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The Sun, bless its Democratic soul, has to cheer and blow bugles over everything Harry just happens to do, whether it makes sense or not.

THE SIMPLE FACT IS THAT HE FELL ON HIS FACE! O'Reilly said it simply, "He got cut off at the knees." That is, Sen. Liberman immediately said he would not support it, and might ever filibuster. Snow, also joined in.

The point remains it takes 60 to get the motion moving just as it takes 60 to get it passed. Thus Reid has restricted the choice of the Blue Dogs who might not want the public option in, but would vote to get the motion moving. Now, if they vote to get things moving and they don't want the option, they would have to find 60 votes to get it out!

Yahoo! puts it this way: "Reid's Push for Public Option Creates New Barriers for Bill- WSJ
The push by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a public health-insurance option is creating fresh obstacles for health-care legislation in the Senate, despite new poll data suggesting a plurality of Americans support the idea."

Thus the simple fact is like O'Reilly saw it, "He got cut off at the knees!" But, of course, to the Sun Reid is always a great hero--despite his upopularity here in Nevada.

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A few years ago, before Fiesta was part of Station Casinos, it was called, "The Royal Flush Capital of the World." People who studied video poker--and Bob Dancer taught there--would come to the casino in the morning and be willing to spend up to $1000 to win a jackpot. There were Royal Flushes going on all day. In a progressive, when it went up, you could not even get a seat to play--and players would feed the machines $100 bills.

Then Station took it over, and attendance fell off and nobody could win much. It got to where "High Limit" machines were often for $1 or $2. (Today people want to play nickels.) Station then retaliated by expanding the place and putting in movie shows, more restaurants, and went along as if making a palace out of the place would restore customers, but I don't think that happened.

Station, like other casinos,I might add, has had the long practice of getting away from paying out cash from the machines. Their progress has been sickening. They decided upon "Play Back," which mean you had win all over again, to get at cash and as this progressed, it just became "Comps." Now it has gone a step further to drawings.

The idea of taking money away from players and coming up with drawings and other games, where payouts are postponed again and again is the latest example of how the casinos want at all costs to avoid paying cash to successful players!

So what happened, all over Vegas since the days of calling and treating winners at Black Jack as "cheats," is that they drove out the gambling segment. So that the old adage that it is always a good time to gambler--even in depressions, suddenly collapsed in this city.

That fact is that the gamblers saw that casinos did not want to pay them. Casinos opposed skill, but then they took the next step and actually opposed even luck! Everything was to be comps and playback, or now drawings unrelated to the game at hand. THEY KILLED THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG.