How Online Gambling can Keep Americans Safer from Terror
With global terror on the rise it is only a matter of time before we in America again find ourselves under attack. Homeland Security, the CIA and the FBI work hard 24 hours a day to try to make our country safe from the kinds of terror attacks that happened on 9-11-2001, but no one can stop every attempt made by terrorists to infiltrate this country.
We need to do what we can to help the authorities with this job. I am not saying you should get a gun and start looking for terrorists in your local mosque, I am only saying we need to keep our eyes open and put a little more thought into what we do.
Israel is a country that has had to deal with suicide attacks on its shopping centers and public transportation for years. To combat this Israel searches everyone for weapons before they can enter any mall, bus or train station and even bars and restaurants, but the USA has not had to deal with these types of attacks so rather then putting guards on these types of public places now they are hoping that attacks of this nature will not take place and these security measures will not be necessary. The problem is that when they change their minds it is because you and your friends got killed by a suicide bomber while you were in the mall checking out the new video games.
There are some things you can do to make yourself safer and less likely to get killed in a terrorist attack.
Travel: use a little common sense when choosing your next vacation location. With just a few minutes of research you can find out what countries are safe for Americans to travel to and which ones should be avoided.
Gambling: I personally try to avoid casinos and only play in online casinos. I have found that many of the big name online casinos offer me the same games and odds as the land based casinos do and I don’t have to buy a plane ticket or fill my truck up to get there. There is also no chance of getting killed by a suicide bomber when playing in an online casino.
Restaurants: large chain restaurants will be more likely targets then a small restaurant would. Most chain restaurants are built on the exact same blueprint. This would allow a terrorist to do research on several different branches of the same place before making the attack on the actual target location.
Entertainment: everyone loves to go out. Some people love bars and others prefer clubs. Just remember that for a suicide bomber to get the most kills he wants to find a large group of people very close together and the tighter together they are the more effective the attack will be.
It is important for us to be aware of our surrounding at all times. Pay attention to others. If it is 85 and sunny and someone is wearing a winter coat there is a good chance they are trying to hide something. If you ever see something suspicious do not attempt to do anything other then notify the police as quickly and quietly as you can. If you start yelling for the police you will alert the suspects and they will get away, but you will also cause a panic in all the people in the area and many people could get hurt or killed all because you saw something suspicious. So please be careful.
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How Legalized Online Gambling is Better for Society
The question we should be asking is, by banning online gambling are we going to make things better or worse?
The answer to that question is simple, banning legalized and regulated online gambling in any form, just makes another way for organized crime to get a hold of peoples money, and then no one but the criminals win.
If you want to keep a child from seeing an R rated movie you do not ban the movie from the theaters do you? No that would be silly you just make sure that people are doing there best to check and verify that no one under 18 gets into see the movie. By banning the movie chances are greater that someone will get a bootleg copy and show it to every kid in the town.
So if you want to keep a child from gambling online then all the online casinos should be regulated and monitored, not banned.
The same goes for terrorists. If you believe terrorist groups are exploiting an unregulated and unmonitored industry such as the online gambling industry, then by regulating it you can see where the money is going and make sure it is not going to fund international terrorist attacks. All that is accomplished by banning it is that the criminals get a stronger grip on the industry.
The ban on online gambling is much like the war on drugs. If marijuana was legalized in the USA crimes related to it would almost go away completely, because it would be sold in stores and it would be controlled, another advantage would be that people would no longer be going to jail for marijuana related charges, this means thousands of less people getting arrested and going to jail every year, which would save us tax money that could be better spent.
By making online gambling in the USA a legalized form of adult entertainment it would also bring in an estimated 1.2 billion dollars in taxes to the American government. This money could be used for schools, police and universal healthcare for all Americans.
This is how you improve society, not by telling people what to do. It is human nature to want what we can not have so the more laws you put in place to stop people from doing something the better the chances are that people are going to do it.
