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Casino a place to try one's luck.
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A good place to go is Las Vegas or Macau.
After that where in the world will you go ? Genting of course,
Singapore..? that is a long time to come until April 18 2005 when the Gambling Law is enacted become history. My guess is with that : the Resort and many 5 stars hotels there on the little Island the Gambling Industry will be flourishing!
update:
there will be 2 Intergrated Resort (IR) by 2009 and each of them comes with a casino only occupying 3 to 5 % of the floor area. There will be located at Sentosa and Marina Cove respectively. It's one of the most contraversial move ever made by the government. Well... looking towards 2009
Originally when Singapore got started gambling dens were common until the colonial administrators legally made it illegal from then until...? until 2005 when the issue of casino came back to haunt the Islanders!
goto see discussion [[1]]
A real hit on the world's largest casino in the United States
Hurricane Katrina may cost U.S. casinos with properties in the affected areas millions of dollars, analysts said on Monday.
== Current situation in New Orleans == dated 1 Sept. 2005
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- The latent explosive situation in New Orleans was probably due to the main factor of poverty in the City. Among all Americans this poor sector of population were mostly without cars and cannot move to evacuate out when the storm came. The Casinos in New Orleans had did a good job of draining the poor and really made them so poor. Who was to blame?[[2]]
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[edit] Gambling
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- Breeds Drunken Promiscuity <Mardi Gras >
Tourism is the city’s most lucrative market <gambling>. An estimated 10.1 million visitors came to New Orleans in 2004, with more than 1.4 million visiting for just a day. Total visitor spending amounted to $4.9 billion that year! Though many come to experience the food and music for which New Orleans is famous, “The Big Easy” is also known around the world for its drunken permissiveness, where alcohol seems to flow through the streets.
- Many bars stay open 24 hours a day, seven days a week; and one can easily find a bar with a “drink special” virtually any night of the workweek. Customers can legally wander the city carrying “to go” cups filled with alcoholic drinks. Drive-thru daiquiri shops are found throughout the metro area. Sightings of inebriated tourists lying face down in the gutters of the French Quarter are commonplace.
- While moderate alcohol consumption is not wrong, drinking in excess IS—and “excess of wine” is tied to “revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries” !
- This is the city that, during every Mardi Gras, proudly honors Bacchus, the false god of wine and intoxication. Just as Bacchus’ ancient Roman worshippers indulged themselves in late-night drunkenness and lasciviousness, so do his followers today.
- Almost any fleshly desire can be satisfied in the French Quarter, especially during Carnival season. Like most worldly holidays, Mardi Gras is firmly rooted in ancient paganism, which always involved gross sexual immorality in the forms of religiously-sanctioned prostitution, homosexuality and even bestiality!
- No wonder, then, that millions of tourists flock to New Orleans every year to indulge themselves in every carnal passion. Women stand on French Quarter balconies and freely expose themselves for all to see. Strip clubs are frequented by “clean cut,” middle class out-of-towners. Certain bars and dance clubs at the fringe of the Quarter’s tourist area offer homosexual rendezvous for visitors seeking anonymous encounters.
- In the midst of this truly unwanton lusts, licentious environment, spiritism, voodoo and the occult thrive. Some residents freely identify themselves as witches and voodoo priestesses.
“King cake parties” are held every week through the Carnival season; some bring these cakes to work so that everyone can share in this Mardi Gras tradition. Inside each cake is a trinket, often a miniature plastic baby—to symbolize “Jesus”! Whoever finds the “baby Jesus” must bring a new king cake to work the next day.
- Would the God of the Bible view this as lighthearted fun? Would He want His only begotten Son to be trivialized as a mere party favor?
- Someone in the Internet forum wrote this is “'Jesusland”, I just think such jokes were not be tolerated by well-meaning people the world over, but God Almighty??? How do we pray for God to be merciful on such a wicked city?
- News just come in that Martial Law will be needed said the Mayor of New Orleans to curb looting and violent behavior! The storm (Katrina) may not do as much damage as the people who are just not behaving right. New Orleans had a record of higher crime (felony) rate as compared to other American cities.
[edit] The New Hard Rock Casino in New Orleans
- This is one of the newly built casinos but it is hit hard and will not be open! Lots of information seems to indicate that it will not be open. Looting has been a problem all over the city after the Katrina Hurricane cause the Levees to break at two places and water has flooded the whole city under low lying areas. Some people said the water goes up to the second storey. Just alike other casinos will not be open until further news.
Casinos on the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans were ordered to shut down on Sunday, as the hurricane approached landfall. Harrah's Entertainment has the highest exposure in the affected region, with nine casinos there.
Goldman Sachs analyst Steve Kent estimates that Harrah's, the world's largest casino operator, will get nine percent of its 2005 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation from its three casinos in the Gulf Coast -- Harrah's New Orleans in Louisiana, and Grand Casino Biloxi and Grand Casino Gulfport in Mississippi.
