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That $3.25 million revenue gained in the Kansas Star Casino’s first eight days of operation would have been better spent supporting local businesses.
For all you nonsmokers who won’t go to the casino: That’s great. More room for us, and we don’t need your disapproving faces while we have fun.
As a state employee with more than 23 years of service, I’m here to tell you that we are not making the huge sums of money the public thinks we are making. Our health insurance is not that great either. Quit beating up on state workers.
Why aren’t Republicans howling over, instead of acquiescing to, the Democrat’s payroll-tax cut raid on the Social Security trust fund? Republicans are always accused of wanting to cut this program. Democrats are doing it.
The cheapest and fastest way to get a copy of your family tree traced to the beginning of time is to be a Republican and run for public office.
With all the intelligent, hardworking, dependable people in this country, why do we elect so many village idiots?
If you’re having heart surgery, do you really care if the best heart surgeon has been married three times? You need the best.
Dear President Obama: We appreciate everything you have done and will do. We don’t know how hard it is to fix America’s problems, but for some reason we blame you. I, for everyone in America, apologize for our rudeness, and for the pathetic lives we live. Continue to do your best, and we will support our leader.
Is it not interesting that a straight-line relationship exists between the expansion of the welfare state and the demise of the middle class, and the simultaneous and equal rise of the impoverished in America? As they say, “necessity is the mother of invention” and “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.”
A robber, rapist or murderer must decide which building he will invade: one with a no-guns decal or one with a sign saying, “This building is occupied by American citizens exercising their Second Amendment right to bear arms.” The decision is obvious to all but brainless, politically correct liberals.
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” is one of the greatest movies of all time.
