{"id":4608,"date":"2010-09-17T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2010-09-17T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T23:52:35","slug":"snooki-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/snooki-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooki Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like it or not, this is the new Las Vegas<\/strong>, folks. If you don’t want to be trampled by the douchebagerie<\/em>, you probably shouldn’t come here. Last night, Encore<\/strong>‘s casino floor and hallway looked like a Jersey Shores<\/em> casting call. I’ve don’t think I’ve ever seen so many men whose heads were growing directly out of their shoulders. (Creationists, I’d say we’ve found that Missing Link you claim doesn’t exist.) And if our economy is down for the count<\/a>, as we keep hearing, where are these people getting all that money? Reconciling a crowded Las Vegas Strip with anemic revenue reports is a cognitive dissonance to which one never gets accustomed.<\/p>\n

“Corporate arrogance”<\/strong>: That was a phrase that was hand-wringingly used just before Nevada<\/strong> regulators rubber-stamped the 2004-05 takeovers that left us with the too-big-to-fail megaliths known as Harrah’s Entertainment<\/strong> and MGM Resorts International<\/strong>. Those leviations may also have become too big to regulate. Harrah’s took a whiz on the Nevada Gaming Commission<\/strong> yesterday, not deigning to send a single executive<\/a> to a hearing at which Harrah’s was fined for letting things get out of hand in the Caesars Palace<\/strong> baccarat pit. Harrah’s has sent a pretty clear message that it don’t need no stinkin’ regulation. Commissioners should probably brace themselves for further rebuffs in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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