{"id":1196,"date":"2009-11-04T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2009-11-04T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T00:29:08","slug":"from-the-twitter-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-twitter-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Twitter feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>@VegasFunFacts<\/em>: &#8220;<span><span><strong>McCarran Airport<\/strong> was named after former NV Sen. <strong>Pat McCarran<\/strong>, known for his anti-communism and for lobbying fed funds and projects for NV.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>(<em>Translation<\/em>: Choke on it, <strong>China<\/strong>-loving, guvmint-bashing <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong>.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><em>@jccarcamo<\/em>: &#8220;<\/span><\/span><span><span>Republicans on a special committee considering the <strong>Seminole<\/strong> gaming compact have pronounced it all but dead. <\/span><\/span><span><span>Meanwhile, some of them, including previous anti-gamers, now want to allow full-fledged commercial casinos in counties that approve them.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>(<em>Translation<\/em>: Since the state GOP would rather dictate to the Seminoles than negotiate with them, it&#8217;s decided to blow off $150 million or so in annual revenues and maybe, possibly find it elsewhere. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/florida\/sfl-seminole-gambling-110209,0,1290233.story\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">A potentially huge setback<\/a> for Gov. <strong>Charlie Crist<\/strong>.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>@<em>davidbadash<\/em>: &#8220;<strong>Jesse Ventura<\/strong> on <strong>CNN<\/strong> on civil rights: &#8216;If you put it up to the vote of the people, we&#8217;d have slavery again.&#8217;  Scary!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>(<em>Translation<\/em>: Jesse still hasn&#8217;t learned to mince words, God bless him.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>@GreenVegas<\/em>: <span><span>&#8220;The temperature in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> is due to hit 85 degrees this afternoon, which would make it the warmest Nov. 4 in 33 years.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>(<em>Translation<\/em>: Maybe you should have packed those swim trunks, after all.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><strong>Photo bonus<\/strong> (via <strong>Steve Friess<\/strong>): Is <strong>Bellagio<\/strong> now <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/o6ivs\" target=\"_blank\">the forlorn little stepsister<\/a> to shiny new <strong>CityCenter<\/strong>?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@VegasFunFacts: &#8220;McCarran Airport was named after former NV Sen. Pat McCarran, known for his anti-communism and for lobbying fed funds and projects for NV.&#8221; (Translation: Choke on it, China-loving, guvmint-bashing Steve Wynn.) @jccarcamo: &#8220;Republicans on a special committee considering the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-twitter-feed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,26,36,11,33,32,31,9,19,100,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}