k2o4 : bets $4
Sawcruhteez: raises $8 to $12
angry hobo: raises $35.15 to $47.15 and is all-in
k2o4 : raises $22.50 to $69.65 and is all-in
Sawcruhteez: calls $45.10 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($12.55) returned to k2o4
Showdown k2o4 : shows (three of a kind, Sixes)
Sawcruhteez: shows (three of a kind, Eights)
Sawcruhteez collected $19.90 from side pot
angry hobo: mucks hand
Sawcruhteez collected $144.45 from main pot
Summary Total pot $167.35 Main pot $144.45. Side pot $19.90. | Rake $3
Board
Seat 1: hoangle555 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: k2o4 (small blind) showed and lost with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 3: Sawcruhteez (big blind) showed and won ($164.35) with three of a kind, Eights
Seat 4: skytt folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: ShoesRDurrty folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: angry hobo mucked
Here's another disgusting move Johnny boy is making (and hypocritical considering that he promised a "clean" campaign). He's accusing obama of ditching wounded troops on his trip to Germany. What happened is that the Pentagon told Obama he couldn't visit with any of his current staff since they were his campaign staff and not his senate staff, and they didn't want a political thing to come of it. Obama canceled the trip to avoid making it a political thing and since he wasn't prepared for it anymore. But Mccain claims he only did it cause he couldn't bring cameras in, even though Obama never planned on bringing camera's in. It's just another example of McCain's willingness to twist anything to create a reason to launch a negative campaign against Obama. And if you watch Fox's coverage of it, you'll see that they are trying to help spread the lie.
Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house:
And a little more on the McCain Ad that they're talking about:
John McCain's new favorite campaign line seems to be "I know how to win wars." He used the line in numerous interviews and speeches in the past week in response to Barack Obama's overseas trip. In fact, McCain likes the line so much that in one speech he used it twice in two sentences. "'I know how to win wars. I know how to win wars,' McCain told the audience at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque," according to the Washington Post.
John McCain served his country honorably. But what wars, exactly, has he won and why doesn't the media ask him?
Was it the Vietnam War? McCain showed uncommon bravery by surviving 5 and a half years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, but he certainly didn't win the Vietnam War. America was defeated in Vietnam, after losing the lives of over 58,000 soldiers and spending over $500 billion which helped cause the stagflation of the 1970s. Moreover, despite the warnings of Vietnam hawks that losing the Vietnam War would lead to a disastrous defeat in the Cold War as communist dominoes would fall throughout Asia, America's safety and security was not seriously damaged. Today Vietnam is a significant trading partner.
Was it the Kosovo War? That war was waged by President Clinton, under the command of Gen. Wesley Clark, who won the air war without the loss of a single American life. During that time, John McCain was urging that America commit ground troops to Kosovo, a step that proved unnecessary, would have led to needless American deaths, and would probably have been counterproductive.
Was it the War in Afghanistan? In 2001-2002, the Taliban and Al Qaeda were all but defeated but John McCain supported George Bush's decision to draw down American troops in Afghanistan -- from whose territory Al Qaeda planned the attack on the World Trade Center -- in order to send them to Iraq which had not attacked America and where, before the invasion of Iraq, Al Qaeda had no operational presence. As a result, Osama Bin Laden was allowed to escape from Tora Bora, today Al Qaeda is stronger than ever and capable of planning further attacks on America and the West, the Taliban is resurgent, and American and NATO casualties are mounting.
Was it the War in Iraq? John McCain predicted, along with George Bush and Dick Cheney, that America would be greeted as liberators. Instead, after 5 and a half years of war, over 4,000 American deaths and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, at least $1 trillion in costs to the taxpayers, and an American military which is stretched near the breaking point, America is still bogged down in a quagmire. Even taking at face value the most optimistic assessments, even agreeing for the sake of argument that "the surge has worked" (a vast over-simplification), the very best that can be hoped for is an Iraq led by a weak central government with strong ties to Iran, a balkanized country ethnically cleansed into Shiite, Sunni and Kurd enclaves, and a continued low level civil war which will last for years to come. John McCain may fantasize about a military "victory in Iraq" with American troops marching home in celebration to the sound of drums and bugles, but not even the most optimistic analysts see such a victory on the horizon.
It's a bit dangerous to psychoanalyze a politician from afar. Nonetheless, it's hard not to wonder whether, having suffered 5 and a half years as a prisoner in a war that America lost, John McCain feels the need to win a war, any war. One must be concerned that as President, McCain will opt for war as the first choice, not the last choice. With America now embroiled in two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which are not going well, one has to worry about John McCain's desire to "bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran".
John McCain continues to repeat the refrain, "I know how to win wars". It's time for serious reporters to ask him, "You have served your country honorably, Sir, but exactly which wars have you won?"
You're having a winning session and you decide to quit, but you get dealt some nice hands and figure you'll play them out before you shut down. These nice hands hit good flops (all happening at the same time on multiple tables) and you think "whoa I could leave on a big win here" and you end up getting it all-in on several tables. And you end up getting to showdown to find out that you have a good hand, but it's a second best hand and your nice winning session just turned into a losing one.
That's the story of my night. Luckily I went through with my plan and closed down the tables right away after losing those hands, instead of continuing to play to "get even", cause I was tilted to hell and back.
