Want to see a movie that you will find is surprisingly good and pretty damn funny?

Then rent a movie called �Lone Star State of Mind� and you will be more then pleasantly surprised.

I�d give you a review of the movie, but seeing as I am the type who absolutely hates having shit given to me before I see it. I return the favor by not mentioning anything that might spoil the movie for you.

So pretty much you just trust my taste in movies if you�ve never heard of this movie.

And if you do trust in my tastes then answer this�is not Tink the funniest god damn redneck you�ve ever seen in a movie?

Yeah I thought so too.

So I�m sitting here checking my e-mail and either re-calculating world economics so that the �all mighty dollar� is a thing of the past or I was downloading porn.

See my memory is for shit sometimes so I can�t be completely sure. I just know whatever it was it had to do with using Kazaa Lite.

Anyway I had the television on in the background on the Fox News Network. As I�m tinkering around on here a certain article came up that caught my attention.

It seems a man is suing a casino because, get this, he lost all his money there!

Good lord that is unheard of! I thought casinos were places you went to with your money and where guaranteed to come out with more cash!

I�m shocked�I�m flabbergasted�I�m so fucking lying right now.

See his reasoning for suing them is that he is a gambling addict.

This is reason number one, and the only reason, you need not go into a casino. If you are addicted to beating till you�ve sold your private parts on EBay in desperate hopes for just a bit more slots money. Yeah lay off the god damn casinos. And if you live in a town with casinos then get the fuck out.

Now see apparently he used to be a big customer of there�s back in the day, but quite going because�shocker of shockers he�s a fuckin addict!

But they never took him off there mailing list so he kept getting flyers about deals and the wonderful world of bankruptcy surrounded with clouds lined with silver.

Apparently all these fliers just sent him over the edge�I MUST GAMBLE NOW CAUSE SHINEY PIECES OF PAPER TOLD ME TO!

Now don�t get me wrong I full understand what addiction can do to a person. I know how hard it is to break free of an addiction and how it can rule your life at times.

But by no means does this free you of personal responsibilities for your own actions.

If you break down and gamble and lose a fortune doing it. Well that�s the breaks and you have to live with it. Its not the casinos even if they know you�re an addict. You choose to walk through that front door. You choose to cash in your money for chips. You choose to gamble it all away instead of walking away.

They, even if disgusting and cheap tactics, are doing there business. I may not agree with there business, but they are within there legal rights to do it.

And the sickening thing is this. I looked on Fox News Network�s web site and did a search for this article so I could link it.

I found several bullshit cases of no one taking personal responsibility for there own actions. So lets just break down a few of these cases to the basics of why they think the casino is liable for them being fuck ups.

Case 1

In the news this week was a story about a man suing Montreal Casino because he lost 73,000 Canadian dollars ($48,000 US) since the casino opened in 1992 while playing Roulette.

Gurreri is seeking $3.3 Million (US Dollars) in damages in addition to his loses from the casino �It has nothing to do with me losing,'' Gurreri. ``It has to do with the game being controlled. People will lose in the long run if they gamble, that's normal, but to be taken the way they do, that's totally wrong.''.

Ok so let me get this straight. The man, over a seven year span of time, blew about a really good year�s worth of salary at this place. And some how, because of this, he feels the casino is liable for a settlement roughly sixty eight times as much money as he spent there.

All that money because he thinks the game is �being controlled.� And here is how he thinks the game is being controlled by the casino.

He claims that the roulette ball "ACTED" improperly. He said the balls stick to the inclined sections of the wheel and jump out of one pocket into another location.

As a show of hands how many people have seen a roulette table in action?

And yes those of you who have seen it done in a movie count as well.

Now what he just described as �acted improperly� is exactly how every damn roulette table since the introduction of roulette table�s act. They give the ball a good spin along the incline and its momentum keeps it rolling around the little grove several times.

Keeps the suspense going so you at least have a show for when you lose your money.

