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Forum: Poker Legislation 09-29-2007, 11:57 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 152
Posted By fnurt
Re: EU asking for a lot of money

Uh, the Social Security Trust Fund consists of U.S. Treasury obligations, backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government. U.S. Treasury debt is still considered one of the very safest...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-19-2007, 07:42 PM
Replies: 115
Views: 396
Posted By fnurt
Re: Politicians For and Against Online Poker, August 29, 2007

Constituent letter:

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Dear Fnurt:

Thank you for contacting me with your thoughts on H.R. 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007. As your representative in...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-17-2007, 04:48 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 97
Posted By fnurt
Re: murskansky or however u spell it--the new atty general

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Maybe Im not a lawyer, but shouldn't fighting the "war on terror" be done by Homeland Security and DoD? Id think the DoJ is around to deal with crap like porn and gambling and corruption...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-17-2007, 02:06 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 97
Posted By fnurt
Re: murskansky or however u spell it--the new atty general

I never appeared before Judge Mukasey, but many of my colleagues did, here in NYC. He has an outstanding reputation.

He is a Reagan-era conservative and I doubt he has much interest in appeasing...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-14-2007, 03:37 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 403
Posted By fnurt
Re: Which Groups *DO NOT* Deserve a Seat on the PPA Board?

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Party's position is that PokerStars (as well other sites)break some unspecified law by giving US players access to online poker. Having abandoned the US market, rather than seek...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-13-2007, 03:07 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 403
Posted By fnurt
Re: Which Groups *DO NOT* Deserve a Seat on the PPA Board?

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Party's position is that PokerStars (as well other sites)break some unspecified law by giving US players access to online poker. Having abandoned the US market, rather than seek judicial...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-13-2007, 10:58 AM
Replies: 67
Views: 403
Posted By fnurt
Re: Which Groups *DO NOT* Deserve a Seat on the PPA Board?

I don't understand why the interests of sites like PartyPoker are divergent from our own.
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-11-2007, 08:24 PM
Replies: 143
Views: 609
Posted By fnurt
Re: PPA letter coming early next week

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My only fear is that it might end up as such a trouncing that it will be hard to point to gambling as the dispositive issue when we look back.

In other words, people are...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-11-2007, 02:24 PM
Replies: 143
Views: 609
Posted By fnurt
Re: PPA letter coming early next week

The polling on this race continues to look like a blowout (http://www.beloblog.com/WHAS_Blogs/PoliticalBlogger/2007/09/beshear_up_19_in_latest_survey.html) :

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Steve Beshear still...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-10-2007, 03:09 AM
Replies: 198
Views: 1,307
Posted By fnurt
Re: 2008 Presidential Primaries

You offer all these reasons like Ron Paul has a legitimate chance to become President. In reality, he has no more chance than I do, sorry to say.

In terms of "sending a message" to the Republican...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-07-2007, 11:22 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 179
Posted By fnurt
Re: Alfonse D\'Amato just on Fox News....live

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I know a lot of people seem to want a Million Hand March, but I don't.

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I hope I didn't give the impression that I wanted something like that. And the number of people who...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-07-2007, 02:05 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 179
Posted By fnurt
Re: Alfonse D\'Amato just on Fox News....live

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fnurt,

Thompson or any other repub candidate is going to have to make a choice. Either make the core religious conservatives 100% happy or just take them for granted in an attempt to...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-06-2007, 08:25 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 179
Posted By fnurt
Re: Alfonse D\'Amato just on Fox News....live

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The thing is that Thompson (or McCain for that matter) can afford not to toe the FoF line 100%, because what then are they going to do if they don't like it? Vote for Billary or stay home...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-06-2007, 02:13 PM
Replies: 143
Views: 609
Posted By fnurt
Re: Let\'s all write to MSM and blogs

The tide seems to be shifting somewhat in Kentucky. This from Congressional Quarterly (http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/09/virginia_senate_race_now_rated.html) today:

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At the other end...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-06-2007, 02:11 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 394
Posted By fnurt
Re: 2+2 Ask the PPA

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When I spoke to John Pappas on Tue. afternoon, the subject of D$D actually came up. D$D is what he says....he's someone experienced at grassroots lobbying who has a meeting with John to...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-06-2007, 02:52 AM
Replies: 81
Views: 394
Posted By fnurt
Re: 2+2 Ask the PPA

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Wow. Just...wow. D$D had an appointment to speak with John Pappas and decided to prepare by asking us about our concerns so he could speak intelligently about the concerns of the poker...
Forum: Poker Legislation 09-04-2007, 08:43 PM
Replies: 81
Views: 394
Posted By fnurt
Re: Nion-substantive response ...i. e. why you will never have credibi

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Wow is everyone over-reacting to what D$D wrote, you would have thought he was going to Pappas calling himself "President of Twoplustwo".

You are right though that Pappas should be...
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-30-2007, 12:04 AM
Replies: 115
Views: 396
Posted By fnurt
Re: Politicians For and Against Online Poker, August 29, 2007

That's interesting. Harry Reid has made some comments in the past that seemed to be very anti-John Edwards. This issue might explain why.
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-29-2007, 10:02 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 119
Posted By fnurt
Re: America\'s Watchdog releases \"report\" regarding UIGEA circumvention

I sense there's some scamminess going on here. Googling the name got me at least two links of companies that America's Watchdog has supposedly "endorsed" as being incredibly reputable. I don't know...
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-27-2007, 07:31 PM
Replies: 143
Views: 609
Posted By fnurt
Re: 2007 Kentucky Governor’s Race – Awesome opportunity for us!!!

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It features a woman who blames casinos for causing her to steal $241,000 from the bank at which she worked. I thought conservatives liked to hold people responsible for their own actions....
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-24-2007, 02:00 PM
Replies: 110
Views: 426
Posted By fnurt
Re: GOOD Wall Street Journal Story

Engineer, your letter to Boeing is almost impossibly smooth. Kudos.

However, I'm confused about one thing. When you point out "we could have avoided this problem if Congress had just banned all...
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-20-2007, 12:29 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 103
Posted By fnurt
Re: If you play it for money, you are likely breaking the law

On a separate note, I was watching the Craig Ferguson show last week and he had some girl demonstrating the concept of "sport stacking," which seems to be a "sport" consisting entirely of stacking...
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-20-2007, 11:17 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 103
Posted By fnurt
Re: If you play it for money, you are likely breaking the law

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Poker being offically a sport is the worst thing that could happen.

Sports betting is, without a doubt, illegal.

As things are, 2 courts have said the sports betting laws (Wire Act)...
Forum: High Stakes MTT 08-18-2007, 02:42 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 48
Posted By fnurt
Re: Checking behind on draw heavy flops.

Seriously, there are people here who say don't get into 2-1 situations for your whole stack?
Forum: Poker Legislation 08-18-2007, 01:49 AM
Replies: 177
Views: 724
Posted By fnurt
Re: Fred Thompson for Poker?

Thompson apparently "amended" his statement later to explain that he doesn't support an amendment to ban gay marriage, he just supports an amendment to prevent any state from forcing other states to...
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