Does McCain have to say before people start realizing he's either an idiot, a liar, or senile?
First he gets the time line in Iraq wrong by saying that the surge BEGAN the Anbar Awakening (even though the awakening happened 6 months before the surge), and then in the same interview he says that Iraq was the first major conflict after 9/11... as if Afghanistan DIDN'T FUCKING EXIST! And he is supposed to be a foreign policy expert? I mean he's saying lot's of little stupid shit which I generally forgive, things like saying Iraq and Pakistan border each other. But there's just so much of it in the last month that it gets harder and harder to dismiss.
McCain Forgets Afghanistan:
McCain mixes up Surge Time Line
Kate Couric: Senator McCain, Senator Obama says, while the increased number of US troops contributed to increased security in Iraq, he also credits the Sunni awakening and the Shiite government going after militias. And says that there might have been improved security even without the surge. What's your response to that?
McCain: I don't know how you respond to something that is as -- such a false depiction of what actually happened. Colonel McFarlane [phonetic] was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that's just a matter of history. Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership, and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. I mean, to deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think, does a great disservice to young men and women who are serving and have sacrificed.
I'm too lazy right now but I might eventually bother to gather all his idiotic statements into one clean post so people see why I say that he's making a LOT of mistakes right now.
Also, pre-emptive argument right here: I understand the point McCain is trying to make in front of the cheese, but he's not responding to the argument at hand. I agree that the clear and hold and build idea was good. I also think that the surge helped the other efforts that had already started - how could it not? I mean you send more US troops in and I'm sure the violence is gonna go down cause, well, our troops totally pwn. The clear/hold/build strategy was a good one and doing it while the other improvements were going on in Iraq, like the Anbar Awakening, helped those other efforts to succeed.
The point is that McCain said that the SURGE was responsible for BEGINNING the Anbar Awakening, even though the Anbar Awakening started 6 months before the surge was announced. That's where the beef is, not with whether clear/hold/build was good or not.
That's either a lie, a huge mistake (in an area he's an expert in) or huge semantics debate. McCain is now trying to argue that the "SURGE" isn't just the surge of troops that went in as part of the official surge announced by Pres Bush, but that the surge started as soon as the idea of clear/hold/build came along. He's basically trying to take credit for things like the anbar awakening by saying the surge caused them and he supported the surge so he gets credit. I call bullshit.
Of course I was running good right before moving back up to NL50, had a good first session, and then dropped like 5 buyins in a session. NL50 has been quite mean to me - cold cards and bad beats. AA doesn't win AIPF these days. Luckily I've been able to recover so no let's try this AGAIN! But how about I run good this time right?
Johnny boy must be crazy to be putting out an ad like this... blaming Obama for the high gas prices, lolololol... and McCain actually said he would run a respectful campaign and go away from the attack ads, then he does this. Desperationnnnnn!
McCain ad says Obama's the guy to thank for emptying our wallets at the filling station. We say that's ridiculous.
Summary
McCain's new ad accuses Obama of keeping gas prices high, all by himself. That's absurd, and McCain knows it – he has said repeatedly that our current problems were "30 years in the making."
The ad also tells us that gas prices are high because "some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America." Not true. The federal government's estimate is that if the moratorium on offshore drilling were lifted today, it would be 2030 before we'd see a noticeable effect on supply and prices.
For the same reason, it's simply not true that drilling more now will "rescue our family budgets."
Analysis
Sen. John McCain, who's expected to receive the Republican presidential nomination in September, goes after Sen. Barack Obama, his Democratic counterpart, with a new ad that focuses on the cost of gas. According to McCain's campaign, the spot will air on national cable channels and in unspecified "key states."
The ad opens with a shot of an old-fashioned gas pump standing on a shimmering, moving, body of – water? desert sand? petroleum? It's hard to tell. The female narrator says: "Gas prices – $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America. No to independence from foreign oil."
"Some" are indeed opposed to lifting the moratorium on new drilling in the waters of the Outer Continental Shelf, and they include Obama.
What's not true, however, is that current opposition to lifting the moratorium has anything to do with today's gas prices. They aren't high because any one individual is against ending the ban. As we have pointed out previously, the Energy Information Administration estimates that if the go-ahead were given right now for such drilling, it would be 2030 before there would be enough oil flowing to have a "significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices." Is there "no end in sight" because of opposition to ending the moratorium? No more so than because of opposition to hastening the development of alternative sources of energy and new kinds of cars. But most experts believe that if we haven't implemented other strategies well before 2030, we're in deep trouble.
As for saying "no to independence from foreign oil," we suppose someone, somewhere, might be saying that – quietly, to themselves, in a small, soundproof room – but no major-party presidential candidate that we're aware of is doing so.
Back into NL50 with a winning session. Been so long it's funny to see people actually show some aggression in slightly tricky ways. But just kept to the strategy I'd been practicing and everything went well despite running cold as hell, and I took a 2.5 buyin win. I am much more motivated to keep playing poker right now cause NL50 feels close to where I wanna be and a good day feels like some money, not spare change. I guess the fact that I make very little money at my real job makes this look pretty good, haha!
So yeah, quick brag, but too lazy to post graphs and things, especially cause there's not much to show off. I do want to thank everyone who gave positive comments on my last post - it helped to have that show of support =)
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