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- By Phillip Brownlee
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Hot stock tip: You would have made 60% yesterday.
The over-the-counter stock for Butler National Corporation (BUKS.OB on Yahoo Finance), an Olathe company to benefit from gambling in Kansas, jumped from $0.38/share to $0.60/share in just one day after the Kansas Senate approved gaming.
Butler National will develop the Dodge City casinohttp://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2007/03/19/daily7.htmland who knows what else.
Comments from Kansas Senators on SB66, (Gambling Bill)MR. PRESIDENT: I vote No on SB 66.
SB 66 was never given a public hearing where the people of Kansas could comment onthe bill. The 22% profit to the State is the lowest percentage negotiated in the past tenyears. The State of Maine takes 61%, Rhode Island 60%, Pennsylvania 52%, and Florida50%. The privilege fee of 25 million is not competitively bid. Any entity willing to pay moreis turned away. We have given away the farm.—SUSAN WAGLE
Good stuff from the Kansas Senate
OURNAL OF THE SENATE
SENATE RESOLUTION No. 1857—
A RESOLUTION recognizing the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area.
WHEREAS, On May 30, 1854, with President Franklin Pierce’s signature on the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the inhabitants of the newly formed territories were obliged to votethemselves into the Union as either slave or free. The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified theMissouri Compromise of 1820 which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave statebut provided that all land east of the Rockies located north of the southern border ofMissouri would be organized as free territories; and
WHEREAS, Threatened by the prospect of isolation, diminished congressionalrepresentation and the loss of labor that sustained the wealth and power of the minorityplanter class, southern politics flooded the territory with a determined interest to carry the”peculiar institution” into Kansas and beyond, hoping that ”popular sovereignty” would carrytheir cause all the way across the continent to the Pacific Ocean; and
WHEREAS, Northern settlers were equally determined to bring their own beliefs andideals west, and sought to bring Kansas into the Union as a Free State with free labor. Themajority believed a free Kansas was about economic freedom and thus, the equality of BlackAmericans, which required constitutional amendments, was not at the heart of the debate;and
WHEREAS, As the whole world watched, ”Bleeding Kansas” became the battlegroundfor the soul of a Nation. Three months after Kansas was admitted into the union as a FreeState in 1861, the Civil War began…
JOHNNY’S HERE!” I am back and rested thanks for waiting for me (smile).First off, Welcome home Nathan my heart was overjoyed to see you made is home safe. God grants small and larger joys and it is will happiness that he granted not only your mom and dad’s prays but mine too.But I am sure that you and I will butt heads in the near future, I am so glad for the chance once again!
Second, I noticed that the name changing and personal assaults are still with us. My responses is “Oh well I will just play my little piano and sing my little song“.
Lastly Man what about that Chuck Hegel? Ok I will start the fussing, finally a Republican that is facing the truth and wanting to do something about! More I am sure later.
Why in the heck do I not catch these mistakes before hitting post?
Gambling BillKansas Senators For SB66Allen, Barone, Betts, Bruce, Brungardt, Emler, Francisco, Gilstrap, Goodwin, Haley, Hensley, Kelly, Lee, Morris, Schmidt D, Schmidt V, Schodorf, Steineger, Teichman, Umbarger, Vratil, Wysong.
Kansas Senators Against SB66Apple, Barnett, Brownlee, Donovan, Huelskamp, Jordan, Journey, Lynn, McGinn, Ostmeyer, Palmer, Petersen, Pine, Pyle, Reitz, Taddiken, Wagle, Wilson.
===============Senators of Sedgwick County Voting for SB 66:
Kansas Senate District 25Senator Jean Kurtis Schodorf
Senator Leslie (Les) Donovan SrKansas Senate RepublicanDistrict 27
Senator Donald BettsKansas Senate DemocratDistrict 29
Kansas Senate District 32Senator Greta Goodwin
=================Senators of Sedgwick County Voting against SB 66:
Kansas Senate District 26Senator Phillip Journey
Kansas Senate District 28Senator Mike Petersen
Kansas Senate District 30Senator Susan Wagle
Kansas Senate District 31Senator Carolyn McGinn
Press Release from Governor Sebelius on SB66 passage:http://www.governor.ks.gov/news/NewsRelease/2007/nr-07-0329b.htm
Funny to read the blog without Ms Piggy to lead the conservatives in their cut and paste war against the libs. Oh, how will we know what we should say and think without GS to tell us?Without GS, the collective average IQ of the conservatives rose 50%.
*sigh*…the immaturity is back it would appear. Make personal insults and slurs because you don’t like someone’s opinion. How utterly childish.
When GSheridan sleeps in or takes a day off, I bet she pays meadowmuffin to take her place. The daily shill.
“…provided that all land east of the Rockies located north of the southern border ofMissouri would be organized as free territories;…”
This is the real reason for the War Between the States. The South saw that the representitive power shift coming and said No Thank You.
I wouldn’t trust a penny stock like that.
Although Ford County fought for a place in the bill, from what I know is that there isn’t enough people or money in Western Kansas to support a Casino out there.
Remember! The Casino itself will have to be over $200 million dollars.
How did Paul Tobia retire at 56? Wasn’t LET GO from Vulcan?
The casino should go right at the I-135 and I-70 exchange.
In Salina!
Although I say this in a sad funny way, something I learned of one of the mistakes made in understanding the people of Iraq and their language. Paul Bremer often used the term “occupation” to the people of Iraq.Apparently not understanding that for the Iraqis, the word occupation “IHTILAL” in Arabic invoked humiliation at the hands of foreigners.
Okay lets get back to Tobia, I want to get to the bottom of this. How do you confuse…LET GO…and retired?
Probably because there is no confusion, tigress. It’s fun to make up rumors though, isn’t it.
http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2001/06/18/daily31.html
Good slam trndobrd! :)
A thoughtful post by a military officer recently returned from Iraq which I commend to your attention:
http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/2007/03/when_this_is_ov.html
Yep. Thanks VT.
dot-xxx domain:
Porn domain ‘.xxx’ rejected by agencyAn international organization voted down 9-5 on the specific online domain name, but agency can vote again on issue.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/30/technology/porn_domain/index.htm?postversion=2007033014
I am not a fan of internet garbage but I wonder: if this oculd be accomplished might we then at least be able to filter better – not just for our kids but for ourselves?
I hate trying to do a key-word search and getting a bunch of garbage.
But was he asked to retire?! and TRNDOBRD No rumor was started, a question was asked? No need for the defensive sarcasm.
Why the intense interest in Tobia’s reason for leaving Vulcan?
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O6LD6G0&show_article=1&catnum=0
Now the Imams who got kicked off the plane are suing the passengers who reported their suspicious behavior.
If they think they are helping the cause of Islam, they are badly mistaken. Kudos to the lawyers who are volunteering to defend the passengers for free.
Welcome Home Nathan. Glad you made it home safely and that you’ll be here to spar with.