The 2007 General Election is a couple of months off but silly season has already opened again. The 2008 General Assembly already has 34 pre-filed bills.
The first one this season that screams for the “And We Pay These Guys?” award was filed by Bill Farmer.
BR224:
AN ACT designating Cornhole as the official state game of Kentucky. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate Cornhole as the official state game of Kentucky.
I think Farmer was a bit shoddy in crafting this essential piece of legislation he left out the entire set of rules for the game of Cornhole. If Cornhole is going to be the official state game, I thought basketball was the state game, we need the official rules.
But maybe Bill is a deeper thinker here. With all of the talk of Casinos maybe he is looking at the related trades. Anyone that has walked down the strip in Las Vegas has been exposed to the marketing techniques of this trade.
From THE PROSTITUTE: Paradigmatic Woman by Julia P. Stanley
The first labels women as passive objects on or through which men "relieve" themselves. In this class we find the terms mattress, baggage, pisspallet, cotwarmer, warming pan, mattressback, quarterback, saltflitch, slop jar, bedpan, and cornhole (emphasis added). All of these terms define women as objects upon which men act out their sexual dramas.
I’m always amazed at this kind of legislation, maybe Bill was at a tailgate party when he was draughting this legislation
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Easy Money
Sometimes an act is morally questionable, but funny. Take for example the screwed up slot machine at Caesars Indiana called Easy Money.
The slot machine did not malfunction, but the software in it had not been set for U.S. currency. The machine was crediting players for 10 times the amount they inserted……An incident report told of at least two dozen patrons who inserted cash, hit a button to get a voucher and collected thousands of dollars apiece.
Someone at Caesars just plain screwed up and set the machine wrong. We all know the house always wins and this is no exception. Even if the players used the slot like an ATM, I have to wonder how many times mistakes are made in the other direction.
Were the customers morally correct? No, but it’s hard to feel sorry for a company, the world's largest casino company, that posted a net profit of $237.5 million in the last quarter.
Making nearly a billion dollars in net profits a year, I think Harrah's will survive.
The slot machine did not malfunction, but the software in it had not been set for U.S. currency. The machine was crediting players for 10 times the amount they inserted……An incident report told of at least two dozen patrons who inserted cash, hit a button to get a voucher and collected thousands of dollars apiece.
Someone at Caesars just plain screwed up and set the machine wrong. We all know the house always wins and this is no exception. Even if the players used the slot like an ATM, I have to wonder how many times mistakes are made in the other direction.
Were the customers morally correct? No, but it’s hard to feel sorry for a company, the world's largest casino company, that posted a net profit of $237.5 million in the last quarter.
Making nearly a billion dollars in net profits a year, I think Harrah's will survive.
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