The main reason for the stupidity banner being hung on this link is because it is insulting.
The Baculum King, an inmate at the dKos Animal Farm and Petting Zoo, writes on a topic which I could actually somewhat agree with him: Bill Frist slapped a provision into the Port Security Bill that tells American banks to not let their customers transfer funds from US-based accounts to off-shore accounts used for internet gambling.
It is not the government’s job to tell me where and how I spend my hard-earned cash. Frist clearly stepped over the line with this provision to restrict the choices I have as to where I leave my cash.
Just so you know where I stand, I don’t gamble, period. I find it a waste of time and of what little money I have available. But if someone else wants to lose money faster than Paris Hilton can spend it, that is neither mine, or the government’s business. If a person who chooses to gamble wins, same ideal applies. I do not believe games of chance should be taxed as the game itself is a voluntary tax paid for by the people who lose.
My only problem with gambling is when people want the government to help them out whien Vinny the Shiv or Cheif Bootnaka of the Slapahoe Tribe comes to take their stuff. I have no pity for the stupid.
The Baculum King, on the other hand, only sees this provision as a potential campaign wedge between Frist and internet gamblers.
With a little help from Democrats this can be made the most stunningly stupid political move Bill Frist ever made, and might well swing one or more seats our way.
Personally, I don’t know that I’d vote for Frist to be my representative in the Senate, with this just being one of the reasons on my fecal roster. It would have to be a “lesser of two evils” contest before I could.
What swings me away from the “BA King’s” point is the sentence directly after the above quote
Other than civil libertarians and other such eccentrics, this issue really only matters to those who play poker online
Oh, so people who actually care about actual personal freedom and not just DNC talking point “Freedom” are now “eccentrics”?
Wanting to be able to determine my own way in life and to be left alone by my government is just a foolhardy idea with no base in reality to this jackass?
I had always accepted that they only whined about supposed “losses of rights” to score politcal points with their sycophants, but to drop all pretense of being genuine and insult an entire segment of the population, one probably larger than the fringe left who hang out at places like the dKos and the DU, who believe whatever is said about the opposition party, and to blatantly state that they are people whose ideas and actions have no reason behind them just pisses me off.
It also makes me want to award them with the brown ribbon for “The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day”.
To use some October talk, you got all of this one, it’s a long drive leaving the yard, but wait, it’s fading towards the line and….fades to right of the pole.
Sorry, just a long strike, Phil.
You should have jumped on both the bulltwaddler RA King AND Bill Frist, but Frist harder, because this anti-internet-gambling thing is just a blatant attempt to force fundie religion down our craws.
That is, unless Frist wants to be known as a big taxer.
Either way, Frist is the more out to lunch of the two.
Well, it’ll be tough to vote either for or against Frist, since I’m pretty sure he isn’t running for re-election in November.
His is one of the open seats the Dems are aiming at.