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A lot of bettors will surely have come across the caption “offshore sports betting” by now, but some aren’t totally savvy what that stands for in detail. An overseas gambling internet site essentially operates extraneous to the laws of any single state alternatively it can also mean an world wide web based betting website which bases their servers in a nation in which machine-accessible sports gambling isn’t at the moment forbidden. Briefly then, it’s best described as a gambling facility running extraneous of the supervison of the nation of the gamer. World wide web based gaming web sites are currently modulated through three administrations. These guilds are the OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association FTGA.

The OSGA are a self ruling “watch-dog” authority that presently keeps tabs on the offshore betting trade, they are trying to offer bettors access to quickly pick out dependable enterprises to play games on, without unease. It labors to guard the concerns of consumers, additionally they do not levy any association charges.

The agency are a competent and unprejudiced third party agency who reveal impartial judgments, built around your observations, nonpartisan examination, phone calls, insider advice and in addition imparts inside communication.

The Interactive Gaming Council is a not-for-profit council. The organisation has been founded to provide a platform for interested participants to discuss issues also to move forward applicable worries in the world-wide online sports betting profession, to ensure civil and also duty-bound industry guidelines and practices that heighten consumer trust in world wide web based gaming products and benefits, and in addition to assist as the overseas betting trade’s general procedure advocate moreover the IGC acts as a data base.

The IGC have built a name for trustworthiness, candor also solidity because of the scrupulous ethical code it demonstrates, also its allure for ethical business enterprises. The IGC regularises offshore gaming via recommending a particular ten step general policy rules and in addition charges sports gambling web sites a license fee to show their logo. Vexed gamblers can, should they demand to, disclose their challenges to the Interactive Gaming Council.

The FTGA was set up in order to create a standard to improve the standards of web based sports gambling sites. The agency believe that by doing business with partners of honorable reputation, they are able to mold a federation of the fairest and professional offshore betting companies internationally.

So, there are establishments that keep an eye on the behavior of machine-accessible gaming and which should with luck serve to ease some of the insecurities held by doubters. Machine-accessible sports gambling web sites are absolutely safe, in as much as private data aren’t necessary and in addition the remuneration and the odds should be equivalent to a traditional Vegas-type wager. They get rid of travel, but nevertheless maintain of a Nevada casino, only now you are able to play in the comfort of home.

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AC : “Dysfunctional partnerships should be dissolved. The President should have divorced prior to indulging his sexual appetite. Sexual exclusivity is an integral - possibly the most important - section of the marriage contract. The President ignored his vows, dishonoured his word, breached his contract with the First Lady.”

DC : “People stay together only if they feel that the foundation upon which they based their relationship is still sound. Mr. Clinton and Mrs. Clinton redefined their marriage to exclude sexual exclusivity, an impossibility under the circumstances. But they did not exclude companionship and friendship. It is here that the President may have sinned, in lying to his best friend, his wife. Adultery is committed only when a party strays out of the confines of the marital contract. I postulate that the President was well within his agreement with Mrs. Clinton when he sought sexual gratification elsewhere.”

AC : “Adultery is a sin not only against the partner. The marriage contract is signed by three parties : the man, the woman and God between them. The President sinned against God. This cannot be ameliorated by any human approval or permission. Whether his wife accepted him as he is and disregarded his actions - is irrelevant. And if you are agnostic or an atheist, still you can replace the word ‘God’ by the words ‘Social Order’. President Clinton’s behaviour undermines the foundations of our social order. The family is the basic functional unit and its proper functioning is guaranteed by the security of sexual and emotional exclusivity. To be adulterous is to rebel against civilization. It is an act of high social and moral treason.”

DC : “While I may share your nostalgia - I am compelled to inform you that even nostalgia is not what it used to be. There is no such thing as ‘The Family’. There are a few competing models, some of them involving only a single person and his or her offspring. There is nothing to undermine. The social order is in such a flux that it is impossible to follow, let alone define or capture. Adultery is common. This could be a sign of the times - or the victory of honesty and openness over pretension and hypocrisy. No one can cast a stone at President Clinton in this day and age.”

