RANT: Please gamble responsibly?

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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Marshall Worth
October 27, 2026

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Commentary

This Is Mafia Behavior

The next time you see a sports betting commercial, take note of the tiny text at the bottom of the screen. It will read something like this:

“Please gamble responsibly. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.”

Companies like FanDuel and DraftKings do not include those disclaimers out of the goodness of their hearts or because they actually care about preventing Americans from getting addicted to their products. They only do so because U.S. law requires it.

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The second man CBS featured is professional bettor Mike Manning. Unlike most sports gamblers, Manning does not place wagers based on intuition. He uses a mathematical approach with analytical models, and the method has proven highly successful. It has earned him his living.

When Massachusetts launched sports gambling in 2023, Manning signed up with every sports gambling app available. He did very well, winning on nearly every platform. Then something unexpected happened. They capped his bets.

“On BetMGM, he started betting $1,000-$5,000 per game, but soon, he said, he was only able to bet $5. On DraftKings, he said he was limited to $25 per bet.”

“It’s that whole ‘ban or bankrupt’ model,” fellow professional bettor Gadoon Kyrollos told CBS.

“You’re exploiting the losing bettor, you’re taking advantage of them, and guys like me get shown the door,” Manning added.

This story’s takeaway is as clear as the sky is blue: the sports betting industry is not your friend. They see Americans as nothing more than ATM machines they can bleed dry, and they have no problem getting people hooked on a wildly gnarly vice to do so. Casino magnates like Randy Fine and Miriam Adelson may see that as appealing, but the rest of us find it gross.

If you are a young man, we hope you will resist the urge to go down the sports betting path. It costs Americans billions of dollars each year, it destroys lives, and the people who run it will have no problem going out of their way to get you hooked. The only solution is to simply never start. You will thank yourself later.

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The ‘ban or bankrupt’ model” seems like a deceptive trade practice and the FTC should step in and stop it.  It’s unfair to the suckers who fall for this advertising.  

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ConspiracyTheories: Was the Oklahoma City bombing a false flag to cover up what else was in that building?

Saturday, October 24, 2026

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Why Would the Feds Cover Up the Truth?

If you are under 35, you probably don’t know much about the Oklahoma City bombing. It was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history.

If you are over 35, then you probably remember the U.S. government’s explanation of the crime. Timothy McVeigh detonated the bomb alone, they say, and that is the end of the story of what happened on April 19, 1995, before the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building met its cruel fate.

But what if the truth is more complicated? For example…

What if dozens of witnesses reported seeing McVeigh with a second person, the same second person, in and around Oklahoma City in the days before the bombing? What if those who literally saw McVeigh drop off his explosive-laden truck insist that second person was with him in that moment?

What if McVeigh passed a lie-detector test when asked about his actions leading up to the bombing, but failed once the exam shifted to questions about his possible co-conspirators?

What if, when meeting with his defense attorney after his arrest, McVeigh repeatedly used the pronouns “we” and “us,” rather than “me” and “I,” when describing his movements before the attack? And what if that attorney later went on the record to say, and this is a direct quote, “It was clear that Tim was covering for somebody else.”

Believe it or not, each of those events happened. Their details are all publicly available. But federal law enforcement has spent decades trying to keep those sides of this story hidden. First, the feds tried to coerce the aforementioned witnesses into changing their testimony; then, when those attempts failed, they shifted their strategy to pretending McVeigh’s partner-in-crime simply never existed. But he did. And he has never faced justice for his role in the murders of over 160 people, including nearly two dozen children.

It is hard to imagine how any of this is possible, but Americans should understand the cover-up is totally real. The U.S. government is actively lying about the Oklahoma City bombing, choosing the easy way out by disproportionately blaming McVeigh and pretending they fully solved the case. As a result, a killer, or group of killers, has not paid the price for their crimes.

A handful of options exist for why the feds would act this way, and we are not sure which holds true. All we know is there is far more to this story than the people in charge want you to realize. They are clearly hiding something. They do not want the disclosure the bombing’s victims deserve.

Unfortunately for them, the final episode of TCN’s docuseries on this haunting topic, The OKCBOMB Files, went public yesterday. It shines a light on what really happened the day McVeigh blew up the Murrah Building, exposing the hidden truth that he did not act alone.

Watch the full series here.

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  • Hiding advance warning.
    ATF informant Carol Howe said she warned her ATF handler of a plot to blow up federal buildings at least five months before the bombing. Critics say agencies would want to hide that to avoid blame, lawsuits, and political fallout.
  • Protecting informant networks.
    Some writers allege a widespread informant operation leading up to the bombing, and that exposing it would have damaged ongoing operations and agency credibility. 
  • Concealing the John Doe 2 investigation.
    Attorney Jesse Trentadue alleges federal agents wrongly suspected his brother of being John Doe No. 2, beat him to death in a prison, and covered it up as a suicide. He has also litigated for years to get FBI and DOJ records and surveillance footage released.
  • Hiding a wider plot.
    Some theories claim the truck bomb wasn’t the whole story, such as a cover-up of additional explosives planted in the building. Others involve white supremacists at Elohim City. The motive alleged is to avoid exposing a larger conspiracy or government complicity.

