A long, hard look

I don't play three card monty; I don't like being setup and I can't follow the cards fast enough to beat the con. I'm balding but I don't buy hair restoration cream no matter how many quadruple blind tests it has undergone. I don't play the lottery, I, generally, don't lick electrical outlets and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I take more than my particular exception to the august body that is the United States Congress, when they decide to step into the arena of horse racing and lay down their Solomon-like wisdom on matters great and small.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped
-Elbert Hubbard

Why am I supposed to believe that "This time it's different"? How many times do we have to touch that hot stove before we realize that it's hot? This dog and pony show, catering to the same audience that makes American Idol what it is, is a farcical ceremony as are the various industry wide committee's.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
-Sir Barnett Cocks

Nobody needs to discuss what the problems are; everybody knows. Medication, drugs and what laughably is referred to as the industries fines (indulge me) and suspensions program. Enough already.

We are to blame. You...me.

We all know that this goes on day in and day out and yet we continue to patronize this sham. If any of us really gave a shit we would show up on BIG race days by NOT showing up. Don't bet. Take a pass. Stick it to these industry hacks like they have been sticking it to us for all these years. If there is no betting, then there are no purses and no racing. No racing, no money and no job. Pocket book politics. That's the beauty of the system, we have it within our means to effect change in a very real way.

Otherwise we might as well go piss into the wind.

Before I go admire my self-righteous ass in a mirror, let me just say that I am WAY psyched about the Churchill card for tomorrow and can't wait to throw some money down on it.