I got a flat tire this morning on my way to work, so I’m sitting here in Starbucks typing this Blog instead of sitting at work – fun times. I’m also sitting here reflecting and just thinking about how happy I am that we finally hunted down that scumbag, Bin Laden. I have kind of a guilty feeling sitting here being extremely happy that this dirtbag is dead, but then again I know I shouldn’t feel bad at all because he was responsible for so much death himself. However, after browsing different opinions and rants about this on sites like FaceBook and Twitter this morning, I saw a couple interesting opinions that have made me skeptical of what will happen in the coming year.
One such opinion led me to believe that even though most of America feels great about this death today (myself included!), I’m wondering if the after effect of Bin Laden’s death is just going to cause more problems? By more problems, I don’t necessarily mean more violence, but I think it gives the impression to the general public that the wars on terror are over and that the troops will be coming home. This is simply not the case, as any of my military friends will agree. The wars are going to go on, they may or may not become more violent, and the US will continue to dump billions and billions into these efforts. I kind of stole this following thought from something I read this morning, but I think it is very true: “Americans get excited about news like this, but we are simply numb to the slow bleed that is to come.” Again, I am the first one to jump up and down and get excited about this, but I’m aware of the problems facing this country over the past decade. Let’s just hope that somehow things get better instead of continually becoming slowly worse. Part of this “slow bleed” is the soldiers that will inevitably get killed this week, next week, next month, and next year. The “slow bleed” will continue folks – let’s hope we can endure it with minimal damage.
Well, I rambled a little there, but I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not fully educated on the topic even though I served in these wars. We’ll see what happens. Anyway, onto a topic that I know a lttle bit about……
I’m also sitting here in anticipation of receiving an email from Full Tilt – hopefully sometime today – hopefully saying that US players can finally cash out their accounts. I’ve listened to all the podcasts and radio shows in the poker media over the past 2 weeks, and I am confident that I will get to cash out my money here very shortly. However, I’ll feel much better once I click that cashout button! I’ll hopefully blog more in depth about what my thoughts are going forward for online poker, but I will say that I do think it will be regulated and taxed in the US in the near future. I obviously don’t agree with the government one bit on how it tries to “legislate morality,” but the government made up for it a little bit today with the news on Bin Laden! haha.
Hopefully, the government can get its act together and realize that it can actually make some money off of online poker as tax revenue instead of prohibiting it and trying to tell Americans that they cannot play online. Guess what boys, I am still playing online right now, you didn’t stop anything! You actually made it less safe for me to play online because the site that I am playing at now is much less secure than Tilt or Stars! Anyway, I’m not saying that taxing online poker will fix the national defecit, but an extra $5-$10 billion in revenue sure wouldn’t hurt.
Oh well, this is like anything else in life, and hopefully I’ll be able to learn from it and make myself a stronger player from it. I’ve been down to the casino 3 times since Black Friday with successful results, and I’ve learned a great deal from these sessions. I’m going to focus on some mental aspects of my game in the near future, and I’d also like to get some experience playing PLO live at the casino. I can tell that PLO is quickly becoming bigger and bigger down there, and I want to get in on this action.
Well, the car shop just called, and my car is ready to go. Thank God I’ve been driving around with a spare tire in my trunk. It’s good to be prepared……
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