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So, I was in this tournament, had made the money, and the blinds were T600/1200. I found myself with A5 suited in mid-position (I will admit that calling with this hand is marginal at best, horrible at worst, but that is not what I want to debate). The person in front of me raised it to approximately t2800. I call, and no one else does. Flop is 6d 4s 3d. Raiser puts in T3000. I raise to T7000. Raiser calls. Turn comes 6s, raiser checks so I put all in T8700, putting him on two overs, AX where X is higher than the board, likely J or up. Calling by raiser would leave him with T6000 or so. Raiser calls and shows AsQs. River falls a blank giving him the pot. Now why do I bring this up? Because I wanted to see if anyone saw an error with my play (aside from calling in first place) or his play. The way I saw it at the time was that I had 11 outs to winning the pot (Three 5's, Four 7's, and Four 2's), and an additional 6 outs to a split (Three 4's, and Three 3's). Additionally, I thought there was a good chance of a fold by someone just presenting overs. He called with a nut flush draw and two overs, so he at least thought he had outs and that I may have been on a draw. Plus, by that time, he was getting plenty of pot odds.

So what say you?

American Values: You can kill our whores, just don't have sex with them!

So, Rock Star Games is getting sued over the hidden sex mini-game in the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas game. Why? Because it would have been rated for Adults only had this crack edit been known about. First off, the game was out for months and months before anyone knew this outside of a few programmers at Rock Star. Second, might I remind you that this is a game wherein you kill other people in many differing ways? Must I also remind you that the name of the game describes one of the things you do often: Steal cars?

This reminds me of when the boys of South Park got ninja weapons, threw a throwing star into Butters' head, and the city got upset instead that Cartman walked around naked. It also reminds me of Larry Flynt. Okay, no it doesn't, but this article cites the "recent" Larry Flynt movie in its discussion of our taboo towards sex over violence. That article makes some good points at the end about how sex is something we primally crave, while violence is something we primally avoid. But doesn't this mean that if we primally crave sex, then it should not be a bad thing to see, and if we primally don't crave violence it should be the taboo? Aren't we then just punishing ourselves?

Hmm...

I guess its just okay to dream about killing whores than to dream about sleeping with them.

This ain't exactly a news flash...

Clay Aiken is reportedly gay. Now back to your regularly scheduled waste of time...

Are there any Palestinian Civilians?

So, I will preface this post with this: I do not fully understand what is going on with Palestine and Isreal. I do not know much about Hamas.

That being said, I will apply a logic to the Hamas situation. Apparently, the Hamas won the election by a clear majority. It was a popular revolution through the polls. The people who voted for Hamas knows that Hamas endorses (and more) terroristic actions. In fact, one Hamas elected official is a mother of three suicide bombers who has appeared in training videos. Knowing this, the people of Palestine voted for Hamas as its government and individually adopted the terroristic regime as their own. Essentially, the people of Palestine have voted for a regime that endorses the killing of "innocents" for their war. The people of Palestine have knowingly enabled further killings. Can they then wash their hands of the government and claim they are themselves innocents and merely civilians? I would think not. Thus, what would otherwise be a slaughter of innocents would be battle against a nation of terrorist should any country attack Palestine. Will it happen, probably not. But I do think that the line between terrorist and civilian has been blurred and that it would be improper to simply give the nation of Palestine a free pass should it come to war. Each home might be a terrorist cel under such a construction. While I am comfortable with such a thought, I somehow doubt the people of Palestine would agree.

Provactive Comic Books

Ok, so I was directed to this page containing a pencil artwork for an upcoming Spiderman comic book because in the background you can see a billboard advertising Player Vs. Player, an online webcomic (is the phrase on-line webcomic redundant?). However, I noticed something else. As catwoman jumps off the building, her ass sticks right out and looks like she isn't wearing any clothing. On top of that, the store front has the word "Dickmann's" pointing right at her ass. Maybe I am reading to much into that, but somehow I don't think its an accident.

American Idol Criminal

So, I didn't watch it, but apparently this lady named "JOHNSON, RHONETTA" was on and got insulted by Paula and they got into some words. Apparently this contestant had some crimanal background. If you want to see her mugshots and what she was charged with, go here...

When prompted, enter her name and see her three arrests and so forth...

Via Dlisted

Tom Selleck is a Mustache Wearing Demi-God

Please, please, please, don't let them turn Magnum PI into a spoof along the lines of Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, and so forth. It doesn't sound like that is the direction they are going, but come'on, the show was gold and gives one a lot to work with. My thinking is, if they do a good job with it, its the type of thing that can lead into sequels and such. Do it right, man, do it right.

UPN = Un Plugged Network

So we knew it would happen, didn't we? We knew that these upstart networks would eventually fail, right? In an interracial marriage of sorts, the WB (White Bread) network and UPN (the black-centric station whose most famous shows (outside of Everybody Hates Chris) are not black-centric) are merging to form the CW network. Does CW stand for "Cannot Work" or for "Comedic Wackiness" or for "Cracker What?" ? Who knows, but I do not foresee ratings gold with this teamup.