In Internet play they do not burn a card. So as they deal the river card there are more cards left in the deck. That's why you see more straights and flushes in Internet play.

The second difference is that you are playing in an environment you  cannot control. But you can control yourself.

The most important thing right now is dismantling the 2-party framework.

More of the front edge of the (generally wealthier) baby boomers are turning 65.  In addition there are now more folks 65+ that are still earning (accumulating wealth).  

BTW that a trend that has been going on for more than a century and continues from 2005 to 2011 does not say a whole terrible lot about those six years.

The median income of someone on SS is around $20,000/year. Thas't not a champagne retirement. Most of this wealth is the current market value of the homes ones by seniors. As the article notes, most seniors have paid off the mortgage, and most over 65s bought well before the insane run on real estate of the past several years. So, even though their homes have lost value, just like everyone else, they don't owe on the house, so are not upside down. It's not like seniors have these dollars burning a hole in their pockets. They are living in these homes and would have to sell to get the money.

It is criminal, IMO, that we have created a system of financing education that terms graduates into, basically, indentured servants for the financial industry, burdened by thousands in loan debt.  In a better world, one where Wall Street did not rule, more money would go to grants and scholarships and loans would NOT be issued by for-profit banks, etc. Interest would be minimal, no more than 3-4%. Just enough to service the loans and build back some capital for future loans.

However, his first post-convention speech was at the Neshoba county fair (IOW Philadephia).  Where he did speak as casey and Donald have said.

The convention ended on July 17, 1980, he spoke in Philly on August 3, 1980 and the NJ speech was September 1.  So if you believe that nothing he did between 7/17/1980 and 9/1/1980 was to further his candidacy, then I suppose you could say the a straight face that his campaign was launched in NJ.

Reagan's visit
Main article: Ronald Reagan's speech at the Neshoba County Fair
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan gave his first post-convention speech at the Neshoba County Fair after being officially chosen as the Republican nominee for President of the United States. He said, "I believe in states' rights ... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment." He went on to promise to "restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them".[5] Analysts believed that his use of the phrase was seen by many as a tacit appeal to Southern white voters and a continuation of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, while some argued it reflected Reagan's libertarian economic beliefs. The speech drew attention for his use of the phrase "states' rights" at a place just a few miles from a town associated with the 1964 murders of civil rights workers.

We had one of these guys in a company I worked for.  He was basically eased out quietly-- shuffled off to the next unfortunate employer to continue his odious behavior.  Meet your new department head.  Surprise!!

I was sexually harassed by one of my teachers at music school. I fended off his creepiness (successfully, I thought) and so, did not feel the need to report him to the administration. Guess what? After I left school to return home, I received my grades and, lo and behold, I did not get the "A" grade I clearly deserved, based on my "A" grades from my exams and my final project in his class. That's when I realized he had retaliated against me for not sleeping with him. After returning home, I was dealing with an accident injury, hospitilization, surgery, and financial hardship, and did not pursue the matter with an administration office on the other side of the country, at a school I was not going to be returning to. I had other pressing matters to deal with.

It turns out that this same instructor had been harassing other female students before I ever came along, had already been reported to the dean, but was able to keep his job and continue to harrass. In other words, the school did not really care. He finally lost his job, many years after he had first been reported. A second harassing instructor lost his job a year later -- this big name music school had realized that sexual harrassment is not to be swept under the rug, and that open court cases against these teachers could bring the school to its knees. After all, they wouldn't want to lose all that money and all those accolades from famous graduates.

Open up your eyes and face reality. Harassment by one person in a position of power can go on and on for years without punishment, for any number of reasons.

The woman who came forward today to tell her story about Herman Cain is very brave, IMO. I know of so many similar stories it would make your head spin.

They also knew (especially if the man was higher up in the company) they would not be believed. More than that, they would branded sluts and troublemakers, and kill their chances of finding another job.

Judge Michael Pastor ordered Murray held without bail, citing the seriousness of the crime.

"Dr. Murray's reckless conduct" poses a threat to public safety, he said.

"This is not a crime involving a mistake of judgment," Pastor said. "This is a crime where the end result was the death of a human being. That factor demonstrates rather dramatically that the public should be protected."

The largest banks are larger than they were when Obama took office and are nearing the level of profits they were making before the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, according to government data.

Wall Street firms -- independent companies and the securities-trading arms of banks -- are doing even better. They earned more in the first 2 1/2 years of the Obama administration than they did during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, industry data show. link

Of course Obama is also profiting from his policies:

The president, however, has not shunned Wall Street. He has courted financial executives for campaign donations, including inviting them to a campaign gathering at the White House. He has attracted more money for his campaign and for the Democratic National Committee from financial firm employees than all of the GOP candidates combined -- a total of $15.6 million. link

A new Citizens for Tax Justice report detailing how little corporations pay in federal corporate income tax also noted that financial firms receive the highest percentage of federal tax subsidies, collecting nearly 17 percent of the tax largesse that the government hands out. The largest single recipient of federal tax subsidies over the last three years was mega-bank Wells Fargo. link

Good thing that he cut programs like WIC so that he could continue to pay for these government "hand outs" to his savvy business friends. Cutting domestic programs to give the top 1% more of the pie is the way to go. Can't you just see all that trickling down reflected in these numbers?

US poverty at new high: 16 percent, or 49.1M

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press - 13 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A record number of Americans -- 49.1 million -- are poor, based on a new census measure that for the first time takes into account rising medical costs and other expenses.