Reason #42 to VOTE NO on ISSUE 3
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Because when someone tells you to just tape that entire bag of M&Ms to your thighs rather than ingest them, you lose your interest in eating them (at least sometimes anyway).
Likewise, if we were asked to give 55% of every dollar that we'd otherwise spend on slots directly to Forest City (without the slots as a distracting middleman) et al., another 30% to Ohio's colleges, some more to state taxes and a bit to ODADAS (I always liked saying that acronym), do ya really think you'd be forking over your money to FCE? Do ya really think you want to acknowledge your money is going to someone who already has money and is only re-investing it in opportunities that exist on the backs of those least able to carry the weight?
Proponents will say, but I get enjoyment out of playing slots. Yeah? Really? You get enjoyment out of thinking that you might win, even though you know intellectually the stakes are stacked against you, always and forever. It's a money-making business that makes money off of your inability to visualize what you look like with M&Ms taped to your thighs.
Proponents may say that it's their dollar and if they want to give it to Forest City then they should be allowed to.
Then write a check. It's faster and it's in present day dollars - much more valuable for investement purposes.
Same for the education: if the concept of Ohio Learn and Earn is so awesome, amazing and worthy of a state constitutional amendment, they why the &%#&%# aren't each and every one of us in Ohio willing to just give that amount of money over to the Board of Regents starting now?
I've set up nonprofits before. I volunteer to set up a nonprofit to collect money from everyone who wants OLE because of the scholarships without Forest City getting a bigger cut than our kids. In fact, in my nonprofit, FCE won't get a dime - it will all go to education.
Because if you signed the petition for Issue 3 thinking it was all about education, you were mistaken and misled.
But in my nonprofit, it can all go to education.
So hand over those M&Ms and go back to your regularly scheduled program, with no pay-offs to a company that has no problem letting others sell their soul to keep the company in the black.
Previous reasons to vote no on Issue 3:
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote no on Issue 3.
Likewise, if we were asked to give 55% of every dollar that we'd otherwise spend on slots directly to Forest City (without the slots as a distracting middleman) et al., another 30% to Ohio's colleges, some more to state taxes and a bit to ODADAS (I always liked saying that acronym), do ya really think you'd be forking over your money to FCE? Do ya really think you want to acknowledge your money is going to someone who already has money and is only re-investing it in opportunities that exist on the backs of those least able to carry the weight?
Proponents will say, but I get enjoyment out of playing slots. Yeah? Really? You get enjoyment out of thinking that you might win, even though you know intellectually the stakes are stacked against you, always and forever. It's a money-making business that makes money off of your inability to visualize what you look like with M&Ms taped to your thighs.
Proponents may say that it's their dollar and if they want to give it to Forest City then they should be allowed to.
Then write a check. It's faster and it's in present day dollars - much more valuable for investement purposes.
Same for the education: if the concept of Ohio Learn and Earn is so awesome, amazing and worthy of a state constitutional amendment, they why the &%#&%# aren't each and every one of us in Ohio willing to just give that amount of money over to the Board of Regents starting now?
I've set up nonprofits before. I volunteer to set up a nonprofit to collect money from everyone who wants OLE because of the scholarships without Forest City getting a bigger cut than our kids. In fact, in my nonprofit, FCE won't get a dime - it will all go to education.
Because if you signed the petition for Issue 3 thinking it was all about education, you were mistaken and misled.
But in my nonprofit, it can all go to education.
So hand over those M&Ms and go back to your regularly scheduled program, with no pay-offs to a company that has no problem letting others sell their soul to keep the company in the black.
Previous reasons to vote no on Issue 3:
Reason 43
Reason 44
Reason 45
Reason 46
Reason 47
Reason 48
Reason 49
Reason 50
Reason 51
Reason 52
Reason 53
Reason 54
Reason 55
Reason 56
Reason 57
Vote no on Issue 3.
JBlog Me
8 Comments:
If the Plain Dealer's daily coverage of Christine Russo was "perseveration," what's the word for your daily screeds against Issue 3? Don't you have something more important to write about?
1. I don't know what the word is for my "daily screeds" against Issue 3. But I can tell you that they aren't comparable to the PD's coverage of Christine Russo because the PD presents itself and sells itself and allegedly works to maintain journalistic integrity. It has been my opinion that their stories on Russo, qualititatively and quantitatively, failed to support the journalistic endeavor in which the paper supposedly endeavors.
My blog, on the other hand, is clearly something no one has to read, ever, isn't paid for by anyone, has practically no audience and only has to meet whatever "journalistic" standards I set for it. And that can even change from post to post.
I'm humbled that your comment implies that you have an interest in reading my thoughts on other issues.
But as to your question, don't I have something more important to write about?
Nope. There are things I want to write about that are equally important but in the scheme of things, not more important.
I'm am dead, &%#*%*@& serious about hating gambling and not wanting it anywhere near me or in Ohio. I can't go into all the reason here because, well, you know, I have 41 more reasons to go on the blog.
But I can suggest to you that you use an RSS feed or get my blog emailed to you so you can be forewarned as to the posts you don't want to read, and just read the posts that do interest you.
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Jill, you're right about the difference between a blog and a newspaper and the difference between news and opinion. However, anonymous has a point about more important things. Congress is about to legalize torture and indefinite detention without charge. Bill Frist is trying to sneak Red-Chinese-style internet censorship into a defense appropriation bill. The Congress is considering legislation that would legalize Bush's illegal, warrantless domestic spying scheme, and your main concern is making Ohio slot players drive a couple-two-three hours. That's really all the defeat of Issue 3 would accomplish. Next year, Presque Isle Downs will open near Erie, Pennsylvania, with over 2,000 slot machines for your gaming pleasure just an hour and a half from Pepper Pike.
Well, let's not get carried away.
I wouldn't say that my main concern is this slots issue. It is one of my main concerns. I am, after all, a woman so I can multitask.
I've got a thing for how the judicial candidate endorsements are going down, I have a ton of stuff on education, I have a few MTB things that need to be put up etc.
And you are correct that those things at a national level are all very serious.
However, I can't be all things to all eight readers (and my mom will be on the road tomorrow so make it seven). :)
My family is my top priority. I started this 57 reasons countdown and I intend to finish it. That aspect - completing it - is important to me.
Could I pick another issue and give it reasons too? I think that's a great idea and if you have a suggestion for how to work it, I'd love to take it on or at least consider it.
So, while of course there are probably hundreds of issues I'd love to write about (you should see my desk), I can't write about more than a couple or a few a day - just no time.
The countdown will continue through election day. Feel free to stop reading anytime (but I really do appreciate your challenges - I think it's excellent debate).
Blogs enable specialization better than any other medium yet devised.
Jill wants to specialize in OL&E and brings a unique passion and some expertise to the topic. You go, girl.
Others can choose to specialize in topics they happen to be passionate about elsewhere. It's an odd complaint and/or expectation that someone would expect a blogger to comment on each and every issue, no matter how important.
Tom
BizzyBlog.com
Jill, I have no quarrel with your choice of topic. Some of my favorite blogs deal with such weighty matters as horse racing, science fiction, and the comics page. I respect your choice to devote so much of your blog to the gambling issue, and I rather enjoy arguing with you about it, but I do question your assertion that nothing else is more important.
By the way, a while back I got a comment from an anonymous reader who complained that I wrote about trivial stuff. I wonder if it's the same person.
Tom, I appreciate the support. Your writerly way here might overstate my goals a tad (saying I want to specialize made me giggle a bit), but I hear you.
Again, I take full responsibility for the overwhelming sense some people may feel at how I've decided to approach this issue. And maybe some will breathe a sigh of relief when Nov. 8 comes and I stop the reasons. :)
But, for now, this is what I'm doing. I promise to try to fit in plenty of other stuff. And seriously, I'm flattered that people want to read what I have to say about other issues. That's kind of cool.
Warning, Tom: #40 takes aim at some extremists on the right side of the spectrum, even though a lot of the post is tongue in cheek - please, don't take it personally - from a writer's perspective, it just turned out that way. You can appeal after you read it. :)
Jason - it is important to question assertions and I certainly let my kids know that (I almost NEVER use the "Because I told you so" line - it's for wimps; if you can't come up with a better reason, chances are, it ain't gonna stick for long).
But, this is like the television ads that say, no better pain relief. They're deceiving you because, as you seem to indicate, it makes you think that you're saying it's the best.
But no - they're not saying it's the best, they're saying there's nothing BETTER. So...there may be many things as effective, there's just nothing that's more effective.
And that's what I'm saying.
There are plenty of things as important to me. But seriously - there is nothing more important to me when it comes to issues about what's going to happen in Ohio.
I. Do. Not. Want. Gambling. to. be. Legalized. beyond. anything. that now. exists. Period.
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