Las Vegas, Harry Ried, and the Merging Mafia

Nobody’s Opinion; Today while skipping around the net, I found an interesting bit by Tony Blankley on Townhall that I hadn’t given much thought to lately.

It was about the Senate "soon to be" Majority Leader Harry Reid. It seems that Reid had “inadvertently” failed to report on his financial disclosure statement that he had secretly become a majority stockholder of Caesar’s Palace, The Golden Nugget, The Bellagio, The Venetian, Harrah’s, The Mirage, MGM Grand, and Mandalay Bay. They were all just friendly “handshake” deals that had increased his assets from $812.37 to $3.7 billion.

In case you have never been there, all these hotels are very close together in the middle of the Las Vegas main strip.

The Ethics Committee dismissed this as a “coincidence.” A proposed zoning change was pushed by Senator Reid just before the eight “handshakes” would have put each of these hotels out of business. The reason this struck me as funny is because if I am correct, Harry Reid wants the President impeached for Iraq.

This puts President Bush in a very good light I’d say.

Gee, Mr. Reid, if I shake your hand, could I get some new tires?

Why wasn’t this big scandal on the news? Surely we could forget about the sad life of Nicole wanna be Marilyn Monroe and her many paternical sperming boyfriends and go on to the more exciting subject of Harry Reid’s magical handshakes.

The Ethics Committee must have had the same people that were on the 9/11 committee.

I love these committees. They are always headed by the very same people that did the crimes.

Of course my nobody mind started thinking about why you never hear about the Mafia anymore. I mean, what happened to em’? Oh sure, we all got caught up in the Soprano’s, but before that, it was as if the Mafia and the government just sort of merged. Nobody ever talks about that.

Which is the point.

Okay, just last month internet gambling was outlawed on the net. I did not hear one complaint, did you? I would have thought all the porn was doing much more damage to the nation than grandma playing Texas hold-em on her computer.

What---are the Indian’s Casinos not doing too well? Can we deduce that if Wal-Mart has a bad quarter that gambling is maybe suffering too?

Now, all of a sudden…everyone is “going to Las Vegas!”

Why, I saw Sheppard Smith there just this week! (I know, they went all over.)

Is it me? Or has Las Vegas suddenly become the new “in” place to go?

This reminds me of a book I read years ago by Michael Corbett called “Double Deal.”

Michael worked for the mob in Chicago with Johnny Roselli as his boss. In the book he explains his life in the Mafia. He talks about the teamsters, and the fact that Mayor Daley was the head of the mob in Chicago.

He also talks about the money the mobs made in Las Vegas and how it was built on the pensions of the Unions. He goes into great detail about Meyer Lansky and the mob connections in Panama, the Mafia working with the CIA… running drugs out of Vietnam, and with the Saudi’s Casinos.

Michael also claimed about how the mob always voted Democratic, always.

Its common knowledge that all unions vote democratic. Their members have no say in the matter. Funny, nobody ever claimed that people’s vote was disenfranchised in the unions…why is that?

Harry, the Senator from Nevada actually voted against NAFTA.

Maybe that’s why they keep some of those big Sopranos looking guys out there; to remind us all that Robert DeNiro really is an actor.

In the book it is explained that many times the Mafia worked with the CIA. In fact, he claimed that sometimes our military even protected the Mafia on drug runs.

He said that Daddy Bush, when head of the CIA, always helped them out.

But the mob was really angry when Jimmy Carter came in and took Panama. He also took the Shah of Iran down, and the mob was making some big bucks in the casino’s there.

Now, this is sort of strange because as everyone knows, Joe Kennedy, who made his money in bootlegging, got Daley to help to get his son, John Kennedy, elected. This story has been pretty much verified as known historical fact.

Lately we have heard that Marilyn Monroe yelled out her killer on the phone, and it was just assumed she was killed by the mob, who it would also be assumed, did it for the Kennedy’s.

So we know the Kennedy’s have always been connected. But no one talks about it.

And wasn’t it strange, liberal state or not, how a first lady could buy a house in New York, walk in, and with little public campaigning become Senator of New York?

Is it any wonder how corrupt our politicians are when they have had such a vast history of connections of working with and probably learning from, criminals?

And isn’t it funny how one day, the mob just seem to up and disappear?

Did Giuliani get them all?

I was just wondering, as you never hear much about them anymore. This nobody thinks they just all look like you and me now. Something tells me, like all the mergers of big multinational companies, the Mafia just merged with our government.

It just wasn’t announced on Bloomberg.

But, I bet Harry Reid knows.

Nobody’s Perfect; When I was in Las Vegas in September, I was just walking along a very wide corridor in the Mirage minding my own business, when a very HUGE guy, right out of the Soprano’s ran deliberately into me, practically knocking me down on my knees. This was a first for me and I just couldn’t believe that someone would do something so purposely… I said, “Hey...I’m walking here!”

Okay, so I wasn’t thinking. All I could think of was this guy either hated all woman since the stripper he once loved dumped him, or I will come down with a rare cancer because of something I wrote about Bill Clinton.

Nobody Knows; The Mafia made millions out of video poker machines in Chicago, and Zenith built the very first video poker machines. They always carried their case in suitcases. Now they have the Cayman Islands.

When you visited with the old guys you had to sit down and have a cup of coffee with them, it was a social thing with them.

Yes, nobody gives you tips on Mafia etiquette. Someday you might thank me.

Nobody Cares; Michael says in his book “There is a favorite with America’s corporate set; cover your ass and blame whatever went wrong on the other guy.” Yep, sounds like a typical democrat to me.

He also said he heard Jimmy Hoffa had been thrown in vat of zinc in a Detroit fender factory. He didn’t happen to say what zinc does to human flesh.

You’re right, who cares?