Thimblerig (The Shell Game)

Place your bets.

Watching over the all recent media frenzy Involving the antics of BIAS,with headlines such as “Obama’s Baby mama” oddly enough coinciding with the reading of the articles of impeachment directed against President Bush and Vice President Chenney.

It’s might not always be clear who the players of this game are . It might not even be who you think! Like the simultaneous headlines “Supreme Court ruling makes Guantanamo a campaign issue” with the reiteration ” Wife never used the word ‘Whitey’ “.

The apparent players actually serve various roles in the swindle: they act as lookouts for the police; they also serve as “muscle” to intimidate marks who become unruly and some are shills, whose job is to pretend to play the game, and entice the mark into betting.

Now the games a foot, Come on place your bet, You can’t lose! I’ll give you three to one odds . “Mayors ask Congress to help fix U.S. infrastructure” and “Jolie pitted against Aniston in box-office tussle”.

Come on wheres the pea? Come on pick one. is it the democrats? the republicans? How about Mccain, Obama ? Big oil ? The economy ? Watch closely “Puppy-throwing Marine is removed from Corps” or “Durham gets 2,000th hit as Giants top Rockies 10-7″ maybe ” Wall Street closes up but off highs as oil rises ” come on just pick the most important one, it’s got to be it right! Did you win? No, all thats to bad. Your welcome to try again.

Oh while you were playing along.

“Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren’t profitable enough”!

” US weekly jobless claims up 25000 to 384000 UPDATE”!

“GOP looks to reinforce its core positions with platform”!! a ban on the display of classical art in Public and Federal supported platforms for nudity.

Oh and the “Final Skynet satellite launched” !!!

Anybody up for a round “Texas hold ‘em”?