 years ago. Where’s BLM? And why is noted racist and planned parenthood founder Margaret Sanger still a hero to the left....
Another damn racist, even though she never saw what color she was...Quote:
Originally Posted by dannyjMarketing departments bending over backwards to a fault to be inclusive. The only group they’re not worried about is straight white males.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.SingerSlaves are a thing of the past and nobody really cares about what went down then today. Ask any high school student without a hoodie or pants down around his knees. These commercials are pushing some sort of racial agenda at us when they don't need to. Football games are played by 75% blacks, but even that doesn't appease the idiots. Besides, when the stands are full it's nearly all white people paying to see them play, and the vast majority of people watching the games on tv are also white. How about just serving up commercials with the actual % of blacks in our population, which is under 14%.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
Also, that 14% figure is virtually the same as 50 years ago. Where’s BLM? And why is noted racist and planned parenthood founder Margaret Sanger still a hero to the left....
https://www.tmz.com/2020/12/19/helen...ghts-activist/
Rhetorical comment, she could see up to her first two years...
My sarcasm just went screaming right over you, coach.Quote:
Originally Posted by coach belly
But to answer your rhetorical question, I live in Portland, Oregon, where BLM and their antifa butt-buddies duke it out regularly with right thinking Americans.
Rob is right though about this new crop of ultra-liberal commercials being a sop; never saw this amount of blacks, or multi-racial couples in commercials til the BLM nonsense started.
You know when I watch a commercial for soap or soda or staying at a hotel, I never pay attention to the race of the actors
Do you guys really get upset because a commercial for soap products shows black people using it instead of white people?
I thought all valet parking everywhere is unavailable due to Covid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob.Singer
I don't think so, my understanding was that you were trying to insult Singer.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
Not sure I'd say "insult;" more like "bait."Quote:
Originally Posted by coach belly
It wasn't as if I said anything I thought he would disagree with.
It is a historical fact that Americans used to be able to own slaves, and his writings made me believe he wished he still could.
Hell, if I lived 200 years ago all things being equal I'd have wanted to own a bunch of slaves: for economic, not sociological or political reasons.
Today if I wanted to own a slave I'd need to travel to the more primitive areas of north Africa such as Tunisia, or so I've read as "that dog won't hunt" anymore on this side of the big pond.
What you are seeing is the disappearance of woke white male actors, writers and producers from the film industry. The woke white male idiots were extremely vocal in their support of BLM/Antifa and other left wing causes to the point of screaming about it. One of the fruits of their movement was industry leaders put a premium on women and minority actors, writers, and producers, eliminating white males as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
But guess what. The woke white male idiots talked themselves out of their own jobs and now they are complaining about it. There are articles about it online.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ne-ER6_UJBHBev
It's funny as shit to me. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of idiots.
Give it three years...the box office will have the final say.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmWhat you are seeing is the disappearance of woke white male actors, writers and producers from the film industry. The woke white male idiots were extremely vocal in their support of BLM/Antifa and other left wing causes to the point of screaming about it. One of the fruits of their movement was industry leaders put a premium on women and minority actors, writers, and producers, eliminating white males as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
But guess what. The woke white male idiots talked themselves out of their own jobs and now they are complaining about it. There are articles about it online.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ne-ER6_UJBHBev
This is like"The Onion"?Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmWhat you are seeing is the disappearance of woke white male actors, writers and producers from the film industry. The woke white male idiots were extremely vocal in their support of BLM/Antifa and other left wing causes to the point of screaming about it. One of the fruits of their movement was industry leaders put a premium on women and minority actors, writers, and producers, eliminating white males as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
But guess what. The woke white male idiots talked themselves out of their own jobs and now they are complaining about it. There are articles about it online.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ne-ER6_UJBHBev
It's funny as shit to me. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of idiots.
Lol, you righties aren't taking this shit seriously are you?
BLM is not about everyone rising up to a higher level. They are about carving up the wealth of the middle class and distributing it to the lower class. They got no shot at the oligarch money, like Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Dorsey and the rest so they have to go after the middle class. White males are the last minority in this country that it is politically correct to discriminate against. What has happened to white males in Hollywood is what is going to happen to white males everywhere in this country if BLM has its way.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkozThis is like"The Onion"?Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmWhat you are seeing is the disappearance of woke white male actors, writers and producers from the film industry. The woke white male idiots were extremely vocal in their support of BLM/Antifa and other left wing causes to the point of screaming about it. One of the fruits of their movement was industry leaders put a premium on women and minority actors, writers, and producers, eliminating white males as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
But guess what. The woke white male idiots talked themselves out of their own jobs and now they are complaining about it. There are articles about it online.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ne-ER6_UJBHBev
It's funny as shit to me. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of idiots.
Lol, you righties aren't taking this shit seriously are you?
They intend to take your wealth, darkoz. They consider you to be no more than a useful idiot in supporting them. They hold you in contempt. At some point you will become expendable. At that point they will quickly lop your head off. That is, after they've taken from you everything they could steal.
Just as I refuse to give money to roadside beggars, so will I resist giving any money to blacks simply because they hold up annoying signs that read "black lives matter."
They really don't matter to me; not particularly, anyway, and certainly not more than any other group; if you want a seat at the table you'd damn well better earn it, and frankly the blacks haven't done much if anything to contribute to society, other than giving us bling, hip hop and videos of police shootings.