AC : “But that’s precisely it ! The President is not a mirror, a reflection of the popular will. Our President is a leader with awesome powers. These powers were given to him to enable him to set example, to bear a standard - to be a standard. I do demand of my President to be morally superior to me - and this is no hypocrisy. This is a job description. To lead, a leader needs to inspire shame and guilt through his model. People must look up to him, wish they were like him, hope, dream, aspire and conspire to be like him. A true leader provokes inner tumult, psychological conflicts, strong emotions - because he demands the impossible through the instance of his personality. A true leader moves people to sacrifice because he is worthy of their sacrifice, because he deserves it. He definitely does not set an example of moral disintegration, recklessness, short-sightedness and immaturity. The President is given unique power, status and privileges - only because he has been recognized as a unique and powerful and privileged individual. Whether such recognition has been warranted or not is what determines the quality of the presidency.”

DC : “Not being a leader, or having been misjudged by the voters to be one - do not constitute impeachable offences. I reject your view of the presidency. It is too fascist for me, it echoes with the despicable Fuhrerprinzip. A leader is no different from the people that elected him. A leader has strong convictions shared by the majority of his compatriots. A leader also has the energy to implement the solutions that he proposes and the willingness to sacrifice certain aspects of his life (like his privacy) to do so. If a leader is a symbol of his people - then he must, in many ways, be like them. He cannot be as alien as you make him out to be. But then, if he is alien by virtue of being superior or by virtue of being possessed of superhuman qualities - how can we, mere mortals, judge him ? This is the logical fallacy in your argument : if the President is a symbol, then he must be very much similar to us and we should not subject him to a judgement more severe than the one meted to ourselves. If the President is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, or otherwise, superhuman - then he is above our ability to judge. And if the President is a standard against whom we should calibrate our lives and actions - then he must reflect the mores of his times, the kaleidoscopic nature of the society that bred him, the flux of norms, conventions, paradigms and doctrines which formed the society which chose him. A standard too remote, too alien, too detached - will not do. People will ignore it and revert to other behavioural benchmarks and normative yardsticks. The President should, therefore, be allowed to be “normal”, he should be forgiven. After all forgiveness is as prominent a value as being truthful.

AC : “This allowance, alas, cannot be made. Even if I were to accept your thesis about ‘The President as a regular Human Being’ - still his circumstances are not regular. The decisions that he faces - and very frequently - affect the lives of billions. The conflicting pressures that he is under, the gigantic amounts of information that he must digest, the enormity of the tasks facing him and the strains and stresses that are surely the results of these - all call for a special human alloy. If cracks are found in this alloy in room temperature - it raises doubts regarding its ability to withstand harsher conditions. If the President lies concerning a personal matter, no matter how significant - who will guarantee veracity rather than prevarication in matters more significant to us ? If he is afraid of a court of law - how is he likely to command our armies in a time of war ? If he is evasive in his answers to the Grand Jury - how can we rely on his resolve and determination when confronting world leaders and when faced with extreme situations ? If he loses his temper over petty matters - who will guarantee his coolheadedness when it is really required ? If criminal in small, household matters - why not in the international arena ?”

DC : “Because this continuum is false. There is little correlation between reactive patterns in the personal realms - and their far relatives in the public domain. Implication by generalization is a logical fallacy. The most adulterous, querulous, and otherwise despicable people have been superb, far sighted statesmen. The most generous, benevolent, easygoing ones have become veritable political catastrophes. The public realm is not the personal realm writ large. It is true that the leader’s personality interacts with his circumstances to yield policy choices. But the relevance of his sexual predilections in this context is dubious indeed. It is true that his morals and general conformity to a certain value system will influence his actions and inactions - influence, but not determine them. It is true that his beliefs, experience, personality, character and temperament will colour the way he does things - but rarely what he does and rarely more than colour. Paradoxically, in times of crisis, there is a tendency to overlook the moral vices of a leader (or, for that matter, his moral virtues). If a proof was needed that moral and personal conduct are less relevant to proper leadership - this is it. When it really matters, we ignore these luxuries of righteousness and get on with the business of selecting a leader. Not a symbol, not a standard bearer, not a superman. Simply a human being - with all the flaws and weaknesses of one - who can chart the water and navigate to safety flying in the face of adverse circumstances.”

AC : “Like everything else in life, electing a leader is a process of compromise, a negotiation between the ideal and the real. I just happen to believe that a good leader is the one who is closer to the ideal. You believe that one has to be realistic, not to dream, not to expect. To me, this is mental death. My criticism is a cry of the pain of disillusionment. But if I have to choose between deluding myself again and standing firmly on a corrupt and degenerate ground - I prefer, and always will, the levity of dreams.”

About the Author

Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, United Press International (UPI) and eBookWeb and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com.

Visit Sam’s Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com

We often hear from the “other side” of the isle how it is Republicans and Conservatives that are grinches and that they are mean and insensitive lying bastards without a care for civility. Ok, I admit I am blunt at times, but at least that bluntness is truthful! Well, here is what the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has put up to mock Christmas (source WND) with my translation and comments added in bold italics after each verse:

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the House, The Republicans were stirring, especially The Louse.

President Bush is a liar about Iraq even though our leadership said the SAME things years before President Bush was elected

There were gifts to be taken and given to Special Interest Friends No worry about your future, on their Cronies They Spend.

We LOVE socialism! And elect us and we’ll make sure you have lots of it! Don’t tell anyone that when WE were in power we never once succeeded in reigning in government spending or balancing the budget

Americans were all nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of brighter days danced in their heads.

The economy SUCKS! Why wont you believe us - WHA WHAAAAA!

A girl dreamt of college, a boy a good meal With Democrats in charge it would be a better deal!

We want to spend on OUR cronies! Vote for us and we’ll increase socialist and unconstitutional federal spending even FASTER than the Republicans! TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!

But back in the House there arose such a clatter, The Rubber Stamp Gang was busy with blather.

Don’t you know that Republicans are all stupid sheep that fall in line lock step behind the President! Which doesn’t explain why President Bush has such a hard time getting legislation passed despite Republican control of both houses but hey, what’s a little inconsistency right?

Stealing the gift of a bright, better day DeLay and his pals make middle-America pay.

TAX THE RICH! TAX THE EVIL “RICH”

“Tax Cuts for Millionaires! But no Social Security for you! Humungous Subsidies for Big Oil And higher gas prices too!”

TAX THE EVIL PRICE GOUGING RICH! INSTITUTE SOCIALIST PRICE CONTROLS! CONTROL THE PEOPLE’S RETIREMENT! RAAAAAHHHHRRRRRR!

But before they left they wrapped gifts JUST FOR YOU They personally signed them “With Love — from Tom, George, and Crew.”

Don’t tell anyone that we get just as much money (if not more) from the “rich” as they do! The American People are too stupid to figure that out!

They gave to the rich and took from the poor Until finally they grew weary when there was nothing more.

TAX THE EVIL VILE RICH WHICH CREATE JOBS! INSTITUTE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF THE LAND NOW! VIVA LA SOCIALISM! GIVE MORE MONEY TO THOSE THAT DON’T EARN IT!

So they gassed up their limos and drove off to town And filled up their bellies and really chowed down.

Not a single Democrat in Congress is Rich or rides in a limo (not even Teddy Kennedy or Nancy Pelosi or John Kerry) It is all a lie by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy! WE ARE JUST LIKE YOU! WE HATE … err WE LOVE AMERICA!

And, I heard them exclaim as they drove out of sight … . NOOOOO!!!

Oh wait that was us as we realized we are going to lose in 2006 and 2008 on a platform this STUPID! Nooooooooooooooooooo!

Merry Christmas all!