Yet in the Oct 20 2009 posts I quote above,you said “Society has decided” through our elected representatives, who have approved some forms of gambling but not others”.

So THEN it was about what our elected representatives had decided. But NOW that they have apparently changed their positions to ones that are different than your’s “it’s a miserable situation”?

You dont see a conflict there?

By the way, love your site(s), your posts, enjoy your causes, appreciate you sharing your more personal experiences with us as it gives a a better perpective of what Dan Kennedy is about. And I also root for you when I find you on TV.. for some strange reason.

So please consider me a respectable disagreer. Imagine how boring it would be if we all thought and felt exactly the same way? The’d have to lock Giselle in a vault somewhere :).

I agree, @Bob, and I did no such thing. Rather, I compared you to the folks who sold food, clothing and equipment to the hapless gold miners. That’s rather different, wouldn’t you say? If that is wrong, then I retract it. But I did not accuse you of doing anything unethical or immoral, any more than I think it was unethical for Levi Strauss to sell blue jeans to the miners. Wow, talk about touchy.

As for consistency and hypocrisy, @Bob, the state lottery is legal and, in Massachusetts, casino gambling is illegal. There are reasons for that. I can enjoy an occasional glass of beer or wine without advocating that crack cocaine be legalized. Careful analysis requires not that we just look at the activity but also the degree and the effects on other people.

#1. I help brokers and owners sell real estate, which allows buyers to own real estate, like in having a home to live in. For you to somehow associate what I do with a chain-letter or ponzi scheme type behavior is misleading, offensive and outright wrong.

#2. Not that I care, but if you consider someone like myself as a tool of the gaming industry what do you consider the corner store owner who sells rolls upon rolls of tickets to their “prey” along with cancer causing smokes, and accident causing liquor? Murderers?

Responding to another member —- Dan Kennedy, talking abo0ut his weekly Mebabucks plays, says:
October 20, 2009 at 5:32 pmLarz: “The problem is that once you have a number, you have to play it. To do otherwise is to mock the gods. Just $2 a week.”.

So you’re out there enjoying and supporting the very behavior you would critcize me for simply arguing you should have the right to enjoy??

OK Dan.

“a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings”

I am reminded of the only people who made money in the California gold rush.

By the way, @Bob, if you don’t want to be thought of as a tool of the gambling interests, you might want drop the word “gaming,” a public-relations term used exclusively by the industry and its sycophants.

I also think gaming should be legal in Massachusetts, but I also really dont care if it is. So I am not a pro-casino gambling interest that Dan seems to think I am.

I live in Mass, but love Nevada. I love Stoli, but drink Bud Light. I like Giselle, but married the woman I love.

I dont fit into your mold, because i’m more interested in fitting into my own. It’s pretty simple. A guy as smart as you made sure to proclaim here for all to envy be ought to be able to grasp most of it.

@Bob:
March 9, 2010 at 8:37 am
I dont sell real estaste for a living

Q: How many Bob Fontaines can there be on one board?