I think of you every time they advertise an upcoming pow-wow, the Schemitzen, the Green Corn Festival. The festival is being celebrated by the Mashantucket Pequots, who run Foxwoods Casino. (The other tribe in Connecticut with a casino are the Mohegans, who run Mohegan Sun.)

The Narragansetts here want to start a casino, but people complain that then people will go gamble and their children will starve. Connecticut's only an hour's drive away. I don't think it's going to keep idiots from gambling, and Rhode Island might as well get the income, since they're going to have to help the children of idiots who spend their salaries all on gambling anyway.

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Good morning Linda - just reading one of your earlier blogs. You are taking the other car with you? Keeping it insured is important, but I am sure you and James know that. I do hope and have been praying that the papers come in for you before you leave. Talk with you soon.

# posted by  Anonymous : 7:40:00 AM

 

No, the car's staying here. Anna knows someone who needs a car. We just need the papers to sell it! My big problem is the bill from the funeral home that's due at the end of the month. I can't afford to pay it.

# posted by  Linda : 8:14:00 AM

 

Oy vey. Well, if it left Georgia on the tenth, maybe today will be the day!!! The whole thing is ridiculous, and far too stressful for the two of you. Talk with you soon.

# posted by  Anonymous : 11:41:00 AM

 

It figures they don't want the Native Americans to start a casino. Everybody always says those lead gambling. Well, if people didn't want to gamble, there wouldn't be any market for a casino would there? Nobody is forcing anyone to gamble at gunpoint. sheesh.

# posted by  Anonymous : 12:34:00 PM

 

Oddly enough the arguments that people are using in Rhode Island are the same arguments that people here in Saskatoon used to keep a csino from opening. They held a plebiscite to vote on whether there would be a casino and the arguments against were people gambling themselves into debt etc. Forget the fact that there are casinos in every other major city in the province of Saskatchewan and that if we didn't have it here in city the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Agency was going to put it on a reserve about 20 miles out of town, we were too good for it. Idiots.

# posted by  Brent McKee : 1:11:00 PM

 

There's gambling (just slot machines) nearly everywhere in the Czech Republic--but they use it as a source of federal revenue.

--Tina

# posted by  Anonymous : 1:54:00 PM

 

Yeah, I know. If someone really wants to gamble, they're going to find a way to do it, including getting in on mob-run "numbers rackets." This is very dangerous when you end up owing money to "Sal" and "Vinny."

# posted by  Linda : 9:27:00 PM

 

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