Now that grove isn�t to thick so it can only keep the ball for so long of its momentum. So after it loses enough momentum it slips from the track and proceeds to bounce.

Now I could understand his confusion of the balls �jumping out of one pocket into another location� if those pockets where the depth�of say....oh I don�t know lets say a pool table�s pockets.

But its not those little pockets are very shallow so the ball DOES bounce around. Once again it�s that suspense thing going on so you have a bit of entertainment as you blow your kid�s fifth birthday present money on lady luck.

So ok this man is asking for six hundred and eighty percent refund on the money he has lost at the casino because the roulette table and ball acted exactly how it should?

Can you pitiful loser that�s a drain on society and is just trying to get the big bucks for being a fuck up?

I thought you could.

Case 2

In his suit Stephen Roel claims he had been a customer of the Las Vegas Hilton for 15 years and during a weekend in September the Hilton paid for his roundtrip airfare, food, beverages and lodging in exchange for his gambling at the casino. He is considered a skilled player and has a credit line of $50,000.

The lawsuit states that over the weekend of Sept 29th Roel was drinking heavily and after losing $117,000 the Hilton casino executives extended him an additional line of credit for $840,000 despite the fact that the executives should have known he was drunk.

Ok so in this case we are not talking about a gambling aholic nor someone to stupid to realize the natural physics of a roulette table.

No we are talking about a �skilled� player of fifteen years here.

Say hey that�s impressive, guy. You sure do know your shit�no wait if you did maybe you�d realize getting blind stinking drunk while gambling with big amounts of money might just be a bad idea.

Now ok it�s shitty of the casino to take advantage of him while he is drunk and extend his credit to such a high price. Then again this man is a flaming idiot who thinks he is skilled, got a ton of free shit to be there, and can�t hold his liquor long enough to get off the main god damn floor.

So ok he claims to be a �skilled� gambler. A seasoned veteran of the art of give and take at the casino. A man who prides himself on the fact he took the big risks and, I�m thinking since he�s been doing it for fifteen years, it paid of well and for a long time.

So it can�t be that this man is flagrantly tossing around the word skilled when in true definition he would be the �rube with to much fucking discretionary cash.�

No it has to be because�well�oh I know! He must have not realized the effects of large sums of grain alcohol introduced to the blood system and what it does to a person�s thinking!

Yeah that sounds reasonably�bullshitty.

From the search I did there are plenty of other cases I could discuss, but all of them have been basically covered by these previous cases. Most of them dealing with the fact compulsive gamblers think casinos need to hold there hands and wipe there noses when they run.

I�m sorry I understand these people have addictions that are serious, but here is the thing.

I got me a fat ass, but do you see me running to sue McDonalds for making my ass look like I shoved two canned hams down the back of my pants?

Oh hell no and you know why? Because I might be addicted to food, but I knew that fact before rolling up to McDonalds and ordering there heart attack special with a side order of high blood pressure till my heart explodes.

So I want to quite being addicted to food and to eating the most unhealthy food in the world you know what I do?

I DON�T GO TO THE FUCKING FAST FOOD RESTRARUANTS!

It�s that god damn simple, folks.

Recovering alcoholics don�t make running jots through bars just for the hell of it and a bit of atmosphere. Recovering sexaholics don�t make surprise appearances at your local orgy. And recovering crack addicts don�t buy a rock and light it up because they �miss the smell.�

So, keeping that in mind, if you are addicted to gambling and you don�t want to end up living outside of an old refrigerator box because you�re to poor to live inside it.

Well shit� let me ask you this.

You want to buy a bridge I got for sale?

I�m selling it at bargain basement prices so act now before it�s too late!

It's about time - Wednesday, Jul. 07, 2004
An Honor for Chrome - Friday, Feb. 20, 2004
A great loss - Monday, Oct. 20, 2003
a terrible announcement. - Tuesday, Sept. 09, 2003
Chrome speaks: - Friday, Sept. 05, 2003