I was employed for several years as a casino security shift supervisor in Nevada -- this position entails an intimate knowledge of the gaming business, and promotion to this position, unlike supervisor spots in other departments, has to be approved by the CEO and Chairman because the responsibility involves having a finger in every pie, looking out for the entire spectrum, from money to status quo to liabilities, of management's interests.

If there's one thing you learn, it's that only an i***t would still be a gambler after seeing and experiencing what one does in that position.

That said, one biproduct of those years is that on the rare occasions I do place a bet, it is in person at a licensed gaming establishment, not through bookies and/or other middlemen.

The last time I gambled was at Harrah's in Joliet, Illinois, where I spent my birthday weekend in 2007. I won over $6,000 playing dollar progressive video poker and another $4,000 and change playing craps. Both were sort of quasi honest because my employment experience in Nevada taught me what to look for in machines and how a professional plays craps.

Before that, my last betting was on the Triple Crown races in 1995, while I still worked in the casino -- I used to play the ponies a bit, and I learned how from a professional handicapper -- and I won on both the Derby and the Belmont betting Thunder Gulch across ($100 to win, $100 to place, $100 to show -- my horse won both of those races) -- though I didn't fare well on the Preakness.

That's my most recent betting history -- as far as how I'll place a bet, it's more about principle than about money, the latter of which, for me, while I'm not rich, is not exactly in short supply.

You open a licensed betting parlor and give odds on the November 3 results, and I'll make a special trip there to place a bet.

No, I just have my own established betting principles based on professional experience, and as I said, on the rare occasions I do bet, I do so in person.

If I were a fervent poker bettor, for example, I'd play at a casino poker parlor, not on some offshore poker website where I had no direct control of my money.

While I have a lot of respect for both of my fellow conservatives, neither of them might have been in the gaming business and, therefore, their betting preferences might be different from mine.

Just as I understand that your own indubitably sordid experiences might have shaped your worldview to make you a treasonous, America hating Marxist, I don't begrudge you your misguided opinions. That's the beauty of this free country you and your l*****t ilk are trying to drain the liberty out of.

When I posted, you hadn't made a correction. You are delusional.

And I notice that you have nothing to say about the hatred and intolerance displayed by your ilk, over there on the port (dark) side, for anyone who doesn't agree with or submit to the dogmas and demands of the left.

Conservatives/Republicans are the real tolerant/ non-r****t Americans. The problem with "liberal"/ "progressive"/ l*****t Democrats is that your ilk thinks it's acceptable to "fundamentally t***sform" what has worked better than any other political system in the history of mankind whether the rest of us like it or not, trying to force upon us a kind of government that has repeatedly either failed or seen massive numbers of its people risking their lives to flee those countries... and come to America.

Knowing this alone would be enough to make any rational, thinking person in America cherish what we have, not want the kind of totalitarian government your ilk would inevitably force upon us, depriving us of all our freedoms, to take over our great country.

That's why all you can do is post i***tic laugh memes and post statements you can't elaborate on -- when you have no actual rational arguments, all you can do is call names, accuse people of hating, being r****ts, etc without any definitive examples.

Okay Baaaa, baaa bob. Here is my offer. By the way KKKemmer, your little l*****t snowflake buddy turned me down on this but maybe you are a little more manly and not as whimpish. The bet is that if Trump wins (my pick) you have to stay off this site for 1 month and if Biden (or any other corrupt demorat that runs in place of Joe) wins (your pick), I have to stay off OPP for 1 month. Give me your response today or this offer is rescinded. Put your texting sk**ls up or shut up!!! If you reject my offer, maybe that other big l*****t, perm, will bet me.