  • Trentadue’s claim
    Trentadue’s claim is that the FBI was desperate to eliminate anyone who could link the Bureau to a failed sting operation that resulted in the bombing. Writers allied with him, such as Margaret Roberts, tie this to PATCON, the FBI’s 1990s operation to infiltrate alleged right-wing extremist groups. This is his theory. No court has found it to be true.

  • The Matthews deposition
    John Matthews is a retired Marine and alleged FBI informant who, according to Trentadue’s sworn declaration, saw McVeigh and German national Andreas Strassmeir at a militia training facility in Texas before the bombing.

  • The claimHillary Clinton — Whitewater documents
    The theory says the Murrah Building was bombed four days before Hillary Clinton was to be indicted in the Whitewater scandal, with all the documents lost. The idea is that the bombing destroyed evidence and spared her.

  • Bill Clinton and adviser Dick Morris devised a plan post bombing
    Some critics, including Byron York in the Washington Examiner, argue that Bill Clinton and adviser Dick Morris devised a plan after the bombing to use it to discredit and outmaneuver the new Republican majority in Congress.  Maybe it was so “post”?

  • Were Whitewater or Waco documents there and where did they go?
    Theorists have speculated that Whitewater or Waco documents were kept in the building and destroyed in the blast. The government has denied this. 
  • Were there reports about the CIA drug running at the Mena Airport?
    A sheriff was tipped off that the records concerned an investigation into CIA drug running at the Mena Airport in Arkansas.

Sure is a lot of “smoke”; could there be a “fire” in there somewhere?

All the powerful politicians and bureaucrats have the resources to pull this off!  And, we know that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

I think it’s definitely “Possible”!

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POLITICAL: U.S. military involvement everywhere, but not in Sudan?

Monday, June 15, 2026

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Marshall Worth
June 4, 2026

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Please Drop the Act

According to the people who constantly demand U.S. military involvement in foreign nations, America must send its troops to die around the world in the name of humanitarianism. We are the international community’s good guys, Lindsey Graham and his friends say, which means we are obligated to fight the bad guys.

This argument has surfaced countless times. Whether their focus is on Iran, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, or nearly any other country that permanent Washington decides to demonize, neocons always tend to fall back on the same basic messaging: going to war is the right thing to do.

What’s interesting is that this so-called morality never seems to apply to Sudan. Corporate cable news networks rarely report on this, but the African nation is home to some of the most brutal atrocities taking place anywhere on Earth. This AP News report shines a light on the details. They are jarring.

“The United Nations calls sexual violence one of the ‘most defining features’ of Sudan’s war, now in its fourth year,” the piece reads. “Many women have been subject to sexual slavery and forced to pay ransoms for their release, sometimes up to $10,000,” it continues.

The article centers around interviews with three women, each of whom says they are victims of abduction and sex slavery at the hands of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF). One of the women recalled RSF fighters ambushing her on the street as she fled her home, forcing her to strip before binding, beating, and transporting her to an abandoned desert village. Once there, she and her fellow captives, some of whom were teenagers, “lay bound in a shelter, urinating on themselves” and “were raped multiple times by different men.”

“The captors would enter [the chambers] and choose who they wanted, untie them, assault them, and bind them again,” the AP reported.

This cycle lasts until the victims die or find a way to buy their freedom. Ransoms routinely run high enough to force the women and their families to sell their cars, homes, and plunge into debt. All just for a chance of release.

Imagine if this precise thing were happening in Iran. Mark Levin and his allies would spend months lecturing the American public about how the Iranians needed freedom, and they would demand that the president drop everything to deliver it. Nothing would matter to them more than saving the women kidnapped by the evil Mullahs, even if doing so meant tanking the U.S. economy, getting our soldiers killed, gifting terrorists troves of new recruitment material, and blowing trillions of taxpayer dollars. This is bigger than politics, they would say in unison. It is about basic decency.

How come no one seems to feel that way about Sudan? The answer exposes the entire pro-war scam. Neocons have no concern for the people of Iran, Venezuela, or any of the countries they demand the United States “set free.” If they did, then they would also care about Sudan, Uyghur Muslims in China, and albinos in sub-Saharan Africa. Their true motives are entirely different; they only sing songs about “liberating the people” to brainwash well-meaning Fox News viewers into believing that globalist foreign policy is of deep moral purity.

Instead of insulting the public’s intelligence with lies about their deep worry for the well-being of Iran’s population, warhawks like Levin should drop the act and be honest about their true reason for wanting war. They pushed for Operation Epic Fury because they thought it would help Israel, not America or the Iranian people. Every honest person knows it.

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AS a little L libertarian, I don’t want “foreign adventurism” and “foreign entanglements”.  Hence, the USA should:

  • Declare Sudanese diplomats persona non grata
  • Cut off all “aid” to Sudan and anyone who supports them
  • Stop all travel visas to and from Sudan
  • Stop anyone from coming to the US that is from Sudan

That’s should shine a laser focus on the problem that they represent.

If that doesn’t work, then there is always Letters of Marque and Reprisal!

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