We hashed this out with the $87 million, but Senator Kerry is claiming “I voted for it before I voted against it” on the Helms-Burton Act which governs sanctions on Cuba: (R)eaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions on the communist island, Kerry volunteered: “And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him.’‘… There is only one problem: Kerry voted against it. … Kerry aides said the senator cast one of the 22 nays that day in 1996 because he disagreed with some of the final technical aspects. But, said spokesman David Wade, Kerry supported the legislation in its purer form — and voted for it months earlier.

I’ll be called Machiavellian again, but in government, especially, it’s results, not intentions that matter. Kerry could, indeed, be a supporter in heart, but in fact he voted against Helms-Burton.

GSBTB has finally been updated with pictures from our trip to New York in May….

Five Hold ‘Em tournaments and seven live limit Hold ‘Em games and I think I’m hooked. I cashed in a total of $300 and cashed out a total of about $100, but in my last tournament with about 65 players I placed 6th. (It was a no limit game that paid out the top seven players.)

Becky will have to keep me out of the casinos if she knows what’s good for me!

No more games for me. I leave bright and early in the a.m.