Shaun Kenney

I dunno… this:

…looks like it’s worth watching.

$2 for water, $1 for coffee?

In instances such as these, when you’re paying $300 for roundtrip fair, just charge $305 for the damn ticket and save yourself the PR embarassment. Better still, charge $315 and tell customers they can drink whatever they want, as much as they want, and without charge.

For being crammed into a seat designed for a 10-year old, that’s a small comfort one could afford, isn’t it?

I dabble in poker every once in awhile, my friend suggested I try out some other gambling games similar to what you can find at so I might have to try them at some point, almost in the same sense I might dabble in chess from time to time. Sadly, I can barely tolerate the game nowadays as some of the dumbest bets from those just learning to play the game are rewarded by sheer gambler’s luck. They haven’t even learned what most of the gambling terms mean in some instances, It’s that level of luck.

I’ve been thinking about moving onto a new game, something that doesn’t require any skill so that I can’t be mad when newbies join in. I’ve heard good reviews about jackpot slots casino game so I might try there. With the slots game, I can play at home as well. So, when I’m bored of playing or frustrated that I’m not winning, I can just put my phone down and carry on with my day. Some of my friends play whilst they’re in bed and then just roll right over after they’ve finished. You definitely can’t get that in the casino! Due to this reason, I think I should try my luck sometime soon, but before I do so, I think it might be beneficial to educate myself on some betting tactics that could potentially win me bigger cash prizes, such as this information about online casino sign-up bonuses in this blog.

It seems as if I’m not the only one complaning :

Gamblers played about $611 million at table games during the quarter, a 6.4 percent increase. The casino kept about 11.6 percent of that gambling money, nearly 5 percent less than it did during last year’s quarter.

Table game revenues dropped more than 25 percent to $75.3 million in the third quarter from the year-ago period.

This is why it’s so much safer and easier to play gambling games on your phone instead of upfront in a casino. There’s so many to choose from, including fantasy football, with big prizes available. Money on the table? That only encourages bad gambling IMO, because there are some folks who just don’t mind losing a few bucks on the luck of the draw. It’s the same theory behind those who play the lottery… when you don’t have money, it’s easier to blow it on scratch tickets or small dollar bets.

So sayeth Reuters

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Revised data from the Commerce Department released with the second-quarter figures on Thursday showed national output shrank in the final quarter of 2007 before barely edging up at the start of this year.

“With the boost from the tax rebates now fading, lower interest rates having little positive impact and signs emerging that overseas demand is weakening, we expect the economy to contract outright in the second half of this year,” said Paul Ashworth, senior U.S. economist for Capital Economics of London.

Of course, if exports dip, that is because the dollar is strengthening… which means the worst is over.

I got all 50 states with 5:19 to spare.

Stupid keyboard.

A cursory look

at it signals yes. Breitbart has an article here on the new search engine developed by ex-Google employees, and this one genuinely looks different.

For a legitimate look at the web, Cuil may very well be the next big thing.

What about this is wrong?

Journalists, real journalists, follow strict rules about conflicts of interest. They do not take money or gifts from groups they might cover. They also maintain a wall between news, opinion and advertising functions.

That is not the case with many bloggers. In Virginia, for example, Lowell Feld, the man behind the liberal blog RaisingKaine.com, is getting special treatment from Democrats. They will seat him on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in August as an “embedded” blogger.

Feld has had a cozy relationship with Democrats for a while, working as a paid consultant for some of their candidates.

Such relationships are increasingly common among bloggers looking to make a buck. They accept money or other perks from a candidate or party and then write about them.

Arguably, many would have written the same things anyway and only work for candidates with whom they already agree.

Perhaps, but money has a tendency to taint objectivity. That does not disqualify bloggers from a place in the media spectrum, but those who rely on them for their news and commentary should keep in mind the potential conflicts when they choose whom to trust.

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Other than taking point-blank shots at Lowell Feld, the thrust of the argument is entirely — entirely — valid. If a journalist ever took cash from a campaign to field stories in the Roanoke Times, the Washington Post, or Richmond Times-Dispatch (or any other newspaper), that person would be finished.

The call for readers to be aware of the potential slant of a particular blogger based on whom they are accepting cash from (bribes, employment, advertising, whatever one would like to call it) is a valid point. It’s akin to taking out major ads in the WaPo, then expecting preferential treatment from their reporters — which is precisely what one gets when you buy a blogger.

The answer? That they don’t cause cancer.

I really like Democratic Central. They’re factual, they’re not just about Virginia politics, the articles are well written and well researched, and most of all they’re close to home and don’t kow-tow to reflexive political nonsense.

…in a poll amongst registered votes, not likely voters.

RealClearPolls puts the two candidates at an aggregate 5 point difference, of which the recent Gallup is an outlier. Polls showing likely voters only show a smaller margin up top, though the last time McCain was shown with a lead was in a USA Today/Gallup poll of likely voters… in the beginning of May.

McCain has not lead consistently in a head-to-head matchup vs. Obama since January 2008.

Depressed? Don’t be. John Kerry was demolishing George Bush by as much as seven points this time four years ago, the MSM had crowned Kerry the next president, and Europhiles were rejoicing.

We know how that turned out.