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    Ohio Finally Gets Casinos

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    What this means is that Mountaineer, Wheeling Island, and the Detroit/Windsor casinos will lose about a third of their business. Two of the casinos will be run by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, who makes money on just about everything he touches. They will probably be running in about 2 1/2 to 3 years.

     

    Lots of money for Gilbert (who probably will need it if LeBron James stays, which I think he will), but the state is charging way too little for the licenses...$50 million for each. Indiana, for example, charges $250 million. Per casino.

     

    This is an opportunity for some to make a whole lot...and others to make a little, with the jobs and all. I'm usually ambivalent about casinos, but after examining the issue, I see why this one passed (too much being lost to other states).

    Steve Phillips former Mets GM, now ESPNer

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    it took fat chicks about 1 week to figure out that if you hold the camera up and take a downward photo while pouting your lips, it can disguise almost anything.

     

    Take a look at any Heart video from the mid to late 80s and study the camera angles for Ann Wilson. Notice that she is never shown straight on like Nancy was. It's always at an angle or only from the chest up. And she almost always wore a corset (you could tell from some of the angles).

     

    That's really unfair to Ann, who's always been a fantastic singer, but I guess the camera is unforgiving.

    Lindsay Lohan

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Sometimes actors get that one role that they were born to play. Hell, look at Mira Sorvino in "Mighty Aphrodite." And then everything else.

     

    This is true. Other than Romy and Michelle (a funny movie which is actually the female version of Bill & Ted), what has Mira done since?

    Donte Whitner gets into a first-time offenders program

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    This is not surprising. Since he has no criminal record, once he completes the intervention program in January, his record will be wiped clean. Many first-time offenders get a chance with this. Cleveland Municipal Court (and Judge Stokes, the judge hearing this case) are big on this program. I've gotten it for my clients several times.

     

    So, basically, it becomes no blood, no foul for Whitner. He just needs to complete the program successfully.

    Will you cheer for the Browns?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Anyone who was alive in 1989 could never root for the Browns over the Bills. I'm still pissed about that game. B-)

     

    Boy, do I ever remember that game. I was hyperventilating as Kelly marched the team down the field, and then Ronnie Harmon drops the ball in the end zone. Next play was the Matthews interception.

     

    Remember that I was a big Browns fan...at the time, 20 years ago.

    Will you cheer for the Browns?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    How in the hell can anyone call themselves a fan and root against their team???? WTF?

     

    I dont care how much I hate the coach we have, I could/would never root against them. Anyone that thinks that a 1-3 record justifies rooting against the Bills needs to find a new team...we dont need you losers!!!

     

    Tell that to Packers "fans" who were cheering Brett Favre last Monday night. Still burns me up. B-)

     

    BTW, I know I haven't been on much lately, but the Browns do have a shot at 0-16. In Cleveland, the current question is "When does the season start for the Cavs?"

    Roman Polanski finally going to pay the piper?

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    So do they sentence him under today's laws, or under the laws 30 years ago?

     

     

    Oh, this isn't going to be a circus. :censored:

     

    They support Polanski because he's an auteur, an artist, an "innocent victim".

     

    And the big bad United States finally got him. That said, even his victim (who's now 45) says he shouldn't get hammered by the legal system. I think he may serve a couple of years and get deported.

     

    He would be sentenced under the laws that existed at the time of the offense, which would be 1977. Escape laws really weren't on the books then like they are now.

    My new blog (LAMP)

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Packers Sweatshirt....Boooooooooo

     

    Actually I "came out" as a Packers fan during this post last Christmas Eve.

     

    But, like most of my posts, no one really noticed. :lol:

     

    That's one of my longest posts ever. I must have been channeling Barry Brady or something.

     

    It's better than the "Cleveland troll" accusations I've gotten in the past. I must really like you guys, because I've been around here going on seven years.

     

    BTW, I saw someone on Deadspin.com refer to the Eagles this year as "The Ron Mexico Cheesesteak Experience". I just HAD to use that, so I changed my avatar.

    Things You Don't See (or Hear) Anymore

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Burger Chef

     

    Tastee-Freez

     

    Drive-ins not named Sonic (which are starting to move into the Cleveland area)

     

    I must be hungry. :unsure:

     

    Other items include:

     

    MTV and VH1 playing music videos

    Glass pop bottles

    Regular leaded gasoline

    Good R&B and Soul music (like Earth, Wind and Fire and the late, great Luther Vandross and Isaac Hayes)

    Astroturf

    Westerns on TV that aren't reruns

    Those weather maps on old TV newscasts that aren't projected on to a "green screen"

    Pagers (even though my dad still carries one...he refuses to get a cell phone)

     

    And my favorite: SHAME. :P

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