With the year coming to an end along with my prediction that 2014 will see online poker legal across the USA . It is time to reflect on why it is so difficult to get Americans do what they are legendary supposed to do? Ayn Rand would certainly in favour of making online poker legal, […]
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Trojan Horse For Online Poker
Here is my big prediction – online poker and online gambling will be totally legal in the US before President Obama leaves office. Sheldon Adelson will become a player in the online betting and poker market and everyone will wonder what all the fuss was about. Some on the moral and religious right wing will […]
George Osborne As A Poker Player
George Osborne as a poker player is a rather wicked thing to write about. Clearly he is out of his depth in the game of politics and as we know politics is poker for megalomaniacs, but the megalomaniacs need to be clever and he certainly is not. Why did he string his whole career to […]
Sins Of The Bankers
As my regular readers will know I have a unnatural obsession with American politics. Ever since Lehmans Day 2008 when Henry Paulson the US financial leader basically wanted the US government under George W Bush to give him trillions of dollars but no questions on what he was going to do with it. Luckily there […]
Paul Ryan Is Not A Great Move
It is further evidence that Mitt Romney is a lousy poker player when he picked Paul Ryan as his Vice-President. By all accounts Paul Ryan is a Ayn Rand worshipping, policy wonky head. He eats breathe and sleeps politics! Yes, he looks like that nice guy down the road who runs the sub post office, […]
Dick Cheney Gets A Heart!
Dick Cheney, probably the most ridiculous looking anti-hero in modern politics got a new heart the other day. This led to jokes that he should have been given one ages ago, boom, boom. But as ever there is some truth in the joke. Dick Cheney represents everything that is wrong in politics and international affairs. […]