If in fact "black lives matter" then those same blacks should follow their own script and act like they themselves matter, like they really do give a shit: if you father a kid stay with the kid and the mother; work hard at a job; and biggest of all quit engaging in criminal activity.
As far as giving blacks reparations: sure, I'll gladly contribute to any American blacks alive today who were once in bondage as slaves in America.
Otherwise, fuck off and quit pissing on my corn flakes.
Damn, Mister V from the top rope.
You have to wonder how people get this way, I think, so far removed from the simple things in life, that they seek artificial means of recovering it. Didn't citizen Kane have at least a "Rosebud"?Quote:
Originally Posted by mcap
Particularly liked the “follow their own script” line.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
Kudos.
Which is not to say I lack sympathy for the plight of blacks in America: it must suck to be black, but their sucking is not my fault, I had nothing to do with it, so why should I have to pay reparations?
The reality of the situation is that little will change now viz. race relations because of BLM; but change is happening, albeit slowly.
It seems that every succeeding generation is more tolerant, more progressive, less racist than the one preceding it; my old man was more prejudiced than I am, and I am more intolerant than my son.
When I see a black man I think "I see a black man;' maybe when my grandson sees one he thinks "I see a man."
That's where we probably should be, but holding placards, stopping traffic and brawling with Trumpies ain't gonna get them there.
The reality of the situation is that other people are other people. There is no glorified ascent/descent, in terms of such personal perceptions, rationalizations and the like, to civility. The seat-at-the-table mentality. Have hammer, use hammer. But, justice is, say, color-blind. Not even a matter of making friends.
The old Kung Fu series notion that you have to become one with the tiger. One doesn't attack itself.
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Originally Posted by Garnabby
The reality of the situation today is that society itself is fixated on keeping up with Jone's mentality. All materialistic, society and the only supposed explanation for any and all disparities "sick" is the victimization by discrimination on race based on a long ago past history. Socialism here we come.
True, I think, except for the part about Socialism here we come. Because, we live in a nuclear deterrent world between powerful governments based on money and military might. In the other universe, one with a possible set of physical rules not our own, say, more charge than gravity -based, perhaps things truly are Socialistic.
But, evolution won't accept a balance of the two. As in, how to make Capitalistic progress without pervasive Capitalism. Before we can figure it out, say, call a Black man, a man, evolution has moved on (to a new whole set of other imbalances or problems). Not even a theory of everything can change this.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Garnabby
I believe that evolution has moved very very slowly pertaining to the advancement of the Black man in America. In the 1960's a black man claim to fame was determined upon the size and year of his Lincoln. Today it is possibly easier for a black woman to get a mortgage than a black man, as referenced below in the link by this dumb stupid bitch who thinks her shit is ice cream.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...AfHrQQXfx-jaMC
If I made a list of the biggest financial crimes ever perpetrated, the biggest multi-million dollar crimes where people had their money stolen right from under their noses, right out of their bank accounts, from Ponzi, to Madoff to Madden to Enron.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmBLM is not about everyone rising up to a higher level. They are about carving up the wealth of the middle class and distributing it to the lower class. They got no shot at the oligarch money, like Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Dorsey and the rest so they have to go after the middle class. White males are the last minority in this country that it is politically correct to discriminate against. What has happened to white males in Hollywood is what is going to happen to white males everywhere in this country if BLM has its way.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkozThis is like"The Onion"?Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
Lol, you righties aren't taking this shit seriously are you?
They intend to take your wealth, darkoz. They consider you to be no more than a useful idiot in supporting them. They hold you in contempt. At some point you will become expendable. At that point they will quickly lop your head off. That is, after they've taken from you everything they could steal.
That list of people trying to take and steal the wealth of others are predominantly white people.
Sorry, but that's a fact!
Very likely, old Lincoln had more things in mind for the Blacks. What better way to get a lot more work out of a lot more of them than by telling them the "earn a seat at the table", or else, mantra?Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkozIf I made a list of the biggest financial crimes ever perpetrated, the biggest multi-million dollar crimes where people had their money stolen right from under their noses, right out of their bank accounts, from Ponzi, to Madoff to Madden to Enron.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmBLM is not about everyone rising up to a higher level. They are about carving up the wealth of the middle class and distributing it to the lower class. They got no shot at the oligarch money, like Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Dorsey and the rest so they have to go after the middle class. White males are the last minority in this country that it is politically correct to discriminate against. What has happened to white males in Hollywood is what is going to happen to white males everywhere in this country if BLM has its way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkoz
They intend to take your wealth, darkoz. They consider you to be no more than a useful idiot in supporting them. They hold you in contempt. At some point you will become expendable. At that point they will quickly lop your head off. That is, after they've taken from you everything they could steal.
That list of people trying to take and steal the wealth of others are predominantly white people.
Sorry, but that's a fact!
Black slavery not only in the South, but, also in the North. And, with the added benefit of further screwing over also the Whites. As evidenced by the fact that it's the ultra-rich Blacks and Whites, who now continue on with the same old divide-and-conquer of the other 99.9999 percent. Pit the Whites against the Blacks while laugh all the way to the bank.
It can't be, by accident, that the US election results are almost always split so neatly down the middle. Electoral engineering, of the most insidious sort and degree, to account for such perennial equally poorest front-men, um, political candidates for and by the People.
I guess you are making the argument that non-whites are only good for sticking guns in the faces of liquor store owners and getting small scores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkoz