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Why Does Las Vegas Exist
Compact ^ | 7/22/2022 | Freddie DeBoer

Posted on 07/24/2022 4:28:10 AM PDT by Blurp2

I hope you all like this one. I thought it was beautiful and true, a new explanation of the source (or perhaps the destination) of desperation. Not political at all, except maybe subliminally.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: desperation
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To: Blurp2

His writing is like skat singing.

It is initially interesting, but it means nothing.


61 posted on 07/24/2022 8:26:54 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueunicorn6

Pretty seedy place these days. No one brings it up here. They should go 100% nuclear for power. Yucca mountain is nearby if they would ever start it up again-2025?


62 posted on 07/24/2022 8:31:26 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: x

“Think of Las Vegas as Nassau in the Bahamas in the 18th century. “

...sounds right...


63 posted on 07/24/2022 8:35:10 AM PDT by Blurp2 (...Mantovani swings Bartok for sleepy lovers...)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Let the water flow to Mexico. Might have to ‘pump it over’ the dam as taking it out eliminates future options. That is if there’s any water left. Build aqueduct from northern states w/pumps. Mississippi water has been mentioned-absurd.


64 posted on 07/24/2022 8:35:34 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Blurp2

No, I’m not a dope smoker, but I am a Pink Floyd fan, even if far-left Roger Waters wrote those lyrics.


65 posted on 07/24/2022 8:37:43 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: Blurp2

I speculate that if it wasn’t for the Cuban Revolution, Havana would have made Vegas obsolete.


66 posted on 07/24/2022 8:38:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

We were crossing into the Twilight I looked at my sister who was sitting next to me in the backseat and I said “tonight’s the night we see the UFO” and she screamed at me. Dad told me to stop it...


67 posted on 07/24/2022 8:41:49 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: DownInFlames
"When Hoover dam goes dark in 2023, the waster stop flowing,"

And when the waster stop flowing, you up shist creek.

68 posted on 07/24/2022 9:49:56 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Murrill McLean Award, for cowardice by a Policeman, shooting of 12 lb. Mini-Dachshund. Danville, VA)
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To: Blurp2

Yea


69 posted on 07/24/2022 10:00:19 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Blurp2

I liked them all. The best ones were the first two. I can live with the third one and will watch it if it is on.


70 posted on 07/24/2022 10:05:30 AM PDT by moviefan8 (The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. - M in No Time To Die (2021))
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To: GreatRoad

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4080577/posts


71 posted on 07/24/2022 10:06:46 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Murrill McLean Award, for cowardice by a Policeman, shooting of 12 lb. Mini-Dachshund. Danville, VA)
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To: libertylover

“No, I’m not a dope smoker, but I am a Pink Floyd fan, even if far-left Roger Waters wrote those lyrics.”

...just wondering... not sure I can call myself a Pink Floyd fan myself, since I only ever listened to two albums, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here... and it’s been AGES...


72 posted on 07/24/2022 11:02:20 AM PDT by Blurp2 (...Mantovani swings Bartok for sleepy lovers...)
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To: dfwgator

“if it wasn’t for the Cuban Revolution, Havana would have made Vegas obsolete.”

...ever seen Blue Skies, with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire? Check it out... C U in C U B A!!! Good for what ails ya...


73 posted on 07/24/2022 11:03:38 AM PDT by Blurp2 (...Mantovani swings Bartok for sleepy lovers...)
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To: Blurp2

“Maybe it’s the Endocet talking”

Yeah, I’d agree with that.


74 posted on 07/24/2022 11:07:37 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Blurp2

I read the whole thing. I liked the part about his wanting to write different things or in a different way but wondering if there would be any readers! Sort of like a band’s writing new material and finding the audience only wants their old stuff.


75 posted on 07/24/2022 11:36:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: Blurp2

Actually I think ol’ Bugs cited those very things as a reason to build. The funny part is that he figured it would all be legit.


76 posted on 07/24/2022 12:10:55 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Blurp2

It exist for stupid people to donate their hard earned money to billionaires!!!!


77 posted on 07/24/2022 12:19:52 PM PDT by ontap
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To: Vigilanteman

Every large American city is a transportation hub with a seaport or on a river except Las Vegas. It was, however a railroad hub. That’s why it initially existed. How it got big was Federalism. Before the progressive notion that everywhere in the US had to be the same. Gambling was illegal in CA and Bugsy Siegal saw opportunity.


78 posted on 07/24/2022 12:23:14 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: Blurp2

it was 4 hours away from George AFB in Victorville, CA., in the days of the Jimmy Carter 55mph only on highways!!


79 posted on 07/24/2022 12:40:42 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Blurp2

In the early days it had water for people traveling west.
They added whiskey and gambling later on.


80 posted on 07/24/2022 12:57:43 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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