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Global War on Terror Version 6 - Perpetual Motion Machine

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Kepler said:
I'm surprised there isn't a more effective movement to end the lotteries. From the left, it's obviously just an ugly type of regressive revenue collection. From the right, the idea of "striking it rich" undermines their whole (for the most part, delusional) association of wealth as a reward for hard work.
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You sound like Art Link!!! (Google him if you must). Ol' Art must have spent the last 10 years of his life publicly politicking against lotteries.

I have a theory, one that I stole from John Marinacci. Marinacci was a little known character actor who shows up in mob movies and shows, and most recently went down as part of a sports gambling group in NY, as I recall. His theory -- We are all just looking for action, in gambler's parlance.

Marinacci was a "talking head" in a documentary that I really liked, called "ALL IN: The Poker Movie". Marinacci's theory is that gambling is hardwired into Americans. We are all descendents of gamblers. People who sold everything and hopped on a boat with no real plan, who swam across a river or stowed away to get here, and then once here headed out on a series of gambles. Much of what made the country resulted from "gambles" people took, for the most part no more than a handful of generations ago.

We can't resist, and have no desire to give it up.
 
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A moderate Muslim leader calls out Obama's unwillingness to call radical Islam "radical Islam":

By denying that this is about Islam, “President Obama does us a disservice, because doing so deprives the Muslim community of its responsibility to fight this radical monster,” says Muslim democrat Naser Khader, a former member of the Danish Parliament....“By doing that, the West fails to understand that the Muslims will be the most crucial soldiers to fight this Islamic terrorism.” Mr. Khader calls for a revolution in Islam that would reinterpret the sacred texts in a way that is “compatible with modernity.”
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SJHovey said:
You sound like Art Link!!! (Google him if you must). Ol' Art must have spent the last 10 years of his life publicly politicking against lotteries.

I have a theory, one that I stole from John Marinacci. Marinacci was a little known character actor who shows up in mob movies and shows, and most recently went down as part of a sports gambling group in NY, as I recall. His theory -- We are all just looking for action, in gambler's parlance.

Marinacci was a "talking head" in a documentary that I really liked, called "ALL IN: The Poker Movie". Marinacci's theory is that gambling is hardwired into Americans. We are all descendents of gamblers. People who sold everything and hopped on a boat with no real plan, who swam across a river or stowed away to get here, and then once here headed out on a series of gambles. Much of what made the country resulted from "gambles" people took, for the most part no more than a handful of generations ago.

We can't resist, and have no desire to give it up.
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In the old days there were losers in the lottery. Now everybody has to be a winner and get a trophy. If they don't win, they blame the system.
 
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Kepler said:
In other words...
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Never heard of that fear. Lots of others, but not that one. It's not like Africa is about to approach Asia in terms of population. Asia is over four times as populated as Africa and has well over half of the world's population. Even in this country, Hispanics are growing rapidly and I've seen article about conflict between blacks, who see their piece of the minority pie shrinking. There was an interesting article awhile back about a city council seat in Phoenix that had traditionally gone to a black person, but was now at risk of being held by a Hispanic, due to a fast-growing Hispanic population in the district.
 
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Kepler said:
The near future belongs to Asia.

The far future belongs to Africa.
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Interesting, but pretty much anything projecting out that far is highly speculative at best. And at 4 billion that would still be behind Asia's current population, and I'd assume there would be some amount of population growth there, though likely not what this article says about Africa. At 4 billion, some of the issues facing Africa would likely be staggering.
 
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