People are just as likely to become addicted to gambling at a regulated casino as an unregulated one, but the difference is that in a regulated casino they will not extend you the amount of credit that will get you into trouble in an illegal casino.
And in a regulated casino they will have information on how to get help if you have a gambling problem. In an illegal casino they will not have this type of information, they want you to continue to gamble till you have nothing left, and then they will let you fall and find someone to take your place.
In the long run society can only prosper if we educate people on the dangers of gambling both online and in a casino, and not from banning an industry that employs thousands of people in countries all over the world. No one gains anything from just telling people they can not do something that they are going to do anyway.
It is about time the government learned this and stopped making the same mistakes year after year.
Casino Games with Chinese Origins
The Chinese culture has a significant influence on the American gambling industry. Many of todays popular casino games were introduced to American casinos by Chinese immigrants. In this review, you can read about some of the most popular Chinese gambling games that had a successful immigration to the West.
Pai Gow Poker
Pai Gow Poker is a hybrid of American poker and traditional Chinese tiles game called Pai Gow. The original tile game Pai Gow, which means Make 9, is one of the most ancient gambling games that are still available in cotemporary casinos. Pai Gow Poker is played with playing cards instead of tiles and it uses the traditional poker hand ranking. It is one of the most popular casino games worldwide and it can be found in almost every major casino in the US. Its online version can be played at most casinos on the internet.
The object of the Pai Gow Poker is to form the highest possible two poker hands, one five card hand and a two card hand, out of the seven cards dealt to each player. Each player competes against the banker that can be either the casino dealer or one of the players who can afford paying the players winnings.
Sic Bo
Sic Bo is yet another popular casino game with roots that go back to ancient China. The chance game came to the States around the beginning of the 20th century by Chinese immigrants. It can be played in most land based casinos in Macau, the US and the UK. Sic Bo has an online version as well.
The meaning of Sic Bo is Dice Pair. It is played with three standard dice on a special table. Each player places any number of bets on the table and then tosses the dice. The outcome is determined by the combinations of the three dice. Each combination has a different payoff according to a payoff schedule, which vary from one casino to the other.
Fan Tan
Fan Tan used to be the most popular gambling game among Chinese gamblers but the glory days of Fan Tan have already passed. During the 1890s, Chinese immigrants brought the game to the United States. At that time, every Chinatown in American City had several Fan Tan houses that were always full of enthusiastic gamblers. Nowadays, you can find Fan Tan in some casinos in Macau as well as in some online gaming sites.
Traditional Fan Tan, not to be confused with the card game of the same name, used to be played with any objects such as coins, dried beans or small buttons on a table with a square marked on it. Fan Tan. The object of the game is pretty simple and odds are 1: 4.
The play begins with the banker puts on the table a pile of objects then covers them with a bowl. Each player has to bet on one of the numbers that mark the four sides of the square, or on one of the corners of the square. After the bowl is removed, the croupier removes four of the objects each time until the last group remains. If 1 object is left, then the player who placed a bet on 1 wins the pot, and so on.
Mahjong
Mahjong is probably the biggest inherit of Chinese culture to the gaming world. The ancient Chinese tile game has many variants worldwide including variety of online games. According to the myth, Mahjong was developed by Confucius around the 500 BC. The game was brought to the United States during the 1920s and soon was very popular especially among women. The game was played in Chinese style decorated rooms with waiters wearing traditional customs.
The American version of Mahjong was developed during the 1930s and it is played in America until today. At the same time, the National Mahjong league was founded. In addition to American Mahjong, there are Japanese, Vietnamese, Cantonese and other variations of the game, which vary from one to the other by their scoring structure, number of tiles and rules variants. In 1998, the China State Sports Commission had set a standard set of rules that will differentiate the illegal gambling game from the skill game.
Mahjong Solitaire, the online version of Mahjong, gains wide popularity recently. The online version of the classic Chinese game is a matching game that uses the Mahjong tiles. Online Mahjong games can be found in many online gaming sites in variety of layouts and versions.
