"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it"......Mark Twain
"I'll play any man from any land any game he can name for any amount he can count...Provided I like it." Puggy Pearson
T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)....Robert Heinlein
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
The commonest mistake in history is underestimating your opponent; it happens at the poker table all the time. ~David Shoup
"You shouldn't be playing poker if you're afraid to bluff" Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott
"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep thier money" Canada Bill Jones
"If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership." Will Rogers
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mahatma Ghandi
Monday, July 7, 2008
VICES SAY SOMETHING ABOUT CHARACTER
A recent article in TIME magazine reported on the gambling vices of our presidential candidates. Senator Obama likes $1 ante poker. John McCain prefers $1,000 dice games.
"We poker players don't call poker gambling. It is a game of skill. Craps is an absurd game of luck. You may have thrilling short term wins but only madmen play craps."
Anthony Holden, the well-known British poker-player and writer
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