–Tina Dupuy, Managing Editor of Crooks and Liars, joins us to discuss her latest column “Republicans Have a Gambling Problem.” –On the Bonus Show: Creationist theme park struggles, Hugo Chavez cancer induction conspiracy, teacher masturbation madness, and more. The David Pakman Show is an internationally syndicated talk radio and television program hosted by David Pakman www.davidpakman.com http www.davidpakman.com www.facebook.com www.twitter.com feeds.feedburner.com 24/7 Voicemail Line: (219)-2DAVIDP Broadcast on December 29, 2011
John Stossel show aired on FOX Business network on May 13th, 2010. It was all about gambling in America. It consisted of the following parts: 1) Gambling crackdown. 2) Gambling addition. 3) OTB: A sucker’s bet. 4) The wisdom of crowds. 5) Questions from the audience. 6) Stossel perspective.
Gambling with Crookston’s future. Against all odds. Betting it all based on one’s gut feeling. Only happens inside a casino? Think so? Hi and welcome to the Crookston Documentary Channel here on You Tube. I have a history of traveling through Las Vegas, stopping, seeing the sights but never dropping even a nickel. Gambling isn’t something I usually do. Unfortunately I got tied up in a game of high stakes in Crookston from 2006-2009 and lost 000 before I “crapped out”. Yet my high stakes, losing gamble, wasn’t the only game going in town. The Crookston City Council was busy with their own high stakes game as they dreamed of building a no frills (a huge hulking building) to house three hockey rinks out on the far extreme edge of the city. The cost: million. For: A declining youth population (a 50% decline since the 1960’s). Crookston has, recently, been pestered with a factory closing, layoffs, and a ever rising burden of retirees and the elderly. Almost as if ones back was against the wall, anxious, not thinking things through, a bet was hastily placed. Crookston’s most powerful city council in the city’s long history? Based on the gross amounts of funds flowing through city government (for all programs and projects under their control) and their ability to radically alter Crookston future direction through their official authority to act, this council is thee most powerful in Crookstons long history. More then three of these current council members have already …