Kent also estimates that Harrah's will get 12 percent of its 2005 EBITDA from six other casinos in the Tunica, Mississippi, inland riverboat region.
Harrah's is also developing a $150 million hotel tower addition at Harrah's New Orleans, expected to open in the first quarter of 2006.
Deutsche Bank analyst Marc Falcone expects Harrah's to lose $1.8 million to $2.5 million in revenue for each day its casinos in the area remain closed. He expects them to stay closed into Tuesday and "potentially beyond."
- In the Biloxi area (Mississippi) the Grand casino and others were providing one third of all jobs before the Katrina came, but in the aftermaths it was all gone, even the building where once was the Grand Casino was emptied and the whole building lifted and shifted to another place <as junk> by the storm water!
[edit] Why did the hurricane <Katrina> hit the area ?
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- I don’t see much improvement in man’s heart. The whole thing is in man’s heart: his desire, his greed, his lust, his pride, his ego. All of these things meshed together bring about sometimes a world war and sometimes a small war, but wars are going on everywhere, even in families. It’s a personal thing with each of us.- quoted from Billy Graham
- Goto read more by old preacher Billy Graham
- Was it the judgment of God on the growing Industry of casinos in New Orleans?
- Was there were a growing Industry in Gambling?
Sometimes writing an article like this take a lot of thinking and prayers. When I heard of the category 5 Katrina hitting the city of more than a million people, I said to myself " that is going to be another tsunami hit there!". From the chat line and forum there was a Singaporean going to be in New Orleans to learn about their casino skills. He/she said all the tickets to fly there were confirmed and paid, and the trip will be in October 2005. I said that "better to change the plans of going there" there won't any flying to the International airport in New Orleans, and even when she /he get there, there won't be any casinos which will open its doors for acquiring any learning skills! BTW go to Gentings, it's only $50 dollars for the bus trip!
From what I understand that metropolitan city was all below the water level and next to the lake where waters were prevented by levees. Then surrounding it were all waters from the two rivers that flow alongside. It was obvious the category 5 hurricane was going about to score a direct hit at that below the water level city (I was happy to hear it misses by a few miles) but there destruction was unavoidable! Just think a million people without homes, water, electricity or their precious homes - all gone when the water break throw the levees. It reminded me of the parable of the wise and the foolish builders in parable of Jesus. Those whose homes and lives were built on shaky foundations like the temporary values of the changing cosmos won't lasts! In fact in one day all their homes were sunken to their ceilings and roofs. If there was one house with a few shingles blown away and still on dry land that's a lucky house! If I understand correctly if the levees should break then the force of the water was too strong for any kind engineering remedy unless there were sand bags and many thousands of people on standby to prevent the water from rushing in. The Chinese in China had understood this, and they had learnt many lessons in history.
It was a pragmatic move when the Governor ordered all the people of the city to leave. The casualty rate would be in the hundreds of thousands. My son and I got together and prayed for God to be merciful to the people of Louisiana. I had stayed in some of the many homes in places like Baton Rouge and nearby places along the coast of Louisiana. I remembered one kind Christian family and the father who was shrimp boat captain. We prayed for them!
Lingering in my thoughts and mind, there pop a question, which I wonder why did God almighty allow such a tragedy to happen. Natural disasters were everywhere and God did not pick ad choose any city for destruction except Sodom and Gomorrah. In the book of Job, I read that it was Satan who instigated God to allow such storm to kill many people during Job's family tragedy.
In Singapore, well over 86 per cent believe in God or the spiritual world in one way or another [[3]]. During the hungry ghost festival many people spent many millions of dollars to pray and made offerings to the spirits. Bottom line, we all were fearful of the judgments that had taken over many places where it comes so suddenly! There is a significant amount of believers among Christians who do not participate in such prayers or worship but among all believers in God, but there is a wholesome fear of judgments. Our Muslim believers go to the mosques regularly and most Christians attend some church worship every Sunday. We are a religious people unlike many people in among scoffers and unbelievers. However, all such activities did not necessary prevent the judgments or the natural disasters from happenings. Nevertheless, it is the mercies of God that did not allow such events to overtake Singapore so far. The metropolitan City <of Singapore> has over 3 millions and our high-rise buildings seems strong and well built but are we safe? This is a question regarding the moral issue <casino> which may determine whether we will be continue as a safe haven. One of the scary issues is the issue of allowing casinos to come to Singapore. By far most people believe it is going to undermine the determination of the nation to live right and nobly, but should we parading as a Sin city in the new world?
[edit] Links
- Malaysian jokes are the best..goto it and read more
- Worrying casinos [[4]]
- Gaming News [[5]]
