No dice: Atlantic City casinos shut down

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[CSM]

"If anyone gives you any grief, you can always pretend you had no idea you paddled into a state park."

I thought that all navigable water ways were common property, with no ownership rights to enforce.....

[Calpernia]

>>>...representative government.

[Alberta's Child]

I would take the risk myself. If someone actually had the b@lls to write me a citation for "trespassing" on public land when I was perfectly willing and able to buy a permit, I'd do my damn best to burn those state forests to the ground every year for the rest of my life.

[exdem2000]

Most beaches are open because they are operated by their local munic. only state beaches like Island beach state park will be closed.

[Alberta's Child]

The issue may be camping alongside the rivers, not actually paddling a canoe on the water.

[mware]

yeap, that is the sticking point., especially with overnight camping (the big worry is fires.) There are some sections of Burlington County that only has one access road out in case of fire.

[MamaTexan]

Why is a private casino being shutdown due to a government budget issue?

That was my question.

WHERE does the government get the right to shut down a business because the State can no longer operate?

If the State is not in operation, how can it 'enforce' anything or require anything from anyone, since it does not, for all practical purposes, even exist?

[Calpernia]

>>>>If the State is not in operation, how can it 'enforce' anything or require anything from anyone, since it does not, for all practical purposes, even exist?

Bump! You are good! I hope you are a conservative lawyer!

[jpl]

Hey, I just remembered that the Borgata Summer Poker Open was supposed to begin today!

I wonder if the entire schedule of events will be pushed back, or if the preliminary events will just be cancelled completely. I was thinking of going up next week to try my luck at the $300 LHE.

[Gabz]

At least New Jersey is smoke free. Now, that's progress isn't it? So stop whining!

Well, now it is...........the casinos are exempt from the smoker ban.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Pass the Popcorn over here please.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

ditto 2

[Wolfstar]

Thanks for the info. As someone who was born and raised in NJ (although I haven't lived there as an adult), the people quoted can get back to me when they finally figure out the Dims and their Leftist policies are the problem. I'm glad the Dims have no one to hide behind in NJ. Let them stew in their own juices until they figure out Leftist polices don't work (if they ever figure it out).

Norm and Karl, I pinged you only to make the comment that this is why I was opposed to our recall here in California. The Dims get to hide behind a nominal Republican governor. I'd much rather than control everything so, like in NJ, they have nowhere to hide. Although what's done is done, I honestly think we shot ourselves in the foot with that recall. Sigh.

[frogjerk]

They'll probably move it back a week or two. That will coinside with my 2 week vacation....hmmm...

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks, Wolfstar, I understand your feelings on the Recall, and acknowledge that while things may appear to some to now be headed the right direction, in fact, nothing much has changed. If anything, things are getting worse.

The rate of spending has increased and is reflective of the gullibility and general apathy of the voters of this state.

This 'borrow and spend' your way to prosperity hasn't worked before and likely will not work in this case either.

[gridlock]

And the down side is???

[BJClinton]

The places are filled with the absolute scum of the earth.

So I'm scum of the earth? You're one of those people that thought they could beat the house and lost your shirt, aren't you? Either that or a cast-the-first-stone-bible-thumper. Whichever, you have no room to call others scum.

[Wolfstar]

California is a mess. We're losing a big employer here in SoCal next week when Nissan North America moves to Tennessee, closing a 10-building campus they've occupied since 1972. Housing costs are crazy. Our cost for gasoline is among the highest in the nation (if not the highest). We remain extremely vulnerable to terrorist attack. Our governor refuses to help with border control. The greed of the teachers' union and other public sector unions is out of control. Our taxes are very high, as are government fees.

Worst of all, our crazy Marxist legislature keeps passing one insane Leftist bill after another, but they get to hide behind the skirts of our pseudo-Republican governor.

Where I live, there isn't a single Republican who represents me in the state legislature or Congress.

[4yearlurker]

They closed Wharton State Forest in the Pine Barrens. Its a series of sand roads and mud puddles. Wow. The people of New Jersey just have to have Democrats in power.

[toldyou]

I let my mom do that a few times, then I gave in and drove the hour. I was worried she'd get lost. I never gambled. Not that I think it's a bad thing...to each his own. I just wasn't as lucky as she was. Anyhow, I was company for her since she didn't know anyone. I'd stand there for hours next to her, holding all her containers of quarters she won...bored out of my mind!

Do they still have the free buses with the complimentary $20 worth of quarters?