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06/21/2004: "Born Yesterday?"

Don't you guys go to the movies? When the Red Man signs a treaty with the Great White Father in Washington, or in this case Sacramento, the fix is in, the Red Man will lose. Savvy, Tonto? Click more.. below.

The Associated Press reports today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed new agreements with five Indian tribes Monday that will allow a major expansion of tribal gambling in exchange for billions of dollars in payments to the state over the next quarter-century. The deal allows an unlimited increase in the number of slot machines at the Indian tribes' casinos instead of the current 2000 machine limit. In return the tribes will pay the state a badly needed $1 billion this year and $250 million a year after that until 2030.

One tribe, the Aqua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, has sponsored a ballot measure that would allow expanded Indian gaming in return for a payment to the state of 8.8 percent of tribal net income to the state. Schwarzenegger is seeking more than that, but he opposes, at least for now, another ballot measure that seeks to tax tribes 25 percent and could allow card rooms and racetracks to operate slot machines. See what I mean boys?

Iraq casualty update:
in As of Monday, June 21, 837 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 617 died as a result of hostile action and 220 died of non-hostile causes.

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Replies: 2 Comments

Somebody is going to make a lot of money from this deal, how come none of it ends up in my wallett :(

willy said @ 07/08/2004 02:39 PM CST

Why do you think someone as groovy as cheepchick would resort to a girly calendar picture?

chick said @ 07/01/2004 03:01 PM CST