Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 19, 2015 in Blog, Politics |
President Obama has failed again.
Born in Kenya to radicalized parents, Barack Obama was cultivated as the perfect sleeper cell for Muslim extremism. Sent clandestinely by hard-line Islamic conspirators to Hawaii, and then Chicago, his orders were to infiltrate the democratic system, fool the populace, get elected to high office, and implement policies that would ultimately destroy America. Given the expectations, President Obama has been a failure of historic proportions.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 18, 2015 in Blog, Politics |
You’ve probably seen the hideously kitsch portrait of poker playing presidents. Let’s update that picture.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 17, 2015 in Blog, Movie Reviews, Personal, Rants and Raves |
It’s impossible to ignore.
“Star Wars” comes out tomorrow. Everywhere you look, it’s “Star Wars” this and “Star Wars” that. The movie isn’t even out yet, and I’m already sick of fucking “Star Wars.” I think most other people are sick of it, too.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 16, 2015 in Blog, Essays, Las Vegas, Politics |
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell (“1984”)
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 16, 2015 in Blog, Sports Betting |
In this column, I expose a myth that baseball suffered in popularity after the 1919 Black Sox scandal. All evidence proves otherwise.
There’s overwhelming evidence that suggests gambling (and all the associated publicity and media fallout) may have significantly increased baseball’s popularity.
The facts on this appear to prove irrefutable.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 15, 2015 in Blog, Essays, Sports Betting |
Major League Baseball made the correct decision. Keep Pete Rose out. Too bad gambling can’t do the same. He deserves to be shunned by Las Vegas and all sports gamblers.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 14, 2015 in Blog, Las Vegas, Personal, Restaurant Reviews |
The last two customers on the final night, with Darcy and Sally at Buzio’s (Rio)
Our fondest memories are of people and places.
For many, Buzio’s at the Rio in Las Vegas was one of the fondest of places because it was full of so many good people. It was more than just a casual restaurant. Buzio’s was a cradle of friendship and bastion of happiness. It was a boardroom of wheeling and dealing. It was a place to gossip, to drown our sorrows, and to celebrate. If the World Series of Poker, held at the Rio each summer since 2005 had an office, a break room, a social club, a watering hole, and a place of reprieve and relaxation — it was most certainly the public alcove in the form of a once-popular seafood restaurant along the so-called “bad beat hallway” leading back to the main casino.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 13, 2015 in Blog, Essays |
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 12, 2015 in Blog, Music and Concert Reviews |
“ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s a joy as an act of defiance. That’s what U2 is.”
— Bono
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Dec 11, 2015 in Blog, General Poker |
While the American Revolution was being fought, the British government found it easier to hire and arm foreign mercenaries than to recruit and train its own soldiers.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson apparently hasn’t studied that page from American history. He’s convinced that shoveling millions of dollars into what amounts to the rusty coal furnace known as the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling will somehow deliver that most elusive of political victories — a federal bill outlawing most forms of online gaming. That’s now seemingly a fool’s paradise after his forces were thoroughly demolished in Wednesday’s committee hearings before members of congress on Restoring America’s Wire Act, otherwise known as “RAWA.”
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