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Posted At : November 21, 2008 02:42 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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A pressing workload of late has muted me (mercifully, perhaps) on a number of issues, such as President George W. Bush's parting shot at online gamblers and offshore casinos: Ramming a last-minute codification of the UIGEA* up their tail pipes, thereby completing the damage set in motion two years ago by soon-to-be-ex-Sen. "Slick Billy" Frist (R-TN).
(In political fairness, it should be noted that Frist's co-conspirator, then-Rep. Jim Leach [R-IA], was one of President-elect Barack Obama's emissaries to the recent G20 summit -- which could have made for some awkward moments with representatives of the nations that UIGEA has inconvenienced.)
In lieu of an extended commentary on Bush the Second's underhanded stick-it-to-the-gamblers move, I present this video report, which does a virtuoso takedown of the situation in less than five minutes:
Additional delights include: Mr. Potato Head in the role of Hypocrite-in-Chief Steve Beshear (D-KY), a "smashing bird" named Kate, and the timeless music of ABBA. What more could you want?
APCW's latest report maybe? Filmed at G2E, it and oodles of other tasty reportage, satire and invective can be found on the APCWperspectives channel.
*--Thanks to Frank J. Fahrenkopf, I now know the correct pronunciation of this acronym: "WE-guh." Aptly enough, it onomatopoetically suggests the passage of something painful through one's digestive tract.
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Uh.......Billy Frist hasn't been our senator for sometime. Current senators are Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander. I'm not a big fan of Bill Frist ever since he gave the commencement address at my daughter's college graduation a few years ago. It was the driest, most boring speech I have ever heard. Bar none!!