30-10-2012, 11:06 PM
There used to be a thoroughbred racetrack in Rhode Island called Narragansett Park. Law enforcement officials and wise guys alike recognized it as one of the most corrupt facilities of its kind.
A large percentage of bettors who frequented NP knew the score. But nevertheless they came and they gambled.
The most successful ticket buyers handicapped races not by evaluating the records of horses and jockeys, or track conditions, or odds, or length of race. They used an entirely different set of metrics: who really owned the horses and jockeys, where and when was the heavy money going, who was owed a win.
Lauren, you are quite correct. Deep political analysis -- as opposed to poll results, fundraising numbers, debate performances, etc. -- provides the only meaningful metrics available to handicap an American presidential election.
It's all theater of the absurd -- and the obscene.
My best analysis: Obama is given the razor-thin victory so as to put to rest the suspicions that a close presidential election in which the son of the Republican candidate owns an electronic voting machine firm will be stolen for the GOP.
Thus is preserved and protected the fraud option for future use in an election in which one of the candidates represents true change.
A large percentage of bettors who frequented NP knew the score. But nevertheless they came and they gambled.
The most successful ticket buyers handicapped races not by evaluating the records of horses and jockeys, or track conditions, or odds, or length of race. They used an entirely different set of metrics: who really owned the horses and jockeys, where and when was the heavy money going, who was owed a win.
Lauren, you are quite correct. Deep political analysis -- as opposed to poll results, fundraising numbers, debate performances, etc. -- provides the only meaningful metrics available to handicap an American presidential election.
It's all theater of the absurd -- and the obscene.
My best analysis: Obama is given the razor-thin victory so as to put to rest the suspicions that a close presidential election in which the son of the Republican candidate owns an electronic voting machine firm will be stolen for the GOP.
Thus is preserved and protected the fraud option for future use in an election in which one of the candidates represents true change.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene