Roulette "Incident" at the Rio that never happened.

Yeppers!!

As expected, The Rio finally issued a press release admitting that no such incident of seven hits of the number 19 in a row took place. They claim the table was open and no repairman was working on the display panel. The Rio glossed over any obligation on its part that if it provides a display it must provide an accurate one. The Rio press release made no mention of deferred maintenance in this or in other areas and made no mention of the credit crunch CET (nee Harrah's) is facing. I'm sure that such deferred maintenance will continue until either "The Miracle" takes place or "The Default" takes place. In the meantime the company will keep their press releases and their whitewash handy. Undoubtedly they will also keep trying to sell off assets even at rock bottom prices in an attempt to stave off a credit crisis.

The poker player who snapped the photo of the display and tweeted it into internet immortality was simply wandering by and noticed it, he was not actually playing and he should have known that any such sequence would have resulted in a frenzied table.

More Amelia Earhart nonsense.

Rozella Lorenzi of Discovery News reports that dozens of radio signals that were picked up and previously declared spurious should be considered credible even though it would have required Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan to have ditched n the immediately vicinity of Gardner Island prior to fuel exhaustion, successfully beached the aircraft on the tiny atoll, sustained no damage to the starboard engine or electrical system, restarted the starboard engine which would have required both sufficient fuel and sufficient strength from dry batteries and a dry, undamaged electrical system and then the signal would have been propagated from an underbelly antenna. Is any of this reasonable? The plane was valuable. The Japanese wanted it. The Japanese got it. No Mystery.

Murder of Gareth Williams MI6 agent.

Gareth Williams case: Coroner Dr. Fiona Wilcox rendered her formal verdict. Detective Chief Inspector utters usual mouthings about police now following additional lines of inquiry as if they were actually making progress on the case. Impossible to state he did not get into the suitcase voluntarily. (How many people put a soft-sided holdall into a bathtub and then enter the suitcase and zip it up?) No determination as to why apartment temperature was so high during summer months. (Perhaps to accelerate the rate of body decomposition?)No determination for extreme cleanliness of apartment resulting in lack of DNA evidence. No determination that twenty thousand pounds worth of women's clothing was for perverse purposes. No determination of reasons for recent cell phone deletions. No determination of reasons for recent unauthorized searches on MI6 computer systems.

One thing certain: When MI6 is involved, no truth emerges.

Why so trusting?

A male sex-offender living in a wooded area near Froggy Bottom a bar near Fort Bragg is able to pick up a 25 year old woman from the 261st Area Medical Support Company and take her to Froggy Bottom.

What did he do? Invite her to his homeless site in the woods? Drug her and convince her that there was a path with some nearby residential structure?

So many damned experts!

Casinos these days have so many experts.

Now along comes a firm that says "take a few key employees out for intense seminars in top notch customer service and let the new, higher standards migrate throughout the entire organization's workforce.

What utter crap!

Benny Binion knew what to do. Give the customer a good bet, a good meal and a good stiff drink. Things have not changed. Casinos want to have ignorant customers who are being lead into the shearing shed by courteous and ever-smiling customer-service specialists. Meanwhile the casinos offer inexperienced first line supervisors, unmotivated employees, games at house edges that are a disgrace, and point systems that are a mass of fine print that taketh away all that is bestowed with Madison Avenue hoopla.


Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) April 18, 2012

“Bare-bones state budgets, taxation, new casinos, social media and online gaming – these are all factors that will contribute to a challenging year for casinos,” Baird says. “Stellar guest service and a superior gaming experience are the only real competitive advantages casinos have. That is where they must focus their efforts to compete.”

The recession has depleted state coffers and states are on the prowl for ways to increase revenue for schools and social services without raising taxes, according to Baird. “That old standby – the sin tax – is a perfect solution,” Baird says. “Nobody cares if existing casinos are taxed to the max.

Police fixation as outright frame-up. Trial at last!!

Since the trial is currently underway, I wanted to re-post this blog item that was originally posted in relation to an analysis of the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation.


Police fixation on initially adopted viewpoints.


A retired Detective Superintendent of the Fife Constabulary has been indicted for Perverting the Course of Justice, a rather serious charge in the UK, for actions that resulted in two defendants each spending ten years in prison.


Quite obviously a murder of an alcoholic in Scotland has no factual relationship to the Jonbenet Ramsey murder in Colorado, but I took particular note of it solely because the officers involved, although guilty of multiple wrongdoings, embarked on their course of illegal suppression of exculpatory evidence solely because it was contrary to the then-accepted theory of the case which had been prematurely adopted by the police.


This is yet another example of how people become fixated on an early interpretation of the evidence and will go to great lengths to make certain that all later developments are in accord with the prior view. It is quite obvious that the first few witnesses to give evidence that was contrary to the accepted viewpoint may have been given short shrift for a variety of reasons but once the number of contrary witnesses mushroomed the police clung to their prematurely adopted viewpoint despite the utter reliability of the contrary witnesses and the clearly verifiable circumstances of their observations. Police computer records were knowingly altered so that all statements indicating the contrary point of view were suppressed. Witnesses were apparently threatened by a police official who later was appointed to a position wherein he was inspecting other police forces.


This incident might be of some interest to those who feel that it is improper for innocent persons to promptly “lawyer-up” or that meeting with senior officials will clear up early misunderstandings created by initial investigators.


Note: Although the significant point is the fixation on an early-adopted viewpoint, those who care to follow some of the underlying facts of the case should be aware of certain unique terminology. Bent is a term that is often used in the UK to refer to a homosexual but in relation to a police officer the term bent refers to one that is corrupt and the word then carries no connotation of sexual orientation. The word tip in the UK can indeed refer to information provided by a member of the public to the police in order to aid the solution of a crime but it can also refer to what in the United States would be called a garbage dump. The word grass refers to an act that in the United States would be perhaps termed snitching or informing. The term Procurator Fiscal in Scottish law is the rough equivalent to coroner in the United States, meaning an official who makes a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances of a death and who issues a formal report of allegations relating to deaths, violent crimes or police corruption.


Excerpted from the Daily Record:

Scots cop accused of corruption
Mar 24 2008 Exclusive by Mark Mcgivern.


A BENT detective who fled Britain when he was accused of corruption is facing a new police probe after being tracked to Devon. Police want to quiz former chief superintendent Richard Munro over claims he framed two innocent men for murder. Munro who served 26 years in Fife Constabulary, left the force in disgrace in 2004.


The corruption investigation was launched after the appeal judges branded Munro a liar and said he and his colleagues were guilty of grave misconduct. Munro quit Britain and lived in various countries in a camper van and finally slipped back into the UK to a bolthole in Devon. Before Munro left the force, he was on secondment to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary – which inspects police forces and advises ministers.

School shooting

Shooting at Christian University in San Francisco? Now to peer beneath the headlines: Despite use of the term university the institution is largely a school for training licensed vocational nurses. It is perhaps officially open to anyone but is obviously a Korean owned school marketed to Korean speaking students. Although San Francisco is used for description purposes the school is actually located in Oakland which is an economically depressed area. There is no known conn Its unknown at the present time if the disgruntled shooter received low grades but it is clear that its really a Korean shooter and Korean victims.