Las Vegas gambling revenue down for 5th consecutive month

CARSON CITY, Nev., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The Nevada Gaming Control Board said gaming revenues in the state fell for the fifth consecutive month in July, decreasing 4.9 percent from the previous year.

The board said casinos in the state collected $829.7 million from customers during July, down from $872.7 million in July 2009, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday.

Casinos on the Las Vegas strip collected $461.3 million during July, about $12,000 more than the same month in 2009. Casinos in downtown Las Vegas recorded a 19 percent

Home prices to take hit next year in many markets

Found his article on Yahoo News. How many times have your friends said that the the housing market has hit bottom? But it continues to sink. Looks like I'll be getting that condo in Las Vegas after all ... in about two or three years!

Alan Zibel and Janna Herron, 

AP Real Estate Writers, On Tuesday September 28, 2010, 4:00 pm EDT

Lest we forget why Aretha was so great!

Obama Praises Islam

If George Bush talked this passionately about Christianity can you imagine how the press would have belittled him?
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Clinton calls Bachmann ‘stupid,’ Bachmann calls Clinton ‘bizarre’

By Andy Birkey 9/21/10 12:21 PM

Rep. Michele Bachmann lashed out at Bill Clinton on conservative radio this weekend after the former president criticized Bachmann at a fundraiser for her DFL opponent Tarryl Clark last week. Both Clinton and Bachmann have been prolific with fundraising emails at the expense of each other over the last week as well. Clinton said it’s “stupid” for Bachmann to put ideology over evidence, while Bachmann called Clinton’s statements “bizarre.”

“That’s how I see Rep. Bachmann. She’s very attractive in saying all these things she says, but it’s pretty stupid,” Clinton said at a Clark fundraiser last week.

“Your opponent,” Clinton told Clark according to Salon, “is the ultimate example of putting ideology over evidence.”

“I respect people with a conservative philosophy,” he continued. “This country has been well-served by

How Banks Profit "Big Time" From Short Sales!

Gangster Government in USA

Study: Obesity Is More Expensive for Women

As Obamacare kicks in, plan on more articles about heath being released, pointing us in the right direction, to save our country's health costs. Here's one that I found today. by Lauren Frayer.

(Sept. 21) -- Obesity hurts your health, but it also hurts your wallet.

That's the conclusion of a new study by George Washington University scholars who've tabulated the cost of being obese, compared to merely being overweight. The results found that obesity costs women almost twice as much as men. And it's more than nine times as costly for women to be obese, rather than just overweight.

Urgent Lessons from Japan on Economy, Debt and Stocks Bear Market

Economics / US Debt Sep 20, 2010 - 08:55 AM

By: Martin_D_Weiss

Imagine a world where the economy never emerges from recession.

Imagine a time and place in which economists talk first of a double-dip recession, then about a triple-dip recession … and ultimately admit the dire reality of a long, multi-decade depression.

Imagine chronically high unemployment, overwhelming government indebtedness, shrinking population, spreading poverty — even growing rates of homelessness among college graduates.
Think about a 20-year period in which stock investors continually lose fortunes and retirees get nearly zero income on their savings, with no end in sight.

A future scenario? No! It’s the here-and-now scenario that I am personally witnessing

Ground Zero Mosque Cancelled ... by Media

The site of a proposed mosque on Park Place in lower Manhattan,

New York is seen

If you thought that the media was making a meaningless big deal over nothing; about a small time preacher burning a few Korans - ink on paper - you're right. But the country and the whole world was easily duped into thinking that World War III was about to start. It was the leading story on every radio news report that I heard for two days.

Most thinking people understood that

Dear President Obama, For The Love of Freedom, Hear Us!

This is the video that received over 5 million hits in just two days. But the hits keep coming. Anybody with a love of Freedom written in their heart should watch it. And please send it on to others. The time for action is now!

Pentagon Attempts to Block Book on Afghan War

The Defense Intelligence Agency has blocked a book about

 the tipping point in Afghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11

 data mining project called "Able Danger.

FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: by Catherine Herridge
On the eve of Sept. 11, Fox News has learned the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has attempted to block a book about the tipping point inAfghanistan and a controversial pre-9/11 data mining project called "Able Danger."

In a letter obtained by Fox News, the DIA says national security could be breached if

Capitol Hill Employees Owed 9.3 Million Dollars in Back Taxes!

Excerpts from an article by W.W. Farnam as it appeared in The Washington Post, September 9th, 2010


A link to Federal Staffers owing back taxes appears at the end of this post.


Nationwide, federal employees owed over a billion dollars in back taxes at the end of 2009. Capitol Hill employees made up 9.3 million of that amount. And 41 employees at the Executive Office of the President owed $831,000 altogether .


... The debt among Hill employees has risen at

The Government Declares War on Small Business

This excellent article by Mark Rassmussen was top top ranked on The Market Oracle, one of my favorite sites. I reproduce it here because I believe that the business people that follow  Gary Bryan blog-spot will find it as profoundly revealing and informative as I did.

The government DOES NOT "create" productive, value added, sustainable "jobs", Small Business Does! To help set the stage, let's look at some important stats from the

Bush or Obama: What's your government spending IQ?

Koch vs Soros: The left's double standard

By: Timothy P. Carney
Senior Examiner Columnist
September 1, 2010

Billionaire financier George Soros speaksduring

a forum at Hong Kong University Wednesday,

Feb. 3, 2010, in Hong Kong. (AP File)

I was the main speaker of the night at a fancy dinner. The crowd included millionaire business owners and corporate executives. And the man who introduced me, and who had invited me to speak, was billionaire industrialist Charles Koch.

My topic was what it always is: the evils of corporate welfare and bailouts, and the destructive influence of the Big Business lobby in Washington. In my talk, I blasted "regulatory robber barons" and

Monica Crowley on why we're mad as hell ...

Transcript of Monica Crowley’s talking points memo (from the Factor) …

 Remember when Howard Beal, the fed-up character from the movie Network yelled this, “ I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore”?